Re: Apache2 & MySQL

2005-09-01 Thread Ben Bettin
> Yeah I have everything installed that I need -- Did PHP4-MySQL get enabled > automatically for you, or did you have to add the module manually to > 'apache2.dconf' ? What syntax does the apache2.conf file use for this module ? In addition, I don't think you even have to tell apache2 about mysql.

Re: Apache2 & MySQL

2005-09-01 Thread Ben Bettin
t overly secure, but I havn't converted one of the sites yet) /etc/mysql/my.cnf - edited it to comment out the bind-address line so that the mysql server would accept outside connections. Ben On 9/1/05, Steve Å <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 09:41:42AM -0400 or

Re: Apache2 & MySQL

2005-09-01 Thread Ben Bettin
I just reinstalled my LAMP (Linux/Apache/Mysql/PHP) development server at my office. I'm keeping track of -everything- I do while setting it up so my coworkers can have some idea how to do it themselves. I installed the following packages (selected via aptitude), and then installed any "recommend

Re: shut down exim4

2005-08-30 Thread Ben Bettin
> > 2) How can I stop exim from loading on boot? > > $ find /etc/rc?.d -name '*exim4*' | xargs rm -f This mess is why I prefer sysv-rc-conf :)

Re: shut down exim4

2005-08-30 Thread Ben Bettin
> 1) How can I stop and restart exim from the command line? Do an "ls /etc/init.d" to see what's listed. In mine I saw "exim4". So you should be able to do: /etc/init.d/exim4 stop /etc/init.d/exim4 start /etc/init.d/exim4 restart > 2) How can I stop exim from loading on boot? Well, I think th

Re: best way to use a package from unstable in stable...

2005-08-30 Thread Ben Bettin
Properly setup your /etc/apt/preferences file to include JUST that package from unstable. When Sarge was in testing I wanted to use the firestarter package from unstable. This was my /etc/apt/preferences file for using all packages from testing, and the single package from unstable: Package: * P

Re: Help: Sarge network configuration

2005-08-30 Thread Ben Bettin
Since it connected with DHCP ok durring install I'm guessing the drivers and everything are ok with your network card. Perhaps your just not supplying enough information in /etc/network/interfaces? Here's mine: auto lo iface lo inet loopback auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 10.1.0.5

Re: bash, perl, C

2005-01-07 Thread Ben Bettin
Why not run it and find out? Seems a lot quicker than to wait for a reply from a mailing list. It too me longer to write this email than it'd take you to run those programs/scripts. Have a Nice Day. Ben On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 18:28:01 +0100, Gerard Robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > can

Re: aptitude: modifying sources.list

2004-12-22 Thread Ben Bettin
You shouldn't have to use another APT interface to fix aptitude's error message...it just doesn't make sense. And yes, I had the same problem when trying to update via the command-line with an adjusted sources.list. Ben On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 16:52:37 +0100, Jonathan Kaye <[EMAIL PR

Re: aptitude: modifying sources.list

2004-12-22 Thread Ben Bettin
itting 'u' when in aptitude's interactive console menus. Perhaps it's a bug in the program that's causing you to have this problem? Sorry for the confusion, hope this helps. Ben On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 15:35:11 +0100, Jonathan Kaye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Be

Re: aptitude: modifying sources.list

2004-12-22 Thread Ben Bettin
When you get that error message, scroll down to the bottom. Near the bottom it will have a message recommending that you "Update" to remedy the problem. Should be just above the 'ok' button. ;) Ben On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 12:04:30 +0100, Jonathan Kaye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Debianers, >

Re: Console Password Manager?

2004-12-21 Thread Ben Bettin
ith. Thanks again to everyone who has offered advice, I really appreciate it! Ben On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 20:10:38 -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 10:56:25AM -0600, Jacob S ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 15:16:15 + > > Ben Bettin <[E

Re: best IRC client for Debian

2004-12-20 Thread Ben Bettin
I think I've always found Xchat to be the best GUI, especially in terms of it's similarity to mIRC. I'd be curious to see what everyone's favorite CLI client is. I've heard a few mentions of irssi in the past, but I've never tried it. Ben On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 14:02:21 -0400, Shaikh Quader <[EMA

Re: configuring Mozilla to recognise .php files

2004-12-20 Thread Ben Bettin
Everyone else seems to be pointing you to config files and making things more complicated than what it really is. I get the impression this would be your first time setting up a webserver and whatnot. If you're like me when I did it for the first time, things could be a little overwhelming. In D

Re: configuring Mozilla to recognise .php files

2004-12-20 Thread Ben Bettin
(note: I accidently replied to Rob's email, so I'm resending this to the list) I could be wrong but I don't believe Mozilla can understand PHP, which would explain your problem. The following explanation is probably over simplified and not 100% technically accurate, but it'll give you the idea o

Re: Console Password Manager?

2004-12-20 Thread Ben Bettin
asg on #debian (freenode) mentioned using gpg + a text file + wipe (for the tempfile). Seems like there should be an easier, more convenient way of doing it, but his suggestion would certainly do the job. :) On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 13:55:25 +, Ben Bettin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: Console Password Manager?

2004-12-20 Thread Ben Bettin
with a command line interface (CLI)? Thanks once again, Ben On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 09:12:43 +0100, matze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > El Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 10:08:25PM -0500 Ben Bettin ha dit: > > > Does anyone know of a good Password Manager that can be run in the > > con

Console Password Manager?

2004-12-19 Thread Ben Bettin
Does anyone know of a good Password Manager that can be run in the console? I know there are many GUI ones, but I need to run this remotely via ssh so I need a console one. I read about PMS (http://passwordms.sourceforge.net/) in this month's Linux Journal, but it doesn't appear to have any offic

Re: Sarge Betting Pool

2004-12-17 Thread Ben Bettin
Feb 31, 2005 ;) Ben On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 21:13:33 +, Andrew M.A. Cater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 04:07:55PM -0500, William Ballard wrote: > > I'll say Sarge on April 1st, 2005. Takers? > > > Feb 25 2005 > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >

Re: /etc/apt/preferences problem - might cause problems when Sarge goes stable!

2004-12-17 Thread Ben Bettin
my case. I'm still very curious if the conflicting labels from /etc/apt/preferences and /etc/apt/sources.list will have bad effects on people with mixed installs when Sarge goes Stable? Ben On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 17:26:39 +0100, kurtz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > El viernes 17 de

/etc/apt/preferences problem - might cause problems when Sarge goes stable!

2004-12-17 Thread Ben Bettin
I recently started using the /etc/apt/preferences file to get Firestarter from unstable into my testing install of Sarge. My file follows: -- Package: * Pin: release a=testing Pin-Priority: 900 Package: firestarter Pin: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: 1100 Package: * Pin: release o=Deb

Re: Firestarter for Testing (Sarge)?

2004-12-17 Thread Ben Bettin
Thanks for the info! That explains a lot. :) Ben On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 12:52:12 +0100, Florian Ernst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Ben, hello list! > > Jumping it late, but here we go... > > On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 04:41:21PM +, Ben Bettin wrote: > >

Re: Firestarter for Testing (Sarge)?

2004-12-16 Thread Ben Bettin
Well, I don't know, but it wasn't available for me. In previous posts to this list you can see what my sources.list contained, it wasn't missing anything. But in aptitude I couldn't find it. I didn't try the apt-cache command because I try to stick to aptitude, but from what I understand the sea

Re: Firestarter for Testing (Sarge)?

2004-12-16 Thread Ben Bettin
After a lot of reading, the problem is solved. I'm running firestarter on Sarge and it works great :) I read through Chapter 6 of the Debian Reference manual, http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/reference.en.html. I created the file /etc/apt/prefences and placed the following in it: ---

Re: Firestarter for Testing (Sarge)?

2004-12-16 Thread Ben Bettin
then install it from testing. * aptitude purge bar This removes the bar package together with all its configuration files. On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 16:41:21 +0000, Ben Bettin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been looking for a nice gui to setup a firewall and monitor > network t

Firestarter for Testing (Sarge)?

2004-12-16 Thread Ben Bettin
the command line apt ones. Thanks in advance for your advice, I truly appreciate it! Ben Bettin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Suggestions for DVD/CD writing software?

2004-12-09 Thread Ben Bettin
When I first started using aptitude I got the impression that it was an almost all encompassing front-end to the command-line apt. I like it better than the gui front-ends because you can use it remotely over ssh. Using aptitude makes it a bit hard sometimes though, it seems a lot of people on th

Re: Suggestions for DVD/CD writing software?

2004-12-08 Thread Ben Bettin
I appreciate your taking the time to test some of it out and teach me a few things. On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 20:59:04 +0100, Maurits van Rees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > apt-cache search > might help here. In regards to apt, I've always stuck with aptitude. I've been using linux for 3 years now, b

Re: Suggestions for DVD/CD writing software?

2004-12-08 Thread Ben Bettin
My kernel shouldn't have a problem, I'm running 2.6.7. I'm at work at the moment. I'll submit a bug report for this when I get back home later this evening. I'm not sure what version of K3b I'm using. Under the suggestions of the users on this list I started up aptitude and installed whatever t

Re: Cloning a workstation

2004-12-08 Thread Ben Bettin
I've been looking into doing the same thing at my office. After researching a bit, Partimage sounded like a nifty program (http://partimage.org/). I havn't tried it yet, but everything I've read about it sounded promising. I believe, however, that the project is dead. There hasn't been an updat

Re: Suggestions for DVD/CD writing software?

2004-12-07 Thread Ben Bettin
I took everyone's advice and am giving k3b a try. I picked up a few DVD+R and DVD+RW discs (my drive supports both + and - protocols). I installed k3b with aptitude (I'm running Sarge). I started it up, and it's giving me an error/warning message which I'm not sure how to fix. It says the follo

Re: ddclient uses an unreasonable amount of CPU time

2004-12-07 Thread Ben Bettin
I'm using Sarge as well, and have a DynDNS.org custom domain. I've only been using it for a few days, but the package I'm using is "ez-ipupdate". It was very easy to setup, and seems to be working fine. Ben On Tue, 07 Dec 2004 19:17:46 +0100, Andreas Ehn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I

Suggestions for DVD/CD writing software?

2004-12-06 Thread Ben Bettin
Over the years one of the few things that has forced me to keep a windows install handy was cd writing. Recently I was finally able to kick the M$ habit, after discovering the ease of Nautilus's data cd creation in Gnome, but it doesn't do everything I'd like to do. I could be wrong, but from wha

Directory Permissions

2004-12-06 Thread Ben Bettin
I'm running Sarge and have two 250 gb drives. One has my system installed on it, the other is mounted as /backup. I intended to use /backup to...well...back things up :) How do I grant certain users access to /backup? Right now it's only accessible to the root user. I've read through a few man

Re: ssh recovery

2004-10-10 Thread Ben Bettin
I'm not certain if this approach will do what you need, but it might be worth looking into. I use a program called "screen" to have multiple terminal windows running in one ssh window. The program also allows you to detach processes and reattach them later. People use this to connect remotely