Re: Administration (+apt-get dist-upgrade) of 100s of machines

2007-04-19 Thread cedric briner
e/index.php/Fai-updater give a look at the screenshot. which it's a convenient way of looking what host has been updated. Ced. -- Cedric BRINER Geneva - Switzerland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

managing packages

2006-06-20 Thread Cedric BRINER
h package. Is there a way of cheating ? And I'm also looking for documentation about `aptitude' because I've heard that there is such way to tell aptitude to install a package from a specific distribution thanks in advance for your help Ced. -- Cedric BRINER Geneva - Switzer

Re: aptitude uncomprehension

2006-03-17 Thread Cedric BRINER
e that python is required for apt-proxy,.. or even better telling me that python is required for this and that packages which are installed on my debian Regards -- Cedric BRINER Geneva - Switzerland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: aptitude uncomprehension

2006-03-16 Thread Cedric BRINER
On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 08:19:29AM -0600, Matt Zagrabelny wrote: > On Fri, 2006-03-03 at 11:09 +0100, Cedric BRINER wrote: > > hi, > > > > on a debian/sarge > > > > obsdw14:~# aptitude update > > Reading Package Lists... Done > > Building D

aptitude uncomprehension

2006-03-03 Thread Cedric BRINER
ai without the recomended package. Because this machines was installed with fai. I specified to use aptitude as the system to install package with fai. does some one know understand this ? Regards Cedric -- Cedric BRINER Geneva - Switzerland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: bug with the mailing list archive

2006-03-01 Thread Cedric BRINER
the thread > starts on the second page of the February 2005 archive: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2005/02/thrd2.html#00372 I was suspecting such thing thanks again for your precious help Cedric > > regards, > -- Cedric BRINER Geneva - Switzerland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

bug with the mailing list archive

2006-03-01 Thread Cedric BRINER
hor 372 I was suspecting aptitude to not work correctly.. but now my feelings are even stronger when I saw that there is some stuff hidden : ) any idea of what is wrong with the mailing list archive ?? Ced. -- Cedric BRINER Geneva - Switzerland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: xscreensaver's questions ?

2006-02-22 Thread Cedric BRINER
ser. See the ``Using XDM(1)'' section, below. maybe this is a bug. but this is perfectly working on solaris where tey also use screesaver in conjunction with gdm ! any idea ? Ced. -- Cedric BRINER Geneva - Switzerland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a s

xscreensaver's questions ?

2006-02-16 Thread Cedric BRINER
hi, how can I achieve to unlock the xscreensaver with the root password. I was thinking about using the pam. But I've not found any information on how to do this. the reason to this, is that sysadmin can unlock screensavers of users. Ced. -- Cedric BRINER Geneva - Switzerland -

aptitude upgrade

2006-02-15 Thread Cedric BRINER
PT::FTPArchive::Release::Origin "obs"; APT::FTPArchive::Release::Label "Descriptive label"; APT::FTPArchive::Release::Suite "stable"; APT::FTPArchive::Release::Codename "sarge"; APT::FTPArchive::Release::Architectures "i386 source";

Re: syntax of the menu

2006-01-26 Thread Cedric BRINER
7;t be possible to put it in the place you want it, it'll end > up under a 'Debian'. > > Have you tried using 'alacarte'? no.. but I was trying to do an attempt to automatize the menu's generation by scanning some warehouses which holds applications. This warehou

syntax of the menu

2006-01-25 Thread Cedric BRINER
menu ?package(ugmenu):section="Unige" \ needs="X11" \ title="matlab v6.5p1" \ command="/net/cuilxc/export/unige/matlab_6.5p1/bin/matlab" \ icon="/usr/share/pixmaps/matlab.png" I've tried also '/Unige' for the section valu

Re: apt configuration

2005-09-06 Thread Cedric BRINER
t; deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free > > > ---/etc/apt/preferences--- > Package: * > Pin: release a=unstable > Pin-Priority: 50 > > Package: * > Pin: release a=testing > Pin-Priority: 50 > > Package: * > Pin: release a=sta

Re: debconf

2005-09-06 Thread Cedric BRINER
en. Doesn't matter how you get root privs, you just need to run > it with them. -- Cedric BRINER Geneva - Switzerland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

apt configuration

2005-09-06 Thread Cedric BRINER
hello, I'm maintaining a parc of 20 stations. All of them are sarge. But time to time, I need to install an other package (eg: from sid, from postgresql..). So I was wondering how do you do, guys, to achieve such things. Ced. -- Cedric BRINER Geneva - Switzerland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: uncomprehension in apt-cache

2005-09-06 Thread Cedric BRINER
ebian.org/debian/ sid main # apt-cache search kernel-source-2.6.11 kernel-patch-debian-2.6.11 - Debian patches to Linux 2.6.11 kernel-source-2.6.11 - Linux kernel source for version 2.6.11 with Debian patches anyway.. thanks for your help. Ced. -- Cedric BRINER Geneva - Switzerland

uncomprehension in apt-cache

2005-09-05 Thread Cedric BRINER
ebian/ sid main apt-get update # apt-cache search kernel-source-2.6 kernel-source-2.6.8 - Linux kernel source for version 2.6.8 with Debian patches # arrgh ! that's it . why can't I see the kernel-source-2.6.11 ??? Ced. -- Cedric BRINER Geneva - Switzerland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: mptscsih

2005-08-31 Thread Cedric BRINER
> On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 10:55:31AM +0200, Cedric BRINER wrote: > > I'm trying to install a debian amd64 into a Sun V20z with no success : ( > > > > it has a scsci controller: lsi53c1020 u320 scsci. > > > > the modules mounted are: > > # lsmod | g

mptscsih

2005-08-25 Thread Cedric BRINER
SW [scsi_eh_0] 6480 rootSW [jfsIO] 6481 rootSW [jfsCommit] 6482 rootSW [jfsSync] 6620 rootSW< [xfslogd/0] 6621 rootSW< [xfsdatad/0] 6622 rootSW [xfsbufd] 6807 root688 S udpkg --configure --force-

Re: GNOME/KDE in Sarge?

2005-06-09 Thread Cedric BRINER
f xorg. Boot on it, and then copy the XF86Config from it to the freshly installed debian box. Ced. -- Cedric BRINER -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: installing debian

2005-05-26 Thread Cedric BRINER
a ff 00 00 00 d3 e2 d3 e3 0f b6 84 > Segmentation fault > <6> Journalled Block Device driver loaded > pivot-root: No such file or directory > /sbin/init: 431: cannot open dev/console: No such file > Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! > > Any hint? > thanks > Giancarlo >