vsftpd or pure-ftpd?

2004-10-13 Thread Johann Spies
I am in the process of building a new ftp-server. The old one used vsftpd and it performed well. I have recently become aware of pure-ftpd which seems to have more features like using an sql-database for user definitions, quotas etc. Our setup is like this: It is a unversity campus's ftp-server.

cyrus-sasl SPARC update missing on s.d.o

2004-10-13 Thread Helmut Toplitzer
Hi! Today I got the security announcement about the cyrus-sasl package. There is a link in the mail to the new sparc-binaries. The link is working, but doing an apt-get update; apt-get upgrade does not update to the current security-version. "apt-cache show libsasl7" output is appended. Even on h

Re: Enabling hyperthreading

2004-10-13 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 02:49:19PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote: > > > I've got P4 3GHz Hyperthreading on Intel 865PERL > > > mainboard, > > > hyperthreading enable on BIOS. > > > I'm currently using sid 2.4.27 kernel with alsa > > > co

kernel-patch-bootsplash for 2.6.8?

2004-10-13 Thread Nick Hastings
Hi all, following the most recent Debian weekly news, I decided to try to setup bootsplash. I added the appropriate source[1] to my apt sources but, it seems the kernel-patch-bootsplash package is a bit out of date since it doesn't appear[2] to supply patches for 2.6.8 kernels. I tried googlin

Re: What means that: FATAL: udev is already active on /dev/. ?

2004-10-13 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, Christian Leimer wrote: > Christian Leimer wrote: > > > Sebastiaan wrote: > > > > I today moved a /dev folder from an other clean sarge disk and this fixed > it. However! I now have a /dev which seems to be created by udev and I have > an .dev where all the old stuff is.

Re: kernel-patch-bootsplash for 2.6.8?

2004-10-13 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, Nick Hastings wrote: > Hi all, > >following the most recent Debian weekly news, I decided to try to > setup bootsplash. I added the appropriate source[1] to my apt sources > but, it seems the kernel-patch-bootsplash package is a bit out of date > since it doesn't appe

Re: getting USB CDRW to work

2004-10-13 Thread Sebastiaan
hi, On Mon, 11 Oct 2004, Sebastiaan wrote: > Hi! > > I am trying to get an external USB CD writer to work. > > I bought an empty USB<->IDE case and it works fine for harddisks. With the > CDRW drive I can mount CD's with no problems. Unfortunately, cdrecord > doesn't recognize the drive as being

Internet slow with Debian Sarge w/2.6

2004-10-13 Thread Mark Schonfeld
I've just installed Debian Sarge via netinstall with the 2.6 kernel. The internet is horribly slow. However I've had this before in Suse 9.1 so I assumed I need to disable ipv6 support. I went to /etc/modutils and edited aliases to uncomment line 11. I changed: #alias net-pf-10 off

kickstart, autoyast or the like for Debian?

2004-10-13 Thread Jacob Larsen
Is there a way to create an install script for Debian? Just like Red Hat/Fedora kickstart and Suse autoyast. Thanks, Jacob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: basic newbie help

2004-10-13 Thread Michael Lang
Since Knoppix is mentioned quite often in this list and most of the comments are not that positive let me say this: Instead of knoppix you should go for Kanotix ( http://www.kanotix.com ) , which is "the better knoppix" if you want to call it that way. What's better in kanotix is i.e. that it is

Automating wifi setup

2004-10-13 Thread Chris
Debian unstable. 3com OfficeConnect 11g card together with CVS ndiswrapper (need CVS for Version 2.0 card). /etc/modules has ndiswrapper installed and the alias to wlan0 is set up with ndiswrapper -m Plugging the card in gives: Oct 13 10:47:50 chris kernel: PCI: Enabling device :07:00.0 (00

Preferred way of adding truetype fonts in debian?

2004-10-13 Thread Olle Eriksson
I'm seeing tons of information regarding this issue on the net and it's difficult to tell what is current and what is deprecated information and what is best to do on a Debian system. Could you help me out? I have a windows partition available with the appropriate ttf files but I am not sure wh

New kernel...sockets problems, sshd problem,...general problems with 2.6.8.1 kernel installation and SATA

2004-10-13 Thread Philippe Dhont (Sea-ro)
Hello, I'm using a DELL 470 workstation with a XEON proc, 1GB RAM and 2 SATA disks. I installed sarge last week on it, everything works (sshd, ftp, X11 (gnome), DHCP, GPM). Now i downloaded kernel 2.6.8.1 and configured it with following settings: SCSI, libata, sound, DHCP, XEON architecture, U

New kernel...sockets problems, sshd problem,...general problems with 2.6.8.1 kernel installation and SATA

2004-10-13 Thread Philippe Dhont (Sea-ro)
Hello, I found what it was...in my kernel was "UNIX DOMAIN SOCKETS" not configured in my kernel... I choose to compile it in the kernel and everything works fine... Cheers, Phil. -Original Message- From: Philippe Dhont (Sea-ro) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: woensdag 13 oktober 2004

Re: change /dev/console owner to user logged on console?

2004-10-13 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Marc D Ronell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Under Debian, is there a method which allows any user directly logged >onto the host and using the host's keyboard and monitor to take >ownership of some that host's devices? pam_console Mike. -- "In times of un

OpenOffice - Unrecoverable Error - Debian Sarge

2004-10-13 Thread David Nicholls
Hi There, I did a standard apt-get install openoffice.org to install open office. When starting open office, I get the splash screen come up, but then before the application actually starts (any open office package) I get a box come up with: Unrecoverable error, and open office closes. Anyone ha

New sarge install question

2004-10-13 Thread Glyn Tebbutt
Hi all i've recently used the new sarge-netinst image to install debian on both my desktop and server. Both worked a treat, but today somebody said to me i will have to reinstall again when the install becomes final. I presumed a apt-get update, apt-get dist-upgrade would simply keep me up to date.

Re: ALSA

2004-10-13 Thread Roger Creasy
--- Andrea Vettorello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 9 Oct 2004 04:18:09 -0700 (PDT), Roger > Creasy > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > i suspect hotplug is > > > loading the OSS > > > module before the ALSA one, so i suggest you to > > > blacklist it, i.e. put > > > the OSS module nam

Re: New sarge install question

2004-10-13 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, Glyn Tebbutt wrote: > Hi all > i've recently used the new sarge-netinst image to > install debian on both my desktop and server. Both > worked a treat, but today somebody said to me i will > have to reinstall again when the install becomes > final. I presumed a apt-get up

Re: New sarge install question

2004-10-13 Thread Glyn Tebbutt
--- Sebastiaan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, Glyn Tebbutt wrote: > > > Hi all > > i've recently used the new sarge-netinst image to > > install debian on both my desktop and server. Both > > worked a treat, but today somebody said to me i > will > > have to reinstall

Re: Internet slow with Debian Sarge w/2.6

2004-10-13 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Mark Schonfeld (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I've just installed Debian Sarge via netinstall with the 2.6 kernel. > The internet is horribly slow. However I've had this before in Suse > 9.1 so I assumed I need to disable ipv6 support. I went to > /etc/modutils and edited aliases to uncom

Problems with debian install

2004-10-13 Thread Vikas Rawal
I am new to debian but have some experience with Redhat 9. I would like to install debian on a Compaq PIII machine. I have the 7 CDs (downloaded ISOs and burnt CDs without trouble). But when I try to install, pretty soon it gives a message to the effect that debootstrap returned an error (1) and

Re: anyone tried chroot_safe?

2004-10-13 Thread Joost Witteveen
Joey Hess wrote: Greg Norris wrote: Has anyone here has tried out chroot_safe[1]? I haven't read any of the code, but based on their documentation, so long as you trust the binary you're chrooting, it should be as safe as regular chroot. The paranoid part of me suspects that a malicious binary coul

routing help please...

2004-10-13 Thread Mark Maas
Thanks for reading! I hope someone can help me with a routing issue: I've attached a situation scetch. The thing is, my road warriors connect via a pptp connection to my VPN server via GW2. This fails because the default gateway (GW) on the VPN is GW1, so all request attempts end up beeing sent t

Re: Problems with debian install

2004-10-13 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, Vikas Rawal wrote: > I am new to debian but have some experience with Redhat 9. > > I would like to install debian on a Compaq PIII machine. I have the 7 > CDs (downloaded ISOs and burnt CDs without trouble). But when I try to > install, pretty soon it gives a message to

Making a Debian Kernel Patch

2004-10-13 Thread Peter A. Cole
Hi all, I'm a bit lost as to how to proceed here, and the dh-kpatches.html file and man dh_installkpatches are totally confusing me at this point in time. I'm trying to find a way to get the Via EPIA kernel patch into a standard Debian patch form to apply to a custom kernel. I hope that makes s

Nvidia driver installation error

2004-10-13 Thread Philippe Dhont (Sea-ro)
Hello, I'm trying to install a nvidia driver on my system System is debian sarge with new kernel 2.6.8.1, XEON proc, sata disks and 1GB RAM. The video card is a nvidia quadro PCI-E series card. I downloaded the driver from nvidia, Started it with: Sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6111-pkg1.run --kerne

Re: routing help please...

2004-10-13 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, Mark Maas wrote: > Thanks for reading! > > I hope someone can help me with a routing issue: > > I've attached a situation scetch. > > The thing is, my road warriors connect via a pptp connection > to my VPN server via GW2. > This fails because the default gateway (GW) on

Re: Nvidia driver installation error

2004-10-13 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, Philippe Dhont (Sea-ro) wrote: > > > Hello, > > I'm trying to install a nvidia driver on my system > > System is debian sarge with new kernel 2.6.8.1, XEON proc, sata disks > and 1GB RAM. > The video card is a nvidia quadro PCI-E series card. > > I downloaded the driver

Re: Nvidia driver installation error

2004-10-13 Thread Luke Kearney
On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 13:44:09 +0200 "Philippe Dhont (Sea-ro)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > > > Hello, > > I'm trying to install a nvidia driver on my system > > System is debian sarge with new kernel 2.6.8.1, XEON proc, sata disks > and 1GB RAM. > The video card is a nvidia quadro PCI-E

RE: Nvidia driver installation error

2004-10-13 Thread Philippe Dhont (Sea-ro)
I downloaded and then installed the kernel from http://kernel.org ,this should be enough i thought ? And i have the kernel source, that's where i point to in my command. I did a make menuconfig for my kernel configuration and then a make (make does it all in these kernel versions) so now my kernel

Re: New sarge install question

2004-10-13 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
> Hi all > i've recently used the new sarge-netinst image to > install debian on both my desktop and server. Both > worked a treat, but today somebody said to me i will > have to reinstall again when the install becomes > final. I presumed a apt-get update, apt-get > dist-upgrade would simply kee

Re: ghostscript/cups problem

2004-10-13 Thread Michael Graham
Richard wrote: > Anyone here know where to seek help with a ghostscript or cups > problem? I did try asking here but got no response (problem of > ghostscript cropping A3 images to A4 - or maybe it's cups doing that). > I have googled with no success and have no idea how to proceed. Have you tri

Re: ALSA

2004-10-13 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 03:35:04 -0700 (PDT), Roger Creasy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- Andrea Vettorello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > > On Sat, 9 Oct 2004 04:18:09 -0700 (PDT), Roger > > Creasy > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > i suspect hotplug is > > > > loading the OSS

Re: Preferred way of adding truetype fonts in debian?

2004-10-13 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 11:26:43 +0200, Olle Eriksson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm seeing tons of information regarding this issue on the net and it's > difficult to tell what is current and what is deprecated information and > what is best to do on a Debian system. Could you help me out? > > I ha

big boot problem with sid i-386 installer

2004-10-13 Thread duzhenhuan
Hello, I got into trouble with booting windows xp os after installed debian with current sid net-installer. First,I installed win xp pro in /dev/hda1, then installed debian with sid net-installer, and partitioned for linux with installer, everything went well.But after rebooted ,grub just coul

Fwd: Re: Problems with debian install

2004-10-13 Thread Clive Menzies
On (13/10/04 16:16), Vikas Rawal wrote: > I am new to debian but have some experience with Redhat 9. > > I would like to install debian on a Compaq PIII machine. I have the 7 > CDs (downloaded ISOs and burnt CDs without trouble). But when I try to > install, pretty soon it gives a message to the

Re: Help! Lost keyboard.

2004-10-13 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
> I'm running Sid. Everything was working fine. I did *NOT* run any apt > command or (knowingly) make any changes - other than a sound level change > in kmix. Regardless, things were working perfectly up to the point of a > reboot. > > I'm using KDE / KDM. I rebooted my system to Windows for a t

Re: vsftpd or pure-ftpd?

2004-10-13 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Johann Spies wrote: I am in the process of building a new ftp-server. The old one used vsftpd and it performed well. I have recently become aware of pure-ftpd which seems to have more features like using an sql-database for user definitions, quotas etc. Our setup is like this: It is a unversity ca

Re: cyrus-sasl SPARC update missing on s.d.o

2004-10-13 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Helmut Toplitzer wrote: Hi! Today I got the security announcement about the cyrus-sasl package. There is a link in the mail to the new sparc-binaries. The link is working, but doing an apt-get update; apt-get upgrade does not update to the current security-version. "apt-cache show libsasl7" outpu

RE: big boot problem with sid i-386 installer

2004-10-13 Thread Dan Roozemond
Hi, > First,I installed win xp pro in /dev/hda1, > then installed debian with sid net-installer, > and partitioned for linux with installer, > everything went well.But > after rebooted ,grub just couldn't recognize the NTFS partition > and wouldn't boot the windows xp. > Even worse,i could

Re: Nvidia driver installation error

2004-10-13 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Philippe Dhont (Sea-ro) wrote: I downloaded and then installed the kernel from http://kernel.org ,this should be enough i thought ? And i have the kernel source, that's where i point to in my command. I did a make menuconfig for my kernel configuration and then a make (make does it all in these ker

Re: big boot problem with sid i-386 installer

2004-10-13 Thread Clive Menzies
On (13/10/04 14:38), Dan Roozemond wrote: > Hi, > > > First,I installed win xp pro in /dev/hda1, > > then installed debian with sid net-installer, > > and partitioned for linux with installer, > > everything went well.But > > after rebooted ,grub just couldn't recognize the NTFS partition >

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: Nvidia driver installation error

2004-10-13 Thread Philippe Dhont (Sea-ro)
Hello, My kernel is manually build. I used make menuconfig, saved it and then a make and at last a make modules_install Cheers & thnx for help! Phil. -Original Message- From: Roberto Sanchez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: woensdag 13 oktober 2004 14:43 To: Philippe Dhont (Sea-ro) Cc: [

Re: Pse explain apt-get msg

2004-10-13 Thread Alec Berryman
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. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

RE: big boot problem with sid i-386 installer

2004-10-13 Thread Roozemond, D.A.
Please do not send private replies, reply only to the list > # This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for > a non-linux OS > # on /dev/hda1 > title Windows NT/2000/XP > root(hd0,0) > makeactive > chainloader +1 In my gentoo grub config (that's the o

RE: Pse explain apt-get msg

2004-10-13 Thread Dan Roozemond
> #apt-get update > #apt-get dist-upgrade > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > Calculating Upgrade... Done > 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. It means you're totally up to date and don't have to do anything! You're done! Go and have cof

nVIDIA installation works....

2004-10-13 Thread Philippe Dhont (Sea-ro)
Hi, nVidia installation work... I did it with the flag --kernel-name='KERNEL_NAME' and i don't know why but that helped for me. Changed my XFConfig file and now i first have a nVIDIA screen before i get into gnome so i assume that it's working. Only strange thing is that my max. Resolution seems

Re: nVIDIA installation works....

2004-10-13 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, Philippe Dhont (Sea-ro) wrote: > > > Hi, > nVidia installation work... > I did it with the flag --kernel-name='KERNEL_NAME' and i don't know why > but that helped for me. > Changed my XFConfig file and now i first have a nVIDIA screen before i > get into gnome so i assu

iptables troubles

2004-10-13 Thread Pim Bliek
Hi All, I am trying to get a firewall running, but I am no networking expert. I use Debian Sid, and kernel 2.4.25-1-386 (yes I need to upgrade ;)). Anyway. I got my fw script from a webpage, and it looks pretty ok to me. When I run it, it certainly blocks everything except the ports I want it to

Re: Nvidia driver installation error

2004-10-13 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Philippe Dhont (Sea-ro) wrote: Hello, I'm trying to install a nvidia driver on my system System is debian sarge with new kernel 2.6.8.1, XEON proc, sata disks and 1GB RAM. The video card is a nvidia quadro PCI-E series card. I downloaded the driver from nvidia, Started it with: Sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-

Re: AVOIDED: ghostscript/cups problem

2004-10-13 Thread Richard Lyons
On Wednesday 13 October 2004 12:54, Michael Graham wrote: > Richard wrote: > > Anyone here know where to seek help with a ghostscript or cups > > problem? > > [...] > > Have you tried asking on the cups newsgroups? Details here: > http://www.cups.org/newsgroups.php > or the GNU ghostscript newsg

Re: iptables troubles

2004-10-13 Thread Douglas G. Phillips
Pim Bliek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > # ICMP Echo-request deny > $IPT -t filter -A INPUT -p icmp -s 0/0 -d $NET --icmp-type echo-request -j DROP I would try setting this to ALLOW. I had issues when dropping echo-requests -- don't know why exactly -- I think that certain OSs try to ping the ser

RE: nVIDIA installation works....

2004-10-13 Thread Philippe Dhont (Sea-ro)
Well, that's strange to believe because it's a new DELL 1703FPt flat screen monitor and i am sure of it that it can handle higher resolution. Anyway, this i my Xfree log. I also tried with 1152x864 but no luck with that also. The video card is a nVIDIA quadro card. Cheers, Philippe This is a p

Re: cyrus-sasl SPARC update missing on s.d.o

2004-10-13 Thread Helmut Toplitzer
Roberto Sanchez wrote: Helmut Toplitzer wrote: Hi! Today I got the security announcement about the cyrus-sasl package. There is a link in the mail to the new sparc-binaries. The link is working, but doing an apt-get update; apt-get upgrade does not update to the current security-version. "apt-cach

Re: iptables troubles

2004-10-13 Thread Sergio Basurto
On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 15:37:35 +0200, Pim Bliek wrote: > > Hi All, > > I am trying to get a firewall running, but I am no > networking expert. > I use Debian Sid, and kernel 2.4.25-1-386 (yes I need > to upgrade ;)). (...) > Regards, > Pim Bliek > you must add something like this, addapt to your

Re: cyrus-sasl SPARC update missing on s.d.o

2004-10-13 Thread Helmut Toplitzer
Try putting security ahead of the rest of your sources. BTW: Installing the currently fixed mpg123 will install the correct 0.59r-13woody3 version. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

make menuconfig and xconfig

2004-10-13 Thread Erik Jakobsen
Hi. I have tried to run make xconfig and make menuconfig on my debian sarge system. But I'm receiving errors, and have Googled without any luck. If running make menuconfig, I receive this: # make menuconfig /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lncurses collect2: ld returned 1 exit status >> Unable to find t

Re: What are the dangers of using packages from both stable and testing?

2004-10-13 Thread Arias Hung
On this revelational Saturday, of the seventh month of 2004 you wrote: > And if this happens with something like glibc, you're hosed. Okay, I just happen to be the poor sod you were referring to in this nugget I found in the archives of just three months ago. What's worse is that my carelessnes

Re: routing help please...

2004-10-13 Thread John Schmidt
On Wednesday 13 October 2004 05:45 am, Sebastiaan wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, Mark Maas wrote: > > Thanks for reading! > > > > I hope someone can help me with a routing issue: > > > > I've attached a situation scetch. > > > > The thing is, my road warriors connect via a pptp connection >

RE: nVIDIA installation works....

2004-10-13 Thread Sebastiaan
high, On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, Philippe Dhont (Sea-ro) wrote: > > > Well, that's strange to believe because it's a new DELL 1703FPt flat > screen monitor and i am sure of it that it can handle higher resolution. > Anyway, this i my Xfree log. > I also tried with 1152x864 but no luck with that also

Re: make menuconfig and xconfig

2004-10-13 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Wed, 2004-10-13 at 16:17 +0200, Erik Jakobsen wrote: > Hi. > > I have tried to run make xconfig and make menuconfig on my debian sarge > system. > > But I'm receiving errors, and have Googled without any luck. --snip-- Since I'm assuming you're wanting to build a kernel image, I'd suggest in

Re:[SOLVED] iptables troubles

2004-10-13 Thread Sergio Basurto
On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 16:35:46 +0200, Pim Bliek wrote: > > That worked! Thanx a lot! > I am not sure I understand how it works, but it works :) > > Pim > > > On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 07:00:30 -0700 (PDT), Sergio Basurto > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 15:37:35 +0200, Pim Bliek wr

Re: make menuconfig and xconfig

2004-10-13 Thread Chris Metzler
On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 16:17:03 +0200 Erik Jakobsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have tried to run make xconfig and make menuconfig on my debian sarge > system. > > But I'm receiving errors, and have Googled without any luck. } From /usr/share/doc/kernel-package/README: } } Before you go any fu

Re: trouble with pam-ldap

2004-10-13 Thread Jeremy Brown
OK, as per the suggestions given, I've changed my pam config files to read: /etc/pam.d/common-account: account sufficient pam_ldap.so account required pam_unix.so try_first_pass /etc/pam.d/common-auth: auth sufficient pam_ldap.so auth required pam_unix.so try_first_pass /etc/pam.d/common-session: s

Re: OpenOffice - Unrecoverable Error - Debian Sarge

2004-10-13 Thread Maurits van Rees
On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 11:19:18AM +0100, David Nicholls wrote: > Hi There, > > I did a standard apt-get install openoffice.org to install open office. > > When starting open office, I get the splash screen come up, but then > before the application actually starts (any open office package) I ge

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 UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

Re: make menuconfig and xconfig

2004-10-13 Thread Erik Jakobsen
Alex Malinovich wrote: Since I'm assuming you're wanting to build a kernel image, I'd suggest installing kernel-package (apt-get install kernel-package) and then reading /usr/share/doc/kernel-package/README.gz. That will give you everything you need to quickly and easily build a kernel image the De

Re: Pse explain apt-get msg

2004-10-13 Thread Maurits van Rees
On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 09:41:14AM -0500, John Fleming wrote: > 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 upd

Re: trouble with pam-ldap

2004-10-13 Thread Artur M. Piwko
Jeremy Brown wrote: Now I can log in as jeremy.brown (although my home directory doesn't exist on this machine), but once logged in my user name becomes "I have no name!": login as: jeremy.brown Password: Last login: Wed Oct 13 10:44:16 2004 from 172.28.2.124 Could not chdir to home directory /h

Re: trouble with pam-ldap

2004-10-13 Thread Jeremy Brown
Artur M. Piwko wrote: Jeremy Brown wrote: Now I can log in as jeremy.brown (although my home directory doesn't exist on this machine), but once logged in my user name becomes "I have no name!": login as: jeremy.brown Password: Last login: Wed Oct 13 10:44:16 2004 from 172.28.2.124 Could not chdi

Re: ALSA

2004-10-13 Thread John L Fjellstad
Andrea Vettorello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Here you see a es1371, i'm not sure, but this seems the OSS module for > your soundcard and both, ALSA and OSS, are loaded. I've read that with > the recent ALSA Sarge packages this behaviour is corrected, but you > can avoid this inserting a line in

Re: Automating wifi setup

2004-10-13 Thread Alvin Oga
On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, Chris wrote: > Debian unstable. 3com OfficeConnect 11g card together with CVS > ndiswrapper (need CVS for Version 2.0 card). i'm not sure if 3com uses prism54 or not ... but if it does, you should use it instead of ndiswrapper ( last resort ) http://prism54.org/su

converting old style ufs to ext2

2004-10-13 Thread Marc Jackson
Hello, I've connected a "j-bod" with to an Alpha running the latest stable release of Debian linux. I can mount the filesystems as "ufs" in /etc/fstab, but I can't write to them. In poking around, it seems as if there is no support for writing to UFS filesystems. Q1: is it possible to write to U

Re: Mail Delivery (failure greigstad@reigstad.com) "123323"

2004-10-13 Thread Gordon H. Reigstad
Thank you for sending me your email. I really want to receive it. In an effort to eliminate junk email, I am using Mail Wiper. Mail Wiper has placed your message safely on hold. Please reply to this email and send it to me so I can add you to my eMail address book and we will be able to commun

Re: change /dev/console owner to user logged on console?

2004-10-13 Thread Marc D Ronell
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to gmane.linux.debian.user as well. >> "Miquel" == Miquel van Smoorenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Marc D Ronell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Under Debian, is there a method

Re: vsftpd or pure-ftpd?

2004-10-13 Thread Ralph Crongeyer
Roberto Sanchez wrote: Johann Spies wrote: I am in the process of building a new ftp-server. The old one used vsftpd and it performed well. I have recently become aware of pure-ftpd which seems to have more features like using an sql-database for user definitions, quotas etc. Our setup is like thi

esdsink

2004-10-13 Thread Paul Yeatman
Hi, I'm running GNOME with Sarge. It seems GNOME is configured to use the esd sound driver by default yet some (GNOME?) sound applications--Music Player (a.k.a rhythmbox), Sound Recorder (a.k.a gnome-sound-recorder)--seem to be configured to use OSS (with no preference option to change it to esd).

Re: MultiMedia keyboards and SID

2004-10-13 Thread Paul Yeatman
Well, I'm running Sarge (gnome 2.6) but if I go to Applications-->Desktop Preferences-->Keyboard Shortcuts alot of this can be set up. Simply select the function you want, hit the key want to perform that function and whala! paul ->>In response to your message<<- --received from Chad Davis-- >

portsentry and courier: RPC error

2004-10-13 Thread Vadim
I am running portsentry and courier, and I am getting this error in my syslog: imapd-ssl: pmap_getmaps rpc problem: RPC: Unable to receive; errno = Connection reset by peer If I stop either of the services, error stops. There is no mentioning of port 530 (courier rpc) in portsetry.conf. How do

Re: Help! Lost keyboard - still failing

2004-10-13 Thread Michael Satterwhite
On Tuesday 12 October 2004 10:23 am, Clive Menzies wrote: > On (12/10/04 08:36), Michael Satterwhite wrote: > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > From: Michael Satterwhite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 08:36:37 -0500 > > Subject: Help! Lost keyboard. > > > > I'm running Sid. Everything was

Re: Enabling hyperthreading

2004-10-13 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, Micha Feigin wrote: > I don't know enough about hyperthreading vs. real SMP but IIRC 2.6 > kernels are much better at smp then 2.4 They are extremely better at SMT (HyperThreading) than 2.4 kernels are. But HT works just fine on 2.4, I am typing this from a Intel D875PBZ with

MySQL 4.1 package

2004-10-13 Thread Jacob Larsen
Anyone know of a MySQL 4.1 package? Thanks, Jacob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: MySQL 4.1 package

2004-10-13 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 20:54:21 +0200, Jacob Larsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyone know of a MySQL 4.1 package? > If you want to help debug the 4.1.5 version that's present in experimental... ; ) Andrea -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble

Re: MySQL 4.1 package

2004-10-13 Thread Jacob Larsen
Anyone know of a MySQL 4.1 package? If you want to help debug the 4.1.5 version that's present in experimental... ; ) Sorry, I didn't know there was an experimental distro :) Thanks, Jacob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTEC

Combining PDF documents

2004-10-13 Thread Michael Satterwhite
In Adobe Acrobat, there is the ability to combine PDF documents, inserting document 2 at a given location within document one. Actually, all I really need is to take a document and append it to another. Does anyone know of a Linux tool for this. tia ---Michael pgpqxRlGuQaWr.pgp Description: PG

Webmin certificate problem

2004-10-13 Thread S.D.A.
I've installed the Debian package. When attempting to login via https, I'm presented with the following: "You have received an invalid certificate. Please contact the server administrator blah, blah." It then goes on to say: "Your certificate contains the same serial number as another certificat

mountd won't start

2004-10-13 Thread Rick Pasotto
What is causing the following error? Oct 13 12:47:01 tc xinetd[26317]: Service mountd missing attribute rpc_version - DISABLING Here's the line from inetd.conf (I'm running 'xinetd -inetd_compat'): mountd/1 dgram rpc/udp waitroot/usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/rpc.mountd -- "Nothing is m

Not regenerating the full path with dump/restore

2004-10-13 Thread Andrei Badea
Hi all, my Debian installation contains all the files (/home, /usr and everything) in one single root partition. I want to move the contents of my /home directory to another partition. I couldn't just use cp because user directories contain links. So I thought dump and restore would help: dump

massive .xsession-errors (was Re: chkrootkit finds 'value too large for defined data type')

2004-10-13 Thread Geoff Thurman
On Tuesday 12 October 2004 10:58 pm, s. keeling wrote: > Incoming from Geoff Thurman: > > I'm running woody on one hd, and have recently installed sarge on > > another by upgrading everything over the net after installing from > > my original woody cds. Tonight on the sarge hd, chkrootkit gives > >

Re: Webmin certificate problem

2004-10-13 Thread Vadim
S.D.A. wrote: I've installed the Debian package. When attempting to login via https, I'm presented with the following: "You have received an invalid certificate. Please contact the server administrator blah, blah. You probably reinstalled your webmin, and mozilla (or what ever other browser you

Re: kernel-patch-bootsplash for 2.6.8?

2004-10-13 Thread Glyn Tebbutt
On Wed, 2004-10-13 at 08:50, Nick Hastings wrote: > Hi all, > >following the most recent Debian weekly news, I decided to try to > setup bootsplash. I added the appropriate source[1] to my apt sources > but, it seems the kernel-patch-bootsplash package is a bit out of date > since it doesn't a

Re: [Solved] Webmin certificate problem

2004-10-13 Thread S.D.A.
On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 12:30:53PM -0700 or thereabouts, Vadim wrote: > S.D.A. wrote: > > >I've installed the Debian package. When attempting to login via https, I'm > >presented with the following: > > > >"You have received an invalid certificate. Please contact the server > >administrator blah,

NFS slow/lockups

2004-10-13 Thread Alan Chandler
I am trying copy about 350Mb of files - each one about 2.8MB each - over an nfs link. Although I primarily trying this via drag and drop inside kde, command line copying is also not working With the sync option it is very slow - the dialog box can't report the copy rate and marks it as stalled

Re: Reverse ip lookup does not use /etc/hosts

2004-10-13 Thread halbtaxabo-debuser
In-reply-to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I'm almost certain that the 40-second delay reported in the previous message is due to tcpwrappers trying to do redundant reverse DNS lookups. I rebuilt exim from the version 3.36 source (same version Debian has on Sarge). It does have a build option for using tcp

Re: Combining PDF documents

2004-10-13 Thread Martin Dickopp
Michael Satterwhite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In Adobe Acrobat, there is the ability to combine PDF documents, inserting > document 2 at a given location within document one. Actually, all I really > need is to take a document and append it to another. > > Does anyone know of a Linux tool fo

Re: configuring HP9100 CDWriter to burn CD;s

2004-10-13 Thread ognen
try "cdrecord -dev=ATAPI -scanbus" which would give you a list of ATAPI cd recorders e.g. on my box: debianServer:~# cdrecord -dev=ATAPI -scanbus scsidev: 'ATAPI' devname: 'ATAPI' scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2 Warning: Using ATA Packet interface. Warning: The related Linux kernel interface code

Re: kernel-patch-bootsplash for 2.6.8?

2004-10-13 Thread Rainer Bendig
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Nick Hastings, *, Nick Hastings wrote on Wed Oct 13, 2004 at 04:50:24PM +0900: > I tried googling but found nothing applicable. Anyone know anything about > this? I have patched my 2.6.8 Kernel with bootsplash (working ^^), and i am able to provide

Re: New sarge install question

2004-10-13 Thread Carl Fink
On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 11:45:47AM +0100, Glyn Tebbutt wrote: > Thats exactly what i thought, they said, and this is > beyond my relm of mind, have been grabbing snapshots > of the install, and keep reinstalling. i can > understand to bug test, but from what he said, it > sound as if he was "updat

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