from:"Colin"

Can anyone give any advise on getting the 'Listen Live' link on
www.helpmechill.co.uk to work.

Thanks in advance.
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Application to listen to online radio

On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 23:45 +0100, Alec Wright wrote:

> On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 23:41 +0100, Colin Murphy wrote:
> > Can anyone give any advise on getting the 'Listen Live' link on
> > www.helpmechill.co.uk to work.
> > 
> Is that the right URL? It's an ad farm.

Sorry again, s/be www.helpmechill.com

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Application to listen to online radio

On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 23:41 +0100, Colin Murphy wrote:
> Can anyone give any advise on getting the 'Listen Live' link on
> www.helpmechill.co.uk to work.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
Sorry, meant to add that I'm running Feisty. On a PC, err, in colour.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Application to listen to online radio

On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 01:01 +0100, Gav Ford wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 23:41 +0100, Colin Murphy wrote:
> > Can anyone give any advise on getting the 'Listen Live' link on
> > www.helpmechill.com to work.
> > 

> Works fine with mplayer, open a terminal and install mplayer with: 
> 
>   sudo aptitude install mplayer
> 
> Then play the station with:
> 
>   mplayer mms://mediasrv-the.musicradio.com/Chill

This is top dollar stuff.  How did you work out what the url of the
actual stream is?  That's the it that had me baffled.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Installing Ubuntu to dual-boot (partition sizes)

2007-08-31 Thread Colin Watson

On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 06:25:13PM +0100, Mark Harrison wrote:
> I've only ever installed Ubuntu as the only O/S on PCs before, but I do 
> need the laptop to be able to run Windows Media Centre from time to 
> time, so dual-boot is the way to go.
> 
> I have an 80Gb HDD, with 40+Gb free at the moment... so in principle 
> could re-partition down, to give, say, 20Gb to Ubuntu, and leave 20 
> still free for Windows.
> 
> Some of the files are at the "wrong end" of the disk, though, so I don't 
> have a big block of contiguous space free.

The Feisty installer should be able to do this resize job regardless of
contiguity: ntfsresize is clever enough to be able to relocate data as
necessary.

(Obviously make backups of anything valuable first, as you would for any
major invasive exercise like installing an OS.)

> Oh - and in an ideal world, I'd like to set things up so the local email 
> store (Thunderbird) was on some kind of drive that could be read/written 
> reliably by EITHER O/S  is this viable, or am I going to need to 
> keep two copies of my "Offline IMAP" ?

A FAT32 partition should be fine for now. In the future (Ubuntu 7.10 and
on) we should be able to support writing to NTFS as well.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Release Party for Gutsy?

On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 06:45:15PM +0100, Alan Pope wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-09-04 at 22:00 +0100, Josh Blacker wrote:
> > What time is the final iso released? 
> 
> When they say so :)
> 
> When feisty released the ISO was on the site for a couple of days and
> didn't change when the release announcement was made.

There were two factors there, which are the same for every release. I
was kind of amazed at how much some people got upset that we were
telling them we hadn't released yet even though the ISO images were
available.

Firstly, obviously, you don't want to build the final ISO image ten
minutes before release (although we came pretty close with the Warty
preview ...); you want to have plenty of time to test it first. Ideally,
in fact, the release candidate would be identical to the release, though
this has never actually happened.

Secondly, one of the things on the critical path to release is always
getting the ISO images out to mirrors so that Canonical only gets mostly
swamped rather than entirely swamped; thus, we put it in a hidden
directory on releases.ubuntu.com for a while before the actual release
and just symlink it into place near the end. Even after it's symlinked
into place on the main site, we still need to get mirrors to rsync that
update before we can release. This whole strategy is stymied by people
getting excited and telling everyone to download early, before the
announcement goes out; we send out the announcement once we're satisfied
that enough mirrors have got it. So remember, if you tell everyone,
"hey, the images are up, go and download them!" before the announcement
goes out, chances are you're actually delaying the release!

> > Just thinking if you could install a new operating system on your
> > laptop over breakfast it would make good press.
> 
> Or just install feisty and then dist-upgrade to gutsy repeatedly until
> the night before or the morning of the release. 

Not so press-friendly though.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Release Party for Gutsy?

On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 10:00:07PM +0100, Josh Blacker wrote:
> What time is the final iso released? Just thinking if you could
> install a new operating system on your laptop over breakfast it would
> make good press. A windows installation would take until at least
> brunch to finish, without all the extra drivers and programs...

Sorry to say it's more usually around the middle of the day in the UK;
with Canonical's HQ in London, trying to release first thing usually
doesn't work out, as there are too many things to do that day
beforehand. That sort of time of day also means we have no trouble
catching the European press, while the American press pick it up as soon
as they wake up.

Of course, this might work out OK for morning launch parties as long as
they were willing to run a bit late.

This may vary, though, and we try not to announce exact times in
advance, otherwise you end up with the "OMG, Ubuntu is five minutes late
to release!!!1!" thing, which gets annoying. :-)

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Release Party for Gutsy?

On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 01:53:37PM +0100, Dianne Reuby wrote:
> Have you thought of running an online version for those who can't make
> the location(s)? A virtual assistants group that I belonged to had a
> virtual office party every Christmas using our chatroom (MSN, Trillian,
> Gaim, etc). We all just dropped in and out whenever work or other
> commitments allowed.

We had (IIRC) #ubuntu-releaseparty on Freenode last time round.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Release Party for Gutsy?

On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 10:31:18PM +0100, John Levin wrote:
> I'd like to suggest, for the late-waking Londoners, the Pembury Tavern 
> in Hackney.
> 
> http://www.individualpubs.co.uk/pembury/
> 
> I know it's a bit out of the way, and I admit I've not been there since 
> it reopened, but it has wireless and runs linux. See the last issue of 
> Linux User and Developer for the full story, or this blog post:
> http://erik-fuller.blogspot.com/2007/05/now-here-is-pub-that-isnt-going-to-be.html

Steve's a friend of mine and a former Debian developer (see
xorg/debian/rules, for instance), and the Pembury's a fine pub. I second
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Re-installs - How do exp users do it?

On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 10:42:11AM +0100, Eddie Armstrong wrote:
> I often read users saying when a new or new stable version is released 
> they do a fresh install and then re-install all their configs and 
> programs and other goodies.
> So...
> If I want to do a fresh install as above to end up with almost a clone 
> of my present system running on a new version of Ubuntu (or just a clean 
> one ) how can I get all my settings and all my programs etc without 
> doing it all manually - one program at a time  ?? How do the exp people 
> do it?

IME most of the real experts just upgrade, and that's what we (the
Ubuntu development team) recommend. You should only need to reinstall if
you've really screwed up your system and can't figure out how to get it
back.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubunter installer

2007-09-12 Thread Colin Watson

On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 09:17:12AM +0100, Robin Hall wrote:
> I keep getting emails under the above heading but have no idea what they 
> represent .  I would be grateful if some kind soul will spare the time 
> to explain to me what purpose these emails serve.

As I already said to you via a moderation message from ubuntu-devel,
they mean that you're subscribed to one of the *-changes mailing lists
which receives notifications of all changes developers make to the
respective Ubuntu releases. If you don't want to receive them, then
unsubscribe from those mailing lists.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] How do kernel builds etc determine the UUID of the root partition?

2007-09-14 Thread Colin Watson

On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 11:59:50PM +0100, Martyn wrote:
> Some time ago I upgraded my hard drive, & rather than reinstall I did a dump
> & restore of / . Consequently the new disk/partition has a different UUID to
> the old one,  afterwards rather than faff about with UUIDs I modified
> /etc/fstab & /boot/grub/menu.lst to use good old /dev/sda6 & all was well;
> however when I recently did a kernel upgrade it put the UUID field back in
> menu.lst BUT it put the wrong UUID (I think it had the one from the of the
> old disk/partition & not the current one) and consequently it wouldn't
> reboot without a bit of fiddling.

You missed a spot in menu.lst. See the "# kopt=" line (yes, it looks
like a comment; don't uncomment it, just edit the root= bit). Run
update-grub when you've finished to test it.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Hard drive

2007-09-17 Thread Colin Watson

On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 09:27:21AM +0100, Tom Bamford wrote:
> I believe it's better to use ntfs-3g rather than ntfs as the filesystem 
> type, unless they mean the same thing now.

They mean the same thing in Gutsy, but I'd be inclined to stick with
just ntfs in Feisty.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Launchpad Poll for LoCo contact

2007-09-28 Thread Colin McCarthy

On 9/27/07, Chris Rowson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> Could whoever is looking after the poll, please delete the incorrect
> poll as it may well confuse some users and effect the vote.
>
> Cheers
>
> Chris


I hope their wont be any dimpled chads (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chad_(paper)) with this election. :-)

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] It's the simple things that baffle me...

2007-10-02 Thread Colin Watson

On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 10:33:13AM +0100, David Restall - System Administrator 
wrote:
> every now and then I get an email and I want to reply.  I save the
> message and edit it using vim.  The text, instead of having spaces
> in it has =20 (equal sign two zero in case that gets interpreted), this
> equals escape sequence isn't always followed by 20, it can have other
> characters or just be at the end of a line for example.

This is called "quoted-printable" encoding, in case that helps you find
a tool to decode it. (As somebody else pointed out, mutt does this
automatically.)

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Windows Home Server

2007-10-04 Thread Colin McCarthy

On 10/4/07, Alan Pope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Pretty much already done:-
>
>
> https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/ubuntu-easy-business-server
> https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/ebox
>
> :)
>
> The plan is for Ubuntu to release a server product which achieves many
> of the goals for a small office / home office product, with an easy to
> use admin tool.
>
> Cheers,
> Al.



Where does Obuntu fit in with this (https://launchpad.net/~obuntu)?  Is
UbuntuEasyBusinessServer the new name for Obuntu or are they two different
competing versions?

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Testing a machine with a Live CD

2007-10-09 Thread Colin Murphy

On Wednesday 03 October 2007 15:55:26 Neil Greenwood wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> What programs do people run on a new machine that's booted off the
> Live CD to check that everything is working/supported?
>
It may be obvious, but I check for things that I know to be broken, to some 
extent, in the current, installed, version.  For me, this was Kaffeine and 
the need the for the cx88-dvb module to be loaded manually.  In 7.10 I can 
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] RM £169 linux-ok notebook

2007-10-09 Thread Colin McCarthy

On 10/9/07, Mac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> What do you reckon to this:
>
> http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/10/09/rm_asus_launches_minibook/
>
>
> Mac
>

Cool, glad I work in a school so hopefully can get a demo unit from RM.
Would be prefect for whipping out on the train and doing a bit of work.

I am sure it will be sales to schools only so possible people will miss out
on this device.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] apt-get distupgrade (to gutsy)

2007-10-12 Thread Colin Watson

On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 12:24:00PM +0100, Michael Holloway wrote:
> OUCH:
> 
> "
> Could not install 'debconf'
> 
> The upgrade will continue but the 'debconf' package may not be in
> working state. Please consider submitting a bugreport about it.
> 
> subprocess post-installation script killed by signal (Segmentation
> fault), core dumped
> "

I have no idea what's going on here. I can tell you that it's very
unlikely to be debconf's fault; debconf is written in pure Perl and such
code is not supposed to be *able* to segfault. It's something else, but
I don't know what ...

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] apt-get distupgrade (to gutsy)

2007-10-12 Thread Colin Watson

On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 11:13:07AM +0100, Dave Walker wrote:
> I suggested a minimal "/" and the bulk for "/home" to somebody a few
> months ago, and he had the argument that making them separate "Wasn't
> right for everybody".  I'm not sure I can see how... but anyway - it
> makes me happy.  Infact, I would really like to see the default
> installation follow this - as it makes a clean install _much_ easier.

This suggestion comes up quite frequently, but the problem is that a
novice will have no idea how much space to allocate to each; there is
enough variation that there's no one suggestion we can make which would
be good for everyone. If they get it wrong it's a real pain in the arse
to change, requiring expert help.

I would much rather improve support for reinstalling while preserving
/home, which is on the agenda for Ubuntu 8.04 (though it's early days
and that's not a promise!). That would take care of the main root
problem without creating a rod for our own backs further down the line.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] RM £169 linux-ok notebook

2007-10-18 Thread Colin McCarthy

On 10/9/07, Colin McCarthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On 10/9/07, Mac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > What do you reckon to this:
> >
> > http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/10/09/rm_asus_launches_minibook/
> >
> >
> > Mac
> >
>
> Cool, glad I work in a school so hopefully can get a demo unit from RM.
> Would be prefect for whipping out on the train and doing a bit of work.
>
> I am sure it will be sales to schools only so possible people will miss
> out on this device.
>
> Colin
>
>

I spoke to our RM salesman today trying to get a demo unit of the new RM
Minibook (http://www.rm.com/HE/Products/Product.asp?cref=PD1024415)  but RM
only have 1000 of the units total to sell at the moment so have none
available for loan to school for a demo.  Their sales staff don't even have
demo units yet.

It seems Asus only have 2000 of them in the UK, kept 1000 for themselves to
sell before Xmas and gave RM 1000 to sell to schools.  My salesman said the
interest about this device from schools has been HUGE!  They orginally
planned to launch it in January at the BETT show but so many people enquired
about it they moved the release date forward.  Hence the lack of stock.

Hopefully I can get a demo unit in December:-)

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] PC Freezing on updates with Gutsy

2007-10-19 Thread Colin Wylie





Kirrus wrote:

  Hi

- "Colin Wylie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
  
  
Hi,


to the PC - the installer froze up at about 82% on the configuring apt
 
system freezing and locking up again. Finally (after a few google 
searches) I found a list of repositories, and tried via apt-get -
whcih 
worked.  But as I don't know the names of all packages and
dependencies 
I want - this aint too good :(

So - has anyone else encountered this - or does it sound like I may have 
a hardware fault? It's driving me nuts. I really want to ditch Windows
for good, but only if it's gonna work!

  
  

It sounds like you *may* have a dodgy install cd... can you check the md5sums for your disc/*.iso file against what it should be?

There's a good how-to here:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToMD5SUM

(What the sum should look like can be found here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuHashes)

Regards,

Kirrus

  

I'll give that a blast - but I did verify my CD from the  boot menu -
and it said it was OK.

Badger.




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[ubuntu-uk] PC Freezing on updates with Gutsy

2007-10-19 Thread Colin Wylie

Hi,

I'm fairly new to Linux in general, and tried out a few distros - 
settling on Ubuntu - which seems to me anyway - the most user friendly 
and visually appealing one I have come across thus far. Any ways - I was 
using Feisty off and on for a couple of months, and waited with baited 
breath for Gutsy to be released. I did a fresh install yesterday and 
encountered some problems initially. While copying the installer files 
to the PC - the installer froze up at about 82% on the configuring apt 
section. Aftr a few attempts (and a reboot of my router) it installed 
perfectly ( or so I thought).

Once installed, I proceeded to install the Nvidia driver from the 
restricted list, and rebooted - and lo and behold my system came up at 
1280x1024 resolution - something Feisty always refused to do for me. 
Beginning to get excited - I went ahead and popped into the Add /Remove 
applications area to see what googies I could add - but on opening this 
aaplication - the system froze completely. After about 15 seconds I 
could start to move my mouse again, but nothing else would work. I 
rebooted and tried the same thing - and the same thing happened. NExt I 
rebooted and tried out the synaptic package manager - which resulted in 
the same freezing. Also the new firefox addons manager resulted in the 
system freezing and locking up again. Finally (after a few google 
searches) I found a list of repositories, and tried via apt-get - whcih 
worked.  But as I don't know the names of all packages and dependencies 
I want - this aint too good :(

So - has anyone else encountered this - or does it sound like I may have 
a hardware fault? It's driving me nuts. I really want to ditch Windows 
for good, but only if it's gonna work!

Cheers,

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] PC Freezing on updates with Gutsy

OK, so I have re-downloaded the iso - and the MD5sum checks out fine. I
reinstalled it OK and everything looked fine - UNTIL i enabled the
proprietry NVIDIA drivers for my 7200GS. I then got the same problems -
exactly. Once I disabled them again evertyhing worked perfectly. I even
tried using envy to install them ( www.ablertomilone.com) and the
problem returned. A friend has suggested it might be an Open GL
conflict somewhere along the lines, but I am at a loss on how to
proceed now.

Any help would be awesome :)

Colin.

Colin Wylie wrote:

Kirrus wrote:

- "Colin Wylie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Hi,

to the PC - the installer froze up at about 82% on the configuring apt

system freezing and locking up again. Finally (after a few google
searches) I found a list of repositories, and tried via apt-get -
whcih
worked. But as I don't know the names of all packages and
dependencies
I want - this aint too good :(

So - has anyone else encountered this - or does it sound like I may have
a hardware fault? It's driving me nuts. I really want to ditch Windows
for good, but only if it's gonna work!

It sounds like you *may* have a dodgy install cd... can you check the md5sums for your disc/*.iso file against what it should be?

There's a good how-to here:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToMD5SUM

(What the sum should look like can be found here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuHashes)

Regards,

Kirrus

I'll give that a blast - but I did verify my CD from the boot menu -
and it said it was OK.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Interesting BBC Poll Choices





Alec Wright wrote:

  On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 15:32 +0100, Daniel Lamb wrote:
  
  
Think their polls work on ip addresses?

Or think you could sit there and continually click linux?

Daniel

  
  You can vote more than once - I accidentally voted 3 times when i was
resfreshing the page to see how the results had changed


  

I gave it 5 refreshes for good measure  ;)




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Re: [ubuntu-uk] PC Freezing on updates with Gutsy





Ah - I should have said  that I had tried that - to no avail :(

Matthew Wild wrote:
On 10/26/07, Colin Wylie
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
  
  
OK, so I have re-downloaded
the iso - and the MD5sum checks out fine. I
reinstalled it OK and everything looked fine - UNTIL i enabled the
proprietry NVIDIA drivers for my 7200GS. I then got the same problems -
exactly. Once I disabled them again evertyhing worked perfectly. I even
tried using envy to install them ( www.ablertomilone.com)
and the
problem returned. A friend has suggested it might be an Open GL
conflict somewhere along the lines, but I am at a loss on how to
proceed now.
  
  
Hmm, could you try disabling "wobbly windows"/Compiz?
  
System->Preferences->Appearance...
  
On the "Visual Effects" tab, select "None". If it doesn't make any
difference, log out, hit Ctrl + Alt + Backpace, and log back in again.
Just to make sure.
  
  
Matthew.
  
  
  



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Re: [ubuntu-uk] PC Freezing on updates with Gutsy

Kirrus wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Can you submit a new bug ticket on launchpad.net, and then post a bug number 
> here :)
>
>
>
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Submitted - #157564

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Do you use the forums...?

2007-11-04 Thread Colin McCarthy

On 11/4/07, Alan Pope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I was quite deliberate in the way I worded it actually. I'm pretty sure
> most users don't actually know the difference between wiki.ubuntu.com,
> help.ubuntu.com and help.ubuntu.com/community.
>
> Seems like there is some confusion there.
>
> Cheers,
> Al.

My only use of the Forums is when I google for something and the answer is
on ubuntuforums.org.  I prefer to google for an answer rather than post my
question in the forum or mailing list.  If I have turned over all the stones
and come up cold then I would post asking for help.  Other people should
give that a go, might help build the forums up even more.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Issues with APT installing dependencies?

2007-11-14 Thread Colin Watson

On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 09:44:09PM +, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote:
> Admittedly, I've never tried to package something for .deb before (I was
> an avid Gentoo user who got bored with watching the software compile
> before I came to Ubuntu!) so it may be something to do with this, it
> just seems a bit strange that if I'm installing what appears to be a
> LAMP stack, apt doesn't allow you to load everything it requires.

apt is merely the package management system; it doesn't make policy
decisions. (Or, to put it another way, it's just the messenger.)
phpgroupware Suggests phpgroupware-email (and other modules), so it's
not mandatory. apt does what it's told and doesn't install it by
default. If phpgroupware wanted a stronger dependency so that apt would
install it by default, it could use Recommends (at least as of hardy) or
Depends. A Depends is stronger and would also prevent you from
uninstalling the depended-upon package.

If you use a more intelligent apt frontend rather than simply apt-get,
you should be prompted for suggested packages. Your mistake may be
simply that you're using too low-level tools which don't try to help you
out as much.

> The portage system allows you to specify certain flags in /etc/make.conf
> (although it may have now moved!) as follows:
> 
> USE="apache2 mysql -X ldap imap"
> 
> The above would allow me to install a complete lampstack along with the
> servers required for the DB connections and LDAP/IMAP cx simply by
> typing 
> 
> # emerge -av modphp5
> 
> is there anything similar under ubuntu?

Well, you won't find things in the same terms; binary package systems
work quite differently. At the discretion of the maintainer, optional
features may be packaged separately.

However, in the case you quote, you can certainly achieve much the same
effect since I believe all the necessary components are quite strongly
modularised. Install the apache2, mysql-server, php5-mysql, php5-ldap,
and php5-imap packages; then future system upgrades will preserve this.

(For a prepackaged LAMP server, you may want to try 'sudo tasksel
install lamp-server', which happens to fill some of your needs right off
the bat.)

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Asus Eee PC video review

2007-11-22 Thread Colin McCarthy

On 11/22/07, Alan Pope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Saw this today and thought people might be interested in it.
>
> http://www.unwiredshow.tv/2007/10/31/14-asus-eee-pc/
>
> He reviews the Eee PC (200 quid Linux Based PC) and seems to quite like
> it.
>
> Cheers,
> Al.
>

I can't wait to review my 'own' unit :-) We have ordered 3 at our school to
demo them and see what use they can really be.  Should be shipped to me
shortly after 5th December.

Lots of video's and reviews online including a demo of the GUI
http://honeypothack.com/eee/internet.htm here


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] [OFF TOPIC] MS Explorer crash

2007-11-25 Thread Colin Wylie

Albert Vilella wrote:
> Evacuee describes Antarctic rescue
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7111080.stm
>
> Got it? No? "MS Explorer"? ... :-)
>
>   
*groans*  :p

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] mbr removal command

2007-12-03 Thread Colin Watson

On Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 03:34:36PM +, norman wrote:
> < snip >
> > It should be sda1 for the first SATA drive and byte size is usually
> > before count.
> 
> Now I am puzzled, I always the first drive was xxx0 and not xxx1. Ah
> well, live and learn. Thanks.

Partition numbers start at 1 under Linux; there are no "xxx0" devices
for disks. You're perhaps thinking of "/dev/sda", which accesses the
whole disk.

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[ubuntu-uk] eeeXubuntu

2007-12-14 Thread Colin McCarthy

This looks really exciting, Ubuntu specially taylored for the Asus eeePC.
http://wiki.eeeuser.com/ubuntu:eeexubuntu:home

I'm planning on giving it ago on my unit tomorrow. Has anyone else put a
'different' OS on their eeePC?
I have been so impressed with the simple GUI and it's features I haven't
really had the desire to change it.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] .avi files

2007-12-31 Thread Colin McCarthy

On Dec 31, 2007 7:14 PM, twager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> What do I need to convert the .avi files to so they will play on the vid
> machine

Do you mean convert your .avi files to DVD files?
If so this is an easy way to do it, http://www.linux.com/articles/53702

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Samba problems.

2008-01-06 Thread Colin Humphrey


'what's wrong how can I fix it'

Hi there!!

Just a few things,

- Can you see your linux box in your XP's network neighborhood?
- You may need to create an entry in the lmhosts file.
- Have you tried to locate your linux box using windows' search function 
(either by ip 
  or  computer name).
- Have you tried commands like 'nmblookup -A computer name/ip address'. 
- You could try to check whether ports 137(default port) or 445 are open using  
 
  nmap.

I had a similar prob but after a bit of googling and  t-shooting  I now have a 
basic share working.  My problem was that I could  see the linux machine in the 
windows work group but not connect to it.

I cannot speak with great authority on SAMBA but I would say that my entry in 
lmhosts as per attached link and following instructions in the other 
tutorials/guides helped.  Just as in windows you have to select and 'share' a 
folder so to in linux.

links:

http://handsonhowto.com/2007/what-is-samba/  # link about config file
http://instantbadger.blogspot.com/2006/07/xp-home-client-linux-domain-controller.html
 #above link about lmhosts

p.s.  I can browse from xp to linux but have not yet tried linux to xp //no 
time.
Also I am not sure how secure you want the share to be - but I hope that helps. 

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[ubuntu-uk] KMail crashing

2008-01-13 Thread Colin Murphy

On my Ubuntu Gutsy my KMail has now started to crash, even though I've
been using it since full release.  I have all my filters and lists 
nicely placed!

The application will start up but when I go to download mail it locks
up, the kmail window stops responding and I have to kill the application.

I thought that deleting the .lock file would help, but it didn't.  I 
have also, through Synaptic, 're-installed' and also 'completely 
uninstalled + installed afresh' without finding a cure.

What log files do I start to look at to try and figure out the problem?

Starting KMail from a terminal gives :-

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ kmail &
[1] 8591
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ WeaverThreadLogger: thread (ID: 1) suspended.
WeaverThreadLogger: thread (ID: 2) suspended.
WeaverThreadLogger: thread (ID: 4) suspended.
WeaverThreadLogger: thread (ID: 3) suspended.
kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::plugAccel(): call to deprecated action.
kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::plugAccel( kacc = 0x8060f80 ):
KAccel object already contains an action name "move_message_to_folder"
kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::plugAccel(): call to deprecated action.
kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::plugAccel( kacc = 0x8060f80 ):
KAccel object already contains an action name "copy_message_to_folder"
kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::plugAccel(): call to deprecated action.
kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::plugAccel( kacc = 0x8060f80 ):
KAccel object already contains an action name "jump_to_folder"
kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::plugAccel(): call to deprecated action.
kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::plugAccel( kacc = 0x8060f80 ):
KAccel object already contains an action name "jump_to_folder"
kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::plugAccel(): call to deprecated action.
kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::plugAccel( kacc = 0x8060f80 ):
KAccel object already contains an action name "cancel"
kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::plugAccel(): call to deprecated action.
kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::plugAccel( kacc = 0x8060f80 ):
KAccel object already contains an action name "inc_current_folder"
kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::plugAccel(): call to deprecated action.
kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::plugAccel( kacc = 0x8060f80 ):
KAccel object already contains an action name "dec_current_folder"
kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::plugAccel(): call to deprecated action.
kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::plugAccel( kacc = 0x8060f80 ):
KAccel object already contains an action name "select_current_folder"
kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::plugAccel(): call to deprecated action.
kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::plugAccel( kacc = 0x8060f80 ):
KAccel object already contains an action name "inc_current_message"
kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::plugAccel(): call to deprecated action.
kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::plugAccel( kacc = 0x8060f80 ):
KAccel object already contains an action name "dec_current_message"
kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::plugAccel(): call to deprecated action.
kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::plugAccel( kacc = 0x8060f80 ):
KAccel object already contains an action name "select_current_message"
kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::plugAccel(): call to deprecated action.
kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::plugAccel( kacc = 0x8060f80 ):
KAccel object already contains an action name "delete"
kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::plugAccel(): call to deprecated action.
kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::plugAccel( kacc = 0x8060f80 ):
KAccel object already contains an action name "edit"
kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::plugAccel(): call to deprecated action.
kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::plugAccel( kacc = 0x8060f80 ):
KAccel object already contains an action name "use_template"
kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::plugAccel(): call to deprecated action.
kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::plugAccel( kacc = 0x8060f80 ):
KAccel object already contains an action name "display_message"
*** KMail got signal 15 (Exiting)


Does this give any clues?

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Open Source Teleseminar software??

2008-01-28 Thread Colin McCarthy

On Jan 28, 2008 6:14 PM, Eddie Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

> I would like software that I can use for 'educating' my family via the
> web interactively re computers - I thought teleseminar software might
> fit the bill.
>
> Anyone know of anything suitable in OSS for Linux and maybe Win?
> It also occurred to me this might be a useful thing for Ubuntu education
> generally.
> TIA
> Eddie
>
>
This might be what you are looking for http://italc.sourceforge.net/*
*I haven't used it yet but it looks very good.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] GLLUG Linux Discovery Day

2005-11-04 Thread Colin Murphy

On Friday 04 November 2005 14:37, john levin wrote:
> For the Londoners on this list, GLLUG (Greater London Linux Users Group)
> are holding a 'Linux Discovery day' on Saturday 12th November.
>
> Get help with installs, hear talks on partitioning, grab free cds, have
> a coffe, and a beer afterwards.

For the vast majority of this list I would expect you to be able to give help 
with installs.  And a beer afterwards!  :-)

Spread the word to those you know who are thinking of tinkering with something 
better on their computers.

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[ubuntu-uk] Printing problems, Breezy and Epson C66

2005-11-07 Thread Colin Murphy

I have a problem when trying to print to my Epson C66 in Breezy.  The printer, 
with a USB connection, was installed and worked fine until something, possibly 
the printer running out of paper, brought this brief period of success to 
an end.

I have both Gnome and KDE desktops running and I am most familiar with KDE.

Under Gnome the Print Manager shows the printer as 'paused' but there seems to 
be no way to resume printing.  Am I missing some functionality from this 
Gnome utility?

Under KDE the Print Manager gives me the chance to enter 'Admin mode' and I 
can see a red border, presumably telling me I have entered the correct 
password.  On the 'Printer' menu > 'Start/Stop Printer' I can select 'Start 
printer' but this doesn't seem to do anything -  in fact, if I go back his 
menu I only have the option to 'Start printer' which suggests the printer 
hasn't started otherwise I would be able to 'Stop Printer'.

Continuing with the KDE Print Manager, if I then select 'Print Server'  > 
'Restart Server' I get an error message:-

Unable to restart print server. Error message received from manager:
Unable to find a running CUPS server

I have done nothing, to my knowledge, to stop CUPS running.  Has it really 
stopped?  I think it is still running because:-

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ps aux | grep cups
lp   20263  0.0  0.7   7764  3772 ?SNs  07:35   
0:02 /usr/sbin/cupsd -F


Now, in my Suse days, I would localhost:631 and play with the server from 
there.  I am denied this option, which seems to be the final one to me, in 
Ubuntu.

I have gone to the effort of adding a new entry for the same printer.  This 
has not helped as it immediately gone into 'Paused printing' mode, like the 
first.

So, clues please as the what to do next?

I had posted this to the ubuntu-users list yesterday but my appeals for help 
have gone unanswered.  I hope that posting again to a quieter list may grasp 
some attention before I admit defeat and go back to Suse.


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Printing problems, Breezy and Epson C66

2005-11-08 Thread Colin Murphy

On Tuesday 08 November 2005 06:23, Colin Murphy wrote:
> I have a problem when trying to print to my Epson C66 in Breezy.  The
> printer, with a USB connection, was installed and worked fine until
> something, possibly the printer running out of paper, brought this brief
> period of success to an end.

Thanks at least for the responses guys.

On Tuesday 08 November 2005 08:14, Chris Beauchamp wrote:

> I have seen my printers get very much disabled, and even stay disabled
> after rebooting - I think it happened for me when the printer was off
> and I tried to print.

It has happened to me in the past too.  Normally restarting the CUPS server is 
enough to get things going again, but it is this very solution I am denied.  
Because of the way Ubuntu deals with permissions I am all at sea.

> I've always used a shell prompt for this: Do "lpq" to check the status,
> and use "enable" to enable the printer if its showing as not ready,
> however I imagine that "resume" on the right click menu will do much the
> same.

I had forgotten about lpq, not that it helped much, it just told me :-

Stylus-C64 is not ready

Ho hum.

On Tuesday 08 November 2005 16:42, Nick McMahon wrote:
> I use the C64 driver on the C66 with no problems, i dont know if that
> helps in any way but its all i know :)

Yes, C64 is the default driver.  Have you been able to use the Epson utility 
tool to check ink levels and alike?

I would very much like to do this but I have not figured out the correct 
command line parameter to pass.  Since I have to use RAW mode for this I have 
to use the utility from the command line.  Getting this to work might give 
more clues to the problem.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Printing problems, Breezy and Epson C66

2005-11-08 Thread Colin Murphy

On Tuesday 08 November 2005 18:58, Nick McMahon wrote:
> > Yes, C64 is the default driver.  Have you been able to use the Epson
> > utility tool to check ink levels and alike?
> >
> > I would very much like to do this but I have not figured out the correct
> > command line parameter to pass.  

> I know nothing about such a utility, if you enlighten me i'll be glad to
> test it out. im using 5.10.

The utility is called escputil, see 
http://packages.debian.org/testing/utils/escputil

though it appeared in my Breezy by default.  Under the KDE Printer manager > 
Printers tab you get the chance to select 'Printer Tools > EPSON Inkjet'.  
This looks like a gui frontend for the same utility.  Not that I can get it 
to work.  I'd be interested in hearing how you get on with it.

I am still assuming it is just me that is having this fight with Ubuntu.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Printer

2005-11-17 Thread Colin Murphy

On Wednesday 16 November 2005 19:05, Ted wrote:
> Having problems with setting up my DJ720c printer in Ubuntu
> It is picked up ok in dmesg but I cannot print at all...Sending a file
> to it with lpr produces nothing at all..No error messages even...
> I goto setup the printer with cups ands it tells me it cannot find a
> running server.
>I have reinstalled all the cups related stuff but still no joy..
>   Looked on the Ubuntu forum and mails on there indicate
> the D/J printer has problemsWorks ok in Mepis and Libranet
> though.Any input appreciated...

I can't help and reply only because I know how it feels to have a mailing list 
mail go unanswered.

I am in the same boat, only it's an Epson C66 for me.  In a way I am glad you 
are having problems because 'at least it's not just me (tm)'.

I would also really like to figure out why we are having the problems we are, 
so we can give some feedback to make Ubuntu better.  Not being a developer 
this is probably the only way I feel I can help add anything.  Unfortunately 
I don't know where to start and what information would prove useful.

Any experienced users willing to take me, and possibly Ted, by the hand so we 
can deconstruct our systems and figure out what is wrong.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Printer

2005-11-17 Thread Colin Murphy

On Thursday 17 November 2005 18:36, Sarangan Thuraisingham wrote:
> Colin Murphy wrote:
> > I can't help and reply only because I know how it feels to have a mailing
> > list mail go unanswered.
>
> The 'ubuntu-uk' list is for the ubuntu users in UK and its mainly aimed
> at letting users know about regional events. You can also get help about
> the regional stuff like, how to install welsh support in openoffice?
>

Thank you for the reply, I was not aware that this was the main aim of this 
list, perhaps this is something that might be added to the "Welcome to the 
ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com mailing list!" that's sent on joining.

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[ubuntu-uk] A different printing problem, Breezy and Epson C66

2005-11-28 Thread Colin Murphy

I would like to use the escputil utility to check the status of my printer.  I 
understand that I need to do this is RAW mode but I am having difficulty in 
finding the correct command line parameters to pass, particularly the device 
name.  How do I figure out what /dev/ this USB printer is connected to?  The 
Printer Manager suggests 'usb://EPSON/Stylus C66' but that doesn't work.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Printing problems, Breezy and Epson C66

2005-11-28 Thread Colin Murphy

On Tuesday 08 November 2005 22:08, Colin Murphy wrote:

>
> The utility is called escputil, see
> http://packages.debian.org/testing/utils/escputil
>
I figured out what to pass:-

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo escputil -i -u -r /dev/usb/lp0

yealds

Escputil version 4.2.7, Copyright (C) 2000-2001 Robert Krawitz
Escputil comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type 'escputil 
-l'
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; type 'escputil -l' for details.

 Ink colourPercent remaining
   Black 99
   Cyan 33
   Magenta 43
Yellow 32

and 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo escputil -n -u -r /dev/usb/lp0

gave

Running nozzle check, please ensure paper is in the printer.

making the printer spit out a sheet of paper with lines showing the nozzles 
working.

So, I have confirmed my connection and printer, still can't get anything to 
print from cups though.


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[ubuntu-uk] ubuntu server edition

2006-11-23 Thread Colin Humphrey

Dear all

I am new to linux and to ubuntu and would like to

have an ubuntu machine running as a server to

communicate with a windows xp machine, I have not

been able to do this because of network issues.




Just before I start I would like to say that I've

been reading about your screen casts which I think

are a really good initiative, would you consider

doing one for installing and setting up the ubuntu

server edition 6.06 to communicate with a windows

machine?



I ask this because I am really interested in setting

up a server environment but so far have not been

able to.  Also if after watching the screencast I

get my server together then I will be able to spread

the word to other computer users at college who

might be able to benefit from using an ubuntu

machine and LAMP environment.



I have a few questions:

[1]

If you install ubuntu server edition 6.06 onto your

machine and it cannot recognize an ethernet device

or cannot set up DHCP does this mean that you will

not be able to network between another machine

because there is not a network capability - does

this mean that you will not be abale to ping another

computer?


[2]

If you have an inherited machine and you try to

install ubuntu server edition 6.06 does it normally

recognize the ethernet device and configure DHCP

automatically - if not why might this be?


[3]

If you experienced either of the problems above what

may be the problem?


[4]

Are there any regular meets that take place in

London/Brighton where people can talk about

practical problems and how to solve them?


[5]

Also would anyone be up for scheduling a chat

session to take place over a messaging programme

such as msn messenger to talk about the server

edition?


I read a couple of news letters ago that it was o.k.

to ask for help here  - hope this still holds true.



All Thoughts - Ideas - tips and advice

much needed

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Yeah

Samba is right up my alley - just what I need infact.  But the trouble I am 
having is at the installation stage so cannot get to networking.


When I try to install ubuntu server edition - it does not recognize any 
ethernet device and cannot

automatically configure the computer with DHCP.

My main query is are the two problems of ethernet and DHCP related?

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Hi Dan

Thanks for the advice - I will look into those wikis etc.

I have a few others here you can look at:

http://us2.samba.org/samba/

http://www.oregontechsupport.com/support/samba/

http://handsonhowto.com/smb101.html

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Cheers

I didn't know about those other groups in Brighton and London.  Will look 
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Right - I'll check the BIOS settings.  If after checking and changing there 
is still no change would that mean the problem lies with the machine rather 
than the installation of ubuntu?


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Hi

I have the computer plugged into a converter [it acts like a router] between 
the two computers.

I could not go ahead with the BIOS change as the computer did not boot up.
I think the problem might lie with the hard drive or the machine itself.

By the way how do you check the pmz zone - what is it?  Also how do you run 
check cd within ubuntu?


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Hi Neil

I have not tried another distro yet - will do.  I thought that boths issues 
were related thanks for the confirmation.


Basically I want to have an XP computer with an internet connection to 
display web pages that housed on an ubuntu server.  What's the best 
configuration - way to go about it?


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Hi Matt

Not tried with a desktop version yet - If after trying with desktop version 
network card is  still not detected then I will attempt an install on 
another computer.

By the way where can I get the desktop package from?

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Sure - Thanks for the memory jog with check cd - will do when I get another 
machine to test on this one has had it.


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>Hmm, sounds like the machine is a bit poorly...

agreed...


>A DMZ is an area of your network that has restricted access to the
internal machines. It's used for hosting a web server, for example, so
that if the machine with public access from the internet is hacked,
your internal machine(s) are safe (or safer) from it. It only applies
if you have a genuine router that connects to the internet.

I get the concept - like another method of security.


Thanks for the help new terms troubleshooting etc

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu server edition

2006-12-02 Thread Colin Humphrey

at the moment I only have win xp as my ubuntu machine exerienced hdd 
failure.
Do you know how to get IRC going for windows / which client to use?

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2006-12-03 Thread Colin Humphrey

Cheers I'm looking into it - viewing pros and cons between Hydra and mIRC

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu server edition

2006-12-05 Thread Colin Humphrey

>>
>>If you want the Ubuntu server accessible from the internet, you need
>>to get a proper router and put the Ubuntu server in the DMZ as David
>>mentioned earlier.
>>

I agree a proper router and ubuntu 6.06 LTS in the appropriate place would 
be of most benefit.
At present I am having a hard time finding a computer that passes both 
ethernet detection test and the dhcp auto configuration procedures.

Only one computer I have tried it on has passed both steps.  I have tried 
installation with brand new and 2nd hand computers.  In these instances 
ethernet detection was found but dhcp autoconfiguration failed.  Is this 
uncommon?  Would it still be possible to network/ping with only ethernet 
detection and no dhcp?

p.s.

Done contacted my M.P a while back

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2006-12-05 Thread Colin Humphrey

Apologies about delayed response

>>
>>have all these
>>tests been with the same DHCP server?

I believe so - though I am not sure what you mean by this?  I thought that 
there was only one DHCP server procedure per installation disk?  I have 
tried on different machines though with the same installation disk each time 
  and the results were varied.

>>
>>Tell them where the internet
>>gateway and DNS servers are.

So would that mean I could change files:

-w nano/etc/resolv.conf
-w nano/etc/network/interfaces

and then ping the host ubuntu computer from an XP computer after changes 
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2006-12-05 Thread Colin Humphrey


<<
DHCP works by a machine on the network acting as a server and giving
out IP addresses and configuration information for the other machines.
In small networks this is often integrated wth the router. When I asked
about if this was all with the same server I assumed you were trying to
get an ubuntu machine to get an IP address (and other other details)
from a DHCP server, and was wondering if that server might be the bit
that isn't working. Looking back over more of the thread I notice that
you are setting up an ubuntu server so I might have things backwards
and you want the ubuntu machine to be the DHCP server?




Yes, I was not looking to set up subnetworks and give out ip addresses with 
dhcp but to have an ubuntu machine act as a server to a windows machine.  I 
could not even have gotten that far becasue dhcp configuration failed and 
was thus skipped at installation.


I wanted the installation procedure to dynamically set up the networking 
addresses but as ethernet
and dhcp both failed I was given the default loop back device, this was 
still no good as there was no ethernet detection.


So current situe is to get a machine which passes ethernet detection [good] 
and dhcp configuration[good but not essential]


Where can you get Xwindows from?  Also To run Xwindows would you have active 
desktop already installed?


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu server edition

2006-12-06 Thread Colin Humphrey




oK, I'm a bit lost about what you're trying to do.




I'll outline things a bit more:

It was my original intention to have an old 98se machine dual partitioned so 
that I can have ubuntu LTS 6.06 as a server, on this server I wanted to 
upload files from a winxp machine.  Partitioning the old machine was fine, 
downloading the iso image was also fine.  The initial install went through 
o.k. but no ethernet was detected [the actual ethernet device itself].


Also DHCP failed.  After DHCP failed I was given an option where I could 
assign/choose the network addresses myself.  I did this but it was redundant 
as the ethernet test failed.  Thus when I tried to ping the ubuntu machine 
either under the hostname or the ip address both attempts failed.






If the DHCP
step in the setting up networking is failing during boot up this is
probably because there either isn't a DHCP server on the network or
because the DHCP server isn't working properly (esp. if the same
symptoms are seen on a couple of different machines).




Regarding DHCP, to infer from what you stated above there are two possible 
problems; (1) - No  DHCP Server/computer was detected on the network [This 
is true because I don't have another machine acting as a DHCP server]. (2) 
Could there be a problem with the installation disk itself?






When you say there was no ethernet detection do you mean that the
ethernet device wasn't detected or that it didn't detect the settings
for the network? You can tell this by running 'ifconfig'




I mean that the device wasn't detected

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu server edition

2006-12-06 Thread Colin Humphrey



What is the ethernet device? And does it work in windows?



I could not ascertain if ethernet worked with windows because the network 
neighbourhood

needed a hot fix in order function.  I couldn't get the hotfix because
windows was no longer suppoorted at the time I looked.




by selecting the check disk



I ran a check and the disk passed the test.




Certainly, stop in past #ubuntu-uk, there is usually someone there
willing to help. I'm ormiret and am lurking quite a lot but usually
notice if I'm addressed.



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[ubuntu-uk] uploading files ftp

2006-12-29 Thread Colin Humphrey


Dear all

At present I am not able to upload files to an ftp daemon/server.

The set up is an ubuntu machine [which is the ftp daemon/server] connected 
to a windows xp mahcine [which is the ftp client] over LAN.


I have changed/uncommented the necessary directives in /etc/vsftpd.conf:

write enable
anon_upload

and

the one for enabling new directory entries [forgotten name]

I am connecting to ftp using an anonymous account with generic passwd "ftp"

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At present I can download files from the ubuntu ftp daemon/server but I can 
not "upload"

to it or make a new directory within it.


Any ideas

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2006-12-31 Thread Colin Humphrey

This is the 1st time I have used the ftp Daemon/server to transfer data, I 
am using it before I attempt other safer protocols such as sftp.

Could you tell me what command I would have to issue when using the "put" 
command to upload files to the ftp daemon/server from the win xp client.  
This is my guess please recorrect:

put  chmod 777

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What I meant is that you should chmod the directory you'll be
uploading to beforehand. This needs to be done on the Ubuntu machine,
not via anonymous FTP. You can either use chmod from the terminal or
change the permissions for the directory from the file manager.




Soon figured that out. is this [if not what is] the right way to go about 
it?


I appended the following in /etc/vsftpd.conf:

anon_upload_enable=YESmkdir /var/ftp/upload
   chmod 777/var/ftp/upload
-

But after restarting vsftpd I used the "ls -l" command within ftp but there 
was no new directory listing.


-

After I made the changes above I can no longer connect to the ubuntu ftp 
server, I get the following message:


connected to ubuntu01
connection closed by remote host

the only way to re-establish a connection is to re-install the LAMP server.  
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>>
Since the server isn't working
with that it is likely to be getting upset by things it doesn't
understand in the config file.
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That explains things.  Are the terminal and the command line the same thing?

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>>
Yes.
>>

So I thought.  I have attempted both commands from the terminal prompt and 
on both occasions
I received these error messages:

"when I attempted mkdir I received this"

mkdir: cannot create directory '[/var/ftp/upload]' no such file or directory

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"when I attempted chmod I received this"

chmod: missing operand after '777/var/ftp/upload'

If these are the wrong commands, anyone know the right ones and/or which 
shell/directory they should be executed from?

Cheers

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