Re: Built-In Wireless support

2006-08-17 Thread Anthony Simonelli
That's what I'm trying to figure out. Are the closed-source drivers for these devices compiled into Ubuntu or FreeSpire's kernels? If so, how is it done? How does Ubuntu get away with using them in their Kernel and yet remain free without any EULA? I know that (Lin)FreeSpire require you to acce

Built-In Wireless support

2006-08-17 Thread Anthony Simonelli
I tried the new Ubuntu 6.06 on my laptop and it was able to detect and install the Linksys Realtek 8180 drivers for my wireless b card right off the bat. Despite a well polished Gnome Desktop, I still preferred Debian and decided to use Debian Etch since the release is only a few months away (I ho

Re: OOo2 from backports questions

2006-06-23 Thread Anthony Simonelli
--- "s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Liam O'Toole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 17:28:59 -0700 > > Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I am running Sarge and Debian stock kernel > 2.6.8-k7. I had been > > > using OOo2 from OO.org, but it recently started

Re: OpenOffice.org 2.0 users beware!

2006-06-23 Thread Anthony Simonelli
--- Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2006-06-23 06:38:32 -0700, Anthony Simonelli > wrote: > > I'm sure everyone probably knows this but the > recent upgrade of > > libfreetype6 from 2.1.7-2.4 to 2.1.7-2.5 breaks > OpenOffice.org 2.0 > > i

OpenOffice.org 2.0 users beware!

2006-06-23 Thread Anthony Simonelli
I'm sure everyone probably knows this but the recent upgrade of libfreetype6 from 2.1.7-2.4 to 2.1.7-2.5 breaks OpenOffice.org 2.0 if you've installed the downloaded version from OpenOffice.org. I installed OpenOffice.org 2.0 using 'alien' to convert the RPMs and have been enjoying the great of

Re: Repost-No Response-Fwd: Another APT Issue-Where Are The Linux-Images

2006-06-18 Thread Anthony Simonelli
On Sunday 18 June 2006 07:08 am, Stephen wrote: > On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 05:22:56PM -0500 or thereabouts, Leonard Chatagnier wrote: > > Not totally sure what your point is. I have many times did apt-get, > > aptitude and wajig updates, upgrades, dist-upgrades, installs, removes > > and purges. I'

Message-ID Suffix Change Mozilla Thunderbird

2006-06-14 Thread Anthony Simonelli
I'm using Mozilla-Thunderbird with my MS Exchange IMAP server at work. When I send an email to the Internet, my Postfix MTA gives the following message: forged name in Message-ID: header: and rejects the email. I've successfully sent email from Kmail by changing the Message-ID Suffix in the Co

Logrotate skips a log number

2006-06-02 Thread Anthony Simonelli
For some reason, my logrotate script skips a number every week. As you can see, the date is sequential but the name of the file skipped one. I'm not losing any logs but I would like to know why it names it like this. Any idea why? 2006-06-02 09:53 /var/log/mail.log 2006-06-02 03:30 /var/log/mai

Why is KlamAV not included in Debian?

2006-05-19 Thread Anthony Simonelli
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? Also, why is the dazuko source so old on Sarge? I also ha

Kernel logging firestarter events to syslog and console

2006-03-30 Thread Anthony Simonelli
Hey there, just upgraded to kernel image 2.6.8-3-686 and now all of the blocked connections from firestarter are logged in syslog and displayed at the console such as the following: Mar 27 21:25:25 debian kernel: ABORTED IN=wlan0 OUT= MAC=00:0f:66:a1:89:28:00:12:17:27:5b:71:08:00 SRC=167.104.0.

VSFTP refuses Windows connections

2006-03-13 Thread Anthony Simonelli
I am running VSFTP as an inetd service on my LAN. I want to allow everyone on the LAN to access this server but it only seems to work on the local computer with either ftp://localhost or ftp://192.168.1.101 (my local IP address). I have a Windows XP machine and am trying to connect to the FTP

Re: kanotix HD installation

2006-03-13 Thread Anthony Simonelli
If you must use a Debian-based GNU/Linux then you should try Mepis (www.mepis.org). You should give MepisLite a try since it seems to work the best on old and new hardware and is very close to a Desktop installation of Debian Sarge, the stable release of Debian. It even uses Debian repositorie

Re: Recommended Firewalls

2006-02-28 Thread Anthony Simonelli
Are you sure that the results are yours and not your ISP's? Unless you have a dedicated IP address, you're probably getting your ISP's results. Also, check to see why it failed. Sometimes it is for a legitimate reason. At work we have a mail server so port 25 is open and it fails us for it b

Re: KDE 3.3.2 fails re-install

2006-02-28 Thread Anthony Simonelli
what repositories do you have in your /etc/apt/sources.list ? also, make sure you have all the kde components uninstalled: dpkg --get-selections | grep kde and remove any that come up. Anyone else have a suggestion? On Tuesday 28 February 2006 11:37 am, you wrote: > Anthony Simonelli wr

Re: KDE 3.3.2 fails re-install

2006-02-27 Thread Anthony Simonelli
I would try the command: aptitude -f install to see if there are any broken packages. I would also clean out the cache: aptitude clean then make sure you have the most current packages: aptitude update && aptitude upgrade Then try installing it aptitude install kde that's what I'd try

Re: proxy for APT

2006-02-26 Thread Anthony Simonelli
Also, you can put the following in /etc/apt/apt.conf Accquire::http::Proxy "http://username:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:portnumber"; The quotes and semicolon at the end are necessary or apt will say that there is junk at the end of the config file. I don't think anyone has suggested this one yet. On Thu

Re: How to get SSH to work on my box?

2006-02-11 Thread Anthony Simonelli
On Friday 10 February 2006 01:14 pm, Stephen R Laniel wrote: > On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 11:07:25AM -0800, Tyson Varosyan wrote: > > I want to be able to remotely access my Debian box. I have an SSH client > > on my machine. What do I need to do to my Debian machine? > > 1) install sshd (package open

Re: help with Debian

2006-02-11 Thread Anthony Simonelli
On Friday 10 February 2006 11:52 am, ke6isf wrote: > On Fri, 10 Feb 2006, Cuthbert Smith Consulting wrote: > > First off, Im not sure what you mean to persue /etc/apache/httpd.conf, do > > I type that in the web browser or look for it in my explorer. > > Neither. You'll have to be logged into your

Re: OpenOffice 2.0 Sarge or Etch

2006-02-08 Thread Anthony Simonelli
On Wednesday 08 February 2006 10:18 am, Sridhar M.A. wrote: > On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 03:33:00PM +, L.V.Gandhi wrote: >> On 2/8/06, Sridhar M.A. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 05:19:58AM +, L.V.Gandhi wrote: >> >> On 2/8/06, Sridhar M.A. <[EMAIL PROT

Re: Logging of mail events from Postfix to syslog and rotation of the mail logs

2006-02-08 Thread Anthony Simonelli
On Monday 30 January 2006 12:03 am, Simo Kauppi wrote: > > > > If I write my own in /etc/logrotate.d similar to exim's or another > > service's settings, will this override the current behavior now? > > Hi, > > Yes, I believe so. The global option is 'weekly' and files in the > /etc/logrotate.d dir

Re: vi trying to connect to X

2006-02-06 Thread Anthony Simonelli
On Monday 06 February 2006 03:20 am, Karsten M. Self wrote: > You've apparently got the gvim variant of vim installed, and it may be > doing stupid things presuming it's got an X display active. > > Try: > >unset DISPLAY >vi foo > > ... and see if that resolves the issue. If it doesn't, po

Re: vi trying to connect to X

2006-02-05 Thread Anthony Simonelli
On Sunday 05 February 2006 08:50 pm, Duncan Anderson wrote: > On Monday, 6 February 2006 04:19, Shawn Lamson wrote: > > On Sun, 05 Feb 2006 17:08:15 -0600 > > > > Anthony Simonelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm running KDE and use Konsole but everyt

vi trying to connect to X

2006-02-05 Thread Anthony Simonelli
Hi there. I'm tried to get used to vi as an editor since it is found on nearly every Unix and Unix-like system and I've heard that those who are proficient at it are able to edit files faster than using any other editor. I'm running KDE and use Konsole but everytime I invoke vi from Konsole, I

Re: Logging of mail events from Postfix to syslog and rotation of the mail logs

2006-01-29 Thread Anthony Simonelli
On Sunday 29 January 2006 10:06 am, Simo Kauppi wrote: > On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 09:17:07AM -0600, Anthony Simonelli wrote: > > Currently, I am running a Debian Sarge 3.1 as an MTA server using Postfix > > 2.1.5-9. My questions pertains to the logging of mail events from > >

Logging of mail events from Postfix to syslog and rotation of the mail logs

2006-01-29 Thread Anthony Simonelli
Currently, I am running a Debian Sarge 3.1 as an MTA server using Postfix 2.1.5-9. My questions pertains to the logging of mail events from Postfix to syslog and rotation of the mail logs. Postfix mail events are logged in both mail.log and syslog under /var/log/ at the moment, leaving me with

Why not a Desktop on a GNU/Linux Server

2005-07-25 Thread Anthony Simonelli
I am planning on running a Squid Proxy, Postfix, Apache, webmail server here at my company and I was wondering if it was alright to run a Desktop or just X-Windows on this server. I love using the command-line and have become pretty proficient with it (I always have a terminal open), but other peo