Re: Recommend inexpensive MP3 player?

2007-04-18 Thread Dave Thayer
On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 09:00:32PM -0500, Reid Priedhorsky wrote: > > I should clarify what I mean by "cheap": less than $20 or $30 is my goal. > So, I'll do some trolling around eBay. > Geeks.com have some cheapie players, here's one for $26 which says it works with linux:

Re: Idea for weekly/monthy wallpaper/themes package

2007-04-18 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kevin Mark wrote: > On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 07:44:13PM +0200, Joe Hart wrote: >>> Each list has different purposes. Debian-user is about user support. >> Are you sure about that? I thought debian-user was for "Help and >> discussion among users of Deb

Re: Unix-ify File Names

2007-04-18 Thread Mike McClain
Frank Terbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > a) `ls *` is an _external_ process. > b) it breaks on filenames with spaces (and other special characters). > c) people commonly use 'ls --color' or 'ls -F' aliases for ls. > There is _no_ reason why 'ls' should ever be used to generate file > lists for lo

Re: windows download

2007-04-18 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Joe Hart wrote: >> Tim Casey wrote: >>> will a cd downloaded and burned on a windows machine boot? >> >> If you mean a debian-install cd that you downloaded and burned using >> windows, yet it should work. You could just g

Re: Etch Apt list (and testing/security/volatile)

2007-04-18 Thread Ross Boylan
There's also volatile http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-volatile/ But the more I look at the documentation, the more confused I get, particularly as far as testing goes. The debian-volatile web page refers to sarge and etch. If one follows testing, does volatile add anything? Maybe it gets som

Re: aptitude deleted most of packages!!

2007-04-18 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
El mié, 18-04-2007 a las 09:16 +0200, Joe Hart escribió: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Ninenineone Efx wrote: > > I think I made a big mistake. > > > > I executed the following command to install a font package. > > > > aptitude install ttf-unfonts > > > > After it ins

Re: aptitude deleted most of packages!!

2007-04-18 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 10:05:18AM +0200, Jonathan Kaye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Doesn't aptitude have an "undo" command? ctl-u or something like that. Yes, but it doesn't work across sessions. Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubsc

Re: aptitude deleted most of packages!!

2007-04-18 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 09:16:14AM +0200, Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Now, as for getting your apps back. They *should* all be in the apt's > cache. You just need to reinstall them. If you can't figure out which > ones to reinstall, then maybe aptitude was right and you did

Re: Debian etch on SONY VAIO VGN-FE880E/H

2007-04-18 Thread stevo123
Did you ever find out if this is possible? I'm in the exact same boat. L.V.Gandhi wrote: > > I have searched google, tuxmobile, linux-laptop etc. I could n't find any > much useful info regarding installing etch as dual boot in SONY VAIO > VGN-FE880E/H. I will be thankful for any advice or poin

Re: ssh setup: what is the Debian way?

2007-04-18 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 00:36 -0300, Mariano Alonso wrote: > you have a nice script called keychain to solve this problem. > it manages ssh-agent. give it a chance, perhaps you get your problem > solved Wait, it is NOT my problem. The idiot I was responding to suggested not using *ANY* password on

Re: ssh setup: what is the Debian way?

2007-04-18 Thread Mariano Alonso
you have a nice script called keychain to solve this problem. it manages ssh-agent. give it a chance, perhaps you get your problem solved chears. On 4/19/07, Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 13:03 +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > why not in .bashrc - presuming the key doe

Asking the Real Question (was Re: Good Debian/Linux FTP Client program ???)

2007-04-18 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/18/07 21:00, Randy Patterson wrote: > Thanks so much for all the good input from everyone. I now have to go to work > checking out some of the packages to see which is the best for my current > needs. I have already install lftp and will try si

Re: ssh setup: what is the Debian way?

2007-04-18 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 13:03 +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > why not in .bashrc - presuming the key doesn't have a password What is the point of having passwords then? This is for key-authentication. If you have no very strong password for your private key, why even bother. -- greg, [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: ssh setup: what is the Debian way?

2007-04-18 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 05:22:27PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 19:45:57 +0200 > Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello Paul, > > > > Am 2007-04-07 20:26:23, schrieb Paul E Condon: > > > Debian automagically starts ssh-agent somewhere along the chain of > > > event

Re: Burn files > 4 GB to DVD

2007-04-18 Thread Jerome BENOIT
But if Feisty has cracked the 4 GB file size limit on writing DVDs, that will probably turn my head toward Feisty. I need to do this all the time. you can grab the Feisty source and then built it for your Debian box: have you fill a bug report ? Jerome -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PR

Re: Dosemu

2007-04-18 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sun, Feb 18, 2007 at 10:43:39PM -0500, Ken Heard wrote: > Is there anyone on this list who uses dosemu? I had it working on Sarge > ever since Sarge came out, but I am having trouble getting it to work on > Etch. > > Regards, > > Ken Heard > I tr

Re: two network cards on a server

2007-04-18 Thread Jeff D
On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, Faheem Mitha wrote: Hi everyone, I've got a server on which there are two network cards. One of the network cards has been configured, and has been running satisfactorily for a while. I recently plugged in the other network card and started using it for a different IP a

Re: Good Debian/Linux FTP Client program ???

2007-04-18 Thread Randy Patterson
Thanks so much for all the good input from everyone. I now have to go to work checking out some of the packages to see which is the best for my current needs. I have already install lftp and will try sitecopy as well. Thanks, Randy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subjec

Re: two network cards on a server

2007-04-18 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 06:28:29PM -0400, Faheem Mitha wrote: Just to be clear, the interfaces are both of the form 152.3.172.*. If for example they were reconfigured so that one was of the form 152.3.171.* and the other was of the form 152.3.1

Re: Burn files > 4 GB to DVD

2007-04-18 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 20:16:18 -0400 Amy Templeton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dijo: > If you're looking for growisofs (which is the impression I'm > getting from some of the earlier posts to this thread), it's > included in dvd+-rw-tools, which is a package that is > definitely in Lenny and may or may not

Re: Good Debian/Linux FTP Client program ???

2007-04-18 Thread Michael Pobega
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 07:02:36PM -0500, Randy Patterson wrote: > On Wednesday 18 April 2007 17:51, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 04/18/07 16:29, Randy Patterson wrote: > > [snip] > > > > > I have installed a couple of the programs and tried Konqueror. But I need > > > a little more than drag and drop

Re: two network cards on a server

2007-04-18 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 06:28:29PM -0400, Faheem Mitha wrote: > > Just to be clear, the interfaces are both of the form 152.3.172.*. > > If for example they were reconfigured so that one was of the form > 152.3.171.* and the other was of the form 152.3.172.& (say) then would the > problem just

Re: Good Debian/Linux FTP Client program ???

2007-04-18 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/18/07 19:02, Randy Patterson wrote: > On Wednesday 18 April 2007 17:51, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 04/18/07 16:29, Randy Patterson wrote: >> [snip] >> >>> I have installed a couple of the programs and tried Konqueror. But I need >>> a little more t

Re: Troubles with mailman+postfix

2007-04-18 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 09:30:03PM +0200, Andrea S. Gozzi wrote: > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: mail for lists.vp44.net loops back to myself > Would somebody know how to fix this? You might have better luck asking on the postfix list, but in the meantime you might want to check the values of mydestinat

Re: xkb options

2007-04-18 Thread cga2000
On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 11:55:33PM EDT, Celejar wrote: > On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 19:34:08 -0400 > cga2000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 03:36:13PM EDT, Celejar wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I'm setting up Xorg to switch between keyboard layouts using keyboard > > > combinations lik

ide-tape errors filling up syslog

2007-04-18 Thread Richard
Hello, I have a machine with a SONY SDX-420C tape drive. I have backed up to the tape and retrieved data from the tape however syslog is being filled up with following errors : Apr 19 09:27:16 fileserver kernel: BUG: warning at include/asm/dma-mapping.h:47/dma_map_sg() Apr 19 09:27:16 files

Re: Burn files > 4 GB to DVD

2007-04-18 Thread Amy Templeton
If you're looking for growisofs (which is the impression I'm getting from some of the earlier posts to this thread), it's included in dvd+-rw-tools, which is a package that is definitely in Lenny and may or may not be in Etch (sorry, I'm lazy). Note that I discovered this with an "apt-cache search

Re: Burn files > 4 GB to DVD

2007-04-18 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hi, John Jason Jordan wrote: On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 06:41:35 +0800 Jerome BENOIT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dijo: John Jason Jordan wrote: I got burned with this on Ubuntu Edgy, and now it appears I am still stuck with it under Etch. K3b refuses to burn a file to DVD if the size of the file exceeds 4 G

Re: Good Debian/Linux FTP Client program ???

2007-04-18 Thread Randy Patterson
On Wednesday 18 April 2007 17:51, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 04/18/07 16:29, Randy Patterson wrote: > [snip] > > > I have installed a couple of the programs and tried Konqueror. But I need > > a little more than drag and drop functionality. With the 3dftp program I > > used in Windoze you could sync a

Re: Burn files > 4 GB to DVD

2007-04-18 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
John Jason Jordan wrote: > > The problem is not the media or the drive. My DVD burner is double > layer and I have some double layer DVDs that can hold 8 GB. I can burn > a DVD that holds 8 GB, but it still can't include any individual files > that are over 4 GB in size. I tried GnomeBaker, K3b a

Re: Burn files > 4 GB to DVD

2007-04-18 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 06:41:35 +0800 Jerome BENOIT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dijo: > John Jason Jordan wrote: > > I got burned with this on Ubuntu Edgy, and now it appears I am still > > stuck with it under Etch. K3b refuses to burn a file to DVD if the size > > of the file exceeds 4 GB. From previous goo

pmount replaced by gnome-mount, HELP!

2007-04-18 Thread Magnus Therning
I'm running Sid and I'm really excited about GNOME 2.18 starting to trickle in on my systems. However, I've noted a regression that probably is due to my lacking information: my LUKS encrypted USB key doesn't get mounted :-( It used to get mounted as /media/Foo (Foo is the label of the filesystem

Re: Burn files > 4 GB to DVD

2007-04-18 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello, John Jason Jordan wrote: I got burned with this on Ubuntu Edgy, and now it appears I am still stuck with it under Etch. K3b refuses to burn a file to DVD if the size of the file exceeds 4 GB. From previous googling I know the problem is in mkisofs. But I thought that there was a replaceme

Re: Good Debian/Linux FTP Client program ???

2007-04-18 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/18/07 16:29, Randy Patterson wrote: [snip] > > I have installed a couple of the programs and tried Konqueror. But I need a > little more than drag and drop functionality. With the 3dftp program I used > in Windoze you could sync a local direct

Re: two network cards on a server

2007-04-18 Thread Jeff D
On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, Faheem Mitha wrote: On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, Roberto C. S?nchez wrote: Well, there is your problem. Having two physical interfaces on the same subnet is generally a bad idea: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2007/01/msg01633.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-firewall/

Re: two network cards on a server

2007-04-18 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: Well, there is your problem. Having two physical interfaces on the same subnet is generally a bad idea: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2007/01/msg01633.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-firewall/2005/03/msg00073.html You have to really k

Re: quota not working (segfault)

2007-04-18 Thread Marc
Mike Bird wrote: > On Wednesday 18 April 2007 11:14, Marc wrote: > >> repquota and quotatool do actually work: >> > > Does "repquota -a" work? yes: *** Report for user quotas on device /dev/md2 Block grace time: 7days; Inode grace time: 7days Block limits

Re: quota not working (segfault)

2007-04-18 Thread Mike Bird
On Wednesday 18 April 2007 11:14, Marc wrote: > repquota and quotatool do actually work: Does "repquota -a" work? --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: two network cards on a server

2007-04-18 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: Well, there is your problem. Having two physical interfaces on the same subnet is generally a bad idea: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2007/01/msg01633.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-firewall/2005/03/msg00073.html You have to really k

Re: Touchpad Configuration

2007-04-18 Thread Michael Pobega
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 03:08:40PM -0400, Andrew J. Barr wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Michael Pobega wrote: > > After a long fight with an offline install of Debian, I decided to > > give up and do a netinstall. > > > > The new installation is working PERFECTLY, wi

Re: iptables not behaving the way I expected

2007-04-18 Thread Marc
Jim Hyslop wrote: > someone posted a link in this list to a blog that gave an Iptables > recipe to limit connections to 5 per minute per IP address. So, I issued > the commands: > Why not just try fail2ban from sarge-backports? Works great. And it's officially in etch. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: two network cards on a server

2007-04-18 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 05:39:40PM -0400, Faheem Mitha wrote: > > > On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > >On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 04:20:49PM -0400, Faheem Mitha wrote: > >> > >>Hi everyone, > >> > >>I've got a server on which there are two network cards. One of the network > >>card

Fwd: Touchpad Configuration

2007-04-18 Thread Emmanuele Massimi
You are missing: InputDevice "Synaptics Touchpad" in the section ServerLayout. Add that, restart X and your touchpad should be working. Good luck! On 18/04/07, Anton Piatek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wednesday 18 April 2007 19:54, Michael Pobega wrote: > After a long fight with an offlin

Re: two network cards on a server

2007-04-18 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 04:20:49PM -0400, Faheem Mitha wrote: Hi everyone, I've got a server on which there are two network cards. One of the network cards has been configured, and has been running satisfactorily for a while. I recently plugged

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-04-18 Thread steef
Liam O'Toole wrote: On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 18:14:44 + steef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Michelle Konzack wrote: [...] So you think, the kidnaping of 17 german and 8 french cizizen and threeting as terrorists (7 of them are in Guantanamo) without any judgement since over 3 years i

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-04-18 Thread steef
Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 06:14:44PM +, steef wrote: i could not agree more than i do with michelle on this point. the us-government has become a lawless corporate steered oligarchy. ethical criteria, the basis of all law, have in this police-state been r

Re: Good Debian/Linux FTP Client program ???

2007-04-18 Thread Randy Patterson
On Wednesday 18 April 2007 13:39, Liam O'Toole wrote: > On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:36:40 -0500 > > Randy Patterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hey, > > > > I am looking for a good FTP Client. Seaching for specific FTP related > > topics seems to produce more information than is manageable. I do a >

Re: Good Debian/Linux FTP Client program ???

2007-04-18 Thread Jose Luis Rivas Contreras
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Randy Patterson escribió: > Hey, > > I am looking for a good FTP Client. Seaching for specific FTP related topics > seems to produce more information than is manageable. I do a lot of web > development and I am moving from Windoze to Debian and my

Re: two network cards on a server

2007-04-18 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 04:20:49PM -0400, Faheem Mitha wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > I've got a server on which there are two network cards. One of the network > cards has been configured, and has been running satisfactorily for a > while. I recently plugged in the other network card and started

Re: Idea for weekly/monthy wallpaper/themes package

2007-04-18 Thread Jose Luis Rivas Contreras
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: > Hi list/group, (I seem to be in a slashy mood...) > > I've had an idea for a while to make a package of wallpaper and/or > other theme elements and put it in a repository, updated weekly or > monthly--maybe one package

Re: ssh setup: what is the Debian way?

2007-04-18 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 19:45:57 +0200 Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Paul, > > Am 2007-04-07 20:26:23, schrieb Paul E Condon: > > Debian automagically starts ssh-agent somewhere along the chain of > > events that bring up X and Gnome. I don't reboot often, but when I > > do, I

Burn files > 4 GB to DVD

2007-04-18 Thread John Jason Jordan
I got burned with this on Ubuntu Edgy, and now it appears I am still stuck with it under Etch. K3b refuses to burn a file to DVD if the size of the file exceeds 4 GB. From previous googling I know the problem is in mkisofs. But I thought that there was a replacement for mkisofs (growisofs?) and tha

Re: Good Debian/Linux FTP Client program ???

2007-04-18 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 01:36:40PM -0500, Randy Patterson wrote: > Hey, > > I am looking for a good FTP Client. Seaching for specific FTP related topics > seems to produce more information than is manageable. I do a lot of web > development and I am moving from Windoze to Debian and my previous

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-04-18 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 06:14:44PM +, steef wrote: > > > i could not agree more than i do with michelle on this point. the > us-government has become a lawless corporate steered oligarchy. ethical > criteria, the basis of all law, have in this police-state been replaced > by the white hous

Re: ssh setup: what is the Debian way?

2007-04-18 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Paul, Am 2007-04-07 20:26:23, schrieb Paul E Condon: > Debian automagically starts ssh-agent somewhere along the chain of > events that bring up X and Gnome. I don't reboot often, but when I > do, I forget to run ssh-add. Where can I place an invocation of > ssh-add so that it is run once

Re: Touchpad Configuration

2007-04-18 Thread Anton Piatek
On Wednesday 18 April 2007 19:54, Michael Pobega wrote: > After a long fight with an offline install of Debian, I decided to > give up and do a netinstall. > > The new installation is working PERFECTLY, with just one hitch; My > touchpad doesn't work right. The touchpad doesn't seem to be > configu

Re: Trying to end my subscription? HELP!

2007-04-18 Thread Ken Irving
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 12:21:48PM -0800, Ken Irving wrote: > Who know's if it will ever be fixed... ^ s/'// Arggh... -- Ken Irving -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Driver for Lucent modem

2007-04-18 Thread dmjuraj-gzap
Short question: Where from can I download precompiled driver for Lucent (Agere Systems) modem for Debian Etch? Please forward reply to my private email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Long description: WARNING: Don't do this at home! I have problem configuring my modem wi

Re: select grub partition

2007-04-18 Thread Roby
Marco Mandl wrote: > Hello, > > I have sarge running with root, boot and grub on the first partition on my > disk. Now I want to install etch on a second partition and eventually the > first one will be deleted. > > I installed etch with debootstrap on the second and installed grub there, > too.

two network cards on a server

2007-04-18 Thread Faheem Mitha
Hi everyone, I've got a server on which there are two network cards. One of the network cards has been configured, and has been running satisfactorily for a while. I recently plugged in the other network card and started using it for a different IP address. However, I've been having persisten

select grub partition

2007-04-18 Thread Marco Mandl
Hello, I have sarge running with root, boot and grub on the first partition on my disk. Now I want to install etch on a second partition and eventually the first one will be deleted. I installed etch with debootstrap on the second and installed grub there, too. This second partion is now flaged a

Re: windows download

2007-04-18 Thread Tim Casey
Thanks and your right about the verse. On 4/18/07, Roberto C. Sánchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 12:21:04PM -0500, Tim Casey wrote: > will a cd downloaded and burned on a windows machine boot? > Yes, as long as you choose "burn as image" or something similar in your CD b

Bash bashed by libc6 upgrade

2007-04-18 Thread David Baron
Sid is now in its post-release fun state. After upgrading libc6, locales, system was entirely broken. I booted up knoppix and made a few symlinks and could now boot. Also saw most apps worked just fine ... if I was not in bash. Bash gives errors about accessing the new library symlinks. Everythi

Re: Trying to end my subscription? HELP!

2007-04-18 Thread Ken Irving
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 08:37:31PM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 11:28:12 -0800 > Ken Irving <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello Ken, > > > This has been discussed several times. As I recall it's really a bug > > I wasn't aware that it had, but that's because I'm relatively n

Re: Unix-ify File Names

2007-04-18 Thread Frank Terbeck
H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Frank Terbeck wrote: > >> b) it breaks on filenames with spaces (and other special characters). >> While newlines and other special characters might be rather weird >> for filenames, spaces are perfectly okay and normal in filenames. >> Using 'for i in `ls *`

Re: Trying to end my subscription? HELP!

2007-04-18 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 10:16:40PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 20:37:31 +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > > On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 11:28:12 -0800 Ken Irving wrote: > > > > Hello Ken, > > > > > This has been discussed several times. As I recall it's really a bug > > > > I wasn'

iptables not behaving the way I expected

2007-04-18 Thread Jim Hyslop
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, all I've set my SSH to accept only public key authorization, and forwarded port 22 from the Big Bad Internet to my Debian box. Predictably, I'm being hit by a lot of dictionary attempts to log in. A while back, someone posted a link in this lis

Re: Unix-ify File Names

2007-04-18 Thread Frank Terbeck
Daniel B. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Frank Terbeck wrote: >> Mike McClain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> Frank Terbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> > for FILE in `ls *$1` ; do > ... >> b) it breaks on filenames with spaces (and other special characters). > ...> Using 'for i in `ls *`'-type loops b

Re: Trying to end my subscription? HELP!

2007-04-18 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 20:37:31 +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 11:28:12 -0800 Ken Irving wrote: > > Hello Ken, > > > This has been discussed several times. As I recall it's really a bug > > I wasn't aware that it had, but that's because I'm relatively new to > this list. Poss

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-04-18 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 03:23:01PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > > It had a mass SMTP drive-by at the hands of Michelle Konzack. ROFLOL!! A signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Idea for weekly/monthy wallpaper/themes package

2007-04-18 Thread P Kapat
On 4/18/07, Dusty Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 15 Apr 2007 01:52:28 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > So my question is, would anyone be interested in something like that? Yes. I would love it. But it'd need to support both dual-monitor (1280x2048) setups as well as a single widescreen (1280x

Re: Trying to end my subscription? HELP!

2007-04-18 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 11:28:12 -0800 Ken Irving <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Ken, > This has been discussed several times. As I recall it's really a bug I wasn't aware that it had, but that's because I'm relatively new to this list. Possibly the last discussion was before my time. > in the

Troubles with mailman+postfix

2007-04-18 Thread Andrea S. Gozzi
I'm currently running Postfix with SQL backend for virtual domains. One of the domain owners wants to set up a mailing list and I decided to go with Mailman (great web administration). I installed Mailman and configured it (along with Postfix) following the instructions here: http://workaround.org

Re: Trying to end my subscription? HELP!

2007-04-18 Thread Ken Irving
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 03:39:32PM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 08:07:08 -0400 > Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > At the bottom of every mailing from any Debian mailing list is a > > footer on howto remove yourself it reads: > > Unless somebody has PGP signed their me

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-04-18 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 19:43 +0100, Liam O'Toole wrote: > I had hoped that this thread had finally died. No such luck. It had a mass SMTP drive-by at the hands of Michelle Konzack. It is truly amazing how well Michelle keeps the old things a goin'. Just when they run out of water and fire for the

Re: Touchpad Configuration

2007-04-18 Thread Magnus Pedersen
Michael Pobega wrote: After a long fight with an offline install of Debian, I decided to give up and do a netinstall. The new installation is working PERFECTLY, with just one hitch; My touchpad doesn't work right. The touchpad doesn't seem to be configured in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, and therefore I

Re: Sources list for upgrade from sarge to etch?

2007-04-18 Thread Thilo Six
Michelle Konzack wrote the following on 18.04.2007 19:46: > Am 2007-04-09 23:35:38, schrieb Thilo Six: >> afaik >>> Deb ftp://ftp.usdebian.org/debian/ oldstable main contrib. non-free > ^ > This SLASH should not be there. > >> ^^^

Re: Trying to end my subscription? HELP!

2007-04-18 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:38:06 -0400 Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Celejar, > Thanks, Florian. Do I understand you correctly that Debian's lists are > run in a non-RFC-compliant manner? I am shocked, shocked! :-)) Well, *I* missed the obvious implication of Florian's message, WRT RFC-c

Re: Good Debian/Linux FTP Client program ???

2007-04-18 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:36:40 -0500 Randy Patterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey, > > I am looking for a good FTP Client. Seaching for specific FTP related > topics seems to produce more information than is manageable. I do a > lot of web development and I am moving from Windoze to Debian and

Re: Good Debian/Linux FTP Client program ???

2007-04-18 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 20:58 +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Greg Folkert wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 20:46 +0200, Mathias Brodala wrote: > >> [0] http://filezilla-project.org/ > >> > > > > The development model for FileZilla sucks compared to most other GUI FTP > > programs. > > > > It d

Re: Touchpad Configuration

2007-04-18 Thread Andrew J. Barr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Pobega wrote: > After a long fight with an offline install of Debian, I decided to > give up and do a netinstall. > > The new installation is working PERFECTLY, with just one hitch; My > touchpad doesn't work right. The touchpad doesn't seem t

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-04-18 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 18:14:44 + steef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michelle Konzack wrote: [...] > > So you think, the kidnaping of 17 german and 8 french cizizen and > > threeting as terrorists (7 of them are in Guantanamo) without any > > judgement since over 3 years is "extremely civil" ??

Re: Touchpad Configuration

2007-04-18 Thread Andrew J. Barr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Pobega wrote: > After a long fight with an offline install of Debian, I decided to > give up and do a netinstall. > > The new installation is working PERFECTLY, with just one hitch; My > touchpad doesn't work right. The touchpad doesn't seem t

Re: Good Debian/Linux FTP Client program ???

2007-04-18 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Greg Folkert wrote: > On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 20:46 +0200, Mathias Brodala wrote: >> [0] http://filezilla-project.org/ >> > > The development model for FileZilla sucks compared to most other GUI FTP > programs. > > It does a lot of screwy things. I can't properly transfer stuff to or > from many "s

Re: Trying to end my subscription? HELP!

2007-04-18 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 18:23:08 +0200 Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Florian, > If I remember correctly it goes something like this: [snip] Thanks for the information, Florian. Most enlightening. > - The other lists that you mention might simply attach their text in > an RFC-comp

Re: Trying to end my subscription? HELP!

2007-04-18 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 12:17:59 -0400 Jim Hyslop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Jim, > Brad Rogers wrote: > > Why though, on this list, does the info get hidden, but on others, I > > can see it? > I don't know. The best I can suggest is to examine the message source > for messages from the two lis

Re: windows download

2007-04-18 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Joe Hart wrote: > Tim Casey wrote: >> will a cd downloaded and burned on a windows machine boot? > > > If you mean a debian-install cd that you downloaded and burned using > windows, yet it should work. You could just go to > > http://www.goodbye-windows.com > > and bypass the burning altogeth

Re: Good Debian/Linux FTP Client program ???

2007-04-18 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 20:46 +0200, Mathias Brodala wrote: > Hi Randy. > > Randy Patterson, 18.04.2007 20:36: > > I am looking for a good FTP Client. Seaching for specific FTP related > > topics > > seems to produce more information than is manageable. I do a lot of web > > development and I am

Re: Good Debian/Linux FTP Client program ???

2007-04-18 Thread Michael Pobega
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 01:36:40PM -0500, Randy Patterson wrote: > Hey, > > I am looking for a good FTP Client. Seaching for specific FTP related topics > seems to produce more information than is manageable. I do a lot of web > development and I am moving from Windoze to Debian and my previous

Touchpad Configuration

2007-04-18 Thread Michael Pobega
After a long fight with an offline install of Debian, I decided to give up and do a netinstall. The new installation is working PERFECTLY, with just one hitch; My touchpad doesn't work right. The touchpad doesn't seem to be configured in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, and therefore I can't use any programs l

Re: Good Debian/Linux FTP Client program ???

2007-04-18 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hi Randy. Randy Patterson, 18.04.2007 20:36: > I am looking for a good FTP Client. Seaching for specific FTP related topics > seems to produce more information than is manageable. I do a lot of web > development and I am moving from Windoze to Debian and my previous FTP client > doesn't have a

Re: windows download

2007-04-18 Thread Amy Templeton
Tim Casey wrote: > will a cd downloaded and burned on a windows machine boot? Provided you can actually burn an ISO image to a CD properly using Windows software. I managed to find a Windows-equivalent-of-a-command-line utility to do this the first time I installed a Linux distribution (in the sad

Re: GPL v3?

2007-04-18 Thread Michael Pobega
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 07:45:33PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Am 2007-04-02 20:50:25, schrieb John L Fjellstad: > > Not if GPLv3 is incompatible with GPLv2. Linus doesn't have much say in > > the license of the kernel since the different codes are owned by the > > different authors (unlike F

Good Debian/Linux FTP Client program ???

2007-04-18 Thread Randy Patterson
Hey, I am looking for a good FTP Client. Seaching for specific FTP related topics seems to produce more information than is manageable. I do a lot of web development and I am moving from Windoze to Debian and my previous FTP client doesn't have a Linux install. I didn't see anything like "Kftp"

Re: windows download

2007-04-18 Thread Michael Pobega
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 12:21:04PM -0500, Tim Casey wrote: > will a cd downloaded and burned on a windows machine boot? http://goodbye-microsoft.com/ is your best option in this case. I've personally never installed with it, but I had a friend who did it and he said everything worked flawlessly. J

Re: Idea for weekly/monthy wallpaper/themes package

2007-04-18 Thread Dusty Wilson
On 15 Apr 2007 01:52:28 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] So my question is, would anyone be interested in something like that? Yes. I would love it. But it'd need to support both dual-monitor (1280x2048) setups as well as a single widescreen (1280x768) for me to properly enjoy it. Do you have any i

Re: Unix-ify File Names

2007-04-18 Thread H.S.
Frank Terbeck wrote: b) it breaks on filenames with spaces (and other special characters). While newlines and other special characters might be rather weird for filenames, spaces are perfectly okay and normal in filenames. Using 'for i in `ls *`'-type loops breaks this and is one o

Re: Recommend inexpensive MP3 player?

2007-04-18 Thread Dusty Wilson
On 4/16/07, Reid Priedhorsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would like to get an MP3 player to use with my Lenny box. My specs are > few but perhaps odd: > > - Cheap. > - Used OK. > - 512MB or larger OK. > - Uses AAA or AA batteries, preferably 2. On 4/17/07, Dusty Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wro

Re: Unix-ify File Names

2007-04-18 Thread Daniel B.
Frank Terbeck wrote: Mike McClain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Frank Terbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: for FILE in `ls *$1` ; do ... b) it breaks on filenames with spaces (and other special characters). ...> Using 'for i in `ls *`'-type loops breaks this and is one of the main reasons w

quota not working (segfault)

2007-04-18 Thread Marc
Since the upgrade from sarge to etch the following appears regularly in my logs ... quota[3345]: segfault at 8100 rip 0804ba4d rsp ff976c50 error 6 quota[2647]: segfault at 8100 rip 0804ba4d rsp ffe6a140 error 6 quota[24912]: segfault at

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