Re: Can I host a svn repository on apache-1.3?

2006-04-03 Thread Jim MacBaine
On 4/3/06, Roel Schroeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ah, does that mean that Confixx doesn't support Apache2? That's good to > know. Confixx _does_ support Apache2. But the upgrade procedure from apache-1.2 to apache-2.0 is not trivial on a server with half a dozen resellers and ~30 domains, h

Re: Can I host a svn repository on apache-1.3?

2006-04-03 Thread Jim MacBaine
On 4/3/06, Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Out of curioustity, why not just migrate the server to apache2? Confixx and a few resellers. Regards, Jim

Re: Can I host a svn repository on apache-1.3?

2006-04-02 Thread Jim MacBaine
On 4/2/06, Kelly Clowers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 4/2/06, Jim MacBaine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Does subversion require more than a simple webdav > > server? Unfortunately svnserve is not an option, and an upgrade to > > apache2 would

Can I host a svn repository on apache-1.3?

2006-04-02 Thread Jim MacBaine
Hello, I've got a system running Sarge with apache 1.3 and I would like to offer a subversion repository via webdav. I installed the libapache-dav package, created a directory and enabled DAV for it. The webdav server works well: I can access it with webdav clients (konqueror, windows xp webfold

Hard disk failure?

2006-03-10 Thread Jim MacBaine
Hello, one of my hard drives seems to be dying. To me as a layman this looks as if the disk should be returned to the shop where I bought it. Is this right? ata1: translated ATA stat/err 0x51/40 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0x3/11/04 ata1: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } ata1: error=0x40 {

LDAP schema for kaddressbook?

2006-01-22 Thread Jim MacBaine
Hello, recently I moved my contacts and addresses, which I manage with kaddressbook, from the local file-based backend to my ldap server. This works quite well in general, but unfortunately kaddressbook is unable to save some extended properties like the date of birth or instant messaging addresse

Re: Restoring cyrus21-imapd

2006-01-15 Thread Jim MacBaine
On 1/15/06, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was wrong. The cyrus-imapd 1.5 packages in oldstable are fine, and ask > the user before removing everything. The cyrus-imapd 1.5 packages in > *stable* are dangerous and remove everything when you purge them. Isn't this som

Re: Restoring cyrus21-imapd [80% solved]

2006-01-15 Thread Jim MacBaine
On 1/15/06, Jim MacBaine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > While I have a recent (~10 hrs old) backup of the mailspool in > /var/spool/cyrus, I do not have a backup of /var/lib/cyrus. Is there > an easy way to restore the mailboxes file and the other database > files, maybe even

Restoring cyrus21-imapd

2006-01-15 Thread Jim MacBaine
Hello, a few weeks ago I updated my imap server on sarge from cyrus-imapd to cyrus21-imapd. Everything went quite well and was running perfectly for a few weeks. Yesterday I decided to purge the old cyrus packages (cyrus-imapd and cyrus-common). I was surprised how fast 250.000 files on a reiser

Re: cyrus21-imapd: Tell cyrdeliver to deliver not only to INBOX

2005-12-22 Thread Jim MacBaine
On 12/21/05, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Make sure the ACLs allow posting from *anyone* on all incoming folders. That did the trick. For the archive: With cyradm, I set the access control lists to allow "anonymous" to post to every single mailbox. For example for my

cyrus21-imapd: Tell cyrdeliver to deliver not only to INBOX

2005-12-21 Thread Jim MacBaine
Hello, yesterday I upgraded my email server at home from Woody to Sarge. The mails are stored on an cyrus imap server which got upgraded as well to cyrus21-imapd. The transition as described in the upgrading script worked pretty good and all mails and folders are still accessible. However cyrdeli

Re: Is ASUS A8V Deluxe OK for Linux?

2005-09-16 Thread Jim MacBaine
On 9/16/05, Dirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > I'm planning to buy a ASUS mainboard with the following chipset: > > Chipset VIA K8T800Pro and VIA VT8237 > > > It's the A8V-Deluxe I'm running this board on my desktop machine with Debian Sarge since March without any problems. I ha

xdm from unstable: Address family not supported by protocol

2005-09-15 Thread Jim MacBaine
Hello, I have a Debian system that I just upgraded from Stable to Unstable. Xdm allowed remote logins on that machine. However, I cannot get the updated xdm 6.8.2.dfsg.1-7 to reply any xdm queries. "netstat -lup" shows that xdm doesn't listen on the xdmcp port at all. Is there something I missed?

Re: How do I edit UTF-8 encoded files with Emacs?

2005-08-15 Thread Jim MacBaine
On 8/12/05, Ryan King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Shoot 'em to me. I'd love to help make it a smoother transition. > > My broad suggestion is to run vimtutor (it should be installed), and go > ahead and start learning everything the vim way, such as hjkl for movement, > etc. It pays off fairly

Re: How do I edit UTF-8 encoded files with Emacs?

2005-08-15 Thread Jim MacBaine
On 8/13/05, Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (prefer-coding-system 'utf-8) Exactly that's what everybody has been telling me... I now found the reason for emacs not liking utf-8 files: I still had included a many years old emacs package from our local administrator that had been design

Re: How do I edit UTF-8 encoded files with Emacs?

2005-08-12 Thread Jim MacBaine
On 8/11/05, Ryan King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As a public service to all Emacs inflictees, I hereby offer my .vimrc > services to anyone who might convert. > > Tell me what your ~/.emacs used to do for you, and I'll give you equivalent > or better solutions, guaranteed. > > I'm serious, to

Re: How do I edit UTF-8 encoded files with Emacs?

2005-08-09 Thread Jim MacBaine
On 8/9/05, René Seindal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jim MacBaine wrote (09-08-2005 18:59): > > How do I tell emacs that the file I'm editing is utf-8-encoded? > > http://linux.seindal.dk/item32.html Unfortunately, this does not help. I put the lines, the author sugge

Re: How do I edit UTF-8 encoded files with Emacs?

2005-08-09 Thread Jim MacBaine
On 8/9/05, I wrote: > Hello, > > Short question: How do I edit UTF-8 encoded files with Emacs? Those > files contains German quotation marks, Umlauts and other interesting > things. > [...] > How do I tell emacs that the file I'm editing is utf-8-encoded? What I have tried so far includes starti

How do I edit UTF-8 encoded files with Emacs?

2005-08-09 Thread Jim MacBaine
Hello, Short question: How do I edit UTF-8 encoded files with Emacs? Those files contains German quotation marks, Umlauts and other interesting things. Long explanation: I'm in the need to reply to windows-1251-encoded emails and to keep all those special characters like the ellipses, German quot

Re: How do I find open files on a partition?

2005-07-29 Thread Jim MacBaine
On 7/29/05, pier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you do a: > > #fuser -m -v /home > > wha is it telling you? > Nothing again? /me bangs his head against the wall: " Why didn't I think of this?" Fuser tells me that a user has forgotten to unmount his usb-device from /home//usbstick. Thanks a l

How do I find open files on a partition?

2005-07-29 Thread Jim MacBaine
Hello, I'm trying to unmount my /home partition. It is a 30GB reiserfs on a lvm volume and I'd like to unmount it to modify the block device. The interesting point is, that lsof | grep home does not show me any open files for my home partion, but still umount complains that the device is b

Downloading Sarge with Bittorrent

2005-06-08 Thread Jim MacBaine
Hello, I have started to download the Sarge 3.1r0 i386 dvd, I already had downloaded 3,9 GB of 4,4 GB. Then I made the failure to log out and log in again. I restarted bittorrent and found out that the 3.1r0 torrent has been replaced by the 3.1r0_a_ torrent. Do I really have to download the com

NSS and LDAP problem with /etc/hosts

2005-06-08 Thread Jim MacBaine
Hello, I have got a small network with a handful machines and I successfully moved all global user accounts onto an LDAP server a few weeks ago and made all workstations use it. This works great for Debian and other systems. Now I've put the /etc/hosts database onto LDAP as well, changed the /etc

debootstrap for different architecture

2005-06-05 Thread Jim MacBaine
Hello, I recently upgraded my desktop machine from a Pentium3 to an Athlon64-based system. I'm still running the same operating system, an x86/32-bit version of sarge. My system is running fine and I'm not willing to risk it by installing a 64-bit sarge. However I'm interested to play with the

Re: Reverting mixed system to stable?

2005-06-02 Thread Jim MacBaine
On 6/1/05, KEVIN ZEMBOWER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a clear way to use Debian package maintenance tools to revert > this system back to 'stable?' Will this method remove any packages which > aren't part of the 'stable' branch (this is what I hope it would do)? There is a tool called a

Re: Terratec TerraTV+ doesn't work

2005-05-27 Thread Jim MacBaine
On 5/27/05, Jim MacBaine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I own the same card and it used to work without any problems with all > 2.4 and 2.6 kernels I ever used. What messages do appear in the > system log, when you load the bttv module? I just reread your mail, esp your lspci ou

Re: Terratec TerraTV+ doesn't work

2005-05-27 Thread Jim MacBaine
On 5/27/05, martin schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i'm using a terratec terratv+ card with kernel 2.6.10 and the sarge > distribution. I own the same card and it used to work without any problems with all 2.4 and 2.6 kernels I ever used. What messages do appear in the system log, when you l

Problems with network cards in old board

2005-05-26 Thread Jim MacBaine
Hello, I'm trying to replace a 10MBit card in an older computer by a 100MBit card. The system is an Pentium-133, PIIX chipset, running Sarge with kernel-image-2.6.8-1-386. Previously the system had an 10Mbit Intel EEPro ISA card, which worked flawlessly. The system is an X terminal. First I trie

Why do ACLs disappear?

2005-05-07 Thread Jim MacBaine
Hello, I have a little problem concerning the persistance of Access Control Lists (ACL) on a ReiserFS filesystem: Whenever I reboot the machine, they vanish partially. I have my home dir /home/jim set to mode 700, so noone else can read it. But apache needs to be able to walk through it to my pu

Looking for a potato mirror

2004-12-13 Thread Jim MacBaine
Hello everyone, Is there still any active mirror for Debian Potato? I've not found any apt repository except the security and the non-US ones. I also looked for ISO images, but the only ISO images I found, reside on a taiwanese server (ftp.tku.com.tw) from which I can download them with ~1