Re: How to get realplayer and mplayer to properly install?

2005-10-07 Thread Malcolm Lalkaka
>!. Realplayer never activates . period I'm sorry, but I don't understand. What do you mean by that? More specifically, if you go to the command line and type at the prompt... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ realplay What happens? What is outputted to the terminal, and what windows (if any) appear? > 4

Re: Debian Compatable UPS?

2005-10-07 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sat, 8 Oct 2005, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Fri, 07 Oct 2005, Alvin Oga wrote: > > > So what's your recommendation for Debian compatible UPS? > > alll UPS is debian compatible as long as: > > - your box has rs232 > > - the ups has monitoring thru rs232 > > Alvin, do you

Re: How to get realplayer and mplayer to properly install?

2005-10-07 Thread gary
On Sat, 2005-10-08 at 00:52 -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > gary wrote: > > >Hello - I recently installed Sarge and have been using synaptic to > >install packages. > >when I install realplayer, the icon appears in Applications> multimedia > >but I'm unable to > >get realplayer started. Nor w

Re: How to get realplayer and mplayer to properly install?

2005-10-07 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
gary wrote: Hello - I recently installed Sarge and have been using synaptic to install packages. when I install realplayer, the icon appears in Applications> multimedia but I'm unable to get realplayer started. Nor will it start when files are directed to use /user/bin/realplay. mplayer never i

Re: fonts are smaller when using xvncviewer

2005-10-07 Thread Steve C. Lamb
On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 11:53:54PM -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > I am running vncserver and xvncviewer on the same machine (debian > unstable). My desktop environment is KDE. I noticed that the font sizes > inside the xvncviewer are much smaller that the original KDE session. > The probl

How to get realplayer and mplayer to properly install?

2005-10-07 Thread gary
Hello - I recently installed Sarge and have been using synaptic to install packages. when I install realplayer, the icon appears in Applications> multimedia but I'm unable to get realplayer started. Nor will it start when files are directed to use /user/bin/realplay. mplayer never installs any sta

Re: PyKDE

2005-10-07 Thread Jules Dubois
On Friday 07 October 2005 12:23, anoop aryal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > whatever happened to PyKDE? i see python-qt3 but no pykde. The presence in Debian of 'python-qt3' might lead one to generalize on package-name conventions and deduce that there might exist another pack

fonts are smaller when using xvncviewer

2005-10-07 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Hi I am running vncserver and xvncviewer on the same machine (debian unstable). My desktop environment is KDE. I noticed that the font sizes inside the xvncviewer are much smaller that the original KDE session. The problem exists even if I open a file using gvim on both the environments. Can

Re: Debian Compatable UPS?

2005-10-07 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
> Alvin Oga wrote: > >imho, apc is probably the worst consumer grade ups there is ... If a APC SmartUPS XL (1kVA) is consumer grade, then it is expensive alright. I have heard bad things about APC, but it probably applies only to their el-cheapo product lines. > > - they have lots of $$$ to d

Re: Webmin

2005-10-07 Thread Glenn English
> > Hi all! Was wondering if webmin can be used over a non-SSL > > connection by any chance? Sure. Edit /etc/webmin/miniserv.conf. There's a line about a third of the way down that says "ssl=1". Change it to "ssl=0" (zero) and restart webmin (/etc/init.d/webmin restart). It's also in the web

Re: Debian Compatable UPS?

2005-10-07 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 07 Oct 2005, Alvin Oga wrote: > > So what's your recommendation for Debian compatible UPS? > alll UPS is debian compatible as long as: > - your box has rs232 > - the ups has monitoring thru rs232 Alvin, do you even know what you are talking about? -- "One disk to rule them

Re: Debian Compatable UPS?

2005-10-07 Thread Colin
Alvin Oga wrote: > - very very few people hit the "ups test" button to make > sure the servers keeps working even if the ups is unplugged > from power ( way better to test than the silly fake front panel > test button ) I've unplugged my APC UPS and it worked perfectly fine

Re: Debian Compatable UPS?

2005-10-07 Thread Colin
J. Wren Hunt wrote: > > http://www.apcupsd.com/ APC makes a variety of UPSs. The one I'm using > , Back-UPS works with Debian just fine! ;-) Is this thread still going on? I thought it was resolved weeks ago. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

Announcing wiki.debian.org

2005-10-07 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
(please followup to debian-project@lists.debian.org) Hi all, The official Debian Wiki has now been set up on http://wiki.debian.org. The original wiki pages from wiki.debian.net have been converted and moved to wiki.debian.org. Thanks to Michael Ivey for hosting the previous wiki for the last fo

Re: Webmin

2005-10-07 Thread Gautam Bakshi
how are you installing? Its been a while but i thought there was an option if you wanted the webmin server to run ssl(when your answering the questions in the config script)On 10/7/05, Robert Wolfe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all!  Was wondering if webmin can be used over a non-SSL connection bya

testing memory (was Re: Upgraded from 512 to 1024 ram. Now, how to fine tune the system?)

2005-10-07 Thread Marty
Bruno Buys wrote: Marty wrote: Finally you may want to think about testing the memory, especially if you suspect any instability, but that's a different thread. I did. That was the very first thing I did after hooking up the module. I was afraid what a defective module could do to my belove

Migrating kernel 2.4.18-bf2 -> 2.6

2005-10-07 Thread Jean-Rene David
I have been using kernel 2.4.18-bf2 since my first debian install about 2 years ago. Earlier this week I upgraded to sarge and all went smoothly. Now I'm trying something which should apparently be pretty simple: $ aptitude install kernel-image-2.6-686 But it fails. I get: [...] Setting up kern

Re: Webmin

2005-10-07 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Quoting Robert Wolfe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi all! Was wondering if webmin can be used over a non-SSL connection by any chance? Webmin is just a web server (or can be accessed via Apache or another web server). So, in short, yes it can work over a non-SSL link. However, why would you want

RE: Setting up mysql

2005-10-07 Thread David Christensen
Michael Peek wrote: > Hi guys, I've got some more questions. These are my notes from the last time I installed mysql 4.1 on Debian (3.1r0?): 16. Install MySQL packages: mysql-client-4.1 mysql-server-4.1 libdbi-perl (already installed) libdbd-mysql-perl

Re: automating lynx

2005-10-07 Thread Cameron L. Spitzer
[This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Joe Mc Cool wrote: > Please, > > I am trying to get create a cron job that will go fetch a doc file > from a particular web site. > > I had hoped to run: > > lynx -cmd_log my_script http://www.siteiwant.

Re: Problem with apache2-common not installing apache2.conf?

2005-10-07 Thread Moritz Kütt
Hey I had the same problem, but I get around with completely uninstall apache2-common. (That means not only apt-get remove, but dpkg --purge and manually deleting /var/www, log files and config files). Afterwards, the installation of Apache 2 seemed to be as it has to be. Oh, I also change

Re: preferred method of using imap/mutt

2005-10-07 Thread Ryan Claycamp
On Fri, 07 Oct 2005 at 0811 -0700, Ric Otte wrote: >On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 02:33:19PM +0100, Dick Davies wrote: >> On 07/10/05, Ric Otte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > I haven't gotten offlineimap working yet, but am not convinced that >> > "any changes you do on the local end get changed on the

Re: Moved to sarge: Great, but no sound!

2005-10-07 Thread Jon Dowland
On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 05:39:50PM +0200, Hendrik Sattler wrote: > Louis Woods wrote: > > Now my only problem is that (same as above) I have to rerun alsaconf > > everytime I reboot. Any solutions to how this can be fixed would be > > grand. > > Well, why should anyone here guess for you? You give

Re: Upgraded from 512 to 1024 ram. Now, how to fine tune the system?

2005-10-07 Thread Bruno Buys
Stephen Cormier wrote: On October 7, 2005 07:44 pm, Bruno Buys wrote: One vendor told me there's a way to enable some double channel configuration, if you have two mem modules, that goes way faster. I didn't find it on my BIOS. Is there such a thing, and how do I enable it? I have the

Re: Upgraded from 512 to 1024 ram. Now, how to fine tune the system?

2005-10-07 Thread Stephen Cormier
On October 7, 2005 07:44 pm, Bruno Buys wrote: > One vendor told me there's a way to enable some double channel > configuration, if you have two mem modules, that goes way faster. I > didn't find it on my BIOS. Is there such a thing, and how do I enable > it? I have the same motherboard as you and

Re: Upgraded from 512 to 1024 ram. Now, how to fine tune the system?

2005-10-07 Thread Bruno Buys
Marty wrote: Bruno Buys wrote: Marty wrote: Due to kernel address map limitations, unless your kernel is configured for at least 4GB, only about 900MB will be recognized. You can tell if you have this problem by running "cat /proc/meminfo". The first line of output should be: MemTotal: 10

Webmin

2005-10-07 Thread Robert Wolfe
Hi all! Was wondering if webmin can be used over a non-SSL connection by any chance? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: automating lynx

2005-10-07 Thread Mark Lijftogt
On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 10:48:02PM +0100, Joe Mc Cool wrote: > Please, > > I am trying to get create a cron job that will go fetch a doc file > from a particular web site. I would suggest to use wget instead of lynx in this case. ,Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a su

Boot Sequence SATA Problems

2005-10-07 Thread João Pinheiro
I'm having a few problems with a SATA hard drive during the sarge (kernel v 2.6.8) boot sequence. The HD is a 200GB Maxtor DiamondMax10 and it's connected to a PCMCIA SATA adapter (I'm on a laptop and the HD is on an external housing). The boot sequence recognizes the HD but it times out during wr

Re: Solved: Re: Remote linux desktop access

2005-10-07 Thread Steve Block
On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 05:43:20PM -0400, Antonio Rafael C. Paiva wrote: Thank you all, and Steve especially! FreeNX works great, and does exactly what I wanted. Antonio, glad I could help. Since it was helpful though, it would have been good to send this back to the list. I'll CC it to the lis

Re: How to completely reinstall a package?

2005-10-07 Thread Steve Block
On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 04:47:55PM -0500, Tim N9PUZ wrote: Steve Block wrote: Running dpkg-reconfigure will take you through the configuration stuff again. As far as missing programs such as startx goes, I am unsure. dpkg-reconfigure x-window-system didn't do anything obvious. Reading the m

Re: How to completely reinstall a package?

2005-10-07 Thread Marty
Marty wrote: This is a good lesson on keeping logs of of your apt-get session, or at least keeping a list of installed packages by running "dpkg --get-selections *". Sorry, make that "dpkg --get-selections" (no asterisk). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "uns

Re: Debian Compatable UPS?

2005-10-07 Thread Alvin Oga
On Fri, 7 Oct 2005, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > So what's your recommendation for Debian compatible UPS? alll UPS is debian compatible as long as: - your box has rs232 - the ups has monitoring thru rs232 all ups i bought works .. they all lasts 2x 5x 10x longer than apc except for

automating lynx

2005-10-07 Thread Joe Mc Cool
Please, I am trying to get create a cron job that will go fetch a doc file from a particular web site. I had hoped to run: lynx -cmd_log my_script http://www.siteiwant.com navigate (entering passwords etc) to the file I want and fetch it. Then I would: lynx -cmd_script my_scri

Re: Debian Compatable UPS?

2005-10-07 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Alvin Oga wrote: On Fri, 7 Oct 2005, J. Wren Hunt wrote: http://www.apcupsd.com/ APC makes a variety of UPSs. The one I'm using , Back-UPS works with Debian just fine! ;-) imho, apc is probably the worst consumer grade ups there is ... - they have lots of $$$ to do marketing/sal

Re: How to completely reinstall a package?

2005-10-07 Thread ke6isf
On Fri, 7 Oct 2005, Tim N9PUZ wrote: > dpkg-reconfigure x-window-system didn't do anything obvious. Try 'dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86' instead. -Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to completely reinstall a package?

2005-10-07 Thread Marty
Steve Block wrote: On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 03:47:29PM -0500, Tim McDonough wrote: I'm running Debian (Sarge) and had used X-Windows very little on what's primarily a file server when I got a larger, nicer monitor for the system. It was not obvious to me how to reconfigure the system for the be

Re: How to completely reinstall a package?

2005-10-07 Thread Tim N9PUZ
Steve Block wrote: Running dpkg-reconfigure will take you through the configuration stuff again. As far as missing programs such as startx goes, I am unsure. dpkg-reconfigure x-window-system didn't do anything obvious. Reading the man page I suspect the window system isn't one that's configu

Re: Moved to sarge: Great, but no sound!

2005-10-07 Thread Hendrik Sattler
Hendrik Boom wrote: > I've been told that hotplug is specific to USB devices, that can be > plugged in and out dymanically. This is wrong. Why do you rely on such false information instead of just taking a look?: $ ls -1 /etc/hotplug | grep agent dasd.agent firmware.agent ieee1394.agent input.age

Re: How to completely reinstall a package?

2005-10-07 Thread Steve Block
On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 03:47:29PM -0500, Tim McDonough wrote: I'm running Debian (Sarge) and had used X-Windows very little on what's primarily a file server when I got a larger, nicer monitor for the system. It was not obvious to me how to reconfigure the system for the better capabilities of

Re: Upgraded from 512 to 1024 ram. Now, how to fine tune the system?

2005-10-07 Thread Marty
Bruno Buys wrote: Marty wrote: Due to kernel address map limitations, unless your kernel is configured for at least 4GB, only about 900MB will be recognized. You can tell if you have this problem by running "cat /proc/meminfo". The first line of output should be: MemTotal: 1034116 kB

How to completely reinstall a package?

2005-10-07 Thread Tim McDonough
I'm running Debian (Sarge) and had used X-Windows very little on what's primarily a file server when I got a larger, nicer monitor for the system. It was not obvious to me how to reconfigure the system for the better capabilities of the monitor so I, perhaps unwisely, decided I could simply uni

Re: Remote linux desktop access

2005-10-07 Thread John Hasler
Roberto C. Sanchez writes: > Now, if you are interedted in getting an entire desktop session (and not > just one or two apps) across an SSH connection, then you need to look > into something like VNC. No. "An entire desktop session", including a window manager, is just a bunch of "apps" as far as

Re: Remote linux desktop access

2005-10-07 Thread Steve Block
On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 02:27:25PM -0400, Antonio Rafael C. Paiva wrote: Hi! Does anyone know how to have X access remotely through ssh? If I open a terminal and connect using ssh I can open specific application but not the whole desktop environment, that I would like to map to a different dis

Re: Should I try Etch?

2005-10-07 Thread Olle Eriksson
On Friday 07 October 2005 16.50, Redefined Horizons wrote: > I'm still rather new to Linux, and I've been running Debian Sarge for a > couple of months. However, I am eager to try the new features in Gnome > 2.12, and I remember someone on the list writing that it ships with > Sebian Etch. So I tho

Re: Remote linux desktop access

2005-10-07 Thread Doug Wiltanger
Original Message - From: "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, October 07, 2005 4:24 PM Subject: Re: Remote linux desktop access > Quoting "Antonio Rafael C. Paiva" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Hi! > > > > Does anyone know how to have X access remotely through ssh? >

Re: SSH attack

2005-10-07 Thread Clive Menzies
On (07/10/05 17:38), Del Boy wrote: > >It looks like I am being rooted right now. How do I toss this guy off > >of my system. he has an IP address of 210.95.212.131 > > > >Please get back to me fast. I took the compilers off of the system, > >and it's only running dns... so there's no firewall o

Re: Remote linux desktop access

2005-10-07 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Quoting "Antonio Rafael C. Paiva" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi! Does anyone know how to have X access remotely through ssh? If I open a terminal and connect using ssh I can open specific application but not the whole desktop environment, that I would like to map to a different display on my machin

Re: Moved to sarge: Great, but no sound!

2005-10-07 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 10:20:45PM +0200, Louis Woods wrote: > Hendrik Boom wrote: > > >On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 08:50:59PM +0300, klkl lklk wrote: > > > > > >>Hi all, > >>i've recently moved from my beloved woody to sarge:Sarge IS GREAT! > >>When i was using woody,my sound driver was called e

Re: Moved to sarge: Great, but no sound!

2005-10-07 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 05:39:50PM +0200, Hendrik Sattler wrote: > Louis Woods wrote: > > I just got sound working on my desktop. I first installed the following > > packages: > > > > 1) alsa-base > > 2) alsa-oss > > 3) alsa-utils > [...] > > Now my only problem is that (same as above) I have to r

Re: Upgraded from 512 to 1024 ram. Now, how to fine tune the system?

2005-10-07 Thread Bruno Buys
Marty wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On Fri, 07 Oct 2005 14:10:58 -0300 Bruno Buys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: >On Fri, 7 Oct 2005 16:45:21 +0300 >Bogdan Rotariu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Hello Bruno, >> >>Friday, October 7, 2005, 12:41:33 AM, you wrote: >> >>>Just bought

Re: Upgraded from 512 to 1024 ram. Now, how to fine tune the system?

2005-10-07 Thread Marty
Ron Johnson wrote: On Fri, 07 Oct 2005 14:10:58 -0300 Bruno Buys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: >On Fri, 7 Oct 2005 16:45:21 +0300 >Bogdan Rotariu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Hello Bruno, >> >>Friday, October 7, 2005, 12:41:33 AM, you wrote: >> >>>Just bought an extra 512mb r

Remote linux desktop access

2005-10-07 Thread Antonio Rafael C. Paiva
Hi! Does anyone know how to have X access remotely through ssh? If I open a terminal and connect using ssh I can open specific application but not the whole desktop environment, that I would like to map to a different display on my machine. (I'm using X.org.) Thank you, -- António Rafael C. P

PyKDE

2005-10-07 Thread anoop aryal
whatever happened to PyKDE? i see python-qt3 but no pykde. anoop. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

DNS error

2005-10-07 Thread Tony Heal
I am getting the following in my logs and I would like to get rid of it. Anyone know where I should start? named[352]: late CNAME in answer section for skios.es MX from [195.219.190.135].53 the IP MX and domain in the error are not mine. Thanks in advance Tony Heal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: best hardware spec for fileserver

2005-10-07 Thread Jeffrey Alsip
To get the "drive mirroring" that you describe, you want to use RAID 1. I hope you are referring to a hardware RAID (firmware running inside a seperate RAID controller) and not some form of software RAID, as those things are crap. In addition to the RAID 1 setup, you want a server that allows you

Re: php-mysql

2005-10-07 Thread Del Boy
Mitja Podreka wrote: Bogdan Rotariu wrote: login as root and give the following command apt-get install php4 mysqlserver apache2 command should be apt-get install php4 mysql-server apache you could use apache2 but then I dont know where the config files are - probably in /etc/apache2 T

Re: Upgraded from 512 to 1024 ram. Now, how to fine tune the system?

2005-10-07 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 07 Oct 2005 14:10:58 -0300 Bruno Buys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > >On Fri, 7 Oct 2005 16:45:21 +0300 > >Bogdan Rotariu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>Hello Bruno, > >> > >>Friday, October 7, 2005, 12:41:33 AM, you wrote: > >> > >>>Just bought an extra 512mb ram

/etc/network/interfaces: sysctl in as "up" command doesn't work!

2005-10-07 Thread Carlos Rodrigues
Hi! I need proxy_arp enabled on an ethernet interface, so I have the following line in /etc/network/interfaces: "up sysctl -w net.ipv4.conf.eth0.proxy_arp=1" When the interface is brought up (on boot, or manually with "ifup eth0"), sysctl gets executed and its output shows that proxy_arp

OT: squid refresh_pattern percent option

2005-10-07 Thread martin f krafft
Dear all, I can't seem to get an answer from the squid guys, so please excuse if I ask here. Squid's refresh_pattern configuration option [0] has a percent option to control freshness. The docs say that an object is "FRESH is lm-fac tor < percent, else STALE". In this equation, what is lm-factor?

Re: Upgraded from 512 to 1024 ram. Now, how to fine tune the system?

2005-10-07 Thread Bruno Buys
Ron Johnson wrote: On Fri, 7 Oct 2005 16:45:21 +0300 Bogdan Rotariu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Bruno, Friday, October 7, 2005, 12:41:33 AM, you wrote: Just bought an extra 512mb ram module, to add to my existing 512mb. Free reports the total correctly, but i was wondering if i

Re: SSH attack

2005-10-07 Thread Del Boy
Jared Hall wrote: It looks like I am being rooted right now. How do I toss this guy off of my system. he has an IP address of 210.95.212.131 Please get back to me fast. I took the compilers off of the system, and it's only running dns... so there's no firewall or anything. I can't shut down

Re: SetGID bit on directories

2005-10-07 Thread C. Chad Wallace
klatt-st wrote: On Thu Oct 06, 2005 at 10:34:35AM -0700, C. Chad Wallace wrote: | We have a directory on an NFS mount that we want to be writable by members | of a specific group, "pubcorpwrite". So I did "chgrp pubcorpwrite" on the | directory and all files and directories within it, and set

Re: Should I try Etch?

2005-10-07 Thread Mitja Podreka
Redefined Horizons wrote: [1] What problems am I likely to encounter running Etch? Is it really something I should stay away from as a new user? (The box I want to install on is for experimentation, and isn't mission critical.) I've done the Sarge->Etch upgrade few days ago and I'm experienc

Re: SNMPD, not responding

2005-10-07 Thread Cliff Flood
Cliff Flood wrote, on 10/07/05 16:57: Hi, I'm running SNMPD (NET-SNMP version: 5.1.2) and using MRTG to graph traffic throughput on a Sarge box. At the end of August my SNMDP no longer responds to requests and I get "Timeout: No Response from localhost" when trying to snmpwalk ( snmpwalk -Os

Re: Debian Compatable UPS?

2005-10-07 Thread Alvin Oga
On Fri, 7 Oct 2005, J. Wren Hunt wrote: > http://www.apcupsd.com/ APC makes a variety of UPSs. The one I'm using > , Back-UPS works with Debian just fine! ;-) imho, apc is probably the worst consumer grade ups there is ... - they have lots of $$$ to do marketing/sales because

Re: Q: Setting up mysql

2005-10-07 Thread Mitja Podreka
Michael Peek wrote: I'm trying to set up mysql-server-4.1. (Actually, I'm trying to write a script that will do this for me...) Why bother? "apt-get install mysql-server" command will (already did) take care of everything! I can connect using mysql -u root -- at least I think I can: #

SNMPD, not responding

2005-10-07 Thread Cliff Flood
Hi, I'm running SNMPD (NET-SNMP version: 5.1.2) and using MRTG to graph traffic throughput on a Sarge box. At the end of August my SNMDP no longer responds to requests and I get "Timeout: No Response from localhost" when trying to snmpwalk ( snmpwalk -Os -c public -v 1 localhost public ) on

Re: Moved to sarge: Great, but no sound!

2005-10-07 Thread Hendrik Sattler
Louis Woods wrote: > I just got sound working on my desktop. I first installed the following > packages: > > 1) alsa-base > 2) alsa-oss > 3) alsa-utils [...] > Now my only problem is that (same as above) I have to rerun alsaconf > everytime I reboot. Any solutions to how this can be fixed would be

Re: Should I try Etch?

2005-10-07 Thread Thomas Jollans
Redefined Horizons wrote: I'm still rather new to Linux, Then it's probably better if you stick to stable for a while at least. stable doesn't break, but testing and unstable break all the time (at the moment at least) [2] Are there other advantages I'll get from running Etch, other than

Re: Should I try Etch?

2005-10-07 Thread Clive Menzies
On (07/10/05 07:50), Redefined Horizons wrote: > I'm still rather new to Linux, and I've been running Debian Sarge for a > couple of months. However, I am eager to try the new features in Gnome 2.12, > and I remember someone on the list writing that it ships with Sebian Etch. > So I thought I woul

Re: Inspiron TrackStick - How to disable?

2005-10-07 Thread Bill Marcum
On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 02:06:30PM -0700, Curtis Vaughan wrote: > I have a Dell Inspirion 4000 that has both a trackstick (I think that's > what it's called), as well as a touchpad. I really need to disable the > trackstick somehow. Can anyone tell me how to do that? Or where to look? > Perhaps

How to make make-kpkg recompile part of the kernel tree

2005-10-07 Thread Nelson Castillo
Hi. I use this for kernel compilation. $ cat ./make-kernel.sh fakeroot make-kpkg \ --append_to_version -kstrokes --initrd \ --revision=rev.01 kernel_image I'm patching a file for some tests I'm doing and when I modify it (drivers/char/keyboard.c) and run ./make-kernel.s

Re: GNU screen's alternative for X environment

2005-10-07 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 07 Oct 2005, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > I use screen to capture previous sessions. But the GNU screen works only > in the text environment. I am a big fan of x-windows environment and I > am wondering if there is any alternative for it? I tried nxclient. But Look for vnc servers and c

Re: Should I try Etch?

2005-10-07 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 07 Oct 2005, Redefined Horizons wrote: > I'm still rather new to Linux, and I've been running Debian Sarge for a > couple of months. However, I am eager to try the new features in Gnome 2.12, [...] > and I remember someone on the list writing that it ships with Sebian Etch. Well, we are u

Re: preferred method of using imap/mutt

2005-10-07 Thread Ric Otte
On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 02:33:19PM +0100, Dick Davies wrote: > On 07/10/05, Ric Otte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 07:46:43PM -0400, Ryan Claycamp wrote: > > > On Wed, 05 Oct 2005 at 2211 -0700, John L Fjellstad wrote: > > > >Best solution for filtering is probably what Rob

GNU screen's alternative for X environment

2005-10-07 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
I use screen to capture previous sessions. But the GNU screen works only in the text environment. I am a big fan of x-windows environment and I am wondering if there is any alternative for it? I tried nxclient. But all nxclient does is it gives me a new session but I want to get hold of previou

Re: Should I try Etch?

2005-10-07 Thread Mark Lijftogt
On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 07:50:15AM -0700, Redefined Horizons wrote: > I'm still rather new to Linux, and I've been running Debian Sarge for a > couple of months. However, I am eager to try the new features in Gnome 2.12, > and I remember someone on the list writing that it ships with Sebian Etch. >

Re: serial port programming

2005-10-07 Thread anoop aryal
On Friday 07 October 2005 04:29 am, Marc Brünink wrote: > Hi, > > I've an application which uses /dev/ttyS3 to read and write some data. > This software is kind of alpha. Sometimes it segfaults. So the serial > port is not closed correctly. If I restart the application after a > segfault I'm not ab

The Open Graphics Project

2005-10-07 Thread Redefined Horizons
Have any of you heard of the Open Graphics Project? If so, what do you think of it? What are its chances of success? Does the project represent good ideas and concepts? I wonder how many people and open source developers will be reluctant to contribute since there is some type of commercial entit

Should I try Etch?

2005-10-07 Thread Redefined Horizons
I'm still rather new to Linux, and I've been running Debian Sarge for a couple of months. However, I am eager to try the new features in Gnome 2.12, and I remember someone on the list writing that it ships with Sebian Etch.   So I thought I would try running Etch, and I had some questions:   [1] W

Q: Setting up mysql

2005-10-07 Thread Michael Peek
Hi guys, I've got some more questions. I must admit up front that I don't know that much about mysql. I've been reading the docs, but the things stated therein don't seem to help me very much. But I'm hoping that my questions are simple enough that either someone will know the answer straight aw

Re: Upgraded from 512 to 1024 ram. Now, how to fine tune the system?

2005-10-07 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 7 Oct 2005 16:45:21 +0300 Bogdan Rotariu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Bruno, > > Friday, October 7, 2005, 12:41:33 AM, you wrote: > > > Just bought an extra 512mb ram module, to add to my existing > > 512mb. Free reports the total correctly, but i was wondering > > if is there any

Re: where are the testing CD?

2005-10-07 Thread Bogdan Rotariu
Hello belahcene, Thursday, October 6, 2005, 7:45:59 PM, you wrote: > Hi, > I am looking for the weekly testing release (I only > found the official sarge ). > thanks for help > bela http://www.debian.org/CD/ You should use jigdo for downloading this iso's > __

Re: Upgraded from 512 to 1024 ram. Now, how to fine tune the system?

2005-10-07 Thread Bogdan Rotariu
Hello Bruno, Friday, October 7, 2005, 12:41:33 AM, you wrote: > Just bought an extra 512mb ram module, to add to my existing 512mb. Free > reports the total correctly, but i was wondering if is there any way > that i fine tune my system for better use of this memory. That's the > first time i run

Re[2]: php-mysql

2005-10-07 Thread Bogdan Rotariu
Hello Mitja, Friday, October 7, 2005, 3:18:15 PM, you wrote: > Bogdan Rotariu wrote: >>login as root and give the following command >> >>apt-get install php4 mysqlserver apache2 >> >> > command should be > apt-get install php4 mysql-server apache > you could use apache2 but then I dont know

Re: Configuration error running su in unstable WORKAROUND

2005-10-07 Thread Chris Lale
Howard Roberts wrote: On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 11:03 +0100, Chris Lale wrote: Howard Roberts wrote: Chris, Today I did an apt-get update on my debian unstable system and began experiencing the same problems you mentioned in the debian mailing list with su. I wondered if you've made any h

Re: preferred method of using imap/mutt

2005-10-07 Thread Dick Davies
On 07/10/05, Ric Otte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 07:46:43PM -0400, Ryan Claycamp wrote: > > On Wed, 05 Oct 2005 at 2211 -0700, John L Fjellstad wrote: > > >Best solution for filtering is probably what Roberto suggested. If > > >that's impossible, you should look into offli

Re: preferred method of using imap/mutt

2005-10-07 Thread Ric Otte
On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 07:46:43PM -0400, Ryan Claycamp wrote: > On Wed, 05 Oct 2005 at 2211 -0700, John L Fjellstad wrote: > >Best solution for filtering is probably what Roberto suggested. If > >that's impossible, you should look into offlineimap. Basically, it > >syncs your local Mail with the

emacs startup slowed down on fast machine

2005-10-07 Thread Mitchell Laks
Hi I am running sid, although I have not upgraded anything since sarge was released. I noticed a while ago that on this machine the emacs startup is slow. Now this is a very capable machine (xenon processor 1Gb of ram etc). I dont recall doing any modifications, and the only thing slow is the s

Re: php-mysql

2005-10-07 Thread Mitja Podreka
Bogdan Rotariu wrote: login as root and give the following command apt-get install php4 mysqlserver apache2 command should be apt-get install php4 mysql-server apache you could use apache2 but then I dont know where the config files are - probably in /etc/apache2 The configuration fil

Re: finishing touches

2005-10-07 Thread Csanyi Pal
On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 03:47:13PM +, Dr Gavin Seddon wrote: > I have windowmaker to my satisfaction, now. Finally, > 3). Is there a working logout/shutdown button for it? WmShutdown -- Regards, Debian Junior Project, DebianEdu, Moodle -> :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) http://www.ektf.hu/~C

apache2 auth-ldap debugging?

2005-10-07 Thread Anders Lennartsson
I'm trying to authenticate some web pages presented by an apache2 running on Sarge against Active Directory. There are some pages on the net indicating success with this. Now, all I get is a, not very helpful, error message: [...] [warn] [client ...] [...] auth_ldap authenticate: user domain \ le

[Fwd: Re: Moved to sarge: Great, but no sound!]

2005-10-07 Thread Wackojacko
Apologies for direct mail Jon, reposted to list :) Jon Dowland wrote: On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 02:29:11PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: (1) run alsa-config, assuming you're using also, of course. Sometime I had to rerun it every time I rebooted. I have to do that (run alsaconf) once after

Re: Frozen mouse pointer in X -GOT ROUND

2005-10-07 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 07 Oct 2005, Jan T. Kim wrote: > On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 08:33:04AM +, Florian Dorpmueller wrote: > > > Section "InputDevice" > > > Identifier "Configured Mouse" > > > Driver "mouse" > > > Option "CorePointer" > > > Option "Device""/dev

Re: best hardware spec for fileserver

2005-10-07 Thread Mariusz Kruk
askar k napisał(a): Could anybody adive me the best hardware configuration for fileserver. There is no such thing. You always have to take into consideration many factors. What do you want from the server, how much money you can spend and so on. Do I need to have Raid-5 or smth like that t

exim4: how to use other server for certain users?

2005-10-07 Thread W. Borgert
Hi, I have a sarge machine, named e.g. "foo.bar.net". For certain existing or non-existing users of that machine I like to route all mails via "baz.bar.net". The latter machine already knows, how to handle mails to [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc. correctly. How do I have to configure exim4 on foo.bar.ne

Re: Moved to sarge: Great, but no sound!

2005-10-07 Thread Jon Dowland
On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 02:29:11PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > (1) run alsa-config, assuming you're using also, of course. > Sometime I had to rerun it every time I rebooted. I have to do that (run alsaconf) once after boot to enable the sound device. I haven't invested a lot of time yet to w

Re: migrating users from redhat to debian without changing their passwords

2005-10-07 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 08:05:59PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > Check carefully: I know that Debian starts its "real users" at user id > 500,501,502 ... . I'm not sure if Redhat uses the same numbering. 1000 for me... Mandr{iva,ake} starts at 500 or 501 I believe, most others at 1000. > If y

best hardware spec for fileserver

2005-10-07 Thread askar k
Could anybody adive me the best hardware configuration for fileserver. Do I need to have Raid-5 or smth like that to be able to backup the 1st hard disk to the 2nd one to be my server crash free? I have to set up fileserver at my work. Is samba the best solution for that? Thanks, askar

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