Re: upgrading kernel automagically

2004-12-15 Thread Jeremy Brown
Ron Farrer wrote: On Wed, December 15, 2004 13:18, Ron Johnson said: On Wed, 2004-12-15 at 14:49 -0500, Jeremy Brown wrote: I noticed that even if new versions of the kernel are available in the Debian repository, "apt-get update; apt-get upgrade" won't retrieve them. Is

Re: Hardware hassles: Linux vs. Windows

2004-12-15 Thread Jeremy Brown
Christian Convey wrote: I don't think I agree. I'm talking about cases where a good driver exists in both Windows and Linux. My question is: given an existing good driver, why is there more manual work to get a device like a trackball useable under Linux rather than Windows? Where I'm going i

upgrading kernel automagically

2004-12-15 Thread Jeremy Brown
I noticed that even if new versions of the kernel are available in the Debian repository, "apt-get update; apt-get upgrade" won't retrieve them. Is there any way I can have apt check to see if a new kernel version is available and if so, obtain it? Thanks, Jeremy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EM

Re: Installing Development Headers

2004-11-21 Thread Jeremy Brown
Just re-checking because I hadn't gotten a response. Anyone know how to do this? Thanks, Jeremy Jeremy Brown wrote: Is there any script or command in Debian that will install development header subpackages for all of the packages on my system? If you'd like to compile software

Installing Development Headers

2004-11-17 Thread Jeremy Brown
Is there any script or command in Debian that will install development header subpackages for all of the packages on my system? If you'd like to compile software above and beyond what is shipped with Debian, I've found that you end up manually searching for -dev packages for each piece of softw

Re: pam/sshd question: allowing a user to try logging in more than once

2004-11-10 Thread Jeremy Brown
Michael Sims wrote: Jeremy Brown wrote: Debian: Permission denied (publickey,keyboard-interactive). Fedora: Permission denied (publickey,password,keyboard-interactive). Perhaps getting PAM to spit out this extra data would be more, eh, amiable to PuTTY? That's some good info. I no

Re: pam/sshd question: allowing a user to try logging in more than once

2004-11-10 Thread Jeremy Brown
Michael Sims wrote: Are your users using PuTTY? For me, the problem only manifests itself with PuTTY, connecting from every other SSH client I tried gave the expected behavior (3 password requests). Actually, that seems to be the case here as well. I mostly use PuTTY, so I hadn't even tried t

Re: pam/sshd question: allowing a user to try logging in more than once

2004-11-09 Thread Jeremy Brown
Michael Sims wrote: Jeremy Brown wrote: The subject line is fairly self-explanatory. Currently users who connect to my debian testing machine at work are prompted for their username, then their password only once. If a user enters a bad password, he or she is kicked out immediately and must

Re: pam/sshd question: allowing a user to try logging in more than once

2004-11-09 Thread Jeremy Brown
sufficient pam_unix.so use_first_pass authrequired pam_deny.so Jeremy Jeremy Brown wrote: The subject line is fairly self-explanatory. Currently users who connect to my debian testing machine at work are prompted for their username, then their password only once. If a user enters a bad password,

pam/sshd question: allowing a user to try logging in more than once

2004-11-09 Thread Jeremy Brown
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Re: trouble with pam-ldap

2004-10-13 Thread Jeremy Brown
Artur M. Piwko wrote: Jeremy Brown wrote: Now I can log in as jeremy.brown (although my home directory doesn't exist on this machine), but once logged in my user name becomes "I have no name!": login as: jeremy.brown Password: Last login: Wed Oct 13 10:44:16 2004 from 172.28.

Re: trouble with pam-ldap

2004-10-13 Thread Jeremy Brown
OK, as per the suggestions given, I've changed my pam config files to read: /etc/pam.d/common-account: account sufficient pam_ldap.so account required pam_unix.so try_first_pass /etc/pam.d/common-auth: auth sufficient pam_ldap.so auth required pam_unix.so try_first_pass /etc/pam.d/common-session: s

trouble with pam-ldap

2004-10-12 Thread Jeremy Brown
user jeremy.brown from :::172.28.2.115 port 1814 ssh2 Can anyone help me? I have always relied on the RedHat "authconfig" application for setting up LDAP authentication and know very little about configuring pam or pam-ldap by hand. Thanks in advance, Jeremy Brown [EMAIL

Re: make xconfig & xfree???

2004-09-29 Thread Jeremy Brown
Robert Tilley wrote: Make was issued as root. Why can't root connect to the xserver? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/linux-2.6.8.1# make xconfig HOSTCC scripts/basic/fixdep HOSTCC scripts/basic/split-include HOSTCC scripts/basic/docproc HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/conf.o HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/kco

Re: Debian equivalent of /etc/profile.d

2004-08-26 Thread Jeremy Brown
John Summerfield wrote: X stuff exceptions are xterms and imitations which can be configured to run login shells. I assume you get a login shell when you log in via GDM though, right? --j -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Debian equivalent of /etc/profile.d

2004-08-24 Thread Jeremy Brown
Jeremy Brown wrote: I respect the established Debian policy...but I do disagree. I think it is possible to build an environment-variable-setting system that works with multiple shells, like the one currently in Slackware. OK, I eat my words. After about 5 hours of thinking about this off and

Re: Java on Debian

2004-08-24 Thread Jeremy Brown
Michael Satterwhite wrote: Having just installed Sarge on my laptop, I tried downloading and installing the Sun J2SE (from Sun - I didn't see it - or expect to see it! - in apt). Unfortunately, it wouldn't install because of a missing library. I *KNOW* there are many people writing Java on Debia

Re: Debian equivalent of /etc/profile.d

2004-08-24 Thread Jeremy Brown
Cameron Hutchison wrote: A program must not depend on environment variables to get reasonable defaults. (That's because these environment variables would have to be set in a system-wide configuration file like `/etc/profile', which is not supported by all shells.) Sorry for the

Debian equivalent of /etc/profile.d

2004-08-16 Thread Jeremy Brown
I've been trying Debian out off and on for the last two weeks and was following the instructions about creating and installing a Sun Java SDK package located in the java-common package...I was going to create a file "/etc/profile.d/jdk.sh" (to initialize some environment variables, mainly) when

Re: Installing Debian Stable with Software RAID

2004-05-11 Thread Jeremy Brown
Jeremy Brown wrote: I'm relatively new to Debian, but am considering installing it on several new servers I'm setting up. At least one of the servers will need its root partition stored on a software RAID volume though, and a casual glance at both the Debian stable and testing

Installing Debian Stable with Software RAID

2004-05-11 Thread Jeremy Brown
Hello List, I'm relatively new to Debian, but am considering installing it on several new servers I'm setting up. At least one of the servers will need its root partition stored on a software RAID volume though, and a casual glance at both the Debian stable and testing installers seems to ind