Sarge "dist-upgrade" crashes during KDE

2005-01-05 Thread TreeBoy
. Has anybody any ideas how I might resolve this, please? I've even tried "apt-get remove kdesktop" but that has the same complaints. If there is some very simple fix (even if it is just removing all of KDE to re-install - please tell me how. Thanks in advance. TreeBoy -- Stop sear

Re: Sound over X (was Re: X and sound on debian, really wanted!)

2005-05-25 Thread TreeBoy
Do you mean NAS (Network Audio System) which is available on Debian now. I'm intending to try and sort this out for myself this very weekend. I'll post if you're interested. Cheers, TreeBoy On Wednesday 25 May 2005 18:36, Marty wrote: > Hendrik Boom wrote: > >Su

Re: Sound over X (was Re: X and sound on debian, really wanted!)

2005-05-29 Thread TreeBoy
27;m going to look at ESD and then aRTS if that fails. Will let you know. Cheers, TreeBoy On Thursday 26 May 2005 00:46, Marty wrote: > TreeBoy wrote: > > Do you mean NAS (Network Audio System) which is available on Debian now. > > That seems to be something else. The slashdot

Re: On IMAP servers

2005-06-06 Thread TreeBoy
dozen accounts, but over 100,000 mails in total. It's also my firewall, has an apache admin suite and is my home DNS/DHCP server. I am writing documentation for this, and you will hopefully be able to find more info at the website for the charity that I work for. If anyone is interested, I shal

Re: Sound over X

2005-06-09 Thread TreeBoy
ame of my laptop as the destination. SUCCESS!!! I haven't yet found how to use esddsp, which I believe I need to use xine or whatever. I just get no noise at all and no error message - dagnabbit! Cheers, Peter On Sunday 29 May 2005 20:06, TreeBoy wrote: > Hi, again. > > Managed

Re: Sound over X

2005-06-09 Thread TreeBoy
Marvellous! I've always been somewhat daunted by the mplayer manual, so this piece of enlightenment is truly well received. I have to ask, though, how do I get SDL games to use this ESD server too? Many thanks, TreeBoy On Thursday 09 Jun 2005 15:18, Cam wrote: > Thanks!... i've

Re: [Bit OT] Printers

2005-06-15 Thread TreeBoy
On Wednesday 15 Jun 2005 01:06, Olle Eriksson wrote: > On Tuesday 14 June 2005 14.58, michael wrote: > > On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 12:35 +0100, Graham Smith wrote: > > > [...] > > > I'm looking to get a half way decent laser printer for my (very) new > > > small business. If possible I would like colou

3c59x driver woes with 2.6.8 kernel.

2004-09-29 Thread TreeBoy
so I have no means of copying the log so I may have mis-typed the above, despite having checked it many times.) If I use the Sarge installer, I get a network with no problems at all. But upon reboot (with the 2.6.8-1 kernel) these problems occur. Any help would be appreciated. Regards, TreeBoy

Re: Antispam + antivirus + blocking attachments

2005-12-18 Thread TreeBoy
On Friday 16 Dec 2005 12:56, Philippe Dhont (Sea-ro) wrote: > Hello, > > Is there an smtp gateway that can block spam, has antivirus and the > ability to block attachments ? > I was thinking about DSPAM with addons but maybe there is a better > solution that has everything onboard. > > Grtz, > Phil

Re: Browsers get stuck on some websites.

2005-07-11 Thread TreeBoy
I get exactly the same thing with some ad servers (Falkag kills me at www.theregister.co.uk) at some locations. This happens on LInux with Firefox or Windows with Firefox or IE. It appears to be a routing congestion issue and generally disappears after a while. I've just learned to live with i

Re: Browsers get stuck on some websites.

2005-07-11 Thread TreeBoy
of those ? Regards, On Monday 11 Jul 2005 20:01, [KS] wrote: > TreeBoy wrote: > > As an aside: your browser does not "hang" - it just doesn't render - > > hanging is a very specific phrase. > > Right now, the browser just "hangs". It does not repond

Re: DNAT problem in Shorewall

2005-07-15 Thread TreeBoy
What do you mean "doesn't work" ? This is precisely how I do it on all of the installs that I have running around the country. I would presume that the error is actually at your internal web server. Cheers, On Friday 15 Jul 2005 09:01, askar k wrote: > Hello! > > In shorewall/rules I set up t

Re: why ports 111, 113 and 772 are open?

2005-07-15 Thread TreeBoy
On Friday 15 Jul 2005 09:37, askar k wrote: > Hello. > > As a firewall I use shorewall. > In rules of shoreall there's no line accepting connection for ports > 111, 113 and 772. > But when I nmap myself I have: > PORTSTATE SERVICE > 21/tcp open ftp > 22/tcp open ssh > 25/tcp open smtp > 5

Re: DNAT problem in Shorewall

2005-07-15 Thread TreeBoy
On Friday 15 Jul 2005 11:10, askar k wrote: > > Sorry to sound tedious, but what do you mean "doesn't show the page" ? > > I mean that it doesn't show the page which can be shown by > http://192.168.0.100/ > > > Does the browser say it can't find the machine ? > > > > Does the browser display an er

Re: why ports 111, 113 and 772 are open?

2005-07-15 Thread TreeBoy
On Friday 15 Jul 2005 11:21, askar k wrote: > > When you try nmap from a different machine do you still get these open ? > > From outside port 113 only shown and closed, the other 2 are not here. > > PORTSTATE SERVICE > 21/tcp open ftp > 22/tcp open ssh > 25/tcp open smtp > 80/tcp op

Re: DNAT problem in Shorewall

2005-07-15 Thread TreeBoy
I am now getting really confused. You have three machines in the subnet 192.168.0.0/24 They are: IPFQDN Description 1 ??? Linux Firewall/Gateway 100 www.mydomain.com Linux webserver running apache ? ??? XP box You are tryin

Re: DNAT problem in Shorewall

2005-07-15 Thread TreeBoy
On Friday 15 Jul 2005 16:36, askar k wrote: > Hello! > > I came back home (the previous email I was sending from work) and > found that DNAT works!!! :) > > I wonder why it works now. But it should also work from LAN, am I right? > > And in my iptables -L | more I had everything you asked me. > > N

Re: A Unified KDE-Gnome Desktop -- A How-To for Newbies

2005-07-16 Thread TreeBoy
On Saturday 16 Jul 2005 13:02, Benjamin Sher wrote: > Dear friends: > > As an experienced newbie but still a newbie, I thought this might interest > a new member of Debian who would like to harmonize his desktop, especially > his KDE desktop by making the Gnome applications look more like those in

Re: Server crashing

2005-07-19 Thread TreeBoy
On Tuesday 19 Jul 2005 18:22, Curtis Vaughan wrote: > I have a Debian Sarge server which provides the following services > DNS (internal only), DHCP, Apache, Samba. > > Yesterday morning it suddenly crashed. I could not access it through > any protocols and the terminal was totally locked (no conso

Re: Server crashing

2005-07-19 Thread TreeBoy
On Tuesday 19 Jul 2005 19:30, Curtis Vaughan wrote: > > > > The only time this happened to me was when I had broken RAM. > > > > Can you afford to run memtest on the machine for a couple of days > > in order to > > rule it out. > > > > I swapped the RAM into another machine and it eventually failed

Re: Server crashing

2005-07-19 Thread TreeBoy
On Tuesday 19 Jul 2005 20:53, strawks wrote: > On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 13:52 -0500, Josh Battles wrote: > > strawks said: > > > The best way to avoid RAM problem is to buy ECC RAM. This way if your > > > RAM has a failling cell, you'll know it. > > > > ECC RAM is expensive and RAM errors are relative

Re: Mail content filtering

2005-07-20 Thread TreeBoy
On Wednesday 20 Jul 2005 07:25, Ms Linuz wrote: > OK, folks ... > So, which package you guys suggest me to do email content filtering ? > Links, experiences, guidances will be much appreciated. > > Thanks, > > --w.h-- > Send instant messages to your online friends > http://asia.messenger.yahoo.com

Re: MS Project 2003

2005-07-26 Thread TreeBoy
On Tuesday 26 Jul 2005 15:13, Graham Smith wrote: > Unfortunately taskjuggler isn't packaged as a .deb because I would be > interested in having a look at it. It seems there was a shot at packaging > it a while ago but it's not been touched in an age. Might have a go at > compiling unless someone k

Re: OT: linux smartphone in Europe?

2005-08-01 Thread TreeBoy
On Monday 01 Aug 2005 14:24, Francisco Borges wrote: > Hello, > > I'm a (debian) linux user since 95 and yesterday my mobile phone > died. Today I went to look at new mobiles. > > I did find a very cheap smartphone... but it's running Windows and I > DO KNOW that using a mobile running Windows woul

Re: Exim4 + Clamav

2005-08-02 Thread TreeBoy
On Monday 01 Aug 2005 21:04, Marco Tasinato wrote: > Hi, > > I have a system with Debian Sarge 3.1 STABLE, MTA EXIM4-DAEMON-HEAVY, > CLAMAV-DAEMON. > > I have the following lines in the exim4 configuration file: > > av_scanner = clamd:/var/run/clamav/clamd.ctl > ># Reject messages containing ma

Re: OT: suggestions of uncapped Broadband >512Kbp in UK

2005-08-03 Thread TreeBoy
On Wednesday 03 Aug 2005 12:41, James Burke wrote: > On Wed, 03 Aug 2005 12:35:43 +0100 > > michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > OFF TOPIC (not sure which is more appropriate list) > > > > I've moved house and need to get Broadband installed. I'll be running X > > from a remote site and it seems

Re: OT: suggestions of uncapped Broadband >512Kbp in UK

2005-08-03 Thread TreeBoy
On Wednesday 03 Aug 2005 15:12, michael wrote: > On Wed, 2005-08-03 at 13:13 +0100, TreeBoy wrote: > > On Wednesday 03 Aug 2005 12:41, James Burke wrote: > > I've been with Demon for more years than I care to remember. > > > > They're not bad. DNS can be a bit

Re: Exim4 + Clamav

2005-08-05 Thread TreeBoy
On Tuesday 02 Aug 2005 21:32, Marco Tasinato wrote: > Hi! About mail scanner, surfing the net, I found that among a lot of > programs, the more used is amavis. But I don't know how I can configure > exim in order to use amavis or others mailscanners and also how configure > the mailscanners to use

Re: demon usb modem [WAS: suggestions of uncapped Broadband >512Kbp in UK]

2005-08-11 Thread TreeBoy
t details from that, although it was set up using Potato with a 320 originally! Unfortunately, I can't track down anything right now as I'm cooking tea for the wife and me. Will definitely get back to you later this evening if you haven't succeeded on your own. Good luck

Re: demon usb modem [WAS: suggestions of uncapped Broadband >512Kbp in UK]

2005-08-12 Thread TreeBoy
need to setup chap-secrets and pap-secrets with your details. libatm1 should be installed as a dependency of speedtouch. That should be it - now just "Plug and Play"! Good luck. TreeBoy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: demon usb modem [WAS: suggestions of uncapped Broadband >512Kbp in UK]

2005-08-12 Thread TreeBoy
On Friday 12 Aug 2005 12:03, TreeBoy wrote: > The instructions I followed were: > > http://linux-usb.sourceforge.net/SpeedTouch/docs/sargehowto.html > > However, you do *not* need to do configure the kernel. > > You *do* need to "apt-get install speedtouch"! &

Re: Multiple problems started at the same time

2005-08-16 Thread TreeBoy
On Tuesday 16 Aug 2005 11:39, kadil wrote: > after my recent "ap-get update" - "apt-get dist-upgrade" a few nights ago, > mysqld will not start: > > Please take a look at the syslog. > /usr/bin/mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed > error: 'Can't connect to local MySQL server

Re: pppd and dhcp questions [WAS: demon usb modem [WAS: suggestions of uncapped Broadband >512Kbp in UK]]

2005-08-16 Thread TreeBoy
On Tuesday 16 Aug 2005 17:23, michael wrote: > > okay, it should be my demon login. but althought it says > > ADSL line is up (...) > > it then does several > > DHCPDISCOVER on eth0... > > ending with > > No offers received > > > > but once in to X I can do 'sudo pon speedtch' and am away... so

Re: base-config broken

2005-08-19 Thread TreeBoy
On Friday 19 Aug 2005 12:07, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using Sid, and i did an upgrade this morning. > I got this. > > > root-h1-59# apt-get -f install > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree... Done

Re: xserver-xorg: - Matrox G550 Dualhead woes!

2005-08-22 Thread TreeBoy
On Sunday 21 Aug 2005 20:04, Adrian von Bidder wrote: > Yo! > > Environment: Matrox G550 on xorg from unstable on a (mostly) sarge > installation. 2 analog screens. Xinerama is used, bare xorg - no mga_hal > etc.; kernel linux-image-2.6.12 or kernel-image-2.6.8 doesn't matter; > 686-smp in both ca

Re: xserver-xorg: - Matrox G550 Dualhead woes!

2005-08-22 Thread TreeBoy
On Monday 22 Aug 2005 13:50, Adrian von Bidder wrote: > On Monday 22 August 2005 13.03, TreeBoy wrote: > > On Sunday 21 Aug 2005 20:04, Adrian von Bidder wrote: > > [can you please trim your quotation when replying?] > > ... > > > > Section "Device" >

Re: Networked sound

2005-07-08 Thread TreeBoy
I posted a few bits and pieces about this to this list earlier this year. I ended up using esound and a good number of apps worked with it - but I couldn't get arts aware of it. XMMS, xine and mplayer all worked, though. Cheers Regards, Peter On Thursday 07 Jul 2005 22:22, Anders Breindahl wr

Re: How to send hostname through DHCP more often.

2005-08-31 Thread TreeBoy
On Wednesday 31 Aug 2005 17:00, Bogdan Calmac wrote: > I use debian stable (sarge) and the dhcp3-client package. I register > my hostname by adding > > send hostname "foo"; > > in /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf. Everything works fine but for some reason > the DHCP/DNS server (which I don't control) loses

Re: uncomprehension in apt-cache

2005-09-05 Thread TreeBoy
On Monday 05 Sep 2005 18:31, Bob Proulx wrote: > Cedric BRINER wrote: > > # apt-cache search kernel-source-2.6 > > kernel-source-2.6.8 - Linux kernel source for version 2.6.8 with Debian > > patches # > > arrgh ! that's it . why can't I see the kernel-source-2.6.11 ??? > > Because the name was chan

Re: absurdly simple LAN problem

2005-09-17 Thread TreeBoy
On Saturday 17 Sep 2005 11:38, Florian Dorpmueller wrote: > >># The first network card - this entry was created during the Debian > >>installation > >>auto eth0 > > > >iface eth0 inet dhcp > > > > Hey, there's a bug! Replace "dhcp" by "static" please on both computers. > > Flo

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade and cron

2005-09-24 Thread TreeBoy
On Sunday 25 Sep 2005 00:04, Robert Wolfe wrote: > Hi folks. One question (which will really be my first question in the > mailing list). I would like to run the following as a nightly cron job (in > script format): > > apt-get update > apt-get dist-upgrade > > What would I need to do to get this

Re: IDE controller card recommendation

2005-10-04 Thread TreeBoy
On Tuesday 04 Oct 2005 19:39, Josh Battles wrote: > > Well, I'm not actually running them in a RAID array > > I used the cards as regular IDE drive controller cards. I got my grubby > little hands on a box of 40GB harddrives for free so I kept 10 of them for > myself and donated the rest to so

Re: Using jigdo

2005-11-10 Thread TreeBoy
On Thursday 10 Nov 2005 19:02, Oscar Corte wrote: > Hi all > > I'm trying to use jigdo to download Debian ISO images. > > However. Afeter tyng several RUL's. I always receive the same message > from jigdo-lite script as sown next. >

Re: Am I Compromised -- Some interesting findings

2005-11-25 Thread TreeBoy
On Friday 25 Nov 2005 18:30, Derek "The Monkey" Wueppelmann wrote: > On Fri, 2005-25-11 at 23:21 +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > > That is what got confused my at first. Since there's no /usr/sbin/httpd > > binary in a Debian based apache installation I was wondering how this was > > being shown.

Re: cannot get my home page from o/s world

2005-11-25 Thread TreeBoy
mydomain.demon.co.uk * www.mydomain.demon.co.uk The latter is on their web servers and the former is your ADSL end point. The reason you are not seeing an repalced index file may be because you are using Apache 2. If this is the case, then you want to replace the index file in /var/www/apac

Re: cannot get my home page from o/s world

2005-11-25 Thread TreeBoy
On Friday 25 Nov 2005 23:35, Joe Mc Cool wrote: > On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 06:55:31PM +0000, TreeBoy wrote: > >* mydomain.demon.co.uk > >* www.mydomain.demon.co.uk > > > > The latter is on their web servers and the former is your ADSL end point. > > Yes,

Re: cannot get my home page from o/s world SOLVED

2005-11-27 Thread TreeBoy
On Sunday 27 Nov 2005 18:45, Joe Mc Cool wrote: > On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 12:14:55AM +0000, TreeBoy wrote: > > If this doesn't help, then we may have to look at what hosts (virtual and > > otherwise) you may have configured. > > Oh dear, this is rather embarrassing :-(