Re: dpkg compare version bug ??

rsions 3.102 ge 3.340; echo $? > 1 In version notation, .34 and .340 are not the same thing; you need to think of them as separate numbers (so you're comparing 102 with 34, and 102 with 340). Cheers, Paul -- Paul Dwerryhouse|

Re: how to change location of mplayer tmp files

ect the TMPDIR environment variable? Eg, export TMPDIR=/var/tmp ; iceweasel Cheers, Paul -- Paul Dwerryhouse| PGP Key ID: 0x6B91B584 http://linoleum.leapster.org/ - Linux Programming Resources --

Re: Compilation on Big Endian platforms

it expensive for my budget. How about buying an old Sun Sparc? A quick ebay search turned up a couple going for under $150, and several available at around $30... Cheers, Paul. -- Paul Dwerryhouse| PGP Key ID

Re: Common home with multiboot

it could possibly just drop the option altogether from the config file, or throw an error...) Cheers, Paul. -- Paul Dwerryhouse| PGP Key ID: 0x6B91B584 http://linoleum.leapster.org/ - Linux Pro

Re: maturedebs: sightly stable unstable

be stale as stable. Isn't that what testing is for? [Not that I often find unstable to actually be unstable]. -- Paul Dwerryhouse| PGP Key ID: 0x6B91B584 http://linoleum.leapster.org/ -

Re: TERM for small bw monitor?

help any? Cheers, Paul. -- Paul Dwerryhouse| PGP Key ID: 0x6B91B584 Starting out with Lighttpd: http://nepotismia.com/software/lighttpd/tutorial/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: fetchmail syslog messages

#x27;t set up their server certificate properly. Nothing to worry about, unless you're concerned that their DNS might get hijacked and you're worried that you might one day be fetching mail from someone who is not your ISP; good luck trying to get them to fix it, though ;) Cheers, Paul

Re: Raid shuts down uncleanly?

ap swapdefaults,pri=1 0 0 > /dev/sdc2 swap swapdefaults,pri=1 0 0 Yes, but doing that won't make for a highly-available server if the disk dies while the swap on it is being used... Cheers, Paul -- Paul Dwerryhouse

Re: wma player for firefox

pt-get install w32-codecs If you're having trouble with mplayer as a firefox plugin (not sure if it does that or not), you can also try gxineplugin. Cheers, Paul -- Paul Dwerryhouse| PGP Key ID: 0x6B91B584 =

What happened to xen images for k7?

? Cheers, Paul. -- Paul Dwerryhouse| PGP Key ID: 0x6B91B584 A look at Ubuntu Server Edition: http://nepotismia.com/review/ubuntu/server/6.06/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: dumb question about mounting iso file as loop device....

x27;image.iso' is the file name of the ISO file you want to burn. You'll need to install the dvd+rw-tools package, first. Cheers, Paul -- Paul Dwerryhouse| PGP Key ID: 0x6B91B584 A

Re: apt-get reports no new packages

ill getting daily updates. Any ideas what I could check/do? Try changing the mirror that you're using (in /etc/apt/sources.list). Sometimes some mirrors don't get updated... Cheers, Paul -- Paul Dwerryhouse

Re: How to switch my timezone configure

UTC option either to: UTC=yes or UTC=no Cheers, Paul -- Paul Dwerryhouse| PGP Key ID: 0x6B91B584 A look at Ubuntu Server Edition: http://nepotismia.com/review/ubuntu/server/6.06/ -- To UN

Re: Filesystem size

ning processes and see what files they are accessing. When the process dies (ie, you kill it, or maybe even reboot if you can't figure out which one it is), the space will likely be freed. Cheers, Paul -- Paul Dwerryhouse

Re: installing java

On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 05:16:10PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > How do you install java in Sid? apt-get install sun-java5-plugin sun-java5-bin apt-get install sun-java5-jdk # If you want the JDK You'll need the non-free repository in your sources.list file. Cheers, Paul

Re: document processing

re difficult to use than HTML, either... Cheers, Paul -- Paul Dwerryhouse| PGP Key ID: 0x6B91B584 A look at Ubuntu Server Edition: http://nepotismia.com/review/ubuntu/server/6.06/ -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: Mounting Music CD's Causes System Freeze

stem on them. You can either play them with a music application (eg, kcd) or read the data and convert to file (eg, grip). Cheers, Paul. -- Paul Dwerryhouse| PGP Key ID: 0x6B91B584 A l

Re: Starting iptables

hare/doc/iptables/examples/oldinitdscript.gz Maybe someone can explain to me why it was so bad that it warranted removal :) Cheers, Paul -- Paul Dwerryhouse| PGP Key ID: 0x6B91B584 A look at

Re: limit certain ports to be forwarded through ssh account..

service they like on one of those open ports, to work around your restrictions. Cheers, Paul -- Paul Dwerryhouse| PGP Key ID: 0x6B91B584 A look at Ubuntu Server Edition: http://nepot

Re: PCMCIA question

;d imagine your laptop only supports 16-bit PCMCIA, not 32-bit Cardbus (ie, your laptop is too old for the card). Have a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardbus. It explains the difference. Cheers, Paul -- Paul Dwerryhouse

Re: gxine and real on BBC radio

letely out of sync and has to be restarted. Cheers, Paul -- Paul Dwerryhouse| PGP Key ID: 0x6B91B584 A look at Ubuntu Server Edition: http://nepotismia.com/review/ubuntu/server/6.06/ --

Re: Rss solution

On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 09:10:17PM +0200, T wrote: > I'm currently view rss feeds by thunderbird, but I'm wondering if there is > better solutions out there, because thunderbird can't I'm finding liferea to be pretty good, at the moment. Cheers, P

Re: Empty syslog

rder to use syslog? Looks like your syslog logfile has been rolled, and syslog hasn't been restarted. syslog will keep writing to the old file, even if its name has been changed. Restart syslog and it will start writing to the /var/log/syslog file again. Cheers, Paul

Re: Multiple RAID or encrypted partitions

/dev/hdd1 It creates four partition devices, /dev/mdp0p1, /dev/mdp0p2, /dev/mdp0p3 and /dev/mdp0p4. Might not necessarily work from the Debian installer though. Perhaps you'll have to go into a shell window and do the above

Re: Multiple RAID or encrypted partitions

partition and put LVM over the whole lot. > And crypt? Don't know an awful lot about crypt, sorry. But from what I remember, it integrates with LVM very well. Cheers, Paul -- Paul Dwerryhouse| PGP Key ID: 0x6B91B584

Re: Multiple RAID or encrypted partitions

umes within the LVM volume group, and these are the equivalent of partitions. Remember to have a non raid 5 partition for /boot (eg, either RAID1 or just a plain disk partition (ugh)), because IIRC, neither grub nor lilo can cope with booting from software RAID5. Cheers, Paul -- Paul

Re: USB stick

e partition (/dev/sdb1). It can be mounted (as root) with: mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt Cheers, Paul -- Paul Dwerryhouse| PGP Key ID: 0x6B91B584 Linoleum - Linux Programming Resources: http://linoleum.

Re: cdrecord / ATAPI

(etc etc) Cheers, Paul -- Paul Dwerryhouse| PGP Key ID: 0x6B91B584 Linoleum - Linux Programming Resources: http://linoleum.leapster.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Using cups remotely?

e same state. To make it listen on external network interfaces, you should either change this line to: Listen *:631 or add another line like: Listen your.ip.addr.ess:631 ...and then restart cups. Cheers, Paul. -- Paul Dwerryhouse

Re: How to "upgrade" a dpkg with a .deb

g -i is the equivalent of both rpm -U and rpm -i. It will install whatever version of the deb that you tell it to, replacing the original package (rather than whinging that a package is already installed, as rpm will, if you use -i). Cheers, Paul. -- Paul Dwerryhouse

Re: Questions about Etch in chroot.

nds working, too, like ps and top. Cheers, Paul -- Paul Dwerryhouse| PGP Key ID: 0x6B91B584 Linoleum - Linux Programming Resources: http://linoleum.leapster.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: rhythmbox won't open radio

, and have come to the conclusion that it's not yet mature enough to use reliably. A lot of this comes from using gstreamer for playback. I'd recommend using gxine instead. It's pretty good, aside from a couple of problems that I have submitted to bugs.debian.org... Cheers,

Re: Sid: Really strange network address stuff

That looks like a zeroconf networking address. There's a bit of information on zeroconf here: http://wiki.debian.org/ZeroConf (oh, and here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeroconf) Cheers, Paul -- Paul Dwerryhouse| PGP K

Re: Tunnelling??

g to... Cheers, Paul -- Paul Dwerryhouse| PGP Key ID: 0x6B91B584 Linoleum - Linux Programming Resources: http://linoleum.leapster.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a s

Re: Installing Sarge from source

s to get you started: apt-get install build-essential apt-get build-dep libc6 apt-get -b source libc6 Cheers, Paul -- Paul Dwerryhouse| PGP Key ID: 0x6B91B584 Linoleum - Linux Programming Res

Re: chown

its execution, it says: "Only a privileged process (Linux: one with the CAP_CHOWN capability) may change the owner of a file." I'll confess to not knowing anything about capabilities, however. In this case I'll assume that only processes with an effective uid of

Re: chown

the root user can change the ownership of a file or directory; use su or sudo to change to root first, and then try the same command again. Cheers, Paul. -- Paul Dwerryhouse| PGP Key ID: 0x6B91B584 =

Re: Debian on i486

distributions. Cheers, Paul -- Paul Dwerryhouse| PGP Key ID: 0x6B91B584 Running Debian Linux for ARM processors under QEMU http://nepotismia.com/linux/qemu/arm/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

Re: how to redirect sound

udio data over a network. Like the X Window System, it uses the client/server model to separate applications from the specific drivers that control audio input and output devices. This package contains the nas daemon (au), needed for local output from nas. Cheers, Pa

Re: Using remote apps on local X server

On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 11:17:25PM -0500, Bob Smither wrote: > Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: > > Any suggestions as to why I can't run the remote app and see it locally? Has your remote box got 'X11Forwarding yes' in its /etc/ssh/sshd_config file? Cheers, Pau

Re: TV application

On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 01:31:46PM +0800, Rocky Ou wrote: > Can any of you recommend some good TV applications for my Debian Sid > Dell Inspiron 2200 laptop please? tvtime is probably the best of the TV applications that I've tested. Cheers, Paul. -- Paul

Re: Vi problems from recent upgrade

) always call it with 'vim' instead of 'vi' or b) create a ~/.vimrc file with the contents: set nocp Cheers, Paul -- Paul Dwerryhouse| PGP Key ID: 0x6B91B584 Usi

Re: PHP 4 uninstall

x27;` You might prefer to see what you're removing first, so you could just do: dpkg --get-selections | grep php4 and then apt-get --purge remove them individually ... Cheers, Paul -- Paul Dwerryhouse| P

Re: CUPS web interface unaccessible

.conf. Cheers, Paul. -- Paul Dwerryhouse| PGP Key ID: 0x6B91B584 Using Linux's ethernet bridge support: http://nepotismia.com/linux/bridge/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Grabbing a RM stream for offline viewing

e it spit out an mp3 file, instead of the huge pcm that the above line gives you... (audio only, here. no idea what needs to be done with video streams). Cheers, Paul -- Paul Dwerryhouse| PGP Key ID: 0x6B91B584 =

Re: Install Debian 3.1 on a new Dell PowerEdge 2850

On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 05:15:38PM +1000, Paul Dwerryhouse wrote: > On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 07:27:50AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > 2 x 73 GB HD on PERC 4e/Di RAID SCSI controller. > You'll need to insert the megaraid or megaraid2 (preferable) module - > it's

Re: Install Debian 3.1 on a new Dell PowerEdge 2850

or megaraid2 (preferable) module - it's in the scsi-extra-modules debian installer component. Cheers, Paul. -- Paul Dwerryhouse| PGP Key ID: 0x6B91B584 A look at Ubuntu Dapper Flight 5:

Re: debootstrap'ing ubuntu from debian

ath/to/your/chroot ftp://ftp.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ Cheers, Paul -- Paul Dwerryhouse| PGP Key ID: 0x6B91B584 A look at Ubuntu Dapper Flight 5: http://nepotismia.com/review/ubuntu/dapper_flight_

Re: ntp-server on etch

he x86 archive. And I've just checked an AMD64 repository, and all three packages are there too: ftp://ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/debian-amd64/debian-amd64/pool/main/n/ntp/ Cheers, Paul -- Paul Dwerryhouse

Re: useless totem

7;t remember the real name for these) such as .m3u / .pls / .asx / .ram. Cheers, Paul. -- Paul Dwerryhouse| PGP Key ID: 0x6B91B584 Installing Debian Sarge with software RAID: http://nepotismia.c

Re: ipw2100 WEP with Debian Unstable

ux-image-2.6.15-1-686, with the built-in ipw2100 module under Debian sid. This is my wireless card: :02:0b.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 3B Mini PCI Adapter (rev 04) (Oh, BTW, I presume you know that WEP is next to useless, right?) ;) C

Re: How to restore /bin?

es had files in /bin and only reinstall those. You can find this out by looking at the *.list files in /var/lib/dpkg/info/ Cheers, Paul. -- Paul Dwerryhouse| PGP Key ID: 0x6B91B584 Installin

Re: Forbidding a version of a package in debian

put that > version of libfreetype6 on hold until things get sorted out. Just do this: echo "libfreetype6 hold" | dpkg --set-selections When you want to remove the hold, later on, do: echo "libfreetype6 install" | dpkg --set-selections Cheers, Paul -- Paul Dwerryhous

Re: making a (s)vcd

urnt with: cdrdao write --driver generic-mmc --speed 4 filevcd.cue Cheers, Paul -- Paul Dwerryhouse| PGP Key ID: 0x6B91B584 Installing Debian Sarge with software RAID: http://nepotismi

Re: chkrootkit response

dhclient, this is completely normal, it needs to do this to function correctly. Cheers, Paul -- Paul Dwerryhouse| PGP Key ID: 0x6B91B584 Installing Debian Sarge with software RAID: http://nepo

Re: how to use security update

On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 05:37:37PM -0800, Serena Cantor wrote: > deb http://security.debian.org/ sarge/updates main contrib non-free apt-get update apt-get upgrade Cheers, Paul -- Paul Dwerryhouse| PGP Key ID: 0x6B91B

Re: Are pre-2.6.15 kernels incompatible with udev?

7;ll have to create /dev/psaux manually - use the MAKEDEV script (cd /dev ; /sbin/MAKEDEV misc) Cheers, Paul -- Paul Dwerryhouse http://leapster.org/paul/ | PGP Key ID: 0x6B91B584 Installing Debian Sarge with software RAID

Where to alter vertical padding in menu bars?

se fvwm as my window manager, plus a couple of gnome-based applications, such as galeon and liferea... Cheers, Paul -- Paul Dwerryhouse| PGP Key ID: 0x6B91B584 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Xorg eats my CPU

the problem happens. Cheers, Paul -- Paul Dwerryhouse| PGP Key ID: 0x6B91B584 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to build RHEL software to run on Debian?

ebian rules can be used to make Ubuntu packages). Cheers, Paul -- Paul Dwerryhouse| PGP Key ID: 0x6B91B584 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RAID 1 Installer Sarge

mount. What can I do? I don't know if this can help with your specific problem, but I've written a detailed Sarge RAID install guide here: http://nepotismia.com/debian/raidinstall/ Cheers, Paul -- Paul Dwerryhouse| PGP Key ID: 0x6B91B584 -- To UNSUBS

Re: NAT & forwarding : only partial connections

On Sat, Nov 27, 2004 at 04:12:31PM +0100, Francesco Bochicchio wrote: > On the PC : iptables -t NAT -A POSTROUTING -o ppp0 -j MASQUERADE IIRC, the table for NAT is named 'nat' (ie, lowercase). I'll bet it's this that's causing the problem. Cheers,

Re: Upgrading from woody to ? sid

hange stable to unstable in > my sources.lsit and let apt do the rest? Pretty much. Be warned, it's called unstable for a reason. There are times when you find that some things might break. It's rare, but it does happen. Paul. -- Paul Dwerryhouse

Qemu 0.6.0.dfsg.2-1 networking

interrupt NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0 transmit timed out eth0: tx timed out, lost interrupt Now, this was working fine last week, prior to upgrading. The guest OS is just Debian sid, kernel 2.4.26. The network module is ne2k-pci, as it should be. Cheers, Paul -- Paul Dwerryhouse

Re: apt

nux machines, with no swap. Occasionally I forget to specify the amount of memory at boot time, and it defaults to 16Mb (maybe 32Mb). When that happens, apt tends to crash and burn for me. Cheers, Paul -- Paul Dwerryhouse| PGP Key ID: Amsterdam, The Net

Tomcat 5 debs available

x27;t even attempted to ensure that it's secure upon install. However, It Works For Me (TM). Maybe it will also help someone create a good package of it, too ;) Further updates and news will probably appear here: http://leapster.org/linux/tomcat/ C

Re: Debian i386 binaries for Mozilla 1.7 with PostScript available

.7, I don't know. Has anyone worked out why the maintainer was so stubborn about this issue? -- Paul Dwerryhouse| PGP Key ID: Amsterdam, The Netherlands (X) <-> Melbourne, Australia ( ) | 0x6B91B584 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EM

Re: postscript-enabled mozilla package anyone

ced that previously I'd had a mozilla-xft package and the new debs didn't contain one. When I tested it though, it worked, and I don't really know what xft does anyway, so I didn't bother going any further. Cheers, Paul. -- Paul Dwerryhouse

Re: postscript-enabled mozilla package anyone

n't have access to any PPC machines. (Also, it's not all that hard to build them yourself if you're really eager. Just remove the --enable-xprint and --disable-postscript lines from the rules file in the mozilla source package and then do a dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot) Cheers, Pau

Re: postscript-enabled mozilla package anyone

If anyone needs mozilla 1.7 debs with postscript re-enabled and xprint removed, I've just built some here: deb http://apt.leapster.org sid mozilla I'll be doing firefox sometime later today, too. Cheers, Paul. -- Paul Dwerryhouse|

Re: En snabb fr?ga...

; > Tack i Förhand > Looks more like Finnish or Norwegian to me. It surely isn't Dutch (I am > Dutch). Norwegian, Swedish or Danish. But definitely not Finnish... [not that I know any of them]. Cheers, Paul. -- Paul Dwerr