Re: Sending a bug report with reportbug fails

2008-02-27 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 09:01:19AM +0200, Joona Kiiski wrote: > I configured reportbug with defaults (I don't use local mailserver for > delivery and reportbug uses bugs.debian.org as SMTP host). However > when I try to file a bug report, sending fails with message: SMTP send > failure: (113, 'No r

Sending a bug report with reportbug fails

2008-02-27 Thread Joona Kiiski
I configured reportbug with defaults (I don't use local mailserver for delivery and reportbug uses bugs.debian.org as SMTP host). However when I try to file a bug report, sending fails with message: SMTP send failure: (113, 'No route to host'). My firewall should permit all outgoing traffic so that

Re: Usermount

2008-02-27 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-02-27 05:13 +0100, Frank McCormick wrote: > 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 fi

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

2008-02-27 Thread debian azul
Debian does not need a friendly mascot. That is ridiculous. Debian is well known because it is great work not because its appearance is nice or cool. There are many projects that have been working in beautiful distributions from Debian. If somebody works with Debian needs to be responsible not matt

Re: finally got lenny installed

2008-02-27 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 11:05:29PM +, Robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > On 27/02/2008, Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you don't care about this feature, you can turn it off under > > Options/Dependency Handling by disabling "Remove unused packages > > automatica

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

2008-02-27 Thread cothrige
Hal Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There is a revamped image with a new logo and an easy to use GUI > installer one can use if Debian is an issue. It's a fairly large > project. Here's a link to it: > > http://ubuntu.com. > > (I notice, when checking that home page that it seems like it

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

2008-02-27 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 12:22:01AM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: > >> I'd rather the same effort be put into the things that give Debian its >> uniqueness in the first place. Maybe I'm a snob on the >> sysadmin/programmer end o

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

2008-02-27 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 12:22:01AM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: > I'd rather the same effort be put into the things that give Debian its > uniqueness in the first place. Maybe I'm a snob on the > sysadmin/programmer end of things, but if someone has a reason to need > Debian instead of Ubuntu, i

Re: curious entries in apache2 log

2008-02-27 Thread Jeff D
Vikki Roemer wrote: On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 5:20 PM, Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Can anyone enlighten me what is going on here? ::1 - - [27/Feb/2008:14:05:21 +] "GET /" 400 1063 "-" "-" ::1 - - [27/Feb/2008:14:05:25 +] "GET /" 400 1063 "-" "-" ::1 - - [27/Feb/2008:14:06:

Re: GRUB 2 error

2008-02-27 Thread NN_il_Confusionario
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 01:00:07PM -0800, Alan Ianson wrote: > booting more than 1 linux system. Lilo will do this but all the kernels > need to be in the same /boot directory, no, the kernels (and initrds) can be wherever you want provided that they are in filesystems which are mounted at the ti

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

2008-02-27 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Thursday 28 February 2008, Rich Healey wrote: > Hal Vaughan wrote: > > On Wednesday 27 February 2008, Rich Healey wrote: > > ... > > > >> Many of my windows using mates are at least familiar with Tux, > >> even though many have only ever used linux at my place (and then > >> only using firefox t

Re: USB pendrive mobility (fat32)?

2008-02-27 Thread Vikki Roemer
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 3:51 PM, Bob McGowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Vikki Roemer wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 1:07 PM, Bob McGowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> DOS, and then Windows, allowed seeing only the active primary partition > >> because it was the boot environment, and M

Re: curious entries in apache2 log

2008-02-27 Thread Vikki Roemer
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 5:20 PM, Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can anyone enlighten me what is going on here? > > ::1 - - [27/Feb/2008:14:05:21 +] "GET /" 400 1063 "-" "-" > ::1 - - [27/Feb/2008:14:05:25 +] "GET /" 400 1063 "-" "-" > ::1 - - [27/Feb/2008:14:06:02 +] "GET

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

2008-02-27 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hal Vaughan wrote: > On Wednesday 27 February 2008, Rich Healey wrote: > ... >> Many of my windows using mates are at least familiar with Tux, even >> though many have only ever used linux at my place (and then only >> using firefox to check email, har

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

2008-02-27 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Wednesday 27 February 2008, Rich Healey wrote: ... > Many of my windows using mates are at least familiar with Tux, even > though many have only ever used linux at my place (and then only > using firefox to check email, hardly the grandest most eye opening > event). Debian is not aimed at the s

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

2008-02-27 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Peter Tynan wrote: >> I have to say, there is nothing friendly about that damn gnu. And that >> statement is in no way a reflection on my views of GNU or it's >> projects. Just that if we're gonna have a mascot, I lean more towards >> the penguin/snark

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

2008-02-27 Thread cothrige
Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have to say, there is nothing friendly about that damn gnu. And that > statement is in no way a reflection on my views of GNU or it's > projects. Just that if we're gonna have a mascot, I lean more towards > the penguin/snarky-devil side of the

Re: Debian nice looking desktop (XGL, KDE or ??)

2008-02-27 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Frenchguy wrote: > Hello, > > I"m really new on Debian and I'm looking for a nice Desktop GUI, sort > of XGL or anything looking good. I've seen people imitating Vista > look, these are nice as well... > > But for Debian running on Sparc (Sun Ultra T

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

2008-02-27 Thread Peter Tynan
On 28/02/2008, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 09:41:24PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > This message was posted by Sam Hocevar (current Debian Project Leader) > > ... > > > > >I also would like to spend some Debian money on a contest, similar to >

Re: Debian nice looking desktop (XGL, KDE or ??)

2008-02-27 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 12:54:51PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > >On 02/27/08 06:28, Frenchguy wrote: > >>I"m really new on Debian and I'm looking for a nice Desktop GUI, sort > >>of XGL or anything looking good. I've seen people imitating Vista > >>look, these are nice as we

Re: HD problems

2008-02-27 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 09:32:57AM -0500, Brian McKee wrote: > On 27-Feb-08, at 1:25 AM, Zach wrote: > > > >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 c

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

2008-02-27 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 02:07:28PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: > 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, M

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

2008-02-27 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 09:41:24PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > - Forwarded message from Sam Hocevar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - >I also would like to spend some Debian money on a contest, similar to > the FreeBSD logo contest [2], to create a friendly mascot for the Debian > project (in

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

2008-02-27 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 09:41:24PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > This message was posted by Sam Hocevar (current Debian Project Leader) ... > >I also would like to spend some Debian money on a contest, similar to > the FreeBSD logo contest [2], to create a friendly mascot for the Debian > pr

Opensync and GPE.

2008-02-27 Thread Matt Gracie
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm running the GPE applications (gpe-contact, gpe-calendar, and gpe-todo) on a Nokia 770 Internet Tablet. I would like to use opensync with a Bluetooth connection to synchronize the contents of these apps on the Nokia with iceowl and icedove on my Deb

Re: Usermount

2008-02-27 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 12:30:00 -0500 Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Frank McCormick([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > > > Just installed usermount --- a graphical interface to mount/umount.

Re: Debian nice looking desktop (XGL, KDE or ??)

2008-02-27 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 01:19:52PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 02/27/08 12:54, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > Ron Johnson wrote: > >> > >> On 02/27/08 06:28, Frenchguy wrote: > >>> Hello, > >>> > >>> I"m really new on Debian and I'm looking for a

usbcore and ndiswrapper for toshiba laptop

2008-02-27 Thread diane mittnik
Toshiba laptop A215-S7422, debian etch installed # uname -a: 2.6.22-4-amd64 #1 SMP Tue Feb 12 10:29:27 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux I'm following the instructions here: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-wireless-networking-41/trying-to-load-module-ndiswrapper-with-modprobe-modprobe-ndisw

Re: amanda - how is it running?!

2008-02-27 Thread michael
On Wed, 2008-02-27 at 12:40 -0500, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > michael wrote: > > > I just noticed a "amanda" dir in > > > > /[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cd /tmp;ls -alt|head > > total 1831672 > > drwxrwxrwt 24 rootroot 135168 Feb 27 16:50 ./ > > {} > > drwx--S--- 2 backup backup

Re: Flash removed from etch - process explained?

2008-02-27 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 12:16:16 -0500, Brian McKee wrote: > From a recent message on this list I saw a link to the 4.0r3 etch > release > http://lists.debian.org/debian-announce/2008/msg0.html > > Going to that link I see that they have removed flash >> Closed source and no security support

Re: finally got lenny installed

2008-02-27 Thread Robin
On 27/02/2008, Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 10:33:45AM +, Robin < > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > > > Why should you have to mark all the packages you want to keep? It is the > > wrong way round from a user perspective. > > > Because they were

getting gs to see ttf fonts (was: Re: openoffice.org: fonts different on a printout (PDF print works))

2008-02-27 Thread H.S.
H.S. wrote: 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

Re: PPPOE Connection

2008-02-27 Thread H.S.
John Hasler wrote: Henrique writes: I have Debian Sarge R3.1 installed. I ran pppoeconf to configure my adsl connection. I wrote: Are you sure you need to? Most ADSL modems handle PPPoE themselves and act as routers. H.S. writes: If he wants to make the ADSL modem work in bridge mode then

Re: "Debian" method for bonding & vlan

2008-02-27 Thread Gilles Mocellin
Le Wednesday 27 February 2008 19:39:10 Rob Heilman, vous avez écrit : > I have seen/used a couple different ways to setup Ethernet bonding and > subsequently 802.1q vlans on top of the bond. Just curious if anyone > knows the "Debian" way of doing this? Right now I use entries in > > /etc/modules

curious entries in apache2 log

2008-02-27 Thread Richard Lyons
Can anyone enlighten me what is going on here? ::1 - - [27/Feb/2008:14:05:21 +] "GET /" 400 1063 "-" "-" ::1 - - [27/Feb/2008:14:05:25 +] "GET /" 400 1063 "-" "-" ::1 - - [27/Feb/2008:14:06:02 +] "GET /" 400 1063 "-" "-" I see blocks of these in the apache2 access.log. -- richard

Re: mounting error USB stick

2008-02-27 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 10:01:54 +, Adam Hardy wrote: [...] On Sun February 24 2008, Adam Hardy wrote: > Using xfce, Thunar used to pick up on the new usb storage device and > put an > icon in its tree pane for me with the usb stick's name. Clicking on >

Re: PPPOE Connection

2008-02-27 Thread John Hasler
Henrique writes: > I have Debian Sarge R3.1 installed. I ran pppoeconf to configure my adsl > connection. I wrote: > Are you sure you need to? Most ADSL modems handle PPPoE themselves and act > as routers. H.S. writes: > If he wants to make the ADSL modem work in bridge mode then yes, he does.

Re: [OT] Goodbye Debian

2008-02-27 Thread Christopher Bradley
actually opera does have tabs (since before firefox) and does have a wand which remembers passwords. Before firefox, i used it as the best alternate to explorer when I have to use a windows machine. But why not load firefox? If you got opera on, firefox should be doable. If loading is an issue, you

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

2008-02-27 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/27/08 15:11, Alex Samad wrote: > On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 11:38:04PM +0100, Thierry Chatelet wrote: >> 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 De

Re: PPPOE Connection

2008-02-27 Thread H.S.
John Hasler wrote: Henrique writes: I have Debian Sarge R3.1 installed. I ran pppoeconf to configure my adsl connection. Are you sure you need to? Most ADSL modems handle PPPoE themselves and act as routers. If he wants to make the ADSL modem work in bridge mode then yes, he does. -- To U

Re: debian vs centos as server

2008-02-27 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 07:56:17PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > -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 w

Re: PPPOE Connection

2008-02-27 Thread John Hasler
Henrique writes: > I have Debian Sarge R3.1 installed. I ran pppoeconf to configure my adsl > connection. Are you sure you need to? Most ADSL modems handle PPPoE themselves and act as routers. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troub

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

2008-02-27 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 11:38:04PM +0100, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > 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 b

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

2008-02-27 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 15:34:27 -0500 "Michael Habashy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Michael, > Just curious...do you know any other way to reset the base components > of debian?? As root, dpkg-reconfigure should help you do what you want. If you fear your system has been compromised, reconfig

Re: GRUB 2 error

2008-02-27 Thread Alan Ianson
Movib=g further off-topic, I've never understood why people use GRUB. LILO seems so much lighter weight to achieve the same effect. Can anybody enlighten me? Lilo has always worked well for me. I find grub easier to use when booting more than 1 linux system. Lilo will do this but all the ke

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

2008-02-27 Thread Michael Habashy
thanks for the reply. Just curious...do you know any other way to reset the base components of debian?? i.e. xdm,gdm,kde and etc... thanks mjh On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 4:19 PM, Jamin Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michael Habashy wrote: > > > I do not want to kill this to death but..on a good

Re: GRUB 2 error

2008-02-27 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Tony van der Hoff wrote: On 26 Feb at 12:36 Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Huub wrote: You did not make a rescue CD or Floppy? I can boot into Rescue mode from DVD. I managed to restore a Fedora machine by booting into Rescue mode from DVD, so I fig

Re: (OT) Flashplayer observations w/Opera etc.

2008-02-27 Thread komodo
On Wednesday 27 of February 2008 20:57:22 Angus Auld wrote: > --- Jean-Louis Crouzet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > Angus Auld wrote: > > > This are just my observations and experiences with > > > Flash-player and Linux of late. > > > I use my browsers to view a lot of Flash vids, and > > > > t

Re: (OT) Flashplayer observations w/Opera etc.

2008-02-27 Thread Angus Auld
--- Jean-Louis Crouzet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Angus Auld wrote: > > This are just my observations and experiences with > > Flash-player and Linux of late. > > I use my browsers to view a lot of Flash vids, and > the > > fact that many websites are using (over-using?) > Flash > > animations,

"Debian" method for bonding & vlan

2008-02-27 Thread Rob Heilman
I have seen/used a couple different ways to setup Ethernet bonding and subsequently 802.1q vlans on top of the bond. Just curious if anyone knows the "Debian" way of doing this? Right now I use entries in /etc/modules 8021q /etc/modprobe.d/arch/i386 alias bond0 bonding options bond0 mode=1 m

Re: [OT] Goodbye Debian

2008-02-27 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 07:15:14PM +0100, Dan H. wrote: > On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 02:57:30AM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > Actually, if he's got his own machine, then he can install the > > portableapps applications locally, without a flash drive. It's much > > faster that way, in fact, at the unive

Re: [solved] Re: How to sort files in a directory?

2008-02-27 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 08:14:06PM +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Jeff D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanks to all who replied. It seems that for my purposes this works: > > $ cd /path/to/dir > $ ls *.txt */*.txt | sort Huh? That is not what you asked for. It does not trim the directory n

format site

2008-02-27 Thread Kouakou Chantal
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Open HTML file with OpenOffice in Gnome

2008-02-27 Thread Masatran, R. Deepak
I just completed installing installing Debian Etch I386 on an AMD64 computer. A Gnome user needs to edit HTML with OpenOffice, so I right-clicked on one HTML file, and set it to open with OpenOffice. But double-clicking does not start OpenOffice. Nor does it give any error message. Currently, I to

Re: Debian nice looking desktop (XGL, KDE or ??)

2008-02-27 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/27/08 12:54, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> >> On 02/27/08 06:28, Frenchguy wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> I"m really new on Debian and I'm looking for a nice Desktop GUI, sort >>> of XGL or anything looking good. I've seen people imit

[solved] Re: How to sort files in a directory?

2008-02-27 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Jeff D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> I want to sort all files with, say, .txt extension that are in the directory >> `/path/to/dir' and all its subdirectories, and I want to perform this search >> starting from the directory itself: how can I do that? >> >> I didn't manage

[OT] Laptop with Linux preinstalled

2008-02-27 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, I thought it would never happen. Right from NewEgg: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834220246 ASUS Eee PC 4G – Galaxy Black Eee PC Intel processor 7" Wide VGA 512MB 4GB Integrated Graphics - Retail for only $400! Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian nice looking desktop (XGL, KDE or ??)

2008-02-27 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/27/08 06:28, Frenchguy wrote: Hello, I"m really new on Debian and I'm looking for a nice Desktop GUI, sort of XGL or anything looking good. I've seen people imitating Vista look, these are nice as well... But for Debian ru

Re: Custom Kernels and 2.6.24

2008-02-27 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 08:37:11AM -0800, Alan Ianson wrote: On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:25:24 + Matthew Macdonald-Wallace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: A while back there was an announcement that debian would be "updating" to kernel 2.6.24, however I've not heard anything

Re: [OT] Goodbye Debian

2008-02-27 Thread Dan H.
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 07:18:38AM -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: > Coporate IT is driven by sweetheart deals from suppliers to IT > management. It is full of fiefdoms and "not invented here" syndromes. > It is a meca to the power hungry and the control freaks. It has little > to do with helping th

Re: [OT] Goodbye Debian

2008-02-27 Thread Dan H.
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 02:57:30AM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: Actually, if he's got his own machine, then he can install the > portableapps applications locally, without a flash drive. It's much > faster that way, in fact, at the university I copy portable firefox to > the machine I'm sitting at an

Re: HTTP through SSH?

2008-02-27 Thread Nelson Castillo
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 12:57 PM, Masatran, R. Deepak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My Debian computer has a intranet IP address and cannot access the internet > directly. I currently use a proxy server. I have a non-super-user account on > a Fedora web server that has an intranet IP address, and

Re: HTTP through SSH?

2008-02-27 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 11:27:16PM +0530, Masatran, R. Deepak wrote: > My Debian computer has a intranet IP address and cannot access the internet > directly. I currently use a proxy server. I have a non-super-user account on > a Fedora web server that has an intranet IP address, and an internet IP

Re: Usermount

2008-02-27 Thread Wayne Topa
Frank McCormick([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > -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. > Did you mean you installed usermode? WT -- U

HTTP through SSH?

2008-02-27 Thread Masatran, R. Deepak
My Debian computer has a intranet IP address and cannot access the internet directly. I currently use a proxy server. I have a non-super-user account on a Fedora web server that has an intranet IP address, and an internet IP address. How can I use the web server account to bypass the proxy server?

Re: DSL speed

2008-02-27 Thread i'll teach you to turn away.
Zach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Z> The speed test at dslreports.com is showing my download speed as 625 Z> Kb/s. This seems a lot less than the 768 Kb/s I'm supposed to have. My Z> latency to their test server in NY was 50ms. Is there anything I can Z> do to to increase my download speed? I'm using

Re: amanda - how is it running?!

2008-02-27 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
michael wrote: > I just noticed a "amanda" dir in > > /[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cd /tmp;ls -alt|head > total 1831672 > drwxrwxrwt 24 rootroot 135168 Feb 27 16:50 ./ > {} > drwx--S--- 2 backup backup 4096 Feb 27 12:29 amanda/ > > which I didn't recognise. I see that it's some ba

Flash removed from etch - process explained?

2008-02-27 Thread Brian McKee
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 From a recent message on this list I saw a link to the 4.0r3 etch release http://lists.debian.org/debian-announce/2008/msg0.html Going to that link I see that they have removed flash Closed source and no security support It also says The

Re: cleanup a directory

2008-02-27 Thread Michael Shuler
On 02/27/2008 09:39 AM, Jerome BENOIT wrote: to clean some directories of mine, I use rm -rf * but files named as `.log' are not removed. Dot files are not expanded by * - to remove just the .log files, for example: find ./ -type f -name .log -exec rm -rf {} \; To remove everything in $PW

Re: (OT) Flashplayer observations w/Opera etc.

2008-02-27 Thread Jean-Louis Crouzet
Angus Auld wrote: This are just my observations and experiences with Flash-player and Linux of late. I use my browsers to view a lot of Flash vids, and the fact that many websites are using (over-using?) Flash animations, etc. makes it quite important, at least to me, that my browser be Flash-fri

Re: avahi-daemon - unrequired?

2008-02-27 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:51:39 + michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello michael, > but I'm unsure what 'avahi-daemon' is needed for... anybody care to > illuminate me? or can I just uninstall it? It's used for DNS service discovery. If you're on a local network, using a networked, rather th

amanda - how is it running?!

2008-02-27 Thread michael
I just noticed a "amanda" dir in /[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cd /tmp;ls -alt|head total 1831672 drwxrwxrwt 24 rootroot 135168 Feb 27 16:50 ./ {} drwx--S--- 2 backup backup 4096 Feb 27 12:29 amanda/ which I didn't recognise. I see that it's some backup software. Whilst it's likely

Re: Custom Kernels and 2.6.24

2008-02-27 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 08:37:11AM -0800, Alan Ianson wrote: >>> On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:25:24 + >>> Matthew Macdonald-Wallace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: A while back there was an announcement that debian would be "updating" to kernel 2.6.24, however I've not heard anything since! [

Re: cleanup a directory

2008-02-27 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Hello List, > > to clean some directories of mine, I use > > rm -rf * > > but files named as `.log' are not removed. > > Is there a better way to do so ? Go to the previous directory and then remove the directory using rm -rf. This will remove other hidden files along w

Re: Loading modules during startup

2008-02-27 Thread Brad Brock
--- Andrew Reid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 24 February 2008 09:13, L.V.Gandhi wrote: > > I have put atl2 in /etc/modules and but after > booting I see this in > > messages. localhost:~# cat /var/log/messages |grep > atl2 > > Feb 21 12:16:11 localhost kernel: atl2: disagrees > about ve

Re: cleanup a directory

2008-02-27 Thread Christopher Zimmermann
> Hello List, > > to clean some directories of mine, I use > > rm -rf * > > but files named as `.log' are not removed. > > Is there a better way to do so ? > > Thanks in advance, > Jerome Your problem is that the shell doesn't expand the '*' to hidden files. You could do '.*', but that would

avahi-daemon - unrequired?

2008-02-27 Thread michael
I seem to have messages in my SYSLOG such as Feb 27 12:55:43 ratty avahi-daemon[2996]: Invalid legacy unicast query packet. Feb 27 12:55:44 ratty avahi-daemon[2996]: Invalid legacy unicast query packet. Feb 27 12:55:44 ratty avahi-daemon[2996]: Recieved repsonse with invalid source port 4034 on i

Re: Custom Kernels and 2.6.24

2008-02-27 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 08:37:11 -0800 Alan Ianson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have read that there will be an "etch and a half" release that > will include the 2.6.24 kernel (if it proves reliable). It is planned > for etch r4, we are at r2 now so it looks to me that it will be some > time yet be

cleanup a directory

2008-02-27 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, to clean some directories of mine, I use rm -rf * but files named as `.log' are not removed. Is there a better way to do so ? Thanks in advance, Jerome -- Jerome BENOIT jgmbenoit_at_mailsnare_dot_net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: Custom Kernels and 2.6.24

2008-02-27 Thread Alan Ianson
Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote: On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 20:56:05 +0530 Kushal Kumaran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:25:24 + Matthew Macdonald-Wallace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi All, A while back there was an announcement that debian would be "updating" to kernel 2.6.2

Re: Setting up ADSL?

2008-02-27 Thread ElTino
Zach-5 wrote: > > Anyone have a good basic firewall (especially example rules scripts!) > that I can put up? > > Besides a plain firewall what else can I do to make my machine more > secure since it will be connected to the outside world nearly 24x7 > from now on. > > Last week one of my frie

Re: Custom Kernels and 2.6.24

2008-02-27 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 20:56:05 +0530 Kushal Kumaran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:25:24 + > Matthew Macdonald-Wallace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > A while back there was an announcement that debian would be > > "updating" to kernel 2.6.24, however I've

Re: warning: implicit declaration of function 'readahead'

2008-02-27 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 4:45 PM, Sven Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 2008-02-27 16:24 +0100, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I am getting this annoying warning: > > > > warning: implicit declaration of function 'readahead' > > > > Looking at the man page of reada

Re: IceWeasel and IceDove or other OS?

2008-02-27 Thread Jochen Schulz
Sunnz: > > The only Debian distro I have tried so far are Ubuntu's... however I > am just wondering what are the state of IceWeasel and IceDove like? > Are the source distributed in a portable form somewhere that can be > downloaded and recompiled on other Unix like OS like other Linux > distros,

Re: warning: implicit declaration of function 'readahead'

2008-02-27 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-02-27 16:24 +0100, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > Hello, > > I am getting this annoying warning: > > warning: implicit declaration of function 'readahead' > > Looking at the man page of readahead I need to include fcntl.h to > get the declaration. But after digging in the source the readah

(OT) Flashplayer observations w/Opera etc.

2008-02-27 Thread Angus Auld
This are just my observations and experiences with Flash-player and Linux of late. I use my browsers to view a lot of Flash vids, and the fact that many websites are using (over-using?) Flash animations, etc. makes it quite important, at least to me, that my browser be Flash-friendly. Adobe, in the

Re: Custom Kernels and 2.6.24

2008-02-27 Thread Kushal Kumaran
On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:25:24 + Matthew Macdonald-Wallace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > > A while back there was an announcement that debian would be "updating" > to kernel 2.6.24, however I've not heard anything since! > > I've got a number of systems that for various reasons (mainl

warning: implicit declaration of function 'readahead'

2008-02-27 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Hello, I am getting this annoying warning: warning: implicit declaration of function 'readahead' Looking at the man page of readahead I need to include fcntl.h to get the declaration. But after digging in the source the readahead is only accessible if __USE_GNU is defined, which in turn is o

Re: IceWeasel and IceDove or other OS?

2008-02-27 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Sunnz wrote: Hello there, The only Debian distro I have tried so far are Ubuntu's... however I am just wondering what are the state of IceWeasel and IceDove like? Are the source distributed in a portable form somewhere that can be downloaded and recompiled on other Unix like OS like other Linux

Re: postfix and debian

2008-02-27 Thread Ed Curtis
Klein Moebius wrote: * Ed Curtis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-02-27 08:43:08 -0500]: Just installed a new "etch" server and was running through configs and noticed the main.cf file is missing for postfix. Is this normal? Run dpkg-reconfigure postfix. Should have an ncurses interface

Re: finally got lenny installed

2008-02-27 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 10:33:45AM +, Robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Why should you have to mark all the packages you want to keep? It is the > wrong way round from a user perspective. Because they were originally installed as a dependency of another package. aptitude has no

IceWeasel and IceDove or other OS?

2008-02-27 Thread Sunnz
Hello there, The only Debian distro I have tried so far are Ubuntu's... however I am just wondering what are the state of IceWeasel and IceDove like? Are the source distributed in a portable form somewhere that can be downloaded and recompiled on other Unix like OS like other Linux distros, the BS

Re: HD problems

2008-02-27 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Wednesday 27 February 2008 07:25, Zach wrote: > Hello, > > > Thanks, > Zach Well, I dont know if it's going to help, but I give an experince I had. Installing a new box, I had I/O errors, on a new material. exchanged the HD, same problem + segfault. Exchanged the memories, still the problem.

Re: postfix and debian

2008-02-27 Thread Klein Moebius
And no, it's not normal. Dpkg should give a basic config when postfix is installed at the outset. -- Regards, Klein Law stands mute in the midst of arms. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: postfix and debian

2008-02-27 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/27/08 07:43, Ed Curtis wrote: > Just installed a new "etch" server and was running through configs and > noticed the main.cf file is missing for postfix. Is this normal? Where did you look? $ dir /etc/postfix/main.cf - -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 21

Re: postfix and debian

2008-02-27 Thread Klein Moebius
* Ed Curtis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-02-27 08:43:08 -0500]: > Just installed a new "etch" server and was running through configs and > noticed the main.cf file is missing for postfix. Is this normal? > Run dpkg-reconfigure postfix. Should have an ncurses interface pop up to run you through th

Re: unsetting bash language

2008-02-27 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-02-27 14:53 +0100, niclas w wrote: > bash error msg are in swedish, and swedish characters works fine, but > I want error msg in english(and still be able to write swedish characters). Assuming this holds for other programs as well, you should set the LC_MESSAGES variable to C. If you

Re: HD problems

2008-02-27 Thread Brian McKee
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 27-Feb-08, at 1:25 AM, Zach wrote: 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 co

postfix and debian

2008-02-27 Thread Ed Curtis
Just installed a new "etch" server and was running through configs and noticed the main.cf file is missing for postfix. Is this normal? Thanks, Ed -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian nice looking desktop (XGL, KDE or ??)

2008-02-27 Thread Ivan Glushkov
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Frenchguy wrote: > Hello, > > I"m really new on Debian and I'm looking for a nice Desktop GUI, sort > of XGL or anything looking good. I've seen people imitating Vista > look, these are nice as well... > > But for Debian running on Sparc (Sun Ultra T

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