Re: where do I download Unstable from?

2004-10-17 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 "H. S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Don't use base-config. > > :) Okay. > > But wonder if you could explain more. Is it too buggy to be used? No, it's just not necissarily designed for Unstable. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.

Re: Unusual function problem with Synaptic, apt-get, j2re1.3

2004-10-17 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Sat, 16 Oct 2004 15:42:18 -0500, Cybe R. Wizard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Attempting to install j2re1.3, the JAVA runtime environment, into Sid, I > am faced with a Sun Microsystems, Inc. Binary Code License Agreement to > which I must agree, but there is no way to agree. Faced with no butto

Re: Missing ttys with udev

2004-10-17 Thread Nick Hastings
Hi dman, * Derrick Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [041017 11:11]: > On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 06:41:12PM +0900, Nick Hastings wrote: > | > | Hi all, > | > | I recently switched from devfs to udev. Everything is fine except that I > | now have no virtual consoles, only X. > | > | The device /dev/tty e

Re: space-limiting /var/cache/apt/archives

2004-10-17 Thread Robert Waldner
On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 23:40:29 PDT, Paul Johnson writes: >> Is it possible to somehow tell apt to use no more than X MB of space >> for the archive, or not to keep more than Y versions of any package? >> I can't find anything about it in apt.conf(5). >apt-get autoclean (and it isn't in apt.conf(5),

Re: Problems with debian install

2004-10-17 Thread Vikas Rawal
This makes a lot of sense. Thanks Paul. I'll try it out and get back if I have any trouble. Thanks again. Vikas Subject: Re: Problems with debian install From: Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 21:56:38 -0600 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 09:00:21AM +0530, Vik

System recovery with Knoppix

2004-10-17 Thread Katipo
Thought that this link might be of some use. It deals with system recovery employing a knoppix disc. http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-knopx.html?ca=dgr-lnxw01-obg-SysRecover Regards, David. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Exim chained authentication.

2004-10-17 Thread Luke Reeves
So I have a laptop that I mainly use to check my e-mail. The mail sits on a server, and I access it using IMAP over SSL, and I send mail by connecting to the server via SMTP where Exim (version 3) sits. Mozilla Thunderbird authenticates the connection, and the e-mail is sent. What I'd like to

Re: aptitude: packages have been kept back?

2004-10-17 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Katipo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004 Oct 16 21:56 -0500]: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >Can anyone suggest how else to learn more about aptitude's problem > >with these "kept back" packages? > > > >Thanks! > > > Which packages are you referring to exactly? > Regards, This seems to be a new featu

rar issue

2004-10-17 Thread Jule Slootbeek
Hey all, Lately i've been noticing something strange with unrar, once in a while i'll get some rarred archives, and when i try to unrar then using unrar. every file fails to extract. When i unrar the same archive on a windows machine it works fine. Are there any unrar substitutes? thx -JSS -- J

Re: Linux on a Thinkbad T42

2004-10-17 Thread Jule Slootbeek
Thank you all for your input, they have befinitly mae me order a thinkPad ((:). I'll let you all know what happens with it. -JSS Gregory Seidman wrote: On Sat, Oct 16, 2004 at 10:21:53AM -0400, Jule Slootbeek wrote: } My trusty iBook's hinge snapped after 3.5 years of trusty service } (RIP colt

Re: ssh tput error 'tput: No value for $TERM and no -T specified'

2004-10-17 Thread Thomas Dickey
Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've checked and $TERM is in fact set to 'xterm' on the client > temrinal before I execute the ocmmand, and in remote sessions started perhaps. I just ran ssh server env and saw no sign of $TERM, other than the message TERM: Undefined varia

Re: rar issue

2004-10-17 Thread Maurits van Rees
On Sun, Oct 17, 2004 at 09:12:20AM -0400, Jule Slootbeek wrote: > Hey all, > Lately i've been noticing something strange with unrar, once in a while > i'll get some rarred archives, and when i try to unrar then using unrar. > every file fails to extract. When i unrar the same archive on a windows

RE: Linux on a Thinkbad T42

2004-10-17 Thread Roozemond, D.A.
> From: Jule Slootbeek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subjct: Re: Linux on a Thinkbad T42 ^^ And you were saying you ordered one? ;) Ciao Dan

Re: rar issue

2004-10-17 Thread Jule Slootbeek
must be the multi-volume problem, thanks! -JSS Maurits van Rees wrote: On Sun, Oct 17, 2004 at 09:12:20AM -0400, Jule Slootbeek wrote: Hey all, Lately i've been noticing something strange with unrar, once in a while i'll get some rarred archives, and when i try to unrar then using unrar. every fi

Re: rar issue

2004-10-17 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Sun, Oct 17, 2004 at 09:12:20AM -0400, Jule Slootbeek wrote: > Hey all, Lately i've been noticing something strange with unrar, once > in a while i'll get some rarred archives, and when i try to unrar then > using unrar. every file fails to extract. When i unrar the same > archive on a windows m

Re: Linux on a Thinkbad T42

2004-10-17 Thread Greg Norris
On Sat, Oct 16, 2004 at 10:21:53AM -0400, Jule Slootbeek wrote: > Hey all, > My trusty iBook's hinge snapped after 3.5 years of trusty service > (RIP coltrane) and so now i'm in the market for a new laptop. My brother > recently bought an IBM Thinkpad T42 and he is very happe with it

Re: rar issue

2004-10-17 Thread Rthoreau
> Jule Slootbeek wrote: > Hey all, > Lately i've been noticing something strange with unrar, once in a while > i'll get some rarred archives, and when i try to unrar then using unrar. > every file fails to extract. When i unrar the same archive on a windows > machine it works fine. Are there

Re: Exim chained authentication.

2004-10-17 Thread David Clymer
On Sun, 2004-10-17 at 08:48, Luke Reeves wrote: > So I have a laptop that I mainly use to check my e-mail. The mail sits > on a server, and I access it using IMAP over SSL, and I send mail by > connecting to the server via SMTP where Exim (version 3) sits. Mozilla > Thunderbird authenticates t

Re: Unusual function problem with Synaptic, apt-get, j2re1.3

2004-10-17 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Cybe R. Wizard wrote: Attempting to install j2re1.3, the JAVA runtime environment, into Sid, I am faced with a Sun Microsystems, Inc. Binary Code License Agreement to which I must agree, but there is no way to agree. Faced with no buttons (when it says they will be there) I have attempted, "yes,"

Re: poll: managing high volumes of list mail effectively

2004-10-17 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 17:01:59 +0200, martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I am subscribed to 237 mailing lists and even though my tools are > adequate, I still consider them suboptimal since I just hit 'delete' > on most threads. I have a server receive all my mail and procmail it > into t

Kernel 2.6 compile problem

2004-10-17 Thread Russ Cook
I'm running unstable on a Pentium 2 machine, kernel 2.4.18. I downloaded the kernel-source-2.6.8 deb package today, updated my config file, and tried to compile the kernel. I got the following errors: make[2] [modins_post] Error 1 make[1] [real_stamp_image] Error 2 Needless to say, I did not get

Re: rar issue

2004-10-17 Thread Phil Ramey
I noticed the same thing, then I apt-cache searched; There's "unrar" and "unrar-nonfree". Unrar-nonfree seems to work better, I had an archive that didn't work with the free one and did with nonfree. might be worth a shot. Phil Ramey -

mozilla-firefox error

2004-10-17 Thread Carlos Alberto Pereira Gomes
Hi, I've just made a dist-upgrade from woody to sid and after that mozilla-browser and mozilla-firefox don't work anymore. Mozilla-browser dies without any error message, but mozilla-firefox sends the following message to the console: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ mozilla-firefox Error: No running window

debian installer / serial ata confusion

2004-10-17 Thread Justin Speers
I'm attempting to install debian for the first time using debian-installer, and I've run into some problems with my serial ata drive setup. I have an abit motherboard with the intel i865pe chipset, onboard serial ata chip. My cd drive is a Lite-on 52x burner. My only hard drive is a 80GB maxtor

Checking length of time?

2004-10-17 Thread disciple
I have set up a bare debian system that allows internet sharing through a dial up connection. My ISP only allows 8 hours of a constant connection b4 they log you off. I have 2 questions. 1. How do I check the status of the connection... ie the length of time that my debian box has been connec

Re: debian installer / serial ata confusion

2004-10-17 Thread Jacob S
On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 17:33:05 -0700 Justin Speers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm attempting to install debian for the first time using > debian-installer, and I've run into some problems with my serial ata > drive setup. > > I have an abit motherboard with the intel i865pe chipset, onboard >

xcdroast stops working

2004-10-17 Thread Uwe Dippel
Sitting on Sarge as-it-comes, daily updated. Suddenly xcdroast stops working today; last week it was okay. This is what I get: Calling: /usr/lib/xcdroast/bin/xcdrwrap CDRECORD dev= "ATAPI:0,1,0" gracetime=2 fs=4096k driveropts=burnfree -v -useinfo speed=24 -dao -eject -pad -data "/toast/track-0

[video-dvdrip], where is mp2enc

2004-10-17 Thread Tong
Hi, I was using video-dvdrip - Perl front end for transcode when I met with the following error: libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.8 for DVD access libdvdread: Attempting to use device /lfs/dlCache3/movies/tmp/NEW.ISO mounted on /mnt/tmp1 for CSS authentication [export_mpeg2enc.so] ***

New vacancies from Aridon Int. GmbH

2004-10-17 Thread iglesias
Are you seeking a change of direction? Are you struggling to get interviews? Do you get interviews but no offers? Are you putting in lots of hours and lots of work, only to find yourself in the same place, week after week, month after month, year after year? We are seeking individuals to work fro

Re: [Newbie] ppp: Connection established, but can't ping. How can I get out into Internet?

2004-10-17 Thread Scotty Fitzgerald
I had a similar problem, When I set up the machine I had a Ethernet card that was autodetected, and the the autodetection set up the ethernet card as the default gateway to the internet. While your ethernet is the default gateway the dialup won't establish itself as a gateway. Try to remove t

Help: mixed up passwords/files

2004-10-17 Thread Tim Wood
I've wondered for some time about the strange ownership I see of some files/directories. I think I've worked out the cause, but am not sure what to do to fix it. To step back a few years. I started a LAN when my son and I came into conflict over who would get to use the phone line for the Net.

Using "conflicts" to deal with insecure packages in unstable

2004-10-17 Thread Marco Paganini
Hi All, Debian is a sysadmin's dream when dealing with security when using stable. I do, however, have a number of servers running in a mix of stable and unstable, and keeping them up-to-date with the security announcements is not so easy. When using unstable, using apt-get upgrade won't normally

Re: xterm ignores XTerm*backarrowKey resource

2004-10-17 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 02:52:02PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > I don't know if this would solve your problem, but you may try > something like > > *VT100.backarrowKey:true > > (I have that in my .app-defaults/XTerm file). I found the problem, finally. It turns out that this fil

Re: Help: mixed up passwords/files

2004-10-17 Thread David Clymer
On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 10:00, Tim Wood wrote: > I've wondered for some time about the strange ownership I see of some > files/directories. I think I've worked out the cause, but am not sure > what to do to fix it. > To step back a few years. I started a LAN when my son and I came into > conflict

Re: [Newbie] ppp: Connection established, but can't ping. How can I get out into Internet?

2004-10-17 Thread David Clymer
On Sun, 2004-10-17 at 21:50, Scotty Fitzgerald wrote: > I had a similar problem, When I set up the machine I > had a Ethernet card that was autodetected, and the > the autodetection set up the ethernet card as the default > gateway to the internet. While your ethernet is the default > gateway

Re: Kernel 2.6 compile problem

2004-10-17 Thread David Clymer
On Sun, 2004-10-17 at 19:16, Russ Cook wrote: > I'm running unstable on a Pentium 2 machine, kernel 2.4.18. > I downloaded the kernel-source-2.6.8 deb package today, updated my > config file, and > tried to compile the kernel. I got the following errors: > make[2] [modins_post] Error 1 > make[1]

Re: Using "conflicts" to deal with insecure packages in unstable

2004-10-17 Thread David Clymer
On Sun, 2004-10-17 at 22:50, Marco Paganini wrote: > I've been looking for a solution for this dilemma on the net. The > closest thing I found is Debian's "harden*" packages, that use the > "Conflict:" feature to conflict with known insecure software. The > question is: Is there a similar package t

Re: space-limiting /var/cache/apt/archives

2004-10-17 Thread David
On Sun, Oct 17, 2004 at 10:44:36AM +0200, Robert Waldner wrote: > On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 23:40:29 PDT, Paul Johnson writes: > >apt-get autoclean (and it isn't in apt.conf(5), it's in apt-get(8), > Thanks, but this isn't what I'm looking for: >autoclean > Like clean, autoclean cle

Re: mozilla-firefox error

2004-10-17 Thread Jules Dubois
On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 21:21:02 -0300, Carlos Alberto Pereira Gomes wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ mozilla-firefox > Error: No running window found > auto selected locale: en-US > INTERNAL ERROR on Browser End: No manager for initializing factory? I get a segmentation fault. Try running 'firefox' wi

Re: space-limiting /var/cache/apt/archives

2004-10-17 Thread David Clymer
On Sun, 2004-10-17 at 04:44, Robert Waldner wrote: > On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 23:40:29 PDT, Paul Johnson writes: > > >> (Pls CC me on replies, I'm not on the list with this address) > > >I know it's a rude shock, but this public forum doesn't exist for your > >sole, private benefit. If you want a priv

Intel 855 driver install worries

2004-10-17 Thread Uwe Dippel
Got intelgraphics_060704.tar.gz and read the manual. After unpacking, I get Compiling new agppart module .. ERROR: AGPPART module did not compile Compiling DRM module ... ERROR: Kernel modules did not compile with dri.log saying: make -C /lib/modules/2.6.8-1-686/build SUBDIRS=/home/mydir/Source

Re: Intel 855 driver install worries

2004-10-17 Thread Rituraj C. Buddhisagar
I also had same problem with Intel 865 driver. INtel drivers did not compile. PLease apply a patch from http://www.joepenguin.com/ Compiling intel driver did not succeed. I just applied that pacth and now it works!!! FYI; i had set the right resolutions and memory / driver etc in XF86Config-4

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2004-10-17 Thread Rituraj C. Buddhisagar
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Re: converting old style ufs to ext2

2004-10-17 Thread Aaron Hall
On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, Marc Jackson wrote: 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.

Re: converting old style ufs to ext2

2004-10-17 Thread Aaron Hall
On Fri, 15 Oct 2004, Derrick Hudson wrote: Note that in moving files from the Mac fs (UFS is old Macintosh, isn't it?) that you may need to set UNIX properties on the ext2 system such as owner and permission bits because, AFAIK, the Mac fs doesn't store that sort of information. Not quite. UFS seem

Re: Intel 855 driver install worries

2004-10-17 Thread Uwe Dippel
Rituraj C. Buddhisagar wrote: PLease apply a patch from http://www.joepenguin.com/ Compiling intel driver did not succeed. I just applied that pacth and now it works!!! I did, but it doesn't solve my problem. It seems I make a stupid mistake somewhere else: it doesn't find my kernel-stuff. Just

Re: Checking length of time?

2004-10-17 Thread Alan Chandler
On Monday 18 October 2004 01:33, disciple wrote: > I have set up a bare debian system that allows internet sharing through > a dial up connection. My ISP only allows 8 hours of a constant > connection b4 they log you off. I have 2 questions. > > 1. How do I check the status of the connection... i

Re: Missing ttys with udev

2004-10-17 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 16 October 2004 12:06 am, John L Fjellstad wrote: > Ritesh Raj Sarraf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > you'll have to create symlinks yourself. Look in the /etc/udev > > directory. It's well documented. > > No you don't. And if you did, it

Re: Running PHP4 and PHP5 Simultaneousl on Apache in Debian!

2004-10-17 Thread Siju George
Thanks a lot Andrea and Glyn, Could you please tell me how to give 2 IPs to the same NIC on Debian. So that I can make one apache instance run PHP4 and listen on one IP at port 80 and the other instance run PHP5 and listen on other IP on port 80. Thankou so much for the help and links. I apprecia

Re: Unusual function problem with Synaptic, apt-get, j2re1.3

2004-10-17 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 18:10:00 -0500, Cybe R. Wizard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 09:51:21 +0200 > Andrea Vettorello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > It's, not clear what package are you trying to install. Is the > > "sun-j2re1.3debian"? > > Synaptic refers to it only as j2re1.3

RE: Running PHP4 and PHP5 Simultaneousl on Apache in Debian!

2004-10-17 Thread Michael Bellears
> > Could you please tell me how to give 2 IPs to the same NIC on Debian. #ifconfig eth0:1 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 Remember to place in /etc/network/interfaces to ensure IP remains post reboot. Regards, MB

hdb device

2004-10-17 Thread Vegard Lundby Rekaa
My hdb device isn't mounted. Do you have some form of manual or hints on how to mount this device (evntually change the /etc/fstab file). >From Vegard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: hdb device

2004-10-17 Thread Sebastiaan
High, On Sun, 17 Oct 2004, Vegard Lundby Rekaa wrote: > My hdb device isn't mounted. Do you have some form of manual or hints on > how to mount this device (evntually change the /etc/fstab file). > What kind of device is /dev/hdb? A harddisk, cdrom? If it is a harddisk, you must know which p

Re: hdb device

2004-10-17 Thread Andrea
http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/fstab.html http://www.humbug.org.au/talks/fstab/fstab.html cmon mate... > My hdb device isn't mounted. Do you have some form of manual or hints on > how to mount this device (evntually change the /etc/fstab file). > > >From Vegard > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,