Re: cursor disappears across logout/login

2007-09-23 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 23 Sep 2007 23:40:40 -0700 (PDT) Chan Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's Debian 4.0 built last month, came from CheapBytes in DVD. > It's installed into HP Desktop (latest model purchased last June) > with Samsung 19" LCD monitor. > > Chan > > Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrot

binary packages versus source

2007-09-23 Thread pietia
hello , i wonder why some of packages compiled from source are faster than precompiled debs. for example - why the ruby interpreter in all tested version (look here ,please http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/125344 ) 1.8.5,1.8.6, 1.9 is much more faster when is compiled from source ? becaus

Re: cursor disappears across logout/login

2007-09-23 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 23 Sep 2007 15:38:39 -0700 (PDT) Chan Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Just start using the Debian server package, I found that What's the Debian server package? > Chan Celejar -- mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net -

Re: How to reduce pdf file size with open source software?

2007-09-23 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 23 Sep 2007 22:37:10 -0700 Amit Uttamchandani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey guys, > > I am currently using Etch and I'm loving it! > > Today I had to scan several documents from a Windows machine (not a good > experience). The output files were of png format. I then transferred these

How to reduce pdf file size with open source software?

2007-09-23 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
Hey guys, I am currently using Etch and I'm loving it! Today I had to scan several documents from a Windows machine (not a good experience). The output files were of png format. I then transferred these files into Debian and used ImageMagick's "convert" utility to convert the png images into p

Re: Debian packages without md5sums

2007-09-23 Thread Felix Karpfen
On Sun, 23 Sep 2007 17:32:20 +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: (Edited) > > During etch in testing period, I recall several problems which > errouneously made to report to be unsigned package. Since gpg-signed packages is an "etch" innovation, it explains why I had not encountered before the "warning" de

Re: how to remote login and copy files?

2007-09-23 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Serena Cantor wrote: > Should I install ssh and nfs and read their manuals? > Thanks! I use krusader, sftp protocol for quickly copying couple of files across different machines. It gives a nice two pane graphical user interface which is very easy to work with. For more complicated stuff (ex :- m

Re: Etch-backports and gpg problems (SOLVED)

2007-09-23 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
David Fox wrote: > > It might be worth mentioning that "sudo" doesn't work across pipes: > > For instance: > > sudo command_1 | command_2 > > The first command will be run as root, but the second will be run with > normal user permissions. You can probably get around that by enclosing > the ent

Re: how to remote login and copy files?

2007-09-23 Thread Serena Cantor
Thanks! I intend to remote login from Linux(client) to Linux(server) and run commands on the server and transfer files between server and client. --- KS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Serena Cantor wrote: > > Should I install ssh and nfs and read their manuals? > > Thanks! > > > > ssh can be an

Re: how to remote login and copy files?

2007-09-23 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Serena Cantor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007 Sep 23 21:28 -0500]: > Should I install ssh and nfs and read their manuals? > Thanks! sshfs and fuse. You're welcome. - Nate >> -- Wireless | Amateur Radio Station N0NB | Successfully Microsoft Amateur radio exams; ham radio; Linux info @

Re: how to remote login and copy files?

2007-09-23 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 09:47:10PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 09/23/07 21:26, Serena Cantor wrote: > > Should I install ssh and nfs and read their manuals? > > You're being a bit vague. Remotely log into what? Unix, VMS, z/OS, > Windows? Do you need to log into a shell, or do you *really* j

Re: Linux printer sharing

2007-09-23 Thread KS
steve wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I'm still trying to get my win2k box too see the printer attached >> to my debian box. I've tried everything I can think of to get it to >> work. Please, if anyone has any suggestions please let me know!! I >> need this computer to be able to print!! > >

Re: how to remote login and copy files?

2007-09-23 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/23/07 21:26, Serena Cantor wrote: > Should I install ssh and nfs and read their manuals? You're being a bit vague. Remotely log into what? Unix, VMS, z/OS, Windows? Do you need to log into a shell, or do you *really* just need to transfer fil

Virtual-terminal switch dumps X cut/paste buffer onto window

2007-09-23 Thread Bill Brelsford
Another problem after recent X updates in sid: switching back to the X virtual terminal (e.g. via alt-F7) results in the contents of the cut/paste buffer being pasted into the active X window. Anyone else see this behavior? A bug in xserver-xorg (1:7.3+2)? -- Bill Brelsford [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how to remote login and copy files?

2007-09-23 Thread Darryl Ware
Serena Cantor wrote: Should I install ssh and nfs and read their manuals? Thanks! Tonight's top picks. What will you watch tonight? Preview the hottest shows on Yahoo! TV. http://tv.yahoo.com/ Jus

Re: how to remote login and copy files?

2007-09-23 Thread KS
Serena Cantor wrote: > Should I install ssh and nfs and read their manuals? > Thanks! > ssh can be an option and nfs can be another. Specify what you mean by "remote login and copy files"? Remote login can be done by various methods. What are the client and remote server running? What is the sour

Re: ls sort order: new, bad, behaviour

2007-09-23 Thread Eric d'Alibut
On 9/24/07, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jeez, this has been a bad computer day for me. > ls listings are just like Steve's. I'm back to my figment of the imagination idea: this phantom dirs-first ls listing is a delusion produced by too much mc use. -- No no no, my fish's name is

Re: Penalty of SELinux?

2007-09-23 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 03:43:11PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 11:13:13AM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > I know there are minidistros like DSL but DSL is small as in how much > > can they pack onto a small CD, not how to shoehorn into 16-32 MB ram. > > I'm

how to remote login and copy files?

2007-09-23 Thread Serena Cantor
Should I install ssh and nfs and read their manuals? Thanks! Tonight's top picks. What will you watch tonight? Preview the hottest shows on Yahoo! TV. http://tv.yahoo.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Penalty of SELinux?

2007-09-23 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sun, 23 Sep 2007 17:13:59 -0700, consultores agropecuarios <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > The real problem with SELinux is that it come from a really well known > untrusted organization around the globe; This is one place I differ. I know and like Stephen Smalley, and I do not look at

Re: ls sort order: new, bad, behaviour

2007-09-23 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/23/07 16:11, s. keeling wrote: > Eric d'Alibut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> On 9/23/07, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> namely, an 'ls' that sorts directories first, and ordinary files afterwards? Do others actually see that behav

Re: Linux printer sharing

2007-09-23 Thread steve
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm still trying to get my win2k box too see the printer attached to my > debian box. I've tried everything I can think of to get it to work. Please, > if anyone has any suggestions please let me know!! I need this computer

Re: Penalty of SELinux?

2007-09-23 Thread John Hasler
consultores writes: > The real problem with SELinux is that it come from a really well known > untrusted organization around the globe... Has it occurred to you that if NSA wanted to slip a backdoor into Linux and thought that they could slip it past all the prying eyes that they just might be int

Linux printer sharing

2007-09-23 Thread genkokitsu
I'm still trying to get my win2k box too see the printer attached to my debian box. I've tried everything I can think of to get it to work. Please, if anyone has any suggestions please let me know!! I need this computer to be able to print!!

Re: Etch-backports and gpg problems (SOLVED)

2007-09-23 Thread David Fox
On 9/23/07, Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If I had run as root, it probably would have worked, but I used sudo. > This only runs the first command as root (I believe), so the command > 'apt-key add - ' was run as a normal user and did not like that. Using It might be worth mentioning

Re: lirc on Debian with AMD64

2007-09-23 Thread Marty
Greg Vickers wrote: Hi Andrew, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 05:14:36PM +1000, Greg Vickers wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to get lirc to work with my Hauppauge on my Debian installation on AMD64. I've used module assistant to create the lirc kernel modules and the module

Re: SAMBA ground-up tutorial?

2007-09-23 Thread cls
[This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > Sorry to hear that you are having a lot of trouble. I don't have that >much experience in setting up samba but when I had to set up a small >samba shared drive I read this document.

Re: iscan frustration

2007-09-23 Thread Felix Karpfen
On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 09:29:40 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > I was able to run iscan for my Epson Perfection V100 Photo scanner but > only as root. This no longer works. I get a message, "Could not send a > command to scanner". > > The system is lenny with a 2.6.21 linux-image kernel. > I t

Re: Penalty of SELinux?

2007-09-23 Thread consultores agropecuarios
El dom, 23-09-2007 a las 14:41 -0500, Manoj Srivastava escribió: > On Sun, 23 Sep 2007 11:14:57 -0400, Douglas A Tutty > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > On small systems, what about the penalty of just larger binaries? I > > have some older boxes with 16-64 MB ram. > > Firstly: Very fe

Re: Tool for document management

2007-09-23 Thread Benjamin A'Lee
On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 04:29:46PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > 2) ISTM that it would be darn straightforward to get a VCS to handle >zip files properly -- unzipping the current repo version and >comparing to the new incoming version and then zipping the whole thing >up. I know

Re: Tool for document management

2007-09-23 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 08:26:59AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > Hello, > I am looking for a tool to help me maintain a backup of a writing project. > Being a programmer my first instinct is to use something along the lines of > rcs/cvs. I was thinking of svn since I have a project on Google Cod

Future rabbits run Debian on Intel processors.

2007-09-23 Thread Thomas Anderson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimzy If you look at 1:18:35 in the movie, you will see what resembles a Debian logo. Debian ftw! - -- Regards, Thomas Anderson "Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur" OpenPGP fingerprint: ED7E 1E98 225A 3FCC 458C B

Re: Penalty of SELinux?

2007-09-23 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 11:13:13AM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 09:51:52PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 09/22/07 20:44, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > Well, it speeded up somewhat by ditching the install-by-default locales > > > stuff and sticking with 'C'. I use ice

cursor disappears across logout/login

2007-09-23 Thread Chan Lee
Hi, Just start using the Debian server package, I found that the cursor disappears when I logged out then login back. The pointing mechanism is there (as I can still select items on the screen with the mouse, but the curson is not visible). Anyone had similar experience before ?

Re: lirc on Debian with AMD64

2007-09-23 Thread Greg Vickers
Hi Andrew, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 05:14:36PM +1000, Greg Vickers wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to get lirc to work with my Hauppauge on my Debian installation on AMD64. I've used module assistant to create the lirc kernel modules and the modules install and modprob

Re: lirc on Debian with AMD64

2007-09-23 Thread Marty
Greg Vickers wrote: Hi Marty, Marty wrote: Greg Vickers wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to get lirc to work with my Hauppauge on my Debian installation on AMD64. I've used module assistant to create the lirc kernel modules and the modules install and modprobe successfully: # lsmod | grep lirc l

Is there a GNOME 2.20 theme available?

2007-09-23 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
Hey guys, Just been checking out the new release screenies for GNOME 2.20. Been reading around and it looks like it uses a new Clearlooks theme. Is this available anywhere? Although I don't have GNOME Window Manager installed (Metacity?), I almost exclusively use GTK apps. Basically is there a

Re: lirc on Debian with AMD64

2007-09-23 Thread Greg Vickers
Hi Marty, Marty wrote: Greg Vickers wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to get lirc to work with my Hauppauge on my Debian installation on AMD64. I've used module assistant to create the lirc kernel modules and the modules install and modprobe successfully: # lsmod | grep lirc lirc_i2c

Re: SELinux Suggestion

2007-09-23 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 06:45:18 +1000, Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Why not make a different section on the normal stable / testing / > unstable streams. so non-free contrib and selinux place all the > selinux patch stuff under there ? Firstly, contrib and non-free are not part o

Re: bacula dependencies

2007-09-23 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
El dom, 23-09-2007 a las 14:35 -0400, Tom Allison escribió: > I was trying to install bacula on my server and ran into some > dependency problems that didn't seem to fit: > > postgres 8.1 > sqlite. > > > My intention was to install this and use my existing postgres 8.2 > database since that

Re: ls sort order: new, bad, behaviour

2007-09-23 Thread s. keeling
Eric d'Alibut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 9/23/07, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > namely, an 'ls' that sorts directories first, and > > > ordinary files afterwards? Do others actually see that behaviour in > > > terminals? > > > Sure. That's how it works for me. Not for me. I ge

Re: ls sort order: new, bad, behaviour

2007-09-23 Thread Mumia W..
On 09/23/2007 03:05 PM, Eric d'Alibut wrote: [...] Do you have LS_OPTIONS set, or 'ls' aliased? I apologize for suggesting that aliasing ls to 'ls -X' would give the behavior you want; it does not (but it comes close). I've never seen ls sort directory names first. If I may make so bold a

Re: SELinux Suggestion

2007-09-23 Thread Joey Hess
Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Can you elaborate? If possible, this should be either fixed, or > the warning eliminated as nominal operation. He's referring to #328474. It's mostly just ugly, there's no appreciable overhead. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Penalty of SELinux?

2007-09-23 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 11:13:13AM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 09:51:52PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 09/22/07 20:44, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > Well, it speeded up somewhat by ditching the install-by-default locales > > > stuff and sticking with 'C'. I use ice

Re: SELinux Suggestion

2007-09-23 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 02:56:44PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Sun, 23 Sep 2007 16:06:11 +0900, Takehiko Abe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > Manoj Srivastava wrote: > >> That is not the case. All core libraries and packages have already > >> been patched and are functional in Etch. You d

Re: Tool for document management

2007-09-23 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070923 09:42]: > I am looking for a tool to help me maintain a backup of a writing > project. Being a programmer my first instinct is to use something > along the lines of rcs/cvs. I was thinking of svn since I have a > project on Google Code and have the tools

Re: Tool for document management

2007-09-23 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sun, 23 Sep 2007 10:46:59 -0500, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> At first glance I am leaning for throwing Subversion on my main box >> so I can sync the other two machines off of it. Not sure if there is >> something better suited to the task or that svn would be particularly >> ill

Re: Tool for document management

2007-09-23 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sun, 23 Sep 2007 12:51:54 -0500, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > On 09/23/07 12:30, Steve Lamb wrote: >> Ron Johnson wrote: >>> Asking questions and making comments are *not* arguing. >> >> Ron, we've been over this. Every time I ask a

Re: ls sort order: new, bad, behaviour

2007-09-23 Thread Eric d'Alibut
On 9/23/07, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > namely, an 'ls' that sorts directories first, and > > ordinary files afterwards? Do others actually see that behaviour in > > terminals? > Sure. That's how it works for me. > $ locale > LANG= > LANGUAGE=en_US:en_GB:en > LC_CTYPE="POSIX" > L

replacing simple auth in slapd with saslauthd

2007-09-23 Thread Henning Follmann
Hello, I try to replace simple auth in slapd with saslauthd. So far everything is in place and works as expected. I installed and configured saslauthd. and a /usr/sbin/testsaslauthd -p x -u xxx works without any problems I added the ldap user to the sasl group so it can read and write to

Re: SELinux Suggestion

2007-09-23 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sun, 23 Sep 2007 16:06:11 +0900, Takehiko Abe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> That is not the case. All core libraries and packages have already >> been patched and are functional in Etch. You did not even notice it, >> because they are optional. > libselinux and libse

Re: SELinux Suggestion

2007-09-23 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sun, 23 Sep 2007 11:34:21 +0100, Brad Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Sun, 23 Sep 2007 01:35:25 -0400 > Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Joey, >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 82K Jul 10 14:11 /lib/libselinux.so.1 If >> you're worried by this amount of space use, you probably have

Re: Etch-backports and gpg problems (SOLVED)

2007-09-23 Thread Marc Shapiro
Marc Shapiro wrote: I followed the instructions on the backports instruction page: If you are using *etch* and you want apt to verify the downloaded backports you can import backports.org archive’s key into apt: gpg --keyserver hkp://subkeys.pgp.net -

Re: Penalty of SELinux?

2007-09-23 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sun, 23 Sep 2007 11:14:57 -0400, Douglas A Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On small systems, what about the penalty of just larger binaries? I > have some older boxes with 16-64 MB ram. Firstly: Very few packages have been actively patched to link with selinux. Second, the selinu

Etch-backports and gpg problems

2007-09-23 Thread Marc Shapiro
I am running Etch and I want to install the alpine package from etch-backports. I also want to verify the downloaded files. I followed the instructions on the backports instruction page: If you are using *etch* and you want apt to verify the downloaded

Re: gtkpod and nano 3rd gen

2007-09-23 Thread KS
Scott Abbey wrote: > On Sunday 23 September 2007 07:53:56 am Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: >> Does gtkpod in etch work well with the new ipod nano 3rd generation? > > No, it does not. Apple has added a new checksum that blocks current software > from syncing with new iPods[1]. The gtkpod devs have c

Re: Tool for document management

2007-09-23 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/23/07 12:58, Osamu Aoki wrote: [snip] > >> o handle non-text data as well as some textual data. The main file that is >> going to change most often is an OOo document (odt). I'll also be storing >> any >> related files including Mindmap file

Re: Tool for document management

2007-09-23 Thread Jochen Schulz
Steve Lamb: > I am looking for a tool to help me maintain a backup of a writing project. I kept all my documents (PDF, PPT, DOC, OOo, Latex etc.) from university in SVN while studying. Before I tried SVN, I had used unison but that didn't scale well to more than two computers and I couldn't u

Re: linux-image-2.6.18-5-686 - turn off SMP and then disable local APIC

2007-09-23 Thread Pál Csányi
2007/9/23, Pál Csányi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 2007/9/23, Curt Howland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > One thing I forgot to mention, there is little or no performance hit > > for using an SMP kernel with a single-CPU machine. So I wouldn't > > worry about that. > > I have a Dual 2 Core CPU. > I must to d

bacula dependencies

2007-09-23 Thread Tom Allison
I was trying to install bacula on my server and ran into some dependency problems that didn't seem to fit: postgres 8.1 sqlite. My intention was to install this and use my existing postgres 8.2 database since that already has all the settings tuned for performance and reliability. The met

Re: Tool for document management

2007-09-23 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 08:26:59AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > Hello, > I am looking for a tool to help me maintain a backup of a writing project. > Being a programmer my first instinct is to use something along the lines of > rcs/cvs. I was thinking of svn since I have a project on Googl

Re: Tool for document management

2007-09-23 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/23/07 12:30, Steve Lamb wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> Asking questions and making comments are *not* arguing. > > Ron, we've been over this. Every time I ask a simple question on the list > someone, not always you granted, but someone take

Re: Tool for document management

2007-09-23 Thread Steve Lamb
Ron Johnson wrote: > Asking questions and making comments are *not* arguing. Ron, we've been over this. Every time I ask a simple question on the list someone, not always you granted, but someone takes me to task about exactly what it is I want or why I am doing something this way and not tha

Re: Tool for document management

2007-09-23 Thread Jude DaShiell
rcs wasn't originally intended to manage software. It was originally intended as a documents manager then branched out to be able to manage anything that could be stored by way of electronic archiving. I'm not familiar with the historis of the newer revision control systems though so won't co

Re: Tool for document management

2007-09-23 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/23/07 11:45, Steve Lamb wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >>> Tarballs don't sync across machines, they overwrite. Also it's a matter > >> I don't mean sync, I mean copy. > > I know what you meant. But you are flatly ignoring my requirement

Re: Debian Lenny VLC from where?

2007-09-23 Thread Sam Leon
Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 04:29:44AM +0530, Siju George wrote: Could some one tell me the repository from which I can install the VLC player for Debian Lenny? You must be missing something. Please post your /etc/apt/sources.list

Re: SAMBA ground-up tutorial?

2007-09-23 Thread David Fox
On 9/22/07, Russell L. Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In my experience, nothing comes even close to the O'Reilly SAMBA book, > which is in its second edition (at least), and has been posted > (legitimately) on-line for access without charge. For the OP, and other interested parties, that URL

Re: linux-image-2.6.18-5-686 - turn off SMP and then disable local APIC

2007-09-23 Thread Michael Shuler
On 09/23/2007 10:50 AM, Pál Csányi wrote: > How can I turn off SMP and then disable local APIC with this kernel? For the options to persist across kernel updates/upgrades, add the options 'nosmp' and 'noapic' to /boot/grub/menu.lst on the kopt= line, then run 'update-grub'. This works for all ken

Re: Tool for document management

2007-09-23 Thread Steve Lamb
Ron Johnson wrote: >> Tarballs don't sync across machines, they overwrite. Also it's a matter > I don't mean sync, I mean copy. I know what you meant. But you are flatly ignoring my requirement for syncing. I make an edit on Machine A and toss-a-tarball onto whatever machine(s) I decid

Re: how to edit init script to automatically enable/disable network connection?

2007-09-23 Thread Wayne Topa
Serena Cantor([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > During sarge installation, ethernet connection is configed > > Now I have wireless connection, with commands below: > > ifconfig eth0 down > modprobe rt2500 > ifconfig ra0 up > dhclient ra0 > > And I no longer use ethernet connection.

Re: Tool for document management

2007-09-23 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/23/07 11:10, Steve Lamb wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> How big (in bytes) is this writing project? > > Right now, tiny. > >> So why couldn't you tar up your directory into proj_.tar >> and rcp it to a couple of other computers? (Since you

Re: Tool for document management

2007-09-23 Thread Steve Lamb
Ron Johnson wrote: > How big (in bytes) is this writing project? Right now, tiny. > So why couldn't you tar up your directory into proj_.tar > and rcp it to a couple of other computers? (Since you use odt, no > need to compress the tarball.) >> o sync across multiple machines.

Re: Tool for document management

2007-09-23 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/22/07 10:26, Steve Lamb wrote: > Hello, > I am looking for a tool to help me maintain a backup of a writing project. > Being a programmer my first instinct is to use something along the lines of > rcs/cvs. I was thinking of svn since I have

linux-image-2.6.18-5-686 - turn off SMP and then disable local APIC

2007-09-23 Thread Pál Csányi
Hello! Debian Etch system with linux-image-2.6.18-5-686. How can I turn off SMP and then disable local APIC with this kernel? Any advices will be appreciated! -- Regards, Paul Csanyi http://www.freewebs.com/csanyi-pal/index.htm -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject o

Re: Penalty of SELinux?

2007-09-23 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 23 Sep 2007, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On small systems, what about the penalty of just larger binaries? I > have some older boxes with 16-64 MB ram. Ever looked at just how many 'non-essential' libs we link (from a small-system PoV)? Debian is *not* the distro for anyone that needs to

Re: Penalty of SELinux?

2007-09-23 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/23/07 10:13, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: [snip] > > My biggest problem is that there is not OS designed to be great for a > stand-alone old small computer. An OS that can both fit on small > resources, and be kept up-to-date without a separate bui

Re: Where'd my "debian" menu go???

2007-09-23 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 05:00:48PM -0700, Tyler MacDonald wrote: > I'm running sid. > > In Gnome, I've gotten used to having a "Debian" menu under "Applications" > where all those non-gnome apps go. > > However, it's disappeared!!! Are you following sid? If menu-xdg is installed and you have su

Re: lirc on Debian with AMD64

2007-09-23 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 05:14:36PM +1000, Greg Vickers wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to get lirc to work with my Hauppauge on my Debian installation > on AMD64. I've used module assistant to create the lirc kernel modules and > the modules install and modprobe successfully: > # lsmod | grep li

Re: Penalty of SELinux?

2007-09-23 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 11:38:29PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 11:29:09 -0400, Douglas A Tutty > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > I run a bunch of old machines. Now that SELinux is integrated > > (compiled in) to various pieces of Debian, is there a penalty even if > > i

Re: Tool for document management

2007-09-23 Thread Benjamin A'Lee
On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 08:26:59AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > At first glance I am leaning for throwing Subversion on my main box so I > can sync the other two machines off of it. Not sure if there is something > better suited to the task or that svn would be particularly ill suited. I can't

Re: Penalty of SELinux?

2007-09-23 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 09:51:52PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 09/22/07 20:44, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > Well, it speeded up somewhat by ditching the install-by-default locales > > stuff and sticking with 'C'. I use icewm. On Etch, xorg takes a lot > > more memory than on OBSD. Enough that

Re: lirc on Debian with AMD64

2007-09-23 Thread Marty
Greg Vickers wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to get lirc to work with my Hauppauge on my Debian installation on AMD64. I've used module assistant to create the lirc kernel modules and the modules install and modprobe successfully: # lsmod | grep lirc lirc_i2c 14980 0 lirc_dev

Tool for document management

2007-09-23 Thread Steve Lamb
Hello, I am looking for a tool to help me maintain a backup of a writing project. Being a programmer my first instinct is to use something along the lines of rcs/cvs. I was thinking of svn since I have a project on Google Code and have the tools installed on one of the machines on which I wou

Re: gtkpod and nano 3rd gen

2007-09-23 Thread Scott Abbey
On Sunday 23 September 2007 07:53:56 am Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Does gtkpod in etch work well with the new ipod nano 3rd generation? No, it does not. Apple has added a new checksum that blocks current software from syncing with new iPods[1]. The gtkpod devs have cracked the checksum[2], but

RE: Mounting an ext2 filesystem at mount point with specific uid,gid

2007-09-23 Thread David Balazic
From: Kevin Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 05:30:11AM +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > After mounting, run > > # chown storage.storage /home/storage/store > > > > Hi Rajkiran, > it should be noted that when you give an instruction tha

Re: Scroll wheels not working after upgrade to etch/xorg

2007-09-23 Thread Pigeon
Hmmm, we still have a wrinkle... Every so often the X server loses its Z axis mapping settings on the fly. The result is that instead of the left hand scroll wheel mapping to the up and down cursor keys and the right hand scroll wheel to the left and right keys, as desired, the left hand scroll wh

Re: ls sort order: new, bad, behaviour

2007-09-23 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/23/07 00:49, Eric d'Alibut wrote: > On 9/22/07, Benjamin A'Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Do 'printenv | grep LC_COLLATE' or 'locale' show the right setting? > > I am beginning to think I am a victim of my addled pate. Have I been > using

Re: SELinux Suggestion

2007-09-23 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 23 Sep 2007, Takehiko Abe wrote: >> Mike McCarty wrote: >>> That is naive, is it not? The apps themselves have to be SELinux- >>> aware. So, one can remove the policy packages, but not SELinux. >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 82K Jul 10 14:11 /lib/libselinux.so.1 >> If you're worried by this amou

Re: two workstation on etch

2007-09-23 Thread Gabrielle Chatelet
On Sunday 23 September 2007 13:35, heba wrote: > On sarge I run two workstation (gnome and kde), any one know if it > possible on etch? Yes, Is this a "Friday troll"? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: google bookmarks not working in iceweasel?

2007-09-23 Thread Michael Yang
The thread is for FC and 32bit on AMD64. But it's true it's the same that additional package is required for the solutions. The packages that I have are: libstdc++5install libstdc++5-3.3-dev install libstdc++6install libstdc++6-4.1-dev install P

gtkpod and nano 3rd gen

2007-09-23 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Hi, Does gtkpod in etch work well with the new ipod nano 3rd generation? thanks! Marcelo -- Marcelo Chiapparini [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

two workstation on etch

2007-09-23 Thread heba
On sarge I run two workstation (gnome and kde), any one know if it possible on etch? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SELinux Suggestion

2007-09-23 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sun, 23 Sep 2007 01:35:25 -0400 Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Joey, > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 82K Jul 10 14:11 /lib/libselinux.so.1 > If you're worried by this amount of space use, you probably have much > larger problems than SE Linux. There's more to it than that; Here, part o

Re: Debian packages without md5sums

2007-09-23 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, First, missing md5sum values reported by debsums are normal. Second, signed key feature is nice security feature but it was a new feature. During etch in testing period, I recall several problems which errouneously made to report to be unsigned package. On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 09:25:39PM +0

Re: Booting with console=ttyS0 and gdm/xorg strangeness

2007-09-23 Thread Tim Day
On Sat, 2007-09-22 at 01:10 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > However, re the serial console, you can have more than one console > set. > See the remote-serial-console-HOWTO. I would suggest that your serial > console be in addition to the standard tty. The order matters but I > forget it; see the

OpenOffice.org2.2 Quickstarter

2007-09-23 Thread andy
Hi Recently I accepted the OpenOffice.org2.2 suite as a package upgrade on my Lenny/Testing machine. So far, all is well, except for some little apparent quirk on the Quickstarter. I haven't tested this on other WM/DEs yet, but at least with GNOME I find that the option to "open document" in

(solved)Re: how to edit init script to automatically enable/disable network connection?

2007-09-23 Thread Serena Cantor
You are right! Thanks! --- Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 09:12:15PM -0700, Serena Cantor wrote: > > During sarge installation, ethernet connection is configed > > > > Now I have wireless connection, with commands below: > > > > ifconfig eth0 down > > modpro

lirc on Debian with AMD64

2007-09-23 Thread Greg Vickers
Hi all, I'm trying to get lirc to work with my Hauppauge on my Debian installation on AMD64. I've used module assistant to create the lirc kernel modules and the modules install and modprobe successfully: # lsmod | grep lirc lirc_i2c 14980 0 lirc_dev 20264 1 lirc

Re: ekiga

2007-09-23 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 9/22/07, Manu Hack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > After a dist-upgrade (I'm using sid), ekiga can't be installed > anymore. Is there any way to install it in sid? > > Thanks! > > Manu I have Ekiga installed in sid; right at the moment there is an update for it which cannot be install

Re: SELinux Suggestion

2007-09-23 Thread Takehiko Abe
Joey Hess wrote: Mike McCarty wrote: That is naive, is it not? The apps themselves have to be SELinux- aware. So, one can remove the policy packages, but not SELinux. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 82K Jul 10 14:11 /lib/libselinux.so.1 If you're worried by this amount of space use, you probably have

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