Re: permissions in /sbin

2007-12-04 Thread andy
John Hasler wrote: Andy writes: .../sbin keeps those programs that only root can run... No it doesn't. OK - but according to RUTE sbin = "Superuser binary executables. These are programs for system administration only. Only the root will have these executables in their path" ("Rut

Re: how to add parameter to module in initrd?

2007-12-04 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 04:13:16PM -0800, Serena Cantor wrote: > and how to remove some module in initrd? What initrd creator (yaird or initramfs-tools)? > I use etch. Finally! :) Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) signat

Re: Syncable finance app?

2007-12-04 Thread Dave Thayer
On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 02:15:56AM -0500, John Miller wrote: > There are plenty of personal finance applications out there for Linux > (GNUCash, gAcc, etc.), but with all of them, you must make entries on your > PC. When I eat out at a restaurant, I'd like to be able to enter the > amount of th

Re: Download Opera brower package

2007-12-04 Thread Mark Grieveson
On Tue, 4 Dec 2007 17:48:09 + (UTC) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon December 3 2007, Mark Grieveson wrote: > > Just add the following to your /etc/apt/sources.list, update, and > > then you'll be able to install opera. > > > > deb http://deb.opera.com/opera/ etch non-free > > > that doesn

Re: rsync to clone disk - Can it work? grub-install error

2007-12-04 Thread Bob
chloe K wrote: Hi all I install etch in hda then I add the hdc which have same partition but not same size in hda /dev/hda1 /boot /dev/hda2 /swap /dev/hda3 / i use rsync to copy data from hda to hdc I use fedora5 boot disk to boot. mount /boot and / and chroot to / but I got error to grub-ins

Re: Slow access speeds for backup server

2007-12-04 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/04/07 19:57, Duncan McDonald wrote: > Hi all, > > I run a small network with a primary and secondary debian server which > access the net through a debian router. The debian router serves 3 > separate intranets and like the servers, is running S

Re: Dual EMC Installation

2007-12-04 Thread s. keeling
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Two thirds of that email was useless nonsense crap. :%s/Two thirds/95\%/# dunno if "%" is special here. better safe, ... # Cf. cron. EMC Storage Array?!? Electro-myocardiogram? Geez. -- Any technology distinguishable

Re: vi issue in etch

2007-12-04 Thread s. keeling
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Vim really is Improved. I agree. However, that can be a feature or a detriment, depending on the situation. Don't expect vim features in all instances where you'd expect vi to fill the bill. Bare metal commercial Unix comes to mind. /bin/bash isn't

Re: wajig < > apt-get

2007-12-04 Thread s. keeling
Michael Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > For those out there who are interested in having a CLI interface without > having to install Wajig, check out aptsh. > [snip] > Also, for those out there that like aptitude, look into `feta`. aptsh looks interesting, based on the manpage. feta looks blo

Slow access speeds for backup server

2007-12-04 Thread Duncan McDonald
Hi all, I run a small network with a primary and secondary debian server which access the net through a debian router. The debian router serves 3 separate intranets and like the servers, is running Sarge stable. Over the past couple of weeks I've noticed that access times to the backup serve

Re: Preferred Backup Method?

2007-12-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On 12/04/07 16:19, Michael Pobega wrote: > On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 04:04:47PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 12/04/07 15:09, Michael Pobega wrote: >>> What is d-u's preferred method of backups? Now that I'm running servers >>> on my system (Apache, MySQL, SSH, etc.) I need to find a good method of

Re: Preferred Backup Method?

2007-12-04 Thread Ralph Katz
On 12/04/2007 05:19 PM, Michael Pobega wrote: > On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 04:04:47PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 12/04/07 15:09, Michael Pobega wrote: >>> What is d-u's preferred method of backups? Now that I'm running servers >>> on my system (Apache, MySQL, SSH, etc.) I need to find a good meth

Re: Preferred Backup Method?

2007-12-04 Thread Raquel
On Tue, 4 Dec 2007 17:50:58 -0800 Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 03:30:58PM -0800, Raquel wrote: > > On Tue, 4 Dec 2007 16:09:12 -0500 > > , Michael Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > > Hash: SHA1 > > > >

Re: random keystrokes ignored on console

2007-12-04 Thread Owen Heisler
On Sat, 2007.12.01 20:33, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 09:32:52PM -0600, Owen Heisler wrote: > > Sometimes, when I type in the console, about 40% of the keystrokes are > > ignored. > > If I type (for example) "startx" and hit enter, I'll see "sart" or somesuch > > and > >

Re: Restore menus after FS problem

2007-12-04 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 05:32:36PM -0500, David Bruce wrote: > After a power outage triggering the need for fsck on several partitions, it > appears the KDE menus got hosed - many entries no longer have a command > associated with them, specifically all of the KDE apps. I can't find any > other

Re: Preferred Backup Method?

2007-12-04 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 03:30:58PM -0800, Raquel wrote: > On Tue, 4 Dec 2007 16:09:12 -0500 > Michael Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > What is d-u's preferred method of backups? Now that I'm running > > servers on my system (Apache,

Re: aptitude not seeing updates in repository

2007-12-04 Thread Michael Pobega
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 12:48:27PM -0800, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > One of my sources is: > > deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free > > but despite repeated "sudo aptitude update" commands, I was still seeing > old files

Re: openssl x509 management

2007-12-04 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 07:57:19AM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: > Hi > > My ca is about to expire and I used to manually manage my certificates, just > a > bunch of scripts. > > How are other people managing their certificates, I don't have that many, > something web based would be nice. > > I ha

Restore menus after FS problem

2007-12-04 Thread David Bruce
After a power outage triggering the need for fsck on several partitions, it appears the KDE menus got hosed - many entries no longer have a command associated with them, specifically all of the KDE apps. I can't find any other evidence of data problems. Is there any simple way to recreate the m

how to add parameter to module in initrd?

2007-12-04 Thread Serena Cantor
and how to remove some module in initrd? I use etch. Be a better sports nut! Let your teams follow you with Yahoo Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/sports;_ylt=At9_qDKvtAbMuh1G1SQtBI7ntAcJ

Re: Preferred Backup Method?

2007-12-04 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 03:22:48PM -0800, David Brodbeck wrote: > > On Dec 4, 2007, at 2:01 PM, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >> Seriously though, I use rdiff-backup and cron jobs to pull backups of >> critical data and /etc using pub-key ssh authentication to make the >> connections. I have no bare

Re: aptitude not seeing updates in repository

2007-12-04 Thread Raquel
On Tue, 4 Dec 2007 12:48:27 -0800 "Todd A. Jacobs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One of my sources is: > > deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free > > but despite repeated "sudo aptitude update" commands, I was still > seeing old files (as in more than three weeks old

Re: Preferred Backup Method?

2007-12-04 Thread Raquel
On Tue, 4 Dec 2007 16:09:12 -0500 Michael Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > What is d-u's preferred method of backups? Now that I'm running > servers on my system (Apache, MySQL, SSH, etc.) I need to find a > good method of backing up, because

Re: [OT] sandpaper [Was: Re: results: debian-user's favourite FLOSS]

2007-12-04 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 05:20:51PM -0500, Christopher Judd wrote: > On Tuesday 04 December 2007 13:06:36 Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > >... > > > > > How sad. > > ... > > > > > If you can only have one woodworking tool, make it a combination stone. > > Then you can make every other tool eventually

Re: Preferred Backup Method?

2007-12-04 Thread David Brodbeck
On Dec 4, 2007, at 2:01 PM, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: Seriously though, I use rdiff-backup and cron jobs to pull backups of critical data and /etc using pub-key ssh authentication to make the connections. I have no bare-metal restoration plan, just reinstall, install packages, recover data an

Re: Preferred Backup Method?

2007-12-04 Thread Adam Hardy
Ron Johnson on 04/12/07 22:22, wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/04/07 16:01, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: [snip] less frequent burn to tiny CD-R to fit in the Bank's Safety Deposit Box. Before I go away anywhere (i.e. out of town), I copy the most important of the backup t

aptitude not seeing updates in repository

2007-12-04 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
One of my sources is: deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free but despite repeated "sudo aptitude update" commands, I was still seeing old files (as in more than three weeks old) when running "apt-show-version -a " on a package. I added a kernel.org mirror, and thing

Re: UPS

2007-12-04 Thread David Brodbeck
On Dec 4, 2007, at 2:36 PM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Nate that's a very complete answer. Let me try to apply that to Oaxaca, Mexico. Thanks! I can't provide any specific advice, because I don't live there. But given the amount of manufacturing that goes on in Mexico these days, there must

Re: What's the best way to upgrade java??

2007-12-04 Thread Angus Auld
--- Nyizsnyik Ferenc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 4 Dec 2007 05:52:11 -0800 (PST) > Angus Auld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I am new to Debian, and I'm wondering what is the > > *best* > > way for me to upgrade my java to version 6? > > Is it ok to get the relavent pkgs from testing

Translators.

2007-12-04 Thread David
A small omission. All of this is to run on a 64 bit, dual core system. I have to run a programme for a work environment that usually runs just on windows. I was wondering about the winforlin/wine debate as I've never used either in the past, and was wondering about list members experiences w

Translators.

2007-12-04 Thread David
Hello, I have to run a programme for a work environment that usually runs just on windows. I was wondering about the winforlin/wine debate as I've never used either in the past, and was wondering about list members experiences with both/either. I remember reading (some years ago) that stab

Re: UPS

2007-12-04 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Nate Duehr wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: My Back-UPS LS 500 is in need of a battery. How do I go about finding that locally? I.e what does one ask for? I know the battery it has and that is not sold locally. I don't know the physical layout of the LS 500, but the packs are typically made up

Re: permissions in /sbin

2007-12-04 Thread John Hasler
Andy writes: > .../sbin keeps those programs that only root can run... No it doesn't. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ftp.debian.org update

2007-12-04 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Tuesday 04 December 2007 22:44, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 09:35:41PM +0100, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > > On Tuesday 04 December 2007 09:54, Josip Rodin wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 01:27:22AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > > Many people seem to think that ftp.debi

LDAP - howto get linux to talk to exchange/AD

2007-12-04 Thread Bob Goldberg
Clarence, I'm most appreciative for your post. although your perl script doesn't work for me as is... I was able to use it to make one that DOES work. what REALLY confuses me now, is that my perl script WILL access ldap, and produce results - but when I try the same thing using ldapsearch from b

How to mount .iso file from NFS share?

2007-12-04 Thread MRH
Good evening all :) I hope it's not off-topic. I have a problem with mounting an .iso file from a mounted NFS share on my Debian sid. The NFS share is mounted in my home subdirectory (by fstab): $ cat /etc/fstab ... nfsserver:/user0 /home/user0/test nfs defaults,bg 0 0 ... $ ls ~/test MyCD.is

Re: [OT] Re: Mounting a USB Mass Storage Device

2007-12-04 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 09:26:02PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 12/03/07 21:17, Nyizsnyik Ferenc wrote: > >>> Yes, that's a nice idea. I myself would follow your advice, but my > >>> wife doesn't let me to... :) > >> sorry dear, that harddrive died and took windows with it. Fortunately, > >> I

Re: [OT] sandpaper [Was: Re: results: debian-user's favourite FLOSS]

2007-12-04 Thread Christopher Judd
On Tuesday 04 December 2007 13:06:36 Douglas A. Tutty wrote: >... > > How sad. > ... > > If you can only have one woodworking tool, make it a combination stone. > Then you can make every other tool eventually. To make life easier, if > you can only have one tool, make it a vertical milling mach

Re: SUDO

2007-12-04 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 11:57:50AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 12/04/07 04:59, Martin Marcher wrote: > > 2007/12/3, Henning Follmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Add erik to the sudores file? > >> > >> visudo is a wrapper around vi to edit the /etc/sudoers file. > > > > well not exactly vi. > > >

Re: Can not read some messages with signature in mutt

2007-12-04 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 11:57:21PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 03:52:40PM +0100, Misko wrote: > > I noticed that some messages on this list mutt can not read. > > When I try to read signed message (tapping ENTER) mutt says: > > Could not copy message > > and does not open

Re: Preferred Backup Method?

2007-12-04 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/04/07 16:01, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: [snip] > > less frequent burn to tiny CD-R to fit in the Bank's Safety Deposit Box. > > Before I go away anywhere (i.e. out of town), I copy the most important > of the backup to a 4 GB USB stick. > > This

Re: [OT] sandpaper [Was: Re: results: debian-user's favourite FLOSS]

2007-12-04 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 01:06:36PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 08:25:46AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 09:45:07AM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 09:59:52AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > > For

Re: Preferred Backup Method?

2007-12-04 Thread Michael Pobega
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 04:04:47PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 12/04/07 15:09, Michael Pobega wrote: > > What is d-u's preferred method of backups? Now that I'm running servers > > on my system (Apache, MySQL, SSH, etc.) I need to find a good method

Re: Problem with compiling

2007-12-04 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 07:08:22PM +0100, Erik Jakobsen wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > we really sort of need more details about this, like what camera, what > > are you trying to build, where you got the code, etc etc etc. > > > > > > > > just what it says here. I suspect that this i

Re: rsync to clone disk - Can it work? grub-install error

2007-12-04 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 02:56:57PM -0500, chloe K wrote: > Hi all > > I install etch in hda > then I add the hdc which have same partition but not same size in hda > > /dev/hda1 /boot > /dev/hda2 /swap > /dev/hda3 / > > i use rsync to copy data from hda to hdc > > I use fedora5 boot disk to boo

Re: permissions in /sbin

2007-12-04 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 09:24:24PM +, andy wrote: > Jochen Schulz wrote: > >andy: > > > >>-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root ... > >> > >>Is this really an okay arrangement for the contents of /sbin? > >> > > > >Sure it is. Only root may modify the files and everyone may read and > >execute them. W

Re: Preferred Backup Method?

2007-12-04 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 04:09:12PM -0500, Michael Pobega wrote: > What is d-u's preferred method of backups? Now that I'm running servers > on my system (Apache, MySQL, SSH, etc.) I need to find a good method of > backing up, because no matter how much security someone has things may > still go wro

Re: permissions in /sbin

2007-12-04 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 09:24:24PM +, andy wrote: > Jochen Schulz wrote: >> andy: >> >>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root ... >>> >>> Is this really an okay arrangement for the contents of /sbin? >>> >> >> Sure it is. Only root may modify the files and everyone may read and >> execute them. Wha

Re: Preferred Backup Method?

2007-12-04 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/04/07 15:09, Michael Pobega wrote: > What is d-u's preferred method of backups? Now that I'm running servers > on my system (Apache, MySQL, SSH, etc.) I need to find a good method of > backing up, because no matter how much security someone has t

Re: Preferred Backup Method?

2007-12-04 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 04:09:12PM -0500, Michael Pobega wrote: > What is d-u's preferred method of backups? Now that I'm running servers > on my system (Apache, MySQL, SSH, etc.) I need to find a good method of > backing up, because no matter how much security someone has things may > still go wro

Re: viewing el imparcial with ff or iceweasel

2007-12-04 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 08:17:10AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 09:31:26AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > Hi, > > > > How do you look at this? > > > > http://www.imparoax.com.mx/ > > huh. that's wierd. Do you think its serving a different page to other > browser

Re: Can not read some messages with signature in mutt

2007-12-04 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 03:52:40PM +0100, Misko wrote: > I noticed that some messages on this list mutt can not read. > When I try to read signed message (tapping ENTER) mutt says: > Could not copy message > and does not open that message in viewer. > This happend with messages in recent SUDO threa

Re: Preferred Backup Method?

2007-12-04 Thread Bogart Salzberg
On Dec 4, 2007, at 4:09 PM, Michael Pobega wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 What is d-u's preferred method of backups? Now that I'm running servers on my system (Apache, MySQL, SSH, etc.) I need to find a good method of backing up, because no matter how much security s

Re: mount USB drive at boot: fsck failure

2007-12-04 Thread Bogart Salzberg
On Dec 4, 2007, at 11:48 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/04/07 08:45, Bogart Salzberg wrote: Running "lshw" on the box shows the motherboard as a Dell 0UW457, v. A03 with socket M2 and Nvidia GeForce 6150LE chipset. The BIOS version is about a year

Re: ftp.debian.org update

2007-12-04 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 09:35:41PM +0100, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > On Tuesday 04 December 2007 09:54, Josip Rodin wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 01:27:22AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > Many people seem to think that ftp.debian.org is the canonical location > > > > of Debian packages and t

Re: OT: Socket A motherboard

2007-12-04 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/04/07 11:30, Cassiano Bertol Leal wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 12/03/07 20:59, Sam Leon wrote: >>> Ron Johnson wrote: And *none* will have SATA. >>> Do you mean sataII? There are alot of socket A boards that have sata, >>> the nf7

Re: results: debian-user's favourite FLOSS

2007-12-04 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 09:59:52AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > Firefox/Iceweasel and GIMP reign supreme for the third year running > > but are now joined by aptitude, each having 21 votes. > > thy are category killing apps. Intersting is the number of cli web > browsers populating th

Re: mount USB drive at boot: fsck failure -> kernel upgrade

2007-12-04 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 09:51:27AM -0500, Bogart Salzberg wrote: > On Dec 3, 2007, at 8:28 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: > >On 12/03/07 18:51, Bogart Salzberg wrote: > >> > >>I'm running the original Etch kernel on this machine, "Linux version > >>2.6.18-4-amd64 (Debian 2.6.18.dfsg.1-12)". > > > >Upgrade

Re: [OT] sandpaper [Was: Re: results: debian-user's favourite FLOSS]

2007-12-04 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 08:25:46AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 09:45:07AM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 09:59:52AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > For pure woodworking (as opposed to, say, surface prep prior to > > repainting

Re: permissions in /sbin

2007-12-04 Thread andy
Jochen Schulz wrote: andy: -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root ... Is this really an okay arrangement for the contents of /sbin? Sure it is. Only root may modify the files and everyone may read and execute them. What did you expect? J. Fair enough. I just figured that since /sbin keeps those

Re: UPS

2007-12-04 Thread Nate Duehr
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: My Back-UPS LS 500 is in need of a battery. How do I go about finding that locally? I.e what does one ask for? I know the battery it has and that is not sold locally. I don't know the physical layout of the LS 500, but the packs are typically made up of standard sealed

Preferred Backup Method?

2007-12-04 Thread Michael Pobega
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 What is d-u's preferred method of backups? Now that I'm running servers on my system (Apache, MySQL, SSH, etc.) I need to find a good method of backing up, because no matter how much security someone has things may still go wrong. So list your preferr

Re: What's the best way to upgrade java??

2007-12-04 Thread Nyizsnyik Ferenc
On Tue, 4 Dec 2007 05:52:11 -0800 (PST) Angus Auld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am new to Debian, and I'm wondering what is the > *best* > way for me to upgrade my java to version 6? > Is it ok to get the relavent pkgs from testing (lenny) > and > install them from a folder using "dpkg -i *.de

openssl x509 management

2007-12-04 Thread Alex Samad
Hi My ca is about to expire and I used to manually manage my certificates, just a bunch of scripts. How are other people managing their certificates, I don't have that many, something web based would be nice. I have used the rsa scripts inside openvpn Alex signature.asc Description: Digital

Re: permissions in /sbin

2007-12-04 Thread Jochen Schulz
andy: > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root ... > > Is this really an okay arrangement for the contents of /sbin? Sure it is. Only root may modify the files and everyone may read and execute them. What did you expect? J. -- I use a Playstation to block out the existence of my partner. [Agree] [Disagr

Re: ftp.debian.org update

2007-12-04 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Tuesday 04 December 2007 09:54, Josip Rodin wrote: > On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 01:27:22AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > Many people seem to think that ftp.debian.org is the canonical location > > > of Debian packages and that it will be best for them to use that site > > > for apt or for mirrori

Re: UPS

2007-12-04 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Nate Duehr wrote: David Brodbeck wrote: For home use the BackUPS models are fine, but for important servers I prefer the SmartUPS models due to their self-test capabilities. With a BackUPS your first clue that the battery has worn out is usually when the power fails and the UPS drops the loa

permissions in /sbin

2007-12-04 Thread andy
Hi Skulking through /sbin this evening and I noticed the output to ls -l /sbin is all -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root ... Is this really an okay arrangement for the contents of /sbin? Cheers Andy -- "If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers."

rsync to clone disk - Can it work? grub-install error

2007-12-04 Thread chloe K
Hi all I install etch in hda then I add the hdc which have same partition but not same size in hda /dev/hda1 /boot /dev/hda2 /swap /dev/hda3 / i use rsync to copy data from hda to hdc I use fedora5 boot disk to boot. mount /boot and / and chroot to / but I got error to grub-install /dev/hda Y

Re: Mediawiki from testing install tips anyone???

2007-12-04 Thread John W. Foster
On Monday 03 December 2007 23:47, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 08:29:06PM -0600, John W. Foster wrote: > > I am trying to install Mediawiki1.1.11xxx from testing. There seems to be > > NO installation instructions at all. In the stable version there was > > enough to get started,

Can not read some messages with signature in mutt

2007-12-04 Thread Misko
I noticed that some messages on this list mutt can not read. When I try to read signed message (tapping ENTER) mutt says: Could not copy message and does not open that message in viewer. This happend with messages in recent SUDO thread From: Michael Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PR

Re: about tar backup

2007-12-04 Thread Ansgar Esztermann
On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 03:08:13AM -0800, Nevruz Mesut Sahin wrote: > tear friends I want to get all my directories backup by tar > > my directories : /www/abc/domains/ > > /www/abc/domains/there_so_many_files > > so I want to get all backup under /www then I tried > > tar cvf /www/

Re: Syncable finance app?

2007-12-04 Thread John Miller
Thank you, Doug and rb, for two different approaches to my problem. I'm not, however, looking to roll my own solution if I can avoid it. Since there are plenty of sync-friendly apps for Palm's Address Book, Date Book, and Memo Pad, it seemed that there'd be a similar Palm finance app that cou

Fw: cdrom not working after kernel update

2007-12-04 Thread tharanga Wijethilake
Hi, Thank you very much for the advice. and as you said in the reply I compared the two config files and figure out that following part is missing from the config file for 2.6.23.8. # # Old CD-ROM drivers (not SCSI, not IDE) # CONFIG_CD_NO_IDESCSI=y CONFIG_AZTCD=m CONFIG_GSCD=m CONFIG_MCDX=m

Re: Problem with compiling

2007-12-04 Thread Erik Jakobsen
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > we really sort of need more details about this, like what camera, what > are you trying to build, where you got the code, etc etc etc. > > > > just what it says here. I suspect that this is causing most of the > rest of these errors. It almost looks like there's a

Re: SUDO

2007-12-04 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/04/07 04:59, Martin Marcher wrote: > 2007/12/3, Henning Follmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Add erik to the sudores file? >> >> visudo is a wrapper around vi to edit the /etc/sudoers file. > > well not exactly vi. > > It uses $EDITOR if that can't

Re: about tar backup

2007-12-04 Thread Jochen Schulz
Nevruz Mesut Sahin: > > so I want to get all backup under /www then I tried > > tar cvf /www/ (but does not work gives error) > tar: Cowardly refusing to create an empty archive > Try `tar --help' or `tar --usage' for more information. The 'f' option has to be followed directly by the na

Re: about tar backup

2007-12-04 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/04/07 05:08, Nevruz Mesut Sahin wrote: > tear friends I want to get all my directories backup by tar > > my directories : /www/abc/domains/ > > /www/abc/domains/there_so_many_files > > so I want to get all backup under /www then I tried >

Re: OT: Socket A motherboard

2007-12-04 Thread Cassiano Bertol Leal
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 12/03/07 20:59, Sam Leon wrote: >> Ron Johnson wrote: > >>> And *none* will have SATA. >>> > >> Do you mean sataII? There are alot of socket A boards that have sata, >> the nf7-s v2 included. > > I'm surprised. But then Wik

Re: mount USB drive at boot: fsck failure -> kernel upgrade

2007-12-04 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/04/07 08:51, Bogart Salzberg wrote: (For reasons that have been elucidated a million times, please do *not* top-post.) > Would you personally use the kernel from "testing" on a production box? If stable doesn't work... > Is it really as simpl

Re: compiz fusion

2007-12-04 Thread Cassiano Bertol Leal
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > Ivan Glushkov wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have already compiz on my laptop, but I want to try also compiz >> fusion (mainly due to its nice configuration tool). What is "the >> proper" way to do it in Debian (lenny)? Can I take it from Ubuntu >> repository

Re: gstreamer ugly library upgrade question

2007-12-04 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/04/07 06:48, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hey all, > i use debian sid (unstable) amd64 release and after a recent upgrade, > gstreamer ugly library creates lots of problems with all sorts of What does "gstreamer ugly library" mean? > programs (ry

Re: PII fast enough for firewall

2007-12-04 Thread David Brodbeck
On Dec 4, 2007, at 6:18 AM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Or OpenBSD. Has a much smaller memory footprint (means less swapping) than linux and perhaps faster as well. Also, since its a firewall, OpenBSD is supposed to be the most secure firewall to which regular people have access. I also found pf

Re: debian 4.0 r0 installation - x-windows starts but gets stuck in black in white screen

2007-12-04 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 04:53:53AM -0800, 2006me wrote: > Hi, I have the following issue. When I start my recent debian > installation (4.0 r0) everything work fine except when it comes to > start the x-window. It starts up but gets stuck in a black and white > screen with the mouse pointer as a X.

Re: Download Opera brower package

2007-12-04 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Tue December 4 2007, Paul Cartwright wrote: > > Just add the following to your /etc/apt/sources.list, update, and then > > you'll be able to install opera. > > > > deb http://deb.opera.com/opera/ etch non-free > > that doesn't work: > W: GPG error: http://deb.opera.com etch Release: The followin

Re: viewing el imparcial with ff or iceweasel

2007-12-04 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 09:31:26AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, How do you look at this? http://www.imparoax.com.mx/ huh. that's wierd. Do you think its serving a different page to other browsers? The source is very simple with just the link to ... nowhere.

Re: problem compiling C++

2007-12-04 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Saturday 01 December 2007 23:46, Michelle Konzack wrote: Hi Michelle All your replies come dated Saturday up to now, the next two are dated Sunday 8 AM and 12 noon. What's the trouble? Thierry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [E

Re: Syncable finance app?

2007-12-04 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 02:15:56AM -0500, John Miller wrote: > Hello everyone, > > There are plenty of personal finance applications out there for Linux > (GNUCash, gAcc, etc.), but with all of them, you must make entries on your > PC. When I eat out at a restaurant, I'd like to be able to enter

Re: mount USB drive at boot: fsck failure

2007-12-04 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/04/07 08:45, Bogart Salzberg wrote: > Running "lshw" on the box shows the motherboard as a Dell 0UW457, v. A03 > with socket M2 and Nvidia GeForce 6150LE chipset. The BIOS version is > about a year old (12/09/2006, v. 1.1.4), so it could probably

Re: SUDO

2007-12-04 Thread Martin Marcher
2007/12/3, Henning Follmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Add erik to the sudores file? > > visudo is a wrapper around vi to edit the /etc/sudoers file. well not exactly vi. It uses $EDITOR if that can't be found /usr/bin/editor (iirc) which on debian uses the update alternatives system. So there's no n

Re: Problem with compiling

2007-12-04 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 09:54:27AM +0100, Erik Jakobsen wrote: > I am trying to install a webcam on my etch dist. we really sort of need more details about this, like what camera, what are you trying to build, where you got the code, etc etc etc. > > I get this: > > # make > make -C /lib/modules/

about tar backup

2007-12-04 Thread Nevruz Mesut Sahin
tear friends I want to get all my directories backup by tar my directories : /www/abc/domains/ /www/abc/domains/there_so_many_files so I want to get all backup under /www then I tried tar cvf /www/ (but does not work gives error) tar: Cowardly refusing to create an empty archive Try

Re: PII fast enough for firewall

2007-12-04 Thread John Hasler
Doug writes: > ...OpenBSD is supposed to be the most secure firewall to which regular > people have access. It's also probably the most secure firewall to which regular people don't have access. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou

Re: spam

2007-12-04 Thread steef
Michelle Konzack wrote: Am 2007-11-26 22:21:27, schrieb steef: hi list, got a whole series of spam (from africa?) on this list. never seen so many spam messages before. am i the only one? or not maybe? Which spam do you mean? I see in ma fetchmail log that it had downloaded 147618 m

Re: [OT] sandpaper [Was: Re: results: debian-user's favourite FLOSS]

2007-12-04 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 09:45:07AM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 09:59:52AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > Interesting. I view it more like this: sudo and grep (find, sort, etc > > etc etc) are ubiquitous. I'm surprised they made the list at all. I > > consid

Re: compiz fusion

2007-12-04 Thread Ivan Glushkov
Hi Bogdan, in principle, you are right - for proper advice one would need the type of the video card. But the fact that I am already running compiz is enough, no matter what my video card is, right? Anyway, in my case "lspci | grep VGA" gives: ~ % lspci | grep VGA 01:00.0 VGA compatible cont

debian 4.0 r0 installation - x-windows starts but gets stuck in black in white screen

2007-12-04 Thread 2006me
Hi, I have the following issue. When I start my recent debian installation (4.0 r0) everything work fine except when it comes to start the x-window. It starts up but gets stuck in a black and white screen with the mouse pointer as a X. right away. Nothing else happens. Gnome will not come up even i

Re: UPS

2007-12-04 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Tue December 4 2007, Paul Csanyi wrote: > # /etc/init.d/apcupsd start > that's what I have been doing ( or the apcupsd &) > or restart, or stop > > If you have the Debian GNU/Linux Etch system, you should to reinstall > apcupsd with > > # aptitude reinstall apcupsd > > command! well why not.. I

Re: mount USB drive at boot: fsck failure -> kernel upgrade

2007-12-04 Thread Bogart Salzberg
Would you personally use the kernel from "testing" on a production box? Is it really as simple as "apt-get upgrade linux-image" -> restart -> done? I've been cautious about using packages from testing, because they seem to depend on a lot of other packages from testing and I'm nervous about

Re: viewing el imparcial with ff or iceweasel

2007-12-04 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 09:31:26AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi, > > How do you look at this? > > http://www.imparoax.com.mx/ huh. that's wierd. Do you think its serving a different page to other browsers? The source is very simple with just the link to ... nowhere. A signature.asc Descri

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