Re: Trac 0.11 and WebAdmin

2008-08-29 Thread Tobias Nissen
Jens Peter Secher wrote: Disclaimer: I am a complete newbie wrt. Trac. Summary: Cannot get WebAdmin to work in Trac 0.11. [...] You have to have the TRAC_ADMIN permission, otherwise you won't see the Admin link. pgp7i8V9dqwsE.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: POP3 server

2008-06-14 Thread Tobias Nissen
Tero Mäntyvaara wrote: I have used POP3 server now a few months, but I have forgot whitch one it was. :-/ How can I find out whitch server I am using? :-D Is the server still configured in any application you are using? pgpEjyDvtcF40.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Debian on laptop

2008-06-13 Thread Tobias Nissen
alfa beta wrote: After spending hours of reading about the Linux distributions and compatible hardware, I feel I get crazzy. I chose you because of your Social Contract, though I'm not sure Debian is still updated, apologize, I couldn't find recent articles, I am a newbye. No, don't worry.

Multilevel-menu for awesome

2008-05-22 Thread Tobias Nissen
Hi! I'd really like to give awesome (the window manager) a try, but I'm missing a multilevel-menu. The awesome-menu app itself is pretty neat, but sometimes I find the right application by poking around in a categorized menu (thanks to Debian's great menu policy). I tried 9menu, ratmenu,

Re: 97% use of / system

2008-05-22 Thread Tobias Nissen
andy wrote: My / partition is some 12GB and I see that it is currently 97% full. How can I clean this out without trashing important files? What should I be looking for in terms of likely culprits that can be deep-sixed safely? When I do my yearly spring cleaning, I use deborphan and cruft to

Re: How to add an entry to Module-assitant ?

2008-05-09 Thread Tobias Nissen
Jabka Atu wrote: I would like to add acerhk-source to module-assitant menu. the question how can it be done. I didn't manage to do that either. Nevertheless you can still build the package with module-assistant. I don't know about Etch, but on Lenny a simple m-a get acerhk m-a build acerhk

Re: deprecated smbmount -- mount.cifs

2008-05-09 Thread Tobias Nissen
Amit Finkler wrote: After upgrading to kernel 2.6.24, the usual line in my LinNeighborhood using smbmount doesn't work anymore (mount.cifs error number 5 - input/output) smbmount //GURU/SuperC_small$ /home/amitf/SuperC$/ -o username amitf% fmask 644 dmask 755 uid 1000 gid 1000

Re: debian unstable postgresql-8.3 installation problem

2008-02-17 Thread Tobias Nissen
jeffry s wrote: i got the message during installation bayau:/var/log/postgresql# apt-get install postgresql-8.3 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done postgresql-8.3 is already the newest version. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 622 not upgraded. 2

Re: debian unstable postgresql-8.3 installation problem

2008-02-16 Thread Tobias Nissen
jeffry s wrote: i am using debian unstable with gnome desktop. but i failed to install postgresql package. this is the error message Starting PostgreSQL 8.3 database server: main* Error: Could not create log file /var/log/postgresql/postgresql-8.3-main.log failed! doing ls /var/log output

Re: aptitude safe-upgrade hanging

2008-02-16 Thread Tobias Nissen
Steve Lamb wrote: Any ideas why aptitude is hanging at Preconfiguring Packages... on a safe-upgrade? This is in testing. [...] Does `aptitude -v` give relevant additional output? When in the Preconfiguring-stage, does `ps aux` show something unusual? Regards, Tobias pgpnPdVbGTenG.pgp

Re: aptitude safe-upgrade hanging

2008-02-16 Thread Tobias Nissen
Steve Lamb wrote: Tobias Nissen wrote: [...] When in the Preconfiguring-stage, does `ps aux` show something unusual? Looks like it is hanging on exim's preconfig? Try purging exim4 (if you customised your config, save it beforehand) and then do the safe-upgrade. If that finished

Re: Check/Get all files (not) belonging to packages

2008-02-11 Thread Tobias Nissen
Hi Sven! Sven Joachim wrote: [Recommended cruft and debsums] Thank you! That's exactly what I was looking for. Regards, Tobias pgpjGJuof5tVi.pgp Description: PGP signature

Check/Get all files (not) belonging to packages

2008-02-11 Thread Tobias Nissen
Hi! 1. Is there a tool that lists all files _not_ belonging to an installed package? I mean something more clever than just executing a dpkg -S for each file... (which is madness!) 2. Is there a tool that compares each file belonging to an installed package to the corresponding file in the

Re: How to get hardware info

2008-01-14 Thread Tobias Nissen
Hi abdelkader! abdelkader belahcene wrote: lspci gives 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5751 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 01) don't not the name of module lshw is not installed, is it an alone package or belongs to a more complete one. thanks `aptitude

Re: [OT] Connecting to ssh server from php script

2007-11-23 Thread Tobias Nissen
Hi Misko! Misko wrote: I am able to connect to telnet server from php script to log in, send some commands and log out automaticly. Now I do need to do this with ssh server. Is this possible? Please send me info how to do it or where can I find it on the web. Expect[0] does exactly that.

Re: help exporting files from guest to host in QEMU....

2007-11-18 Thread Tobias Nissen
Hi Michael! Michael Pobega wrote: [QEMU] Or is there a simpler method to get files out of the guest environment to the host one? [...] Well, I'm not sure if this would work, but can't you just loop mount the image file as you would an ISO type file? Again, I'm not sure if it works, but it's

Re: How to set Sun-JVM as the default compatible JVM for eclipse?

2007-11-17 Thread Tobias Nissen
Hi Michael! Michael Yang wrote: I had both gcj java and sun java installed on my system Lenny/Sid, and I have set the sun java as my default jvm. # update-alternatives --config java But when launching my eclipse, it always uses the gcj java as its default vm, and in consequence, returns

Re: How to set Sun-JVM as the default compatible JVM for eclipse?

2007-11-17 Thread Tobias Nissen
Hi Michael! Michael Yang wrote: One another thing: I put the variable JAVA_HOME in /etc/profile or $HOME/.bash_profile file, but I can't get the value in terminal until manually source the file: # source /etc/profile # cat /etc/profile JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun;

Re: Debian Lenny freezes in X

2007-11-06 Thread Tobias Nissen
Hi Lars! Lars wrote: I'm running Debian Lenny (kernel 2.6.22-2) on my laptop Asus M6Ne. After 5-10 min. in X the system freezes up (or part of it). Does the screen also blank or does it just freeze? I have/had a similar Problem. Maybe it's the same. Does yours also occur if there is no

Re: Debian Lenny freezes in X

2007-11-06 Thread Tobias Nissen
Hi Lars! Lars wrote: [...] Tobias wrote: I have/had a similar Problem. Maybe it's the same. Does yours also occur if there is no network (internet) connection? I looked at the connection and it showed, that I create the freeze in Xfce4 by unplugging the cable (syslog at the end, dmesg said

Re: Installation Problem

2007-10-06 Thread Tobias Nissen
Hi Amit! Hi Frank! Amit Uttamchandani wrote: frank asabere [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Could you plesae help to install packages like apache, postgresql, php4 libapache-mod-perl. since l have all the debain ver 3.1 14 cds . [...] just do the following: sudo apt-get install apache

Re: xserver-xorg question

2007-10-06 Thread Tobias Nissen
Hi Jude! Jude DaShiell wrote: It's actually dexconf having the problem writing a file claiming the default xserver isn't configured. I may have hardware debian doesn't know how to detect on its own and didn't specify it earlier. dexconf uses the debconf database to build an xorg.conf file.

Re: (etch) Using aptitude after using dselect - any issues?

2007-10-06 Thread Tobias Nissen
Hi Martin! Martin Waller wrote: Is it safe to switch to using aptititude as my package manager after having used dselect up to now? Yes, it is safe. dselect and aptitude use different databases. For a comparison, see Joey Hess' article about aptitude vs. dselect[0]. HTH, Tobias [0]

Re: RAID vs Multiple Drives

2007-07-25 Thread Tobias Nissen
Hi! Adrian Hall wrote: RAID is a method of spreading your data across disks.It can vary from simply treating all of your disks as one large disk (and providing no redundancy for your data) to what's known as striping where your data is written to multiple disks in a way that means if one of

Re: cmdline tool to search through pdf files?

2007-06-21 Thread Tobias Nissen
Hello Bruno! Bruno Buys wrote: I'd like to be able to search keywords in pdf files using cmd line tools. My intention is to write shell scripts to automate heavy duty keyword searching. Anyone has experience with that? As Tod wrote *most* PDFs are mainly text, i.e. not all. But for those

Re: Any good and high quality music player?

2007-04-13 Thread Tobias Nissen
Bob wrote: [...] then set the master volume to 30% and increase the PCM or whatever controls the MP3 playback volume to 100% then tinker with the master to get the best quality. Funny, here[0] it's the other way round. When increasing the PCM volume over 60% (depending of the volume of the

Re: Removing motd from ssh logins

2007-03-18 Thread Tobias Nissen
Marco De Vitis wrote: I'd like to prevent the motd from appearing when someone logs in via ssh on an Etch machine. I already have PrintMotd no in /etc/ssh/sshd_config, but the motd still appears. Place the file .hushlogin into the homedir of the remote user. See the section FILES in man

Re: Removing motd from ssh logins

2007-03-18 Thread Tobias Nissen
Marco De Vitis wrote: Place the file .hushlogin into the homedir of the remote user. Uhm, thanks, it works, but I'd prefer doing it the right way... If you use pam (grep UsePAM /etc/ssh/sshd_config) then you might want to disable printing of the motd in /etc/pam.d/ssh. Look for a line like