Re: PostgreSQL upgrade (7.3->7.4) failed: need a up to date dump

2004-02-23 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Mon, 2004-02-23 at 16:55, Cinly Ooi wrote: > Dear all, > > While trying to upgrade from 7.3->7.4, I cannot get around the problem of > "You must have an up to date dump before upgrading to PostgreSQL 7.4" > eventhough I tried pg_dumpall > dumpfile See bug #230681 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: PostgreSQL upgrade (7.3->7.4) failed: need a up to date dump

2004-02-23 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Mon, 2004-02-23 at 17:23, Cinly Ooi wrote: > Dear Oliver, > > Thanks for the info. I checked the bug report. I had reinstalled 7.3.4 > and try upgrading again but the same message reappear, anyway around > this? I really need 7.4 running because one of the software uses 7.4. If you have made

Re: Postgre/PHP installation woes

2004-02-24 Thread Oliver Elphick
mpted to log in many times, so we know we're not > mis-typingthe password. Is the login prompt not hitting the database? Look at your postgresql log to see what is happening; connection attempts should be logged there. Have you got php's postgresql module installed? apt-get install

Re: Question re: postgresql

2004-03-07 Thread Oliver Elphick
tion setup is "ident sameuser" in /etc/postgresql/pg_hba.conf, which means that you can only be the PostgreSQL user whose name matches your login identity. Oliver Elphick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: postgresql configuration and set-up

2004-03-21 Thread Oliver Elphick
asier way than having to GRANT every > > object -- like a global grant. Not that I know of; the best thing to do is to construct a script to set permissions. One way to make things easier is to assign users to groups and grant permissions to groups rather than to users; removing or adding a user to the appropriate group will automatically grant access to all objects for which the group has access. Oliver Elphick PostgreSQL package maintainer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: postgresql configuration and set-up

2004-03-21 Thread Oliver Elphick
asier way than having to GRANT every > > object -- like a global grant. Not that I know of; the best thing to do is to construct a script to set permissions. One way to make things easier is to assign users to groups and grant permissions to groups rather than to users; removing or adding a user to the appropriate group will automatically grant access to all objects for which the group has access. Oliver Elphick PostgreSQL package maintainer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Postgresql is not accepting TCP/IP connections.>ITS WORKING

2004-02-05 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 13:34, Oliver Elphick wrote: > On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 09:23, Hans Steinraht wrote: > > Thanks for all the help. > > > > On versions to 7.2 the startup script looked in > > /etc/postgresql/postgresql.conf for the option > > tcpip_socke

Re: Postgresql 7.4.1

2004-02-12 Thread Oliver Elphick
are the major improvements in > this version over 7.2 and 7.3? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/static/release.html#RELEASE-7-4 and http://www.postgresql.org/news/169.html Oliver Elphick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

ImageMagick - how do you set the print command?

2004-04-15 Thread Oliver Elphick
find which file to put a resource string in. Can anyone help, please? Oliver Elphick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Problems with CD insertion - sid

2013-06-17 Thread Oliver Elphick
When a CD is inserted, it does not get mounted (data CD) or properly notified (audio CD). I found that rhythmbox never showed an audio CD as available to play - it should come up under devices on the left-hand sidebar. I then tried setting the system to run VLC instead, using System Settings. St

Re: Problems with CD insertion - sid

2013-06-18 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Tue, 2013-06-18 at 10:32 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 18 iun 13, 07:55:51, Oliver Elphick wrote: > > When a CD is inserted, it does not get mounted (data CD) or properly > > notified (audio CD). > ... > > I don't know where the problem resides. Which packa

Re: Problems with CD insertion - sid

2013-06-18 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Tue, 2013-06-18 at 20:31 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > For a start: > > Does "eject -T" open/close the drive? 'eject /dev/sr0' opens it (once unmounted), and -t closes it. -T gives an I/O error > Any error messages in /var/log/syslog? No > Does "udevadm trigger" help? --verbose gives a

Re: Problems with CD insertion - sid

2013-06-18 Thread Oliver Elphick
First, I was wrong about it's not mounting the data CD. I was looking in the wrong place. So it is only about audio CDs. When one is inserted: $ sudo udisks --monitor-detail Monitoring activity from the disks daemon. Press Ctrl+C to cancel. changed: /org/freedesktop/UDisks/devices/sr0 Showi

Re: Problems with CD insertion - sid

2013-06-21 Thread Oliver Elphick
be used at all with an audio CD. Oliver Elphick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1371806284.3409.0.camel@ruth

Dual monitor problems

2013-06-24 Thread Oliver Elphick
back to life. I can pass the mouse into it, or select a window that is on it, but it remains black. The only exception is that it will restore when the screen is locked and I enter my password to unlock it. Where should I look? Debian version: sid, recently updated Oliver Elphick -- To

Re: Dual monitor problems

2013-06-25 Thread Oliver Elphick
On 25/06/13 12:34, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 25 iun 13, 06:56:14, Oliver Elphick wrote: >> I am trying to use two monitors at once, for the first time, using >> an Nvidia dual head card. >> >> I have now got the two monitors displaying a single screen and the >

Debian testing - update has partly broken X, but which package?

2016-05-22 Thread Oliver Elphick
browser). Highlighted text is no longer visible in evolution. The general appearance is very poor. Screenshot available at http://www.lfix.co.uk/images/x-problem.jpeg I would like to know which package is responsible for these features, please. Oliver Elphick Lincolnshire, UK

Unwanted on-screen keyboard - which package.

2016-06-22 Thread Oliver Elphick
I do could get rid of this confounded nuisance until I rebooted again, after purging the antlr packages. But what package should have a bug filed? Using Debian testing on amd64, updated this morning. Thanks Oliver Elphick

Re: Unwanted on-screen keyboard - which package.

2016-06-25 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Sun, 2016-06-26 at 03:13 +1200, cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: > On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 05:06:13PM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote: > > I enabled the on-screen keyboard applet in Cinnamon so as to write > > some > > text with French accents. But then it kept on coming

Matrox G550 - MGA X server fails

2017-03-22 Thread Oliver Elphick
I am unable to start X using a Matrox Millennium G550 PCIe card. This is what I think is the relevant part of the log for the session: #011compiled for 1.19.2, module version = 0.1.0 #011ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 23.0 (--) MGA(0): Chipset: "mgag550" xf86TokenToOptinfo: table is NULL

Re: Matrox G550 - MGA X server fails

2017-03-23 Thread Oliver Elphick
X server to setuid and am going to swap the video card back in and try again later. On 22 Mar 2017 8:12 pm, "Sven Joachim" wrote: > On 2017-03-22 10:25 +, Oliver Elphick wrote: > > > I am unable to start X using a Matrox Millennium G550 PCIe card. > > > > Th

Multi-display - one monitor active but blank

2016-03-21 Thread Oliver Elphick
leaving the monitors turned on 24 hours a day, but I have just installed Debian (instead of Mint) and the problem has come back. Any ideas where to start to solve this, please? -- Oliver Elphick Lincolnshire, England

Re: Multi-display - one monitor active but blank

2016-03-21 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Mon, 2016-03-21 at 17:27 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > Oliver Elphick composed on 2016-03-21 21:01 (UTC): > > > > > I have two monitors; the second one sometimes comes to life but is > > usually blank. However, the system thinks that it is active and > > displayi

Re: Multi-display - one monitor active but blank

2016-03-21 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Mon, 2016-03-21 at 23:07 +, Mark Fletcher wrote: > It couldn't be a dodgy cable, could it? > > Mark I don't think so. If that were the case it would flash on and off as the cable moved. It is resolutely blank, except just sometimes. The cable is behind the desk, so it doesn't ge tmoved. I

Re: Multi-display - one monitor active but blank

2016-03-22 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Mon, 2016-03-21 at 20:55 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > Oliver Elphick composed on 2016-03-21 22:56 (UTC): > > > What gfxchip powers your displays? > > > > Card: Nvidia > > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GT218 [NVS > > 300] > > (

Re: Multi-display - one monitor active but blank

2016-03-22 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Tue, 2016-03-22 at 16:36 -0400, Ric Moore wrote: >  > I didn't see a response to the question if this was a laptop? > It isn't.  It's a tower PC. The on-board Intel video is not used; there is a dual-head Nvidia card with both monitors.

How to debug systemd script?

2016-03-28 Thread Oliver Elphick
started. How can I find out what is going on to stop the normal init script from working? Is there some way to force systemctl to log what it is doing? If it does log, where does it put the log? Thanks Oliver Elphick

Re: How to debug systemd script?

2016-03-28 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Tue, 2016-03-29 at 02:33 +1300, chrisb@localhost.localdomain wrote: > On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 01:00:35PM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote: > > How can I find out what is going on to stop the normal init script > > from > > working? Is there some way to force systemctl to log

Re: Do not know which package bug is in

2016-04-01 Thread Oliver Elphick
ecall reading that charging devices like that demands more power than the computer can supply. Oliver Elphick

Re: Do not know which package bug is in

2016-04-01 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Fri, 2016-04-01 at 11:34 +0100, Robin Oberg wrote: > On Fri, 2016-04-01 at 11:21 +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote: > > Intermittent failures like that sound more like hardware problems. > > I > > seem to recall reading that charging devices like that demands more > >

Creating launcher in Gnome 3

2016-04-04 Thread Oliver Elphick
does not appear in the menu. So what is missing, please? Oliver Elphick

Re: Creating launcher in Gnome 3

2016-04-04 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Mon, 2016-04-04 at 17:19 +0200, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Mon, 2016-04-04 at 13:27 +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote: > > > > I'm trying to create a launcher.  Following the explanation in  > > https://specifications.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/in > &g

Re: /etc/passwd file, and USERSPEC.H

2002-03-09 Thread Oliver Elphick
t account is disabled Days since Jan 1, 1970 that account is disabled A reserved field -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 8870 583

RE: /etc/passwd file, and USERSPEC.H

2002-03-09 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Sat, 2002-03-09 at 18:21, Mark Dascher wrote: > Ah, ok. So the passwd (5) man page is just a bit outdated, then? (When I > read a man page, I like to make sure I understand it completely, so I > usually have to test stuff out ;) I filed a bug on it. -- Olive

Re: "dpkg -l" redirection

2002-03-10 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Sun, 2002-03-10 at 19:26, Jim Woodruff wrote: > Does anyone have a way of redirecting the standard output of "dpkg -l" to > a file without the truncation that takes place? $ COLUMNS=200 dpkg -l > file -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTE

Re: /etc/issue

2002-03-15 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Fri, 2002-03-15 at 15:43, Michael Kines wrote: > I accidentally erased my /etc/issue . > Now, when I switch alt-ctrl f1, there is no > indication of what tty I am on. Where can > I get that back again? Thanks. Attached -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PRO

Re: postgres update database problem

2002-03-21 Thread Oliver Elphick
db.out is right up to date: $ su # su - postgres $ psql -d template1 < db.out -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 8870 5839 932A 614D 4C34 3E1D 0C1C &q

Re: problems with dpkg/deselct installing woody

2002-03-24 Thread Oliver Elphick
d the package is successfully purged. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 8870 5839 932A 614D 4C34 3E1D 0C1C "But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew

Re: simple database?

2002-03-25 Thread Oliver Elphick
now. To speed things up, you could do query-caching inside your application, though a simple indexed lookup is pretty fast anyway. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E

Re: copy protected audio cds with linux ?

2002-03-25 Thread Oliver Elphick
in Germany, since the quality of the CD has been deliberately downgraded. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 8870 5839 932A 614D 4C34 3E1D 0C1C "W

Re: copy protected audio cds with linux ?

2002-03-25 Thread Oliver Elphick
s, how can we justify returning them? You couldn't, if the shop made it clear to you. If you told them beforehand that you wanted it to play on your PC, you could return it. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www

Re: unixodbc: where has libodbcpsql gone?

2002-03-27 Thread Oliver Elphick
e. > > Any cues? It has been withdrawn in favour of the library from PostgreSQL itself. Install odbc-postgresql (>= 7.2-3). -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12

Re: OT Any web site that teaches how to make LAN cable connection

2002-03-27 Thread Oliver Elphick
http://www.techfest.com/networking/lan -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 8870 5839 932A 614D 4C34 3E1D 0C1C "Cast all your anxiety on him,

Re: Logging transactions

2002-03-30 Thread Oliver Elphick
It is in a required package, so you should already have it on your system. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 8870 5839 932A 614D 4C34 3E1D 0C1C "But t

Re: The latest round of antivirus bouncebacks

2002-04-11 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Thu, 2002-04-11 at 07:41, Mikael Bergman wrote: > ... I can't imagine a situation where an > attachment is warranted on a (debian) list. As you should see, this mail, sent through Evolution, has the GNUpg signature in an attachment. -- Oliver Elphick

Re: Woody???

2002-04-11 Thread Oliver Elphick
apart from the offensive language, you give no useful information. How is anyone supposed to know what you have done or which of the thousands of Debian packages has caused your problem? -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight

Re: The latest round of antivirus bouncebacks

2002-04-11 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Thu, 2002-04-11 at 14:58, Shawn McMahon wrote: > begin Oliver Elphick quotation: > > > > As you should see, this mail, sent through Evolution, has the GNUpg > > signature in an attachment. > > Not that it matters, because: > > [-- PGP output follows (curre

Re: (no subject)

2002-04-13 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Sat, 2002-04-13 at 00:29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > how do i get a full screen ? Be more specific. Full screen of what? -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 0

X - getting a full screen [Fwd: Re: (no subject)]

2002-04-13 Thread Oliver Elphick
Date: 13 Apr 2002 07:33:46 -0400 im getting not a full viewing area -End of Forwarded Message- -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 8870 5839 932A

Re: Wrong characters in man pages

2002-04-15 Thread Oliver Elphick
e fact that I > want english text with a euro charset): > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... > > In console mode the same characters are displayed as small squares. > Anyone know what's going on? Do you have suitable fonts installed? (iso8859-15 or Unicode) -- Oliver Elphick

Re: apt-get upgrade fails due to kernel-image problem

2005-12-16 Thread Oliver Elphick
n't help you much because you can't do that until _after_ it has been unpacked. You can unpack the .deb file manually cd /some/path ar x /var/cache/apt/archives/kernel-image-2.6.8-2-386_2.6.8-16sarge1_i386.deb That will give you a control tar archive and a data tar archive. Unpack the data archive and you should have the filetree that would be installed. Oliver Elphick

Re: HELP

2005-12-16 Thread Oliver Elphick
en't installing on a Debian system, you are asking the wrong list. Oliver Elphick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apt-get upgrade fails due to kernel-image problem

2005-12-16 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 14:14 +0100, gregory duchesnes wrote: > Do you know where i could find those 3Mb? I don't wnanna break anything > and i don't know what i could remove from / It all depends what you have installed. What might be simpler is to swap your /tmp and / partitions: reboot

Re: apt-get upgrade fails due to kernel-image problem

2005-12-16 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 09:08 -0500, Michael Marsh wrote: > On 12/16/05, gregory duchesnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Do you know where i could find those 3Mb? I don't wnanna break anything > > and i don't know what i could remove from / > > Have you tried "apt-get clean"? That empties /var/cac

Re: apt-get upgrade fails due to kernel-image problem

2005-12-16 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 15:11 +0100, gregory duchesnes wrote: > Yes i did, didn't help. > > Listen guys, i have 36Mb of modules in /lib/modules, what would happen > if i erase (or just move for the moment) modules that i'm sure i don't > need, like (isdn drivers)? No problem. IF they aren't used

Re: apt-get upgrade fails due to kernel-image problem

2005-12-16 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 15:25 +0100, gregory duchesnes wrote: > Is there a quick way to get the list of modules and drivers i can erase? Try this script: #!/bin/bash export module for m in $(find /lib/modules -name '*.ko') do module=$(basename $(basename $m) .ko) if [ -z "$((echo $m

IP forwarding problem

2006-01-27 Thread Oliver Elphick
errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:524809613 (500.4 MiB) TX bytes:358879507 (342.2 MiB) Interrupt:161 Oliver Elphick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

Re: IP forwarding problem

2006-01-27 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 12:31 -0600, Matt Zagrabelny wrote: > On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 14:52 +0000, Oliver Elphick wrote: > > Can anyone help with this network problem, please? > > > > This machine is an internal router, with two network cards. iptables is > > not conf

Re: Kernel Source

2006-01-31 Thread Oliver Elphick
ather than kernel-source-2.6.x. I think that will apply to etch as well. Oliver Elphick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Unsure about security requirements for workstation/server

2006-01-31 Thread Oliver Elphick
roblems promptly fixed by the package maintainers. As a compromise, you could install testing, which will be some way behind unstable, but somewhat less likely to contain serious problems. For security of your internet connection, install a firewall such as shorewall (Debian package) and configure i

Re: IP forwarding problem

2006-01-31 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 14:52 +, Oliver Elphick wrote: > Can anyone help with this network problem, please? > > This machine is an internal router, with two network cards. iptables is > not configured in the kernel, since masquerading and filtering is not > required. (Ther

C++: Math function round() does not compile - why?

2006-02-14 Thread Oliver Elphick
ceptions -fno-rtti -Wall -W -g -std=c99 -I/opt/Qtopia/include -o orderimpl.o orderimpl.cpp orderimpl.cpp: In method `void OrderImpl::calculate_line(int)': orderimpl.cpp:84: implicit declaration of function `int round(...)' -- Oliver Elphick olly@l

Re: Postgresql pg_autovacuum in Sarge?

2006-02-14 Thread Oliver Elphick
indicates whether a vacuum is required. >space that vacuum does not reclaim > vacuumlo - Vacuum deleted large objects Look for the file pg_autovacuum. It is in postgresql-contrib. (There is a temporary replacement for packages.debian.org up at

Re: C++: Math function round() does not compile - why?

2006-02-14 Thread Oliver Elphick
to achieve this for 2.95? (This is now academic, since I have written my own version for this application.) -- Oliver Elphick olly@lfix.co.uk Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/A54310EA 92C8 39E7 280E 3631 3F0E 1EC

Re: C++: Math function round() does not compile - why? - resolution

2006-02-14 Thread Oliver Elphick
t set by the compiler. There are a few other macros you > might want to set (_POSIX_SOURCE, or even _GNU_SOURCE), so perhaps you > should have a closer look at if you plan to use it directly. Thanks to you and others for that suggestion. Defining _GNU_SOURCE fixes the problem for g++-2.95. --

Re: C++: Math function round() does not compile - why?

2006-02-14 Thread Oliver Elphick
right; the -c option was used. This is just one module of many, with the compilation of each module called from a makefile. -- Oliver Elphick olly@lfix.co.uk Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/A54310EA 92C8

Re: postgresql installation

2006-02-15 Thread Oliver Elphick
ion. md5 means that the password is compared in md5 format. To set the password, connect to template1 as postgres using a local connection (do not specify any host) and: ALTER USER username WITH PASSWORD 'newpassword'; now you should be able to connect using th

Re: postgres 7.1 -> 7.2 ... sigh

2002-04-21 Thread Oliver Elphick
;local all trust" in pg_hba.conf while you were doing the reinstallation. That would have saved you a bit of time. I am interested to know how the original problem arose. Did you at some stage manage to insert a duplicate sysid into the user list? Or did you specify sysid 1 for "user" a

Re: ISDN Auto Dial

2002-04-22 Thread Oliver Elphick
eserver. Normally you do this by specifying one or more nameserver lines in /etc/resolv.conf. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 8870 5839 932A 614D 4C3

Re: word format

2002-05-15 Thread Oliver Elphick
> what I did wrong I would appreciate it. Well apart from the wrongness of bothering a Debian Linux list with Microsoft problems, MS Works is not compatible with MS Word. There is no technical reason why this should be so; it's just a Microsoft device to increase their profits. -

Re: word format

2002-05-15 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 08:42, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 02:14, Oliver Elphick wrote: > > On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 04:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [snip] > > Microsoft problems, MS Works is not compatible with MS Word. There is > > no technical reason why

Re: use 'woody' or 'testing' in sources.list?

2002-05-22 Thread Oliver Elphick
;stable' soon? It's waiting for some infrastructure to let the security team do fixes to all released architectures at once. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA1

Re: use 'woody' or 'testing' in sources.list?

2002-05-22 Thread Oliver Elphick
;stable' soon? It's waiting for some infrastructure to let the security team do fixes to all released architectures at once. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA1

Re: O.T. Need help in merging databases; postgresql

2002-05-27 Thread Oliver Elphick
+--+-+--- Fred | 12 Green St. | | Colchester | MA George | 1 Park Lane | Box #566 | Frinksworth | CO (2 rows) junk=# select * from table3; member | address| box# |city | state +--+--+-

Re: Debian-Reference-Manual

2002-05-27 Thread Oliver Elphick
ersion (or French or Spanish) or to the development version. You'll find it in proper readable format. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 8870 5839 932A 6

Re: IMP3,horde2, Postgresql from sid

2002-05-28 Thread Oliver Elphick
need to enable access from some other hosts? (You say it works OK with localhost, which suggest that this may be the problem.) -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8

Re: IMP3,horde2, Postgresql from sid

2002-05-28 Thread Oliver Elphick
which will display each line as it is executed. This will show the command that is failing. Try to run that command by hand, turning on any available verbosity or debugging. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.l

Re: [networking] Computer can't see the outside world any more

2005-08-10 Thread Oliver Elphick
and see if it works like that? (The DHCP server can be configured to avoid that address.) You could also try running tcpdump on another machine to see if packets from the web-server appear on the network. -- Oliver Elphick olly@lfix.co.uk Isle of Wight

Re: Backup/Restore debian package

2005-08-16 Thread Oliver Elphick
restore to 'test version 1.0' but i have not 'test.deb' file 'version > 1.0'. > How can i backup 'test version 1.0' for restore purpose after if needed. Old package versions can possibly be recovered from http://snapshot.debian.net/ -- Oliv

Re: Backup/Restore debian package

2005-08-16 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 06:09 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I meaned my own deb packages that are not on the Internet. In that case, if you didn't keep copies of old debs, no-one else can help. -- Oliver Elphick olly@lfix.co.uk Isle

Re: diary with encryption

2005-08-17 Thread Oliver Elphick
. You can use cfs to make a small encrypted filesystem out of a normal directory; then you can store your diary in the encrypted filesystem. -- Oliver Elphick olly@lfix.co.uk Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 10

Re: Two problems: Low resolution and login screen

2005-08-17 Thread Oliver Elphick
quately stated in /etc/X11/XF86Config. When X starts, it tries to find the mode with the closest match to the screen resolution you are asking for; in this case, the best it can do is 800x600. Look at the X startup log to see what it was doing. (The log is in /var/log/XFree86.log.0, I think

Re: compile kernel for remote machine

2005-08-18 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 08:34 +0200, Brent Clark wrote: > Hi all > > Would anyone know how I can compile a kernel for my remote machine on > my machine. ... > Baring in mind they are both debian machine and both running 2.6 > kernel and both running testing. Since they are both Debian machines, you

Re: tclConfig.sh and tkConfig.sh are not included in the binary distribution

2005-08-21 Thread Oliver Elphick
g > that tclConfig.sh and tkConfig.sh are not found. Hence I am unable to > install such packages. > I need help on this... > thank you You should find it in the tcl8.4-dev binary package, at /usr/lib/tcl8.4/tclConfig.sh -- Oliver Elphick

Where is autologout control in sarge / gnome?

2005-08-24 Thread Oliver Elphick
I have a computer which is kept at current stable release. Since it was upgraded to sarge, it has taken to doing an autologout from an X session after an hour or so of inactivity. Where is this controlled from? I can't find a control for it in Gnome nor in /etc/gdm/gdm.conf -- Oliver El

Re: Upgrade to Woody

2002-06-06 Thread Oliver Elphick
r of packages that need upgrading, I would let apt remove things. I would then reinstall anything I needed that has been removed. This will sometimes show up dependency conflicts; if they can't be resolved, some package must be sacrificed, or else built from source. -- Oliver Elphick

Re: Re:

2005-08-27 Thread Oliver Elphick
s behaviour by default; if you don't mind > switching, that might be the easiest fix. If it's gdm, the availablility of this feature is controlled by options in /etc/gdm/gdm.conf: SystemMenu and SecureSystemMenu -- Oliver Elphick olly@lfix.co

Re: Newbie --Admin access problem on KDE... HELP!!

2005-09-08 Thread Oliver Elphick
epend on your local setup. "address" is the address of the machine you are setting up and "gateway" is the machine that is connected to the internet. If you want to use DHCP to get an address automatically, it will be different - sorry, I haven't got an example here.

Re: ktechlab on sarge

2005-09-08 Thread Oliver Elphick
install which will sort out the mess. The -u option ensures that it tells you what it is going to do before it starts deleting or overwriting stuff you want to keep. Oliver Elphick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 6Gb of invisible files, or what?

2005-09-13 Thread Oliver Elphick
mount directories are empty (don't forget about hidden files -- use ls -a). -- Oliver Elphick olly@lfix.co.uk Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/A

Re: 6Gb of invisible files, or what?

2005-09-14 Thread Oliver Elphick
ace is left?" and df cannot answer the question "How much of the used space is visible in the filesystem?" -- Oliver Elphick olly@lfix.co.uk Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver

Re: Y or I, N or O

2005-10-12 Thread Oliver Elphick
nfiguration file will be saved as .dpkg-old and replaced by the package's version. If you choose N, the existing configuration file will be left untouched and the new version will be saved in the same directory under the name .dpkg-dist (or .dpkg-new). -- Oliver Elphick

Re: postgresql encoding

2005-10-17 Thread Oliver Elphick
f > postgresql. It is set to SQL_ASCII and I want to change it to UNICODE No. You have to dump and reload. -- Oliver Elphick olly@lfix.co.uk Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/A54310EA 92C8 39E7 280E 363

Re: Debian can't connect to internet gateway

2005-10-21 Thread Oliver Elphick
work 192.168.2.0 > netmask 255.255.255.0 > broadcast 192.168.2.255 Don't you need a line here to specify the router? gateway 192.168.2.1 Oliver Elphick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to install debian on an external hard disk drive

2005-10-21 Thread Oliver Elphick
can't say what they would be. If the BIOS does not see the drive as a boot option, you may have to write a boot CD with a kernel and initial root image (initrd) on it. Once you have a system that can boot into Debian, you can install further packages over the net. -- Oliver Elphick

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