Re: website front-end

2008-04-20 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Sunday 20 April 2008 21:38:00 Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > Hendrik Boom wrote: > > I thought of writing a really minimal web-site front end, that would only > > look at incoming http requests and forward them to other processes, > > possibly on other machines, depending on the site name or pthe

Re: What are proper permissions for home directory?

2008-04-20 Thread Lee Glidewell
On Sunday 20 April 2008 07:33:33 pm Owen Townend wrote: > On 21/04/2008, Dylan Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >What should the permissions of the files in my home directory be? > Hey, > The default is 755 though it is common to use 750 for a little privacy. > IIRC the warning displays if

Re: What are proper permissions for home directory?

2008-04-20 Thread Owen Townend
On 21/04/2008, Dylan Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So apparently some script I ran decided that it would be ok to modify the > permissions of my home directory. I now get an occasional "unsafe > permissions" warning referring to config files in my home directory when I > run certain apps s

Re: Qt4-config Qt4-designer

2008-04-20 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Monday 21 April 2008 00:54:09 Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: > On 20/04/2008, lostson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That brought in qt4-designer in the debian menu but nothing anywhere > > else I have qt4-config as well but that one is not showing up weird, > > thanks though never knew about t

What are proper permissions for home directory?

2008-04-20 Thread Dylan Garrett
So apparently some script I ran decided that it would be ok to modify the permissions of my home directory. I now get an occasional "unsafe permissions" warning referring to config files in my home directory when I run certain apps such as gpg or when I log in through gdm. What should the permissio

Re: compiling a 2.4 kernel

2008-04-20 Thread thing
> On 04/20/2008 01:16 AM, Steven Jones wrote: (>> Mumia W.. wrote: >>> [...] >>> Each patch is designed to be used against a particular version of the >>> Linux kernel. You might have an incompatible group of patches. For >>> example, if [the] Asus board patch is for 2.4.27, but the sk98lin patch >

Re: debian utility question

2008-04-20 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Jude DaShiell wrote: Does debian have a utility I can run to check and repair disk permissions? On a mac under applications and utilities and under disk repair utility there's a function for repair disk permissions which can check permissions against a known default set and repair if necessary.

Re: Qt4-config Qt4-designer

2008-04-20 Thread Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
On 20/04/2008, lostson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That brought in qt4-designer in the debian menu but nothing anywhere else I > have qt4-config as well but that one is not showing up weird, thanks though > never knew about that before. At least under Gnome, the menu item menu for qt4-config i

Re: dpkg unable to write to /var/lib/dpkg/status, /var partition full

2008-04-20 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 04:53:45PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > There's got to be a way to delete old/un-needed .deb files. Using > apt-get, it's: > # apt-get clean 'clean' will remove all .deb files. I think it's better to use autoclean. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, y

Re: dpkg unable to write to /var/lib/dpkg/status, /var partition full

2008-04-20 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/20/08 16:34, Kyle Barbour wrote: > Hello there, > > I booted up my system this morning and tried to install something with > aptitude, only to get the error message: > > W: Could not lock the cache file. Opening in read-only mode; any > change

Re: dpkg unable to write to /var/lib/dpkg/status, /var partition full

2008-04-20 Thread Jochen Schulz
Kyle Barbour: > > dpkg: failed to write status record about `vlc-nox' to > `/var/lib/dpkg/status': No space left on device Run 'apt-get clean' and see how much free space you get. Apt stores downloaded debs locally and never deletes them until asked to do so. J. -- I have been manipulated and p

Re: dpkg unable to write to /var/lib/dpkg/status, /var partition full

2008-04-20 Thread Peter Tynan
On 20/04/2008, Kyle Barbour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello there, > > I booted up my system this morning and tried to install something with > aptitude, only to get the error message: > > W: Could not lock the cache file. Opening in read-only mode; any > changes you make to the states of p

dpkg unable to write to /var/lib/dpkg/status, /var partition full

2008-04-20 Thread Kyle Barbour
Hello there, I booted up my system this morning and tried to install something with aptitude, only to get the error message: W: Could not lock the cache file. Opening in read-only mode; any changes you make to the states of packages will NOT be preserved! E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manual

Re: debian utility question

2008-04-20 Thread Peter Tynan
On 20/04/2008, Jude DaShiell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does debian have a utility I can run to check and repair disk permissions? > On a mac under applications and utilities and under disk repair utility > there's a function for repair disk permissions which can check permissions > against a kno

Re: Mutt and IMAP-Gmail timeouts

2008-04-20 Thread David Berg
On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 09:27:12PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 12:18:27 -0500, David Berg wrote: > > Gmail's web interface is getting painfully slow on my old computer so > > I've decided to go back to using mutt. I've got thing configured pretty > > well, but any time I

Invitation from asn

2008-04-20 Thread asn
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Re: website front-end

2008-04-20 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Hendrik Boom wrote: > I thought of writing a really minimal web-site front end, that would only > look at incoming http requests and forward them to other processes, > possibly on other machines, depending on the site name or pther parts of > the URL. But then I thought, surely that must have b

website front-end

2008-04-20 Thread Hendrik Boom
I thought of writing a really minimal web-site front end, that would only look at incoming http requests and forward them to other processes, possibly on other machines, depending on the site name or pther parts of the URL. But then I thought, surely that must have been done already? And sure

Re: wakeonlan

2008-04-20 Thread Joe
Carl Fink wrote: On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 05:10:40AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have never used a system with a NIC that actually has a special cable for Wake-on LAN (my cheap NICs were always regular PCI ones without that connection) and I haven't read the docs for wakeonlan, so I am no

Re: Installing testing on a premade volume

2008-04-20 Thread NN_il_Confusionario
On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 09:53:13AM -0400, John Anthony Kazos Jr. wrote: > Frans Pop wrote: > >The installer does not support unpartitioned devices, so > >you cannot install Debian to /dev/hdd. wrong implication: the installer inside debian cd/dvd is NOT the only officially aknowledged way to inst

Re: Using a second display adapter

2008-04-20 Thread Digby Tarvin
On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 09:06:02AM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 07:06:55PM +, Digby Tarvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED] .org> was heard to say: . . > > Perfermance is definately way down the list, as I'm not really planning > > in implementing support for fancy acceleration feat

Re: Using a second display adapter

2008-04-20 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 07:06:55PM +, Digby Tarvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > n Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 07:53:58AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > I only use Nvidia. Best cards best support although proprietary driver. > > Unfortunately I think that probably rules out nVidia for m

Re: urgently need help with Debian can't started

2008-04-20 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 10:49:18AM +0800, Pete Kay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > After I installed scim-pinyin, I rebooted the server and I can't bring up > Debian X-window anymore. It does request for the username and password, but > then it just hangs there in the screen, and does not

Re: compiling a 2.4 kernel

2008-04-20 Thread Mumia W..
On 04/20/2008 01:16 AM, Steven Jones wrote: Mumia W.. wrote: [...] Each patch is designed to be used against a particular version of the Linux kernel. You might have an incompatible group of patches. For example, if [the] Asus board patch is for 2.4.27, but the sk98lin patch is for 2.4.32, yo

Re: Installing testing on a premade volume

2008-04-20 Thread John Anthony Kazos Jr.
Frans Pop wrote: On Sunday 20 April 2008, John Anthony Kazos Jr. wrote: It just seems like quite a silly thing, that we can boot to RAID, we can boot to LVM, we can even boot over the network, but we can't manage to boot to one cylinder of a disk drive. Feel free to file a wishlist bug

Re: Qt4-config Qt4-designer

2008-04-20 Thread lostson
On Sunday 20 April 2008 09:33, Robin wrote: > On 20/04/2008, lostson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello > > I have installed qt4 qat4-config and qt4-designer, I can run them from > > command line but they do not show up in any of the menu's anywhere. Is > > this a > > bug or have i missed som

Re: Qt4-config Qt4-designer

2008-04-20 Thread Robin
On 20/04/2008, lostson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello > I have installed qt4 qat4-config and qt4-designer, I can run them from > command line but they do not show up in any of the menu's anywhere. Is > this a > bug or have i missed something somewhere, thanks. > > -- > LostSon > > http:

Re: Installing testing on a premade volume

2008-04-20 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 20 April 2008, John Anthony Kazos Jr. wrote: > It just seems like quite a silly thing, that we can boot to RAID, we can > boot to LVM, we can even boot over the network, but we can't manage to > boot to one cylinder of a disk drive. Feel free to file a wishlist bug report against partman

Qt4-config Qt4-designer

2008-04-20 Thread lostson
Hello I have installed qt4 qat4-config and qt4-designer, I can run them from command line but they do not show up in any of the menu's anywhere. Is this a bug or have i missed something somewhere, thanks. -- LostSon http://lostsonsvault.org pgpPbej7ytVtI.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Installing testing on a premade volume

2008-04-20 Thread John Anthony Kazos Jr.
Frans Pop wrote: No need to CC me; I obviously read the lists (well, one of them anyway). On Sunday 20 April 2008, John Anthony Kazos Jr. wrote: Yes, but the problem is that the partition is /dev/hdd, not /dev/hdd1. Sounds to me like a mistake was made when the filesystem was created.

Re: Installing testing on a premade volume

2008-04-20 Thread Frans Pop
No need to CC me; I obviously read the lists (well, one of them anyway). On Sunday 20 April 2008, John Anthony Kazos Jr. wrote: > Yes, but the problem is that the partition is /dev/hdd, not /dev/hdd1. Sounds to me like a mistake was made when the filesystem was created. It was apparently created

Re: iptables rule for streaming

2008-04-20 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 07:32:43PM +0200, Shams Fantar wrote: > Hi, > > With iptables, which are the rules to use to be able for streaming > (audio/video) protocol ? Have a look at shorewall. You will need to know the ports the streaming protocol uses. -- Chris. == "One, with God, is always

Re: Mount problem SID

2008-04-20 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 01:42:56PM +0200, Asuka Langley wrote: > Hello > > I have a big problem.. to be honest this problem belongs to a friend of > mine, just he can't speak english, and he is blind, so it's a bit difficult. > So..the problem > > He have this line in his fstab: > /dev/sdb1 /medi

Re: iptables rule for streaming

2008-04-20 Thread Shams Fantar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 10:05:26AM +0200, Shams Fantar wrote: > >> I'm writing the iptables rules for a machine, a desktop, so, on this >> machine, the users can listen to streaming (like the BBC, or other >> radios...). There

cvs and cvs-buildpackage install failure

2008-04-20 Thread Jude DaShiell
dpkg troubles referenced earlier hit those packages too when I tried doing a dist-upgrade. I cleared the broken stuff off the system afterwards too. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

debian utility question

2008-04-20 Thread Jude DaShiell
Does debian have a utility I can run to check and repair disk permissions? On a mac under applications and utilities and under disk repair utility there's a function for repair disk permissions which can check permissions against a known default set and repair if necessary. It could be the pro

re: dpkg troubles

2008-04-20 Thread Jude DaShiell
http://www.shellworld.net/~jdashiel/typescript should now be readable. Those 600 permissions work okay for sensitive files but not for public consumption. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Intel D201GLY2 MB with SiS audio controller - no sound

2008-04-20 Thread LÉVAI Dániel
On Sunday 20 April 2008 08.53.03 LÉVAI Dániel wrote: > On Sat, 19 Apr 2008 23:31:42 you wrote: > > > I noticed the IRQ number in the second line -> IRQ 233. Isn't > > > this weird? > > > > Not necessarily; what is your output for "cat /proc/interrupts"? > > $ cat /proc/interrupts >CPU0

Re: wakeonlan

2008-04-20 Thread Paul Csanyi
Paul Csanyi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 05:10:40AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> Wake On LAN wakes a system from poweroff. There is no need to suspend or >> hibernate. > > I red in the motherboard manual: > "... It wil

Re: wakeonlan

2008-04-20 Thread Test
On my Centos box i also had to do the following to get it to work: ethtool -s eth0 wol g echo PCI1 > /proc/acpi/wakeup cat /proc/acpi/wakeup Device Sleep state Status PCI0 4 enabled PCI1 4 enabled PCI2 4 enabled UAR1 4d

Re: wakeonlan

2008-04-20 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Paul Csanyi wrote: Hello! I have a small network at home. I want to setup the gateway/router Debian Etch to wake up the server box with wakeonlan. The server box - Debian Etch has enabled the "Resume on LAN" field in the Power Management Setup of the Award BIOS. The server box have also a NIC

Why does synaptic clear searches?

2008-04-20 Thread David
Hi list. Does anyone know why synaptic clears searches when you install packages? Sometimes I use synaptic to explore the Debian repo and try out new software, and this clearing of searches is annoying. Is there a way to disable this behaviour? IIRC, older Synaptic versions didn't do this. Davi

Re: iptables rule for streaming

2008-04-20 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 10:05:26AM +0200, Shams Fantar wrote: > I'm writing the iptables rules for a machine, a desktop, so, on this > machine, the users can listen to streaming (like the BBC, or other > radios...). Therefore, I need to open the good ports to allow the use of > streaming. And I c

Re: Re: Urgent: upgrading ipw3945 to 2.6.24

2008-04-20 Thread Leo L. Schwab
> I tried the stock Debian kernel 2.6.24 plus firmware-iwlwifi from Sid but > although the wireless card does seem to be recognized it doesn't connect. > I spent several days wrestling with it but gave up in the end and stayed > with the older kernel. iwl3945 works differently (read: not

Re: iptables rule for streaming

2008-04-20 Thread Shams Fantar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 07:32:43PM +0200, Shams Fantar wrote: >> Hi, >> >> With iptables, which are the rules to use to be able for streaming >> (audio/video) protocol ? > > You must give more details than this. What are you t

Re: listening to BBC

2008-04-20 Thread Bob Cox
On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 17:36:28 -0600, Bob Proulx ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Richard Lyons wrote: > > I suppose the BBC has changed its codec or something. I used to be able > > to play "Listen Again" programmes on the BBC site with their BBC Radio > > Player, which opened in a separate Firef

Re: Configure grub for Windows XP on second HDD

2008-04-20 Thread Michael Wilson
> Here is my XP config in menu.lst: > > title Windows XP > rootnoverify (hd1,0) > map (hd0) (hd1) > map (hd1) (hd0) > makeactive > chainloader +1 > That did the trick -- many thanks for your help. It was the rootnoverify I had wrong. As has been pointed out on this thread, the GRUB

Re: Intel D201GLY2 MB with SiS audio controller - no sound

2008-04-20 Thread LÉVAI Dániel
On Sat, 19 Apr 2008 23:31:42 you wrote: > > I noticed the IRQ number in the second line -> IRQ 233. Isn't this > > weird? > > Not necessarily; what is your output for "cat /proc/interrupts"? $ cat /proc/interrupts CPU0 0: 26228IO-APIC-edge timer 8: 1IO-APIC-edg