Re: Re: Having cron-apt choose the default action (rather than yes)during upgrades?

2006-05-14 Thread Rich Stanton
> That would be "Trivial Only" > > Look that up in the man page for apt-get ( should be > "--trivial-only") > > You will probably want to add "--allow-unauthenticated" No go on this sorry - I tried an apt-get dist-upgrade --trivial-only and got this: Reading package lists... Done Building depend

Re: Re: Having cron-apt choose the default action (rather than yes)during upgrades?

2006-05-13 Thread Rich Stanton
>That would be "Trivial Only" > >Look that up in the man page for apt-get ( should be "--trivial-only") > >You will probably want to add "--allow-unauthenticated" Thanks for the info - I'll try them now. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Co

Having cron-apt choose the default action (rather than yes) during upgrades?

2006-05-13 Thread Rich Stanton
I want to use cron-apt to auto install updates overnight. I'm aware of the reasons against doing this, and am prepared to live with the consequences on this occasion. I assume I can just create a file in /etc/cron-apt/action.d called 9-install & put the command 'dist-upgrade -y' in there. Howeve

Constantly losing connections to mounted network drives

2006-02-16 Thread Rich Stanton
I am running debian stable ppc on an old mac G3 laptop. I have 2 mounted network drives - one mounted via samba is on a macOSX panther system, and the other a netware filestore mounted via ncpfs. Here is my relevant fstab entries: //193.x.x.x/YellowDog /mnt/mic smbfs username=,password=

/home not mounting during bootup (stable, ppc)

2006-01-08 Thread Rich Stanton
I'm running debian stable (PPC) on an old mac G3. My /home partition is on an external SCSI drive, and is listed as follows in fstab: # proc/proc procdefaults0 0 /dev/hda3 / ext3defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 /d

packages aren't being verified in apt-get under testing

2006-01-06 Thread Rich Stanton
I upgraded to etch a while ago, and when the secure version of apt was uploaded I had to add the secure-testing security archive key, but otherwise it's worked fine. Recently however when doing dist-upgrades, apt-get has been warning that most packages cannot be verified. I can still install

Re: etch - gpg no_pubkey error when running apt-get update

2005-11-02 Thread Rich Stanton
Rich Stanton schrieb: I'm running an etch ppc system and get the following error when running apt-get update: W: GPG error: http://secure-testing.debian.net etch/security-updates Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available:

etch - gpg no_pubkey error when running apt-get update

2005-11-01 Thread Rich Stanton
I'm running an etch ppc system and get the following error when running apt-get update: W: GPG error: http://secure-testing.debian.net etch/security-updates Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 946AA6E18722E71E W: You may wa

Tuning tripwire - stopping logs being flagged up

2005-09-03 Thread Rich Stanton
I'm trying to tune tripwire (under debian testing) to give me less unneccessary errors. At the moment /var/log/syslog and files in /var/log/cups, exim4, tiger are all being listed as being modified. Obviously this is fine, since they're logs, so I don't want to be notified of this. In the st

Cannot update from www.mirror.ac.uk

2005-05-22 Thread Rich Stanton
Hi, I run sarge and usually update my debian systems from www.mirror.ac.uk because it gives the best speeds of all I've tried. However recently I've been unable to grab certain updates - apt-get update works fine, the package lists are downloaded fine. However when I run apt-get dist-upgrad

RE: Clarification concerning security of testing on a laptop

2005-01-05 Thread Rich Stanton
OK - thanks all for the information! Based on what you've all said I think I'll upgrade to sid - it sounds like it doesn't actually break that often, but will give me the newest packages to play with and a reasonable chance at security :) > -Original Message- > From: J.F.Gratton [mailto:[

RE: Grub pausing during boot at stage 1.5

2005-01-02 Thread Rich Stanton
> -Original Message- > From: Hugo Vanwoerkom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 02 January 2005 13:24 > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Grub pausing during boot at stage 1.5 > > William Ballard wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 11:21:27A

Grub pausing during boot at stage 1.5

2005-01-02 Thread Rich Stanton
I've just completed an install of sarge on my laptop. Everything is fine except that grub (installed into the MBR) pauses for ages at boottime after the 'stage 1.5' message. It seems to be accessing my cdrom periodically during this. Eventually the boot menu does come up & after that everything

Re: Re: No windowmanager when using vnc?

2004-05-08 Thread Rich Stanton
OK - I tried putting a line reading 'echo xxx > /home/me/xstartup.log' into my xstartup file (I then ran xstartup to make sure it got executed correctly, and it did). I ran vncserver, and the 'xstartup.log' file was not created, so it looks like xstartup is not getting executed for some reason.

RE: No windowmanager when using vnc?

2004-05-08 Thread Rich Stanton
I've tried that, but the same result - no window manager. Thanks for the suggestion though! Any more ideas? Rich > -Original Message- > From: Roberto Sanchez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 08 May 2004 02:48 > To: Rich Stanton > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subjec

No windowmanager when using vnc?

2004-05-07 Thread Rich Stanton
I’m running debian stable on a headless system.  I’ve installed (among others) ‘vncserver.’  However when I run ‘vncserver –geometry 1024x768’ and connect to the display using the tightvnc viewer (on a windows client) I get a window with a mottled grey background and an ‘X’ shaped cursor, b

Downgrading a few testing packages on a stable system

2004-03-16 Thread Rich Stanton
Hi, I need some help sorting out a bit of a mess I've created. I have a stable (woody) system. I use cups with gimpprint to print, and wanted a driver for a newer printer which apparently is supported in newer versions of gimpprint. I therefore installed gimpprint from testing. That went fine,