Re: Matrox G550 - MGA X server fails

2017-03-23 Thread Oliver Elphick
X server to setuid and am going to swap the video card back in and try again later. On 22 Mar 2017 8:12 pm, "Sven Joachim" wrote: > On 2017-03-22 10:25 +, Oliver Elphick wrote: > > > I am unable to start X using a Matrox Millennium G550 PCIe card. > > > > Th

Matrox G550 - MGA X server fails

2017-03-22 Thread Oliver Elphick
I am unable to start X using a Matrox Millennium G550 PCIe card. This is what I think is the relevant part of the log for the session: #011compiled for 1.19.2, module version = 0.1.0 #011ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 23.0 (--) MGA(0): Chipset: "mgag550" xf86TokenToOptinfo: table is NULL

Re: Unwanted on-screen keyboard - which package.

2016-06-25 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Sun, 2016-06-26 at 03:13 +1200, cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: > On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 05:06:13PM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote: > > I enabled the on-screen keyboard applet in Cinnamon so as to write > > some > > text with French accents. But then it kept on coming

Unwanted on-screen keyboard - which package.

2016-06-22 Thread Oliver Elphick
I do could get rid of this confounded nuisance until I rebooted again, after purging the antlr packages. But what package should have a bug filed? Using Debian testing on amd64, updated this morning. Thanks Oliver Elphick

Debian testing - update has partly broken X, but which package?

2016-05-22 Thread Oliver Elphick
browser). Highlighted text is no longer visible in evolution. The general appearance is very poor. Screenshot available at http://www.lfix.co.uk/images/x-problem.jpeg I would like to know which package is responsible for these features, please. Oliver Elphick Lincolnshire, UK

Re: Creating launcher in Gnome 3

2016-04-04 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Mon, 2016-04-04 at 17:19 +0200, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Mon, 2016-04-04 at 13:27 +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote: > > > > I'm trying to create a launcher.  Following the explanation in  > > https://specifications.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/in > &g

Creating launcher in Gnome 3

2016-04-04 Thread Oliver Elphick
does not appear in the menu. So what is missing, please? Oliver Elphick

Re: Do not know which package bug is in

2016-04-01 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Fri, 2016-04-01 at 11:34 +0100, Robin Oberg wrote: > On Fri, 2016-04-01 at 11:21 +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote: > > Intermittent failures like that sound more like hardware problems. > > I > > seem to recall reading that charging devices like that demands more > >

Re: Do not know which package bug is in

2016-04-01 Thread Oliver Elphick
ecall reading that charging devices like that demands more power than the computer can supply. Oliver Elphick

Re: How to debug systemd script?

2016-03-28 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Tue, 2016-03-29 at 02:33 +1300, chrisb@localhost.localdomain wrote: > On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 01:00:35PM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote: > > How can I find out what is going on to stop the normal init script > > from > > working? Is there some way to force systemctl to log

How to debug systemd script?

2016-03-28 Thread Oliver Elphick
started. How can I find out what is going on to stop the normal init script from working? Is there some way to force systemctl to log what it is doing? If it does log, where does it put the log? Thanks Oliver Elphick

Re: Multi-display - one monitor active but blank

2016-03-22 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Tue, 2016-03-22 at 16:36 -0400, Ric Moore wrote: >  > I didn't see a response to the question if this was a laptop? > It isn't.  It's a tower PC. The on-board Intel video is not used; there is a dual-head Nvidia card with both monitors.

Re: Multi-display - one monitor active but blank

2016-03-22 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Mon, 2016-03-21 at 20:55 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > Oliver Elphick composed on 2016-03-21 22:56 (UTC): > > > What gfxchip powers your displays? > > > > Card: Nvidia > > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GT218 [NVS > > 300] > > (

Re: Multi-display - one monitor active but blank

2016-03-21 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Mon, 2016-03-21 at 23:07 +, Mark Fletcher wrote: > It couldn't be a dodgy cable, could it? > > Mark I don't think so. If that were the case it would flash on and off as the cable moved. It is resolutely blank, except just sometimes. The cable is behind the desk, so it doesn't ge tmoved. I

Re: Multi-display - one monitor active but blank

2016-03-21 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Mon, 2016-03-21 at 17:27 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > Oliver Elphick composed on 2016-03-21 21:01 (UTC): > > > > > I have two monitors; the second one sometimes comes to life but is > > usually blank. However, the system thinks that it is active and > > displayi

Multi-display - one monitor active but blank

2016-03-21 Thread Oliver Elphick
leaving the monitors turned on 24 hours a day, but I have just installed Debian (instead of Mint) and the problem has come back. Any ideas where to start to solve this, please? -- Oliver Elphick Lincolnshire, England

Re: Dual monitor problems

2013-06-25 Thread Oliver Elphick
On 25/06/13 12:34, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 25 iun 13, 06:56:14, Oliver Elphick wrote: >> I am trying to use two monitors at once, for the first time, using >> an Nvidia dual head card. >> >> I have now got the two monitors displaying a single screen and the >

Dual monitor problems

2013-06-24 Thread Oliver Elphick
back to life. I can pass the mouse into it, or select a window that is on it, but it remains black. The only exception is that it will restore when the screen is locked and I enter my password to unlock it. Where should I look? Debian version: sid, recently updated Oliver Elphick -- To

Re: Problems with CD insertion - sid

2013-06-21 Thread Oliver Elphick
be used at all with an audio CD. Oliver Elphick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1371806284.3409.0.camel@ruth

Re: Problems with CD insertion - sid

2013-06-18 Thread Oliver Elphick
First, I was wrong about it's not mounting the data CD. I was looking in the wrong place. So it is only about audio CDs. When one is inserted: $ sudo udisks --monitor-detail Monitoring activity from the disks daemon. Press Ctrl+C to cancel. changed: /org/freedesktop/UDisks/devices/sr0 Showi

Re: Problems with CD insertion - sid

2013-06-18 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Tue, 2013-06-18 at 20:31 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > For a start: > > Does "eject -T" open/close the drive? 'eject /dev/sr0' opens it (once unmounted), and -t closes it. -T gives an I/O error > Any error messages in /var/log/syslog? No > Does "udevadm trigger" help? --verbose gives a

Re: Problems with CD insertion - sid

2013-06-18 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Tue, 2013-06-18 at 10:32 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 18 iun 13, 07:55:51, Oliver Elphick wrote: > > When a CD is inserted, it does not get mounted (data CD) or properly > > notified (audio CD). > ... > > I don't know where the problem resides. Which packa

Problems with CD insertion - sid

2013-06-17 Thread Oliver Elphick
When a CD is inserted, it does not get mounted (data CD) or properly notified (audio CD). I found that rhythmbox never showed an audio CD as available to play - it should come up under devices on the left-hand sidebar. I then tried setting the system to run VLC instead, using System Settings. St

Re: postgresql installation

2006-02-15 Thread Oliver Elphick
ion. md5 means that the password is compared in md5 format. To set the password, connect to template1 as postgres using a local connection (do not specify any host) and: ALTER USER username WITH PASSWORD 'newpassword'; now you should be able to connect using th

Re: C++: Math function round() does not compile - why?

2006-02-14 Thread Oliver Elphick
right; the -c option was used. This is just one module of many, with the compilation of each module called from a makefile. -- Oliver Elphick olly@lfix.co.uk Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/A54310EA 92C8

Re: C++: Math function round() does not compile - why? - resolution

2006-02-14 Thread Oliver Elphick
t set by the compiler. There are a few other macros you > might want to set (_POSIX_SOURCE, or even _GNU_SOURCE), so perhaps you > should have a closer look at if you plan to use it directly. Thanks to you and others for that suggestion. Defining _GNU_SOURCE fixes the problem for g++-2.95. --

Re: C++: Math function round() does not compile - why?

2006-02-14 Thread Oliver Elphick
to achieve this for 2.95? (This is now academic, since I have written my own version for this application.) -- Oliver Elphick olly@lfix.co.uk Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/A54310EA 92C8 39E7 280E 3631 3F0E 1EC

Re: Postgresql pg_autovacuum in Sarge?

2006-02-14 Thread Oliver Elphick
indicates whether a vacuum is required. >space that vacuum does not reclaim > vacuumlo - Vacuum deleted large objects Look for the file pg_autovacuum. It is in postgresql-contrib. (There is a temporary replacement for packages.debian.org up at

C++: Math function round() does not compile - why?

2006-02-14 Thread Oliver Elphick
ceptions -fno-rtti -Wall -W -g -std=c99 -I/opt/Qtopia/include -o orderimpl.o orderimpl.cpp orderimpl.cpp: In method `void OrderImpl::calculate_line(int)': orderimpl.cpp:84: implicit declaration of function `int round(...)' -- Oliver Elphick olly@l

Re: IP forwarding problem

2006-01-31 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 14:52 +, Oliver Elphick wrote: > Can anyone help with this network problem, please? > > This machine is an internal router, with two network cards. iptables is > not configured in the kernel, since masquerading and filtering is not > required. (Ther

Re: Unsure about security requirements for workstation/server

2006-01-31 Thread Oliver Elphick
roblems promptly fixed by the package maintainers. As a compromise, you could install testing, which will be some way behind unstable, but somewhat less likely to contain serious problems. For security of your internet connection, install a firewall such as shorewall (Debian package) and configure i

Re: Kernel Source

2006-01-31 Thread Oliver Elphick
ather than kernel-source-2.6.x. I think that will apply to etch as well. Oliver Elphick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: IP forwarding problem

2006-01-27 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 12:31 -0600, Matt Zagrabelny wrote: > On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 14:52 +0000, Oliver Elphick wrote: > > Can anyone help with this network problem, please? > > > > This machine is an internal router, with two network cards. iptables is > > not conf

IP forwarding problem

2006-01-27 Thread Oliver Elphick
errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:524809613 (500.4 MiB) TX bytes:358879507 (342.2 MiB) Interrupt:161 Oliver Elphick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

Re: apt-get upgrade fails due to kernel-image problem

2005-12-16 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 15:25 +0100, gregory duchesnes wrote: > Is there a quick way to get the list of modules and drivers i can erase? Try this script: #!/bin/bash export module for m in $(find /lib/modules -name '*.ko') do module=$(basename $(basename $m) .ko) if [ -z "$((echo $m

Re: apt-get upgrade fails due to kernel-image problem

2005-12-16 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 15:11 +0100, gregory duchesnes wrote: > Yes i did, didn't help. > > Listen guys, i have 36Mb of modules in /lib/modules, what would happen > if i erase (or just move for the moment) modules that i'm sure i don't > need, like (isdn drivers)? No problem. IF they aren't used

Re: apt-get upgrade fails due to kernel-image problem

2005-12-16 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 09:08 -0500, Michael Marsh wrote: > On 12/16/05, gregory duchesnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Do you know where i could find those 3Mb? I don't wnanna break anything > > and i don't know what i could remove from / > > Have you tried "apt-get clean"? That empties /var/cac

Re: apt-get upgrade fails due to kernel-image problem

2005-12-16 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 14:14 +0100, gregory duchesnes wrote: > Do you know where i could find those 3Mb? I don't wnanna break anything > and i don't know what i could remove from / It all depends what you have installed. What might be simpler is to swap your /tmp and / partitions: reboot

Re: HELP

2005-12-16 Thread Oliver Elphick
en't installing on a Debian system, you are asking the wrong list. Oliver Elphick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apt-get upgrade fails due to kernel-image problem

2005-12-16 Thread Oliver Elphick
n't help you much because you can't do that until _after_ it has been unpacked. You can unpack the .deb file manually cd /some/path ar x /var/cache/apt/archives/kernel-image-2.6.8-2-386_2.6.8-16sarge1_i386.deb That will give you a control tar archive and a data tar archive. Unpack the data archive and you should have the filetree that would be installed. Oliver Elphick

Re: How to install debian on an external hard disk drive

2005-10-21 Thread Oliver Elphick
can't say what they would be. If the BIOS does not see the drive as a boot option, you may have to write a boot CD with a kernel and initial root image (initrd) on it. Once you have a system that can boot into Debian, you can install further packages over the net. -- Oliver Elphick

Re: Debian can't connect to internet gateway

2005-10-21 Thread Oliver Elphick
work 192.168.2.0 > netmask 255.255.255.0 > broadcast 192.168.2.255 Don't you need a line here to specify the router? gateway 192.168.2.1 Oliver Elphick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: postgresql encoding

2005-10-17 Thread Oliver Elphick
f > postgresql. It is set to SQL_ASCII and I want to change it to UNICODE No. You have to dump and reload. -- Oliver Elphick olly@lfix.co.uk Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/A54310EA 92C8 39E7 280E 363

Re: Y or I, N or O

2005-10-12 Thread Oliver Elphick
nfiguration file will be saved as .dpkg-old and replaced by the package's version. If you choose N, the existing configuration file will be left untouched and the new version will be saved in the same directory under the name .dpkg-dist (or .dpkg-new). -- Oliver Elphick

Re: 6Gb of invisible files, or what?

2005-09-14 Thread Oliver Elphick
ace is left?" and df cannot answer the question "How much of the used space is visible in the filesystem?" -- Oliver Elphick olly@lfix.co.uk Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver

Re: 6Gb of invisible files, or what?

2005-09-13 Thread Oliver Elphick
mount directories are empty (don't forget about hidden files -- use ls -a). -- Oliver Elphick olly@lfix.co.uk Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/A

Re: ktechlab on sarge

2005-09-08 Thread Oliver Elphick
install which will sort out the mess. The -u option ensures that it tells you what it is going to do before it starts deleting or overwriting stuff you want to keep. Oliver Elphick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Newbie --Admin access problem on KDE... HELP!!

2005-09-08 Thread Oliver Elphick
epend on your local setup. "address" is the address of the machine you are setting up and "gateway" is the machine that is connected to the internet. If you want to use DHCP to get an address automatically, it will be different - sorry, I haven't got an example here.

Re: Re:

2005-08-27 Thread Oliver Elphick
s behaviour by default; if you don't mind > switching, that might be the easiest fix. If it's gdm, the availablility of this feature is controlled by options in /etc/gdm/gdm.conf: SystemMenu and SecureSystemMenu -- Oliver Elphick olly@lfix.co

Where is autologout control in sarge / gnome?

2005-08-24 Thread Oliver Elphick
I have a computer which is kept at current stable release. Since it was upgraded to sarge, it has taken to doing an autologout from an X session after an hour or so of inactivity. Where is this controlled from? I can't find a control for it in Gnome nor in /etc/gdm/gdm.conf -- Oliver El

Re: tclConfig.sh and tkConfig.sh are not included in the binary distribution

2005-08-21 Thread Oliver Elphick
g > that tclConfig.sh and tkConfig.sh are not found. Hence I am unable to > install such packages. > I need help on this... > thank you You should find it in the tcl8.4-dev binary package, at /usr/lib/tcl8.4/tclConfig.sh -- Oliver Elphick

Re: compile kernel for remote machine

2005-08-18 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 08:34 +0200, Brent Clark wrote: > Hi all > > Would anyone know how I can compile a kernel for my remote machine on > my machine. ... > Baring in mind they are both debian machine and both running 2.6 > kernel and both running testing. Since they are both Debian machines, you

Re: Two problems: Low resolution and login screen

2005-08-17 Thread Oliver Elphick
quately stated in /etc/X11/XF86Config. When X starts, it tries to find the mode with the closest match to the screen resolution you are asking for; in this case, the best it can do is 800x600. Look at the X startup log to see what it was doing. (The log is in /var/log/XFree86.log.0, I think

Re: diary with encryption

2005-08-17 Thread Oliver Elphick
. You can use cfs to make a small encrypted filesystem out of a normal directory; then you can store your diary in the encrypted filesystem. -- Oliver Elphick olly@lfix.co.uk Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 10

Re: Backup/Restore debian package

2005-08-16 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 06:09 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I meaned my own deb packages that are not on the Internet. In that case, if you didn't keep copies of old debs, no-one else can help. -- Oliver Elphick olly@lfix.co.uk Isle

Re: Backup/Restore debian package

2005-08-16 Thread Oliver Elphick
restore to 'test version 1.0' but i have not 'test.deb' file 'version > 1.0'. > How can i backup 'test version 1.0' for restore purpose after if needed. Old package versions can possibly be recovered from http://snapshot.debian.net/ -- Oliv

Re: [networking] Computer can't see the outside world any more

2005-08-10 Thread Oliver Elphick
and see if it works like that? (The DHCP server can be configured to avoid that address.) You could also try running tcpdump on another machine to see if packets from the web-server appear on the network. -- Oliver Elphick olly@lfix.co.uk Isle of Wight

How to bounce emails selectively with exim?

2005-06-23 Thread Oliver Elphick
We get a number of spam mails and viruses sent to us with the sender address spoofed to appear to be from our domain. These get bounced for the appropriate reason (unrouteable address, spam, etc) but if the mail got routed through our ISP, the ISP sends the bounce straight back to me because they

Re: Gnome doesn't see user's PATH

2005-06-22 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 11:49 -0500, Forrest Smith wrote: > Hi all! > > Does anyone know why apps run from the panel aren't aware of > user's environment vars, specifically PATH? > > Example, if Mutt is executed from my panel, I can't execute > commands that are in my PATH. If I run it from a te

Re: dselect and a Recent Experience

2005-06-22 Thread Oliver Elphick
o if you reference stable, a lot of your packages are now regarded as obsolete. You should either reference woody explicitly or do a complete upgrade (recommended!) using the instructions in the release notes at http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/index.en.html Olive

Sarge problems with MySQL and DBI / DBD::mysql

2005-06-21 Thread Oliver Elphick
gt; s main::failed(/home/domain/www.chpresenters.co.uk/web/cgi-bin/ocms-multi/common/cgi-lib.pl:117): If a row is added to the table to be returned by this query, the problem goes away. How can I debug or fix this problem, please? -- Oliver Elphick olly@

Re: postgresql

2005-01-06 Thread Oliver Elphick
block with ipcrm(1), or just > delete "/var/lib/postgres/data/postmaster.pid". If you run ipcs -m (as root) do you see any blocks owned by postgres? -- Oliver Elphick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [exim4debian] Re: Debian-exim - blech!

2004-09-20 Thread Oliver Elphick
should not remove all files that they create, not, at least, without asking; editors and databases, for example. -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG

Re: [exim4debian] Re: Debian-exim - blech!

2004-09-20 Thread Oliver Elphick
qually to "Debian-exim" - it might be assigned to a user; it's quite as likely as that "mail" might be so assigned. > Second, purging exim4 in such a situation could lead to all files > belonging to that user to be deleted. Purging exim4 should

Re: [exim4debian] Re: Debian-exim - blech!

2004-09-17 Thread Oliver Elphick
es with account names deliberately > created by the local admin. I never did understand: what was the problem with "mail"? -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/

Re: finance/business

2004-09-07 Thread Oliver Elphick
This is still only in the planning stage and is certainly not a possibility for someone wanting to change right now. On the other hand, if they really want to go open-souorce and would like to contribute to the specification, that would be very good. -- Olive

Re: How to set up CUPS client

2004-09-07 Thread Oliver Elphick
c/cups/client.conf and change the line that sets ServerName -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/A54310EA 92C8 39E7 280E 3631 3

Re: getting full package name

2004-09-06 Thread Oliver Elphick
en the name of the package is so long that I cannot tell what the name > is. > > In that situation if grep through the file /var/lib/dpkg/available and I > find the full name. > > This is just a helpful hint for newbies that may have this problem. This is easier:

Re: Network Connection Question

2004-09-06 Thread Oliver Elphick
xpansion Slot > Audio In & Out / Game Port on Front > Internet Ready > Microsoft Works > ATI Rage Pro Turbo 2X AGP with 4MB SGRAM > Crystal CS4280 3D PCI Audio > 40x Max. CD-ROM Drive > 4.3GB HDD (Ultra DMA EIDE) [ADDED 30 GB NEW HDD] > 3.5" 1.44MB FDD >

Re: Usability Questions

2004-09-06 Thread Oliver Elphick
ight.) Ctrl-Alt-F1-- switches to first virtual console Ctrl-Alt-Del -- standard shutdown/reboot Make sure that the shutdown line in /etc/inittab says -h rather than -r, otherwise it will just reboot. Ctrl-Alt-Del doesn't work in X; that's why you have to switch to a cons

Re: Help!!!! If I'm to get debian up, I need help solving this...

2004-09-03 Thread Oliver Elphick
our network setup that is at fault. -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/A54310EA 92C8 39E7 280E 3631 3F0E 1E

Re: please help

2004-08-31 Thread Oliver Elphick
rom an HP website, for example https://www.designjet.hp.com/reg_product_home.html?new_product=750C&pageseq=937897 -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/A54310EA 92C8 39E7 2

Re: OpenOffice.org and Spelling

2004-08-30 Thread Oliver Elphick
gt; > I just tried that. Nothing changed. Any switch or toggle I'm forgetting > to throw? Thanks. There is an implication of a cd into the new directory before making the link. Would that work? -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight

Re: postgres phpgroupware login woes

2004-08-26 Thread Oliver Elphick
for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Thu, 26 Aug 2004 18:15:26 +0100 Subject: Re: postgres phpgroupware login woes From: Oliver Elphick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Lance Hoffmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PRO

Re: postgres phpgroupware login woes

2004-08-26 Thread Oliver Elphick
hostname localhost (thus using TCP/IP) while default psql access will be to a blank hostname, thus using a Unix socket. The two different access modes can have different authentication, as explained above. Oliver Elphick maintainer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: select N random lines in a file

2004-08-22 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Sun, 2004-08-22 at 20:35, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > Hello all, > > I would like to write a script that will select N number of > random lines in a file. Any suggestions on how to do this? > Use the rand() function in awk -- Oliver Elphick

Re: Wrong interpretation og '\$' by bash?

2004-08-21 Thread Oliver Elphick
]\$\w/: ' > > and that worked! I played about a bit and consistently the latter > quoting style produced the expected result but the former did not. I > have no idea why this is (a bug?) It is a consequence of shell quoting rules. "..." does variable substitution

Re: Wrong interpretation og '\$' by bash?

2004-08-21 Thread Oliver Elphick
s a root, '$' is displayed > instead of '#'. > > Why is that so - '\$' is supposed to display '#' if the effective > uid is 0, and how it can be corrected? Quoting, I think. Because you are using double quotes, the backslash is being interpreted

Re: Sid and security

2004-08-21 Thread Oliver Elphick
rom sid (unstable) ever goes into woody (stable), only into sarge (testing) which is soon to become the new stable. -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/A54310EA 92C

Re: Sid and security

2004-08-21 Thread Oliver Elphick
... > Question: Am I correct that a parallel location for unstable is not > needed? There is none. It would be far too much effort for the security team to cope with. -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight h

Re: OT: Questions or Doubts?

2004-08-20 Thread Oliver Elphick
a decision" is much more > American -- we'll just invent the option we want and then take that one. As in Iraq... -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight

Re: Obsessed with a clean system

2004-08-11 Thread Oliver Elphick
You can safely allow them to be removed, so far as the current operation of your system is concerned. It might in the future lead to some hiccups; for example, if a new and necessary dependency were to be added to kde, you would miss it. Arguably, that would

Re: sql-ledger and postgresql: HOWTO?

2004-08-05 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Thu, 2004-08-05 at 14:10, Oliver Elphick wrote: > On Thu, 2004-08-05 at 02:14, John Hasler wrote: > > Oliver Elphick writes: > > > I have the beginnings of the design of such a system; if anyone else > > > would like to contribute ideas, please email me. > > &g

Re: sql-ledger and postgresql: HOWTO?

2004-08-04 Thread Oliver Elphick
9. It should be easy to remove data relating to past years, without affecting the current data; equally it should be possible to keep multiple years' data on-line. I have the beginnings of the design of such a system; if anyone else would like to contribute ideas, please email me. -- O

Re: kill process by name

2004-08-03 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Tue, 2004-08-03 at 19:29, Muratorio, Diego wrote: > Hello Rick, I am looking for the same, did you find something about > kill process by name? > You want killall, from the psmisc package. -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle

Re: sql-ledger and postgresql: HOWTO?

2004-08-03 Thread Oliver Elphick
ing all the consistency rules into the database (triggers, foreign keys, etc.) so you could possibly have two different interfaces to the same database. -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://ww

Re: sql-ledger and postgresql: HOWTO?

2004-08-03 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Tue, 2004-08-03 at 13:52, John Hasler wrote: > Oliver Elphick writes: > > I have written an accounting system in the past and now I have looked at > > sql-ledger I prefer to do the same again, since it doesn't suit my ideas > > of what such a system should be like. >

Re: sql-ledger and postgresql: HOWTO?

2004-08-03 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Tue, 2004-08-03 at 11:41, Johann Spies wrote: > On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 12:44:38AM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote: > > > > I found the documentation confusing to say the least. > > > > I agree with that. (Once I got it working, I found sql-ledger to be > >

Re: sql-ledger and postgresql: HOWTO?

2004-08-02 Thread Oliver Elphick
> > > >Why is postgresql trying to do an IDENT-authentication? > > > > > Comment out the line(s) that say it can. Better to find out why it is matching one of those lines. From the details given, it must either be because the connection is using a Unix socket

Re: sql-ledger and postgresql: HOWTO?

2004-08-02 Thread Oliver Elphick
create a database, so it is quite likely connecting to template1 first (since that is the only database it can be sure exists). Try changing the database parameter of the pg_hba.conf line to "all". -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle

Re: Start postgresql for the first time

2004-08-01 Thread Oliver Elphick
reate new users, he is by definition an administrator or superuser in respect to PostgreSQL, just as the user postgres is in the default installation. In my own set-up I give myself that privilege and therefore very rarely need to use the postgres login to access the database. -- Oliver Elphick

Re: Disk tools in debian

2004-07-12 Thread Oliver Elphick
ts just like Tong, and not like you, Oliver. I fail to see what > > I could be doing wrong. Maybe there is a problem here. > > Same here. Nothing. I am running Sid. I guess someone who is seeing this problem should file a bug afainst util-linux. -- Oliver Elphick

Re: Any way to search executable name?

2004-07-12 Thread Oliver Elphick
to http://packages.debian.org and search on package contents there. -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/A54310EA 92C8 39E7 280E 36

Re: your request for Debian involvement

2004-07-09 Thread Oliver Elphick
organisation and have no marketing budget. Therefore there are no freebies, except for possible volunteer help. > We view this as a good opportunity for the promotion of your operating > system and to get some feedback from our users. I would be delighted > if you would get back to me. >

Re: postgresql with tcp/ip conection

2004-07-08 Thread Oliver Elphick
tication setup is done in /etc/postgresql/pg_hba.conf. Oliver Elphick postgresql maintainer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PHP + PostgreSQL

2004-06-27 Thread Oliver Elphick
user who is running the web-server. Remember that the *first* matching line in pg_hba.conf is the one that applies; also remember to reload/restart postgresql after changing that file. -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight

Re: PHP + PostgreSQL

2004-06-26 Thread Oliver Elphick
ation (lower case required, I think), you also need to set the users' passwords before they can be used. Go into psql as user postgres and do: ALTER USER username WITH PASSWORD 'password goes here'; -- Oliver Elphick

Re: PHP + PostgreSQL

2004-06-24 Thread Oliver Elphick
a first step. Now you need to find out whether PHP is attempting a connection to PostgreSQL. If it isn't, it's a PHP or Apache problem. If it is, it may be a PostgreSQL authentication problem. Oliver Elphick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: openwebmail + postgresql configuration

2004-06-15 Thread Oliver Elphick
ccessfully). > > > Right now I have to figure this out, but my openwebmail part of the > question is, can I set the host to a local socket? If the hostname is blank, rather than "localhost", you will get a Unix socket -- Oliver Elphick

RE: help on a script

2004-06-05 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Sat, 2004-06-05 at 07:38, Oliver Elphick wrote: > > > Make the script executable and make sure the user under whose uid it > > > will run is able to connect with ssh without supplying a password. > > > > > > > How exactly would I do that? Make a user tha

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