VNC - I know, just not what I was expecting

2008-01-05 Thread Rodney D . Myers
I can get SSH/VNC to work on my debian machine. My question. How do I get the default screen to open up, or to get something other than the 'blank' screen with a shell open. Thanks. --- Rodney D. Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ#: AIM#:YAHOO: 18002350

Blind Debian Potential User

2008-01-05 Thread Shane D
Hello Debian Users, My name is Shane. I am new to the list. I am trying to install Debian on an older laptop of mine so that I can use it for an Asterisk box. I run a couple of radioshows, and need to take calls. Anyway, I am questing a way to install Debian with Speech. I do not have a hardware

Re: PAM failure?

2008-01-03 Thread Jeff D
Craig Hurley wrote: Hello, When looking at /var/log/auth.log PAM seems to be logging a large amount. For example, every 30 minutes cron runs a script as root. It appears to me that each time the script is run, PAM adds 4 entries to auth.log, recording a the session open and close along with

Re: Errors from repositories

2008-01-03 Thread Michael D. Norwick
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-9944.html http://wiki.debian.org/SecureApt I get this error quite a lot with http://cs.wisc.edu. Waiting, or doing apt-get update several times seems to straighten it out. I also, out of habit only use the mirrors on the official debian download lis

Re: How to create an image of HD?

2007-12-28 Thread D G Teed
udpcast or g4u use a dd method. Bootable from cdrom, PXE, ether, floppy, etc. On Dec 28, 2007 10:43 PM, Raj Kiran Grandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Max Hyre wrote: > >> Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > >> > >> If you are planning on having the same partition size for your root > >> partition, the

Re: CGI Scripts, Apache 2.2.3, and Debian 4.0 R1

2007-12-17 Thread Jon D. Irish
Jon - Original Message From: Freddy Freeloader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Debian User Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2007 10:22:09 PM Subject: Re: CGI Scripts, Apache 2.2.3, and Debian 4.0 R1 Jon D. Irish wrote: > I have a clean install of Debian 4.0 R1 with Apache 2.2.3-4 installed. I can

Re: I have a SSH connection and need GUI installed

2007-12-17 Thread Rodney D. Myers
re it for a remote connection? Jacob NO you do not need with gnome or kde to get SSH to work. I regularly ssh from this MacBook, into my debian box. I can send a copy of both my /etc/ssh/sshd_config & ssh_config I use synaptic, gimp, gqview, and other programs remotely. --- Rod

Re: CGI Scripts, Apache 2.2.3, and Debian 4.0 R1

2007-12-16 Thread Jon D. Irish
Hi Mark, Still no luck. I keep getting "The webpage cannot be found" errors. Is it possible that I am missing an Apache package? Here are my index,html and config files (if it would help). Thanks, Jon - Original Message From: Mark Grieveson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.de

CGI Scripts, Apache 2.2.3, and Debian 4.0 R1

2007-12-15 Thread Jon D. Irish
I have a clean install of Debian 4.0 R1 with Apache 2.2.3-4 installed. I can not get cgi scripts to execute from the website. I have researched the Apache site and tried both of the following: 1) Under apache2.conf, I added Options +ExecCGI AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .pl

Re: scroll mouse quits working

2007-12-03 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Dec 1, 2007, at 2:02 PM, Rodney D. Myers wrote: Every once in a while, when I use my KVM switch, the middle mouse button/scroll wheel, ceases to function. Short of rebooting, not really an option, what else can I do to get the scroll wheel to function properly again? Anything in /etc

Re: scroll mouse quits working

2007-12-02 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Dec 2, 2007, at 11:10 AM, Kent West wrote: Rodney D. Myers wrote: Every once in a while, when I use my KVM switch, the middle mouse button/scroll wheel, ceases to function. Short of rebooting, not really an option, what else can I do to get the scroll wheel to function properly again

scroll mouse quits working

2007-12-02 Thread Rodney D . Myers
Every once in a while, when I use my KVM switch, the middle mouse button/scroll wheel, ceases to function. Short of rebooting, not really an option, what else can I do to get the scroll wheel to function properly again? Anything in /etc/init.d/ that I can rerun? Thanks --- Rodney D

Re: debian 3.1 - how make it to support 2G memory

2007-11-26 Thread Jeff D
ann kok wrote: Hi all I want to increase the memory from 1G to 2G debian 3.1 - how make it to support 2G memory thank you Do you have 2G of ram installed? What kernel do you have installed? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [

Re: how to run scripts uniquely

2007-11-22 Thread Jeff D
cs wrote: I thought I'd worked out how to ensure only 1 instance of a shell script was running (using grep and wc) but I now see that sometimes the script name appears twice in the list of processes - any ideas? eg (apols for wrapping) when running /home/michael/bin/backup-rsync-VERI we get the

Re: Problems posting with Pan.

2007-11-18 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Nov 18, 2007, at 7:16 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: On Sun, 18 Nov 2007 06:57:15 -0800, Rodney D. Myers wrote: On Nov 17, 2007, at 9:36 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: On Fri, 16 Nov 2007 11:50:08 -0800, Rodney D. Myers wrote: On Nov 16, 2007, at 8:38 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote: Every now and then

Re: Problems posting with Pan.

2007-11-18 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Nov 17, 2007, at 9:36 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: On Fri, 16 Nov 2007 11:50:08 -0800, Rodney D. Myers wrote: On Nov 16, 2007, at 8:38 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote: Every now and then instead of posting, Pan tells me There were problems with this post. Warning: Unknown group "sci.physics.res

Re: Filesize limit exceeded on ext3

2007-11-16 Thread Jeff D
André Wendt wrote: Hi, I'm running a benchmark program on Lenny that writes into a file and repeatedly exits once the filesize reaches 2,099,204 bytes. This is on ext3. $ ulimit -f unlimited $ uname -a Linux think 2.6.22-2-686 #1 SMP Fri Aug 31 00:24:01 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux This doesn't se

Re: Problems posting with Pan.

2007-11-16 Thread Rodney D. Myers
-- it has no trouble reading from that usenet group. Which news server are you using? have you checked to make sure it is still valid? --- Rodney D. Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ#: AIM#:YAHOO: 18002350 mailman452 mailman42_5 They that can give up esse

Re: Apache2 Still Dying

2007-11-08 Thread Jeff D
Raquel wrote: On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 23:03:59 -0800 Jeff D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Raquel wrote: On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 21:31:28 -0800 Jeff D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Raquel wrote: I ran mtest86+ and the memory checked out ... no errors. I ran strace /usr/sbin/apache2 and can s

Re: Apache2 Still Dying

2007-11-07 Thread Jeff D
Raquel wrote: On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 21:31:28 -0800 Jeff D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Raquel wrote: I ran mtest86+ and the memory checked out ... no errors. I ran strace /usr/sbin/apache2 and can see no errors. I have googled until my eyes are red and sore. Apache2 is still dying

Re: Apache2 Still Dying

2007-11-07 Thread Jeff D
Raquel wrote: I ran mtest86+ and the memory checked out ... no errors. I ran strace /usr/sbin/apache2 and can see no errors. I have googled until my eyes are red and sore. Apache2 is still dying (stops delivering pages) after anywhere from 15 minutes to 5 hours. I cannot find a reason in any

Re: mySQL and 'testing'

2007-10-26 Thread Jeff D
ieb wrote: Sorry if this repeats a previous query I did scan the list of topics but couldn't spot this. I am running the 'testing' version. I came back from 3 weeks offline and simply let synaptic gather all the updates and apply them (OK.. yes , that was probably a bit dumb... but too lat

Re: dhelp issue

2007-10-13 Thread Michael D. Norwick
> > On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 19:08:03 -0500, Michael D. Norwick wrote: >> >> and >>> >>> >>> >>> 'Ignoring nonregistered document qt3-doc' > > > > On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 florian kulzer wrote: > > >> >> I

Re: dhelp issue

2007-10-13 Thread Michael D. Norwick
On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 19:08:03 -0500, Michael D. Norwick wrote: and 'Ignoring nonregistered document qt3-doc' On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 florian kulzer wrote: I am not 100% sure about this one, but it seems harmless to me. Which package is being configured when that message comes

dhelp issue

2007-10-11 Thread Michael D. Norwick
Good Day; During recent apt-get upgrades on etch testing, I have been receiving the following warnings(errors?). Can someone please advise me as to what to configure to fix this? '/usr/sbin/dhelp_parse: /usr/lib/libdb-4.5.so: no version information available (required by /usr/sbin/dhelp_par

Re: HELP! can't become root

2007-10-06 Thread Jeff D
On Sat, 6 Oct 2007, tom arnall wrote: On Saturday 06 October 2007 20:46, Kevin Mark wrote: On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 11:30:42AM -0700, tom arnall wrote: Realistically, is there any way I can fix my system so I can log in as root, without reinstalling the OS? Here is the question: lets say you

Re: can ping only with sudo

2007-10-06 Thread Jeff D
On Sat, 6 Oct 2007, tom arnall wrote: lately i inadvertently did 'chmod 777 -R /dev' on my system (as root, of course!). now i find that to ping anyone i have to do it as sudo, else i get: ping: icmp open socket: Operation not permitted could the two things be connected? thanks, tom

Re: How to detect whether your machine is compromised?

2007-10-05 Thread Jeff D
On Fri, 5 Oct 2007, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: Hi, There is an article on slashdot, http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/05/1234217&from=rss which says that most of the phishing sites are being run from rootkitted linux boxes. I dunno how accurate their analysis is (the results were not

Re: Random System Crashes

2007-10-03 Thread Jeff D
On Wed, 3 Oct 2007, Michael Pobega wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lately (For the past month or so) I've been experiencing random system crashes. My system would just completely lock up and not respond to anything but a power-down (I've tried switching to TTY1, among other

Re: Etch updates contain new version of Vim?

2007-10-03 Thread Jeff D
On Wed, 3 Oct 2007, BartlebyScrivener wrote: Hello all, I'm still fairly new to Debian (<1yr). I'm using Etch. I update only through the little asterisk alert that pops up on Gnome. I use fluxbox, so only log into Gnome occasionally. Last time, there were many updates, including updates to Vim

Re: Major application resource leaks in Etch

2007-09-30 Thread Jeff D
On Sun, 30 Sep 2007, Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/30/07 21:42, Marty wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 06:59:03PM -0400, Marty wrote: While copying 30MB of text from a backuppc (web-based) log on a remote server, I ran into sever

Re: Debian install to Inspiron 530 with SATA DVD drive

2007-09-25 Thread Jeff D
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, Simon wrote: Hi There, We are trying to install debian etch onto our Inspiron 530 that has a SATA DVD drive, but the installer cannot detect the CD drive once it is booted. How do i move forward here? Thanks Simon Something that you might want to try is to set your sat

Re: Spamassassin and Exim4

2007-09-25 Thread Daniel D Jones
On Monday 24 September 2007 19:03:47 Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 06:40:58PM -0400, Daniel D Jones wrote: > > On Monday 24 September 2007 15:50:58 Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > I've reconfigured the file with your recommendations and restart

Re: trouble installing pidgin (was: trying to get the windows icq program QQ to work under etch)

2007-09-25 Thread Jeff D
On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, tom arnall wrote: On Tuesday 25 September 2007 11:24, Jeff D wrote: On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, tom arnall wrote: Peter, i tried another approach. i just read that qq has been merged with the new gaim, called pidgin, so i attempted to install pidgin. i was able to configure the

Re: trouble installing pidgin (was: trying to get the windows icq program QQ to work under etch)

2007-09-25 Thread Jeff D
On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, tom arnall wrote: On Tuesday 25 September 2007 11:24, Jeff D wrote: On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, tom arnall wrote: Peter, i tried another approach. i just read that qq has been merged with the new gaim, called pidgin, so i attempted to install pidgin. i was able to configure the

Re: trouble installing pidgin (was: trying to get the windows icq program QQ to work under etch)

2007-09-25 Thread Jeff D
On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, tom arnall wrote: Peter, i tried another approach. i just read that qq has been merged with the new gaim, called pidgin, so i attempted to install pidgin. i was able to configure the source but compile died in the 'make'. with the .rpm i got a .deb file, which i then did 'd

Re: Problem with apt-get update command: failed to fetch packages 404 not found

2007-09-25 Thread Jeff D
On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, Steve Lam wrote: I have a problem with 'apt-get update' command and it bugs me for weeks. I've tried to update Debian with the command 'apt-get update' and it failed to fetch packages. I've fixed the etc/apt/sources.list file but It doesn't help me at all. I've tried apt-s

Re: trying to get the windows icq program QQ to work under etch

2007-09-25 Thread Jeff D
On Mon, 24 Sep 2007, tom arnall wrote: On Monday 24 September 2007 14:19, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 02:05:45PM -0700, tom arnall wrote: I am trying to get the windows icq program QQ to work under etch. I can get it to install, but when I try to run it the thing dies and I g

Re: Spamassassin and Exim4

2007-09-24 Thread Daniel D Jones
On Monday 24 September 2007 15:50:58 Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 03:36:45PM -0400, Daniel D Jones wrote: > SA should log to /var/log/mail.info, and that's a good place to look > for info... I have two spamd entries in mail.info: Sep 24 14:51:09 et

Spamassassin and Exim4

2007-09-24 Thread Daniel D Jones
Trying to get spamassassin and exim4 playing together. I do not want exim to drop email, only to add headers to the message so that the MUA can filter messages according to the users preference. I have spamassassin running as a deamon on port 783. I've verified that I can telnet to the port:

Re: How Install Proftp server from cd

2007-09-13 Thread Jeff D
On Fri, 14 Sep 2007, david robert wrote: Hi Guys, One of my debian sarge server is not connected to internet now i need to install proftp server on this.Whic debian sarge cd i need to download and how to install proftp server from cd? If you have any other ideas please let me know.If i wan

Re: Accessing software programs from disk

2007-09-12 Thread Jeff D
On Wed, 12 Sep 2007, violet penny wrote: I do hope I'm sending this to the right place. I find everything so confusing and difficult, here. On the subject of which: I can't find anything, anywhere, that tells me what's on these 20 additional CDs I've taken hours to download and burn [I'm not o

Re: Can't execute PHP script

2007-09-12 Thread Jeff D
On Wed, 12 Sep 2007, Randy Patterson wrote: Hey, I installed apache like; aptitude install apache2 php5 libapache2-mod-php5 As returned by apache2ctl, I am running; Apache/2.2.4 (Debian) PHP/5.2.3-1+b1 I point my browser to; http://localhost/apache2-default/test.php The file test.php cont

Re: apachectl

2007-09-06 Thread Jeff D
On Thu, 6 Sep 2007, Raquel wrote: I'm just setting up a new server with Apache2 and notice that there's no "apachectl" included. Is another package required to get apachectl? I've done an #apt-cache search apachectl and haven't been able to find anything. -- Raquel I think you are looking

Re: Starting MTA: why does it take so long?

2007-09-06 Thread Jeff D
On Thu, 6 Sep 2007, Chris wrote: On Thursday 06 September 2007 21:35, Celejar wrote: On Thu, 6 Sep 2007 21:13:02 +0200 Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I have several desktop systems, and regadless of whether I leave exim4 unconfigured, or setup for local system use only, it takes quite

Re: log file size limit or file size limit

2007-09-06 Thread Jeff D
On Thu, 6 Sep 2007, ann kok wrote: Hi all When starting the radius, the error is showing "the file size is exceeding" the radius log is 2G After removing, radius can start again 1/ ls the limitation in debian or in freeradius program? if it is in debian, can I increase the file size limit? I

Re: Help! Update screwed my box up 'automagically'!

2007-09-06 Thread Jeff D
On Wed, 5 Sep 2007, Martin Waller wrote: Jeff D wrote: On Sat, 1 Sep 2007, Martin Waller wrote: I am merely surprised that doing an 'update available packages' in dselect automatically installed a new kernel image and made it the default boot option in my grub menu.lst.

Re: crontab -e

2007-09-05 Thread Jeff D
On Wed, 5 Sep 2007, Maarten Verwijs wrote: On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 05:38:03PM -0700, Raquel wrote: On Tue, 04 Sep 2007 02:24:16 +0200 Mathias Brodala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hmmm, I thought it was configured using the update-alternatives system. However, when I run (as root): #update-alte

Re: system logs and localtime

2007-09-04 Thread Jeff D
On Tue, 4 Sep 2007, Tony Heal wrote: I have a remote server at a client site that had /etc/localtime pointing to Eastern instead of Central. I have fixed this. Is there a way for this to take affect without rebooting the server? Tony Heal After you reset your time, you will have to restart

Re: Disk usage

2007-09-03 Thread Jeff D
On Mon, 3 Sep 2007, Daniel D Jones wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# du --max-depth=1 -h 1.7G./var 32K ./tmp 4.0K./selinux 16K ./lost+found 16M ./boot 852K./home 0 ./sys 4.0K./initrd 22M ./etc 81M ./lib 515M./proc 6.3G./root 3.3M./sbin 3.7M

Disk usage

2007-09-03 Thread Daniel D Jones
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# du --max-depth=1 -h 1.7G./var 32K ./tmp 4.0K./selinux 16K ./lost+found 16M ./boot 852K./home 0 ./sys 4.0K./initrd 22M ./etc 81M ./lib 515M./proc 6.3G./root 3.3M./sbin 3.7M./bin 8.0K./media 8.0K./mnt 208K./dev

Re: rndc woes

2007-09-02 Thread Jeff D
On Sun, 2 Sep 2007, Chuck Payne wrote: Hi Guys, I am at lost, I been look on the net haven't found a clean answer (google is becoming more and more a pain) About five days ago I got error where my rndc.key was not the correct key and could no longer xfer between my main dns server and bind9

Re: Hi where can I get g++ package

2007-09-01 Thread Jeff D
On Sun, 2 Sep 2007, isarayunyong wrote: I have the same problem. "Configure error: C compiler cannot create executables" First of all I did not have "gcc" at all. I downloaded and installed [b]gcc-4.1_4.1.1-21_i386.deb[/b]. Then I got your heading message. After reading your messages I dow

Re: Help! Update screwed my box up 'automagically'!

2007-09-01 Thread Jeff D
On Sat, 1 Sep 2007, Martin Waller wrote: Hi, No idea whats gone wrong - I did a get updates thing using dselect whilst installing some other software and find loads of my configurations have changed. I guess its a result of this: http://www.debian.org/News/2007/20070817 First, my /boot/gru

Re: xterm won't start on AMD K6 with stock 2.6.22-1-486 kernel

2007-09-01 Thread Jeff D
On Sat, 1 Sep 2007, Paul Scott wrote: Takehiko Abe wrote: Paul Scott wrote: Here's the end of the strace. It doesn't tell me anything we don't already know. Maybe someone else will see more: So what do you already know? For instance, this [...] write(2, "xterm Xt error: Can\'t open disp

Re: Network problem.

2007-09-01 Thread Jeff D
On Sat, 1 Sep 2007, Yazad Khambata wrote: Please find output of the above commands and file: more /etc/network/interfaces auto lo iface lo inet loopback # The primary network interface allow-hotplug eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 10.40.35.35 netmask 255.255.255.0 network 10.40.35.0 broa

Re: search for debian-installer that support raid (on live cd)

2007-09-01 Thread Jeff D
On Sat, 1 Sep 2007, Jabka Atu wrote: Hello ,... im searching for debian installer that know to work with raid (5?) : when i need to install debian on pc with raid 5 i need to use knoppix and then work .. im searching for a way that i will be able to install deb right from debian Disk. ps .. i

Re: Should /etc/hostname contain the whole FQDN?

2007-08-31 Thread Jeff D
On Fri, 31 Aug 2007, Jonathan Wilson wrote: Can anyone who /knows/ tell me what the proper officially correct ways of setting the hostname and the FQDN are, please? Thanks, JW -- in /etc/hostname : myhostname in /etc/hosts: 10.0.0.120 myhostname.mydomain.com myhostname set thos

Re: Asking about installation Debian Linux

2007-08-30 Thread Jeff D
On Fri, 31 Aug 2007, [WINDOWS-1252] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jansen wrote: Hi dear Mr/Mrs, Several days ago, I succeded download the DVD version of DVD intel x86 for Debian Linux and when I wanted to install Linux during the process of installation I got the problems. The DVD RW isn't able to be dete

Re: intel dp35dp

2007-08-30 Thread Jeff D
On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, Enrique Morfin wrote: Hi! I tried to install debian testing on an intel dp35dp motherboard and intel core 2 duo procesor. The installer (i386 and amd64) keeps me telling there is no cdrom. I installed on another box, then put that HD in the dp35dp box and it tells me "The

Re: Ping my modem...

2007-08-28 Thread Jeff D
On Tue, 28 Aug 2007, Charlie wrote: On Tuesday 28 August 2007 14:50, Octavio Alvarez shared this with us all: --} On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 21:42:41 -0700, Charlie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --} wrote: --} --} >> --} > Is the following a normal reply from a satellite modem to ping:- --} >> --} > --} >> --}

Re: Ping my modem........

2007-08-27 Thread Jeff D
iOn Tue, 28 Aug 2007, Charlie wrote: On Tuesday 28 August 2007 13:33, Ron Johnson shared this with us all: --} On 08/27/07 22:21, Charlie wrote: --} > Never having used ping, and not really understanding the man page for it:- --} > --} > When I ping my modem: --} > --} > what command/option/s s

Re: Cannot open root device "hda1" or unknown-block(0,0)

2007-08-27 Thread Jeff D
On Mon, 27 Aug 2007, Francois Duranleau wrote: On 8/25/07, Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Francois Just looked at the config file you listed for the 2.1.18 kernel. It looks different then mine in the Block Device section. # Block devices # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD=m # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_XD is not

Re: fstab and removable usb drives

2007-08-27 Thread Jeff D
ot without manual intervention when the drive isn't attached (I am told to hit -D and something about maintenance mode). This occurs even when I set 'noauto'. Am I missing something, or are such fstab lines really illegal for setups where the volume may not be attached at boot? Celej

Re: Search for string in files

2007-08-25 Thread Jeff D
On Sat, 25 Aug 2007, Johannes Tax wrote: Hi, I'm trying to figure out how to find a certain string inside a bunch of files. If I, for examples, look for a certain function in a large source tree, I could do cat `find . -name '*.c'` | grep 'a_certain_function' but this seems quite awkward, fur

Re: Command to see ip address on etch stable

2007-08-23 Thread Jeff D
On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, Ken Irving wrote: On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 04:02:46PM -0500, Michael Kerwin wrote: Is there a command on debian etch stable that you can run to see what ip address you are? The command ifconfig can be used, but note that by default it's not in a regular user's path, so us

Re: cron time is not same as system time

2007-08-22 Thread Giorgos D. Pallas
Chris Buckley wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: >> Is the system clock set to UTC? $ cat /etc/default/rcS >> >> You should see a line >> UTC=yes. > > A good point. It currently reads: > > UTC=no > >> I don't know if this matters, and with a tz of London it shouldn't >> account for 5 hrs. > > Agreed

Re: phpmyadmin

2007-08-21 Thread Jeff D
On Tue, 21 Aug 2007, ArcticFox wrote: On Aug 20, 2007, at 9:58 PM, Freddy Freeloader wrote: Sorry to be so long getting back to you, but I had already tried this and you're not going to believe the results There is a phpinfo.php file in /usr/share/phpmyadmin. It doesn't work. However,

Re: Running a program at system startup

2007-08-21 Thread Jeff D
? Does it matter who owns the file? Should it be the user? root? For example, the /etc/init.d/foo.sh may be: #!/bin/bash cd /foo /foo/make_something.sh If you want this script to run in runlevel 2, then you can: ln -s /etc/init.d/foo.sh /etc/rc2.d/S99foo So I'd make the file, put it somewhe

Re: Apache2 & php5 Problem

2007-08-21 Thread Jeff D
On Tue, 21 Aug 2007, Randy Patterson wrote: On Tuesday 21 August 2007 10:43, Jose Luis Rivas Contreras wrote: Randy Patterson wrote: I did run it as root and aptitude shows that apache2.2-common is installed. But in all the tutorials that I've read none of them have mentioned having to run thi

Re: VMWare network setup (newbie)

2007-08-21 Thread Giorgos D. Pallas
Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: > Hi, sorry if this is too basic or offtopic a question, > but i didnt see a debian-newbie list or anything. > > Im running Etch on an IBM ThinkPad T60. I need to run > a Windows application on it, so i installed VMWare > Server > following some detailed instructions i

Re: Apache2 & php5 Problem

2007-08-20 Thread Jeff D
On Mon, 20 Aug 2007, Randy Patterson wrote: On Monday 20 August 2007 22:27, Jeff D wrote: On Mon, 20 Aug 2007, Randy Patterson wrote: On Monday 20 August 2007 21:52, Jose Luis Rivas Contreras wrote: Randy Patterson wrote: I am trying to setup a local web server on my machine to test php

Re: Apache2 & php5 Problem

2007-08-20 Thread Jeff D
On Mon, 20 Aug 2007, Randy Patterson wrote: On Monday 20 August 2007 21:52, Jose Luis Rivas Contreras wrote: Randy Patterson wrote: I am trying to setup a local web server on my machine to test php projects before going live. I have installed apache2, php5 and mysql using aptitude and apache a

Re: Running a program at system startup

2007-08-20 Thread Jeff D
On Mon, 20 Aug 2007, ArcticFox wrote: On Aug 20, 2007, at 2:15 PM, Neil Watson wrote: The scripts in /etc/init.d are working examples of what you are trying to do. Yea I was directed there before, but those are what I was talking about where they don't do the two things I need them to do.

Re: Can you disable SMP in the kernel by appending the kernel line in GRUB

2007-08-20 Thread Jeff D
On Mon, 20 Aug 2007, Nigel Henry wrote: I've been trying to help someone on the list with acpi related shutdown problems, with no success up to now. When I had shutdown problems with FC5 (fixed with using acpi=force), someone on the Fedora list suggested that it could be a problem with SMP kern

Re: Suggestions for diagramming software

2007-08-14 Thread Jeff D
On Wed, 15 Aug 2007, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: Hey Guys, I am Engineering student and I currently use latex and such to create my reports. I just recently switched to Debian from Mac OS X. However, I was looking for a good diagramming software for Linux. I heard of Xcircuit but I was looking fo

Re: Confused about kernel source location

2007-08-14 Thread Jeff D
On Tue, 14 Aug 2007, Frank McCormick wrote: On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 14:28:41 -0400 Jose Luis Rivas Contreras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Frank McCormick wrote: I downloaded and installed the source for the current kernel, which aptitude dumped into /usr/src. Reading the readme, one of the first

Re: Help with mod_jk build

2007-08-14 Thread Jeff D
On Tue, 14 Aug 2007, Dancing Fingers wrote: Hi all, Has anyone built mod_jk for sid? I downloaded the source from jakarta but i keep getting stuck. Does anyone know what $APACHE2_HOME is? Thanks. Chris libapache2-mod-jk should be available for sid or does that not do what you are looking

Re: How to make phone call using modem in Linux

2007-08-10 Thread Jeff D
On Sat, 11 Aug 2007, Kieu Minh Thang wrote: Thank you Roby, I have install dtmfdial, but it seems my Debian doesn't have driver for modem. But I see that dtmfdial is very simple program, just a binary file, no config file. How does this know what device used to dial, where can I config modem de

Re: usb and debian 4.0 os ...can i get some pointers???please???

2007-08-10 Thread Jeff D
On Fri, 10 Aug 2007, Michael Habashy wrote: Thanks for the heads up. Do you have any other words of wisdom regarding connecting a cellphonee? I can not make heads or tales of this tty mess. I wish to connect my cellphone so i can use it with Kannel (to send out sms text messeges)..it has b

Re: usb and debian 4.0 os ...can i get some pointers???please???

2007-08-10 Thread Jeff D
On Fri, 10 Aug 2007, Michael Habashy wrote: top posting is where you put your reply at the top of the message. I just makes it difficult to read after a few replies, as people usually read top-> down thanks for the quick reply. 1. I do not know what you mean by top post Can you explain s

Re: usb and debian 4.0 os ...can i get some pointers???please???

2007-08-10 Thread Jeff D
On Fri, 10 Aug 2007, Michael Habashy wrote: Note: please don't top post, it makes it hard to read and follow threads But how do you know that ? it is /dev/sdb ??? this is what is driving me up a wall. it puts these things in the log. I got a whole mess of strange devices in the /dev directory.

Re: DNS problem on local network

2007-08-09 Thread Jeff D
On Thu, 9 Aug 2007, Adam Hardy wrote: Jeff D on 09/08/07 00:55, wrote: On Thu, 9 Aug 2007, Adam Hardy wrote: Jeff D on 08/08/07 00:34, wrote: On Tue, 7 Aug 2007, Adam Hardy wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 06/08/07 21:04, wrote: My server isengard runs dnsmasq to provide the dhcp clients

Re: newbie here - system administration question

2007-08-09 Thread Jeff D
On Thu, 9 Aug 2007, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: Jeff D wrote: On Thu, 9 Aug 2007, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: Hi debianites, I am a complete beginner with Debian and need a little help to get going. Specifically, I wonder how you configure the system (not installed software), things like the

Re: newbie here - system administration question

2007-08-09 Thread Jeff D
On Thu, 9 Aug 2007, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: Hi debianites, I am a complete beginner with Debian and need a little help to get going. Specifically, I wonder how you configure the system (not installed software), things like the network, users, logging etc. Coming from BSD where a lot of th

Re: bash vs. python scripts - which one is better?

2007-08-09 Thread Jeff D
On Thu, 9 Aug 2007, mmiller3 wrote: "Jeff" == Jeff D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You would still have rename the file extention: > for FILE in *wav ; do lame -h -b 160 "$FILE" "`echo $FILE > |sed s/.wav/.mp3/g ` " ; done Or just use t

Re: bash vs. python scripts - which one is better?

2007-08-09 Thread Jeff D
On Thu, 9 Aug 2007, Steve Lamb wrote: Vincent Lefevre wrote: Why not zsh (more powerful than bash) or perl? Because to some Perl is horrible compared to Python. for FILE in *.wav; do lame -h -b 160 "$FILE" "$FILE.mp3"; done Correct me if I'm wrong but wouldn't I just end up with w

Re: [RESOLVED] Re: Canon Powershot A640 (update #2)

2007-08-09 Thread Jeff D
On Thu, 9 Aug 2007, andy wrote: Stefan Monnier wrote: I don't have a card reader, but it sounds like that may not be such a bad thing to get, except that it is probably more hassle to eject the SD card and reload it into a reader and run the risk of damaging it from frequent handling. Contra

Re: DNS problem on local network

2007-08-08 Thread Jeff D
On Thu, 9 Aug 2007, Adam Hardy wrote: Jeff D on 08/08/07 00:34, wrote: On Tue, 7 Aug 2007, Adam Hardy wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 06/08/07 21:04, wrote: My server isengard runs dnsmasq to provide the dhcp clients. However it doesn't recognise any internal network domain name: ise

Re: what brings up the wireless network interface

2007-08-08 Thread Jeff D
On Tue, 7 Aug 2007, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: Using Debian stable (Etch), 2.6.18-4-686 kernel on Debian Dell Inspiron e1505. The wireless card (from lshw output is) The relevant stanza in /etc/network/interfaces is # allow-hotplug eth2 # auto eth2 # iface eth2 inet dhcp # wireless-essid So

Re: DNS problem on local network

2007-08-07 Thread Jeff D
On Tue, 7 Aug 2007, Adam Hardy wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 06/08/07 21:04, wrote: My server isengard runs dnsmasq to provide the dhcp clients. However it doesn't recognise any internal network domain name: isengard:~# hostname isengard isengard:~# hostname --fqdn hostname: Unknown host isengar

Re: New hard drive problem

2007-08-06 Thread Jeff D
On Mon, 6 Aug 2007, William Walter wrote: i've a computer with debian etch. i've recently added a new sata hard drive and enter the harddrive in /etc/fstab. It was working fine. Suddenly today Debian etch is not booting properly. I'm getting the following errors: Begin:Mounting root file system

Re: Looking for driver Compal EL80

2007-08-03 Thread Jeff D
On Fri, 3 Aug 2007, Adrian Chapela wrote: Hello, I am looking for a driver for the wireless / bluetooth switcher of a Compal El80 laptop. Some tips ?? I can't find this to active / de-active the wireless or the bluetooth by soft. The laptop has a hardware switch but it also has a software s

Re: Set up LAN Debian Etch server

2007-08-02 Thread Jeff D
On Thu, 2 Aug 2007, rocky wrote: Hey, My desktop has Debian Etch running on it. I have another laptop has latest Ubuntu installed on it. I want my Debian Etch box to serve as file server so I can back up the files from Ubuntu laptop to Debian desktop. I installed nfs-common and nfs-kernel-serv

Re: mysqld query logs

2007-08-01 Thread Jeff D
On Wed, 1 Aug 2007, Nicolas wrote: Hello, Basic question but I can't get to resolve it by googling around and playing with the options: when I start the mysqld daemon using the (unmodified) init script /etc/init.d/mysqld, the daemon is not logging any queries nor errors to syslog. Starting the

Re: DVD drive no longer mounts - More info

2007-07-30 Thread D. Kettler
So I have had time to look into this problem some more and I have concluded that it really is a hardware issue. It seems my drive is on its last legs and this was just a symptom of that fact. Thanks to everyone who tried to help out, though. -- David Kettler [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSC

Re: Asus P5K WS motherboard / Marvell IDE - CDrom not detected by installer

2007-07-30 Thread Jeff D
On Sun, 29 Jul 2007, Mike Messick wrote: Hi Folks, I'm using the latest debian-testing-amd64-businesscard installer on an Asus P5K motherboard with an ICH9 Southbridge and Marvell 88SE61xx SATA / PATA chipset. I'm using an HP dvd1040i CDrom drive for installation. The installer boots fine b

Re: Lost /home partition

2007-07-29 Thread Jeff D
On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, Dotan Cohen wrote: On 30/07/07, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 02:05:38AM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: In a Debian-based distro (Ubuntu) I have had a corruption of my /home partition, which resides on sda4 of my Dell Inspiron laptop. No

Re: Lost /home partition

2007-07-29 Thread Jeff D
On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, Dotan Cohen wrote: In a Debian-based distro (Ubuntu) I have had a corruption of my /home partition, which resides on sda4 of my Dell Inspiron laptop. Not knowing what to do, and with no way to boot and google the situation, I played Y, Y, Y to all fsck's questions. Now, /hom

Re: /bin/login listening?

2007-07-29 Thread Jeff D
On Sun, 29 Jul 2007, Tyler Smith wrote: On 2007-07-29, Mathias Brodala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --enig6620D8D79CB50A9B1AFF7AB2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi Douglas

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