Re: Mirroring only potato/woody but not sid?

2001-03-02 Thread Tibor D.
Lars Knudsen wrote: Have you tried adding sid/ to your exclude file ? I am mirroring the i386 part of the debian tree in a single rsync run using a relatively long exclude file. This seems perfectly possible on a 64k link. Happy hacking, \Gandalf Hmm.. sorry, that won't help me, since

Mirroring only potato/woody but not sid?

2001-03-01 Thread Tibor D.
Hi folks, I have enough of mirroring every day the whole Debian-tree (i386 only and without sources, with some sophisticated rsync-scripts). Is there a way to mirror only potato and woody? There are just too many updates a day for my slow 64k link, and most of them are for sid only. I think

Communicator-after-Mozilla

2001-02-26 Thread Tibor D.
Hello, I've installed the Netscape Communicator debs, and I installed the Mozilla 0.8 from mozilla.org. When I start up only the communicator, it runs ok. When I start up only mozilla, it runs ok. But: when I first start up mozilla, and then I'd like to start communicator too, then another

Re: poweroff just doing shutdown

2001-02-25 Thread Tibor D.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: after all processes are ended.. the machine just hangs with poweroff on the screen. ^alt del reboots fine. FYI the exact same machine, with potato, poweroffed fine on a previous installation. Thank you Maybe your apm isn't activated (or even isn't compiled into the

Re: rpm dependencies problem (yes, rpm!)

2001-02-23 Thread Tibor D.
Phil Brutsche wrote: I'll be honest: I wouldn't trust any of that Enterprise stuff to run on any distribution other than the one it was built for: RedHat 6.x. Thanks to all for the answers. Maybe I'll try to debianize the rpms and/or adopt the installscript later. But this way seems really

Re: Can't open display problems

2001-02-23 Thread Tibor D.
Robert L. Harris wrote: On your local machine you need to edit /etc/X11/xinit/xserverc. There's a nice line that contains -nolisten tcp in it. Remove that and restart X. I had the same problem. Yeah, me too, but why do you think that's a *nice* line? I don't get it why that -nolisten

rpm dependencies problem (yes, rpm!)

2001-02-22 Thread Tibor D.
Hi, I'm trying to install a software-package on Debian potato. It's Novell NDS 8.5. The good thing is, that it needs a 2.2-kernel and glibc v.2.1.3, exactly what potato comes with. But: I'm unable to install that program, because it's installation is really dirty. On the install-CD, there are

kde ignores /etc/profile

2001-02-16 Thread Tibor D.
Hi, what am I doing wrong? I changed the PATH-line in /etc/profile (including now /usr/local/xyz/bin), at the end there is also an export PATH-line, but when I login via kdm (as user) into kde (version 2 and 2.1beta), there's still the old PATH set (even after rebooting!). So I logged in to

Re: autofs example

2001-02-14 Thread Tibor D.
Frank Trenkamp wrote: An example from my system: Hmm cool, I'd like to check this out, yes, I'm sure I somewhere enabled autofs-support, but: which package do I need? I can't find anything like autofs.

Re: keeping a process running?

2001-02-08 Thread Tibor D.
Michael A. Miller wrote: Tibor == Tibor D [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Maybe run is what you're looking for? I haven't been able to find that in the packages - what package is that a part of? It *is* the package called run, maybe it's not (yet?) in potato, but in testing/unstable.

Re: keeping a process running?

2001-02-07 Thread Tibor D.
Michael A. Miller wrote: Can anyone suggest a way to monitor a process and restart it if it stops? Maybe run is what you're looking for?

Re: Have computer power off automatically

2001-02-06 Thread Tibor D.
You don't even have to recompile, but you have to activate apm. At the lilo-prompt, type linux apm=on to test it. If that works, you can save that in /etc/lilo.conf with the line append=apm=on [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You need to recompile your kernel with advanced power management BIOS

Re: KDE2

2001-02-05 Thread Tibor D.
Renai wrote: Hi, just a couple of questions - could someone tell me the apt-get command for installing kde2 on my woody machine? I've just installed woody but can't find the package name that indicates kde2. I had thought that it was part of the unstable tree somewhere. Yes, kde2 is part

Re: Upgrading from Debian 2.1 to unstable

2001-02-04 Thread Tibor D.
Florian Weimer wrote Unfortunately, the apt packages in stable and unstable depend on glibc 2.1.x, resulting in a chicken-and-egg problem. Which is the easiest way to upgrade to unstable under this circumstances? Recompiling apt for glibc 2.0.7? Editing the Package file? Check out your

Re: PHP4 in 'testing'?

2001-02-04 Thread Tibor D.
Remco Rijnders wrote: Hi all, I have my apt sources list pointed at tracking the testing release of Debian. As I understand it this is supposed to be a repository of the latest packages that have been used without major problems in unstable for an 'x' number of days. Provided the assumption

xosview

2001-02-02 Thread Tibor D.
Hi folks, does anyone know where the xosview-package did go? It's gone with the latest apt-get upgrade! Or is there a similar, maybe even better tool? TIA

F-Keys for Server-commands

2001-01-16 Thread Tibor D.
For a server I would program some F-Keys for maintenace. Without anybody logged in (you see just the console with the login prompt), I'd like e.g. following: Someone presses F1 - the server should shutdown press F2 - unmount/eject CDRom, F3 - print the IP-Accounting infos F4 - start the program

Re: Why choose Debian?

2001-01-13 Thread Tibor D.
Well, our first (real) computer at home was the Amiga 1000 in 1986. I really liked that platform very much, but some Amigas later in 1996 I had to give it up and buy a Wintel-platform (Pentium Pro). But since I began working on that platform I was never happy with it. I never know what's so cool

Re: ldap, ldap everywhere

2001-01-07 Thread Tibor D.
Known Human Nick Rusnov wrote: Hi. I'm going to be running a moderately sized network, and I was wondering how difficult it would be to setup ldap as teh authentication for it? That's exactly what I tried today to set up, but I didn't get it really to work yet. But try to install slapd

Re: apt-get doesn't like line 13 in /apt/sources.list

2001-01-07 Thread Tibor D.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Malformed line 13 It is:deb file://sources/x11 What is wrong? What do I need to get apt-get update to work No, it should be: deb file:/sources/x11 ./ And don't forget to make the Packages file in that directory (with dpkg-scanpackages) (supposed you have

Re: mkisofs

2001-01-06 Thread Tibor D.
Debian User wrote: What if you don't know the size, say, you are trying to burn someone's cd to have a copy for yourself. Peter Horton wrote: try dd if=. count=`isosize' isosize is in the xcdroast and the cdwrite package.

Re: lilo.conf

2001-01-06 Thread Tibor D.
Hi, I like it that by now you can set up lilo with debconf, thats a good idea, it's now possible to set lilo up very fast. But: would it be possible to leave lilo.conf's original look and feel? I mean like when you install exim, you can config it with debconf, but the exim.conf looks like the

Re: lilo.conf

2001-01-06 Thread Tibor D.
Russell Coker wrote: On Saturday 06 January 2001 21:19, Tibor D. wrote: Could you imagin squid.conf without any comments and example-lines? The Incidentally I have recently submitted a proposal for debconf'ing Squid. I've forward it to debian-user a few minutes ago. As I mentioned

Re: init scripts

2001-01-01 Thread Tibor D.
Rob wrote: Hello, Occasionally I install a Debian package that I do not want to start everytime I boot. In this situation, I usually use update-rc.d and either stick the init script into a specific runlevel or just remove it from all runlevels. This works fine, however, when I do an

World-readable home-dirs

2000-12-17 Thread Tibor D.
Hi, during the installation i was asked if i want world-readable home directories. Where can I change that behaviour? So when I add a new user (adduser), it's home-dir should get automagically world-readable instead of non-readable. Thanx (it's not in /etc/adduser.conf)

Re: PSM for mozilla as .deb?

2000-12-17 Thread Tibor D.
Andreas Reuleaux wrote: Hi, I just installed the mozilla (M18) pkg on a fresh Debian 2.2r2 box. One has to install PSM (Personal Security Manager, see Mozilla homepage) I would expect such a package in the non-free area of debian, can any of the netscape packages there be used as a

XFree4.0.1 on potato

2000-08-21 Thread Tibor D.
Hi, what is the correct or best way to install XFree86 4.0.1 on Debian 2.2 or - to replace the included XFree 3.3.6? Are there somewhere installable .deb's, or when I have to get the tar-files: how do I install it without breaking dependencies (I think lots of packages depend on X)? TIA -- visit

USB with potato

2000-08-18 Thread Tibor D.
Hello, Could anyone give me a hint where to enable USB-support? Finally I'm test-installing Debian 2.2 (until know I sticked with deb2.1 with the 2.0 Kernel), I just reconfigured/recompiled my kernel, but I never found something (even with prompt for experimental drivers = yes). It's for an