I'm running testing and apt-get wont upgrade quite a few packages.
I'm want to upgrade to mozilla-firefox and mozilla-thunderbird but these
are being held back, along with quite a few other files.
I'm doing the standard apt-get update/upgrade.
If I do apt-get install mozilla-firefox it will insta
I have a problem with Mozilla. For some reason Mozilla is asking me to
choose a profile (I think something must have got upgraded).
I cannot choose my "default" profile. I've had a similar problem in the
past where I created a new profile and then copied the folder to the new
profile name.
I
Hi,
I'm using xfree86 4.3.0 on a PowerBook 17" laptop running Debian testing
distro.
I can't seem to get gnome-session to run. It just hangs and I have to
kill X manually. It doesn't work from gdm or kdm either. I also have
tried running it manually from an xterm.
gnome 2.2 is installed.
Ha
I upgraded a friends Thinkpad A22 to xfree86 version 4. Was running
version 3.
Now X doesn't work properly.
The X server is shutting down (being sent a signal 4) whenever there is
inactivity for 20 minutes.
Also a virtual console is behaving similarly as it automatically logs
out whenever inact
Hi,
Can anyone recommend a good spam filter for Debian???
I use Mozilla as my mail client on an Apple PowerBook and also an Intel
desktop.
Are there differences in power and ease of use between all the various
spam filters?
Which are the most actively used and maintained?
Which are the most acc
I'm running the latest stable distro and am having problems with
bugzilla. It used to work on an older version of bugzilla and/or
debian. The machine hasn't been used for a while and I've done an
apt-get update and upgrade. All went well, however my bugzilla does not
seem to be quite right.
I'm currently running exim MTA for a small group. Most are using POP
cleints but I prefer to use IMAP. I would also like to use IMAP with
SSL/TLS support. I have been running the package called "imap" and it
has been working fine except that it takes up 70MB of memory. I'm not
sure whiy b
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
>On Mon, 23 Sep 2002, Brendan J Simon wrote:
>
>
>>I've noticed that the IMAP daemon is very memory hungry. I've noticed
>>our server slowing down and swapping and top reports that imap is taking
>>50-70MB of memory.
I've noticed that the IMAP daemon is very memory hungry. I've noticed
our server slowing down and swapping and top reports that imap is taking
50-70MB of memory. Why so high ???
Is there a bug or is it just the way the IMAP protocol works (can't see
how). I've tried 2 IMAP servers with sim
Noah Meyerhans wrote:
On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 06:40:22PM +1000, Brendan J Simon wrote:
The two mahcines have an IP address of 192.168.51 and 192.168.0.52. My
/etc/ipsec.conf looks like this (see end of message). I've tried with
and without the leftsubnet and rightsubnet settings
I'm trying to get FreeS/WAN working on two old Pentium machines which
are on the same subnet. This is just for testing before I open the
firewall to an FreeS/WAN IPSec server so that I can have a VPN from home
to work :)
The two mahcines have an IP address of 192.168.51 and 192.168.0.52. My
Hi Stefan,
The only way I can get my ADSL link to work is to do and "ifdown ethX"
first then followed by a "pon dsl-provider". It will not start
automatically at boot so I manually run the following script.
poff dsl-provider
route del default
ifconfig eth0 down
pon dsl-provider
Please help. I can't logon to my system as root. I'm running testing
on a AMD Athlon 1600XP machine with 256MB RAM and 40GB hard disk.
I used to be able to login but I upgraded some packanges and now I can
not login as root on the console nor via gdm. I can login as a normal
user but when
I've just installed bugzilla on a machine running "testing" and a few
bits from "unstable". I have few questions.
1) This is being used in a closed group and closely administered, so I
do not want any user to add their own account. ie. I want all account
to setup by the administrator. I
Does anyone know how to write a script to obtain online banking
information ??
I'm a C/C++ programmer and know a little python too. I'm thinking about
Java for this app though it may also be wxpython.
I basically want to be able to download (daily) my balances and
transactions from my onlin
Does anyone know if bugzilla going to be in the next release of Debian ??
I see it's in unstable but hasn't even made it to testing yet. It's
been in unstable for a little while now.
I'd really like to see it in stable for the next relese.
Thanks for any info,
Brendan Simon.
I have a few users on a LAN connected to an ISP via a permanent dial up
connection. Some messages with large attachments never get through to a
user is the USA (I'm in Australia). I'm thinking that there may be some
outs coming into play due to the slow dial up connection. I assume the
exi
I'm trying to get my USB Logitech optical mouse to work with my Pentium
machine. It is currently running a mixture of testing and stable
distros. I am currently using the latest kernel-image-2.4.x-k6 with
devfs and xfree86 from stable (ie. not version 4.x.x).
I have been searching the net
Hi,
I'm running an Apple Titanium G4 and an Intel Pentium-II machine (both
with Debian ofcourse). I would like to purchase a scanner but would
also like to be able to do photocopies. I could use a computer to scan
then print but that can be a bit inefficient. I was thinking of an all
in one
I've been using testing for a while now on my Apple G4 laptop. I also
use some unstable packages but the apt defaults are set to testing. I
am using GNOME and Sawmill and I do an apt update/upgrade everyday. In
the last month or so I have noticed that GNOME is *really* slow when
invoking app
Faheem Mitha wrote:
Thanks Paul. I hadn't installed the PSM. I have now installed it but
unfortunately it still doesn't work. I just get a sreen saying please
wait while downloading your account information.
I have similar problems (with Wachovia). What is your bank? Faheem.
My bank i
Thanks Paul. I hadn't installed the PSM. I have now installed it but
unfortunately it still doesn't work. I just get a sreen saying please
wait while downloading your account information.
Brendan Simon.
Paul D. Smith wrote:
%% Brendan J Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> write
Hi,
I have manually installed versions of mozilla on my PowerPC laptop.
Version 0.8.1 worked fine with my internet banking and other java web
sites. I was so pleased to see Mozilla-0.9.1 in the testing
distribution and promptly did an upgrade. I now can not access any of
my banking. I'm no
They all looked OK, then I noticed that CVSROOT had ownership/group of
root/root. I changed the group to cvsusers and now everything works
ok. Thanks for giving me the prod to the obvious.
Regards,
Brendan Simon.
Doug McNaught wrote:
Brendan J Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
I've got a CVS server on a PowerMac running Debian GNU Linux (stable).
I can checkout from the repository but I can not do simple operations
like status or update. This only happens when performing these
operations on directories with subdirectories (excluding CVS). Is this
a known problem a
I'm considering mirroring Debian for our company. I'd like to know how
much diskspace I would require. Can someone tell me the size of the
following Debian Distros. Is there a webpage with this information ??
Is it automagically updated ???
Diskspace required for each of these Debian dis
I would really love some updated wxPython and wxWindows (wxGtk, wxMotif)
packages for Debian. Some of these may not even exist now (eg.
wxPython). Is there anybody working on a wxPython for Debian ???
If so are there any plans to update to the latest python, wxWindows and
wxPython sources be
Matthew Dalton wrote:
Brendan J Simon wrote:
When I use VIM in an X terminal (eg. gnometerm), I can't use the cursor
keys to navigate whilst in insert mode.
*However*, if I have a ~/.vimrc file with nothing in it, I *can*
navigate with the cursor keys in insert mode.
Very strange. Is t
When I use VIM in an X terminal (eg. gnometerm), I can't use the cursor
keys to navigate whilst in insert mode.
*However*, if I have a ~/.vimrc file with nothing in it, I *can*
navigate with the cursor keys in insert mode.
Very strange. Is this a bug or have I got something wrong with my setu
Pollywog wrote:
libc5-altdev: /usr/i486-linuxlibc1/include/i386/ieeefp.h
OK I found this by doing the search, but I have a powerpc based
machine. It doesn't seem to be available for powerpc !!!
Anyone know if I can install this from a non-debian source ???
libc5-altdev: /usr/i486-linuxlib
Pollywog wrote:
I'm trying to compile SystemC (opensource C++ HDL) from
www.systemc.org. It configures but will not build because it can't find
ieeefp.h. Does this file exist in any debian pacakges ? If so, which
one ???
libc5-altdev: /usr/i486-linuxlibc1/include/i386/ieeefp.h
OK I foun
I'm trying to compile SystemC (opensource C++ HDL) from
www.systemc.org. It configures but will not build because it can't find
ieeefp.h. Does this file exist in any debian pacakges ? If so, which
one ???
Is there anyway to search the package contents for files (eg. using
"apt-cache sear
* I started off with Slackware in the early days. It was very good.
* I got tired of compiling packages from *.tar.gz files. I'd heard all
the hype about Red Hat and it's package management system and thought
this is the way all systems should work. I installed it and was very
impressed (i
I'm trying to do an snmpget with privacy support. I get an error
message saying
"snmpget: USM encryption error"
Someone told me that this is because the debian binary has been compiled
without the SSL support. Is this due to export restrictions ???
Is there an snmp deb compiled with privacy supp
I have setup a mail server using exim. I have it working pretty well,
but I can't figure out how to send mail for non existant users to a real
user. eg. [EMAIL PROTECTED] doesn't exist so I would like all mail sent to
this address to be forwarded to another account (eg. [EMAIL PROTECTED]). I'd
a
What is the official mail spool directory ?
/var/spool/mail ?
/var/mail ?
I'm running a PowerMac G4 with exim. Things were working fine till I
tried to install zmailer. I had a few errors so I switched back to exim
for the time being. I could no longer read my mail through an IMAP
client runnin
Are there any dos2unix and unix2dos command line utilities in any of the
debian pacages ???
I've done an "apt-cache search ..." but can't find anything suitable.
Thanks,
Brendan Simon.
I'm using Debian-2.2 on Intel and PowerPC platforms. I am using
magicfilter and lprng (couldn't get lpr working on my PowerMacs). It
prints fine but I always get a header page printed. lpr -h does
suppress the header page correctly but I don't want to have to type this
everytime. I have put the
Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 05:31:22PM +1100, Brendan J Simon wrote:
> >
> > I can't find the C library manpages. I'm running Potato on a PowerMac
> > and Intel system.
> > I have install manpages, libc6 and glibc-doc. I can't
I can't find the C library manpages. I'm running Potato on a PowerMac
and Intel system.
I have install manpages, libc6 and glibc-doc. I can't find any other
appropriate package by using "apt-cache pkgnames" or "apt-cache search".
What package do I need to install to get the C library manpages.
Michel Dänzer wrote:
> Brendan J Simon wrote:
>
> > Is psnup part of some debian package ?
>
> Yep, psutils.
Thanks,
I couldn't find it with "apt-cache search psnup".
Brendan.
I'm trying to print a postscript document with 4 pages to a single page.
"a2ps -4 file.ps" complains that it can't find "psnup".
I've done an "apt-cache search psnup" and an "apt-cache pkgnames | grep
ps" but I can't find anything.
Is psnup part of some debian package ?
Thanks,
Brendan Simon.
Our company has a Win2000 Domain server which has DNS and DHCP
services. I have installed dhcpcd on our Debian Linux machines
(PowerMac G4, PowerBook Pismo and a P133 machine) and they obtain the IP
address and gateway from the Win2000 server without any problems. The
problem I have is that the D
I need to install some IMAP and POP3 servers so users can read mail via
Netscape/Outlook on other machines. I have exim as my mail server. I'm
running Debian Potato on a PowerMac G4.
The choice (according to "apt-get -s install imap-server") of available
imap servers is:
imap 4.7c-1
courier-
Don't worry I figured it out. I didn't have a trailing / after propose-updates.
ie. I had
deb http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/debian dists/proposed-updates
instead of
deb http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/debian dists/proposed-updates/
Brendan Simon.
Brendan J Simon wrote:
> I&#
I'm running some PowerPC and Intel machines with Debian 2.2.
How do I edit my /etc/apt/sources.list to access the proposed-updates or
potato-proposed-updates directory on the Debian mirrors.
I searched the archives but didn't come up with anything helpful. Is
there a README, HOWTO, or website th
Konstantinos Margaritis wrote:
> As some of you may have noticed, communicator is broken on powerpc now.
> That is,
>
> apt-get install communicator
>
> won't work, since communicator-smotif-47 is in woody. I asked Richard
> Braakman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> about this and he told me that there are RC
I am using Debian Potato. I installed a base 2.1 system from CD and
then did an "apt-get dist-upgrade".
The "ps" command is not available. I thought it would be part of the
base system but it appears not.
What package do I need to install to get "ps" ?
How can I find out this kind of informatio
I got it working. I just addedd the following to my
/etc/apt/sources.list and did an "apt-get upgrade"
deb http://www.au.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
Brendan Simon.
I'm not sure, but perhaps run fmtutil? Just a shot in the dark.
Marshal
>>>>>
I'm having the familiar *.fmt files missing when trying to use tex. The
mail archives suggest that the solution is to install tex from the
proposed-updates directories but that solution doesn't work (at least
not any more).
The URL
ftp.cdrom.com/pub/linux/debian/dists/slink-proposed-updates/.4/li
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