Re: Re : compilation error

2005-01-09 Thread Sam Watkins
On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 10:32:48PM +0100, Andrea Vettorello wrote: > Look in the apt-get manual for the "--reinstall" option, if you want > only to download some packages use the "--download-only" option... ok, so: apt-get --reinstall --download-only foo will fetch "foo" from the archive even

Re: Re : compilation error

2005-01-09 Thread Sam Watkins
On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 04:57:49PM +, Alex Papadopoulos wrote: > Oh ok, now I got it... Well it IS a problem with gcc... > Even 'gcc -v' gives me a segmentation fault... > > I'll try to reinstall it... > > How can this be done actually with apt-get ? It can't really, AFAIK. I would download

[OT] reminiscing about RISC OS...

2005-01-09 Thread Sam Watkins
On Sun, 2005-01-09 at 03:47 +1100, Sam Watkins wrote: > I think we would end up with much better software if all developers > were forced to use old, slow computers :) I remember how good and > fast the software was on my old RISC OS Acorn with 4MB RAM > (Impression, Sibeli

Re: 'Virtual Private Servers' - Advice, recollections and recommendations requested

2005-01-09 Thread Sam Watkins
On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 10:09:00PM -0200, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: > On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 02:04:34PM -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > > The hosting provider I mention above offers 600 MB space and 25 GB/month > > (for the $70 plan) or 800 MB space and 35 GB/month (for the $100 plan). > > That s

Re: APT_GET UPGRADE PREVENTS GUI FROM OPENING

2005-01-08 Thread Sam Watkins
On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 03:26:47PM -0600, Leonard Chatagnier wrote: > So I do another apt-get update and install llibc6 and at the end of > the install a message appears that says I should stop services(with > your hands) on kdm gdm, postgresgl and xscreen saver and then come > back and install lib

Re: Debian on an old PC

2005-01-08 Thread Sam Watkins
On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 07:31:10PM +0100, Vegard Lundby Rekaa wrote: > I got hold of 128MB RAM from a friend. Now there is a total of > 128+16=144MB RAM. Don't you think that is enough for OO.org and WM when > he's prepared for a slow machine? FWIW I installed OO.org on my pentium MMX 200MHz with

Re: no ipchains with 2.2/no network with 2.4

2005-01-08 Thread Sam Watkins
On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 06:21:30PM +0100, Pierre A. Damas wrote: > So I suppose that finding where I could get ipchains.o and insmod it > would do the trick ?!? > But in which package is it ? All the kernel modules should be in the kernel package (kernel-image-2.2.20-386 or something like that),

Re: debian-user and mail tools

2005-01-06 Thread Sam Watkins
On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 04:09:20PM +0100, Bob Alexander wrote: > So Sam, > could you be so kind to comment/complete the complete "toolchain" ? Glad to see you didn't have me killfiled yet ;) > 1) ISP IMAP Server I use FastMail.FM. They provide a good email service for free, and more space and s

Re: at is broken

2005-01-06 Thread Sam Watkins
On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 09:32:35AM -0500, Aldebaran wrote: > So I think I managed to patch at properly, and in man dpkg I learned that all > I need to do is dpkg -b at-3.1.8 and dpkg would kindly package all that stuff > up into a nice pretty .deb and within minutes I would be doing important >

Re: Mozilla upgrade -> cursor menu loss in Epiphany/Galeon

2005-01-06 Thread Sam Watkins
On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 08:19:58PM +1100, Adam Bogacki wrote: > following the last mozilla upgrade in unstable I've lost > cursor menu function in Epiphany and Galeon - my most used browsers. > > Please bring this to the attention of the respective > maintainers [EMAIL PROTECTED] can

Re: no ipchains with 2.2/no network with 2.4

2005-01-06 Thread Sam Watkins
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 04:53:10PM +0100, Pierre A. Damas wrote: > Since I installed the woody distribution, I am the happy owner of a > kernel 2.2. > I would like to use ipchains, but it is "not supported in this > Kernel", so I searched everywhere to find an ipchains.o module to > insmod for 2.2

Re: debian-user and mail tools

2005-01-06 Thread Sam Watkins
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 04:42:33PM +0100, Bob Alexander wrote: > A last item I do not like about TB is that using IMAP, my emails are on > the server, and in TB when I delete an item it gets into the server's > Trash folders and emptying it therefore takes a while. I recommend to use offlineimap

Re: how run zsh script through ssh and telnet

2005-01-04 Thread Sam Watkins
On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 11:03:20PM -0800, Umar Draz wrote: > hi Deear memberrs! > >i have a user devish with zsh shel i want when this user access my >sever remotly through ssh or telnet a zsh script run which i have >already copy in /home/devish home directory. script name is >d

Re: HELP! My printer won't stop!!

2005-01-04 Thread Sam Watkins
On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 11:09:02PM +0100, Vegard Lundby Rekaa wrote: > every time I start my PC the printer start again. you can use the programs "lpq" and "lprm" to show the printer queue and remove jobs from it respectively. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "un

Re: X problem - desktop too big for screen size.

2005-01-04 Thread Sam Watkins
On Sat, Jan 01, 2005 at 05:35:50PM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Changed monitor and am back running X after a dpkg-reconfigure > xserver-xfree86. > > Problem is the windows are way too big for the 1024 x 780 resolution, > and the desktop does not fit into the screen. does the screen scroll

Re: tracking memory resource issues

2005-01-04 Thread Sam Watkins
On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 07:34:54AM -0800, Brian wrote: > As a longtime Debian user, I really appreciate the > community that makes Debian the best. My question: > What is the best way to track down a possible > memory leak that I have no idea which program is > causing it even? Here is the probl

dbischema [ was: Re: [OT], Database Comparer ]

2005-01-03 Thread Sam Watkins
Hi there, database people. I have persuaded my database munger program "dbischema" to work properly again, written some manpages for it, and put it in a .deb The company I wrote it for has given me permission to release it under the GPL. http://nipl.net/dbischema/ Dbischema lets you automatic

Re: its a matter of ssh and its not working for me

2004-12-29 Thread Sam Watkins
On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 04:56:01PM -0700, Kent Andersen wrote: > I have the public keys placed in remote machines under the correct user > account .ssh/ etc.. both sshd_conf files are identical (machines A,B). > > machine A will automatically ssh login (without password) and rysync doesnt > ask

Re: Re: instaleren op 486 met 128 mb hd

2004-12-28 Thread Sam Watkins
On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 05:57:38PM +0100, talie-18 wrote: > I want to instal colinux with debian could you please help me I am > using a windows 2000 pro it seems like the image file doesn't load I > want to use linux I have been trying for 2 weeks now this sucks but I > am not giving up What vers

Re: Wayward syslog items

2004-12-28 Thread Sam Watkins
On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 01:48:11PM +0200, David Baron wrote: > My syslog has failed items for pppd and chat. Just fine since I have > no pppd connection and no chat. Question is why I am getting this? I > did not see anything appropriate in /etc/init.d. Strangely enough I have the same thing happe

Re: Installation

2004-12-28 Thread Sam Watkins
On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 12:54:37PM +1300, YH wrote: > 1. The displayed characters flicks on konsole of X11 screen. My monitor > is a VE710B LCD and my video card is S3 Trio 3D/2X. I could not found > the driver for the Trio 3D/2X video card during installation, so I > selected S3virge driver. I

Re: Moving from Woody to Sarge

2004-12-28 Thread Sam Watkins
On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 04:10:26PM -0800, Syed Huq wrote: > Question from a newbie. I am currently using 3.0r1(Woody) and would > like to move to Sarge soon. I had to use a specific xserver-mach4 for > my ATI card. > > If I use Apt to do the upgrade to Sarge, do I need to re-do my xserver > or tha

Re: [Way off topic] the politics of ubuntu.org

2004-12-28 Thread Sam Watkins
On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 04:00:22PM -0500, William Ballard wrote: > I read the Koran after 9/11 and found some bits very hostile to > Christianity and Jews. The basic plot is: God used to like Jews, now > he doesn't because they messed up. God used to like Christians, now > he doesn't because they

Re: [Way off topic] the Quran

2004-12-28 Thread Sam Watkins
On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 09:22:30AM -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > The difference is this: > > 1. Muslims who commit terrorist acts do so in *compliance* with the > teachings of Mohammed and Islam. > 2. Christians who commit terrorist acts are in direct opposition to > the Bible and the Word of

Re: [Way off topic] depleted uranium

2004-12-28 Thread Sam Watkins
On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 02:46:33PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > >The worst "terrorist" is America, with your depleted uranium > >"dirty-bombs" which you throw around at every opportunity, > > Cite? Outside of Hiroshima and Nagasaki I don't recall a > detonation of any atomic or nuclear dev

[Way off topic] the politics of ubuntu.org

2004-12-27 Thread Sam Watkins
On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 03:42:09PM -0500, Eric d'Alibut wrote: > I don't have any idea what Shuttleworth's politics are, but he > obviously does not hesitate to associate himself -- even if "only" > semantically -- with so-called revolutionary movements known for their > terrorist agendas. In wha

Re: remove perl

2004-12-27 Thread Sam Watkins
> > > I need to remove perl for security reasons. > > What's insecure about having perl on a machine? On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 12:54:39AM -0800, saravanan ganapathy wrote: > Refer the url for more details > http://linux.math.tifr.res.in/doc/securing-debian-howto/ch3.en.html They say that having

Re: Alternate OSes based on Debian

2004-12-27 Thread Sam Watkins
On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 03:43:32AM -0500, Eric d'Alibut wrote: > The money trail might prove interesting. Clearly, the founders of the > ubuntu linux project could not have been unaware of the dubious > political connotations of the term. Who pays for all those free cd's? Mark Shuttleworth, I supp

Re: remove perl

2004-12-27 Thread Sam Watkins
On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 11:53:47PM -0800, saravanan ganapathy wrote: > Hai, > I need to remove perl for security reasons. What's insecure about having perl on a machine? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mouse & xf86conf-4

2004-12-27 Thread Sam Watkins
On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 11:05:32PM -0500, Jim wrote: > What must I do in order for my 3 button mouse to work properly? > Thanks > > >Section "InputDevice" > > Identifier "Configured Mouse" > > Driver "mouse" > > Option "CorePointer" > > Option "Device" "/dev/ttyS0" > > Option "Protocol" "Mic

Re: reverse dns lookup problem on ssh debian vs redhat

2004-12-26 Thread Sam Watkins
google ssh reverse dns debian turned up this as the first hit: http://lists.debian.org/debian-security/2002/03/msg00081.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian Geek Toolkit Question

2004-12-26 Thread Sam Watkins
On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 03:46:23PM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > Sarge NetInstall is great for installing Sarge, but it > appears not to be usable as a live CD for booting onto > a system that has a broken installation. It is usable, but not exactly convenient, as a rescue disk. As it says in the

Re: resolv.conf

2004-12-26 Thread Sam Watkins
On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 07:59:12PM +, Alan Chandler wrote: > Thats not what I meant. What at the file access rights and owner/group of > the /etc/resolv.conf file? -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 144 Dec 24 16:53 /etc/resolv.conf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "u

Re: Help allocating RAM to video card

2004-12-26 Thread Sam Watkins
On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 08:03:31AM -0800, Ridge Chittenden wrote: > I have an old IBM Aptiva that has an onboard ATI chip > with a measly 2MB of video RAM. This is enough for me > to run X with a resolution of 800x600, but no more. If you set the color depth to 16 bits instead of 24 bits, you shou

Re: Alternate OSes based on Debian

2004-12-26 Thread Sam Watkins
> > The folks there should change the name: I would never use a thing named > > _ubuntu_. Btw, Hurd is a name as horrible as ubuntu. > > Yeah, I've gotta admit, I'm a bit turned off by the name, "Ubuntu." I think Ubuntu is a great name. Meaningful! Perhaps the poster would be turned off by any

Re: Backup-software FTP

2004-12-26 Thread Sam Watkins
On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 02:09:43PM +0100, Jon-Eirik Pettersen wrote: > What would you recommend of software to do simple directory-based > backups to an FTP-server? I like "lftp", it can do recursive upload / download (mirror, mirror -R). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a s

Re: The 'mail' system account

2004-12-26 Thread Sam Watkins
On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 07:59:48PM +0700, David Garamond wrote: > >/var/mail isn't a system account, it's infrastructure. > > By "system account", I meant a Unix account which has UID < 1000 (or is > it < 500?). Ok, I see what you mean. There is a "mail" user defined with a home directory of /v

Re: Program to display process information (especially sockets)

2004-12-26 Thread Sam Watkins
On Sun, 2004-12-26 at 15:19 +0700, David Garamond wrote: > Anyone knows of a program (command-line or GUI) to display process > information, e.g. which TCP/UDP/Unix sockets are used by the process > and what are their ports/hosts/etc. Probably the best you're going to get is the output of netstat

Re: The 'mail' system account

2004-12-26 Thread Sam Watkins
On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 03:02:49PM +0700, David Garamond wrote: > In what package is the 'mail' system account defined and how do I find > this out? I've seen 'mail' even in the most minimalist installations > (without exim or mailx), but I'm not sure that if I put stuffs in > /var/mail it won't

aptitude bug?

2004-12-25 Thread Sam Watkins
I've noticed if I suspend aptitude with ^Z, then fg it again, then press the up or down arrow key, it tries to run "reportbug" and then when I get back to aptitude it's forgotten all the selections I made since last saving. This can be a real pain if you've made a lot of selections! Can some one e

Re: Article about apt-build

2004-12-25 Thread Sam Watkins
On Sat, Dec 25, 2004 at 09:29:07PM -0500, Chasecreek Systemhouse wrote: > Wasn't it Larry Wall who said "Do we need 10 ways to do something?" I think it was Larry Wall who said "there's more than one way to do it" and invented an insane language (perl) in which there are 15 billion confusing ways

Re: Article about apt-build

2004-12-25 Thread Sam Watkins
> Well, not to follow up to my own post but ... something as simple as > apt-build install top doesnt work. Well you'll also find that "apt-get install top" and "dpkg -l top" don't work either, for the reason that "top" is not a Debian package! Try "dpkg -S `which top`", which will tell you that

Re: Ssarge Upgrade-Lilo: FATAL

2004-12-25 Thread Sam Watkins
I think you'll find that in Debian at the moment, "grub" is a better bootloader if you want things to just work when you install new kernel images. Try installing grub and see if that helps. If you want to keep using lilo, and want help to fix it, please post your lilo.conf and the output of:

Re: Debian vs. Fedora on Laptops

2004-12-25 Thread Sam Watkins
On Sat, Dec 25, 2004 at 09:10:11PM -0500, Ryan D'Baisse wrote: > 1. I am still a Linux newbie. Most of the install issues, both with > the OS and with applications, have been taken care of for me with the > slick install wizard and the RPM-based installations. How much of a > learning curve would

Re: Linux Functionality?

2004-12-25 Thread Sam Watkins
On Sat, Dec 25, 2004 at 08:33:50PM -0500, Curt Howland wrote: > I view/listen all kinds of multimedia, but don't expect to get > entirely away from the megahertz requirements. While Linux is much > more resource friendly than Windows, movies still require at least > 800MHz to be viewable while d

Re: oops, I broke something :)

2004-12-25 Thread Sam Watkins
On Sat, Dec 25, 2004 at 05:29:41PM -0500, dorn hetzel wrote: > I installed GCC 3.4.3 to fix problems compiling > some software, and then got into conflicts with > different versions of the C libraries (or at > least that's what I think went wrong). I've got both gcc-3.3.5 and gcc-3.4.4 installed

Re: Startinf fvwm

2004-12-25 Thread Sam Watkins
On Dec 26 2004, Sam Watkins wrote: > I do it the second way (more or less). If you start X with "startx" you > need to call the script ~/.xinitrc, if you use a display manager (gdm, > xdm or kdm) you need to call it ~/.xsession On Sat, Dec 25, 2004 at 11:09:27PM -0200, Rog?r

Re: Startinf fvwm

2004-12-25 Thread Sam Watkins
On Sat, Dec 25, 2004 at 08:02:48AM -0800, alireza faryar wrote: > When I run fvwm, it complains that can't open display. > What am I missing, X !! You can't run fvwm from the Linux console, you have to start X first, and then fvwm. There are several ways to make sure fvwm gets run automatically

Re: Nothing from list for two days -SOLVED

2004-12-25 Thread Sam Watkins
On Sat, Dec 25, 2004 at 02:52:17PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > I decided to unsubscribe and subscribe again to see if it would help. I > then found that I had some how become unsubscribed without my knowledge, > so I subscribed and am now getting mail from the list again. No idea how > that co

Re: PPP ip-up and firestarter

2004-12-25 Thread Sam Watkins
On Sat, Dec 25, 2004 at 06:04:01AM -0800, Jedi Knight wrote: > Anyway, whenever I get connected to my ISP, I get the > message that the ip-up script has started and a little > while later, that it has finished. However, If I check > iptables -L, there's no rules at all. For starters, I'd change /e

Re: no kdm after upgrade to sarge

2004-12-25 Thread Sam Watkins
On Sat, Dec 25, 2004 at 04:56:05PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > My system cannot go into kdm after I upgraded from 'stable' to 'testing'. do you have the "kdm" package installed? what about the "kde-core" and "kde" packages? does /etc/init.d/kdm start work? > After what seems like ages fol

Re: Linspire -> Devian ?

2004-12-24 Thread Sam Watkins
On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 11:56:16PM -0500, stan wrote: > Would I be beter off wiping and doing a complet reinstall, or perhaps > doing an apt-ge dist-upgrade? My opinion is that you would be better off with Debian Sarge or Ubuntu. If the end-user of the computer is not very experienced, try Ubuntu.

Re: Installing all available packages in sarge (testing)

2004-12-24 Thread Sam Watkins
On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 08:35:30PM -0800, cfk wrote: > To see what happens. How do you do it. apt-get install '.*' (this won't work, it will output a great list of conflicts - it's worth reading that list of conflicts to get an idea of the magnitude of what you are proprosing to do.) If yo

Re: Newbie Xserver problem with ATI Mach64 and Woody

2004-12-24 Thread Sam Watkins
On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 07:12:17PM -0800, Syed Huq wrote: > It Worked !! > Downloaded the xserver-mach4 using apt. > > Last question, how do I toggle between the various resolution modes. > Right now, it's set to 640X480 and I want to toggle to the 1024X768 1. make sure the right resolutions are

Re: apt-build.conf

2004-12-24 Thread Sam Watkins
On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 05:30:39PM -0800, cfk wrote: > I did an apt-get of apt-build and it appears I need to create an > apt-build.list. Can someone tell me what should be in this file please. take (another) look at that new article on apt-build: http://julien.danjou.info/article-apt-build

Re: Mozilla (sid) installation needs jdk118

2004-12-24 Thread Sam Watkins
On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 06:39:41PM -0800, cfk wrote: > I'm trying to get jdk downloaded to satisfy a couple of apt-get demands > with > sid. I keep getting the message with mozilla (and a couple of other java > dependent programs) pointing me at www.ibm.com/java/jdk/118/linux to obtain >

Re: [CVS] Merging external snapshot to local repository

2004-12-23 Thread Sam Watkins
On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 04:47:53AM +0100, Mateusz ?oskot wrote: > I'm running Debian and looking for some tools and solutions > which could help me with merging external snapshot of some project > into my own local version of it in the CVS repository. There is a progam called cvsup, http://www.cvs

Re: Synchronize two servers (warm backup)

2004-12-23 Thread Sam Watkins
On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 08:46:26PM -0500, Carl Fink wrote: > Hi. > > I'm in the process of setting up a warm backup for a server I run. I was in > the middle of hacking together scripts to keep them in sync, but then it > came to me: what if Debian has a package that does that *for* me? > > So

Re: gcc with Debian on amd64

2004-12-23 Thread Sam Watkins
On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 09:22:33PM -0600, Michael Madden wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gcc -o hello hello.c > hello.c:1:19: stdio.h: No such file or directory install "build-essential", and "devscripts" if you want to be able to build debian packages. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: cron.daily, howto control mailed reports

2004-12-23 Thread Sam Watkins
On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 02:22:10AM +, Joao Clemente wrote: > Why do I receive daily reports (in my mail system) from this particular > script being runned, but not from other also existant in /etc/cron.daily? If any cron script outputs anything on stdout or stderr, the output is emailed to yo

Re: Sarge not showing all RAM

2004-12-23 Thread Sam Watkins
JerryN wrote: >Intriguing! So many words in this track being said but nothing really >of any value whatever... we need a global "jerk database" for people like this -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apt-get autoclean

2004-12-23 Thread Sam Watkins
ok, I'll quit saying "I want" and write it :) here is a slow perl version: http://nipl.net/hacks/apt-clean.pl and the fast version which you won't be able to build as it uses some libraries and stuff that I'm too lazy to post yet: http://nipl.net/hacks/apt-clean.bb http://nipl.net/hacks/a

Re: Sarge not showing all RAM

2004-12-23 Thread Sam Watkins
On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 07:36:51PM +, Dave Ewart wrote: > > As I understand it, the 686 is only for Pentium 4's. I've seen > > several emails about that. > > 686 is for any Pentium-based system and above, not just P4. Unless your > system is *very* old, a 686 kernel should be OK. 686 is f

Re: Noninteractive "apt-get upgrade "question.

2004-12-23 Thread Sam Watkins
On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 10:26:56AM -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: > Sam Watkins([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > I just noticed there are some dpkg options that cause it not to ask > > these questions. > > > > --force-confold and --force-confnew > > &

Re: Sarge not showing all RAM

2004-12-23 Thread Sam Watkins
On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 08:22:45AM -0500, JerryN wrote: > Which kernels for a 386 would be 4GB enabled? I don't think any of the default debian kernels are 4GB enabled, are they? Their package names don't mention it, anyway. You may have to build your own. Is there someplace to download highmem

Re: Noninteractive "apt-get upgrade "question.

2004-12-23 Thread Sam Watkins
On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 02:57:53AM +1100, Sam Watkins wrote: > On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 05:31:32PM +1100, Ivan Teliatnikov wrote: > > What is the best way to "apt-get update" a classroom full of debian > > sarge machines. > > > > I tired using > &

Re: Ugrading just 1 Distribution in Debian howto

2004-12-23 Thread Sam Watkins
On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 06:15:36PM +0530, Siju George wrote: > So I went to the subversion mailinglist and posted this problem and > they gave me two urls which I added into my source list > --- > deb http://gulus.usherbrooke.ca/debian/ stable main co

Re: Article about apt-build

2004-12-23 Thread Sam Watkins
On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 08:52:58PM +0100, Julien Danjou wrote: > I have translated a french article about apt-build. This is a quick > introduction about its usage. > I hope this could help some people to use this software and to make it > better by sending patches, for example. :-) Julien, thanks

Re: apt-get autoclean

2004-12-23 Thread Sam Watkins
On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 11:18:24PM +1100, Robert Parker wrote: > > Speaking of "apt-get autoclean", I think it would be nice to have an > > option that does what autoclean does, but also deletes any packages that > > have been installed on your computer. If it's installed ok already, we > > don't

Re: Rotating mail.log

2004-12-23 Thread Sam Watkins
On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 11:56:42AM +, Antony Gelberg wrote: > Perhaps I didn't explain properly. I know cron is running (ps ax | grep > cron), but don't know how to check if it's doing what it's supposed to. Apparently something's not doing what it's supposed to do if your logs aren't gettin

Re: My Keyboard layout change when shutting down

2004-12-23 Thread Sam Watkins
On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 10:38:56AM +0100, Ngawang Dorjee Gelek wrote: > My Keyboard layout change when shutting down. > I use swedish, 105 keys but when i restart I cant write ?, ? and ? and > the layout then is 104 keys but still swedish. Are you talking about the keyboard layout in X? > If any

Re: Need help mounting an LVM partition in fstab...

2004-12-23 Thread Sam Watkins
On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 10:44:22PM -0600, Andrew Konosky wrote: > I have both Debian 3.1 and Fedora Core 3 on this computer, and FC3 is > using an LVM filesystem. I can mount my Debian filesystem in Fedora > because it is a simple ext2 partition, but in Debian, I am not sure > how to mount my Fedor

Re: Script to build system information. Guru needed :)

2004-12-23 Thread Sam Watkins
On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 02:13:43PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > There's also a Debian package, IIRC 'si', which gleans data out of /proc > and other sources. There's a package called "hardinfo", is that what you meant? Karsten's script is available at Rick Moan's very helpful linuxmafia site,

Re: Sound problem.

2004-12-23 Thread Sam Watkins
On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 09:51:27PM +0100, Richard Kemp wrote: > I tested all outplug of xmms : > OSS ... doesn't work > ALSA ... doesn't work > eSound work .. > > why eSound works and alsa doesn't and what it is ? I think esound is the "elightened sound daemon", esd, which provides sound mix

Re: Umask 002 policy

2004-12-23 Thread Sam Watkins
On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 10:54:29PM +, Clive Menzies wrote: > However, I personally did chmod -R 770 on the basis that there aren't > usually executables in people's data files (at least not the users I'm > catering for). Nevetheless I can see the desirability of eliminating > the possibility o

apt-get autoclean

2004-12-23 Thread Sam Watkins
On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 01:18:38PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > Ah! That'll definitely cause problems. I would recommend running > "apt-get autoclean". Speaking of "apt-get autoclean", I think it would be nice to have an option that does what autoclean does, but also deletes any packages that have b

Re: ALSA mixer does not unmute the volume

2004-12-23 Thread Sam Watkins
On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 07:01:29PM +0100, Bob Alexander wrote: > Each time I reboot and login as bob I must manually launch alsamixer and > press M to unmute the main volume. > > Why doesn't this get "remembered" across reboots ? There is a gorgeous little program called "setmixer" that I use to

Re: mastering the console & gpm mouse management

2004-12-23 Thread Sam Watkins
I use "screen" for cut and paste in a terminal. I wrote a front-end to screen called "splish" which makes it much easier to switch between screens, and does other stuff, I get a splish prompt instead of a bash prompt when I log in / open an xterm. http://nipl.net/hacks/splish In screen ^A^[ pu

Re: Rotating mail.log

2004-12-22 Thread Sam Watkins
On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 02:42:36PM +, Antony Gelberg wrote: >My server just ran out of space due to mail.log and mail.info getting >massive. I have run syslogd-listfiles --weekly, and both files are >listed in the output. Any ideas on how I can debug this? (Please CC >me, I'm not subscrib

Re: dnsmasq help needed

2004-12-22 Thread Sam Watkins
you can watch the TTL dropping by typing repeatedly: dig www.apple.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dnsmasq help needed

2004-12-22 Thread Sam Watkins
On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 12:24:31PM +0100, Bob Alexander wrote: > using tcpdump I see that Intranet queries are resolved on my localhost > by the installed dnsmasq daemon (e.g. w3.ibm.com) while external sites > (e.g. www.apple.com) are always sent to the first upstream DNS each time. www.apple.c

Re: Replacing Dying Harddisk (ReiserFS)

2004-12-22 Thread Sam Watkins
On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 04:15:22PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > The issue is that links are automagically updated by the cp command. Ron, can you give an example of this, with ls -l output, I've never experienced this & don't understand what you mean. thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

Re: Replacing Dying Harddisk (ReiserFS)

2004-12-22 Thread Sam Watkins
On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 02:32:13PM -0500, Mason Loring Bliss wrote: > On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 09:41:40PM +0800, Robert Vangel wrote: > > > have both drives in, boot with rescue cd, then > > > > cp -a /mnt/hda/* /mnt/hda.new/ > > Ew. Splitting hard links is a bad thing. doesn't cp -a preserve ha

Re: Old Release

2004-12-21 Thread Sam Watkins
On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 11:53:35PM +0700, Muhammad Reza wrote: > how do i upgrade my package, (ex:KDE), should i switch my source to > debian package repository ? and if yes, what repository should i use ? If you have broadband, or are prepared to wait for a while, you can update to testing (sarg

Re: What files in /etc must be writable?

2004-12-20 Thread Sam Watkins
On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 03:24:27AM -0500, William Ballard wrote: > However, the liveCD had errors during boot, because some files > apparently have to be writeable during boot. For example, I guess, > /etc/mtab. Does /etc/fstab have to be writeable? What other files > need to be writeable?

Re: Noninteractive "apt-get upgrade "question.

2004-12-20 Thread Sam Watkins
On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 05:31:32PM +1100, Ivan Teliatnikov wrote: > What is the best way to "apt-get update" a classroom full of debian > sarge machines. > > I tired using > > apt-get update > DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get -uy dist-upgrade > > Nevertheless I was asked some questions as

Re: crontab uid ?

2004-12-20 Thread Sam Watkins
On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 06:54:01AM -0500, Kevin Coyner wrote: >/usr/bin/br: error: [Input/output error] ioctl if you're not sure what user it's running as, try running "whoami" in the crontab. although if it's root's crontab it should definitely be running as root. I assume if you run this p

Re: [OT], Database Comparer

2004-12-19 Thread Sam Watkins
I've been given permission to release this package dbischema under the GPL, I'll tidy it up a bit and post in on my website in a few days. Sam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: starting x

2004-12-19 Thread Sam Watkins
On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 12:18:14PM +0100, Sebastian Kapfer wrote: > Since you're into KDE, I suggest kdm. Though, being a GNOME geek, I > also have to point out that GDM is much better ;-) maybe we need an uber-display manager that lets the user choose what display manager they want to use before

Re: (more) the coffee house broke my auto

2004-12-19 Thread Sam Watkins
On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 11:56:25PM -0500, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: > ifconfig > eth1 Link encap: Ethernet HWaddr 00:02:2D:56:0C:29 > inet addr: 192.168.1.101 Bcast: 192.168.1.255 Mask: 255.255.255.0 > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MUT:1500 Metric:1 > > route -n > Destination Ga

Re: Server Security

2004-12-19 Thread Sam Watkins
On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 09:29:28AM +, Dave Ewart wrote: > On Sunday, 19.12.2004 at 09:16 +, Jeffrin Thalakkottoor wrote: > > How To Configure It On The Server Side ... > > > > Configure The Server That A File On The Server Can > > Only Be Viewed But Not Downloaded. > > In order to 'view'

Re: oom-killer vs system not reachable

2004-12-19 Thread Sam Watkins
On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 10:28:28AM +0100, Robert Ian Smit wrote: > The points concerning the mbox file are taken (in fact I knew as > much). Do you think that Linux might stop to respond or get stuck > for a while as a result of the big file. One problem would be when mutt rewrites the file on ex

Re: pam-mkhomedir problems

2004-12-18 Thread Sam Watkins
On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 11:41:01PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > So pam-mkhomedir.so wasn't able to create the home directory. > Does anyone have a suggestion ? Complain to whoever's responsible for pam-mkhomedir.c You could hack it to call a setuid "make-my-homedir" program, but I don't th

Re: starting x

2004-12-18 Thread Sam Watkins
startx is not part of the X server, it is in the package x-base-clients. You should: apt-get install x-window-system-core or probably: apt-get install x-window-system you can look at what each of these "meta packages" depends on with: apt-cache show x-window-system-core you can see re

Re: Max size of data in C++ prog?

2004-12-18 Thread Sam Watkins
On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 07:10:22PM -0500, Marc Shapiro wrote: > Is there a maximum size to the data segment in a C++ program? More > specifically, I am trying to write a program with a very large array. > The program compiles OK (since C/C++ do no bounds checking on arrays), > but segfaults whe

Re: Debian native java

2004-12-18 Thread Sam Watkins
On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 05:10:22PM -0500, Tong wrote: > Thanks for the input. Yeah, I meant to try the 'free-java-sdk' since it is > default in Debian Testing. But looking up Debian Java faq, I noticed that > things are more complicated than that. More sdk/jvm are available, and I > can't tell whic

Re: Debian native java

2004-12-18 Thread Sam Watkins
On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 04:03:02PM -0500, Tong wrote: > > I understand the free software java systems don't work 100% yet. > > So I read. That's why I'm scared and asked before trying. Seeing that you > are using it really gives me the confident to give it a try. No, the blackdown j2re1.4 works

Re: Debian native java

2004-12-18 Thread Sam Watkins
On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 02:41:04PM -0500, Tong wrote: > Is Debian native java OK? What package/s are you talking about? I am using blackdown j2re1.4, it works. I understand the free software java systems don't work 100% yet. This is the Debian Java FAQ: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debi

Re: mutt suddenly won't attach files

2004-12-18 Thread Sam Watkins
On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 12:36:37PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > > if I type ".." it says: > > > > Unable to attach ..! > > So, you have the same problem! no I don't, mutt is supposed to behave like this - if you type ".." and press enter, that is the error you get. If you want to browse di

Re: Help on changing partitioning scheme please

2004-12-18 Thread Sam Watkins
On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 05:50:46PM +0100, Bob Alexander wrote: > I would like to transition from the "monopartition" to one with > independent /, /home, /var, /tmp and /usr. > > Was about to make a mistake by using Partition magic to slice the > current /dev/hda7 since it would have changed the

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