Re: How to keep debian current??

2010-05-15 Thread Jay Zach
On 05/15/2010 12:48 AM, RyanJB wrote: Hi, With the latest apps keep pouring in, is there any way to keep debian in the "cutting edge"? I mean, how to keep debian as updated as, say, ubuntu or even sidux?? You know, latest iceweasel, openoffice, gnome, etc. Maybe using unstable or experimental

Re: "education" has made my debian mentally challenged

2008-02-19 Thread Jay Zach
Tyler MacDonald wrote: Hi, I'm running sid. I've had the "education" packages installed for awhile... last week, an update came out for them which has completely broken the package manager, making it impossible to upgrade further. I get a message like this for every "education-*

Re: Impossible to grab video from camcorder on Debian???

2007-01-25 Thread Jay Zach
On Thursday 25 January 2007 12:56, LMa wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I habe been a plain user of Linux for over one a half year, sporting > Debian 3.1, now with Kernel 2.6.8, KDE 3.3 on a Pentium PC, and I'm very > satisfied. > > I also have a FireWire card by VIA Technologies (OHCI compatible). > >

Re: lvm vs traditional partitioning

2006-12-26 Thread Jay Zach
On Saturday 23 December 2006 12:30, Alan Chandler wrote: > On Friday 22 December 2006 23:05, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > I don't know about booting LVM, though. I > > think you still need traditional partitions for that. > > I have everything on raid but not lvm - but LVM I then use for > >

Re: Is there an interactive Linux tutorial?

2006-10-18 Thread Jay Zach
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jason Spiro wrote: > Hi all, > > I am looking for an interactive Bash and Vi tutorial that runs in text > mode. There is none in Apt. I looked at the first few Google hits: I > found a Java-based tutorial but it is pretty fake: if you make a > mistake

Re: apt failure

2006-10-01 Thread Jay Zach
Olafur Jens Sigurdsson wrote: > Þann 2006-10-01, 08:56:58 (+) skrifaði Francesco Pietra: >> With Debian etch i386 I am faced by a known issue that I met for the first >> time after an apt-get upgrade: >> >> Unable to parse package file /var/lib/dpkg/status (1) >> >> To my apt.conf >> APT::Auth

Re: Debian Proxy Server

2006-09-28 Thread Jay Zach
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 09/28/06 20:27, Jay Zach wrote: >>> Ron Johnson wrote: >>>> On 09/28/06 14:18, Jay Zach wrote: >>>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>>>>> Dear Debian Support, >>>>

Re: Debian Proxy Server

2006-09-28 Thread Jay Zach
Ron Johnson wrote: > On 09/28/06 14:18, Jay Zach wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> Dear Debian Support, > [snip] >> Although, I use Debian for everything else Linux, I use IPCop >> (http://ipcop.org) for what you are wanting. I think it would be >>

Re: Debian Proxy Server

2006-09-28 Thread Jay Zach
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dear Debian Support, > > Our K-8 elementary/middle school is considering the use of a Debian Linux > machine as a cache proxy server and web filter. We have a strictly > Windows environment at this time and have No Linux experience. > > I was reading some of the Debian

Re: Debian Love

2006-09-24 Thread Jay Zach
Jason Martens wrote: > It seems that morale is a bit low among the developers right now, so I > thought it might be nice for all of us users to remind them why Debian > is such an awesome project. I love Debian. I love how the system works. > I love the quality of the packages. I love that it let

Re: Is there a 2.6.16-2-686-smp header mismatch?

2006-07-23 Thread Jay Zach
On Sunday 23 July 2006 3:52 pm, S Scharf wrote: > I just installed the etch linux-image-2.6.16-2-686-smp package on my > machine > > along with linux-headers-2.6.16-2-686-smp. I than tried to run the > vmware-config.pl to use the new kernel. I get: > > > What is the location of the directory o

Font errors with eboard and xboard

2006-07-13 Thread Jay Zach
About a week ago, eboard and xboard both stopped running for me with font errors. I'm running Unstable with Xorg 7.0. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Jul 13 ~ :) eboard can't load font. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Jul 13 ~ :( xboard xboard: no fonts match pattern -*

Re: memtest= won't load

2006-07-06 Thread Jay Zach
On Thursday 06 July 2006 2:56 pm, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > Hi list, I'm trying to diagnose what I think is a hardware problem > causing random hard-locks of my debian sid machine. > > its an athlon xp2800 on an asus a7n266-vm board, 256 megs ram. > > it will randomly lock hard, no ssh, nothin

Re: slapcat: bad configuration file!

2006-05-17 Thread Jay Zach
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jay Zach wrote: > I've been getting this bad configuration file error for some time (although I > just noticed it) whenever I run any of the 'slap' utilities. The only thing I > could find when googling is that my schema file

slapcat: bad configuration file!

2006-05-17 Thread Jay Zach
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've been getting this bad configuration file error for some time (although I just noticed it) whenever I run any of the 'slap' utilities. The only thing I could find when googling is that my schema files might be outdated, and I need to update them,

Re: firewire

2006-04-28 Thread Jay Zach
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tom Allison wrote: > Jay Zach wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Tom Allison wrote: >> >>> I have an Agere Systems FW323 chipset firewire card that I think should >>>

Re: firewire

2006-04-20 Thread Jay Zach
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tom Allison wrote: > I have an Agere Systems FW323 chipset firewire card that I think should > work under linux based on some linux compatibility stuff I found on the > internet. > > For the most part it does. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ lsmod | grep 13

Re: Permissions for greylistd?

2006-03-27 Thread Jay Zach
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Johnson wrote: > I keep getting the attached message from cron today... any idea what > permissions it wants? > > > > > > Subject: > Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [ -x /usr/s

Re: Honesty about some exim mistakes

2006-03-26 Thread Jay Zach
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Drake Mobius wrote: > Just thought I'd share a fun little experience I recently had with > EXIM. > > I had been having some trouble navigating the exim multi-file config, > attempting to change my local mailserver into a real internet-capable > server

Re: freemind under sarge

2006-03-23 Thread Jay Zach
On Thursday 23 March 2006 11:52 am, Mark Walter wrote: > Hi, > > I have this in my sources.list: > > deb http://eric.lavar.de/comp/linux/debian/ unstable/ > deb-src http://eric.lavar.de/comp/linux/debian/ unstable/ > > So I have installed freemind unstable. > > Here is my problem when I'am trying t

Re: moodle config tips? (or, PHP vs POSTGRES?)

2006-03-17 Thread Jay Zach
On Thursday 09 March 2006 12:22 pm, will trillich wrote: > On 3/8/06, Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > will trillich wrote: > > > having a bit of trouble getting moodle off the ground -- any pointers > > > are welcome. > > > > This may sound dumb, but did you bother to read the REA

Re: Kernel problems

2006-02-20 Thread Jay Zach
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jamie Thompson wrote: > Ok, I'll start by saying that I adore the "Debian Way"(TM). However, I > have a long-standing problem that is pretty much the only blight I can > find with Mr Debian. > > My server PC is old. Really old. Cyrix M2 old. That said

Re: Cannot browse network using smb

2006-02-13 Thread Jay Zach
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joost Kraaijeveld wrote: > Hi, > > I am using Debian Etch AMD64, Samba 3.0.21b on a Windows 2000 ADS domain > (latest security updates applied). > > My problem is that I cannot browse my Windows network or mount any > Windows 2000 based network shar

Re: USB stick broken?

2006-01-20 Thread Jay Zach
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Klaus Pieper wrote: >> >> host# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=1K count=1 >> > > etch:~# dd if=/dev/sdb of=mbr bs=1k count=1 > dd: opening `/dev/sdb': No medium found > > It doesn't work, because Linux never assigned /dev/sdb to the scsi address th

Re: group callander program

2006-01-16 Thread Jay Zach
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rodney Richison wrote: > I find many programs as I'm googling for a simple callendar program. > Would like advice on what you guys find usefull. > > I seen thunderbird callendar. > kdepim > > These are easy to install. Work with a group. What would y

Re: Centralized user management: what is best?

2006-01-16 Thread Jay Zach
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mauro Condarelli wrote: >>== >>Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2006 11:31:53 -0500 >>From: Jay Zach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >>Subject: Re: Centr

Re: Centralized user management: what is best?

2006-01-14 Thread Jay Zach
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Clive Menzies wrote: > 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 mix

Re: Centralized user management: what is best?

2006-01-14 Thread Jay Zach
-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, ..., manually), but that is a real pain. > I did recently suf

Re: SSH on two ports

2006-01-14 Thread Jay Zach
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Martin Hermanowski wrote: > On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 01:58:55PM +0100, Michael Przysucha wrote: > >>Hello, >> >>I want to use ssh on two ports, 22 (standart) and 666. Can anybody tell how >>to configure it? My first thought was to >>simply add the se

Re: Ubuntu to Debian

2006-01-11 Thread Jay Zach
-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 > purchased an additional hard drive

Re: Howto make "top" in debian show CPUs separately like that of Redhat

2006-01-11 Thread Jay Zach
Siju George wrote: > Hi all > > When I run the > > #top > > command in debian it shows all the CPUs cumilatively as shown below. > > top - 06:06:23 up 19 days, 9:33, 6 users, load average: 0.16, 0.41, 1.41 > Tasks: 2166 total, 1 running, 2165 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie > Cpu(s): 0.

Re: Live Video via USB 2.0 from Sony DCR-TRV33 Camcorder

2006-01-10 Thread Jay Zach
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David R. Litwin wrote: > I should like to be able to see the live video from my Sony DCR-TRV33 > Camcorder on my Sid 2.6.14-686-smp KDE Pentium 4 Hyper-Threading Toshiba > laptop machine (I hope that tells you what I'm running) using USB Off-Topic

Re: mysql & logrotate not behaving post Etch dist-upgrade

2006-01-10 Thread Jay Zach
s. keeling wrote: > I received this this morning: > >From: Anacron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Anacron job 'cron.daily' on infidel >Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 07:37:47 -0600 >X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.00, version=0.96.2 > >/etc

Re: logrotate + mysql = "Help!"

2006-01-10 Thread Jay Zach
Jay Zach wrote: > Eric d'Alibut wrote: > >>I have a Debian stable install that runs smoothly; uptime is seventy >>three days. Just lately I am getting these system emails: >> >>/etc/cron.daily/logrotate: >>error: error running shared postrotate scrip

Re: logrotate + mysql = "Help!"

2006-01-10 Thread Jay Zach
Eric d'Alibut wrote: > I have a Debian stable install that runs smoothly; uptime is seventy > three days. Just lately I am getting these system emails: > > /etc/cron.daily/logrotate: > error: error running shared postrotate script for /var/log/mysql.log > /var/log/mysql/mysql.log /var/log/mysql.er

Re: mac address

2005-12-22 Thread Jay Zach
Kent West wrote: > Tony Heal wrote: > > >>how do I obtain the mac address of eth0 and eth1 on a remote server? >> > > > ssh in, and run "ifconfig" > run 'nmap -sP hostname' -- Sun in the night, everyone

Re: Why thoughttracker not in etch nor sid

2005-12-13 Thread Jay Zach
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paulo Marcel Coelho Aragao wrote: > Joey Hess wrote on Dec, 12: > [...] > >>>I thought of using thoughttracker but realized that it's not in etch nor >>>sid. Would anybody know why ? > > > [...] > > >>From http://ftp-master.debian.org/removals.t

Re: Qmail redundant mail delivery

2005-12-09 Thread Jay Zach
Jay Zach wrote: > Jay Zach wrote: > >>For some reason I keep getting multiple messages of the same message to my >>inbox. Qmail redelivers all messages multiple times, like it thinks that it >>doesn't deliver them, even though it does. I play around with it and chan

Re: Qmail redundant mail delivery

2005-12-07 Thread Jay Zach
Jay Zach wrote: > For some reason I keep getting multiple messages of the same message to my > inbox. Qmail redelivers all messages multiple times, like it thinks that it > doesn't deliver them, even though it does. I play around with it and change > permissions, and restart qm

Qmail redundant mail delivery

2005-12-07 Thread Jay Zach
For some reason I keep getting multiple messages of the same message to my inbox. Qmail redelivers all messages multiple times, like it thinks that it doesn't deliver them, even though it does. I play around with it and change permissions, and restart qmail, and it seems to start working, then th

Re: Adding Debian to Suse Box

2005-11-10 Thread Jay Zach
Sergio Cuéllar Valdés wrote: 2005/11/10, Thomas S. Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: All, I have Suse 10.0 booting with GRUB and want to add Debian on another drive. I have my box set up to boot from a CD, I burned the Debian CD from the on-line site, but when I restart my PC it starts to boot from

Re: pointer for home networking

2005-09-28 Thread Jay Zach
michael wrote: On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 22:23 -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 06:18:15PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: Michael writes: I don't want to fork out dosh for a modem/router. The "router" can be an old junker pc running Linux. It can even be one of your two PC's, a

Re: GRUB bootloader issue

2005-09-28 Thread Jay Zach
Jeremy Merritt wrote: I need help figuring out what is going on with my Debian / GRUB bootloader. Because of some Windoze issues, I had to re-install XP on my machine. It discarded the grub loader and now you can only boot to XP from hda1. I consulted with another Debian user who said to simply r

Re: LVM help -- resize filesystem ?

2005-08-20 Thread Jay Zach
Jay Zach wrote: Hi all, hopefully someone can help me, I think I'm stuck. I want to replace one of my drives, a 4gb in my physical volume with an 18gb drive. I have no more free drive slots, so I need to reduce it out of the set first. I've created plenty of room across the volum

Mounting samba directories as /home

2005-08-20 Thread Jay Zach
Hi all, I've been trying to get my Samba home directories to mount as /home/username for users for awhile now, with a lot of problems and would like to see if anyone has good suggestions, or example working configs ;) Here are my two relevant lines in fstab: //BBM/user1 /home/user1 smbfs cred

LVM help -- resize filesystem ?

2005-08-20 Thread Jay Zach
Hi all, hopefully someone can help me, I think I'm stuck. I want to replace one of my drives, a 4gb in my physical volume with an 18gb drive. I have no more free drive slots, so I need to reduce it out of the set first. I've created plenty of room across the volume to do it. I'm just having p

Re: Launching apps in a new X display?

2005-07-12 Thread Jay Zach
Michael Gilbert wrote: Hello all, i am using Debian Sarge and am trying to launch an application in a new X server. if I do $ xinit -- :1 the X server is indeed launched, but the default xterm application does not start. if i look at the terminal that i launched xint from, i see a lot of r

Re: CUPS? Printer.

2005-05-31 Thread Jay Zach
Jim Hall wrote: Brendan wrote: On Wednesday 25 May 2005 12:02 pm, Stephen Queen wrote: I can think of a couple of things to try here, depending on how you do things. 1. When you run kprinter, make sure that the pull down list about 75% down in the kprinter window that is labeled "Print syst

Re: CUPS? Printer.

2005-05-31 Thread Jay Zach
Jay Zach wrote: Jay Zach wrote: Jim Hall wrote: Brendan wrote: On Wednesday 25 May 2005 12:02 pm, Stephen Queen wrote: I can think of a couple of things to try here, depending on how you do things. 1. When you run kprinter, make sure that the pull down list about 75% down in the

Re: CUPS? Printer.

2005-05-31 Thread Jay Zach
Jay Zach wrote: Jim Hall wrote: Brendan wrote: On Wednesday 25 May 2005 12:02 pm, Stephen Queen wrote: I can think of a couple of things to try here, depending on how you do things. 1. When you run kprinter, make sure that the pull down list about 75% down in the kprinter window that is

Re: CUPS? Printer.

2005-05-31 Thread Jay Zach
Jim Hall wrote: Brendan wrote: On Wednesday 25 May 2005 12:02 pm, Stephen Queen wrote: I can think of a couple of things to try here, depending on how you do things. 1. When you run kprinter, make sure that the pull down list about 75% down in the kprinter window that is labeled "Print syst

Re: X session error

2005-05-10 Thread Jay Zach
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am having problems logging into my gnome desktop environment as my regular users. I can however log into it as root. When I attempt to log in as a regular user I get a message which states the following,"Xsession warning: unalbe to write to /tmp;xsession may exit wi

graphical links

2004-08-09 Thread Jay Zach
Is there a way to get the graphical (framebuffer) version of links working on debian (without going through compiling it and making a package so it doesn't interfere with the other links packages ) ?? -- Q: How

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Re: Debian Server with IPCop

2004-05-07 Thread Jay Zach
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Adam Aube wrote: | Tomy Alarie wrote: | |> No, i'm trying to setup a debian server behind the IPCop, the |> server is plugged on the green interface and red is modem with |> PPPoE. Apache won't start and this is the error : "Could not |> determine the