Re: Fedora

- Original Message - From: ken keanon To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 25, 2004 3:47 AM Subject: Fedora > Hi, > This Fedora project is developing along the same line as Debian i.e. community-base, > open-sourced. What's more, It is supported by RedHat. -

Can't eject CD

Pse help newbie - My CD/RW lite is on, and I can't eject the CD. I really don't want to reboot just for this. My device is ATAPI:0,0,0. I've tried cdrecord -eject to no avail. Any help please? Debian Sarge -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troub

{ugh} Front Page Extensions

I've been on this list awhile now, and I've never seen this topic. I was wondering if anyone here would consider mentoring a newbie (off-list) with the installation of {ugh} FP Extensions on an up-to-date Debian Sarge server? Any tips/pitfalls? I've read what I can find on related FPE sites, but

Re: Firestarter for Testing (Sarge)?

> After a lot of reading, the problem is solved. I'm running > firestarter on Sarge and it works great :) > > I read through Chapter 6 of the Debian Reference manual, > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/reference.en.html. I > created the file /etc/apt/prefences and placed the following

Re: Backup and Restore Strategy

I don't know how big your system is, but I have been very happy recently with Mondo. I recently had occasion to test the bare-metal restore, and it worked perfectly, to a different machine even! In less than an hour, I had a clone of the other box - everything - OS and data. I'm on esting/Sa

Help syslog/cron

I'm getting a cron message every morning (snippet below) that is getting irritating! I've deleted the syslog and started fresh, but it always comes back, and with the same date. It involves everything that uses syslog, e.g. spamd and fetchmail, and there for is not imited to one process that I

Re: webmin on debian testing.

- Original Message - From: "Steven Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "debian-user list" Sent: Sunday, May 29, 2005 6:27 PM Subject: webmin on debian testing. Hi, I have an issue with webmin, I can login as root to 127.0.0.1:1 with the unix root password, but I cannot login to its ext

Re: reconstruct the system

What can I do ?? Restore from the regular weekly/daily backups you keep. I haven't, but what is the best way for do it back up of the system, any documentation over there ?? Think about using Mondoarchive. You should be able to backup your whole system to one or a few DVDs or CDs. If you

Re: sarge: last night's "apt-get" overwrites/changes /etc/X11/XF86Config-4

- Original Message - From: "Hannes Mayer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Sunday, June 05, 2005 10:05 AM Subject: Re: sarge: last night's "apt-get" overwrites/changes /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 On 6/5/05, Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wr

Re: knoppix -> sarge possible?

Is it possible to "upgrade" my Knoppix 3.8.1 (on CD) to sarge without a clean install? DON'T DO IT! No one would recommend it! When I first started, I had a lot of trouble with installing Debian (my problem - It's easy now!). So I installed Knoppix (easy), changed my sources.list to the mai

Bayes? - 3rd try

Not sure what I'm doing wrong, but noone has responded to my question - If Bayes is working properly, am I supposed to have a Bayes_ entry in the X-Spam_Status header info for every email? I think that's the way it used to be - Bayes_00 - Bayes_99 etc. Lately it seems that only the spam email

Sorry - wrong list!

I posted to the wrong list this time - my apologies! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Sarge SM security question

SquirrelMail has released a security patch. Will that eventually show up in a Sarge security update? As a new user of "stable" (previously testing), I have no experience with security updates. Tnx - John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble

Re: Sarge: mondo problems

Unfortunately mondo is a tricky beast to get to work. In the past I've had to try multiple versions from the above source, until something works. I'd like to be able to upgrade my work server to sarge, but I'll need to sort these issues out first. I've had a stock Sarge install going since i

Re: Configuring Network Card

Anyway, I'm trying to install linux and I can't get debian to detect my Intel Pro 10/100 network card. I just bought an emachines T3958 desktop to setup linux and learn how to use it, but I need the networking capabilities. I've tried using both kernel 2.2 and 2.4, when I try to install I had

Pse explain apt-get msg

What does it mean when update gets packages, but then upgrade doesn't do anything? Thanks! #apt-get update Get:1 http://ftp.us.debian.org sarge/main Packages [3124kB] Hit http://security.debian.org sarge/updates/main Packages Get:2 http://security.debian.org sarge/updates/main Release [111B] Get:

Re: Pse explain apt-get msg

begin quotation of John Fleming on 2004-10-13 07:50:53 -0500: > What does it mean when update gets packages, but then upgrade > doesn't do anything? Thanks! >None of the packages you have installed have candidates for update. Then why did it get something? tnx -- To UNSUBSC

Re: web-based calendaring that syncs w/ evo?

- Original Message - From: "Matt Price" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "debian users" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 08, 2004 12:06 AM Subject: web-based calendaring that syncs w/ evo? > hi folks, > > I'm looking for a way to publish an iCal calendar to the web in a > format that ca

Re: Webmin (Sarge)

- Original Message - From: "S.D.A." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "debian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 18, 2004 9:09 AM Subject: Webmin (Sarge) I recently installed the Debian Sarge Webmin package -- previously I had used the current version from . I did t

Re: Webmin (Sarge)

> In the last update I added an upstream fix for the cron module. Looks > like it broke something. Investigating... FWIW, my cron jobs are back in the Webmin listing. My problem might have been local; not sure about the other poster. -John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

cdrecord --scanbus

Debian Sarge - I can burn CDs using K3B from the GUI, but I can't do anything that uses cdrecord from the console, e.g. mondoarchive or direct cdrecord commands. Here's the response from cdrecord --scanbus: # cdrecord --scanbus Cdrecord-Clone 2.01a34 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jö

cdrecord --scanbus

Debian Sarge - I can burn CDs using K3B from the GUI, but I can't do anything that uses cdrecord from the console, e.g. mondoarchive or direct cdrecord commands. Here's the response from cdrecord --scanbus: # cdrecord --scanbus Cdrecord-Clone 2.01a34 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jö

Re: cdrecord --scanbus

>From Eric: > Please post the output of uname -a so we can see what kernel version you are using. Also post the output from: cdrecord dev=ATA: -scanbus Linux wa9als.com 2.4.26-1-386 #1 Tue Aug 24 13:31:19 JST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux # # cd

Re: Subject=Re: cdrecord --scanbus

- Original Message - From: "[KS]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2004 2:17 PM Subject: Subject=Re: cdrecord --scanbus > Check your CD/DVD drives using > > $>cdrecord -scanbus dev=ATAPI # cdrecord -scanbus dev=ATAPI Cdrecord-Clone 2.01a34 (i686-pc

Re: Subject=Re: cdrecord --scanbus

- Original Message - From: "Eric Gaumer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2004 5:02 PM Subject: Re: Subject=Re: cdrecord --scanbus >> scsidev: 'ATAPI' >> devname: 'ATAPI' >> scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2 >> Warning: Using ATA Packet interface. >The

Re: clamav

> > Can someone present an example of how to run clamav from the procmail files? > > > > I've only seen it run as a daemon with amavisd-new. The simplest thing I've found is to use the clamassassin script. This runs clamscan (not clamd), tags the mail, and reports virii found. You simply call c

sa-stats -u only showing for root

When I run sa-stats.pl and ask for breakdown by users (-u), I'm only showing data for one user, and that is root.  Consistent with this, the mail.log file shows messages being received for root, at least as seen by spamd.   I guess I'm running spamc/spamd as root as judged by other entries

apt-get and Mailman

I'm having a problem with Mailman - error below. My lists work, but I can't view any of the pertinent web pages (like to create a new list or any other admin task). There seems to be at least one error with /var/lib/mailman/logs. This file is apparently a link to a nonexistent file. It appears

SOLVED Re: apt-get and Mailman

- Original Message - From: "Antonio Rodriguez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2004 5:49 PM Subject: Re: apt-get and Mailman > On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 05:31:07PM -0500, John Fleming wrote: > > I'm having a pro

USB Disk

Running unstable - How to get USB disk mounted? My fstab is: # /etc/fstab: filesystem table. # # filesystem mountpoint type options dump pass /dev/hda2 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/fd0 /floppy vfat defaults,user,noauto,showexec,umask=0

Help USB disk

I apologize if this is a repeat - My server was down awhile and I haven't seen my own post and not sure it got sent. I plugged my USB disk into the computer and bad things apparently happened! I'm functional again, but not sure what happened! Could someone please tell me or direct me to an expla

SOLVED Re: Help USB disk

> Could someone please tell me or direct me to an explanation of how to use a > USB disk (memory stick) on Debian unstable? I've done this on Redhat with > the same hardware, and I've seen similar threads here, but I can't get it > going. Thanks! - John I finally got it going from the archiv in

cron runs 1 hr not another

Can someone tell me why cron runs the 0500 job and not the 1700 job and/where to look for clues? Thanks [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc# crontab -l # 7 * * * * sa-learn --mbox --spam /home/john/Spam 0 5,17 * * * perl /etc/mail/spamassassin/sa-stats.pl -u -s 'yesterday' -e 'now' --logfile=/var/log/mail.log

ClamAV upgrade unstable

I upgraded ClamAV today via apt-get. Now I'm seeing this email header on a clean message: X-Virus-Status: Failed X-Virus-Report: /usr/bin/clamdscan error 2 Am I experiencing the unstableness of Sid and should just wait? I'm pretty new to Debian procedures - Do I need to report this anywhere? T

ClamAV problem after upgrade

ClamAV (clamd) was working fine until I upgraded Debian unstable today. Now I'm getting the following header added to ALL emails: X-Virus-Status: Failed X-Virus-Report: /usr/bin/clamdscan error 2 I deleted my clamav log and restarted clamav. The new log starts out as usual, but the first email

Re: [Clamav-users] Clamdscan Error 2

- Original Message - From: "John Fleming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2004 10:14 PM Subject: [Clamav-users] Clamdscan Error 2 > ClamAV (clamd) was working fine until I updated Debian unstable today. Now > I'm gett

Re: Safely Upgrading Packages

- Original Message - From: "Simon Kitching" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Michael B Allen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July 26, 2004 2:01 AM Subject: Re: Safely Upgrading Packages > On Mon, 2004-07-26 at 18:43, Michael B Allen wrote: > > I've been running Debian

Re: Safely Upgrading Packages

> > Errors were encountered while processing: > > /var/cache/apt/archives/alsa-utils_1.0.5-3_i386.deb > > /var/cache/apt/archives/libntfs5_1.9.0-1_i386.deb > > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# > > > > Any help greatly appreciated. - John > > It sai

Re: Safely Upgrading Packages

- Original Message - From: "John Fleming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July 26, 2004 8:58 AM Subject: Re: Safely Upgrading Packages > > > Errors were encountered while processing: > > > /var/cache/apt/archives/alsa-

Re: dpkg-reconfigure

> How do I find the list of packages reconfigurable with dpkg-reconfigure? dpkg -C will show unpacked, but unconfigured packages. I had just run it when I saw your email! - John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED

SOLVED - Re: Safely Upgrading Packages

- Original Message - From: "Carlos Sousa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July 26, 2004 5:23 PM Subject: Re: Safely Upgrading Packages > On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 07:54:20 -0500 John Fleming wrote: > > ... > > Unpacking alsa-ut

Re: SOLVED - Re: Safely Upgrading Packages

- Original Message - From: "Carlos Sousa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "John Fleming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July 26, 2004 9:36 PM Subject: Re: SOLVED - Re: Safely Upgrading Packages > > Please don't emai

ClamAV

Somewhat OT [maybe], but I have a logging problem related to ClamAV, and I haven't received a single response to my post on that list. Anyone know what's wrong with this (below)? Using Debian Unstable, ClamAV 0.74 from unstable dist. I seem to remember that when I first started using ClamAV, the

Re: Help Installing / Upgrading Cron

- Original Message - From: "Aaron B" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2004 10:19 PM Subject: Help Installing / Upgrading Cron -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all. I've recently had problems installing / upgrading cron from apt-get.

Re: Help Installing / Upgrading Cron

- Original Message - From: "Ralph Crongeyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2004 11:18 AM Subject: Re: Help Installing / Upgrading Cron > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=261897 > > The maintainer fixed it and has posted the fixed p

Re: How popular is Debian (popularity contest)

- Original Message - From: "John Summerfield" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2004 6:45 AM Subject: Re: How popular is Debian (popularity contest) > George Roman wrote: > > >" right" is a relative word. debian is the right cho

Possible convert to Debian

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 fresh install of each upgrade, and of course, Fedora has a

THANKS Re: Possible convert to Debian

> That should be right. Up to my laptop which I installed fresh from the > new installer -THANK YOU- to all that have replied to this thread! For my originally stated purposes, I am going to try to go with Debian stable. I already have the Knoppix version of Sid on my laptop, so I can continue t

Re: Stalled AT Poor Man's install with KNOPPIX 3.4

> > To boot from hard-disk, you have to install it on disk first. > > 1. boot the system using Knoppix-3.4 cd > 2. on boot prompt choose > knoppix26 lang=en >(kernel-2.6.5) > 3. in the console window type >cp /usr/sbin/knoppix-installer . >sudo ./knoppix-installer >(follow it

Newbie firewall for Sarge

Is there anything analagous to pmfirewall in Sarge (2.6 kernel)? I downloaded pmfirewall because I was familiar with it, but it's not compatible with the 2.6 kernel. I need something newbie-easy that I can configure remotely. Thanks - John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: Newbie firewall for Sarge

> On Friday 11 June 2004 07:30 pm, John Fleming wrote: > > Is there anything analagous to pmfirewall in Sarge (2.6 kernel)? I > > downloaded pmfirewall because I was familiar with it, but it's not > > compatible with the 2.6 kernel. I need something newbie-easy that I

Help ipchains and Firestarter

Thanks to those that answered my earlier questions about firewalls with 2.6 kernel and Sarge! I am now running Firestarter. However, when I try to use "Save" following the Wizard, or after manually trying to open a port, I get the message "No chain/target/match by that name". I assume something

Help proftpd

Proftpd only has one config file, and it doesn't seem complicated. However, it seems I only have anonymous ftp service. This is interesting because all of the anonymous section of the conf file is commented out by default. What am I missing? What is the key element in having "normal" access by

Help proftpd

Proftpd only has one config file, and it doesn't seem complicated. However, it seems I only have anonymous ftp service. This is interesting because all of the anonymous section of the conf file is commented out by default. What am I missing? What is the key element in having "normal" access by

Downloading uw-imapd folders

I have uw-imapd installed and working in that Squirrelmail works nicely. However, using a Windose box, I'm having trouble getting the correct folders downloaded. The Windose client will let me specify the path to my mail folders. If I leave it blank, it appears to be downloading hundreds of thous

Pse help Debian/ uw-imapd with Win OE

Could someone engage me off-list about setting up a Win box IMAP account to interface with Debian uw-IMAP please? I think I just need to know the proper root folder path to enter in the OE IMAP account settings. I've done this successfully with a Fedora box running uw-imap, but with my Debian ins

Re: Another "testing" vs "unstable" question

> UPGRADE FROM PREVIOUS RELEASES > Because Red Hat Linux Release 4.2 is built with advanced RPM > technology, your system will never become obsolete. As new > releases become available you can upgrade any or all of your > components to the newest versions using a simple upgrade program >

Clamassassin

I need a tiny bit of help with Clamassassin on a Debian system. Clamassassin, of course, is a script that calls ClamAV's clamscan to scan email for viruses. Clamscan works from the console and detects a test virus string. Clamassassin writes new headers to the email, but it's not detecting t

Can't ssh

Since yesterday I can't ssh in to my Debian unstable box, fully upgraded. When using Putty, as soon as the terminal window opens, it immediately closes. This is true whether from another machine on the LAN, or from a more remote machine. I've checked with and without my Firestarter firewall - no

When Sarge becomes stable - upgrading?

Consider the case of someone running testing when it becomes the stable release. At that point, can they change apt sources to stable and security and continue updating/upgrading? Or do they have to stay with the testing sources? I know about dist-upgrading to a less stable release, but I'd like

X-UIDL question

I've switched from unstable (via Knoppix) to testing. I'm using Postifx as before. The last line in my mail headers is an X-UIDL header (see below) that I hven't seen before. Any idea where this is coming from and how I can affect it? Thanks - John X-Virus-Status: No X-Virus-Checker-Version: c

Can't post? or receive

I'm not getting mail from the list despite unsubscribing and re-subscribing. If anyone sees this post (I won't), please email me directly and let me know. Thanks - John [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROT

Help upgrade

I've been here before and recovered, but I need help again. I have a Debian Unstable install that I'm trying to get up to date. When I try to upgrade or dist-upgrade, I get a bunch of packages held back, and in trying to install 2, I get various errors. I've tried apt-get -f install, and I've tr

SquirrelMail out of unstable

SquirrelMail was removed during an apt-get upgrade yesterday. Will it reappear later in an upgrade when things are fixed, or do I need to keep trying apt-get install squirrelmail to see when it's available? IOW will apt-get remember that I want SM? Thanks - John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

Software RAID using Sarge Installer

Would someone help me, preferably off-list if the question's too simple, know exactly what choices to make using the new Sarge installer and RAID 1 for mirroring? During the partitioning, there is a chance to set up RAID 1, but I don't fully understand exactly what partitions are required. I just

apt-get and distro aliases

Reading recent threads, I plan to install Sarge and change apt sources to name-based, i.e. to "Sarge" rather than "testing". My understanding is that when Sarge becomes "stable", I will stay with Sarge and be able to get security updates. I am now running unstable. I just tried an update using "

File permissions? Poss OT

Please bear with me - I had a working virtual host on Debian unstable and Apache 1.3.31 with web files in the user's /home/username/www/ directory. (name-based virtual hosting). I had some problems and ended up reinstalling unstable. I restored the user's ../www/ folder from a Mondoarchive CD, as

Re: File permissions? Poss OT

On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 12:01:21 -0500 "John Fleming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please bear with me - I had a working virtual host on Debian unstable > and Apache 1.3.31 with web files in the user's /home/username/www/ > directory.(name-based virtual hosting). I ha

Re: File permissions? Poss OT-SOLVED

There was an Alias of /images to /usr/share/images in httpd.conf. This must not be there by default in the unstable distro. Thanks Jacob. - John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Flashing Dell FP monitor

Debian testing - Using a new Dell FP monitor, I have the following problem - Using the KDE desktop, it is fine for an hour or so. Then the display will blank whenever the screen updates with a new window etc. Then after another hour or so, the whole screen will start flashing every few seconds ev

REALTEK driver?

I have an eMachines computer that my kids use that I'm trying to get going with Sarge. If I use Knoppix/Debian Unstable, it finds eth0, gets IP from DHCP on my LAN, and we're on the Net fine. However, the Sarge installer does NOT get IP and therefore doesn't find the Internet. Interestingly, bot

No mail from list

Not sure if I can post or not. I stopped getting mail from this list 2 days ago. I've tried unsubscribing, subscribing, and subscribing from another addy - nada - no email from the list at all, no subscription confirmation or anything. Help? (off-list - reading the archives via browser is tedi

Console output?

Is this coming from my firewall (Firestarter) somehow? If so, why?? 64.105.56.109 is my IP, but I don't know what the other one is 64.105.106.5) Thanks - John Appears on console screen, over and over, but not on remote ssh screen: IN=eth0) OUT= MAC= 00:c0:9f:38:15:eb:00:e0:eb:74:7f:C8:08:00: SRC

Re: Console output?

Hello John Fleming (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Is this coming from my firewall (Firestarter) somehow? If so, why?? > 64.105.56.109 is my IP, but I don't know what the other one is > 64.105.106.5) Thanks - John > > Appears on console screen, over and over, but

Install Compress::Zlib

I'm trying to use the ClamAV Webmin module. The module seems to work, but there is a message to please install Compress::Zlib. However, when I try to do with CPAN, I get the follwoing: CPAN.pm: Going to build P/PM/PMQS/Compress-Zlib-1.33.tar.gz Parsing config.in... Building Zlib enabled Look

Re: Install Compress::Zlib

Florian Ernst uni-hd.de> writes: > > Hello John, hello list! > libdate-manip-perl, libhtml-parser-perl, libcompress-zlib-perl are the > respective package names. You can find their names by searching the > contents of packages on . > > HTH, > Flo > Tha

CAN'T SUBSCRIBE

Sorry bandwidth, but I've hit a wall trying to subscribe. My previously-subscribed debian-user email stopped about August 28th, and I've tried everything to get it back. I've tried UNsubscribing and SUBscribing from several different email addys, different ISPs, and from different machines. No m

Re: CAN'T SUBSCRIBE

Blake Swadling swadling.com> writes: > > No matter what/where, I don't receive ANYTHING from Debian - no confirmation > > requests, no email period. > > try ensuring that you send in text only format. i found difficulty when > emails were formatted in html. Thanks, but that's not the problem.

System Monitor

What easy (newbie) way could I get a report of CPU and memory use averaged over 24 hrs? I've had some issues with SpamAssassin using a lot of available memory recently (probably too many network tests and rulesets). I can watch it using top but would like a 24 hr average report. An emailed repor

Finished Re: System Monitor

> sar | mail -s "sar output" [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ;-) > > -- > Nate Duehr, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks to all that suggested system monitors. sar does what I want, but being the newbie that I am, it took awhile for me to figure out that sar is in the sysstat package. Tnx agn - John -- To UNSUB

Re: sarge release

> because the final Sarge "will be ready when it will be ready", and it will be > _good_ and _stable_ > That's what's really important, no? Really naive question - Could recently-released SpamAssassin 3.0 still make it into Sarge, or is that way too new and not enough time to make it into Sarge? I

cdrecord and k3b

My mondoarchive couldn't write to my cdrom, and I started looking around for why. K3B works perfectly from the KDE desktop, but cdrecord doesn't seem to be able to find the cdrom. Here is some pertinent output from cdrecord and FSTAB. Can someone explain what's going on and how to get my cdrecor

Re: Does Unstable become Testing?

> Except the thing testing is symlinked to is no longer sarge but etch, > which is a cloned copy of sarge which points to the exact same packages. > > I think I get it. The real entities are woody, sarge, etch, sid; > unstable/testing/stable/oldstable are just convenient shortcuts. So will there

Re: mondoarchive

- Original Message - From: "Hugo Vanwoerkom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 12:41 PM Subject: Re: mondoarchive debian user wrote: I am running Sarge. I apt-get(ted) the stable mondo tools and am trying to use mondoarchive. When doing a test archive for

Re: going from Xwindows to console

- Original Message - From: "jekillen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Sunday, October 07, 2007 6:28 PM Subject: going from Xwindows to console Hello; I've installed Debian 4.1 and would like to know how to drop out of Xwindows into a console display. It seems to be different from dist

Using backports after upgrade

Hello - I was running Sarge with SpamAssassin upgrades from backports.org. Then I upgraded to Etch. I have backports in my sources.list, but I don't seem to be getting SA updates. (My SA is 3.1.7, and latest seems to be 3.2.3) Is there something about my upgrading from sarge to etch that cou

Re: Re: Using backports after upgrade

I think that you may find that the SA upgrades have migrated to debian-volatile. Its a new official service for upgrades that are not security-minded (as is security.debian.org) but that info changes (such as virus and spam scanners). If so, its just one more line in your sources.list. Doug. -

fsck'd

Backgroud - I had a well-established LAMP server that was giving some filesystem errors on boot, with the "hit control-D to continue or give root password to fix manually" message. It would go ahead and work normally if I hit Control-D. However, I wanted to try to get rid of the error and need for

Re: fsck'd

On 3/7/08, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 08:29:08AM -0500, John Fleming wrote: > > Backgroud - I had a well-established LAMP server that was giving some > > filesystem errors on boot, with the "hit control-D to continue or giv

Re: fsck'd - FIXED

On 3/7/08, John Fleming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 3/7/08, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 08:29:08AM -0500, John Fleming wrote: > > > Backgroud - I had a well-established LAMP server that was giving some > > > f

Re: fsck'd - FIXED

On 3/7/08, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 08:53:18PM -0500, John Fleming wrote: > > > Sorry to answer my own post, but it's FIXED! When it got to the > > "enter root password to enter maintenance", I did that, and at

Restore apache help

Continuing to restore my server - I've installed apache and restored my home dirs and /etc/apache dir. That's not adequate though, as other configs are needed. Right now every browse is directed to the default /var/www dir and my httpd.conf is being ignored due to various references to other conf

Re: Firestarter bug?

- Original Message - From: "Default User" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Sunday, July 23, 2006 10:09 PM Subject: Firestarter bug? Very strange. I installed Firestarter on Debian Stable (i386). It is picking up the routine periodic dhcp send events from my router, and sending them

Thanks latest Sarge ClamAV!

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Volatile vs backports

Obvious noob question - What is the difference for a Sarge user, between Debian volatile vs backports for things like clamav and spamassassin? My sources.list includes volatile for these things, but reading the backports site, it sounds like a similar idea...?? Tnx - John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Latest Squirrelmail

- Original Message - From: "Ernst-Magne Vindal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Debian users" Sent: Monday, September 04, 2006 10:26 AM Subject: Re: Latest Squirrelmail -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 4 Sep 2006, Wolfe, Robert wrote: Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2006 09:42:43

Re: Why Installing php and pecl so difficult in Debian?

> The apt-get install can't find any phpDid youapt-cache search php ?? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Which backup package?

I know of amanda and bacula. Are there others I should look at? Any suggestions, recommendations? http://www.mondorescue.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

update-grub problem

I'm trying to install linux-image-2.6.18-6-686 using apt-get. I recently made the recommended change in /etc/kernel-img.conf to include: postinst_hook = usr/sbin/update-grub postrm_hook = usr/sbin/update-grub When I run the apt-get install, the configuration fails with the error about "C

Re: update-grub problem

What is the current working directory when this script gets run. You told it usr/sbin/update-grub not /usr/sbin/update-grub Note the difference. I still don't know why this is necessary. During the most recent kernel upgrade in Etch, I watched carefully for the usual warning message about not

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