Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-03-17 Thread Bogart Salzberg
On Mar 9, 2008, at 8:05 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: On Wednesday 27 February 2008 06:06:37 pm Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 09:41:24PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: - Forwarded message from Sam Hocevar [EMAIL PROTECTED] - I also would like to spend some Debian money

Re: diff between amd64 and ia64

2007-12-22 Thread Bogart Salzberg
On Dec 22, 2007, at 2:16 PM, Jose Luis Rivas Contreras wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: On Saturday December 22 2007 10:11:48 Sven Hoexter wrote: On Sat, Dec 22, 2007 at 04:45:25PM +0100, abdelkader belahcene wrote: HI, I have an AMD laptop, I

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

2007-12-17 Thread Bogart Salzberg
On Dec 16, 2007, at 2:29 PM, Jon D. Irish wrote: 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 Jon, By the webpage cannot be found,

Re: bash color aliases

2007-12-06 Thread Bogart Salzberg
Is ~/.bashrc only run automatically for non-login shells? I think it should be sourced in ~/.bash_profile so that it will run either way. e.g.: source ~/.bashrc Of course, also run the above command manually to ensure the .bashrc script works. Bogart On Dec 6, 2007, at 12:00 PM,

Re: mount USB drive at boot: fsck failure

2007-12-04 Thread Bogart Salzberg
SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/03/07 18:56, Bogart Salzberg wrote: Ron, Interesting: when the USB drive is on, the box stalls during POST. It is apparently some kind of deadlock, because when I power down the drive POST completes immediately. What motherboard? - -- Ron Johnson, Jr

Re: mount USB drive at boot: fsck failure - kernel upgrade

2007-12-04 Thread Bogart Salzberg
the snowball effect on a box that is supposed to be stable. Bogart On Dec 3, 2007, at 8:28 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/03/07 18:51, Bogart Salzberg wrote: Ron, I'm running the original Etch kernel on this machine, Linux version 2.6.18-4-amd64

Re: mount USB drive at boot: fsck failure

2007-12-04 Thread Bogart Salzberg
On Dec 4, 2007, at 11:48 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/04/07 08:45, Bogart Salzberg wrote: Running lshw on the box shows the motherboard as a Dell 0UW457, v. A03 with socket M2 and Nvidia GeForce 6150LE chipset. The BIOS version is about a year

Re: Preferred Backup Method?

2007-12-04 Thread Bogart Salzberg
On Dec 4, 2007, at 4:09 PM, Michael Pobega wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 What is d-u's preferred method of backups? Now that I'm running servers on my system (Apache, MySQL, SSH, etc.) I need to find a good method of backing up, because no matter how much security

Re: Apache and perl CGI

2007-12-03 Thread Bogart Salzberg
Perl has a taint mode (add switch -T to the command line or shebang line, as in #!/usr/bin/perl -T). The taint mode, I think, prevents user input from being used in unsafe operations until it is filtered by a regular expression. Taint mode is not as comprehensive as PHP's safe mode. Type

mount USB drive at boot: fsck failure

2007-12-03 Thread Bogart Salzberg
. Is it possible the USB drive has introduced an interrupt problem? Whoa, that's three issues in one message. ;-) Thanks for your help with this. A Debian user, Bogart Salzberg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mount USB drive at boot: fsck failure

2007-12-03 Thread Bogart Salzberg
/07 16:39, Bogart Salzberg wrote: Dear Debian Users, I partitioned and installed an ext3 filesystem on an external 250 GB Western Digital USB 2.0 drive. It mounts OK manually and I can read/write it. I added this line to /etc/fstab in order to mount the drive at boot time: /dev/sdc1 /archive

Re: mount USB drive at boot: fsck failure

2007-12-03 Thread Bogart Salzberg
SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/03/07 16:39, Bogart Salzberg wrote: Dear Debian Users, I partitioned and installed an ext3 filesystem on an external 250 GB Western Digital USB 2.0 drive. It mounts OK manually and I can read/write it. I added this line to /etc/fstab in order to mount the drive

Re: Broadcom 43xx Wireless Network Adapter

2007-11-16 Thread Bogart Salzberg
Though I much prefer Debian for the server platform, I have found Ubuntu just works in a very nice way on my laptop. I recently installed Ubuntu 7.10 on my Dell Inspiron 1501 laptop (with Broadcom 43xx) and had wi-fi working with minimal fuss. The restricted drivers manager handled

Determining how a binary package was configured

2007-11-14 Thread Bogart Salzberg
Debian Users, For a package installed via aptitude or apt-get, is there a log or other source of information describing the ./configure command used to configure the package prior to compilation? Thank you for assistance. Bogart Salzberg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Locale Problem

2007-11-14 Thread Bogart Salzberg
I received these same warnings when I removed the locales package as part of an upgrade of libc6. I had to install the locales package from testing in order to remain compatible. On a second machine I updated libc6, tzdata and locales from testing all at once and it worked well. Bogart