Creating progress bars with debconf

2009-10-07 Thread roy hills
I want to use debconf to display progress information to the user. I'm doing a netboot install of lenny on many i386 systems using URL preseeding plus a late_command shell script. I want to give user feedback from the late_command script. I've seen some references to db_progress, but there

Re: Copied debian etch system assigns eth2 to only Ethernet adapter

2008-08-26 Thread roy hills
Have a look in the following file: % cat /etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-net.rules Thanks. That was what was causing the issue, and removing the unwanted lines solved the problem. I can see the rationale behind this new scheme, but I wonder if it doesn't cause more problems than it

Copied debian etch system assigns eth2 to only Ethernet adapter

2008-08-25 Thread roy hills
I have a Debian Etch system running on VMware workstation 6. The system has been copied from another system using dump/restore in single user mode followed by re-installing grub in the MBR. The system boots and runs fine. The only oddity is that it assigns the name eth2 to the only Ethernet

nmap build-depends on libpcap-dev causing problems - is this a bug?

2005-11-04 Thread Roy Hills
I'm having problems building nmap and xprobe from source because of build-depends on libpcap-dev. I'm running sarge on i386 and have libpcap0.8-dev installed, which allows both nmap and xprobe to build without error if I use dpkg-buildpackage -d to override the dependency check. If I try to

Re: Woody Sendmail: blacklist_recipients feature not working

2004-09-22 Thread roy hills
From: Oliver Fuchs [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: roy hills [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Woody Sendmail: blacklist_recipients feature not working Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 06:16:56 +0200 Did you rebuilt the sendmail.cf file? Did you restart sendmail? Yes, I re-ran sendmailconfig after making the change

Woody Sendmail: blacklist_recipients feature not working

2004-09-21 Thread roy hills
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