[Solved] Re: mutt still sees expired apache certificate

2006-11-11 Thread Maurits van Rees
and everything is fine again. Thanks for the tip, Dave! -- Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.vanrees.org/ [NL] Work | http://zestsoftware.nl/ "Do not worry about your difficulties in computers, I can assure you mine are still greater." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMA

mutt still sees expired apache certificate

2006-11-11 Thread Maurits van Rees
the old certificate. At least it has the same date as the old certificate. I tried setting this to a different file or deleting the file or emptying it, all without result. Does anyone have an idea how to solve it? -- Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.vanrees.org/ [NL] Work | http

Re: No more sound with Alsa under Debian testing

2006-10-10 Thread Maurits van Rees
snd_mixer_oss Of those three, you only miss snd_seq_oss. So a sudo modprobe snd_seq_oss /might/ do the trick. I just added these lines: # Sound snd_seq_oss snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss to my /etc/modules, which should help after the next reboot; haven't tried it yet. -- Maurits van Rees |

[Solved] Re: Sound not configured correctly after recent kernel upgrade

2006-09-27 Thread Maurits van Rees
ause I am logged in via ssh. But maybe my neighbours can hear something. :) At least ogg123 does not display the error anymore. Thanks, Florian, -- Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.vanrees.org/ [NL] Work | http://zestsoftware.nl/ GnuPG key | http://maurits.vanrees.org/var/

Sound not configured correctly after recent kernel upgrade

2006-09-27 Thread Maurits van Rees
ia Layer (with X11 and ALSA Thanks, -- Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.vanrees.org/ [NL] Work | http://zestsoftware.nl/ GnuPG key | http://maurits.vanrees.org/var/gpgkey.asc "Do only what only you can do." --- Edsger Wybe Dijkstra -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: mutt assistance

2006-03-14 Thread Maurits van Rees
il server and mutt run on the same computer. In my .procmailrc I have: -- DELIVERTO="/usr/sbin/cyrdeliver" DEFAULT="$DELIVERTO -a ${LOGNAME} -m user.${LOGNAME}" # File mail to debian-user mailing list: :0 * [EMAIL PROTECTED] |${DEFAULT}.Debian -- Thi

Re: gpg keys on multiple machines

2006-03-09 Thread Maurits van Rees
want to put that in .bashrc, though I don't seem to do that myself now; perhaps the console I open in X does that by default already. Anyway, now add your ssh identities to the agent: ssh-add -t 7200 This will add them for 7200 seconds, so 2 hours. Now you want need to type your passphr

Re: aptitude: Dynamic MMap ran out of room

2006-02-15 Thread Maurits van Rees
etc/apt/apt.conf (create the file if it doesn't exist): APT::Cache-Limit2000; Then run aptitude update again. -- Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.vanrees.org/ [NL] Work | http://zestsoftware.nl/ "All the darkness that we choose, lay it down, it can'

Re: dead_keys

2006-02-12 Thread Maurits van Rees
RL-ALT-K. Note: I also use the Belgian layout which gives easy access to e.g. the euro sign with RIGHT_ALT-E. -- Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.vanrees.org/ [NL] Work | http://zestsoftware.nl/ "All the darkness that we choose, lay it down, it can't be used. Burn it in the fire." --- Neal Morse signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: can't run root as regular user

2006-02-12 Thread Maurits van Rees
in as root and run the visudo command. -- Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.vanrees.org/ [NL] Work | http://zestsoftware.nl/ "All the darkness that we choose, lay it down, it can't be used. Burn it in the fire." --- Neal Morse signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Safe to upgrade Perl in Sarge?

2006-01-20 Thread Maurits van Rees
least this isn't a new bug that was introduced by the upgrade. Bug #283320 was judged as not being a bug at all and closed on 27 December. I have spamassassin running and don't notice anything wrong. YMMV though. :) -- Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.vanrees.org/ [NL]

Re: tar: --delete macht tar-Archiv korrupt

2006-01-10 Thread Maurits van Rees
ste. [For clarity in English: please use the German list. Or rephrase your question in English of course.] -- Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.vanrees.org/ [NL] Work | http://zestsoftware.nl/ "All the darkness that we choose, lay it down, it can't be used. Burn i

Re: 3 1/2 new questions

2006-01-04 Thread Maurits van Rees
e package, which has priority 'important', so it should normally have been installed on your system. Have a look at /etc/logrotate.conf and files that various packages put in /etc/logrotate.d For more info, see the man page of logrotate. -- Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.va

Re: Cleaning out old backup (*~, *.bak) files

2005-12-24 Thread Maurits van Rees
ere. The following line removes all files in the current dir (and all subdirs) that end with '~': find . -name '*~' | xargs rm This finds all files in the current dir (and all subdirs) that end with ',bak' and haven't been changed in the last 30 days: find . -

Re: moving across tabs in firefox

2005-12-14 Thread Maurits van Rees
On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 06:54:27PM -0500, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > Is there any way to circulate around the tabs (ie go the next/previous > tab) in firefox? and -- Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.vanrees.org/ [NL] Work | http://zestsoftware.nl/ GnuPG key

Re: Check that all packages are stable

2005-12-08 Thread Maurits van Rees
. This says that you have 523 packages total and only 393 of those are from stable. To find out what the other packages are, do: apt-show-versions|fgrep -v /stable -- Maurits van Rees Personal: http://maurits.vanrees.org/ [NL] Work: http://zestsoftware.nl/ GnuPG key: http://mau

Re: Changeing capslock to control

2005-12-05 Thread Maurits van Rees
ave options for this, somewhere in the keyboard part of their configuration menus. -- Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.vanrees.org/ [Dutch/Nederlands] Public GnuPG key: http://maurits.vanrees.org/var/gpgkey.asc "Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and prob

Re: apt and hplip

2005-12-05 Thread Maurits van Rees
nd unstable has 0.9.7. So I guess you are running stable, which is confirmed by your sources.list. For a server this is almost always the best option. Sorry for answering just two of your questions. ;-) HTH, -- Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.vanrees.org/ [Dutch/Nederlands] Public GnuPG

Re: Strange locale behavior

2005-11-30 Thread Maurits van Rees
but don't take my word for it. 'locale -a' prints the names of the locales that are installed on your system. What does that say at your computer? You can reconfigure what locales you want by executing: dpkg-reconfigure locales See /etc/locale.gen -- Maurits van Rees | http

Re: aptitude and apt-listbugs

2005-11-29 Thread Maurits van Rees
ge1' and then 'p package2', but you can find that out yourself. After this apt will restart and those packages should now hold their current version. Do read the instructions carefully when you do this or you might get confused. -- Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.vanrees.org/ [

Re: Am I Compromised -- Some interesting findings

2005-11-26 Thread Maurits van Rees
t > would also make sense to close down all external services other than > ssh. The 'firehol' firewall could do this. apt-get install firehol firehol panic This disallows all traffic, excluding any ssh shells that are open. -- Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.vanrees.org/ [D

Re: What's this "Ign" when I apt-get update

2005-11-24 Thread Maurits van Rees
on-us itself isn't necessary anymore. http://www.debian.org/mirror/list-non-US has some background. The bottom line from that page is: "You should not need the non-US archive unless you are using a version of Debian from before Debian 3.1." -- Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.van

Re: sarge: what package replaced ntptime?

2005-11-24 Thread Maurits van Rees
packages.debian.org/ntpdate. But if you can't find it, you may want to look at package ntp-simple instead. -- Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.vanrees.org/ [Dutch/Nederlands] Public GnuPG key: http://maurits.vanrees.org/var/gpgkey.asc "Make no little plans; they have no magic to sti

Re: Opening manual pages in Konqueror

2005-11-22 Thread Maurits van Rees
7;, so without the space. It works for me then. Or is that just a typo in your email? -- Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.vanrees.org/ [Dutch/Nederlands] Public GnuPG key: http://maurits.vanrees.org/var/gpgkey.asc "Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and prob

Re: firefox crashes on flash

2005-11-17 Thread Maurits van Rees
ught it was a Debian package, but I can't find it. As a side note, my firefox also crashes on flash movies, but certainly not on all. As an example, you could try brandtest.nl (a Dutch instructional video to test if your house is reasonably safe from fire). This works for me. --

Re: IMAP and Sieve

2005-11-15 Thread Maurits van Rees
just pasted it incorrectly, but you would need to put 'if ' in front of the first line. Otherwise it looks correct, but I am no expert. And you may need to have the following line at the start of your file. At least it doesn't hurt to have it: require "fileinto"; -- M

Re: help needed for converting strings in a file

2005-11-11 Thread Maurits van Rees
can use '|' (or any character actually) instead of '/' as the delimiter in regular expressions. I wish I had known that earlier. :) HTH, -- Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.vanrees.org/ [Dutch/Nederlands] Public GnuPG key: http://maurits.vanrees.org/var/gpgkey.asc "Make

Re: iptables

2005-11-05 Thread Maurits van Rees
'm unable to find the location of > iptable. Best is to read the docs, especially: /usr/share/doc/iptables/README.Debian.gz And you may want to install a firewall helper package like firehol or shorewall to help you in setting up iptables to your liking. HTH, -- Maurits van Rees | h

Re: A page that causes Firefox (Sarge) to close

2005-11-02 Thread Maurits van Rees
u may want to choose to do that in a bug report. Or continue here and point to this discussion in your bug report. [In case you don't know: Debian package 'reportbug' is recommended for this.] -- Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.vanrees.org/ [Dutch/Nederlands] Public GnuPG key:

Re: Does increasing RAM 512 MB -> 1 GB lead to better performance?

2005-11-01 Thread Maurits van Rees
ew hundred megabytes. I'm no expert there though. -- Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.vanrees.org/ [Dutch/Nederlands] Public GnuPG key: http://maurits.vanrees.org/var/gpgkey.asc "It can seem like you're doing just fine, but the creep's creeping into your mind." - Neal Morse signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: can use of smartctl prevent disk probs?

2005-11-01 Thread Maurits van Rees
to [0-9]{3}$ These lines have been here for months, so for my system these messages are no reason to run to the computer shop. ;) But I do make daily backups of course. -- Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.vanrees.org/ [Dutch/Nederlands] Public GnuPG key: http://maurits.vanrees.org/var/gpgkey.asc

Re: openssl update

2005-10-27 Thread Maurits van Rees
similar question is asked on the debian-security mailing list. Maybe the thread there will ultimately give an answer. See http://lists.debian.org/debian-security/2005/10/msg00076.html -- Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.vanrees.org/ [Dutch/Nederlands] Public GnuPG key: http://maurits.vanrees.org

Re: ntpdate inside Debian vservers

2005-10-26 Thread Maurits van Rees
.co.uk/support/tech/time.html -- Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.vanrees.org/ [Dutch/Nederlands] Public GnuPG key: http://maurits.vanrees.org/var/gpgkey.asc "It can seem like you're doing just fine, but the creep's creeping into your mind." - Neal Morse signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Postgres question

2005-10-26 Thread Maurits van Rees
and scanning the files that come up in: grep -r "/var/lib/postgres/dumpall" /usr/lib/postgresql/ suggests that this dumpall directory is only used for upgrades. If the upgrade to a next postgres version has succeeded, it can be removed. Do sacrifice a cd for a backup of c

Re: What to do with all the doc files in /usr/share/doc?

2005-10-25 Thread Maurits van Rees
in script (e.g. ~/.bash_profile): eval "$(lessfile)" or eval "$(lesspipe)" Then you can you just use less for reading zipped, tarred, .deb and various other files. See 'man lessfile'. It's part of the less package. It doesn't affect cat and gr

Re: libmysqlclient12 and libmysqlclient14

2005-10-04 Thread Maurits van Rees
ace does not help. Correct. That would just tell apt to not upgrade (or downgrade) the package. In case of imminent removal you will just get the above warning. -- Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.vanrees.org/ [Dutch/Nederlands] Public GnuPG key: http://maurits.vanrees.org/var/gpgkey

Re: Hi Can I tell root mail (from Cron) to go Elseware?

2005-09-29 Thread Maurits van Rees
hat line if that doesn't exist. Make it: root: your-gmail-address -- Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.vanrees.org/ [Dutch/Nederlands] Public GnuPG key: http://maurits.vanrees.org/var/gpgkey.asc "It can seem like you're doing just fine, but the creep's creeping into your

Re: pointer for home networking

2005-09-26 Thread Maurits van Rees
tworking setup': http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/254 Worth a read. -- Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.vanrees.org/ [Dutch/Nederlands] Public GnuPG key: http://maurits.vanrees.org/var/gpgkey.asc "It can seem like you're doing just fine, but the creep's creeping into

Re: apt-get errors out religiously while processing 'at' command

2005-09-23 Thread Maurits van Rees
n depend upon. Okay, I don't have that one installed apparently; I'll go do that now. ;-) -- Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.vanrees.org/ [Dutch/Nederlands] Public GnuPG key: http://maurits.vanrees.org/var/gpgkey.asc "It can seem like you're doing just fine, but th

OT [Re: Advice needed about submitting bugs]

2005-09-19 Thread Maurits van Rees
On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 10:55:31PM +0200, Maurits van Rees wrote: > On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 09:42:23PM +0200, Alberto Zeni wrote: > > Dear Sirs, > > There are some Madams here as well. :-) It has come to my attention (thanks Mike McCarty) that in English, "Sir" can me

Re: Advice needed about submitting bugs

2005-09-19 Thread Maurits van Rees
e adjusted by the developer of that package. reportbug will then present you with a list of known possible bugs of that package. If you don't like the way this info is presented, you can visit http://www.debian.org/Bugs/. I hope that helps. -- Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.vanrees.

Re: Aptitude, apt-get, security-updates

2005-09-18 Thread Maurits van Rees
ib/dpkg/status The important lines are 'installed' and 'candidate'. This one doesn't need to be upgraded. -- Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.vanrees.org/ [Dutch/Nederlands] Public GnuPG key: http://maurits.vanrees.org/var/gpgkey.asc "It can seem like you're do

Re: Cleaning Sarge's tmp directory

2005-09-18 Thread Maurits van Rees
On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 07:11:15AM +1000, Felix Karpfen wrote: > I suspect that there is a missing cron routine and would welcome > the needed pointers in order to persuade the "tmp" directory to live > up to its name. Try apt-get install tmpreaper. -- Maur

Re: packages not on hold

2005-09-16 Thread Maurits van Rees
at would seem to be exactly what you want. Or am I missing something? -- Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.vanrees.org/ [Dutch/Nederlands] Public GnuPG key: http://maurits.vanrees.org/var/gpgkey.asc "It can seem like you're doing just fine, but the creep's creeping into your mind.

AOL'ers on debian-user [was Re: Please help asap]

2005-09-15 Thread Maurits van Rees
may be a nice target as well. -- Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.vanrees.org/ [Dutch/Nederlands] Public GnuPG key: http://maurits.vanrees.org/var/gpgkey.asc "It can seem like you're doing just fine, but the creep's creeping into your mind." - Neal Morse signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: apt-listbugs and pinning

2005-09-15 Thread Maurits van Rees
file a wishlist bug against apt-listbugs, if you don't get a better answer than that. -- Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.vanrees.org/ [Dutch/Nederlands] Public GnuPG key: http://maurits.vanrees.org/var/gpgkey.asc "It can seem like you're doing just fine, but the creep's c

Re: Help with apt-get upgrade

2005-09-14 Thread Maurits van Rees
Since you don't mention the non-free section in your sources.list, those dependencies will not be met, so having contrib there is not useful. Either choose only 'main' at the end of those two lines or 'main contrib non-free'. -- Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.vanrees.org/ [Du

Re: reinstall lilo after windows

2005-09-08 Thread Maurits van Rees
ut lilo on a floppy disk. In /etc/lilo.conf put something like this: boot=/dev/fd0 Save it and run lilo to store the MBR on the floppy. Then reboot and test if you can indeed startup from that floppy. Whatever your plan will be, try it at least once to be sure that it actually works. A recent ba

Re: Thomson SpeedTouch ADSL Modem

2005-09-08 Thread Maurits van Rees
ing worked. I used kernel 2.4 under woody then; maybe the 2.4.18-bf version. -- Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.vanrees.org/ [Dutch/Nederlands] Public GnuPG key: http://maurits.vanrees.org/var/gpgkey.asc "It can seem like you're doing just fine, but the creep's creeping into your mind." - Neal Morse signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Unidentified subject!

2005-09-08 Thread Maurits van Rees
On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 04:17:11PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > Fascinating! I completely agree with you there, Paul. Anything you'd like to add? ;-) -- Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.vanrees.org/ [Dutch/Nederlands] Public GnuPG key: http://maurits.vanrees.org/var/gpgkey.asc

Re: error with apt-get update: `Dynamic MMap ran out of room'

2005-09-07 Thread Maurits van Rees
r is somewhat arbitrary, but that is what's in my file. If you don't have this file, just create it as root with that single line in it. 'man apt.conf' should also help. -- Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.vanrees.org/ [Dutch/Nederlands] Public GnuPG key: http://maurit

Re: utility for temperature

2005-09-07 Thread Maurits van Rees
r monitoring a motherboard. It allows you to access information from temperature and fan speed sensors. . You will need lm-sensors kernel modules to use this package. . -- Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.vanrees.org/ [Dutch/Nederlands] Public GnuPG key: http://maurits.vanrees.org/var/gpgk

Re: nohup, but not nohup.out -- how to?

2005-09-02 Thread Maurits van Rees
efile Desktop Mail Makefile News az commands cvs pl prog somefile tmp web [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls nohup* ls: nohup*: No such file or directory [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ nohup --version nohup (GNU coreutils) 5.2.1 -- Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.vanrees.org/ [Dutch/Nederlands] Public GnuPG key: ht

Re: Alt+numbers for special characters (e with acute accent, for example)

2005-08-30 Thread Maurits van Rees
can switch between them with CTRL-ALT-K. -- Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.vanrees.org/ [Dutch/Nederlands] Public GnuPG key: http://maurits.vanrees.org/var/gpgkey.asc "It can seem like you're doing just fine, but the creep's creeping into your mind." - Neal Morse sig

Re: Your review of the Debian bible

2005-08-26 Thread Maurits van Rees
very subtle. ;-) -- Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.vanrees.org/ [Dutch/Nederlands] Public GnuPG key: http://maurits.vanrees.org/var/gpgkey.asc "It can seem like you're doing just fine, but the creep's creeping into your mind." - Neal Morse signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Can't install Sarge on an HP NetServer

2005-08-26 Thread Maurits van Rees
I would say that feeding it more cds won't work. -- Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.vanrees.org/ [Dutch/Nederlands] Public GnuPG key: http://maurits.vanrees.org/var/gpgkey.asc "It can seem like you're doing just fine, but the creep's creeping into your mind." - Neal Morse signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Can't install Sarge on an HP NetServer

2005-08-25 Thread Maurits van Rees
x27;t know how to install Debian > using Knoppix. I think the usual reason to suggest Knoppix is that it seems to have more success in recognizing hardware. So boot Knoppix and poke around in the boot and log messages to see if there is anything there that will help you get it to work in Debian p

Re: I tought I downloaded etch...

2005-08-23 Thread Maurits van Rees
mage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/i386/current/ -- Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.vanrees.org/ [Dutch/Nederlands] Public GnuPG key: http://maurits.vanrees.org/var/gpgkey.asc "It can seem like you're doing just fine, but the creep's creeping into your mind." - Neal Mor

Re: Newest Firefox - Problems

2005-08-22 Thread Maurits van Rees
ttp://bugs.debian.org/324344 Remember: don't file duplicate bug reports. :) -- Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.vanrees.org/ [Dutch/Nederlands] Public GnuPG key: http://maurits.vanrees.org/var/gpgkey.asc "It can seem like you're doing just fine, but the creep's creeping into y

Re: Newest Firefox - Problems

2005-08-22 Thread Maurits van Rees
irefox -safe-mode This disables the extensions. Going to Extra->Extensions still crashes it though. I can live with this for the moment, but a more permanent and robust solution would be thankfully welcomed. :) -- Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.vanrees.org/ [Dutch/Nederlands

[Solved] Re: pbuilder create fails on debootstrap

2005-08-17 Thread Maurits van Rees
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 11:15:00PM +0200, Maurits van Rees wrote: > Meanwhile I notice a bug report called "pbuilder: cannot build sarge > basetgz": http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=316135. > That's for version 0.127, but might help me too. My /var part

Re: pbuilder create fails on debootstrap

2005-08-17 Thread Maurits van Rees
.127, but might help me too. My /var partition is mounted nodev. I'll remount it dev and see if that helps. -- Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.vanrees.org/ [Dutch/Nederlands] Public GnuPG key: http://maurits.vanrees.org/var/gpgkey.asc "It can seem like you're doing just fine, but t

Re: pbuilder create fails on debootstrap

2005-08-17 Thread Maurits van Rees
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 10:13:57PM +0200, Maurits van Rees wrote: > Not really, I would say. Well, worth a try to remove that line from > /etc/pbuilderrc. Nope, no change. :-/ I'll comment out some other > settings and try again. I tried with the following uncommented and non

Re: pbuilder create fails on debootstrap

2005-08-17 Thread Maurits van Rees
ave this blank. Do you have anything unordinary in > your sources.list? Not really, I would say. Well, worth a try to remove that line from /etc/pbuilderrc. Nope, no change. :-/ I'll comment out some other settings and try again. -- Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.vanrees.org/ [Dutch/

Re: pbuilder create fails on debootstrap

2005-08-17 Thread Maurits van Rees
te a stable chroot? *That* is the part that is not working for me. :( At the moment I just want a stable chroot and don't want to play yet with unstable. -- Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.vanrees.org/ [Dutch/Nederlands] Public GnuPG key: http://maurits.vanrees.org/var/gpgkey.asc "It can

Re: pbuilder create fails on debootstrap

2005-08-17 Thread Maurits van Rees
#x27;ll stick to sarge then. Thanks for trying though. -- Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.vanrees.org/ [Dutch/Nederlands] Public GnuPG key: http://maurits.vanrees.org/var/gpgkey.asc "It can seem like you're doing just fine, but the creep's creeping into your mind." - Neal

pbuilder create fails on debootstrap

2005-08-17 Thread Maurits van Rees
" HOOKDIR="" export DEBIAN_FRONTEND="noninteractive" DEBEMAIL="Maurits van Rees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" BUILDSOURCEROOTCMD="fakeroot" PBUILDERROOTCMD="sudo" DEBBUILDOPTS="-mMaurits van Rees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" APTCONFDIR=&qu

Re: Firefox and Debian Testing: Getting Security Updates?

2005-08-17 Thread Maurits van Rees
will recommend it for servers. Installing apt-listbugs and apt-listchanges will help. And yes, you must be prepared for the occasional breakage. Unstable is perfect if you want to test your backup strategy. :-p -- Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.vanrees.org/ [Dutch/Nederlands] Public Gnu

Re: System backup/snapshot

2005-08-16 Thread Maurits van Rees
On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 07:18:29AM -0700, Bill Moseley wrote: > I had this reference in my links. > > http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/ I'm using that. More specifically: Debian package rsnapshot. -- Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.vanrees.org/ [Du

Re: Multiple problems started at the same time

2005-08-16 Thread Maurits van Rees
e a look at the syslog. Those are the lines I meant. Unfortunately this doesn't tell much yet. Well, do what it says and please take a look at the syslog. What is the result of the following command on your system? grep mysql /var/log/syslog -- Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.vanrees.or

Re: Multiple problems started at the same time

2005-08-16 Thread Maurits van Rees
not running, not that it cannot start up at all. Try this as root: /etc/init.d/mysql start If mysqld indeed cannot start, this will give an error message. Please post that one. Then we might be able to help you. (BTW, I have no idea about the other problem; sorry.) -- Maurits van Rees | http:

Re: Crontab problems

2005-08-16 Thread Maurits van Rees
which brings up the following questions: 1. If you have a file /etc/cron.allow what are its contents? 2. If you have a file /etc/cron.deny what are its contents? (I don't have these files, which seems to work alright.) 3. Do your crontabs end with a blank line? (They should.) -- Maurits van

Re: Crontab problems

2005-08-16 Thread Maurits van Rees
30 7 * * * /usr/bin/ogg123 -q /music/Neal_Morse/One/08.Reunion.ogg -- Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.vanrees.org/ [Dutch/Nederlands] Public GnuPG key: http://maurits.vanrees.org/var/gpgkey.asc "It can seem like you're doing just fine, but the creep's creeping into your mi

Re: An exim cough.

2005-08-13 Thread Maurits van Rees
ke this file world readable, though in my case this file is basically empty. So change the group of this file to Debian-exim (you might have a different group name for this) and chmod it back to 640 and test if it works again. HTH, -- Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.vanrees.org/ [Dutc

Re: control-b in konsole

2005-08-12 Thread Maurits van Rees
ent key combo. You may need to restart KDE or at least fire up Konsole again. HTH, -- Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.vanrees.org/ [Dutch/Nederlands] Public GnuPG key: http://maurits.vanrees.org/var/gpgkey.asc "It can seem like you're doing just fine, but the creep's creeping into your mind." - Neal Morse signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Dynamic MMap ran out of room!!!

2005-07-20 Thread Maurits van Rees
yet, just create a new empty file. APT { Cache-Limit 2000; }; For more info on what you can put in this file, type: man apt.conf HTH, -- Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.vanrees.org/ [Dutch/Nederlands] Public GnuPG key: http://maurits.vanrees.org/var/gpgkey.asc "It can see

Re: debian backup/restore

2005-07-19 Thread Maurits van Rees
gt; system, or is there another way to safely backup and restore them? They will be recreated. -- Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.vanrees.org/ [Dutch/Nederlands] Public GnuPG key: http://maurits.vanrees.org/var/gpgkey.asc "It can seem like you're doing just fine, but the creep's creeping into your mind." - Neal Morse signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Art files on AOL

2005-07-11 Thread Maurits van Rees
you how to get rid of it. -- Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.vanrees.org/ [Dutch/Nederlands] Public GnuPG key: http://maurits.vanrees.org/var/gpgkey.asc "It can seem like you're doing just fine, but the creep's creeping into your mind." - Neal Morse signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: exim tutorial

2005-07-05 Thread Maurits van Rees
;t have an account on your system. You could add the following line: maurits: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If your mail server works correctly this would forward any mail sent to maurits@ to me. -- Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.vanrees.org/ [Dutch/Nederlands] Public GnuPG key: http://maurits.vanrees

Re: MySQL setup cloning?

2005-06-30 Thread Maurits van Rees
ocs. If hou have got the 4.1 docs then fire up a browser and go to paragraphs 8.8 and 8.9: file:///usr/share/doc/mysql-doc-4.1/manual_Client-Side_Scripts.html#mysqldump and file:///usr/share/doc/mysql-doc-4.1/manual_Client-Side_Scripts.html#mysqlhotcopy HTH, -- Maurits van Rees | http://mau

Re: Getting rid of "holds" on packages

2005-06-29 Thread Maurits van Rees
to know which packages are on hold at the moment. I don't seem to have any of those now, so I can't test it easily, but the following should give a list of packages that are not in the install state: dpkg --get-selections | grep -v install -- Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.vanr

Re: lilo and /boot partition confusion

2005-06-23 Thread Maurits van Rees
s should work without problems in most cases. > 2nd confusion: > When I run lilo manually it uses the information in /etc/lilo.conf to > write the mbr, using data from /boot ? Yes. -- Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.vanrees.org/ [Dutch/Nederlands] Public GnuPG key: http://maurits.vanre

Re: Good backup software for Linux

2005-06-21 Thread Maurits van Rees
cds give problems like shortened names or something. You may need a different program to handle dvds. I don't have those so I don't know. Graphical programs like k3b might make all this a bit easier and guide you through the process. It's probably worth a shot. -- Maurits van Rees

Re: Remote connect to MySQL db with woody - Help please?

2005-06-21 Thread Maurits van Rees
oldstable&arch=i386 turns up the package mysql-client. -- Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.vanrees.org/ [Dutch/Nederlands] Public GnuPG key: keyserver.net ID 0x1735C5C2 "Let your advance worrying become advance thinking and planning." - Winston Churchill -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: How come packages dont have a homepage field?

2005-06-21 Thread Maurits van Rees
homepage for the Debian package, not for the original upstream software. And I don't see a link to upstream on those pages. Most packages will have some info in /usr/share/doc//. -- Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.vanrees.org/ [Dutch/Nederlands] Public GnuPG key: keyserver.net ID 0x1735C

Re: Good backup software for Linux

2005-06-20 Thread Maurits van Rees
Also: take a look at mysqldump. Something like: mysqldump --opt --all-databases > all_databases.sql should work. You can make a script using both mysqlhotcopy and mysqldump and automatically run that just before you backup. -- Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.vanrees.org/ [D

Re: How to configure exim4 to send mail by remote smarthost?

2005-06-20 Thread Maurits van Rees
o that. But if you try to send a mail through the mail server that belongs to your current internet connection it should just work. If you are not sure which mail server you should use, then ask your ISP. HTH, -- Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.vanrees.org/ [Dutch/Nederlands] Public GnuPG ke

Re: fetchmail multidrop problem

2005-06-20 Thread Maurits van Rees
an anyone please point me in the right direction? I haven't used fetchmail in multidrop mode. But there is quite extensive info in the fetchmail manual: man fetchmail Then search for: THE USE AND ABUSE OF MULTIDROP MAILBOXES HTH, -- Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.vanrees.org/ [Dutch/Nederlands] Public GnuPG key: keyserver.net ID 0x1735C5C2 "Let your advance worrying become advance thinking and planning." - Winston Churchill signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Good backup software for Linux

2005-06-20 Thread Maurits van Rees
er way around. In most cases you can't restore from a differential backup. You will need the previous full backup as well. In your case file1 hasn't changed, so it will only be available in backup1, *not* in backup2 as that only records the differences. HTH, -- Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.vanrees.org/ [Dutch/Nederlands] Public GnuPG key: keyserver.net ID 0x1735C5C2 "Let your advance worrying become advance thinking and planning." - Winston Churchill signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: dpkg and apt

2005-06-19 Thread Maurits van Rees
#x27;dpkg -l' indeed lists only the installed packages, but you can list other packages as well. For example just do something like 'dpkg -l q*' to list all packages---installed and uninstalled---beginning with a q. -- Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.vanrees.org/ [Dutch/Nederl

Re: hplip and its "toolbox"

2005-06-16 Thread Maurits van Rees
se the real device is already occupied by my printer so CUPS doesn't show it as available. On the Printers page I see "hp:/usb/psc_1310_series..." as the device URI. If you take the same route I guess you will see something similar. HTH, -- Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.vanre

Re: Am I hacked?

2005-06-15 Thread Maurits van Rees
unt. See 'man sash'. Try it some time with 'su sashroot'. So there may still be problems with the original poster, but it's not in these lines. -- Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.vanrees.org/ [Dutch/Nederlands] Public GnuPG key: keyserver.net ID 0x1735C5C2 "Let y

Re: Sarge SM security question

2005-06-15 Thread Maurits van Rees
lready: subscribe to the debian-security mailing list to get an email when there is a Debian security advisory. -- Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.vanrees.org/ [Dutch/Nederlands] Public GnuPG key: keyserver.net ID 0x1735C5C2 "Let your advance worrying become advance thinking and pl

Re: big trouble in upgrading from Debian 3.0 to 3.1

2005-06-15 Thread Maurits van Rees
a few other answers of course. :) HTH, -- Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.vanrees.org/ [Dutch/Nederlands] Public GnuPG key: keyserver.net ID 0x1735C5C2 "Let your advance worrying become advance thinking and planning." - Winston Churchill signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Newbie needs help fine tuning sarge

2005-06-15 Thread Maurits van Rees
use > 'module-assistant' in this case! Here is a good HOW-TO from Andrew Schulman on Debian and nVidia: http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/Debian-nVidia/ It also covers module-assistant, at least as an option for getting nvidia to work. I didn't know where to start, but this how

Re: Getting the hang of APT....

2005-06-15 Thread Maurits van Rees
in either, but it does. :-/ Just a minor problem which I'll probably work out someday. At least you and Paul say the Packages file contains the info scraped from the actual packages. And in case of conflicts between the two the actual package is authorative. Thanks for clearing that up. --

Re: Getting the hang of APT....

2005-06-14 Thread Maurits van Rees
etter, but what would be considered the authorative source regarding to this dependency? The list? Or the actual zope-mysqlda package? I think the package. Any thoughts? -- Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.vanrees.org/ [Dutch/Nederlands] Public GnuPG key: keyserver.net ID 0x1735C5C2 "Let yo

Re: woody->sarge failed: out pf disk space

2005-06-11 Thread Maurits van Rees
^ii will give you an overview of packages on your system that aren't correctly installed at the moment. I don't use aptitude, but apt-get. I see there is the 'apt-get check' command that could help find broken packages. The same command might work with aptitude.

Re: woody->sarge failed: out pf disk space

2005-06-11 Thread Maurits van Rees
l find all files larger than 1 kilobytes (say 10 megabytes). find / -size +1k -- Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.vanrees.org/ [Dutch/Nederlands] Public GnuPG key: keyserver.net ID 0x1735C5C2 "Let your advance worrying become advance thinking and planning." - Winston Churchill signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Error Reading Package Lists

2005-06-11 Thread Maurits van Rees
ebian.org/CD/netinst/ Don't forget to read the install manual: http://www.nl.debian.org/releases/stable/installmanual HTH, -- Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.vanrees.org/ [Dutch/Nederlands] Public GnuPG key: keyserver.net ID 0x1735C5C2 "Let your advance worrying become advance thi

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