Monitor is going blank

2008-12-05 Thread Brian Kimsey-Hickman
I have a fresh Debian Stable installation that I am trying to use as a informational kiosk. The only thing I changed from the default installation was to switch from gdm to kdm. My problem is the screen is going blank after about 10 or 20 minutes of inactivity. This is what I have tried: Des

Re: Cannot upgrade kernel

2008-11-12 Thread Brian Kimsey-Hickman
--- On Wed, 11/12/08, Sven Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Sven Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Cannot upgrade kernel > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Date: Wednesday, November 12, 2008, 9:59 AM > On 2008-11-12 15:17 +0100, Brian Kimsey-Hickma

Re: Cannot upgrade kernel

2008-11-12 Thread Brian Kimsey-Hickman
I was afraid that I was going to have to reinstall the system. You are right. This is an old system that has not been upgraded in quite some time. Thanks, Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Cannot upgrade kernel

2008-11-12 Thread Brian Kimsey-Hickman
I have been going around in circles on this. I am trying to upgrade my kernel from 2.2.20 to the current stable kernel 2.6.18. When I run aptitude I get a glibc error because it needs at least a 2.4.1 kernel to install but the new kernel won't install without the new glibc. Here is what is ha

Is there a package for BASE (Basic Analysis and Security Engine)?

2005-09-13 Thread Brian Kimsey-Hickman
Is anyone working on a package for BASE (taken from the old ACID) to use with SNORT? Thanks, Brian

Re: Woody-Sarge Upgrade w/ Samba Problems

2005-08-03 Thread Brian Kimsey-Hickman
On 8/2/05, Brian Kimsey-Hickman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just upgraded a Debian box to Sarge and my Samba shares don't seem to > work quite the same. This box should be using Domain Authentication > and I successfully rejoined the domain with a net join command but the &g

Woody-Sarge Upgrade w/ Samba Problems

2005-08-02 Thread Brian Kimsey-Hickman
Just upgraded a Debian box to Sarge and my Samba shares don't seem to work quite the same. This box should be using Domain Authentication and I successfully rejoined the domain with a net join command but the only people that can open share are ones that have user account on the device and on the

Re: Exim4: all relevant MX records point to non-existent hosts]

2005-06-17 Thread Brian Kimsey-Hickman
Björn, Thanks for the response but, mail:~# host compt-401ex.occompt.com compt-401ex.occompt.com does exist, but it is on a private network not visible to the Internet. It looks to me like the dig response says the MX record is there and the mail server is sending and receiving email to and from

Exim4: all relevant MX records point to non-existent hosts

2005-06-16 Thread Brian Kimsey-Hickman
Since I have upgraded to Sarge I am getting this exim4 error: # exim4 -bt [EMAIL PROTECTED] R: dnslookup for [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] is undeliverable: all relevant MX records point to non-existent hosts A lot of posts say it is due to a DNS error but I think my DNS is okay: compt-in

Exim4 error: all relevant MX records point to non-existent hosts

2005-06-16 Thread Brian Kimsey-Hickman
Since I have upgraded to Sarge I am getting this exim4 error: # exim4 -bt [EMAIL PROTECTED] R: dnslookup for [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] is undeliverable: all relevant MX records point to non-existent hosts A lot of posts say it is due to a DNS error but I think my DNS is okay: compt-i

Re: big trouble in upgrading from Debian 3.0 to 3.1

2005-06-15 Thread Brian Kimsey-Hickman
Just used aptitude update aptitude dist-upgrade to upgrade from the unstable archive. Worked like a charm without any hitches. Brian

Re: big trouble in upgrading from Debian 3.0 to 3.1

2005-06-15 Thread Brian Kimsey-Hickman
Hi Luiz, I had similar trouble. This is what I ended up doing based on the advice of others in this list. apt-get autoclean; this will clean up your cache directory, good thing to do every once in a while but no required. apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade Thanks go to Roberto C. Sanche

Re: Sarge Upgrade DEBOCLE ! ! !

2005-06-14 Thread Brian Kimsey-Hickman
apps. Seems strange to me but it worked. Most everything seems to be working now but what a ride. Thanks, Brian On 6/14/05, Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 08:17:25PM -0400, Brian Kimsey-Hickman wrote: > > Help me please! > > > > I

Re: Sarge Upgrade DEBOCLE ! ! !

2005-06-14 Thread Brian Kimsey-Hickman
Thanks Kent, that did the trick "touch /etc/X11/Xserver" followed by "apt-get dist-upgrade -f" I am still having problems with a few application but at least my installations are not erring out like they were before. Brian

Re: Sarge Upgrade DEBOCLE ! ! !

2005-06-13 Thread Brian Kimsey-Hickman
like this when I upgraded from potato to woody. And that xserver-rage128 is not third party. It may be from a 2.1 version but this box is all Debian. Maybe legacy Debain but Debian never-the-less and nothing else. Brian On 6/13/05, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Brian Kimsey

Re: Sarge Upgrade DEBOCLE ! ! !

2005-06-13 Thread Brian Kimsey-Hickman
Tom, I have some Rat Hat servers I manage. Usually, you can't upgrade between major releases you have to do a complete re-installation. Kind of like that song they teach you at Microsoft. fdisk, format, reinstall, du da, du da. I might be suffering with Debian right now but its still better th

Re: Sarge Upgrade DEBOCLE ! ! !

2005-06-13 Thread Brian Kimsey-Hickman
Yes, I did catch that subtlety. But, I which manual? There are several you know. Brian On 6/13/05, Scarletdown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Brian Kimsey-Hickman wrote: > > > Or maybe some other source. I have just not heard of the term "fine > > manual" bef

Re: Sarge Upgrade DEBOCLE ! ! !

2005-06-13 Thread Brian Kimsey-Hickman
kg returned an error code (1) Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Brian On 6/13/05, Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 08:17:25PM -0400, Brian Kimsey-Hickman wrote: > > > I have mistakenly trusted the Debian community and upgraded to Sarge > &

Re: Sarge Upgrade DEBOCLE ! ! !

2005-06-13 Thread Brian Kimsey-Hickman
sing: xserver-rage128 E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) I just cannot seem to be able to get the xserver-rage128 package out of my system. Any ideas? Thanks for the help, sorry for the rant, Brian On 6/13/05, Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Brian Kimsey

Sarge Upgrade DEBOCLE ! ! !

2005-06-13 Thread Brian Kimsey-Hickman
Help me please! I have mistakenly trusted the Debian community and upgraded to Sarge and it is a DISASTER. HOW COULD YOU HAVE DONE THIS TO US ! ! ! (Reading database ... 70119 files and directories currently installed.) Removing xserver-rage128 ... sed: can't read /etc/X11/Xserver: No such file