Re: Find out host of IP

2007-06-11 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 08:05:23AM +0200, shadus wrote: > > Personally, I prefer passwords to keys, although with enough computer power > all passwords are breakable through brute force given enough time... with a > very long complex password using a variety of caps, symbols, numbers, et > all.

Re: how to configure users X setup?

2007-06-11 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 07:21:46AM +0100, Liam O'Toole wrote: > On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 01:37:35 -0400 > Zach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > i looked in /home/foo and /root (i hav 2 users: 1 regular and root) > > neither has a .xinitrc or .Xclients > > i am running Debian testing release > > Both

Re: Mutt now shows Autoview using /usr/bin/elinks

2007-06-11 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 04:15:02PM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > Hi, > > Recent Lenny update: > > Mutt now shows "Autoview using /usr/bin/elinks" The default browser is > set to lynx! I assume an update of shared-mime-info(?) has changed this > but It was previously set to lynx! > > Could this

Re: how to configure users X setup?

2007-06-11 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 01:37:35 -0400 Zach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i looked in /home/foo and /root (i hav 2 users: 1 regular and root) > neither has a .xinitrc or .Xclients > i am running Debian testing release Both of those files influence what clients (e.g. window managers) are run when the

Re: Find out host of IP

2007-06-11 Thread shadus
[quote]The best thing you can do is to disable password logins altogether. Using public keys is much more secure and makes it *impossible* for a dictionary attack to succeed.[/quote] If someone can get my 40+ character password which includes symbols, numbers, letters, lowercase, and upperca

Re: Which hardware for saving backups?

2007-06-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/11/07 05:10, Mitja Podreka wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 06/11/07 00:28, Mitja Podreka wrote: hello I have a web server with about 270 GB of space on the three disks in RAID5. It's only function is to host a Moodle e-learning system. I would like to make an external backup of user/course

Re: reorder files with a mouse in a file browser and rename them

2007-06-11 Thread H.S.
Ron Johnson wrote: Once you get them renamed to event_hhmmss.jpeg, a script can rename them to event_.jpeg, if you want. Oh yes, that I am sure about since the project began. I work with shell scripts on a daily basis so this is a no brainer. :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

Re: Find out host of IP

2007-06-11 Thread shadus
If it's an address on the internet... otherwise as people have noted using dig will generally get you a reverse dns entry for it which may or may not contain useful information. whois -hwhois.arin.net ipaddr You may also want to consider installing something like fail2ban to just nix his ip

how to configure users X setup?

2007-06-11 Thread Zach
i looked in /home/foo and /root (i hav 2 users: 1 regular and root) neither has a .xinitrc or .Xclients i am running Debian testing release thx! zach -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [solved] exim4 config (?)

2007-06-11 Thread William Pursell
Kumar Appaiah wrote: William Pursell gmail.com> writes: I'm still confused as to why gmail is in the picture at all when I run mailx. I did set smtp.gmail as my smtp smarthost when I ran dpkg-reconfigure, but the only reference to gmail in /etc/exim4 is in update-exim4.conf.conf (via grep -iRe

Re: Mr. Mad Duck: about etch-stable fluxbox?

2007-06-11 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mon, 11 Jun 2007 asked: > Who is Martin Kraft? > Doug. Bob McGowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> has also replied in a previous email. Mr. Krafft also wrote the following book: (Sorry about the mispelling!) :-[ Martin F. Krafft, THE DEBIAN SYSTEM, Munich, Germ

Re: Find out host of IP

2007-06-11 Thread David Fox
On 6/10/07, Mike Bird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sunday 10 June 2007 09:29, David Baron wrote: Unless the neighbor kid is really stupid, the attacker is probably operating from a foreign country via a chain of several hacked PCs. You will most likely never know who it is. The attacker is pr

Re: reorder files with a mouse in a file browser and rename them

2007-06-11 Thread KS
H.S. wrote: Hello, This may be a little odd question. Can any of the file browsers (konqueror, nautilus) let a user reorder the files in a folder by dragging them to a certain position and then to rename the ordered files automatically with a file pattern? This problem arose because I have

Mutt now shows Autoview using /usr/bin/elinks

2007-06-11 Thread Chris Bannister
Hi, Recent Lenny update: Mutt now shows "Autoview using /usr/bin/elinks" The default browser is set to lynx! I assume an update of shared-mime-info(?) has changed this but It was previously set to lynx! Could this be termed a bug? I think lynx maybe phased out :-( Does this annoy anyone else?

Re: IceWeasel crash my debian laptop

2007-06-11 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 08:51:32PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > and don't take this the wrong way, but maybe you should build your app > so you can't select columns that dont exist? > Perhaps he should consider switching to a database that just returns an error on a non-existent column

Re: IceWeasel crash my debian laptop

2007-06-11 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 09:47:09AM +0800, jeffry s wrote: > i am using my laptop with PHP 4+ and mysql 5+, everything start to be weird > after i implement my costume sessions (storing in database). > i only use one database connection for the whole website. > what i mean is, the session and every

Re: BADSIG A70DAF536070D3A1

2007-06-11 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 12:09:02PM +0200, Wolodja Wentland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > as of today i get the following error when running "aptitude update", > which is _not_ fixed by multiple runs of "aptitude update" and > quite irritating. > > Could somebody please shed some light

Re: download and install older version of debian

2007-06-11 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 01:52:50PM -0700, yong lee wrote: > > I am new to Debian. I would greatly appreciate if > someone can show me how to get an older version of > debian which runs kernel 2.4.X version. I would prefer > either download an ISO image or via a netinstall > method. > Welcome. A

Re: Couple setting questions

2007-06-11 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 08:59:05PM +0200, Vladimir Strycek wrote: > Douglas Allan Tutty wrote / napísal(a): > >On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 06:08:28PM +0200, Vladimir Strycek wrote: > > > >>i returned to debian after abou 3/4 year with gentoo, i had my box up > >>and running in moments but there is

Re: Which hardware for saving backups?

2007-06-11 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 12:25:49PM +0200, Mitja Podreka wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > >On 06/11/07 04:40, Mitja Podreka wrote: > >>Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > >>>If you have a spare computer, backup to that. This could be your > >>>workstation. Add a drive or two (for raid1 there). Have it on

IceWeasel crash my debian laptop

2007-06-11 Thread jeffry s
i am using my laptop with PHP 4+ and mysql 5+, everything start to be weird after i implement my costume sessions (storing in database). i only use one database connection for the whole website. what i mean is, the session and every query connect to mysqlserver using the same user. I am not sure

Where's OO.o's Hyphenation for US English?

2007-06-11 Thread Kent West
I'm currently running Etch, and just realized that the Hyphenation module in OpenOffice.org is not installed. So I've gone looking for it, and can not find the US English version. Google's not much help either. I've tried: sudo aptitude search open | grep l10n and sudo aptitude search open |

Re: Mr. Mad Duck: about etch-stable fluxbox?

2007-06-11 Thread Marc Shapiro
Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 09:10:59AM -0500, Gayle Lee Fairless wrote: I looked on the maintainer webpage which seems to indicate that an IBM Thinkpad 390 Pentium MMX (233 MHZ) needs to have a patch installed for fluxbox to work. Since an MMX is somewhat slow, I was

Re: Revert to simple Window Manager

2007-06-11 Thread Sudev Barar
On 11/06/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 11:29:39AM +0530, Sudev Barar wrote: > Replying on the list as this may end up in more learning for me as well. > Thanks and your post more than justified my faith in collective wisdom available on the list.

Re: Software for email merging

2007-06-11 Thread A. Ben Hmeda
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm doing a free software migration and I need to replace an application for email merging called World Merge: http://www.coloradosoft.com/worldmrg It's used to send customized newsletters to firm's clients. Does anybody know about an any existing - or in developm

Re: Which hardware for saving backups?

2007-06-11 Thread Mitja Podreka
Ron Johnson wrote: On 06/11/07 04:40, Mitja Podreka wrote: Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: To protect users from their own errors, you could just backup to /var/local/backup on your existing raid5 array. To protect the raid5 array, add a spare drive on a different controller if possible to provide

Re: cryptsetup: Source device /dev/sda7 not found

2007-06-11 Thread Owen Heisler
On Sun, 2007-06-10 at 18:15 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sun, 10 Jun 2007 06:19:45 +0200 > Valentin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Small correction: > > Changing the kernel version *does* make it bootable again. The kernel > > under the first one was just another 2.6.21 ;) > > That's a sh

Re: Which hardware for saving backups?

2007-06-11 Thread Mitja Podreka
Ron Johnson wrote: On 06/11/07 00:28, Mitja Podreka wrote: hello I have a web server with about 270 GB of space on the three disks in RAID5. It's only function is to host a Moodle e-learning system. I would like to make an external backup of user/course files. Not just for an extra level of r

Re: Which hardware for saving backups?

2007-06-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/11/07 04:40, Mitja Podreka wrote: Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: To protect users from their own errors, you could just backup to /var/local/backup on your existing raid5 array. To protect the raid5 array, add a spare drive on a different controller if possible to provide some failover. Add

Re: Mr. Mad Duck: about etch-stable fluxbox?

2007-06-11 Thread Glen Pfeiffer
On 06/11/2007 10:30 AM, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Mon, Jun 11, 2007, Gayle Lee Fairless wrote: [snip] >> BTW, I do have a copy of Martin Kraft's book just in case I >> missed something in it. Please tell me. > > You could also try icewm. I run it on my PII-233 with 64 MB > ram desktop. > >

Re: Which hardware for saving backups?

2007-06-11 Thread Mitja Podreka
Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: To protect users from their own errors, you could just backup to /var/local/backup on your existing raid5 array. To protect the raid5 array, add a spare drive on a different controller if possible to provide some failover. Add two for raid1. If you have a spare

Re: Language of Website

2007-06-11 Thread Jose Luis Rivas Contreras
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > Hi webmasters/maintainers, > > since half a year the Debian (www.debian.org) site shows the English language > as default. It should be in German, as konqueror is configured to German > language. On all other sites this is w

Re: download and install older version of debian

2007-06-11 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 01:52:50PM -0700, yong lee wrote: > Hi, > > I am new to Debian. I would greatly appreciate if > someone can show me how to get an older version of > debian which runs kernel 2.4.X version. I would prefer > either download an ISO image or via a netinstall > method. being ne

Re: download and install older version of debian

2007-06-11 Thread Nyizsnyik Ferenc
On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 13:52:50 -0700 (PDT) yong lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am new to Debian. I would greatly appreciate if > someone can show me how to get an older version of > debian which runs kernel 2.4.X version. I would prefer > either download an ISO image or via a netinstall

Re: Mr. Mad Duck: about etch-stable fluxbox?

2007-06-11 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Gayle Lee Fairless <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007.06.11.1510 +0100]: > I looked on the maintainer webpage which seems to indicate that an IBM > Thinkpad 390 Pentium MMX (233 MHZ) needs to have a patch installed for > fluxbox to work. Since an MMX is somewhat slow, I was hoping to consider

download and install older version of debian

2007-06-11 Thread yong lee
Hi, I am new to Debian. I would greatly appreciate if someone can show me how to get an older version of debian which runs kernel 2.4.X version. I would prefer either download an ISO image or via a netinstall method. Many thanks. Yong _

Re: Mr. Mad Duck: about etch-stable fluxbox?

2007-06-11 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 09:10:59AM -0500, Gayle Lee Fairless wrote: > I looked on the maintainer webpage which seems to indicate that an IBM > Thinkpad 390 Pentium MMX (233 MHZ) needs to have a patch installed for > fluxbox to work. Since an MMX is somewhat slow, I was hoping to consider > flux

Re: Installing new kernel on dual boot grub system

2007-06-11 Thread mess-mate
Gary L. Roach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | I have a Toshiba Qosmio G25 that comes with windows XP installed. I used the newest Etch | installer to load Debian onto the 2nd harddrive. This worked reasonably well. Grep was | installed in the /MBR of the first (XP) disk. All this worked fine. The

Re: Revert to simple Window Manager

2007-06-11 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 10:33:43PM -0600, Telly Williams wrote: > Hi, > > I'm currently using the Gnome Desktop environment. As I learn to > use Linux/GNU more, I find that I want to slim down my computer as much > as possible. Hence, I would like to use just a window manager instead > of a

Re: problem displaying my keyboard layouts onscreen

2007-06-11 Thread Nigel Henry
On Monday 11 June 2007 18:33, Mumia W.. wrote: > On 06/11/2007 11:15 AM, Nigel Henry wrote: > > I have KDE setup to use, gb, us, ca, fr, and dvorak keyboard layouts. I > > would like to display onscreen the keyboard layouts showing all levels, > > particularly level 3 (alt gr) , and level 4 (alt gr

Re: X-Rc-Spam

2007-06-11 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi, On Sun Jun 10, 2007 at 19:08:14 -0400, Tom Allison wrote: > Anyone what what application drops this header into the email? /me. It is an information header for the listmasters saying something about the status of some config files. Those headers can be ignored by end users, it is just impor

Re: Mr. Mad Duck: about etch-stable fluxbox?

2007-06-11 Thread Matthew K Poer
On Monday 11 June 2007 13:09, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On 6/11/07, Gayle Lee Fairless <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I looked on the maintainer webpage which seems to indicate that an IBM > > Thinkpad 390 Pentium MMX (233 MHZ) needs to have a patch installed for > > fluxbox to work. Since an MMX is

Re: Is this a bug?

2007-06-11 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 21:13:47 +0200 Nyizsnyik Ferenc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 15:05:26 -0400 > Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 20:12:10 +0200 > > Nyizsnyik Ferenc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Sun, 10 Jun 2007 11:49:31 -0400 > > > Dou

Re: MySQL 4.0 (sarge) --> MySQL 5.0 (etch) -- Please do "REPAIR TABLE"

2007-06-11 Thread Jarek Buczyński
mysqlcheck --repair --all-databases Have a look at the man page for mysqlcheck. Thank you for help it works good, only one problem is with InnoDB tables: --- sales.users note : The storage e

Re: Which hardware for saving backups?

2007-06-11 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 01:52:52PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Since Moodle stores it's data in MySQL or PostgreSQL, you'll have to > backup the whole database. I wouldn't recommend using rsync. > That should not just be a recommendation. When it comes to databases, you *must* properly dump

Re: Is this a bug?

2007-06-11 Thread Nyizsnyik Ferenc
On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 15:05:26 -0400 Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 20:12:10 +0200 > Nyizsnyik Ferenc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sun, 10 Jun 2007 11:49:31 -0400 > > Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > Once I tried using the deluser com

Re: what wants to remove gcc?

2007-06-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/10/07 13:10, Rick Pasotto wrote: On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 11:20:04AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 06/10/07 10:43, Rick Pasotto wrote: On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 08:51:39AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 06/10/07 08:23, Rick Pasotto wrote: Currently 'apt-get upgrade' wants to upgrade 289 packa

Re: Is this a bug?

2007-06-11 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 20:12:10 +0200 Nyizsnyik Ferenc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 10 Jun 2007 11:49:31 -0400 > Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Once I tried using the deluser commmand and while trying to see how > > > well it works, I tried the following command: >

Re: Software for email merging

2007-06-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/11/07 13:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm doing a free software migration and I need to replace an application for email merging called World Merge: http://www.coloradosoft.com/worldmrg It's used to send customized newsletters to firm's clients. Does anybody know about an any existi

Re: Couple setting questions

2007-06-11 Thread Vladimir Strycek
Douglas Allan Tutty wrote / napísal(a): On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 06:08:28PM +0200, Vladimir Strycek wrote: Hi all, i returned to debian after abou 3/4 year with gentoo, i had my box up and running in moments but there is one or two issues i noticed. 1. Apache seems to not recognize charse

Re: Find out host of IP

2007-06-11 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 12:55:22AM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 10:35:56PM -0600, Telly Williams wrote: > > > > When you talk about logging into the computer without a password, > > are you talking about SSH? If so, how do you handle doing that in, say, > > an in

Re: Revert to simple Window Manager

2007-06-11 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 11:29:39AM +0530, Sudev Barar wrote: > On 11/06/07, Telly Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Sudev Barar wrote: > >> On 11/06/07, Telly Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> I'm currently using the Gnome Desktop environment. As I learn to > >>> use Linux/GNU mor

Re: Which hardware for saving backups?

2007-06-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/11/07 00:28, Mitja Podreka wrote: hello I have a web server with about 270 GB of space on the three disks in RAID5. It's only function is to host a Moodle e-learning system. I would like to make an external backup of user/course files. Not just for an extra level of redundancy, but also

Re: Revert to simple Window Manager

2007-06-11 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 09:08:58AM -0600, Telly Williams wrote: > > Off-question: Is this also the kind of minimal set-up that one would > use to run an Apache server? I imagine that you wouldn't want a > headless server, but, that a non-GUI set-up would be the next best > thing. I'm not sur

Re: BADSIG A70DAF536070D3A1

2007-06-11 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 12:23:54PM +0200, Wolodja Wentland wrote: > On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 12:16 +0200, Mathias Brodala wrote: > > Hi me. > > > > Mathias Brodala, 11.06.2007 12:15: > > > What is the output of "apt-get policy debian-archive-keyring"? > > > > "apt-cache policy debian-archive-keyri

Re: what wants to remove gcc?

2007-06-11 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 09:23:58AM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: > Currently 'apt-get upgrade' wants to upgrade 289 packages. Rather than > do them all at once, I like to do smaller groups packages. Right now it > seems that for every package I try to upgrade, apt-get wants to REMOVE > gcc yet upgradi

Re: How to acquire text so to edit it?

2007-06-11 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 08:57:03AM -0400, Celejar wrote: > On Fri, 08 Jun 2007 13:09:39 +0200 > Rodolfo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Excuse the basic question: > > I wish to scan a printed text so to have it in an editable text file. > > How can I do that with `sane' and `scanimage'? >

Re: which package in sarge and which package in etch can convert mpeg to avi? and 2 more questions

2007-06-11 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 06:26:59AM -0700, Serena Cantor wrote: > does ffmpeg works? some codecs don't work. yes. > > 2 more questions: > > 1) I have a MP3 player, attached to PC via USB line. Now it works with > Windows, how to make it > work under sarge? (how to mount USB disk?) don't use sa

Re: RAW image file

2007-06-11 Thread KS
Kevin Mark wrote: On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 05:25:10PM -0400, Bernard wrote: Luckily some kind developer found this out and after bugging the companies, got the needed specs. There was a story about this maybe 2 years ago. Indeed the developer was a kind one but he didn't get the information

Re: problems with totem

2007-06-11 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 02:53:11PM -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Hello, hi > > I have done a fresh install of etch. When i try to view a video with > totem, nothing is shown, the totem screen is black, but sound is ok. I > can listen the sound but nothjing appears in totem screen. This hap

Re: Ping: Sendmsg: No Buffer Space Available

2007-06-11 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 09:26:18AM +0200, Pol Hallen wrote: > Hi folks! > > I've bought new hardware (asus p5nd2-se with Nvidia mcp51chipset) and > integrated network rtl8111/8168b Gigabit > > With debian stable (and kernel 2.6.21.3) after some minutes (or hours) my > network interface go down

Re: Which hardware for saving backups?

2007-06-11 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 07:28:17AM +0200, Mitja Podreka wrote: > > I have a web server with about 270 GB of space on the three disks in > RAID5. It's only function is to host a Moodle e-learning system. > I would like to make an external backup of user/course files. Not just > for an extra level

Re: Re: identity of author of a submission

2007-06-11 Thread Peter Easthope
At Mon, 04 Jun 2007 19:15:23 +0200 Johannes Wiedersich wrote, It looks like you are using different mail clients and they are configured differently. OK, yes, access from work is via the Web. pe> Is this being fixed? I guess this can only be fixed by yourself. OK, when I can use the same MU

Software for email merging

2007-06-11 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, I'm doing a free software migration and I need to replace an application for email merging called World Merge: http://www.coloradosoft.com/worldmrg It's used to send customized newsletters to firm's clients. Does anybody know about an any existing - or in development - equivalent? Thanks.

Re: Is this a bug?

2007-06-11 Thread Nyizsnyik Ferenc
On Sun, 10 Jun 2007 11:49:31 -0400 Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Once I tried using the deluser commmand and while trying to see how > > well it works, I tried the following command: > >deluser root > > And to my surprise, root was deleted. Is that good?

Re: Installing new kernel on dual boot grub system

2007-06-11 Thread Kushal Kumaran
On 6/11/07, Gary L. Roach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have a Toshiba Qosmio G25 that comes with windows XP installed. I used the newest Etch installer to load Debian onto the 2nd harddrive. This worked reasonably well. Grep was installed in the /MBR of the first (XP) disk. All this worked fine.

Language of Website

2007-06-11 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi webmasters/maintainers, since half a year the Debian (www.debian.org) site shows the English language as default. It should be in German, as konqueror is configured to German language. On all other sites this is working perfectly, the only site it does not is the Debian site. Did I miss some

Re: Anyone have success with bootsplash package?

2007-06-11 Thread Nyizsnyik Ferenc
On Sun, 10 Jun 2007 20:51:30 GMT Stephen Patterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 04 Jun 2007 12:00:18 +0200, Eric A. Bonney wrote: > > > I have tried installing this package on two of my three machines > > and had no success with it. I have verified that I have frame > > buffer support co

Which hardware for saving backups?

2007-06-11 Thread Mitja Podreka
hello I have a web server with about 270 GB of space on the three disks in RAID5. It's only function is to host a Moodle e-learning system. I would like to make an external backup of user/course files. Not just for an extra level of redundancy, but also to protect the users from their own erro

Installing new kernel on dual boot grub system

2007-06-11 Thread Gary L. Roach
I have a Toshiba Qosmio G25 that comes with windows XP installed. I used the newest Etch installer to load Debian onto the 2nd harddrive. This worked reasonably well. Grep was installed in the /MBR of the first (XP) disk. All this worked fine. Then I decided that I wanted to customize the kern

Re: Mr. Mad Duck: about etch-stable fluxbox?

2007-06-11 Thread Bob McGowan
Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 09:10:59AM -0500, Gayle Lee Fairless wrote: I looked on the maintainer webpage which seems to indicate that an IBM Thinkpad 390 Pentium MMX (233 MHZ) needs to have a patch installed for fluxbox to work. Since an MMX is somewhat slow, I was

Re: Couple setting questions

2007-06-11 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 06:08:28PM +0200, Vladimir Strycek wrote: > Hi all, > > i returned to debian after abou 3/4 year with gentoo, i had my box up > and running in moments but there is one or two issues i noticed. > > 1. Apache seems to not recognize charset setting in page > > 2. mc command

Re: Revert to simple Window Manager

2007-06-11 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 09:08:58AM -0600, Telly Williams wrote: [snip how to remove gnome and get back to GUI login and startx] > I appreciate the bit about links2; I was using lynx. > > Off-question: Is this also the kind of minimal set-up that one would > use to run an Apache server? I

Re: Mr. Mad Duck: about etch-stable fluxbox?

2007-06-11 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 09:10:59AM -0500, Gayle Lee Fairless wrote: > I looked on the maintainer webpage which seems to indicate that an IBM > Thinkpad 390 Pentium MMX (233 MHZ) needs to have a patch installed for > fluxbox to work. Since an MMX is somewhat slow, I was hoping to consider > flux

Re: shell or fileutils commands and whitespaced filenames

2007-06-11 Thread Bob McGowan
Michael wrote: thx Bob. (Is there any list you're not subscribed :) Using 'null' is slightly shorter than my 'sed' command...but somehow i can't help it's still not really straight enough. Doing complicated things just to have quite common formatted filenames handled, is so *uncool* for a mod

Re: Mr. Mad Duck: about etch-stable fluxbox?

2007-06-11 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 6/11/07, Gayle Lee Fairless <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I looked on the maintainer webpage which seems to indicate that an IBM Thinkpad 390 Pentium MMX (233 MHZ) needs to have a patch installed for fluxbox to work. Since an MMX is somewhat slow, I was hoping to consider fluxbox or something li

Re: BADSIG A70DAF536070D3A1

2007-06-11 Thread Joey Hess
Wolodja Wentland wrote: > Err http://ftp2.de.debian.org lenny Release This seems to be the problem. Since it failed to download this file, the signature check failed for it. > W: GPG error: http://ftp2.de.debian.org lenny Release: The following > signatures were invalid: BADSIG A70DAF536070D3A1

Re: Revert to simple Window Manager

2007-06-11 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 6/10/07, Sudev Barar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 11/06/07, Telly Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sudev Barar wrote: > > On 11/06/07, Telly Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I'm currently using the Gnome Desktop environment. As I learn to > >> use Linux/GNU more, I find that

Re: problem displaying my keyboard layouts onscreen

2007-06-11 Thread Mumia W..
On 06/11/2007 11:15 AM, Nigel Henry wrote: I have KDE setup to use, gb, us, ca, fr, and dvorak keyboard layouts. I would like to display onscreen the keyboard layouts showing all levels, particularly level 3 (alt gr) , and level 4 (alt gr) + (shift). Someone mentioned using xkbprint, but I'm d

preseed & security updates protocol

2007-06-11 Thread Jaime Ventura
Hello Im trying to create a preseed file to network install some machines using a FTP local mirror of debian & debian-security(mirrored on 192.168.2.1 and available via FTP only). How do i choose the protocol for updates as being ftp? I've tried apt-setup/uri_type select ftp

Re: xterm fonts

2007-06-11 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello, sorry for my late answer but I was 10 days in hospital... Am 2007-05-23 05:19:31, schrieb Deboo ^: > On 5/22/07, Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Please note, that the FILE ~/.Xresources is deprecated in favour of > >the directory. ~/.Xresources/. > > You can load ~/.Xdefaul

problem displaying my keyboard layouts onscreen

2007-06-11 Thread Nigel Henry
I have KDE setup to use, gb, us, ca, fr, and dvorak keyboard layouts. I would like to display onscreen the keyboard layouts showing all levels, particularly level 3 (alt gr) , and level 4 (alt gr) + (shift). Someone mentioned using xkbprint, but I'm darned if I can find out how to use it, or ev

Couple setting questions

2007-06-11 Thread Vladimir Strycek
Hi all, i returned to debian after abou 3/4 year with gentoo, i had my box up and running in moments but there is one or two issues i noticed. 1. Apache seems to not recognize charset setting in page 2. mc commander look realy wierd its like all borders have letter insted of lines... Anybo

Re: gpsdrive 2.09-2.2 deb package questions Q2 Answer

2007-06-11 Thread Wayne Topa
Wayne Topa([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > I have a few questions for anyone that has gpsdrive working. > > > 2. Do you have the << >> buttons (Under the Zoom Out button) working? > They don't work here. Disable the "Auto Best map" selection. Not only does this enable the

Re: Find out host of IP

2007-06-11 Thread Wayne Topa
Celejar([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 16:06:19 +0300 > David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Monday 11 June 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Not exactly answering your question. But I do see a lot of IPs > > > > performing > > > > dictionary at

Re: Mr. Mad Duck: about etch-stable fluxbox?

2007-06-11 Thread Wayne Topa
Gayle Lee Fairless([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > I looked on the maintainer webpage which seems to indicate that an IBM > Thinkpad 390 Pentium MMX (233 MHZ) needs to have a patch installed for > fluxbox to work. Since an MMX is somewhat slow, I was hoping to consider > fluxbox

Re: Revert to simple Window Manager

2007-06-11 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 10:33:43PM -0600, Telly Williams wrote: I'm currently using the Gnome Desktop environment. As I learn to use Linux/GNU more, I find that I want to slim down my computer as much as possible. Hence, I would like to use just a window manager

Re: reorder files with a mouse in a file browser and rename them

2007-06-11 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
H.S. wrote: >> >> file2.txt >> file3.txt >> file1.txt >> Assume that you were somehow able to generate this list. In real life problem, this would be couple hundred lines long (not just 3 lines). Call this listA. >> to >> >> 001_file2.txt >> 002_file3.txt >> 003_file1.txt > Call this listB.

Re: udev rule writing help needed

2007-06-11 Thread Graham Evans
On Sun, 10 Jun 2007 19:30:16 +0200, Don Hayward wrote: > I have a new Seagate FreeAgent usb hard drive. After install, it spins > down and when one tries to write to it, it gets marked read only. This > can be prevented by running the following command line: > > echo 1 > /sys/class/scsi_disk/14\

Re: Revert to simple Window Manager

2007-06-11 Thread Telly Williams
Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > Hello Telly. > > First, let me assure you that you do not have to reinstall, nor will > this break your system. > > Second, my I suggest a planned approach to this. > > What will the end result look like? Personally, I don't use any gdm or > any other *dm, I just log i

Mr. Mad Duck: about etch-stable fluxbox?

2007-06-11 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
I looked on the maintainer webpage which seems to indicate that an IBM Thinkpad 390 Pentium MMX (233 MHZ) needs to have a patch installed for fluxbox to work. Since an MMX is somewhat slow, I was hoping to consider fluxbox or something like it instead of the heavy-duty GNOME or KDE. BTW, I d

Re: exim4 config (?)

2007-06-11 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 06:22:50AM +0100, William Pursell wrote: > Thanks. I realized that by having my google account in > /etc/email-addresses, any mail delivery failures will > go to gmail instead of /var/mail, so I've done the following: > > > I followed Anoton's suggestion to run dpkg-rec

Re: Need a little help with my network configuration

2007-06-11 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 10 Jun 2007 16:06:17 +0200 Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 06 June 2007 01:54, Celejar wrote: > > On Sun, 3 Jun 2007 16:34:48 +0200 > > > > Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I have a box with a usb-nic which uses the zd1211rw module. The box is > > > d

Re: Revert to simple Window Manager

2007-06-11 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 10:33:43PM -0600, Telly Williams wrote: > I'm currently using the Gnome Desktop environment. As I learn to > use Linux/GNU more, I find that I want to slim down my computer as much > as possible. Hence, I would like to use just a window manager instead > of a full GUI.

Re: Find out host of IP

2007-06-11 Thread Ralph Katz
On 06/11/2007 08:53 AM, David Baron wrote: > On Sunday 10 June 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> Someone is trying to ssh on to my system. Trying on several ports. Not >>> the first time, either. Thankfully, he does not have a password. Besides >>> a bunch of Deprecated option ReverseMappingCheck,

Re: Find out host of IP

2007-06-11 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 16:06:19 +0300 David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 11 June 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Not exactly answering your question. But I do see a lot of IPs performing > > > dictionary attacks on my machine. What I do is go through > > > /var/log/auth.log perio

Re: epiphany: how enable pdf output?

2007-06-11 Thread Ralph Katz
On 06/11/2007 12:07 AM, Eric d'Alibut wrote: > On 6/10/07, Ralph Katz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Using cups? Install cups-pdf, then just "print" to printer cups-pdf. >> Pretty simple. Works for me on etch. > > I have resorted to that. Is there a way to pass a proper filename to > the pdf o

Re: Find out host of IP

2007-06-11 Thread David Baron
On Monday 11 June 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Not exactly answering your question. But I do see a lot of IPs performing > > dictionary attacks on my machine. What I do is go through > > /var/log/auth.log periodically and add the offending IPs to > > /etc/hosts.deny . That way, in future, the

Re: Find out host of IP

2007-06-11 Thread David Baron
On Sunday 10 June 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Someone is trying to ssh on to my system. Trying on several ports. Not > > the first time, either. Thankfully, he does not have a password. Besides > > a bunch of Deprecated option ReverseMappingCheck, so far no harm done. > > > > Since my logs h

Re: what wants to remove gcc?

2007-06-11 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 10:18:05AM +0530, Kushal Kumaran wrote: > On 6/10/07, Rick Pasotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 11:20:04AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> On 06/10/07 10:43, Rick Pasotto wrote: > >> >On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 08:51:39AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> >

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