Re: major problem with gnome-games dependency

2005-10-11 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Paul E Condon] > I suggest Debian add two metapackages: 'gnome-govt' for use by all > governments and 'gnome-USgovt' for US government in particular. ;-) I suppose you were joking, but in all seriousness, why does _Debian_ need to add them? Let the site administrator do it, using 'equivs'. If y

Re: Statically-linked binaries

2005-10-11 Thread Marc Wilson
On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 10:50:02AM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > There are very good reasons for using dynamic linking whenever possible. And there are even better reasons for using a little intelligence regarding when to dynamically link something, and when not to. Unfortunately, being a di

Re: debian vs ubuntu and knoppix

2005-10-11 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Tuesday 11 October 2005 09:48 pm, Alvin Oga wrote: > hi ya > > On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, Sam Rosenfeld wrote: > > What are the major differences among the latest debian, ubuntu, and > > knoppix distros? > > i'll bite on the bait/lure .. > > imho... > - debian ... free ... > - ubuntu ... c

Re: apt upgrade gives error while retrieving bugs

2005-10-11 Thread Edward J. Shornock
H.S. wrote: {snip} Anybody else having this problem? Yes, that error came up here as well. I resolved it be temporarily commenting out the line in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/10apt-listbugs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Statically-linked binaries

2005-10-11 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 10/11/05, Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Quoting Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Hello, > > > > Is there anyone packaging statically-linked executables so that one doesn't > > worry about shared libraries? I'm thinking something like a single set-up > > file whic

apt upgrade gives error while retrieving bugs

2005-10-11 Thread H.S.
Hi, Today while upgrading my router/firewall machine running Debian Testing, kernel 2.6.11-1-686, I got this surprising error: --- :~# apt-get upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following p

gpg: export just my keys, not whole keyring?

2005-10-11 Thread Matt Price
hi folks, I'm building my own verison of a ubuntu install cd, which involves building a new package of ubuntu-keyring, which involves, I htink, 2 things: 1 -- exporting my gpg keys to a keyring 2 - merging that key into the existing ubunu-archive-keyring problem: when I type what I think is th

Re: test

2005-10-11 Thread Mike McCarty
Dan wrote: I cant create a new topic!! I replied off-list to you explaining how to do it. Mike -- p="p=%c%s%c;main(){printf(p,34,p,34);}";main(){printf(p,34,p,34);} This message made from 100% recycled bits. You have found the bank of Larn. I can explain it for you, but I can't understand it f

Re: test

2005-10-11 Thread Dan
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Re: No Sound

2005-10-11 Thread Dan
how do i create a new topic -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Debian and Xp network problem

2005-10-11 Thread Dan
Subject: Debian and Xp network problem I have a debian sarge box connected to my home network. It is used as a dhcp server and samba server. I also have two xp computers on the same network. My problem is that the xp computers loose network connectivity to the debian box at random times and for r

Re: test

2005-10-11 Thread [KS]
Dan wrote: > test > failed ;) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: No Sound

2005-10-11 Thread Marty
Scarletdown wrote: On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 22:42 -0400, [KS] wrote: Scarletdown wrote: > > What do I need to modprobe to get this working? I tried modprobe es688, > modprobe es1688, and modprobe ymf262, but those all failed with FATAL: > Module not found. > Try modprobe snd-es1688 and read t

Re: debian vs ubuntu and knoppix

2005-10-11 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya steve On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, Nate Duehr wrote: > Steve Lamb wrote: > > Alvin Oga wrote: > > > >>- debian ... free ... > >>- ubuntu ... commercialized version of debian's "hard work" > >>which to me is wrong to do.. but oh well.. > > > > Uhhh, Alvin, you've been spr

test

2005-10-11 Thread Dan
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Re: No Sound

2005-10-11 Thread Scarletdown
On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 22:42 -0400, [KS] wrote: > Scarletdown wrote: > > > > What do I need to modprobe to get this working? I tried modprobe es688, > > modprobe es1688, and modprobe ymf262, but those all failed with FATAL: > > Module not found. > > > > Try modprobe snd-es1688 and read the follo

Re: debian vs ubuntu and knoppix

2005-10-11 Thread Steve Lamb
Nate Duehr wrote: > Actually, they have three repositories, "main", "restricted" and > "universal", and different licensing for each. Some of Ubuntu is > definitely not Free Software. A, yes. You mean like, main, contrib and non-free? > He just has a slightly different viewpoint than yo

Re: Laptop clock is localtime, system time is off

2005-10-11 Thread João Pinheiro
Nate Bargmann wrote: >* Antony Gelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005 Oct 11 05:32 -0500]: > > > >>Edit the line in /etc/default/rcS: >># Set UTC=yes if your system clock is set to UTC (GMT), and UTC=no if not. >>UTC=yes >> >>I arrived at this conclusion by reading the comments at the top of >>/etc/

Re: No Sound

2005-10-11 Thread [KS]
Scarletdown wrote: > > What do I need to modprobe to get this working? I tried modprobe es688, > modprobe es1688, and modprobe ymf262, but those all failed with FATAL: > Module not found. > Try modprobe snd-es1688 and read the following page: http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/doc-php/templa

Re: debian vs ubuntu and knoppix

2005-10-11 Thread [KS]
Nate Duehr wrote: > > http://www.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/licensing/document_view > and this too https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MarkShuttleworth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debian vs ubuntu and knoppix

2005-10-11 Thread [KS]
Alvin Oga wrote: > - ubuntu ... commercialized version of debian's "hard work" > which to me is wrong to do.. but oh well.. > Isn't that the way open source project works can be used by others e.g. the gazillions of debian based distros? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PR

Re: debian vs ubuntu and knoppix

2005-10-11 Thread Nate Duehr
Steve Lamb wrote: Alvin Oga wrote: - debian ... free ... - ubuntu ... commercialized version of debian's "hard work" which to me is wrong to do.. but oh well.. Uhhh, Alvin, you've been spreading a lot of disinformation on this list lately. I mean a LOT of disinformati

Re: debian vs ubuntu and knoppix

2005-10-11 Thread John Hasler
Alvin Oga writes: > - ubuntu ... commercialized version of debian's "hard work" which to me > is wrong to do.. We Debian developers don't see anything wrong with it. Besides, Ubuntu is available free. They will even send you free CDs, postage-paid. It's also only one of about 100 Debian-based d

FW: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender

2005-10-11 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi guys and gals, I just updated all updatable packages on my system (Sid, 2.6.7 kernel) using aptitude. After doing so, aptitude now shows the following entry for *all* packages: WARNING: This version of 'xyz' is from an untrusted source! Installing this package could allow a malicious individua

Re: debian vs ubuntu and knoppix

2005-10-11 Thread Steve Lamb
Alvin Oga wrote: > - debian ... free ... > - ubuntu ... commercialized version of debian's "hard work" > which to me is wrong to do.. but oh well.. Uhhh, Alvin, you've been spreading a lot of disinformation on this list lately. I mean a LOT of disinformation. This

No Sound

2005-10-11 Thread Scarletdown
Continuing my quest to make this old Toshiba Satellite Laptop operational, I am now trying to figure out how to get the onboard sound working. From what info I could dig up, the sound system is an ES688/Yamaha OPL3. What do I need to modprobe to get this working? I tried modprobe es688, modprobe

Re: debian vs ubuntu and knoppix

2005-10-11 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, Sam Rosenfeld wrote: > What are the major differences among the latest debian, ubuntu, and > knoppix distros? i'll bite on the bait/lure .. imho... - debian ... free ... - ubuntu ... commercialized version of debian's "hard work" whi

Re: Laptop clock is localtime, system time is off

2005-10-11 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005 Oct 11 05:22 -0500]: > > close :-) > > > > /etc/init.d# less hwclockfirst.sh > > #!/bin/bash > > # hwclockfirst.sh Set system clock to hardware clock, according to the > > # UTC > > # setting in /etc/default/rcS (see also rcS(5)). > > > > [

Re: Laptop clock is localtime, system time is off

2005-10-11 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Antony Gelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005 Oct 11 05:32 -0500]: > Edit the line in /etc/default/rcS: > # Set UTC=yes if your system clock is set to UTC (GMT), and UTC=no if not. > UTC=yes > > I arrived at this conclusion by reading the comments at the top of > /etc/init.d/hwclock(first).sh. I a

debian vs ubuntu and knoppix

2005-10-11 Thread Sam Rosenfeld
What are the major differences among the latest debian, ubuntu, and knoppix distros? sam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Audio player error (amarok)

2005-10-11 Thread Jeremy Merritt
> > After doing this, I did as you described. The > message > > returned in amarok is: > > > > [GStreamer Error] ALSA device "default" does not > exist > That's pretty clear. What does > # cat /proc/asound/cards > have to say? Sorry for the top post. 'cat /proc/asound/cards' returns "No suc

.gnomerc (or other init file) for gnome session?

2005-10-11 Thread Miles Bader
Hi, For a long time I used the file ~/.gnomerc to setup my environment variables and start other init-time apps for Gnome sessions (I use gdm and gnome-session). It was apparently read in such a way that environment variables set there were inherited by all apps started in the X session -- very h

Re: major problem with gnome-games dependency

2005-10-11 Thread Paul E Condon
I suggest Debian add two metapackages: 'gnome-govt' for use by all governments and 'gnome-USgovt' for US government in particular. ;-) On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 04:09:55PM -0600, Arthur H. Edwards wrote: > I want to thank all of you for responding. I'm quoting here a response I > gave to an off-lin

Re: amd64 kernel on i386 sarge system

2005-10-11 Thread Matt Taggart
"Brendan Hack" writes... > Can > someone please ease my mind and let me know how safe it is to switch kernels > like this. I have plenty of experience messing around with kernels, > compiling my own and setting up systems which boot to different kernel > versions so can set this up no problems bu

Re: Audio player error (amarok)

2005-10-11 Thread Jeremy Merritt
After doing this, I did as you described. The message returned in amarok is: [GStreamer Error] ALSA device "default" does not exist --- marc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The default gstreamer package in amarok is OSS. > Remove it - why not? - > and install the ALSA version (gstreamer0.8-alsa

Re: Translation for package descriptions ?

2005-10-11 Thread jjluza
Le Mardi 11 Octobre 2005 22:00, Florian Ernst a écrit : > On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 09:57:15PM +0200, Florian Ernst wrote: > > Just found an old report about how the project was supposed to work: > . > > Cheers, > Flo Thanks. And as I see here, it seems to work not so

Re: Translation for package descriptions ?

2005-10-11 Thread jjluza
Le Mardi 11 Octobre 2005 21:57, Florian Ernst a écrit : > Hello *, > > Yes, this was / is the aim of the Debian Description Translation > Project (ddtp). However, their webpages have been defunct (IIRC after > the incident in 2003) for a while, followed by some effort to revive > the project in 200

Re: major problem with gnome-games dependency

2005-10-11 Thread Arthur H. Edwards
I want to thank all of you for responding. I'm quoting here a response I gave to an off-line communication because I thought it might be germane to the discussion. I have expanded my response a little. I have removed gnome, gnome-desktop-environment and gnome-games with no apparent side effects

Re: 2.6.12 and 2.6.13 won't access cdrom -UPDATE

2005-10-11 Thread Basajaun
Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 11 Oct 2005, Basajaun wrote: > > Anthony Campbell wrote: [snip] > > > I've just fetched the vanilla 2.6.13.3. It compiles correctly and > > > recognizes my CD drives. So it looks as if the problem has been > > > recognized and fixed in the most recent versions. > > >

Re: major problem with gnome-games dependency

2005-10-11 Thread cmetzler
> I work at a government laboratory where computer games are prohibited. I > also use the gnome desktop. When I try to remove gnome-games apt wanst > to remove gnome because gnome depends on gnome-games. This is really a > show-stopper for government use of Linux. Also, I would think that the

Re: Translation for package descriptions ?

2005-10-11 Thread Florian Ernst
On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 09:57:15PM +0200, Florian Ernst wrote: > On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 09:10:58PM +0200, jjluza wrote: > > Do you think it could be possible to have translation for package > > descriptions > > in apt ? > > Yes, this was / is the aim of the Debian Description Translation > Proj

Re: Translation for package descriptions ?

2005-10-11 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello *, On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 09:10:58PM +0200, jjluza wrote: > Do you think it could be possible to have translation for package > descriptions > in apt ? Yes, this was / is the aim of the Debian Description Translation Project (ddtp). However, their webpages have been defunct (IIRC after t

Re: Building backports and local repositories

2005-10-11 Thread David
On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 10:45:45AM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Quoting David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >I'm wanting to install a few backports and want to verify that I'm not > >about to hose any of my system. I'm running Sarge... > > > > [SNIP lost of stuff] > > >Now the question: Does th

sudo kcontrol gives errors

2005-10-11 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Using Debian Sid, KDE 3.4.2 I am getting following errors on the konsole when I run kcontrol using sudo. Any idea how to get rid of them? $uname -a Linux kusumanchi 2.6.12-1-686-smp #1 SMP Tue Sep 27 13:10:31 JST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux $sudo kcontrol Error: "/var/tmp/kdecache-rajulocal" is owned

Re: mplayer issue

2005-10-11 Thread Olle Eriksson
On Tuesday 11 October 2005 15.29, Curt Howland wrote: > Hi, > > I'm having some crashes of mplayer in Sid snagged from > ftp.nerim.net, I would like to know if anyone else is having > problems and how to deal/report it. Unfortunately I don't speak > French and the Nerim.net site does. :^) > > This

Translation for package descriptions ?

2005-10-11 Thread jjluza
Hello, Do you think it could be possible to have translation for package descriptions in apt ? I think most of people don't know speeking english (in a non-english country of course) a lot, and don't want to search for a package with english words. It could be a good thing to "apt-cache search" w

Re: dist-upgrade wierdness [auto-SOLVED]

2005-10-11 Thread [KS]
[KS] wrote: > Michael Marsh wrote: > >>Well, it's apparently being pulled in as a dependency of >>apache-common. Does apache-common list alternatives for that >>dependency ($ apt-cache show apache-common)? >> > > apache-common depends on apache2-utils and I couldn't find anything else > to repla

Re: hibernate/sleep howto

2005-10-11 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Luís Neves wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Ganeshram Iyer wrote: Ganeshram Iyer wrote: AFAIK There are 3 versions of hibernation code. Two that are part of the official kernel and one that need a patch (suspend2). This latter is more advanced and should perform better but

Re: SSH attack

2005-10-11 Thread Marty
Dick Davies wrote: On 11/10/05, Marty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If your machines are all exposed to the internet or to an insecure LAN, then I don't see how you can safely use ssh at all. I would never attempt such a thing, so you are much braver than I. What I would do instead is limit ssh

Re: dist-upgrade wierdness

2005-10-11 Thread [KS]
Michael Marsh wrote: > > Well, it's apparently being pulled in as a dependency of > apache-common. Does apache-common list alternatives for that > dependency ($ apt-cache show apache-common)? > apache-common depends on apache2-utils and I couldn't find anything else to replace it (with my limite

Re: [xorg] H/V Sync of an old 17inch monitor

2005-10-11 Thread Kent West
Andrea B. wrote: Hi, my second monitor is an old and poor 17inch markless. I don't have the manual. How can I find the Horiz/Vertical Sync values? Unsure. Unfortunately, my PCI cirrus card works only at 800x600 @ 85Hz. I've read the documentation and the card can (theorically) work at 1024x

[xorg] H/V Sync of an old 17inch monitor

2005-10-11 Thread Andrea B.
Hi, my second monitor is an old and poor 17inch markless. I don't have the manual. How can I find the Horiz/Vertical Sync values? I remember that the valid modes were, for instance: 1024x768 @ 85Hz 1280x976 @ 60Hz Unfortunately, my PCI cirrus card works only at 800x600 @ 85Hz. I've read the docu

Re: dist-upgrade wierdness

2005-10-11 Thread Michael Marsh
On 10/11/05, [KS] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > $ apt-cache --installed --recurse rdepends apache2-common > apache2-common > Reverse Depends: > apache2-utils > apache2-utils > Reverse Depends: > apache-common > apache-common > Reverse Depends: > libapache-mod-php4 > libapache-mod-php4 > ap

major problem with gnome-games dependency

2005-10-11 Thread Arthur H. Edwards
I work at a government laboratory where computer games are prohibited. I also use the gnome desktop. When I try to remove gnome-games apt wanst to remove gnome because gnome depends on gnome-games. This is really a show-stopper for government use of Linux. Also, I would think that the dependenc

Is It Safe To Remove These PCMCIA Modules?

2005-10-11 Thread Scarletdown
Now that I have this old laptop running with kernel 2.6.12-386, I want to go ahead and remove the old 2.4 kernel that Sarge initially installed. When I do an apt-get --purge remove on the 2.4 kernel image, I am informed that: The following packages will be REMOVED: kernel-image-2.4.27-2-386* ke

Re: 2.6.12 and 2.6.13 won't access cdrom -UPDATE

2005-10-11 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 11 Oct 2005, Basajaun wrote: > Anthony Campbell wrote: > > On 10 Oct 2005, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > On 10 Oct 2005, Basajaun wrote: > > > > > > > > I have a similar problem here, and sysfs won't help. My > > > > /proc/sys/dev/cdrom/info file is empty (contains the "drive name:"... > > > > e

Re: dist-upgrade wierdness

2005-10-11 Thread [KS]
Michael Marsh wrote: > On 10/11/05, [KS] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>I'm trying to do a dist-upgrade my unstable box and am getting wierd >>packages in the "NEW packages will be installed:" list. Details below: >> >>~# apt-get -s dist-upgrade >>Reading package lists... Done >>Building dependenc

Re: dist-upgrade wierdness

2005-10-11 Thread Michael Marsh
On 10/11/05, [KS] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to do a dist-upgrade my unstable box and am getting wierd > packages in the "NEW packages will be installed:" list. Details below: > > ~# apt-get -s dist-upgrade > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree... Done > Calculatin

Re: hibernate/sleep howto

2005-10-11 Thread Ganeshram Iyer
> > > > Depending on your kernel version, you may not have any luck using > > suspend. I never had luck, but I have not tried recently with the > > 2.6.12 and 2.6.13 kernels. > > > > From swsusp.txt in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/power: > > ... > > You need to append

dist-upgrade wierdness

2005-10-11 Thread [KS]
I'm trying to do a dist-upgrade my unstable box and am getting wierd packages in the "NEW packages will be installed:" list. Details below: ~# apt-get -s dist-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Calculating upgrade... Done The following NEW packages will be insta

Re: urgent help needed no commands are running and web,database servers also not starting

2005-10-11 Thread Aaron Maxwell
On Tuesday 11 October 2005 02:57 am, Radhika wrote: > i have tried with /usr/bin/vi paths also still it is giving the same > problem.It is normal reboot and it didn't gave any error and > everything was working Hi, I'm not getting any insights right now, but here's a couple of suggestions: One,

amd64 kernel on i386 sarge system

2005-10-11 Thread Brendan Hack
Hi,   We recently setup up an i386 Sarge fileserver on a dual opteron system (unfortunately I did not setup this system up myself so am not entirely familiar with how it was done). As part of the install process sarge installed the kernel from the kernel-image-2.6.8-11-amd64-k8-smp packag

How to return bash from dash?

2005-10-11 Thread Ali Milis
Uh-oh! How to return bash as /bin/sh? Why it is not in /etc/alternatives? thank you -- Ali Milis.

Re: Opening and/or setting up XFree86 in Debian sarge

2005-10-11 Thread Kent West
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For the umpteenth time I'm attempting to set up a Linux-based PC That got me to the command prompt. No sign of a GUI anywhere ... Making progress. Excellent. Then I got the system to recognize the network (Linksys router, DSL modem, WXP laptop also on the rou

Re: IMAP and Squirelmail.

2005-10-11 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 02:42:56AM -0400, Chuck Payne wrote: } Hey, } } I need to know what IMAP program is the best and easiest to set up so I } can Squirrel mail set up. I see Cyrus is a bit of pain. I've had great success with courier-imap and squirrelmail. It works pretty much as installed,

Grub and former installer-bug

2005-10-11 Thread Paul van der Vlis
Hello, I've installed Sarge before it was stable. In that time there was an installer-bug about software raid. When you install Grub it had always this line: root(hd0,0) Even if your root is on (hd0,1). Now it's later, I've installed all updates, and a new kernel. But I see this

Re: Fatal: First sector of /dev/hda2 doesn't have a valid boot signature

2005-10-11 Thread MJD
Maybe you could try grub.  I am running three different distributions, and windows, and GRUB has no problems.On 10/11/05, Robert D. Crawford < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:I get the above message when trying to run lilo after installing sarge on a spare partition of my hdd.  Here is what I have done:1.

Re: MySQL 4.1

2005-10-11 Thread anoop aryal
On Tuesday 11 October 2005 09:55 am, Sanjay Debian wrote: > On 10/11/05, Michael Satterwhite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'd been running MySQL 4.0 on Debian, but need to upgrade to 4.1. What > > procedure would you recommend? What about supporting PHP / Python / ??? > > packages > > > > The 4.1

Re: 2.6.12 and 2.6.13 won't access cdrom -UPDATE

2005-10-11 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, Basajaun wrote: > Where did you find the 2.6.13.3 package? I have Etch and Sid sources in Sid has 2.6.13.3. Debian does not add the stable patch level, so it is named linux-tree-2.6.13 (plus dependencies). -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to

Re: Semi-OT: need to fake keyboard and mouse...

2005-10-11 Thread Andy Anderson
roach wrote: On Monday 10 October 2005 17:02, derek wrote: i just took an old keyboard apart. the green board was quite small, about 2 inches by 3 inches. <...> I was going to mention that possability - you beat me to it. :-) Another suggestion: - Mount to keyboards PCB behind an unused fl

Fatal: First sector of /dev/hda2 doesn't have a valid boot signature

2005-10-11 Thread Robert D. Crawford
I get the above message when trying to run lilo after installing sarge on a spare partition of my hdd. Here is what I have done: 1. Net install of sarge on hda2 2. boot into sid on hda7 3. added the following two lines to my lilo.conf file: other=/dev/hda2 label="sarge" 4. /sbin/lilo

Re: MRTG with 3 arguments

2005-10-11 Thread Dick Davies
make some more graphs :) or use rrdtool instead On 11/10/05, Eriberto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, > > How to make MRTG show 3 arguments? I need to show 3 collected data. The > MRTG works fine with 2 arguments. > > Thanks, > > Eriberto > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: MySQL 4.1

2005-10-11 Thread Sanjay Debian
On 10/11/05, Michael Satterwhite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'd been running MySQL 4.0 on Debian, but need to upgrade to 4.1. Whatprocedure would you recommend? What about supporting PHP / Python / ???packagesThe 4.1 packages appear to be broken as the commandapt-get install mysql-server-4.1 mysql

Re: Statically-linked binaries

2005-10-11 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Quoting Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hello, Is there anyone packaging statically-linked executables so that one doesn't worry about shared libraries? I'm thinking something like a single set-up file which will then install to the intended locations without the worry about dependenc

Re: 2.6.12 and 2.6.13 won't access cdrom -UPDATE

2005-10-11 Thread Basajaun
Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 10 Oct 2005, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > On 10 Oct 2005, Basajaun wrote: > > > > > > I have a similar problem here, and sysfs won't help. My > > > /proc/sys/dev/cdrom/info file is empty (contains the "drive name:"... > > > entries, but w/o a value). Also my /sys/bus/ide

Re: Building backports and local repositories

2005-10-11 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Quoting David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I'm wanting to install a few backports and want to verify that I'm not about to hose any of my system. I'm running Sarge... [SNIP lost of stuff] Now the question: Does the above not create a set of valid debs that I can safely install? More generally, i

Re: Opening and/or setting up XFree86 in Debian sarge

2005-10-11 Thread Jason Martens
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For the umpteenth time I'm attempting to set up a Linux-based PC in order to do home office stuff, like write professional- looking reports, image editing and publishing, and webpage development. No games, nothing requiring speed of any kind. I downloaded several ISO f

Opening and/or setting up XFree86 in Debian sarge

2005-10-11 Thread george5
For the umpteenth time I'm attempting to set up a Linux-based PC in order to do home office stuff, like write professional- looking reports, image editing and publishing, and webpage development. No games, nothing requiring speed of any kind. I downloaded several ISO files, succeeded in convertin

MRTG with 3 arguments

2005-10-11 Thread Eriberto
Hello all, How to make MRTG show 3 arguments? I need to show 3 collected data. The MRTG works fine with 2 arguments. Thanks, Eriberto -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Risposta automatica EUROFIAMMA

2005-10-11 Thread Sylvie BATHENAY [MSE]
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mplayer issue

2005-10-11 Thread Curt Howland
Hi, I'm having some crashes of mplayer in Sid snagged from ftp.nerim.net, I would like to know if anyone else is having problems and how to deal/report it. Unfortunately I don't speak French and the Nerim.net site does. :^) This same command worked fine last week, dumping audio to a wave file

MySQL 4.1

2005-10-11 Thread Michael Satterwhite
I'd been running MySQL 4.0 on Debian, but need to upgrade to 4.1. What procedure would you recommend? What about supporting PHP / Python / ??? packages The 4.1 packages appear to be broken as the command apt-get install mysql-server-4.1 mysql-client-4.1 mysql-common-4.1 Fails with Some package

Re: Where did the diskusage increase?

2005-10-11 Thread martin
Op maandag 10 oktober 2005 16:58, schreef John Plate: > Hi > > I'm looking for a tool that can tell where diskusage has increased > since last time the tool was run. > > Does such a tool exist? > > John I tried to make such a tool for my own use as a bash script. You must be root to run this scrip

weird TCP errors for HTTPS traffic to lufthansa.com

2005-10-11 Thread martin f krafft
I cannot access lufthansa.com with SSL from any browser on my machine anymore. It works from other machines, and I can connect to other SSL sites from this machine, just not lufthansa.com. tethereal shows the following relevant output, which is the same even after a reboot. 130.60.75.69 -> 129.35.

RE: Basic routing problem

2005-10-11 Thread Peter Coppens
> I am willing to collect and explain what I did to get it > working but it > may take a little time (a couple of days) to make sure I get > everything > and to go over it so I can understand it again. And just now having a > look at the routing table shows a couple of duplicate and/or > conf

Re: Dual booting -- Adding windows to a Linux system

2005-10-11 Thread Yuriy Kuznetsov
On 10/10/05, Roy Pluschke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 09:02 +, Florian Dorpmueller wrote: > > >But one thing that I'm not sure and not really know, will windows work OK > > >if it installed not on the first partition of the disk ? > > >Even I believe this will work, but b

Re: 2.6.12 and 2.6.13 won't access cdrom -UPDATE

2005-10-11 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 10 Oct 2005, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 10 Oct 2005, Basajaun wrote: > > > > I have a similar problem here, and sysfs won't help. My > > /proc/sys/dev/cdrom/info file is empty (contains the "drive name:"... > > entries, but w/o a value). Also my /sys/bus/ide/devices/ dir is empty. > > I am ru

Dovecot with quotas

2005-10-11 Thread Ben Sagal
Does anyone know how to get dovecot working with quotas? i have all the data in a Mysql table (including the user's quota). Ben

Re: Laptop clock is localtime, system time is off

2005-10-11 Thread Clive Menzies
On (11/10/05 11:04), Antony Gelberg wrote: > Clive Menzies wrote: > > However, what the OP needed to do was 'not' set the system clock to the > > hardware clock; it seems to avoid time conflicts on multi-boot systems. > > During the install you're asked whether to set the system clock to the > > ha

Re: IMAP and Squirelmail.

2005-10-11 Thread Clive Menzies
On (11/10/05 02:42), Chuck Payne wrote: > Hey, > > I need to know what IMAP program is the best and easiest to set up so I > can Squirrel mail set up. I see Cyrus is a bit of pain. > > Payne > > PS. Anyway web pages that you have that can help me get Squirrel Mail, > please send. Dovecot pret

Re[2]: RAID

2005-10-11 Thread Bogdan Rotariu
Hello Alvin, Monday, October 10, 2005, 4:50:46 PM, you wrote: > On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, Bogdan Rotariu wrote: >> I have 3 hard disk at 250GB SATA 150 mounted on a RAID adapter. >> Because the adaptor makes me a lot of problems, i whant to use a >> software RAID 5. > with 3 disks .. you're wa

Re: Re: Command line reference

2005-10-11 Thread Hodgins Family
Good morning! Perhaps you'd like this: Debian GNU/Linux Reference Card The 101 most important things when using Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~debacle/refcard/ Thanks, Ralph! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAI

Re: SSH attack

2005-10-11 Thread Dick Davies
On 11/10/05, Marty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If your machines are all exposed to the internet or to an insecure > LAN, then I don't see how you can safely use ssh at all. I would > never attempt such a thing, so you are much braver than I. > > What I would do instead is limit ssh logins to a s

Re: Basic routing problem

2005-10-11 Thread brett
Peter Coppens wrote: From: Brett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] You can possibly use ARP to get B to listen for A's packets and route them accordingly. For example I have the following setup: LAN-1 <--> LAN-2 <--> router <--> internet All hosts on LAN-1 can talk to all hosts on LAN-2 and all hosts

Solved: Re: Building Tuxmath with KDevelop

2005-10-11 Thread David Bruce
> AFAIK, there is no such package (libsdl-dev), but rather several > libsdl-*-dev packages, containing various components (though, maybe > I haven't looked properly, or that's just a typo on your part...). libsdl-dev is a virtual package. The actual version I installed was libsdl1.2-dev. > Any

Re: Strange crontab-problem

2005-10-11 Thread Joachim Smit
Thank you all for your help. I will install fail2ban Kind regards, Joachim __ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

Re: urgent help needed no commands are running and web,database servers also not starting

2005-10-11 Thread Radhika
i have tried with /usr/bin/vi paths also still it is giving the same problem.It is normal reboot and it didn't gave any error and everything was working   help would much appriciatedAaron Maxwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tuesday 11 October 2005 02:10 am, Radhika wrote:> Hi,> Yesterday i have i

Re: Laptop clock is localtime, system time is off

2005-10-11 Thread Clive Menzies
On (11/10/05 17:48), Chris Bannister wrote: > On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 01:13:27PM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: > > On (10/10/05 06:21), Nate Bargmann wrote: > > > * Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005 Oct 10 05:13 -0500]: > > > > > > > rerun base-config to reset > > > > > > Thanks for the tip,

Re: not All the SNMP manager

2005-10-11 Thread David Goodenough
On Tuesday 11 October 2005 00:50, Cristhian Hidalgo wrote: > Hi, I've seen you are in touch with NMS, I'm > developing one on my own as engeneering degree > proyect. > > Actually I've the porpose to assingning the work of > NMS in the logic tier, I'm develevoping this > application bsen on J2EE, my

Re: urgent help needed no commands are running and web,database servers also not starting

2005-10-11 Thread Aaron Maxwell
On Tuesday 11 October 2005 02:10 am, Radhika wrote: > Hi, > Yesterday i have installed kernal image 2.4.27-2-686-smp #1 and i > have restarted it was working fine that time.Now i am not able to run > any commands and my apache,myasql servers also not starting. Have you tried using full pathnames

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