Re: I'm getting a dependencies error when trying to install roundcube 1.5.1 on my bullseye machine

2021-12-10 Thread Steve Dondley
I've not used apt to install packages from files but can you put ../roundcube*.deb? You need to install both roundcube and roundcube-core from your local build. If mt first suggestion doesn't work, try installing roundcube-core first. If you haven't built roundcube-core then you need to d

I'm getting a dependencies error when trying to install roundcube 1.5.1 on my bullseye machine

2021-12-10 Thread Steve Dondley
I'm running bullseye with roundcube version 1.4.11 currently installed. I am trying to upgrade to version 1.5.1. I followed the instructions at "SimpleBackportCreation" at https://wiki.debian.org/SimpleBackportCreation Everything went fine until the very last step: === $ sudo apt-ge

Re: Hundres of dovecot imap errors with fts_solr plugin polluting /var/log/mail.err

2021-09-17 Thread Steve Dondley
I think this is some kind of parsing bug from the response from solr. The number of pairs of errors returned is the same number of hits received during the search. So if I do a search with 7 results turned up, I get 7 pairs of errors. Fixed with the following: 1) simplified config file by re

Re: Hundres of dovecot imap errors with fts_solr plugin polluting /var/log/mail.err

2021-09-17 Thread Steve Dondley
The bug I patched also threw a similar kind of error. See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=970692. But this error is cropping up for every user on the system. A google search turns up nothing on a uid other than '0'. I don't know if this is another debian issue or a misconfig

Hundres of dovecot imap errors with fts_solr plugin polluting /var/log/mail.err

2021-09-17 Thread Steve Dondley
I'm running debian bullseye. I've had issues running solr on debian in the past due to some kind of bug. I was able to get solr working with dovecot by upgrading the os. After the upgrade, everything works perfectly fine and the search feature in my client using solr now works. However, I get

Re: Looking for guidance on reporting a bug on the roundcube package

2021-09-12 Thread Steve Dondley
Debian is interested in *all* issues affecting a user. The triager will help sort it out. If it is a Debian bug, the fix woudld be applied in unstable and work its way through the system. The same happens with an upstream fix. So would I just be wasting my time and everyone else's by reportin

Re: Looking for guidance on reporting a bug on the roundcube package

2021-09-12 Thread Steve Dondley
Using free(dom) software sometimes require you invest resources in some other way, depending on the particular issue and how important it is to you ;) Agreed. But the package manager will have a much easier time than me at nailing down the problem and do it in much less time. I've already sp

Looking for guidance on reporting a bug on the roundcube package

2021-09-11 Thread Steve Dondley
First, thanks to everyone here and the Debian community, an amazing project. Running bullseye with package roundcube. I believe I have found a bug that I'd like to report. I am using reportbug to report it. When doing so, I got this message: Your version (1.4.11+dfsg.1-4) of roundcube appear

Re: Will my reportbug report be seen?

2021-09-11 Thread Steve Dondley
It doesn't state how the originator of the bug report can close it. Send a mail to xx-d...@bugs.debian.org. Give a reason for the closure. Got it. Thanks for the help.

Re: Will my reportbug report be seen?

2021-09-11 Thread Steve Dondley
On 2021-09-11 06:27 AM, Brian wrote: On Fri 10 Sep 2021 at 20:22:43 -0400, Steve Dondley wrote: On 2021-09-10 08:15 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 08:10:41PM -0400, Steve Dondley wrote: > > > > > Can I just leave this as is? Or can/should I correct it s

Re: Will my reportbug report be seen?

2021-09-10 Thread Steve Dondley
This may happen in a timely manner, or it may not. Your best bet at this point is to wait a few days and see what happens. If nobody fixes it up before then, you might consider replying to the bug and supplying an actual description of the bug. OK, sounds like a plan. I see in the link I pr

Re: Will my reportbug report be seen?

2021-09-10 Thread Steve Dondley
On 2021-09-10 08:15 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 08:10:41PM -0400, Steve Dondley wrote: > Can I just leave this as is? Or can/should I correct it somehow? Ok, while I was writing that last email, I got another confirmation: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.

Re: Will my reportbug report be seen?

2021-09-10 Thread Steve Dondley
Can I just leave this as is? Or can/should I correct it somehow? Ok, while I was writing that last email, I got another confirmation: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=994068 So I'm probably good?

Will my reportbug report be seen?

2021-09-10 Thread Steve Dondley
I used reportbug for the first time. The experience was a little confusing. It appears to have gone through because I got an confirmation email: Email subject: 1.4.11+dfsg.1-4: Please see issue at github: https://github.com/roundcube/roundcubemail/issues/8198 Email body:

Re: sources.list 's security line

2021-09-06 Thread Steve Dondley
On 2021-09-06 05:53 AM, riveravaldez wrote: Hi, after reading the various sources of documentation (handbook, wiki, FAQs, Release Notes, etc.) I think I'm finding myself with kinda four options for the security line in /etc/apt/sources.list Those being: deb http://security.debian.org/debian-sec

Re: Tips/advice for installing latest version of fzf?

2021-08-31 Thread Steve Dondley
"sudo which hash" shows nothing. Not sure whey. sudo is an external program, which launches other external programs. When you type "sudo which hash", your shell (zsh) forks a child, and that child executes "sudo". sudo does its authentication/authorization dance, and then executes "which ha

Re: Tips/advice for installing latest version of fzf?

2021-08-31 Thread Steve Dondley
(tl;dr: use type, not which) OK, thanks.

Re: Tips/advice for installing latest version of fzf?

2021-08-31 Thread Steve Dondley
There's `hash -r' for that (bash, dash). I'd bet that zsh has something along that lines, too. Cheers - t Ok, it is there after all, as a built-in. I was mindlessly trying "sudo hash -d fzf". I guess trying with sudo doesn't work. "sudo which hash" shows nothing. Not sure whey.

Re: Tips/advice for installing latest version of fzf?

2021-08-31 Thread Steve Dondley
On 2021-08-31 11:19 AM, Steve Dondley wrote: This sounds like a stale-hash situation. According to my understanding, the shell will typically keep a cache of what path it found a given command at when it checked for that command in $PATH, so it doesn't have to re-do the filesystem access

Re: Tips/advice for installing latest version of fzf?

2021-08-31 Thread Steve Dondley
This sounds like a stale-hash situation. According to my understanding, the shell will typically keep a cache of what path it found a given command at when it checked for that command in $PATH, so it doesn't have to re-do the filesystem accesses on every run of the command; this mapping of kn

Re: Tips/advice for installing latest version of fzf?

2021-08-31 Thread Steve Dondley
OK, so I dropped the new fzf into /usr/local/bin. I confirmed it is the correct version with: admin@ip-172-30-0-226 /usr/local/bin $ ./fzf --version 0.27.2 (e086f0b) "echo $PATH" reports: /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/games So it looks like any binary in /usr/local/bin should load fir

Re: Tips/advice for installing latest version of fzf?

2021-08-31 Thread Steve Dondley
On 2021-08-31 10:48 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 10:45:50AM -0400, Steve Dondley wrote: Now I'm just wondering if it would be better to keep the old fzf around and put the new fzf into a directory that $PATH loads before /usr/bin. I'm thinking this might be the

Re: Tips/advice for installing latest version of fzf?

2021-08-31 Thread Steve Dondley
Either way, the simplicity of the tool (in terms of it being a single binary artifact that is deployed) makes it unlikely that you would encounter any issues in doing this. Regards, -Roberto OK, thank you, Roberto. fzf comes with some shell integration tools like key bindings that can be inst

Re: Tips/advice for installing latest version of fzf?

2021-08-31 Thread Steve Dondley
Their build tooling seems very sparse. In particular, it does not support DESTDIR or PREFIX variables. However, that might be OK in this case, as it appears to only produce and install a single artifact: a binary called fzf. If I were in your position, I would run 'make' and then manually pl

Tips/advice for installing latest version of fzf?

2021-08-31 Thread Steve Dondley
Running bullseye with fzf package 0.24.3-1+b6. Newer versions of fzf (> .27.) have some advanced abilities I'd like to use but newer versions are not available in backports (at least not that I could tell) I'm thinking of building fzf manually per the instructions here: https://github.com/ju

Re: Restoring sticky bits after accidentally moving /usr directory

2021-05-19 Thread Steve Dondley
On 2021-05-19 06:30 AM, Hans wrote: Am Mittwoch, 19. Mai 2021, 00:26:18 CEST schrieb Steve Dondley: I believe, there is no easy way. However, if interested, I can send you my list of permissions of /var and /usr. These are not changed by me with one exception (/var/log/motion/motion.log, as

Restoring sticky bits after accidentally moving /usr directory

2021-05-18 Thread Steve Dondley
I goofed up and accidentally moved my /usr directory while trying to make room on a full drive. I was able to recover, but I'm finding that services are not working because the sticky bits for many files /usr/bin/* were lost. For example, I can't send email with exim because of this error: Fa

Re: vim not seeing many Unicode chars

2021-05-18 Thread Steve Dondley
On 2021-05-18 12:23 PM, Tom Browder wrote: > On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 11:08 Steve Dondley wrote: > > On 2021-05-18 10:25 AM, Tom Browder wrote: > > I'm running Debian Buster. Inside a terminal window I can use Emacs and can > see and enter Unicode chars. > > B

Re: vim not seeing many Unicode chars

2021-05-18 Thread Steve Dondley
On 2021-05-18 10:25 AM, Tom Browder wrote: > I'm running Debian Buster. Inside a terminal window I can use Emacs and can > see and enter Unicode chars. > > But in the same terminal, when I run vim, I have trouble editing or seeing > most Unicode chars above ASCII. Type ":set fileencoding?" fr

Re: How do I get a copy of log_server_status perl script for apache2?

2021-05-06 Thread Steve Dondley
So, I guess you would download an upstream Apache source tarball, extract it, and copy the log_server_status script out of the extracted tarball and into /usr/local/bin. Or wherever you want it. Interesting. First time I've seen a debian package remove a file like that. It can also be do

How do I get a copy of log_server_status perl script for apache2?

2021-05-06 Thread Steve Dondley
I have a stock apache2 server installed with apt-get. There is supposedly a perl script for getting machine-readable output of the apache status: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/programs/log_server_status.html However, I can't find this script anywhere on my Debian Buster install and a packa

Re: ctrl-p not working as expected at bash command prompt on debian docker container

2021-04-26 Thread Steve Dondley
On 2021-04-26 02:43 PM, Steve Dondley wrote: I downloaded and ran this docker image: https://hub.docker.com/_/debian It works, but typically when I hit the ctrl-p key at the bash prompt, it acts like the up arrow key and shows the previous command. However, I have to hit ctrl-p twice to show

ctrl-p not working as expected at bash command prompt on debian docker container

2021-04-26 Thread Steve Dondley
I downloaded and ran this docker image: https://hub.docker.com/_/debian It works, but typically when I hit the ctrl-p key at the bash prompt, it acts like the up arrow key and shows the previous command. However, I have to hit ctrl-p twice to show the previous command and twice each time to s

Re: How do I add --allow-tell option to debian-spamd command?

2021-04-22 Thread Steve Dondley
On 2021-04-22 03:40 PM, Steve Dondley wrote: I recently uninstalled the stock buster package of spamassassin (3.4.2) and installed a newer version from backports (3.4.4). On 3.4.2, I had the debian-spamd command configured with the --allow-tell option. It was easy to set up as I recall

How do I add --allow-tell option to debian-spamd command?

2021-04-22 Thread Steve Dondley
I recently uninstalled the stock buster package of spamassassin (3.4.2) and installed a newer version from backports (3.4.4). On 3.4.2, I had the debian-spamd command configured with the --allow-tell option. It was easy to set up as I recall. However, with 3.4.4, things seem a little more com

Re: Setting up a secure Debian apache server

2005-10-28 Thread Steve Dondley
OK, thanks. Gives me more food for thought. On 10/28/05, Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 11:04:34PM -0400, Steve Dondley wrote: > > I'm setting up a server that will host many web sites on my Debian > > Sarge machine. Each site

Setting up a secure Debian apache server

2005-10-27 Thread Steve Dondley
I'm setting up a server that will host many web sites on my Debian Sarge machine. Each site will be administered by a different user. Each site will give users SFTP access, access to the cgi-bin, and to PHP (with mod_php installed). I'm not very worried about my users doing anything malicious.

Basic question about recompiling program with different options

2005-10-02 Thread Steve Dondley
I'm using the VIM text editor and want to recompile it so that it can use Perl regular expressions when doing a search in a file. How do I do this easily? -- Dondley Communications http://www.dondleycommunications.com Communicate or Die: American Labor Unions and the Internet http://www.communic

Re: Apache2: httpd.conf or apache2.conf?

2005-09-19 Thread Steve Dondley
Well, as I pointed out, the README file ins't very clear in its description of httpd.conf. It just says "empty file". On 9/19/05, Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 08:26:37AM +0200, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: > > On mandag 19 september 20

Apache2: httpd.conf or apache2.conf?

2005-09-18 Thread Steve Dondley
The README file that came with Debian doesn't cover the difference between the httpd.conf file and the apache2.conf file. Is the httpd.conf file basically obsolete? Should I just put all directives and containers in apache2.conf file? Does it matter? -- Dondley Communications http://www.dondley

Which MPM for Apache2?

2005-09-18 Thread Steve Dondley
I just did a fresh install of Sarge. I set it up to run Apache2 out of the box. Now I'm trying to figure which Multi-Processing Module (MPM) it's running by default. I see there are 4 different MPM packages: apache2-mpm-perchild apache2-mpm-prefork apache2-mpm-threadpool apache2-mpm-worker >Fr

Re: Basic questions about PHP5 on Sarge

2005-09-16 Thread Steve Dondley
Thanks for the info and tip on PHP5. I'll do some research. On 9/16/05, Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 12:12:36AM -0400, Steve Dondley wrote: > > I have read about sites offer PHP5 for use with Sarge. > > > > 1) Is there a

Basic questions about PHP5 on Sarge

2005-09-15 Thread Steve Dondley
I have read about sites offer PHP5 for use with Sarge. 1) Is there a downside or risk associated with these "unofficial" Debian packages? 2) A more academic question I'm curious to know: Why doesn't the Debian team create and release PHP5 package for Sarge? Thanks.

GNU GCC manual for Debian

2002-08-31 Thread Steve Dondley
I'm using GCC version 2.95.4 (Debian prerelease). How can I get a manual for this version? I can't find one for this version at http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/ I'm fairly new to C/Linux. I've looked in usr/doc for the manual but didn't see it there. I then installed the gcc-2.95-doc package bu

Follow-up Question: Serving web pages for local use only

2001-09-26 Thread Steve Dondley
Thanks to all who helped with my earlier post. I got everything working but I'm still having a problem. Background: I installed apache on my Linux box. I am able to retrieve web pages with IE using my Windows machine. Everything is cool there. Problem: But when using NN, it pulls up the page,

Serving web pages for local use only

2001-09-26 Thread Steve Dondley
Hi, I'd like to use my machine to serve web pages, more specifically, I'd like it to run Perl cgi-scripts. The machine will NOT be serving pages over the net. I'm guessing I can just point my browser to 127.0.0.1. I installed apache but I'm stuck on what to do next, however. I can't get the ht

Printing files through network

2001-09-07 Thread Steve Dondley
Hi. I've got a Linksys 4 port router which is serving my Linux box and a Win98 machine. My printer is connected to the Win98 machine. Is it possible to share the printer through the network so that the Linux box can print documents to the printer connected to the Win98 machine? What do I have t

Programming in Java

2001-09-02 Thread Steve Dondley
Hi, I'm interested in learning the Java programming language. What do I need to install the JVM and program in Java on my Debian system (ver. 2.2.19pre17) to get going? Thanks, STeve

Installing vimtutor help file

2001-09-01 Thread Steve Dondley
Background: I just installed vim-rt on my system. When I'm in the vimtutor tutorial and try to obtain help by pressing F1 or with the :help command (per instruction in section 7), I'm told that the help file, /usr/share/vim/vim56/doc/help.txt, cannot be found. Question: How do I install this sing

Installing a single file

2001-08-31 Thread Steve Dondley
Background: I just installed the vim text editor. When I try to access the help file with ":help", it says the file, /usr/share/vim/doc/help.txt, is not found. Question: How do I find and install this one single file from my CDs? Thanks.

vi: backspace and delete key

2001-08-30 Thread Steve Dondley
I've heard of problems with emacs and the backspace and delete key not working properly. Now I'm wondering what the correct behavior for vi is. My keys seem to be acting a funny. Backspace: Behaves the same way as left arrow key but it keeps you in edit mode. Delete: Very weird behavior...pressi

RE: Linksys EtherFast 10/100 v5 has no IRQ

2001-08-30 Thread Steve Dondley
I have a linksys card and couldn't get it to work until I disabled the PNP operating system in the bios. Works fine for me now. -Original Message- From: Michael P. Soulier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 12:07 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Link

Sawmill: Adjusting Mouse Sensitivity

2001-08-29 Thread Steve Dondley
I have X installed with Sawmill as my window manager. That's all I need at this point since I mostly use X for Netscape. My only problem with my setup is the mouse movement is way too sluggish. How can I change it's sensitivity? I looked in the "Customize" menu from the popup menu but didn't see

RE: Installation Problems - rsync, me, or something else?

2001-08-28 Thread Steve Dondley
I don't know what the problem is but if I were you I would try rsync with a different server and see if you get the same results. If you do, your download is somehow bad. -Original Message- From: Asparouh Stefanov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 1:42 PM To:

Rerunning software installation utility

2001-08-28 Thread Steve Dondley
Hi, Situation: I did a bare installation of Debian on my computer. In other words, when the Debian installation asked me which kinds of packages I wanted to install on my hard drive, I didn't select anything. To clarify, I'm talking about the utility that runs after the user selects the "Simple"

Sys Admin guide specific to Debian?

2001-08-28 Thread Steve Dondley
I'm a Linux beginner with Debian installed. I'm looking for a beginner's guide to System Administration and I'm wondering if there might not be one particular to Debian. If not, can someone point me in the direction of a good generic SysAdmin guide? Thanks.

X: Changing resolution

2001-08-27 Thread Steve Dondley
Problem: Pressing CTRL-ALT-+/- (numeric) doesn't change my screen resolution setting.  X (with sawmill) always starts out in 1024 x 768 with 16 bpp (65,000 colors) and I can't figure out how to change it.    Background: For practice, I just installed X from scratch.  I configured the XF86C

RE: Configuring Network Card

2001-08-27 Thread Steve Dondley
While installing this driver, keep in mind that you should turn off the disable the OS Plug-n-play option in bios, too. This caused me a problem last week. I had the driver installed but the card still did not function until I disabled this option. Just keep this in mind, it may save you some ti

RE: Sharing files between Linux & Windows machines on LAN

2001-08-27 Thread Steve Dondley
ould be used in a network configuration. Thanks. -Original Message- From: Oliver Elphick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 27, 2001 2:55 AM To: Steve Dondley Cc: Debian-Users Subject: Re: Sharing files between Linux & Windows machines on LAN "Steve Dondley" wrote:

Installing Perl 5.6.1

2001-08-27 Thread Steve Dondley
Situation: Debian ships with Perl 5.005. But there are more recent versions of Perl and Debian lists two versions of Perl 5.6.1, "testing" and "unstable". Questions: 5.6.1 has been out quite a while and Perl.com lists 5.6.1 as "stable". What about it is not considered "stable" for use on Debian?

Sharing files between Linux & Windows machines on LAN

2001-08-27 Thread Steve Dondley
Hi,   My setup: I've got a Linksys router connecting my two computers to my cable modem.  My first computer has just Windows 98 on it, the second computer is a dual-boot with Windows 98 and Debian's latest stable release.   My skills: Total Linux and networking newbie.  Took a long time t