Re: Apache2: httpd.conf or apache2.conf?

2005-09-18 Thread Ross Boylan
On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 08:26:37AM +0200, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: > On mandag 19 september 2005, 06:53, Steve Dondley wrote: > > The README file that came with Debian doesn't cover the difference > > between the httpd.conf file and the apache2.conf file.  Is the > > httpd.conf file basically obsolet

RE: Sarge and ASUS AN8-E Main Board

2005-09-18 Thread Kaffe
Hi The correct name of the Main Board is ASUS A8N-E Sorry Kaffe I --- Kaffe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> skrev: > Hi > > My Main Board is ASUS AN8-E. > > The Main Board is based on NVIDIA nForce 4 > Ultrachipset > > There is no onboard graphics card. > > Onboard LAN controller is: > nForce4 bui

Sarge and ASUS AN8-E Main Board

2005-09-18 Thread Kaffe
Hi My Main Board is ASUS AN8-E. The Main Board is based on NVIDIA nForce 4 Ultrachipset There is no onboard graphics card. Onboard LAN controller is: nForce4 built-in Gbit MAC with external PHY : - NV ActiveArmor - NV Firewall AI NET2 Onboard Audio Controller is: Realtek ALC850, 8-channel

Re: Apache2: httpd.conf or apache2.conf?

2005-09-18 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
On mandag 19 september 2005, 06:53, Steve Dondley wrote: > The README file that came with Debian doesn't cover the difference > between the httpd.conf file and the apache2.conf file.  Is the > httpd.conf file basically obsolete?   I haven't had time to look into it at depth, but I think the answer

Never to miss a great incest site in the Internet

2005-09-18 Thread Johnathan
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strange files

2005-09-18 Thread Peter Lieverdink
Hi all, I came across something odd this morning on a Sarge production server I manage remotely. The machine runs a self-compiled 2.6.12.2 kernel and I keep it up to date with security fixes. (I run upgrades and dist-upgrades when I get email from debian-security-announce). The box is an HP/Compa

image viewer which supports auto-refresn and partial images?

2005-09-18 Thread Miles Bader
Hi, Does anyone know of any image viewers packaged in debian which have the following properties: (1) Supports PNG files (even better would be EXR files, but that's probably pretty rare) (2) Happily displays partially-written files, without screaming on stderr (3) Has an "auto-upda

Some gui-application takes to much time to start

2005-09-18 Thread Sebastian Noack
Hi, after I've updated Debian Sarge to Debian Unstable, some gui-application like gedit, kwrite, kedit, konqueror take to many time (more than 10 minutes) to start. Has somebody maybe an idea to fix this problem? Best regards Sebastian Noack -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: Overwhelmed newbie

2005-09-18 Thread Steve Lamb
Antony Gelberg wrote: > I suppose it is. I consider it rude to reply to an on-list message via > personal email. It's not. That is how one responds when one feels the response does not merit the public exposure of the list. That is the decision of the sender and noone else. Now, CCing

guidance on SSL certs and Apache2

2005-09-18 Thread Ross Boylan
I'm trying to set up apache2 to use ssl. I see numerous bugs about this, including the fact that the setup is neither automated nor documented (267477 -- which includes some recipes and references to help) and that a tool, ssl-cert, used at one point by apache2 for debconf, has problems (230485).

Apache2: httpd.conf or apache2.conf?

2005-09-18 Thread Steve Dondley
The README file that came with Debian doesn't cover the difference between the httpd.conf file and the apache2.conf file. Is the httpd.conf file basically obsolete? Should I just put all directives and containers in apache2.conf file? Does it matter? -- Dondley Communications http://www.dondley

Re: postscript/ghostscript

2005-09-18 Thread Joel Peter William Pitt
If your printer understands postscript then it will work in Linux to some extent. Check the printer manuals/specification to see if it does... You may want to check/search google for the "Linux Printing Howto" Cheers, joelOn 9/18/05, linux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: hello alli have a mac and am

Re: how to use mailing lists

2005-09-18 Thread Robert Kopp
--- linux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > is it just me or is this mailing list useless? > i posted my question ages ago and have recieved > nothing but heaps of > responses to other questions that i don't understand > are mailing lists meant to work like this? how do i > get better results > out

how to use mailing lists

2005-09-18 Thread linux
is it just me or is this mailing list useless? i posted my question ages ago and have recieved nothing but heaps of responses to other questions that i don't understand are mailing lists meant to work like this? how do i get better results out of this mailing list? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: creating multiple databases with updatedb

2005-09-18 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 05:05:33PM -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > Is it possible to create multiple databases with updatedb and which can > coexist on the same system? I want to have two databases of which the > first is indexed from / and the second is indexed from /home/user . > Reading t

kernel log full of "Device not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive."

2005-09-18 Thread Lolke H Bijlsma
In the last week or so my kernel log is full of messages like: $ dmesg Device not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive. Device not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive $ tail -f /var/log/messages Sep 18 19:50:12 micron last message repeated 124 times Sep 18 19:51:12 micron last

Re: resolvconf not working?

2005-09-18 Thread Brian Kimball
Michelasso wrote: > But this isn't happening and I have /etc/resolv.conf empty. Hrm, IIRC resolvconf asks some configuration questions during package setup time. You may want to try "dpkg-reconfigure resolvconf" and see what happens. brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: vncserver

2005-09-18 Thread James Vahn
Florian Ohnimus wrote: > I am completely new to Debian and was wondering why there isn't a > xstartup script in the .vnc/ directory. How else can I select window > manager other than gnome? Hi. Just edit the file with a text editor. Mine reads: ~$ cat ~/.vnc/xstartup #!/bin/sh

Re: New Tutorial: Creating custom Linux firewall/routers with Debian

2005-09-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2005-09-18 at 21:30 -0400, Matt LaPlante wrote: > For some time now, I've been experimenting with the implementation of Linux > as a cheap yet powerful routing and firewall solution. I've found that a > basic Linux platform can be rather easily customized to provide extremely > cheap and po

Re: Which MPM for Apache2?

2005-09-18 Thread David Clymer
On Sun, 2005-09-18 at 20:47 -0400, Steve Dondley wrote: > I just did a fresh install of Sarge. I set it up to run Apache2 out of the > box. > > Now I'm trying to figure which Multi-Processing Module (MPM) it's > running by default. I see there are 4 different MPM packages: > > apache2-mpm-perc

New Tutorial: Creating custom Linux firewall/routers with Debian

2005-09-18 Thread Matt LaPlante
For some time now, I've been experimenting with the implementation of Linux as a cheap yet powerful routing and firewall solution. I've found that a basic Linux platform can be rather easily customized to provide extremely cheap and powerful firewalls for any home or small office environment. I've

Which MPM for Apache2?

2005-09-18 Thread Steve Dondley
I just did a fresh install of Sarge. I set it up to run Apache2 out of the box. Now I'm trying to figure which Multi-Processing Module (MPM) it's running by default. I see there are 4 different MPM packages: apache2-mpm-perchild apache2-mpm-prefork apache2-mpm-threadpool apache2-mpm-worker >Fr

Please help with truetype fonts or any fonts for that matter

2005-09-18 Thread Dimaash Smith
Hi everyone. I've installed truetype fonts via xfstt font server. I've copied some custom ttf fonts ( not microsoft's core, but those from different web site there ) to /usr/share/fonts/truetype and font server picked them up. I do see those fonts in xfontsel. And mozilla is able to display the

Re: Overwhelmed newbie

2005-09-18 Thread Katipo
Angelo Bertolli wrote: The repositories contain "Dillo" which loads up pretty fast--haven't checked the memory usage though. Not the browser most newbies are looking for, though. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: problem with automatic upgrade (changed conffile)

2005-09-18 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
On mandag 19 september 2005, 00:18, Hans Ekbrand wrote: > > You must > > expect issues like these, it is a feature... :-) > > Not getting security updates automatically installed a feature? Not > in my world! Well, imagine the security.debian.org box getting compromised, and the attacker pumping

Re: LVM PV in regular file, can i access it?

2005-09-18 Thread icmp
when i made dd if=/dev/md1 of=md1.img it completed with an hour (120GB). now 'dd if=md1.img of=/dev/md1' is still running after 2 hours On 9/19/05, icmp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi. I have raid-1 (mirror) which contains LVM . After my system crashed I made dd if=/dev/md1 of=md1.img since

Re: LVM PV in regular file, can i access it?

2005-09-18 Thread icmp
o and raid itself is running  (degraded and with 1 disk only but running). just filesystem on /dev/md1 is messed up. On 9/19/05, icmp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi. I have raid-1 (mirror) which contains LVM . After my system crashed I made dd if=/dev/md1 of=md1.img since my /dev/md1 is damaged

Re: problem with automatic upgrade (changed conffile)

2005-09-18 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 11:50:28PM +0200, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: > On søndag 18 september 2005, 23:34, Hans Ekbrand wrote: > > I have changed /etc/kde3/kdm/kdmrc, but so what? Why does dpkg fail > > here? > > There are certain limitations to doing things automatically, and in this > case, it dete

Re: vncserver

2005-09-18 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 05:34:08PM +0200, Florian Ohnimus wrote: > I am completely new to Debian and was wondering why there isn't a > xstartup script in the .vnc/ directory. Because you haven't created one, of course. I suppose you expect the package to create one for every user on the system, s

LVM PV in regular file, can i access it?

2005-09-18 Thread icmp
Hi. I have raid-1 (mirror) which contains LVM . After my system crashed I made dd if=/dev/md1 of=md1.img since my /dev/md1 is damaged for now, only backup i have is in that file. is there possible to mount lvm volumes from that file directly, without haveing to write it to physical disk? and i

Re: problem with automatic upgrade (changed conffile)

2005-09-18 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
On søndag 18 september 2005, 23:34, Hans Ekbrand wrote: > I have changed /etc/kde3/kdm/kdmrc, but so what? Why does dpkg fail > here? There are certain limitations to doing things automatically, and in this case, it detects certain changes that it needs your input on. It is a config files that's

problem with automatic upgrade (changed conffile)

2005-09-18 Thread Hans Ekbrand
Hi debian-user! I have sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get -y dist-upgrade in my crontab and the following sources for apt: deb http://debian.archive.of.my.country/debian/ stable main deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free since release of sarge and until now that h

Re: watching an avi

2005-09-18 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 04:42:14PM -0400, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 07:48:26PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: > > System: > > KM4M-V motherboard with onboard video using via driver > > 1-gig of ram (using less than 300mb) > > Running testing so have switched to X-or

Re: Re: /var/lib/dpkg/status problem

2005-09-18 Thread Tomasz Krasuski
Hi   Looks like my apt-get works well after appending line with Cache-Limit.   Cheers,   Tomek Krasuski  

Re: watching an avi

2005-09-18 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 07:48:26PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: > System: > KM4M-V motherboard with onboard video using via driver > 1-gig of ram (using less than 300mb) > Running testing so have switched to X-org > > Most of the time I can watch avi videos using xine with no probl

Re: Sarge and NVIDIA nForce 4 Ultra chipset

2005-09-18 Thread steef
Kaffe wrote: Hi Does anyone know how to get Sarge up and run on NVIDIA nForce 4 Ultra chipset. My motherboard is ASUS AN8-E Thanks in advance. Kaffe ..i am running nvidia_tnt under sarge -temporarily, it's unfree!- on a downloaded nvidia driver. in your position i should look at

cannot run QT tutorials

2005-09-18 Thread Michal Simovic
hi, this problem is not really Debian related, but i know some of you guys use QT so you might help me.. i've got QT version 3.3.4 installed on my Debian system. i also installed qt3-examples. i cannot get to run them because i get "Some of the required modules (full-config) are not availabl

Re: FireFox annoyances

2005-09-18 Thread Michal Simovic
you have probably solved the problem already but just in case that you haven't i have 2 more suggestions: did you include this line in the head of your HTML code? did you set the editor you use for coding to open/save using UTF-8 charset? some editor (like Quanta) require this to be set on

Re: The footers in a2ps

2005-09-18 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Paul E Condon wrote: On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 09:15:58PM -0500, Malcolm E. Jordan wrote: I have installed a2ps version 4.13b-4.3 on Debian 3.1 stable with the 2.4 linux kernel. The program works well with the exception that I cannot get any of the three footers to print. I have gone over the

Re: vncserver

2005-09-18 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 05:34:08PM +0200, Florian Ohnimus wrote: > I am completely new to Debian and was wondering why there isn't a xstartup > script in the .vnc/ directory. How else can I select window manager other > than gnome? > > Thanks, > Flo Here is how I set mine up: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Mouse Driver, Evdev, Xorg SDK Problems

2005-09-18 Thread David R. Litwin
I bought a mouse to-day with (in X terms) ten buttons. To use all of them, I need the evdev driver (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=1745 (be ware: that is a direct link to the download)). I have found this out from http://www.linux-gamers.net/modules/wfsection/article.php?articleid=

Sarge and NVIDIA nForce 4 Ultra chipset

2005-09-18 Thread Kaffe
Hi Does anyone know how to get Sarge up and run on NVIDIA nForce 4 Ultra chipset. My motherboard is ASUS AN8-E Thanks in advance. Kaffe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: The footers in a2ps

2005-09-18 Thread Paul E Condon
On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 09:15:58PM -0500, Malcolm E. Jordan wrote: > > I have installed a2ps version 4.13b-4.3 on Debian 3.1 stable with the > 2.4 linux kernel. The program works well with the exception that I > cannot get any of the three footers to print. I have gone over the > documentation

glibc pthread_join freezing on sarge using PD/pdp/Gem software

2005-09-18 Thread B. Bogart
Hello all, Sorry for the cross-posting. I'm running a stock sarge machine with the 32bit 2.6.8 kernel on a AMD64 3200+ machine. I'm using some unstable and demudi packages for media applications, in particular pure-data (PD). Problem I'm having is that PD crashes when I try and use v4l2. Actua

Re: mdadm not properly starting RAID 1 device

2005-09-18 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya matt On Sun, 18 Sep 2005, Matt Adams wrote: > I have a RAID 1+LVM configuration on one of my 2.6 desktop machines. you like to be on the bleeding edge eh :-) > marvin:~# mdadm --detail /dev/md1 > State : clean, degraded bad >0 820 active syn

Trouble Disabling orinoco Modules in Favor of hostap Modules on Boot

2005-09-18 Thread Jeff Stevens
I've just installed Debian Sarge on a box I've been using as a wireless access point for a couple of years. I've been using and am continuing to use the hostap module on my Intersil Prisim PCI card. uname -a: Linux hive 2.6.8-2-386 #1 Thu May 19 17:40:50 JST 2005 i586 GNU/Linux lspci: :00:09

Re: XOrg doesn't switch VTs

2005-09-18 Thread Juan Fco. Casanova Rodriguez
Hi again, Googling a bit I found the fix to our problem. The only thing I have had to do was running xorgcfg and apply... without changing anything. And my keyboard now works fine! Hope to help you!!! El dom, 11-09-2005 a las 01:24 -0300, Adriano Bonat escribió: > Hello, > > I migrate my Deb

mdadm not properly starting RAID 1 device

2005-09-18 Thread Matt Adams
Hi: I have a RAID 1+LVM configuration on one of my 2.6 desktop machines. I recently re-installed and discovered that, for some reason unknown to me, mdadm is starting one of the RAID devices as "clean, degraded." I can't for the life of me figure out how to convince mdadm to start this RAID devi

Intermittent freezeup started this month, and is getting gradually more frequent.

2005-09-18 Thread Xeno Campanoli
Presumably I've got a memory leak. Anyone have a new and improved method to scope out this kind of problem? I had a long weak at work, and I cannot seem to remember what I might have added that would take up memory or do this otherwise. xc -- Xeno Campanoli: http://www.eskimo.com/~xeno Th

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2005-09-18 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sound stopped working this week

2005-09-18 Thread Neil Harvey
Hi everyone, Wondering if anyone else has had sound stop working very recently (within the past week). Yesterday I upgraded to 2.6.12 and noticed that I had no sound. Thinking that 2.6.12 had problems, I downgraded to 2.6.11, which has been working, with sound, for some time, but the problem per

apt-get woes

2005-09-18 Thread Natxo Asenjo
hi, debian sarge. sources.list: deb http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian sarge main deb http://security.debian.org/ sarge/updates main contrib [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# apt-get install postfix-doc Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following NEW packages will be installed

Re: KDE font size changes randomly

2005-09-18 Thread J F
I guess process: /usr/X11R6/bin/X -nolisten tcp -auth /var/run/xauth/A:0-coMD6V is my x server. I guess process: /usr/bin/kdm is the display manager. Where is the file I need to vi to fix the display at 100 dpi so I will keep from changing my font size? What is the difference between what these tw

Re: o.t. sugestions for entity modeler

2005-09-18 Thread Chris Parker
Adam Hardy wrote: > Chris Parker on 18/09/05 16:28, wrote: > >> What is a good database entity modeler? Database is mysql 4. new >> to sql so im just looking for something to show relationships for >> setting up queries easier. >> >> Also which is better for an online shopping cart, Myisam or >> I

Re: resolvconf not working?

2005-09-18 Thread Michelasso
On 9/18/05, Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I could be wrong, but as far as I know, the dns-nameservers is not a > valid declaration for /etc/network/interfaces, at least I couldn't find > it in the interfaces manpage. If the nameserver addresses are static, > you don't need the resolvconf pa

Re: Hauppage ImpactVCB PCI Video Capture Board?

2005-09-18 Thread Bruno Buys
Can you post the exact link to the card, so we can see it? If you're talking about this card, with the 878 chip, linux can use it fairly well. (http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/products/data_impactvcb.html) The driver is the bttv module, that is part of the kernel since long time. I have one pix

Re: Opinions -- When will Sid be usable again?

2005-09-18 Thread Brad Sims
On Sunday 18 September 2005 1:41 am, William Ballard wrote: > I started using Woody in Jan 03, and switched to Sid maybe by around > April, and learned to deal with its unstability and stuck with it until > Sarge came out.  Now I run Sarge, because I expected Sid to become > horribly unusable.  Now

kernel 2.6.13.1 make: *** [deb-pkg] Error 2

2005-09-18 Thread David A.
Hi, I've downloaded 2.6.13.1 kernel, successfully run "make all". But when I run "sudo make deb-pgk" i get; ... INSTALL net/ipv4/netfilter/iptable_nat.ko INSTALL sound/core/snd-rtctimer.ko if [ -r System.map -a -x /sbin/depmod ]; then /sbin/depmod -ae -F System.map -b /usr/src/linux-2.6.13.1/d

Re: resolvconf not working?

2005-09-18 Thread Mike
On Sun, 2005-09-18 at 13:00 +0200, Michelasso wrote: Hello everybody, I am using resolvconf 1.33 from sid; I have modified /etc/network/interfaces adding to the static configuration of eth0 this line: dns-nameservers 192.168.1.1 192.168.1.2 where 192.168.1.1 and 192.168.1.2

Re: Overwhelmed newbie

2005-09-18 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Oliver Lupton wrote: Kent West wrote: Once you have an Internet connection, you're good to go. Most applications you want are available from the official Debian repositories, and it's generally these versions you'll want to install, especially as a newbie. Opera, however, not being "F"ree (alt

Re: watching an avi

2005-09-18 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 04:58:17PM +0100, Adam Hardy wrote: > > how does totem run? I don't have it installed. I'm not going to install it since doing so would REMOVE: gnome-applets, gnome-core, & gnome-desktop-environment. -- "If a thousand men were not to pay their tax bills this year, that

Re: Postfix trouble

2005-09-18 Thread Mark Lijftogt
On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 06:16:35PM +0300, Adrian Minta wrote: > Thank you all for suggestions ! > I use antivirus and antispam but in case of spam bots on my clients > machines all those are ineffective :( > The simples solution I could find is to use SMTP auth, unfortunately > will not be so ea

postscript/ghostscript

2005-09-18 Thread linux
hello all i have a mac and am sick of mac osx i can't buy a new machine but i can move over to linux i would like to install debian (ppc) my problem is, i don't know if my printer/scanner will work its a canon pixma MP-130 multifunction i can't find it in any of the compatibility lists but i've r

Re: gnome and mime types

2005-09-18 Thread Ben Pearre
You more or less need Nautilus. Search the archives to see the colourful variety of opinions on whether this is a Good Thing. Using Nautilus, bring up the "preferences" for a .smil file, and go to "Open With". There you can set up whatever you want. The archives will tell you all about .local/s

Re: o.t. sugestions for entity modeler

2005-09-18 Thread Adam Hardy
Chris Parker on 18/09/05 16:28, wrote: What is a good database entity modeler? Database is mysql 4. new to sql so im just looking for something to show relationships for setting up queries easier. Also which is better for an online shopping cart, Myisam or Innodb? innodb if you need transact

Re: Tape Backup advice needed - dump, tar etc.

2005-09-18 Thread Ben Pearre
> On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 11:13 -0500, J French wrote: > > How are most people backing up to tape with Debian (or linux in > > general)? I need a robust backup because this will be a production > > server. Advice is appreciated. I ran a Linux lab for a while. Ended up with one of those 200G tape

Re: watching an avi

2005-09-18 Thread Adam Hardy
Rick Pasotto on 18/09/05 00:48, wrote: System: KM4M-V motherboard with onboard video using via driver 1-gig of ram (using less than 300mb) Running testing so have switched to X-org Most of the time I can watch avi videos using xine with no problem, even full screen. Somet

Re: bash script

2005-09-18 Thread Joe Smith
I was unclear. Sorry bout that. However, you hit the nail on the head! Looks like an execellant way to achieve what I was wanting to achieve! Can I give points in here for the winner. :) Well of course you can, but you first need to have points to give. I don't recall anybody granting you

Re: The footers in a2ps

2005-09-18 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Malcolm E. Jordan wrote: I have installed a2ps version 4.13b-4.3 on Debian 3.1 stable with the 2.4 linux kernel. The program works well with the exception that I cannot get any of the three footers to print. I have gone over the documentation, search the archives, and reinstalled the program

vncserver

2005-09-18 Thread Florian Ohnimus
I am completely new to Debian and was wondering why there isn't a xstartup script in the .vnc/ directory. How else can I select window manager other than gnome?   Thanks, Flo

Re: [SPAM:]

2005-09-18 Thread Paul Scott
Simo Kauppi wrote: On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 11:27:24AM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: On (18/09/05 12:26), Simo Kauppi wrote: Is there an easy way to search for packages which are installed and have more than one version available to see which version is currently installed? The reason fo

o.t. sugestions for entity modeler

2005-09-18 Thread Chris Parker
What is a good database entity modeler? Database is mysql 4. new to sql so im just looking for something to show relationships for setting up queries easier. Also which is better for an online shopping cart, Myisam or Innodb? thanks chris smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: resolvconf not working?

2005-09-18 Thread David Clymer
On Sun, 2005-09-18 at 13:00 +0200, Michelasso wrote: > Hello everybody, > I am using resolvconf 1.33 from sid; I have modified > /etc/network/interfaces adding to the static configuration of eth0 this line: > > dns-nameservers 192.168.1.1 192.168.1.2 > > where 192.168.1.1 and 192.168.1.2 are the

Re: Gnome 2.10 going in to etch today

2005-09-18 Thread David Clymer
On Sat, 2005-09-17 at 22:34 -0700, Marc Wilson wrote: > On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 12:27:07AM -0400, David Clymer wrote: > > Perhaps he's saying 'apt-get' and meaning 'dpkg' > > Thank you, but unlike most users of unstable today, I do actually know the > difference between the two. To be honest, I f

problems after upgrade

2005-09-18 Thread Christian Christmann
Hi, after running dist-upgrade couple of days ago I get the error message when trying to set a new background picture with "fbsetbg": fbsetbg: Something went wrong while setting the wallpaper. Run 'display -geometry 1280x1024+0+0 -window root /home/chris/.fluxbox/backgrounds//picture.jpg' from an

Re: Automatically maintaining permissions on specific directories

2005-09-18 Thread Olle Eriksson
On Sunday 18 September 2005 02.37, Clive Menzies wrote: > On (18/09/05 01:39), Olle Eriksson wrote: > > Is there any way to enforce the permissions on a specific directory > > so that everything that is in it will always have the correct > > permissions? > > > > I know a simple cron job can do the

Re: Software RAID 5 SATA array crashed

2005-09-18 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sun, 18 Sep 2005, Adar Dembo wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /proc/mdstat > Personalities : [linear] [raid0] [raid1] [raid5] [multipath] [raid6] > [raid10] [faulty] > md0 : active raid5 sdb[0] sde[4] sdf[3] sdd[2] sdc[1] > 1172229120 blocks level 5, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [5/5] [

Re: Aptitude, apt-get, security-updates

2005-09-18 Thread Simo Kauppi
On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 02:43:09PM +0200, Maurits van Rees wrote: > On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 12:26:31PM +0300, Simo Kauppi wrote: > > I would like to find out if I have more packages which would have a > > newer version available but haven't been upgraded. > > Run apt-get update && apt-get upgrade.

Re: Aptitude, apt-get, security-updates

2005-09-18 Thread Simo Kauppi
On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 11:27:24AM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: > On (18/09/05 12:26), Simo Kauppi wrote: > > Is there an easy way to search for packages which are installed and have > > more than one version available to see which version is currently > > installed? > > > > The reason for asking i

Re: device file permissions the debian way

2005-09-18 Thread Colin
Haines Brown wrote: > gxine allows one to define the device file for cdrom, but not dvd, and > it was my impression that it automatically uses /dev/dvd. If so, then > one has to create a /dev/dvd symlink to a hd* interface. But it is > objected that this is the lesser of evils. Is it a security ris

Re: Aptitude, apt-get, security-updates

2005-09-18 Thread Maurits van Rees
On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 12:26:31PM +0300, Simo Kauppi wrote: > I would like to find out if I have more packages which would have a > newer version available but haven't been upgraded. Run apt-get update && apt-get upgrade. [Or dist-upgrade instead of upgrade or aptitude instead of apt-get, but th

Re: Cleaning Sarge's tmp directory

2005-09-18 Thread Maurits van Rees
On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 07:11:15AM +1000, Felix Karpfen wrote: > I suspect that there is a missing cron routine and would welcome > the needed pointers in order to persuade the "tmp" directory to live > up to its name. Try apt-get install tmpreaper. -- Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.vanrees.o

Re: Overwhelmed newbie

2005-09-18 Thread Oliver Lupton
Kent West wrote: Once you have an Internet connection, you're good to go. Most applications you want are available from the official Debian repositories, and it's generally these versions you'll want to install, especially as a newbie. Opera, however, not being "F"ree (although it is "f"ree), is

Re: Opinions -- When will Sid be usable again?

2005-09-18 Thread Katipo
Seeker5528 wrote: On Sun, 18 Sep 2005 02:41:37 -0400 William Ballard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I started using Woody in Jan 03, and switched to Sid maybe by around April, and learned to deal with its unstability and stuck with it until Sarge came out. Now I run Sarge, because I expected S

Re: playing midi with timidity

2005-09-18 Thread Joe Mc Cool
Please, when I try to play sound with alsa under a 2.6 kernel, the quality is awful, the system seems to repetitively play little snatchs of my tune over and over, superimposing some of the sound on top of what it has already played. Essentially my perl script is: system("timidity -L /usr/share/

resolvconf not working?

2005-09-18 Thread Michelasso
Hello everybody, I am using resolvconf 1.33 from sid; I have modified /etc/network/interfaces adding to the static configuration of eth0 this line: dns-nameservers 192.168.1.1 192.168.1.2 where 192.168.1.1 and 192.168.1.2 are the ip address of two nameservers I can use in my lan. If I am not wro

Re: Opinions -- When will Sid be usable again?

2005-09-18 Thread Seeker5528
On Sun, 18 Sep 2005 02:41:37 -0400 William Ballard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I started using Woody in Jan 03, and switched to Sid maybe by around > April, and learned to deal with its unstability and stuck with it until > Sarge came out. Now I run Sarge, because I expected Sid to become > horr

Re: Software RAID 5 SATA array crashed

2005-09-18 Thread Adar Dembo
Alvin Oga wrote: hi ya the only major piece of info that is missing: a) cat /proc/mdstat [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [linear] [raid0] [raid1] [raid5] [multipath] [raid6] [raid10] [faulty] md0 : active raid5 sdb[0] sde[4] sdf[3] sdd[2] sdc[1] 11722291

Re: clients not supporting proxy SOCKS

2005-09-18 Thread Paolo Pantaleo
2005/9/14, Paolo Pantaleo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I would like to play chee onine, but i am behind a firewall... > Now i have a nice program called "your freedom" that acts as SOCKS 4 > proxy, but there are no chess clients (as long as i know) that support > SOCKS. > > So is there an easy way to us

Re: Aptitude, apt-get, security-updates

2005-09-18 Thread Clive Menzies
On (18/09/05 12:26), Simo Kauppi wrote: > Is there an easy way to search for packages which are installed and have > more than one version available to see which version is currently > installed? > > The reason for asking is that I just accidentally noticed that > php4-common, libapache2-mod-php4

Re: Opinions -- When will Sid be usable again?

2005-09-18 Thread Clive Menzies
On (18/09/05 02:41), William Ballard wrote: > I started using Woody in Jan 03, and switched to Sid maybe by around > April, and learned to deal with its unstability and stuck with it until > Sarge came out. Now I run Sarge, because I expected Sid to become > horribly unusable. Now my question is,

Re: playing midi with timidity

2005-09-18 Thread Pooly
Hi, > I had similar a problem with an es1968 card a year or so ago; from memory it > was to do with aRTs. Try playing a file directly from tiMidity (type "man > timidity" for how) to see if that works; if it does, check your KDE sound > server settings to make sure they are consistent with tiMidi

Re: playing midi with timidity

2005-09-18 Thread Seeker5528
Oops, I didn't notice until I hit send that reply to mailing list put in the personal email address instead of the mailing list address. Sorry if the email is not desired. On Sat, 17 Sep 2005 17:42:37 +0100 Pooly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > apparently midi is not supported by the snd-v

Aptitude, apt-get, security-updates

2005-09-18 Thread Simo Kauppi
Hi List, Is there an easy way to search for packages which are installed and have more than one version available to see which version is currently installed? The reason for asking is that I just accidentally noticed that php4-common, libapache2-mod-php4 and php4-mysql had a newer version in secu

Re: Opinions -- When will Sid be usable again?

2005-09-18 Thread Jochen Schulz
William Ballard: > > Sit tight on Sarge through at least this winter? Check back next > Spring? That depends on what programs you are using and how good you can deal with apt. I have been tracking sid all the time and had no problems so far. There was just a quite large number of un-updateable p

Re: hi

2005-09-18 Thread info
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Re: device file permissions the debian way

2005-09-18 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 06:35:06PM +0100, Antony Gelberg wrote: > Haines Brown wrote: > >I'm trying to set up a new installation of debian so that user can > >play DVDs. I have debian sarge 2.6.8-2-686, an IDE dvd drive, gxine > >0.4.1-1, libdvdread3-0.9.4-5. I can play .mp3 files OK with gzine. >

Re: Opinions -- When will Sid be usable again?

2005-09-18 Thread Alejandro Bonilla Beeche
On Sun, 2005-09-18 at 02:41 -0400, William Ballard wrote: > I started using Woody in Jan 03, and switched to Sid maybe by around > April, and learned to deal with its unstability and stuck with it until > Sarge came out. Now I run Sarge, because I expected Sid to become > horribly unusable. Now m

Re: Opinions -- When will Sid be usable again?

2005-09-18 Thread Thore Senneset
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Re: configuring muttrc

2005-09-18 Thread Xiaoyang Gu
http://www.mutt.org Read the User Config File Samples of Wiki Section carefully, if you meet some problem, please man muttrc. I think that's enough. On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 09:50:28PM +, Sam Rosenfeld wrote: > Precisely what information do I need to get a working mutt for Debian 3.1? > Once

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