Re: non-dpkg owned libc6 - etch to lenny upgrade problem

2009-02-25 Thread John Fleming
>> > Answer to my followup to your previous copy of that message from >> > yesterday, rather than sending it again. >> >> I would if I could... I never saw my message posted, nor did I see your >> response. Nor do I find either in the list archives. > > They are in the archives. Tzafrir did reply t

Re: non-dpkg owned libc6 - etch to lenny upgrade problem

2009-02-25 Thread John Fleming
On Wed, February 25, 2009 10:25 am, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 09:56:09AM -0500, John Fleming wrote: >> Consider me a newbie - trying to upgrade etch to lenny, getting msg about >> having a non-dpkg owned copy of libc6-i686. "Can't live with it, can

non-dpkg owned libc6 - etch to lenny upgrade problem

2009-02-25 Thread John Fleming
Consider me a newbie - trying to upgrade etch to lenny, getting msg about having a non-dpkg owned copy of libc6-i686. "Can't live with it, can't live without it". Can't remove it. Can't upgrade with what I have. Previously I've done all installs and upgrades with apt-get. I started this system

Non-dpkg owned libc6 etch-lenny upgrade

2009-02-24 Thread John Fleming
Consider me a newbie - trying to upgrade etch to lenny, getting msg about having a non-dpkg owned copy of libc6-i686. "Can't live with it, can't live without it". Can't remove it. Can't upgrade with what I have. Previously I've done all installs and upgrades with apt-get. I started this syst

I/O error reading swsusp image with 2.6.18-6-686

2008-05-16 Thread John Fleming
It's been over 48 hrs, and I didn't get a single bite on this, so thought I'd try again. I have a problem that only raises it's head with the 2.6.18-6-686 kernel, but not the 2.6.18-4-686: I've been struggling with my server not rebooting due to stopping at the error: Begin: Running /scripts

update-grub problem

2008-05-14 Thread John Fleming
I'm trying to install linux-image-2.6.18-6-686 using apt-get. I recently made the recommended change in /etc/kernel-img.conf to include: postinst_hook = usr/sbin/update-grub postrm_hook = usr/sbin/update-grub When I run the apt-get install, the configuration fails with the error about "C

I/O error reading swsusp image with 2.6.18-6-686

2008-05-14 Thread John Fleming
I've been struggling with my server not rebooting due to stopping at the error: Begin: Running /scripts/local-premount ... kinit: name_to_dev_t(/dev/hda2) = hda2(3,2) kinit: trying to resume from /dev/hda2 Attempting manual resume attempt to access beyond end of device hda2: rw=16, want=8, limi

Re: update-grub problem

2008-05-14 Thread John Fleming
What is the current working directory when this script gets run. You told it usr/sbin/update-grub not /usr/sbin/update-grub Note the difference. I still don't know why this is necessary. During the most recent kernel upgrade in Etch, I watched carefully for the usual warning message about not

update-grub problem

2008-05-14 Thread John Fleming
I'm trying to install linux-image-2.6.18-6-686 using apt-get. I recently made the recommended change in /etc/kernel-img.conf to include: postinst_hook = usr/sbin/update-grub postrm_hook = usr/sbin/update-grub When I run the apt-get install, the configuration fails with the error about "C

Re: Which backup package?

2008-04-21 Thread John Fleming
I know of amanda and bacula. Are there others I should look at? Any suggestions, recommendations? http://www.mondorescue.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Why Installing php and pecl so difficult in Debian?

2008-04-10 Thread John Fleming
> The apt-get install can't find any phpDid youapt-cache search php ?? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Restore apache help

2008-03-08 Thread John Fleming
Continuing to restore my server - I've installed apache and restored my home dirs and /etc/apache dir. That's not adequate though, as other configs are needed. Right now every browse is directed to the default /var/www dir and my httpd.conf is being ignored due to various references to other conf

Re: fsck'd - FIXED

2008-03-08 Thread John Fleming
On 3/7/08, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 08:53:18PM -0500, John Fleming wrote: > > > Sorry to answer my own post, but it's FIXED! When it got to the > > "enter root password to enter maintenance", I did that, and at

Re: fsck'd - FIXED

2008-03-07 Thread John Fleming
On 3/7/08, John Fleming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 3/7/08, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 08:29:08AM -0500, John Fleming wrote: > > > Backgroud - I had a well-established LAMP server that was giving some > > > f

Re: fsck'd

2008-03-07 Thread John Fleming
On 3/7/08, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 08:29:08AM -0500, John Fleming wrote: > > Backgroud - I had a well-established LAMP server that was giving some > > filesystem errors on boot, with the "hit control-D to continue or giv

fsck'd

2008-03-07 Thread John Fleming
Backgroud - I had a well-established LAMP server that was giving some filesystem errors on boot, with the "hit control-D to continue or give root password to fix manually" message. It would go ahead and work normally if I hit Control-D. However, I wanted to try to get rid of the error and need for

Re: How To Install debian on IBM x3550???

2007-12-19 Thread John Fleming
On Wed, December 19, 2007 12:34 am, M.Setyo Budi wrote: > dear All, > > I need a little help about How to Install Debian etch 40r0 -i386 on > IBM x3550. > Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor 5160 up to 3.0 GHz > and up to 1333 MHz front-side bus > 293.6 GB 2.5" hot-swap SAS storage > Raid Support :I

Re: How to start KDE from a console prompt?

2007-12-11 Thread John Fleming
- Original Message - From: "Ron Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "ML Debian-User" Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 8:36 PM Subject: How to start KDE from a console prompt? -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, To enter GNOME, I type "startx". I tried entering KDE by t

Re: ATTN Mondo users - pse help cdrom Mondo probs

2007-12-10 Thread John Fleming
See bottom please - - Original Message - From: "Mark Neidorff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "John Fleming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Monday, December 10, 2007 9:58 AM Subject: Re: ATTN Mondo users - pse help cdrom Mondo probs John, This reply wa

Re: ATTN Mondo users - pse help cdrom Mondo probs

2007-12-10 Thread John Fleming
Mark top-posted, but my reply is at the very bottom below. - Original Message - From: "Mark Neidorff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "John Fleming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Monday, December 10, 2007 9:58 AM Subject: Re: ATTN Mondo users - pse help cdrom

ATTN Mondo users - pse help cdrom Mondo probs

2007-12-09 Thread John Fleming
I'm not getting the answer on Mondo-devel, so please indulge me here - I really need some help. Using Mondo in Debian Etch, I burn any of the formats - DVD/CD/ISO. When I reboot with any of these, and indicate "nuke", shortly after the usual "vmlinuz." message, I see several screens o

Re: Etch mysql won't start (resolved)

2007-11-27 Thread John Fleming
On Mon, November 26, 2007 1:04 am, I.E.Broadbent wrote: > > On Sun, 2007-11-25 at 21:35 -0500, John Fleming wrote: >> I was playing with Wordpress stuff the last few days, and got my >> databases >> mucked up. Somehow ?? now, mysql won't start at all. Can someone >

Re: Etch mysql won't start

2007-11-26 Thread John Fleming
- Original Message - From: "I.E.Broadbent" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "John Fleming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 1:04 AM Subject: Re: Etch mysql won't start On Sun, 2007-11-25 at 21:35 -0500, John Fleming wrote: I was

Re: Etch mysql won't start

2007-11-26 Thread John Fleming
- Original Message - From: "I.E.Broadbent" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "John Fleming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 1:04 AM Subject: Re: Etch mysql won't start On Sun, 2007-11-25 at 21:35 -0500, John Fleming wrote: I was

Etch mysql won't start

2007-11-25 Thread John Fleming
I was playing with Wordpress stuff the last few days, and got my databases mucked up. Somehow ?? now, mysql won't start at all. Can someone help this newbie figure out what is wrong? I know it's difficult when I can't tell you exactly what was going on when it stopped working, but I don't kno

Re: Re: Using backports after upgrade

2007-11-04 Thread John Fleming
I think that you may find that the SA upgrades have migrated to debian-volatile. Its a new official service for upgrades that are not security-minded (as is security.debian.org) but that info changes (such as virus and spam scanners). If so, its just one more line in your sources.list. Doug. -

Using backports after upgrade

2007-11-02 Thread John Fleming
Hello - I was running Sarge with SpamAssassin upgrades from backports.org. Then I upgraded to Etch. I have backports in my sources.list, but I don't seem to be getting SA updates. (My SA is 3.1.7, and latest seems to be 3.2.3) Is there something about my upgrading from sarge to etch that cou

Re: going from Xwindows to console

2007-10-07 Thread John Fleming
- Original Message - From: "jekillen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Sunday, October 07, 2007 6:28 PM Subject: going from Xwindows to console Hello; I've installed Debian 4.1 and would like to know how to drop out of Xwindows into a console display. It seems to be different from dist

Re: mondoarchive

2007-09-13 Thread John Fleming
- Original Message - From: "Hugo Vanwoerkom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 12:41 PM Subject: Re: mondoarchive debian user wrote: I am running Sarge. I apt-get(ted) the stable mondo tools and am trying to use mondoarchive. When doing a test archive for

Gallery2-Sarge

2007-06-24 Thread John Fleming
Hello - I've used Gallery2 and Gallery1 by installing from the tar.gz package from the menalto website. I see they are available in Sarge, and I have questions about installing one codebase and using from several different virtual host URLs. I'd like to know more about how the install goes us

Re: Software updates?

2007-06-15 Thread John Fleming
Is there a feature somewhere that I might have setup on the two machines to automatically apply the updates without asking me? I have compared the /etc/apt/source.lst files and they all are the same, so I am wondering if it is something I did on the desktop? A cron job to update && upgrade?

Re: Is Etch Stable is really stable?

2007-05-29 Thread John Fleming
- Original Message - From: "Michael Conway" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 4:06 PM Subject: Re: Is Etch Stable is really stable? From what I have read in the Etch Install notes, it is actually recomended that Etch be clean-installed and not dist-upgraded from s

Upgrade sarge

2007-05-27 Thread John Fleming
Inexperienced question - I'm running Sarge, with newer ClamAV from volatile and newer SpamAssassin from backports. When I'm ready to upgrade to Etch, I assume I don't need the backports and volatile entries in sources.list? Will ClamAV and SA get upgraded as part of the upgrade to Etch, or is thi

Re: OT: Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-19 Thread John Fleming
- Original Message - From: "M. Fioretti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Saturday, May 19, 2007 6:32 PM Subject: Re: OT: Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user On Sat, May 19, 2007 17:55:34 PM -0400, Miles Fidelman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >Please avoid this kind

Re: [OT] Good, evil and religion [WAS] Re: A way to compile 3rd party modules into deb system?

2007-05-11 Thread John Fleming
On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 01:26:34PM +0200, Joe Hart wrote: Roberto � wrote: Let us agree that to every Christian and Jew (at least) God is a He. Anyone read "Evangelical Feminism - A New Path to Liberalism" by Wayne Grudem? Interesting book about interpretation of scripture. It talks about

Re: [OT] Good, evil and religion [WAS] Re: A way to compile 3rd party modules into deb system?

2007-05-09 Thread John Fleming
- Original Message - From: "SB" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ron Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2007 5:08 AM Subject: Re: [OT] Good, evil and religion [WAS] Re: A way to compile 3rd party modules into deb system? Ron Johnson wrote: On 05/09/07 04:02, Jochen

Re: swap

2007-05-07 Thread John Fleming
- Original Message - From: "Francesco Pietra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "debian-users" ; "debian64" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, May 07, 2007 6:10 AM Subject: Fwd: swap Below I mean adding a single HD not to the raid, just as additional space where to point the swap file thanks f

Newbie help how to enlarge root partition

2007-04-24 Thread John Fleming
I'm the guy that recently dd'd hda (40GB) to hdb (160GB) and then put the larger drive in the first position, making it now the new hda. I knew I would then be using only 40GB of the 160GB HDD. I thought it would be easy to enlarge the 40GB root partition, but this newbie is having trouble wit

SOLVED Re: New HDD install weirdness? (dd)

2007-04-22 Thread John Fleming
Try pulling out both hard drives and booting from CD. If you continue to get the beeping thingy you'll know its probably something with the bios. Well, it's not doing it anymore! I booted from the Knoppix CD again to observe the behavior, and it didn't do it. And when I rebooted the next ti

New HDD install weirdness? (dd)

2007-04-22 Thread John Fleming
I am using Sarge with kernel 2.6.8-3-686 on a Dell 600SC, previously with 2x40GB HDDs. (hdb was a backup - The entire system was on hda.) I wanted to replace those HDDs with new, larger HDDs. 1. I installed the first new HDD in the physical position of hdb. I booted with a Knopppix live CD

Re: GPG and Signing

2007-04-01 Thread John Fleming
On Sun, Apr 01, 2007 at 07:09:55PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: Michael Pobega writes: > Is it a bad practice to verify keyrings of people on the mailing list, > or > is it better to wait until I meet up with some of them at say Debconf or > something similar? Depends on what you mean by "verify"

Re: Latest Squirrelmail

2006-09-04 Thread John Fleming
- Original Message - From: "Ernst-Magne Vindal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Debian users" Sent: Monday, September 04, 2006 10:26 AM Subject: Re: Latest Squirrelmail -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 4 Sep 2006, Wolfe, Robert wrote: Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2006 09:42:43

Volatile vs backports

2006-07-29 Thread John Fleming
Obvious noob question - What is the difference for a Sarge user, between Debian volatile vs backports for things like clamav and spamassassin? My sources.list includes volatile for these things, but reading the backports site, it sounds like a similar idea...?? Tnx - John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Thanks latest Sarge ClamAV!

2006-07-24 Thread John Fleming
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Re: Firestarter bug?

2006-07-23 Thread John Fleming
- Original Message - From: "Default User" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Sunday, July 23, 2006 10:09 PM Subject: Firestarter bug? Very strange. I installed Firestarter on Debian Stable (i386). It is picking up the routine periodic dhcp send events from my router, and sending them

Re: backing up a drive

2006-03-27 Thread John Fleming
The dd can be from a live cdrom or from a small partition on the box reserved just for this purpose. The latter is no good in the case of a dead disk but is convenient otherwise. What about mirrordir? Assuming equal partitions on 2 disks, say from a prior dd run, how does the result of mir

Re: backing up a drive

2006-03-21 Thread John Fleming
> A pointer: take a dump of the entire drive (dd if=/dev/hda) and not > just > partition. Please tell this newbie additional info that's probably obvious to everyone else - What all should be stopped while dd is doing it's thing, IOW stop mail server and anything else that might be actively t

RAID recognition?

2005-09-21 Thread John Fleming
I run mondoarchive/restore on a Dell 600SC with IDE drives on sarge. It works great, and I've even used mondorestore nuke to restore to a different machine with IDE drives. However, now I need to restore to a new Dell 1810 with 2 SCSI drives and Perc4 RAID 1 controller. Mondo apparently doesn'

Maybe OT - Databases for Newbies

2005-09-13 Thread John Fleming
I have MySQL installed on my Debian Sarge system and working fine with a PostNuke website. Can anyone recommend a MySQL front end that would allow me as a newbie to install and interface with a web page? This would be for simple applications like making a web page available where people can sig

Re: IDE mondorestore DVD to Perc4 Raid machine

2005-09-03 Thread John Fleming
- Original Message - From: "Hugo Vanwoerkom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Saturday, September 03, 2005 5:47 AM Subject: Re: IDE mondorestore DVD to Perc4 Raid machine John Fleming wrote: I'm using current Debian Stable (Sarge). I routinely use mondoarchive to

IDE mondorestore DVD to Perc4 Raid machine

2005-09-02 Thread John Fleming
I'm using current Debian Stable (Sarge). I routinely use mondoarchive to make a bootable DVD of my whole system on a Dell 600SC with an IDE drive. This DVD is capable of restoring to bare metal if necessary. I've never tried it on the 600SC because I've never had to. However, I have used it t

Re: upgraded from FC2 --> FC3 successfully

2005-08-13 Thread John Fleming
- Original Message - From: "H. S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2005 7:00 PM Subject: upgraded from FC2 --> FC3 successfully Hi, This is just to describe how I upgraded from FC2 to FC3 successfully using the upgrade option from the FC3 CDs. Before I starte

PERC4ei support in Sarge 2.6 kernel?

2005-08-05 Thread John Fleming
Does the Sarge 2.4 or 2.6 kernel recognize the PERC4ei RAID controller? Tnx - John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Dell 1850/Sarge

2005-08-04 Thread John Fleming
I've done some googling in this area, but would like to ask here. Has anyone had experience installing Sarge on a Dell 1850 with SCSI drives? (No RAID) Anyone care to predict what might happen trying to do a mondorestore (nuke) on an 1850 using a DVD made on a 600SC? I have a nicely-configur

Re: I am getting angry at debian mailing list.

2005-08-02 Thread John Fleming
BTW, the footer is not present at the foot of your message as displayed by Gnus, though it is present in the file. Looks like Gnus hides the footer when there's a signature. Likewise OE. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: new packages

2005-07-28 Thread John Fleming
On Thursday 28 July 2005 04:49 pm, Alle Meije Wink wrote: > Hello, > > My apt-get, although it appears to be working fine, has not found > updated packages for the the last week. Is this because actually no > packages have been updated or is there another reason? > > Best wishes > Alle Meije > > >

Re: What's wrong with debian?

2005-07-16 Thread John Fleming
Well you can use sarge, seems stable enough, however no security. Thats a major issue in my mind. Could you explain that in newbie-ease? I seem to be getting updates for sarge from security.debain.org. Why do you say "no security"? I elected to stay with sarge as it went stable FOR the secu

Re: completely inane AOL questions

2005-07-16 Thread John Fleming
- Original Message - From: "Nicos Gollan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Saturday, July 16, 2005 7:50 AM Subject: Re: completely inane AOL questions Agreed - Perhaps we could filter profanity as well. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tro

Double density DVD

2005-07-10 Thread John Fleming
How do I access double-density DVDs? For example, if I # dvd+rw-format -force /dev/hde It mentions 4.7 GB DVD+RW media detected Similarly, if I use mondoarchive and don't specify a size, it also detects 4.7 GB media. Are there some generalizations, IOW ways to specify, that you are using a

Re: Sharing the internet connection with XP

2005-07-10 Thread John Fleming
- Original Message - From: "Björn Johansson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "John Fleming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2005 7:51 AM Subject: Re: Sharing the internet connection with XP At 13:59 2005-07-10, you wrote: The PC has 2

Re: Sharing the internet connection with XP

2005-07-10 Thread John Fleming
The PC has 2 network cards. The first one is connected to an ethernet ADSL modem. The second network card is connected to a 100Mbit switch which is connected to my Powerbook. I now have a working connection between these 2 computers, I have succesfully transferred files by ftp, but this is onl

Re: Starting SA with Procmail

2005-07-04 Thread John Fleming
I'm giving up on procmail. You shouldn't have to give up. I suspect a lot of people use procmail just as you have described you want to do. It is the simplest implementation of SpamAssassin, ClamAV, and Postfix, and works great. You shouldn't be limited as to whether you use it site-wide o

Re: clamav update to 0.86.1 using volatile.debian.net

2005-07-01 Thread John Fleming
It appears that there are updated packages ( 0.86.1 ) for 0.85.1. My /etc/apt/sources.list looks like this. hercules:/home/alex/public_html/sasknet# cat /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian sarge main contrib deb http://ftp2.de.debian.org/debian-volatile sarge/volatile main

Re: Configuring Network Card

2005-06-19 Thread John Fleming
Anyway, I'm trying to install linux and I can't get debian to detect my Intel Pro 10/100 network card. I just bought an emachines T3958 desktop to setup linux and learn how to use it, but I need the networking capabilities. I've tried using both kernel 2.2 and 2.4, when I try to install I had

Re: Sarge: mondo problems

2005-06-18 Thread John Fleming
Unfortunately mondo is a tricky beast to get to work. In the past I've had to try multiple versions from the above source, until something works. I'd like to be able to upgrade my work server to sarge, but I'll need to sort these issues out first. I've had a stock Sarge install going since i

Sarge SM security question

2005-06-15 Thread John Fleming
SquirrelMail has released a security patch. Will that eventually show up in a Sarge security update? As a new user of "stable" (previously testing), I have no experience with security updates. Tnx - John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble

Sorry - wrong list!

2005-06-14 Thread John Fleming
I posted to the wrong list this time - my apologies! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bayes? - 3rd try

2005-06-14 Thread John Fleming
Not sure what I'm doing wrong, but noone has responded to my question - If Bayes is working properly, am I supposed to have a Bayes_ entry in the X-Spam_Status header info for every email? I think that's the way it used to be - Bayes_00 - Bayes_99 etc. Lately it seems that only the spam email

Re: knoppix -> sarge possible?

2005-06-11 Thread John Fleming
Is it possible to "upgrade" my Knoppix 3.8.1 (on CD) to sarge without a clean install? DON'T DO IT! No one would recommend it! When I first started, I had a lot of trouble with installing Debian (my problem - It's easy now!). So I installed Knoppix (easy), changed my sources.list to the mai

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

2005-06-05 Thread John Fleming
- Original Message - From: "Hannes Mayer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Sunday, June 05, 2005 10:05 AM Subject: Re: sarge: last night's "apt-get" overwrites/changes /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 On 6/5/05, Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wr

Re: reconstruct the system

2005-06-03 Thread John Fleming
What can I do ?? Restore from the regular weekly/daily backups you keep. I haven't, but what is the best way for do it back up of the system, any documentation over there ?? Think about using Mondoarchive. You should be able to backup your whole system to one or a few DVDs or CDs. If you

Re: webmin on debian testing.

2005-05-29 Thread John Fleming
- Original Message - From: "Steven Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "debian-user list" Sent: Sunday, May 29, 2005 6:27 PM Subject: webmin on debian testing. Hi, I have an issue with webmin, I can login as root to 127.0.0.1:1 with the unix root password, but I cannot login to its ext

Help syslog/cron

2005-05-22 Thread John Fleming
I'm getting a cron message every morning (snippet below) that is getting irritating! I've deleted the syslog and started fresh, but it always comes back, and with the same date. It involves everything that uses syslog, e.g. spamd and fetchmail, and there for is not imited to one process that I

Re: Backup and Restore Strategy

2005-05-10 Thread John Fleming
I don't know how big your system is, but I have been very happy recently with Mondo. I recently had occasion to test the bare-metal restore, and it worked perfectly, to a different machine even! In less than an hour, I had a clone of the other box - everything - OS and data. I'm on esting/Sa

Re: Firestarter for Testing (Sarge)?

2004-12-16 Thread John Fleming
> After a lot of reading, the problem is solved. I'm running > firestarter on Sarge and it works great :) > > I read through Chapter 6 of the Debian Reference manual, > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/reference.en.html. I > created the file /etc/apt/prefences and placed the following

{ugh} Front Page Extensions

2004-12-13 Thread John Fleming
I've been on this list awhile now, and I've never seen this topic. I was wondering if anyone here would consider mentoring a newbie (off-list) with the installation of {ugh} FP Extensions on an up-to-date Debian Sarge server? Any tips/pitfalls? I've read what I can find on related FPE sites, but

Can't eject CD

2004-12-06 Thread John Fleming
Pse help newbie - My CD/RW lite is on, and I can't eject the CD. I really don't want to reboot just for this. My device is ATAPI:0,0,0. I've tried cdrecord -eject to no avail. Any help please? Debian Sarge -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troub

Re: Fedora

2004-11-25 Thread John Fleming
- Original Message - From: ken keanon To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 25, 2004 3:47 AM Subject: Fedora > Hi, > This Fedora project is developing along the same line as Debian i.e. community-base, > open-sourced. What's more, It is supported by RedHat. -

Re: Subject=Re: cdrecord --scanbus

2004-10-28 Thread John Fleming
- Original Message - From: "Eric Gaumer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2004 5:02 PM Subject: Re: Subject=Re: cdrecord --scanbus >> scsidev: 'ATAPI' >> devname: 'ATAPI' >> scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2 >> Warning: Using ATA Packet interface. >The

Re: Subject=Re: cdrecord --scanbus

2004-10-28 Thread John Fleming
- Original Message - From: "[KS]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2004 2:17 PM Subject: Subject=Re: cdrecord --scanbus > Check your CD/DVD drives using > > $>cdrecord -scanbus dev=ATAPI # cdrecord -scanbus dev=ATAPI Cdrecord-Clone 2.01a34 (i686-pc

Re: cdrecord --scanbus

2004-10-28 Thread John Fleming
>From Eric: > Please post the output of uname -a so we can see what kernel version you are using. Also post the output from: cdrecord dev=ATA: -scanbus Linux wa9als.com 2.4.26-1-386 #1 Tue Aug 24 13:31:19 JST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux # # cd

cdrecord --scanbus

2004-10-28 Thread John Fleming
Debian Sarge - I can burn CDs using K3B from the GUI, but I can't do anything that uses cdrecord from the console, e.g. mondoarchive or direct cdrecord commands. Here's the response from cdrecord --scanbus: # cdrecord --scanbus Cdrecord-Clone 2.01a34 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jö

cdrecord --scanbus

2004-10-28 Thread John Fleming
Debian Sarge - I can burn CDs using K3B from the GUI, but I can't do anything that uses cdrecord from the console, e.g. mondoarchive or direct cdrecord commands. Here's the response from cdrecord --scanbus: # cdrecord --scanbus Cdrecord-Clone 2.01a34 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jö

Re: Webmin (Sarge)

2004-10-20 Thread John Fleming
> In the last update I added an upstream fix for the cron module. Looks > like it broke something. Investigating... FWIW, my cron jobs are back in the Webmin listing. My problem might have been local; not sure about the other poster. -John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: Webmin (Sarge)

2004-10-18 Thread John Fleming
- Original Message - From: "S.D.A." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "debian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 18, 2004 9:09 AM Subject: Webmin (Sarge) I recently installed the Debian Sarge Webmin package -- previously I had used the current version from . I did t

Re: Pse explain apt-get msg

2004-10-13 Thread John Fleming
begin quotation of John Fleming on 2004-10-13 07:50:53 -0500: > What does it mean when update gets packages, but then upgrade > doesn't do anything? Thanks! >None of the packages you have installed have candidates for update. Then why did it get something? tnx -- To UNSUBSC

Pse explain apt-get msg

2004-10-13 Thread John Fleming
What does it mean when update gets packages, but then upgrade doesn't do anything? Thanks! #apt-get update Get:1 http://ftp.us.debian.org sarge/main Packages [3124kB] Hit http://security.debian.org sarge/updates/main Packages Get:2 http://security.debian.org sarge/updates/main Release [111B] Get:

Re: web-based calendaring that syncs w/ evo?

2004-10-08 Thread John Fleming
- Original Message - From: "Matt Price" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "debian users" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 08, 2004 12:06 AM Subject: web-based calendaring that syncs w/ evo? > hi folks, > > I'm looking for a way to publish an iCal calendar to the web in a > format that ca

Re: Does Unstable become Testing?

2004-09-25 Thread John Fleming
> Except the thing testing is symlinked to is no longer sarge but etch, > which is a cloned copy of sarge which points to the exact same packages. > > I think I get it. The real entities are woody, sarge, etch, sid; > unstable/testing/stable/oldstable are just convenient shortcuts. So will there

cdrecord and k3b

2004-09-22 Thread John Fleming
My mondoarchive couldn't write to my cdrom, and I started looking around for why. K3B works perfectly from the KDE desktop, but cdrecord doesn't seem to be able to find the cdrom. Here is some pertinent output from cdrecord and FSTAB. Can someone explain what's going on and how to get my cdrecor

Re: sarge release

2004-09-22 Thread John Fleming
> because the final Sarge "will be ready when it will be ready", and it will be > _good_ and _stable_ > That's what's really important, no? Really naive question - Could recently-released SpamAssassin 3.0 still make it into Sarge, or is that way too new and not enough time to make it into Sarge? I

Finished Re: System Monitor

2004-09-14 Thread John Fleming
> sar | mail -s "sar output" [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ;-) > > -- > Nate Duehr, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks to all that suggested system monitors. sar does what I want, but being the newbie that I am, it took awhile for me to figure out that sar is in the sysstat package. Tnx agn - John -- To UNSUB

System Monitor

2004-09-13 Thread John Fleming
What easy (newbie) way could I get a report of CPU and memory use averaged over 24 hrs? I've had some issues with SpamAssassin using a lot of available memory recently (probably too many network tests and rulesets). I can watch it using top but would like a 24 hr average report. An emailed repor

Re: CAN'T SUBSCRIBE

2004-09-11 Thread John Fleming
Blake Swadling swadling.com> writes: > > No matter what/where, I don't receive ANYTHING from Debian - no confirmation > > requests, no email period. > > try ensuring that you send in text only format. i found difficulty when > emails were formatted in html. Thanks, but that's not the problem.

CAN'T SUBSCRIBE

2004-09-11 Thread John Fleming
Sorry bandwidth, but I've hit a wall trying to subscribe. My previously-subscribed debian-user email stopped about August 28th, and I've tried everything to get it back. I've tried UNsubscribing and SUBscribing from several different email addys, different ISPs, and from different machines. No m

Re: Install Compress::Zlib

2004-09-11 Thread John Fleming
Florian Ernst uni-hd.de> writes: > > Hello John, hello list! > libdate-manip-perl, libhtml-parser-perl, libcompress-zlib-perl are the > respective package names. You can find their names by searching the > contents of packages on . > > HTH, > Flo > Tha

Install Compress::Zlib

2004-09-10 Thread John Fleming
I'm trying to use the ClamAV Webmin module. The module seems to work, but there is a message to please install Compress::Zlib. However, when I try to do with CPAN, I get the follwoing: CPAN.pm: Going to build P/PM/PMQS/Compress-Zlib-1.33.tar.gz Parsing config.in... Building Zlib enabled Look

Re: Console output?

2004-09-03 Thread John Fleming
Hello John Fleming (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Is this coming from my firewall (Firestarter) somehow? If so, why?? > 64.105.56.109 is my IP, but I don't know what the other one is > 64.105.106.5) Thanks - John > > Appears on console screen, over and over, but

Console output?

2004-09-03 Thread John Fleming
Is this coming from my firewall (Firestarter) somehow? If so, why?? 64.105.56.109 is my IP, but I don't know what the other one is 64.105.106.5) Thanks - John Appears on console screen, over and over, but not on remote ssh screen: IN=eth0) OUT= MAC= 00:c0:9f:38:15:eb:00:e0:eb:74:7f:C8:08:00: SRC

No mail from list

2004-09-02 Thread John Fleming
Not sure if I can post or not. I stopped getting mail from this list 2 days ago. I've tried unsubscribing, subscribing, and subscribing from another addy - nada - no email from the list at all, no subscription confirmation or anything. Help? (off-list - reading the archives via browser is tedi

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