Re: install fails on new hardware

On 11/2/05, David Koski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have had much difficulty installing Debian on new hardware. I am using thelatest unstable installer available a few days ago. I am trying to installthe default 2.6 kernel and unstable to get the latest code. If I try to install testing the base i

installing debian onto a usb flash drive

I thought I could find tons of documents as to howto install debian or any linux onto a usb flash drive. I found only one and that too talks about installing encrypted. Do you guys know of any other howto ? Thanks

Re: About php-mysql error

On 10/20/05, Nevruz Mesut Sahin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:   Hello   Our company is an e-commerce company. The customers enter the web side and and chose products and buy them by credit card.   Tecnical definition:   order.php sends the customer_name amount and credit_cardno ccno  to xbank_xml.ph

Re: MySQL 4.1

On 10/11/05, Michael Satterwhite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'd been running MySQL 4.0 on Debian, but need to upgrade to 4.1. Whatprocedure would you recommend? What about supporting PHP / Python / ???packagesThe 4.1 packages appear to be broken as the commandapt-get install mysql-server-4.1 mysql

how to find distribution name

Hi, I am part developer and part sys admin. But a very simple question by my manager tricked me. question is, How do you find out name of the Linux distribution? Well please don't tell me to start X. If I ssh to a Linux server then how would I know what distribution it is? "uname -a" does not te

Re: changing default document root directory in apache 2

On 10/3/05, Radhika <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi,   I am using apache2 presently default document root directory is /var/www/.If i want to change this to /home/www/.How do i do this and where i can change.Present apache2.conf file is not showing the default root directory .I have installed from de

Re: apache support for php and cgi scripts

On 10/3/05, Sanjay Debian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 10/3/05, Radhika < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: hi,    if i want to support apache server for php and cgi scripts below modules are enough or i need to install any other moduled from debian package list   php4-cgi php4-common php4

Re: How much difference does it make to run ssh on a different port number?

On 10/3/05, michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 16:07 +0200, Tarapia Tapioco wrote:> Occasionally people recommend running sshd on a different port number> (not 22) to reduce the number of cracking attempts (dictionary> attacks). >> Does this really make a big difference?> Anyo

Re: sendmail trouble

On 9/5/05, Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Sanjay wrote:> I am trying to setup a sendmail server so that we could send test emails> from our application. Its on lan behind firewall so there is no worries> about spam and stuff.I think you will get at least ten responses suggesting that you sho