Re: creating a local mirror

2005-01-05 Thread Alexandros Papadopoulos
On Wednesday 05 January 2005 13:43, David T-G wrote: > ...and then Alexandros Papadopoulos said... > % Although I've found apt-cacher to be more practical for the task of > % installing a small number of machines with more or less similar > % configuration. It just makes s

Re: creating a local mirror

2005-01-05 Thread Alexandros Papadopoulos
On Wednesday 05 January 2005 13:11, David T-G wrote: > Hi, all -- > > I would like to create my own mirror for the purpose of installing > (perhaps with an upgrade along the way) Sarge via debootstrap and > apt-get since my DSL connection is a lot more like dialup. > > I don't have an infinite amou

Re: usb problem: usb system refuses to recognize hardware

2005-01-04 Thread Alexandros Papadopoulos
On Wednesday 05 January 2005 01:45, Frank Van Damme wrote: > Hello, > > I have a problem. Up to now, I have user digikam to copy pictures > from a ptp compliant camera to my HD. Somehow, suddenly the usb > system in this computer won't properly function anymore. All I have > done is a dist-upgrade

Re: grep & tar segfault - broken system

2005-01-03 Thread Alexandros Papadopoulos
On Monday 03 January 2005 12:59, Alexandros Papadopoulos wrote: > [0] GREP segfaults: > helios:/# grep > Segmentation fault > [1] TAR segfaults too: > helios:/# tar -cf boot.tar boot/ > Segmentation fault On closer inspection, I realised that "find" segfaulted too.

grep & tar segfault - broken system

2005-01-03 Thread Alexandros Papadopoulos
Dear all Happy new year! A series of events (recent apt-get upgrade & power failure), has brought one of my servers (software RAID-1 with SiI3112 SATA controller) to the following state: [0] GREP segfaults: helios:/# grep Segmentation fault helios:/# An strace shows the following: execve("/bin/

Re: when sarge will be released?

2004-11-08 Thread Alexandros Papadopoulos
On Monday 08 November 2004 12:36, RituRaj wrote: > When will it be ready? :-) > -Rituraj When everyone reads and understands this document: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html -A -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EM

howto close a Debian bug?

2004-11-07 Thread Alexandros Papadopoulos
Following the instructions at http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting I filed a couple of bugs. Now one of them has been resolved, how can I report this and therefore close the bug? I don't see the answer anywhere in the documentation. Cheers -A -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

apt-cacher transition from apache to apache2

2004-11-05 Thread Alexandros Papadopoulos
On a sarge system, I was using apt-cacher with apache. No problems there. Once I replaced apache with apache2, apt-cacher works but no longer accepts any configuration changes. I.e. changing /etc/apt-cacher/apt-cacher.conf and then reloading/restarting apache2 does not honor the changes. I thi

Re: USB 2.0 speed

2004-10-22 Thread Alexandros Papadopoulos
On Friday 22 October 2004 15:08, Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote: > On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 13:06:38 +0300, Alexandros Papadopoulos > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have an external HDD case, that is USB 2.0 certified. When I boot > > my machine with KNOPPIX and have the U

USB 2.0 speed

2004-10-22 Thread Alexandros Papadopoulos
I have an external HDD case, that is USB 2.0 certified. When I boot my machine with KNOPPIX and have the USB case plugged, I get fast transfer rates to my external disk (10MB/sec or so). When I boot my regual installation of Debian (sarge), with both kernels 2.4.25 and 2.6.8 (installed via apt-

[false alarm] mozilla testing package JSP rendering

2004-09-21 Thread Alexandros Papadopoulos
On Tuesday 21 September 2004 12:13, Alexandros Papadopoulos wrote: > Hi all. > > I'm trying to view the page http://www.rwjf.org/index.jsp in the > latest mozilla, included in sarge (testing), and I'm just getting > something that looks like the source of the page. On kon

mozilla testing package JSP rendering

2004-09-21 Thread Alexandros Papadopoulos
Hi all. I'm trying to view the page http://www.rwjf.org/index.jsp in the latest mozilla, included in sarge (testing), and I'm just getting something that looks like the source of the page. On konqueror it displays fine. Anyone else seeing this? Thanks -A /* SECTION SPECIFIC RULE SETS styleinc

Re: sharing a printer with windows

2004-09-20 Thread Alexandros Papadopoulos
On Tuesday 21 September 2004 08:17, Christian Benito wrote: > I have small network, two windows 2000 boxes and a debian box. The > two windows machines share a laser printer that is attached to one of > them. I'd like to be able to print from the debian machine too. Can > anybody give me a pointer

[SOLVED] syslog MARKs interval change

2004-09-19 Thread Alexandros Papadopoulos
On Sunday 19 September 2004 23:08, Stefan O'Rear wrote: > On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 10:57:31PM +0300, Alexandros Papadopoulos wrote: > > To make sure the system was alive at that time, syslog periodically > > writes such messages to /var/log/messages: > > > >

syslog MARKs interval change

2004-09-19 Thread Alexandros Papadopoulos
To make sure the system was alive at that time, syslog periodically writes such messages to /var/log/messages: Sep 19 22:09:27 debian -- MARK -- Sep 19 22:29:27 debian -- MARK -- Sep 19 22:49:27 debian -- MARK -- How is it possible to adjust the frequency of such entries? I'd like to make it le

Re: How to Shutdown as a normal user?

2004-09-14 Thread Alexandros Papadopoulos
On Tuesday 14 September 2004 13:38, Pradeeper wrote: > Hi All > > Is there a way to shutdown my Debian Sarge box without giving root > password (as a normal user)? #apt-get install sudo ...and then edit /etc/sudoers to something similar: (this gives user "alex" shutdown/reboot privileges) # Cmn

Re: Campus Monitoring System...!

2004-09-14 Thread Alexandros Papadopoulos
On Tuesday 14 September 2004 10:01, Nayyar Ahmed wrote: > On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 09:35:27 +0300, Alexandros Papadopoulos > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tuesday 14 September 2004 06:37, Nayyar Ahmed wrote: > > > > > > > I am always bzy to remove and b

Re: Campus Monitoring System...!

2004-09-13 Thread Alexandros Papadopoulos
On Tuesday 14 September 2004 06:37, Nayyar Ahmed wrote: > I am always bzy to remove and block thier redundent internet > trafic. Now i have decieded to implement a campus monitoring > system which can trace out which system is generating problem > and who is gettting how much of the bandwidth. plu

Re: SIOCSIFADDR error...!

2004-08-31 Thread Alexandros Papadopoulos
On Tuesday 31 August 2004 13:37, Nayyar Ahmed wrote: > Hello All, > > I have two ethernet cards on my machine one , both Realteck > at the time of installation testing/woody it have detected both > also when it was showing both at first boot , but it shows me > eth1 down > > when i try to up it it

Re: creating audio-cd image from mp3/wav

2004-07-29 Thread Alexandros Papadopoulos
On Thursday 29 July 2004 15:06, Micha Feigin wrote: > How do I create an audio cd image on disk? > > I tried looking into xcdroast (which I normally use), cdrecord, burn, > mp3burn and a bunch of other console tools, and it seems that there > is no problem to write audio directly to cd from wav/mp3

Re: OT: read access to 64 bit file system

2004-07-29 Thread Alexandros Papadopoulos
On Friday 30 July 2004 02:58, cep welly wrote: > sorry for being so < whatever > ..just curious > > I've got 2.4.26 kernel running in my box ( absolutely 32 bit ). Can I > access a filesystem on some 64bit machine ? Yes, filesystems tend to be architecture-agnostic :-) -A -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: how can other users use X?

2004-07-27 Thread Alexandros Papadopoulos
On Tuesday 27 July 2004 22:25, John van Spaandonk wrote: > On Tuesday 27 July 2004 18:06, James Vahn wrote: > > rich wrote: > > > I start my X session as one user, then from a terminal where I've > > > su'ed to another (not root), I want to be able to use gvim, but > > > it tells me it's not allowe

Re: X Question

2004-07-26 Thread Alexandros Papadopoulos
On Tuesday 27 July 2004 09:18, Raquel Rice wrote: > On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 22:15:34 +0700 > > cep welly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Raquel Rice wrote: > > >I've been running 2 servers using Debian for about 6 months. > > > > well, i assume you're already go in expert zone. > > > > >However, neither

Re: Debian crashes

2004-07-26 Thread Alexandros Papadopoulos
On Monday 26 July 2004 23:49, Tim Raats wrote: > Alexandros Papadopoulos wrote: > >On Monday 26 July 2004 21:32, Tim Raats wrote: > >>Debian crashes on the strangest moments. Im running Sarge with > >> kernel 2.4.26. When im surfing the internet with Mozilla Firefox

Re: Debian crashes

2004-07-26 Thread Alexandros Papadopoulos
On Monday 26 July 2004 21:32, Tim Raats wrote: > Debian crashes on the strangest moments. Im running Sarge with kernel > 2.4.26. When im surfing the internet with Mozilla Firefox 0.8, Debian > sometimes crashes. Quick answer: Use a different version/build of Firefox. Now, are you sure the machin

Re: Desktop

2004-07-26 Thread Alexandros Papadopoulos
On Monday 26 July 2004 10:33, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is there an HTML desktop for linux? That's all I want to run... an > HTML desktop {like active desktop} and a lightweight windowmanager. With KDE in sarge, you can do right-click -> Configure Desktop -> Background -> Advanced Options -> kwe

Re: restrict ssh login to subset of users?

2004-07-26 Thread Alexandros Papadopoulos
On Monday 26 July 2004 10:55, Eric Cheney wrote: > Hello folks. I am wonderin gif there an easy way to restrict ssh > login access to a subset of users? $ man sshd_config ... AllowUsers This keyword can be followed by a list of user name patterns, separated by spaces. I

Re: question about patching my kernel

2004-07-25 Thread Alexandros Papadopoulos
On Saturday 24 July 2004 14:20, John Summerfield wrote: > for most > people, whatever the distro, a kernel from kernel.org is probably a > mistake. Could you please elaborate on this? I've always thought that learning the most generic way of handling linux kernels is more valuable than sticking

Re: d4x

2004-07-22 Thread Alexandros Papadopoulos
On Monday 12 July 2004 18:56, nx13372 wrote: > Hil all, > > I can't download a file bigger than 2GB with d4x. > What other tool can i use, that support resume? Are you sure it's not a limitation of your filesystem/kernel? Try the following, to create 2,5GB full of zeroes: $ dd if=/dev/zero of=lal

Re: very limited mirror needed

2004-07-21 Thread Alexandros Papadopoulos
On Wednesday 21 July 2004 17:58, Steve Glines wrote: > Thanks but that doesn't help - The lab I'm building has to be off > line so I need to create the mirror first. With Redhat and SUSE all I > had to do was copy the CD's to an http able location and use a > network install. I can't seem to do tha

Re: very limited mirror needed

2004-07-21 Thread Alexandros Papadopoulos
On Wednesday 21 July 2004 15:37, Steve Glines wrote: > I am building an install lab (i386) that is intended to mimic a full > network install. I'd like to mirror just enough to give a student the > experience of having installed Debian without mirroring everything. > > The lab has to be disconnecte

Re: PERL

2004-07-19 Thread Alexandros Papadopoulos
On Thursday 08 July 2004 17:30, Elaine Boothe wrote: > I want to know how to create a question and marking program using > perl, calling questions from a text file Perhaps you needn't reinvent the wheel. # apt-cache search edutainment -A -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: OpenOffice Window Values Location

2004-07-09 Thread Alexandros Papadopoulos
On Friday 02 July 2004 00:01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Does anyone know where OpenOffice stores the default locations and > sizes of the windows it opens upon startup? > > For some reason, something got messed up in my installation of > OpenOffice, and now when it opens a document, the window is

Re: weird pb

2004-07-09 Thread Alexandros Papadopoulos
On Tuesday 29 June 2004 15:18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I have a really weird problem on one of my box (woody): > > [(14:15:00) Linux Wifix ~]$ ls > Segmentation fault > [(14:15:02) Linux Wifix ~]$ > > any idea? $ strace ls and see where it dies. -A -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMA

OpenOffice.org printing with CUPS + KDE

2004-06-21 Thread Alexandros Papadopoulos
Hi all For a long time I used the KDE printing system to handle my OOo printing. T'was simple enough - fire spadmin, and then add a printer with the command "/usr/bin/kprinter --stdin". Any job send to that generic printer would then be handled by KDE, and printed to my configured CUPS printer

Re: ftp with tls

2004-06-16 Thread Alexandros Papadopoulos
On Wednesday 16 June 2004 00:08, Edwards, Thomas W. wrote: > Has anyone gotten this to work in setting it up using tls for proftp? > The module mod_tls is built into the core of proftpd, however the > example config doesn't seen to explain where the keys' come from? Is > there another setup exampl

xmms window behavior

2004-06-10 Thread Alexandros Papadopoulos
Hi! Could someone tell me how to convince xmms' playlist to follow suit, once I minimize the main player window? Right now what happens is that only the player window is minimized, leaving a "headless" playlist window sitting there. I'm using xmms 1.2.10-1 on sarge. Thank you -A -- To UNS

Re: Sound card configuration.

2004-04-07 Thread Alexandros Papadopoulos
On Wednesday 07 April 2004 21:02, Jansen Carlo Sena wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a HP ZE4500 Pavilion laptop with ALi M5451 sound card but I > don't know how I can do the manual configuration to load the right > kernel modules and its parameters to my sound card works fine. > > Should anyone suggest

Re: how to search for free proxy server

2004-03-09 Thread Alexandros Papadopoulos
On Tuesday 09 March 2004 15:26, j smith wrote: > i live in China, and my ISP blocks many Web sites. > how to use Debian to search for free proxy server? http://www.peek-a-booty.org -A -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTE

Re: korganizer 3.1.1 crashing after latest update

2004-03-08 Thread Alexandros Papadopoulos
On Sunday 07 March 2004 21:25, Brian Nelson wrote: > Alexandros Papadopoulos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I'm running unstable, and was wondering if anyone has noticed the > > same behavior. Right after I ran apt-get upgrade and restarted KDE > > (3.2), korgani

korganizer 3.1.1 crashing after latest update

2004-03-07 Thread Alexandros Papadopoulos
I'm running unstable, and was wondering if anyone has noticed the same behavior. Right after I ran apt-get upgrade and restarted KDE (3.2), korganizer started crashing on me right after any event was viewed (double-clicked) or the calendar was used in any way (browse to next week etc). I did a

Re: Log a user out

2004-01-21 Thread Alexandros Papadopoulos
On Wednesday 21 January 2004 18:03, Allan Kok wrote: > Can I as root log another user out? > And can I get i list of all users logged on to my server? debian:~# whatis w w (1)- Show who is logged on and what they are doing. Then you can find the process ID of their login shell an

[SOLVED] linux-2.6.1 compile error on sarge

2004-01-21 Thread Alexandros Papadopoulos
On Tuesday 20 January 2004 23:17, GCS wrote: > On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 11:32:31PM +0200, Alexandros Papadopoulos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thank you for any help/insights! > > Please be sure that IDE is compiled in, 2.6.1 and modular IDE is a > no go. In my readi

linux-2.6.1 compile error on sarge

2004-01-19 Thread Alexandros Papadopoulos
Hi! Following the instructions at http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.html I've been trying to recompile the 2.6.1 kernel (vanilla sources from kernel.org). I kept an error log, which is appended at the end of this message. The system is a freshly installed + updated (and very mi