.deb / dpkg for dummies

Is there a good overview on how to really use these tools? I simply copy/paste commands all the time, and I'm hoping for some sort of primer or tutorial that helps be able to do this from scratch without a cheat sheet. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

high performance open source DHCP solution?

The free DHCP solution, ISC, seems to be having scaling issues (i.e. handling only about 200 DHCPDISCOVER and 20 DHCPRENEW requests), and I was wondering if anyone had any open source suggestions of solutions that could scale much better? (Ideally, I could find a free version of a solution like No

scalable Debian based LNS (L2TPv2 tunneling)

Has anyone created/used/found/seen a Debian based LNS solution that supports thousands L2TPv2 tunnels? Right now, the only solution I see that scales to this level is Redback, and if not a Redback box, then lots of Cisco 7200 boxes. -- Also on LinkedIn? Feel free to add me as a friend: scubac..

Re: PHP framework for book sharing?

S. Fishpaste wrote: Take a look at phpMyFAQ to see if it fits your needs; http://freshmeat.net/projects/phpmyfaq/ Thanks, this is a very cool looking project. I will check it out! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

PHP framework for book sharing?

Several coworkers and I have scattered amongst us all sorts of resources related to the mesh stuff we do (RADIUS, networking, RF, antennas, microwave, R&S, Linux, etc), and most of these resources are in the form of PDF or Word docs. Is there a PHP framework that I can easily "apt-get install"

Re: Debian packages for cool open source collaboration tools?

martin f krafft wrote: Please consider starting a Wiki page where you document your findings on http://wiki.debian.org/Software, e.g. at http://wiki.debian.org/Collaboration Yeah, will certainly do so. Right now, I'm using Project Pier in lieu of BaseCamp/ActiveCollab, and I'm liking it a lot

Debian packages for cool open source collaboration tools?

I'm looking for open source collaboration and project management tools, preferably already packaged in deb or apt-get. Ideally, I'd like to build my own internal resources like Google Docs, Meeting Wizard, Etherpad, etc. I'd like the idea of having them secure and free *internal* resources.

Re: debian tools for public safety

Ron Johnson wrote: What exactly (or, even, more specifically) are you asking for? Sorry, I was unclear - this is a general question on deb packages that might be of value to people who are interested in building public safety resources for future emergencies in their local communities. The

debian tools for public safety

A friend of mine from the Debian community is extremely close to several northern CA fires. http://tinyurl.com/5vp933 http://tinyurl.com/3mk4ah http://tinyurl.com/4jm67 Once things die down (he was evacuated last week), he and I are planning on investigating various Debian / nix public safety

assigning "best" gateway via DHCP

What might I do Linux-wise to create a "system" that looked at multiple gateways and then assigned (via DHCP) the gateway that was the least congested? Anyone have any good suggestions in this department? (I am planning on having a temporary wireless mesh with several satellite uplinks, and I

watching Netflix on Debian

Has anyone here been able to view Netflix movies on Debian? (It requires Internet Explorer, and I'm wondering what the workaround is for Firefox)

f/oss routing solution

I'm looking for an open source router solution, and someone from the list recently recommended zebra (www.zebra.org). I haven't yet identified all my needs, but I'm guessing that it will do all my routing needs for a, say, class C set of IP addresses, particularly if I ever have to do anything BGP-

vectoring AD / Jabber logins to AD?

Excuse my ignorance (I just got crap on the #centos IRC channel for this question), but is there a (easy!) way to have and IRC and/or Jabber server relay a login to a Microsoft Active Directory server for authentication? If there's a better question to ask this question, please point me in that dir

jabber server

I'm looking to set up a Jabber server and autocreate the user lists from Active Directory. Does anyone have any pointers? I'm hitting google, but haven't found anything good (i.e. something simple to follow for n00bs)

hack tool for finding IP assigned to MAC address?

Assuming I have only my laptop (Linux, OS X, Windows, etc), how can I find the IP address of a MAC address, particularly if I only know the vendor numbers of that MAC address? e.g.aa-bb-cc-11-22-33 Say I desperately need to find the IP of the device with aa-bb-cc as the MAC, how can I find it's I

Debian equiv to Windows' procmon?

Being relatively new to Debian / Linux, I'm looking for equivalents to Windows tools that I'm used to. For example, what is the "equivalent" to Window's procmon? Something like 'ps -ef', I know, gives a basic overview of what's running, but how do you drill down and correlate that with other thing

'input / output error' when using ntfs-3g on Sid-based Helix Live CD

I'm having some weird issues with Helix (a Sid / Knoppix based distribution). For whatever reason, I periodically get an "input/output error" while a disk is mounted, and the only way to fix it is to umount and then mount again via ntfs-3g. Here's a more detailed list of what I've been doing. So,

wget'ing files with relative paths

I'm trying to wget some very specific files off a web page, but some of the paths are relative paths (e.g. ../path/to/file) rather than abosolute (e.g. http://direct/path/to/file). Obviously, when wget gets to that part, it craps out... Is there a switch in wget (in Etch - latest wget package) tha

perl-xml-sax package question

I'm looking for the Debian equivalent to CentOS's "perl-XML-SAX" package. Is it one of these? apt-cache search perl | grep xml | grep sax libxml-filter-saxt-perl - Perl module for replicating events to several event handlers libxml-sax-expat-incremental-perl - XML::SAX::Expat subclass for non-bl

DNS CNAME question

Not sure if this is the best place to ask this question (and if so, please point me to a better listserv), but is there anything "wrong" RFC or best practice wise with pointing a CNAME record to a DNS server? (I'm using EveryDNS.net, and I'd like to make my CNAME records ns1-> 4.myDomain.com corre

Re: Facist Debian Users

Alan Truism wrote: You guys are too much. They're just thinning the herd. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

syslog recommendations?

I'm looking for a few F/OSS syslog programs -- one easy to use (sort of like Kiwi syslog) and another that's much more scalable and would let me, say, aggregate logs from lots of different boxes and maybe even do other sorts of cool things (find patterns, etc). Any suggestions would be greatly app

Re: Tool for document management

I'm coming into this conversation late, but judging my the subject line of your email, I'm guessing that this tool might be helpful. http://www.knowledgetree.com/try-now Someone in my LUG uses it for his company, and he seems to be very pleased with it. The open source version, he says, does

Re: possible to "apt-get -b source everything"

> You have heard of Gentoo, haven't you? ;-) Several years ago, I installed Gentoo and used it for a while. Several of the packages then were really unstable, and I abandoned it for other more stable and conservative distros (e.g. Debian). I hear that it's lots better now, but I haven't tried it

possible to "apt-get -b source everything"

Apologies if this is not the best place to ask this question, but if I've apt-get'd some packages and then later want to recompile those from source (using something like apt-get -b source packagename), is that possible? And what if I want to do that for everything that I've already downloade

Re: What is the status of XGL on Debian

Thanks a lot Alexander this is the information what I was searching. Alexander Schmehl wrote: * Luis Rogelio Roman Rivera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060901 20:28]: Hello to everybody, could someone tell me what is the status of XGL, xcompmgr on Debian, I really want this eyecandy on my lapt

Re: What is the status of XGL on Debian

Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote: On 9/2/06, Luis Rogelio Roman Rivera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello to everybody, could someone tell me what is the status of XGL, xcompmgr on Debian, I really want this eyecandy on my laptop but I love Debian and I don`t wanna switch to another distributi

What is the status of XGL on Debian

Hello to everybody, could someone tell me what is the status of XGL, xcompmgr on Debian, I really want this eyecandy on my laptop but I love Debian and I don`t wanna switch to another distribution. I have Debian SID for ppc. Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

Perl warning in apt-get operations...

Hi! When i use apt-get...I've the next message: perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = (unset), LC_ALL = (unset), LANG = "en.ISO8859-1" are supported and installed on your s

Audio problems...help!

he kernel with native support for this, not module way. Thanks. -- Ing. Rogelio E. Castillo Haro Redes y Telecomunicaciones

dissapointed...

g... I saw last week Slackware 8 and if a great advance over debian, I think... Sorry. -- Rogelio E. Castillo Haro Linux...tu eres libre de elegir!

Re: I want to play xtux...

Thanks Steve and Danie, I'm playing now :) Yeeesss!!! Kill this glass man :) Steve Mayer wrote: > Rogelio, > > You need the xlibs-dev package. > > Steve > > On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 04:40:19PM -0500, Rogelio E. Castillo Haro wrote: > > Hi! > > I want to

I want to play xtux...

e any suggestion? -- Rogelio E. Castillo Haro Linux...tu eres libre de elegir!

Re: diagram maker

bscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Rogelio E. Castillo Haro Linux...tu eres libre de elegir!

KDE2 problems since installation.

uly I have a problem while I installing kde2 (My PC frozen) So something wrong happen, maybe dependencies or missing files, I try to reinstall but the problems are here till. How can I erase all about kde2 from my PC? So I can start again from a "clean" system. Regards -- Rogelio E. Cast

Problems with sound

uld anyone give a clue? Regards -- Rogelio E. Castillo Haro Linux...tu eres libre de elegir!

Re: I need automount floppy and cdrom - SOLVED

pm, Rogelio E. Castillo Haro wrote: > > thanks David, > > Yeap, I can include the icon for the directory /floppy and /cdrom on KDE, > > but if I click on it, It doesn't mount, I must to do it since a terminal as > > root, then if I click again on that icon, I can see my fi

Re: I need automount floppy and cdrom

ution out of the box...Mandrake, Red Hat... David Nusinow wrote: > On Wednesday 13 June 2001 02:58 pm, Rogelio E. Castillo Haro wrote: > > Hi! > > How can I automount floppy and cdrom on Debian...so I can confgiure an Icon > > on kde, wmaker or gnome to access to those devices.

I need automount floppy and cdrom

Hi! How can I automount floppy and cdrom on Debian...so I can confgiure an Icon on kde, wmaker or gnome to access to those devices. TIA -- Rogelio E. Castillo Haro Linux...tu eres libre de elegir!

To install kde2 with apt-get

Hi, I already have the sources.list lines to apt-get kde2 to my debian potato, vut I don't rmember which is the name of package to install. Do someone recall to me? TIA Rogelio

A mess installation...looking a suggestion

Hello! Since I upgraded to woody, my linux box become a mess, potato package, dependencies without target or sources...really a mess!!! What is the better solution for this? Reinstall all from potato, or how can I reorder this situation? Thanks in advance! -- Rogelio E. Castillo Haro

Problems with pache later a potato->unstable upgrade.

must be. I use apt-get remove and install apache but I don't know If I forgotten something. Thanks. -- Rogelio E. Castillo Haro [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vive libre o muere!!! Linux 2001 :)

Re: apache+cgi+php+ssi

o upload a lot of directories to my ISP site. Each directory has some files, but I've a lot of directories to upload. Any idea? -- Rogelio E. Castillo Haro [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vive libre o muere!!! Linux 2001 :)

Problems upgrading to woody

to install... So, how can I fix those problems? TIA -- Rogelio E. Castillo Haro [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vive libre o muere!!! Linux 2001 :)

security line for source.lists

Do you know about a good site to security for my source.lists file? security.debian.org isn't working for me. TIA -- Rogelio E. Castillo Haro [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vive libre o muere!!! Linux 2001 :)

Ximian packages

Hello, Someone knows which are the lines to include in my source.lists to install the Ximian on my linuxbox? (And the evolution included) Thanks -- Rogelio E. Castillo Haro [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vive libre o muere!!! Linux 2001 :)

about apt-get

ists lines? -- Rogelio E. Castillo Haro [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vive libre o muere!!! Linux 2001 :)

Re: Use different cache dir for apt-get dist-upgrade

Hi, I want to upgrade my potato to sid is that right? What should I do? Which are the source.lists lines or where may I found it? TIA -- Rogelio E. Castillo Haro [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vive libre o muere!!! Linux 2001 :)

A warning message in ps...

Another thing... Why if I run a ps command, appears the message: Warning: /boot/System.map-2.2.17 does not match kernel data I have a 2.2.17 kernel version... TIA Rogelio

About NFS -NIS

I want to know if there is a HOWTO versions Debian specific. someone knows if there is? Thanks! Rogelio

Re: Lilo problems after a debian installation...

line in my > config file. > > Good luck > Hall > > ----- Original Message - > From: "Rogelio E. Castillo Haro,,," <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Hall Stevenson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2001 1:49 PM > Subject: Re:

Lilo problems after a debian installation...

pears: Loading win L? And stays there...so what can I do to repair the boot loader and start Windows? I read the lilo doc but isn't appear this exactly message... -- Rogelio E. Castillo Haro [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vive libre o muere!!! Linux 2001 :)

use of apt-get upgrade...

et dist-upgrade it review only the packages installed at first time or if it review the other packages that I's been installed since months ago. TIA -- Rogelio E. Castillo Haro [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vive libre o muere!!! Linux 2001 :)

About apt-get dist-upgrade

you can help me. -- Rogelio E. Castillo Haro [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vive libre o muere!!! Linux 2001 :)

A good multiserver-IMAP mail client

Hi, I'm looking for a mail client for support IMAP and multi accounts, Do you know about one? as deb package? Regards -- Rogelio E. Castillo Haro [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vive libre o muere!!! Linux 2001 :)

The better ftp server for Debian...

Hi, Could you recommend the best ftp server for my Linux-Debian box? Thanks, -- .|, -*- Rogelio E. Castillo Haro '/'\`[EMAIL PROTECTED] /`'o\ /#,o'`\ o/`"#,`

Konqueror + potato problem

x27;t work -- .|, -*- Rogelio E. Castillo Haro '/'\`[EMAIL PROTECTED] /`'o\ /#,o'`\ o/`"#,`\o Feliz Navidad !!! /`o``"#,\ o/#,`&#x

Problems with Konqueror in potato

x27;t work -- Rogelio E. Castillo

Setting PATH file...

Do you know which is the file where I can add a path to wide-system, including root? TIA Rogelio

Re: Staroffice can't print to deskjet 840C

Daniel de los Reyes wrote: > On Sáb 25 Nov 2000 07:19, Rogelio E. Castillo Haro wrote: > > Hi, > > I use CUPS and I configure my Deskjet 840C. I print perfectly from any > > application, but from staroffice I can't print to it. > > > > Why? Someone has

Staroffice can't print to deskjet 840C

Hi, I use CUPS and I configure my Deskjet 840C. I print perfectly from any application, but from staroffice I can't print to it. Why? Someone has any idea about it? Is because Staroffice need to print to a postscript printer...and a Deskjet is not a Postscript printer Rogelio

Sis620 video support.

Nobody knows about Sis620 support on potato. It's a chipset onboard a motherboard. I download a xsis.tgz file fron sis.com.tw site, but following the instructions when I run startx it saids Can not execute a binary file. An I follow the instructions! -- Rogelio E. Castillo

To configure sis620 video on potato...

Hi, How can I setup a video card Sis620 with Potato. I've a sis620 onboard motherboard. Any help are welcome. -- Rogelio E. Castillo

Looking support for scaner

Hi, Anyone knows if there is scaner support from Linux? Debian potato specific? TIA

Looking for video sis620 support in potato

Hi, I try to install Debian Potato on a PC with the video chipset Sis620, but in the installation step, it doesn't detect such card. Could anyone help me? TIA Rogelio

looking for the libssl095a file

To support the https protocol in Konqueror(KDE2) I need the libssl095a.deb file, it isn't in kde.tdyc.com site, someone knows where I can find? TIA Rogelio

Re: KDE2

Yes Joshua, It is: deb http://kde.tdyc.com stable kde2 (this is for potato) Joshua David Kruck wrote: > can some one tell me the line for apt-sources for kde2? > thanks > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Rogelio E. Castillo

Debian and stormix

Hello, May I use the same sources.lists lines from my debian box to my stormix Linux box? Regards -- Rogelio E. Castillo

Re: Installing KDE2

be my guess and I'll be glad to know it. Thanks Rogelio "Anderson, Tim TL33E" wrote: > Downloading .debs isn't the easiest way to install Debian packages. apt-get > can work the whole thing for you, check the docs for more info. > > > -Original Message---

Installing KDE2

How I must install KDE2 on my Debian potato? I downloaded All the debs from kde.org Regards -- Rogelio E. Castillo

Hotmail+Netscape 4.x = crash!

Someone here can work without problems in Netscape when suf into hotmail? How can did it? -- Rogelio E. Castillo

Re: SIS 900 NIC

And what is exactly your problem? In the ifconfig step? Art Edwards wrote: I'm trying (very patiently) to do a network install using a system with an embedded SIS 900. I have tried to install the sis900.0 module without success. This is particularly frustrating because the card was recognized a

To print to hpdeskjet 840C

I want to print to a hp deskjet color printer... You know which filter I must to use? TIA Rogelio

Connecting to Netware servers.

Someone here knows if Debian has a deb package to install a client to login to a netware server? Regards -- Rogelio E. Castillo

How to install php4-mysql prepared with apt-get?

Hi guys! How can I install via apt-get php4 with support for mysql? I've already installed mysql and php4 but seems like they can communicate each other... TIA Rogelio

working php4 and mysql together...

How can I configure PHP4 to work with mysql? I've the instructions to do it but when I install PHP4 manually. How can I do it if I installed PHP4 via apt-get? TIA -- Rogelio E. Castillo

How to get more screensavers for Windowmaker

Hello I had a lot of screensaver installed on my windowmaker before to upgrade to potato, do you know how to reinstall those again? In my screen->lock menu I have any screensaver. Thanks -- Rogelio E. Castillo  

How to reset my /dev/cdrom

I tried to mount a cd with mount /dev/cdrom /cdrom (The link is ok) but when I insert a cdrom with failures it blocked my /dev/cdrom and I can't umount How can I reset the device ? TIA -- Rogelio E. Castillo  

Re: Problems with my cable company

Thanks lot all for your answers! Fortunaly I've working my server with cablemodem... I changed the netcard and reset the cablemodem and ready! I've a IP address via dhcp... Now I'm solving problems of configuration in ipchains and squid. Thanks again. Rogelio "David Z. Maze&

Page fault with physical i/o: 373

Hi, I just install squid via apt-get but when I run /etc/init.d/squid start the navegator it says that the server refused the connection. If I run squid manually it says page fault with physical i/0:373...what's my problem? Thanks. Rogelio

Problems with my cable company

  Hi, I've a COM21 cablemodem from my cable local company to access Internet... But, The dhcpcd doesn't obtain an IP Address, how I need to configure my debian Linux-box? wich are all the files to review? TIA -- Rogelio E. Castillo  

Re: Basic Debian firewall

About this, In my linuxbox startup configuration, I don't know where are the initialization scripts for ipchains, or where can I put my own scripts, someone knows where is the right place?   -- Rogelio E. Castillo  

Re: Internet Stations

Yes, I've heard about it, it's named Conquer or Conqueror, or something like that...but, since a discussion I heard about the License of KDE I'd prefer don't use it, and try only GPL programs... Thanks Tim. And about an accounting system for time and money? Rogelio E.

Internet Stations

- browser to work fine with some mail.chats with java? Regards Rogelio E. Castillo

Trying to setup Xwindows on the i810 chipset

I've been followed the instructions for install the i810 driver on my Debian potato, but I need to know where I need to put the X link to XFCom_i810? Regards! Rogelio

Re: getting network transfer rates

I use the mrtg, maybe is that you need. "Michael P. Soulier" wrote: > Hey people. Is there a way that I can get the current network transfer > rates, through both my dialup ppp0 interface, and the eth0 nic interface? I've > seen the occasional tool to show this, but I'd like to know where the

Screensavers in window maker...

I just upgraded my Debian box from 2.1 to 2.2 and I use windowmaker as window manager, but since I upgraded I have none screensaver options froms the windowmaker's main menu. Someone knows how can I install all the screensaver that I used to before my upgrade? TIA Rogelio

Upgrading to Xfree 4

Do you know how to upgrade to Xfree 4.0? There is something .deb package to use apt? or must be upgrading manually? If it's so, Is there some HOWTO to do that? TIA Rogelio

I forgotten my root's password

Yes, I'm stupid... I forgotten my root password. how can I boot my linux box and reset such password... I create a rescue disk, boot I cand find the way... An I try to boot with linux single but it ask me for the root password :( TIA Rogelio

About Nestcape 4.75

To install netscape 4.75 on Potato, my sources.list must link to stable o unstable version? Regards. Rogelio E. Castillo

Do you recomend to upgrade to Woody?

Someone there would recommend to use Woody on my Linux-box in home? I'm using Potato Regards Rogelio E. Castillo