Re: Future of "his" packages in Debian

2022-01-21 Thread P J
On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 8:05 AM Curt wrote: > On 2022-01-21, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > >> > >> > >> Can someone post what Norbert Preining actually wrote without omissions > and rather frivolous additions by other parties? > >> > >> Regards, > >> > > > >>From Norbert's blog, aggregated on Plane

Xen vs. KVM on Debian squeeze

2012-12-08 Thread P. J. McDermott
ing slightly toward qemu-kvm, because it looks like it'll do what I need in a simple and familiar way; but I'm concerned about the performance of the CPU and I/O virtualization and the page swapping. Can anyone show me that I've overlooked something about Xen in Debian or convince

Re: Building the kernel myself

2011-08-29 Thread Robert P. J. Day
asy under debian. rday -- ======== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca

Re: Building the kernel myself

2011-08-26 Thread Robert P. J. Day
tomatically since i have the "dkms" package installed. so that by itself shouldn't be an issue, but i appreciate that some folks prefer to work with packages. rday -- Robert P.

Re: Another problem

2011-08-04 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 4 Aug 2011, Kevin Williams wrote: > > I got past the login but now it shows my username@debian20:$ what I do now apparently, the feature that lets you choose meaningful subject lines is also broken. i'd look into that. rday -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debi

Re: Enough, enough

2011-07-04 Thread Robert P. J. Day
ome.html i am in *such* trouble now, aren't i? rday -- ======== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitt

Re: Language Skills for Business Professionals

2011-06-28 Thread Robert P. J. Day
of nigeria, speaking on "the effectveness of using all UPPERCASE characters for maximum communication impact." rday -- ======== Robert P. J. Day Otta

new beta .deb packaging for fully open source document management S/W

2010-12-13 Thread Robert P. J. Day
t people. rday -- ======== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn:

Re: unloading unnecessary modules

2010-11-29 Thread Robert P. J. Day
le_name.conf not necessarily, as long as you assume that that's the only line that will be in that file, since it's module-specific. (of course, if you're creating a new file, then either way will work just fine.) rday -- =======

Re: how to tell what packages are unused on a debian server?

2010-10-29 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 29 Oct 2010, Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 29 Oct 2010 06:12:55 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > just a cleanup-related question but on a debian lenny server that > > i've inherited, i'm curious to know which packages have no value > > whatever and that

how to tell what packages are unused on a debian server?

2010-10-29 Thread Robert P. J. Day
n help out in this regard? thanks. rday -- ======== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://tw

Re: Redirect stdout without clobbering?

2010-05-06 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Quoting Dotan Cohen : Is there a way to redirect stdout to a file without clobbering its possibly-existing contents? Rather, the output should be appended to the end of the file. Thanks. use ">>" instead of ">". rday -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: Esperanto

2010-04-27 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Quoting Thomas Pomber : No joke! I honestly wondered why there is an Esperanto mailing list. For the love of Mutt, will someone please kick this idiot off the list and be done with this? rday -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: Free book - GNU/Linux Advanced Administration

2010-02-04 Thread Robert P. J. Day
company. i'll be checking that out shortly as well, but i'm more put off by the thought that an advanced admin book first feels the need to evangelize the operating system. people who are drawn to an *advanced* administration book are typically past the point whe

Re: Virtualization - what do You recommend?

2010-02-02 Thread Robert P. J. Day
o (re)enable that on their own? rday -- ======== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Kernel Pedantry. Web page:

Re: Virtualization - what do You recommend?

2010-02-02 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 2 Feb 2010, Odd wrote: > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > On Tue, 2 Feb 2010, Odd wrote: > > > > > ola...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > Also you can use Xen but you still need special hardware like the > > > > latest CPUs from AMD or Intel for Wi

Re: building a custom kernel:IT WORKED

2009-12-27 Thread Robert P. J. Day
have to do all of > that nightmare over again. > > Once you figure it out the first time, it's always easier after that make sure you select /proc/config.gz support so that you can recover your .config file for your running kernel from that file. rday -

Re: building a custom kernel:IT WORKED

2009-12-27 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sun, 27 Dec 2009, Paul Cartwright wrote: > On Sun December 27 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > >   make sure you select /proc/config.gz support so that you can recover > > your .config file for your running kernel from that file. > > I don't remember seeing an opti

Re: Inquiry:What is the equivalent for the screen command?

2009-11-19 Thread Robert P. J. Day
my only brain fart was not upgrading apache *much* sooner than i did. do that ASAP. rday -- ==== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training an

where are the authentication settings for dovecot/imap stored?

2009-11-04 Thread Robert P. J. Day
eted].com', 'smtphost' => 'localhost', 'realm' => '', 'preferred' => '', 'dotfiles' => false, 'hierarchies' => array() ); i have good reason to believe that those settings are n

how to tell webalizer where webalizer.conf is?

2009-10-21 Thread Robert P. J. Day
n the logs directory, i might as well stay consistent. ==== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry.

Re: how to tell webalizer where webalizer.conf is?

2009-10-16 Thread Robert P. J. Day
if i might summarize what i was droning on about below: On Fri, 16 Oct 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > if i might impose on the list one more time, this has to do with > still tweaking the migration i did once upon a time, and is > webalizer-specific, but i'm betting someone

Re: how to downgrade and pin package (durep)?

2009-09-29 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, Niu Kun wrote: > Robert P. J. Day 写道: > > On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, Niu Kun wrote: > > > > > Robert P. J. Day 写道: > > > > > > > as a followup to an earlier post of mine, i can see now that the > > > > curren

Re: how to downgrade and pin package (durep)?

2009-09-29 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, Niu Kun wrote: > Robert P. J. Day 写道: > > as a followup to an earlier post of mine, i can see now that the > > current durep package (0.9-1) works *very* differently from the > > earlier one, so rather than fight with the new one, i'm happy to

how to downgrade and pin package (durep)?

2009-09-29 Thread Robert P. J. Day
make sure it stays there over upgrades? thanks, i've been awake for a day and a half and i'm just too tired to go looking for the answer. sorry. rday -- ======== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo,

fixed "durep" utility??

2009-09-28 Thread Robert P. J. Day
and carry on. rday p.s. i've got sources.list configured to use only lenny, so it's possible that there's a fixed version in testing. -- ======== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontar

fully open source ECM suite? yup.

2009-09-28 Thread Robert P. J. Day
http://candyandaspirin.blogspot.com/2009/09/next-adventure-in-ecm-begins.html DISCLAIMER: i know the lady in question, but don't let that scare you off. :-) remember, it's all about the open source. rday -- ===

Re: where would i configure an external HD to be automounted?

2009-09-24 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 24 Sep 2009, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 12:12:03PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > i know udev is a better solution *today*, but i'm trying to > > strictly reproduce what the old system was using, and it wasn't > > mounting that H

Re: where would i configure an external HD to be automounted?

2009-09-24 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 25 Sep 2009, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 11:08:46AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > no, i don't think i should need to do that. the *old* system > > didn't have an entry in /etc fstab for this. what i'm puzzled by is > > th

Re: where would i configure an external HD to be automounted?

2009-09-24 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 24 Sep 2009, gham...@sv-phoenix.com wrote: > Quoting "Robert P. J. Day" : > > > On Thu, 24 Sep 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > > On Thu, 24 Sep 2009, Vinicius Massuchetto wrote: > > > > > > > I would check with "mou

Re: where would i configure an external HD to be automounted?

2009-09-24 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 24 Sep 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Thu, 24 Sep 2009, Vinicius Massuchetto wrote: > > > I would check with "mount" how the filesystem was mounted, then > > add it to /etc/fstab. Is that the case? > > nope, found it: an entry in /etc/auto.usb.

Re: where would i configure an external HD to be automounted?

2009-09-24 Thread Robert P. J. Day
some kind. rday -- ==== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry. Web page: http://crashc

Re: where would i configure an external HD to be automounted?

2009-09-24 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 24 Sep 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > more specifically, on an old lenny system, when an external maxtor > (1-touch) HD was plugged in via USB, it was *apparently* mounted > automatically under /mnt/maxtor, for the purposes of backups later > in the evening. > > i

where would i configure an external HD to be automounted?

2009-09-24 Thread Robert P. J. Day
igure out where that would have been configured so i can add it to the new system. i've checked things related to autofs but i don't see it. hint? i'm sure it's obvious, i just haven't found it yet. rday -- =======

copying over all of /etc/ssl to new system?

2009-09-23 Thread Robert P. J. Day
ew machine will have the same IP address and hostname, but i can't imagine that will make any difference. can i just grab the entire previous /etc/ssl and use it unchanged? and a followup question on this a bit later. rday -- ====

Re: what software would have been looking after a maxtor one-touch?

2009-09-22 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 22 Sep 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > tidying up some issues from my upgrade/migration, and there was a > 1-touch maxtor external HD on the old (sarge) system that, > apparently, did a backup when you did that one-touch thing. the > question is: what software would have

what software would have been looking after a maxtor one-touch?

2009-09-22 Thread Robert P. J. Day
rday -- Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry. Web page: http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/r

Re: /bin/sh shell for www-data ?

2009-09-21 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 21 Sep 2009, Ali Jawad wrote: > Just a quick Question, why does apache have a shell in passwd file > on debian ? not sure this answers your question, but you can't use that as a login account since its entry in /etc/shadow has no legal password. so, unless i'm missing something, i guess

Re: how to migrate smb accounts to new lenny system?

2009-09-21 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 21 Sep 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > having finally made the switch from an old server running lenny to > a new one (running at the same IP address), most functions seem to > be working, but samba shares are failing -- people who used to be > able to access shares from t

how to migrate smb accounts to new lenny system?

2009-09-21 Thread Robert P. J. Day
ure anything on their ends. rday -- ======== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry. Web page: http://crashcourse.ca Twitter:

Re: migrating my lenny install from 32-bit to 64-bit?

2009-09-19 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 10:14:40AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > On Wed, 16 Sep 2009, Sven Joachim wrote: > > > > > On 2009-09-16 15:49 +0200, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > > > > a quest

how to renew a security certificate?

2009-09-17 Thread Robert P. J. Day
re a cert examination command to display things like expiration dates, that would let me poke at some of those .pem files and go, "aha, that's the one with that expiration date." -- ======== Robert P. J. Day

Re: lenny migration, part 4,862: samba

2009-09-17 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 17 Sep 2009, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > /etc/samba/* > > Samba has some important stuff in /var/ > /var/lib/samba > /var/run/samba > /var/spool/samba > /var/cache/samba > /var/log/samba quite right, i'd forgotten about t

lenny migration, part 4,862: samba

2009-09-17 Thread Robert P. J. Day
ion when i installed samba but, since it's not on the old server, i just figure i'll delete it so everything matches exactly. -- ======== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA

Re: migrating my lenny install from 32-bit to 64-bit?

2009-09-17 Thread Robert P. J. Day
les or directories in addition to the above three i need to worry about? thanks. rday p.s. once all this is done, i really do plan on summarizing what i had to go through so others can take advantage of it. -- ======== Robert

Re: migrating my lenny install from 32-bit to 64-bit?

2009-09-16 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Wed,16.Sep.09, 13:24:12, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > if i read this correctly, you're suggesting that if the "server" > > packages already have entries (100-999) in the passwd/group/shadow > > files (

Re: [OT?] "5.7.1 relay access denied, please check the message recipient and try again."

2009-09-16 Thread Robert P. J. Day
of the first things i try. rday -- ======== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry. Web page: http://crashcourse.ca Twitter:

[OT?] "5.7.1 relay access denied, please check the message recipient and try again."

2009-09-16 Thread Robert P. J. Day
x27;t messed with their t-bird settings, so i'm looking at what on the server might have been tweaked. thanks. rday -- ======== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA

Re: migrating my lenny install from 32-bit to 64-bit?

2009-09-16 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 07:16:32PM +0200, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > > Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > > > On Wed,16.Sep.09, 07:21:52, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > >> > > >> i've mentioned this

Re: migrating my lenny install from 32-bit to 64-bit?

2009-09-16 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Wed,16.Sep.09, 07:21:52, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > i've mentioned this before, but by the end of this week, i want to > > move my entire current (fully-updated) lenny install from an old > > 32-bit system to a

Re: migrating my lenny install from 32-bit to 64-bit?

2009-09-16 Thread Robert P. J. Day
g else. no such thing? i would have thought that that sort of thing is *exactly* what you want for migrations. rday -- ======== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA L

Re: migrating my lenny install from 32-bit to 64-bit?

2009-09-16 Thread Robert P. J. Day
he old system to the new system seems pretty straightforward, much like i've seen on other linux systems. rday -- ==== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA

Re: migrating my lenny install from 32-bit to 64-bit?

2009-09-16 Thread Robert P. J. Day
openldap account has a UID of 114. on new system, 105. numerous other daemon UID differences as well. so a straight copy isn't going to work here. this just gets trickier and trickier. rday -- ======== Ro

Re: migrating my lenny install from 32-bit to 64-bit?

2009-09-16 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2009-09-16 15:49 +0200, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > a question about mysql. i want to reproduce all the mysql > > databases on the new system. is it sufficient to copy all of > > /var/lib/mysql? is that where the databas

Re: migrating my lenny install from 32-bit to 64-bit?

2009-09-16 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2009-09-16 13:46 +0200, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > > > Robert P. J. Day schreef: > >> i've mentioned this before, but by the end of this week, i want to > >> move my entire current (fully-updated) lenny install from

Re: migrating my lenny install from 32-bit to 64-bit?

2009-09-16 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > Robert P. J. Day schreef: > > i've mentioned this before, but by the end of this week, i want > > to move my entire current (fully-updated) lenny install from an > > old 32-bit system to a new 64-bit dell server, and i&#

Re: migrating my lenny install from 32-bit to 64-bit?

2009-09-16 Thread Robert P. J. Day
This can be done without any pain. > On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 07:21:52AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > i've mentioned this before, but by the end of this week, i want > > to move my entire current (fully-updated) lenny install from an > > old 32-bit sy

migrating my lenny install from 32-bit to 64-bit?

2009-09-16 Thread Robert P. J. Day
open to suggestions. thanks. rday -- ======== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry. Web page: http://crashcourse.ca Twitter:

Re: why can't i use grub with an ext3 /boot partition?

2009-09-16 Thread Robert P. J. Day
't have a solution here. rday -- ======== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry. Web page:

Re: why can't i use grub with an ext3 /boot partition?

2009-09-15 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 06:58:17PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day > wrote: > > does anyone know the debian installer well enough to know *what* > > circumstances will cause said installer to refuse to offer grub as > > a bootloade

Re: why can't i use grub with an ext3 /boot partition?

2009-09-13 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sun, 13 Sep 2009, Andrew Reid wrote: > On Sunday 13 September 2009 03:33:50 Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > possibly related to an earlier post that discussed grub but, when > > installing lenny, if i choose to create a separate, primary partition > > for /boot (a long-tim

Re: why can't i use grub with an ext3 /boot partition?

2009-09-13 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sun, 13 Sep 2009, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > j...@jretrading.com wrote: > > > 489951 > > how big is your boot partition? tiny -- 512M. rday -- ======== Robert P. J. Day Waterlo

why can't i use grub with an ext3 /boot partition?

2009-09-13 Thread Robert P. J. Day
g factor. rday -- ======== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry. Web page: http://crashco

how to identify the package containing a file?

2009-09-12 Thread Robert P. J. Day
dumb question but how do i identify the package that contributed a specific file to my installation? on my fedora system, i'd ask: $ rpm -qf thanks. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Wat

Re: why does a minimal lenny install want to use LILO as the bootloader?

2009-09-09 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 9 Sep 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > since i saved the output from "dpkg --get-selections" from the > previous install before reformatting the hard drive, i understood > that i could do a bare-bones install, then use "dpkg > --set-selections" to rep

why does a minimal lenny install want to use LILO as the bootloader?

2009-09-09 Thread Robert P. J. Day
grub option back again? rday -- ======== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry. Web page:

Re: during install, how can i back out of my LVM configuration?

2009-09-09 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 9 Sep 2009, Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > almost assuredly a dumb question but i'm testing a 5.0.3 AMD install > > and, early in the process, i selected the pre-configured multi-LV > > partitioning (home, tmp, usr, var). at this point,

during install, how can i back out of my LVM configuration?

2009-09-09 Thread Robert P. J. Day
start the install over again? any attempt i make to modify the LV layout tells me that the "lenny503" (my chosen VG name) volume group is already in use. so ... restart install? rday -- =====

saving package info for a fresh reinstall

2009-09-09 Thread Robert P. J. Day
f i have little configuration information to preserve, what's the simplest recipe to save my pkg info, then restore it after a really basic fresh install? thanks. rday -- ==== Robert P. J. Day

Re: how to manually activate my broadcom wireless?

2009-09-07 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 7 Sep 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > i'm sitting in front of a lenny system which does not have either > network-manager or network-manager-gnome installed on it, but i > would dearly love to activate the broadcom wireless. > > the installed broadcom firmware work

how to manually activate my broadcom wireless?

2009-09-07 Thread Robert P. J. Day
-gnome, what's the cmd line to activate that wireless interface? i've tried: # ifconfig wlan0 up which simply returns but doesn't give me wireless. any hints on the magic incantation? thanks. rday -- ========

Re: still can't get imapproxy installed fully on upgraded system

2009-08-26 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 27 Aug 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > as a followup to a post from a few days back, i still can't get imapproxy > installed and configured on this (fully-upgraded) lenny system. every attempt > to "aptitude safe-upgrade" produces: > > ... snip ... >

still can't get imapproxy installed fully on upgraded system

2009-08-26 Thread Robert P. J. Day
as a followup to a post from a few days back, i still can't get imapproxy installed and configured on this (fully-upgraded) lenny system. every attempt to "aptitude safe-upgrade" produces: ... snip ... The following partially installed packages will be configured: imapproxy 0 packages up

can i ditch imapproxy?

2009-08-26 Thread Robert P. J. Day
as in, is it entirely optional? it's causing me grief on my new lenny system so i'd just like to take it right out as long as that won't cause problems. thanks. rday -- ======== R

Re: apparently, lenny, apache 1.3 and php5 is a bad combination

2009-08-25 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 25 Aug 2009, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > is there a way to just add php5 support to apache 1.3 so i can > > get horde up and running again, or should i just bite the bullet >

Re: apparently, lenny, apache 1.3 and php5 is a bad combination

2009-08-25 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 25 Aug 2009, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > i was hoping to continue running apache 1.3 on my new lenny > > system, just until i could make sure i had a clean upgrade path, > > t

apparently, lenny, apache 1.3 and php5 is a bad combination

2009-08-25 Thread Robert P. J. Day
apache2 is currently on the system, it's just not being started.) thoughts? rday -- ======== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting

Re: final issue? imapproxy: "Error reading banner line from server ..."

2009-08-25 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 25 Aug 2009, Niu Kun wrote: > Robert P. J. Day 写道: > > this might actually be the final issue for me to resolve after this > > upgrade (one can only hope). there is one package that is still only > > partially configured: imapproxy. an attempt to complete

final issue? imapproxy: "Error reading banner line from server ..."

2009-08-25 Thread Robert P. J. Day
do a safe upgrade generates that same diagnostic. rday p.s. should i have done something differently during the upgrade to have avoided this issue? -- ==== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontar

Re: a couple remaining issues after dist-upgrade, etch -> lenny

2009-08-25 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 25 Aug 2009, Niu Kun wrote: > Robert P. J. Day 写道: > > i finally pulled the trigger on this, almost 300 packages upgraded, > > rebooted and here are some of the (apparently non-fatal) issues i ran > > across: ... snip ... > > 3) in fact, running "aptit

a couple remaining issues after dist-upgrade, etch -> lenny

2009-08-25 Thread Robert P. J. Day
but if that's the extent of them, i'm in good shape. rday -- ======== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry. Web p

Re: "deborphan" is a wonderful utility

2009-08-25 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 25 Aug 2009, Mark Allums wrote: > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > theoretically, i can see that it shouldn't cause any breakage. > > but i was curious when i noticed that "libhal1" on this etch > > system is listed as an orphan. > > > >

"deborphan" is a wonderful utility

2009-08-24 Thread Robert P. J. Day
m starting to like this debian thing more and more. :-) -- ======== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry. Web page:

Re: a pseudo-"clone" facility for migrating to new hardware?

2009-08-24 Thread Robert P. J. Day
ve to do since it's currently a 32-bit system and i'm moving it to a 64-bit server. duh. (yes, i know i could install a 32-bit OS but that would be a waste of all that 64-bit processing power.) rday -- =====

Re: a pseudo-"clone" facility for migrating to new hardware?

2009-08-24 Thread Robert P. J. Day
to just keep upgrading, and that a number of > people will jump in and tell me they have done this from potato or > earlier, but I run a live mail server with no backup and I really > don't want it to be down for more than a couple of hours. Parallel > running was very

a pseudo-"clone" facility for migrating to new hardware?

2009-08-24 Thread Robert P. J. Day
rence -- moving a working debian system from an aging, old system to a newer one. thoughts? rday -- ======== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying K

Re: safe to purge older versions of installed software?

2009-08-23 Thread Robert P. J. Day
hat i've found "apt-rdepends", i'm good. rday -- ======== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry. Web page:

Re: safe to purge older versions of installed software?

2009-08-23 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sun, 23 Aug 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Sun, 23 Aug 2009, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > > > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > this should be an easy one: on my current (etch) system, there are > > > a number of packages that have more than one version installed

Re: safe to purge older versions of installed software?

2009-08-23 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sun, 23 Aug 2009, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > this should be an easy one: on my current (etch) system, there are > > a number of packages that have more than one version installed. for > > example (and from memory), there are at least

RE: should a "normal* system have multiple library versions?

2009-08-23 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sun, 23 Aug 2009, Kevin Ross wrote: > > From: Robert P. J. Day [mailto:rpj...@crashcourse.ca] > > Sent: Sunday, August 23, 2009 1:00 AM > > > > On Sun, 23 Aug 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > > for comparison purposes, i'm looking at a fully

Re: should a "normal* system have multiple library versions?

2009-08-23 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sun, 23 Aug 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > for comparison purposes, i'm looking at a fully-updated lenny > system right now, and i see not a single example of a lib package > for which multiple versions are installed, which is what i would > expect. argh, i take it back

should a "normal* system have multiple library versions?

2009-08-23 Thread Robert P. J. Day
ase? because my plan is to, for all of those older lib packages, use "apt-cache rdepends" to see who cares about it and, if no one, purge it. i see no reason to hang onto useless packages, if they are in fact useless. rday -- ========

Re: should debian FAQ suggest "alpine" as an alternative to "pine"?

2009-08-22 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sat, 22 Aug 2009, Chris Burkhardt wrote: > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > currently perusing the FAQ, section 5.10 asks, "where is pine?" > > since alpine is apparently available for debian, shouldn't that > > section at least mention that alternative

Re: safe to purge older versions of installed software?

2009-08-22 Thread Robert P. J. Day
out the output from the 4.2 version that would suggest that it needs to be retained, given that 4.3 is on the system? and on the system i'm upgrading, there are a number of packages that are installed with more than one version. i'd just like to clean that system by purging a

should debian FAQ suggest "alpine" as an alternative to "pine"?

2009-08-22 Thread Robert P. J. Day
r place to make that suggestion? rday -- ==== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry. Web page:

Re: safe to purge older versions of installed software?

2009-08-22 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sat, 22 Aug 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Sat, 22 Aug 2009, Niu Kun wrote: > > > Robert P. J. Day 写道: > > > On Sat, 22 Aug 2009, Niu Kun wrote: > > > > > > > See if your 'apt-get' supports 'apt-get purge'. > > &

Re: safe to purge older versions of installed software?

2009-08-22 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sat, 22 Aug 2009, Niu Kun wrote: > Robert P. J. Day 写道: > > On Sat, 22 Aug 2009, Niu Kun wrote: > > > > > > > See if your 'apt-get' supports 'apt-get purge'. > > > > > > > it does, but how does that solve my problem?

safe to purge older versions of installed software?

2009-08-22 Thread Robert P. J. Day
kages were "lib" packages, so it should be easy(?) to ask whether there's anything installed that needs an older version. if not, i should be ok to get rid of it, no? rday -- ==== Robert P. J. Day

RE: "Mounting /root/dev on /dev/.static/dev failed: No such file or directory."

2009-08-21 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 21 Aug 2009, Kevin Ross wrote: > > From: news [mailto:n...@ger.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Emanoil Kotsev > > Sent: Friday, August 21, 2009 2:50 PM > > > > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > > * followed docs to upgrade kernel alone to 2.6.18 (based on &g

"Mounting /root/dev on /dev/.static/dev failed: No such file or directory."

2009-08-21 Thread Robert P. J. Day
olled off the screen. thanks. rday -- ======== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry. Web page:

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