Re: Moving from XP and looking for replacement programs

2004-04-19 Thread Kristian Niemi
Is there a GUI available? I'm also thinking of switching a relatives computer from win 98 to debian, and currently the only obstacle is ... access. And perhaps I could learn mySQL, but she /really/ doesn't want to. What she needs isn't really a superb database-program, but a `ok'-database-progr

Re: Kernel build: QT package requires older gcc

2004-04-19 Thread dmu2201
Here's my gcc: laptop:/home/moseley# gcc --version gcc (GCC) 3.3.3 (Debian 20040401) So I need the qt3 library: laptop:/home/moseley# apt-get install libqt3-dev Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: g++-3.2 gcc-3.2 l

To dselect or aptitude, that is the question

2004-04-19 Thread J.S.Sahambi
I have been using apt and dselect for some time. Can any body tell me about the advantages/disadvantages of dselect and aptitude? and which is better? Thanks in advance JSS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to 'apt-cache search'&'apt-file search' by distr

2004-04-19 Thread dircha
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just a thought. Do I need to edit my /etc/apt/sources.list (I assume aptitude is using this too) prior to checking out packages in other distributions? i.e. do I need to add url for sid in the sources.list if I want to check out packages in experimental? Yes, aptitude uses

Re: exim problem

2004-04-19 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Support <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 2004-04-20 12:08:38 1BFmYn-5Q-00 == [EMAIL PROTECTED] > T=remote_smtp defer (-44): retry time not reached for any host > > The funny is I can send to hotmail via my exim smtp but accept to > leader.com.my I ha

Re: How to 'apt-cache search'&'apt-file search' by distr

2004-04-19 Thread users
Just a thought. Do I need to edit my /etc/apt/sources.list (I assume aptitude is using this too) prior to checking out packages in other distributions? i.e. do I need to add url for sid in the sources.list if I want to check out packages in experimental? Thanks ! PS. Presently I only have URLs in

Re: Debian Backup ?

2004-04-19 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 09:01:17AM +0800, Support ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi! Debian Users > > > How to make a hole Debian O/S backup if I don't have any Backup > Device..? Depends on what you mean by 'backup', and what specifically you're guarding against (what's your threat model). I pro

exim problem

2004-04-19 Thread Support
Dear: Debian Users I have a problem on exim smtp server. Some mail I send it give me an error below but when I test with qmail my 2nd smtp server it just working fine. 2004-04-20 12:08:38 1BFmYn-5Q-00 == [EMAIL PROTECTED] T=remote_smtp defer (-44): retry time not reached for any host The f

Re: branding debian releases

2004-04-19 Thread Kent West
Benedict Verheyen wrote: On a related note, I'm trying to understand the whole concept on stable - unstable because in a few weeks time i'm going to get the time from my current company to install some test servers with debian to compare them to windows. They will be running apache, tomcat,jboss a

Re: How to 'apt-cache search'&'apt-file search' by distr

2004-04-19 Thread dircha
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: apt-cache show fontconfigDisplays fontconfig version to be 2.2.2-1 [code:1:565f94e986]aptitude show ~Astable ~nfontconfig[/code:1:565f94e986] [code:1:565f94e986]aptitude show ~Aunstable ~nfontconfig[/code:1:565f94e986] [code:1:565f94e986]aptitude show ~Aexperimental ~nfontc

Re: HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted

2004-04-19 Thread Mike Chandler
On Monday 19 April 2004 01:16 pm, Mike Chandler wrote: > On Monday 19 April 2004 12:20 pm, Markus Schabel wrote: > > Tim Beauregard wrote: > > > Mike Chandler wrote: > > > [...] > > > > > >> Hey Tim, > > >> I'm in the same boat, except kernel-2.6.3-1. > > >> hdparm returns this error: > > >> > > >>

Re: How to 'apt-cache search'&'apt-file search' by distr

2004-04-19 Thread users
apt-cache show fontconfigDisplays fontconfig version to be 2.2.2-1 [code:1:565f94e986]aptitude show ~Astable ~nfontconfig[/code:1:565f94e986] [code:1:565f94e986]aptitude show ~Aunstable ~nfontconfig[/code:1:565f94e986] [code:1:565f94e986]aptitude show ~Aexperimental ~nfontconfig[/code:1:565f94e986

libfreetype bus error

2004-04-19 Thread Ari Steinberg
(note: sending this a second time because I think my first attempt didn't go through...apologies if it gets sent twice. also i'm not subscribed to the list so cc me on any replies, though I'll of course check up via newsgroup for responses) Hi, I have a laptop running sid that all of a sudden is g

Symantec AntiVirus/Filtering for Domino detected a virus in a document you authored.

2004-04-19 Thread easoaserver/eas%EAS
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Re: Emulating a dual monitor system over X?

2004-04-19 Thread marc
On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 11:56:02AM -0700, Brent Miller wrote: > Ideally, I imagine having the laptop sitting on my desk, and when I log > on to my workstation, it would connect to the laptop, start X there and > connect back to the workstation. Then the laptop would display another > workspace of

Re: What is the correct method to change mount point?

2004-04-19 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 05:47:27AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Current setup: > > swaphda1 > /home hda2 > / hda3 > (based on this layout, /usr/local and /var should be on hda3?) > > I'll be installing another HDD (partitioned into hdb1 and hdb2). How > should I go about changi

Re: setting up HP psc2110 with hpoj, Debian Sarge

2004-04-19 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 07:55:38PM -0700, Mike Chandler wrote: > After doing some reading and searching, and trying to re-install hpoj, I get > this error at > the END of the 'make install': > > #Setting /etc/init.d/ptal-init symlink. > /bin/sh: line 1: chkconfig: command not found > Warning:

Re: Is SWEN back?

2004-04-19 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Marc Shapiro wrote: I hadn't seen any SWEN in months, so I slipped up and posted a few messages to the list using my regular account (instead of this HOTMAIL account set up only for posting to debian-user and receiving all of my SWEN). Yesterday, I received what looked like a SWEN e-mail. The

make-kpgk -- recompile without clean?

2004-04-19 Thread Bill Moseley
I built a kernel image and I forgot to enable one setting (console framebuffer). Is it possible to recompile without running clean first? -- Bill Moseley [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: devfs / noflusd

2004-04-19 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 06:48:06PM -0600, D. Frye wrote: > > After installing sarge on a laptop, I get the error that not all > packages were > setup correctly. > > Looking at it closer, the error is that the kernel is configured with > devfs, > but devfs is not mounted anywhere. As a result, n

Re: Moving from XP and looking for replacement programs

2004-04-19 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 05:49:45PM -0400, Ralph Katz wrote: > On 04/17/04 10:00, Penbrock wrote: > >I want to make the jump from XP to Debian with KDE. I have a few programs I > >am trying to find Linux replacements for and am having a hard time. Can > >anyone help me find replacements for these pr

Re: HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted [SOLVED]

2004-04-19 Thread Mike Chandler
On Monday 19 April 2004 04:10 pm, Tim Beauregard wrote: > Markus Schabel wrote: > > Tim Beauregard wrote: > >> Markus Schabel wrote: > >>> Tim Beauregard wrote: > Unfortunately my first post was 9 days ago, and noone replied to that. > >>> > >>> I had that problem when i forgot to compile the

Re: How to 'apt-cache search'&'apt-file search' by distribut

2004-04-19 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 06:57:16PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > /etc/apt/sources.list: > > deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian > stable main contrib non-free > deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian > [b:9a928ec131]unstable[/b:9a928ec131] main contrib non-free > deb-src http://http.us.debian.o

Re: HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted

2004-04-19 Thread Mike Chandler
On Monday 19 April 2004 02:34 pm, Tim Beauregard wrote: > Markus Schabel wrote: > > Tim Beauregard wrote: > > [...] > > >> Unfortunately my first post was 9 days ago, and noone replied to that. > > > > I had that problem when i forgot to compile the piix drivers into the > > kernel. after fixing th

Re: NIC War

2004-04-19 Thread dircha
Ian Melnick wrote: nic1: ipA, macA nic2: ipB, macB On the network attached to nic1 one you send an arp request: "who-has ipA tell x.x.x.x" where "ipA" is the ip you believe is assigned to nic1. nic1 does not respond. nic2 responds with: "ipA is-at macB". Yes, this is what's happening. Take a l

Re: Why fonts available with X and not with KDE/GNOME ?

2004-04-19 Thread Michael Biebl
Hervé Piedvache wrote: Le dimanche 18 Avril 2004 03:02, Hervé Piedvache a écrit : Hi, I have a trouble with fonts ... I can see some fonts under X ... with xfontsel for example ... or with this command : $ xlsfonts | grep -i adobe | grep 'iso8859-15' -adobe-itc avant garde gothic-book-o-normal--

uw-imap and authentication problems after upgrade to sarge

2004-04-19 Thread Pete RedHair
I hope i'm not goofing on this one but after upgrading to sarge i got a lot of packages with broken configs, squid and imap are two of them. I'm using uw-imapd on sarge and where i previously got a perfectly running system now i can't login to my imap server. Here's what i get from syslog: (did a

Re: HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted [SOLVED]

2004-04-19 Thread Tim Beauregard
Markus Schabel wrote: Tim Beauregard wrote: Markus Schabel wrote: Tim Beauregard wrote: Unfortunately my first post was 9 days ago, and noone replied to that. I had that problem when i forgot to compile the piix drivers into the kernel. after fixing that, all worked fine again. Thanks for th

Re: SCSI harddisk: spin down?

2004-04-19 Thread Christian Schnobrich
On Mon, 2004-04-19 at 23:21, Joachim Förster wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi all, > > Is there a possibility to spin down a SCSI harddisk? hdparm -Y does not > work on SCSI disks. I tried noflushd - but its the same. It says, one > would have to use a kernel patch

Re: NIC War

2004-04-19 Thread Ian Melnick
> nic1: ipA, macA > nic2: ipB, macB > On the network attached to nic1 one you send an arp request: > "who-has ipA tell x.x.x.x" > where "ipA" is the ip you believe is assigned to nic1. nic1 does not > respond. nic2 responds with: > "ipA is-at macB". Yes, this is what's happening. > At the t

Re: branding debian releases

2004-04-19 Thread Benedict Verheyen
s. keeling wrote: >> So if you install backports, you introduce new releases of packages >> and maybe libraries on your system which might contain serious bugs. >> Compiling the source of some apps (to install to /usr/local) might >> even fail because they need a newer libc6? > > Perhaps, yes. But

php4-cgi

2004-04-19 Thread jochen
Hello, I'm trying to get php4-cgi to run (mod_php is not an option as I need the suexec wrapper to do its thing). I created a scriptaliased directory and copied php4 into it. I changed the owner to the User/Group supplied in my VirtualHost conf (suexec.log shows no problem). I added the followin

Re: NIC War

2004-04-19 Thread dircha
Ian Melnick wrote: The only problem was, external requests coming in weren't going anywhere. There's some kind of switch at the "main office" that forwards requests from the "external IP" to the "internal" one, which is what my first NIC was set up for. When we used arping and other monitoring tool

Re: gnome volume manager does not automatically mount cdrom (Solved it)

2004-04-19 Thread Jaap Haitsma
Jaap Haitsma wrote: I installed gnome-volume-manager and it mounts my memory stick automatically and also audio cd's are being played automatically when I insert an audio cd. Only data CD's do not get mounted automatically and also empty CD-R's do not startup the burner in nautilus. Anybody kno

Re: firefox deleted all my bookmarks

2004-04-19 Thread Micha Feigin
On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 07:36:22PM +0100, Stephen Patterson wrote: > Katipo wrote: > >Micha Feigin wrote: > > > >>I just saw that firefox deleted all my bookmarks (and there were quite > >>a lot of them) I think that happened with the last upgrade. Anyone else > >>see this? > >> > >> > >There was

Re: HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted

2004-04-19 Thread Markus Schabel
Tim Beauregard wrote: Markus Schabel wrote: Tim Beauregard wrote: Unfortunately my first post was 9 days ago, and noone replied to that. I had that problem when i forgot to compile the piix drivers into the kernel. after fixing that, all worked fine again. Thanks for the suggestion. I inserted thi

SCSI harddisk: spin down?

2004-04-19 Thread Joachim Förster
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, Is there a possibility to spin down a SCSI harddisk? hdparm -Y does not work on SCSI disks. I tried noflushd - but its the same. It says, one would have to use a kernel patch to enable spin down. BTW: How "unstable" is this patch? So - are ther

Re: HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted

2004-04-19 Thread Tim Beauregard
Markus Schabel wrote: Tim Beauregard wrote: [...] Unfortunately my first post was 9 days ago, and noone replied to that. I had that problem when i forgot to compile the piix drivers into the kernel. after fixing that, all worked fine again. best regards, Markus Thanks for the suggestion. I ins

Re: Is SWEN back?

2004-04-19 Thread Katipo
Marc Shapiro wrote: I hadn't seen any SWEN in months, so I slipped up and posted a few messages to the list using my regular account (instead of this HOTMAIL account set up only for posting to debian-user and receiving all of my SWEN). Yesterday, I received what looked like a SWEN e-mail. The

Re: New sarge installer casues problems on laptops

2004-04-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 11:59:57AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I just installed sarge using the new installer last week. [...] > So: a) whoever's in charge of the installer, The best place for that would be [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL

Kernel build: QT package requires older gcc

2004-04-19 Thread Bill Moseley
Geeze, I can't get kernel-image-2.6.5 to work right (wireless busted), so trying to build from source using the new QT interface. Here's my gcc: laptop:/home/moseley# gcc --version gcc (GCC) 3.3.3 (Debian 20040401) Copyright (C) 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the

Re: gnome hicolor-icon-theme_0.5-1_all.deb upgrade problem

2004-04-19 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Florian Ernst: > On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 11:00:42AM -0600, s. keeling wrote: > > > > And you tell him he's got file overlap, something's broken, and > > perhaps he shouldn't be running experimental. So what's the problem? > > There's no warranty on sid. He gets to keep both pieces.

Re: testing : cdrecord does not recognize my cd-writer

2004-04-19 Thread Pablo Santiago Blum de Aguiar
What are your kernel and cdrecord versions? Please consider reading [1]this article and the "CD Recording" section of [2]this article. 1. http://programming.linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/12/09/1341236 2. http://www.linux.org.uk/~davej/docs/post-halloween-2.6.txt Regards, -- .''`. Pablo Aguiar

Re: New sarge installer casues problems on laptops

2004-04-19 Thread Ed Lawson
On Mon, 19 Apr 2004 11:59:57 -0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I just installed sarge using the new installer last week. > > There is a problem: for some reason the startup scripts are in the > wrong sequence, so that the system attempts to configure the network > before the PCMCIA card manager

what bash dotfiles are read during interactive ssh?

2004-04-19 Thread Dan Jacobson
What file can one put "unalias ls", or anything in fact, in for it to get read on the remote system upon interactive ssh? .bashrc, .bash_profile are apparently not read. At most I can do now is $ ssh porky.simonds.net porky$ unalias ls I don't want the dotfile read on batch jobs preferably. --

New sarge installer casues problems on laptops

2004-04-19 Thread dbarker
I just installed sarge using the new installer last week. There is a problem: for some reason the startup scripts are in the wrong sequence, so that the system attempts to configure the network before the PCMCIA card manager, so that eth0 isn't found. I can more or less get around this by manual

Re: gnome hicolor-icon-theme_0.5-1_all.deb upgrade problem

2004-04-19 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello Chris! On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 05:18:02PM -0400, Chris Metzler wrote: > As near as I can tell you did fine. When I saw the original post, my > immediate reaction was "he doesn't think to check (or doesn't know > about) the BTS, but wants to install packages out of experimental? > Not just u

Re: gnome hicolor-icon-theme_0.5-1_all.deb upgrade problem

2004-04-19 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello Stephen! On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 11:00:42AM -0600, s. keeling wrote: > All this over a bunch of icons?!? Yeesh. From what I see, I can't > imagine anyone taking offense. > > And you tell him he's got file overlap, something's broken, and > perhaps he shouldn't be running experimental. So

NIC War

2004-04-19 Thread Ian Melnick
Hello all, The weirdest thing's been going on lately with the two NICs in my machine. One has started to respond on behalf of the other (almost like a proxy arp), and AFAIK, I never set it up to do that. The problem now is getting them both to respond normally, as they did when I first set them u

Security warnings from pam_securetty?

2004-04-19 Thread Svante Signell
I find these messages in my logfiles. What has changed recently? The access to the tty devices is crw-rw and owned by root.tty. sshd[4196]: (pam_securetty) access denied: tty 'ssh' is not secure ! xscreensaver: (pam_securetty) access denied: tty ':0.0' is not secure ! Please cc: me since I'm

Answers needed for these Debian questions

2004-04-19 Thread Deboo
Hi List! I have limited-time net connection and not very high speed one at that. So, am putting all my questions in one or two messages and sending. I hope this won't irritate others and also hope I'll get quite a few replies when I check next, in 24 hours or so. Sorry for putting all these in one

dpkg returns Bus Error

2004-04-19 Thread Ross Vandegrift
Hello everyone, I have a Debian machine that's mostly woody (just a few packages from testing like quagga and associated libs) but dpkg seems terminally broken. Running any dpkg command (except help) results in a Bus Error. I don't know of any odd occurances (disk/mem failure) th

Re: What happened to the Compose Key?

2004-04-19 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
Steven Yap wrote: > See /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/rules/xfree86 for the complete list of > available options. Thanks very much! I have a working Compose Key now. Ã Â Â, etc. The list of Options, as you yourself pointed out, should be /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/rules/xfree86.lst. I am not quite sure wh

MySqld [problem]

2004-04-19 Thread Mozzi
When trying to start mysqld I get the following error #safe_mysqld Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /var/lib/mysql /usr/bin/safe_mysqld: line 275: 32649 Segmentation fault $NOHUP_NICENESS $ledir/$MYSQLD $defaults --basedir=$MY_BASEDIR_VERSION --datadir=$DATADIR $USER_OPTION --pid-

Re: firefox deleted all my bookmarks

2004-04-19 Thread Stephen Patterson
Katipo wrote: Micha Feigin wrote: I just saw that firefox deleted all my bookmarks (and there were quite a lot of them) I think that happened with the last upgrade. Anyone else see this? There was a thread on this within the last week. I forget the title, but it won't be buried too deep in the

Re: PCMCIA Networking -- who controls?

2004-04-19 Thread Stephen Patterson
Jesse Hein wrote: It then comes back up okay. My guess is that something else is getting to the card first and trying to start it up unsuccesfully, then the network script is coming in and can't do it because the first one messed it up. For PCMCIA network cards (and I'm writing this from a lapt

Symantec AntiVirus/Filtering for Domino detected a virus in a document you authored.

2004-04-19 Thread easoaserver/eas%EAS
Please contact your system administrator. The scanned document was QUARANTINED. Virus Information: The attachment msg.rtf.scr contained the virus [EMAIL PROTECTED] and could NOT be repaired. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EM

Re: apt-get update

2004-04-19 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello 'Mozzi'! On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 07:36:32PM +0200, Mozzi wrote: > How would I let apt-get look in the woody proposed-updates ? > I am having issues with mysql and want to go to proposed updates Do you mean as it is described on http://www.de.debian.org/releases/stable/errata ? HTH, Flo s

Re: HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted

2004-04-19 Thread Markus Schabel
Tim Beauregard wrote: Mike Chandler wrote: [...] Hey Tim, I'm in the same boat, except kernel-2.6.3-1. hdparm returns this error: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/mike# hdparm -d1 /dev/hdb /dev/hdb: setting using_dma to 1 (on) HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted using_dma= 0 (off) [EMAIL P

Re: Is SWEN back?

2004-04-19 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 12:14:15PM -0400, Marc Shapiro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I hadn't seen any SWEN in months, Until I finally caved and activated my ISP's virus blocking/stripping solution (I'd rather just block the fsckers at SMTP time -- and *shock*, my ISP appears to be doing this at l

Re: woody to sarge?

2004-04-19 Thread Christian Riedel
Hi, On 19.04.2004 18:35, Sarunas wrote: [...] | Anyway if you would only like to update several packages thing about | backports(.org). Or make yourself familar with pinning. pinning?---any hints? I found this quite helpfull for the beginning: http://jaqque.sbih.org/kplug/apt-pinning.html HTH

Emulating a dual monitor system over X?

2004-04-19 Thread Brent Miller
Hello everyone. Like many on this list I'm sure, I end up being the recipient of old computers that friends and family unload on me every time the latest and greatest new thing comes out. A friend of mine just gave me (another) old laptop that he's not using anymore and I'm trying to figure out a u

Re: HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted

2004-04-19 Thread Tim Beauregard
Mike Chandler wrote: [...] Hey Tim, I'm in the same boat, except kernel-2.6.3-1. hdparm returns this error: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/mike# hdparm -d1 /dev/hdb /dev/hdb: setting using_dma to 1 (on) HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted using_dma= 0 (off) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/mike#

Re: Corel - which debian?

2004-04-19 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 19 April 2004 07:51 am, Hans du Plooy wrote: > Does anybody know for sure on which version of Debian Corel Linux was > based? I'm pretty sure it was before Potato - Potato was probably > still testing, but I'm not familiar with Debian that fa

Re: woody to sarge?

2004-04-19 Thread dircha
Sven Hoexter wrote: On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 11:59:41AM -0400, Sarunas wrote: What would be the proper way of upgrading a Debian system (2.4 kernel, sendmail, apache, mysql) from Woody to Sarge? Is editing /etc/apt/sources.list (replacing stable with sarge) and apt-get updating + upgrading supposed

Re: woody to sarge?

2004-04-19 Thread Markus Lindström
Sarunas wrote: What would be the proper way of upgrading a Debian system (2.4 kernel, sendmail, apache, mysql) from Woody to Sarge? Is editing /etc/apt/sources.list (replacing stable with sarge) and apt-get updating + upgrading supposed to do the job? Aren't you supposed to put "testing" instead of

Re: Postscript / Ghostskript with background Image

2004-04-19 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 08:02:56PM +0200, MH - Entwicklung wrote: } Hello, } } I want to create Postscript files from normal ascii text with some } background graphics. } Does anybody know how this can be done? } } (The whole thing is this: } 1. Some piece of software creates some report, which i

Postscript / Ghostskript with background Image

2004-04-19 Thread MH - Entwicklung
Hello, I want to create Postscript files from normal ascii text with some background graphics. Does anybody know how this can be done? (The whole thing is this: 1. Some piece of software creates some report, which is my ascii text 2. I have 2 images (logos) 3. I want a PDF file containing the logo

Re: Sendmail --> Exim howto?

2004-04-19 Thread Diana Brake
Paul Johnson wrote: Diana Brake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Kirk Strauser wrote: At 2004-04-19T03:07:10Z, Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I'm about to convert a mail system from Sendmail to Exim. Anyone know of a tutorial/HOWTO on the subject? OK, I have to ask. If you have a running

apt-get update

2004-04-19 Thread Mozzi
Hallo all How would I let apt-get look in the woody proposed-updates ? I am having issues with mysql and want to go to proposed updates Thnx Mozzi -- --- No Microsoft software was used, or employees hurt in creating this email. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject o

Re: Sendmail --> Exim howto?

2004-04-19 Thread Paul Johnson
Diana Brake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Kirk Strauser wrote: >> At 2004-04-19T03:07:10Z, Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>>I'm about to convert a mail system from Sendmail to Exim. Anyone know of >>>a tutorial/HOWTO on the subject? >> OK, I have to ask. If you have a running Sendmail

Is SWEN back?

2004-04-19 Thread Marc Shapiro
I hadn't seen any SWEN in months, so I slipped up and posted a few messages to the list using my regular account (instead of this HOTMAIL account set up only for posting to debian-user and receiving all of my SWEN). Yesterday, I received what looked like a SWEN e-mail. The subject was "Securi

Re: woody to sarge?

2004-04-19 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 19 April 2004 08:35 am, Sarunas wrote: > Sven Hoexter wrote: > | On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 11:59:41AM -0400, Sarunas wrote: > | > | Hi, > | > |>What would be the proper way of upgrading a Debian system (2.4 > |> kernel, sendmail, apache, mysql)

Re: Corel - which debian?

2004-04-19 Thread David P James
On Mon 19 April 2004 12:24, Bob Underwood wrote: > On Monday 19 April 2004 11:51 am, Hans du Plooy wrote: > > Does anybody know for sure on which version of Debian Corel Linux > > was based? I'm pretty sure it was before Potato - Potato was > > probably still testing, but I'm not familiar with Debi

Re: woody to sarge?

2004-04-19 Thread Albert Dengg
On Mon, 19 Apr 2004 11:59:41 -0400 Sarunas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > Is editing /etc/apt/sources.list (replacing stable with sarge) and > apt-get updating + upgrading supposed to do the job? ... Hi Well, I would use apt-get dist-upgrade, that also handles changed dependencies, see also man

Re: woody to sarge?

2004-04-19 Thread Sarunas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sven Hoexter wrote: | On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 11:59:41AM -0400, Sarunas wrote: | | Hi, | | |>What would be the proper way of upgrading a Debian system (2.4 kernel, |>sendmail, apache, mysql) from Woody to Sarge? |> |>Is editing /etc/apt/sources.list (re

Re: Stable vs. Testing Vs. Unstable

2004-04-19 Thread Nitebirdz
On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 09:14:20AM +0200, Sebastiaan wrote: > > Unstable I don't use, so I don't have experience with it. All I know from > the list is that unstable is often broken, leads sometimes to a complete > unworkable system and a lot of Debian package and Linux knowlegde is often > requir

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Re: Corel - which debian?

2004-04-19 Thread Bob Underwood
On Monday 19 April 2004 11:51 am, Hans du Plooy wrote: > Does anybody know for sure on which version of Debian Corel Linux was > based? I'm pretty sure it was before Potato - Potato was probably still > testing, but I'm not familiar with Debian that far back. > > Thanks > -- > Kind regards > Hans d

Re: woody to sarge?

2004-04-19 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 11:59:41AM -0400, Sarunas wrote: Hi, > What would be the proper way of upgrading a Debian system (2.4 kernel, > sendmail, apache, mysql) from Woody to Sarge? > > Is editing /etc/apt/sources.list (replacing stable with sarge) and > apt-get updating + upgrading supposed to

Re: apt-get upgrade error mysql

2004-04-19 Thread Mozzi
On Monday 19 April 2004 17:56, s. keeling wrote: > Incoming from Mozzi: > > I did an apt-get upgrade on woody and I got this error. > > anybody know what this means? > > > > Setting up mysql-server (3.23.49-8.6) ... > > Stopping MySQL database server: mysqld. > > ATTENTION: An error is occured. Mor

Re: ALSA configure problem

2004-04-19 Thread Nitebirdz
On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 07:18:55PM +0200, Hans wrote: > Sebastiaan wrote: > > >usually when you install your kernel, some source files are installed in > >/lib/modules/2.6.5/ . Normally this happens when you do a 'make > >modules_install' after the kernel has been compiled. I don't know how you >

woody to sarge?

2004-04-19 Thread Sarunas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, What would be the proper way of upgrading a Debian system (2.4 kernel, sendmail, apache, mysql) from Woody to Sarge? Is editing /etc/apt/sources.list (replacing stable with sarge) and apt-get updating + upgrading supposed to do the job? Thanks,

Re: apt-get upgrade error mysql

2004-04-19 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Mozzi: > > I did an apt-get upgrade on woody and I got this error. > anybody know what this means? > > Setting up mysql-server (3.23.49-8.6) ... > Stopping MySQL database server: mysqld. > ATTENTION: An error is occured. More info in /var/log/mysql/mysql.err! ...

apt-get upgrade error mysql

2004-04-19 Thread Mozzi
Hi all Sorry seems there was a problem with previous post I did an apt-get upgrade on woody and I got this error. anybody know what this means? Setting up mysql-server (3.23.49-8.6) ... Stopping MySQL database server: mysqld. ATTENTION: An error is occured. More info in /var/log/mysql/mysql.err!

Re: make-kpkg multiple times for each cpu ? (p3,p4,k7...)

2004-04-19 Thread xavier
On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 11:18:51AM -0400, Roberto Sanchez wrote: |>is there any way to pass a config param through the command line, |>that would apply dependencies ? (ie k7->3dnow, L1cacheshift=6) |> |>thanks |> |> | |How about just building a generic i386 kernel? It would save you |lots of

Corel - which debian?

2004-04-19 Thread Hans du Plooy
Does anybody know for sure on which version of Debian Corel Linux was based? I'm pretty sure it was before Potato - Potato was probably still testing, but I'm not familiar with Debian that far back. Thanks -- Kind regards Hans du Plooy Newington Consulting Services hansdp at newingtoncs dot co

Re: make-kpkg multiple times for each cpu ? (p3,p4,k7...)

2004-04-19 Thread Roberto Sanchez
xavier wrote: Hi, I'm using make-kpkg to build kernels. I need the same kernel on differents hosts. (p3,p4,k7...) Now i'm builing the kernel, i do a make xconfig/menuconfig to change the cpu, and i'm rebuilding. Is there a way to build all thoses kernels non-interactively ? I could do some sed o

Re: ssh problem after upgrade from woody to sarge

2004-04-19 Thread Pete RedHair
I'm using shadow so i guess i need the other config. Anyway it's working. Thanks Pete --- Stephan Seitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 06:36:32AM -0700, Pete > RedHair wrote: > >It is now working without any problems. > > Fine. > > >Stephan reported about some changes need

Re: perl 5.6.1-8.7 ???

2004-04-19 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Fraser Campbell wrote: Hi, Does anyone know what perl release 5.6.1-8.7 addresses. It's been on security.debian.org for a while now but I don't see a DSA yet. I would just go ahead and install it but since the compromise I'm a little more paranoid. Thanks It came out Friday night: http://lis

Re: perl 5.6.1-8.7 ???

2004-04-19 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello Fraser! On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 10:38:44AM -0400, Fraser Campbell wrote: > Does anyone know what perl release 5.6.1-8.7 addresses. It's been on > security.debian.org for a while now but I don't see a DSA yet. I would just > go ahead and install it but since the compromise I'm a little mo

Re: testing : cdrecord does not recognize my cd-writer

2004-04-19 Thread steef
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi: Try cdrecord -dev=ATAPI -scanbus What does that say? You may be able to burn with something like cdrecord -dev=ATAPI:0,0,0 ... Mark hi all, got some problem with sarge. sarge doesnot recognize my aopen cd/dvd-writer, allthough sg and ide-scsi definitely are

make-kpkg multiple times for each cpu ? (p3,p4,k7...)

2004-04-19 Thread xavier
Hi, I'm using make-kpkg to build kernels. I need the same kernel on differents hosts. (p3,p4,k7...) Now i'm builing the kernel, i do a make xconfig/menuconfig to change the cpu, and i'm rebuilding. Is there a way to build all thoses kernels non-interactively ? I could do some sed on the conf

testing : cdrecord does not recognize my cd-writer

2004-04-19 Thread steef
hi all, got some problem with sarge. sarge doesnot recognize my aopen cd/dvd-writer, allthough sg and ide-scsi definitely are installed. i did append="hdc=ide-scsi" in lilo and in /etc/modutils/action: options ide-cd ignore=hdc and pre-install sg modprobe ide-scsi. sarge talks to me: both mo

Re: Sendmail --> Exim howto?

2004-04-19 Thread Diana Brake
Kirk Strauser wrote: At 2004-04-19T03:07:10Z, Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I'm about to convert a mail system from Sendmail to Exim. Anyone know of a tutorial/HOWTO on the subject? OK, I have to ask. If you have a running Sendmail installation, and you don't know Exim, then why are y

Re: What happened to the Compose Key?

2004-04-19 Thread Pigeon
On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 11:23:36PM +0200, Sebastian Kapfer wrote: > On Sun, 18 Apr 2004 00:40:09 +0200, Pigeon wrote: > > > On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 01:52:26PM +, Adam Funk wrote: > >> How could I get my right alt key (which as far as I can tell does > >> nothing at present) to imitate the left

Re: ssh problem after upgrade from woody to sarge

2004-04-19 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 06:36:32AM -0700, Pete RedHair wrote: It is now working without any problems. Fine. Stephan reported about some changes needed to do in the sshd_config, should i keep them, are they to be You'll need them, if you don't have your passwords in /etc/shadow but in LDAP or Samba

perl 5.6.1-8.7 ???

2004-04-19 Thread Fraser Campbell
Hi, Does anyone know what perl release 5.6.1-8.7 addresses. It's been on security.debian.org for a while now but I don't see a DSA yet. I would just go ahead and install it but since the compromise I'm a little more paranoid. Thanks -- Fraser Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http

Re: DRI and tuxracer ok, flightgear and torcs slow

2004-04-19 Thread Gebhardt Thomas
On Monday 19 April 2004 15:48, James Vahn wrote: Hi, > it no longer worked. Everything else is fine, glxgears included. I've no > solution, but would wager that nobody can run Flightgear on a Sarge/Sid > box at the moment. I would expect to see some bug reports against xlibmesa-gl in that case,

Re: festival 1.4.3 is not working on debian testing

2004-04-19 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
Karsten M. Self wrote: on Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 07:44:56PM -0400, Kamaraju Kusumanchi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi all I have always received wonderful advice from this group which successfully solved my previous problems. Thanks you all. I installed festival 1.4.3, a speech synthesis syste

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