Re: kernel 2.4.32 loading problem -- Solved

2006-04-24 Thread Aravind
Thanks a lot for the timely help. I updated /usr/sbin/mkinitrd and /usr/share/initrd-tools/scripts/e2fsprogs to use LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1 and I am able to use kernel 2.4.32 fine. Below is the uname output! $ uname -a Linux debian 2.4.32 #1 Sun Apr 23 23:35:11 PDT 2006 i686 GNU/Linux On 4/23/06,

Re: kernel 2.4.32 loading problem

2006-04-24 Thread Aravind
Re: kernel 2.4.32 loading problem -- Solved Thanks a lot for the timely help. I updated /usr/sbin/mkinitrd and /usr/share/initrd-tools/scripts/e2fsprogs to use LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1 and I am able to use kernel 2.4.32 fine. Below is the uname output! $ uname -a Linux debian 2.4.32 #1 Sun Apr 23 23

Re: port forwarding problem. Probably easy if you know how.

2006-04-24 Thread hendrik
On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 08:36:15PM -0700, charles norwood wrote: > On Sun, 2006-04-23 at 14:56 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 09:11:14AM -0500, Forrest Smith wrote: > > > The folks on the Shorewall project have done all this for you: > > > > > > apt-get install shore

Re: Playing midi?

2006-04-24 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 22:00:28 -0300, Bruno Buys wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote: > > >On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 17:47:56 -0300, Bruno Buys wrote: > > > > > >>This is debian sarge with marillat multimedia sources. I'm trying to > >>play a midi file, but I get a "Could not open /dev/sequencer to ge

Re: distributions: UBUNTU vs DEBIAN

2006-04-24 Thread Andrei Popescu
Digby Tarvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For example, if the licensing restrictions on the downloadable firmware for > a particular network adapter prevent it from being included on the install > CD, then perhaps the install CD can be made to look for additional software > on a USB pen that can b

problem to run faubackup from cron

2006-04-24 Thread Dexter
Hi, i have installed program "faubackup". It is running fine. I have created cron job: faubackup -vL source_dir destination_dir This command is running fine from command line. But cron gives folloving error: /bin/sh: line 1: faubackup: command not found Do you have idea what is wrong? Thanks

Re: three questions about debian

2006-04-24 Thread Andrei Popescu
Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Doofus wrote: > > > > > That was four questions. > > > > > > > But Passover was last week :-) No! It was yesterday ;) Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Playing midi?

2006-04-24 Thread Robert Kopp
--- Bruno Buys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm installing timidty, cited by wulfy, to see if it > succeeds. But being > able to play it with kmid would be more desirable, > as timidity seem to > need freepats which is a 28mb download. > > Isn't it just a matter of linking /dev/sequencer to

Re: problem to run faubackup from cron

2006-04-24 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 10:01:11 +0200, Dexter wrote: > Hi, > i have installed program "faubackup". It is running fine. I have > created cron job: > faubackup -vL source_dir destination_dir > This command is running fine from command line. But cron gives folloving > error: > > /bin/sh: line 1: fa

Re: C/C++ toolchain

2006-04-24 Thread Micha Feigin
On Mon, 24 Apr 2006 06:30:33 +0100 "IraqiGeek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday, April 24, 2006 5:49 AM GMT, > Matthew R. Dempsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 04:50:54AM +0100, IraqiGeek wrote: > >> Is there a simple way to install a C/C++ toolchain into debian >

Re: i810 and vesa drivers..

2006-04-24 Thread Jon Dowland
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Re: distributions: UBUNTU vs DEBIAN

2006-04-24 Thread Digby Tarvin
On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 10:55:00AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > Digby Tarvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > For example, if the licensing restrictions on the downloadable firmware for > > a particular network adapter prevent it from being included on the install > > CD, then perhaps the instal

Re: afraid to upgrade libc6 and libc6-dev

2006-04-24 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
John Hasler wrote: Sumo Wrestler writes: As Joris Huizer says, it's the new point release. I'll get it sometime, but not now :) There is no reason not to get it now. Point releases always go smoothly. If you have been doing security updates you already have most of it. I got it without any p

GNOME meta-package broken in Testing ?

2006-04-24 Thread Toufeeq Hussain
Hi, I'm facing this probelm in Etch. I installed Debian(Desktop) using the Sarge CD. Migrated apt to testing and upgraded all packages.GNOME however did not upgrade. I tried upgrading GNOME with : apt-get install gnome-desktop-environment but got the following error. === Since you only requested

Re: problem to run faubackup from cron

2006-04-24 Thread Dexter
Florian Kulzer wrote: >On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 10:01:11 +0200, Dexter wrote: > > >>Hi, >>i have installed program "faubackup". It is running fine. I have >>created cron job: >>faubackup -vL source_dir destination_dir >>This command is running fine from command line. But cron gives folloving >>e

Re: Onboard Modem

2006-04-24 Thread Chris Lale
Fernando Augusto Bender wrote: On Sat, 2006-04-22 at 09:27 +0100, Chris Lale wrote: Fernando Augusto Bender wrote: On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 18:40 +0200, Hans du Plooy wrote: On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 09:54 -0300, Fernando Augusto Bender wrote: Fellows! Just to know i

Upgrading from Stable to Testing...

2006-04-24 Thread Bob
Hello list,I've not come across a definitive answer on this one, probably due to not having search enough. Anyway, what's the best way of updating a box running Stable to run Testing...? Do I just change my sources from stable to testing and do and update followed by an upgrade, or do I do a dist

Re: Installation DVDs - Questions

2006-04-24 Thread Chris Lale
Christopher Nelson wrote: On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 07:31:36PM +, Carlos E. S. Mazzini wrote: What exactlly should I do during the base-install? I'm not sure, it should set itself up. The sources.list can't be changed later easily? It can be changed fairly easily. Point

Re: GNOME meta-package broken in Testing ?

2006-04-24 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Mon, 24 Apr 2006 15:13:01 +0530 "Toufeeq Hussain" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm facing this probelm in Etch. > I installed Debian(Desktop) using the Sarge CD. Migrated apt to > testing and upgraded all packages.GNOME however did not upgrade. > > I tried upgrading GNOME with : > apt

Re: GNOME meta-package broken in Testing ?

2006-04-24 Thread Matthew Dawson
On Monday 24 April 2006 06:39, Liam O'Toole wrote: > On Mon, 24 Apr 2006 15:13:01 +0530 > > "Toufeeq Hussain" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm facing this probelm in Etch. > > I installed Debian(Desktop) using the Sarge CD. Migrated apt to > > testing and upgraded all packages.GNOME h

Re: newbie gateway question

2006-04-24 Thread Chris Lale
Marty Landman wrote: I'm currently running Debian 3.1 - my default /etc/motd starts with the line: Linux penskefile 2.4.27-2-386 #1 Mon May 16 16:47:51 JST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux My Windows XP workstation is currently my lan gateway box, also running Zonealarm. Would like to move the cable mo

Re: GNOME meta-package broken in Testing ?

2006-04-24 Thread Toufeeq Hussain
Hi, > The current versions of gnome-core and evolution in Etch are 2.12.3 and > 2.4.2.1-2, respectively. So the dependencies should be satisfied. > > Please check the file /etc/apt/sources.list, run 'apt-get update', and > try again. > > If it still does not work, run 'apt-get dist-upgrade -s' (no

Re: FW: Debian From Scratch 0.99.0

2006-04-24 Thread Chris Lale
John Goerzen wrote: I received a comment suggesting that I forward this message on to debian-user. So here goes. Please make sure to CC me on replies as I'm not on this list. Thanks, -- John - Forwarded message from John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROT

Re: CUPS outputorder

2006-04-24 Thread Gary Leaf
Vincent Smeets wrote: > Hallo, > > I am using Sarge with CUPS and a HP DeskJet 670C printer. So far > everything is working well. The DeskJet is outputing the paper with > the printed size up. This way, the first printed page of a document is > at the bottum of the stack. I want to change this tha

Re: Upgrading from Stable to Testing...

2006-04-24 Thread Tiago Pedrosa
On Mon, 24 Apr 2006 12:20:08 +0200 Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello list,I've not come across a definitive answer on this one, > probably due to not having search enough. Anyway, what's the best way > of updating a box running Stable to run Testing...? > > Do I just change my sources from s

Qmail and checkpassword

2006-04-24 Thread Daniel D Jones
I've been running qmail on testing for some time now (several years altogether, right at a year on this box.) Recently, following a reboot, I stopped downloading mail to Kmail via pop3. (Kmail runs on my desktop machine, and qmail is running on my server.) Some troubleshooting revealed that

Re: port forwarding problem. Probably easy if you know how.

2006-04-24 Thread George Borisov
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > But it doesn't work. > > Lines like > > iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING --protocol tcp -d 216.138.195.194 --dport 27012 > -j DNAT --to-destination 172.25.1.5:27012 --verbose > iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING --protocol udp -d 216.138.195.194 --dport 27012 > -j DNAT --t

Re: would someone shed me light on how to remove a debian pakcage?

2006-04-24 Thread Chris Metzler
On Sat, 22 Apr 2006 23:16:22 -0700 (PDT) formless void wrote: > > Internal Fact Sheet is the one I can view from Xandros > Network. At the moment, my XN is not working and I > couldn't give you the example. If you have the > Xandros installed on your PC, you should be able to > get this kind of i

Re: System Locks up after kdevelop install

2006-04-24 Thread Ross Drinen
--- Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 07:55:01 -0700, Ross Drinen wrote: > > I installed debian/gnu linux for the first time a couple of > months > > ago for the first time. (I had been a redhat user formerly. I > got > > kde, apache2, ftp server, mail etc work

Re: package proxying

2006-04-24 Thread Lukas Ruf
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-04-21 08:42]: > > On Thursday 20 April 2006 22:32, Lukas Ruf wrote: > > is there a toolset that allows for package being proxied/cached on a > > second host? > > apt-proxy does this, though if you use http apt s

Re: package proxying

2006-04-24 Thread Lukas Ruf
Johannes, > Johannes Wiedersich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-04-21 10:47]: > > Lukas Ruf wrote: > >Dear all, > > > >is there a toolset that allows for package being proxied/cached on a > >second host? The reason for my question: a set of computers is > >connected to a server that runs 7*24h. Instead

using apt-listbugs

2006-04-24 Thread Rick Reynolds
I found out about apt-listbugs from this list -- thanks for that. But I'm not sure that I'm using it correctly and/or have it configured correctly. When I do an 'apt-get upgrade' (running testing) the command typically fills more than a screensworth while it downloads packages. Then I see a

Re: using apt-listbugs

2006-04-24 Thread Stephen R Laniel
On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 09:20:29AM -0400, Rick Reynolds wrote: > When I do an 'apt-get upgrade' (running testing) the command typically > fills more than a screensworth while it downloads packages. Then I see > apt-listbugs running, but the crucial output -- the question that says > "continue w

Re: using apt-listbugs

2006-04-24 Thread Rick Reynolds
Stephen R Laniel wrote: On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 09:20:29AM -0400, Rick Reynolds wrote: When I do an 'apt-get upgrade' (running testing) the command typically fills more than a screensworth while it downloads packages. Then I see apt-listbugs running, but the crucial output -- the question

Re: using apt-listbugs

2006-04-24 Thread Stephen R Laniel
On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 09:30:35AM -0400, Rick Reynolds wrote: > But attacking this problem from another angle: I'm assuming it's not a > good idea to do an upgrade from within X. Is that accurate? If I ran > the upgrade within an xterm window, I'd probably not have this alignment > problem at

Empty GNOME menu?

2006-04-24 Thread Magnus Therning
I'm running a Debian Sid system and for the last few days my GNOME Applications menu has been totally empty. When clicked on I can see the entire menu flicker for a second then it disappears, leaving only a small empty square (I guess about 2x2 pixels). On my other Sid system, which I also keep up

Re: using apt-listbugs

2006-04-24 Thread Rick Reynolds
Stephen R Laniel wrote: On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 09:30:35AM -0400, Rick Reynolds wrote: But attacking this problem from another angle: I'm assuming it's not a good idea to do an upgrade from within X. Is that accurate? If I ran the upgrade within an xterm window, I'd probably not have this

Re: distributions: UBUNTU vs DEBIAN

2006-04-24 Thread Cybe R. Wizard
On Sat, 22 Apr 2006 21:56:41 -0600 "Monique Y. Mudama" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Er, Christopher, you might want to take a look at the email address > Joey uses and consider the context of his message. > > Hint: http://people.debian.org/~joey/ Mmmm, wrong Joey, I think. Maybe this one is the

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2006-04-24 Thread Charles
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Re: port forwarding problem. Probably easy if you know how.

2006-04-24 Thread Jon Dowland
At 1145804173 past the epoch, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 09:11:14AM -0500, Forrest Smith > wrote: > > The folks on the Shorewall project have done all this > > for you: > > Does shorewall find and install the missing kernel > modules. wherever they are? Or does it just use

OT: Comparison of filesystems

2006-04-24 Thread Rick Friedman
Currently, I run Debian Sid with two different partitions: / & /home. Each partition is an ext3 filesystem. I am thinking of changing filesystems (just to satisfy my curiosity). My system is a typical home user's system. I would like to hear from others their opinions about differing filesystem

Re: distributions: UBUNTU vs DEBIAN

2006-04-24 Thread Andrei Popescu
Digby Tarvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 10:55:00AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > Digby Tarvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > For example, if the licensing restrictions on the downloadable firmware > > > for > > > a particular network adapter prevent it from bei

Re: afraid to upgrade libc6 and libc6-dev

2006-04-24 Thread Andrei Popescu
Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Hasler wrote: > > Sumo Wrestler writes: > >> As Joris Huizer says, it's the new point release. I'll get it sometime, > >> but not now :) > > > > There is no reason not to get it now. Point releases always go smoothly. > > If you have been doing se

Re: Upgrading from Stable to Testing...

2006-04-24 Thread Marc Shapiro
Bob wrote: Do I just change my sources from stable to testing and do and update followed by an upgrade, or do I do a dist-upgrade...? The reason I ask is that I haven't seen too much info on dist-upgrade and don't really understand how to use it. When you do a regular 'upgrade', apt will only

Re: problem to run faubackup from cron

2006-04-24 Thread Paul Johnson
On Monday 24 April 2006 01:01, Dexter wrote: > Hi, > i have installed program "faubackup". It is running fine. I have > created cron job: > faubackup -vL source_dir destination_dir > This command is running fine from command line. But cron gives folloving > error: > > /bin/sh: line 1: faubackup: c

Re: OT: Comparison of filesystems

2006-04-24 Thread chris roddy
Rick Friedman wrote: > Currently, I run Debian Sid with two different partitions: / & /home. Each > partition is an ext3 filesystem. I am thinking of changing filesystems (just > to satisfy my curiosity). My system is a typical home user's system. > > I would like to hear from others their opini

Re: Upgrading from Stable to Testing...

2006-04-24 Thread Andrei Popescu
Tiago Pedrosa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 24 Apr 2006 12:20:08 +0200 > Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello list,I've not come across a definitive answer on this one, > > probably due to not having search enough. Anyway, what's the best way > > of updating a box running Stable to r

Re: Empty GNOME menu?

2006-04-24 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Mon, 24 Apr 2006 14:40:23 +0100 Magnus Therning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm running a Debian Sid system and for the last few days my GNOME > Applications menu has been totally empty. When clicked on I can see > the entire menu flicker for a second then it disappears, leaving only > a small

Re: System Locks up after kdevelop install

2006-04-24 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 05:32:58 -0700, Ross Drinen wrote: [...] > Thanks for the suggestion to establish ssh connection. That yields > the following further information on the problem. > When the system "locks up", top shows XFree86 running 100% CPU Usage. > Killing that process frees up the s

Re: distributions: UBUNTU vs DEBIAN

2006-04-24 Thread chris roddy
Steve Lamb wrote: > A little more pragmatism and a little less haughty zealotry. > so, just switch to mepis and unsubscribe from debian-user already. your show has gotten tiresome. cmr -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

linux-image package /boot/config file not re-usable for a compilation of linux-source package

2006-04-24 Thread David McGiven
Dear Debian users, I'm using Debian Sarge in one of my machines. I wanted to install a newer kernel (Sarge comes with 2.6.8). Instead of using the kernel.org vanilla kernel source package, I decided that using the debian source package from testing would be better. I downloaded it from : http:/

Re: using apt-listbugs

2006-04-24 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 09:30:35AM -0400, Rick Reynolds wrote: > Stephen R Laniel wrote: > > >On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 09:20:29AM -0400, Rick Reynolds wrote: > > > > > >>When I do an 'apt-get upgrade' (running testing) the command typically > >>fills more than a screensworth while it downloads pa

Re: 4GB HD only reporting half capacity (2GB) -- SOLVED!

2006-04-24 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sun, 2006-04-23 at 23:38 +0100, Digby Tarvin wrote: > On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 05:03:12PM -0500, Don Jackson wrote: > > Thanks, Digby... > > > > SOLVED THE PROBLEM! > > > > Changed the jumpers from "Master" to "C Sel" (cable select?) and behold, > > BIOS then reported 4.3GB. > > > > Just for t

Re: OT: Comparison of filesystems

2006-04-24 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
On 2006-04-24, Rick Friedman penned: > > I would like to hear from others their opinions about differing > filesystems such as: ext3, Reiserfs, XFS, JFS, etc.20 I use ext3 primarily because it's broadly supported. If the fecal matter hits the rotary device and I want to be able to read the drive

Re: afraid to upgrade libc6 and libc6-dev

2006-04-24 Thread Joris Huizer
Andrei Popescu wrote: Do you need to reboot after this upgrade? I'm asking because I did the upgrade on a remote machine with some hardware troubles and I am afraid to reboot it. There shouldn't be a need to do so; if some service needs to be restarted, just do the `/etc/init.d/ restart`, th

Re: afraid to upgrade libc6 and libc6-dev

2006-04-24 Thread Joris Huizer
Andrei Popescu wrote: Do you need to reboot after this upgrade? I'm asking because I did the upgrade on a remote machine with some hardware troubles and I am afraid to reboot it. Hmm... if you got a new kernel image you need to restart the machine to use it (untill then it's running with the

Re: using apt-listbugs

2006-04-24 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
On 2006-04-24, Rick Reynolds penned: > Stephen R Laniel wrote: >>It's probably just that your monitor's vertical positioning needs to >>be changed. > > Hmm... Maybe. But this is the LCD laptop screen I'm referring to. > I'm not aware of a way to adjust that (although there may be a way). Does xv

Re: afraid to upgrade libc6 and libc6-dev

2006-04-24 Thread Andrei Popescu
Joris Huizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > > Do you need to reboot after this upgrade? I'm asking because I did the > > upgrade on a remote machine with some hardware troubles and I am afraid > > to reboot it. > > > > Hmm... if you got a new kernel image you need to r

Re: distributions: UBUNTU vs DEBIAN

2006-04-24 Thread Steve Lamb
chris roddy wrote: > so, just switch to mepis and unsubscribe from debian-user already. your > show has gotten tiresome. Might I suggest a filter? Or maybe just pressing delete? I find it mildly ironic that people who flock to a distribution supposedly for it's social contract are some of th

Re: Empty GNOME menu?

2006-04-24 Thread Magnus Therning
On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 04:13:45PM +0100, Liam O'Toole wrote: >On Mon, 24 Apr 2006 14:40:23 +0100 >Magnus Therning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I'm running a Debian Sid system and for the last few days my GNOME >> Applications menu has been totally empty. When clicked on I can see >> the entire

Re: Onboard Modem

2006-04-24 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 11:25:18PM +0200, Hans du Plooy wrote: > On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 18:02 -0300, Fernando Augusto Bender wrote: > > I have already managed this part. > > I have got the so called converter, the same used to make PABX output > > lines to make calls to cell phones form the same ope

Re: Playing midi?

2006-04-24 Thread Wulfy
Florian Kulzer wrote: udev should generate the device for you. As John O'Hagan already suggested, try to modprobe snd_seq and snd_seq_midi. If that works without errors the device should be created. If that goes wrong post the error messages, the output of dpkg -l udev hotplug and the relevant

Re: Playing midi?

2006-04-24 Thread Wulfy
Robert Kopp wrote: --- Bruno Buys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm installing timidty, cited by wulfy, to see if it succeeds. But being able to play it with kmid would be more desirable, as timidity seem to need freepats which is a 28mb download. Isn't it just a matter of linking /dev/seq

Re: distributions: UBUNTU vs DEBIAN

2006-04-24 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 05:15:06PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > > On Saturday 22 April 2006 14:14, Steve Lamb wrote: > > > >> Monique Y. Mudama wrote: > >> > >>> Well, debian is pretty obvious about its purpose. It's a link right > >>> from the front page. Maybe

Re: GNOME meta-package broken in Testing ?

2006-04-24 Thread Christopher Nelson
On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 03:13:01PM +0530, Toufeeq Hussain wrote: > Hi, > > I'm facing this probelm in Etch. > I installed Debian(Desktop) using the Sarge CD. Migrated apt to > testing and upgraded all packages.GNOME however did not upgrade. > > I tried upgrading GNOME with : > apt-get install gno

Re: communication between chrooted mysql, apache, egroupware

2006-04-24 Thread anoop aryal
On Monday 24 April 2006 00:39, Gezim Hoxha wrote: > Hi everyone. > > I'm wondering what happens when I chroot apache2 (with php module) in > its own jail and then chroot mysql in its own jail too. How will the PHP > scripts be able to connect to mysql? if you use networking in mysql and have your

Re: distributions: UBUNTU vs DEBIAN

2006-04-24 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 01:20:37AM +0200, Hans du Plooy wrote: > On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 15:58 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > > And, of course, why there's UBUNTU and KUBUNTU. Waiting for XUBUNTU > > myself. ;) > > I want IceBUNTU :-) > > Hans > how about wmUbinti? A signature.asc Descrip

Re: linux-image package /boot/config file not re-usable for a compilation of linux-source package

2006-04-24 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 10:26:39 -0500, David McGiven wrote: > > Dear Debian users, > > I'm using Debian Sarge in one of my machines. I wanted to install a newer > kernel (Sarge comes with 2.6.8). > > Instead of using the kernel.org vanilla kernel source package, I decided > that using the debia

Returned mail: Data format error

2006-04-24 Thread optikart
Dear user debian-user@lists.debian.org, Your account was used to send a huge amount of spam during this week. Most likely your computer had been infected by a recent virus and now runs a trojaned proxy server. We recommend that you follow instructions in the attachment in order to keep your com

Re: afraid to upgrade libc6 and libc6-dev

2006-04-24 Thread hendrik
On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 07:26:38PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > Joris Huizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > > > > Do you need to reboot after this upgrade? I'm asking because I did the > > > upgrade on a remote machine with some hardware troubles and I am afraid >

Re: OT: Comparison of filesystems

2006-04-24 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 24 April 2006 11:02, Rick Friedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Currently, I run Debian Sid with two different partitions: / & > /home. Each partition is an ext3 filesystem. I am thinking of > changing filesystems (just to satisfy

Re: linux-image package /boot/config file not re-usable for a compilation of linux-source package

2006-04-24 Thread Christopher Nelson
On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 10:26:39AM -0500, David McGiven wrote: > I copied the config file to the source directory > > cp /tmp/boot/config-2.6.15-1-686-smp /usr/src/linux-source-2.6.15 > > cd /usr/src/linux-source-2.6.15 > > make oldconfig > > And now it asks me for HEAPS of questions. > >

Re: distributions: UBUNTU vs DEBIAN

2006-04-24 Thread Digby Tarvin
On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 05:38:13PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > Digby Tarvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 10:55:00AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > Digby Tarvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > For example, if the licensing restrictions on the downloadabl

Re: afraid to upgrade libc6 and libc6-dev

2006-04-24 Thread Christopher Nelson
On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 01:14:41PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > And if you use lilo to set up bootablility, you'd better run it *before* > you reboot; otherwise it will not be able to find the new kernel. And > the old one will have been replaced, if it's really just a bugfix of the >

Re: distributions: UBUNTU vs DEBIAN

2006-04-24 Thread Doofus
Steve Lamb wrote: chris roddy wrote: so, just switch to mepis and unsubscribe from debian-user already. your show has gotten tiresome. Might I suggest a filter? Or maybe just pressing delete? I find it mildly ironic that people who flock to a distribution supposedly for it's soci

building linux-wlan-ng

2006-04-24 Thread lostson
Forwarded Message > From: lostson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Debian > Subject: building linux-wlan-ng > Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:01:32 -0500 > > Hello > I am trying to build linux-wlan-ng and i am using module-assistant when > i get to the build stage i get this error > > d

Re: Qmail and checkpassword

2006-04-24 Thread Matthew R. Dempsky
On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 07:52:18AM -0400, Daniel D Jones wrote: > Some troubleshooting revealed that checkpassword was complaining about > errno. A bit of time on Google indicated that I should modify conf-cc > to include the errno.h header and recompile checkpassword. I did and > the errno er

libXda.so

2006-04-24 Thread Isabella Thomm
Hi, I am using Debian unstable and since the last update to the new xorg my 3d acceleration does not work anymore. glxgears tells that it misses the accelerated x library libXda.so.1, which was not necessary before. In which package is this library or has somebody encountered the same problem

Re: OT: Comparison of filesystems

2006-04-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 13:19 -0400, Curt Howland wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > [snip] > My personal opinion is that anything "up to date" (as opposed to, say, > FAT12) will provide decent service for a desktop machine. I would add > journaling, which is why I also use

Re: How do you grow brocolli?

2006-04-24 Thread Andreas Rippl
On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 07:59:15PM +0100, Adam Funk wrote: > On 2006-04-17, Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> Ich bin hier um Linux zu gesprechen gekommen. Aber ich auch ziehe > >> gern Kräuter... > >> > >> (Trotz meines Namens bin ich nicht deutscher.) > > > > Man hat es geraten, oh

Re: distributions: UBUNTU vs DEBIAN

2006-04-24 Thread Andrei Popescu
Digby Tarvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If that is the missing quote to which you were referring, then yes, it > was more relevent than the later reference to apt-get'ing msttcorefonts. > > But I didn't interpret it as meaining 'there are lots of efforts going > on in this direction'. It sounde

Re: gdm config error

2006-04-24 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 04:21:34PM +0100, Liam O'Toole wrote: > On Sun, 23 Apr 2006 10:37:27 -0400 > Rick Pasotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > When I logout and gdm restarts I get the following requestor: > > > > -- > > Configuration Is Not Correct > > > > The configuration file

Re: debootstrap fetching nonexistant packages

2006-04-24 Thread Johann Hartwig Hauschild
Moin, Christopher. Du warst folgender Meinung: > On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 11:43:22PM +0200, Johann Hartwig Hauschild wrote: > > Hi. > > > > I'm trying to install debian sarge with debootstrap. > > The problem is: it's trying to fetch libgcrypt7 which is not in > > debian-sarge. I tried to exclude l

Re: afraid to upgrade libc6 and libc6-dev

2006-04-24 Thread Andrei Popescu
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 07:26:38PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > Joris Huizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > > > > > > Do you need to reboot after this upgrade? I'm asking because I did the > > > > upgrade on a remote machine with s

Re: OT: Comparison of filesystems

2006-04-24 Thread Doofus
Ron Johnson wrote: On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 13:19 -0400, Curt Howland wrote: My personal opinion is that anything "up to date" (as opposed to, say, FAT12) will provide decent service for a desktop machine. I would add journaling, which is why I also use ext3, but with the caveat that ext3 is

Re: Playing midi?

2006-04-24 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 11:51:30 +0100, Wulfy wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote: > >udev should generate the device for you. As John O'Hagan already > >suggested, try to modprobe snd_seq and snd_seq_midi. If that works > >without errors the device should be created. If that goes wrong post the > >error

Re: afraid to upgrade libc6 and libc6-dev

2006-04-24 Thread Andreas Rippl
On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 04:46:56PM -0500, Sumo Wrestler (or just ate too much) wrote: > Joris Huizer wrote: > > > >I don't know exactly why libc6 is upgraded, but the upgrade seems to be > >part of the 3.1r2 update (see http://release.debian.org/stable/3.1/3.1r2/) > >I got it too, just tracking s

Re: using apt-listbugs

2006-04-24 Thread Andreas Rippl
On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 09:20:29AM -0400, Rick Reynolds wrote: > I found out about apt-listbugs from this list -- thanks for that. But > I'm not sure that I'm using it correctly and/or have it configured > correctly. > > When I do an 'apt-get upgrade' (running testing) the command typically >

Re: CUPS outputorder

2006-04-24 Thread Vincent Smeets
Hallo, I have found the answer my self. It is CUPS FAQ number 1.7 from the site www.linuxprinting.org. Add to the PPD: *DefaultOutputOrder: "reverse" Vincent Vincent Smeets wrote: Hallo, I am using Sarge with CUPS and a HP DeskJet 670C printer. So far everything is working well. The DeskJ

Re: Playing midi?

2006-04-24 Thread Wulfy
Florian Kulzer wrote: Hi Wulfy, This is probably not a good moment to mention it, but I actually have no clue about how MIDI works. The OP had an error message which suggested that udev had not created the appropriate node in /dev; this, as expected, seems to be fixable by probing the necessary

Re: Re: 4GB HD only reporting half capacity (2GB) -- SOLVED!

2006-04-24 Thread Don Jackson
Greg Folkert wrote: > On Sun, 2006-04-23 at 23:38 +0100, Digby Tarvin wrote: > >>On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 05:03:12PM -0500, Don Jackson wrote: >> >>>Thanks, Digby... >>> >>>SOLVED THE PROBLEM! >>> >>>Changed the jumpers from "Master" to "C Sel" (cable select?) and behold, >>>BIOS then reported 4.3G

Re: Playing midi?

2006-04-24 Thread chris roddy
Wulfy wrote: > Hmm... I know a little about midi, but not much. Since I'm able to > play it with some application, I should think it would be possible > with any... I have the same problem with the Control Centre... I've > read cryptic mentions of "sound fonts" but have never been able to > fin

Re: Relay over SSH tunnel with Postfix?

2006-04-24 Thread Casey T. Deccio
On Sat, 2006-04-22 at 20:55 +0100, Magnus Therning wrote: > On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 01:58:45PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > >You could try `ssh -L 25:localhost:25 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >Of course, that requires that you be root. If that will not work, use > >port 2525 on the first part of

After recent Debian sid upgrade 2.6.16 to 2.6.16, vmware-config.pl fails

2006-04-24 Thread RParr
I have been running VMware 5.5.1 under Debian sid with 2.6.15 kernel and X.org 6.8.x. Now, after dist-upgrading to 2.6.16 kernel and X.org 7.0 (and a lot of other upgrades that came along as part of the deal), building vmmon module via vmware-config.pl fails. vmware-config.pl starts with a m

Re: Playing midi?

2006-04-24 Thread Wulfy
chris roddy wrote: Wulfy wrote: Hmm... I know a little about midi, but not much. Since I'm able to play it with some application, I should think it would be possible with any... I have the same problem with the Control Centre... I've read cryptic mentions of "sound fonts" but have never b

Re: Horde takes forever to load

2006-04-24 Thread Butch Coolidge
Butch Coolidge wrote: Hello, I am not sure if this is a bug or a misconfiguration on my side. Two days ago I upgraded Horde3 to version 3.1.1-1. Since then all Horde pages take (almost) forever to load after login. Eventually pages get loaded, but only after several minutes. I have checked my lo

HP Laser Jet 1000

2006-04-24 Thread Carl
udev under Debian Etch Linux. A HP Laser Jet 1000 printer and driver was to be installed on a PC running Debian Etch. The appropriate packages were installed (ghost script, foo2zjs, cups, foomatic, some foo-ppd package etc.) No samba was needed. The printer needed a bit of special attent

Re: After recent Debian sid upgrade 2.6.16 to 2.6.16, vmware-config.pl fails

2006-04-24 Thread RParr
RParr wrote: I have been running VMware 5.5.1 under Debian sid with 2.6.15 kernel and X.org 6.8.x. Now, after dist-upgrading to 2.6.16 kernel and X.org 7.0 (and a lot of other upgrades that came along as part of the deal), building vmmon module via vmware-config.pl fails. Found the answer

Re: Horde takes forever to load

2006-04-24 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Butch Coolidge wrote: > > I have managed a way to solve this. After removing horde3 and imp4 and > reinstalling them my webmail is running smoothly again. > > Butch > Did you remove or purge? Did you also have to drop the database tables? -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez

how to test Ethernet connection

2006-04-24 Thread Serena Cantor
I bought a second-hand Ethernet card, how to test it? I have 2 PCs, both have a Ethernet card, both running Linux. Now I connect them with a line, how to test the connection? Is there Linux command that send a message thru eth0 interface to display on the other PC? Thanks! __

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