RE: netstat ?

2010-02-23 Thread Tim Clewlow
>> >> tcpdump host 172.16.4.1 -XX >> >> if you want to save the data in a file for later analysis >> >> tcpdump host 172.16.4.1 -XX >> somefile >> >> ** >> >> if you want to know why you are doing this >> >> man tcpdump >> >> Regards, Tim. >> >> >> > > Thank you for your reply . Sorry , Is this

RE: netstat ?

2010-02-23 Thread Hadi Motamedi
> Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:17:11 +1100 > Subject: RE: netstat ? > From: t...@clewlow.org > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > >> > >> In , Hadi Motamedi > >> wrote: > >> >My Debian server is at @172.16.128.1 and the remote network > >> element is at > >> > @172.16.4.1 , > > > > Thank you f

gnome 2.28 freezing

2010-02-23 Thread Dale
Hi all, I have installed Debian testing on my Acer Aspire 4810T Timeline laptop and I have a problem were Gnome freezes (stutters) when it goes onto battery and I have to keep moving the touchpad to keep the desktop alive. I have looked through log files to see if can find to see what is going on

RE: netstat ?

2010-02-23 Thread Tim Clewlow
>> >> In , Hadi Motamedi >> wrote: >> >My Debian server is at @172.16.128.1 and the remote network >> element is at >> > @172.16.4.1 , > > Thank you for your reply . Sorry , you mean the tcpdump can be used > to monitor the exchanged packets toward an spesific ip address ? I > thought that it can j

Problem with php on debian

2010-02-23 Thread S.Ali zahiri
Hello dear all , I had installed Apache server and php5 with plesk on my system.after that i had tried to boot up my php based site but i had got the following : Warning: require_once(/var/www/vhosts/sazlastexample.com/httpdocs/modules/url_management/) [function.require-once]: failed to open

RE: netstat ?

2010-02-23 Thread Hadi Motamedi
> From: b...@iguanasuicide.net > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: netstat ? > Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 23:59:41 -0600 > > In , Hadi Motamedi wrote: > >My Debian server is at @172.16.128.1 and the remote network element is at > > @172.16.4.1 , but the 'netstat' does not show the i

Successful running 3D apps w open driver. Solving Xserver modes switching.

2010-02-23 Thread Sthu Deus
Good day. First, I want that my this message be saved in the Debian mailing list archive in so that my experience could of worth to all those that will be in the same dilemma as I was in w/ the 3D-accel. support for ATI r4xx, X1100 vcard - for I had all necessary things to have it running (and

Re: netstat ?

2010-02-23 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In , Hadi Motamedi wrote: >My Debian server is at @172.16.128.1 and the remote network element is at > @172.16.4.1 , but the 'netstat' does not show the ip address and the > assigned port from my Debian . It just shows many dedicated ports , > assigned with '0.0.0.0:xx' format . Can you please let

netstat ?

2010-02-23 Thread Hadi Motamedi
Dear All My Debian server is at @172.16.128.1 and the remote network element is at @172.16.4.1 , but the 'netstat' does not show the ip address and the assigned port from my Debian . It just shows many dedicated ports , assigned with '0.0.0.0:xx' format . Can you please let me know how can I d

Re: Correct binary for Intel Core i5

2010-02-23 Thread Peter Tenenbaum
OK, you've convinced me to go with the Intel motherboard. Thanks for all the tips! -PT

Re: Two Lenny problems

2010-02-23 Thread Cecil Knutson
Stephen, This is the second time I have replied, but I don't see the reply on the list, so here it goes again. "Local" is in the /etc/modprobe.d directory; it has the right contents; modprobe.conf does not exist; the "cat" command does show the contents of the file, but I don't see anything

Re: how to convince that debian is one the three major choices for a stable server environment?

2010-02-23 Thread Stan Hoeppner
John Hasler put forth on 2/23/2010 5:20 PM: > Stan writes: >> They want a big name vendor with big dollars in the bank backing that >> support contract. > > "Vendor" is the key word here. They want "vendor" support because, > still being stuck in the closed-source mindset, they think that only th

Re: Name Resolution Issue from Browser only, on Debian 5.0.4

2010-02-23 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 19:58:07 -0800 (PST) "Hemanth M. C." wrote: ... > In short, pinging a certain destination helps the getent and wget commands > resolve the name correctly. Why is this so? Are the DNS lookups cached > somewhere? Does this cache have to be cleared? I don't know the solution

Re: Name Resolution Issue from Browser only, on Debian 5.0.4

2010-02-23 Thread Hemanth M. C.
Camaleón, Thank you for replying to my mail. My replies inline... On Tue, February 23, 2010 21:30:51 +0530, Camaleón wrote: > >On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 00:30:15 -0800, Hemanth M. C. wrote: > >> I am facing a rather peculiar issue. I installed Debian 5.0.4 on my >> laptop. The basic network connectiv

Re: how to convince that debian is one the three major choices for a stable server environment?

2010-02-23 Thread Stephen Powell
On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 21:19:08 -0500 (EST), John Hasler writes: > Have you looked at the license agreements on the closed-source stuff > they buy? Yeah, I know. It's a mindset more than anything else. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscrib

Re: Better workaround - switch KMS off, Was: debian/testing systems stopped to boot after upgrade between 20.02 and 22.02

2010-02-23 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 19:00:53 -0500 Celejar wrote: > On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 22:56:56 +0100 > wzab wrote: > > > I have just found the real source of problem - it is the Kernel > > Mode Switch (KMS). > > As soon as I have edited /etc/modprobe.d/i915-kms.

Re: how to convince that debian is one the three major choices for a stable server environment?

2010-02-23 Thread John Hasler
Stephen Powell writes: > They also want someone with deep pockets that they can sue if things > really go south. Have you looked at the license agreements on the closed-source stuff they buy? > A subchapter S corporation run by John Q. Consultant doesn't have > deep enough pockets. There are in

Re: how to convince that debian is one the three major choices for a stable server environment?

2010-02-23 Thread Stephen Powell
On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 18:20:55 -0500 (EST), John Hasler wrote: > > Stan writes: >> They want a big name vendor with big dollars in the bank backing that >> support contract. > > "Vendor" is the key word here. They want "vendor" support because, > still being stuck in the closed-source mindset, they

Re: support for experimental? (was: Re: annoying 4gb seg fixup)

2010-02-23 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 14:56, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 11:26:44AM -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 10:11, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. >> wrote: >> > On Tuesday 23 February 2010 11:39:32 Kelly Clowers wrote: >> > >> >> Experimental works fine for me, gene

Re: Re (3): eth0 or eth1

2010-02-23 Thread Tom H
>> Neither ifconfig nor ip use /e/n/i to configure nics. > So the end user need only use ip rather than ifconfig > and not be further concerned about the deprecation? I would worry about its deprecation when it is moved out of main or stops neing maintained. Although, I have read an article wher

RE: looking for older version of DEBIAN .

2010-02-23 Thread robin_leong
Hi Christian, Thanks for the reply , but unfortunately I was looking Debian 3.0 version and bellow . Is best is Debian 2.0 , I search around the link which you provide does not have this ISO version . Can you suggest where I can get this ISO file to download ? Thank You

Re (3): eth0 or eth1

2010-02-23 Thread peasthope
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 19:48:46 -0500, Tom H wrote, > Neither ifconfig nor ip use /e/n/i to configure nics. So the end user need only use ip rather than ifconfig and not be further concerned about the deprecation? > /e/n/i may be > referred to in the "see also" section of man page of ifconfig

Re: Re(2): eth0 or eth1

2010-02-23 Thread Tom H
>> The ifconfig command >> is said to be deprecated in favour of iproute ... > Curious.  The Squeeze installer, or Lenny at least, > still creates /etc/network/interfaces doesn't it? > And this file is cited in ifconfig.man but not in > ip.man. > If we are willing to take deprecation of ifconfig

Re(2): eth0 or eth1

2010-02-23 Thread peasthope
I'm resending this after correcting the date on my system. * Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 03:47:55 +0100 Vincent Lefevre wrote, > The ifconfig command > is said to be deprecated in favour of iproute ... Curious. The Squeeze installer, or Lenny at least, still creates /etc/network/interfaces do

Unidentified subject!

2010-02-23 Thread peasthope
I'm resending this after correcting the date on my system. * Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 03:47:55 +0100 Vincent Lefevre wrote, > The ifconfig command > is said to be deprecated in favour of iproute ... Curious. The Squeeze installer, or Lenny at least, still creates /etc/network/interfaces do

Unidentified subject!

2010-02-23 Thread peasthope
I'm resending this after correcting the date on my system. * Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 03:47:55 +0100 Vincent Lefevre wrote, > The ifconfig command > is said to be deprecated in favour of iproute ... Curious. The Squeeze installer, or Lenny at least, still creates /etc/network/interfaces do

Re: Better workaround - switch KMS off, Was: debian/testing systems stopped to boot after upgrade between 20.02 and 22.02

2010-02-23 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 22:56:56 +0100 wzab wrote: > I have just found the real source of problem - it is the Kernel Mode Switch > (KMS). > As soon as I have edited /etc/modprobe.d/i915-kms.conf > replacing "options i915 modeset=1" with "options i915 modeset=0" > the problem disappeared on both machi

Re: Correct binary for Intel Core i5

2010-02-23 Thread Mark Allums
On 2/23/2010 12:43 AM, Jacek Politowski wrote: On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 10:32:55PM -0600, Mark Allums wrote: It's true, you can have large memory with i386, but why? To have still the most compatible system? Some legacy apps may still be available only as 32-bit. Theoretically most of the 32

Re(2): eth0 or eth1

2010-02-23 Thread peasthope
* Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 03:47:55 +0100 Vincent Lefevre wrote, > The ifconfig command > is said to be deprecated in favour of iproute ... Curious. The Squeeze installer, or Lenny at least, still creates /etc/network/interfaces doesn't it? And this file is cited in ifconfig.man but not in

Re: how to convince that debian is one the three major choices for a stable server environment?

2010-02-23 Thread John Hasler
Stan writes: > They want a big name vendor with big dollars in the bank backing that > support contract. "Vendor" is the key word here. They want "vendor" support because, still being stuck in the closed-source mindset, they think that only the "vendor" has source and can supply full support. >

RE: looking for older version of DEBIAN .

2010-02-23 Thread Christian Körner
On Mon, 22 Feb 2010, robin_leong wrote: Hi To who may concern, Thanks for the reply , by the way , is there any ISO file which I can download & burn into a CD ?? Here you go: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/archive/ Thank You And Regards, NX Robin Cya, Christian -Orig

Re: how to convince that debian is one the three major choices for a stable server environment?

2010-02-23 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Andrei Popescu put forth on 2/23/2010 4:26 PM: > And because paid support was mentioned let me add: > > http://www.debian.org/consultants/ This doesn't count. We're talking _vendor_ support, and access to developers. For example, AFAIK, both Novell and Red Hat will write and maintain custom ke

Re: Better workaround - switch KMS off, Was: debian/testing systems stopped to boot after upgrade between 20.02 and 22.02

2010-02-23 Thread Charlie
On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 22:56:56 +0100 wzab shared this with us all: >I have just found the real source of problem - it is the Kernel Mode >Switch (KMS). >As soon as I have edited /etc/modprobe.d/i915-kms.conf >replacing "options i915 modeset=1" with "options i915 modeset=0" >the problem disappeared

Re: how to convince that debian is one the three major choices for a stable server environment?

2010-02-23 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,22.Feb.10, 10:51:44, Stephen Powell wrote: > I'm not sure exactly what you're asking, but you might find these links > useful: > > http://www.debian.org/intro/why_debian > http://www.debian.org/users/ > http://www.debian.org/misc/children-distros And because paid support was mentioned l

Better workaround - switch KMS off, Was: debian/testing systems stopped to boot after upgrade between 20.02 and 22.02

2010-02-23 Thread wzab
I have just found the real source of problem - it is the Kernel Mode Switch (KMS). As soon as I have edited /etc/modprobe.d/i915-kms.conf replacing "options i915 modeset=1" with "options i915 modeset=0" the problem disappeared on both machines. So it seems, that this feature may be dangerous (espe

Re: Re (2): name -> address resolution

2010-02-23 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,22.Feb.10, 09:56:36, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > Andrei, > > Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 03:35:43 +0200 andreimpope...@gmail.co wrote, > > What does your /etc/hosts file look like? > > Now visible. > http://carnot.yi.org/joule.hosts > With the link to the ISP configured by dhcp, > the only ad

Re: support for experimental? (was: Re: annoying 4gb seg fixup)

2010-02-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 11:26:44AM -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 10:11, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. > wrote: > > On Tuesday 23 February 2010 11:39:32 Kelly Clowers wrote: > > > >> Experimental works fine for me, generally. > > > > Note that adding experimental to your /etc/apt/

Re: LDAP: possible problems with user authentication

2010-02-23 Thread mourik jan c heupink
Hi germana, I have been searching for some tools (free software tools) and i have found some: Maybe these links will interest you also: http://www.ldap-account-manager.org/ and http://ldapadmin.sourceforge.net/ regards, mj -- www.muzieknoteren.nl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-

Re: /var/log/messages(dmesg) ?

2010-02-23 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 07:10:45AM -0500, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 23:58:47 -0500 (EST), Hadi Motamedi wrote: > > On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 10:00:57 -0500, Stephen Powell wrote: > >> On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 05:41:04 -0500 (EST), Hadi Motamedi wrote: > >>> My Debian server got hung and when

Re: how to convince that debian is one the three major choices for a stable server environment?

2010-02-23 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi: On Tuesday 23 February 2010 12:41:43 Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: > Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: [...] > The drop that filled the bucket (or whatever the expression is), was > that we can't have the latest PHP with the latest SNMP module because of > a certain PHP bug that is refused to be dealt

Re: FORTRAN implementation in Lenny

2010-02-23 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 2:35 AM, Fuentes, Adolfo wrote: > Hello Raju. > > is a link in "/etc/alternatives" to "/usr/bin/gfortran". Ok, thanks. > > When typing "gfortran -v" the options are: > > ]$ gfortran -v > Using built-in specs. > Target: i486-linux-gnu > Configured with: ../src/configure

Re: support for experimental? (was: Re: annoying 4gb seg fixup)

2010-02-23 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 10:11, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Tuesday 23 February 2010 11:39:32 Kelly Clowers wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 03:52, Chris Bannister >> >> wrote: >> > On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 07:06:33AM -0600, John Hasler wrote: >> >> Chris writes: >> >> > experimental is uns

VLC no longer plays *.flv and *.mpg files

2010-02-23 Thread AG
Hi VLC has suddenly, and for no apparent reason, stopped playing *.flv and *.mpg files. I believe that I have all of the right codecs - w32codecs is the latest and kmplayer plays such files without problem. Anybody else experienced this recently and/ or is there a likely fix? Thanks in adva

Re: VLC no longer plays *.flv and *.mpg files

2010-02-23 Thread AG
AG wrote: Hi VLC has suddenly, and for no apparent reason, stopped playing *.flv and *.mpg files. I believe that I have all of the right codecs - w32codecs is the latest and kmplayer plays such files without problem. Anybody else experienced this recently and/ or is there a likely fix? Tha

Re: support for experimental? (was: Re: annoying 4gb seg fixup)

2010-02-23 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 23 February 2010 11:39:32 Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 03:52, Chris Bannister > > wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 07:06:33AM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > >> Chris writes: > >> > experimental is unsupported on this list. > >> > >> That isn't true, though there may be

Re: support for experimental? (was: Re: annoying 4gb seg fixup)

2010-02-23 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 03:52, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 07:06:33AM -0600, John Hasler wrote: >> Chris writes: >> > experimental is unsupported on this list. >> >> That isn't true, though there may be few (if any) other people here >> using any given package therefrom. > > P

Workaround "acpi=off", Was: debian/testing systems stopped to boot after upgrade between 20.02 and 22.02

2010-02-23 Thread wzab
Charlie wrote: | That did the trick removing Your help is much appreciated. In case of both my systems problem was obviously not screen mode related. I have removed using of framebuffer by grub. I have deinstalled "fonty". I have switched off everything in /etc/init.d what was suspected to change

Re: Correct binary for Intel Core i5

2010-02-23 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 23 February 2010 09:40:10 Stan Hoeppner wrote: > It's a crappy system. Layers of additional complexity > and breakage just to deal with the politics of "free". This is one of the > many reasons I roll my own kernels from kernel.org source. I love Debian, > but I don't care for the Deb

Re: Name Resolution Issue from Browser only, on Debian 5.0.4

2010-02-23 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 00:30:15 -0800, Hemanth M. C. wrote: > I am facing a rather peculiar issue. I installed Debian 5.0.4 on my > laptop. The basic network connectivity works fine, and the DHCP client > daemon seems to have picked up the right config info from my DSL router. > But, anything related

Re: Debian 5 server - auto-reconnect to wireless networks?

2010-02-23 Thread chombee
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 12:55:24PM +0100, Mirko Parthey wrote: > On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 04:46:51PM +, chombee wrote: > > I'm wondering how to get my Debian server to automatically reconnect to > > my wireless network. The server is an OLPC XO-1 running Debian 5 Stable > > via the DebXO distrib

Re: Correct binary for Intel Core i5

2010-02-23 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Johan Kullstam put forth on 2/23/2010 7:26 AM: > After having trouble with the Realtek motherboard built-in ethernet, I > just sprung for a PCI Intel ethernet. They are only like $30. Goto Newegg and look at all the cards. You can get a PCI GigE Realtek card for $7. Seven f--king USD. That's

Re: Correct binary for Intel Core i5

2010-02-23 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. put forth on 2/23/2010 7:22 AM: > While it could happen in the future, there's no system in place (AFAIK) for > the system to recommend certain packages based on the user's hardware > profile. > It is very easy to be missing the firmware because you a missing a package.

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Re: how to convince that debian is one the three major choices for a stable server environment?

2010-02-23 Thread Stephen Powell
On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 06:13:46 -0500 (EST), Stan Hoeppner wrote: > CxOs prefer paid vendor support contracts. They want an > emergency phone number and real, deep answers available when systems implode > to the point internal staff can't figure out the problem and fix it. > > This is also why Red H

Searching for small Bug Tracking System

2010-02-23 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Geeks, I am searching for a small Bug Tracking System like the Debian BTS, but more lite. I need exactly 1) must work with a catchall mailaccount 2a) must work with courier-mta using the dot-courier like curier-mlm or 2b) integration into procmail with a .courier-default and | /u

no write access in /home reiserfs (encrypted) 2.6.32-2-686

2010-02-23 Thread robi
Package: linux-image-2.6.32-2-686 hello, I have upgraded kernel to 2.6.32-2-686 from 2.6.26-2-686. After that, when I boot my laptop (debian lenny) I get the error about no write access to /home. It's mounted with rw options, reiserfs and it's encrypted from /dev/mapper/dat-home. After rebooting

Re: LDAP: possible problems with user authentication

2010-02-23 Thread Germana Oliveira
I have been searching for some tools (free software tools) and i have found some: Apache Directory Server: looks good but i dont like the java stuff. "Apache Directory Server is an open source LDAP directory server implemented in java." GOsa: looks very good and development in php, could be a goo

Re: Correct binary for Intel Core i5

2010-02-23 Thread Johan Kullstam
Stan Hoeppner writes: > Peter Tenenbaum put forth on 2/21/2010 10:01 PM: >> Stan -- >> >> It sounds like, if the Realtek drivers are not present on the Debian >> distribution, I have at least two options: going to the Realtek site and >> downloading their linux 64 bit drivers, or compiling my o

Re: Correct binary for Intel Core i5

2010-02-23 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <4b83a91b.8040...@hardwarefreak.com>, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. put forth on 2/22/2010 1:01 PM: >> So, non-free firmware is normally moved to non-free instead of being >> dropped from Debian entirely for many years now. Drivers that were >> previously dropped because of non-f

Re: LDAP: possible problems with user authentication

2010-02-23 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Please don't top post Germana Oliveira schreef: So, you're telling me that ADS/LDAP do the same thing you can do just with LDAP (without the interface) .. i mean, a directory service. Groups, rights and security is manage by the OS itself ¿?. What Active Directory does is to give you the faci

Re: annoying 4gb seg fixup

2010-02-23 Thread Eric Persson
Tomasz Pajor wrote: Even updating to libc6-xen 2.11-0exp4 didn't help. apt-get install libc6=2.11-0exp4 libc-bin=2.11-0exp4 \ libc6-xen=2.11-0exp4 libc-dev-bin=2.11-0exp4 \ libc6-dev=2.11-0exp4 libc6-i686=2.11-0exp4 locales=2.11-0exp4 (none):~# ldd /usr/sbin/apache2 linux-gate.so.1 =>

Re: Debian-Multimedia

2010-02-23 Thread Wayne
Stuckey wrote: Quoting Chris Bannister : On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 12:15:38PM +0100, Stuckey wrote: Is it still necessary for me to set a target release? How do I do this? Please!. Don't top post on this list. <<< SNIP >>> Thanks. I'll remember not to top post. And also remember to t

RE: /var/log/messages(dmesg) ?

2010-02-23 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 23:58:47 -0500 (EST), Hadi Motamedi wrote: > On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 10:00:57 -0500, Stephen Powell wrote: >> On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 05:41:04 -0500 (EST), Hadi Motamedi wrote: >>> My Debian server got hung and when I tried to power cycle it, >>> I checked its /var/log/messages & /var/l

Re: Debian-Multimedia

2010-02-23 Thread Stuckey
Quoting Chris Bannister : On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 12:15:38PM +0100, Stuckey wrote: Is it still necessary for me to set a target release? How do I do this? Please!. Don't top post on this list. Well if you dont have the "-t debian-multimedia" then it will installed from the higher value preff

Re: Debian-Multimedia

2010-02-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 12:15:38PM +0100, Stuckey wrote: > Is it still necessary for me to set a target release? How do I do this? Please!. Don't top post on this list. Well if you dont have the "-t debian-multimedia" then it will installed from the higher value preffered repository, but if you f

Re: how to convince that debian is one the three major choices for a stable server environment?

2010-02-23 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: Γιώργος Πάλλας : (it is, isn't it? :-) ) So, yes, we are moving on from our 10year experience with gentoo What reasons have you collected to decide to move from Gentoo? I want 'x' program installed, and I want it *now* to solve a burning situation. B

Re: LDAP: possible problems with user authentication

2010-02-23 Thread Germana Oliveira
So, you're telling me that ADS/LDAP do the same thing you can do just with LDAP (without the interface) .. i mean, a directory service. Groups, rights and security is manage by the OS itself ¿?. What Active Directory does is to give you the facility to manage all those things together? But with De

Re: Correct binary for Intel Core i5

2010-02-23 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Peter Tenenbaum put forth on 2/21/2010 10:01 PM: > Stan -- > > It sounds like, if the Realtek drivers are not present on the Debian > distribution, I have at least two options: going to the Realtek site and > downloading their linux 64 bit drivers, or compiling my own kernel from > source on kern

Re: how to convince that debian is one the three major choices for a stable server environment?

2010-02-23 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
Michal wrote: Well, we 're not Google or Facebook, and we would like to stick with linux... I'm not 100% sure what that has to do with anything...I'm taking a a guess at maybe your thinking of high performance web sites in which case it has a lot of uses over just that, if that's what y

Re: Debian-Multimedia

2010-02-23 Thread Stuckey
Is it still necessary for me to set a target release? How do I do this? Thanks, Stuckey Quoting Chris Bannister : On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 02:06:52PM +0100, Stuckey wrote: Thanks for the replies. So I've edited /etc/apt/preferences such: stuc...@debian:~$ cat /etc/apt/preferences Package: *

Re: how to convince that debian is one the three major choices for a stable server environment?

2010-02-23 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Jan Hlodan put forth on 2/22/2010 5:09 PM: >>> Depending on what you want to use the servers for, > > I prefer Solaris 10 to FreeBSD for servers. I think, Solaris is more > powerful, stable and better supported than FreeBSD. Solaris (SPARC) or Open Solaris (x86)? If the latter, I hope for your s

Re: Debian-Multimedia

2010-02-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 02:06:52PM +0100, Stuckey wrote: > Thanks for the replies. > > So I've edited /etc/apt/preferences such: > stuc...@debian:~$ cat /etc/apt/preferences > > Package: * > Pin: origin www.debian-multimedia.org > Pin-Priority: 200 > > And now, when I do "apt-cache policy mplaye

Re: how to convince that debian is one the three major choices for a stable server environment?

2010-02-23 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Dotan Cohen put forth on 2/22/2010 3:02 PM: > Don't forget that there is a FreeBSD-based Debian distro out there. I > don't know how it fares compared to the GNU/Linux Debian distro in > terms of application support, but the Debian name carries a lot of > weight in terms of stability and security.

support for experimental? (was: Re: annoying 4gb seg fixup)

2010-02-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 07:06:33AM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Chris writes: > > experimental is unsupported on this list. > > That isn't true, though there may be few (if any) other people here > using any given package therefrom. Please correct me as you see fit. AIUI, the experimental distri

Re: debian/testing systems stopped to boot after upgrade between 20.02 and 22.02

2010-02-23 Thread Charlie
On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 10:23:51 +0100 Sjoerd Hardeman shared this with us all: >Charlie schreef: >> On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 08:48:31 +0100 wzab shared >> this with us all: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I have two different debian/testing systems. The common feature is >>> the Intel graphics chipset. >>> Both of

Re: Correct binary for Intel Core i5

2010-02-23 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. put forth on 2/22/2010 1:01 PM: > So, non-free firmware is normally moved to non-free instead of being dropped > from Debian entirely for many years now. Drivers that were previously > dropped > because of non-free firmware might be added back in, if they can be modified

Re: debian/testing systems stopped to boot after upgrade between 20.02 and 22.02

2010-02-23 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Charlie schreef: On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 08:48:31 +0100 wzab shared this with us all: Hi, I have two different debian/testing systems. The common feature is the Intel graphics chipset. Both of them stopped to boot after upgrade which I performed between 20.02 and 22.02 (the last successful boot l

Gridengine installation

2010-02-23 Thread Johann Spies
I am trying to install Gridengine on a cluster involving head002, node101 and node 102. The instructions in REAME.Debian does not work as it is there. I cannot install an execution host following this README. One example: $ qconf -ae node102 node102 is no exec host I wanted to use the Debian

Re: debian/testing systems stopped to boot after upgrade between 20.02 and 22.02

2010-02-23 Thread Charlie
On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 08:48:31 +0100 wzab shared this with us all: >Hi, > >I have two different debian/testing systems. The common feature is the >Intel graphics chipset. >Both of them stopped to boot after upgrade which I performed between >20.02 and 22.02 (the last successful boot log is from the

Re: how to convince that debian is one the three major choices for a stable server environment?

2010-02-23 Thread Michal
On 22/02/2010 23:09, Jan Hlodan wrote: >>> Depending on what you want to use the servers for, > > I prefer Solaris 10 to FreeBSD for servers. I think, Solaris is more > powerful, stable and better supported than FreeBSD. > > I've never used Solaris though I've wanted to give it a try for some t

Re: Two Lenny problems

2010-02-23 Thread Lisi
On Tuesday 23 February 2010 02:48:07 Cecil Knutson wrote: > Yes, Lisi, I did see the later post telling me to use Kwrite as root. I > don't see it on the applications menu, so I guess I will have to install > it. How do I use it as root? From my earlier email (slightly edited, to allow for the f

Name Resolution Issue from Browser only, on Debian 5.0.4

2010-02-23 Thread Hemanth M. C.
Hi All, I am facing a rather peculiar issue. I installed Debian 5.0.4 on my laptop. The basic network connectivity works fine, and the DHCP client daemon seems to have picked up the right config info from my DSL router. But, anything related to HTTP does not work - browser, WGET, etc. This is