Re: Gnome 2.10 on Testing

2005-07-11 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Jul 10, 2005 at 05:39:10PM +0100, Mark Crean wrote: > Hi > > I recently installed Debian testing. However, I wonder if there is a way > to upgrade from Gnome 2.8 to Gnome 2.10 without have to dist-upgrade the > whole shebang to unstable? I am fairly new to Debian and stability does > matte

PCcard trouble

2005-07-11 Thread wim
Hi List, I've currently run into problems with my Fujitsu Siemens Lifebook E. My PCcards aren't detected (anymore?). On bootup my hardware is detected and pcmcia-core and yenta-socket get loaded. Pccardd seems to be running but nothing happens when I insert a PCcard.I'm running a 2.6.8

Re: Software RAID with Debian Installer

2005-07-11 Thread wim
Hal Vaughan wrote: On Sunday 10 July 2005 11:04 pm, Luke Pacholski wrote: On Sun, 10 Jul 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Luke Pacholski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: [?] Partition disks Warning! The kernel was unable to re-read the partition table on /dev/md/0 (Invalid argument). This means Li

Re: Getmail question

2005-07-11 Thread Andreas Rippl
On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 06:35:22PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > A not-much-user rather than a complete newbie, I've been using Debian for a > couple of years. I'm now finally trying to get email working on my 486. I > have a user "mail" which I have used to set up getmail. I use a dialup

Re: Double density DVD

2005-07-11 Thread Andrew Schulman
> How do I access double-density DVDs? For example, if I > > # dvd+rw-format -force /dev/hde > > It mentions 4.7 GB DVD+RW media detected > > Similarly, if I use mondoarchive and don't specify a size, it also detects > 4.7 GB media. > > Are there some generalizations, IOW ways to specify, that

epson R300 w/ cups

2005-07-11 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya fyi... contrary to some (cups) howto's epson stylus photo R300 w/ cups-1.1.23 seems to work fine :-) - it'd be my first printer to ever work w/ cups after fiddling with its config files for 8hrs or so - next step .. to print fancy graphics directly onto the CDs (

Rescue system

2005-07-11 Thread Eugen Wintersberger
Hi there. Until now the Debian install CDs provide a rescue system by booting with the option "rescue" at the boot prompt. It seems that this option has vanished from the Sarge medias. Is there any other way to boot the system in a rescue mode from the installation medias? Best regards Eugen

Re: Rescue system

2005-07-11 Thread Clive Menzies
On (11/07/05 11:53), Eugen Wintersberger wrote: > Hi there. > Until now the Debian install CDs provide a rescue system by booting > with the option "rescue" at the boot prompt. > It seems that this option has vanished from the Sarge medias. Is there > any other way to boot the system in a rescue

Problem with MegaRaid sata 150-2d raid controller.

2005-07-11 Thread Meni Shapiro
Hi, Problem with sata raid controller. I'm try to install debian serge (latest stable) on a u1 server with LSI MegaRaid sata 150-2d controller but the intaller doesn't recognize the driver. What should i do?? -- --Meni Szapiro

In combination with cygwin: clipboard doesn't work

2005-07-11 Thread Markus . Grunwald
Hello, We are connecting from our windows machines to a debian testing machine via cygwin: C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin\XWin.exe :0 -clipboard -nodecoration -query debian-server The debian-server was a SuSE machine in earlier times. Since we changed it to debian some months ago, the clipboard exch

Re: Second time on hostname

2005-07-11 Thread Haines Brown
> Haines Brown wrote: > > I'm having some difficulties (From: line missing in header of > > outgoing newsgroup mesaages) and worry their cause might be due to > > what I put into /etc/hostname when I installed. =20 > > I think you need to look at your news software first. The problem > is probabl

Re: Sharing the internet connection with XP

2005-07-11 Thread Christian Henz
On 7/10/05, Björn Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I will now give you some more information about my network: > > 1. Connection to local network 2, connected > TCP/IP settings > IP: 192.168.0.1 > Netmask: 255.255.255.0 > Standard gateway: none > This is the network card in your PC that is

Re: Still not fixed ipup problem. (solved)

2005-07-11 Thread Arias Hung
removing the package: zeroconf solved this issue for me. On Fri, 08 Jul 2005, Alan Chandler delivered in simple text monotone: > On Friday 08 July 2005 07:54, Arias Hung wrote: > > Okay, I've been having this exact same problem the last week or two and > > have had to resort to manually bringin

Re: Solved: In combination with cygwin: clipboard doesn't work

2005-07-11 Thread Markus . Grunwald
Hello, > Since we changed it to debian some months ago, the clipboard exchange between windows and the > x11 session doesn't work anymore. Just found the solution: It seems gdm kills some clients started by the init scripts and one of them has to do with the clipboard... So the solution is to

Re: Linux and Solaris Mail playing nicely

2005-07-11 Thread Dominik Epple
Hi, On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 07:48:41PM +0100, Pete Clarke wrote: > Hi all, > > I have just added a few Solaris boxen to my (nearly) all Linux (Debian) > network, and would like to get each one to deliver *all* mail to my current > mailserver. > Basically, I don't want *any* mail delivered locally

Re: Sharing the internet connection with XP

2005-07-11 Thread Christian Henz
On 7/11/05, Björn Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 12:32 2005-07-11, you wrote: > >On 7/10/05, Björn Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I will now give you some more information about my network: > > > > > > 1. Connection to local network 2, connected > > > TCP/IP settings > > > IP

netdev watchdog messages

2005-07-11 Thread Charles Hallenbeck
Lately I am getting kernel messages like this: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out eth0: Transmit timed out, status , resetting... They appear in /var/log/messages and also at the console where I am working, even being inserted into text I am editing. My kernel is 2.6.11, my distr

Re: Second time on hostname

2005-07-11 Thread Thomas Hood
On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 06:27:36 -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > I changed /etc/hostname simply to the local hostname because I was > informed that it is the debian way. Doing so and rebooting seems to > have worked. Either way is possible, but the Debian installer and Debian documentation are written u

Re: Rescue system

2005-07-11 Thread Joey Hess
Eugen Wintersberger wrote: > Hi there. > Until now the Debian install CDs provide a rescue system by booting > with the option "rescue" at the boot prompt. > It seems that this option has vanished from the Sarge medias. Is there > any other way to boot the system in a rescue mode from the install

Re: CNN Videos - No Sound

2005-07-11 Thread Kenneth Jacker
david> Perhaps, if you provide a leeetle more info. Yes, of course! david> What program are you using to view these videos (totem, david> mplayer, etc)? I'm running linux-2.6.8-2-686. I click links (with 'firefox') on the CNN "video site", and a new window is created. Within it is the op

Re: CNN Videos - No Sound

2005-07-11 Thread Michael Marsh
On 7/11/05, Kenneth Jacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm running linux-2.6.8-2-686. I click links (with 'firefox') on the > CNN "video site", and a new window is created. Within it is the > opening "Media Player" animated logo which eventually displays the > (silent) piece I've selected. I do

Re: 2.6.11 kernel in sarge?

2005-07-11 Thread L.V.Gandhi
On 7/9/05, Dave Ewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Given the choice of: > B. Download the most recent source package from Debian and build it > using make-kpkg > > -> No, unnecessary. And, in any case, you will probably need to go > outside Sarge to get the source for the more recent kernel any

Re: Linux and Solaris Mail playing nicely

2005-07-11 Thread Peter Clarke
# Try # FEATURE(`nullclient', `my.mail.server')dnl My .mc file looks like: OSTYPE(`solaris8')dnl DOMAIN(`solaris-generic')dnl FEATURE(`nullclient', `cholet.wimbledon')dnl This has resulted in mail being delivered (thanks :-) but the "from" header is being rewritten as cholet.wimbledon ... is the

Re: Linux and Solaris Mail playing nicely

2005-07-11 Thread Peter Clarke
> This has resulted in mail being delivered (thanks :-) but the "from" > header is being rewritten as cholet.wimbledon ... is there any way of > having the original sender preserved? :-) sorry for replying to my own mail .. I removed the DM entry and now the mail is looking good. Thanks all :-) Ch

Re: Problem with MegaRaid sata 150-2d raid controller.

2005-07-11 Thread Johann Spies
On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 01:10:16PM +0300, Meni Shapiro wrote: >Problem with sata raid controller. >I'm try to install debian serge (latest stable) on a u1 server with LSI >MegaRaid sata 150-2d controller but the intaller doesn't recognize the >driver. Try the debian-dell-2.4.31.iso

Re: Software RAID with Debian Installer

2005-07-11 Thread Luke Pacholski
On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote: > Don't mind it - it works just fine even if you ignore it. Have done > such with my setups having software RAID 1 using the Sarge installer. I wish I could, but the installer won't let me continue. Luke -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Software RAID with Debian Installer

2005-07-11 Thread peter colton
On Monday 11 July 2005 02:57, Luke Pacholski wrote: Hello Luke Here is a link for a raid1 howto. hope it dose the job. http://nepotismia.com/debian/raidinstall/ all the best from. peter colton > I am currently tryin

Egregi clienti della banca UniCredit

2005-07-11 Thread Il servizio d'assistenza della Unicredit Banca
Title: UniCredit Banca - Home           Egregi clienti della banca UniCredit Banca via Internet Imprese, Vi informiamo che in relazione al sovraccarico del

Re: Second time on hostname

2005-07-11 Thread Haines Brown
Thanks for the advice re. format of /etc/hosts. I've now set it to: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 192.168.1.1 teufel.hartford-hwp.com teufel which seems a lot cleaner. I'm trying it now. I'd appreciate your inspecting the header of this message to see if there's any anomalie

Re: Software RAID with Debian Installer

2005-07-11 Thread Luke Pacholski
On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, peter colton wrote: > Here is a link for a raid1 howto. hope it dose the job. > >http://nepotismia.com/debian/raidinstall/ I was actually reading that as I was going through the process. The main difference is that instead of creating a single ext3 p

smp Kernel for Debian Unstable

2005-07-11 Thread Angelo R. Rossi
Hello: I want to run debian unstable on a dual-processor xeon system. Can someone please point me to information on the appropriate smp kernel as well as other information I should know, if I use debian unstable for this? Thank you so much for your help. Regards, A. R. Rossi -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: How to play WMA and MP3 files on Sarge?

2005-07-11 Thread James Vahn
you wrote: > Hi, as in the title, thanks a lot:) Use "wajig unofficial " to search for the kplayer and w32codecs packages. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: remote connection impossible

2005-07-11 Thread roberto
--- wim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: > roberto wrote: > > Hi, i am trying to use a remote connection to a pc (k 2.2) from my own (k > > 2.6.8, sarge) but > when i > > try to connect adding also X forwarding i receive the following if i try to > > start an > application > > with X windows, li

Re: Sound and Video Problems still with my T3985 Desktop PC

2005-07-11 Thread Xeno Campanoli
Am I perhaps reading this amixer output wrong? It looks like it's unresponsive. Xeno Campanoli wrote: Okay, I booted it up in the distribution version of Windows and got to the sound test, and the sound test worked. So, hardware is okay and my connections are okay. Also, I tried amixer sugg

Re: Software RAID with Debian Installer

2005-07-11 Thread Paolo Alexis Falcone
On 7/11/05, Luke Pacholski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, peter colton wrote: > > > Here is a link for a raid1 howto. hope it dose the job. > > > >http://nepotismia.com/debian/raidinstall/ > > I was actually reading that as I was going through the proces

Re: Software RAID with Debian Installer

2005-07-11 Thread Luke Pacholski
On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote: > Perhaps you want LVM over RAID? > > Such configuration is also supported and can be done by the Debian installer. Ok, it simply looks like what I was trying to do (partition a software RAID device) is not possible: http://unthought.net/Softwar

Re: Software RAID with Debian Installer

2005-07-11 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 08:15:31AM -0500, Luke Pacholski wrote: > On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, peter colton wrote: > > > Here is a link for a raid1 howto. hope it dose the job. > > > >http://nepotismia.com/debian/raidinstall/ > > I was actually reading that as I was going through

Re: Second time on hostname

2005-07-11 Thread Thomas Hood
On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 09:13:06 -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > Thanks for the advice re. format of /etc/hosts. I've now set it to: > > 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost > 192.168.1.1 teufel.hartford-hwp.com teufel > > which seems a lot cleaner. Yes. > I'm trying it now. I'd

PostgreSQL 8.0 bug or my own stupidity?

2005-07-11 Thread Tom
Hey ho, A couple of days ago, I wanted to start using PostgreSQL instead of MySQL. Figuring Debian packages mostly function properly out of the box, a source installation seemed not worth the trouble, so I apt-get installed postgresql-8.0. Everything seemed fine at first, but when I tried to take

take your fucking shit out of my computer

2005-07-11 Thread rodger
Well Well Well: I thought I was the only one.No os is safe not even linux. They Slow down my band width drop trojans in my pc.Turn of my security tools and hide themselves and are Being smart arese in general. Big brother is watching us all.             *

Returned mail: Data format error

2005-07-11 Thread egrigorovic
The message was undeliverable due to the following reason: Your message was not delivered because the destination computer was unreachable within the allowed queue period. The amount of time a message is queued before it is returned depends on local configura- tion parameters. Most likely there i

Reverse Shell?

2005-07-11 Thread Jacob S
Hello list, Does anyone know of a way to do a reverse shell over ssh? Let me explain what I am trying to do. I have a friend that I'm helping upgrade Debian on their desktop. This friend is not very computer literate - even in Windows. So they're having a problem that I need to troubleshoot, but

Re: take your fucking shit out of my computer

2005-07-11 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 10:45:15PM +0800, rodger wrote: > > Well Well Well: > I thought I was the only one.No os is safe not even linux. > They Slow down my band width drop trojans in my pc.Turn of my security tools > and hide themselves and are Being smart arese in general. > Big brother is watch

Re: PostgreSQL 8.0 bug or my own stupidity?

2005-07-11 Thread Clive Menzies
On (11/07/05 15:52), Tom wrote: > Hey ho, > > A couple of days ago, I wanted to start using PostgreSQL instead of > MySQL. Figuring Debian packages mostly function properly out of the > box, a source installation seemed not worth the trouble, so I apt-get > installed postgresql-8.0. > > Everythin

Re: Second time on hostname

2005-07-11 Thread Bob Proulx
Thomas Hood wrote: > Haines Brown wrote: > > Thanks for the advice re. format of /etc/hosts. I've now set it to: > > 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost > > 192.168.1.1 teufel.hartford-hwp.com teufel > > which seems a lot cleaner. > > Yes. Small tuning. I would remove the

Re: Controlling which modules are loaded at boot

2005-07-11 Thread Howard Eisenberger
On 2005-07-10, Doofus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dell Inspiron > sarge/2.4.27 > > Not strictly a laptop question this, but... > The last time I spent my quality time playing with debian this subject > mostly came down to the contents of /etc/modules. I've just compiled a > new kernel and altho

Re: Reverse Shell?

2005-07-11 Thread Clive Menzies
On (11/07/05 09:29), Jacob S wrote: > Hello list, > > Does anyone know of a way to do a reverse shell over ssh? Let me explain > what I am trying to do. > > I have a friend that I'm helping upgrade Debian on their desktop. This > friend is not very computer literate - even in Windows. So they're

Re: PostgreSQL 8.0 bug or my own stupidity?

2005-07-11 Thread Tom
[11/07/2005 -- 16:41u] Clive Menzies: > > Firstly, the su-to-postgres doesn't seem to work. > > > > I hope I'm not overlooking something very obvious, or otherwise asking > > the wrong questions, but could anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong? > > Not really answering your question directly nor b

Re: CNN Videos - No Sound

2005-07-11 Thread Bob Proulx
Kenneth Jacker wrote: > david> What program are you using to view these videos (totem, > david> mplayer, etc)? > > I'm running linux-2.6.8-2-686. I click links (with 'firefox') on the > CNN "video site", and a new window is created. Within it is the > opening "Media Player" animated logo whic

Re: CPU fans shut off by Debian?

2005-07-11 Thread Stephen Lokitz
On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, Tony Godshall wrote: > According to Stephen Lokitz, > > On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, michael wrote: > > > > > On Fri, 2005-07-08 at 12:46 -0400, Stephen Lokitz wrote: > > > > Thanks again for your response. Any other suggestions? Our only > > > > current > > > > option remaining is

Re: CPU fans shut off by Debian?

2005-07-11 Thread michael
On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 10:49 -0400, Stephen Lokitz wrote: > > > > but, can you firstly ensure it's not a hardware prob - eg does it fall > > > > over when you run another op-sys? > > > > > > > > > > Sorry about the top post. We are going to run a test with a live Knoppix > > > distro tonight.

Re: take your fucking shit out of my computer

2005-07-11 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Monday July 11 2005 16:45, rodger wrote: > I thought I was the only one.No os is safe not even linux. > They Slow down my band width drop trojans in my pc.Turn of my security > tools and hide themselves and are Being smart arese in general. Big brother > is watching us all. Looks like someone d

Re: remote connection impossible

2005-07-11 Thread Bob Proulx
roberto wrote: > Hi, i am trying to use a remote connection to a pc (k 2.2) from > my own (k 2.6.8, sarge) but when i try to connect adding also X > forwarding i receive the following if i try to start an > application with X windows, like kwrite: > > X11 connection rejected because of wrong authe

Re: Reverse Shell?

2005-07-11 Thread Steve Lamb
Jacob S wrote: > There are not currently any ports forwarded from the firewall to this > computer and we do not have any access to the firewall to enable > something like this, either. What I am hoping is that I can have them > establish an ssh connection into my firewall with some software that >

Re: Reverse Shell?

2005-07-11 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Monday 11 July 2005 10:50 am, Clive Menzies wrote: > On (11/07/05 09:29), Jacob S wrote: > > Hello list, > > > > Does anyone know of a way to do a reverse shell over ssh? Let me explain > > what I am trying to do. > > > > I have a friend that I'm helping upgrade Debian on their desktop. This > >

Re: PostgreSQL 8.0 bug or my own stupidity?

2005-07-11 Thread Clive Menzies
On (11/07/05 16:57), Tom wrote: > [11/07/2005 -- 16:41u] Clive Menzies: > > > > Firstly, the su-to-postgres doesn't seem to work. > > > > > > I hope I'm not overlooking something very obvious, or otherwise asking > > > the wrong questions, but could anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong? > > > > N

Re: Reverse Shell?

2005-07-11 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 09:29:40AM -0500, Jacob S wrote: > Hello list, > > Does anyone know of a way to do a reverse shell over ssh? Let me explain > what I am trying to do. > > There are not currently any ports forwarded from the firewall to this > computer and we do not have any access to the f

unstable update today

2005-07-11 Thread Merijn Schering (Intermesh)
Hi I updated unstable with apt and now I have two problems: The new udev package removed a lot of /dev/* links. My mouse and sound card stopped working because all the dev symlinks were gone. The other problem is with gedit. It was removed because libaspell15 is not present anymore. What do you

Re: PostgreSQL 8.0 bug or my own stupidity?

2005-07-11 Thread John Hasler
Tom wrote: > Second, the error message seems to suggest it's trying to connect to the > (default?) database of template1, which I don't think is what I want, > either... It is. You have to connect to some database. For creating a user template1 will do as well as any. What does /var/log/postgr

Re: PostgreSQL 8.0 bug or my own stupidity?

2005-07-11 Thread Tim Goodaire
On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 04:57:29PM +0200, Tom wrote: > [11/07/2005 -- 16:41u] Clive Menzies: > > > > Firstly, the su-to-postgres doesn't seem to work. > > > > > > I hope I'm not overlooking something very obvious, or otherwise asking > > > the wrong questions, but could anyone tell me what I'm do

Re: Reverse Shell?

2005-07-11 Thread Bob Proulx
Jacob S wrote: > I have a friend that I'm helping upgrade Debian on their desktop. This > friend is not very computer literate - even in Windows. So they're > having a problem that I need to troubleshoot, but they're behind a > firewall so I can't ssh into their computer. > > There are not current

Re: PostgreSQL 8.0 bug or my own stupidity?

2005-07-11 Thread John Hasler
Tom writes: > ...what do you mean with "as postgres"? How do you become that user...? With su. First become root, and then do 'su postgres'. > It's login shell is /bin/false Doesn't matter to su. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: Reverse Shell?

2005-07-11 Thread Henrik Christian Grove
Jacob S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello list, > > Does anyone know of a way to do a reverse shell over ssh? Let me explain > what I am trying to do. > > I have a friend that I'm helping upgrade Debian on their desktop. This > friend is not very computer literate - even in Windows. So they're >

Re: remote connection impossible

2005-07-11 Thread Wim Vinckier
On 7/11/05, roberto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- wim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: > > > roberto wrote: > > > Hi, i am trying to use a remote connection to a pc (k 2.2) from my own (k > > > 2.6.8, sarge) but > > when i > > > try to connect adding also X forwarding i receive the following if

webcam weirdness

2005-07-11 Thread Rick Pasotto
I have just installed sarge on a new athlon-xp system and my usb webcam doesn't work properly. Using camorama the picture displayed in b&w and triplicated horizontally (if I save the image the resulting jpg has it 6-times across). Gnomemeeting can't find the webcam at all. I can plug the webcam int

Re: 2.6.11 kernel in sarge?

2005-07-11 Thread Dave Ewart
On Monday, 11.07.2005 at 17:47 +0530, L.V.Gandhi wrote: > > B. Download the most recent source package from Debian and build it > > using make-kpkg > > > > -> No, unnecessary. And, in any case, you will probably need to go > > outside Sarge to get the source for the more recent kernel anyway! >

Re: upgrade to Sarge stopped nic

2005-07-11 Thread Bob Proulx
Rick Weinbender wrote: > >I did an apt-get update, then apt-get dist-upgrade. > >The update finished and I was getting internet > >connectivity until I rebooted the machine. > >Now the link light on the hub won't even light up. > >Or rather, it lights up initially, then at some > >point > >during b

Re: unstable update today

2005-07-11 Thread Brian Nelson
"Merijn Schering (Intermesh)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi I updated unstable with apt and now I have two problems: > > The new udev package removed a lot of /dev/* links. My mouse and sound > card stopped working because all the dev symlinks were gone. http://bugs.debian.org/udev > The oth

Re: Second time on hostname

2005-07-11 Thread Haines Brown
Thanks, Bob, I think I'm all set. The challenge will be have the gmane gateway register me now so that I can use the debian-user newsgroup rather than list. I'm optimistic that with the changes, things will go more smoothly. As for the "localhost.localdomain" issue, what you say is interesting. I'

Re: PostgreSQL 8.0 bug or my own stupidity?

2005-07-11 Thread Tom
[11/07/2005 -- 17:01u] John Hasler: > > Second, the error message seems to suggest it's trying to connect to the > > (default?) database of template1, which I don't think is what I want, > > either... > > It is. You have to connect to some database. For creating a user > template1 will do as w

Re: PostgreSQL 8.0 bug or my own stupidity?

2005-07-11 Thread Tom
[11/07/2005 -- 17:10u] Clive Menzies: > > > I did the following as postgres: > > > > > > $ psql > > > > > > and then created created users using SQL. > > > > what do you mean with "as postgres"? > $ su > password > > # su postgres > (no passwd required) When I try that, I get this: [17:

Re: PostgreSQL 8.0 bug or my own stupidity?

2005-07-11 Thread Clive Menzies
On (11/07/05 17:59), Tom wrote: > [11/07/2005 -- 17:10u] Clive Menzies: > > > > > > > I did the following as postgres: > > > > > > > > $ psql > > > > > > > > and then created created users using SQL. > > > > > > what do you mean with "as postgres"? > > > > > $ su > > password > > > > # su

Re: smp Kernel for Debian Unstable

2005-07-11 Thread Greg Madden
On Monday 11 July 2005 05:04 am, Angelo R. Rossi wrote: > Hello: > > I want to run debian unstable on a dual-processor xeon system. Can > someone please point me to information on the appropriate smp kernel > as well as other information I should know, if I use debian unstable > for this? > > Than

Re: Reverse Shell?

2005-07-11 Thread Jacob S
On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 09:30:19 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Proulx) wrote: > Jacob S wrote: > > I have a friend that I'm helping upgrade Debian on their desktop. > > This friend is not very computer literate - even in Windows. So > > they're having a problem that I need to troubleshoot, but they're

Re: Reverse Shell?

2005-07-11 Thread Jacob S
On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 11:09:46 -0400 Hal Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 11 July 2005 10:50 am, Clive Menzies wrote: > > On (11/07/05 09:29), Jacob S wrote: > > > Hello list, > > > > > > Does anyone know of a way to do a reverse shell over ssh? Let me > > > explain what I am trying to

Re: Reverse Shell?

2005-07-11 Thread Jacob S
On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 15:50:32 +0100 Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On (11/07/05 09:29), Jacob S wrote: > > Hello list, > > > > Does anyone know of a way to do a reverse shell over ssh? Let me > > explain what I am trying to do. > > > > I have a friend that I'm helping upgrade Debian o

[SOLVED] Re: PostgreSQL 8.0 bug or my own stupidity?

2005-07-11 Thread Tom
[11/07/2005 -- 18:13u] Clive Menzies: > > When I try that, I get this: > > > > [17:56:53 tom ~] su > > Password: > > [root: /home/tom] su postgres > > [root: /home/tom] psql > > psql: FATAL: database "root" does not exist > > > > Thanks, > > Tom > > Try: > > $ psql Template1 > > or > > $

Problem with Sympa and Exim

2005-07-11 Thread Xavier MOGHRABI
Hello Debian Users, I try to upgrade my server from debian 3.0 to 3.1. Now I've got some trouble to make work my new Sympa 4.1 installation since no mail is sent by sympa mailing list. I use exim as MTA and I noticed that all my sent tested mails are located in : /var/spool/sympa/queue. I don

SBC DSL Service

2005-07-11 Thread Debian User Leonard Chatagnier
I was contacted by SBC(telephone service) about DSL service which I want. While talking to the rep, found out that their DSL service wont work on Linux OS(they say just MSWindows and MacIntosh OS). I find this hard to believe and am wondering if someone in SBC's service region is using it and

unnoficial packages of Open Office 2

2005-07-11 Thread Rakotomandimby Mihamina
Hi, I'm lookong for some unofficial packages of Oo2. I dont want to install them without apt. Would you know where could I find? The best would be if I can have the source package too... I'm running i386 boxes. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

xfs-xtt

2005-07-11 Thread John Parejko
Hello. I've just recently settled on stable, from sarge-testing, and today my fonts got mangled: they are all much bigger than I would like, and some seem to be missing. I really don't know what happened, as they were all working last night, and I didn't make any changes between then and now.

Re: Raid on Sarge

2005-07-11 Thread h2t-nl
Hi, Oke... Understand. So what I need to check is only to see whether it is a truly hardware raid or not, otherwise use software raid! I think using Linux software raid is pretty save becaude this is already tested through the community! So I will test it then to see whether I can made my system

Re: SBC DSL Service

2005-07-11 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 11:42:00 -0500 Debian User Leonard Chatagnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was contacted by SBC(telephone service) about DSL service which I > want. While talking to > the rep, found out that their DSL service wont work on Linux OS(they > say just MSWindows and > MacIntosh

Re: [SOLVED] Re: PostgreSQL 8.0 bug or my own stupidity?

2005-07-11 Thread Clive Menzies
On (11/07/05 18:42), Tom wrote: > [11/07/2005 -- 18:13u] Clive Menzies: > > > > When I try that, I get this: > > > > > > [17:56:53 tom ~] su > > > Password: > > > [root: /home/tom] su postgres > > > [root: /home/tom] psql > > > psql: FATAL: database "root" does not exist > > > > > > Thanks, >

udev lost my mouse.

2005-07-11 Thread Steven Rostedt
Hi all, I've just updated my unstable, and udev lost my mouse. Not sure what happened, but /dev/input/mice and friends are gone. Only /dev/input/event[0-3] is there. I must admit that I really don't like udev, although others really prefer it. I tried to stay away from it, since the last time I

Security Announcements and Updates for Testing

2005-07-11 Thread Tony Terlecki
I'm subscribed to debian-security-announce and security announcements always mention patched packages for Stable and Unstable but they never mention Testing. Where does that leave me then as far as security updates are concerned if I'm maintaining machines from Testing? I have the following in my

Re: PostgreSQL 8.0 bug or my own stupidity?

2005-07-11 Thread John Hasler
Tom writes: > It's login shell is /bin/false I wrote: > Doesn't matter to su. That isn't true. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: unnoficial packages of Open Office 2

2005-07-11 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Quoting Rakotomandimby Mihamina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi, I'm lookong for some unofficial packages of Oo2. I dont want to install them without apt. Would you know where could I find? The best would be if I can have the source package too... I'm running i386 boxes. Try here: http://www.lxte

Re: 2.6.11 kernel in sarge?

2005-07-11 Thread Bill Thompson
On Sat, 9 Jul 2005 17:00:34 +0100 Dave Ewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I needed a more recent stock version of the kernel myself when I wanted > a Sarge system but my disk controller needed a newer kernel to avoid a > critical bug. > > Given the choice of: > > A. Download the source for ke

Re: Security Announcements and Updates for Testing

2005-07-11 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Quoting Tony Terlecki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I'm subscribed to debian-security-announce and security announcements always mention patched packages for Stable and Unstable but they never mention Testing. Where does that leave me then as far as security updates are concerned if I'm maintaining machi

Re: SBC DSL Service

2005-07-11 Thread Glenn English
On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 11:42 -0500, Debian User Leonard Chatagnier wrote: > While talking to > the rep, found out that their DSL service wont work on Linux OS(they say > just MSWindows and > MacIntosh OS). I find this hard to believe You're right; they're wrong. They (almost) all say this. As s

Re: SBC DSL Service

2005-07-11 Thread Jacob S
On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 11:42:00 -0500 Debian User Leonard Chatagnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was contacted by SBC(telephone service) about DSL service which I > want. While talking to > the rep, found out that their DSL service wont work on Linux OS(they > say just MSWindows and > MacIntosh

Re: unstable update today

2005-07-11 Thread Thomas Hood
"Merijn Schering (Intermesh)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The new udev package removed a lot of /dev/* links. My mouse and sound > card stopped working because all the dev symlinks were gone. Downgrade udev to the testing version. The new udev only works with kernels 2.6.12 or higher. -- Thom

Re: SBC DSL Service

2005-07-11 Thread Matt Okeson-Harlow
On 7/11/05, Glenn English <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 11:42 -0500, Debian User Leonard Chatagnier wrote: > > > While talking to > > the rep, found out that their DSL service wont work on Linux OS(they say > > just MSWindows and > > MacIntosh OS). I find this hard to believe

Re: SBC DSL Service

2005-07-11 Thread Haines Brown
> I was contacted by SBC(telephone service) about DSL service which I > want. While talking to the rep, found out that their DSL service > wont work on Linux OS(they say just MSWindows and MacIntosh OS). I > find this hard to believe And well you might. I've been using SBC with DSL for about thr

Re: CNN Videos - No Sound

2005-07-11 Thread David Clymer
On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 07:38 -0400, Kenneth Jacker wrote: > david> Perhaps, if you provide a leeetle more info. > > Yes, of course! > > david> What program are you using to view these videos (totem, > david> mplayer, etc)? > > I'm running linux-2.6.8-2-686. I click links (with 'firefox') o

Re: CPU fans shut off by Debian?

2005-07-11 Thread michael
On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 14:16 -0400, Stephen Lokitz wrote: > On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, michael wrote: > > > On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 10:49 -0400, Stephen Lokitz wrote: > > > > > > > > but, can you firstly ensure it's not a hardware prob - eg does it > > > > > > fall > > > > > > over when you run another o

Re: Still not fixed ipup problem. (solved)

2005-07-11 Thread Alan Chandler
On Monday 11 July 2005 10:50, Arias Hung wrote: > removing the package: > > zeroconf > > solved this issue for me. > > On Fri, 08 Jul 2005, Alan Chandler delivered in simple text monotone: > > On Friday 08 July 2005 07:54, Arias Hung wrote: ... > > > the auto ifup always assigns me that bogus 169.2

Browsers get stuck on some websites.

2005-07-11 Thread [KS]
Hello all, I have been noticing some problems with web browsers last night. On a few websites the browser hangs while loading the page. Most of the time when Mozilla hangs, it shows in the status bar that it is waiting for some advertisement website. Konqureror tells that it is loading the last im

Re: CPU fans shut off by Debian?

2005-07-11 Thread michael
On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 14:26 -0400, Stephen Lokitz wrote: > On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, michael wrote: > > I guess it could be that the fans are ineffectual and therefore aren't > > cooling satisfactorily so something (but what!) trips to stop the CPUs > > (or power supply?) burning up... I think if you ha

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