Re: For the love of...

On (20/05/06 16:49), Dirk wrote: > Why was xorgcfg removed by the last update > > Am I supposed to install some retarded KDE to configure xorg.conf now? As root: # dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg.conf Regards Clive -- www.clivemenzies.co.uk ... ...strategies for business -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: Why is KlamAV not included in Debian?

On (19/05/06 08:13), Anthony Simonelli wrote: > I just had a question and was wondering if anyone knew > why KlamAV is not included in Debian? I was able to > download the .deb from MepisLovers.com and it installs > just fine, but I don't know why it's not included. Is > it a licensing thing? >

Re: AMD64

On (18/05/06 16:33), Alessandro Attanasi wrote: > I have an AMD64 bit computer and I would known if it is possible to > install a debian i386 on this platform whitout using the un-official > Debian for AMD64 (I read of some difficulties to work at the best with > this un-official release ) Yes. i

Re: switching from apt-get to aptitude

On (16/05/06 11:53), Rick Reynolds wrote: > I've googled this quite a bit and found various web pages praising > aptitude as a "better apt-get". But I've also seen cautions about > mixing the two. > > I'm running a testing installation that has been in place for nearly two > years -- all the

Re: Screen refresh rate

On (16/05/06 11:06), Rocky Ou wrote: > Hey list, > > Can any one tell me how to cofigure my screen refresh rate please? I did some > googling but can not find the solution. I'm using sarge 3.1. The best bet is to boot a live Knoppix or similar CD, then look at the video settings in the /etc/X11/x

Re: Newbie video configuration -- Monitor and video settings

On (15/05/06 20:12), Benjamin Sher wrote: > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > From: Benjamin Sher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 20:12:53 -0400 > Subject: Newbie video configuration -- Monitor and video settings > > Dear friends: > > I am about to install Debian once again. I made

Re: Dealing with duped messages [Re: Installing HylaFAX....]

On (15/05/06 18:53), Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Clive Menzies wrote: > > > > Thanks Roberto, it doesn't really bother me 'cos read by thread in mutt > > makes it's pretty trivial to delete duplicates as I zap through the posts > > from various debian lis

Re: Installing HylaFAX....

On (15/05/06 18:18), Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Dov Oxenberg wrote: > > Once again THANK YOU for all your help, I can't begin to tell you how > > much I appreciate it. > > Now that I have my Debian box up and running, nice desktop and all, I > > was under the impression the distro comes "prepackag

Re: Another Newbie Troubles with Debian

On (15/05/06 12:58), Dov Oxenberg wrote: > Actually that is what I was trying to convey in my previous post...I press the > enter key and the system does it's thing, and when all is said and done, I > don't have a desktop. Maybe I am asking the wrong questionafter logging > in, whether as the

Re: Another Newbie Troubles with Debian

On (15/05/06 12:26), Dov Oxenberg wrote: > First off I would like to say thanks to all of you for being so kind in > welcoming me to the list, and for your willingness to be of assistance. > I am having a similar issue to the user who posted earlier this morning > saying he was unable to load the

Re: Effect of `export PATH' not pemanent?

On (12/05/06 11:13), Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Hi. > > I do: > > $ echo $PATH > /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games > > , then > > $ export PATH="$PATH:/sbin" > $ echo $PATH > /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games:/sbin > > and everything all right; but the effect

Re: Problem booting anfter reinstall...

On (10/05/06 15:49), Bob wrote: > I've got a box that was running Sarge, but I wanted to upgrade it to > Etch. apt-get dist-upgrade failed due to lack of disk space, so I > decided to do a complete reinstall from a netinst CD. > > While I was at it I bunged a couple of 18Gb SCSI drives into the ma

Re: Problems creating RAID 5 using mdadm

On (10/05/06 16:10), Ruggiero, Stephan wrote: > Hi, > > I figured it out: > > The problem was that during the boot process the SATA controllers are > initiated after the array building. The IDE controllers are initiated > earlier, that's why the RAID1 with the IDE drives worked... > > So I did a

Re: Debian for AMD64

On (09/05/06 16:39), David A. Parker wrote: > >Been running Sarge for a year on a genuine AMD Opteron. Have Debian > >unstable on several Opterons, a dual Xeon and Pentium D. The Pentium D > >"feels" faster but may have a faster clock speed / dynamically faster > >memory / peripherals. Not been

Re: Disk Defragmentatio

On (08/05/06 14:52), IraqiGeek wrote: > On Monday, May 08, 2006 4:13 PM GMT, > Arafangion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >IraqiGeek wrote: > > > >>Hi all, > >> > >>I want to defragment my debian partition (the entire system is > >>installed in one partition). Googling around, I found references to

Re: how do I setup UTF-8?

On (06/05/06 17:00), Michael Stevens wrote: > I'm trying to get UTF-8 working. Specifically, I want to use the > en_GB.UTF-8 locale. I'm on Debian stable. > > I've successfully generated the locale and set it as the default in > /etc/environment, and am now in a confusing situation where it works

Re: More X Problems Today

On (04/05/06 15:37), Mark Crean wrote: > On Thursday 04 May 2006 13:52, Rick Friedman wrote: > > I'm running Debian Sid. This morning, I saw that quite a few X/Xorg > > packages were available to be upgraded. So, I went ahead and did the > > upgrades. > > > > I use kdm as my login display manager.

Re: Integration of Spamassassin with exim 3

On (03/05/06 10:00), Xavier MOGHRABI wrote: > Dear Debian Users, > > I contact you to get some advises on the integration of Spamassassin with > Exim3 mail server on Debian 3.1. > > I've read on the web that the right integration should be done by following > this document : > http://gnuru.org/

Re: 'M-v' not working in man pages

On (25/04/06 15:54), Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Hi. > > When I'm reading a manual page, I do 'C-v' to go one screen ahead, > but 'M-v' does not work to go one screen back: when I do 'M-v', > the View menu is displayed instead. > How can I fix that? > I have Sarge stable, and Gnome. > > Thanks in adv

Re: NIC Problems

On (25/04/06 08:58), daniel arjona wrote: > Hello Everybody: > > I am playing with Linux Debian 3.1 release 1 for first time. I have some > problems with the network access. In fact I can not ping my gateway. I > double checked the network setups using webmin and also using the X-Term > screen

Re: Cameras.

On (14/04/06 19:12), Katipo wrote: > I'm looking at purchasing a digital camera, 5 - 6 MP, and looking for > recommendations, from those with positive experiences, of makes and > models they'd be prepared to recommend. > Thanks in advance. > Regards, We got dimage Z1 a while back which is OK but

Re: What's the next step?

On (11/04/06 09:22), Rocky Ou wrote: > I use netinst CD installed Debian Sarge 3.1 successfully. I only installed > base system no any other stuff. I can use SSH to connect to remote server. > If you could give me some hints regarding to the following items, I would > really appreciate it? > > >

Re: Experimenting with Debian

On (11/04/06 11:13), Kent West wrote: > Toby Satchell wrote: > >I am setting up a dual boot with debian and want to experiment with it > >as a desktop. I am wondering which would be the best version to go > >for, Stable, Testing , Unstable. I run Stable at the moment with for a > >server, but wo

Re: Network printing

On (09/04/06 10:34), marin erwin wrote: > may i know how to install the hpdeskjet 660c,and in >what way? Views differ but I find cups pretty straightforward. Install: cupsys cupsys-bsd cupsys-client foomatic-db-hpijs

Re: Mail server setup

Hi Asif On (09/04/06 16:09), Asif wrote: > Thanks for the reply. > > I appreciate your comments and the help given so far. > > I've been working on the configuration today and going by your documentation > and other readme's have got to a further stage than I have ever done. > > I've installe

Re: minor (major) fetchmail problem

On (09/04/06 08:40), Lloyd Bayley - Berowra PC Services wrote: > I slept on it and found the problem this morning. > For some reason I have the command running as 'fetchmail fetchmail -v' took > out the first 'fetchmail' and it all came to life. > > I haven't touched the crontab for ages so perhap

Re: Why should "/boot" be on a separate partition?

On (08/04/06 19:38), Masatran (Deepak), R. wrote: > Why should "/boot" be on a separate partition (rather than on the "/" > partition)? > > I have installed Debian 3.1 with a separate "/boot" partition. I intend > installing Ubuntu 5.10 . Should I share the "/boot" partition between Debian > and U

Re: minor (major) fetchmail problem

On (08/04/06 19:52), Lloyd Bayley - Berowra PC Services wrote: > Have a bit of a drama.. > > Have done this a million times before but have reinstalled a new system and > fetchmail is running as a cron job. > > When I run it manually, it's fine. > > > > When it runs as a cron job, it sends me

Re: System works fine, but where's my grub.conf?

On (27/03/06 13:33), Yu,Glen [Ontario] wrote: > I've just noticed something that is a bit odd. I have Debian 3.1 (Sarge) > running on a server which boots up fine from the GRUB bootloader (the kernel > selection menu appears in the beginning, etc.), however, when I tried > searching for grub.co

Re: Simple introduction to email handling under Debian Linux?

On (27/03/06 16:59), Charles Fletcher wrote: > I'm new to Linux. I've set up sarge and updated it to the latest stable > distrib. I'm using fetchmail, procmail, Exim4, amavis, SA-exim and > Evolution. Evolution picks up mail from \var\mail\, but I > seem unable to set up anti-virus scanning, > ei

Re: kernel-image-2.6.8-3-686-smp update

On (25/03/06 04:28), Ramsay D. Seielstad wrote: > Greetings all, seems the kernel-images have recently been updated and > I'm not sure how to proceed. I'm running an IBM dual xeon 2.4 ghz > system on the stock kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686-smp with no problems. > > Now kernel-image-2.6.8-3-686-s

Re: Bug in proftpd

On (24/03/06 13:22), "charles Boudjada" wrote: > Hi there > > There is a a bug in proftpd with debian version sarge with proftpd. > > I wrote a while loop program conecting and disconnecting to proftpd server > every half second. > > After 4 or 5 successful connections, we get a failed connect

Re: Samba and OS X "issue"

On (22/03/06 11:06), Pete Clarke wrote: > Hi there, > > I have recently added an Apple OS X based machine to my little home > network - nice to have a new architecture to play with :-)..and have hit a > bit of a problem whilst connecting to a Debian Sarge Samba > server...basically Finder hangs wh

Re: Set up Mail server within LAN

On (20/03/06 16:39), Rocky Ou wrote: > I'm using Debian Stable on my Desktop. I'm a Debian newbie, Maybe my > question is not even logical. I 'm wondering > >1. Can I set up my machine so that some packages like MOODLE (I did >not use apt-get to install it. Because I want to use the latest

Re: Error connecting to printer via Samba

On (17/03/06 01:12), David R. Litwin wrote: > This post is long. > > I have: > > # smbclient configuration > > //zeus/cma /smb/cma cifs > > credentials=/home/clive/.smb_pass,file_mode=0660,dir_mode=0770 0 0 > > //zeus/clive /smb/clive cifs > > credentials=/home/clive/.smb_pass,file_mode=0660,

Re: Error connecting to printer via Samba

On (16/03/06 16:54), David R. Litwin wrote: > On 16/03/06, Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Have you tried putting up files for sharing on the XP system and checked > > whether you can see them? > > I've got smbclient and smbfs installed and mount f

Re: Error connecting to printer via Samba

On (15/03/06 19:53), David R. Litwin wrote: > I'm trying to print to my printer from Debian. The printer (an HP DeskJet > 842C) is connected to the main computer which uses Windows XP Pro. I > downloaded and installed the HPIJS driver from the HP sourceforge web-site. > I now go to http://localhos

Re: distribution upgrade question

On (14/03/06 10:42), Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 16:45:31 +0100 > Thomas Jollans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > because SID breakes. period. you must know what yu are doing, how to fix > > problems and avoid doing unattended updates or something like that ;) > > I'm curious

Re: Debian on an AMD64 Processor

On (14/03/06 10:21), Andy wrote: > What's the deal with Debian on AMD64 processors? > > I am building a new box for the first time in quite a while, and have > become a little confused about the whole 64bit processor thing. > > Can I run regular Debian Sarge on an AMD64 processor, or do I have t

Re: Hardware

On (12/03/06 22:22), Chris Lale wrote: > >Chris Lale wrote: > > > >>During installation, the Debian installer cannot use any DHCP server > >>that may be running on your router. > > > > > >I beg to differ, but I almost always grab a DHCP address when I > >install Debian. > > Well, I have not mana

Re: Outsider's observation upon the pros and cons of Debian

Hi Mike Debian (IMHO) is a great distribution for and rock solid servers and for people who are prepared to climb a fairly steep learning curve to run sid/etch. Later hardware requires newer software than sarge in many instances. And whilst sarge runs out of the box to a great extent understandi

Re: default MTA

On (12/03/06 11:01), Artem Zolochevskiy wrote: > What will be the default MTA in etch? exim, postfix? I don't run etch but sarge and sid have exim4 as default; I would guess etch is the same. Regards Clive -- www.clivemenzies.co.uk ... ...strategies for business -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: ERP & accounting software

On (02/03/06 18:47), Bernard Fay wrote: > I need suggestion for ERP and accounting softwares running on Linux and > if it could be package for Debian it would be a plus. It would be for a > small to medium business. You may want to check out: http://www.jazzerp.org/ http://tinyerp.com/ The latt

Re: what package contains the man page of "opendir, readdir, etc"?

On (01/03/06 19:32), Deephay wrote: > Hehe, seems we have a little bit misunderstanding here... > Actually I am trying to find some platform dependent develop information. > And the package manpage-dev is quite the solution. > > still thanks for you patients and kindness. :> > Do I feel silly

Re: what package contains the man page of "opendir, readdir, etc"?

On (01/03/06 15:23), Deephay wrote: > My question is as the title. thx! It sounds as though the man pages aren't going to get you started as well as a tutorial of some sort. Possibilities are Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition or for a reference on commands: Linux desk reference. # aptitude i

Re: CUPS, Sarge/Debian/GNU/Linux and Mac OS X

On (26/02/06 12:48), Paul E Condon wrote: > On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 07:27:21PM +0000, Clive Menzies wrote: > > On (26/02/06 12:14), Paul E Condon wrote: > > > I have been attempting to get CUPS working in a mixed Sarge/MacOSX > > > environment. > > > Actual

Re: CUPS, Sarge/Debian/GNU/Linux and Mac OS X

On (26/02/06 12:14), Paul E Condon wrote: > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > From: Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 12:14:20 -0700 > Subject: CUPS, Sarge/Debian/GNU/Linux and Mac OS X > > I have been attempting to get CUPS working in a mixed Sarge/MacOSX > environment.

Re: Sometimes nothing happens when printing to network printers

On (24/02/06 12:09), Robert Rothenberg wrote: > I've been having trouble printing to network printers from KDE and Gnome > applications lately, using CUPS or LP. No errors show up, and as far as the > applications are concerned, the documents printed. But the documents are > never actually sent t

Re: dual processors

On (22/02/06 19:53), Charles wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Clive Menzies" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 9:11 AM > Subject: Re: dual processors > > > >On (22/02/06 15:52), Ken Walker wrote: > &g

Re: dual processors

On (22/02/06 15:52), Ken Walker wrote: > Does Debian stable 3.1, net install detect and install for dual processors > or is there another installation disk for them You can complete the install and install an smp (multiprocessor) kernel afterwards. Or if you're desperate to install with an smp ke

Re: image view software

On (16/02/06 22:01), Deephay wrote: > > Anyone can recommend me a good image viewing software? > I am not using Gnome / KDE, so the I don't want to use > software such as Gwenview. Thx! > I like gqview :) Regards Clive -- www.clivemenzies.co.uk ... ...strategies for business -- To UNSU

Re: Courier IMAP - Outlook 2003

On (16/02/06 09:39), Serhan D. KIYMAZ wrote: > A few weeks ago I've installed qmail, courier-imap, vpopmail, tcpserver > for my company to send/receive emails. > Everything is fine with Kmail and Thunderbid. It's possible to > send/receive mails, reach virtual shared folders. > But when Outlook 2

Re: minimizing bandwidth taken be spam delivery attempts even when identifiable by "To:" address

On (15/02/06 12:58), Daniel B. wrote: > What anti-spam method minimizes the network bandwith used by spam > delivery attempts? sa-exim with spamassassin rejects mail at SMTP time which may solve your problem I put up some notes on setting up a mail-server including spam and virus filtering: http

Re: rsync and chown

On (08/02/06 21:00), Edward Speyer wrote: > I'm stuck trying to find a nice way to allow rsync / rdiff-backup enough > permissions to keep ownership information intact at the backup-receiving > end. > > I /could/ run as root on the backup-reciever, but it'd be nice if there > was a less sledge-ham

Re: Lilo fails with "sorry, don't know how to handle device 0xfe00" (LVM2)

On (07/02/06 15:05), Chris Carr wrote: This may not be the answer you're looking for but I would recommend using grub instead of LILO. I was reluctant to learn another boot loader but having switched some time ago, I've found it much easier for handling multi-boot systems. There was a rather good

Re: Sid/Unstable AMD64 where to find

On (06/02/06 04:50), Kees de Koster wrote: > I want to try Debian Sid/unstable on a AMD Athlon X2 64 computer but > can't find the download location, only for I386, I tried that one with > downloading with Jigdo but that doesn't work on that machine. > > Can somebody give directions or a URL for S

Re: Spam reporting tools (was: Re: UNRESOLVED: Re: Mutt: how to mark multiple spams?)

On (06/02/06 04:07), Karsten M. Self wrote: > > On (06/02/06 01:05), Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > > > > I'd tag the messages and move them to a folder. > > > > > > That folder would automatically get a spam run against it periodically > > > which would: > > > > > > 1. Move the messages to an

Re: UNRESOLVED: Re: Mutt: how to mark multiple spams?

On (06/02/06 01:05), Karsten M. Self wrote: > > I'd tag the messages and move them to a folder. > > That folder would automatically get a spam run against it periodically > which would: > > 1. Move the messages to an "active current process" location. > 2. Score and report spam. > 3. Mo

Re: CIFS VFC No response buffer

On (03/02/06 14:51), Ted Fay wrote: > Sorry about that! > > I should have referenced your original post. > > Here's what I was referring to. > > Thanks!! > > -ted > > To: debian-amd64@lists.debian.org > Subject: CIFS VFS No response buffer - solved

Re: CIFS VFC No response buffer

On (03/02/06 11:59), Ted Fay wrote: > Did the problem you had go away with 2.6.10? I am having the same issue > in 2.6.11, so I'm wondering if yours was solved. > > Thanks! Sorry, but I can't remember what this related to. I don't recall kernel specific issues with smb/cifs. Explain a bit more

Re: apache2 and ssl

On (02/02/06 10:00), Ed wrote: > I'm following along with a book called PHP and MySQL Web Development (2003) > and doing some sanity testing it recommends. > > The step I'm on is to check to see if ssl is working and it says to try: > https://localhost > or > http://localhost:443 > > to see if ss

Re: Modprobe

On (02/02/06 17:40), Adorean Alexandru Raul wrote: > Perhaps i asked the wrong question in my previous mail. What i > wanted to know is how do i determine where in /dev is my mouse "mounted", > and how do i test its functionality. > I don't know what you asked previously:) You can use a mou

Re: smbmount and smbclient from sid fail when connecting to sarge share

On (02/02/06 16:52), Lubos Vrbka wrote: > hi, > > >smbmount and smbclient from sid (both i386 and amd64) seem to fail to > >connect to our local samba server (running sarge, iirc). > > > >smbmount //server/share mnt_point > >gives me > >4748: Connection to server failed > >SMB connection failed >

Re: module load sequence

On (02/02/06 10:03), Ismael Valladolid Torres wrote: > Chris Howie escribe: > > Lei Kong wrote: > > > How do I make sure ide_generic module is loaded before libata and > > > ata_piix? I need to do this on my thinkpad z60t, because the dvd rom > > > won't be recognized otherwise. > > > > echo ide_g

Re: UNRESOLVED: Re: Mutt: how to mark multiple spams?

On (01/02/06 09:45), Lance Simmons wrote: > * Ken Wahl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060131 22:09]: > > On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 05:55:17PM -0600, Lance Simmons wrote: > > > Right now, when spam makes it through spamassassin, I report it with an > > > "X" according to the following line in my .muttrc: > > >

Re: HP NetServer LH Pro + Ubuntu (Debian) Linux

On (01/02/06 12:00), Durumdara wrote: > We have a HP NetServer LH Pro server (that is very old thing). > 17 GB HDD (5 pieces), + RAID controller (Adaptec, I think). > > My problem is that the OS is halt on boot with "no bootable SCSI Devices > installed" message, and it can boot from only CD or

Re: Reconfiguring xserver-xfree86 Doesn't Work

On (01/02/06 20:50), Thomas H. George wrote: > I installed a new apg video card and ran dpkg-reconfigure > xserver-xfree86. At first gdm exited with no display fournd. I deleted > XF86Config-4 from /etc/X11 and tried again. This time I got a display > but with only 640x480 resolution. I dele

Re: Post-install issues with SATA hardware

On (28/01/06 00:20), Tom Wright wrote: > Apologies for the cross-post to those who read forums.debian.net > > I've just used the Etch installer (2.6.12) from the netboot cd to install > Debian on my new computer. It's got an ASUS A8N-VM CSM motherboard, and a > Seagate SATA 7200.9 hard disk driv

Re: no sound from alsa

On (26/01/06 15:42), [KS] wrote: > Majors, Jason wrote: > >>Do you get *any* error when trying to play a file in xmms? > >>for ex, do you get a window telling the audio card is busy. > > > > > > No. It goes along just fine. If I have esd running and alsa selected as > > the output for xmms, I ge

Re: Newbie questions: kernel upgrade & sound

On (21/01/06 17:22), Koos van der Merwe wrote: > I recently aquired a new motherboard (Jetway ATi Radeon Xpress 200) > with onboard sound), new CPU (AMD64) and new graphics card (nVidia > geForce). I previously preferred Knoppix because of its good hardware > detection, but this time it let me down

Re: IMAP Server Requirement

On (20/01/06 13:57), Ropetin wrote: > Clive Menzies wrote: > > >We had the same requirement, pulling in via pop3 and accessing via IMAP. > >We used dovecot. I made some notes on the setup here: > >http://www.clivemenzies.co.uk/selfhelp/MailServer.html > > I app

Re: IMAP Server Requirement

On (19/01/06 17:06), Ropetin wrote: > I hope I'm asking this question in the right place. If not please let > me know where to go. > > I work for a fairly small company who, like a lot of companies, relies > heavily on email. For reasons that unfortunately I had no decision in, > and cannot c

Re: firefox printing: extraneous printers, removing xprint and dependencies

On (18/01/06 21:35), Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > I have several extraneous printers in my Firefox (1.07) print dialog > in my pure sid system. They each end @:64 (such as hppsc1200@:64). > The archives at > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2005/06/msg00282.html > > suggest this is caused

Re: You have been invited to join 'FreePHP'

On (18/01/06 00:22), Richard Lyons wrote: > On Tuesday, 17 January 2006 at 18:48:47 +, martin wrote: > [...] > > > > > > I got a reply from Dan Trappe :) > > > > "I am still alive and still in Sheffield And still working for > > PlusNet ." sent with OE6 lol > > OT (if this ever was a to

Re: Content Management Recommendations?

On (16/01/06 21:29), Ed Young wrote: > Can anyone recommend a good content management system for me to set up. > I want to have a News section, a photo gallery, a blog, some articles, > etc. > > I used to use PostNuke, but I don't see it as a Debian package anymore. > > > I'd prefer PHP/MySQL

Re: Centralized user management: what is best?

On (14/01/06 17:31), Jay Zach wrote: > I'll throw some links in from where I've emailed them to myself in the > past for future reference. I don't have time right now to go through > them all to see what were the most useful (and I truthfully don't > remember -- this whole process involved a bunch

Re: Centralized user management: what is best?

On (14/01/06 11:31), Jay Zach wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Mauro Condarelli wrote: > > Hi, > > I have a small (<8 hosts) lan with mixed Linux (debian) and winXP hosts. > > Up to now I managed the debian hosts manually (copying /etc/passwd, > > /erc/groups, ..., man

Re: apache2

On (11/01/06 16:53), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > ich habe per "apt-get install apache2" apache installiert und der > Server is auch erreichbar. > Nur wenn ich den Dokumentations-Link der dummy-apache page anklicke > wird diese nicht gefunden. You need to install apache2-doc BTW this is an English

Re: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 yeilds no XF86Config-4 file?

On (11/01/06 18:34), Erik Karlin wrote: > On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 03:49:38PM -0700, Ed Young wrote: > > I'm very confused. Where does the XF86Config-4 file live? I thought it > > was in /etc/X11. > > > > I also thought that dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 was supposed to > > create a new XF86Co

Re: mozilla + mutt

On (11/01/06 21:01), mess-mate wrote: > Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've come in late on this but have you looked at /etc/alternatives > you symlink the line: | www-browser to something link > /usr/bin/mozilla-firefox > | > I did :( > /us

Re: mozilla + mutt

mess-mate wrote: Paulo Marcel Coelho Aragao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | mess-mate wrote on Jan, 9: | | [...] | | > | > after an update of the mozilla suite ( debian/sarge) mozilla can't | > | > be launched whtin mutt. | | [...] | | > | I also hit this problem. Here's my mailcap entry: | >

Re: Ubuntu to Debian

Kent West wrote: Jay Zach wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Brooks R. Robinson wrote: Greetings oh most knowledgeable list, I recently purchased a new fancy schmancy Dell a couple of months ago, and I have been delinquent in installing Linux on it. So, I recently purch

Re: OS X & Debian LAN [was: Mac OS X and Debian Linux LAN research.]

On (11/01/06 12:42), Antony Gelberg wrote: > Clive Menzies wrote: > > On my LAN router (Vigor2600) I don't see hostnames for Linux clients - > > I've wondered why but didn't think it was sufficiently important to > > spend time on nevertheless I'd be

Re: Any way to 'remove' apt-get?

On (11/01/06 11:23), Andy Hawkins wrote: > Hi, > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >David Jardine<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > you could put: > > > > alias apt-get='echo "Use aptitude instead" ' > > > > in /etc/profile. > > I did think of something similar :) > > I did also try uni

Re: OS X & Debian LAN [was: Mac OS X and Debian Linux LAN research.]

On (11/01/06 03:48), Chinook wrote: > I've got /netatalk/ installed and minimally configured on Debian and set > all the appropriate switches in OS X, and I can look at and move files > back and forth from either box if I initiate (mount) the server on my > Mac. I have not yet installed Howl (m

Re: cups - samba - frustration! - LIKE SOLVED

Angela Gavazzi wrote: Hi Clive, the last 2 hours I set up a new (about the 10th) pure! sarge (doing all testing in vmware), installed all the necessary stuff, joined to domain, installed a printer test under cups and tested it. then I went on a w2k client, connect to the printers share, uploa

Re: cups - samba - frustration!

Angela Gavazzi wrote: Am Dienstag, 10. Januar 2006 12.10 schrieb Clive Menzies: http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/Debian-and-Windows-Shared-Printing.html I will have a look at it. When I try to prepare the printerdrivers for the windows clients with cupsaddsmb "nothing" h

Re: Cups & Samba with Print problem

On (09/01/06 21:33), Don wrote: > I am a newbie at Linux and got CUPs running with Samba to print to my > Windows printer over my home network. This was running well for several > weeks and then nothing. Following a power outage > my printing from the Linux box simply

Re: cups - samba - frustration!

On (10/01/06 08:53), Angela Gavazzi wrote: > I think I'm doing some idiot error, but I can't find it - or it's a library > problem or something else. > Not sure this will be much help but here goes ... > I have a sarge system, samba 3.0.20 from testing (also tried samba version > from sarge) an

Re: mc not loading and not dying (sid)

On (08/01/06 16:13), Linas Zvirblis wrote: > Richard Lyons wrote: > > >I had not even installed debsums! > >Getting it now. > > Some packages do not provide checksums (boo to them!), so on your first > run debsums can report A LOT of broken packages. It might take very > long, but I do suggest

Re: newbies needing help for graphic login

On (06/01/06 12:18), Andy Streich wrote: > I really appreciate this topic and am delighted to see experienced Debian > users responding positively to the "help, help" emails. Andrew's question is > the critical one: is Debian for newbies or not? From my own experience over > the last couple o

Re: setting up Debian Linux from scratch

On (06/01/06 18:04), Cold Fusion wrote: > Sorry if this is in fact included in the install manual, but I have a > computer I'd like to install Debian on, it's presently got windows, and I > don't like that - I'm going to uninstall it. But then how do I install > linux? I've got the CD, and help wou

Re: debian installer complains about missing modules

On (05/01/06 12:12), gregory duchesnes wrote: > I'm trying to install Sarge 3.1r1 (downloaded this file > :debian-31r1-i386-binary-1.iso > ) > > on a homebrewed server based on a SC813MT supermicro chassis

Re: Boot in console not X [Was]Re: X server problem

On (05/01/06 13:35), David Pead wrote: > Now however, in my fumbling around trying to fix the Xserver I've messed up > the keyboard mapping. I need to get back to the command line to reconfigure > but can't use the usual alt-F1. How can I boot and not start the X server? > Can I hold down a key whe

Re: X server issue

On (04/01/06 15:56), David Pead wrote: > I managed to install Sarge on OldWorld Mac - beige G3. Everything 'was' > fine. Then after an attempt to add screen resolutions higher than 800x600, > I've knackerd the X window server. > > After looking through the archives I, rightly or wrongly, used: > d

Re: Rsync options

On (04/01/06 08:55), Ed Curtis wrote: > I'm rsyncing some directories to an offsite machine for backup purposes > and am running into some problems with permissions. I'd like to keep the > same owner,group and permissions on each file rsync'd. I've tried > > rsync -a {src} [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/{des

Re: Hardware SATA Raid Controller

On (04/01/06 12:14), Marco Neves wrote: > I'm assembling an internal server for my company, and we need both a > lot of > diskspace (for shared files, software backups, devel repository, etc) and > some security on disk failures. > > I thought that a Raid5 with several smaller disk

Re: Older platform compatiblity with Debian

On (03/01/06 09:42), Riley, James F (US SSA) wrote: > To Whom It May Concern: > > I am new to Linux in general and I am trying to find out the > compatibility of use some version of Debian Linux with and older > personal computer. The systems I am thinking of switching is a ten year > pc currentl

Re: Enabling Debian Sarge on new SCSI servers

On (03/01/06 14:03), Zouari Fourat wrote: > We're an ISP that uses Debian Sarge as the standard OS for our > servers, we didnt have problems installing Sarge on some old servers. > Now we're facing problems with the new servers set, it wont detect any > hard drive as the version of the SCSI control

Re: sata o ata disk?

On (03/01/06 10:55), Mauro Sanna wrote: > I have installed debian stable in a remote system. > How can I see the hardware type to compile the correct drivers in the > kernel? > Example How can I see if I have an ATA or a SATA hard disk? > The utility lspci tells only: Install and run lshw Regard

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