Re: which netinstal is for

2005-09-11 Thread Robert Vangel
/cdimage/unofficial/sarge-amd64/iso-cd/debian-31r0a-amd64-netinst.iso - -- Robert Vangel :: http://zilla.id.au * redflag networks, Network Operations Management * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * +61 419 961 52 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux

Re: Apache2 MySQL

2005-09-01 Thread Robert Vangel
for this module ? It's not the apache config you need to edit. It's the /etc/php4/apache(2)?/php4.ini file, add check to see if there is a `extension=mysql.so' line there. If not, add it. Thanks. - -- Robert Vangel :: http://zilla.id.au * redflag networks, Network Operations Management * [EMAIL

Re: Simple Services Question

2005-08-04 Thread Robert Vangel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hal Vaughan wrote: I know this is rather simple, and I must just be using the wrong search terms, because I know it's been mentioned here. I've installed ssh on some systems, but it doesn't start automatically on boot. I *thought* apt-get

Re: (Briefly) Fstab

2005-08-03 Thread Robert Vangel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David R. Litwin wrote: I have changed my fstab so that it automatically mount my Windows partition in to /mnt/windows: # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # file system mount point type options dump pass proc

Re: any sleek way to downgrade sid to sarge?

2005-07-29 Thread Robert Vangel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 phyrster wrote: Hi debianers, After upgrading to sid, I reget and thinking how to roll back to good old sarge. I searched related topics and found this guide: http://debianplanet.com/node.php?id=880 (How I Downgraded Testing to Stable) The

Re: root login on console not allowed -- why and how?

2005-07-25 Thread Robert Vangel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steve Lamb wrote: Andreas Ntaflos wrote: however, fails. No matter what password is entered, the system refuses to let us in as root. The root-password can be changed without problem when `su'-ed to root so the problem is not that it's mistyped at

Re: For the love of GOD!!!

2005-07-21 Thread Robert Vangel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dirk wrote: Who is responsible for ls -la _mixing_ hidden dot-files with normal files in the output? I wan't to salute that decision. I use unstable. I grepped a lot but was unable to find the cause. Thank you, Dirk Perhaps because

Re: For the love of GOD!!!

2005-07-21 Thread Robert Vangel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dirk wrote: Who is responsible for ls -la _mixing_ hidden dot-files with normal files in the output? I wan't to drink coffee and smoke and then rip his fucked up head off and shit a hugh load of crap into his throat! Don't give me that's

Re: For the love of GOD!!!

2005-07-21 Thread Robert Vangel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robert Vangel wrote: Dirk wrote: Who is responsible for ls -la _mixing_ hidden dot-files with normal files in the output? I wan't to salute that decision. I use unstable. I grepped a lot but was unable to find the cause. Thank you, Dirk

Re: /etc/network/if-post-up.d/ scripts are not executed

2005-07-20 Thread Robert Vangel
Paulo M C Aragão wrote: Hi, I run Etch on a laptop and cardmgr to configure the PCMCIA ethernet card. fetchmail is started before the ethernet interface is up, so I figured that I had to either start or simply awaken it *after* the interface was up, placing a script in

Re: mysql problem

2005-07-20 Thread Robert Vangel
Gilbert Wong wrote: Hi all, i'm running mysql-server 4.0.24-10 on Sarge. Everything is okay except i cannot see my mysqld from the output of # netstat -tlnp or # netstat -tna BUT, i can successfully login: $ mysql -u user ppwd what can i do to make the mysqld visible in the

Re: Help required installing Seagate 200GB Barracuda 7200.7 Plus - ST3200822A

2005-07-19 Thread Robert Vangel
Asim Jamshed wrote: Hi, Im running Debian Sarge on an AMD-Duron processor with a 2.6.11.12 kernel. My primary disk is a Western Digital drive. I recently installed the Seagate drive mentioned above, but i dont know how to detect the drive. The disk is formatted as an NTFS since it was first

Re: sarge upgrade - ipopd not working

2005-07-19 Thread Robert Vangel
saravanan ganapathy wrote: --- Alberto Cabello Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Edit the /etc/c-client.cf file and put the following: I accept the risk set disable-plaintext 0 I included set disable-plaintext 0 in /etc/c-client.cf and restarted inetd service. But still I am getting

Re: Trying to do network install of sarge

2005-07-17 Thread Robert Vangel
Dick Steflik wrote: I have a Toshiba Portege 3015ct that I've een running a very old install of woody on and have been trying to upgrade to sarge. I have to do this by booting from floppies as there is no CDROM. I've made the four floppies from the current release (and the march one also),

Re: xorg in sid

2005-07-12 Thread Robert Vangel
Paul Scott wrote: Lorenzo Taylor wrote: Paul Scott's comments on xorg in sid were as follows: # I see that some xorg packages are now in sid. Are there enough packages # to switch from xfree86? Are there any problems? My aptitude removed xfree86 and replaced it with xorg. I have had no

Re: Unable to install libncurses5-dev

2005-07-09 Thread Robert Vangel
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Abdul Taha wrote: Hi Everyone, [snip] The following packages have unmet dependencies: libncurses5-dev: Depends: libncurses5 (= 5.4-4) but 5.4-8 is to be installed E: Broken packages I'm on kernel version 2.4.27-2-686. I would appreciate any suggestions. Have

Re: Unable to install libncurses5-dev

2005-07-09 Thread Robert Vangel
Please keep discussion on-list. Thanks. Abdul Taha wrote: Have you done an apt-get update? What's the contents of /etc/apt/sources.list? Yes, done apt-get update. Contents of sources.list: deb http://debian.blueyonder.co.uk/ stable main deb-src http://debian.blueyonder.co.uk/ stable main

Re: mc confusion

2005-07-07 Thread Robert Vangel
roberto wrote: Hi, i'm trying to use mc for file managing and i'm currently stuck at the help description of mc where they tell you the shortcuts for shell command line; just try to do: F1 Contents Shell Command Line then you see a list of shortcuts for using command line but i do not

Re: System needs repair after fsck

2005-07-07 Thread Robert Vangel
Uwe Dippel wrote: Last night at boot the system checked (after 30 boots or so) my /usr partition. It dropped me to console; I did the suggested fsck /dev/hda8. After the lengthy check it came up; but with some errors; like screwed up XFCE configuration (some apps missing); some screwed up fonts;

Re: Detailed memory usage

2005-07-04 Thread Robert Vangel
Marco Calviani wrote: Hi Debian, maybe this is slightly OT, but i would like to know if there exists a program to show the real memory usage of every process that is running on a certain machine. It can't be used for remote machines, but look at top. Thanks, MC smime.p7s

Re: MySQL setup cloning?

2005-06-29 Thread Robert Vangel
Carl Fink wrote: Is there some simple way to duplicate a MySQL setup from one server to another, with all tables, queries, and accounts/passwords? Perhaps just copying certain files? I'm not a MySQL expert (obviously), just trying to have a warm backup server ready if the main one goes down.

Re: Safety issues of cronning apt-get -y upgrade

2005-06-13 Thread Robert Vangel
Dave Ewart wrote: I use apt-get -dy upgrade This way it just downloads the upgraded packages automatically, and once I get around to connecting to the box I can then select which ones to upgrade one at a time and then finish the job off. The package cron-apt also does what you describe,

Re: Safety issues of cronning apt-get -y upgrade

2005-06-12 Thread Robert Vangel
Clinton V. Weiss wrote: On a stable Debian machine, would cronning apt-get -y upgrade (with the apt-get -y update of course) on a daily or weekly basis have any fault points? I'm asking since I'd like to ensure that upgrading of a server's packages is safe and secure without the need to SSH

Re: scp from remote to remote machine

2005-06-11 Thread Robert Vangel
belahcene wrote: Hi, I want to send a file from one remote machine to another one like this scp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home2/dsl-1.2.iso [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/debian Password: Host key verification failed. lost connection You need to make sure 172.19.5.75 already has an entry in

Re: failing to share internet access between two PCs installed with Debian 3.1

2005-06-11 Thread Robert Vangel
Dominik Margraf wrote: Thank you very much for your help and I would be grateful if you could find the culprit! Dominik Did we also do a `echo 1 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward'? smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: how to disable ctrl+alt+backspace in X

2005-06-11 Thread Robert Vangel
LeVA wrote: Hi! If it is possible, please tell me, how to prevent killing my X with ctrl+alt+backspace. Thanks! Daniel In your xorg.conf / XFree86-4 file, add this... Section ServerFlags # prevent the use of CTL-ALT-BKSP Option DontZap On EndSection smime.p7s Description:

Re: Top posting

2005-06-10 Thread Robert Vangel
Caleb Walker wrote: When will this off-topic thread die? Going through the list, most of what I receive is about top posting vs. bottom posting. Who cares already. It was interesting for the first 100 posts but now it is old. What I can't believe is that it only began 15hrs ago and

Re: Installing the new release (Sarge)

2005-06-09 Thread Robert Vangel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks... I'm still new. I'm thankful for people like yourself that help people like me out. This is a lesson that I DEFINITELY WILL NOT FORGET. If all I need are the 1st 3 or 4 CD's, then what is on the other 10 CD's, just a whole lot of software? Is there a

Re: Top posting (a different point of view)

2005-06-09 Thread Robert Vangel
(I haven't quoted anything here because this isn't a response to what Carl wrote, just here because it's the end of the thread at this point in time) I must say, this thread has to be one of the most well structured and easy to read in my whole experience of reading a public mailing list. If

Re: How to upgrade SquirrelMail in Debian

2005-06-08 Thread Robert Vangel
Sebastijan Plut wrote: I have installed SquirrelMail 1.2.6. which is part of Woody distribution. How can I upgrade this Squirrlmail to 1.4 and not cousing future problems when run apt-get upgrade? I'm asking for some patience, couse I'm a beginner. Tnx Sebastijan You

Re: xmms

2005-06-08 Thread Robert Vangel
Meni Shapiro wrote: I did that but it seems like it didn't change much it a new installationand i think it doesn't play *mp3 files?? is there a plug-in for mp3?? Thanks, Meni Did you install from sources or from deb packages? smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: apt or aptitude on sarge

2005-06-08 Thread Robert Vangel
Robert Wolfe wrote: On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, michael wrote: I note that it seems that aptitude is recommended over apt for Sarge. I was wondering if it's as str forward as just using aptitude from now on? eg I do not have to rebuild anything the first time i use aptitude (ie it uses the same dpkg

Re: On IMAP servers

2005-06-06 Thread Robert Vangel
Franki wrote: Actually, you can do virtual users without shell accounts via courier as well. I'm running a Postfix/amavisd/spamassassin MTA with courier IMAP/SASL/Mysql All users are virtual and administrered via the Postfix admin PHP app. There are heaps of tutorials around on how to do

Re: Woody to Sarge stable?

2005-06-02 Thread Robert Vangel
Rhomboid Goatcabin wrote: I've got about 30 systems running woody right now and they automatically keep themselves up to date using cron-apt (I actually have it apply the updates). I've only been a Debian user for a little over a year but have been very impressed with the stability of the

Re: excluding files w/ tar

2005-06-02 Thread Robert Vangel
Winston Smith wrote: On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 11:08:15AM -0400, Winston Smith wrote: would be, for example, ./tmp/, not /tmp/. Try putting ./tmp/* instead of /tmp/* and so on in /tmp/excludes, or, if you My suggestion above assumes you use tar cv -X /tmp/excludes -p --atime-preserve ./*

Re: Knoppix .config

2005-05-27 Thread Robert Vangel
Freddy Freeloader wrote: Hi all, Does anyone know where I can find a copy of the Knoppix kernel .config file? I like using it for compiling my own kernels and I've lost both the link to it, and the copy of the file I had in a hard drive crash. Thanks What about booting the cd grabbing

Re: Two sreens with one graphics card

2005-05-26 Thread Robert Vangel
Sebastian Noack wrote: Hi, I try to make a second screen work. I use the window-manager fluxbox. Xinerama is built in. And I have modified the XF86Config-4 as following, but only the first sreen works. :( -- #

Re: root compromise on debian woody

2005-05-26 Thread Robert Vangel
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: As far as the kernel, even Linus Torvalds himself, IIRC, has stated that running kernels from kernel.org is not a good idea unless, 1) you are testing the kernel and/or developing on it, or 2) you are absolutely 100% certain that you know exactly what you are doing and

Re: root compromise on debian woody

2005-05-26 Thread Robert Vangel
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: As long as you make a concious decision to do this. Unfortunately, many people go out and grab some package from the upstream site and then think that the security updates will roll in along with all the other apt-get stuff. They won't, but then you understand that.

Re: mount: unknown filesystem type 'nfs'

2005-05-25 Thread Robert Vangel
Dan Fulbright wrote: When I try to mount an NFS filesystem, I get this error: mount: unknown filesystem type 'nfs' Here's the mount command I'm using on host2: mount host1.domain.com:/tmp /mnt On host1.domain.com, I have this in /etc/exports: /tmp host2.domain.com(ro,sync) I tried using

Re: The dumb things we do to ourselves.

2005-05-25 Thread Robert Vangel
Adam Funk wrote: Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Hopefully, someone gets a chuckle out of this. My recent prize-winner was this # ifdown -a over an ssh connection. Fortunately the computer I was^H^H had been logged into was in the same room as the one I was typing on. I've done that. I

Re: my messages to linux.debian.user take 40 minutes to show up

2005-05-23 Thread Robert Vangel
Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: Hi The problem is like this. If I post a message to linux.debian.user then it takes about 0.5-1 hour to show up in the news group. The behaviour is same even if I use gmane. But if I am using the mailing list the messages show up immediately. I know this because

Re: is Sarge much slower than Woody on old hardware?

2005-05-19 Thread Robert Vangel
DesScorp wrote: Use the standalone Mozilla browser (not firefox). Say what now? smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: Openwebmail package removed ???

2005-05-17 Thread Robert Vangel
Ms Linuz wrote: I was suprised when typing apt-get install openwebmail last night. Seems like openwebmail has been removed from debian package repository. Try browsing several mirrors for it and got no result. I had try to search in debian.org too, same result. Is openwebmail removed ? For what

Re: Openwebmail package removed ???

2005-05-17 Thread Robert Vangel
nullman wrote: Removed Packages. 6 packages have been [44]removed from the Debian archive during the past week: Ver nice :-( ... a am using it for years and found that alle the alternatives (in the debian repository) are crap (comparing features and usability). Can someone tell me which debian

Re: Cacti Problems

2005-05-14 Thread Robert Vangel
Stephen Le wrote: I'm running Debian-testing and I've been unable to get Cacti to produce any graphs. When I manually attempt to execute poller.php, I get the following error: Fatal error: Call to undefined function: mysql_connect() in /usr/share/cacti/site/lib/adodb/drivers/adodb-mysql.inc.php

Re: Firefox extension and themes install

2005-05-14 Thread Robert Vangel
Freddy Freeloader wrote: Jonathan Kaye wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 En/La Freddy Freeloader ha escrit, a 14/05/05 16:30: | Is anyone else running across the following problem? | | Ever since Firefox changed the install routine for themes and extensions | due to a

Re: cdrecord invocation under kernel-2.6.11

2005-05-14 Thread Robert Vangel
Ishwar Rattan wrote: I have a linux box with an IDE cd-rw on secondary master (/dev/hdc), some how cdrecord balks at this device: # cdrecord -v speed=8 dev=/dev/hdc cdimage it does not like dev=/dev/hdc, so what is the correct device here? -ishwar This is exactly what I use (including the hdc,

Re: mysql bind-address refuses to work

2005-05-13 Thread Robert Vangel
schnitzelmeister wrote: In my.cnf I have: bind-address= localhost This does not work. netstat shows the server bound to both the public and loopback ip addresses. I'm running mysql Ver 14.7 Distrib 4.1.11, for pc-linux-gnu (i386) on Sarge. Any ideas? Thanks Where do you have the

Re: mysql bind-address refuses to work

2005-05-13 Thread Robert Vangel
schnitzel meister wrote: On 5/13/05, Robert Vangel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: schnitzelmeister wrote: In my.cnf I have: bind-address= localhost This does not work. netstat shows the server bound to both the public and loopback ip addresses. I'm running mysql Ver 14.7 Distrib 4.1.11

Re: mysql bind-address refuses to work

2005-05-13 Thread Robert Vangel
schnitzel meister wrote: Can you check the mysqld.log/mysqld.err/syslog for anything? Also try running mysqld_safe on its own and check the output. Please also keep the discussion on-list. Thanks. I don't have those files, but I do have mysql.err, which is empty. syslog shows no mysql errors.

Re: mysql bind-address refuses to work

2005-05-13 Thread Robert Vangel
schnitzel meister wrote: # netstat -nalp|grep sql tcp0 0 84.244.3.152:3306 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 714/mysqld unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 804845794 714/mysqld /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock I just noticed with this.. there aren't any other

Re: default-display-manager

2005-05-12 Thread Robert Vangel
Ms Linuz wrote: This maybe wakky, but simplier. Rename the /etc/init.d/gdm to whatever you like ( i.e. /etc/init.d/gdmnomore ) # update-rc.d gdm remove Oh the possibilities! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: setting default compiler version

2005-05-11 Thread Robert Vangel
Martin Henne wrote: Is there a way to tell debian to use g++-3.4 as the default compiler and set all symlinks (at least /usr/bin/gcc, /usr/ bin/g++ and /usr/lib/cpp) to the right version using the normal dpkg tools (like dpkg-reconfigure or something like that)? When using Makefile's, look at the

Re: Firefox: Selected profile is already in use

2005-05-11 Thread Robert Vangel
Monique Y. Mudama wrote: It would be nice if they'd implement it so that you could specify certain proxies to always be used with certain domains. PAC files? http://wp.netscape.com/eng/mozilla/2.0/relnotes/demo/proxy-live.html#dnsDomainIs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: alsa

2005-05-10 Thread Robert Vangel
hja wrote: Got alsa working, able to play vcd w sound now, but only in root. 'no sound' for evertyhing in non-root. working on it. i think it is a matter of setting the permissions of alsa dir/files right. thks for your reply. hja Try adding your user to the `audio' group. -- To

Re: problem accessing the CD-Rom??

2005-05-10 Thread Robert Vangel
Bruno Boettcher wrote: Hello! Howdy! on my Laptop i have the problem, that i can't access the dvd-reader/writer i put in a tested dvd, try to mount it, and get: mount /dev/hdc /mnt mount: you must specify the filesystem type huh? Try `-t auto' Some CD/DVD's may be UDF. Is the DVD blank or

Re: reply to all

2005-05-10 Thread Robert Vangel
Adam Hardy wrote: On 09/05/05 19:08nbsp;Almut Behrens wrote: BTW, as this is the second incidence within a short period of time, I'm starting to wonder whether it's me who is tricking people's MUAs into replying privately _only_. I've just checked my Mail-Followup-To header, but it doesn't seem

Re: problem accessing the CD-Rom??

2005-05-10 Thread Robert Vangel
Bruno Boettcher wrote: don't know why it claims to be busy usually i have that kind of error with driver problems, but here i don't see what could go wrong... :( With lsof, you could also try `lsof | grep mnt' just to get everthing, but from what you have explained this probably wouldn't be

Re: which file do I edit to give my syste a default gateway??

2005-05-10 Thread Robert Vangel
Saro wrote: Look at: /etc/sysconfig/network/routes Eh? Debian? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Kernel Panic on my new custom kernel

2005-05-10 Thread Robert Vangel
Jon Roed wrote: I recently compiled my own kernel (2.6.10) on my debian system. Now when i try to boot it i get the error message that says : VFS: Cannot open root device hda1 or unknown-block(0,0) Please append a correct root= boot option Kernel panic-not syncing: VFS: Cannot open root device

Re: Question about hard disk partition strategy for debian

2005-05-09 Thread Robert Vangel
R. Armiento wrote: Good point. But if you have put everything else that requires write access in separate partitions (eg., /var, /tmp) perhaps one can mount the whole '/' filesystem read-only? I have never tried that, but if you mount /usr read-only to protect your binaries, one would think that

Re: Internet Troubles

2005-05-08 Thread Robert Vangel
David R. Litwin wrote: To make my life more simple, I'll use hpijs. But, back to the Internet. I've decided that my problem is with the ppp0 bit. If I prompt (or, what is the term) ifconfig ppp0, it says essentially, that the device does not exist. This is after I've run pppoeconf. How do I

Re: New kernel compiled does't work, gives errors

2005-05-08 Thread Robert Vangel
Deboo Geek wrote: Thanks everyone, I think I found out the problem. There's a /sys directory ( I think it's a 2.6 thing) and I need to copy that too in addition to the modules dir. Correct me if I'm wrong. Otherwise I'll compile on the new macine but I compiled on this machine only to save time

Re: vesafb problem in debian

2005-05-06 Thread Robert Vangel
J.Bakshi wrote: Dear all, I have integrated VGA based on KM400 chipset from VIA. when I boot from *lnx-bbc* I can see the boot-logo. now I have configured 2.6.10 kernel from debian and enable framebuffer-support, vesa-support,vga-16-support and 16-color-logo all as *built-in features* but the

Re: grub savedefault and saved does not seem to work

2005-05-05 Thread Robert Vangel
Alan Chandler wrote: On Thursday 05 May 2005 05:33, Ed Shornock wrote: H. S. wrote: Hi, On a newly installed Debian Sid on an Inspiron 5160, I notice that grub always boots from the first entry even though I have default saved in the menu.lst file and all the stanzas have the savedefault keywork

Re: grub savedefault and saved does not seem to work

2005-05-05 Thread Robert Vangel
Alan Chandler wrote: It depends what default says:- if it says default saved then that it should default to the last saveddefault stanza in the menu.lst file. If is says default 0 then it will always default to the first in the list Ahh sorry, I missed that part in the original post. -- To

Re: ftpd login problem

2005-05-05 Thread Robert Vangel
Björn Lindström wrote: Suddenly nobody can login to ftp on my machine (the 'ftpd' package, everythin from the latest testing release). I haven't touched any settings that could affect it (for ftpd, pam, inetd, or anything else I can think of), so I suppose someone else will have this problem too.

Re: ftpd login problem

2005-05-05 Thread Robert Vangel
Bjrn Lindstrm wrote: In auth.log, nothing happens when I try to log in via FTP. In syslog, I get a single line: May 5 16:11:26 lucien in.ftpd[1391]: connect from 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1) Stable/Sarge/Unstable? Also try /var/log/messages (I am not *exactly* sure where ftpd's messages are going to

Re: how to determine WAN IP address from behind a NAT router?

2005-05-05 Thread Robert Vangel
Brendan wrote: On Thursday 05 May 2005 07:33 pm, Sean Davis wrote: On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 07:17:38PM -0400, Brendan wrote: /sbin/ifconfig eth0 | grep 'inet add' | awk '{print $2}' |cut -d ' ' -f 12 | cut -d: -f 2 or, more simply, /sbin/ifconfig eth0 | awk -F: '/inet/ {print $2}'|sed

Re: ftpd login problem

2005-05-05 Thread Robert Vangel
Bjrn Lindstrm wrote: Stable/Sarge/Unstable? Sarge, up-to-date as of today. Also try /var/log/messages There's nothing there, either. I tried grepping for 'ftp' in /var/log and found nothing more useful than that line from /var/log/syslog. also try restarting inetd (or xinetd whichever you

Re: Gnome to KDE

2005-05-01 Thread Robert Vangel
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: David R. Litwin wrote: When I boot up in to my Sarge, it automatically goes to the Gnome style login screen. How do I make it go to the KDE type? Assuming you are using GDM, then there should be a button marked session that will let you choose which desktop

Re: dhcp apparently handing out the wrong ip address

2005-01-08 Thread Robert Vangel
Alan Chandler wrote: I have a dhcp server set up at home to allocate IP addresses to my work laptop (which is set up that way to get its IP address at work). My laptop is called rabbit.home (see below) I want it to get a constant ip address so that (for instance) my NAT box can portforward

Re: dhcp apparently handing out the wrong ip address

2005-01-08 Thread Robert Vangel
Alan Chandler wrote: On Saturday 08 January 2005 10:00, Robert Vangel wrote: Alan Chandler wrote: Try using fixed address ip here Didn't make any difference:-( Here is syslog - I manually released the old lease (Win 2000 ipconfig /release command) and then renewed it a few (7) seconds later

Re: wget times out - but ftp works OK

2005-01-05 Thread Robert Vangel
Ron Johnson wrote: On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 14:30 +0100, Wim De Smet wrote: On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 12:27:51 +0100, Karsten Bolding [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] == TYPE I ... done. == CWD /pub/hans.burchard ... done. == PASV ... and then hangs. If I do a normal anonymous ftp I can download the file

Re: wget times out - but ftp works OK

2005-01-04 Thread Robert Vangel
Karsten Bolding wrote: Hello the following command: wget -nd ftp://80.198.12.199/pub/hans.burchard/aa gives the following output: krabbe% wget -nd ftp://80.198.12.199/pub/hans.burchard/aa --12:25:17-- ftp://80.198.12.199/pub/hans.burchard/aa = `aa' Connecting to 80.198.12.199:21... connected.

Re: screen lets local users on tty1 remove themselves from the output of w

2004-12-31 Thread Robert Vangel
Daniel van Eeden wrote: I found out that it is posible for local users on tty1 to hide themselves from the output of the w command if they use gnu screen. 1. start a screen session as normal user and detach. 2. login as that user on tty1 (not tty2) 3. run w and verify that your session is listed.

Re: 2 GB RAM support in woody

2004-12-30 Thread Robert Vangel
saravanan ganapathy wrote: --- Alexei Chetroi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd suggest you to do the following: 1. unpack /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18.tar.bz2 2. copy /boot/config-2.4.18-1-686 to .config in the top dir of kernel source (kernel-image-2.4.18-1-686 should be installed) 3. enable

Re: Correct syntax for mkinitrd command?

2004-12-28 Thread Robert Vangel
If the debian way isn't your preferred cup of tea (so you can also use it for future systems which may not be debian..) I have always used what was in the original email [mkinitrd -k -o /boot/initrd-2.6.9_custom.img -r /dev/hda4 2.6.9custom] And I compile the root fs (actually, I do all fs's but

Re: mutt alternates command

2004-12-26 Thread Robert Vangel
Mike M wrote: 2. What's the proper way to read /usr/share/doc/mutt/NEWS.Debian.gz? I used: # cd /usr/share/doc/mutt/ # gunzip NEWS.Debian.gz # vi NEWS.Debian It worked but it seems there should be some sort of tool. Whenever I have things like that, I use gzip -dc file|less Would be

Re: erased iPod software

2004-12-25 Thread Robert Vangel
To reset, hold menu+play/pause for about 10 secs (guessing.. http://www.ipodlounge.com/faqs_more.php?id=1597_0_10_0_C) Jules Dubois wrote: On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 19:58:21 +0200, George Iordanou wrote: Unfortunately the ipod won't start since i erased its software. Any ideas how to restore it? The

Re: Nothing from list for two days

2004-12-25 Thread Robert Vangel
I had this a while ago, and realised it was the DNSBL hosts I had configured got murphy.debian.org into their lists. From your email address, you may run your own mail server. Check the logs if possible and see if this is the case. Anthony Campbell wrote: For the last 2-3 days I've stopped

Re: crontab every 5 minutes?

2004-12-23 Thread Robert Vangel
*/5 * * * Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: Hello, How do I get crontab to run a process every 5 minutes? Currently, it is setup as: 5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * Surely, there is a more elegant approach? Lance smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: crontab every 5 minutes?

2004-12-23 Thread Robert Vangel
Just noticed with the example below, there would be a 10 minute gap between 55 5 (need 0,5,10,[...],55) Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: Hello, How do I get crontab to run a process every 5 minutes? Currently, it is setup as: 5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * Surely, there is a more elegant

Re: cron.daily, howto control mailed reports

2004-12-23 Thread Robert Vangel
set the MAILTO variable in the script eg #!/bin/bash MAILTO=[EMAIL PROTECTED] /etc/init.d/ntpdate restart afaik, that would work. Joao Clemente wrote: Hi people. In a server I setup recently I tougth of keeping the clock sinc'ed by running ntpdate daily. I wrote a script calling

Re: cron.daily, howto control mailed reports

2004-12-23 Thread Robert Vangel
Sorry, ignore mine. I completely misread the question :\ Robert Vangel wrote: set the MAILTO variable in the script eg #!/bin/bash MAILTO=[EMAIL PROTECTED] /etc/init.d/ntpdate restart afaik, that would work. Joao Clemente wrote: Hi people. In a server I setup recently I tougth of keeping the clock

Re: Using Debian as an Access Point?

2004-12-22 Thread Robert Vangel
We are using the Linksys WRT54G at home, but with a different firmware (http://sourceforge.net/projects/wifi-box/) and haven't had any problems with it. It's been up around 2 months now (last reboot was the firmware upgrade) and everything is good. Clients range from ~50m to about 2k's away,

Re: Using Debian as an Access Point?

2004-12-22 Thread Robert Vangel
Just found out it's a WMP54G (Linksys) with a 24dBi grid antenna. Which is also what we have (as well as a 15dBi omni) Robert Vangel wrote: Clients range from ~50m to about 2k's away, with 2k's away (not exactly sure of equipment) get around 40Mb/s. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic

Re: best IRC client for Debian

2004-12-20 Thread Robert Vangel
I only ever use XChat for gui (whether I'm in KDE or Gnome), just because it looks nice and fairly easy to use. For CLI, I'm most partial to irssi. Once again, it looks fairly nice, easier to use, and just seems a whole lot easier than bitchx/epic. Shaikh Quader wrote: What is the best IRC

ot, changing screen numbers

2004-12-20 Thread Robert Vangel
This isn't specifically debian, but everyone seems to know what they are talking about so I figured what the hey :) Does anyone know if it's possible to change the number of each individual screen, in a screen session. eg.. I run screen from my login, it gives me a new screen session with

Re: Cdrom Question

2004-12-20 Thread Robert Vangel
Posting the same question twice, under different names/emails isn't likely to get you help quicker.. if anything, slower due to people being annoyed. bill wrote: When I mount the cdrom in kde, half the time, I can't unmount it or can't eject it Can anyone offer me some information on this or

Re: Replacing Dying Harddisk (ReiserFS)

2004-12-19 Thread Robert Vangel
Darryl Clarke wrote: Hi, I was wondering if anybody has any wonderful ideas as to how I should go about ghosting my existing linux system. Norton Ghost only supports EXT2/3 for linux and I used ReiserFS so using it is out of the question. Does anybody have any ideas as to how I could transfer my

Re: Replacing Dying Harddisk (ReiserFS)

2004-12-19 Thread Robert Vangel
Robert Vangel wrote: Darryl Clarke wrote: Hi, I was wondering if anybody has any wonderful ideas as to how I should go about ghosting my existing linux system. Norton Ghost only supports EXT2/3 for linux and I used ReiserFS so using it is out of the question. Does anybody have any ideas as to how

Re: Woody--Sarge

2004-12-19 Thread Robert Vangel
In /etc/sources.list, change any reference to `stable' (or `woody') to `testing'. Run # apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade Wait for it all to download install, and you're set. Eric Scott wrote: Hey, sorry to ask this FAQ, I know I've done it before, but google is NO help to me here. What

Re: Backup with versioning

2004-12-18 Thread Robert Vangel
Bob Alexander wrote: In my neverending tweaking of the system I would like to setup a backup cron job which would not only (possibly incrementally) save the files or directories I indicate, but for /etc and /home would keep the revisions of the files in a versioning schema (like rcs, cvs etc.)

Re: starting x

2004-12-18 Thread Robert Vangel
cfk wrote: Gentlemen: Its my turn to be a newbie to Debian, although I have used Red Hat for a few years. Please bear with me and suggest how I may get my newly installed Sarge to start X. I try the incantation startx from either a user or root command prompt and get command not found.

Re: starting x

2004-12-18 Thread Robert Vangel
Sam Watkins wrote: startx is not part of the X server, it is in the package x-base-clients. You should: apt-get install x-window-system-core or probably: apt-get install x-window-system you can look at what each of these meta packages depends on with: apt-cache show x-window-system-core you

Re: Old Annoyance Revisited (console cluttered with iptables noise)

2004-12-17 Thread Robert Vangel
Scarletdown wrote: Okay, I've dealt with this little annoyance before on another system, and managed to resolve it. Unfortunately, that was so long ago, I don't remember how I did it. When I am working from the console, I keep getting messages like this: IN=eth0 OUT=

Re: DVD/.VOB Player in Debian Sarge

2004-12-17 Thread Robert Vangel
William Ballard wrote: On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 01:17:43AM -0400, Shaikh Quader wrote: Did anyone know a good dvd player program that can play DVD/ .VOB extension? I tried with several players that come with Debian Sarge installation. But none of them are good for that. google mplayer+debian to

Re: ls color for bad symbolic link

2004-12-14 Thread Robert Vangel
Tong wrote: Thanks everyone for the respond... yet I'm still looking for the answer that I want -- the fact is I have no problem showing colors using ls. Just need to distinguish bad symbolic link from good ones. Ok, let's take a look at an example: touch a ln -s a l1 ln -s no l2 rm no ls

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