Re: Tunnel iceweasel?

2008-03-27 Thread John Schmidt
On Wednesday 26 March 2008, Rich Healey wrote: > Joost Witteveen wrote: > > On 24/03/2008, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 11:46:56AM +0100, Joost Witteveen wrote: > >> > On 23/03/2008, Rich Healey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm trying

Re: Absolutely cannot write to USB drive

2008-01-08 Thread John Schmidt
On Tuesday 08 January 2008, Dotan Cohen wrote: > I have a 2GB Sandisk Cruzer USB drive that I removed the U3 garbage > from. I formatted the disk as FAT in a friend's WindowsXP machine. > Now, any Windows machine can read and write to the disk, and my Fedora > desktop can read and write to it as a

Re: tapes best for backup?

2008-01-04 Thread John Schmidt
On Friday 04 January 2008, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 09:12:19AM -0800, David Brodbeck wrote: > > On Jan 4, 2008, at 7:38 AM, Larry Irwin wrote: > > > > I would not buy a used tape drive. They're finicky mechanical devices > > and you really want a warranty. Every time I've

build dependency removal

2008-01-01 Thread John Schmidt
since I am installing in a chroot, I wasn't sure how pbuilder would work in a chroot. Thanks, John Schmidt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PII fast enough for firewall

2007-12-22 Thread John Schmidt
On Sunday 02 December 2007, John Schmidt wrote: > Hi, > > I have a 15K Mbs connection (up/down) to my house (fiber to the home). > > I have a Buffalo router that connects to my WAN and then one of the LAN > ports on this router connects to my IPCOP firewall that is running on

changing hwclock's timezone

2007-12-13 Thread John Schmidt
rence is too big for ntp to work? 2. Do I have to set the time via the hwclock? If so, how do I do that? I didn't have him check the bios to see what the time is reporting there. Thanks, John Schmidt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe&quo

Re: PII fast enough for firewall

2007-12-03 Thread John Schmidt
On Sunday 02 December 2007, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sun, Dec 02, 2007 at 09:22:44PM -0700, John Schmidt wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have a 15K Mbs connection (up/down) to my house (fiber to the home). > > ---^^^ > I've never seen this. Do you mean 15

PII fast enough for firewall

2007-12-02 Thread John Schmidt
changing the firewall to a debian box running shorewall, and was wondering if I could tweak the firewall/router to not slow things down appreciably like the ipcop box is doing. Thanks, John Schmidt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

Re: No sound with video

2007-11-15 Thread John Schmidt
On Thursday 15 November 2007, Ralph Katz wrote: > On 11/15/2007 11:50 AM, Tom Ashley wrote: > > I'm stumped and need help with configuring my computer for sound with > > video. I can play CD's and listen to audio streams but get no sound > > with video feeds (CNN, MSNBC, You Tube, etc.). I've sea

kppp groups

2007-11-11 Thread John Schmidt
If you are trying to use the kppp program, you need to be part of the "dip" group: -rwsr-xr-- 1 root dip 1211176 2007-10-15 07:16 /usr/bin/kppp John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Kppp

2007-11-11 Thread John Schmidt
On Sunday 11 November 2007, Darko wrote: > Charlie wrote: > > On Sun, 11 Nov 2007, Darko shared this with us all: > >> --} Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > >> --} > On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 06:43:28PM +0100, Darko wrote: > >> In a terminal as root do: > >> > >> adduser dialout > >> > >> Consider usin

Re: rsync question

2007-11-09 Thread John Schmidt
On Friday 09 November 2007, John O Laoi wrote: > > Also, I get confused sometimes on the effects of a trailing slash on > > source and target arguments. Check for a ~/Documents/Documents/ > > directory or something. > > You are all correct. > There is a ~/Documents/Documents/. > > I must be using

Re: Driver loaded, now, how do I access the camera? (WAS: Re: Intel Deluxe PC Camera )

2007-11-06 Thread John Schmidt
On Tuesday 06 November 2007, Marc Shapiro wrote: > > So my drivers seem to be loaded. Now, how do I access the camera, so > that I can capture an image to be processed? I am currently thinking of > using opencv through either C/C++ or Python. How would I access the > camera to generate an image

Re: ssh port not opening

2007-11-05 Thread John Schmidt
On Monday 05 November 2007, John O Laoi wrote: > # dpkg --get-selections | grep ssh > openssh-client install > openssh-server deinstall > # > > Thanks to everyone for your help. > > Maybe I should remove ssh and reinstall? > aptit

Re: ssh port not opening

2007-11-05 Thread John Schmidt
On Monday 05 November 2007, John O Laoi wrote: > On 11/5/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ssh-agent is *not* the program that allows ssh connections. That is > > sshd. It should be started with /etc/ini.d/ssh start as root. Is there > > no output when you do that? Anything i

Re: Intel Deluxe PC Camera

2007-11-04 Thread John Schmidt
On Sunday 04 November 2007, Marc Shapiro wrote: > > Well, I tried to follow the above instructions, but... > > I didn't have the kernel headers for my 2.6.16 kernel and they do not > seem to be available in the Etch repository. I took this as a sign that > it was time to upgrade my kernel and upg

Re: Intel Deluxe PC Camera

2007-11-03 Thread John Schmidt
On Sunday 04 November 2007, Marc Shapiro wrote: > > It looks like the driver module that I need is spca501. There is a > source package for Etch: > > spca5xx-source > > What is the best way to compile this? I generally just use stock > kernels and the modules that come with them so I am unfa

chroot testing of apache installation with multiple fqdn

2007-11-02 Thread John Schmidt
lhost instead of the actual machine name/routeable address while still allow apache to start up regardless of where the initial apache installation was done? Thanks for any insight into this matter. John Schmidt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: Speeding up boot time

2007-03-21 Thread John Schmidt
On Wednesday 21 March 2007 20:24, Michael Pobega wrote: > Also, I forgot to ask. Would it be safe to remove networking from > /etc/init.d, and just switch to using ifupdown? I would just install ifplugd and configure it and see if it doesn't help alievate the time delay that occurs if you don't h

Re: Speeding up boot time

2007-03-21 Thread John Schmidt
On Wednesday 21 March 2007 20:19, Michael Pobega wrote: > On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 09:05:55PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On 03/21/07 20:44, Michael Pobega wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 08:12:37PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > >> On

Re: Speeding up boot time

2007-03-21 Thread John Schmidt
On Wednesday 21 March 2007 19:45, Michael Pobega wrote: > On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 07:32:26PM -0600, John Schmidt wrote: > > On Wednesday 21 March 2007 18:39, Michael Pobega wrote: > > > I'm looking to speed up my Debian Etch boot speed, but I have no id

Re: Speeding up boot time

2007-03-21 Thread John Schmidt
normally without having the network timeout if you do not have a cable plugged in for your ethernet connection. John Schmidt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: internal lan configuration and web address issues

2007-03-16 Thread John Schmidt
On Friday 16 March 2007 14:18, John Schmidt wrote: > Hi, > > I have a home DSL connection with a static IP assigned. The DSL modem is > fed into one a ipcop firewall with port forwarding for port 25 and 80 > directed to my webserver/mailserver in my DMZ zone. Machines in the gre

internal lan configuration and web address issues

2007-03-16 Thread John Schmidt
internal LAN machine. Outside of my LAN, I can access the webserver just fine using the registered hostname. Is there a way to configure things so that machines on my LAN can access the web server using the registered name. Would this require that I do DNS on my machines? Thanks, John Schmidt

Re: Is that all there is to it??

2007-03-13 Thread John Schmidt
On Tuesday 13 March 2007 14:19, Jim Hyslop wrote: > OK, so I installed Sarge on my machine. The other day, I decided to > upgrade to Etch. I modified the sources file, changing "stable" to > "etch", and ran `apt-get --ignore-hold dist-upgrade`. After sorting out > one minor issue with inetd, apg-ge

Re: sparse matrix computation package

2007-03-07 Thread John Schmidt
gt; appear in lapack too many extra zero lines). > > > > What a coincidence. I am also looking for similar thing - iterative > > solver > > Ask on the debian-science list. > > -- Look at petsc and hypre both available in debian. In our project we have used both to solv

Re: backup/restore

2007-02-15 Thread John Schmidt
On Thursday 15 February 2007 14:28, Casey T. Deccio wrote: > I'm looking for a solution to temporarily backup then restore a Debian > install--preserving the filesystem contents and attributes. The caveat > is that the capacity of the drive I'll be restoring to is smaller (all > other hardare is u

Re: Fonts problem on Debian Etch

2007-02-01 Thread John Schmidt
I selected: Automatic Next screen shows enable bitmapped fonts by default: Yes No I selected: No I then logged out, and restarted the xserver just to be sure, and my fonts were significantly improved. John Schmidt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: ldap + pam howto?

2007-01-30 Thread John Schmidt
On Tuesday 30 January 2007 10:04, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: > Hi, > I am using Testing, and I want to setup the debian way an LDAP + pam > authentication system for system users. > Would you know a recent howto talking about that? > I dont need generic howto, I am interested in the debian spec

Re: how manage pasword with ldap

2007-01-19 Thread John Schmidt
On Friday 19 January 2007 01:54, abdelkader belahcene wrote: > Hi, > I am looking for a simple example or doc, for "authentification via ldap". > > I have a lab with 20 machines where the students can use anyone at > anytime, so I want to centralise the authentification ( login and > password). som

recommended network/server layout for website, email, and backup hosting

2007-01-11 Thread John Schmidt
Hi, I would like to host several low traffic web sites at my home with some older computers (400 Mhz P2) that I have laying around. I would like to get some recommendations on effective ways of setting up my set of computers that would provide a web server, and email server and back up servers

Re: Bash script question

2006-12-07 Thread John Schmidt
On Thursday 07 December 2006 11:16, Nate Bargmann wrote: > Since there is a lot of knowledge on this list, I thought I'd aske > here. > > This may be trivial, but I'm not even sure how to search for what I > want to do. > > I have a directory of files that are created daily using > filename-`date +

Re: Replacing Gnome with KDE

2006-11-27 Thread John Schmidt
On Monday 27 November 2006 17:55, Arlie Stephens wrote: > I made the mistake of selecting 'workstation' when installing etch. It > managed to do the X installation correctly, without needing to be > rescued manually, which is way better than I've seen from earlier > debians. That's the good news. T

Re: inserting mouse module in bootup

2006-11-27 Thread John Schmidt
On Monday 27 November 2006 08:03, Sam Rosenfeld wrote: > I would like to insert a mouse module somewhere in the kernel boot up. I > am currently typing "modprobe mousedev" to enable the mouse and therefore > X, too. Is there a config file for this? > > Thanks. > > Sam Install the program modconf

Re: IBM eServer x series 206 RH-to-Debian migration

2006-11-09 Thread John Schmidt
> --Lee Lee, You might want to take a look at: http://twiki.iwethey.org/Main/DebianChrootInstall for doing a chroot install. I have never done this, but it might be a useful method for getting Debian installed with minimal interruption to your current system. John Schmidt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: routing only certain traffic through vpn?

2006-10-19 Thread John Schmidt
On Thursday 19 October 2006 12:31, Matt Price wrote: > On 10/19/06, Jacob S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 11:03:20 -0400 > > > > "Matt Price" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > hi, > > > > > > i'm wondering whether it's po

Re: How to PIN a package?

2006-10-16 Thread John Schmidt
On Monday 16 October 2006 00:26, Mirto Silvio Busico wrote: > Hi all, > I didn't get any answer. > > Is it a really stupid question? (or I missed the replay?) > > Please help me: I need to PIN a package, but the documentation doesn't > help. > > Regards > Mirto > > Mirto Silvio Busico wrote: >

Re: wired or not wired, that's the question

2006-10-04 Thread John Schmidt
On Wednesday 04 October 2006 16:16, wimpunk wrote: > Hi, > > I'm running debian testing on my laptop and I have a question about > choosing a configuration. > I use my laptop on wired and wireless environments. At this moment I > switch manually but I want to get it done automaticly: if there's a

Re: automounting usb-storage 2

2006-10-04 Thread John Schmidt
On Wednesday 04 October 2006 13:37, Bernd Kloss wrote: > Hello, > I read the thread contributed by Florian e.al.. > I have the same/similar problem (etch/KDE3.5.4) > Plugging in USB-device the automounter pops up with tree options: > open in new window > play with kaffeine > do nothing > > Choosin

Re: LDAP howto?

2006-10-04 Thread John Schmidt
On Tuesday 03 October 2006 17:28, Ishwar Rattan wrote: > Pointers to good LDAP-howto for server coniguration > details. > > -ishwar This is where I started: http://people.debian.org/~torsten/ldapnss.html John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou

Re: fonts messed up

2006-08-23 Thread John Schmidt
On Wednesday 23 August 2006 07:41, Lorenzo Bettini wrote: > Hi > > after a recent upgrade (unstable) all my fonts are almost complitely > messed up. > > I cannot use KDE since almost everything text is missing, and also gnome > is barely usable (most text disappear from menus and terminal in > gene

Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon (WAS: Re: Osama Bin Laden Take Over List!)

2006-08-22 Thread John Schmidt
ume mailing list.) This list is not moderated; posting is allowed by anyone. Posting address: debian-user@lists.debian.org Read the line that says, "Support for Debian users who speak English." How about getting a clue! John Schmidt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

dma errors

2006-07-19 Thread John Schmidt
Hi, I have two IDE drives connected together using lvm. The drives are quite new, the motherboard is quite old. I put a single ext3 partition on top of lvm which is used for temporary large data sets. I get the following error messages from dmesg: EXT3 FS on dm-0, internal journal EXT3-fs:

Re: Turning on direct rendering with an ATI card

2006-05-10 Thread John Schmidt
On Wednesday 10 May 2006 09:39, John Schmidt wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to turn on direct rendering using the Xorg (from unstable, > along with the linux-image-2.6.16-1-k7 from unstable) ATI driver with no > success. The machine is at a remote location which makes the problem a b

Turning on direct rendering with an ATI card

2006-05-10 Thread John Schmidt
booted the machine just to be sure that kernel modules are loaded. Thanks, John Schmidt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: load order of network interfaces

2006-04-12 Thread John Schmidt
On Wednesday 12 April 2006 12:14, Ivan Longhi wrote: > hello, > I have 2 alpha machines identical. > they have 2 net interfaces on board (Digital DS21143 Tulip loaded by > module tulip0 and tulip1) and 1 net interface on a pci slot (RealTek > RTL8139 loaded by module 8139too). > The strange thing i

Re: Network interface sanity

2006-04-02 Thread John Schmidt
On Sunday 02 April 2006 19:32, Andreas Ehn wrote: > Hi, > > I have a laptop with one wired ethernet interface (eth0) and one > wireless interface (eth1). I'm using ifupdown. > > When the computer is not connected to a wired network, while starting > up, it is associated with my wireless network and

Re: 2.6.16 hangs at boot

2006-03-29 Thread John Schmidt
On Wednesday 29 March 2006 16:25, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi, > > Maybe someone has a suggestion here. > > Problem: > In Sarge I normally run the -ck kernel patches from Con Kolivas. > He just came out with 2.6.16-ck1 and -ck2. > When I boot that system the boot stops solid in the grep stmnt in >

Re: udev blacklisting?

2006-03-15 Thread John Schmidt
On Wednesday 15 March 2006 17:34, Tim Bates wrote: > I have a DVB card that stupidly uses the same PCI ID as the bttv cards. > Loading the bttv module causes a hard lock. I need to prevent this > module being auto loaded by udev. In the past when hotplug was used, I > simply added bttv to the /etc/

Re: Release cycle

2006-03-10 Thread John Schmidt
On Friday 10 March 2006 21:23, David Berg wrote: > I don't know if there's a good way to ask this question, and am very > tempted to just hit cancel now... > > I'm curious to know when etch might freeze. Now, before you all jump > on me and tell me "its ready when its ready", let me clarify. I'm

Re: ready to use debian or ubuntu laptop reccomendations?

2006-03-05 Thread John Schmidt
On Sunday 05 March 2006 00:47, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Saturday 04 March 2006 22:29, Star King of the Grape Trees wrote: > > steef wrote: > > > Michael M. wrote: > > >> Paul Johnson wrote: > > >>> On Thursday 02 March 2006 01:20, Star King of the Grape Trees wrote: > > I am very certain that

cleaning up audio recording

2006-02-24 Thread John Schmidt
Hi, I have managed to transfer some tape recordings to my computer. The recordings are from a seminar speaker. There is a great deal of noise on the recordings both from the audio equipment and from general background noise. Are there any good packages out there that would allow me to clean

Re: Error rebooting after upgrade from 2.6.12-i36 to 2.6.15-i686

2006-02-24 Thread John Schmidt
On Friday 24 February 2006 04:37, Arnau Rebassa Villalonga wrote: > Hi all, > >I've installed a new Dell poweredge 850 server with SCSCI disks > formated as ext3 from a netinstall, it run smoothly and installed the > 2.6.12-i386 kernel image. After the aptitude dist-upgrade, I upgraded > the li

Re: 2.6.15 boot problems

2006-02-24 Thread John Schmidt
On Friday 24 February 2006 08:25, Bradley Alexander wrote: > On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 22:29 -0700, John Schmidt wrote: > > Yes, as I understand it reiserfs has some attribute issues with 2.6.15. > > I heard that it will be fixed in 2.6.16. Someone has posted a work > > around

Re: 2.6.15 boot problems

2006-02-23 Thread John Schmidt
On Thursday 23 February 2006 21:41, Bradley Alexander wrote: > I have a 1.2 GHz Athlon, which I am trying to upgrade from 2.6.15 from > 2.6.14. I compiled both kernels by hand, using the Debian way (make-kpkg). > > With 2.6.14, it boots, however with 2.6.15, I get the initial portion of > the boot

Re: Lost X server after dist-upgrade

2006-02-20 Thread John Schmidt
On Monday 20 February 2006 12:36, jerry wrote: > to KDE but I can't. > > I suspect the problem is that root and myself don't have valid > .Xauthority files but I can't figure out how to repair it. > > I would appreciate any advice on how to get back to using KDM for login > and getting X server ac

Re: Testing, "could not start kdeinit. check your installation" since yesterdays updates

2006-02-19 Thread John Schmidt
On Sunday 19 February 2006 05:15, Magnus Pedersen wrote: > I am seeing this on two machines. > > It dosn't matter if I use kdm or startx, I get that error in a small > window just before the kde-splasscreen. And my syslog is filled with > dbuserrors like this: > > Feb 19 12:29:35 localhost hcid[684

Re: udev problem

2006-02-17 Thread John Schmidt
On Thursday 16 February 2006 23:37, Deephay wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a problem with udev here: every time when I > was booting the computer, the udev always show some lines > like this on the console: > "udevd_even: run program /.../.../ failed" (these lines > goes a little bit fast and I cann

Re: custom network intefaces during boot for Debian

2006-02-16 Thread John Schmidt
On Thursday 16 February 2006 08:42, John Davis wrote: > Hello > > Here is a script modification for /etc/init.d/networking in Debian so > that your list of network interfaces can be reconfigured during boot. > Why would you like to have a script like this? Well, in my case, > I have a laptop with

Re: Lilo fails with "sorry, don't know how to handle device 0xfe00" (LVM2)

2006-02-08 Thread John Schmidt
On Wednesday 08 February 2006 12:57, Chris Carr wrote: > Thanks Clive - but I've heard that grub is really bad with LVM2. In fact, > the latest Debian Etch installer still explicitly removes the option to > install grub when it detects that / is on an LVM2 volume. It is not / that is the problem b

Re: slow starting MTA

2005-11-23 Thread John Schmidt
On Wednesday 23 November 2005 01:12 am, roberto wrote: > hello > i have kernel 2.6.8-2-386 currently installed and when i boot not > being connected to the network the booting process stops for at least > 3 or 4 minutes showing: > . > Starting MTA: > . > > and then it goes on correctly, but

Re: Ready to join the club..

2005-10-21 Thread John Schmidt
etect This will install a program that will help detect and setup your mouse in X windows. Then run this command as root: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 This will then try reconfiguring the desktop and should do the mouse detection step again. John Schmidt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to use old CPUs (Not Debian Specific)

2005-10-16 Thread John Schmidt
On Saturday 15 October 2005 08:50 pm, Marc Shapiro wrote: > Duncan Anderson wrote: > > I agree with Rob. Obviously 200 dollars is a neglibible sum if you live > > in the "first world", but spare a thought for people in places where a > > P1 with a 1GB hd is something amazing, even with Win98 on it.

Re: Securing SSH: Does disabling password authentication work?

2005-10-04 Thread John Schmidt
On Monday 03 October 2005 02:39 pm, Steve Block wrote: > On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 01:24:27PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > >On Mon, 3 Oct 2005, Steve Block wrote: > >> I'm afraid you didn't read at all, did you? Start from the top of the > >> thread and read again, and you'll see that my question had no

Re: Want to move from root LVM/LILO to LVM/Grub

2005-09-30 Thread John Schmidt
On Friday 30 September 2005 05:03 pm, Jason Martens wrote: > Hey all, >I kind of got myself into a pickle. I just installed Debian Sarge on > a new server, and I used the expert mode for installation. That all > went fine, and I created one large partition for LVM, and created a root > partit

Re: Sound card (Intel AC'97) not detected by udev

2005-09-27 Thread John Schmidt
On Tuesday 27 September 2005 05:17 am, Luís Neves wrote: > Hi! > > I just reinstalled Sarge on my laptop (HP Pavilion zt3000) using the > Sarge CD after more than a year running Sarge updated from woody and I > got some problems that didn't exist before. > > My audio card module is detected and ins

Re: Newbie Hostname Change

2005-09-23 Thread John Schmidt
On Friday 23 September 2005 09:50 am, Sean Whitton wrote: > Hi, > > My friend installed Debian on his computer and I'm supposed to be admining > it as a server. THings are going well (except I keep mistyping shutdown and > killing the server), but there is one problem: the hostname. > > He typed As

Re: Backing up installed packages.

2005-09-22 Thread John Schmidt
On Thursday 22 September 2005 12:57 pm, R. Clayton wrote: > I keep a list of installed packages around so I can easily populate a new > disk (or repopulate a mashed-up disk) by doing something along the lines of > > $ apt-get install $(cat installed-packages-list) > > I use a daily cron job along

downgrading g++-4.0 using snapshot.debian.org

2005-09-20 Thread John Schmidt
ow to use the power of snapshot.debian.org and the package manager to make short work of downgrading various packages. Any pointers would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, John Schmidt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Is ASUS A8V Deluxe OK for Linux?

2005-09-16 Thread John Schmidt
On Friday 16 September 2005 02:50 pm, Dirk 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 > > Does anyone know if this MB has problems with Linux (or the other way?) > > Before I had the P5RD1-

Re: Too many levels of symbolic links in linux-headers-2.6.12-1-amd64, k7,...?

2005-09-03 Thread John Schmidt
On Saturday 03 September 2005 01:10 am, Gudjon I. Gudjonsson wrote: > Hi >I have tried for some time to compile modules with module-assistant. > Both alsa and nvidia fail with the comment: Too many levels of symbolic > links. Similar description to the following message. > http://lists.debian.o

Re: Starting wlan0 instead of eth0

2005-05-26 Thread John Schmidt
On Thursday 26 May 2005 01:39 am, Jason Edson wrote: > I'm new to this part of my debian system. Instead of having eth0 load > up when my system starts, I want to run a script that enables my > wireless card(wlan0) that uses ndiswrapper to load. My script looks > like this: > > #!/bin/bash > echo "

Re: Debian on an old PC

2005-01-06 Thread John Schmidt
On Thursday 06 January 2005 02:37 pm, David Jardine wrote: > On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 09:42:58PM +0100, Vegard Lundby Rekaa wrote: > > > I would be surprised if that old machine could *boot a cdrom*. Have > > > > > > you tried *that*? > > > > > > ;-0 > > > > It can't boot from cdrom, it has one (4X)

Re: Debian on an old PC

2005-01-06 Thread John Schmidt
On Thursday 06 January 2005 01:42 pm, Vegard Lundby Rekaa wrote: > > I would be surprised if that old machine could *boot a cdrom*. Have > > > > you tried *that*? > > > > ;-0 > > It can't boot from cdrom, it has one (4X) but the system doesn't know of > it untill an OS is loaded (i.e. win98se). I'm

Re: module-assistant no GUI on startup

2005-01-04 Thread John Schmidt
On Tuesday 04 January 2005 09:37 am, Hanspeter Kunz wrote: > On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 09:30 -0700, John Schmidt wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have just upgraded module-assistant to version 0.7 and the default GUI > > does not start when I do: > > > > sudo module

module-assistant no GUI on startup

2005-01-04 Thread John Schmidt
Hi, I have just upgraded module-assistant to version 0.7 and the default GUI does not start when I do: sudo module-assistant Does anyone else see this? I looked at the changelog.gz in the documentation and didn't see anything that relevant to this. Thanks, John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Debian and Dell?

2004-12-15 Thread John Schmidt
On Wednesday 15 December 2004 08:30 pm, Ed Sutherland wrote: > Hi All, > > I just purchased a Dell for my home office and am interested in using > Debian on a partition. As my only Linux experience comes from a Mac, I > have some questions: > > 1) Will I be able to easily dual-boot Windows or Linux

Re: Simple Email Server?

2004-12-15 Thread John Schmidt
On Wednesday 15 December 2004 09:44 am, David Baron wrote: > On Wednesday 15 December 2004 16:48, > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > What need I set to get exim4 to receive messages to my domain (dynamic) > > > directly? > > > > Basically just 'apt-get install exim4'. > > > > Have a look at this ar

Re: Newbie looking for some answers please...........

2004-11-18 Thread John Schmidt
On Thursday 18 November 2004 10:17 am, Chad wrote: > I just installed Debian 3.0 r3. I'm a newbie and looking for some > anwers to some of my questions...if someone can anwser one, some, or > all Please > > 1. I know that apt-get is the main utility to add and remove programs > (in Debian anywa

Re: Error inserting ndiswrapper

2004-11-18 Thread John Schmidt
On Wednesday 17 November 2004 10:59 pm, nornagon wrote: > I'm using the stock debian kernel 2.6.7-1-k7, to get that out of the way. > > I need to use ndiswrapper, since my card isn't yet supported by prism54. > > Okay, so I compiled ndiswrapper. Then, I modprobe it. > > Output: > $ sudo modprobe nd

Re: moving from woody to sarge

2004-11-11 Thread John Schmidt
On Thursday 11 November 2004 10:19 am, linux wrote: > sorry, should have explicitly stated that one reason for the move from > woody to sarge is that the former doesn't recognise my Ethernet card so I > cannot do installations over the network > - Original Message - > From: "Jerome BENOIT"

Re: Sarge install problems with Adaptec 7902 controller

2004-11-04 Thread John Schmidt
On Thursday 04 November 2004 09:41 am, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to install sarge on a HP Workstation with a Seagate SCSI > disk on an Adaptec 7902 Ultra 320 SCSI adapter. However, the installer > fails to detect the hard disk at all. There was no such problem when > installing

Re: different networks, same computer (map mapping ?)

2004-11-01 Thread John Schmidt
On Monday 01 November 2004 03:19 pm, H. S. wrote: > I would like a laptop to work in two kinds of networks automatically if > possible. At home, I am running a DHCP server and if the laptop is > connected to my switch(CAT5 cable to eth0) and booted up, it looks for > and gets an IP address (it is r

Re: List of packages

2004-10-27 Thread John Schmidt
On Wednesday 27 October 2004 01:36 pm, Jim Hall wrote: > on Sarge, is there a way to list every installed package? I don't think > I need things like libs, just the package names. I need to compare two > systems. > > Jim dpkg --get-selections > machine1.pkgs John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

Re: Building binaries for older versions of libc6

2004-10-27 Thread John Schmidt
On Wednesday 27 October 2004 09:47 am, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 02:58:16PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > I have a C++ program which requires g++ 3.4 to build due to parser bugs > > in older versions of g++. I'm currently building on a development > > machine running mos

Re: WiFi

2004-10-25 Thread John Schmidt
On Monday 25 October 2004 03:43 pm, Alvin Oga wrote: > On Mon, 25 Oct 2004, Gilbert, Joseph wrote: > > http://www.linuxant.com/driverloader/ > > > > I haven't had a chance to work with it yet. Has anyone else done > > anything with this driver wrapper? > > http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net does t

Re: routing help please...

2004-10-13 Thread John Schmidt
On Wednesday 13 October 2004 05:45 am, Sebastiaan wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, Mark Maas wrote: > > Thanks for reading! > > > > I hope someone can help me with a routing issue: > > > > I've attached a situation scetch. > > > > The thing is, my road warriors connect via a pptp connection >

Re: trouble with pam-ldap

2004-10-12 Thread John Schmidt
On Tuesday 12 October 2004 02:09 pm, Jeremy Brown wrote: > I'm trying to get a Debian sarge machine to authenticate against an > OpenLDAP server (running on the same box) with no success. > Take a look at: http://people.debian.org/~torsten/ldapnss.html John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Keyed SSH login problem

2004-10-11 Thread John Schmidt
On Monday 11 October 2004 10:43 am, Stephen Tait wrote: > I'm having a great deal of difficulty setting up two computers to log into > one another for automated backup purposes. For the moment, I'm just trying > to get one machine to log into the other non-interactively, and since it's > over the i

Re: adduser problem

2004-10-10 Thread John Schmidt
On Sunday 10 October 2004 09:45 pm, Jim Hall wrote: > Greetings, > > I volunteer in my church's computer lab (hence my email name) and > advocate Linux where and whenever possible. We have a sarge system as a > test system. A very knowledgeable Debian expert (call him Buddy) helped > me set it up.

Re: Problem with DSL and /etc/resolv.conf

2004-10-08 Thread John Schmidt
On Friday 08 October 2004 04:21 pm, Andrew Carter wrote: > I'm having a problem with my /etc/resolv.conf file and I'm hoping > someone might be able to explain what is going on. My home network > has an ActionTec wireless DSL modem/router running as the DHCP. Qwest > is my DSL provider. I have t

Re: Configuring Courier

2004-09-03 Thread John Schmidt
On Wednesday 01 September 2004 01:36 pm, Upayavira wrote: > I want to set up a Debian based mail server, with SMTP sending, IMAP and > webmail. I am trying to do this with the Courier package. Actually, what > I want, at the moment, is a self contained mail system, it doesn't have > to deliver to t

Re: alternatives to NIS and NFS

2004-08-02 Thread John Schmidt
On Monday 02 August 2004 04:24 pm, Paul William wrote: > Hi, > > I am in charge of a small office network. The server is running Debian > stable with some testing packages and the desktops are running mandrake > 10.0. > > Currently we are using NIS for authentication and NFS to share the home > dir

Re: 2.6.4 kernel install wants to remove current kernel

2004-04-09 Thread John Schmidt
On Friday 09 April 2004 12:41 pm, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > of course, i've totally failed to show the slickness of apt to my > coworker, because as soon as i booted up with 2.6.4, my mouse (neither > USB nor PS2) didn't work, and i wasn't online. (right now, i've > reverted to 2.4 to type this :-P

Re: NFS Groups

2004-03-15 Thread John Schmidt
On Saturday 13 March 2004 10:07 am, Michael Satterwhite wrote: > I want to thank those who helped me with the userid. The other half of > this, however, is the group id: > > Assume that a directory on the server is owned by root:users. The group id > number for users is different on the server and

Re: LDAP client configuration question

2004-03-08 Thread John Schmidt
On Monday 08 March 2004 05:23 pm, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > I am relatively newbie in LDAP area, so please excuse me if the question > is not interesting. > > We have an LDAP server up and running redhat 8. I know that the ldap > server is functioning properly because I can access it from other

Re: static ip to dhcp conversion -- getting a hostname

2004-03-05 Thread John Schmidt
On Friday 05 March 2004 09:00 am, Jonathan Schmitt wrote: > >My university is switching everyone over from a static ip to one assigned > > via dhcp. In addition, they are specifying the hostname for each of > > these addresses. Unfortunately, we don't get an option to choose a > > hostname. It s

static ip to dhcp conversion -- getting a hostname

2004-03-05 Thread John Schmidt
Hi, My university is switching everyone over from a static ip to one assigned via dhcp. In addition, they are specifying the hostname for each of these addresses. Unfortunately, we don't get an option to choose a hostname. It seems that the current mechanism within Debian is to specify a hos

Re: A Newbie LVM Question

2004-03-04 Thread John Schmidt
On Thursday 04 March 2004 10:38 am, stan wrote: > On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 05:09:02PM +0200, Alexei Chetroi wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 08:13:18AM -0500, stan wrote: > > > Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 08:13:18 -0500 > > > From: stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Subject: Re:

Re: Install debian on raid system

2004-02-27 Thread John Schmidt
On Friday 27 February 2004 08:21 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I'm trying to install debian on a raid system (Promise FastTrak s150 sx > with 3 SATA drives), I downloaded the netinstall iso and tried installing. > Unfortunately the drivers for the raid card aren't there and I

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