Compilation from source

Hello all Is there and documentaion for cross compiling complete debian system from source ? Regards, Ashutosh Sharma

Untangling print management with CUPS

This kind of rambles a little bit, as I'm trying to solve a few minor issues involving print management. I've noticed with using CUPS to manage my printer, there's two unique things going on when it comes to print job queueing. 1) Print jobs from Windows get sent to the remote CUPS server immedia

Re: VNC on server

Bhasker C V wrote: > I do not want to put iptables > to block input and then watch people see the port as filtered > instead of closed. Use REJECT instead of DROP Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas..

Re: Untangling print management with CUPS

> > So how do I get (Debian) CUPS clients printing to a Debian CUPS server > send off jobs to the CUPS server and forget about it, like other print > spoolers? Once it's sent to the remote system, I shouldn't need to be > tethered to the network. > I do not know if all this is possible with CU

fixing ulimit -n at system level ?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Is there a way to fix at bootup for all users the ulimit -n statement (lenny) ? The default value is ridiculously 1024 Thanks -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.m

Re: apache on debian

After upgrading my php-cgi to 5.2.10-2.2 both apache and nginx stopped having problems. -- () ascii-rubanda kampajno - kontraŭ html-a retpoŝto /\ ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troub

Re: Compilation from source

On 2009-09-09 02:50, Ashutosh Sharma wrote: Hello all Is there and documentaion for cross compiling complete debian system from source ? Did you try Googling "debian cross compile"? -- Brawndo's got what plants crave. It's got electrolytes! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@

Forcing root filesystem read-only during normal operation

Hi All, Can anyone tell me how to force a filesystem read-only from Debian during normal operation? I need to do this for testing of a failure mode. The following doesn't work: * hdparm -r1 * mount -o ro,remount / Also, the host is running as a Xen virtual machine, so I can't do anything on th

que bbdd es mejor para sustituir a microsoft

Hola, Estoy intentando migrar una aplicación que tira contra una base de datos que esta en SQL Server, alguien podría darme una idea como migrarla algún software en debian...postgresql o mysqly cual seria mejor...es una base datos relativamente grande y en la que se realizan consultas y escrit

Change from ms sql server to some database in debian

Hello, I want to change my database in ms sql server to some database en debian, someone knows how can i do it, or give me some step about how to start. Its a relative big database, and the write and read frecuency is a kind high. Thanks

Re: Forcing root filesystem read-only during normal operation

On 2009-09-09 04:05, Ross Peachey wrote: Hi All, Can anyone tell me how to force a filesystem read-only from Debian during normal operation? I need to do this for testing of a failure mode. The following doesn't work: * hdparm -r1 * mount -o ro,remount / Also, the host is running as a Xen vi

Re: Change from ms sql server to some database in debian

On 2009-09-09 04:32, Jesus arteche wrote: Hello, I want to change my database in ms sql server to some database en debian, someone knows how can i do it, or give me some step about how to start. Its a relative big database, and the write and read frecuency is a kind high. Look into PostgreSQL

Re: Change from ms sql server to some database in debian

I also want to know if there's any to tool to convert ms sql db to postgres or mysql. 2009/9/9 Jesus arteche : > Hello, > > I want to change my database in ms sql server to some database en debian, > someone knows how can i do it, or give me some step about how to start. Its > a relative big datab

autossh

Hi, I am having issue with autossh host, I get autossh[13221]: checking for grace period, tries = 0 autossh[13221]: starting ssh (count 1) autossh[13221]: ssh child pid is 13224 autossh[13221]: check on child 13224 autossh[13221]: set alarm for 600 secs autossh[13224]: execing /usr/bin/ssh M

Re: Change from ms sql server to some database in debian

Please don't top-post. Umarzuki Mochlis: > > I also want to know if there's any to tool to convert ms sql db to > postgres or mysql. Didn't you look at the existing documentation? http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Converting_from_other_Databases_to_PostgreSQL J. -- I worry about people thinking

Re: cisco vpnclient: not able to get shell output for more than a few lines

On 09:04 Sun 06 Sep , Mitchell Laks wrote: > Hi, > I need to access a cisco vpn concentrator. > > I tried using vpnc and keep getting a message > vpnc: response was invalid [1]: (ISAKMP_N_INVALID_EXCHANGE_TYPE)(7) > which I cannot figure out the cause for. > any ideas on how to handle that

configuring lenny networking

Hi, I was using a guest lenny VirtualBox as my personal web server. Apache, mysql, etc... No X, no Gnome, KDE etc. Everthing was fine. The host pc was windows. I had a new pc and so moved lenny virtualbox to it by copying virtual harddisks, and VirtualBox's xml files, etc. In the new environ

Re: configuring lenny networking

Oguz Altun wrote: Hi, I was using a guest lenny VirtualBox as my personal web server. Apache, mysql, etc... No X, no Gnome, KDE etc. Everthing was fine. The host pc was windows. I had a new pc and so moved lenny virtualbox to it by copying virtual harddisks, and VirtualBox's xml files, etc.

Re: how to set up iceweasel 3.5 to use mutt as mailer for "link sendto"

Michael Wagner wrote at 2009-09-09 01:10 -0500: > * green 09.09.2009 > > Michael Wagner wrote at 2009-09-08 15:11 -0500: > > > * Michael Wagner 08.09.2009 > > > > * Elimar Riesebieter 04.09.2009 > > > > > I've tried settings -> apps -> mailto -> shellscript > > > > > > Apart from my other messa

Re: Forcing root filesystem read-only during normal operation

Ross Peachey wrote at 2009-09-09 04:05 -0500: > Can anyone tell me how to force a filesystem read-only from Debian > during normal operation? I need to do this for testing of a failure > mode. > Also, the host is running as a Xen virtual machine, so I can't do > anything on the hardware side. > >

saving package info for a fresh reinstall

hi, i want to save all my package info off to the side and do a re-install of lenny so i can restructure my logical volumes. (i realize i can do that manually with the various lvm commands but given how much i want to move things around, and that this install is still on a new server which isn'

Internet interface problem

Hello everyone, Here is what has been giving me (a 15 months-old user of Debian-GNU-Linux) a headache since I installed Lenny over two months ago. I also sport, as you can guess, KDE 3.5.10, any other version numbers of programs involved I will let you know if you wish – that's as much for sof

Re: I would like to eject my cdrom

Lisi Reisz schreef: > On Tuesday 08 September 2009 17:19:35 Wayne Topa wrote: >> Lisi Reisz wrote: >>> On Tuesday 08 September 2009 16:33:00 John Hasler wrote: Sjoerd writes: > Yes, but the point of this questin is: > $ eject -i > eject: invalid option -- i "-i" takes an argum

Re: Forcing root filesystem read-only during normal operation

On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 19:05:27 +1000, Ross Peachey wrote: > Hi All, > > Can anyone tell me how to force a filesystem read-only from Debian > during normal operation? I need to do this for testing of a failure > mode. > > The following doesn't work: > > * hdparm -r1 > * mount -o ro,remount /

Re: fixing ulimit -n at system level ?

In <4aa76c0d.8080...@esiee.fr>, Frank Bonnet wrote: >Is there a way to fix at bootup for all users the ulimit -n statement >(lenny) ? Yes. >The default value is ridiculously 1024 If you think this is not a sane default, you should probably file a bug. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.

Re: saving package info for a fresh reinstall

In , Robert P. J. Day wrote: >http://sunoano.name/ws/public_xhtml/debian_notes_cheat_sheets.html#get_and_o >r_set_list%20_of_installed_packages > >but as i read that, i saw references to the two commands: > > debconf-get-selections > debconf-set-selections > >yet i see only the first of those two

Re: Internet interface problem

On Wednesday 09 September 2009 15:03:04 LM--- wrote: > [...] > > _The_ _problem_ : > > The selection of the eth0 interface, into which the DSL cable coming > from the router is plugged does not take place. The system > “automatically” chooses usb0, which is not wired – unless I interfere > manuall

Lenny Missing glx module

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi. I've been having problems with my ati graphics, and tried the proprietary drivers from AMD without success. However, when I went back to the pre-compiled drivers available in Lenny, video sucked even worse. It seems in my attempt to take out th

Re: Is there any way to turn off IPv6 in the stock Debian 2.6.30 kernel without recompiling?

On Sep 9, 2009, at 5:52 AM, Mark wrote: suggesting disabling the ipv6 module in /etc/modprobe.d/local.conf Rick Thomas wrote: Sadly, it was a good idea but it didn't work. Apparently, having the module compiled in prevents any of the modprobe stuff from having any effect on it. However,

debian testing libdrm2 and fglrx - 2D operations extremely slow

Hello everybody, does anybody run the combination debian testing + fglrx graphics drivers? I have the problem that when I upgrade libdrm2 to the version from the testing repos, the 2D operations like moving and resizing of windows are becoming extremely slow. For now (since weeks) I have to keep

Re: debian testing libdrm2 and fglrx - 2D operations extremely slow

On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 09:49, ein gedanke wrote: > Hello everybody, > > > does anybody run the combination debian testing + fglrx graphics drivers? > > I have the problem that when I upgrade libdrm2 to the version from the > testing repos, the 2D operations like moving and resizing of windows > are

Re: how to set up iceweasel 3.5 to use mutt as mailer for "link sendto"

* green [090909 07:51 -0500] > Michael Wagner wrote at 2009-09-09 01:10 -0500: > > * green 09.09.2009 > > > Michael Wagner wrote at 2009-09-08 15:11 -0500: > > > > * Michael Wagner 08.09.2009 > > > > > * Elimar Riesebieter 04.09.2009 > > > > > > I've tried settings -> apps -> mailto -> shellscri

df/du shows big difference of used space

I have a 1500G hard drive, encrypted. Different commands shows different usage: As root, from root directory: df -m Filesystem 1M-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/d 1390840 128452535665 98% / That is 1284G used of 1391G which wou

Re: df/du shows big difference of used space

On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 9:56 AM, niclasw wrote: > I have a 1500G hard drive, encrypted. > Different commands shows different usage: > > As root, from root directory: > df -m > Filesystem 1M-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted > on > /dev/mapper/d 1390840 1284525

Re: df/du shows big difference of used space

Mike Castle wrote: On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 9:56 AM, niclasw wrote: I have a 1500G hard drive, encrypted. ... Traditionally, 5% of every file system is reserved for root to do with as it pleases. ... Additionally, depending on what filesystem you're using, you may have a journal on there.

Re: how to set up iceweasel 3.5 to use mutt as mailer for "link sendto"

also sprach Elimar Riesebieter [2009.09.09.1918 +0200]: > This is somewhat overscripted from madduck ;-) The faxt is, that my > mutt (hg version from Mutt 1.5.20+lxtecppc (2009-08-04) doesn't > interpret neither $@ nor $[0-9]. I'll get over to mutt-dev with > this. I don't understand. mutt has no

during install, how can i back out of my LVM configuration?

almost assuredly a dumb question but i'm testing a 5.0.3 AMD install and, early in the process, i selected the pre-configured multi-LV partitioning (home, tmp, usr, var). at this point, it doesn't seem like i can back up and manually modify that LVM partitioning scheme. do i need to start the i

Re: Internet interface problem

Hello Florian, hello everyone, On Wednesday 09 September 2009 15:03:04 LM--- wrote: And then, I don't know why, once the booting process is over and I log in, everything goes wrong... - Under KDE: Situation # 1 KNetworkConf (in KDE ConfigCentre – Network parameters) does show eth0 _alone_

Re: Uninstall debian

Hello, debian-www list is about the Debian website. Please use debian-user list for support (about Debian should I precise ? -) On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 02:19:27PM -0400, Richard_Felicity wrote: > I need to uninstall debian from an old Compaq Deskpro to use on another > project. However I don't se

Re: fixing ulimit -n at system level ?

Hi, On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > In <4aa76c0d.8080...@esiee.fr>, Frank Bonnet wrote: > >Is there a way to fix at bootup for all users the ulimit -n statement > >(lenny) ? > > Yes. More specificly, maybe in /etc/security/limits.conf ? > > >The default value is

RE: Uninstall debian

Hello, Thank you Simon but how do I uninstall debian?? Richard -Original Message- From: Simon Paillard [mailto:simon.paill...@resel.enst-bretagne.fr] Sent: September 9, 2009 2:48 PM To: Richard_Felicity Cc: debian-...@lists.debian.org; debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Uninstall

Re: Uninstall debian

Richard_Felicity wrote: Hello, Thank you Simon but how do I uninstall debian?? Richard You don't. You wipe a disk or partition table and start from scratch. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.d

Re: during install, how can i back out of my LVM configuration?

Robert P. J. Day wrote: > almost assuredly a dumb question but i'm testing a 5.0.3 AMD install > and, early in the process, i selected the pre-configured multi-LV > partitioning (home, tmp, usr, var). at this point, it doesn't seem > like i can back up and manually modify that LVM partitioning s

Re: Is there any way to turn off IPv6 in the stock Debian 2.6.30 kernel without recompiling?

Interestingly, This didn't work on the Squeeze system, but it worked fine on a Lenny system running a stock Lenny 2.6.26-2 kernel, which seems to have been generated with ipv6 as a module. Equally interestingly, The Lenny system had no file called /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/*/ disable_ipv6

Re: Internet interface problem

Let me ask this first, as it is quite important: Do you have internet by chance? My guess is that you do, seeing that you use Thunderbird under X11. On Wednesday 09 September 2009 20:28:00 LM--- wrote: > > Situation # 1 > > KNetworkConf (in KDE ConfigCentre – Network parameters) does show > > e

Re: during install, how can i back out of my LVM configuration?

On Wed, 9 Sep 2009, Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > almost assuredly a dumb question but i'm testing a 5.0.3 AMD install > > and, early in the process, i selected the pre-configured multi-LV > > partitioning (home, tmp, usr, var). at this point, it doesn't seem > > like i ca

Re: df/du shows big difference of used space

On 2009-09-09 13:10, Mike Castle wrote: On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 9:56 AM, niclasw wrote: I have a 1500G hard drive, encrypted. Different commands shows different usage: As root, from root directory: df -m Filesystem 1M-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/d

why does a minimal lenny install want to use LILO as the bootloader?

since i saved the output from "dpkg --get-selections" from the previous install before reformatting the hard drive, i understood that i could do a bare-bones install, then use "dpkg --set-selections" to reproduce the package selection and install. so, just for fun, i deselected every selectio

Re: why does a minimal lenny install want to use LILO as the bootloader?

On Wed, 9 Sep 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > since i saved the output from "dpkg --get-selections" from the > previous install before reformatting the hard drive, i understood > that i could do a bare-bones install, then use "dpkg > --set-selections" to reproduce the package selection and insta

Re: how to set up iceweasel 3.5 to use mutt as mailer for "link sendto"

* martin f krafft [090909 20:29 +0200] > also sprach Elimar Riesebieter [2009.09.09.1918 +0200]: > > This is somewhat overscripted from madduck ;-) The faxt is, that my > > mutt (hg version from Mutt 1.5.20+lxtecppc (2009-08-04) doesn't > > interpret neither $@ nor $[0-9]. I'll get over to mutt-de

nameserver during install

Is there any reason why the installer shouldn't contain its own nameserver? It's certainly possible for a Linux system to do its own nameserving, so why shouldn't the istaller? It would remove one step that's tricky for beginners from the installation process. And how can one discover what na

[Fwd: [Bug 594608] hangs on exit]

Okay, I'm being a bit dense this year, but given that gnome/evo 2.22 (as per Lenny on AMD64) isn't supported how would I go about reliably updating? Thanks, M Forwarded Message > From: Evolution > To: c...@networkingnewsletter.org.uk > Subject: [Bug 594608] hangs on exit > Date:

Re: [Fwd: [Bug 594608] hangs on exit]

On 2009-09-09 15:55, michael wrote: Okay, I'm being a bit dense this year, but given that gnome/evo 2.22 (as per Lenny on AMD64) isn't supported how would I go about reliably updating? Thanks, M Updating what? Lenny's GNOME from 2.22 to 2.26, or Lenny to Squeeze? Forwarded Message -

Re: how to set up iceweasel 3.5 to use mutt as mailer for "link sendto"

also sprach Elimar Riesebieter [2009.09.09.2249 +0200]: > > I don't understand. mutt has no business with $@ or $[0-9], but > > I think you are probably hit by #545876. Does the patch fix it for > > you? > > No. I'll need more information then. Maybe you can isolate the entire argument line pass

Re: nameserver during install

On 2009-09-09 15:50, Hendrik Boom wrote: Is there any reason why the installer shouldn't contain its own nameserver? It's certainly possible for a Linux system to do its own nameserving, so why shouldn't the istaller? It would remove one step that's tricky for beginners from the installation

Re: Uninstall debian

On Wednesday 09 September 2009 14:05:42 Richard_Felicity wrote: > Thank you Simon but how do I uninstall debian?? You don't. You install a different OS which will replace Debian. If you want to take Debian (really GRUB) out of the boot process, you can zero-out your MBR. Something like: dd if=

Re: cisco vpnclient: not able to get shell output for more than a few lines

Mitchell Laks wrote: > I need to access a cisco vpn concentrator. > I tried using vpnc and keep getting a message > vpnc: response was invalid [1]: (ISAKMP_N_INVALID_EXCHANGE_TYPE)(7) > which I cannot figure out the cause for. > any ideas on how to handle that? I /think/ it's due to the serv

Re: How to install updated terminfo entry in home directory?

On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 07:00:08PM +0200, Otto Maddox wrote: > I have been having DEL/delete/backspace problems, the cause of which I > have traced to the following bug report: > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=319554 > > In summary, version 5.5-5 of libncurses5 (and libncurses

Re: Is there any way to turn off IPv6 in the stock Debian 2.6.30 kernel without recompiling?

On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 12:52, Rick Thomas wrote: > On Sep 8, 2009, at 10:02 PM, Mark wrote: > >> Rick Thomas wrote: >>> >>> The 2.6.30 kernel seems to have ipv6 turned on and compiled-in -- i.e. >>> not a module. >>> Does this make it impossible to turn off IPv6? Or am I missing >>> something...

Re: que bbdd es mejor para sustituir a microsoft

Jesus, te recomiendo que envies esto al mailing list en español. El email es, debian-user-span...@lists.debian.org Ahi somos muchos los que leemos y tambien los que escriben. -- Rubén O. Varela Rosa http://rovr138.com rovr...@gmail.com 2009/9/9 Jesus arteche > Hola, > > Estoy intentando migra

looking for packages versions of running daemons

I have more than 10 debian (etch and lenny) servers and I want to find a way to know remotely on every server: 1. Name of running daemons and ports (tcp/udp) they're using. 2. Version of the package (installed by APT) used by these daemons. 3. Version of the latest package (from deb mirros) used b

Re: Forcing root filesystem read-only during normal operation

On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 07:05:27PM +1000, Ross Peachey wrote: > Hi All, > > Can anyone tell me how to force a filesystem read-only from Debian > during normal operation? I need to do this for testing of a failure > mode. > > The following doesn't work: > > * hdparm -r1 > * mount -o ro,remount /

Re: looking for packages versions of running daemons

Israel Garcia writes: >I have more than 10 debian (etch and lenny) servers and I want to find >a way to know remotely on every server: >1. Name of running daemons and ports (tcp/udp) they're using. >2. Version of the package (installed by APT) used by these daemons. >3. Version of the latest pac

Re: Configuring Tor and Privoxy in Squeeze [SOLVED]

I am pretty sure that you will not even haven to use the workaround if you make the suggested change to /etc/hosts. Florian Just an update - I deleted the redundant "localhost" entry in the /etc/hosts file as suggested and accepted the Tor and Privoxy upgra

Re: looking for packages versions of running daemons

On 9/9/09, Cameron Hutchison wrote: > Israel Garcia writes: > >>I have more than 10 debian (etch and lenny) servers and I want to find >>a way to know remotely on every server: > >>1. Name of running daemons and ports (tcp/udp) they're using. >>2. Version of the package (installed by APT) used by

Re: looking for packages versions of running daemons

On 2009-09-09 23:30, Israel Garcia wrote: On 9/9/09, Cameron Hutchison wrote: Israel Garcia writes: I have more than 10 debian (etch and lenny) servers and I want to find a way to know remotely on every server: 1. Name of running daemons and ports (tcp/udp) they're using. 2. Version of the p

Re: looking for packages versions of running daemons

On 9/9/09, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2009-09-09 23:30, Israel Garcia wrote: >> On 9/9/09, Cameron Hutchison wrote: >>> Israel Garcia writes: >>> I have more than 10 debian (etch and lenny) servers and I want to find a way to know remotely on every server: 1. Name of running daemons

Re: [Fwd: [Bug 594608] hangs on exit]

2009/9/10 Ron Johnson : > On 2009-09-09 15:55, michael wrote: >> >> Okay, I'm being a bit dense this year, but given that gnome/evo 2.22 (as >> per Lenny on AMD64) isn't supported how would I go about reliably >> updating? Thanks, M There's always bug fixes as long as Lenny support is still availa

dvb HVR900 unable to enumerate USB device on port

Hi, I am using lenny stable on a server like machine where I have dvb hvr900 installed. Yesterday I had to reboot and the message below makes it unable to use the dvb device. I recently upgraded to lates level of updates (dbus and udev among all) The kernel it was working with was 2.6.28. I now t