Re: test
Dan wrote: I cant create a new topic!! Thanks God for that ! :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem with CUPS
Vinicius Massuchetto wrote: I installed CUPS and ran the daemon, also added my HP Deskjet 680c to the system, but the printer doesn't print. When I go to Completed Jobs it says all of them were cancelled. See if http://chefacciamo.xwiki.com/xwiki/bin/view/Debian/CUPS can help you troubleshooting. Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: AGRICULTURE - TECHNICAL TRANSLATION
Javier Redoano wrote: TECHNICAL TRANSLATION English/Spanish - Spanish/English - Crops - Cattle Raising - Swine - Poultry - Farm Machinery - Agricultural Inputs - Veterinary Medicine - Farm Management - Agricultural Economics - Commodity Commercialization - Rural Policy - Natural Resources For further info, please send your message at You swine, stop considering us as your poultry and never again spam out list (see our rural policy) unless you want us to stick some Agricultural Inputs up where light never shines. Now translate that. B. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help for damaged package management
Mankuthimma wrote: Now if I ask upgrading this package, the system wants to REMOVE approximately 130 packages Most probably, you are missing a couple of gnome dependencies, try doing this # aptitude install gnome-desktop-environment OMG Mankuthimna !!! I am running a KDE desktop and only a few components from GNOME as prereqs to stuff I use. Tring to install what you suggest would want to install a TON of packages. Not quite what I was looking for | Thank you. Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Help for damaged package management
Dear friends, I have reinstalled a Debian machine after having my laptop tracking unstable for a couple of years. This time I wanted a testing environment with only a few packages I need from unstable. I have tried using aptitude but now quit after it has taken a few liberties I did not appreciate. Back to my old apt-get/debfoster arsenal. Here is my problem (showing I surely have some ignorance on how apt works): After some time, I am now in the situation where apt-get upgrade (of course after an update) does not want to upgrade the follwoing: Package Current Latest gcc-4.0-base4.0.1-9 4.0.2-2 Now if I ask upgrading this package, the system wants to REMOVE approximately 130 packages I am therefore stuck. How to fix this ? Follows some config files. Thank you very very much, Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo apt-get upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages have been kept back: gcc-4.0-base wine 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo apt-get -s install gcc-4.0-base Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: ark bonobo cpp cpp-4.0 gcc gcc-4.0 gconf gconf2 gksu gnome-bin gnome-libs-data gnucash gnucash-common gsfonts-x11 gwenview hal-device-manager k3b k3blibs kappfinder kate kcontrol kde-core kde-i18n-it kdeartwork kdeartwork-style kdeartwork-theme-window kdebase kdebase-bin kdebase-kio-plugins kdegraphics-kfile-plugins kdelibs kdelibs-bin kdelibs4 kdepasswd kdeprint kdesktop kdm kernel-package kfind kghostview khelpcenter kicker kicker-applets klaptopdaemon klipper kmenuedit kmilo kmix konqueror konqueror-nsplugins konsole kpager kpdf kpersonalizer kregexpeditor kscreensaver kscreensaver-xsavers ksmserver ksplash ksysguard ktip kwifimanager kwin libbonobo2 libbonobo2-0 libbonobo2-common libbonoboui2-0 libgal-data libgal23 libgconf11 libgconf2-4 libgdk-pixbuf-gnome2 libgksu1.2-0 libgksuui1.0-0 libglade-gnome0 libgnome2-0 libgnome2-common libgnome32 libgnomeprint-bin libgnomeprint-data libgnomeprint15 libgnomesupport0 libgnomeui-0 libgnomeui32 libgnomevfs2-0 libgnomevfs2-common libgnorba27 libgnorbagtk0 libgtkhtml1.1-3 libguppi16 libidl0 libkipi0 libkonq4 liboaf0 liborbit0 liborbit2 libpanel-applet2-0 mozilla-firefox oaf python2.3-gnome2 python2.3-gnome2-extras python2.3-pyorbit x-ttcidfont-conf xbase-clients xfonts-100dpi xfonts-base xfonts-intl-european xfonts-konsole xfonts-scalable xfonts-x3270-misc xutils The following packages will be upgraded: gcc-4.0-base 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 111 to remove and 1 not upgraded. Remv ark (4:3.3.2-1 Debian:testing) Remv gnucash (1.8.10-12 Debian:testing) [gnucash-common ] Remv gnucash-common (1.8.10-12 Debian:testing) Remv libgtkhtml1.1-3 (1.1.10-5 Debian:testing) Remv bonobo (1.0.22-2.4 Debian:testing) Remv xfonts-x3270-misc (3.2.17-2 ) Remv xfonts-scalable (6.8.2.dfsg.1-7 Debian:testing) Remv xfonts-konsole (4:3.3.2-1 Debian:testing) Remv xfonts-intl-european (1.2.1-3 Debian:testing) Remv xfonts-base (6.8.2.dfsg.1-7 Debian:testing) Remv xfonts-100dpi (6.8.2.dfsg.1-7 Debian:testing) Remv x-ttcidfont-conf (18 Debian:testing) Remv gsfonts-x11 (0.17 Debian:testing) Remv xutils (6.8.2.dfsg.1-7 Debian:testing) Remv gksu (1.3.0-1 Debian:testing) Remv libgksuui1.0-0 (1.0.5-1 Debian:testing) Remv libgksu1.2-0 (1.3.3-1 Debian:testing) Remv kdm (4:3.3.2-1 Debian:testing) Remv kde-core (5:45 Debian:testing) Remv kdebase (4:3.3.2-1 Debian:testing) Remv konqueror (4:3.3.2-1 Debian:testing) Remv kicker (4:3.3.2-1 Debian:testing) Remv kfind (4:3.3.2-1 Debian:testing) Remv kdesktop (4:3.3.2-1 Debian:testing) Remv kdepasswd (4:3.3.2-1 Debian:testing) Remv libkonq4 (4:3.3.2-1 Debian:testing) Remv gwenview (1.2.0-1 Debian:testing) Remv libkipi0 (0.1.1-2 Debian:testing) Remv kdeartwork (4:3.3.2-1 Debian:testing) Remv kdeartwork-theme-window (4:3.3.2-1 Debian:testing) Remv kwin (4:3.3.2-1 Debian:testing) Remv kwifimanager (4:3.3.2-5 Debian:testing) Remv ktip (4:3.3.2-1 Debian:testing) Remv ksysguard (4:3.3.2-1 Debian:testing) Remv ksplash (4:3.3.2-1 Debian:testing) Remv ksmserver (4:3.3.2-1 Debian:testing) Remv kscreensaver-xsavers (4:3.3.2-1 Debian:testing) Remv kscreensaver (4:3.3.2-1 Debian:testing) Remv kregexpeditor (4:3.3.2-1 Debian:testing) Remv kpersonalizer (4:3.3.2-1 Debian:testing) Remv kpdf (4:3.3.2-2 Debian:testing) Remv kpager (4:3.3.2-1 Debian:testing) Remv konsole (4:3.3.2-1 Debian:testing) Remv konqueror-nsplugins (4:3.3.2-1 Debian:testing) Remv kmix (4:3.3.2-1 Debian:testing) Remv kmilo (4:3.3.2-1 Debian:testing) Remv kmenuedit (4:3.3.2-1 Debian:testing) Remv klipper (4:3.3.2-1 Debian:testing) Remv klaptopdaemon (4:3.3.2-1 Debian:testing) Remv kicker-applets (4:3.3.2-4 Debian:testing) Remv khelpcenter (4:3.3.2-1 Debian:testing) Remv kghostview (4:3.3.2-2 Debian:testing)
bootlog not working in etch
Cannot find a bootlog in /var/log Stopping KDM on the console I see the last line is: Stopping bootlog daemon: failed! The last word is is a yummy strawberry red :) How to fix this ? Thanks, Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Please teach me something on Debian and modules
I am trying to load the ibm_acpi module with some options. I placed the ibm-acpi line in /etc/modules I tried using the following line in /etc/modprobe.conf options ibm-acpi hotkey=enable,0x experimental=1 ran depmod -a and rebooted but the options I need are not activated. What am I doing wrong ? TIA, Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: debian-user and mail tools
Nate Duehr wrote: Bob Alexander wrote: A last item I do not like about TB is that using IMAP, my emails are on the server, and in TB when I delete an item it gets into the server's Trash folders and emptying it therefore takes a while. Tell TB not to store Trash on the server. It's configurable. Nate I am sure I have seen this option but cannot find it anymore. Any help ? Thanks, Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: debian-user and mail tools
Sam Watkins wrote: On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 04:42:33PM +0100, Bob Alexander wrote: A last item I do not like about TB is that using IMAP, my emails are on the server, and in TB when I delete an item it gets into the server's Trash folders and emptying it therefore takes a while. I recommend to use offlineimap, or a similar program (isync, mailsync). I use a script that re-syncs my mailbox whenever mail arrives on the server. Does any of you offer some good suggestion on a client which will make my life easier with filtering, killing/ignoring whole threads and any other goodies experience shows you to be important on such an high volume list ? mutt? ctrl-D (delete thread) works for me. I would use a separate program such as procmail to filter my mail. So Sam, could you be so kind to comment/complete the complete toolchain ? 1) ISP IMAP Server 2) OfflineIMAP to fetch the IMAP mail and store it locally (Mail Delivery Agent ?) n) mutt as the Mail User Agent - Will act on the local maildir mail and then the alterations will be reflected back on the ISP via OfflineIMAP Where would procmail and/or spamassassin be integrated ? Thank you very much. Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Alternative X and graphic drivers. HOWTO ?
I have this Thinkpad T40 with a fairly standard Debian sid on it. Reading some appends it appears that using the X.org and/or ATI's binary driver could enhance performance and/or stability (upon susupend/resumes) of my machine. Do I understand correctly that I can run EITHER XFree86.dfsg OR X.org on my machine and that Debian packages for the latter do not exist ? Any HOWTOs on how to transition from my current state to the other without breaking (too much) stuff ? Take care, bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
SOLVED: APM not waking up after prolonged sleep to RAM
As many of you might have read with both 2.6.9 and 2.6.10 kernels and APM, my Thinkpad T40 (2373-92G) did not resume after being left in suspend to RAM for a longish time (very approx. over 45 min). Shorter sleeps went just fine and the machine restarted just perfectly with it's brilliant GNOME desktop and X. The solution was found in a BIOS setting. In the config-power section, towards the bottom, there was a setting which sounds like Hibernate after suspend expires - Enabled. I just put this as Disabled and my TP woke up this morning like a young 6 years old on Sunday morning :) I'm happy :) The power consumption is very good. This is quite logical since something must have happened between a short and long sleep. It was this suspend timer expiring. Now I hopw this info will help people more kernel knowledgeble than me to fix this once for all. Peace and happiness to all, Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
debian-user and mail tools
Up to now I have been reading this lists mail with Thunderbird, fetching it via IMAP from my ISP. Thunderbird does a decent (but not wonderful) job of filtering spam. Of course it threads topics and I can label individual emails in different colours. What I do not like about TB is the relative clumsy interface to build filters to weed out topics I am not interested into or plunking rude or otherwise irritant people. A last item I do not like about TB is that using IMAP, my emails are on the server, and in TB when I delete an item it gets into the server's Trash folders and emptying it therefore takes a while. Does any of you offer some good suggestion on a client which will make my life easier with filtering, killing/ignoring whole threads and any other goodies experience shows you to be important on such an high volume list ? TIA, Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
script help
I keep a few different kernel source trees under /usr/src and each of them has a different .config file. Part of my pre-backup script I would like to run a command such as find /usr/src -name .config for example: /usr/src/kernel-source-2.6.9-rja/.config /usr/src/linux-2.6.10-rja/.config and for every match write a file to my /backup_data directory with a filename that is made up like kernel-source-2.6.9-rja.config and linux-2.6.10-rja.config or some similar unique filename which relates the the kernel tree. Thank you for any help, Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem with network after new kernel tryout
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Users, A couple of weeks ago I tasted debian first time and was so excited about what Linux can offer these days that I wanted to give a serious try to move permanetly to linux world and leave windows behind. Installing Sarge went without any complications, everything worked quite nice, although I had to do serveral configurations, updates and apt-get installs. Only problem was with tv-card. I might got it working but then I red/heard that using 2.6 kernel would solve that problem, and overall it would be much better than 2.4, so I choosed to update. I made another Sarge installation (just to be sure not to break anything) and started updating its kernel. With help from this howto (which was, IMHO, very good and clear howto): http://www.desktop-linux.net/debkernel.htm I successfully build 2.6.9 kernel. But when I booted It didn't work: When I booted I got graphical login screen where I entered username and password, but right after that I got error saying something like: Xsession lasted less than 10 seconds, ~/xsession.log has been writen. No problem, as howto says: You'll probably need to build the kernel a few times before you get it just right, so just reconfigure and rebuild :) 1) I booted back to 2.4 kernel and then I got this very urgent problem, i cannot connect to network. 2) I tryed to boot back to first Sarge installataion and no network. 3) I tryd to boot to windowsXP and same there, cannot connect to network. I did factory reset to my ADLS modem, and retryed all steps abowe, no network. During both Sarge boots I can see this error message: Spurious 8259A interrupt irq7 I dont know whether it is any way related to this problem. Also I can see that DHCP fails to connect to my service provider. So, my QUESTION is here: I made two Sarge installations. Before kernel tryout both had properly operating network connection. After kernel tryout I have three OS (2 x Debian and 1 winXP) which cannot get network connection. Can anyone point me some direction where to start looking. I reseted my ADLS modem, and it didnt have any affect, so does this mean that BIOS has been changed some how by my kernel tryout? Details of my computer: - Processor is AMD Athlon XP +3000 - Motherboard is K7N2 Delta-L http://www.msicomputer.com/product/p_spec.asp?model=K7N2_Delta-L - Network card is on-board - ADLS modem is A-Link RoadRunner 44 :)Marko Marko, I have never heard of a kernel destroying a network card :) The fact that you are not able to use the network card even under XP would suggest an hardware problem unrelated to the OSs. Can it be that you have disloged the card from it's slot ? BTW if you want to try a 2.6.9 kernel you are not forced to compile your own since you can easily use a corresponding .deb package. Give us the output (as root) of lspci and lsmod and search for eth0 in the output od the dmesg command. Good luck, Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
sid dvd jigdo site
Is there some dependable site serving sid images in DVD format ? I have used a site in .hu about ten days ago and now wanted to build the updated images but it complains about a mismatch between the NEW .jigdo and .template files I have just downlaoded from there. Thank you, Bob PS Just in case you wonder I need those DVD to do multiple installations and upgrades at a site which has no external connectivity :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian sid and risk management
Greg Folkert wrote: So what do you think of those of us that *DO* use Sid + Experimental for Production? Careful what you say... I do have experience with Debian. No I am not an idiot, I have very UN-limited needs, I have been known to talk out of /dev/ass, have built very elaborate systems to ensure other's work Greg, whay are you wasting so much of your time to rebuke the opinions of Mr. Kelley ? His opinions are valuable as any other and, sadly, expressed with a tone that surely does not make them sound more authoritative than the tantrums of a freckled face 14 yr old nerd. Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
gconfd filling up my logs
gconfd spews out stuff to my syslog and messages: Dec 27 13:51:50 localhost gconfd (root-6798): Resolved address xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory to a read-only configuration source at position 0 Dec 27 13:51:50 localhost gconfd (root-6798): Resolved address xml:readwrite:/root/.gconf to a writable configuration source at position 1 Dec 27 13:51:50 localhost gconfd (root-6798): Resolved address xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults to a read-only configuration source at position 2 Is this normal Can I disable this stuff ? Do I really need this gconf thing (running GNOME) ? Thank you, Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian sid and risk management
Rogério Brito wrote: Just hang on a second! If you are so afraid of breaking your system, you should not be using sid, but using testing instead. Did I really sound that afraid ?! Natural language is such an imprecise tool. Especially when two different mothertongue use a third language to communicate.:) My (quite long) experience with unstable shows me the risk level is manageable. Take care, Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Debian sid and risk management
Background considerations, question follows: When I was studying as a doctor (a lng time ago) my Pharmacology professor told us: A good doctor is never the first to use a new medicine and never the last to abandon an old one and later on my sailplane instructor told me: There are old pilots and bold pilots but NO old bold pilots While I love using sid because of the very current releases and I am willing to take the risk of having to debug some problems, being the system I WORK with the only I have, getting fundamental things wrong can seriously impact my job. Just as an example, in the moment I write, synaptic tells me I could upgrade LVM2, login, and HAL. If these bomb I would be in trouble. If xpdf bombed it would be a little annoying but nothing more. One solution for the fundamental packages (please do not call me coward but only cautious) would be, (like the medicine example on top) to wait a little time (say one week ten days) before installing any new packages and before that checking if/which serious bugs have been reported. I am aware that I would leave the braver doing first line fighting and I would be there too if I haved any of the following: a) more free time b) another test machine c) using Linux not as my primary work environment Questions: Is there data in the package system to assess the date of the release of a given package ? Is there an automatic way to check even only for the number of severe bugs for a package from any of the package manager frontends ? Thank you very much, Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Startinf fvwm
alireza faryar wrote: I installed fvwm on debian.testing using apt-get install fvwm. When I run fvwm, it complains that can't open display. What am I missing, Thanks farid Are you running that from xdm or gdm or what ? Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian sid and risk management
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Or you could use William Ballard's system of keeping the upgrades separate by differently labeled .deb directories and simply reverting to a set of .debs that worked if you run into problems. He has posted his scripts to this list at least twice that I know of. Sounds nice. Could not locate the resource though ... can you help further ? TIA, Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian sid and risk management
Rob Bochan wrote: On Saturday 25 December 2004 10:48 am, Bob Alexander wrote: snip Is there an automatic way to check even only for the number of severe bugs for a package from any of the package manager frontends ? Install the apt-listbugs package. Sounds GREAT. Tried reading or finding examples on Google ... Did I understand correctly ? When installed the apt-listbugs will be automatically invoked when synaptic or command line apt-get install or upgrade will be performed. It will warn of critical bugs pending on each of the files to be downloaded. Is that it ? TIA, Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian sid and risk management
Rob Bochan wrote: I use it myself on my laptop that runs Sid, which I use for my business, to check to see if there's anything major I need to know before I upgrade anything. It runs automatically whenever I run apt-get upgrade. It's saved my butt more than once. Thank you very much Rob. Of course you should not trust packages which have just appeared since they will most probably never have crit bugs. Correct ? For instance the LVM2 and HAL examples I was making appeared a few hours agon on the mirror I use. Ciao. Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Re: dnsmasq help needed]
Forwarding the dnsmasq problem analisys of Simon Kelley. He very smartly spotted the bug I was talking about. Happy XMas to Simon and all of you ! Bob ---BeginMessage--- From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Dec 23 23:19:37 2004 Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-ifm-sid: lyb6AYqk X-ifm: VirusFree Received: from cpc4-cmbg4-4-0-cust135.cmbg.cable.ntl.com [:::81.108.205.135] by hal-4.inet.it via I-SMTP-5.2.1-520 id :::81.108.205.135+t8Gf6faALB; Thu, 23 Dec 2004 23:19:37 +0100 Received: from desk.thekelleys.org.uk ([192.168.0.3] helo=sanger.ac.uk) by thekelleys.org.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ChbIg-00042X-00 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Thu, 23 Dec 2004 22:19:14 + Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 22:22:52 + From: Simon Kelley [EMAIL PROTECTED] User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040413 Debian/1.6-5 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: dnsmasq help needed Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit tcpdump -n -i eth0 port 53 shows activity for dig www.apple.com every time, while for all other names I can try, the activity on port 53 eth0 occurs only on the first try (I am talking about repeated tries at short intervals weel under the 50 seconds) while the rest is obviously cached. That looked a little odd, so I tried it myself and got the same result. Poking around I found a bug which has been there pretty much since the first versions of dnsmasq. Since its effect is to inhibit caching off a very few names, I guess nobody has ever noticed it before. To hit the problem, a name has to be a CNAME, and the actual A record which it points to has to have the original name as a leading substring of its name. www.apple.com hits this: ; DiG 9.2.4rc5 @127.0.0.1 -p 1 www.apple.com ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; -HEADER- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 24807 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;www.apple.com. IN A ;; ANSWER SECTION: www.apple.com. 1735IN CNAME www.apple.com.akadns.net. www.apple.com.akadns.net. 55IN A 17.254.0.91 ;; Query time: 22 msec ;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#1(127.0.0.1) ;; WHEN: Thu Dec 23 21:58:26 2004 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 85 www.apple.com is CNAME, pointing to www.apple.com.akadns.net, which has www.apple.com at its begining. I think this gets some kind of record for bug subtlety, it will be nailed in the next release. Cheers, Simon. [ Please could you forward the above to the debian-user list. I found the thread via Google and have no easy way to post to the list and keep the threading intact.] ---End Message---
CPU Frequency scaling applet not working
I am running my rebuilt system and still have a few minor glitches. Please be patient :) The GNOME CPU Frequency Scaling Monitor 0.3.1 installed from the corresponding Debian sid package now only show the CPU frequency but does not permit me to select/change to tother frequencies. Reading in the applet doc I could think the kernel was not built with frequency scaling but I am using the same .config that worked on the crashed system. Under you can see the relevant .config lines for my 2.6.9 kernel for my T40 Thinkpad. Thank you for any help, Bob # # APM (Advanced Power Management) BIOS Support # CONFIG_APM=y # CONFIG_APM_IGNORE_USER_SUSPEND is not set CONFIG_APM_DO_ENABLE=y CONFIG_APM_CPU_IDLE=y CONFIG_APM_DISPLAY_BLANK=y CONFIG_APM_RTC_IS_GMT=y CONFIG_APM_ALLOW_INTS=y # CONFIG_APM_REAL_MODE_POWER_OFF is not set # # CPU Frequency scaling # CONFIG_CPU_FREQ=y CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_PROC_INTF=y # CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_DEFAULT_GOV_PERFORMANCE is not set CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_DEFAULT_GOV_USERSPACE=y CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV_PERFORMANCE=y CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV_POWERSAVE=y CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV_USERSPACE=y CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV_ONDEMAND=y # CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_24_API is not set CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_TABLE=y # # CPUFreq processor drivers # # CONFIG_X86_POWERNOW_K6 is not set # CONFIG_X86_POWERNOW_K7 is not set # CONFIG_X86_POWERNOW_K8 is not set # CONFIG_X86_GX_SUSPMOD is not set CONFIG_X86_SPEEDSTEP_CENTRINO=y CONFIG_X86_SPEEDSTEP_CENTRINO_TABLE=y # CONFIG_X86_SPEEDSTEP_ICH is not set # CONFIG_X86_SPEEDSTEP_SMI is not set # CONFIG_X86_P4_CLOCKMOD is not set # CONFIG_X86_LONGRUN is not set # CONFIG_X86_LONGHAUL is not set -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CPU Frequency scaling applet not working
Glyn Tebbutt wrote: Did you install the cpufreqd? When it's installing (or reconfiguring) it asks if you want to run it with suid, say yes, restart cpufreqd and reload the applet, it should work now, it did for me anyway. Glynn you're a genius. I ran dpkg-reconfigure gnome-cpufreq-applet and set it suid !!! Works fine ! Happy Xmas, Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dnsmasq help needed
Sam Watkins wrote: you can watch the TTL dropping by typing repeatedly: dig www.apple.com Thank you Sam. Very interesting. But I keep on being a little confused. tcpdump -n -i eth0 port 53 shows activity for dig www.apple.com every time, while for all other names I can try, the activity on port 53 eth0 occurs only on the first try (I am talking about repeated tries at short intervals weel under the 50 seconds) while the rest is obviously cached. BTW Where can I see the TTL in the dig output ? Take care, Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Back from near death: exhausted. Question 1
After moving/resizing my /var,/usr/tmp and /home ext3 filesystems, Partition Magic ferociously disfigured my / partition (on which there also was the .15 stage GRUB loader so I could not even boot to XP anymore). After some 9 hours I am mostly back and this time with all but / on LVMs :) Now a maybe stupid question but I am really exhausted: I have a CD with the /home backup. On the cashed system I kept a ToKeep folder into my Thunderbird's local folders with mail I wanted to keep. How do I reimport that and the old address book ? Thank you very much. Bob PS I am documenting some of the nightmare process to rebirth on my wiki if it coul dbe use to others let me know ... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ALSA mixer does not unmute the volume
Each time I reboot and login as bob I must manually launch alsamixer and press M to unmute the main volume. Why doesn't this get remembered across reboots ? Using sid on 2.6.9 custom compiled kernel. TIA, Bob ii alsa-base 1.0.7-2ALSA driver configuration files ii alsa-oss 1.0.7-1ALSA OSS-compatibility application wrapper ii alsa-utils 1.0.7-2ALSA utilities ii gnome-alsamixe 0.9.6-1ALSA sound mixer for GNOME -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: No net, kernel recompile
Ted Parks wrote: Ifconfig lists eth0 for the Orinoco card. The first three lines: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr (then the MAC address . . .) UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:18 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 Can you manually assign an IP to your eth0 ? Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
LVM warning at boot
Can I get rid of the following errors/warning at boot time regarding my LVM setup ? TIA, Bob Wed Dec 22 20:05:23 2004: Creating device-mapper devices...done. Wed Dec 22 20:05:23 2004: Setting up LVM Volume Groups... Wed Dec 22 20:05:23 2004: Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while... Wed Dec 22 20:05:23 2004: /dev/hda3: read failed after 0 of 2048 at 0: Input/output error Wed Dec 22 20:05:23 2004: Found volume group vg1 using metadata type lvm2 Wed Dec 22 20:05:23 2004: /dev/vg1: opendir failed: No such file or directory Wed Dec 22 20:05:23 2004: /dev/vg1: opendir failed: No such file or directory Wed Dec 22 20:05:23 2004: /dev/vg1: opendir failed: No such file or directory Wed Dec 22 20:05:23 2004: /dev/vg1: opendir failed: No such file or directory Wed Dec 22 20:05:23 2004: /dev/hda3: read failed after 0 of 2048 at 0: Input/output error Wed Dec 22 20:05:23 2004: 4 logical volume(s) in volume group vg1 now active W -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Difference between Gnome and Debian menus. Why ?
Why are so many more applications listed under Gnome's-Applications-Debian menu that directly into Gnome-Applications ? For instance the installed k3b is only in the former list under Debian menu-Apps-System and not where I would have expected it Gnome-Applciations-Multimedia (for instance). TIA, Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Script to build system information. Guru needed :)
Paul E Condon wrote: I've been lurking on this thread. When I saw mention of Karten's system-info script I googled it and downloaded it without any problem. Your problem is probably temporary. Maybe, try again. Paul, the link is really 404. Googling did not get exactly Karsten's script but some other flotsam. The si package is not there. Any more precise pointers ? FWIW here is my temporary command list (would not call it a script) :( echo This script should be run as root peraphs with sudo echo '*** uname -a' uname -a echo '*** lsmod' lsmod echo '*** lspci' lspci echo '*** dpkg --get-selections \*' dpkg --get-selections \* echo '*** sudo fdisk -l /dev/hda' fdisk -l /dev/hda echo '*** df' df echo '*** cat /etc/mtab' cat /etc/mtab echo '*** crontab -u bob -l ' crontab -u bob -l echo '*** crontab -u root -l' crontab -u root -l echo '*** ifconfig' ifconfig netstat -ai netstat -nr netstat -lep --inet -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Back from near death: exhausted. Question 1
Michael Marsh wrote: If I understand what you mean correctly, then it should be easy. Thunderbird uses the mbox format, so you can just move one mbox file in place of another. For instance, if you have myBackupInbox, you can move that to Inbox and be ready to go. If you're trying to merge, then select all (alt-a) and move to... are your friends. For the address book, you should be able to replace the new abook.mab with the backed-up version. If you've made any changes to the abook.mab that's currently in place, you might have to re-enter some of the data. I'd take whichever is larger and hand-enter the smaller one's data. I'm sure it's possible to merge the files, but it's not a simple plain-text format. HTH Yes Michael, you understood correctly. I know have the current TB with some local mail and very few addresses and the old directory with a larger mailbox and address book. For the manual merging of the address book I understand. For the mail please let me be more sure: The backup directory contains a Mail/Local Folders directory in which I see two file pairs of interest: keep and keep msf Sent and Sent msf If I rename them and place them in the current TB directory would it work of would I screw up the whole thing ? I also see an ImapMail/imap.ngi.it. I would not need those since they should refelct what is ket on the IMAP host. Correct ? In a perfect world I would also like to retrieve the filterrules from both. Thank you, Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Moving from single to multipartition
Dear Debian-friends, I am moving my fully updated Debian sid from a single partition to a multipartition scheme. My old monopartition which is currently alive is now on /dev/hda12 and is around 3.5 GB. The doubt I am having is how to properly move the / data to the new 70MB filesystem/partition. I have two hypothesis: 1) fresh install of sarge netinst to new filesystems, point apt-get to unstable, import dpkg --set-selections, dist-upgrade, upgrade, copy all old /etc data onto the new /etc and the old /home to the new /home. 2) Copy the old /var, /tmp, /usr and /home data onto the new partitions, delete them, copy the rest on the new / Any advice ?? Please help me understand the proper cpio options for my situation (especially for the / filesystem with /proc and /dev ...). Thank you in advance, Robert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Moving from single to multipartition
Scarletdown wrote: 2) Copy the old /var, /tmp, /usr and /home data onto the new partitions, delete them, copy the rest on the new / (... snip ...) 7: Update your /etc/fstab file to mount those new partitions And that is really all there is to it. Repeat the process with your other partitions. When you are certain that everything is working properly, you can safely delete the old directories off of / Thank you. So if I understand correctly this is a variation of my hypothesis number two. Correct ? The only thing remaining is how do I correctly move the old /hda12 root partition to it's new /dev/hda7 correctly recreating devices etc. Take care, Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
creating a c: filename
My Notes client under WINE setup needs to configure a directory called dosdevice which needs to be populated by symlinks to the filesystem. These symlinks must be called c: d: etc I am not able to understand how can I create such wierd names. Tried with '' with with \: etc but nothing worked. TIA, Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: creating a c: filename
Robert Waldner wrote: Which filesystem do you use? On my laptop, ext3: Robert, you are a genius ! (as ALMOST all Roberts :)). I am trying to do it on a FAT32 filesystem which of course is strongly objecting :) Thank you. Bob PS Of course on ext3 it works aok PPS This is a disaster for me :( I had hoped moving my bloody WINE/Notes parasite onto my large and WinXP shared FAT32 partition :( :( :( -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
apt-get screwed ? please help
In an attempt to mount /usr normally and then remount it ro to upgrade packages I must have screwed something. Now in order to straighten things I have tried to mount the /usr rw upon boot but I still get errors. Here is what I do and related data. Any help please ??? TIA, Bob t40:/home/bob# apt-get -f install Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Correcting dependencies... Done The following extra packages will be installed: libbonobo-activation4 The following packages will be REMOVED: gtkhtml3.2 lbxproxy libgtkhtml3.0-4 libgtkhtml3.2-11 liblircclient0 librss1 libxine1 partimage planner sodipodi totem-xine The following NEW packages will be installed: libbonobo-activation4 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 11 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 19 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B/48.4kB of archives. After unpacking 25.9MB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] (Reading database ... 79490 files and directories currently installed.) Removing gtkhtml3.2 ... dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute post-removal script: Permission denied dpkg: error processing gtkhtml3.2 (--remove): subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 2 (... snip ... many other similar errors for the other packages ...) Errors were encountered while processing: gtkhtml3.2 lbxproxy libgtkhtml3.0-4 libgtkhtml3.2-11 totem-xine liblircclient0 librss1 libxine1 partimage planner sodipodi E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) t40:/home/bob# cat /etc/mtab /dev/hda12 / ext3 rw,errors=remount-ro 0 0 proc /proc proc rw 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs rw 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,gid=5,mode=620 0 0 tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0 /dev/hda10 /tmp ext3 rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0 /dev/hda8 /var ext3 rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0 /dev/hda11 /usr ext3 rw 0 0 /dev/hda9 /home ext3 rw,nosuid,nodev 0 0 /dev/hda5 /0windata vfat rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,uid=1000 0 0 /dev/hda1 /0winxp ntfs ro,noexec,nosuid,nodev,uid=1000 0 0 usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs rw 0 0 /dev /.dev unknown rw,bind 0 0 none /dev tmpfs rw,size=5M,mode=0755 0 0 t40:/home/bob# df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda12 3579144 82196 3315132 3% / tmpfs 51755212517540 1% /dev/shm /dev/hda10 131760 16488108472 14% /tmp /dev/hda8 402696151164230744 40% /var /dev/hda11 2182144 1949324120180 95% /usr /dev/hda9 688288560480 92280 86% /home /dev/hda5 35960416 10066192 25894224 28% /0windata /dev/hda1 30716248 14331656 16384592 47% /0winxp /dev 3579144 82196 3315132 3% /.dev none 5120 2628 2492 52% /dev t40:/home/bob# cat /etc/fstab # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # #fs mntpt typeoptions d pass proc/proc proc defaults0 0 /dev/hda6 none swap sw 0 0 /dev/hdc/media/cdrom0 iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0 none/proc/bus/usb usbdevfs defaults 0 1 /dev/hda12 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 #/dev/hda7 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 /dev/hda10 /tmp ext3 defaults,noexec,nosuid,nodev0 1 /dev/hda8 /var ext3 defaults,noexec,nosuid,nodev0 1 /dev/hda11 /usr ext3 defaults0 1 /dev/hda9 /home ext3 defaults,nosuid,nodev 0 1 /dev/hda5 /0windata vfat users,uid=1000,rw,auto 0 2 /dev/hda1 /0winxp ntfs users,uid=1000,ro,auto 0 2 t40:/home/bob# ls -la / total 188 drwxr-xr-x 25 root root 4096 2004-12-21 14:19 . drwxr-xr-x 25 root root 4096 2004-12-21 14:19 .. (... snip ...) drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 4096 2004-12-21 14:57 usr (... snip ...) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: creating a c: filename
Paul E Condon wrote: mkdir c: also works for me. Some console messages are a bit tricky to interpret, but directory is named as you wish without any quoting. Paul, the problem was that I tried creating the c: file on a FAT32 filesystem. On ext2/3 etc it works fine. Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apt-get screwed ? please help
Florian Ernst wrote: Hello Bob, hello list! On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 03:21:00PM +0100, Bob Alexander wrote: [...] dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute post-removal script: Permission denied dpkg: error processing gtkhtml3.2 (--remove): subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 2 [...] /dev/hda10 /tmp ext3 rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0 Be careful if setting /tmp noexec when you want to install new software, since some programs might use it for installation. Apt is one such program (see http://bugs.debian.org/116448) if not configured properly APT::ExtractTemplates::TempDir (see apt-extracttemplates(1)). You can set this variable in /etc/apt/apt.conf to another directory with exec privileges other than /tmp. /dev/hda8 /var ext3 rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0 (dpkg's) installation (post,pre) and removal (post,pre) scripts are at /var/lib/dpkg/, so better don't mount it noexec. See http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/ch4.en.html#s4.9 for reference. BTW, the ld-linux trick to circumvent noexec won't work anymore with recent kernels. HTH, Flo Tschuess Flo. You're GREAT !!! I tried mounting those filesystems in that way as a side security measure but the hassles I have run into make me believe that probably I'd better leave them exec and rw all the times :( Take care, Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Script to build system information. Guru needed :)
Slowly building my disaster assurance strategy on top of the file backups. Amongst other things I want to periodically run a shell script that would build a file with useful information. Here it is: lsmod lspci dpkg --get-selections sudo fdisk -l /dev/hda df uname -a Now the questions: 1) Other useful commands I am not thinking about ? 2) I would like to redirect the output to a file called with the catenation of 'uname -n'.'uname -r'.config.MMDDHHMM.txt where MMDDHHMM is a timestamp of the command execution time. How do I obtain such value ? How do I create the required backticks on my laptop keyboard (no separate numpad) 3) If I use cron to run this everyday, being this a laptop client, will the due command be executed if it's natural time has expired ? 4) What is the easiest way to keep the last N versions of such files ? TIA, Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Script to build system information. Guru needed :)
Ron Johnson wrote: 2) I would like to redirect the output to a file called with the catenation of 'uname -n'.'uname -r'.config.MMDDHHMM.txt where MMDDHHMM is a timestamp of the command execution time. How do I obtain such value ? $ date +%Y%m%d%H%M How do I create the required backticks on my laptop keyboard (no separate numpad) Umm, don't know your laptop works. But There is a solution!! `foo` is now the non-approved method, and $() is now what the bash folks want us to use. $ ts=$(date +%Y%m%d%H%M) $ echo $ts 200412211158 You're GREAT Ron. Thank you so much. Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: creating a c: filename
Paul E Condon wrote: The fact that mkdir c: works for ext3 (which is what I have) and not for fat32 leads me to believe that there is a rule against colon in file name that is part of the fat32 standard and is being enforced by the fat32 implementation. I am not optimistic about you finding what you are looking for, but I wish you luck. Sorry for not being more clear Paul. Yes, the colon is illegal on FAT32 and therefore Linux FAT32 filesystem driver will correctly prohibit it's use. Thank you, Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
dnsmasq help needed
using tcpdump I see that Intranet queries are resolved on my localhost by the installed dnsmasq daemon (e.g. w3.ibm.com) while external sites (e.g. www.apple.com) are always sent to the first upstream DNS each time. Why ? Thank you for any help, Bob Alexander /etc/dnsmasq.conf only has the following uncommented: domain-needed bogus-priv /etc/resolv.conf (as written by dhcp3/resolconf) is (within IBM): # Dynamic resolv.conf(5) file for glibc resolver(3) generated by resolvconf(8) # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE BY HAND -- YOUR CHANGES WILL BE OVERWRITTEN nameserver 127.0.0.1 nameserver 9.139.236.161 nameserver 9.139.236.162 nameserver 9.139.236.5 search italy.ibm.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Backup with versioning
In my neverending tweaking of the system I would like to setup a backup cron job which would not only (possibly incrementally) save the files or directories I indicate, but for /etc and /home would keep the revisions of the files in a versioning schema (like rcs, cvs etc.) so that I have the possibility of going back to some previous state of the file. Any ideas ? Thank you very much, Bob Alexander -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Help on changing partitioning scheme please
Situation: 1) running monopartition Debian on /dev/hda8 2) similar size spare partition on /dev/hda7 that can be sliced at will 3) /dev/hda5 FAT32 partition used as Windows XP data partition First question: I would like to transition from the monopartition to one with independent /, /home, /var, /tmp and /usr. Was about to make a mistake by using Partition magic to slice the current /dev/hda7 since it would have changed the /dev/hda8 into something else and I would not have rebooted ... What is the proper way to procede ? Second question: The /dev/hda5 fat32 partition is quite large and contains most of my work related data and also data from Firefox, Thunderbird and Lotus Notes. Since this machine from times to times must also work under WinXP :( I would like to use this partition in common with the similar Linux programs ... is using symbolic links the correct way to handle this ? Thank you very much. Bob PS I am receiving this list in the digest form ... is it possible to reply to a single entry with Thunderbird ? Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Backup with versioning
Alvin Oga wrote: - backup scripts are all FREE ... and all require tweeking, which users and servers you want to backup to where Thank you Alvin, what you say is very very interesting. Maybe what you say is the right approach also for me and I could just use the diff command to compare any restored file and the current version. I think rdiff-backup might be interesting tool. Do you know any other sources of good scripts so that I do not forget anything important ? Take care, Bob PS Just burned /etc /home /root on two CD-R just to have a starting base in case disaster strikes before I setup my backup strategy :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Any Debian package to manage Apache users ?
Is there some GUI to define, revoke, update passwords for Apache(2) users ??? Tried Apache Webmin but it does not and I would like to avoid using the htpasswd command line for this (many users and quite dynamic). Thank you. Bob Alexander -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How does Debian cope with overworked mantainers ?
Do not want to start a flame. My gratitude towards the Debian mantainers is enormous but from times to times you stumble on that particular package you really need, that is broken, on which bug reports are filed months ago, no feedback given and when you try to add some more information either get no feedback or get some nervous reply often stating the problem is upstream (in last case I checked and it seems to be not true). As a proof this is not a personal argument no names or hints made here ! 8- When all of the above is true is there a way what is the way of the Debian project to handle these cases (i.e. finding a new mantainer without consent of the current) ?? Thank you. Bob Alexander -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Best way to prune my installation
Thank you Aoki-san. I know I can do this with dselect but the problem is that the default installation is several hundred packages and manually saying what you do NOT want is very long. I had hoped that with debfoster or something similar I could say what I want (the list of packages I really need) and have only them and their prerequisites being installed. Take care. Bob Osamu Aoki [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto nel messaggio news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 04:34:07PM +0200, Bob Alexander wrote: I have way too many packages installed that I do not really need. I have played with debfoster, orphaner etc ... still quite difficult. Is there a way to say: This is the list of the packages I really need. Keep them and their dependencies and uninstall everything else Thank you for any help. Bob Alexander Start dselect. Do nselect. Scroll down to something which may not be useful. Press - long to deselect. install. Then do dselect again to install what you want. Your old config shall be still good. But before doing this, I recommend you to clean apt cache # apt-get autoclean Cheers. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Best way to prune my installation
I have way too many packages installed that I do not really need. I have played with debfoster, orphaner etc ... still quite difficult. Is there a way to say: This is the list of the packages I really need. Keep them and their dependencies and uninstall everything else Thank you for any help. Bob Alexander -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Please help with Sarge and my network card
Dear Friends, I am trying to get Sarge installed on my brand new Thinkpad T40. This little gem has an Intel(r) Pro/1000 MT Mobile Connection Gigabit Ethernet card on board. I am not able to get this working and am therefore stuck since Sarge netinst CD works but has no network and Sarge full ISO CD (made with Jigdo yesterday) does not seem to be working ocrrectly at all (does not find libc6-udeb or similar despite the CD checking correctly). Any help very much appreciated. Exact machine type for anyone who would care is a 237392G with a Pentium M 1.6GHz and ATI Radeon 9000 mobility, wireless etc. Thank you. Bob Alexander -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
