Re: Uninstall (nearly) everything installed after spacific date

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bob wrote: > Joe Hart wrote: >> Hash: SHA1 >> Tyler Smith wrote: >> >>> On 2007-03-18, Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> ls -lt /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.list | awk -F"/" '{print $6}' | awk -F"." '{print $1}' > list.txt will

Re: host aliases

On 18.03.07 16:15, Celejar wrote: > I want to configure a system-wide host alias. Say there's a host whose > DNS name is 'foo.bar'. I want any network application that asks for > 'baz' to get 'foo.bar'. I know I can do this for individual apps; in > ssh, for example, I include these 2 lines in 'con

Bug#413933 closed by Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Bug#413933: fixed in zorp 3.0.8-0.3)

This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report #413933: zorp: policy.boot cannot be found, which was filed against the zorp package. It has been closed by Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. Their explanation is attached below. If this explanation is unsatisfactory and you have not

Re: Sneakernet .deb packages by usb thumb?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > My desktop debian system is at home with no available internet > connection. > > Work provides internet with no linux. > > is there any way to aquire .deb packages from the repository and take > them home on a usb for insta

Re: nvidia-glx in experimental

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 � wrote: > On 03/18/07 14:14, Joe Hart wrote: > [snip] >> As for the issue at hand, how long does it take to reinstall? I suppose >> that depends on how fast your internet connection is. The headers are >> not small (ie: >> pool/main/l/linux-2.6/linux-

Re: coretemp - take3

Alexey, Maybe OpenVZ needs both safe and unsafe variants in msr-on-cpu? >> On URL bellow is current version of coretemp driver. >> >> http://ssh.cz/~ruik/patches/ >> >> What was fixed? I fixed the issues Jean pointed out, I created separate patch >> for ...msr_safe stuff. >> > In arch/i386/lib

Re: Very slow network - Ubuntu

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thilo Six wrote: [snip] >>> may it be network manager? >> You mean network mangler. That's what it is to a desktop gateway. > > sorry never heard of network mangler. > what i mean is: > http://packages.ubuntu.com/feisty/net/network-manager Network-m

Re: Graphics cards

On 3/18/07, Peter Hillier-Brook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It looks like my graphics card is slowly dying and I would value input on optimal chipsets/manufacturers for a replacement in the context of Debian (Etch presently). No especial requirements in terms of high performance, just something th

Re: wine or VM

On 3/18/07, Bernd.Kloss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Etch 2.6.18-3-k7 KDE 3.5 Hello, we used to run programs on WIN98SE, Win2000 and XP using for instance QUICKTIME or being programmed in Pascal using graphics. Some people are using powerpoint-presentations and WINWORD-Textfiles. Both with proble

Re: Check for USB connections

On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 01:44:28PM -0300, Alejandro wrote: > Matthew K Poer wrote: > >On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 12:55 -0300, Alejandro wrote: > > > >>Dear all, I have Debian Etch connected to a HP printer through an USB > >>port but it is not recognized. A pair of months ago the printer worked > >

Re: Change Locale of One/All Running Application(s)

On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 03:41:43PM +0530, Masatran, R. Deepak wrote: > How can I change the locale of one/all running application(s) without > restarting it/them? > > -- > Masatran, R. Deepak There is a program that I have not used that may be useful: local

Re: Vyatta / OFR Experience to share?

I just finished configuring my Vyatta OFR router on my home network. I was pleasantly surprised to see my setup went off "without a hitch." I started out with the VMNT Virtual Appliance version of Vyatta, but I did something wrong - as far as I know there is nothing actually wrong with the applia

Re: Very slow network - Ubuntu

On Sat, 2007-03-17 at 15:31 -0400, A. Ben Hmeda wrote: > I have searched ubuntu forums to no avail. My network connection has > slowed down considerably since I installed Ubuntu Dapper (6.06.1 LTS) I > have disabled ipv6 in /etc/aliases and Firefox, still slow by about 50%. > > My machine AMDSMP i

Re: How to chmod files in my web server

On 18 Mar 2007 13:24:54 -0700, Jordi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Wei Chen, Thanks for that excelent info. > I think 755 is all right. The execute bit for a directory means the > permission of going into the directory. And what about setting the files to chmod 744 ? That way will be better?

Re: Debian's progress inspite of events (was Re: Dunk-Tank and the DD strike)

On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 23:46 -0300, D G Teed wrote: > On 3/18/07, Roberto C. Sánchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 07:51:07AM -0300, D G Teed wrote: > > > > I agree that the kernel within the installer is something > > needing to be updated more

Re: host aliases

On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 02:07:26 +0100 Martin Marcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Get the IP of foo.bar and give bar the entry in the hosts file > (closest you can get afaik without doing dns) > > > Am 18.03.2007 um 21:15 schrieb Celejar: > > /etc/hosts allows aliases of names to IP addresses, bu

Re: how to reconfigure X after video card change

Default User wrote: > How do I configure the Sarge system to use the new card (I really don't > want to reinstall from scratch . . .) ? > As root, try dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 hth raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/ http://malayamaarutham.blogspo

Re: coretemp - take3

Rudolf Marek wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm CCing all interested parties, if some isn't please tell! > > On URL bellow is current version of coretemp driver. > > http://ssh.cz/~ruik/patches/ Small glitch in coretemp_init: printk(KERN_NOTICE DRVNAME ": This driver uses undocumented features"

Re: coretemp - take3

Hello, Rudolf Marek wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm CCing all interested parties, if some isn't please tell! > > On URL bellow is current version of coretemp driver. > > http://ssh.cz/~ruik/patches/ > > I do not own this CPU (happy user of overclocked Opteron ;) So it would be > great > if someone ca

Re: Using gdb on a debian system.

On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 11:53:51PM -0500, cga2000 wrote: > Could somebody advise on using gdb on a debian system? > > Currently whenever I need to take an insider look at what the code is > really doing, I try to locate the source of the same version, download > the .tar.gz .. run configure/make a

Re: REALLY OT: News Flash

On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 11:36:28PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > > The Muslims also believe that all prophets before Mohammed were > misunderstood by their followers, so that the true teachings of (for > instance) Moses and Jesus (Issa) are found only in the Koran. > Of course, this raises the follow

Re: Very slow network - Ubuntu

Thilo Six wrote: Thilo Six wrote the following on 18.03.2007 20:43: hmm wait may it be network manager? What when you stop it Ben? sudo /etc/dbus-1/event.d/26NetworkManagerDispatcher stop sudo /etc/dbus-1/event.d/25NetworkManager stop But this would only apply to releases after dapper afai

Re: Very slow network - Ubuntu

Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 12:20:01PM -0400, A. Ben Hmeda wrote: Freddy Freeloader wrote: Joe Hart wrote: Ben, I've been following this thread but not commenting since I don't do gnome. Do I understand correctly that you boot stright to gnome, start a download and get

Re: Very slow network - Ubuntu

Thilo Six wrote: Douglas Allan Tutty wrote the following on 18.03.2007 20:24: Ben, I've been following this thread but not commenting since I don't do gnome. Do I understand correctly that you boot stright to gnome, start a download and get poor network components but if you do a gnome network

Using gdb on a debian system.

Could somebody advise on using gdb on a debian system? Currently whenever I need to take an insider look at what the code is really doing, I try to locate the source of the same version, download the .tar.gz .. run configure/make and execute the version that I built from source: $ gdb ./program

Re: REALLY OT: News Flash

On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 08:23:33PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 02:05:02PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >> Actually, Muslims teach that Jesus was a true prophet, in fact one > >> of the four (I think) major prophets of Islam. And

Re: Very slow network - Ubuntu

Marty wrote: A. Ben Hmeda wrote: I have an Internet router for sharing cable Internet connection. 3 PCs plugged into this router, class C network, I think. All with static IPs 192.168.1.2,3 and 4. Gateway (router) is 192.168.1.1 DNS is my ISP's 64.71.255.198 I am using 100Mb Ethernet and 10/1

Re: REALLY OT: News Flash

On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 08:23:33PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 02:05:02PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >> Actually, Muslims teach that Jesus was a true prophet, in fact one > >> of the four (I think) major prophets of Islam. And

Re: Very slow network - Ubuntu

Joe Hart wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A. Ben Hmeda wrote: [snip] I have been using Linux as my main os since Caldera, then RedHat 5.2 in 1999, I used Mandrake (3 versions) and FC1, FC2, Potato, Sarge, FC 4/5. I found that this Debian variant (Ubuntu) is the only version

Re: OT: sponge burning!

On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 07:57:32PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 03:26:03AM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > >> > >> > > Are these the same Muslims who are blowing innocent men women and > > children in markets schools and other public places? > >

Unable to change tty /dev/tty1 : Read Only file System

Hi All, I am using Debian Sarge. My root file system is read only. Now after login I am getting a error like this: Unable to change tty /dev/tty1 : Read Only file System. Though it successfully login. Can you please suggest me how to get relief from this message. Thanks in advance. Suhas -- To

Re: Debian's progress inspite of events (was Re: Dunk-Tank and the DD strike)

On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 11:46:08PM -0300, D G Teed wrote: > On 3/18/07, Roberto C. Sánchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 07:51:07AM -0300, D G Teed wrote: > >> > >> I agree that the kernel within the installer is something > >> needing to be updated more often. > > > >Ex

Re: REALLY OT: News Flash

Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 02:05:02PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Actually, Muslims teach that Jesus was a true prophet, in fact one >> of the four (I think) major prophets of Islam. And the Shia believe >> that he will return (along with another prophet)

Re: Uninstall (nearly) everything installed after spacific date

Joe Hart wrote: Hash: SHA1 Tyler Smith wrote: On 2007-03-18, Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ls -lt /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.list | awk -F"/" '{print $6}' | awk -F"." '{print $1}' > list.txt will give you a list of packages in cronological order. That you can then edit and feed to ap

Re: Sneakernet .deb packages by usb thumb?

On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 07:32:54PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > My desktop debian system is at home with no available internet > connection. > > Work provides internet with no linux. > > is there any way to aquire .deb packages from the repository and take > them home on a usb for install/up

Re: OT: sponge burning!

Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 03:26:03AM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: >> >> > Are these the same Muslims who are blowing innocent men women and > children in markets schools and other public places? > If I'm not mistaken "we" killed far more innocent men and women and ch

Sneakernet .deb packages by usb thumb?

My desktop debian system is at home with no available internet connection. Work provides internet with no linux. is there any way to aquire .deb packages from the repository and take them home on a usb for install/upgrade? I have poured through the pages with no luck. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Debian's progress inspite of events (was Re: Dunk-Tank and the DD strike)

On 3/18/07, Roberto C. Sánchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 07:51:07AM -0300, D G Teed wrote: > > I agree that the kernel within the installer is something > needing to be updated more often. Except that this means that the kernel in the installer needs to be installable a

Re: how to reconfigure X after video card change

On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 09:19:00PM -0500, Default User wrote: > Running i586 Debian stable, I just took out an ATI Rage video card (pci) > and replaced it with a no name SiS (agp) video card. Now the system > starts up, but won't load GDM, instead terminating with an error message > and asking if I

Re: OT: sponge burning!

On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 03:26:03AM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > ..like one of either Blackwater, Halliburton or KBR? > Or some bunches of top secret tiny wee teams of "PMC"'s? ;o) > These bombs _are_ _very_ good for their business. > And, how _would_ we D-U'pes know? From Fox? ;o) > Wow, y

Re: Debian Installation on a cybercafe PC

On Tue, 27 Feb 2007 14:55:51 -0500, rir wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 01:43:50AM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: > > Because I need to burn CDs at times and as far as I have knowledge, > > Knoppix atleast won't let the CD out once booted. > > Use "knoppix toram" at the bo

Re: Reply to list

Ron Johnson wrote: (snip) > > >> > > This first link doesn't work at the moment and the next link doesn't > > tell me anything useful. > >> [1] > >> http://packages.qa.debian.org/t/thunderbird/news/20060812T181723Z.html > >> > > I have Thunderbird from sid. How do I activate the ReplyToList

Re: OT: sponge burning!

On Fri, 16 Mar 2007 10:46:20 -0700, Andrew wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 01:25:24PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 10:05:19AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West > > wrote: > > > On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 12:57:43PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez >

how to reconfigure X after video card change

Running i586 Debian stable, I just took out an ATI Rage video card (pci) and replaced it with a no name SiS (agp) video card. Now the system starts up, but won't load GDM, instead terminating with an error message and asking if I want to see the details. The new video card seems okay, since I can

OT: A Republican!!!!!! (was Re: OT: sponge burning!)

On Fri, 2 Mar 2007 15:37:21 -0500, Roberto wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > So, let's review. If you look back as recently as Vietnam, you can > see that we find the answer to your question. LBJ started (yes, he > actually used the Gulf of Tonkin "incident" as justification to start >

OT: a dumb query? pls humor me

On Wed, 7 Mar 2007 12:59:36 -0500 (EST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 7 Mar, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 02:41:39AM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > Accepting Hussein's offer to leave the country with his two sons > (delivered through bac

TTY, ^H works but not ^K

Hi, My TTY sometimes gets into a strange stage that ^K, kill-line (C-k), won't work, but ^H can remove chars normally. Also not working are, backward-kill-line (C-x Rubout), backward-kill-word (M-Rubout), etc. The kill-word (M-d) works normally. By "no work" I mean there is no visual sign of it

Re: kernel 2.6.18-4-k7 won't boot [SOLVED]

On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 09:04:11PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 13:11 -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: > > > > /boot was full! (too many previous kernels still lying around). > > Evidently apt-get only wrote *part* of the initrd file because the file > > system filled up but I saw

Re: OT: Politics and other non-Debian ramblings [Was:a dumb query? pls humor me]

On Mon, 05 Mar 2007 20:55:29 -0800, Freddy wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Steve Lamb wrote: > > Freddy Freeloader wrote: > > > >> treatment of them was born out of racism, not the fact that we are > >an > imperialistic society, because racism comes from human nature, > >not > politics

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 02:04:42AM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Tue, 6 Mar 2007 22:03:45 -0500, Roberto wrote in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Really? Sweden is a member of NATO > > ..errr, no. they are Neutral. ;o) > They are members in all but name [0]: "While the government

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

On Thu, 8 Mar 2007 18:44:24 -0500, Roberto wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 11:34:25PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > > So what benefit does spending almost half the budget on military and > > the rest on corporate welfare bring us? > > > You mean more like 17%

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

On Tue, 6 Mar 2007 22:03:45 -0500, Roberto wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 04:43:06PM -1000, Al Eridani wrote: > > On 3/4/07, Freddy Freeloader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > >What does your personal internal paradigm have to do with how we > > >Americans thin

Re: kernel 2.6.18-4-k7 won't boot [SOLVED]

On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 13:11 -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: > On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 06:38:13PM +0200, Vasil Benov wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have experienced the same problem. If you have a SATA harddrive > > you should specify root=/dev/sda1(or whatever device number and partition > > you boot from) >

Re: What do I use to reconfigure the network /after/ initial install on Etch?

On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 14:58 -0500, John Hasler wrote: > I wrote: > > Manual changes to conffiles are preserved. > > Celejar writes: > > Yes, but if you edit it by hand, then it won't be updated when a new > > version becomes available. > > You will be offered the choice of keeping your version or

Re: [OT] Speaking of Sweden... (was Re: a dumb query? pls humor me)

On Fri, 09 Mar 2007 14:48:31 -0600, Ron wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 03/05/07 10:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [snip] > > You can if you want, but I don't see a point. > > Sweden's population seems think Sweden is functioning qui

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

On Fri, 9 Mar 2007 16:14:52 -0500, Roberto wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 02:49:55PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On 8 Mar, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 09:14:53AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > wrote: > > >> > > >> Actuall

Re: input/output error, looks bad!

On 2007-03-18, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Some of your values seem very high. Though according to Google's > report even 1 indicates failure to come. For comparison here are my > values: > > Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0 > ... > Reallocated_Event_Count 0 > ... > > I hope yo

Re: user based package manager?

On 3/19/07, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/18/07 10:48, Jeff Zhang wrote: > Most installed packages will mess $HOME more or less when compiled with > --prefix=$HOME. Though, keep the log of `make install' may be used as an > removing m

Re: How to write such sudoers?

On 3/18/07, Chris Lale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Jeff Zhang wrote: > On 3/18/07, *Andy Smith* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 12:36:50PM +0800, Jeff Zhang wrote: > >I want the user can execute commands through sudo with PASSWD and

coretemp - take3

Hello all, I'm CCing all interested parties, if some isn't please tell! On URL bellow is current version of coretemp driver. http://ssh.cz/~ruik/patches/ I do not own this CPU (happy user of overclocked Opteron ;) So it would be great if someone can give it testing. We need to test: CONFIG_SM

Re: Very slow network - Ubuntu

Thilo Six wrote: Joe Hart wrote the following on 18.03.2007 21:11: Thilo Six wrote: Douglas Allan Tutty wrote the following on 18.03.2007 20:24: Ben, I've been following this thread but not commenting since I don't do gnome. Do I understand correctly that you boot stright to gn

Re: Graphics cards

Użytkownik Thomas Jollans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> napisał: >On Sunday 18 March 2007 23:10, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: >> It looks like my graphics card is slowly dying and I would value input >> on optimal chipsets/manufacturers for a replacement in the context of >> Debian (Etch presently). No especia

Re: Man pages point to non-free documentation

Douglas Allan Tutty writes: > I'll have to work on writing man pages. Since I don't fancy learning > roff just for that and I'm currently learning latex, I'll work on > learning to write man pages. The nroff required to write man pages is trivial. Just use another page as a template. > Is there

Re: Very slow network - Ubuntu

Thilo Six wrote: Marty wrote the following on 18.03.2007 21:22: Thilo Six wrote: what gives you $ cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_window_scaling ? It should be 0 It's 1 on my system. From ip-sysctl.txt: tcp_window_scaling - BOOLEAN Enable window scaling as defined in

Re: tar syntax and backing up

On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 04:14:39PM +, Tyler Smith wrote: > Hi, > > Related to another post concerning the possible demise of my > harddrive, I thought I'd better confirm with wiser people that my > backup plan is doing what I think it's doing. > > I've got a full backup of all my important da

Re: Graphics cards

On Sunday 18 March 2007 23:10, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: > It looks like my graphics card is slowly dying and I would value input > on optimal chipsets/manufacturers for a replacement in the context of > Debian (Etch presently). No especial requirements in terms of high > performance, just somethi

Re: UNS: who/what uses my CPU?

On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 17:16:57 +0100, Mitja wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Steffan Davies wrote: > > From "man top": > > > > wa -- iowait > > Amount of time the CPU has been waiting for I/O to complete. > Ups, I've checked the man pages but I guess I missed this line. > > Something is do

Re: Removing motd from ssh logins

Marco De Vitis wrote: >> What ssh version are you using? Which distribution are you using? > > Well... I mentioned an Etch machine in a Debian mailing list... can you > guess? ;)) Sorry! I thought the client is running Debian Etch. I wanted to find out what the server is running. I went back and

Man pages point to non-free documentation [Was: What do I use to reconfigure the network...]

On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 04:44:41PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Doug writes: > > I think this licencing problem is going to become critical at some point. > > I'm firmly in Debian's camp on this and am just waiting for the fine GNU > > people to put some invarient sections on actual code not just do

Graphics cards

It looks like my graphics card is slowly dying and I would value input on optimal chipsets/manufacturers for a replacement in the context of Debian (Etch presently). No especial requirements in terms of high performance, just something that is fully supported under Linux. Thanks for any commen

..OT : Number of OT Posts

On Mon, 5 Mar 2007 01:48:26 +1300, Chris wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 01:29:40PM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: > > Doesn't > > > (2) I'm also finding harder to sift the useful information from the > > dross, so I'll post a "me too" message. > > and > > > (4)

Re: Removing motd from ssh logins

On 18/03/2007 20:20, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: My guess is that the motd is getting printed from some other thing (ex:- login). One way to check for this is to PrintMotd yes in sshd_config and see if motd appears one extra time. If it does, the Yep it did indeed. The problem was in /etc/p

Re: Re: Debian install hanging at yenta_socket module

I had the same problem but the param switch didn't work. Instead I had to install in expert mode and simply de-select yenta_socket. -- Rich Harding -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What do I use to reconfigure the network /after/ initial install on Etch?

Doug writes: > I think this licencing problem is going to become critical at some point. > I'm firmly in Debian's camp on this and am just waiting for the fine GNU > people to put some invarient sections on actual code not just docs. I > know, code is under GPL not GFDL, for now. > Does Debian ha

Re: Change Locale of One/All Running Application(s)

On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 09:56:46PM +0530, Masatran, R. Deepak wrote: > * Masatran, R. Deepak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2007-03-18 > > How can I change the locale of one/all running application(s) without > > restarting it/them? > > This is an important requirement for many users, especially non-English

Re: Removing motd from ssh logins

On 18/03/2007 19:40, Wei Chen wrote: Have you tried restarting/reloading the daemon? You mean after setting PrintMotd to "no" in /etc/ssh/sshd_config? Sure. The setting is actually there since quite some time, with many reboots in the meantime. -- Ciao, Marco. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Removing motd from ssh logins

On 18/03/2007 19:10, Tobias Nissen wrote: If you use pam (grep UsePAM /etc/ssh/sshd_config) then you might want to disable printing of the motd in /etc/pam.d/ssh. Look for a line like sessionoptional pam_motd.so and comment it out. Oh yes, that was it, thanks! I already did it on

ether-wake won't work anymore.

I´ve relied on etherwake to up remote machines, and it worked ok for quite some time. But recently I noticed it kind of stopped working. Since today I bumped two more machines which don't etherwake, I decided to see if anybody here knows something about it. Is there any change of version, or pr

Re: nvidia-glx in experimental

On 03/18/07 14:14, Joe Hart wrote: [snip] > > As for the issue at hand, how long does it take to reinstall? I suppose > that depends on how fast your internet connection is. The headers are > not small (ie: > pool/main/l/linux-2.6/linux-headers-2.6.18-4-486_2.6.18.dfsg.1-11_i386.deb > Size: 276494)

Re: Very slow network - Ubuntu

Joe Hart wrote the following on 18.03.2007 21:11: > Thilo Six wrote: >> Douglas Allan Tutty wrote the following on 18.03.2007 20:24: > >>> Ben, >>> I've been following this thread but not commenting since I don't do >>> gnome. >>> >>> Do I understand correctly that you boot stright to gnome, start

Re: Very slow network - Ubuntu

Marty wrote the following on 18.03.2007 21:22: > Thilo Six wrote: > >> what gives you >> >> $ cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_window_scaling >> >> ? >> >> It should be 0 > > It's 1 on my system. > > From ip-sysctl.txt: > tcp_window_scaling - BOOLEAN >Enable window scaling as defined in RF

Re: Intel Core Duo/Solo Temperature Monitoring Working On Intel DG965 Motherboard

Hello all, > I'm just wondering if it is right to export the functions msr_read and > msr_write from arch/i386/kernel/msr.c, or if it would be better to put > these functions in arch/i386/lib/msr-on-cpu.c with rdmsr_on_cpu and > wrmsr_on_cpu. I'm fixing this, please stay tuned. I will CC you in ne

Re: What do I use to reconfigure the network /after/ initial install on Etch?

On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 04:32:33PM -0400, Marty wrote: > Lack of, or outdated, man pages seems to be an increasing problem in Debian. Yesterday there was a question on tar so I thought I'd read the man page. Turns out there's only a basic man page and the full tar docs aren't DFSG compatible an

smartctl usage (was Re: input/output error, looks bad!)

On 2007-03-18, Tyler Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2007-03-18, Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> and what this show? >> >> /usr/sbin/smartctl -a -d ata /dev/ >> > > I decided to start with the long self test, which is running now: > > smartctl -t long -d ata /dev/sda > Ok, I

Re: Uninstall (nearly) everything installed after spacific date

On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 11:08:28AM +0800, Bob wrote: > Hi, > How can I do this, the way I'd like it to work is > cat /var/log/dpkg.log > ./list > but filtering by date so it only includes packages installed after a > certain time (grep sed?) > I don't know but I'm really curious why you would wa

Re: Installing Debian from a memory stick

On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 02:45:13AM +, andy wrote: > Hi all > > A few weeks' back I asked for some ideas re: installing Debian on a > laptop with a dodgy CD-R/W. I was wondering if I could do so using a USB > memory stick and if anyone has tried this. My primary concern is in > whether or no

Re: How to chmod files in my web server

Hi Wei Chen, Thanks for that excelent info. > I think 755 is all right. The execute bit for a directory means the > permission of going into the directory. And what about setting the files to chmod 744 ? That way will be better? Or not? Jordi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

Re: tar syntax and backing up

On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 04:14:39PM +, Tyler Smith wrote: > Hi, > > Related to another post concerning the possible demise of my > harddrive, I thought I'd better confirm with wiser people that my > backup plan is doing what I think it's doing. > > I've got a full backup of all my important da

Re: SMTP and ports 25 and 1025.

On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 02:13:08PM +0100, Albert Dengg wrote: > to my knowlege, port 587 is for _authenticated_ message transmission, > e.g. from your own users, not for server<->server. > Actually, 587 us the submission port. It has nothing to do with authentication. Basically, the RFCs are wri

Re: how to get gaim-sound working within KDE?

Ralph Plawetzki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear list, > > I would like to ask for some information on how to get gaim-sound > working within KDE. > ALSA ist configured correctly (alsaconf) and sound works in KDE but > not for gaim. > When I hit the "test sound" button in the settings sceen of

Re: Debian's progress inspite of events (was Re: Dunk-Tank and the DD strike)

On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 07:51:07AM -0300, D G Teed wrote: > > I agree that the kernel within the installer is something > needing to be updated more often. Except that this means that the kernel in the installer needs to be installable as a default kernel, which means that it must also be support

Re: What do I use to reconfigure the network /after/ initial install on Etch?

Joe Hart wrote: Some files (/etc/dchp3/dhclient.conf for example) are very well commented, others (/etc/network/interfaces) are not. IMO, it would be best if all config files were well commented, especially ones that may need to be edited. As far as standardizing conffile documentation, I wou

Re: missing the last letter in my posts

On 2007-03-18, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Have you tried: > > Tyler Smith\n > .\n > .\n > > >> Here goes: -- Regards, Tyler Smith .. .. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: input/output error, looks bad!

Tyler Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Some of your values seem very high. Though according to Google's report even 1 indicates failure to come. For comparison here are my values: Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0 ... Reallocated_Event_Count0 ... I hope you get to finish your backup. R

Re: nvidia-glx in experimental

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 03/18/07 14:14, Joe Hart wrote: > [snip] >> As for the issue at hand, how long does it take to reinstall? I suppose >> that depends on how fast your internet connection is. The headers are >> not small (ie: >> pool/main/l/linu

Re: Very slow network - Ubuntu

Thilo Six wrote: what gives you $ cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_window_scaling ? It should be 0 It's 1 on my system. From ip-sysctl.txt: tcp_window_scaling - BOOLEAN Enable window scaling as defined in RFC1323. This seems like a good thing. Why do you say it should be 0? -- To

Re: What do I use to reconfigure the network /after/ initial install on Etch?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Celejar wrote: > On Sun, 18 Mar 2007 08:58:05 +0100 > Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> John Hasler wrote: >>> Joe Hart wrote: What is the point of having all info stored in plain text

Re: nvidia-glx in experimental

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/18/07 14:14, Joe Hart wrote: [snip] > > As for the issue at hand, how long does it take to reinstall? I suppose > that depends on how fast your internet connection is. The headers are > not small (ie: > pool/main/l/linux-2.6/linux-headers-2.6.

host aliases

I want to configure a system-wide host alias. Say there's a host whose DNS name is 'foo.bar'. I want any network application that asks for 'baz' to get 'foo.bar'. I know I can do this for individual apps; in ssh, for example, I include these 2 lines in 'config': Hostbaz HostName

Re: What do I use to reconfigure the network /after/ initial install on Etch?

I wrote: > Manual changes to conffiles are preserved. Celejar writes: > Yes, but if you edit it by hand, then it won't be updated when a new > version becomes available. You will be offered the choice of keeping your version or replacing it with the new version. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRI

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