Having trouble re-installing Xorg and gnome/kde4

2009-03-13 Thread Joe Emenaker
This might run on a little long, but I'm going to try to explain everything I've tried up to this point. I've been running Debian on my laptop for about 8 years now (although the actual laptop has changed several times since then, I've copied the hard drive image each time to the next machine)

Re: OT: SATA Backplanes drivebays and caddies

2007-12-07 Thread Joe Emenaker
John Miller wrote: Nate Duehr wrote: Bob wrote: ... what I'm looking for is a drivebay / backplane manufacturer that has 5, 4, 3 and 1 slot internal bays available that use the *same* tray / housing / caddie. I've got about 4-5 rackmount servers using the Addonics 3-drive uni

Re: It's a simple question....

2007-02-21 Thread Joe Emenaker
Paul Johnson wrote: Voting with your money is important when it comes to compatability on Linux. I'd be all for getting something other than a Dell, but they were the only ones I could find that offered a laptop with a screen resolution meeting or exceeding 1600x1200. Does anybody know of an

Re: SMS Gateway

2006-07-19 Thread Joe Emenaker
Michele Della Marina wrote: yes, this is my intent... using a PBX with GSM support and cutting the CTI application (expensive and microsoft systems dipendent :( .. is possible? Well, in the US, each mobile phone provider has their own email-to-SMS gateway (http://www.notepage.net/smtp.htm), and

Re: SMS Gateway

2006-07-19 Thread Joe Emenaker
Michele Della Marina wrote: Can someone suggest me a SMS Gateway service? Do you mean for sending text messages to people's phones via email, or something else? - Joe smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Tool for sending Windows popup messages?

2003-08-26 Thread Joe Emenaker
So, I had an idea of *something* I could do to try to help fix this "Sobig" virus problem. Since the sender address is certainly spoofed, I figure the only way to track down the source is from the "Received" lines in the mail header. I figured that, if their machine is poorly-managed enough for

Re: Unusual idea..

2003-08-14 Thread Joe Emenaker
Craig Tinson wrote: Can anyone come up with a theory on how to "convert an mp3 into a number"? Well, whatever you're going to use it for, it has probably already been done, or it's not going to work out like you hope. Let me touch on all of the possible things I can think of: First, either you

How should I manage multiple wireless lan configs?

2003-08-14 Thread Joe Emenaker
Simple situation At work, it's an open WiFi lan without encryption. At home, I have WEP with a certain key. At my girlfriend's, it's WEP with a different key. They all have different SSID's. What I would like, of course, is to be able to configure my Debian laptop so that, when I boot the

How should I manage multiple wireless lan configs?

2003-08-14 Thread Joe Emenaker
Simple situation At work, it's an open WiFi lan without encryption. At home, I have WEP with a certain key. At my girlfriend's, it's WEP with a different key. They all have different SSID's. What I would like, of course, is to be able to configure my Debian laptop so that, when I boot the

Re: Harassment

2003-08-08 Thread Joe Emenaker
Alan Connor wrote: First-of-all, if you think this thread doesn't belong on the list, then why did you respond to it? Ah yes... the ol' "Ad Hominem" argument falacy "Gee officer... I was speeding? Well, if you pulled me over, then you must have been speeding, too. So YOU'RE under arre

Re: When will we see alsa-modules for 2.4.20?

2003-03-22 Thread Joe Emenaker
From: "Ed Cogburn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Are you also compiling your own kernel? No. In the past, I've been able to just compile (and use) many modules simply by providing them with the kernel-headers (or, in rare cases, the kernel-source). Compiling the kernel myself has always seemed to yiel

When will we see alsa-modules for 2.4.20?

2003-03-22 Thread Joe Emenaker
Is there a reason why we haven't seen ALSA modules for kernel 2.4.20, yet? I've got my laptop set to boot to either 2.4.19 or 2.4.20 because 2.4.19 has ALSA modules for my soundcard but no support for my USB midi interface. Conversely, 2.4.20 now has the usb-midi.o driver built-in, but I can't ge

Imp3/Horde2 just dumps me back to the login screen

2002-12-10 Thread Joe Emenaker
Okay... I *had* horde2/imp3 working about a few weeks ago.   Now, it doesn't work. This probably happened after one of my apt-get update/upgrade runs. Normally, when stuff breaks after an upgrade, I can fix it myself, but this has me stumped.   When I go to http://myservername/horde2, I get t

Re: modprobe is automatically calling ifup/ifconfig. Why?

2002-11-10 Thread Joe Emenaker
> Most likely it is not ifup, but some DHCP client that is being > started. When debian boots, it runs 'ifup -a' (see > /etc/init.d/networking) to bring up things listed as auto. Actually, this is happening before /etc/rcS.d/S39ifupdown gets run. In fact, I've pretty much traced it down to /etc/r

modprobe is automatically calling ifup/ifconfig. Why?

2002-11-10 Thread Joe Emenaker
I've been having a problem with my Debian system automatically bringing up my eth0 interface even though I don't have it marked as "auto" in /etc/network/interfaces. Until now, I had figured that it was due to a bug in ifup that brought up all auto *and* all dhcp'd interfaces, but now I've d

Re: Tools to maintain my own set of homebrewed deb's?

2002-10-30 Thread Joe Emenaker
> dpkg-scanpackages ./ /dev/null > Packages > gzip Packages > > you could set up a cronjob to make a new Packages.gz file each night > > is that what you were asking? Um... Yeah! It even generates the "Size" and "MD5sum" fields. Snazzy. Thanks Jason and Stephen. Oh, and you can save a step with:

Tools to maintain my own set of homebrewed deb's?

2002-10-30 Thread Joe Emenaker
I've got a whole bunch of machines that maintain at school and home and I've also got a laptop. Sometimes, there will be some software that I want to install on many/most of them and, due to licensing restrictions, they don't exist on the normal Debian mirrors. Two examples of this are the J

How do I prevent DHCP'd interfaces from coming up automatically on boot?

2002-10-28 Thread Joe Emenaker
I've got a built-in ethernet jack on my laptop. Being a laptop... this jack is often not plugged into anything (aka: I don't want it coming up automatically on boot). However, being a laptop, when it *is* plugged in, it gets plugged in at a variety of places (aka: I need DHCP). The problem is that

Poolng/redundancy in apt's sources.list?

2002-10-28 Thread Joe Emenaker
Okay, I'm stumped.   I used to go directly to ftp.debian.org for my packages. However, I started feeling guilty about hammering the central servers, so I started using mirrors.   The problem with that was that many of the mirrors would either be a few days out-of-sync with the central servers

Making one machine an "apt server" for others....

2002-10-23 Thread Joe Emenaker
Some of my coworkers want to dabble in grid computing, so they got themselves about 7 old PC's and they wanted to set them up.   I put Debian on all of them, but I wanted to be able to keep them up-to-date without having all 7 hit the package servers. Since they are all configured the same,

Why do the config scripts always get run twice during install?

2002-09-18 Thread Joe Emenaker
I run about 7 Debian boxes... and I keep them all up with "unstable". I use dselect to maintain my list of packages to install/remove, and I used to use ftp as the fetch method, but I've recently converted all over to apt.   Anyway, some time ago (about a year, it seems), many if not all of

Screen goes berzerk with dselect/vt100/SecureCRT

2002-09-17 Thread Joe Emenaker
Okay... next question: I keep my machines current with the "unstable" store. About a week or two ago, after upgrading several packages, dselect has started acting really strange when I run it from Van Dyke's SecureCRT (and probably normal CRT, I figure). When I exit from the "(S)elect" mode and g

Which file do I use to configure networking these days?

2002-09-17 Thread Joe Emenaker
Okay folks today is "cleanin' out my closet" day as far as Debian problems goes, so you'll probably see a handfull of questions from me today. Try to be patient and gentle.   First off, I've been using Debian for quite some time 4 or 5 years now, I guess. Back then, you had to set

Any way to re-install packages?

2002-09-12 Thread Joe Emenaker
I had a hard drive go wiggy on me yesterday.   It didn't crash completely... it merely started giving read errors and causing all kinds of filesystem wierdness (like things in /usr/bin that you can't run because they're "not found", but you can't install a replacement because "file exists").

Relationship between /etc/network, /etc/pcmcia, and /etc/apm

2002-03-07 Thread Joe Emenaker
I'm having trouble sorting this out. I've got a laptop running Debian. Depending on whether I'm home or at work, I'll have either a wireless network card (Lucent Orinocco) or a wired network card (Xircom RealPort) in the unit. For convenience, I hardly ever shut the machine down... I just have it

'dselect'-like tool for Solaris?

2001-03-08 Thread Joe Emenaker
This isn't really a debian question as much as a Solaris question, but I'm not sure the Solaris people would understand what I'm trying to describe. Does anyone know of a tool like 'dselect' (or even 'dpkg') that I could use on a Solaris box for adding/removing packages? It seems unlikely that som

Okay, I give up. What do I put in apt-get's sources.list?

2000-11-17 Thread Joe Emenaker
I want apt to be able to get to the goodies at:   http://www.sandalwood.net/~terubou/linux/deb/   What do I put in sources.list?   - Joe

Does the stock kernel support VESA Framebuffers?

2000-11-16 Thread Joe Emenaker
I'm trying to run X on my Dell Inspiron 3700 with Debian. I've got X running, but it hangs when I try to do a suspend. All of the howto's I've read say that, in order for suspend to work, I need to be using the FBdev xserver... which requires that I start with framebuffers turned on with the

Re: Calculating difference between dates

2000-11-13 Thread Joe Emenaker
> does anybody know how it would be possible to calculate the difference > between two dates with a shell or awk script, for example from 15:30:23 > to 17:29:01? Those aren't dates. Those are times, but the following should work either way: try: date -d "15:30:23" +"%s" This will give you the n

Re: Help! I upgraded ssh, it doesn't work, I want to go back to an earlier version.

2000-10-19 Thread Joe Emenaker
> Foolish me: I'd been happily running ssh 1:2.2.0p1 on my Potato > system, and then I upgraded to ssh 1:2.2.0p1-1.1. (I got both of > those versions from "unstable".) Well, that newer version doesn't > work on potato, because it requires a newer libc. I don't care to > upgrade libc, and ssh is

Does jserv support compressed jars?

2000-10-18 Thread Joe Emenaker
I'm having a hell of a time getting jserv 1.1.2-1 to work on Apache 1.3.12-2.1.   I keep getting "Can't find class org.apache.jserv.JServ". However, the /usr/share/java/ApacheJServ.jar *is* listed on a wrapper.classpath line in /etc/jserv/jserv.properties.   When I turn on verbose mode, I see

Re: Apt should be called "inapt" (rhymes with "inept")

2000-10-17 Thread Joe Emenaker
> Just out of curiosity; what did you install that conflicted with netbase and > friends? I was upgrading mysql-server, of all things. Granted, this was on a system that hadn't been refreshed in about 3 months or so, so there were about 100 packages that dselect wanted to bring up-to-date. That

Re: Apt should be called "inapt" (rhymes with "inept")

2000-10-17 Thread Joe Emenaker
> On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Joe Emenaker wrote: > > > and a couple of others. In other words, upon reboot, there was no > > network connectivity and no way to GET network connectivity without > > bringing in netbase and it's dependencies via floppy disk. > > So uh,

Apt should be called "inapt" (rhymes with "inept")

2000-10-17 Thread Joe Emenaker
I tried to install a package using apt-get yesterday. It complained about dependencies for some stuff. It suggested that I use "apt-get -f install {packagename}".   So I did   It downloaded a bundle of packages, whizzed through the configurations for them in no time at all.   Everything s

Re: Anyone want a utility to find the best mirror?

2000-09-30 Thread Joe Emenaker
> On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Joe Emenaker wrote: > > > o It only tests ping times, not actual transfer rates of data > > Right, because ping times are a good first step. If the box pings really > slowly, the odds are the transfer rate will be greatly affected. > I don't

Anyone want a utility to find the best mirror?

2000-09-29 Thread Joe Emenaker
Some time ago, I asked about any utility that could take a list of machinesand find the one that's closest, so that I could find the best mirror topoint dselect to. Someone responded that I should try "netselect", which didhelp a lot. However, netselect has a couple of shortcomings:  o It on

How does the mailing-list->usenet gateway work?

2000-09-28 Thread Joe Emenaker
Stuff sent to the mailing list shows up on linux.debian.user.   My question is, does stuff posted to linux.debian.user go to the mailing list? In fact, I tried posting to the newsgroup and it didn't even show up on the newsgroup itself? Does the newsgroup support posting?   - Joe

Anyone want a utility to find the best mirror?

2000-09-28 Thread Joe Emenaker
Some time ago, I asked about any utility that could take a list of machinesand find the one that's closest, so that I could find the best mirror topoint dselect to. Someone responded that I should try "netselect", which didhelp a lot. However, netselect has a couple of shortcomings:  o It on

Re: Java 1.2 JDK released for Linux...

2000-05-24 Thread Joe Emenaker
> I assume JavaSoft = Sun Microsystems? If so, the JDK 1.2.2 has been > out for at least a month or two. Yeah... that's what it kinda looks like. I guess the Enterprise Edition just came out yesterday. I had been watching the BlackDown site, since it was my understanding that they were the people

Java 1.2 JDK released for Linux...

2000-05-24 Thread Joe Emenaker
JavaSoft apparently released the Linux version of the JDK 1.2. Anyone know if anyone is packaging it already? - Joe

Re: dhcp && cable modem (somewhat urgent)

2000-05-23 Thread Joe Emenaker
> Question: How do you get the dhcp client on my firewall computer to grab the > cable modem address and not an address from my internal dhcp? If you are going to have two have two ethernet cards in your machine, this is fairly easy and a number of responses have already touched on how to have d

libapache-mod-ssl doesn't work with OR without SSLv3...

2000-05-23 Thread Joe Emenaker
I'm trying to get libapache-mod-ssl working. When I try to connect via https to the server, Netscape tells me that there's some strange network error or that the server is misconfigured basically, that the response came back garbled. So, I found this on DejaNews: 6.1.3) I downloaded a ver

Server-side spam and e-mail virus protection

2000-05-23 Thread Joe Emenaker
I'm interested in implementing some form of spam and e-mail virus filtering at the daemon. I know that there are blacklists that you can have Exim and other MTA's use in order to cut down on spam. However, it would be nice if there were some way to stop *new* spam from places that aren't on the bl

Re: What are the most common causes of linux system hangs?

2000-04-14 Thread Joe Emenaker
> > With that in mind, does anyone have any personal experience concerning what > > the problem usually is in these cases? Motherboard? RAM? Has it ever helped > > anyone to *under*clock the CPU? > > I was having some problems like this last week and it turned out that I > had set some resource lim

What are the most common causes of linux system hangs?

2000-04-14 Thread Joe Emenaker
Aka... "why is my system so well hung?" :) Every now and then, I'll have a Debian box that starts having fits of hard system hangs. Sometimes, it goes away when I turn off a daemon. Other times, it goes away when I put the hard drives in an entirely different computer. Currently, I'm having this

Re: No masquerading in stock kernel-image?

2000-04-07 Thread Joe Emenaker
> On advice of not-so-newbies, I proceeded to custom-compile a version of > that kernel, and got Masquerading operational. Now, with the recent > kernel upgrade that's become available in the past week, Masquerading > is still working, for me -- so, either the latest kernel has it > switched 'on

ntpd flails on machine with large clock error...

2000-04-07 Thread Joe Emenaker
I've got a machine that's 12800 seconds behind the rest of the world. I'd like to fix that. With normal execution of the daemon, it exits immediately after writing to the logs something to the effect of "clock over 1000s off... set clock manually...". However, in this case, I'm more in need of a

No masquerading in stock kernel-image?

2000-04-05 Thread Joe Emenaker
Forgive me if this is a faq It seems like masquerading is not turned on in the stock kernel-image packages. Is this true or am I forgetting to load a module somewhere? If it's true, does anybody know why that decision was made? - Joe

PPP starts sending every other packet....

2000-03-24 Thread Joe Emenaker
I recently upgraded my Linux box that connects my house to the net. and I also upgraded the machine on the other end of the PPP connection, too (the one on the "internet" side). Something really wierd occurs, though. After a few minutes of heavy usage, the throughput will drop to almost zero.

Does Exim support SMTP AUTH?

2000-02-28 Thread Joe Emenaker
The exim.org site says that it supports CRAM-MD5 and PLAINTEXT authentication for SMTP *if* it's called for in the Makefile. So, the question becomes: is it compiled in on the distributed Exim? - Joe

Re: ARGH! "Frozen" is back....

2000-02-12 Thread Joe Emenaker
> Joe Emenaker wrote: > > All in all, this usually takes about 5 minutes of my attention per machine > > per update. Also, since I always want my machines on the bleeding edge, I > > always want the latest of whatever's available. If I just pointed dselect > &g

Re: So I guess no one really cares about the IMAP folder root.

2000-02-11 Thread Joe Emenaker
> what makes IMAP better for you then POP3 ? Try this: Set up two machines (for a completely implausible scenario, let's say that the two machines are at your work and at your house) to read from the same POP server. Now, you have two options when you configure your mail program: leave messages

Re: So I guess no one really cares about the IMAP folder root.

2000-02-11 Thread Joe Emenaker
> Shall I assume you don't really care. ;-) I care so much that using a deprecated back-door hack just won't do. I need some configurablilty that isn't going to just disappear out of the blue, forcing me to retrograde back to a previous version like I've just had to do when the default root moved

Re: ARGH! "Frozen" is back....

2000-02-11 Thread Joe Emenaker
> Why not just point apt at the *name* of the release that you want? > > deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian potato main contrib non-free > deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US potato/non-US main contrib non-free > > This way you don't have to worry about it. Well, you see, my sysadmin sty

A tool to find the site with fewest hops?

2000-02-11 Thread Joe Emenaker
I have this dilemma every time I configure a new Debian box and am setting up which mirror to point dselect and apt to. I want to find the sites that have fewer hops and lower ping times than the rest so that I can use the sites that are "closer" (not geographically, but as far as net traffic

ARGH! "Frozen" is back....

2000-02-09 Thread Joe Emenaker
When the last Debian release was coming up, I had deselect downloading from stable, frozen, and unstable. Then, some time ago, 'frozen' went away. This caused dselect to complain a lot when updating package lists. So, I just finished taking the 'frozen' parts out of all of my /var/lib/dpkg/methods

IMAP doesn't really *delete* messages when they're moved....

2000-02-09 Thread Joe Emenaker
I'm using the regular imap daemon. When I move files from my inbox to another folder with Outlook Express, the messages seem to get marked as deleted. However, when I click "purge", they don't delete. I have to explicitly UNdelete them and then delete them again before they actually purge from my i

Re: Attention: imapd gpoing back to $HOME as mailbox root

2000-01-24 Thread Joe Emenaker
> Although a number of people have supported my decision to make $HOME/mail > the mailbox root for the UW imap server I maintain, I think it will be for > the best overall if I make it $HOME again. Argh! Okay. Does anybody want to suggest any other imap daemons that allow me to set the mailroot

What's the best way to mirror a partition table?

1999-10-03 Thread Joe Emenaker
I've got a system running on a 13GB drive on /dev/hda. I've got an idential model of drive on /dev/hdb. The plan is to use something like dump/restore to keep /dev/hdb as a "pretty good" mirror of /dev/hda. (By "pretty good", I mean... it's okay if I lose some log entries, etc I just want to b

Re: How do I switch between JDK versions?

1999-10-02 Thread Joe Emenaker
Sorry about the duplicate... I'm still trying to figure out why Outlook Express does that sometimes

How do I switch between JDK versions?

1999-10-02 Thread Joe Emenaker
Probably a FAQ... but, here goes I've noticed that the JDK 1.1 description claims that it can co-exist with the older JDK 1.0. However, I've not been able to figure out how to make this work. Whichever one gets installed last seems to change the /etc/alternatives to it's liking and that's what

How do I switch between JDK versions?

1999-10-02 Thread Joe Emenaker
Probably a FAQ... but, here goes I've noticed that the JDK 1.1 description claims that it can co-exist with the older JDK 1.0. However, I've not been able to figure out how to make this work. Whichever one gets installed last seems to change the /etc/alternatives to it's liking and that's what

Can I get new, but *not* updated packages from "unstable"?

1999-08-18 Thread Joe Emenaker
For a long time, I've had a policy of updating my servers from stable *and* unstable because I wanted the newly packaged stuff but also, more importantly, because I wanted bug fixes for security holes asap... without having to wait for the next official release of Debian. Well, it seems that bug f

An empassioned plea for deaf ears...

1999-06-15 Thread Joe Emenaker
Well, I upgraded to the latest packages in 'unstable' and it broke mySQL and a few other goodies. Since I could no longer get the libraries that I had just *replaced* (the ones that were in 'unstable' about a month ago), I decided to try installing the libc and ldso in 'stable' bad idea. It

"BUG IN DYNAMIC LINKER ld.so"

1999-06-15 Thread Joe Emenaker
I started getting this from several binaries (mysqld, for one) immediately after upgrading to the latest packages in 'unstable' (it had been about a month since my last update). Anybody know: 1) what's causing this. 2) what I can do in the short-term to fix it 3) when it will be fixed in the p

Using LILO to boot Win95 of /dev/hdb1?

1999-02-24 Thread Joe Emenaker
I've got two drives in a machine. One has Win95 on it, the other has WinNT and Linux. Using LILO, I can boot Linux and whichever Windows OS is on the first hard drive. I am unable, however, to boot the one on the second drive, hdb. My lilo.conf looks like: root=/dev/hda image=/dev/vmlinuz

Graphical dselect-like tool?

1999-02-04 Thread Joe Emenaker
I was wondering if there is a more friendly utility than dselect out there. I realize that, since it has to fit on the install floppies, dselect has to remain pretty lean. I also know that there's been a lot of talk about graphical config tools... but they seem to have been just that: *config* tool

Re: too many open files

1999-01-13 Thread Joe Emenaker
>i've recently reinstalled my debian system and i am now >getting the following error message: > >Jan 12 09:00:15 random amd[1162]: setmntent("/etc/mtab", "r+"): Too many >open files > >any ideas, or pointers to the fm are welcomed. The kernel's out of file handles. Go to /proc/sys/kernel and lo

Re: Mail on computer with no users.

1998-12-17 Thread Joe Emenaker
>Questions: >1. How should I redirect user's mails: >For example I want mail to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] to be redirected to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >because there are actually no user on linuxbox.domainname Put: smartuser: driver=smartuser; new_user="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" in your /etc/smail

Re: How to find out what my modem connection speed is?

1998-12-17 Thread Joe Emenaker
>I finally worked out how to pon to specific providers using > pon > >How do I find out what my connection speed is? Well, for *starters*, you need to make sure that your modem is reporting the DCE speed (the speed it's talking to the other modem at) and not the DTE speed (the speed it's talking

Re: Running seperate eth0 & ppp0 networks

1998-12-17 Thread Joe Emenaker
>On Wed, Dec 16, 1998 at 01:19:41PM -0800, Ian Eure wrote: >> Ok. Let's say I have a linux box on an ethernet. It's ip is >> 192.168.111.55. The router on the ethernet is 192.168.111.1. Let's say I >> have a web server on 192.168.111.55, accessible from outside my local >> network. I'm assuming

Re: Problems with ppp server

1998-12-16 Thread Joe Emenaker
>Autoppp works and I get a >succesful PAP login. After that though, the home-client machine and >the work-server don't seem to communicate the local and remote >addresses properly - resulting in the home machine giving up saying >that it "Could not determine local IP address" and hangs up ppp with

Re: ??? how to TOTALLY remove KDE ???

1998-12-16 Thread Joe Emenaker
> when I tried to remove KDE via dselect, > it didn't remove a bunch of directories because they "weren't empty" > or something) I make a motion that dpkg should maintain a log of all of the "orphan" directories that it leaves behind because they're not empty so that we can go in later and cle

Re: suEXEC and "~user/cgi-bin"

1998-12-16 Thread Joe Emenaker
>Hello All, > I just can't figure out how to get cgi's to work in the home >directories. The log shows suEXEC is running and cgis work from >/var/www/cgi-bin. In the home directory I have /home/user/public_html/cgi-bin. >I'm using apache for the server. I've looked through the manuals and tried

Re: how can i find out a netbios name from an IP address.

1998-12-15 Thread Joe Emenaker
>are there any other tools that can do it? The only thing I could find is to look in /var/samba/browse.dat and then use nmblookup on each one. Problem is, browse.dat doesn't hold all of the machines. What you need is a way to list all of the machines in a domain... but I couldn't figure out how to

Re: Why sudo does it ?

1998-12-15 Thread Joe Emenaker
>> I'm guessing that reboot != shutdown -r "now". Try running: >> sudo shutdown -r "now" Uh. no. Last time I checked, it wasn't even close. The story I've always heard is that you shouldn't run halt or reboot yourself. Those are run by "shutdown" as the last thing it does. "shutdown" unmoun

Re: (off topic) UPS recommendation]

1998-12-11 Thread Joe Emenaker
On Thu, 10 Dec 1998, Mitch Blevins wrote: > Of course you can change these scripts to do anything you want. If you > want to tweak the polling timing, you must recompile from source. > However, I think the default scripts/values are reasonable and will suit > most user's needs. I've had momentar

Re: (off topic) UPS recommendation]

1998-12-11 Thread Joe Emenaker
>I haven't looked at a recent version of the Best supplied software, but >bpowerd is better in that it is a proper daemon and uses the syslog >correctly. Also, it communicates with sysvinit thru a direct pipe >(/dev/initctl) rather than using messy (and standards non-compliant) >status files in

Re: WISHLIST: Let us select a mirror site from a menu or list...

1998-12-11 Thread Joe Emenaker
>Joe (and anyone else interested), > >Very nice idea, and I have an idea to make it even nicer: There's >a package called 'netselect' which describes itself thusly: Cute. However, I'd be heasitant to make dselect depend upon yet another package. Keep in mind that dselect has to fit on the instal

Re: QUantifiable reasons to use debian instead of redhat...?

1998-12-10 Thread Joe Emenaker
From: Richard Sevenich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: QUantifiable reasons to use debian instead of redhat...? >To be somewhat dispassionate, you might send a similar query to a RedHat list. Well, now THAT's a silly ide

Re: QUantifiable reasons to use debian instead of redhat...?

1998-12-10 Thread Joe Emenaker
>What I need is a lists of reasons, logical supportable reasons, that I could >use to convice a change of standardization. Quite literally, this will decide >what the next 50-100 systems will look like. DO they run Redhat or Debian... How's this one: We recently had a rash of intrusions on seve

Re: Debian installation hangs

1998-12-10 Thread Joe Emenaker
Not sure what the original post is, but you might want to check the MB compatibility HOWTO. I had a SuperMicro P5MMA98 board and I found out that it had a BIOS glitch that pissed Linux off. I was able to download a flash upgrade and then Linux installed perfectly. - Joe BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:2.1 N:

WISHLIST: Let us select a mirror site from a menu or list...

1998-12-10 Thread Joe Emenaker
It sure would be great (and it sure would take some load off of ftp.debian.org) if dselect could ftp a list of mirrors and then let us select one. I like using the mirrors because they're faster and also because I feel good knowing I'm helping to lighten the load on "Mother" (ftp.debian.org). Howe

Re: libstdc++.so.2.8 problem

1998-12-04 Thread Joe Emenaker
Here's something someone posted a few days ago -- Folks, If you are getting the error /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.0-1.so.2: undefined symbol: __register_frame_info after upgrading to slink, please go through the mail below. Mitch's solution worked for me.

Re: ICQ over IP Masquerading

1998-12-04 Thread Joe Emenaker
>I got it to work successfully using ipautofw. I follow the instructions >on winroute site (www.winroute.com). Here is what I did: [ snip ] >"If you wish to run several ICQ clients in your LAN (and these clients >need to accept calls from other ICQ users), you have to create an entry >in the map

Re: Is this really the right thing to do?

1998-12-03 Thread Joe Emenaker
>Maybe they could get a question like "do you want to get rid of YYY >too? It was installed only for supporting XXX but may be useful >on its own." Uh... I think I mentioned this a few days ago. So... I guess my vote would be... yes. I'm all for it. I guess the thing I was mostly suggesting was

Re: Name suggestion

1998-12-03 Thread Joe Emenaker
>> ... I suggest >> that a fourth stage be created between unstable and frozen. I would call >> this "broken". [ snip ] >Witness a post of mine on Monday: "Upgraded to unstable, now unstable" ;-) Well, it has always caused a little confusion (for me and the others that I have introduced to Deb

Re: Is this really the right thing to do?

1998-12-02 Thread Joe Emenaker
>Programs that are useful by itself could install with a counter that's >already 1 higher. For example: if all the packages that depend on Xterm are >removed, the counter of Xterm is still not zero. So it would not be deleted. >Thinking a bit longer: in this way almost no programs reach zero. T

Re: Network Configuration

1998-12-01 Thread Joe Emenaker
>How can I re-configure my network after installing linux? Well, assuming you're talking about changing the IP address... you need to change a couple of files: /etc/init.d/network - Shell script that sets up your ethernet interface. /etc/hosts - file that holds the IP's of "well-known" hosts..

Re: ISDN connection

1998-12-01 Thread Joe Emenaker
Well, Mitch did a darn good job of explaining all of this, but I'll still throw in my two cents... >Question 1. Is the calculation: = speed> div correct ? (ie. 512K / 33.6K = 15.238... >users) Like Mitch said, this assumes that everyone's going to be downloading at the same time. Since you sa

Re: Is this really the right thing to do?

1998-12-01 Thread Joe Emenaker
>> One problem with auto-deinstallation of support packages is that >> you may have other packages that also use the same support package. Seeing how this problem is almost identical to the problem of memory allocation in a language like C or C++ (ie, memory-leaks vs. dangling-pointers), perhaps

Can dpkg check the MD5's of *every* file belonging to a package?

1998-12-01 Thread Joe Emenaker
One of the faculty at our university runs RedHat (blech!). He hasn't kept the packages up to date and, subsequently, has suffered an intrusion. I was called in as the recovery team. I discovered that RedHat's rpm package manager has a really cute feature. If you run "rpm --verify -a", it will che

Re: diald

1998-11-25 Thread Joe Emenaker
>I call my net localnet and if I fill in that as the domain in win98 it >tries to look up LOCALNET.localnet ?? if I dont have any domain it only >lloks for LOCALNET go figure :( It sounds like you might have "localnet" defined in two places, as your domain, and also in your "domain suffix search

Problem with PPP & ISDN

1998-11-24 Thread Joe Emenaker
I've got a little linux box configured as a dial-on-demand masquerading router for the other machines in my house. It works great. when using a normal modem. I got ISDN, and I've been able to use it without any problems when I use it directly from my Windows98 machine. However, when I try usi

How do I get smail to deliver immediately?

1998-11-19 Thread Joe Emenaker
It seemed to happen when I upgraded the smail package... probably to .101 smail no longer delivers mail immediately. It queues it up in /var/spool/smail/input until runq is run. I've tried setting "delivery_mode=foreground" and "delivery_mode=background" in /etc/smail/config and I've also

How about a system health-monitoring tool

1998-10-02 Thread Joe Emenaker
I was upgrading some packages last night and I broke two things, DBI and smail. I didn't find out about the mail one until the next morning (and boy, were the clients pissed...). So, I got to thinking. Suppose we made a directory called, say, /usr/lib/healthcheck or something. Package maintainers

Can we make the dependencies a little more strict?

1998-10-02 Thread Joe Emenaker
Okay, here's the deal: I've got perl, mysql, perl-dbi, and mysql-dbd all loaded. The perl-dbi stuff is very dependent upon the build of perl (to the point where I suspect that a rebuild of perl will break DBI unless it, too, is rebuilt in the context of the new perl binary). The same seems to hold

Re: dselect wigged out and everything's seg-faulting!

1997-07-30 Thread Joe Emenaker
On Tue, 29 Jul 1997, Brandon Mitchell wrote: > [snip] > > when it tries to run a shell script. At this point, I'd like to motion > > that the Debian policy be changed so that the shell pointed to by /bin/sh > > be compiled with *static* libraries?). If I go to the (S)elect screen, I > [snip] Wel

dselect wigged out and everything's seg-faulting!

1997-07-29 Thread Joe Emenaker
I just tried to updrade my system from the stable and unstable directories. It downloaded a whole mess of things (about half of them seemed to be libraries). Anyway, it began installing them and, starting with about the third or fourth package, it starts seg-faulting in all of the pre-inst scripts

Dependency problem got me stumped....

1997-07-07 Thread Joe Emenaker
I want to compile the kernel-29 or kernel-30 source and I want to be able to use "make menuconfig". The problem is: kernel-source-2.0.29 suggests ncurses-dev (for menuconfig) kernel-source-2.0.29 recommends gcc ncurses-dev depends on libc5-dev gcc conflicts with libc5-dev Now, I suppose

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