Re: snort question

2006-03-09 Thread Bryan Donlan
On 3/4/06, Jude DaShiell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It appears oinkmaster may not be useable. Running it to download new rules fails with an error 404 in the wget-log file. That or perhaps it's necessary to give it a specific rules file to download may be necessary. The snort rules require

Re: mono for debian

2006-02-19 Thread Bryan Donlan
On 2/19/06, Martin Paraskevov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm using Debian Sarge (stable) and searched for a mono package to install: apt-cache search mono. I didn't get any packages related to the mono project back. How can I install mono and run .NET applications on my debian box? I

Re: How to remove exim4 when aptitude doesnt think its installed?

2005-11-30 Thread Bryan Donlan
On 11/30/05, T [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 17:12:35 +, Andy wrote: Hello List, How should I go about removing files relating to the exim4 package, when aptitude doesn't think the package is installed? This is the very situation that low level command dpg comes into

Problems with kinput2

2005-11-06 Thread Bryan Donlan
I'm trying to configure kinput2 for Japanese text input, but as of yet I've had no success. I have the following lines in my ~/.Xdefaults and have merged them using xrdb: *KinputProtocol.XlcConversionStartKey: ShiftKeyspace *ConversionStartKeys: ShiftKeyspace *inputMethod: kinput2 I also have

Re: Adding new hardware after installation

2005-10-28 Thread Bryan Donlan
On 10/28/05, Gary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure what the best way to handle this is. I need to add a network card to a PC with recently installed Debian (Sarge). What's the best way to do it? I don't really want to sit in front of the thing again feeding it CDs, so if I could avoid

Re: Adding new hardware after installation

2005-10-28 Thread Bryan Donlan
On 10/28/05, Bryan Donlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/28/05, Gary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure what the best way to handle this is. I need to add a network card to a PC with recently installed Debian (Sarge). What's the best way to do it? I don't really want to sit in front

Re: QQ about apt.

2005-10-27 Thread Bryan Donlan
On 10/27/05, Scott Muir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (noob) I would like to know if and how it is possible to do a non-interactive install of an .deb package. The pages I have read talk only of a 'yes to all questions' option which is obviously useless if the package you are installing has

Re: dependencies

2005-09-20 Thread Bryan Donlan
On 9/20/05, Alejandro Bonilla Beeche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, can anyone help me with this dependencies? I can't freaking upgrade. This is Sid, just did apt-get update and need to update my system a bit. Any idea? [snip] debian:~# apt-get -f install Reading package lists... Done

Re: Memory Black Hole

2005-09-20 Thread Bryan Donlan
On 9/20/05, S3GFAULT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, The subject of this message could have been 'Memory Leak' but honestly that doesn't sound dramatic enough for my problem. Warning, this turned out to be a longish email, for the impatient, please skip to the section marked SUMMARY at the

Re: Installing mplayer

2005-09-14 Thread Bryan Donlan
On 9/14/05, Ganeshram Iyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/14/05, John Talbut [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone give me or point me to precise instructions as to how to do this? I use Aptitude to get packages. Or should I give up with Christian Marillat's package and go with the

Re: X.Org Hits Testing

2005-09-07 Thread Bryan Donlan
On 9/7/05, Oliver Lupton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jason Clinton wrote: Well its finally happened, and I'm so happy that it has. As of now, most of mirrors have X.Org packages in their testing/etch repository. Before I perform the upgrade, I'm starting this thread to catch any and all

Re: I messed up bootmisc.sh - now can't log in!

2005-08-30 Thread Bryan Donlan
On 8/29/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone recommend a good disk recovery company? Thanks in advance, Dave Williams You don't need one for this. Which bootloader are you using, LILO or GRUB? You can pass init=/bin/sh using it. For grub, select the boot menu option,

Re: I messed up bootmisc.sh - now can't log in!

2005-08-30 Thread Bryan Donlan
On 8/30/05, David W. Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I should have mentioned, I'm the: Re: I messed up bootmisc.sh - now can't log in! guy from debian-user I just tried this with vi, and when I went to save, got this message: E45: 'readonly' option is set (add ! to override)

Re: I messed up bootmisc.sh - now can't log in!

2005-08-30 Thread Bryan Donlan
On 8/30/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bryan Donlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/30/05, David W. Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I should have mentioned, I'm the: Re: I messed up bootmisc.sh - now can't log in! guy from debian-user I just tried this with vi

Re: rsync knoppix dvd download

2005-08-29 Thread Bryan Donlan
On 8/29/05, L.V.Gandhi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have tried as follows. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# export RSYNC_PROXY=150.1.35.36:3128 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# rsync download.linuxtag.org:: bad response from proxy - HTTP/1.0 403 Forbidden rsync: failed to connect to 150.1.35.36: Success (0) rsync

Re: About chroot

2005-08-26 Thread Bryan Donlan
On 8/25/05, Tong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Several questions about chroot. - I need to chroot into an alien system. I.e., I need to chroot into a 2.6 kernel from my 2.4 kernel. Is that ok? chroot cannot change kernels. It is, however, safe to chroot into the root filesystem of a system

Re: How to compile in Debian?

2005-08-25 Thread Bryan Donlan
On 8/25/05, Teilhard Knight [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Suppose you want to compile your drivers for your wireless adapter, which is what I actually want to do. If I am not mistaken, I need a build symbolic link in uname -r to the kernel-source, and I need a linux symbolic link from /usr/src

Re: Switching to Debian (from Fedora)

2005-08-23 Thread Bryan Donlan
On 8/23/05, Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hendrik Boom wrote: On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 08:43:23AM -0500, Kent West wrote: I would recommend duplicating the Stable lines, rather than replacing them. Then replace the stable or sarge in the first (top) set with your release of choice.

Re: hard related

2005-08-23 Thread Bryan Donlan
On 8/23/05, Rodney D. Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had a lightening strike take out my other computer. Everything seems fine, and I have moved over to another box, same specs. Everything, except the cd's , work as advertised. When I plug both the cdrom, and dvd-writer into the ide bus,

Re: Switching to Debian (from Fedora)

2005-08-23 Thread Bryan Donlan
On 8/23/05, Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bryan Donlan wrote: On 8/23/05, Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's my understanding that because of their high-priority nature, security updates go into Stable even before they sometimes make it into Testing (or perhaps, Unstable?). So

Re: Newbie: How do I defrag my drive?

2005-08-23 Thread Bryan Donlan
On 8/23/05, Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 23 August 2005 08:49 am, Tim Ruehsen wrote: I did the last thing (after using my system for ~2 years for ~10 hours a day, making updates every day) and my system booted about 30% faster. Now, after a year or so, it seems to be

Re: When should I consider installing suggested packages?

2005-08-21 Thread Bryan Donlan
On 8/21/05, Elmer E. Dow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings: When should I consider installing suggested packages? During my limited experience using aptitude in Sarge I've always installed depends and recommended packages, never suggested. Do most users just ignore suggested packages, only

Re: All kde menu entries gone

2005-08-21 Thread Bryan Donlan
On 8/20/05, Graham Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Sigh. I know that there are likely to be problems with with unstable, especially at the moment, but could anyone tell me how I could get back my kde menu entries. The whole application menu system in the kicker (I think thats what it's

Re: replacing failing system disk

2005-08-19 Thread Bryan Donlan
On 8/19/05, Alvin Oga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: or as you say ( to do stuff and pray ): dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb count=1 bs=448 power off .. than move hdb to where hda used to be and it should work as a replacement for hda Note that this will break if

Re: sda disapering

2005-08-15 Thread Bryan Donlan
On 8/15/05, Enrique Morfin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Bryan Donlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/12/05, Enrique Morfin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! i'm using sid, kernel image 2.6.10: # uname -a Linux quetzalcoatl 2.6.10-1-686-smp #1 SMP Tue Jan 18 03:03:11 EST

Re: installing from somewhat broken 3.1

2005-08-12 Thread Bryan Donlan
On 8/12/05, Sam Rosenfeld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After installing Debian 3.1 I have found that a whole bunch of apps were not installed at all. I would like to reinstall a fresh distro, but want to ensure that I don't have the same problem of missing apps (e.g., almost all the man pages).

Re: dpkg query table ??? dhcp3-client dhcpcd ???

2005-08-12 Thread Bryan Donlan
On 12 Aug 2005 01:43:45 -0700, hakim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, ns:~# dpkg -l '*dhcp*' Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/

Re: sda disapering

2005-08-12 Thread Bryan Donlan
On 8/12/05, Enrique Morfin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! i'm using sid, kernel image 2.6.10: # uname -a Linux quetzalcoatl 2.6.10-1-686-smp #1 SMP Tue Jan 18 03:03:11 EST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux #uptime 17:08:44 up 160 days, 23:47, 1 user, load average: 0.27, 1.02, 1.77 My usb

Re: script copy files based upon content

2005-08-07 Thread Bryan Donlan
On 8/5/05, Michael Martinell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to figure out how to come up with a shell script that will cat or grep a file and if it contains the word SPAM it will then move it to another folder. I have been trying combinations of grep SPAM * | mv * ../spam however I

Re: Personal Debian mirror

2005-08-04 Thread Bryan Donlan
On 8/4/05, Preston Boyington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have come to the point of needing / wanting my own partial Debian mirror (amd64 and i386). I've been reading about debmirror but when I tried it my mirror didn't look quite like what I thought it should. All the packages were dumped

Re: sarge, kernel 2.6.12.3, and sound

2005-08-04 Thread Bryan Donlan
On 8/4/05, Steven Pasternak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I have sarge, with kernel 2.4.27-2-k7. I upgraded to a 2.6.12.3 using sarge's 2.6.8 config, but now I don't have sound. /dev/{dsp,mixer} are gone. I have the use OSS API set under Device Drivers-Sound-Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Is

Re: Installing a new kernel on Debian.

2005-08-04 Thread Bryan Donlan
On 8/4/05, Redefined Horizons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm currently running Debian Sarge with the 2.4.27 kernel. I would like to update to a 2.6 kernel. I don't have an internet connection to my Debian box yet, so I can't use apt-get. Is there a place I can download the debs for a 2.6

Re: openssl has 2gb limit ?

2005-08-03 Thread Bryan Donlan
On 8/3/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, today I tried to encrypt a 3.2Gb file with openssl: openssl enc -aes256 -e -salt -pass file:filename.pwd -in filename -out filename.openssl It aborted with the error: Die maximale Dateigröße ist überschritten = Maximum file

Re: ISO Images from fully installed hd?

2005-08-03 Thread Bryan Donlan
On 8/3/05, Fernando Cacciola [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dave Ewart wrote: I have Sarge successfully installed in a machine, using just the netinst CD. Now I want it on another machine... I can of course use the netinst CD once again and wait for all the packages to download, but I was

Re: an update to testing broke my nvidia driver (from nvidia-installer)

2005-08-03 Thread Bryan Donlan
On 8/3/05, Brice Méalier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I upgraded today from sarge to testing and all went well! But I found afterwards my graphics a bit slow and then I decided to reinstall the last nvidia driver from the source as I do usually. It refused to build! telling that the

Re: ISO Images from fully installed hd?

2005-08-03 Thread Bryan Donlan
On 8/3/05, Fernando Cacciola [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bryan Donlan wrote: On 8/3/05, Fernando Cacciola [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dave Ewart wrote: I have Sarge successfully installed in a machine, using just the netinst CD. Now I want it on another machine... I can of course use

Re: ISO Images from fully installed hd?

2005-08-03 Thread Bryan Donlan
On 8/3/05, Fernando Cacciola [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bryan Donlan wrote: On 8/3/05, Fernando Cacciola [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bryan Donlan wrote: On 8/3/05, Fernando Cacciola [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dave Ewart wrote: I have Sarge successfully installed in a machine, using just

Re: Aptitude erroneously thinks many packages are unused and wants to remove them.

2005-08-01 Thread Bryan Donlan
On 8/1/05, Clive Menzies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On (01/08/05 12:32), Adam Funk wrote: Inspired by the advice on this group and the -s option, I'm trying out aptitude. But I'm surprised by this: $ aptitude -s upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree Reading

Re: Aptitude erroneously thinks many packages are unused and wants to remove them.

2005-08-01 Thread Bryan Donlan
On 8/1/05, Bryan Donlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/1/05, Clive Menzies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On (01/08/05 12:32), Adam Funk wrote: Inspired by the advice on this group and the -s option, I'm trying out aptitude. But I'm surprised by this: $ aptitude -s upgrade Reading

Re: Aptitude erroneously thinks many packages are unused and wants to remove them.

2005-08-01 Thread Bryan Donlan
On 8/1/05, Christian Pernegger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Briefly, run aptitude in interactive mode - ie # aptitude If you press g (only once), the proposed actions will be displayed, you can then 'h' hold packages you don't want removed. Since this is basically the issue I brought up a day

Re: Changing to British (or Canadian) English

2005-08-01 Thread Bryan Donlan
On 8/1/05, David R. Litwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've looked all over the place: KDE, I've googled it, the help files in KDE. Nothing seems to tell me how I can change my language in KDE to British (since they don't seem to have Canadian, not there there really is a difference). Could

Re: Changing to British (or Canadian) English

2005-08-01 Thread Bryan Donlan
On 8/1/05, Bryan Donlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/1/05, David R. Litwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've looked all over the place: KDE, I've googled it, the help files in KDE. Nothing seems to tell me how I can change my language in KDE to British (since they don't seem to have Canadian

Re: Image for 2.6.12 kernel in Sid?

2005-07-31 Thread Bryan Donlan
On 7/31/05, Rick Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [KS] wrote: Recently there was a thread(link below) about renaming of kernel package for debian as there are other projects having their own kernels e.g. Hurd.

Re: KDE 3.4 on Debian

2005-07-31 Thread Bryan Donlan
On 7/31/05, Michael Satterwhite [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know some people here are running KDE 3.4. What method did you use to install it. http://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org/docs/install.html

Re: How to report a broken package ?

2005-07-30 Thread Bryan Donlan
On 7/30/05, Thomas Lecomte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm new in the Debian community, and I'm running Debian Sid on my computer. I would like to know what should I do when I get a broken package. Report it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ? The broken package is libaspell which disable me to install

Re: installation of a package requests removal of a lot of packages

2005-07-30 Thread Bryan Donlan
On 7/30/05, Kevin Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 11:55:43AM +0200, Gena Batyan wrote: snip When trying to install a package using apt-get, it says among other things 'following packages will be REMOVED: ...' and this list is HUGE! I'll give an example. I'm trying to

Re: Need iso images of Woody, Debian 3.0r3

2005-07-30 Thread Bryan Donlan
On 7/30/05, Paul E Condon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently discovered that it is not trivial to reinstall Debian on a somewhat old box that I have. In order to be prepared for another disk failure, I would like to have, in my CD library, copies of the first two CDs of Debian 3.0r3, but I

Re: aptitude : how to merge the new packages directory

2005-07-29 Thread Bryan Donlan
On 7/29/05, Guillaume TESSIER [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. I have a question about aptitude. I use to run debian testing sarge and stick to sarge when it got stable. I usually manage packages with aptitude. Of course their was a new packages directory as new packages were introduced

Re: any sleek way to downgrade sid to sarge?

2005-07-29 Thread Bryan Donlan
On 7/29/05, phyrster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi debianers, After upgrading to sid, I reget and thinking how to roll back to good old sarge. I searched related topics and found this guide: http://debianplanet.com/node.php?id=880 (How I Downgraded Testing to Stable) The procedure here is

Re: new packages

2005-07-28 Thread Bryan Donlan
On 7/28/05, Nils-Erik Svangård [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Heh.. I thought it was just my selection of packages. When I run apt-get update; apt-get upgrade, I usually get atleast 10 upgrades per day, but in recent days none of the packages I use has been updated. A first I thougt the mirror I

Re: C++ ABI change in sight?

2005-07-28 Thread Bryan Donlan
On 7/28/05, Steven Pasternak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I know that currently debian is undergoing the C++ ABI Change (libstdc++.so.5/gcc3.3-libstdc++.so.6/gcc4), which is why kde isn't being upgraded (is C++ code). I was just wondering if this will be finished anytime soon. KDE 3.4 is head

Re: Debian Sarge to Etch

2005-07-27 Thread Bryan Donlan
On 7/27/05, Fred OGrady [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul, I have a small question, (as a newbe). Just how Unstable is Unstable? I enjoyed the (accidental) upgrade to Sarge. (I updated and, when I logged into the GUI, I was suprised to find everything changed.) Even in

Re: Packages not authenticated - why?

2005-07-27 Thread Bryan Donlan
On 7/27/05, Anthony Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On my laptop, whenever I try to install/upgrade packages I get a message saying that the packages cannot be authenticated and asking if I want to continue. I say I do and things then proceed normally. This does not happen on my desktop.

Re: Unstable (sid) packages

2005-07-27 Thread Bryan Donlan
On 7/27/05, Song, Victor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are the Unstable packages being updated? I've received several security updates but the packages doesn't seem to have been updated on http://ftp.debian.org. For example, Webcalendar should be 0.9.45-6 according to the advisory but

Re: apt-get update problems

2005-07-27 Thread Bryan Donlan
On 7/26/05, Jan Schledermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am getting this sort of messages a lot the last month or two, while running apt-get update: Ign ftp://ftp.nl.debian.org sarge/main Packages 99% [Packages bzip2 0] [Query] bzip2: Compressed file ends

Re: Synaptic claims deb files not at debian

2005-07-26 Thread Bryan Donlan
On 7/26/05, Edward C. Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use a PC with Debian unstable. synaptic has been giving me many messages like: W: Failed to fetch http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/x/xorg-x11/libice-dev_6.8.2.dfsg.1-4_i386.deb 404 Not Found [IP: 216.37.55.114 80] My

Re: Hyperthreading

2005-07-23 Thread Bryan Donlan
On 7/23/05, Andrew J. Fields [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am in the process of building a new computer, and was wondering if Debian 3.1r0a is capable of running on a P4 3.2E Ghz processor with HT Technology. Also, if the OS doesn't support HT, could it still work anyway. Lastly, if this wont

Re: gdb not able to display the contents of source code

2005-07-23 Thread Bryan Donlan
On 7/22/05, kamaraju kusumanchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David E. Fox wrote: On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 13:00:18 -0400 kamaraju kusumanchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (gdb) list 1 ../sysdeps/i386/elf/start.S: No such file or directory. in ../sysdeps/i386/elf/start.S (gdb) I get

Re: debian-31r0a-i386-netinst.iso

2005-07-23 Thread Bryan Donlan
On 7/23/05, Matthew Lenz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: wasn't the original installer called debian-31r0-i386-netinst.iso? .. was the 'a' added recently? if so what changed? The installer without the `a' doesn't add security.debian.org to /etc/apt/sources.list