Re: finally got lenny installed

On 2008-02-27 02:05 +0100, Robin wrote: > On 26/02/2008, Jude DaShiell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> I tried aptitude remove --purge gdm and got back a whole list of other >> packages gdm would like to remove with it including the entire gnome >> environment. I think I may just rename gdm to s

Re: debian vs centos as server

Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/26/08 20:40, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: I can think of an obvious reason: RH is "known", i.e., management has heard of it, and it's a *company*, Point taken. as opposed to a bunch of left-wing communis

Re: Samba print setup novice question

On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 7:02 AM, Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am seting up samba on a home LAN on which there are no Windows > PCs. Why? I have several Debian Etch boxes and several Mac OS X > boxes, For many years I have used netatalk to share files and > printing, but my daughter

Re: DSL speed

On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 06:30:03AM +, Zach wrote: > The speed test at dslreports.com is showing my download speed as 625 > Kb/s. This seems a lot less than the 768 Kb/s I'm supposed to have. My You were not really expecting to get 768 Kb/s, did you? But you should also try other test sites (e

Re: HD problems

Zach wrote: > It's a Toshiba ATA disk, MK6026 GAX, 60GB, another $60 sigh. Hi Zach, >From my limited experience, the Toshiba laptop hard drives are pretty bad. They always go bad after 1 or 2 years. The problem is exactly as you describe. No problems before and one fine day it decides to give i

DSL speed

The speed test at dslreports.com is showing my download speed as 625 Kb/s. This seems a lot less than the 768 Kb/s I'm supposed to have. My latency to their test server in NY was 50ms. Is there anything I can do to to increase my download speed? I'm using Ubuntu 7.04 Live CD until I can buy a new c

HD problems

Hello, Two day ago I suddenly got lots of I/O and read errors which went to all consoles on my laptop (Latitude C600 running Debian testing release with Linux kernel 2.6.18) followed by loud clicking noises coming from the area where the HD is then the kernel panicked and the screen froze and I th

Re: famd strikes again

On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 3:49 PM, Paul Cartwright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > it happened again. my wife complained that her login was locked up, she > couldn't read her email. > I did a CTRL-ALT-F7 to get to my login, works fine, email... > > ps -ef|grep kmail > found her process, killed it. >

Re: Exim4, ISPs and headers

Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Have a look at my headers, should be the same (I am using a similar > setup with postfix). Didn't have any troubles so far (though I am > subscribed to the whitelist for Debian lists). Cool. I guess I picked the wrong week to clean out my mailboxes

sa-exim still scans mails received via local smtp

Hello all, well, I'm far from being an exim expert, and thus I guess there is something (or maybe a lot) which I don't understand here, so please point me to any brainos I might have inserted. Given a Debian Etch installation of exim4 and sa-exim, all working fine, except for the tiny bit that ma

Re: Exim4, ISPs and headers

On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 06:24:32PM -0600, cothrige wrote: [...] > Should I be concerned about these headers? If so, how can I address > changing this behaviour. Should exim4 be hiding the local address even > in these rather than just the from? Have a look at my headers, should be the same (I

Re: finally got lenny installed

Try this: update-rc.d gdm stop 99 2 3 4 5 Regards, Andrei On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 04:30:26PM -0600, Jude DaShiell wrote: > I tried aptitude remove --purge gdm and got back a whole list of other > packages gdm would like to remove with it including the entire gnome > environment. I think I may

Re: debian vs centos as server

On 2008-02-27T08:46:23+0800, hhding wrote: > why debian? > why centos? > > It seems same to me, and current we run debian as server. > But managers want run centos instead. Installers are different and both work fine here. Debian's package managers (aptitude, apt-get) are much better than yum a

Re: [OT] Sun Solaris 10 Manual. Is it done in LaTeX?

On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 05:15:48PM -0500, Andrew Perrin wrote: > It's not out of the question that they would have used distiller to build > the PDF from PS output from laTeX, but I agree it's more likely some other > structured format. XML is a good bet. Or some equally good pro layout tools l

Re: C Compiler cannot create executables

On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 10:00:13PM +1100, Rich Healey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > I think i did something stupid accidentally apt-get dist-upgrade'd for > the first time in 6 months with a compile going in the background, and > now when i go to build E the autogen script tells me that

Usermount

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Just installed usermount --- a graphical interface to mount/umount. Problem is it won't allow me to mount/unmount anything. It's supposed to read fstab and if the line has 'user' in it...well... here's mine # /etc/fstab: static file system inform

Re: debian vs centos as server

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/26/08 20:40, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > >> I can think of an obvious reason: RH is "known", i.e., management >> has heard of it, and it's a *company*, > > Point taken. > >> as opposed to a bunch of >> left-wing communist

Re: debian vs centos as server

It seems they choose centos for commercial reason not for technology. because less people know debian. In my opinion, debian and centos are equally good in technology. and centos support better for cluster filesystem such as redhat gfs. (Seems some pruducts have test much on centos) Raj Kiran Gr

Re: debian vs centos as server

Ron Johnson wrote: I can think of an obvious reason: RH is "known", i.e., management has heard of it, and it's a *company*, Point taken. as opposed to a bunch of left-wing communist hippies that want to destroy capitalism. Can't agree with that, though. -- Raj Kiran Grandhi -- At the sou

Re: [OT] how to detect a dying hard drive

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/26/08 20:24, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > >>> I checked the hard drive for badblocks and there are none. But somehow I >>> feel (cannot prove) that it is taking up a lot of time to write large >>> files than it did before.

Re: [OT] how to detect a dying hard drive

Ron Johnson wrote: >> I checked the hard drive for badblocks and there are none. But somehow I >> feel (cannot prove) that it is taking up a lot of time to write large >> files than it did before. That is why I think the hard drive could be >> dying. > > Is it coughing blood? Faint heartbeat? H

Re: hibernate and swap partition size (newbie question)

Tyler Smith wrote: > On 2008-02-22, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Are you aware that you can resize your partitions non destructively using >> something like qtparted? First backup all your data before you do >> anything like this. This is what I did when I found out that

Re: debian vs centos as server

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alan Ianson wrote: |> Alan Ianson wrote: | True, redhat has always been a big supporter/contributor to linux | development, but so has debian. | from my experience execs get a warm fuzzy feeling knowing that red hat is developed in a corporate envir

Re: [OT] how to detect a dying hard drive

On Tuesday 26 February 2008 23:28, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/26/08 16:18, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > > Is there any tool available in Debian which can tell the remaining life > > of a hard drive? > Is it coughing blood? Faint heartbeat? High/fluttering blood > pressure? Blue lips? > > --

Re: hibernate and swap partition size (newbie question)

Jimmy Wu wrote: > I always thought resizing or doing any partition editing carried some > risk of losing data (ie no guarantees), but perhaps ext3 is different. > The "no guarantees" disclaimer goes with pretty much all of the GPL software. The users always have to make backups. No software is 1

Re: debian vs centos as server

> Alan Ianson wrote: > > On Wed, 2008-02-27 at 08:46 +0800, hhding wrote: > > > >> why debian? > >> why centos? > >> > > > > Both are good I think. I don't know centos well myself so I stick with > > debian (what I know, to some degree anyway). > > > > > >> It seems same to me, and curr

Re: debian vs centos as server

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/26/08 19:08, hhding wrote: > What they say is redhat contribute many patchs to linux kernel, and the > redhat AS is proved stable in product environment. Then why doesn't he want to use RH? (Yes, I know that CentOS is the beer-free version of R

Re: debian vs centos as server

hhding wrote: > why debian? > why centos? > You mean as a user or as an administrator? I have used both as a user. I can confidently say both do the job equally well. As an administrator, I always prefer debian or debian based distros. But that is because I spend most of my time on Debian and

Re: debian vs centos as server

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/26/08 19:08, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > hhding wrote: >> why debian? >> why centos? >> >> It seems same to me, and current we run debian as server. >> But managers want run centos instead. >> > > If you are using some proprietary software that i

Re: hibernate and swap partition size (newbie question)

On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 12:15 PM, Jimmy Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just as an experiment, I did a sudo hibernate -v3 > hibernate.out, and > it says that it was unable to unload nvidia and aborts hibernation > (see attached file). So I guess pm-hibernate kind of went ahead and > shut down

Re: diff files matching a pattern

Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > Mark Neidorff wrote: >> Excuse me. I don't want to appear rude, but are you a student at Cornell >> and are we doing your CS homework for you? > > Excuse me. I don't want to appear rude, but you could have foud it out > yourself had you bothered to visit the OP's webpa

Re: diff files matching a pattern

Mark Neidorff wrote: > Excuse me. I don't want to appear rude, but are you a student at Cornell > and are we doing your CS homework for you? > No offense taken... First, I would love to find a course here at Cornell (or online for that matter) which gives problems such as this for homework! If

Re: Iceape

On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 5:00 PM, Bret Busby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, Kelly Clowers wrote: > > > Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 10:42:33 -0800 > > From: Kelly Clowers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: debian-user > > Subject: Re: Iceape > > Resent-Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 18:42:56 +00

Re: Iceape

On Wed, 27 Feb 2008, Bret Busby wrote: On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, mess-mate wrote: Bret Busby wrote: In the last week, Debian etch (4.0) advised me that updates were available, the updates on a particular occasion, being Iceape. So, being a good linux user, I did the upgrade, to keep my system

Re: DISPLAY variable not set in ssh session

On 2008-02-26 19:40:56 -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: > That was it. I did > aptitude install xauth > and everything was fine. > > It looks like the xterm package needs to depend on the xauth package > -- or at least recommend it. I don't think so: one can use xterm without xauth (if one doesn't

Re: Iceape

On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, mess-mate wrote: Bret Busby wrote: In the last week, Debian etch (4.0) advised me that updates were available, the updates on a particular occasion, being Iceape. So, being a good linux user, I did the upgrade, to keep my system up to date, and as stable and secure as i

vserver root compromise, remote exploitation possible ?

Greetings, Regarding the root compromise in Debian 4.0R1, DSA 1491-1, relating to vserver and vmsplice. Can one disable this feature or not enable it, without breaking the kernel or anything else ? Is it possible for remote programs, say a website that one is browsing with javascript tur

Re: DISPLAY variable not set in ssh session

On 2008-02-26 19:57:50 +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > No. But using ssh -v might give some clues. One extra potential reason: > the target box does not have (the utility) xauth on it. or xauth is not in the default path for ssh (but if the target box is a Debian machine, there should be no problems

Re: [OT] how to detect a dying hard drive

If you have good hearing and have heard a hard drive spin up and work for quite awhile then suddenly it sounds like someone is rolling marbles around on the inside of the hard drive your hard drive is on its way south. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubs

Re: DISPLAY variable not set in ssh session

On 2008-02-26 13:52:27 -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: > On Feb 26, 2008, at 7:16 AM, Kushal Kumaran wrote: >> Make sure X11Forwarding is set to yes in /etc/ssh/sshd_config. > > That's the first thing I checked... Then you can look at the FAQ: /usr/share/doc/openssh-client/faq.html#2.7 But I doubt i

Re: Iceape

On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, Kelly Clowers wrote: Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 10:42:33 -0800 From: Kelly Clowers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user Subject: Re: Iceape Resent-Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 18:42:56 + (UTC) Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 1:13 AM, mess-mate <[

Whisper campaign against Firefox, other FOSS?

A couple of weeks ago on a web forum I frequent, one of the members reported that a website the forum membership finds very useful suddenly stopped working with Firefox (he uses Windows). So, he sent feedback to the webiste and actually received a phone call from the contracted web developer. The

Re: finally got lenny installed

synaptic and orca don't play well together last I had heard. If I can get the graphical user interface coming up and log in successfully I'll be able to do more. For now it's close to working but not there yet. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: debian vs centos as server

What they say is redhat contribute many patchs to linux kernel, and the redhat AS is proved stable in product environment. Alan Ianson wrote: On Wed, 2008-02-27 at 08:46 +0800, hhding wrote: why debian? why centos? Both are good I think. I don't know centos well myself so I stick wit

Re: debian vs centos as server

hhding wrote: why debian? why centos? It seems same to me, and current we run debian as server. But managers want run centos instead. If you are using some proprietary software that is supported on RHEL (or Centos) and not on Debian, and you depend on that support. Can't think of any other

Re: finally got lenny installed

On 26/02/2008, Jude DaShiell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I tried aptitude remove --purge gdm and got back a whole list of other > packages gdm would like to remove with it including the entire gnome > environment. I think I may just rename gdm to something else in order to > have a possibility

Re: debian vs centos as server

On Wed, 2008-02-27 at 08:46 +0800, hhding wrote: > why debian? > why centos? Both are good I think. I don't know centos well myself so I stick with debian (what I know, to some degree anyway). > It seems same to me, and current we run debian as server. > But managers want run centos instead. Di

debian vs centos as server

why debian? why centos? It seems same to me, and current we run debian as server. But managers want run centos instead. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DISPLAY variable not set in ssh session

Package: xterm On Feb 26, 2008, at 2:57 PM, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 05:00:13AM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: I just installed Lenny on a G4 Mac. I installed the "ssh" package on it. I can "ssh" to it just fine. But I can't get X11 forwarding to work. When I use "ssh -X" or

Exim4, ISPs and headers

I recently took a look at the headers of some of my mail I sent to my yahoo account from my ISP mail account, and saw some odd stuff which made me wonder if perhaps my setup is goofed up. I am curious if perhaps something like this may cause my mail to be seen as spam or the like, and thought I w

Re: diff files matching a pattern

Mark Neidorff wrote: Excuse me. I don't want to appear rude, but are you a student at Cornell and are we doing your CS homework for you? Excuse me. I don't want to appear rude, but you could have foud it out yourself had you bothered to visit the OP's webpage/blog mentioned in his signature.

Re: diff files matching a pattern

Excuse me. I don't want to appear rude, but are you a student at Cornell and are we doing your CS homework for you? On Sunday 24 February 2008 02:21 pm, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > Let's say I have two directories dir1, dir2 each with 1000 files. > Of these 1000 files in each directory, there

famd strikes again

it happened again. my wife complained that her login was locked up, she couldn't read her email. I did a CTRL-ALT-F7 to get to my login, works fine, email... ps -ef|grep kmail found her process, killed it. CTRL-ALT-F8 to get to her login, still locked up. nothing works. CTRL-ALT-F7 to get back to

Re: [OT] how to detect a dying hard drive

--- Brian McKee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 26-Feb-08, at 5:18 PM, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi > wrote: > > > Is there any tool available in Debian which can > tell the remaining > > life of a > > hard drive? Also, what log files should one >

Re: [OT] Goodbye Debian

Dan H. wrote: I know cygwin, and it is on my to-be-installed list. I can't live without find and grep and xargs and... well, a lot of good grep will do me in a world full of Word documents.. ;-) There was a .DOC to text filter prog, Antiword that could be used in a pipe with grep ;) -- Jami

Samba print setup novice question

I am seting up samba on a home LAN on which there are no Windows PCs. Why? I have several Debian Etch boxes and several Mac OS X boxes, For many years I have used netatalk to share files and printing, but my daughter has a new Mac laptop that came loaded with Leopard. Leopard won't talk nicely to

Re: [OT] Goodbye Debian

* Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008 Feb 26 08:00 -0600]: > Of course I read Dilbert. And I am full aware of the corporate IT > environment. But I'm still 30-young and think that I can change the > world by trying. I'm so naive that I encourage others to do the same. > I know that I'm doomed to

Re: [OT] how to detect a dying hard drive

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 26-Feb-08, at 5:18 PM, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: Is there any tool available in Debian which can tell the remaining life of a hard drive? Also, what log files should one monitor to see if there is something wrong with the hard drive? What ar

hibernate makes the laptop hang during shutdown

Using Debian Etch, 2.6.18-6-686, KDE 3.5.5 on Dell Inspiron E1505. If I shutdown the system (using shutdown -h now), then the machine hangs when it is trying to stop the apache server or when it is trying to stop the syslog (if apache is uninstalled). The shutdown process hangs only if the machine

re: finally got lenny installed

I tried aptitude remove --purge gdm and got back a whole list of other packages gdm would like to remove with it including the entire gnome environment. I think I may just rename gdm to something else in order to have a possibility of getting past the application non-destructively. -- To UN

Re: [OT] how to detect a dying hard drive

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/26/08 16:18, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > Is there any tool available in Debian which can tell the remaining life of a > hard drive? Also, what log files should one monitor to see if there is > something wrong with the hard drive? What are the

[OT] how to detect a dying hard drive

Is there any tool available in Debian which can tell the remaining life of a hard drive? Also, what log files should one monitor to see if there is something wrong with the hard drive? What are the various error messages I should look out for? I checked the hard drive for badblocks and there are n

Re: Force Debian multi-arch DVD to install I386 software on AMD64 hardware

On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 11:54 AM, Masatran, R. Deepak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How can I force the Debian multi-arch DVD to install I386 software on AMD64 > hardware? I searched the help screens from F1 to F10, but could not locate > the option. Disregard my last reply, I misunderstood. If y

Re: Force Debian multi-arch DVD to install I386 software on AMD64 hardware

On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 11:54 AM, Masatran, R. Deepak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How can I force the Debian multi-arch DVD to install I386 software on AMD64 > hardware? I searched the help screens from F1 to F10, but could not locate > the option. You need tp prepend "amd64-" to your boot comm

Re: etch to lenny upgrade incomplete

On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 1:50 PM, Rick Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Interesting. > > I'm trying to install Lenny from scratch and the install hangs at > "setting up ssl-cert". > > I'm doing this on a PowerMac G4. Is yours also on a Mac? Ive noticed this on amd64 and i386 also. I grabbed

Re: Unable to su as a user, I get: Cannot execute /bin/bash: Permission denied

Michael Habashy wrote: I do not want to kill this to death but..on a good system: mach1:/bin# ls -l bash -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 769368 2006-12-11 17:28 bash No one knows how to force a fresh copy of the base debian setup?? with overly impacting my present system ??? to take care of the xwindow

Re: etch to lenny upgrade incomplete

Interesting. I'm trying to install Lenny from scratch and the install hangs at "setting up ssl-cert". I'm doing this on a PowerMac G4. Is yours also on a Mac? Rick On Feb 21, 2008, at 6:05 PM, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: BartlebyScrivener wrote: I can boot into the other, older kerne

Re: gnome on lenny finally installed

On Mon, 25 Feb 2008, Jude DaShiell wrote: I got gnome installed on a debian speakup-kernel and when I boot I go into gdm and get the login beep. I try keying in my credentials and get blown out. Now if I crash the gdm session and log in as a command line user with Mine won't even recognise

Re: bad symlinks

--- "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 07:24:10AM -0800, Angus Auld > wrote: > > --- "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 12:23:40AM -0800, Angus > Auld > > > wrote: > > > > Is it safe to delete any "bad symlinks" that

Re: GRUB 2 error

On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 12:44:29PM +, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > Movib=g further off-topic, I've never understood why people use GRUB. LILO > seems so much lighter weight to achieve the same effect. You mean the functionality of exploring the contents of your file systems through tab complet

Re: Etch installation media doesn't boot (neither NETINST CD, nor floppies), but other distros do... :-(

On 16 Feb 2008, at 19:26, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 06:29:30PM -0900, Siraaj Khandkar wrote: On 16 Feb 2008, at 05:10, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: This stopped working when the box couldn't upgrade from Sarge to Etch because libc6 kept killing itself. I did the drive she

Force Debian multi-arch DVD to install I386 software on AMD64 hardware

How can I force the Debian multi-arch DVD to install I386 software on AMD64 hardware? I searched the help screens from F1 to F10, but could not locate the option. -- Masatran, R. Deepak -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "u

Re: wireless problems

On 26/02/2008, seeds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > hello i hope someone can help me here. i have a toshiba satellite > notebook running debian testing. the wireless card is realtek 8187B. > my wireless don't work at all. it does not even show up. thanks. > > > Realtek 8187 entered kernel at vers

Re: DISPLAY variable not set in ssh session

On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 05:00:13AM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: > I just installed Lenny on a G4 Mac. I installed the "ssh" package on > it. I can "ssh" to it just fine. But I can't get X11 forwarding to > work. When I use "ssh -X" or "ssh -Y" (either option) the connection > is made, but th

Re: wireless problems

On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 05:53:42 -0800, seeds wrote: > hello i hope someone can help me here. i have a toshiba satellite > notebook running debian testing. the wireless card is realtek 8187B. > my wireless don't work at all. it does not even show up. thanks. Is the 8187B USB-based like the 8187?

Re: mounting error USB stick

On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 00:16:36 +, Adam Hardy wrote: > Florian Kulzer on 25/02/08 17:39, wrote: >> On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 00:05:44 +, Adam Hardy wrote: >>> Florian Kulzer on 24/02/08 23:05, wrote: >> On Sun February 24 2008, Adam Hardy wrote: >>> Using xfce, Thunar used to pick up

Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

This message was posted by Sam Hocevar (current Debian Project Leader) to the debian-devel-announce mailing list. I am forwarding a part of it which might be of interest to the debian-user community. - Forwarded message from Sam Hocevar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - [...] Marketing team --

Re: wireless problems

On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 05:53:42AM -0800, seeds wrote: > hello i hope someone can help me here. i have a toshiba satellite > notebook running debian testing. the wireless card is realtek 8187B. > my wireless don't work at all. it does not even show up. thanks. And how are you trying to look for

Re: Help with man page display in Etch

On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 06:53:25PM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > I'm trying to set up samba on etch in the USA. When I type > man smb.conf I get a page which has strange multibyte sequences > in it, e.g. “ and ” On a second look I don't think this is a locale problem. I found bug #418811 which s

Re: DISPLAY variable not set in ssh session

On Feb 26, 2008, at 6:52 AM, Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2008-02-26 05:00:13 -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: I just installed Lenny on a G4 Mac. I installed the "ssh" package on it. I can "ssh" to it just fine. But I can't get X11 forwarding to work. When I use "ssh -X" or "ssh -Y" (either option)

[OT] webcam colours

I have an extremely cheap (8 euro) webcam (Sunplus Technology Co., Ltd Flexcam 100, according to lsusb). It works on my Sid box with 2.6.24-1-686 kernel, using the gspca kernel module. When I test it with camorama, the picture looks "blue" (i.e. blue is the dominant colour). On the other hand, i

Re: Iceape

On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 1:13 AM, mess-mate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are you sure ? > The latest (etch) is version 1.5.0.14pre (20080208) > So is mine (etch) You must be looking at the wrong package. The latest stable Iceape/SeaMonkey is 1.1.x. The development version is 2.0a1pre (2.0 pre

Re: Software for collecting email addresses

On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 12:44:21PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Am 2008-02-20 23:49:15, schrieb Depo Catcher: > > > >Along this lines, does anyone know of a program that can quickly send > >out mass emails to a bunch of different addresses? > > 8<-- > (cat

Re: diff files matching a pattern

On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 01:12:09PM -0500, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > Richard Lyons wrote: > > >> Damn the shell! Did not even think about this. Thanks Rajki. > > > > You should have read _my_ solution on sunday. There was a note about > > this in the comments at the top. > > > > You are

Re: diff files matching a pattern

Richard Lyons wrote: >> Damn the shell! Did not even think about this. Thanks Rajki. > > You should have read _my_ solution on sunday. There was a note about > this in the comments at the top. > You are right, I should've. Thanks for the script, Richard. I basically looked at Raj Kiran's scr

Re: [OT] Goodbye Debian

On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 10:22:31AM -0600, Chuck Rhode wrote: > By my count that six arguments anti to two pro. IT wins! ...in the context of duplicating processes which are mission-critical and/or changing the location of sensitive data. Most of those anti arguments don't really apply to such th

Re: diff files matching a pattern

On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 10:50:57AM -0500, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > > > The pattern should be in quotes, so that the shell does not expand it > > and it gets passed to your script. > > > > So it should be > > $patlist "file*" > > > > Damn the shell! Did not even

Re: Unable to su as a user, I get: Cannot execute /bin/bash: Permission denied

I do not want to kill this to death but..on a good system: mach1:/bin# ls -l bash -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 769368 2006-12-11 17:28 bash No one knows how to force a fresh copy of the base debian setup?? with overly impacting my present system ??? to take care of the xwindows and bash issuse ple

Flash Player 9 (9,0,115,0) with Iceweasel or Firefox (& even konqueror)

To all, I went through a number of check with the latest Iceweasel 2.0.0.12 running on my customized Linux GX200 2.6.22jlcv010 #1 Thu Feb 14 10:22:42 CET 2008 i686 GNU/Linux basically based on 2.6.22-6.lenny1. Unfortunately my configuration is definitely having some issue when browsing pages w

Re: update-manager-solved

On Tue February 26 2008, Paul Cartwright wrote: > ok, I get different output when I do an: > aptitude update > apt-get update > update-manager > > I think maybe I am unable to do updates right now. Here is the output of > each of those commands: > # aptitude reinstall update-manager > Reading packa

Re: openoffice.org: fonts different on a printout (PDF print works)

H.S. wrote: Hello If a document containing some Indic fonts is printed, those fonts come out to be different on paper. English fonts are okay though. However, if the document is saved first as a PDF file and then that PDF printed, all fonts come out okay on the printout. This is on Openoffice

Re: Help with man page display in Etch

On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 10:26:13AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 06:53:25PM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > > I'm trying to set up samba on etch in the USA. When I type > > man smb.conf I get a page which has strange multibyte sequences > > in it, e.g. “ and ” > > I think th

Re: zYour question about the Attensic network card

To what message are you responding and to whom? Thanks, Greetings and nice Day Michelle Konzack Systemadministrator Tamay Dogan Network Debian GNU/Linux Consultant -- Linux-User #280138 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org/ # Debian GNU/Linux Consult

Re: [OT] ATX-PSU and amperage on connectors...

Hi Douglas, its me again... :-) Am 2008-02-22 11:51:59, schrieb Douglas A. Tutty: > DC output PeakContinuity Max Power > = > +3.3 V25A 20A } > } 166 W > + 5 V

Re: Software for collecting email addresses

Am 2008-02-20 23:49:15, schrieb Depo Catcher: > >Along this lines, does anyone know of a program that can quickly send >out mass emails to a bunch of different addresses? 8<-- (cat ${FILE_WITH_EMAILS}) | while read EMAIL do ssmtp -t <

Re: [OT] ATX-PSU and amperage on connectors...

Am 2008-02-22 11:51:59, schrieb Douglas A. Tutty: > Hi Michelle > > First, you do know that one can purcase DC ATX PSUs? Yes but with an efficienci horible... 40-70% only... I am working with chips from Dallas, Maxim, NXP and LM and get over 85%. And of cources, if you need a Vin of 24V (18-32

Re: Trouble trying to find Kernel source...

Thankyou Dan, after installing "module assistant", nvidia-installer worked fine... On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 18:03 -0700, dann frazier wrote: > [Off-topic for debian-kernel, moving to debian-user] > > On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 12:26:56AM +1100, Frank Charles Gallacher wrote: > > Greetings, > > > > I a

Re: [OT] Goodbye Debian

Dotan Cohen wrote this on Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 02:53:51PM +0200. My reply is below. > If using a portable app makes no permanent changes to the machine, > why should it not be allowed? This is the old, old End-User Programming argument, isn't it? ... so let's say you are a clerk (flunky) who kn

Re: diff files matching a pattern

Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > The pattern should be in quotes, so that the shell does not expand it > and it gets passed to your script. > > So it should be > $patlist "file*" > Damn the shell! Did not even think about this. Thanks Rajki. raju -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

Re: bad symlinks

On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 07:24:10AM -0800, Angus Auld wrote: > --- "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 12:23:40AM -0800, Angus Auld > > wrote: > > > Is it safe to delete any "bad symlinks" that I > > find on > >^^^ > > > my Debian Etch sy

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