RE: Status of KDE in unstable?

2004-08-24 Thread Keith O'Brien
http://wiki.debian.net/?DebianKDE I upgraded today to 3.3. Keith. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of stan > Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2004 6:44 PM > To: Debian User List > Subject: Status of KDE in unstable? > > > I built a test s

Re: Linux is not for consumers!

2004-08-24 Thread Cletus H Baird III
Go to your local bookstore and buy a copy of Linux Format Magazine with either Fedora Core2 or Mandrake 10. Mandrake is easiest to install on all types of networks, the distro will almost do it for you! You just choose what you want to set up; it will probe and configure. Most of the distros

Prinitng aborts

2004-08-24 Thread Eddy
Hi, Using Sarge with Cups (and a HP Deskjet 6122 but I think this is irrelevant), I used to be able to print alright. (Well I never detected any problem but the installation is recent and I haven't had the need to print much at the beginning.) Now, it doesn't work anymore : the first few lines

Re: How to suspend x86 via apm as non-root user?

2004-08-24 Thread Ivo Marino
On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 17:40, Loki wrote: > > [snip] > > Use sudo, combined with a script that runs apm -s. > > [snip] > Thanks for your feedback, Loki. sudo seems to be an interesting solutions, anyway I think apm -s should also work without being root or using sudo for as-root execution, this i

Re: Exim4 return-path header

2004-08-24 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Eddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi, > >I use Exim4 with Sarge and have a little configuration problem regarding >mail headers. > >What should I do in order to have "Return-path" and "Sender" headers added >by Exim to be exactly the same as the "From" header crea

Re: Linux is not for consumers!

2004-08-24 Thread Grant
Cletus H Baird III wrote: Go to your local bookstore and buy a copy of Linux Format Magazine with either Fedora Core2 or Mandrake 10. Mandrake is easiest to install on all types of networks, the distro will almost do it for you! You just choose what you want to set up; it will probe and configu

Re: New address

2004-08-24 Thread Katipo
Nicos Gollan wrote: On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 14:25:05 + Tal Amir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: and the reason debian-user needs to know this is.?? Hey, maybe he wanted us all to send him confirmation? ;-) Probably does. He'll have a lot of addresses for his spam box then, won't he? Regar

Re: What utility to post my gateway's IP?

2004-08-24 Thread Ken Irving
On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 10:24:26AM -0700, Dave Hathaway wrote: > I am using a D-Link router as the gateway between my cable modem and > my home network. If I want to remotely access my Woody computer, I > need to know the address assigned the gateway by the ISP's DHCP > server. I could then confi

Re: Using SuSE9.1 software to upgrade X?

2004-08-24 Thread Tim Kelley
On Tuesday 24 August 2004 03:21, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > Hi all, > I got SuSE 9.1 professional edition and aliened some of its GUI packages to > produce .deb packages. These packages were specifically X-related since I > wanted a better GUI than that provided by woody 3.0r2. This most especia

Re: apm warning when switch from X to console

2004-08-24 Thread Wayne Topa
Lance Hoffmeyer([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > I get this message every time I switch from X > to the console. What do I need to do so that > I don't this this message? > > $ apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x > apm: disabled - APM is not SMP safe.e/2004-08-23 I have no way of knowin

Re: How to install apache2 over an old apache2.

2004-08-24 Thread Wayne Topa
Nayyar Ahmed([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Hello All, > > I want to install apache2 over an existing apache2 installation as it > is faulty , > not working properly . apt-get --purge remove apache2 apt-get install apache2 HTH=Hope This Helps, YMMV=Your Mileage May Vary, HAND=Ha

Re: don't remove kernel 2.4 or bye-bye ppp, alsa

2004-08-24 Thread John L Fjellstad
Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I will consider upgrading the kernel but it may take a while on dialup! I feel your pain, since I'm in your situation. What I do is I downloaded the mainline kernel once and kernel-package package. From there on, I only download the patch for the new ver

Java on Debian

2004-08-24 Thread Michael Satterwhite
-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 install because of a missing library. I *KNOW* there are many people w

Re: domain name of debian

2004-08-24 Thread John L Fjellstad
John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > dnsdomainname is in /etc/resolv.conf > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /etc/resolv.conf > search demo.room > nameserver 192.168.9.4 > nameserver 192.168.8.1 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ hostname -f > Dolphin.demo.room > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ I don't think so: [EMA

Re: Debian and KDE33

2004-08-24 Thread John L Fjellstad
Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > here is the current kde info from the debian site: > stable: 2.2.25 testing: 3.1.2 unstable: 3.1.2 > although my unstable says: 3.2.3, so the site appears to a bit out of date. I think kde 3.3 has arrived in unstable. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache policy

Re: Java on Debian

2004-08-24 Thread Jeremy Brown
Michael Satterwhite wrote: 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 install because of a missing library. I *KNOW* there are many people writing Java on Debia

Re: Motherboard recommendation?

2004-08-24 Thread Dana J. Laude
Paul Gear wrote: Michael Rumpf wrote: Hi, I'm about to buy a new motherboard. Can anyone recommend a board that is known to work well with free software drivers. I just don't want to buy another board and find myself disabling most of the features as they don't work under Linux. I don't have a rec

Re: Java on Debian

2004-08-24 Thread Michael Satterwhite
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 24 August 2004 19:42, Jeremy Brown wrote: > Michael Satterwhite wrote: > >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). Unfortu

Re: Wvdial cant surf the web

2004-08-24 Thread geekboy
Thomas Adam wrote: On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 05:11:09PM -0500, Johnny wrote: Thomas I did look at /etc/ppp/resolv.conf there is know resolv.conf in that folder what do i need to do to make it. In that case, create (if it doesn't aleady exist), the file "/etc/resolv.conf" and add to it: names

Re: Debian and KDE33

2004-08-24 Thread Brian Pack
On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 01:20, John L Fjellstad wrote: > Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > here is the current kde info from the debian site: > > stable: 2.2.25 testing: 3.1.2 unstable: 3.1.2 > > although my unstable says: 3.2.3, so the site appears to a bit out of date. > > I think kde

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: Wvdial cant surf the web

2004-08-24 Thread Thomas Adam
On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 12:32:26PM +1200, geekboy wrote: > Thats the same problem I am having (thread: ppp problem) > I have adapted my resolv.conf, and even without it pppd does > automagically (as you said earlier) add the nameservers anyways. > still can't surf, can't even ping the name servers

Re: dpkg / apt equivalent to 'rpm -qf'?

2004-08-24 Thread John Summerfield
Tim Kelley wrote: On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 10:18:08PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: Seems to me the idea of creating configuration files on the fly is broken. I much prefer this: Yes, so how exactly, for example, is phpmyadmin supposed to touch files, such as httpd.conf, so that it works a

Re: Wvdial cant surf the web

2004-08-24 Thread Thomas Adam
On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 12:49:49PM +1200, geekboy wrote: > just have to figure out how to compile a kernel to remove frame buffer > so I have an x console with the nvidia drivers. goshh You can usually do this by adding: video=vga16:off to the /vmlinuz line of lilo.conf or /boot/grub/menu.list,

Re: Wvdial cant surf the web

2004-08-24 Thread Carl Fink
On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 12:49:49PM +1200, geekboy wrote: > I have adapted my resolv.conf, and even without it pppd does > automagically (as you said earlier) add the nameservers anyways. > still can't surf, can't even ping the name servers I listed. and yes > they do exist. Can you ping a known

Re: Wvdial cant surf the web

2004-08-24 Thread Thomas Adam
On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 02:00:23AM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote: > to the /vmlinuz line of lilo.conf or /boot/grub/menu.list, depending on your ^ menu.lst -- Thomas Adam -- Quis custodiet ipsos

Re: dpkg / apt equivalent to 'rpm -qf'?

2004-08-24 Thread Carl Fink
On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 08:57:42AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > 1. That I want to start a daemon as soon as I've installed it > Typically I want to install at the office, configure in the field. So download the files but don't complete the install until you're in the field. The "-d" flag to

Re: dpkg / apt equivalent to 'rpm -qf'?

2004-08-24 Thread John Summerfield
Paul E Condon wrote: It appears that there are two distinct roles for packages with respect to files: 1 the .deb of the package contains an initial copy of the file 2 the package programs/scripts are permitted/expected to maintain and update the file as needed. It is unually assumed that only one p

Re: dpkg / apt equivalent to 'rpm -qf'?

2004-08-24 Thread Thomas Adam
On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 09:06:50PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > > 3. That if I have KDE|GNOME|whatever DTE installed I always want to run > > it when I boot. > > Okay, that annoys me, too. rcconf is quite handy. But removing the symlinks in /etc/rc?.d/* for whatever DM is running, or editing /etc/

Re: New address

2004-08-24 Thread John Summerfield
Nicos Gollan wrote: On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 14:25:05 + Tal Amir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: and the reason debian-user needs to know this is.?? Hey, maybe he wanted us all to send him confirmation? ;-) Maybe we should all confirm from abuse@ someplace? Maybe if he's too smart for that

Re: Oops, no more /usr.

2004-08-24 Thread John Summerfield
Thomas Adam wrote: On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 02:48:34PM -0400, PaulNM wrote: 1: Should I tar /etc before this and overwrite it again afterwards? If so, are there any other directories I should do the same to? Unless you have made a lot of modifications, no. Of course, if you had made modific

Re: NFS, Samba, something more obscure?

2004-08-24 Thread Carl Fink
On Sat, Aug 07, 2004 at 11:33:28PM -0400, Mark Roach wrote: > On Sat, 2004-08-07 at 17:28 -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > > The other obvious choice would be Samba, which would have advantages since I > > sometimes boot my laptop into Windows XP. I also hear it's more secure than > > NFS (?) but much h

Re: domain name of debian

2004-08-24 Thread John Summerfield
John L Fjellstad wrote: John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: dnsdomainname is in /etc/resolv.conf [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /etc/resolv.conf search demo.room nameserver 192.168.9.4 nameserver 192.168.8.1 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ hostname -f Dolphin.demo.room [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ I don't

Re: Java on Debian

2004-08-24 Thread Nicholas Lativy
On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 07:24:06PM -0500, Michael Satterwhite wrote: > I *KNOW* there are many people writing Java on Debian. What tool do > you use. If Sun (what I'd prefer) what's the magic to getting it to > install? I'm using the Sun SDK here, I followed the excellent guide that can be found h

Re: dpkg / apt equivalent to 'rpm -qf'?

2004-08-24 Thread John Hasler
Thomas Adam writes: > ...But removing the symlinks in /etc/rc?.d/* for whatever DM is > running... If you remove them they will be recreated when you upgrade the package. Sysvconfig allows you to disable stuff. Just select "Enable/Disable" in the main menu and follow directions. -- John Hasler [

debian potato 2.2 - apt sources.list

2004-08-24 Thread dale lane
Hello All, For the last 2 days I have been trying to Install Debian potato 2.2r? on an old computer that I have. It only has 32 megabytes of ram and a slower processer. Is there no place that is a valid Debian 2.2 Potato Archive ? Somewhere where I can put the location in my /etc/apt/sources.lis

Re: How to suspend x86 via apm as non-root user?

2004-08-24 Thread Loki
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Ivo Marino wrote: > anyway I think apm -s should also work without being root or using sudo > for as-root execution, this is at least what happens on PowerPC > machines with pmud (Similar to apmd for x86) installed: An user can >

Re: (Sid) Net broken - Sending streams stall

2004-08-24 Thread Brendon Higgins
Me again, same problem quoted below. Doesn't anyone have any ideas about this? Any logs I could look at, configs I could tweak or variables I could alter? I'm really perplexed by this one, and I'd hate to fix it using the Windows method (ie reinstalling). I'm desperate for some ideas! Is this re

Re: (Sid) Net broken - Sending streams stall

2004-08-24 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Brendon Higgins wrote: > Me again, same problem quoted below. Doesn't anyone have any ideas about this? Looks like the TCP window scaling bug on subclass routing equipment bug to me. Probably, there is some trash routing your traffic to these sites. As usual, your chances o

Re: debian potato 2.2 - apt sources.list

2004-08-24 Thread Paolo Alexis Falcone
On Wed, 2004-08-25 at 10:05, dale lane wrote: > Hello All, > > For the last 2 days I have been trying to Install > Debian potato 2.2r? on an old computer that I have. > It only has 32 megabytes of ram and a slower processer. > > > Is there no place that is a valid Debian 2.2 Potato > Archive ? S

Qmail 1.03-32

2004-08-24 Thread C. D. Logan
Is anyone else having problems updating Qmail from 1.03-31 to 1.03-32? On 2 Sarge machines the updated -32 source builds fine and produces the .deb, but upon trying to install it, it hangs at 'Setting up Qmail", at least it hadn't proceeded after 20 minutes. Tried removing and reinstalling, r

Re: debian potato 2.2 - apt sources.list

2004-08-24 Thread Carl Fink
On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 07:05:00PM -0700, dale lane wrote: > For the last 2 days I have been trying to Install > Debian potato 2.2r? on an old computer that I have. Why? It hasn't had a security update in over a year, so it's guaranteed to be dangerous to put on a network. What makes you think

Re: debian potato 2.2 - apt sources.list

2004-08-24 Thread Carl Fink
On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 11:15:39AM +0800, Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote: > deb http://archive.debian.org potato main contrib non-free But that server appears to be down. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading http://www.jabootu.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: building or obtaining debian non-free CDs ?

2004-08-24 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 07:19:31AM -0400, B Thomas wrote: > Hi, > I was trying to find a US vendor for debian non-free CDs . Looks like > there were only 2, cheapbytes.com and linux-cd.com. However neither have > non-free woody CDs listed on their web page. > > I am unable to get debian-cd to work

icecast

2004-08-24 Thread Steven Jones
I am looking to stream some of my own music, looks like icecast is a good candidate. can anyone offer/suggest?, 1) Good URLs for documentation? 2) Alternative applications for a Debian based box, if they are easier to do? regards Thing

Re: dpkg / apt equivalent to 'rpm -qf'?

2004-08-24 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 06:00:47PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: > John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> ...and having a lot of empty files in /etc is just pointless. > > > > Where would any empty files come from? > > How should a package tell dpkg to install an empty file, if it needs > tha

Re: building or obtaining debian non-free CDs ?

2004-08-24 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya b On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, B Thomas wrote: > On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 06:10:48AM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > > > > if i understand it correctly, jigdo is nice if it allows one to d/l > > only the new changed files on the cdrom (i have yet to play and test it ) > > > but you could download full

Re: building or obtaining debian non-free CDs ? - margins

2004-08-24 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya travis On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Travis Crump wrote: > > Non-US cds are available with lot of vendors and at many mirrors. But > > not a single Non-Free CD. > > B Thomas > > > > Umm, a major reason for a package going into non-free is a prohibtion on > commercial redistribution. It would p

Re: ndiswrapper/Sarge Newbie

2004-08-24 Thread Roger Creasy
Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: hi ya rogerOn Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Roger Creasy wrote:> >I am trying to set up ndiswrapper under Sarge. Do Debian specific instructions for this process exists? If so, can anyone direct me to them? If not, can anyone who has had success with this send me the how-t

Re: building or obtaining debian non-free CDs ?

2004-08-24 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, B Thomas wrote: > On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 06:10:48AM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > > > > why not just d/l the entire cdrom collection onto the new debian.osu.edu > > connection and burn your own cd's ? > > debian.osu.edu is either not up or access restricted even from wi

Re: How to remove pakages and then install new...!

2004-08-24 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 08:15:28PM +0530, Nayyar Ahmed wrote: > Hello All, > > I am receiving error when i un-install the apache2 pakage , > as i have given the following command i.e > > > > debian:/home/neenix# apt-get remove apache2 > > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Depe

Re: New address

2004-08-24 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Nicos Gollan wrote: > On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 14:25:05 + > Tal Amir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > and the reason debian-user needs to know this is.?? > > Hey, maybe he wanted us all to send him confirmation? ;-) or it's a blatant not-so-fancy spam ... to get

Re: ndiswrapper/Sarge Newbie

2004-08-24 Thread Carl Fink
On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 05:56:41PM -0700, Roger Creasy wrote: > I followed the instructions at the link provided above. When I > entered the "make" command I got the following: "You don't seem to > have sources for your kernel; install them in /usr/src, link > /lib/modules/2.6.7-1-386/build to it

Re: ndiswrapper/Sarge Newbie

2004-08-24 Thread Alvin Oga
On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Roger Creasy wrote: > > > Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > hi ya roger > > On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Roger Creasy wrote: > > > >I am trying to set up ndiswrapper under Sarge. Do Debian specific instructions > > >for this process exists? If so, can anyone direct m

Re: ndiswrapper/Sarge Newbie - link

2004-08-24 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya roger On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Carl Fink wrote: > On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 05:56:41PM -0700, Roger Creasy wrote: > > > I have the cd set for Sarge. Where to I find the sources for the > > kernel? Do I merely copy them to the directory in the error? Or are > > there other steps? How do I "lin

Real Time monitoring/alerting utility..

2004-08-24 Thread Michael Bellears
We have a client who is wanting real-time notifications of FTP/SSH connections to there WebServer - Could this be achieved with a TCPWrappers script for those two services? Or is there a utility available that can do this? They will have a firewall sitting in front of the server, but would like a

Re: Debian equivalent of /etc/profile.d

2004-08-24 Thread Jeremy Brown
Jeremy Brown wrote: I respect the established Debian policy...but I do disagree. I think it is possible to build an environment-variable-setting system that works with multiple shells, like the one currently in Slackware. OK, I eat my words. After about 5 hours of thinking about this off and o

Re: Real Time monitoring/alerting utility..

2004-08-24 Thread Alvin Oga
On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Michael Bellears wrote: > We have a client who is wanting real-time notifications of FTP/SSH > connections to there WebServer - Could this be achieved with a > TCPWrappers script for those two services? Or is there a utility > available that can do this? > > They will have

Re: Real Time monitoring/alerting utility..

2004-08-24 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 02:32:08PM +1000, Michael Bellears wrote: > We have a client who is wanting real-time notifications of FTP/SSH > connections to there WebServer - Could this be achieved with a > TCPWrappers script for those two services? Or is there a utility > available that can do this? >

Re: enable bonding

2004-08-24 Thread Jacob Friis Larsen
This works: # apt-get install ifenslave In /etc/modules I put "bonding miimon=250". In /etc/network/interfaces I put this: auto bond0 iface bond0 inet static address 1.2.3.4 netmask 1.2.3.4 gateway 1.2.3.4 up ifenslave bond0 eth0 up ifenslave bond0 eth1 post-down ifconfig et

Re: domain name of debian

2004-08-24 Thread David Baron
OK--I have a dynamic DNS to my.domain.net, for example. Now the hostname ends up being computer.my.domain.net. If I want use email to users on this system, how do I set up exim4 and what would be the address? [EMAIL PROTECTED] OR [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tuesday 24 August 2004 15:36, [EMAIL PROTE

Problems uninstalling

2004-08-24 Thread Pablo Cebrian
Sorry, I've a problem. in My pc, I have two hard disks, one with Linux and other with Windows. In the Linux hard disk I installed some time ago an OpenCaldera distribution of Linux, and recently I've installed in that hard disk Debian too. Debian works correctly, but the Caldera Openlinux is b

Apache2 SSL package

2004-08-24 Thread Jacob Friis Larsen
Can I use SSL with apache2-mpm-prefork? If so I can't find the package I need. Thanks, Jacob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

how can i fix this apache startup error..?

2004-08-24 Thread Nayyar Ahmed
Hello All, when i want to run the apache web server i get following error. debian:/home/neenix# /etc/init.d/apache start Configuration syntax error detected. Not reloading. fopen: No such file or directory apache: could not open document config file /etc/apache/modules.conf waiting for reply

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