All linux-image-2.6-* packages in Etch/4.0 vulnurable?

-- Please CC me, when replying, since I'm not subscribed to the list. Hello, According to DSA-1356-1 [1] there are security updates available for all linux-image-2.6.18* packages in Etch. One needs to upgrade to versions named linux-image-2.6.18-5* to benefit from the update. Now I noticed that

Re: How to create local mirror using dvd images

Allan Senna Porto wrote: > Somebody know how to create local mirror using dvd images? Hmm... You could use apt-move to relocate the .deb files from the dvd's into a web accessable area. apt-cache show apt-move apt-move is used to move a collection of Debian package files into a prope

Re: what brings up the wireless network interface

Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > I mentioned this in my original post. I will say it agin. Even after the > stanza specific to wireless card is commented out, and even after doing > > sudo ifconfig eth2 down Suggestion: Uncomment the eth2 stanza, 'sudo ifdown eth2', comment out the stanza. All sho

Re: Using deborphan

On 08/16/2007 05:45 PM, Rick Pasotto wrote: On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 08:23:12AM +1000, Wei Wang wrote: I recommend you always use Aptitude as your primary package manager. It automatically delete orphaned packages. What if I'm still using that program? I don't *want* it deleted. Just because i

Re: Confused about kernel source location

Hi, First of all, please CC me when replying, since I am not subscribed to this list. > [...] > And as I rarely decompress files, I have forgotten the command to > decompress tar/bz2 files . > [...] I just wanted to add my ¢2. You may want to evaluate the package named "unp" and you will never

Re: How to make phone call using modem in Linux

testing again, wvdial can make phone call too but quality is not good. the sound too noise. just modify config file. provide phone, username, password (don't care about username/password here) Thang Kieu On 8/17/07, Kieu Minh Thang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > That's great, I have tri

Re: Old updates appearing out of the blue

On 08/16/2007 09:39 PM, Simos H wrote: > I ran apt-get update/upgrade this afternoon and number of updated packages > showed up: > > Does anyone have any clues on why this might have happened? http://times.debian.net/1161-etch-r1 Kind Regards, Michael Shuler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: How to make phone call using modem in Linux

Hi all, That's great, I have tried with minicom and looking around for some AT commands. Have been successful to dial with minicom. connect to modem. ATDT quality is good enough Thang Kieu On 8/17/07, Kieu Minh Thang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have checked wvdial and have use minicom b

font size changed recently...why?

I'm running Lenny on my desktop, and I upgrade regularly. I run X at 1152x864 on a 19" monitor, and have been doing so for years. Sometime recently, perhaps within the last 10 days or so, the sizes of several of my fonts have changed, and I am at a loss to figure out why. The world has changed

Old updates appearing out of the blue

Hello all, I ran apt-get update/upgrade this afternoon and number of updated packages showed up: debian-archive-keyring desktop-base epiphany-browser initramfs-tools libc6 libc6-dev libc6-i686 libgadu3 libneon26 liborbit2 librsvg2-2 ... Having been pretty diligent about updating both my desk

Re: How to make phone call using modem in Linux

I have checked wvdial and have use minicom before. wvdial seems to used to dialup connect, not to make phone call I have used minicom to handle some circuit (it's likely to HyperTerminal on Windows), I think this can be use to dial because it handle modem with AT commands. If I know AT commands, I

Re: bash vs. python scripts - which one is better?

On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 09:17:46AM -0700, Bob McGowan wrote: > Steven R. wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 04:03:05PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >>> So what's the right way to do this? I hacked one together the other >>> day: >>> >>> IFS=$'\t\n'; for i in `find . -iname \*m4a`; do faad...

Re: What to install to get a working latex system? texlive or tetex?

On Thursday 16 August 2007 20:23, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > Hey guys, > > I searched the mailing list for answers to the texlive vs tetex issues. The > answers seems to be that texlive is the newer for updated distribution for > tex and latex documents. Thus, I installed the 'texlive-latex-base'

Re: Subscribing to a large set of bugs

Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a way to subscribe to a large set of bugs, without having to > reply to multiple confirmation messages (one for each bug)? I've hacked a procmail script which might help to autoreply the confirm messages.. forgive me if I missed something obvi

Re: Any suggestions on good CLI newsreaders?

I just checked out a few screenshots for Raggle. Seems quite impressive. Thank you for the suggestion. In the meantime I am quite happy with snownews but I will definitely check this out. Thanks, Amit -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Co

What to install to get a working latex system? texlive or tetex?

Hey guys, I searched the mailing list for answers to the texlive vs tetex issues. The answers seems to be that texlive is the newer for updated distribution for tex and latex documents. Thus, I installed the 'texlive-latex-base' package and was a happy camper. Latex was working fine. However, the

Re: nslookup from behing router/modem

Samuel Bächler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ less /etc/resolv.conf >> search >> nameserver 158.152.1.58 >> nameserver 158.152.1.42 > > In Switzerland I would say "the dog is buried here" (how to > say in English?): Here marks the spot? :) I use Demon, the second entry from

Re: Google checking my system?

Mumia W.. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 08/15/2007 06:39 PM, Steven wrote: >> On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 15:56:16 -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: >>> thought it was odd that google, or iceweasel, needed to know anything. >>> Of course the entry was dropped when I terminated iceweasel. >> I've noticed similar

Re: How to fix Language error

Jan Willem Stumpel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > update-locale LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8 > This stores the locale value in /etc/defaults/locale (instead of > /etc/environment). I get this from time to time and just run a 'dpkg-reconfigure locales'. This runs update-locale as well as locale-gen for your sel

Re: Google checking my system?

It's featureware which opens just as many new MiM considerations as it solves phishing considerations. Pick your poison, I guess. There's still no real excuse for unrequested network connections during an idle session if its only purpose is to verify site identity during active use. -- To U

Re: help installing video/graphics driver.

If you're willing to use proprietary software, add contrib non-free to your software repositories. Then search keyword "nvidia" and install related packages. regards. On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 11:57 -0400, Raj Kaujalgi wrote: > Hello, > I have started using Debian 4.0 linux on my AMD 64 bit processor

Re: No auth and nonauth sendmail in same config.

On Thu, 16 Aug 2007, Sergio Belkin wrote: Hi community ehlo I have an authenticated sendmail. I want to modifiy it in order to: *All mail sent to mydomain.com is not authenticated *All mail sent to any domain different as mydomain.com be authenticated (TLS included). Is that what you real

Re: Using deborphan

On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 08:23:12AM +1000, Wei Wang wrote: > I recommend you always use Aptitude as your primary package manager. > It automatically delete orphaned packages. What if I'm still using that program? I don't *want* it deleted. Just because it's not being maintained is no reason to dele

Re: Using deborphan

I recommend you always use Aptitude as your primary package manager. It automatically delete orphaned packages. Regards On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 08:19 +0200, Csányi Pál wrote: > Hello! > > I purge the orphaned packages on a Debian system: > sudo deborphan | less > > and then copy / paste to the ap

Re: /boot partition erased (help needed)

On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 15:41 -0400, Mark Neidorff wrote: > On Thursday 16 August 2007 01:32 pm, Deephay wrote: > > I made a very stupid mistake two hours ago, I bought a new USB storage > > disk and I was trying to test the speed: > > > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda1 > > > > sadly I typed "sdb1" as

Re: /boot partition erased (help needed)

On Thursday 16 August 2007 01:32 pm, Deephay wrote: > Greetings all, > > I made a very stupid mistake two hours ago, I bought a new USB storage > disk and I was trying to test the speed: > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda1 > > sadly I typed "sdb1" as "sda1" and that was the /boot partition, I > realiz

Re: nslookup from behing router/modem

some dsl routers "require" that the clients points to the router itself as the dns server. In other words: Try to use the following /etc/resolv.conf in the client: nameserver Regards On Thursday 16 August 2007 14:47, michael wrote: > I have just replaced my USB modem with a router/modem and thi

Etch on sparc ultra 10 with a second PCI monitor card

I am trying to get this sparc to run debian Etch. I don't have internet connected to it. I download .iso's on another machine, create the CD's and boot from them. I'll skip some of my adventure. I got past the blank screen by entering: expert video=atyfb:off (I stumbled upon this guess myself)

SOLVED: LVM pvmove problems

On 16 Aug 2007, at 18:08, Vesa-Pekka Palmu wrote: On Thu, 16 Aug 2007, michael wrote: I'm trying to reduce a logical vol so that I can remove a HD from it. However, I get errors with pvmove but I don't know why. I saw some old postings with a kernel patch but the URL is extinct. I'm runni

/boot partition erased (help needed)

Greetings all, I made a very stupid mistake two hours ago, I bought a new USB storage disk and I was trying to test the speed: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda1 sadly I typed "sdb1" as "sda1" and that was the /boot partition, I realized it immediately, but it was too late. I then reinstall grub as we

Re: Organising MP3 Files into folders

Adam Gray wrote: Basically while backing up my system I used my iPod to back up my music collection, which used to be neatly sorted into folders with artists & albums. Then when downloading it again with gtkPod I was left with one directory containing a lot (~3000) of files. Anyone know of any mu

Re: nslookup from behing router/modem

michael([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 15:40 +0100, michael wrote: > > On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 15:08 +0100, Liam O'Toole wrote: > > > On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 13:47:30 +0100 > > > michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > <> > > I'll investigate. thanks, Michael

Re: nslookup from behing router/modem

On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 08:48 -0800, Ken Irving wrote: > On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 04:15:45PM +0100, michael wrote: > > On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 15:40 +0100, michael wrote: > > > On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 15:08 +0100, Liam O'Toole wrote: > > > > On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 13:47:30 +0100 > > > > michael <[EMAIL PROT

Re: help installing video/graphics driver.

http://tinyplanet.ca/~lsorense/debian/debian-nvidia-dri-howto.txt It worked for me. Thierry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: nslookup from behing router/modem

On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 04:15:45PM +0100, michael wrote: > On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 15:40 +0100, michael wrote: > > On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 15:08 +0100, Liam O'Toole wrote: > > > On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 13:47:30 +0100 > > > michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > I have just replaced my USB modem

Re: live Debian on USB stick

On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 12:37:23PM -0600, Aenn Seidhe Priest wrote: From: Aenn Seidhe Priest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: live Debian on USB stick X-Mailer: Calypso Version 3.30.00.00 (4) Feather Linux is a slim version of Knoppix. It can

help installing video/graphics driver.

Hello, I have started using Debian 4.0 linux on my AMD 64 bit processor motherboard (ASUS) M2N-MX. It has NVIDIA GeForce 6200 video/graphics chipset. I have a SAMSUNG 19" Wide monitor (SyncMaster 920NW). While installing I got all the resolutions as options and I selected 1400X900. However after in

Re: Organising MP3 Files into folders

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/16/07 09:42, Adam Gray wrote: > Basically while backing up my system I used my iPod to back up my > music collection, which used to be neatly sorted into folders with > artists & albums. Then when downloading it again with gtkPod I was > left wit

Organising MP3 Files into folders

Basically while backing up my system I used my iPod to back up my music collection, which used to be neatly sorted into folders with artists & albums. Then when downloading it again with gtkPod I was left with one directory containing a lot (~3000) of files. Anyone know of any music apps that would

Re: nslookup from behing router/modem

On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 15:40 +0100, michael wrote: > On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 15:08 +0100, Liam O'Toole wrote: > > On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 13:47:30 +0100 > > michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I have just replaced my USB modem with a router/modem and things seem > > > to be working find on my D

Re: nslookup from behing router/modem

On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 15:08 +0100, Liam O'Toole wrote: > On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 13:47:30 +0100 > michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have just replaced my USB modem with a router/modem and things seem > > to be working find on my Debian box behind the router, except for > > nslookup. Is there

Re: ocfs2 (oracle cluster filesystem) error: Unable to load module "configfs"

Benedict Verheyen schreef: Hi, i want to run ocfs2 to load a shared filesystem for 3 uml's. ocfs2 allows 2 or more uml's to load the same filesystem so it should solve the limitations of hostfs. Anyway, i compiled ocfs2 support into the kernel and made a /etc/ocfs2/cluster.conf file. Howe

Re: nslookup from behing router/modem

On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 13:47:30 +0100 michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have just replaced my USB modem with a router/modem and things seem > to be working find on my Debian box behind the router, except for > nslookup. Is there something I need to amend to get it to work. Note > I can still acc

Re: HP Ultrium 960 LTO-3 on Debian Etch?

Hello, Gilles Many thanks for your hints! Worked perfectly. It is a Smart Array controller, and the first command was enough. Regards. André Felipe Machado "Esta mensagem do SERVIÇO FEDERAL DE PROCESSAMENTO DE DADOS (SERPRO), empresa pública federal regida pelo disposto na Lei Federal nº 5.615

Re: nslookup from behing router/modem

On 16 Aug 2007, at 14:12, Samuel Bächler wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ less /etc/resolv.conf search nameserver 158.152.1.58 nameserver 158.152.1.42 In Switzerland I would say "the dog is buried here" (how to say in English?): I entered your nameserver in my resolv.conf and it did not work. For

Re: nslookup from behing router/modem

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ less /etc/resolv.conf search nameserver 158.152.1.58 nameserver 158.152.1.42 In Switzerland I would say "the dog is buried here" (how to say in English?): I entered your nameserver in my resolv.conf and it did not work. For now try to use my configuration: search foo.ch nam

Re: LVM problems: pvmove "errors"

On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 14:22 +0200, Martin Marcher wrote: > On 8/16/07, michael bane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm trying to reduce a logical vol so that I can remove a HD from it. > > However, I get errors with pvmove but I don't know why: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo /usr/sbin/pvdisplay

nslookup from behing router/modem

I have just replaced my USB modem with a router/modem and things seem to be working find on my Debian box behind the router, except for nslookup. Is there something I need to amend to get it to work. Note I can still access the e-World from my Debian box: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ping www.bbc.co.uk PI

Re: how to do upgrade with the Network Install disc...

Payne writes: > Is there a way to upgrade a box with the network install disc, seem to be > only able to do an install. You don't need a CD to upgrade at all. Just edit /etc/apt/sources.list appropriately and do 'sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitude dist-upgrade'. Read the release notes firat, t

Re: LVM problems: pvmove "errors"

Hi, are you absolutely sure that the other PVs have enough space available to remove the desired one? (this bugged me everytime i had to remove a PV) /martin On 8/16/07, michael bane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to reduce a logical vol so that I can remove a HD from it. > However, I g

Re: less, exit but left content on screen

Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I wanted to describe the control-mouse alternate screen switching > capability because it is useful to know about and can help people > understand what is happening at a better level of detail. People who > have never heard of the alternate screen buffer of

No auth and nonauth sendmail in same config.

Hi community I have an authenticated sendmail. I want to modifiy it in order to: *All mail sent to mydomain.com is not authenticated *All mail sent to any domain different as mydomain.com be authenticated (TLS included). How can I do that? (I don't refer to complete procedure, but how can I do

Subscribing to a large set of bugs

Is there a way to subscribe to a large set of bugs, without having to reply to multiple confirmation messages (one for each bug)? -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: Work: CR INRIA - compute

LVM problems: pvmove "errors"

I'm trying to reduce a logical vol so that I can remove a HD from it. However, I get errors with pvmove but I don't know why: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo /usr/sbin/pvdisplay /dev/sdb1 Password: --- Physical volume --- PV Name /dev/sdb1 VG Name VolGroup00 PV

Re: Using deborphan

> > I purge the orphaned packages on a Debian system: > > One line/instruction with "debfoster". > "apt-get autoremove" also does some interesting things. But not in the Etch with apt version 0.6.. :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: Using deborphan

On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 08:19 +0200, Csányi Pál wrote: > Hello! Hi, > I purge the orphaned packages on a Debian system: One line/instruction with "debfoster". "apt-get autoremove" also does some interesting things. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: vim & kde questions SOLVED

Mark Neidorff wrote: Thanks. That solved 2 annoyances. Its too bad about the vim install. Another of those things about Etch that doesn't make sense to me. I think it is because of the minimal install. I may be wrong but I think at some point in the past they replace nvi with vim-tiny.

Re: live Debian on USB stick

Gerard Robin wrote: > Hello, > I installed knoppix on my USB stick and it runs fine but it's too big > ~ 600 Mb. There are too many packages. > Is there a Debian dist, not as big as knoppix, that I can put on my USB > stick ? Debian Live [1] is the only live CD/USB which is 100% pure Debian. There

Re: Using deborphan

Hello, On [Thu, 16.08.2007 08:19], Csányi Pál wrote: > I try: > sudo deborphan | aptitude purge dpkg --purge `deborphan` executed as root will do the job. Johannes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: photo album or photo viewer in xfce

On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 01:03:45PM +0200, Joachim Fahnenmüller wrote: > Hi Peter, > > On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 07:46:21PM -0700, PETER EASTHOPE wrote: > > > > Folk, > > > > Can anyone recommend a package or application for > > efficient viewing of photos in xfce? I installed showfoto > > in on

Re: how to do upgrade with the Network Install disc...

* Chuck Payne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070816 01:14]: > Hi, > > Is there a way to upgrade a box with the network install disc, seem to be > only able to do an install. When upgrading, there is no need for a CD; simply change the repositories in /etc/apt/sources.list . However, I have found it advant

Re: Using deborphan

Csányi Pál <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I purge the orphaned packages on a Debian system: > sudo deborphan | less > > and then copy / paste to the aptitude search, and then purge in aptitude. > > Is there an automated way to do this task out there? > > man deborphan and man aptitude dont shows an

Re: Using deborphan

Csányi Pál wrote: > Hello! > > I purge the orphaned packages on a Debian system: > sudo deborphan | less > > and then copy / paste to the aptitude search, and then purge in aptitude. > > Is there an automated way to do this task out there? > > man deborphan and man aptitude dont shows any sugge