Re: sarge: gdm login screen: font too small

2005-06-12 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
john doe wrote: I don't have that file, not even /etc/X11/xdm directory. Do I really need to install xdm package to adjust it? I thought we are talking about gdm here. -jd On 6/12/05, B. L. Jilek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: john doe wrote: I did a standard installation, somehow the font on g

Re: sarge: gdm login screen: font too small

2005-06-12 Thread Jochen Schulz
john doe: > > I did a standard installation, somehow the font on gdm login screen is > so small it's almost unrecognizable. But once I login, all the fonts > are in reasonable sizes. Anyone else has a similar problem? I searched > around and couldn't find any answer. The gdm.conf file never > expli

Re: sarge: gdm login screen: font too small

2005-06-11 Thread john doe
I don't have that file, not even /etc/X11/xdm directory. Do I really need to install xdm package to adjust it? I thought we are talking about gdm here. -jd On 6/12/05, B. L. Jilek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > john doe wrote: > > I did a standard installation, somehow the font on gdm login screen

Re: sarge: gdm login screen: font too small

2005-06-11 Thread B. L. Jilek
john doe wrote: > I did a standard installation, somehow the font on gdm login screen is > so small it's almost unrecognizable. But once I login, all the fonts > are in reasonable sizes. Anyone else has a similar problem? I searched > around and couldn't find any answer. The gdm.conf file never > e

Re: sarge r0a hangs on Tyan Thunder K8W

2005-06-11 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
I am forwarding this to debian-boot and setting MFT, as it is more appropriate there. -Roberto On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 07:19:33PM +0100, debian wrote: > Dear all, > > I have a Tyan Thunder K8W board > (http://www.tyan.com/products/html/thunderk8w_spec.html) > with a single opteron 246 as I remem

Re: Sarge->Etch: so far so good

2005-06-11 Thread =?iso-8859-1?Q?Rog=E9rio?= Brito
On Jun 11 2005, Maurits van Rees wrote: > On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 11:15:32AM +0200, Jonathan Kaye wrote: > > Like many others on this list I am tracking "testing" which is now Etch > > rather than Sarge. It would be nice to receive regular reports on how > > the transition is going. > > Good to hea

Re: Sarge->Etch: so far so good

2005-06-11 Thread Jonathan Kaye
En/La Maurits van Rees ha escrit, a 11/06/05 16:16: > On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 11:15:32AM +0200, Jonathan Kaye wrote: > >>I'm happy to report >>that as of 11:00 CEST I have had no problems whatsoever. > > > Good to hear. > > >>It would be a great service if anyone encountering problems write t

Re: Sarge->Etch: so far so good

2005-06-11 Thread Maurits van Rees
On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 11:15:32AM +0200, Jonathan Kaye wrote: > Like many others on this list I am tracking "testing" which is now Etch > rather than Sarge. It would be nice to receive regular reports on how > the transition is going. Obviously this depends on what packages are > installed and bei

Re: Sarge Disks

2005-06-09 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Roberto C. Sanchez, > On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 11:48:26PM +0100, Chris Robinson wrote: > > Hi > > > > I think Sarge is super, but can anyone tell me where to find out whats on > > disks > > 1-14? > > > > I have been using Debian for about 2 years, but have not been able to > > figu

Re: Sarge Disks

2005-06-09 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 11:48:26PM +0100, Chris Robinson wrote: > Hi > > I think Sarge is super, but can anyone tell me where to find out whats on > disks > 1-14? > > I have been using Debian for about 2 years, but have not been able to figure > out what is on the disks. > Stuff. You more t

Re: sarge testing->stable and USB mouse issue

2005-06-09 Thread Jon Dowland
On 6/9/05, Jon Dowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [Footnote: I may be having the same problem at home, too (similarly > sarge 2.6.11, albeit PS2 mouse this time). However I can't confirm > that, I haven't used that machine much recently and I think the mouse > actually was physically unplugged a

Re: Sarge release

2005-06-07 Thread Christopher Smiga
I forgot to mention that it also says... "If you installed other than from a CD or DVD (for example, netboot, or booting from floppy and installing the base system from the network), you are not affected by this bug." Christopher Hal Vaughan wrote: On Tuesday 07 June 2005 03:54 pm,

Re: Sarge release

2005-06-07 Thread Christopher Smiga
The note says "If you have already installed a system using a 3.1r0 CD/DVD image, you do not need to reinstall. Instead, simply edit /etc/apt/sources.list, look for any lines mentioning security.debian.org, change "testing" to "stable", and remove "# " from the start of the line." So I

Re: Sarge release

2005-06-07 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Tuesday 07 June 2005 03:54 pm, Christopher Smiga wrote: > I saw this on a mirror site earlier today. > > - > > > Note: 3.1r0 CD image problem > > A bug has been discovered in the 3.1r0 CD/DVD images: new installs from > these images will have a commented-out entry in /etc/apt/sources.l

Re: Sarge release

2005-06-07 Thread Christopher Smiga
I saw this on a mirror site earlier today. - Note: 3.1r0 CD image problem A bug has been discovered in the 3.1r0 CD/DVD images: new installs from these images will have a commented-out entry in /etc/apt/sources.list for "http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates" rather than an active e

Re: Sarge release

2005-06-07 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 20:27 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > I took the occasion of this release to review my sources.list and preferences. > In the process I did some experiments and found a puzzle that I hope > someone will explain. > > With sarge in my sources.list I have nothing to download beca

Re: Sarge Released!

2005-06-06 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 09:52:20PM -0400, Curt Howland wrote: > Ok, now that Debian 3.1 is out, does anyone know if any books will be > written to cover the new distribution? > > The three year old books are not something I want to recommend to > newbies. > > Curt- Help out one of our Debian D

Re: Sarge Released!

2005-06-06 Thread Michael Madden
Curt Howland wrote: Ok, now that Debian 3.1 is out, does anyone know if any books will be written to cover the new distribution? The three year old books are not something I want to recommend to newbies. Curt- I'm not sure when this will be published, but it looks promising: http://www.w

Re: Sarge Released!

2005-06-06 Thread David Witbrodt
  Curt Howland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Ok, now that Debian 3.1 is out, does anyone know if any books will be written to cover > the new distribution?     A new edition of "Debian GNU/Linux Bible" has been waiting for Sarge for a few months now, slated for a mid-July release last time I checked

Re: Sarge release

2005-06-06 Thread Paul E Condon
I took the occasion of this release to review my sources.list and preferences. In the process I did some experiments and found a puzzle that I hope someone will explain. With sarge in my sources.list I have nothing to download because I have been tracking sarge for almost a year. But I set source

Re: Sarge release

2005-06-06 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 07:24:30PM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: > Clive Menzies wrote: > >A message to all those responsible for the sarge release: > >http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/credits > >Many thanks for all your brilliant work accomplished with generosity and > >patience. > >A very gr

Re: Sarge release

2005-06-06 Thread Geoff Thurman
On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 11:36:37PM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: > Hi > > A message to all those responsible for the sarge release: > > http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/credits > > Many thanks for all your brilliant work accomplished with generosity and > patience. > > A very grateful user ;

Re: Sarge release

2005-06-06 Thread Joe Potter
Tom Allison wrote: > > Should I be concerned that my link to > > http://non-us.debian.org testing/non-US/non-free > and other 'non-us.debian.org' URLs? > > It seems that a lot of things are not responding. Is this the result of > 38000 users all trying to access the exact same server? > > T

Re: Sarge release

2005-06-06 Thread Tom Allison
Clive Menzies wrote: Hi A message to all those responsible for the sarge release: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/credits Many thanks for all your brilliant work accomplished with generosity and patience. A very grateful user ;) Clive Should I be concerned that my link to http://n

Re: sarge: last night's "apt-get" overwrites/changes /etc/X11/XF86Config-4

2005-06-05 Thread easy.login
John Fleming wrote: - Original Message - From: "Hannes Mayer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Sunday, June 05, 2005 10:05 AM Subject: Re: sarge: last night's "apt-get" overwrites/changes /etc/X1

Re: sarge: last night's "apt-get" overwrites/changes /etc/X11/XF86Config-4

2005-06-05 Thread Hannes Mayer
On 6/5/05, John Fleming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > Do others remember specific changes to this file? Original: [...] Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Configured Mouse" Driver "mouse" Option "CorePointer" Option "Device"

Re: sarge: last night's "apt-get" overwrites/changes /etc/X11/XF86Config-4

2005-06-05 Thread John Fleming
- Original Message - From: "Hannes Mayer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Sunday, June 05, 2005 10:05 AM Subject: Re: sarge: last night's "apt-get" overwrites/changes /etc/X11/XF86Config-4

Re: sarge: last night's "apt-get" overwrites/changes /etc/X11/XF86Config-4

2005-06-05 Thread Hannes Mayer
On 6/5/05, Marty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 05, 2005 at 11:53:19AM +0200, Hannes Mayer wrote: > >> Hi all! > >> > >> An "apt-get upgrade" last night broke my mousewheel. Furthermore the > >> mouse speed has decreased. (several (all?) XFree86 packages were

Re: sarge: last night's "apt-get" overwrites/changes /etc/X11/XF86Config-4

2005-06-05 Thread Marty
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Sun, Jun 05, 2005 at 11:53:19AM +0200, Hannes Mayer wrote: Hi all! An "apt-get upgrade" last night broke my mousewheel. Furthermore the mouse speed has decreased. (several (all?) XFree86 packages were updated) The problem is that "apt-get" seems to overwrite/change

Re: sarge: last night's "apt-get" overwrites/changes /etc/X11/XF86Config-4

2005-06-05 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sun, Jun 05, 2005 at 07:28:06PM +0200, Hannes Mayer wrote: > > Yep, testing should still default to sarge, since sarge is not released. > I dunno if there is a difference between "apt-get upgrade" and > aptitude. I actually never use aptitude. > My XF86Config-4 was definately overwritten/change

Re: sarge: last night's "apt-get" overwrites/changes /etc/X11/XF86Config-4

2005-06-05 Thread Ishwar Rattan
Upadte only updates the package cache, upgrade adds/removes packages. -ishwar On Sun, 5 Jun 2005, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > Curious. I just used aptitude to update 'testing' (which still points > to sarge, right?), got _lots_ of x-server stuff, but nothing rewrote > my config file. Is there a d

Re: sarge: last night's "apt-get" overwrites/changes /etc/X11/XF86Config-4

2005-06-05 Thread Hannes Mayer
On 6/5/05, Patrick Wiseman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 6/5/05, Hannes Mayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 6/5/05, Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sun, Jun 05, 2005 at 11:53:19AM +0200, Hannes Mayer wrote: > > > > Hi all! > > > > > > > > An "apt-get upgrade" last night

Re: sarge: last night's "apt-get" overwrites/changes /etc/X11/XF86Config-4

2005-06-05 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On 6/5/05, Hannes Mayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 6/5/05, Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 05, 2005 at 11:53:19AM +0200, Hannes Mayer wrote: > > > Hi all! > > > > > > An "apt-get upgrade" last night broke my mousewheel. Furthermore the > > > mouse speed has decrea

Re: sarge: last night's "apt-get" overwrites/changes /etc/X11/XF86Config-4

2005-06-05 Thread Hannes Mayer
On 6/5/05, Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 05, 2005 at 11:53:19AM +0200, Hannes Mayer wrote: > > Hi all! > > > > An "apt-get upgrade" last night broke my mousewheel. Furthermore the > > mouse speed has decreased. (several (all?) XFree86 packages were > > updated) > > > >

Re: sarge: last night's "apt-get" overwrites/changes /etc/X11/XF86Config-4

2005-06-05 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sun, Jun 05, 2005 at 11:53:19AM +0200, Hannes Mayer wrote: > Hi all! > > An "apt-get upgrade" last night broke my mousewheel. Furthermore the > mouse speed has decreased. (several (all?) XFree86 packages were > updated) > > The problem is that "apt-get" seems to overwrite/change the X-config >

Re: Re: Sarge/Exim4: Precedence of /etc/aliases?

2005-05-31 Thread dev.random
ecific Exim questions should be directed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cheers, dev.random. > > From: Richard Darst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2005/05/29 Sun AM 12:17:27 GMT > To: debian-user > Subject: Re: Sarge/Exim4: Precedence of /etc/aliases? > > hello, > > On S

Re: Sarge/Exim4: Precedence of /etc/aliases?

2005-05-28 Thread Dave Patterson
On Sat, May 28, 2005 at 10:13:38AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > > I have a stock Sarge install for which I am trying to setup exim4. > > However, things are not behaving as expected. > > In /etc/aliases I have: > > root: me > me: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On the box, I have run "

Re: Sarge/Exim4: Precedence of /etc/aliases?

2005-05-28 Thread Richard Darst
hello, On Sat, May 28, 2005 at 10:13:38AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > > I have a stock Sarge install for which I am trying to setup exim4. > > However, things are not behaving as expected. > > In /etc/aliases I have: > > root: me > me: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is the correct

Re: Sarge/Exim4: Precedence of /etc/aliases?

2005-05-28 Thread Wayne Topa
Wayne Topa([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: David Jardine([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > On Sat, May 28, 2005 at 10:29:30AM -0500, Steve Block wrote: > > On Sat, May 28, 2005 at 10:13:38AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >Basically, I want the box to deliver mail dir

Re: Sarge/Exim4: Precedence of /etc/aliases?

2005-05-28 Thread David Jardine
On Sat, May 28, 2005 at 10:29:30AM -0500, Steve Block wrote: > On Sat, May 28, 2005 at 10:13:38AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >I have a stock Sarge install for which I am trying to setup exim4. > > > >However, things are not behaving as expected. > > > >In /etc/aliases I have: > > > > root: m

Re: Sarge/Exim4: Precedence of /etc/aliases?

2005-05-28 Thread Steve Block
On Sat, May 28, 2005 at 10:13:38AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a stock Sarge install for which I am trying to setup exim4. However, things are not behaving as expected. In /etc/aliases I have: root: me me: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On the box, I have run "dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config",

Re: sarge 3.1 kernel

2005-05-27 Thread noc-ops
You are correct (sorry typo) it was 2.6.8-2-686 and not 2.6.8-2-386. regards, /virendra Clive Menzies wrote: On (26/05/05 18:06), noc-ops wrote: Hi, I know which kernel images are available. I'm asking for recommendation for which kernel-image should I upgrade to. Anyway, I went w/ 2.6.

Re: sarge 3.1 kernel

2005-05-27 Thread Clive Menzies
On (26/05/05 18:06), noc-ops wrote: > > Hi, > > I know which kernel images are available. I'm asking for recommendation > for which kernel-image should I upgrade to. > > Anyway, I went w/ 2.6.8-2-386 :-) Depending on your processor, you may want to upgrade to the 2.6.8-2-686 kernel. '386' wil

Re: sarge 3.1 kernel

2005-05-26 Thread BAGI Akos
noc-ops írta: Hi, I was under the impression that the latest "testing" install came w/ 2.6 kernel by default. In installing i386 the kernel still shows as 2.4? Am I missing something? Also, which kernel-image (2.6.?) should I upgrade to? Any insight will be appreciated. regards, /virend

Re: sarge 3.1 kernel

2005-05-26 Thread noc-ops
Hi, I know which kernel images are available. I'm asking for recommendation for which kernel-image should I upgrade to. Anyway, I went w/ 2.6.8-2-386 :-) regards, /virendra kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: noc-ops wrote: Hi, I was under the impression that the latest "testing" install came

Re: sarge 3.1 kernel

2005-05-26 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2005-05-26 12:03:50, schrieb noc-ops: > Hi, > > I was under the impression that the latest "testing" install came w/ 2.6 > kernel by default. In installing i386 the kernel still shows as 2.4? > > Am I missing something? Yes, Linux 2.4.27 is the default Kernel and you can get Linux 2.6.8 if y

Re: sarge 3.1 kernel

2005-05-26 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
noc-ops wrote: Hi, I was under the impression that the latest "testing" install came w/ 2.6 kernel by default. In installing i386 the kernel still shows as 2.4? Am I missing something? Also, which kernel-image (2.6.?) should I upgrade to? Any insight will be appreciated. regards, /viren

Re: sarge 3.1 kernel

2005-05-26 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 12:03:50PM -0700, noc-ops wrote: > Hi, > > I was under the impression that the latest "testing" install > came w/ 2.6 kernel by default. In installing i386 the kernel > still shows as 2.4? > > Am I missing something? > > Also, which kernel-image (2.6.?) should I upgrade

Re: Sarge Performance

2005-05-25 Thread Joris Huizer
Lars Roland wrote: So now the load looks ok, still the old Redhat is holding its head above but now it is only with 10%. This may be due to further bugs in the tg3 driver that hopefully a new kernel will fix - if not then I must fill a bug report and send it to the driver developers, it can not

Re: Sarge

2005-05-23 Thread Clive Menzies
On (23/05/05 08:07), John Moran wrote: > I need to download the latest sarge iso and do a new install and went to > the website to get it. I'm just a little confused as to what to > download. There is a testing release dates May 22 and a sarge release > dated april 27. Is sarge still testing or

Re: Sarge Performance

2005-05-22 Thread Lars Roland
On 5/21/05, Lars Roland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all > > I just replaced my company anti-virus/anti-spam mail gateway from a > Redhat 7.3 with kernel 2.4.24 to Debian Sarge with kernel 2.6.8.1. I > had hoped that this transition would lead to better performance (new > perl, better drivers i

Re: Sarge Performance

2005-05-22 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, May 21, 2005 at 05:06:47PM +0200, Lars Roland wrote: > Hi all > > I just replaced my company anti-virus/anti-spam mail gateway from a > Redhat 7.3 with kernel 2.4.24 to Debian Sarge with kernel 2.6.8.1. I > had hoped that this transition would lead to better performance (new > perl, better

Re: Sarge Performance

2005-05-21 Thread Rogério Brito
On May 22 2005, Lars Roland wrote: > I have doubled checked these numbers and they are true (perhaps Perl > 5.8 is much faster than the old version 5.6 on Redhat) - note that > most people has performance problems with spamassassin because they > have crappy DNS perfoamnce, I use a dedicated DNS s

Re: Sarge Performance

2005-05-21 Thread Lars Roland
On 5/21/05, Jochen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Lars Roland: > > > > I just replaced my company anti-virus/anti-spam mail gateway from a > > Redhat 7.3 with kernel 2.4.24 to Debian Sarge with kernel 2.6.8.1. I > > had hoped that this transition would lead to better performance (new > > per

Re: Sarge Performance

2005-05-21 Thread Jochen Schulz
* Lars Roland: > > I just replaced my company anti-virus/anti-spam mail gateway from a > Redhat 7.3 with kernel 2.4.24 to Debian Sarge with kernel 2.6.8.1. I > had hoped that this transition would lead to better performance (new > perl, better drivers in the kernel and so on) but the performance ha

Re: Sarge Performance

2005-05-21 Thread Lars Roland
On 5/21/05, Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Not sure. It appears that you have covered your bases pretty > well in terms figuring out where the bottleneck might be. I > would recommend reposting on debian-isp, since there are likely > people there that are more accustomed to de

Re: Sarge Performance

2005-05-21 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Lars Roland wrote: > Hi all > > I just replaced my company anti-virus/anti-spam mail gateway from a > Redhat 7.3 with kernel 2.4.24 to Debian Sarge with kernel 2.6.8.1. I > had hoped that this transition would lead to better performance (new > perl, better drivers in the kernel and so on) but the

RE: Sarge, coreutils and fileutils

2005-05-18 Thread Matthew Joyce
Omg, thanks Roberto. -Original Message- From: Roberto C. Sanchez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 19 May 2005 12:48 PM To: Matthew Joyce Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Sarge, coreutils and fileutils Matthew Joyce wrote: > Dear debian-user, > > I d

Re: Sarge, coreutils and fileutils

2005-05-18 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Matthew Joyce wrote: > Dear debian-user, > > I decided to build a new intranet today, grabbed sarge-netinst and > booted, installed, great. > > Now i'm trying to 'apt-get install php4' and something unpleasant is > happening. > > intranet:~# apt-get install php4 > Reading Package Lists... Don

Re: Sarge and IBM z800

2005-05-06 Thread Paolo Alexis Falcone
On 5/6/05, Marek Rudziak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > It is possible to install Debian sarge on IBM z800 ? > If yes, did you have any documentation? It should be able to, as the z800 can run the S390 port of Linux. -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sarge freeze, server colocation

2005-05-05 Thread Jon Dowland
Jacob S wrote: If it were going to be in your office, which would you put on it? Do you trust Sarge to be secure enough for your purposes? If it helps, the security manager has agreed to support sarge since the freeze. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: sarge freeze, server colocation

2005-05-05 Thread Peet Grobler
On Wed, 4 May 2005, William wrote: I am about to colocate a debian server and now I don't know if I should install woody or sarge. I'll be colocating it in 1-3 weeks. I am thinking that I should probably use sarge. Any advice? thanks William I've been running sarge on my servers for months now,

RE: sarge freeze, server colocation

2005-05-04 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
| I am about to colocate a debian server and now I don't know if I | should install woody or sarge. | I'll be colocating it in 1-3 weeks. I am thinking that I should | probably use sarge. | Any advice? I'm doing something very similar, and I chose to use Sarge. If you are nervous about it, conta

Re: sarge freeze, server colocation

2005-05-04 Thread John Smith
On Wed, 4 May 2005 14:24:59 -0400 William <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am about to colocate a debian server and now I don't know if I > should install woody or sarge. > I'll be colocating it in 1-3 weeks. I am thinking that I should > probably use sarge. > Any advice? > thanks William > > >

Re: sarge freeze, server colocation

2005-05-04 Thread Dave Ewart
On Wednesday, 04.05.2005 at 14:24 -0400, William wrote: > I am about to colocate a debian server and now I don't know if I > should install woody or sarge. > > I'll be colocating it in 1-3 weeks. I am thinking that I should > probably use sarge. > > Any advice? I believe that 'testing-security'

Re: sarge freeze, server colocation

2005-05-04 Thread Lars Roland
On 5/4/05, William <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am about to colocate a debian server and now I don't know if I > should install woody or sarge. > I'll be colocating it in 1-3 weeks. I am thinking that I should > probably use sarge. > Any advice? > thanks William Well i would defenetly go sarge,

Re: sarge freeze, server colocation

2005-05-04 Thread Jacob S
On Wed, 4 May 2005 14:24:59 -0400 William <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am about to colocate a debian server and now I don't know if I > should install woody or sarge. > I'll be colocating it in 1-3 weeks. I am thinking that I should > probably use sarge. > Any advice? As long as you are care

Re: sarge apt and init daemons

2005-05-04 Thread Phil Dyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Hasler said: > It won't restart the service if you have left at least one K link in place. > Debian provides several tools for turning services on and off. My favorite > is sysvconfig (since I wrote it). > thanks, John. I'm checking out sysvcon

Re: sarge apt and init daemons

2005-05-04 Thread John Hasler
/phil writes: > It does... what? If it checked to see if I've turned off a service... It won't restart the service if you have left at least one K link in place. Debian provides several tools for turning services on and off. My favorite is sysvconfig (since I wrote it). -- John Hasler -- To

Re: sarge apt and init daemons

2005-05-04 Thread Colin J. Ingram
Phil Dyer wrote: Nope. Because that is not how it works or has ever worked. Your expectation is skewed from reality (sorry). Hate to keep beating this. But my response is: Just because it's not how it's ever worked doesn't mean it's right. Can you give me reasoning as to *why* it works like th

Re: sarge apt and init daemons

2005-05-04 Thread Phil Dyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Miquel van Smoorenburg said: >>OK, although both solutions work, (I guess - I haven't tried the second >>solution) it still seems kludgy to me. If I use the debian supplied tool >>to remove a service from startup _totally_, and I use a debian supplied

Re: sarge apt and init daemons

2005-05-04 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Phil Dyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >Miquel van Smoorenburg said: > If you want to keep updates from starting the daemon, just chmod 644 it. >>> >>>That sounds reasonable...and simple. :) thanks. >> >> Reasonable, simple, a

Re: sarge apt and init daemons

2005-05-02 Thread Phil Dyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Miquel van Smoorenburg said: >>> If you want to keep updates from starting the daemon, just chmod 644 it. >> >>That sounds reasonable...and simple. :) thanks. > > Reasonable, simple, and wrong :) > > As long as one start or stop link is still presen

Re: sarge apt and init daemons

2005-05-02 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Phil Dyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >Hash: SHA1 > >David Clymer wrote: >> >> The debian post install script probably doest go through the rc.* >> directories looking for runlevel entries since these are all just >> symlinks to a

Re: Sarge testing 2.6 boot problems

2005-01-07 Thread Jordi
Hello John. My english is not very good so. I have used for two years debian woody, in this time I have not problems booting 2.4 customized kernels. Some months ago, I have changed to Sarge, and since then, I have not been able to boot 2.6 kernels, with problems very similars to those

Re: sarge dist-upgrade today, no more keyboard

2005-01-06 Thread Mike Chandler
On Thursday 06 January 2005 09:06 am, Peter B. Schmidt wrote: > Hi there, > > I had the same problem, kdm took my keyboard from me. I fixed it by > copying the kdmrc.dpkg-dist over the exisiting kdmrc, which I have > chosen to keep during install (which wass the cause of the problem;). > > Thanks t

Re: Re: sarge dist-upgrade today, no more keyboard

2005-01-06 Thread Peter B. Schmidt
Hi there, I had the same problem, kdm took my keyboard from me. I fixed it by copying the kdmrc.dpkg-dist over the exisiting kdmrc, which I have chosen to keep during install (which wass the cause of the problem;). Thanks to the guys at #debian and #debian-kde who pointed me there! Cheers, Pete

Re: sarge dist-upgrade today, no more keyboard

2005-01-06 Thread Mike Chandler
> would a dpkg-reconifigure xserver-xfree86 have "fixed" this?? > > C > No. That was the first idea I tried. If I didn't have access to this mailing list, my system would be useless. Thanks! Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [

Re: sarge dist-upgrade today, no more keyboard

2005-01-06 Thread C. Hurschler
would a dpkg-reconifigure xserver-xfree86 have "fixed" this?? C On Thursday 06 January 2005 07:43, Mike Chandler wrote: > On Wednesday 05 January 2005 06:24 pm, John A Chaves wrote: > > On Wednesday 05 January 2005 07:45 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I just now checked and I don't have the f

Re: sarge dist-upgrade today, no more keyboard

2005-01-05 Thread Mike Chandler
On Wednesday 05 January 2005 06:24 pm, John A Chaves wrote: > On Wednesday 05 January 2005 07:45 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I just now checked and I don't have the file "Xservers.dpkg-old" in that > > directory. > > Are you sure that's where it is? I don't have any way to search for it > > wi

Re: sarge dist-upgrade today, no more keyboard

2005-01-05 Thread John A Chaves
On Wednesday 05 January 2005 07:45 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I just now checked and I don't have the file "Xservers.dpkg-old" in that > directory. > Are you sure that's where it is? I don't have any way to search for it > without a keyboard. I think that you only get the .dpkg-old file if y

Re: sarge dist-upgrade today, no more keyboard

2005-01-05 Thread mailmanmike
- Original Message - From: "John A Chaves" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2005 11:44 PM Subject: Re: sarge dist-upgrade today, no more keyboard On Wednesday 05 January 2005 01:12 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry if this has been covered, search

Re: sarge: netinstall and ppoe

2005-01-05 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Thank you very much for the advices Andreas. With the best regards Marcelo -- Marcelo Chiapparini [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 05.01.05. 21:07, Andreas Janssen wrote: Hello Marcelo Chiapparini (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I want to install sarge in a new system. So I have two questions: > a) Can I use a

Re: sarge: netinstall and ppoe

2005-01-05 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Marcelo Chiapparini (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I want to install sarge in a new system. So I have two questions: > a) Can I use a minimal bootable CD over a PPOE connection? I am asking > because the information in the Debian web only mentions PPP: "The > network install assumes that yo

Re: Sarge on IBM Thinkcentre A50 - instability

2005-01-05 Thread Kent West
George Karaolides wrote: On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 08:24 -0600, Kent West wrote: I'd leave the machine in console mode (no X) for that period of time, to see if the machine gets sluggish. If not, you know it's somehow related to running X. I have left it on console mode, and the problem reapp

Re: Sarge & Sid security

2005-01-05 Thread Cliff Flood
Joey Hess wrote: Hope that helps, though I doubt it. I will say that I doubt that many people have devoted the time to looking at the rates security holes are fixed in stable, unstable, and testing to sensibly compare them. Much of the received wisdom on this topic is out of date or wrong. Thanks J

Re: Sarge & Sid security

2005-01-05 Thread Joey Hess
Cliff Flood wrote: > How do people feel about running Sarge or Sid facing the Internet > considering it doesn't get security updates as promptly as Woody? I'm > more concerned about daemons and remote exploitation than local issues. > What, in the past, have been the response times for updated pa

Re: Sarge on IBM Thinkcentre A50 - instability

2005-01-05 Thread George Karaolides
On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 08:24 -0600, Kent West wrote: > I'd leave the machine in console mode (no X) for that period of time, to > see if the machine gets sluggish. If not, you know it's somehow related > to running X. I have left it on console mode, and the problem reappeared. It therefore seem

Re: sarge dist-upgrade today, no more keyboard

2005-01-05 Thread mailmanmike
- Original Message - From: "John A Chaves" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2005 11:44 PM Subject: Re: sarge dist-upgrade today, no more keyboard On Wednesday 05 January 2005 01:12 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry if this has been covered, search

Re: sarge dist-upgrade today, no more keyboard

2005-01-05 Thread Lucas Albers
John A Chaves said: > I had the same problem. Don't know which Xserver options > cause the problem, but restoring /etc/kde3/kdm/Xservers > from /etc/kde3/kdm/Xservers.dpkg-old solved it for me. ...file as bug... -- --Luke CS Sysadmin, Montana State University-Bozeman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: sarge dist-upgrade today, no more keyboard

2005-01-05 Thread John A Chaves
On Wednesday 05 January 2005 01:12 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Sorry if this has been covered, search function gets no result... > I have been running sarge flawlessly since May 2004, doing regular apt-get > dist-upgrades. > Today, dist-upgrade included over 100 MBs of mostly KDE stuff, and oth

Re: Sarge

2005-01-04 Thread YH
Thanks Kent for your kind reply. I'll try to install sarge. Apologize for my ignorant offense to the list. Peace. YH Kent West wrote: YH wrote: Hi, Is sarge stable to install? Depends on your criteria. For personal workstation use, I find even Sid to be stable enough for my needs, and that way I

Re: Sarge

2005-01-04 Thread Kent West
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 08:22:20AM -0600, Kent West wrote: If you're only wanting to upgrade your kernel, and the 2.6 series is not in the Woody repositories (implied from your post, but I haven't checked lately), and you have network access, you can add the Stable lin

Re: Sarge

2005-01-04 Thread gcrimp
On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 08:22:20AM -0600, Kent West wrote: > YH wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Is sarge stable to install? > > Depends on your criteria. For personal workstation use, I find even Sid > to be stable enough for my needs, and that way I get all the newest goodies. > > If I were installi

Re: Sarge on IBM Thinkcentre A50 - instability

2005-01-04 Thread George Karaolides
On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 08:24 -0600, Kent West wrote: > but after a while the > >problem reappears. > > > How long a while? Minutes? Hours? Days? Hours. > I'd leave the machine in console mode (no X) for that period of time, to > see if the machine gets sluggish. If not, you know it's somehow rela

Re: Sarge on IBM Thinkcentre A50 - instability

2005-01-04 Thread Kent West
George Karaolides wrote: Greetings, I am having problems running Debian Sarge on IBM ThinkCentre A50 PC's. I have made an installation of the Desktop Environment from tasksel using Debian Installer RC2. At some point the machine starts to behave in an errratic manner: the system clock jumps forwar

Re: Sarge

2005-01-04 Thread Kent West
YH wrote: Hi, Is sarge stable to install? Depends on your criteria. For personal workstation use, I find even Sid to be stable enough for my needs, and that way I get all the newest goodies. If I were installing a non-critical server, I'd probably go with Stable. For a critical server, I'd stic

Re: Sarge

2005-01-03 Thread Alan Chandler
On Monday 03 January 2005 23:07, YH wrote: > Hi, Its bad ettiquette to reply to a message with a completely new thread > > Is sarge stable to install? I want to use 2.6 kernel, either I can > upgrade kernel from woody or re-install completely from Sarge, which one > is better? Read the following

Re: Sarge

2005-01-03 Thread YH
Hi, Is sarge stable to install? I want to use 2.6 kernel, either I can upgrade kernel from woody or re-install completely from Sarge, which one is better? Thanks and please CC my email address. YH -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [

Re: sarge install problem: read-only disk

2005-01-01 Thread jon salenger
Title: Re: sarge install problem: read-only disk Sorry for the repost. Replied to digest by accident. Thought better to keep it in the thread. Hi Andreas, on 1/1/05 5:18 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Andreas Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 01 Jan 2005

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