Re: Tripwire

2004-09-12 Thread David Baron
On Friday 10 September 2004 20:01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a file-system integrity checker, will detect hacks, intrusions, etc. I tried it but seems to find lots of stuff that seem part of the dynamics of the ongoing system operation There is an exclusion list. I haven't found

recording shows

2004-09-12 Thread QuakAtak77
hi i would like to tape a show and program it to go on @ a certain time. i have a Quasar T.V it has a vcr connceted to it. i have tried lots of times to record,i can do the time and date and when for it 2 go on , but when i check to see if it recorded it is a blue screen, what am a doing

Re: Soundblaster Live! 5.1 blacklisted

2004-09-12 Thread David Baron
On Friday 10 September 2004 22:21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: open a mixer app (aumix, etc) and check that your volumes are up and unmuted. they are down by default. There is a bug in current kernels / alsa -- you may have to check this everytime you boot up. Hope they fix it soon.

Re: Help with DHCP and Date Question

2004-09-12 Thread Thomas Hood
On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 03:50:03 +0200, Craig Jackson wrote: On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 20:29:42 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Questions: 1. How do I install DHCP Client? apt-get install dhcp-client This will get you the now-obsolete dhcp-client package. I suggest that

print to remote printer on LAN?

2004-09-12 Thread Silvan
All the networking stuff I've done for the last couple years has involved low-spec old junk boxes running as terminals, with all the resources attached to the server. My server's USB bus has taken a dump. The box is otherwise fine, but this means I can no longer use my USB printer. I've got

Re: howto delegate user administration to non-root account?

2004-09-12 Thread John Summerfield
matt okeson-harlow wrote: it also comes down to this... if you are going to have people adding users, they should be people that have SOME level of trust. if you don't trust them to not INTENTIONALLY screw things up, don't give them access. write your wrapper to the best of your ability to take

Re: test (sorry)

2004-09-12 Thread John Summerfield
Monique Mudama wrote: I can't seem to get any emails through with my normal email account at bounceswoosh.org ... let's see if this works. Thought you'd left. Don't forget to fix your reply-to address:-) -- Cheers John -- spambait [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tourist pics

apt-get distupgrade wants to remove my whole system

2004-09-12 Thread Steven Satelle
This is a resend (I'm not sure mails from my gmail account are reaching the list). I'm running testing and have been happily for the last few months. No real problems, updating every few days by doing an apt-get distupgrade. Yesterday I saw the package upgrade-system in the available list and

Re: xorg + kde + keyboard

2004-09-12 Thread Karol Czachorowski
On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 01:38:44 -0500, Brad Sims wrote: Does it work if you symlink /etc/X11/xkb to /usr/local/X11R6.8? To me that seems the obvious fix albeit a workaround. It doesn't work, but adding: /usr/local/X11R6.8/lib solved the problem. But there is another one: how to tell kdm/wdm to

ftp problem

2004-09-12 Thread Paul Akkermans
Hi group, When I try to ftp (from myWindows XP ftp client)to my Debian system I get the following message: "Connection forcefully rejected." Can somebody tell me what is wrong? Thanks in advance Paul

Re: ftp problem

2004-09-12 Thread Craig Jackson
On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 14:20:46 +0200 Paul Akkermans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi group, When I try to ftp (from my Windows XP ftp client) to my Debian system I get the following message: Connection forcefully rejected. Can somebody tell me what is wrong? What does the ftp log say? Maybe

Re: ftp problem

2004-09-12 Thread Andrew Schulman
When I try to ftp (from my Windows XP ftp client) to my Debian system I get the following message: Connection forcefully rejected. Can somebody tell me what is wrong? Probably not. Have you checked your server logs, or maybe syslog? If they don't have the answer, find out how to turn up the

Re: Real translucency in X.org?

2004-09-12 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
David Fokkema wrote: Hi group, With all those posts about the freedesktop.org/x.org server, I'm wondering... What's the fuss all about? Yes, I know it's very nice, but why do people really want to use it _now_? I'm really looking forward to the shadowing and the real translucency (especially

Can't get APT to work on local files.

2004-09-12 Thread Eric Dickner
I can't seem to get apt-get to see some .deb files I have copied to the hard drive. I followed the instructions given in the APT HOWTO exactly but they don't seem to be very well written, at least in this section (2.2 How to use APT locally). I make a directory /root/debs, put the debs there and

Re: apt-get distupgrade wants to remove my whole system

2004-09-12 Thread Joris Huizer
Steven Satelle wrote: This is a resend (I'm not sure mails from my gmail account are reaching the list). I'm running testing and have been happily for the last few months. No real problems, updating every few days by doing an apt-get distupgrade. Yesterday I saw the package upgrade-system in the

Is an xcf sourcecode? (according to GPL)

2004-09-12 Thread Niels L. Ellegaard
Dear gurus :) Suppose I use gimp to create graphics for a GPL'ed program. First I use gimp to create a layered xcf-files of the graphics, and then I use gimp to manually flatten the layers of the xcf files to create jpg's for the game. Of course I keep the original xcf-files on my harddisk to be

Re: playing DVD movies and .avi files

2004-09-12 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 the mental interface of Tom Kuiper told: Greetings everyone! I have a camera which has the option of producing .avi movie files. I also have some movie DVDs I'd like to play. Some Web searching turned up cinelerria. There is an .rpm package at

Re: Is an xcf sourcecode? (according to GPL)

2004-09-12 Thread Niels L. Ellegaard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Niels L. Ellegaard) writes: Do the xcf-files count as sourcecode? (according to the GPL) I just noted that this question is currently being discussed at debian-legal. Sorry about the noise :) Niels -- Niels L Ellegaard

Re: breakin help

2004-09-12 Thread Stefan O'Rear
On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 02:19:47AM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: Hi D-U, a day ago, I had a problem with su-ing to root. I checked out my auth.log and found strange activity. I have a basic ipchains script and run apache and sshd on a dialup connection. Consult:

mozilla 1.8a

2004-09-12 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Hi list!!! I compiled mozilla 1.8a. Last one I did was 1.7.2. There is a difference in Gtk2 support. In 1.7.2 I could have as options: ... ac_add_options --enable-xft ac_add_options --enable-gtk ... which is now impossible, he complains about needing Gtk2. You have to use: ... ac_add_options

Re: Real translucency in X.org?

2004-09-12 Thread Joris Huizer
David Fokkema wrote: Hi group, With all those posts about the freedesktop.org/x.org server, I'm wondering... What's the fuss all about? Yes, I know it's very nice, but why do people really want to use it _now_? I'm really looking forward to the shadowing and the real translucency (especially

Re: Can't get APT to work on local files.

2004-09-12 Thread Eric Dickner
--- Eric Dickner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To use the packages, finally, add: deb file:/root debs/ NB that there in no '#' here...does that mean to add that line to something else? OK, the debian refernce manual was much more clear. That line above should say: To use the packages,

Re: CAN'T SUBSCRIBE

2004-09-12 Thread Cousin Stanley
On 2004-09-11, John Fleming [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No matter what/where, I don't receive ANYTHING from Debian - no confirmation requests, no email period. I know there are a lotta Debian lists and [maybe] a lot of people doing stupid things with their email, but I sure hope someone

Re: How Best to Email Documents? - Thanks

2004-09-12 Thread Thomas H. George
Thanks. I am convinced PDF is the way to go. I'll also recommend the school shift to Open Office - I always recommend it to my friends but never thought about converting the school. Tom George -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Extra commands when starting X

2004-09-12 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
Some sites tell me to do things like Please add the following line to the ~/.xsession or ~/.xinitrc. export [EMAIL PROTECTED] exec uim-xim But in Debian, neither ~/.xsession nor ~/.xinitrc exist by default. And if you create them, you cannot use them for *adding* things to the X

question

2004-09-12 Thread Paul Akkermans
Hi group, I am trying to compile a structure editor which I found on the internet. But I get the following message:

KDE 3.3 Fails to Logout Cleanly

2004-09-12 Thread Ed Sutherland
Has anyone else experienced problems logging out of KDE 3.3 (the ppc version)? When I try to logout, the screen goes to black and the cursor locks-up. The only way to reboot then is to hit the reset button. This never happened with KDE 3.2. Ed -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: breakin help

2004-09-12 Thread Adam Aube
Kevin Mark wrote: a day ago, I had a problem with su-ing to root. I checked out my auth.log and found strange activity. I have a basic ipchains script and run apache and sshd on a dialup connection. Consult: http://kmark.home.pipeline.com/breakin.txt as I did not want to overload the list.

Re: Soundblaster Live! 5.1 blacklisted

2004-09-12 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 09:44:53AM +0300, David Baron wrote: There is a bug in current kernels / alsa -- you may have to check this everytime you boot up. Hope they fix it soon. i've not looked it up, but i think the bug comes from letting hotplug load the sound modules, and they're not

Re: question

2004-09-12 Thread Michael Marsh
I am trying to compile a structure editor which I found on the internet. But I get the following message:

Re: apt-get - unmet dependencies

2004-09-12 Thread Anders Breindahl
Thank you for your reply. I worked around it by `dpkg -r kontact' and recursed it manually up to `kdepim', I believe. I have absolutely no clue to why it is necessary to return to `dpkg' for this cleanup. However, thanks for your help. Regards, Anders Breindahl. -- Original

Re: KDE 3.3 Fails to Logout Cleanly

2004-09-12 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello Ed, hello list! On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 10:37:37AM -0400, Ed Sutherland wrote: Has anyone else experienced problems logging out of KDE 3.3 (the ppc version)? When I try to logout, the screen goes to black and the cursor locks-up. The only way to reboot then is to hit the reset button.

testing SILENTLY removed mozilla-firefox

2004-09-12 Thread Patrick Wiseman
How annoying! The current versions of mozilla-diggler and -tabextensions are apparently incompatible with the current version (in testing, that is) of mozilla-firefox, so an aptitude update removed firefox. I know it's 'testing' but that behavior seems really bad. I restored firefox by purging

ZOOM X4 adsl modem , Apache behind home gateway

2004-09-12 Thread Hasan
Hello , I want to use apache server , it works at localhost perfect . Bu i have the adsl modem zoom x4 . When i click my ip at the browser Home Gateway popup appears and ask password. I tried to do Virtual Host section . When I set port 80 to my ip , it reset the modem and my ip chages ! How

Re: KDE 3.3 Fails to Logout Cleanly

2004-09-12 Thread Raghavendra Bhat
Ed Sutherland When I try to logout, the screen goes to black and the cursor locks-up. The only way to reboot then is to hit the reset I have the same repeatedly reproducible bug on my 3Dfx Voodoo 3000 card based X system. This is an issue with the X server infrastructure as I am

Re: testing SILENTLY removed mozilla-firefox

2004-09-12 Thread Patrick Wiseman
I tried installing diggler from the Mozilla extensions page, but it doesn't take (it downloads apparently, but it's not there when I restart firefox). Is there something about the debian firefox package which causes it to resist installation of extensions? Patrick On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 12:29:25

Re: KDE 3.3 Fails to Logout Cleanly

2004-09-12 Thread Ed Sutherland
I tried your suggestion and logout still causes a lock-up. I have no way of logging back in remotely -- this is a local-only system. (Would switching to another version of X -- like X.org -- solve the error?) Speaking of KDE 3.3 errors, korganizer always crashes when I have Thunderbird up. Ed

Re: Can't get APT to work on local files.

2004-09-12 Thread Steven Satelle
On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 06:54:19 -0700 (PDT), Eric Dickner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Eric Dickner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To use the packages, finally, add: deb file:/root debs/ NB that there in no '#' here...does that mean to add that line to something else? OK, the

Re: KDE 3.3 Fails to Logout Cleanly

2004-09-12 Thread Raghavendra Bhat
Ed I tried your suggestion and logout still causes a lock-up. My suggestion was just an escape route, not a real fix to the problem. The problem is the lock-up; in my case it clears up after an xserver reboot. (Would switching to another version of X -- like X.org -- solve the

Re: ZOOM X4 adsl modem , Apache behind home gateway

2004-09-12 Thread Dean Allen Provins
Hasan: On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 07:51:15PM +0300, Hasan wrote: Hello , I want to use apache server , it works at localhost perfect . Bu i have the adsl modem zoom x4 . When i click my ip at the browser Home Gateway popup appears and ask password. I tried to do Virtual Host section . When I

Re: ZOOM X4 adsl modem , Apache behind home gateway

2004-09-12 Thread Hasan
Dean Allen Provins wrote: Hasan: On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 07:51:15PM +0300, Hasan wrote: Hello , I want to use apache server , it works at localhost perfect . Bu i have the adsl modem zoom x4 . When i click my ip at the browser Home Gateway popup appears and ask password. I tried to do Virtual

Re: Soundblaster Live! 5.1 blacklisted

2004-09-12 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello John M Flinchbaugh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 09:44:53AM +0300, David Baron wrote: There is a bug in current kernels / alsa -- you may have to check this everytime you boot up. Hope they fix it soon. i've not looked it up, but i think the bug comes from

Re: First general purpose unmoderated newsgroup for Debian

2004-09-12 Thread Raphaël Berbain
Sorry for the late answer, hollidays kicking in. Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Raphaël Berbain) writes: Second, ISTR that PGP/MIME is recommended over inline PGP. Unfortunately, Outlook Express doesn't handle MIME properly, so PGP/MIME is out No matter how

Remove unrequired dependencies

2004-09-12 Thread Tom Wesley
Hi, Sorry for a probably normal query, but I couldn't find an answer with Google: Is there a simple way to remove packages that were installed as dependencies for packages that have since been removed? Cheers, -- Tom Wesley [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: GMAIL Invites..!

2004-09-12 Thread matt okeson-harlow
for those bashing on google... have you actually READ the faq's re privacy and security? guess not On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 21:05:03 +0300, Hasan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You'r right , google is very very clever . He knows the rules of the game. Johann Koenig wrote: On Saturday September 11

Re: GMAIL Invites..!

2004-09-12 Thread Johann Koenig
On Sunday September 12 at 02:42pm matt okeson-harlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: for those bashing on google... have you actually READ the faq's re privacy and security? I have. I don't care. I just don't like Gmail invites showing up everywhere. Maybe you meant to reply to the *other* messages.

Re: Remove unrequired dependencies

2004-09-12 Thread Stefan O'Rear
On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 08:40:05PM +0100, Tom Wesley wrote: Hi, Sorry for a probably normal query, but I couldn't find an answer with Google: Is there a simple way to remove packages that were installed as dependencies for packages that have since been removed? Just: dpkg --remove

Re: Remove unrequired dependencies

2004-09-12 Thread Tom Wesley
On Sunday 12 September 2004 20:52, Stefan O'Rear wrote: On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 08:40:05PM +0100, Tom Wesley wrote: Hi, Sorry for a probably normal query, but I couldn't find an answer with Google: Is there a simple way to remove packages that were installed as dependencies for packages

Re: Remove unrequired dependencies

2004-09-12 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Tom Wesley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Sorry for a probably normal query, but I couldn't find an answer with Google: Is there a simple way to remove packages that were installed as dependencies for packages that have since been removed? If you installed the packages using aptitude, they

Re: Remove unrequired dependencies

2004-09-12 Thread Rob Bochan
On Sunday 12 September 2004 03:40 pm, Tom Wesley wrote: Hi, Sorry for a probably normal query, but I couldn't find an answer with Google: Is there a simple way to remove packages that were installed as dependencies for packages that have since been removed? You can ID them by using the

Re: Remove unrequired dependencies

2004-09-12 Thread Olav Lavell
Op zo 12-09-2004, om 21:40 schreef Tom Wesley: Hi, :) Sorry for a probably normal query, but I couldn't find an answer with Google: Is there a simple way to remove packages that were installed as dependencies for packages that have since been removed? Take a look at the deborphan

Apt-get dist-upgrade threatening to remove 1500 files - SOLVED

2004-09-12 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
All, Apologies for the bandwidth used. I had the entry for security.debian.org stable updates in my /etc/apt/sources.list. Upgrade-system saw that and attempted to downgrade my entire system such that it complied with the latest security updates for stable or some such - resulting in the

rekall doesn't work properly on debian

2004-09-12 Thread Daniel M.
Hello everybody, I successfully compiled and instaled rekall 2.2.1 on Debian unstable (rekall is a database front-end, similar to Microsoft's Access, see http://www.rekallrevealed.org/), but the program is virtually unusable, since it crashes with a segfault every couple of minutes when you try

Re: ZOOM X4 adsl modem , Apache behind home gateway[SOLVED]

2004-09-12 Thread Hasan
i change the lines in etc/network/interfaces like this : iface eth0 inet static address 10.0.0.16 netmask 255.255.255.0 gateway 10.0.0.2 then in LAN settings in modem , the ip beetween 10.0.0.4 and 10.0.0.15 so 16 is in outside . then in VIRTUAL HOST in web interface in modem , i change the port

Re: ZOOM X4 adsl modem , Apache behind home gateway

2004-09-12 Thread Dean Allen Provins
Hasan: On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 10:11:15PM +0300, Hasan wrote: Dean Allen Provins wrote: Hasan: On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 07:51:15PM +0300, Hasan wrote: Hello , I want to use apache server , it works at localhost perfect . Bu i have the adsl modem zoom x4 . When i click my ip at the

Re: ZOOM X4 adsl modem , Apache behind home gateway

2004-09-12 Thread Pigeon
On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 12:25:28PM -0600, Dean Allen Provins wrote: On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 07:51:15PM +0300, Hasan wrote: Hello , I want to use apache server , it works at localhost perfect . Bu i have the adsl modem zoom x4 . When i click my ip at the browser Home Gateway popup

Re: Apt-get dist-upgrade threatening to remove 1500 files - SOLVED

2004-09-12 Thread Steven Satelle
On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 20:47:11 +, Andrew M.A. Cater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All, Apologies for the bandwidth used. I had the entry for security.debian.org stable updates in my /etc/apt/sources.list. Upgrade-system saw that and attempted to downgrade my entire system such that it

Re: Remove unrequired dependencies

2004-09-12 Thread Travis Crump
Tom Wesley wrote: Hi, Sorry for a probably normal query, but I couldn't find an answer with Google: Is there a simple way to remove packages that were installed as dependencies for packages that have since been removed? Cheers, aptitude markauto '~slibs' should get most of them though there

Re: upgraded libraries

2004-09-12 Thread wayne A
thanks for the information. - Original Message - From: Adam Aube [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: wayne A [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 12, 2004 1:46 PM Subject: Re: upgraded libraries On Sunday 12 September 2004 08:24 am, wayne A wrote: First off, thanx for replying Adam. You're

bash completion does not work over ssh except as root

2004-09-12 Thread Faheem Mitha
Dear People, I have noticed that bash completion only works on a remote machine I have sshed into, if I log in as root. This is obviously a case of something not being sourced correctly, but I am not sure what the problem is. Can anyone tell me how to solve this, or if not, confirm the problem?

Re: bash completion does not work over ssh except as root

2004-09-12 Thread Stefan O'Rear
On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 06:37:44PM -0400, Faheem Mitha wrote: Dear People, I have noticed that bash completion only works on a remote machine I have sshed into, if I log in as root. This is obviously a case of something not being sourced correctly, but I am not sure what the problem is.

Samba not able to read files (but can read dirs)

2004-09-12 Thread Matt Perry
I'm running Debian Sarge, upgraded last night from Woody. Since the upgrade samba isn't working correctly. I can go into directories in Windows but as soon as I try to read a file, the process in windows hangs. I'm getting a lot of errors in my log file like the following. mp3 is the name of

Re: ZOOM X4 adsl modem , Apache behind home gateway

2004-09-12 Thread James Allen
As previously stated, you will want to use a dynamic dns service such as dyndns.org. If you sign up with them the rest is pretty simple. apt-get install ddclient and after the configuration and installation, since you are behind a gateway, the following line needs to be added to the end of

Re: Emailing myself pictures to a Maildir; how to extract with script?

2004-09-12 Thread Dave Thayer
On Sat, Sep 11, 2004 at 03:09:26PM -0400, William Ballard wrote: I'm emailing myself pics from my cell and procmail puts them into a special maildir. I'd like to iterate over each message in this maildir, extract the attachments to individual .jpgs, and then delete the message. (Lazy,

Re: ZOOM X4 adsl modem , Apache behind home gateway[SOLVED]

2004-09-12 Thread Pigeon
On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 12:35:08AM +0300, Hasan wrote: i change the lines in etc/network/interfaces like this : iface eth0 inet static address 10.0.0.16 netmask 255.255.255.0 gateway 10.0.0.2 Make the first line iface eth0 inet dhcp and get rid of the other three. Make sure you've got

Re: bash completion does not work over ssh except as root

2004-09-12 Thread Stefan O'Rear
On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 08:37:23PM -0400, Faheem Mitha wrote: On Sun, 12 Sep 2004, Stefan O'Rear wrote: -- BEGIN DATA BLOCK -- # enable bash completion in interactive shells if [ $PS1 -a -f /etc/bash_completion ]; then . /etc/bash_completion fi -- END DATA BLOCK -- You need that

Re: bash completion does not work over ssh except as root

2004-09-12 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Sun, 12 Sep 2004, Stefan O'Rear wrote: -- BEGIN DATA BLOCK -- # enable bash completion in interactive shells if [ $PS1 -a -f /etc/bash_completion ]; then . /etc/bash_completion fi -- END DATA BLOCK -- You need that or the equivilent in /etc/bash.bashrc or ~/.bashrc (it is commented out by

Partitioning a second hard disk

2004-09-12 Thread sbarlow
Hi, I am a (generally) linux newbie trying to jump in the deep end of learning linux. I have read a lot of documentation on the correct way to partition a hard disk by placing /, /home, /usr, /var, /boot, /tmp and obviously /swap on their own partitions, the size requirements and physical

modconf sees no modules at all in recompiled kernel

2004-09-12 Thread Eric Dickner
I have two kernels running, one 2.2.20 installed from purchased disks and one 2.4.27 that was created by recompiling the old fashioned way, ie not by a debian package but from the sources that came from kernel.org. The problem is this: running the old linux there are a few modules installed that

Re: bash completion does not work over ssh except as root

2004-09-12 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Sun, 12 Sep 2004, Stefan O'Rear wrote: I don't really know - I have it in both and it works everywhere. You are right. Once I enable it in .bashrc, it works over ssh, contradicting the comment. I'll file a bug. In woody + unstable libc, gcc. Don't follow you. What is the relevance of libc

Re: Partitioning a second hard disk

2004-09-12 Thread Andrew Schulman
I am a (generally) linux newbie trying to jump in the deep end of learning linux. I have read a lot of documentation on the correct way to partition a hard disk by placing /, /home, /usr, /var, /boot, /tmp and obviously /swap on their own partitions, the size requirements and physical layout

issue w/fresh install of Sarge on PPC and 17 Apple Studio Display CRT

2004-09-12 Thread matthew bradley
Hi all, Thanks for help previously regarding the PowerEdge. The basic things are set up again, cleanly, and I'm exploring. I went ahead and decided to install Sarge on an old Blue White 350Mhz G3 at home. The install went fine, but when it was all over and I was brought to a login I was given

What happens after I install Sarge

2004-09-12 Thread Olav
... on a new (server) box and then, suddenly, Sarge becomes the official stable distribution of Debian? Do I then change testing to stable in sources.list and will it be reasonable to expect that everything will continue to work from that point? After all the big release will take place in a

bind in jail?

2004-09-12 Thread Olav
Do most people who run bind or bind9 on Debian, recompile the program to run in a chroot environment (jail)? Or perhaps, should this not be necessary in Sarge because it has other defenses in place? Running bind this way is a recommendation that you can often read about. I also wonder what the

Re: What happens after I install Sarge

2004-09-12 Thread John Hasler
Olav writes: Do I then change testing to stable in sources.list and will it be reasonable to expect that everything will continue to work from that point? Replace testing with sarge in sources.list right now and everything will continue to work from now right through the release. -- John

exim4 config files

2004-09-12 Thread Kurt Dresner
Hi everyone, sorry to bother you. I just made a huge mistake and blew away everything in /etc/exim4/ I have tried for several hours now to get the packages reinstalled, but I can't get it to work. If anyone could help me out, I'd greatly appreciate it. I removed all of the following: exim4

Re: exim4 config files

2004-09-12 Thread Stefan O'Rear
On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 10:41:10PM -0500, Kurt Dresner wrote: Hi everyone, sorry to bother you. I just made a huge mistake and blew away everything in /etc/exim4/ I have tried for several hours now to get the packages reinstalled, but I can't get it to work. If anyone could help me out,

who has the file open?

2004-09-12 Thread Blake Swadling
I know there is a command out there somewhere that can tell me which process has opened a particular file but I'm having a senior moment and I cant remember. Goolgle aint helping either Can someone help me out pls Cheers Blake Swadling Senior Software Engineer Newton Pty Ltd Telephone: +61 2

Re: who has the file open?

2004-09-12 Thread Eric Gaumer
On Sun, 2004-09-12 at 21:13, Blake Swadling wrote: I know there is a command out there somewhere that can tell me which process has opened a particular file but I'm having a senior moment and I cant remember. Goolgle aint helping either Can someone help me out pls man fuser man lsof

Re: What happens after I install Sarge

2004-09-12 Thread Olav
Op ma 13-09-2004, om 05:46 schreef John Hasler: Olav writes: Do I then change testing to stable in sources.list and will it be reasonable to expect that everything will continue to work from that point? Replace testing with sarge in sources.list right now and everything will continue

Re: Apache un-able to understand.

2004-09-12 Thread Nayyar Ahmed
Hello Ivan, thanks for your detail msg. these are the output of all instruction given by you. But, One thing more appair that when i type http://localhost it give me messege box with following messege. the file is of type application/x-httpd-php mozilla does not know how to handle file.

X.org Questions

2004-09-12 Thread Ed Sutherland
After looking at screenshots of X.org, it seems to be more graphically up-to-date than XFree86. But, I have some questions: 1) Can X.org be apt-gotten? (otherwise, where and how) 2) How difficult is replacing xfree with x.org? 3) Any issues specific to the ppc architecture I should be aware?

Re: Partitioning a second hard disk

2004-09-12 Thread Kent West
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am a (generally) linux newbie trying to jump in the deep end of learning linux. I have read a lot of documentation on the correct way to partition a hard disk by placing /, /home, /usr, /var, /boot, /tmp and obviously /swap on their own partitions, the size

Re: exim4 config files

2004-09-12 Thread Kurt Dresner
Thank you a ton. That seems to have fixed most of the problems. Now I just need to get exim4 playing with mailman correctly... this is going to be a late night. -Kurt On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 21:02:34 -0700, Stefan O'Rear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 10:41:10PM -0500, Kurt

GRUB issues

2004-09-12 Thread c0ldfusi0n
Hey all. I recently made an update of apt followed by an upgrade and rebooted. GRUB then gave me this error: GRUB loading stage1.5... GRUB loading please wait... Error 15 Now as far as i know, the error code 15 stands for File not found. I tried booting with the grub bootdisk and do: root

Re: issue w/fresh install of Sarge on PPC and 17 Apple Studio Display CRT

2004-09-12 Thread Kent West
matthew bradley wrote: Hi all, Thanks for help previously regarding the PowerEdge. The basic things are set up again, cleanly, and I'm exploring. I went ahead and decided to install Sarge on an old Blue White 350Mhz G3 at home. The install went fine, but when it was all over and I was brought

Re: bind in jail?

2004-09-12 Thread Paolo Alexis Falcone
On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 05:42:55 +0200, Olav [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do most people who run bind or bind9 on Debian, recompile the program to run in a chroot environment (jail)? Or perhaps, should this not be necessary in Sarge because it has other defenses in place? There's no need to recompile

Mplayer: New_Face failed. Maybe the font path is wrong.

2004-09-12 Thread Mike Chandler
Please supply the text font file (~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf). Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 22:11:08 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Status: R X-Status: NQ

Re: Re: Partitioning a second hard disk

2004-09-12 Thread Scott Barlow
Thank you Andrew for your quick response. I have allowed enough for each partition. If anything I will be wasting space which is ok for the moment as i'm just experimenting. My computer consists of a 40gb drive which has the install on it and a blank 80gb drive. My /boot is around 100mb,

please recommand a media reader

2004-09-12 Thread Tom Vier
i have a usb (floppy drive size) reader, made by in-win, but afaict, there's no linux driver for it. i'm looking for a usb card reader that has good linux support, and reads cf and sd cards. also, black is a big plus. i'd like it to match my case. tia! -- Tom Vier [EMAIL PROTECTED] DSA Key ID

Microsoft disc ounts

2004-09-12 Thread starostik
Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional - 50.00 Microsoft Office 2003 Professional Edition - 110.00 Linux RedHat 7.3 - 60.00 Corel Draw Graphics Suite 11 - 120.00 Norton Antivirus 2004 Professional Edition - 15.00 3D Home Architect Landscape Design Deluxe 6.0 - 29.99 Symantec Norton Ghost 2003 - 30.00

Re: X.org Questions

2004-09-12 Thread Chris Anderson
On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 00:55 -0400, Ed Sutherland wrote: After looking at screenshots of X.org, it seems to be more graphically up-to-date than XFree86. But, I have some questions: 1) Can X.org be apt-gotten? (otherwise, where and how) Not officially, there may be a repo somewhere that

Re: testing SILENTLY removed mozilla-firefox

2004-09-12 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 12:29:25PM -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: How annoying! The current versions of mozilla-diggler and -tabextensions are apparently incompatible with the current version (in testing, that is) of mozilla-firefox, so an aptitude update removed firefox. I know it's

Re: Remove unrequired dependencies

2004-09-12 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 08:40:05PM +0100, Tom Wesley wrote: Hi, Sorry for a probably normal query, but I couldn't find an answer with Google: Is there a simple way to remove packages that were installed as dependencies for packages that have since been removed? Cheers, -- Tom

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