Re: Upgrade problem: "dpkg: 'x' not found on PATH"

I was able to fix it. Apparently if the error occurs, it doesn't install the package at all. So I put the necessary dirs in root's path and ran 'aptitude install' again for the failed packages and it was ok. Thanks. Nick -- Nick's Auditorium: http://users.pandora.be/nicks_auditorium History of an

Re: Missing files in locatedb

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Victor Munoz wrote: > It worked. All missing files are there now. > > At first, this was a mystery, but now I understand why. updatedb is > not run as root, but as 'nobody', as set in /etc/updatedb.conf, so > the sequence > > $ . /etc/updatedb.conf;

Re: Fwd: Basic Tomcatt5.5 Admin question

Martin Marcher wrote: Chris i just mistakenly posted that to your address and got an answer from bluebottle.com could you at least not blacklist me in case we have to get in touch by some incident in the future so we won't wonder why mail isn't arriving. oh and I f* hate those verification

Re: Trying to get a network printer HP LaserJet (tm) 2100tn to print from debian

Thanks for the pointers. It helped. The http://localhost:631 gets farther. Had to log in as printer admin which I have been using root login-id. I went through the pages and it allowed me to choose vendor Hewlett- Packard. Then choose HP2100 (there wasn't a HP2100TN network printer) and then cho

Re: Bug#444234: xserver-xorg-video-ati: Brightness buttons not working on notebook with Radeon Mobility M6 LY

Version: 1:6.7.194-1 Nick Hastings wrote: > I installed this too and it also returns the function of the > brightness hot keys. So it seems whatever problems were introduced > with the 6.7.193 driver have now been fixed. > Good to know, marking as fixed in 6.7.194 then. Brice -- To UNSUBS

apt-get file:/; unloading kernel modules (2.6.18).

Hi, 1. I have copied my Debian CDs to hard-disk and have added the required sources.list lines. The problem is that, when i do a apt-get install pkg, it tries to load from the internet since they have the latest pkg. Since i pay for data transfer, i was wondering if there was a way to tell apt-get

Re: efficiency of windows managers

A properly configured olvwm WM. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Slow Network Connection

I changed the driver from e100 to eepro100 with no change in network speed. Even when I use the on-board NIC (Marvell) I get slow speeds so I don't think it's related to the driver of the NIC. Could the IRQ that my NIC is assigned make a difference? I also noticed for the 'cat /proc/interrupts'

FW: Slow Network Connection

No mismatch. Settings for eth1: Supported ports: [ TP MII ] Supported link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full Supports auto-negotiation: Yes Advertised link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX (Was: Tool for document management)

On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 08:50:06AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > I was quickly disabused of that misconception and was perfectly fine to > not have versioning via normal textual means. In fact I then switched my > thinking to how to get OOo to save uncompressed or have the versioning > software t

Re: efficiency of windows managers

> > thanks. I've become sort of a wmii zealot in the last little > while. It's been fun. hope I didn't steal your thunder. :) Lol no not at all. You should give DWM a try. I think there are improvements over wmii. Also, there is a new fork from dwm called 'awesome' (yeah i know, apparently the

Re: Newbie help with simple C program, USB device under Debian

Nick Lidakis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Kevin Mark wrote: > > > > Please refrain from your attacks. 'Be nice to folks' is a general rule. > > Your right. My apologies to Oleg and the list. Quite right, and thanks. Done it before myself and hope to minimize its ocurrence in the future. [EMAIL PROT

Nspluginwrapper on AMD64

Hello, I am trying to run debian-amd64 sid on my new system and so far am very happy with the relative ease of the installation process (thank you developers). I tried to install the flashplayer-mozilla|flashplayer-nonfree. Both failed with the same message : nspluginwrapper: no appropriate view

Re: efficiency of windows managers

On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 07:33:06PM -0700, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > I couldn't have explained it any better. I guess if I get asked, I will > simply forward your explanation to them ;). thanks. I've become sort of a wmii zealot in the last little while. It's been fun. hope I didn't steal your t

Re: How to reply in the mailing lists

Sid Arth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Ahh you will have to excuse me, but what exactly is top posting and > what do you mean by trimming? > Ill try to fix it myself if I can. > > On 9/26/07, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 06:12:50PM -0500, Sid Arth wrote: > > >

Re: efficiency of windows managers

I couldn't have explained it any better. I guess if I get asked, I will simply forward your explanation to them ;). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: efficiency of windows managers

On 09/27/2007 03:41 PM, Manu Hack wrote: I agree. :) But I'm still confused as to why KDE can outperform (at least up to my experience) a supposedly light weight wm (maybe windowmaker is not lightweight enough, will try fluxbox later) on the same machine. Is that because of something like memor

lists.debian.org

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Re: efficiency of windows managers

On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 07:25:48PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 09/27/07 18:58, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > >> I have to say, the screenshot has me intrigued. It's got a > >> pleasingly geeky sort of retro text GUI look, like something > >> Xerox PARC might have come up with in the 1970s. ;) >

Re: efficiency of windows managers

> > With other WMs, you're not focused on the app and task? > Its hard for me to explain. I suggest you try it out. Of course, this is just my opinion and experiences. Just a suggestion. -- Amit Uttamchandani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: efficiency of windows managers

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/27/07 18:58, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: >> I have to say, the screenshot has me intrigued. It's got a >> pleasingly geeky sort of retro text GUI look, like something >> Xerox PARC might have come up with in the 1970s. ;) >> > > It is very effi

Re: efficiency of windows managers

> I have to say, the screenshot has me intrigued. It's got a > pleasingly geeky sort of retro text GUI look, like something Xerox > PARC might have come up with in the 1970s. ;) > It is very efficient. Especially tiling modes. I can't use any other Windowmanager now. I just can't. With DWM,

Re: bash, xbindkeys and dual screen

On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 06:03:18PM -0400, Nguyen, Cuong K. wrote: > > > Now you have a sense of why I need dual-seat. What about your setup of > xinerama? What do you find it to be advantages to dual-screen? Actually I > fried xinerama before, but the mouse problem bothered me a lot so that I > s

Re: Missing files in locatedb

On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 02:53:18PM -0500, Mumia W.. wrote: > > Check /etc/updatedb.conf and the LOCALUSER variable. LOCALUSER is set to > 'nobody' by default, and 'nobody' has no ability to view directories > with -rwx-- permissions. > That was the problem, indeed. Thanks, Victor -- To

Re: efficiency of windows managers

On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 04:41:12PM -0400, Manu Hack wrote: > On 9/27/07, Andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Am Donnerstag, 27. September 2007 21:02 schrieb Manu Hack: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I have a general question which I got when trying out different > > > windows managers/desktop environmen

Re: bash, xbindkeys and dual screen

On 9/27/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > a tiling WM is a WM that "tiles" the windows. That is, the windows > don't overlap, but rather occupy as much space as possible and are > laid out on the screen like tiles. wmii is one of the many tiling > WM's. It works by assignin

Re: efficiency of windows managers

Javier Vasquez wrote: > > Don't know about windowMaker, but you might try: > > fluxbox > icewm > pekwm > fvwm2 > > You might find some pretty light, and some besides offering lots of > fun and good looking features... I use fluxbox and a machine with > 512M main, and 64M ati-rage is performing

Re: efficiency of windows managers

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/27/07 16:30, David Brodbeck wrote: > > On Sep 27, 2007, at 12:52 PM, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > >> I understand your frustration. >> >> I have an old powerbook laptop (Speed: 500MHz, RAM: 512MB). Mac OS X, >> GNOME, and KDE hogged to much reso

Re: Penalty of SELinux?

El jue, 27-09-2007 a las 19:54 +0200, Michelle Konzack escribió: > Am 2007-09-22 11:29:09, schrieb Douglas A. Tutty: > > 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 its not activated? > > > > Tha

Re: efficiency of windows managers

On Sep 27, 2007, at 12:52 PM, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: I understand your frustration. I have an old powerbook laptop (Speed: 500MHz, RAM: 512MB). Mac OS X, GNOME, and KDE hogged to much resources. So I started from scratch and installed a base install of Debian. I then installed just th

Re: Lenny vs. Etch + Backports

Johannes Wiedersich wrote: I am not sure if I understand correctly: What are your objections against debian's way of security fixes? Let's take the example of Seamonkey/Iceape. Officially EOL'd as of May, the 1.0.x branch's security status is no longer being actively investigated by upstream d

Re: efficiency of windows managers

I understand your frustration. I have an old powerbook laptop (Speed: 500MHz, RAM: 512MB). Mac OS X, GNOME, and KDE hogged to much resources. So I started from scratch and installed a base install of Debian. I then installed just the necessary packages and I am using a very very lightweight win

Re: efficiency of windows managers

On 9/27/07, Andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 27. September 2007 21:02 schrieb Manu Hack: > > Hi all, > > > > I have a general question which I got when trying out different > > windows managers/desktop environments. When I try to use windowmaker > > (I wanted to make my computer fa

Re: Tool for document management

On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 10:39:55 -0700, David Brodbeck wrote: > > On Sep 25, 2007, at 7:17 PM, John Hasler wrote: > >> David Brodbeck writes: >>> TeX is awesome for writing books and scientific papers. If you're >>> writing a letter to Grandma, though, OpenOffice is better suited. >> >> Now _that_

Re: bash, xbindkeys and dual screen

On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 04:08:39PM -0400, Nguyen, Cuong K. wrote: > On 9/27/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Cuong, I'm curious, running dual-screen myself, about your setup. I am > > running xinerama and that combines my two screens into one large > > one. The mouse flo

Re: efficiency of windows managers

"Javier Vasquez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Don't know about windowMaker, but you might try: > > fluxbox > icewm > pekwm > fvwm2 > > You might find some pretty light, and some besides offering lots of > fun and good looking features... I use fluxbox and a machine with > 512M main, and 64M at

Re: bash, xbindkeys and dual screen

On 9/27/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 12:44:32PM -0400, Nguyen, Cuong K. wrote: > > > >> You're probably right that the DISPLAY is always :0.0. You need another > >> way to toggle between 0 and 1. Try this: > >> > >> #!/bin/bash > >> swfile=/tmp/sw

Re: Missing files in locatedb

On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 03:31:23PM -0400, Victor Munoz wrote: > On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 12:26:43PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > > what are the permissions on the parent directories? that might be more > > relevant. > > > > drwxr-xr-x in all cases. > are these directories nfs mount

Re: Missing files in locatedb

On 09/27/2007 02:21 PM, Victor Munoz wrote: On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 01:43:14PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: Some files in the original problematic directory have permissions -rw--- (does updatedb respect this), but the file I was looking for in the first place has read permissions for all. I d

Re: Missing files in locatedb

On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 03:31:23PM -0400, Victor Munoz wrote: > On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 12:26:43PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > > what are the permissions on the parent directories? that might be more > > relevant. > > > > drwxr-xr-x in all cases. > Wrong. One had permissions drwx

Re: efficiency of windows managers

On 9/27/07, Manu Hack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a general question which I got when trying out different > windows managers/desktop environments. When I try to use windowmaker > (I wanted to make my computer faster as it's getting old), it > certainly is fast for initializati

Re: Missing files in locatedb

On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 08:23:14PM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Victor Munoz wrote: > > Hello. Today I found a very strange problem. Some files seem to be > > missing from locatedb database. > > [snip] > > > I don't understand. Does any

Re: can pbzip2 run on stdout?

On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 02:57:40PM -0400, Stefhen Hovland wrote: > Is this possible for pbzip2 to run on a tar which outputs to standard out? > > I am trying to speed up a backup process which takes hours, i have > about 100g of uncompressed data which will be tar'd up and is > currently running

Re: Missing files in locatedb

On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 12:26:43PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > what are the permissions on the parent directories? that might be more > relevant. > drwxr-xr-x in all cases. Victor -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [

Re: Slow Network Connection

On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 11:34:52 -0400, Eric Estes wrote: > I just purchased a Shuttle XPC SN27P2 barebones system. > Chipset: North Bridge - Nvidia nForce 570 Ultra > Onboard NIC: Marvell 88E1116(10/100/1000Mbps) - I also added a Intel > Dual-Server NIC and disabled the Marvell > > I tried instal

Re: Missing files in locatedb

On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 03:21:32PM -0400, Victor Munoz wrote: > On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 01:43:14PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > > > Some files in the original problematic directory have permissions > > > -rw--- (does updatedb respect this), but the file I was looking > > > for in the firs

Re: efficiency of windows managers

Am Donnerstag, 27. September 2007 21:02 schrieb Manu Hack: > Hi all, > > I have a general question which I got when trying out different > windows managers/desktop environments. When I try to use windowmaker > (I wanted to make my computer faster as it's getting old), it > certainly is fast for in

Re: Missing files in locatedb

On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 01:43:14PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > Some files in the original problematic directory have permissions > > -rw--- (does updatedb respect this), but the file I was looking > > for in the first place has read permissions for all. > > > > I don't understand. Does

can pbzip2 run on stdout?

Is this possible for pbzip2 to run on a tar which outputs to standard out? I am trying to speed up a backup process which takes hours, i have about 100g of uncompressed data which will be tar'd up and is currently running thru gzip. This will be running on a 16 cpu box which would greatly speedup

Re: bash, xbindkeys and dual screen

On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 12:44:32PM -0400, Nguyen, Cuong K. wrote: > >> You're probably right that the DISPLAY is always :0.0. You need another >> way to toggle between 0 and 1. Try this: >> >> #!/bin/bash >> swfile=/tmp/sw-file >> if [ ! -f $swfile ]; then echo 0 > $swfile ; fi >> echo $(( ! `cat

Re: GNOME: Associate multiple queues with one printer: HOW?

On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 01:14:06PM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: > Mike McCarty wrote: > > Thanks all for the advice and help with this. I went over ... > Windows XP. ... snipped tale of the death of a free computer... and a fantastic anecdote in support of RTFM! ... > > Anyway, unless I want to mak

Re: Problems capturing audio with Intel ICH5...

On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 22:51:30 +0200, Andrea Giuliano wrote: > Hi! > > Recently I had to change the motherboard, and now I have the P4i65G by > ASRock. The south bridge is the famous ICH5, which, amoing other things, > incorporates a sound card. "lspci -v" gives the following line about it: > > 0

Re: Tool for document management

On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 11:51:04AM -0700, David Brodbeck wrote: LaTeX is really a godsend for geeks like me with poor artistic skills. It gives me a set of nice, safe, acceptable-looking layouts so I don't have to worry about fonts and margins. I no longer long for the days when it was acc

Re: GNOME: Associate multiple queues with one printer: HOW?

On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 01:00:51PM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: >> On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 01:06:06PM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: >> >>> As I said, I'm going to try using the direct CUPS I/F tonight >>> when I go over there. At present, I'm about 15 miles from >>> the compu

efficiency of windows managers

Hi all, I have a general question which I got when trying out different windows managers/desktop environments. When I try to use windowmaker (I wanted to make my computer faster as it's getting old), it certainly is fast for initialization. But after that when around 10-15 windows are opened and

Etch installer floppy disk does not detect my hard disks

Hi, I am trying to install Etch starting with the floppy disk installer found at http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/etch/main/installer-i386/current//ima ges/floppy/ The installer system boots up OK and I go through the installation process to where it says a shell will start up. It says th

Re: Tool for document management

On Sep 26, 2007, at 11:31 PM, Manoj Srivastava wrote: On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 21:31:32 -0400, Douglas A Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Here's my personal letter template. ... --8<---cut hereletter_template- >8--- Thanks, those give me a nice starting point.

Re: Penalty of SELinux?

On Sep 27, 2007, at 10:54 AM, Michelle Konzack wrote: Am 2007-09-24 10:01:12, schrieb David Brodbeck: Same basic problem, I think. To apply security patches you have to recompile. To recompile, you have to use GCC, which is a resource hog. You'd get old and die waiting for "make world" to f

Re: Missing files in locatedb

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/27/07 12:38, Victor Munoz wrote: > Hello. Today I found a very strange problem. Some files seem to be > missing from locatedb database. > > It all started with one particular file I wanted to find. But 'locate > ' didn't find the file I was loo

Re: Repost of some earlier described "challenges"

Mike McCarty wrote: These have (nearly) all been posted before, but some have requested that they be reposted. [snip] Well, the story is under the thread about GNOME and multiple queues on printers. Thanks all for the helpful comments and such. Michelle, I believe we've met before. You jumpe

Re: hp psc driver question

On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 11:53:44AM +0200, steef wrote: > hi, > > cups gives a driver for the hp-printer psc (all in one) 2500. does anybody > know if this driver works also for the hp psc 2575? according to: http://hplip.sourceforge.net/supported_devices/inkjet_aio.html its not (not listed) but

Re: Printer Driver Brother on new Lenny installation (Solved sort of)

I have a working printer now. Unfortunately I was not able to get it going in Gnome in spite of installing the driver from http://www.profv.de/brother/ and also all available packages using "foomatic-filters-ppds" The solution finally was just to install KDE. The kde printer configuration present

Re: Missing files in locatedb

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Victor Munoz wrote: > Hello. Today I found a very strange problem. Some files seem to be > missing from locatedb database. [snip] > I don't understand. Does any? Try running 'updatedb' as root manually and check if this helps. Johannes -BEGIN

Re: Penalty of SELinux?

Michelle Konzack wrote: Am 2007-09-25 03:11:39, schrieb Mike McCarty: It would take more than just kernel, of course. I am investigating LFS. Gentoo seems to have accepted SELinux as well, though since it is a source distro most of the work would be easier in that case, perhaps. And where is t

Re: Lenny vs. Etch + Backports

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael C wrote: > Hi, > > After returning to Linux last year as my main desktop OS, I've been > wanting to migrate to Debian. However, put off by the prospect of having > to use backported security fixes on officially retired development > branches s

Re: GNOME: Associate multiple queues with one printer: HOW?

Mike McCarty wrote: Thanks all for the advice and help with this. I went over to her house a little early yesterday, and walked up to her machine, which had the customary blank screen. I tapped the "left shift" key, and poised to enter the password into the screen saver, when I was greeted by the

Re: GNOME: Associate multiple queues with one printer: HOW?

Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 01:06:06PM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: As I said, I'm going to try using the direct CUPS I/F tonight when I go over there. At present, I'm about 15 miles from the computer, so it's problematic to try stuff out :-) Have you considered a dial-up

Re: Debian may lose a user

Am 2007-09-25 20:33:33, schrieb Martin Marcher: > Hello, > > I'm interested in the job offer you posted on > [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have several years of experience in > Desktop and Server systems with debian and other linux distributions. > > I charge by the hour, every started hour is normally EUR

Re: Debian may lose a user

Am 2007-09-25 14:21:35, schrieb Hal Vaughan: > That's an interesting point: We hear a description of someone that > basically wants, for free, everything people pay hundreds of dollars > for. Sometimes it's easy to forget that open source software companies > often give away the software but ma

Re: Debian may lose a user

Am 2007-09-25 12:36:11, schrieb Mike McCarty: > I wasn't asking for help. I'm telling you that due to > perceived lack of help, a user is leaving (or at least > it seems to me that she will). You have not ask for helb but wining > At the time the problems were first reported, details were provide

Re: Debian may lose a user

Am 2007-09-25 10:11:36, schrieb Mike Bird: > On Tuesday 25 September 2007 09:55, Mike McCarty wrote: > (big snip) > > Anyway, that's it, FWIW. > > Long message wth no specifics. No way to help you. > > --Mike Bird - END OF REPLIED MESSAGE - ACK! -

Re: ls sort order: new, bad, behaviour

Am 2007-09-24 02:44:13, schrieb 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

Re: Penalty of SELinux?

Am 2007-09-25 03:11:39, schrieb Mike McCarty: > It would take more than just kernel, of course. I am investigating > LFS. Gentoo seems to have accepted SELinux as well, though since > it is a source distro most of the work would be easier in that > case, perhaps. And where is the problem with Debi

Re: Penalty of SELinux?

Am 2007-09-24 22:16:02, schrieb Mumia W..: > However, the dependency upon SElinux is more recent. There may be time > to remove it before it becomes too entrenched and before its tentacles > probe too deeply into Debian. > > I hope it's not too late. I wish I'd educated myself about SELinux > e

Re: Penalty of SELinux?

Am 2007-09-24 17:26:01, schrieb Ron Johnson: > On 09/24/07 15:46, David Brodbeck wrote: > > But if you're worried that the NSA is targeting you, you've got a lot of > > more serious concerns. Your monitor is radiating signals that can be > > picked up and decoded. > > Even LCD monitors? YES. Ev

Re: Penalty of SELinux?

Hi John and *, Am 2007-09-23 20:08:04, schrieb 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 tha

Re: Penalty of SELinux?

Am 2007-09-23 11:14:57, schrieb Douglas A. Tutty: > On small systems, what about the penalty of just larger binaries? I > have some older boxes with 16-64 MB ram. > > Doug. - END OF REPLIED MESSAGE - Look at to get FPM's fo

Re: Penalty of SELinux?

Am 2007-09-24 18:16:32, schrieb Mike McCarty: > I beg to differ. One of the "selling points" of DSL is that > it has a small RAM footprint. I have run it on a 486 with > 16MB of RAM. I was runnin Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 Slink on a Tohiba T1950CT with a 486dx50 and 12 MByte of Ram. in 2005 I have up

Re: Penalty of SELinux?

Am 2007-09-24 10:01:12, schrieb David Brodbeck: > Same basic problem, I think. To apply security patches you have to > recompile. To recompile, you have to use GCC, which is a resource > hog. You'd get old and die waiting for "make world" to finish on a > machine with 64 megs of RAM. > >

Re: Penalty of SELinux?

Am 2007-09-22 11:29:09, schrieb Douglas A. Tutty: > 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 its not activated? > > Thanks, > > Doug. - END OF REPLIED MESSAGE --

Re: Installing Debian from partition image

What about installing one Computer and the taring the whole installation and burn it with a Minimal-Distro on a CD/DVD. Then booting those CD, untaring the tarbal in the newly crated partitions and writing the bootloader into it? I do this for over 4000 installations... for which i need only 210

Re: The arp command for deleting all arp entries..

Am 2007-09-21 17:05:51, schrieb S t i n g r a y: > I want to have a script load the arp table from a file for which i will use > arp -f command, how ever first i want to clear the already > exisiting dynamic entries in cache. > Can anyone tell me the command for it ? > > regards --

Re: SELinux Suggestion

Am 2007-09-22 00:00:09, schrieb Mumia W..: > It probably is good technology. But I think it should be good > technology--elsewhere. > > Including SElinux in Debian is not like including tuxracer. Too much of > the core security parts of Debian have to be changed to accommodate SElinux. > > If I

Missing files in locatedb

Hello. Today I found a very strange problem. Some files seem to be missing from locatedb database. It all started with one particular file I wanted to find. But 'locate ' didn't find the file I was looking for. I went to the directory it was supposed to be, and there it was! I have a cron job to

Re: benelix (opensolaris) and linux in same disk

On 09/27/2007 08:18 AM, abdelkader belahcene wrote: Hi, I have Installed Belenix (an opensolaris) , on one partiton (primary 4) declared swap on linux. My PC runs Linux, I want to mount the solaris partiton, I tried several type but no one is accepted. Normally it is an ufs. How to acces to

Re: xmodmap again - not solved after all

On 09/27/2007 08:36 AM, Anthony Campbell wrote: Sorry; I didn't make myself clear. It is of course in X that I want xmodmap to work. However, the error messages appear in the console BEFORE I start X with startx. They say " "XMODMAP: unbound variable" (repeated twice). With slightly different s

Re: Repost of some earlier described "challenges"

Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > One of the later steps is to upgrade from latest sarge to latest-etch. > Etch is now at r1. The tested upgrade path is r0. Since so much > changed between r0 and r1, there may be problems; I don't know. Seems unlikely to me. We're talking about less change in the 4.1r1

Re: bash, xbindkeys and dual screen

You're probably right that the DISPLAY is always :0.0. You need another way to toggle between 0 and 1. Try this: #!/bin/bash swfile=/tmp/sw-file if [ ! -f $swfile ]; then echo 0 > $swfile ; fi echo $(( ! `cat $swfile` )) > $swfile echo exec switchscreen `cat $swfile` Note that I just echo-ed

FW: Slow Network Connection

I don't believe there was a mismatch when I used ethtool. -Original Message- From: Neil Watson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2007 11:57 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Slow Network Connection Do you have some sort of duplex mismatch? Ethtool o

Re: Slow Network Connection

Do you have some sort of duplex mismatch? Ethtool or mii-tool will report duplex status and Ethernet speed. -- Neil Watson | Debian Linux System Administrator| Uptime 12 days http://watson-wilson.ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX (Was: Tool for document management)

Ron Johnson wrote: > In my case it's because it's because I have no idea what format > Freemind and Storylines are in. Oh, I understand why. The amusement came from the perception, correct or not, that people would trust/respect my decision on two pieces and not the third. I can assure you t

Slow Network Connection

I just purchased a Shuttle XPC SN27P2 barebones system. Chipset: North Bridge - Nvidia nForce 570 Ultra Onboard NIC: Marvell 88E1116(10/100/1000Mbps) - I also added a Intel Dual-Server NIC and disabled the Marvell I tried installing Debian 4.0r0, 4.0r1 and a nightly test build and they all suffer

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX (Was: Tool for document management)

Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Sorry for this lapse of mine. I searched the thread for the terms > "Freemind" and "Storylines" as they appear in the later mail. In the > first mail they were called "Mindmap" and "Writer's Cafe" instead. To explain I mistakenly called Freemind Mindmap as it is mi

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX (Was: Tool for document management)

Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 06:03:27AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> - From the original post, 08/22/07 15:26 UTC: >> > 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). > > Here we hav

Re: Lenny vs. Etch + Backports

On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 02:37:03PM +0100, Michael C wrote: > Hi, > > After returning to Linux last year as my main desktop OS, I've been wanting > to migrate to Debian. However, put off by the prospect of having to use > backported security fixes on officially retired development branches such >

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX (Was: Tool for document management)

Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Steve Lamb wrote: > [snip] >> To my mind the fact that I said it would be nice to have versioning that >> worked with OOo, Freemind and Writer's Cafe/Storylines implied that OOo, >> Freemind and Writer's Cafe/Storylines were not on the table for replacement. > You

Re: udev and automounting

On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 01:50:11PM +0200, Dan H wrote: > Hello, > > I'm really having trouble getting my head around udev and udev rules for > removeable USB devices. When I plug in my USB stick, it automounts under > /media/sda1. What I don't like is that I have to "su" to write to the stick >

Re: DSL setup under Debian ETCH

On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 10:38:16PM -0700, Khurram Pirzada wrote: > Thanks, > > Its ZTE DSL ethernet modem, model ZXDSL 831D, and its PPPoE setup. Actually > its my > first time ever to try to setup DSL under ANY Linux. I don't know much about your model since I have an Alcatel, but after a quic

Re: Stupid question (was Re: Repost of some earlier described "challenges")

On 9/27/07, Owen Heisler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I started using Linux with FC2 (or FC3 maybe) and was just thrilled with it > (with Linux, really). Then I got annoyed with FC's bleeding edge software and > also decided that I shouldn't have to reinstall every 6 months in order to > stay > c

Re: Newbie help with simple C program, USB device under Debian

Kevin Mark wrote: Please refrain from your attacks. 'Be nice to folks' is a general rule. Insulting folks about background, sexual orientation, or language IN ONE POST is beyond the pale. While folks here ocasssionaly make slight taunts or comments at one another, it is expected that newcomers r

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