Re: cups undocumented deprecation

2009-08-05 Thread Pete Boyd
ppd file. True it's a very badly layed out interface. However you don't _need_ to provide a PPD file, the option to provide a PPD file is an _alternative_ to choosing the driver from the list if you have one you'd specifically prefer to use. -- Pete Boyd Open Plan IT - http://ope

Re: mondo installed amd64 kernel on 686 system

2009-07-15 Thread Pete Boyd
What a blinder! Thanks for a quick and spot-on answer Sven. -- Pete Boyd Open Plan IT - http://openplanit.co.uk The Golden Ear - http://thegoldenear.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

mondo installed amd64 kernel on 686 system

2009-07-15 Thread Pete Boyd
NDENCIES] ms-sys [INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] ntfsprogs [INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] parted [INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] syslinux [INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] wodim [INSTALL] mondo === -- Pete Boyd Open Plan IT - http://openplanit.co

Re: Debian+LVM+RAID

2009-07-10 Thread Pete Boyd
apart from the Debian Installer seems to be broken with regard to setting up RAID: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=511452 But this bug is easily worked around simply by a reboot in the middle of the installer. Pete Boyd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

Re: samba file lock

2009-07-08 Thread Pete Boyd
-etch.html#shared-database-files smb.conf: http://thegoldenear.org/toolbox/unices/samba-3-pdc-print-server-debian-etch.html#smb.conf -- Pete Boyd Open Plan IT - http://openplanit.co.uk The Golden Ear - http://thegoldenear.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.deb

Re: MTA

2009-07-06 Thread Pete Boyd
which I'm continually grateful. There are other such tutorials too though I've not tried them. My own aid to this tutorial is here: http://thegoldenear.org/toolbox/unices/server-setup-debian-etch.html#mail -- Pete Boyd Open Plan IT - http://openplanit.co.uk The Golden Ear - http://thegol

Re: Debian 5.0.2 network manager not working?

2009-06-29 Thread Pete Boyd
> was it removed from 5.0.2 because of that? If anything were changed then notice of it would appear on the page announcing the release: http://debian.org/News/2009/20090627 -- Pete Boyd Open Plan IT - http://openplanit.co.uk The Golden Ear - http://thegoldenear.org -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: New Dell netbook,Ubuntu,Debian and factory su password.

2009-06-29 Thread Pete Boyd
ds that require superuser priviliges by prepending them with 'sudo', or you can drop into superuser mode by using the command sudo -s'. Ask your Ubuntu question here and you get a Debian answer, rather than an Ubuntu answer. The two worlds are subtly but importantly different.

Re: Flash on Debian ... I'm at my wit's end

2009-06-28 Thread Pete Boyd
these explain that the place to get Adobe Flash from is the Lenny Backports repository. -- Pete Boyd Open Plan IT - http://openplanit.co.uk The Golden Ear - http://thegoldenear.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: server memory & swap eaten up then freaks out

2009-04-28 Thread Pete Boyd
> On Mon, 2009-04-27 at 12:33 +0100, Pete Boyd wrote: >> I have a mail and Samba PDC server that, after a couple of days, runs >> out >> of RAM then swap then freaks out with oom killer kicking in, at which >> point it becomes very unresponsive and needs rebooting. >&

server memory & swap eaten up then freaks out

2009-04-27 Thread Pete Boyd
14 12:59:10 localhost mysqld[5242]: 090314 12:59:08 [Note] Crash recovery finished. Mar 14 12:59:26 localhost dovecot: auth-worker(default): mysql: Connect failed to 127.0.0.1 (mailserver): Can't connect to MySQL server on '127.0.0.1' (111) - waiting for 75 seconds before retry --