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2010-09-20 Thread John Smith
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Re: Updating from 4.0_r5 to 4.0_r6 ?

2008-12-27 Thread John Smith
s that my system would be 4.0_r6, since I installed from the 4.0_r5 DVD iso images. Regards, John Smith > > Well, so dpkg is up to date, as is (probably) the rest of your system. > Did you run "apt-get upgrade" recently? > > Sven > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to de

Re: Updating from 4.0_r5 to 4.0_r6 ?

2008-12-27 Thread John Smith
ce system for Debian Regards, John Smith On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 3:37 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2008-12-27 15:23 +0100, John Smith wrote: > >> The command "apt-cache show dpkg" prints out the following : >> >> Package: dpkg >> Essential: yes >

Re: Updating from 4.0_r5 to 4.0_r6 ?

2008-12-27 Thread John Smith
nterface::commandline, role::program, scope::utility, suite::debian, use::configuring, use::scanning, works-with::software:package Regards, John Smith On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 2:33 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2008-12-27 14:20 +0100, John Smith wrote: > >> I was just trying to upgr

Updating from 4.0_r5 to 4.0_r6 ?

2008-12-27 Thread John Smith
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Downloading CD/DVD images of older Debian releases ?

2008-12-27 Thread John Smith
here a way to obtain this old release from anywhere ? Any and all help is sincerely appreciated, John Smith -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

LSI Logic 1068 controller

2007-09-07 Thread John Smith
Hi, LSI Logic 1068 controller is supported in the debian linux? Thanks

"recovering journal" at every system boot

2007-06-28 Thread John Smith
Everytime I boot the system, from a clean state (i.e. no power failure or inexpected reset), the boot process stops for about 1 minute to perform a "/dev/sdb1: recovering journal" session. fsck logs this messages: #cat /var/log/fsck/checkroot Log of

Re: s-bit [solved]

2006-04-28 Thread John Smith
Asking around on #debian solved this: a shell script can't run as another user because the actual executable that get's loaded is the shell and not the script. It seems that perl does honour the s-bit on a perl-script. Sincerely, Jan. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

Re: Question about apt-pinning

2006-04-28 Thread John Smith
Joona Kiiski wrote: > Hi, > > I've a little question about apt-pinning. > Hi Joona, I would try it the 'rude' way: echo xmaxima hold|dpkg --set-selections apt-get update Sincerely, Jan. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "uns

s-bit

2006-04-27 Thread John Smith
Hi All, I am trying to get the s-bit to work on a shell script, but can't get it going: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/user/tmp >ls -al j.sh -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 16 2006-04-27 22:13 j.sh [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/user/tmp >./j.sh 522 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/user/tmp >cat j.sh #!/bin/sh id -u [E

Re: Networking, poverty breeds ingenuity

2006-02-07 Thread John Smith
Hi All, after doing some more research, I found out that this is really an open nerve for some people. I wonder why my previous e-mail didn't provoke a flame-war. Probably considered flame-bait. My apologies. It is really a problem to me: undefined ip-addresses in the 127.0.0.0/8

Networking, poverty breeds ingenuity

2006-02-05 Thread John Smith
Hi All, why is the subnet mask of interface lo in sarge defined as /8 (or 255.0.0.0) as, according to TheBonsai on #tcpip RFC3330, page 2 127.0.0.0/8 - This block is assigned for use as the Internet host loopback address. A datagram sent by a higher level protocol to an address anywhere

Re: Scripting again...

2006-01-17 Thread John Smith
On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 08:37:05 +0100 Almut Behrens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 07:40:48AM +0100, John Smith wrote: > > "text:\n someothertext" to "text: someothertext" > > > Personally, I'd use perl for this kind of

Scripting again...

2006-01-16 Thread John Smith
Hi All, how do you change (from the command line) with (sed/awk/... anything that's available in the installation environment) "text:\n someothertext" to "text: someothertext" The trick is in the newline of course. I now do with cat output.txt | tr '\n'

Re: video conference

2006-01-14 Thread John Smith
> > I have a company that the president want to talk with your > employers by computer. > The server will be Linux and the clients in Windows. > Why not let the 'president' make a mpeg movie (gives him the chance to correct mistakes) with an ordinary web cam or videocamera recorder and put tha

Re: Script challenge

2006-01-14 Thread John Smith
On Sat, 14 Jan 2006 11:37:42 +0100 John Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > which heroe can tell me why the following does not work : > > #!/bin/sh > cat <thenewscriptfile.sh > #!/bin/sh > ... input for thenewscriptfile.sh > EOF > > It's

Re: Script challenge

2006-01-14 Thread John Smith
On Sat, 14 Jan 2006 12:26:35 +0100 Matthijs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 14 Jan 2006 11:40:13 +0100, John Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > which heroe can tell me why the following does not work : > > > > #!/bin/sh > > cat <ne

Script challenge

2006-01-14 Thread John Smith
Hi All, which heroe can tell me why the following does not work : #!/bin/sh cat

Re: ldap conversion strategy

2005-11-29 Thread John Smith
On Wed, 30 Nov 2005 00:28:33 + Jamie Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Smith wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I'm in the process of designing a plan to move a lot of debian > > workstations (all with local users configured) to a ldap managed en-

ldap conversion strategy

2005-11-29 Thread John Smith
Hi All, I'm in the process of designing a plan to move a lot of debian workstations (all with local users configured) to a ldap managed en- vironment and have some choices to make, some easy, some tough. Here one of the last category: In order to keep the users using applications

Re: scripting problem

2005-11-27 Thread John Smith
Thanks guys, learned a lot from this thread, especially from Almut's reaction! What I tried to do is copy the encrypted password from /etc/shadow to newly installed system and kept running into trouble because of the $'s in the string. Finally I thought about use

Re: scripting problem

2005-11-26 Thread John Smith
On Sat, 26 Nov 2005 15:31:24 -0500 Michael Marsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11/26/05, Jan de Haan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > David Koski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > echo -n "3 ===";echo -n ${MD5PW} | tr ' ' '\n' | while read char ; do > > > > awk \ > > > > '{printf("%c",$char)}' ;

scripting problem

2005-11-26 Thread John Smith
Hi All, does somebody know why I keep losing the first character of the third resulting string? Sincerely, Jan. === [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/user/tmp >cat t4.sh #!/bin/sh export INPUT='$1$iW95z/HB$GFcYFxMKK6x8EUPglVkux.' echo "1 ==="

where is the base sarge packages list installer needs

2005-11-26 Thread John Smith
Ladies and gentlemen, I try to build Debian disk. I already downloaded new sarge wonderful installer and heap of packages I need. But I should be entirely happy if I could find whole base sarge system to download (which installer needs). Could you tell me from where I can do one. If it is possi

Re: wiki package recommendation

2005-11-11 Thread John Smith
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Running_MediaWiki_on_Debian_GNU/Linux Works like charm, even my boss liked it ;-) Sincerely, Jan. On Fri, 11 Nov 2005 14:15:46 -0800 noc ops <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi, > > can anyone recommend a wiki package (stable) and willing share their > experience. >

deep apt question

2005-11-11 Thread John Smith
Hi All, like a lot of people I run a local apt repository combined with an apt-proxy that caches a close official debian distribution server. My local installation web server looks like: /var/debian/ total 36 drwxr-xr-x 8 www-data www-data 4096 2005-11-11 19:41 . drwxr-xr-x 16 root

ldap client will not shutdown

2005-09-12 Thread John Smith
Hi All, I'm busy with my first attempts to implement ldap, and stumble over some side effects: my laptop (the ldap client) won't reboot, it hangs somewhere in the shutdown process and waiting for over an hour does not help. I logon with a local (non-ldap) username. I ruled out everything

Re: How do I create my own package revision

2005-09-01 Thread John Smith
On Thu, 1 Sep 2005 12:04:18 -0400 "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 05:59:05PM +0200, John Smith wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > how do I create my own package revision from a "package-1.0-1_i38

How do I create my own package revision

2005-09-01 Thread John Smith
Hi All, how do I create my own package revision from a "package-1.0-1_i386.deb" to "package-1.0-1myown_i386.deb" ? Specifically, I want to recompile snmpd with other than the compiled in defaults, which I already can, but I can't find the #$%*! revision number. I think the debian

Re: rebuilding packages

2005-08-29 Thread John Smith
On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 16:25:39 -0400 "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 09:53:04PM +0200, John Smith wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > caused by various reasons (disagree with compiled in defaults, learning > > stuff)

rebuilding packages

2005-08-29 Thread John Smith
Hi All, caused by various reasons (disagree with compiled in defaults, learning stuff) I compiled a few packages from source from the project (apt-get source ...). I found out that in some cases (notably snmpd and glibc) the rebuilding of the source actually produces more .deb's than I ex

Re: What file to add command to start at bootime

2005-07-03 Thread John Smith
On Mon, 04 Jul 2005 01:42:09 +0700 Cao Van Khanh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have some script and would like to run it at boot time . I could not > find how to do that in debian . In redhat I could add to /etc/rc.d . How > to make it in debian ? > Thank for reading > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: SSH and X11 Forwrding query

2005-07-03 Thread John Smith
On Sat, 2 Jul 2005 15:23:24 -0500 Jacob S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2 Jul 2005 14:09:42 -0600 > Dean Allen Provins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello: > > > > I have used SSH and X Forwarding successfully in the past, but since > > moving to Sarge, it refuses to co-operate. Eithe

Re: friends new install

2005-07-03 Thread John Smith
On Sun, 3 Jul 2005 00:13:47 -0700 "Rodney D. Myers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just re-installed Sarge for an older lady.. She/I screwed something > up, so the re-install was necessary. > > Now, when I run synaptic, as either root or sudo, and I select any > package, I get the following error

Re: sarge install on hp DL320

2005-06-24 Thread John Smith
On Fri, 24 Jun 2005 02:12:25 -0700 (PDT) saravanan ganapathy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hai, > > When I try to install sarge (2.6 kernel) on hp > Dl320(SATA HDDs) , it says that no common CDROM > detected. > > If I choose 2.4 kernel, then it was detected the CDROM > , but it couldn't detect H

Re: dpkg and apt

2005-06-19 Thread John Smith
On Sun, 19 Jun 2005 13:01:14 +0100 Arthur B Olsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just installed debian 3.1 and i have a strange problem. I've had it once > before, but it dissapeared by it self. > Or maby i fixed it without knowing what i was doing. > > A dpkg -l shows only a list of installed pa

Re: Where is th HD installer for sarge

2005-06-18 Thread John Smith
On Sat, 18 Jun 2005 08:51:21 +0100 belahcene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I want to install the sarge from the harddisk instead of CD, I 've > downloaded the official version (sarge) CD's. But I can't find the > vmlinuz for installing from HD. The one I found is old ( 05 Mar O5) > which

Re: unable to create bcm5700 driver!

2005-05-11 Thread John Smith
On Wed, 11 May 2005 06:02:07 -0700 (PDT) Amira Youssef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I've installed the debian package bcm5700-source.deb and it has created 2 dir: > > debian --> contains some changelog, control, rules files > src --> contains Makefile, bcm* files > > when I follow

Re: sarge freeze, server colocation

2005-05-04 Thread John Smith
On Wed, 4 May 2005 14:24:59 -0400 William <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am about to colocate a debian server and now I don't know if I > should install woody or sarge. > I'll be colocating it in 1-3 weeks. I am thinking that I should > probably use sarge. > Any advice? > thanks William > > >

unknown port open by dhcpd3

2005-05-04 Thread John Smith
Hi All, I saw the next line in netstat -an's output this evening on my firewall box. It's blocked by iptables, but any reason to get nervous? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/user >netstat -an|more Active Internet connections (servers and established) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Fo

iptables firestarter bug

2005-01-06 Thread John Smith
Hi All, running a sarge box with 2.4.27, updated firestarter today, reconfigured as mandated, got the following error message when starting: iptables v1.2.11: Couldn't load target `LS':/lib/iptables/libipt_LS.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory That fi

Re: Problem starting x server

2004-12-27 Thread John Smith
modify the 'Driver' statement to have the driver matching your card, don't forget to save. Start xfree86 again with a' /etc/init.d/gdm start'. Sincerely , Jan. > -- John Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

sarge-evolution 2.0 eating cpu

2004-12-27 Thread John Smith
n local folders (not vfolders, thank you very much), which, ocasionally, have a lot of messages (10..20k). Laptop is a 900Mhz PIII with 128MB RAM, 256MB Swap. Anybody else seen this/was able to do something about it? Sincerely, Jan. -- John Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Sarge box not rebooting..

2004-12-27 Thread John Smith
using Debian inhouse, why don't you contribute a bit more, we are convinced of the hardware quality!) As it's not even displaying "Rebooting", did you check the /etc/init.d/reboot permissions? How about calling it directly with a sh -x? Sincerely, Jan. -- John Smith <[EM

Re: Fw: resolv.conf

2004-12-25 Thread John Smith
On Sun, 2004-12-26 at 08:34 +0700, Endianto wrote: > > /etc/resolv.conf > > > > is missing or can't be read You can create resolv.conf with any editor. It contains the IP-addresses of your ISP's domain name servers (dns) and the default searchpaths for dns. See 'man resolv.conf'. Sincerely, Jan.

Re: HP DL380 G4 and kernel 2.6.x boot problems. (testing)

2004-12-23 Thread John Smith
On Thu, 2004-12-23 at 04:20, Ian Meyer wrote: > pivot_root: No such file or directory > /sbin/init 424 cannot open dev/console > kernel panic: Attempted to kill init > I've seen this a lot while testing debian-installer on DL380's with the 2.6 kernel but they were all related to using grub as the

Re: GDM display blank on logout

2004-11-14 Thread John Smith
On Sun, 2004-11-14 at 18:07, Aniruddha Kibey wrote: > hi all > Sorry if this is a repost but I havent recieved any messages that i > have recently posted back. They also dont show up in the list archives > I am using Debian sid , at start up the GDM display comes out proper > , but when I log o

Re: installed but not installed according to dpkg

2004-09-30 Thread John Smith
On Thu, 2004-09-30 at 01:10, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Hello list, > > I have just observed something strange on my Sarge box: > the pacake telnet is installed but according the tool dpkg it is not: > so I cannot purge, among other thing I guess. > > How can we satinize our box ? > > thanks in adva

RE: routing table question

2004-09-24 Thread John Smith
I would add some 'up' statements to my /etc/network/interfaces, like: iface eth0 inet static address 10.x.y.z netmask 255.255.255.0 network 10.x.y.0 broadcast 10.x.y.255 up route add -net 1.2.3.4 down route del -net ... Sincerely, Jan On Fri,

Re: How to Back Up SQL Databases and Firewall

2004-08-26 Thread John Smith
On Fri, 2004-08-27 at 06:12, Ed Sutherland wrote: > How do I back-up my MySQL databases to a CD disc? > > Also, what is the best firewall app for Gnome users? > > Thanks. > > Ed > firestarter comes to mind... 'apt-get install firestarter' Sincerely, Jan. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

Re: Serial console installs?

2004-08-26 Thread John Smith
On Thu, 2004-08-26 at 23:43, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm trying to install Sarge over the net (booting netinstall via pxe). > I can only connect to it via serial console.. When it boots up into > serial console, it seems to try sending VGA data to the serial port. > > Is there a way to get arou

Re: Serial console installs?

2004-08-26 Thread John Smith
On Thu, 2004-08-26 at 23:43, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm trying to install Sarge over the net (booting netinstall via pxe). > I can only connect to it via serial console.. When it boots up into > serial console, it seems to try sending VGA data to the serial port. > > Is there a way to get arou

Re: X client problem..

2004-08-18 Thread John Smith
On Wed, 2004-08-18 at 19:24, Thomas Adam wrote: > On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 11:41:37AM -0400, Ishwar Rattan wrote: > > > > System is Kanotix-bug-hunter-07-A (debianunstable based). > > > > Call this box machine A > and replace 'no' with 'yes'. Then restart sshd on machine B. From > machine A, do: >

Re: error with apt-get update

2004-08-17 Thread John Smith
On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 13:49, Vijaya S wrote: > Hi all, > When i try to do apt-get update i get the following error:- > 99% [1 Packages gzip 9994240] > gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--crc error > > gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--length error > Err http://xyz.com unstable/main Packages

Re: SHN tools ???

2004-08-14 Thread John Smith
On Sat, 2004-08-14 at 06:56, Michael D Schleif wrote: > What are currently working sources.list entries for these packages? > Worst of all, this returns nothing: > > dpkg -l '*shn*' > > What do you think? Can only answer the dpkg -l question, stumbled over it myself: http://lists.debian.org

Re: connection timed out--almost always

2004-08-13 Thread John Smith
On Sat, 2004-08-14 at 02:30, Lance W. Haverkamp wrote: > # apt-get update > Hit ftp://ftp.ie.debian.org stable/non-US/main Packages > Err http://deb.mepis.org unstable/contrib Packages > Could not connect to deb.mepis.org:80 (32.1.7.112), connection timed out > Every server after this was also co

sarge gnome does not show anything after login on fresh installs

2004-07-23 Thread John Smith
To all those other s*ckers, like me, who install, like me, sarge as from today from scratch with gdm version 2.4.4.7-3. Symptoms: gnome does not display anything after logging in through gdm-login except for a blue screen and a mouse pointer. This is a hint about what is wrong: http://bugs.deb

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade and /dev/input/mice

2004-07-16 Thread John Smith
On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 17:27, Brian Walker wrote: > Using Sarge and regularly apt-get updating and upgrading I ignored the > uninstalled gnome and kde, using blackbox wm, mutt and slrn. Thought I > would try to fix the box before migrating to unstable. > > apt-get upgrade followed by apt-get dist-u

Convert Solaris userids to Linux-Debian

2004-07-08 Thread John Smith
Hi all, in a few weeks I need to convert a couple of hundred userids from a Sun Solaris 5.8 box to Linux-Debian. Does anybody know of a way to do this without the users losing their passwords? Sincerely, Jan. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "u

Re: Intel NIC

2004-06-22 Thread John Smith
On Mon, 2004-06-21 at 17:44, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Just installed debian 3.0... I'm using an Intel Pro/100 VM NIC. It did not > install for some reason during install. The following came from a Windows Sorry, had the _exact_ problem a few weeks ago. Turned out the latest intel pro100 models (

Re: Creating MP3 for portable players

2004-06-21 Thread John Smith
On Mon, 2004-06-21 at 15:09, Keith O'Connell wrote: > Hi, > > I have be badgered by my wife and daughter to learn how to pull tracks > off their CD's into a format to play on their MP3 players, so I have > been teaching myself over the weekend. > > I can pull from CD to Ogg on my machine and I

Re: Foreign filesystems

2004-06-20 Thread John Smith
On Sun, 2004-06-20 at 11:41, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 10:30:50AM +0200, John Smith wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I'm experimenting with a soekris net4801, along with came > > a 32MB compactflash with a OpenBSD filesystem, according to cfdisk

Foreign filesystems

2004-06-20 Thread John Smith
Hi All, I'm experimenting with a soekris net4801, along with came a 32MB compactflash with a OpenBSD filesystem, according to cfdisk. I would like to experiment with it and I already found out that it is possible to mount it under Debian, but I can't find any files on it. Is this possible

Re: Which disk device driver

2004-05-24 Thread John Smith
Sorry, must have been asleep, was indeed initr=/initrd.img in /etc/lilo.conf. Thanks. Sincerely, Jan. On Sun, 2004-05-23 at 16:56, Alexander Schmehl wrote: > * John Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040523 13:14]: > > > My conclusion is that the disk device driver is not compile

Which disk device driver

2004-05-23 Thread John Smith
Hi All, installed a new 3.0r2 box with (obviously) 2.4.18-bf2.4. Tried to upgrade to 2.4.26 by installing the kernel-image but booting with it aborts with "VFS: Cannot open root device "805" or 08:05 Please append a correct "root=" boot option Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on

[SOLVED] 2.4.26 atmel_cs Sitecom WL-011

2004-05-16 Thread John Smith
To whom it may concern, since it costed me some time to get it working, here for any others who may want to run the same combination as I do: Kernel 2.4.26 Sitecom WL-011 wireless 802.11 Atmel based PCMCIA (formerly run with the pcmf50xxx modules) install vanilla

Switching daemons between boxes

2004-05-03 Thread John Smith
Hi All, I want to be able to switch application daemons between separate debian boxes and am looking for the most efficient way to move the ip-address with it with as little hardcoding the addresses as possible, in order to make the move completely transparant to the users. In

Re: gnome upgrade

2004-05-03 Thread John Smith
On Thu, 2004-04-29 at 23:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hi iam running woody, and i would like to upgrade gnome to version 2.4. > i wrote the: > deb http://source.rfc822.org/pub/local/gnoppix/gnome/gnome2.4 ./ > deb-src http://source.rfc822.org/pub/local/gnoppix/gnome/gnome2.4 ./ > in my /etc/a

Re: ssh X11 forwarding

2004-02-14 Thread John Smith
Update: You need the package xbase-clients as well: you need xauth to set the X11 permissions. Sincerely, Jan. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ssh X11 forwarding

2004-02-14 Thread John Smith
On Sat, 2004-02-14 at 10:52, David Purton wrote: > I can't get X11 forwarding to work and I'm not sure where sto start in > fixing things: > > at the moment when the DISPLAY variable is not set when I ssh -X > > ie. > > $local > echo $DISPLAY > :0.0 > $local > ssh -X remote > $remote > echo $DIS

Re: Multihead

2004-02-14 Thread John Smith
On Sat, 2004-02-14 at 10:49, Greg Madden wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Friday 13 February 2004 11:53 am, John Smith wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > does anyone have any recomendations for a (couple of) > > videocard(s) with PCI

Re: Multihead

2004-02-13 Thread John Smith
On Sat, 2004-02-14 at 04:17, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 21:53:57 +0100, > John Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Hi All, > > > > does anyone have any recomendations for a (couple of) > > vi

Multihead

2004-02-13 Thread John Smith
Hi All, does anyone have any recomendations for a (couple of) videocard(s) with PCI interface to be used for a 4 headed sid or sarge box with 4 1600x1200 DVI LCD screens combined with xinerama? Sincerely, Jan. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscr

Re: single desktop per user with vncserver through inetd

2004-01-13 Thread John Smith
On Tue, 2004-01-13 at 00:31, Mike Fedyk wrote: > On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 09:45:22AM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: > > I really don't see what the OP's problem is... the vncserver package comes > > with documentation on how to set it up through inetd to provide an xdm > > chooser on connect via XDMCP.

Re: Default size for fonts in X?

2003-12-25 Thread John Smith
On Thu, 2003-12-25 at 10:48, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 24 Dec 2003, John Smith wrote: > > On Wed, 2003-12-24 at 18:29, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > Is there anywhere to set default fonts in X? Currently I'm using > > > 1600x1200 but many menus are so small

Re: DHCP Problems

2003-12-25 Thread John Smith
On Thu, 2003-12-25 at 11:00, Alan Chandler wrote: > I have been reconfiguring the networking on my SARGE based server so > that it can act as an internet gateway for my home network. This > requires that it uses dhcp (client) to get an ip address from my ISP for > the internet interface (eth0)

Re: Default size for fonts in X?

2003-12-24 Thread John Smith
On Wed, 2003-12-24 at 18:29, Anthony Campbell wrote: > Is there anywhere to set default fonts in X? Currently I'm using > 1600x1200 but many menus are so small that they can hardly be seen. I > can of course use a lower resolution but is there anywhere where these > things are set globally? I've of

Re: Name resolution on Debian/Windows network

2003-12-20 Thread John Smith
On Fri, 2003-12-19 at 23:01, Jeffrey Barish wrote: > I have 3 computers on my home network. The Windows machines are > connected to each other using ICS. I can ping one Windows machine from > another Windows machine simply by naming the destination: > > ping windowsB > > from machine windowsA w

Re: MRTG on Debian Testing (getting some info, not getting IfIndex)

2003-12-20 Thread John Smith
On Fri, 2003-12-19 at 20:52, BruceG wrote: > >Anyway - anyone on this list installed MRTG on Debian using "apt-get > > install MRTG"? I'm having trouble finding my way around to where MRTG is > > installed and how to rebuild the mrtg.cfg file. My Debian server is cli > > only, so finding proper

RE: IP to www

2003-12-20 Thread John Smith
Hi Gruessle, step by step testing is easiest by using 'telnet ip-address port', this even works with windows ;-) start from within your local net 'telnet webservers-internal-address 80'. You should at least get a 'Connected' message. This confirms your web server is actually up. (Try testing

Re: kde

2003-12-17 Thread John Smith
On Wed, 2003-12-17 at 17:25, Gavin Seddon wrote: > Hi, > I have had a catastrophy, Kde has stopped working, that is, the icons are all > over the screen and I cannot view anything,. I am in gnome now. I have > tried apt-get upgrade kde with no success. Can someone tell me how to repair > it?

Re: hostname bogosity

2003-12-14 Thread John Smith
On Sun, 2003-12-14 at 05:48, Michael D. Harnois wrote: > On Sat, 2003-12-13 at 22:26, Kent West wrote: > > > My first guess would be that you're missing the following line in > > /etc/hosts: > > > > 127.0.0.1 harnoiscomputer localhost > > A wonderful idea, but alas, the hosts file on my l

Re: ssh behaviour: unexpectedly being logged out

2003-12-14 Thread John Smith
Hi, what does ssh -v -f [EMAIL PROTECTED] xterm say? (More v's => more verbosity) Compare this with the same from your other box. Sincerley, Jan. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTE

Re: hostname bogosity

2003-12-14 Thread John Smith
Hi Michael, check your /etc/hostname which should contain your hostname only, /etc/hosts which should contain your ip-address and hostname, /etc/nsswitch.conf which should contain some line like hosts: files dns and wether the contents of your /etc/resolv.conf is still valid. All files s

Re: remote GNOME session over ssh fails

2003-12-14 Thread John Smith
Hi Lloyd, I have the same problem, though I recently changed my default PATH, which I consider to be the most probable cause. Too lazy to change it back, because it actually has a reason. Did you changer your default PATH too? I run a 'fat' environment (gnome etc.) and was able to

Re: [OT] C programming, variable size array

2003-12-12 Thread John Smith
#include int main ( int nNumberofArguments, char* apszArgument [] ) { int nReturncode = 0 ; int* pnStorage = NULL ; int* pnTmp = NULL ; int nNumberofelements = 0 ; int nNumberofreadfields = 0 ; int nCounter = 0 ; int nInput = 0 ; while ((nReturncode == 0) && ((nN

Re: Having Trouble with e100.o network card driver

2003-12-02 Thread John Smith
On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 20:51, Watwe, Abhay wrote: > Hi: > > > > I have a Dell Dimension 8300 PC with master HD of 120 GB with Windows > XP on it. I installed Debian “potato” on a slave HD (6GB). Kerner > version is 2.2.19. I did NOT build my own kernel, I used the one > which came on the CD.

Re: Rationale

2003-12-01 Thread John Smith
> One good reason why that behaviour is evil is that I may want to install > custom versions of utils without messing with /bin or /usr/bin. That's > what /usr/local is for, after all. One of the things I thoroughly dislike about unices is that anybody and his mother who thinks he is able to wri

Re: Rationale

2003-12-01 Thread John Smith
On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 08:13, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 11:01:35PM +0100, John Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > checked google, asked this before on irc, didn't get a > > usable answer (can't find any use of /

Rationale

2003-11-30 Thread John Smith
Hi All, checked google, asked this before on irc, didn't get a usable answer (can't find any use of /etc/login.defs). What is the rationale behind the PATH environment variable? Running woody I get /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games as a normal user. As root

Re: irc equivalent to linux.debian.user?

2003-11-30 Thread John Smith
Hi, try gaim (apt-get install gaim) Sincerely, Jan. On Sun, 2003-11-30 at 17:03, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Hello List ! > > here are naive questions: > What is the basic tools provided with Debian (Sarge) to do IRC ? > Is there a Gnome interface ? > > > Greg Folkert wrote: > > On Sun, 2

Re: please send me the software

2003-11-30 Thread John Smith
On Sun, 2003-11-30 at 15:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anybody care to mailbomb this guy with a few .iso's ? ROFL! Jan. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: No NIC and No X - WTF Does It Take?

2003-11-29 Thread John Smith
On Sat, 2003-11-29 at 08:04, Scarletdown wrote: > So, unable to do any configuration from within the > graphical interface, I hit CTRL-Alt-F12 then > logged into a text-based terminal as root (is there > any way at all to get back to the desktop > after doing that?) and ran dpkg-reconfigure Ctr

Re: Getting shell back locally or remote on hanging ssh connection

2003-11-09 Thread John Smith
On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 08:37, Robert Ian Smit wrote: > after returning to it after five minutes of doing something else. > Hi Bob, jus to solve your problem, depending on the version of ssh you are using, try experimenting with 'ProtocolKeepAlives' and/or 'KeepAlive' parameters in your ~/

X11 app color problem

2003-11-07 Thread John Smith
Hi All, a more difficult (and not install related ;-) ) X11 challenge: running an X11 app from a remote host, displaying on my local (TrueColor) workstation, it doesn't display colors correctly - a 6 color black, grey, white gif is displayed all black. Some digging revealed that the orig

Re: Sendmail trouble with relaying

2003-11-01 Thread John Smith
On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 00:58, John Hasler wrote: > Erik Dörnbach wrote: > > How can I make sure the only hosts allowed to send in the name of > > "aaa.com" belong to a certain network/IP range? Guess I missed out a > > feature or something? > > That is exactly what Sender Permitted From is about.

booting from usb

2003-10-30 Thread John Smith
(Sorry Kev... http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200310/msg07137.html ) Hi All, is it possible to write one of the mutiple smaller .iso's that are available, to an usb memory stick and boot from it? Has anybody experience with usb bootable machines (positive/ n

Install from usb (was: Re: Straight to SID...)

2003-10-29 Thread John Smith
On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 19:38, Greg Madden wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wednesday 29 October 2003 06:23 am, Tom wrote: > > To install my system, I normally boot off Woody CD, install only the > > minimal/base packages, reboot, upgrade the kernel, reboot, and then >

Re: Searching for an editor...

2003-10-19 Thread John Smith
On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 18:32:47 +0200, Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: All in all, the built-in editor of Anjuta is exactly what I'm looking Tom Try Scite, you'll love it. Anjuta's editor is based on it. Sincerely, Jan. Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ -- To U

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