Exim4 : allow relaying for authenticateed users (LDAP,PAM over TLS)

2011-01-09 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Hello, I want to allow my remote users to submit emails through SMTP on port 587 (using TLS). Obviously I want to enforce authenticate for those mail submission (my user are stored in LDAP, with passwrd as plain text, so both PAM and LDAP should be possible [?]). Does anyone knows a good howto. I

Re: automate apt-get update

2010-04-10 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Thu, 2010-04-08 at 09:02 +0200, Jozsi Vadkan wrote: > I don't want to put: apt-get update in: > /etc/crontab > > But then how could I "automate" the: apt-get update APT has such built-in feature, see /etc/cron.daily/apt Which you can configure manually, or... > ? Is there a program for it?

Re: passwordless ssh root logins stopped working after testing dist-upgrade

2010-04-10 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Hello Russel, I am suspecting an issue on the server side. Can you provide a verbose log of the server side, Regards, Franklin On Tue, 2010-04-06 at 20:00 -0700, Russell L. Carter wrote: > > On my main system I have two user accounts, 'rcarter' and 'sardine'. I > remove the .ssh directories f

RE: How to use Sun Java instead of gcj

2010-01-06 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Thu, 2010-01-07 at 03:53 +0200, Ogya Chief wrote: > > From: haoniu...@gmail.com > > > > How about trying to use update-alternatives to set java? > > > > Ogya Chief wrote: > > > I installed sun-java6 but "java -version" showed version 1.5. > > > Upon further investigation I realised gcj is als

Re: Squeeze Release ?

2009-11-28 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Fri, 2009-11-27 at 16:49 -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 10:36, Ken Heard wrote: > > Brent Clark wrote: > > > >> Does anyone know if Squeeze is going be Frozen in December or know of > >> anything for that matter. > > > > No announcement of a freeze yet, but read the follo

Re: Iceweasel annoyance

2009-11-23 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Sat, 2009-11-21 at 18:51 -0800, John Jason Jordan wrote: > I shouldn't blame Iceweasel, because when I used to use Firefox it did > the same thing. And they are not the only apps that annoy me with this > "feature." > > What is this annoyance? Why annoyance? Your email subject would have been

Re: SATA disk drivers missing from Debian 5.0.3 network installer

2009-11-23 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
[No top posting[1] and no HTML please ] On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 07:04 -0800, Rigoberto Corujo wrote: > On Sat, 2009-11-21, Frank Lin PIAT wrote > > On Fri, 2009-11-20 at 11:06 -0800, Rigoberto Corujo wrote: > > > > > > I am a new Debian user and am trying to install 5

Re: SATA disk drivers missing from Debian 5.0.3 network installer

2009-11-20 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Fri, 2009-11-20 at 11:06 -0800, Rigoberto Corujo wrote: > Hi, > > I am a new Debian user and am trying to install 5.0.3 over the > network. My server has SATA drives and the installer isn't > recognizing them. In other words, "cat /proc/partitions" shows > nothing. You might want to try con

Re: Nautilus messed up in testing

2009-11-20 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Fri, 2009-11-20 at 20:57 -0800, Alan Ianson wrote: > On Fri November 20 2009 06:03:18 pm John Jason Jordan wrote: > > This morning I did a fresh install of testing amd64 to a new hard drive [..] > > However, the first time around I discovered that > > Nautilus was messed up. If you click on Pref

Re: asterisk-1.6.2 broken on debian squeeze

2009-11-17 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Hello Rustam, On Sun, 2009-11-15 at 17:59 +0100, Michael Wagner wrote: > * Rustam Kovhaev 15.11.2009 > > when I try to aptitude asterisk, it tells me that > > package asterisk is Broken > > > > aptitude install asterisk [..] > > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > > asterisk: Dep

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2009-11-09 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Mon, 2009-11-09 at 14:10 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 13:46, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > > - Anonymous contributors > > can I liken this to one-time patch senders? I was thinking of people who "silently" contribute to open-source softwar

Re: AVAHI cupsd warning

2009-11-09 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Sun, 2009-11-08 at 17:44 -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote: > On Sun November 8 2009, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > > FYI, this has been fixed in the version of cups in Testing (it now uses > > Avahi's native library: "libavahi-client3") > > great ! Just good to know

Re: AVAHI cupsd warning

2009-11-08 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Hello, On Sun, 2009-11-08 at 09:14 -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote: > I was browsing my /var/log files this morning, and happened to tail messages. > I found these: > Nov 7 14:22:05 paulandcilla cupsd[23014]: *** WARNING *** The program > 'cupsd' > uses the Apple Bonjour compatibility layer of Av

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2009-11-08 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Thu, 2009-11-05 at 15:56 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > Here's a template where you can fill in your favourites If something > doesn't fit in any of the categories, put it under misc utilities. > Please don't add what you haven't really used. You can include more > than one entrant per cat

Re: Major problems 2.6.26 kernel in lenny

2009-11-08 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Hello, On Sat, 2009-11-07 at 08:12 +, Virgo Pärna wrote: > When I upgraded my Debian computer form Etch to Lenny, I had to give up > running 2.6.26 kernel for following reasons (computer has AMD Sempron 3000+ > CPU). > [..] > Now, with 686 kernel, I can no longer boot up - it just sto

Re: Empty password field for libuuid & Debian-exim - Why not a security risk?

2009-10-15 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Thu, 2009-10-15 at 22:55 -0400, Dr. Mark A. Friedman wrote: > Upon installation, Debian includes users libuuid and Debian-exim in > /etc/shadow with an empty password field: > Which release do you use? I checked some of my systems, those accounts are locked (shadow have an exclamation mark in

Re: A bug in debian, but i don't know which package

2009-10-14 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 22:41 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > ... I prepared a new partition and used my netinstall CD to install a > complete Xfce system there. This is not the first time I have > installed Debian, so everything went pretty smoothly and shortly I had > an Xfce system up and running a

Re: Debian preseed errors with DHCP and network parameters

2009-10-04 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Sat, 2009-10-03 at 23:51 +0200, Josep M. wrote: > Hello. > > I have a preseed file, all runs ok, except install network manually, > always install DHCP, I have disabled DHCP and debconf is well > configured, I have four problems : > > 1 - For install network without enable dhcp I must write wh

Re: Lenny is acting screwing after alsa sourcecode install

2009-09-27 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Hello, On Sat, 2009-09-26 at 15:57 -0500, Laurin d'Volts wrote: > I'm using Lenny stable. > Linux debian 2.6.26-2-686-bigmem #1 SMP Wed Aug 19 06:34:05 UTC 2009 > i686 GNU/Linux > > The boot process is hanging on cupsd. Keep in mind that the log files usually displays the action that are complet

Re: Emerald themes

2009-09-27 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Hello, On Fri, 2009-09-25 at 10:34 -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote: > Does anyone know why the Emerald themes have been dropped from the > Debian repositories? Or, were they never there and I was just getting > them from Shame's repositories and not paying attention to where they > came from?

Re: LVM2 raid1 without mdadm - Break the mirror and re-synchronize it back the other way around.

2009-09-27 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Hi, [Don't cross post. I am dropping debian-amd64, since the issue isn't related to amd64] On Fri, 2009-09-25 at 23:30 -0300, Andres Migliazzo wrote: > > I currently have /boot and / (root) on raid 1 with mdadm. Which is > useful for me specially when I patch the server because I break the > mi

Re: logrotate: olddir on different device?

2009-09-27 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Sat, 2009-09-26 at 11:59 +0200, Sascha Silbe wrote: > ld (compressed) logfiles to a directory on a > different device (from SD card to hard disk in this case). > Unfortunately > the "olddir" config option only works if both directories are on the > same device (probably for easier handling of

Re: John the Ripper

2009-09-27 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Hi, On Sat, 2009-09-26 at 22:45 -0700, Mike McClain wrote: > I've had John running since Jan '08 and it's yet to break my password. > Admittedly the password is non-trivial being 13 characters, mixed > upper and lower case, numbers and punctuation but I keep expecting > John to send me a note sayi

Re: request for a mono vote.

2009-07-25 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Hi, On Sat, 2009-07-25 at 20:06 +0300, Πρεκατές Αλέξανδρος wrote: > As a dedicated debian user i want to express my concerns and worries > regarding mono inclusion in main > and i ask for a vote for mono in non-free/main because: > > 1) I feel like microsoft is not clear about the license issu

Re: ikiwiki + Apache 1.3 =?=> NFG/SNAFU

2009-07-25 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Sat, 2009-07-25 at 03:00 -0400, Eric d'Alibut wrote: > I notice the ikiwiki docs provide httpd server config hints only for > Apache 2 and lighttpd. Should I take this as an implicit hint that my > attempt to run ikiwiki (that *is* hard to type!) on the older Apache > vintage are foolhardy, extr

Re: Grub2 made my systeum unbootable

2009-07-21 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Tue, 2009-07-21 at 19:04 +0100, thveillon.debian wrote: > Anthony Campbell wrote: > > On 21 Jul 2009, thveillon.debian wrote: > >> Anthony Campbell wrote: > >>> Rashly, after today's upgrade I followed the exhortation in the grub > >>> legacy package to move to grub2. I now cannot boot at all; I

Re: Debian AMD64 and Intel CPUs

2009-07-13 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Sun, 2009-07-12 at 20:22 -0700, David Fox wrote: > On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 2:24 PM, T o n g wrote: > > > Can someone tell me what kind of Intel CPUs have that EM64T? > > Any easy rule of thumb? E.g., can I safely assume all those Intel > > 64 Duecore are > > One needs to be careful with Intel no

Re: How to activate VESA mode on boot-up?

2009-07-06 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Sun, 2009-07-05 at 21:59 +0200, Robert Latest wrote: > > Long story short, when I put "vga=ask" in grub's menu.lst, I can't > enter anything but the 80-by-something modes. I've searched the Net up > and down, have tried the 0x30... modes in hex, in decimal , with the > '0x' and without ... noth

Re: Boot issue, new installation of Lenny with mirrored /boot and mirrored lvm2

2009-07-02 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Hi, On Fri, 2009-07-03 at 12:53 +1000, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > > I have 2x IBM xSeries 346 servers, one has a RAID card (let's call this > machine "346a") and the other only has onboard SCSI (346b). > > [..] it stops at a > special initramfs sh after giving up on the lvm volume group (not fo

Re: Prepartitioning, Grub location for Lenny?

2009-06-28 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Sun, 2009-06-28 at 10:27 -0500, postid wrote: > On Sunday 28 June 2009 09:01:45 am you wrote: > > On Sun, 2009-06-28 at 08:22 -0500, postid wrote: > > > > hda2=primary=10GB=Debian Lenny / > > > > > > hda3=primary=12GB= /home > > > > I I were you, I wouldn't use a primary partition for /home > >

Re: java applets

2009-06-28 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Sun, 2009-06-28 at 14:18 +0200, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > > > Can you list the plugins in iceweasel, typically, with the _one_line_ > > command: > > > > find /usr/lib/iceweasel/plugins/ -name *.so \ ^^^

Re: Prepartitioning, Grub location for Lenny?

2009-06-28 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Sun, 2009-06-28 at 08:22 -0500, postid wrote: > I'm preparing to install Debian Lenny on an IBM R40 laptop. My > old layout was as follows: > > hda1=primary=WinXP > hda2=primary=Debian Sarge > hda3=primary=swap > hda4=primary=Knoppix > > (There's also a hidden partition with WinXP recovery st

Re: how to activate usb port

2009-06-27 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Fri, 2009-06-26 at 20:58 +0100, abdelkader belahcene wrote: > Hi, > Sometimes (Not Always) , the usb port are not activate, lsusb gives > $lsusb > Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub > Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub > Bus 003 Device 00

Re: editing protected fiels in a word document/remove password

2009-06-25 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Thu, 2009-06-25 at 18:14 -0600, lee wrote: > Hi, > > how do I remove a password or at least edit protected fields in a MS > word document that I'm editing with openoffice? > > I'm trying to fill out a form, but some of the information requested > is not applicable. I need to replace some Yes/N

Re: Lenny does not recognise blank CD; Etch does.

2009-06-22 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 16:49 +1200, Bruce Ward wrote: > On Sun, 2009-06-21 at 12:18 +0200, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > > On Sun, 2009-06-21 at 21:35 +1200, Bruce Ward wrote: > > > On Sat, 2009-06-20 at 16:35 +0200, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > > > > On Sat, 2009-06-20 at

Re: Pidgin 2.5.7 backport to Lenny

2009-06-22 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 15:55 +0200, Jens Peter Secher wrote: > I have recompiled pidgin 2.5.7-1 for Lenny and put it at > http://people.debian.org/~jps/lenny/ That's nice. Are you willing to provide security updates? Franklin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org wit

Re: is it possible to install a desktop-manager without python and perl?

2009-06-22 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 17:40 +0800, 明覺 wrote: > On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 4:54 PM, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 09:17:18AM +0800, 明覺 wrote: > >> I want to keep the programs in my system all written in c/c++, no > >> python or perl or any other programming languages, is it possible

Re: what happened to ftp.de.debian.org

2009-06-22 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 08:44 +0200, Soren Orel wrote: > Doesn anybody know? > > I mean it was down for a few hours. > Just asking!! :P > > Hardware upgrade? :) No announcement, either on http://lists.debian.org/debian-infrastructure-announce/ or http://lists.debian.org/debian-mirrors/ That mir

Re: java applets

2009-06-21 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Sun, 2009-06-21 at 16:40 +0200, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > > > Humm, installing sun-java6-plugin (or sun-java5-plugin or > > icedtea-gcjwebplugin) should pull all the required > > dependencies. > > Yess.. but that means I'll hav

Re: mixing debian and ubuntu [WAS] Re:

2009-06-21 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Sun, 2009-06-21 at 09:56 -0400, Celejar wrote: > On 21 Jun 2009 07:31:11 - > "sai ram" wrote: > > > Dear Friends! > > I use Ubuntu Dapper Drake (on x86 pc) and wanted to install "isomaster" > > software package about which I read in a linux magazine. As this package > > was unavailable in

Re: java applets

2009-06-21 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Hello, On Sun, 2009-06-21 at 14:16 +0200, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > I just want to install a Java runtime environment which will allow > me to see Java applets in action. It seems I have the choice of > (at least) > > default-jre > gcj-4.4-jre > gcj-jre > icedtea-6-jre-cacao > openoffice.org (i

Re: Lenny does not recognise blank CD; Etch does.

2009-06-21 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Sun, 2009-06-21 at 21:35 +1200, Bruce Ward wrote: > On Sat, 2009-06-20 at 16:35 +0200, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > > On Sat, 2009-06-20 at 20:21 +1200, Bruce Ward wrote: > > > I have a machine with a dvd writer (/dev/hdc) and a cd writer > > > (/dev/hdd). > > >

Re: Testing update wants to replace network-manager - will it be seamless?

2009-06-20 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Sat, 2009-06-20 at 19:17 -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 6:16 PM, Daryl Styrk wrote: > > > > On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 06:05:40PM -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > > > Hello: > > > > > > I can't afford to lose network access just at the moment, so should I > > > wait to do t

Re: OT Can't Register Joomla forum

2009-06-20 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Fri, 2009-06-19 at 18:06 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > Help please. I'm trying to install Joomla and having problems. Tried to > register to be able to post, get help but the registration page thinks > my email address li...@tomgeorge.info is not a valid email address. I guess Joomla either

Re: Lenny does not recognise blank CD; Etch does.

2009-06-20 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Sat, 2009-06-20 at 20:21 +1200, Bruce Ward wrote: > I have a machine with a dvd writer (/dev/hdc) and a cd writer > (/dev/hdd). > under Lenny, the CD writer will not recognise a blank CD. Nothing. The > DVD writer will recognise one. > Any ideas? Humm... you might want to check how HAL dete

Re: Where is file manage preference set

2009-06-20 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Sat, 2009-06-20 at 12:26 +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: > I have a gnome desktop, but haven't always (meaning there are probably > dot directories with configuration hanging around in my home directory). > > I just installed Digikam, and presume it must have brought in Dolphin as > a dependency,

Re: Application/octet stream

2009-06-20 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Hi, On Sat, 2009-06-20 at 09:22 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > A friend sent me an email with an attachment I can't view - probably > some Windoze format. Iceape says it is a type application/octet stream. application/octet-stream is a generic mime type which means "The content is something I

Re: Gimp and unstable

2009-06-14 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Sun, 2009-06-14 at 12:02 +0100, Harry Rickards wrote: > > On 06/14/09 11:03, Alan Chandler wrote: > > Gimp is currently uninstallable in unstable because it has a dependancy > > on libwebkit 1.0-1 and (as far as I can work out) it has changed its > > name to libwebkit 1.0-2. > > > As to questi

Re: sudo logging

2009-06-10 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Wed, 2009-06-10 at 19:57 -0400, Mag Gam wrote: > We have many users at my university engineering lab. Some professors > need commands for root and of other users, so we decided to setup sudo > permissions. I was wondering if there is a way to log all commands > when they sudo into an account or

Re: Does anyone else consider this a bug?

2009-06-09 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Hi, On Mon, 2009-06-08 at 23:52 +0100, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > Regardless of mode it should always ask for dhcp/static. Static IP are only useful in managed environment (especially for servers). In managed environnement, one is supposed to have RTFM. On the other hand, computers used by regular

Re: connecting cable modem through usb port

2009-06-08 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Mon, 2009-06-08 at 13:37 +0530, Sandip Sandip wrote: > > I have an old debian 2.4x kernel machine. I want to connect a cable > modem through the usb port. Hi, At the risk of telling the obvious, Debian releases with 2.4 kernel (Sarge?) aren't supported anymore. Connecting such machine to th

Re: Does anyone else consider this a bug?

2009-06-08 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Mon, 2009-06-08 at 15:33 -0500, Karl O. Pinc wrote: > On 06/08/2009 03:29:06 PM, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Last-point first, you can instruct Debian-Installer to prompt for > > fixed > > IP (rather than using DHCP). > > Isn't there

Re: Does anyone else consider this a bug?

2009-06-08 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Hello, Last-point first, you can instruct Debian-Installer to prompt for fixed IP (rather than using DHCP). You need to pass this argument at boot prompt: netcfg/disable_dhcp=true (read http://www.debian.org/releases/lenny/i386/ch05s03 ) On Mon, 2009-06-08 at 13:51 -0500, JW wrote: > There's

Re: What to do with "bugs forever" ?

2009-06-06 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Sat, 2009-06-06 at 17:06 +0200, Debian wrote: > > here are two bugs that exists for years and where no solution is in sight: > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=252896 > and > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=518815 > > What can be done with such problems that

Re: How to make my desktop fit my laptop screen?

2009-06-05 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Hi, On Sat, 2009-06-06 at 00:34 +0200, Ron Kamm wrote: > > I have just installed debian on a very old laptop and have looked this > up in various forums but haven't found an answer... > > Debian works beautifully so far... but I can't seem to use my whole > screen: there is always a huge black b

Re: "iwlist wlan0 scan" problem with iwl4965

2009-06-02 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 08:48 +0300, Volkan YAZICI wrote: > On Tue, 2 Jun 2009, Alex Samad writes: > > just something simple try > > > > ifconfig wlan0 up > > iwlist wlan0 scan > > Great! Now I need something wooden to hit my head. Cool. > # lsof | grep /lib/firmware > # _ Note: * The firm

Re: 64Bit installation on a 500 GB Sata DRIVE

2009-06-02 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 13:51 +0800, 明覺 wrote: > On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Rod James Bio wrote: > > We've been doing an installation on this LTSP Server we are trying to > > build. While formatting the 500 GB HD the partitioning > > process is stock at 33%. Yes, hardware failure (hard disk o

Re: File size limit exceeded

2009-05-30 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Sat, 2009-05-30 at 21:52 +0930, Miguel Obliviemo wrote: > On Sat, 30 May 2009, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > In , Miguel Obliviemo > > wrote: > >> apt-get remove postfix: > >> Processing triggers for man-db ... > >> /var/lib/dpkg/info/man-db.postinst: > >> line 3: 6289 File size limit exce

Re: udev tutorials or howtos?

2009-05-29 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Hello, On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 22:21 -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Do any such files exist? As usually, see the docs in /usr/share/doc/udev/ and the manpages (use "apropos udev" for the list of manpages related to udev). Google is you friend too. > Earlier I tried using mtools and even mount to >

Re: Is gnome built on top of twm?

2009-05-27 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Wed, 2009-05-27 at 13:40 -0400, Tony Baldwin wrote: > Barclay, Daniel wrote: > > Paul E Condon wrote: > > > ... [gdm] needs a window manager before the user has even logged in. No. xdm/kdm/gdm don't use a window manager (that's why the look and feel is so different). Just run "ps ax" from a

Re: Installing linux-image-2.6.26-1-amd64 on lenny (grub problems)

2009-05-27 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Hello, On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 12:13 +1200, Simon wrote: > > We have a fresh install of lenny on a VM Which VM? > and tried to perform the initial apt-get update/upgrade but are having > issues with dependency problems. Can someone point me in the correct > direction here please? > # apt-get u

Re: Howto install the patch for Intel NIC

2009-05-26 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > Niels Jende wrote: >> >> I am in trouble due to the fact that the driver for the Intel NIC 82567 >> isn't in Squeeze. i forgot to mention... If you use Testing (Squeeze), you have two options: 1. fetch 2.6.29 it from unstable (see http://wiki.de

Re: Howto install the patch for Intel NIC

2009-05-26 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Niels Jende wrote: > Hi friends, > > I am in trouble due to the fact that the driver for the Intel NIC 82567 > isn't in Squeeze. As a matter of fact I do need the NIC's working > otherwise the system makes no sense. Another fact is, that I hadn't had to > patch my system(s) as yet manually. And her

Re: slapd

2009-05-25 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Hi, On Mon, 2009-05-25 at 08:55 -0300, Márcio Luciano Donada wrote: > I am using a server with debian lenny slapd (OpenLDAP 2.4.11) but when > I start the process he never opens sub processes for the parent > process of slapd, a single process is created. Is there a setting for > this? In / etc /

Re: Multiple iso in a single dvd

2009-05-25 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Hi, [[CC'ing debian-cd, as they may have better suggestion than me]] On Mon, 2009-05-25 at 19:37 +0530, Kousik Maiti wrote: > > Can anybody help me by giving instructions to create a bootable image > containing multiple iso. I want to create a DVD image which may > contain iso of different debia

Re: Can you recommend any screen capture utility for etch

2009-05-24 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Mon, 2009-05-25 at 08:36 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 06:08:52AM -0400, Long Wind wrote: > > I have try gimp for sarge > > It seems to have problem with capturing window > > I have tried scrot for etch > > It does not capture title bar when capturing window > > Thanks!

Re: Telinit question

2009-05-24 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Sat, 2009-05-23 at 20:08 -0400, Alan Greenberger wrote: > I have a question about telinit use. For a long time, I occasionally > have done "telinit 1" before doing a backup. However, I noticed in the > man page that it says: > > On a Debian system, entering runlevel 1 causes all processes

Re: Questions regarding bash and sh.

2009-05-24 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Sun, 2009-05-24 at 14:37 +0200, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > On Thu, 2009-05-21 at 13:18 -0700, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > > On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 01:53:08AM +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: > > > > > I have noticed that for some users in /etc/passwd the shell > > > environme

Re: Questions regarding bash and sh.

2009-05-24 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Thu, 2009-05-21 at 13:18 -0700, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 01:53:08AM +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: > > > I have noticed that for some users in /etc/passwd the shell > > environment is set as bash and for some as sh. This has led me to the > > following questions: > > . Why is it

Re: Wu-ftpd problem

2009-05-20 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Hi, [No top posting please, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOFU#Top-posting ] On Wed, 2009-05-20 at 21:57 +0800, Jerry wrote: > "Frank Lin PIAT" said > > > > On Wed, 2009-05-20 at 00:11 +0800, Jerry wrote: > >> Dear all, > >> > >> I have ins

Re: Problem with pure-ftpd

2009-05-19 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Hi, On Sun, 2009-05-17 at 21:37 -0400, William Lebel wrote: > Hi all! > > I got a problem, When i do /etc/init.d/pure-ftpd start, It does > nothing... I installed the package but there is nothing going up > > I am on debian Lenny 5.0.1 How is it configured to work ? (is it standalone or inetd,

Re: Wu-ftpd problem

2009-05-19 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Hi, On Wed, 2009-05-20 at 00:11 +0800, Jerry wrote: > Dear all, > > I have installed the Wu-ftpd in Etch. It works properly after > configuration. One thing strange is that it cannot display the files or > folder by using the browser like the following link > ftp://ftp.comp.hkbu.edu.hk > > Whe

Re: is it safe to reomve all the other video card driver?

2009-05-16 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Fri, 2009-05-15 at 09:24 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Fri,15.May.09, 12:08:55, 明覺 wrote: > > my video card is nVidia Corporation GeForce 9500 GT, but i found that > > my debian system also installed all the other drivers, like ati, > > arp.., is it safe to remove all the other drivers e

Re: Stuck at "Setting system clock" when booting

2009-05-16 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Hi, On Sat, 2009-05-16 at 09:07 +0800, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > Using: Lenny i386 > > The only way I can bypass this is to go "single user mode" and > pressing Ctrl+d, any other way to get rid of this problem? I suspect it's a problem specific to your RTC clock. What's your hardware (or motherb

Re: Why is the kernel in testing so far behind what's current? [Ext4]

2009-05-16 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Fri, 2009-05-15 at 15:44 -0700, Mike Castle wrote: > On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 2:30 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > > Anything that doesn't have a showstopping-type bug filed against it in > > sid moves to testing after a week, as I understand it. You might check > > bugs.d.o for information. Is

Re: Using terminal output as input

2009-05-15 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Thu, 2009-05-14 at 13:26 -0400, S Scharf wrote: > > On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 11:13 AM, Dotan Cohen > wrote: > > Not pretty but how about > > `ekiga | head -2 | tail -1` > > > > (note use of backticks) > > > > > That's creative! I

Re: Why is the kernel in testing so far behind what's current?

2009-05-15 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Thu, 2009-05-14 at 11:32 +0200, Brent Clark wrote: > Patrick Wiseman wrote: > > Thanks, guys, for suggesting that - I used to build a custom kernel > > the "Debian way" all the time, but am out of the habit. I'll get back > > into it. > > > > > Personally I dont know why you would. > > My s

Re: Re: Rotating logs (and keeping the log's tail)

2009-05-10 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Chris Jones wrote: > Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > > On Thu, 2009-05-07 at 14:01 +0200, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > > > Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > > > > I use a wiki engine that produces an event log, which I want to > > > > rotate. > > > > > > &g

Re: Re: python-moinmoin and fckeditor

2009-05-10 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Hello, > Florian Kulzer wrote > > On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 03:48:32 -0700, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > > > The README.Debian says that FCKeditor has been disabled, but that > > > it can be "reinstated." However, I've installed the > > > Debian-maintained fckeditor package, but can't figure out what I

Re: Rotating logs (and keeping the log's tail)

2009-05-10 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Thu, 2009-05-07 at 14:01 +0200, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I use a wiki engine that produces an event log, which I want to rotate. > > > > Because the event-log is used to display the "PageHits", I don't w

Rotating logs (and keeping the log's tail)

2009-05-07 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Hello, I use a wiki engine that produces an event log, which I want to rotate. Because the event-log is used to display the "PageHits", I don't want to truncate the log every Monday. I wish the log could contain the last week, plus the current week, so the statistics are never empty. The scenari

Re: cpufreq_conservative on Lenny AMD64?

2009-04-22 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
[Follow-up on debian-laptop. Dropping other lists/newsgroups] Hi, On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 00:46 +, s. keeling wrote: > > This box is an HP Pavilion dv4, AMD64. [..] it's always running hot. The fan > is > always on. I'd like to have this thing ramp its CPU frequency back to > its minimum wh

Re: Debian Etch and a half

2008-11-22 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
[re CC'ing debian-laptop and debian-user, so others can help] On Sat, 2008-11-22 at 14:40 -0800, jeffry killen wrote: > On Nov 22, 2008, at 12:47 PM, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > > > On Sat, 2008-11-22 at 11:22 -0800, jeffry killen wrote: > >> I downloaded the netinst and w