Re: Setting up a Java development environment the debian way.

2005-06-22 Thread Simon Kitching
On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 18:21 +0200, Aurélien Campéas wrote: > Le mercredi 22 juin 2005 à 16:05 +0100, Alan Chandler a écrit : > > > > For the record, the static typing in Java is acknowledged as one of the > worst imaginable (in short : it is mandatory but you have to go through > its backdoor (re

Re: Setting up a Java development environment the debian way.

2005-06-22 Thread Simon Kitching
On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 12:24 +0100, Adam Hardy wrote: > On 22/06/05 10:53 Simon Kitching wrote: > > Personally I think you're buying yourself a world of pain if you try to > > do servlet/ejb/etc java development using the free java tools. They are > > definitely getting

Re: Setting up a Java development environment the debian way.

2005-06-22 Thread Simon Kitching
On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 10:17 +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: > Ms Linuz writes: > > > Alan Chandler wrote: > ... > >>So my questions are: > >> > >>1) What tools do I need to develop the application. This includes code > >>editiing, build environment, unit testing, I tried to setup eclipse on my >

Re: Etch experiences

2005-06-21 Thread Simon Kitching
On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 07:21 +0200, Hans du Plooy wrote: > Thanks for the replies, Peter and Rogério. > > The notebook will be my primary work horse. I haven't used Debian much > as a desktop, except on older PC with more minimalistic window managers, > but having seen a fair bit of Sarge, and bei

Re: compiling custom kernel/Sarge

2005-06-20 Thread Simon Kitching
On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 20:11 -0400, William wrote: > I need to compile a custom kernel, to add raid and a scsi driver. Is > the kernel that comes with sarge just from kernel.org or does it have > some kind of security patches? > If it is just from kernel.org, is it best to use the latest kernel? >

Re: How to configure less to read *.gz files?

2005-06-20 Thread Simon Kitching
On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 11:47 +0100, Adam Funk wrote: > On my home computer `less foo.gz` automatically pages through the gunzipped > text (assuming foo is a text file of course). I'd like to get this > behaviour on another machine but I can't remember how I configured it to do > this (instead of `g

Re: Good backup software for Linux

2005-06-20 Thread Simon Kitching
On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 15:51 +0530, Siju George wrote: > On 6/20/05, Simon Kitching <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 12:36 +0300, kalasala wrote: > > > http://www.amanda.org/ > > > > Well, Amanda is really for backing up multiple servers to

Re: Good backup software for Linux

2005-06-20 Thread Simon Kitching
On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 12:36 +0300, kalasala wrote: > http://www.amanda.org/ Well, Amanda is really for backing up multiple servers to a single archiving device isn't it? As the original poster didn't state what he wanted backed up I presume it's a desktop machine. Regards, Simon -- To UNSUBS

Re: Initial install question

2005-06-20 Thread Simon Kitching
On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 03:32 -0500, Mark Anderson wrote: > Greetings. I just installed Debian using the ISOs from your site. > Everything went fine and then i got the "login" command. At this point > I typed in my username and password and what i got was this: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ~S: (the "name" b

RE: Websphere MQ on Debian ??

2004-09-16 Thread Simon Kitching
g 2.6 and have been having > problems getting MQ v5.3 to run. Apparently, kernel 2.6.x isn't officially > supported. > > I you find that document, and could pass it along, I'd appreciate it very much. > > Thanks, > > Mark > > -Original Message--

Re: Real Time monitoring/alerting utility..

2004-08-25 Thread Simon Kitching
On Thu, 2004-08-26 at 10:24, Tim Kelley wrote: > On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 08:14:50AM +1000, Michael Bellears wrote: > > > No - He wants to be notified immediately if an FTP or SSH connection is > > established. > > Using snort and tailing the logfile, it doesn't get much more real > time than that

Re: Java on Debian

2004-08-24 Thread Simon Kitching
On Wed, 2004-08-25 at 12:24, Michael Satterwhite wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Having just installed Sarge on my laptop, I tried downloading and installing > the Sun J2SE (from Sun - I didn't see it - or expect to see it! - in apt). > Unfortunately, it wouldn't ins

Re: CPU temparature display??

2004-08-23 Thread Simon Kitching
On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 12:50, Ishwar Rattan wrote: > Is there a utility (X11 or text based) that will display > the cpu temperature? I think you want the "lmsensors" module. See: http://www2.lm-sensors.nu/~lm78/ Regards, Simon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "u

Re: alternative to cdrecord?

2004-08-23 Thread Simon Kitching
On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 10:36, Brian Pack wrote: > Haven't you heard? IIRC the kernel 2.6.8 plugged a security hole that > cdrecord used to function. Once the hole was closed, users could no > longer run cdrecord as they could in previous kernels. With the old > kernel, a user could potentially wipe

Re: urgetn help date/time settings on debian

2004-08-17 Thread Simon Kitching
On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 18:51, Vijaya S wrote: > Hi all, > The mail server 's date and time has gone one day ahead and it has > debian unstable installed on it. > it shows Wed Aug 18 10:25:59 IST 2004 > but the actual time and date now is Tue Aug 17 12:21:04 IST 2004 > how do i get it right > man d

Re: X resolution gnome/wmaker

2004-08-16 Thread Simon Kitching
On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 14:40, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > Hello, > > I just installed Sarge from Netinst (very cool) and have > X11 running. The problem is that the resolution is > incredibly high (1600x1200) and I cannot see the icons > or fonts very well. I am using Wmaker and Gnome as the > desk

Re: Serial terminal in testing?

2004-08-16 Thread Simon Kitching
On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 13:34, Michael D. Crawford wrote: > Is there a serial terminal program in testing? Like what you'd use to > log in to another host over a serial line? > > Not something like xterm or gnome-terminal which is for login shells > over a network login. I need something that co

Re: Publishing program?

2004-08-16 Thread Simon Kitching
On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 11:59, stan wrote: > I remebet using a publishing layout application in Debian a while > ack, had a cutesey sort of name. But I can't rememner what it was. > > Can anyone jog my memory? Scribus (http://web2.altmuehlnet.de/fschmid/) appears to be a publishing layout progra

Re: Quick question: Choice of release

2004-08-16 Thread Simon Kitching
On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 10:33, Anders Breindahl wrote: > I and a friend are playing with the idea of convincing our gymnasium to > using Debian GNU/Linux as their main server OS. > > As it comes to this issue, which release we would want; stable, testing or > unstable? > > Making the choice,

Re: On downloading Debian ISOs

2004-08-16 Thread Simon Kitching
On Mon, 2004-08-16 at 20:59, Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote: > Hi! > > Have been wanting to try out Debian for so long, but never managed to > get my hands on it. Finally I land up at this client site where we have > a good net access, and so am thinking of downloading the ISOs to give > them a shot on

Re: Websphere MQ on Debian ??

2004-08-15 Thread Simon Kitching
On Mon, 2004-08-16 at 01:38, John Foster wrote: > On Saturday 14 August 2004 07:41 pm, Mark D. Hansen wrote: > > Has anyone here ever installed WebSphere MQ (MQ Series) on Debian Linux? > > Any special tricks or pitfalls? Thanks. > - Hi, Yes I have installed

Re: Deleted root account in passwd

2004-08-14 Thread Simon Kitching
On Sun, 2004-08-15 at 11:55, Simon Kitching wrote: > On Sun, 2004-08-15 at 06:14, Pete Clarke wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > I managed to delete the root entry in /etc/passwd whilst playing > > on a test box > > Is there an easy way of re-inserting, or copying t

Re: Deleted root account in passwd

2004-08-14 Thread Simon Kitching
On Sun, 2004-08-15 at 06:14, Pete Clarke wrote: > Hi there, > > I managed to delete the root entry in /etc/passwd whilst playing > on a test box > Is there an easy way of re-inserting, or copying the backup passwd file I > have without physical access to the box? > > I can ssh into it, but only

Re: componentized linux and "sarge"

2004-08-11 Thread Simon Kitching
On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 17:46, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > Hello all, > was just reading about componentized linux, Progeny etc. > Found the idea of comoponentization excellent. I just got > amamzed/confused with the following statemnt from Progenty. > > "Progeny Debian 2.0, A

OT: Re: Internet Explorer 6 on Debian Unstable

2004-08-11 Thread Simon Kitching
On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 13:12, John Summerfield wrote: > As for the advisability of running Internet Exploder at all, see the > recent advice at slate.msn.net. Slate is _owned_ by Microsoft, and for > those who don't wish to check, the advice is "use firefox." Actually, I think this is something

Re: Help with Woody Install

2004-08-09 Thread Simon Kitching
On Mon, 2004-08-09 at 19:38, Ben Alex wrote: > Hi everyone > > I'm trying to install Woody (my first Debian installation) Hi Ben, I can't offer any advice on your SCSI/RAID issues. But are you aware that Debian is pretty close now to releasing a new version that will make Woody obsolete? The

Re: How popular is Debian (popularity contest)

2004-08-08 Thread Simon Kitching
On Sun, 2004-08-08 at 22:19, Jaap Haitsma wrote: > I came across this website http://popcon.debian.org/ > It shows statistics how many people have installed a certain package on > what kind of system etc. etc. If you want to anonymously report what > packages you are using you have to have the po

Re: Restricting a shell user to his home dir ?

2004-08-04 Thread Simon Kitching
On Thu, 2004-08-05 at 18:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I am learning a lot from this mailing list :). I have few shell users, i want to > restrict their shell login to their home directories. > > Like they should not be able to move around in the system and see other user's home > dire

Re: alternatives to NIS and NFS

2004-08-02 Thread Simon Kitching
On Tue, 2004-08-03 at 10:53, John Summerfield wrote: > Paul William wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I am in charge of a small office network. The server is running Debian > > stable with some testing packages and the desktops are running > > mandrake 10.0. > > > > Currently we are using NIS for authent

Re: repeated entries in /var/log/messages...

2004-07-28 Thread Simon Kitching
On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 14:11, Mario Flores wrote: > Hi: > > Since day 1 I installed debian, I see the following in the > /var/log/messages: > > Jul 28 21:01:08 woody -- MARK -- > Jul 28 21:21:08 woody -- MARK -- > Jul 28 21:41:08 woody -- MARK -- > > and they repeat every single hour at the exac

Re: Couple Questions Before I install for first time.

2004-07-28 Thread Simon Kitching
On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 13:15, Jason G Skala wrote: > This weekend I am getting ready to switch my server over to Debian > Woody from Red Hat 9.0. And have a few questions before I go and do > this about SMP Kernels. > > I have a Intell LX440GX+ Motherboard with Dual PIII 500's running > software ra

Re: Any chance of Debian adding YaST

2004-07-28 Thread Simon Kitching
On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 10:13, Paul Johnson wrote: > Scott Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Does anyone know if there are any official or third party plans to develop a > > version for Debian. > > I think you missed April Fools Day by a few months. > > I can't see anything that YaST ca

Re: DNS

2004-07-26 Thread Simon Kitching
On Tue, 2004-07-27 at 13:10, Paul Johnson wrote: > Patrick Albuquerque <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 03:54:28PM -0600, Marvin Gerardo Aguero Salazar wrote: > >> > >> Just to clarify, I don't want to set up a DNS Server (which is what the > >> DNS howto talks about). I

Re: DNS

2004-07-26 Thread Simon Kitching
On Tue, 2004-07-27 at 13:07, Paul Johnson wrote: > Marvin Gerardo Aguero Salazar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > How can I specify the DNS server in debian/linux? > > > > Just to clarify, I don't want to set up a DNS Server (which is what > > the DNS howto talks about). I just want to translate

Re: Locked out of system

2004-07-26 Thread Simon Kitching
On Tue, 2004-07-27 at 10:42, Gary L. Roach wrote: > Well I have been known to do stupid things. This is one of them. > > I changed fstab to mount another drive automatically. I messed up the > entry. Now the system boots to management level ((none) prompt) and makes > the hard drive partitions

Re: Metacity window manager

2004-07-26 Thread Simon Kitching
On Tue, 2004-07-27 at 07:13, Otto Wyss wrote: > Marc Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 03:47:32PM +0200, Andrei Badea wrote: > > > IMHO Metacity isn't meant to be a full-fledged window manager (as is for > > > example WM or Fluxbox), but instead it has to be used with

Re: Is Linux Unix?

2004-07-26 Thread Simon Kitching
On Mon, 2004-07-26 at 20:58, John Summerfield wrote: > Simon Kitching wrote: > > > >They do in the long term. Name a system of government that has been more > >efficient than democracy over a 100 year period. The most significant > > > > > > The Roman E

Re: restrict ssh login to subset of users?

2004-07-26 Thread Simon Kitching
On Mon, 2004-07-26 at 19:55, Eric Cheney wrote: > Hello folks. I am wonderin gif there an easy way to restrict ssh > login access to a subset of users? The most likely answer is to set things up so that only users who belong to a certain group can log in using ssh. Maybe the ssh server support

Re: Is Linux Unix?

2004-07-26 Thread Simon Kitching
On Mon, 2004-07-26 at 20:01, John Summerfield wrote: > > > >It's not that no one likes the proposal. It's more of the "herding > >cats" phenomenon. There's no consensus on how the release process > >should work, it's hard to make a thousand scattered volunteers listen > >anyway, and no one other

Re: Safely Upgrading Packages

2004-07-26 Thread Simon Kitching
On Mon, 2004-07-26 at 18:43, Michael B Allen wrote: > I've been running Debian on the net for a while. I thought it's time to look > at keeping packages up to date. But when I run apt-get update: > > # apt-get upgrade > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > The followi

Re: sunone_asp4.0.1-linux-full

2004-07-25 Thread Simon Kitching
On Mon, 2004-07-26 at 13:10, Support wrote: > Hi! > > Can Debian run asp script in apache ? > > As I know sunone_asp4.0.1-linux-full only run on RedHat 7.3 .. can it run > on Debian ? > FYI, the Mono project provides support for ASP.NET on linux: http://www.mono-project.com/about/technical.ht

Re: Debian install breaks on 'Configuring Locales'

2004-07-22 Thread Simon Kitching
On Fri, 2004-07-23 at 09:15, John Hechtman wrote: > Now I've dl'd the Debian CD iso images and burned them to disks. > This is with the 'Woody' 30r2-i386 set of seven CD's, plus the updates > CD. Are you intending this installation to be used for a production server, or for a personal desktop? I

Re: USB disk drive

2004-07-21 Thread Simon Kitching
On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 14:33, Bill Moseley wrote: > I'm trying out a FireLite USB drive. It's been used on Windows (from > what the owner tells me and has data on it). > > I'm running kernel 2.6.6. > > When I plug it in I see this in syslog: > > Jul 21 17:18:50 bumby kernel: usb 1-2: new full sp

Re: How to de-Grub?

2004-07-21 Thread Simon Kitching
On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 13:35, Robert William Hutton wrote: > Stephen Cradock wrote: > > > I'd recommend that you install LILO using the first woody CD. LILO, unlike > GRUB, installs itself exclusively in the MBR, so you don't need some other > partition for the stage 2 loader which GRUB requires.

Re: How can I make sure that Linux have initialized all CPUs?

2004-07-21 Thread Simon Kitching
On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 13:07, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 18:55, Jacob Friis Larsen wrote: > > Greg Folkert wrote: > > > On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 18:19, Jacob Friis Larsen wrote: > > > > > >>I still only see 1 CPU. > > >>On Redhat I can see all 4 CPUs. > > >>Would that be possible? > >

Re: How to de-Grub?

2004-07-21 Thread Simon Kitching
On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 12:47, Stephen Cradock wrote: > Then, as one does when playing with Linux, I went stark staring bonkers, and > decide to try Gentoo - a friend told me it was much easier to install. > Rather than make yet another partition, I wiped the Sarge partition and > installed Gentoo

Re: Is Linux Unix?

2004-07-20 Thread Simon Kitching
On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 13:16, Paul E Condon wrote: > On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 08:35:11AM +1200, Steven Jones wrote: > > hehand at the rate Linux is taking over Unix space he like RISC based Unix > > will be going the way of the dodo. > > > > ;] > > > > Considering how many "Unixes" run Open so

Re: Re: Experiment: Neophyte versus Windows XP

2004-07-19 Thread Simon Kitching
On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 17:46, Mark e Plummer wrote: > Hello, > I have just read your article as best I could. I am confused, but not > by you but by me. > I have been using Firefox as a browser and Thunderbird as mailbox for > about a week and a half now and I love them. > I am thinking about dum

Re: Nagios vs Netsaint

2004-07-19 Thread Simon Kitching
On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 10:14, Jacob Friis Larsen wrote: > I see there are both Nagios and Netsaint packages. > Which one should I use, or can I use both on the same server? > Is it possible to use Netsaint plugins with Nagios? Nagios is the "new" name of what once was NetSaint. All new releases are

Re: Help

2004-07-18 Thread Simon Kitching
On Mon, 2004-07-19 at 15:29, Yossi d Esrig wrote: > I wanted to wipe my laptop (ibm notebook) and put linux on it. I can't > figure out which distribution is right for me. I just need it for > personal use. I actually only need it for the C compiler. (As of right > now, I'm having techinical dificu

Re: ping server

2004-07-15 Thread Simon Kitching
On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 16:50, John Summerfield wrote: > debian user wrote: > > > i would like to set up a ping server for my office. I however have > > not found a simple way of recieving a responce of "dead" or "alive". > > I am not to concerned about time etc? I just want to ping a few > >

Re: gnome tool bar animation - turn it off ????

2004-07-08 Thread Simon Kitching
On Fri, 2004-07-09 at 10:01, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > How do I turn off the "sliding" effect of gnome's toolbar (when I click on one side > button, it "slides away off the side of the screen". > > It frustrates the hell out of me: I want an instant on/off thing, not any Windows 98 > style try-ha

Re: new gnome file selection

2004-07-07 Thread Simon Kitching
On Thu, 2004-07-08 at 17:51, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I just started using sid, and I've run into the new gnome file > selection interface. It's almost unusable: there's no way to enter > an absolute path (or any path for that matter), and no way to go up in > the file system, or to even see an

Re: grub problem

2004-07-07 Thread Simon Kitching
On Thu, 2004-07-08 at 16:27, Rodney Richison wrote: > I attempted a repair floppy last night. It didn't work out real well. > Ahhh, for a command like sys a::) Novel idea... > > Anyway here's what I did for future google searches. Maybe it'll help > someone someday. > > How to Repair Grub bo

Re: help; Is C soon to be the programming lang. of the past?

2004-07-07 Thread Simon Kitching
On Thu, 2004-07-08 at 14:41, Paul Tsai wrote: > C# is similar to Java than it is to C, and some people may argue that in > the future, C# may replace Java. Since C# is .NET, it requires a CLR > (or CLI, etc) to run its programs much in the same way Java requires a > virtual machine. However, .

Re: Cannot login or su

2004-07-07 Thread Simon Kitching
On Wed, 2004-07-07 at 19:11, CN wrote: > Hi! > > I have installed woody in 3 boxes. Suddently I can't login to one of > them. > I am not sure if this problem has to do with the upgrade of wine package > (version 20040615). > > Now I have only 2 ways to access this problematic box: > (1) using boo

Re: installing Debian and installing programs

2004-07-06 Thread Simon Kitching
On Wed, 2004-07-07 at 08:28, Jim Knott wrote: > I bought a distro from someone who sells a lot of Debian and when the install > failed, they even sent me a second set in case the first one was no good. The > installs went good up to the 2nd and 3rd disc's respectively, but wouldn't > install all

Re: what's the diff between 'aptitude upgrade' and 'aptitude dist-upgrade'?

2004-07-05 Thread Simon Kitching
On Mon, 2004-07-05 at 21:02, Enrico Zini wrote: > On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 02:22:40AM -0500, dircha wrote: > > > An equally adequate reference is available as: > > /usr/share/doc/aptitude/README > > ...which is not too hard to paste: > > aptitude dist-upgrade > > This command will also attempt

Re: problem with invisible/disappearing files - but inodes there

2004-07-04 Thread Simon Kitching
On Mon, 2004-07-05 at 16:52, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > We have an unusual problem with 'invisible' and disappearing files: some files are > not > visible in a directory using 'find' or 'ls' on the directory, yet they > are visible using tools such as 'debugfs' or if you know the actual n

Re: Re: program starts with 3 threads

2004-07-01 Thread Simon Kitching
On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 16:50, jono wrote: > Thanks Simon, that makes a lot of sense. I've just read the ps man page > but cant find out if I can show only processes not threads. Any idea if > this is possible or any another tool that could do it? I'm not personally aware of any easy way to tell

Re: program starts with 3 threads

2004-07-01 Thread Simon Kitching
On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 16:09, jono wrote: > testing/unstable 2.4.25 i686 > > When I run a daemon (written for a telephony card) or the expect > application which uses the daemon, they both start with 3 processes. > I've noticed the same behavior with S20xprint and nautilus. > > The same daemon a

Re: fast, tabbed, gnome/wm- compliant terminal

2004-06-30 Thread Simon Kitching
On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 16:27, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 14:20, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > It gets laggy. Inconsistently. When using vim inside gnome-terminal. > > For example, in the topmost line (again in vim, with gnome-terminal at > 87x98 chars) it is really noticeable, and

Re: syslog

2004-06-29 Thread Simon Kitching
On Wed, 2004-06-30 at 12:18, Ketil Froyn wrote: > On Wed, 30 Jun 2004, Matthew Joyce said: > > > I have been asked by a 3rd party (who managed some > > comms equipment for us) if we have a syslog server. > > > > If so, they say they can direct some logs to it. > > > > We have some Debian boxes,

Unable to start x on fresh Sarge install

2004-06-27 Thread Simon Kitching
Hi, I recently installed SARGE from cd, on a PC without internet connection. I only had the first installer disk available initially, so installed the base system and that went fine. I later went back with the first 4 CDs of sarge (downloaded using JIGDO) to complete the install just using apt-cdr

Re: Both apache and apache2 (sarge) ?

2004-06-27 Thread Simon Kitching
On Mon, 2004-06-28 at 14:25, Kenneth Jacker wrote: > I'm trying to install 'phpmyadmin' and 'acidlab' on testing/sarge. > > The default web server installed was 'apache2'. Yet when I try and > install the above, dependencies want to force an install of 'apache' > (the fact that 'apache2' is alrea

Re: Debian installation

2004-06-24 Thread Simon Kitching
On Fri, 2004-06-25 at 08:30, Gabriel Ebner wrote: > On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 03:23:35PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > > Last I knew, the sid installer was very very broken. Most folks use the > > Sarge installer (which needs testers anyway) to do the base install, and > > then upgrade from there to Si

Re: Another "testing" vs "unstable" question

2004-06-23 Thread Simon Kitching
On Thu, 2004-06-24 at 12:58, John Summerfield wrote: > > > >>fwiw I was much amused when I first tried Knoppix (it was, I think, a > >>3.2 beta but it might have been 3.1). The hardware detection is done > >>with Red Hat's tools. > >> > >> > > > >Why be amused? If RedHat licenses their stuff

Re: Lots of problems - help please

2004-06-23 Thread Simon Kitching
On Thu, 2004-06-24 at 10:27, Daniel Klein wrote: > Hi, > > I'm having a whole damn lot of problems here, pretty much all of a sudden. > > Ever since a good friend helped me install debian (let's say he's a > little on the hectic side.. I didn't see everything he did), there was a > problem with

Re: moving to the 2.6 kernel?

2004-06-22 Thread Simon Kitching
On Wed, 2004-06-23 at 18:07, John Summerfield wrote: > Aaron Robertson-Hodder wrote: > > >Hi, > > > >Just wondering if all you people are moving to 2.6 from Woody, Sarge or > >sid? I have been trying to compile the 2.6.6 kernel on my Woody distro > >and keep getting depmod errors. > > > >I've tri

Re: Problem with CVS and group ownership.

2004-06-22 Thread Simon Kitching
of your users, you should probably not go the "pserver" route. But in that case I can't offer any advice other than to allow plenty of time to get your access permissions right! Or use SubVersion (subversion.tigris.org), which is far better than CVS (though somewhat more resource-hungry). Reg

Re: Problem with CVS and group ownership.

2004-06-22 Thread Simon Kitching
On Wed, 2004-06-23 at 12:53, Vincent Hallberg wrote: > Package: cvs > > Version: 1:1.12.9-1 > > > > In order to share files between normal users on CVS I’ve added them to > the ‘src’ group using ‘gpasswd –a someuser src’. Next I’m using > Tortoisecvs to login as someuser and upload to the rep

Re: moving to the 2.6 kernel?

2004-06-21 Thread Simon Kitching
On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 18:01, Jules Dubois wrote: > On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 01:39:16 -0500, Kent West wrote: > > > Jules Dubois wrote: > > > >>There's really nothing more to it than installing a kernel-image package > >>(and, in my case, updating initrd-tools)? > >> > > If you're not already running

Re: Hard Drive Limitations

2004-06-21 Thread Simon Kitching
On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 12:45, Greg Madden wrote: > On Monday 21 June 2004 03:21 pm, Ryan Nielsen wrote: > > I would like to use a couple of 250GB Western Digitals to backup > > data. I set up a Debian machine (I have 4 others for other purposes), > > to use as a backup server. I am having difficult

Re: sudo lock-up

2004-06-21 Thread Simon Kitching
On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 13:56, Tom Allison wrote: > "mynamehere" is not allowed to run sudo on localhost. This incident > will be reported > > > I used the wrong password too many times. > How do I "clear" this? > This is new to me; I am not aware of any feature of either "sudo" or "pam" that a

Re: USB memory stick?

2004-06-21 Thread Simon Kitching
On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 02:03, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 20:22:17 +1200, Simon Kitching > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm pretty sure this is not necessary, at least for basic functionality, > > with recent systems. Maybe someone

Re: USB memory stick?

2004-06-21 Thread Simon Kitching
On Mon, 2004-06-21 at 11:59, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Sun, 20 Jun 2004 15:32:54 -0400, stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I was given a USB memory stick, as a promotional giveawau by a vrndor, > > Friday. > > > > How can I use this with my Debian laptop? > > You need to use something called

Re: The boot sector and it's backup

2004-06-21 Thread Simon Kitching
On Sat, 2004-06-19 at 03:07, Keith O'Connell wrote: > Hi, > > I just installed sarge from scratch onto a machine here and I got a > message during the subsequent startuo sequence that was several screens > full of 8 digit numbers followed by the message; > > "there are differences between t

Re: USB memory stick?

2004-06-21 Thread Simon Kitching
On Mon, 2004-06-21 at 08:43, jakob bratkovic wrote: > stan wrote: > > I was given a USB memory stick, as a promotional giveawau by a vrndor, > > Friday. > > > > How can I use this with my Debian laptop? > > > > If I understand correctly you're talking about an USB drive. If this is > the case,

Re: moving to the 2.6 kernel?

2004-06-21 Thread Simon Kitching
On Mon, 2004-06-21 at 16:28, Jules Dubois wrote: > On Sun, 20 Jun 2004 10:47:10 -0500, Kent West wrote: > > > Just install a Debian box like you normally do, then "apt-get install > > kernel-image-2.6.whateverfitsyourarchitecture". > > Thanks for the advice, Kent. A foolish question: There's re

Re: programming editor

2004-06-17 Thread Simon Kitching
On Fri, 2004-06-18 at 11:18, Steve Lamb wrote: > Anders Karlsson wrote: > > For vim, you can always install Gvim to give you more of a GUI version. > > Or kvim for KDE... Or even vim-part so that it can be embedded in KDE > apps that support the editor part. :D > > > Best editor I have ever

Re: Gnome AddressBook?

2004-06-15 Thread Simon Kitching
On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 16:44, Ed Sutherland wrote: > What is the Gnome application serving as an addressbook? I've tried to > apt-get gnome-pim and it no longer exists. I need something like KDE's > addressbook. Thanks. > AFAIK, in the next version of gnome (2.8), the module "evolution-data-serve

Re: Pros/Cons Kde vs Gnome?

2004-06-14 Thread Simon Kitching
On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 18:14, CaT wrote: > On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 02:50:43PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > > s. keeling wrote: > > > I gave up on both of those; they're equally uncontrollable, and far > > > too fat to leave any room for actual applications to run. ymmv. > > > > Could've fooled m

Re: How Do I Update to Gnome 2.6?

2004-06-14 Thread Simon Kitching
On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 17:54, Benjamin Sher wrote: > Dear friends: > > Here is an example of one of the reviews of Gnome 2.6 from LinuxPlanet: > > Gnome 2.6: Two Left Feet? > http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reviews/5428/1/ All this review points out is how much Slackware sucks. Or how badl

Re: How Do I Update to Gnome 2.6?

2004-06-14 Thread Simon Kitching
On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 17:12, Benjamin Sher wrote: > Dear Ed: > > I don't use Debian. I use the Debian-based Xandros Linux. But I would advise > you very strongly to read some of the reviews of Gnome 2.6. They are > horrendous. Just look for them at LinuxToday. The consensus is that if you > rea

Re: Basic, but what the hell am I doing wrong here?

2004-06-10 Thread Simon Kitching
On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 14:49, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 09:36:04PM -0400, Stephen Touset wrote: > > I've opened and read files hundreds of times in my life. What gives now? > > > > -- > > Stephen Touset <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > #include > > > > using namespace std; > > > > i

Re: Good News Server

2004-06-09 Thread Simon Kitching
On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 18:29, s. keeling wrote: > Incoming from Loren M. Lang: > > Does anyone know of a good news server I could use? I'd like to post A "good news" server sounds like a fine idea - none of this depressing war, famine and SCO stuff :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Possible convert to Debian

2004-06-07 Thread Simon Kitching
On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 15:10, John Fleming wrote: > Consider me a newbie, but with enough experience to be dangerous. I started > learning Linux with RH8.0 about a year ago. I later installed Fedora Core 1 > and have upgraded to FC2, but I'm not happy with the upgrade process (they > recommend a f

Re: Upgraded to unstable - lost network connectivity

2004-06-06 Thread Simon Kitching
On Sun, 2004-06-06 at 14:22, dircha wrote: > > Bingo! Running "lsmod" in the working vs non-working config shows > > that a whole bunch of drivers are no longer being loaded after the > > dist-upgrade. Running modprobe to force the network drivers to be > > loaded restores network connectivity. >

Re: Upgraded to unstable - lost network connectivity

2004-06-04 Thread Simon Kitching
On Sat, 2004-06-05 at 18:24, Paul Scott wrote: > Simon Kitching wrote: > > >On Sat, 2004-06-05 at 15:42, dircha wrote: > > > > > >>Simon Kitching wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >>You sound like someone who has probably thought o

Re: Upgraded to unstable - lost network connectivity

2004-06-04 Thread Simon Kitching
On Sat, 2004-06-05 at 15:42, dircha wrote: > Simon Kitching wrote: > > I recently added unstable to my sources.list, and did a dist-upgrade. > > After some mucking around, I now have a working system again - except > > for networking. > > > Does anyone have a

Re: Upgrading XFree86

2004-06-04 Thread Simon Kitching
On Sat, 2004-06-05 at 14:40, Bradley Alexander wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > I did a dist-upgrade on one of my sid boxes yesterday, and I can't get > xserver-xfree86 to install. Because of that, x-window-system-core and > x-window-system cannot install. When I run

Upgraded to unstable - lost network connectivity

2004-06-04 Thread Simon Kitching
Hi, I recently added unstable to my sources.list, and did a dist-upgrade. After some mucking around, I now have a working system again - except for networking. I'm on a LAN with DHCP etc. Normally, interface eth0 comes up automatically. However now when I boot I get no network connection, and: