Re: Debian secure by default?

On Friday 16 May 2008 07:39:27 pm lostson wrote: > On Fri, 2008-05-16 at 19:09 -0700, Lee Glidewell wrote: > > On Friday 16 May 2008 07:02:59 pm Paul Johnson wrote: > > > On Friday 16 May 2008 07:01:38 pm lostson wrote: > > > > My 2 cents a default firewall would be nice > > > > > > You mean like

Re: Debian secure by default?

On Fri May 16 2008 19:39:27 lostson wrote: > On Fri, 2008-05-16 at 19:09 -0700, Lee Glidewell wrote: > > On Friday 16 May 2008 07:02:59 pm Paul Johnson wrote: > > "So... what does a 'personal firewall' actually do? Well, effectively it > > listens on all the ports on your system. This provides no r

Re: Debian secure by default?

On Fri, 2008-05-16 at 19:09 -0700, Lee Glidewell wrote: > On Friday 16 May 2008 07:02:59 pm Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Friday 16 May 2008 07:01:38 pm lostson wrote: > > > > > > My 2 cents a default firewall would be nice > > > > You mean like Windows has? How about not. Here's why: > > http://sa

Re: problem occurs after upgrading to lenny

Hi, Thank you for all your your help. I followed the step-by-step instruction and my Lenny is working! Thanks, Pete

Re: Debian secure by default?

On Friday 16 May 2008 07:02:59 pm Paul Johnson wrote: > On Friday 16 May 2008 07:01:38 pm lostson wrote: > > > > My 2 cents a default firewall would be nice > > You mean like Windows has? How about not. Here's why: > http://samspade.org/d/firewalls.html The money quote from that link: "So... wha

Re: Debian secure by default?

On Friday 16 May 2008 07:01:38 pm lostson wrote: > On Sat, 2008-05-17 at 06:42 +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > > Rico Secada wrote: > > > Hi. > > > > > > Why is Debian not setup to be secure be default? > > > > > > Not everyone is a security expert so imho the system should be fully > > > secured

Re: Debian secure by default?

On Sat, 2008-05-17 at 06:42 +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > Rico Secada wrote: > > Hi. > > > > Why is Debian not setup to be secure be default? > > > > Not everyone is a security expert so imho the system should be fully > > secured out-of-the-box. > > Please elaborate on what you consider to

Re: usb dial up modem?

ISHWAR RATTAN wrote: > Any one using USR5633b USB dialup exyernal modem with Linux? I am > looking for one that will work under Linux as the new computer does not > have serial ports! If you already have that modem just plug it in, run pppconfig, say "yes" in the "Choose Modem Config Method" scre

Re: no sound on Toshiba Tecra T9100

On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 07:44:10PM +0200, Till Wimmer wrote: > Hello all > > i installed Debian Lenny on a Toshiba T9100 laptop. Everything works fine > except of the sound. All the alsa modules are loaded, > the gnome volume panel is available etc. No error messages "device busy" or > similar, j

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade failure

On Fri May 16 2008 18:05:57 Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > Manu Hack wrote: > > is so weird that even sudo rm > > /usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/libbonobo-2.0.mo > > said I don't have the permission to do so. > > (Operation not permitted) > > Try becoming root with 'sudo -i' and remove that file. roo

Re: vmplayer installer cannot find libs (amd64)

michael wrote: eg: The installation of VMware Player 2.0.3 build-80004 for Linux completed successfully. You can decide to remove this software from your system at any time by invoking the following command: "/usr/bin/vmware-uninstall.pl". Before running VMware Player for the first time, you ne

Re: Debian secure by default?

Rico Secada wrote: Hi. Why is Debian not setup to be secure be default? Not everyone is a security expert so imho the system should be fully secured out-of-the-box. Please elaborate on what you consider to be the insecure parts of a default installation. Describe a process by which an etch s

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade failure

Manu Hack wrote: On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 5:06 PM, Preston Boyington <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: Manu Hack wrote: Hi, I decided to upgrade my etch box to lenny/sid but an apt-get dist-upgrade got stuck. Please let me know what could be

Re: usb dial up modem?

On Friday 16 May 2008 05:45:49 pm ISHWAR RATTAN wrote: > Any one using USR5633b USB dialup exyernal modem with Linux? > I am looking for one that will work under Linux > as the new computer does not have serial ports! Yikes! Thank God PCI serial cards are under $10. > Do these modem need a speci

Re: Debian secure by default?

On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 7:41 PM, Rico Secada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi. > > Why is Debian not setup to be secure be default? > > Not everyone is a security expert so imho the system should be fully > secured out-of-the-box. So, do you have something worthwhile to say or is this just a case o

usb dial up modem?

Any one using USR5633b USB dialup exyernal modem with Linux? I am looking for one that will work under Linux as the new computer does not have serial ports! Do these modem need a special driver? -ishwar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Co

Debian secure by default?

Hi. Why is Debian not setup to be secure be default? Not everyone is a security expert so imho the system should be fully secured out-of-the-box. Best regards. Rico. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Realtek ALC662 microphone on Etch?

On Friday 16 May 2008 21:45, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 17:20:23 +0200, Kum Gabor wrote: > > On Monday 12 May 2008 20:55, Maciej Rutecki wrote: > > > Did You try model=3stack-dig option or similar? E.g.: > > > > > > modprobe snd-hda-intel model=3dstack-dig > > > > How should i

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade failure

On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 5:06 PM, Preston Boyington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Manu Hack wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I decided to upgrade my etch box to lenny/sid but an apt-get dist-upgrade >> got stuck. Please let me know what could be done here. >> >> Thanks a lot. >> >> Manu >> >> >> > i wonder if

Re: Using 2.6.25 + Nvidia + VMware

> Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > Hi, > > > > In upgrading to 2.6.25 I ran into problems, as follows: > > > > 1. When I use linux-image-2.6.25-1-686 or 2-686 from binary or from > > source I cannot use vga=791 or I get "undefined video mode number: 317". > > When I compile from kernel.org's 2.6.25.

I/O error reading swsusp image with 2.6.18-6-686

It's been over 48 hrs, and I didn't get a single bite on this, so thought I'd try again. I have a problem that only raises it's head with the 2.6.18-6-686 kernel, but not the 2.6.18-4-686: I've been struggling with my server not rebooting due to stopping at the error: Begin: Running /scripts

alsa and 5.1 surround sound

Hi, How can I set up alsa to use surround sound? So all my gui media players use 5.1 and mplayer? Thanks for any help! Cheers, -- Daniel Dalton http://members.iinet.net.au/~ddalton/ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade failure

Manu Hack wrote: Hi, I decided to upgrade my etch box to lenny/sid but an apt-get dist-upgrade got stuck. Please let me know what could be done here. Thanks a lot. Manu i wonder if you could do this: dpkg -i --force-overwrite /var/cache/apt/archives/libbonobo2-common_2.22.0-1_all.deb

Re: no flash in opera after upgrade - someone got an "old" version?

On Fri, 16 May 2008 19:51:02 +0200 Dexter Filmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for the info > > Can't dig up the last working version, can someone please mail it or > provide a link? Be aware that old versions of Opera will come with security risks, but if you want to risk it, then you'll

Re: compiz on debian, no window borders shown

On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 4:08 PM, Michael Yang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 12:18 PM, Michael Yang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 11:25 PM, Todd A. Jacobs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> >>> On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 05:11:06PM -0400, Michael Yang w

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade failure

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/16/08 15:48, Francis Earl wrote: > On Friday 16 May 2008 1:39:35 Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] >> >> Choose Lenny or Etch. > > He stated he is choosing Lenny... this is a dist-upgrade from etch -> lenny. So it did. I'll go hide in the corner now.

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade failure

On Friday 16 May 2008 1:39:35 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 05/16/08 14:51, Manu Hack wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I decided to upgrade my etch box to lenny/sid but an apt-get > > dist-upgrade got stuck. Please let me know what could be done here. > > > > Thanks a lot. It says to try 'apt-get -f install'. Ha

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade failure

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/16/08 14:51, Manu Hack wrote: > Hi, > > I decided to upgrade my etch box to lenny/sid but an apt-get > dist-upgrade got stuck. Please let me know what could be done here. > > Thanks a lot. IMO, Etch and Lenny/Testing are far enough apart, tha

Re: Firefox irresponsible

On Thu, 15 May 2008 02:49:13 -0500 "Mumia W.." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 05/14/2008 08:57 AM, Javier Barroso wrote: > > Hi list, > > > > Hi Javier. > > > Since one week ago I'm noticing firefox is sometimes [unresponsive] during > > three or four seconds. ... > Do what I do: disable fl

Re: compiz on debian, no window borders shown

On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 12:18 PM, Michael Yang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 11:25 PM, Todd A. Jacobs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 05:11:06PM -0400, Michael Yang wrote: >> >> > I installed the compiz on my debian (lenny/sid, 2.6.24, xfce4), but >

Re: Realtek ALC662 microphone on Etch?

On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 17:20:23 +0200, Kum Gabor wrote: > On Monday 12 May 2008 20:55, Maciej Rutecki wrote: > > Did You try model=3stack-dig option or similar? E.g.: > > > > modprobe snd-hda-intel model=3dstack-dig > > How should i know, that which is my model, or what to write in model? These

apt-get dist-upgrade failure

Hi, I decided to upgrade my etch box to lenny/sid but an apt-get dist-upgrade got stuck. Please let me know what could be done here. Thanks a lot. Manu $ sudo apt-get update Hit http://ftp.debian.org etch Release.gpg Hit http://ftp.debian.org testing Release.gpg Hit http://ftp.debian.org etch R

Re: Firefox irresponsible

Jean-Louis Crouzet wrote: Jean-Louis Crouzet wrote: Carl Fink wrote: On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 08:21:43AM +0200, Jean-Louis Crouzet wrote: Carl Fink wrote: On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 06:32:22PM +0200, Jean-Louis Crouzet wrote: FF, Iceweasel, Konqueror same battle (perhaps slightly better for ko

Re: Blocking Gmail ads

2008/5/16 Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Windows would not have a more-stable competitor in the 'easy to use' >> space > > How exactly are we free software users benefitted by Windows having a > non-free competitor? > You "free software users" are benefited by Windows having a non

Re: Blocking Gmail ads

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/16/08 14:09, Dotan Cohen wrote: [snip] > you are permitted to practice it in a public setting. The government > won't wait until you kill someone to prevent you from doing something > dangerous. Sure they do. Happens all the time. - -- Ron Joh

Re: Blocking Gmail ads

2008/5/15 Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Power to the users. If they break the laws, that's their problem. We > don't need paternalistic corporations doing the job of law-enforcement > agencies. Engineering does not work that way. Neither does medicine, nor driver's licenses for th

Re: Mouse click acting strange after Lenny updates

Problem resolved. See below. On Wednesday 14 May 2008 20:14, Nigel Henry wrote: > There's a bit more info below, while trying to find out what is going on > here. > > On Wednesday 14 May 2008 14:09, Nigel Henry wrote: > > Hi Folks. I found I hadn't updated my Lenny install for nearly 2 months, > >

Re: bash doubt

2008/5/15 L. V. Gandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Where am I wrong With the knowledge of the content of your files it is easier to answer. Running the script in trace mode is the best thing to do. Anyway, I see that there are two problems here (which may or may not be related to your problem): > fo

Re: Blocking Gmail ads

On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 01:40:30PM -0400, Brian McKee wrote: > On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 9:09 AM, Gregory Seidman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Apple doesn't give a rats ass about integrating with KDE, nor should > > they. They do, however, consider rich text editing a priority, and KDE > > isn't as

Re: Problems with amavis and clamav

On Fri, 16 May 2008 15:42:25 +0100 kj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rico Secada wrote: > > # Default antivirus checking mode > > # Uncomment the two lines below to enable it back > > # > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] = ( > > # \%bypass_virus_checks, [EMAIL PROTECTED], \ > > # $bypass_virus_checks_re);

Python error

This is the error that I get on my lenny machine when updating. I have both python 2.4 and 2.5 currently installed. It would be greatly appreciated if someone could give me pointers on rectifying this error. Setting up python (2.5.2-1) ... running python rtupdate hooks for python2.5... Compilin

Re: SASL AUTH problem

Hi Josep, looks to me like sasl PALINTEXT only checks matching on the first 8 characters... Till Josep M. wrote: Hello. I try the following: testsaslauthd -f /var/spool/postfix/var/run/saslauthd/mux -u test -p passwordgood (pass OK) This is OK testsaslauthd -f /var/spool/postfix/v

Re: problem occurs after upgrading to lenny

[ Please stop top posting. Keep in mind that all list messages should be easily understandable by every subscriber. Most people will not remember our previous mails, and they should not have to scroll up and down like crazy just to piece together the context of your latest message. Please q

Re: vmplayer installer cannot find libs (amd64)

Hi Michael, are you sure that the binary package of VMWare works for 64bit architecture? Till michael wrote: eg: The installation of VMware Player 2.0.3 build-80004 for Linux completed successfully. You can decide to remove this software from your system at any time by invoking the following

no sound on Toshiba Tecra T9100

Hello all i installed Debian Lenny on a Toshiba T9100 laptop. Everything works fine except of the sound. All the alsa modules are loaded, the gnome volume panel is available etc. No error messages "device busy" or similar, just NO SOUND :< Any idea on how to get sound out of my box? Thank you

Re: no flash in opera after upgrade - someone got an "old" version?

> > Yeah, it's a problem with Opera 9.27 and Adobe's latest Flash, which > won't be resolved in the 9.2 versions of Opera. You'll have to do what > I ended up doing, and move onto the betas of 9.5. Opera 9.5b2 is quite > good and stable for me, and Flash works with it, too. snip Thanks for the in

Re: X gets killed immediately after successful graphical logon

Uwe Dippel wrote: > I can't get into any of my sessions, whatever I do. > > The machine starts up and shows kdm, as it has been doing for some years. > Only, whenever I logon, as any user, or any session (kde, gnome, > xfce), it starts, then some scrambling of the screen, and back I am at > log

no sound on Toshiba Tecra T9100

Hello all i installed Debian Lenny on a Toshiba T9100 laptop. Everything works fine except of the sound. All the alsa modules are loaded, the gnome volume panel is available etc. No error messages "device busy" or similar, just NO SOUND :< Any idea on how to get sound out of my box? Thank you

Re: Blocking Gmail ads

On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 9:09 AM, Gregory Seidman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Apple doesn't give a rats ass about integrating with KDE, nor should they. > They > do, however, consider rich text editing a priority, and KDE isn't as > concerned about that. This is the one statement I think could be

Re: Scp arguments

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2008-05-16 17:37, Sergio Cuéllar Valdés wrote: > 2008/5/16 ZENGGI.COM - Rominiek Schoonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Is there any way to let scp know to overwrite files (Or not overwrite them >> if this is the default option to overwrite them) > > ma

Re: packages.org/changelogs is down ?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2008-05-16 15:34, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 01:43:07PM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> was heard to say: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 2008-05-16 13:26, Johannes Wiedersich wrote

Re: reportbug problem

Hugo, Michael, and Frank all pointed into the direction of exim4. This was correct. Being conservative, I had always resisted upgrading from exim3 to exim4 (because exim4's configuration is more difficult). The latest sid upgrade apparently became annoyed at this and removed exim3, declaring it "ob

vmplayer installer cannot find libs (amd64)

eg: The installation of VMware Player 2.0.3 build-80004 for Linux completed successfully. You can decide to remove this software from your system at any time by invoking the following command: "/usr/bin/vmware-uninstall.pl". Before running VMware Player for the first time, you need to configure i

Re: reportbug problem

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/16/08 11:28, Frank McCormick wrote: > On Fri, 16 May 2008 09:55:04 -0500 > Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: >>> I tried to file a bug via reportbug yesterday, and it was not >>> sent. Instead, the mail me

Re: problem occurs after upgrading to lenny

Hi, I am having problem apt-get install even after attempting to install exim4-base. Here is the error: ser:/home/anne# apt-get install exim4-base Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done exim4-base is already the newest version. The following packa

Re: reportbug problem

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 16 May 2008 09:55:04 -0500 Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > > I tried to file a bug via reportbug yesterday, and it was not > > sent. Instead, the mail message was saved as a file in /var/tmp. > > I've s

Re: compiz on debian, no window borders shown

On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 11:25 PM, Todd A. Jacobs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 05:11:06PM -0400, Michael Yang wrote: > > > I installed the compiz on my debian (lenny/sid, 2.6.24, xfce4), but > > after I executed "compiz --replace", the following messages are > > returned: >

Re: reportbug problem

Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/16/08 09:55, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: I tried to file a bug via reportbug yesterday, and it was not sent. Instead, the mail message was saved as a file in /var/tmp. I've successfully sent bug reports

Re: Scp arguments

2008/5/16 ZENGGI.COM - Rominiek Schoonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Is there any way to let scp know to overwrite files (Or not overwrite them > if this is the default option to overwrite them) Hello, maybe this is a task for rsync. Regards, Sergio Cuellar http://www.torneomexicanoderobotica.org.m

Scp arguments

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Re: Realtek ALC662 microphone on Etch?

On Monday 12 May 2008 20:55, Maciej Rutecki wrote: > Did You try model=3stack-dig option or similar? E.g.: > > modprobe snd-hda-intel model=3dstack-dig How should i know, that which is my model, or what to write in model? -- Kum Gabor www.kumgabor.hu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: reportbug problem

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/16/08 09:55, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: >> I tried to file a bug via reportbug yesterday, and it was not >> sent. Instead, the mail message was saved as a file in /var/tmp. >> I've successfully sent bug reports through rep

Re: reportbug problem

Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: I tried to file a bug via reportbug yesterday, and it was not sent. Instead, the mail message was saved as a file in /var/tmp. I've successfully sent bug reports through reportbug in the past, so what could be the matter now? Using Sid. I've given up on trying to send

Re: Problems with amavis and clamav

Rico Secada wrote: # Default antivirus checking mode # Uncomment the two lines below to enable it back # [EMAIL PROTECTED] = ( # \%bypass_virus_checks, [EMAIL PROTECTED], \ # $bypass_virus_checks_re); You could also comment the clam-av sections in /etc/amavis/conf.d/15-av_scanners > ClamA

Re: ssh quirk after upgrade?

ISHWAR RATTAN wrote: > > I did a dist-upgrade, kernel is 2.6.25-3 > OpenSSH_4.76p1 Debian-9 > > The ssh server is ignoring the rsa-pub keys in > ~/.ssh/authorized_keys (pam authentication is > working though). > > Any pointers, > See http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1571 and also http://www

[solved] Re: Incomplete downloads

On Monday 12 May 2008 14:01, Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> I have a slow internet connection, and with large downloads it often >> happens that the download sticks before it is complete. >> >> Does anyone have any experience with this problem, and is there a way to >> solve it? And, why does it happen

Re: difficulties updating Etch

Daniel Burrows wrote: On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 07:31:21AM -0500, Preston Boyington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: actually you can do: apt-get --dry-run and it will show you exactly what will happen. since i have started using aptitude for my package manager i now try to use: apti

ssh quirk after upgrade?

I did a dist-upgrade, kernel is 2.6.25-3 OpenSSH_4.76p1 Debian-9 The ssh server is ignoring the rsa-pub keys in ~/.ssh/authorized_keys (pam authentication is working though). Any pointers, -ishwar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: compiz on debian, no window borders shown

On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 6:20 PM, Peter van der Wal < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 17:11 -0400, Michael Yang wrote: > > Hi guys: > > I installed the compiz on my debian (lenny/sid, 2.6.24, xfce4), but after I > executed "compiz --replace", the following messages are returned:

Re: compiz on debian, no window borders shown

On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 5:17 PM, Miguel Gaiowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've had lots of trouble with compiz on lenny, most of them can be solved > by > downloading the latest driver for you graphics card and installing > fusion-icon. > > fusion-icon will call compiz with the parameters it j

Re: missing log messages

On Fri, 2008-16-05 at 15:09 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > In Debian's default boot configuration: nowhere. You need to edit > /etc/default/bootlogd and change BOOTLOGD_ENABLE=No to Yes. After a > reboot, you will find the log in /var/log/boot. This is good yes I'm getting some additional message

Re: missing log messages

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2008-05-16 15:09, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2008-05-16 14:48 +0200, Bill wrote: > >> I'm tweaking a new kernel for my old laptop to install a new module. >> >> At boot I see a number of 'fail' messages scroll past on the >> screen, but they don't s

Re: pxelinux.0 doesn't recognize my Mirrored debian??

Abdelkader BELAHCENE wrote: Hi, I mirrored completly lenny (i386) on my server about 19 giga, last month. I want to install on PC by using my server via the pxelinux.0 program. It runs correctly when the server for installation is an official one for example ftp.fr.debian.org, when I use mine

Re: packages.org/changelogs is down ?

On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 01:43:07PM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 2008-05-16 13:26, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > > (Still) Works here: > > That was on lenny. If I do > > / > 13:31:[EMAIL PROTE

Re: difficulties updating Etch

On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 07:31:21AM -0500, Preston Boyington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > actually you can do: > > apt-get --dry-run > > and it will show you exactly what will happen. since i have started > using aptitude for my package manager i now try to use: > > aptitude --simula

Problems with amavis and clamav

Hi. I have set up amavis with spamassassin on Debian Etch but I want to disable clamav. There is no clamav packages installed. My /etc/amavis/conf.d/15-content_filter_mode looks like this: use strict; # You can modify this file to re-enable SPAM checking through # spamassassin and to re-enabl

Re: missing log messages

On 2008-05-16 14:48 +0200, Bill wrote: > I'm tweaking a new kernel for my old laptop to install a new module. > > At boot I see a number of 'fail' messages scroll past on the > screen, but they don't show up in dmesg /var/log/dmesg > /var/log/syslog /var/log/messages etc. These files are > prac

Re: Blocking Gmail ads

On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 07:34:19AM -0500, Jordi Guti?rrez Hermoso wrote: > On 16/05/2008, Gregory Seidman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > > That they did it by taking it in-house instead of trying to convince > > the people who tied it to KDE that it should be more general is > > utterly irre

Re: checking which ports iptables is blocking

On Fri, 16 May 2008 13:33:12 +0100 Adam Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Adam Hardy on 15/05/08 18:16, wrote: > > I would like to check whether some particular ports on my home > > gateway machine are blocked by iptables. > > > just for the record, sendip is what I needed. You still need to t

Re: mac grapher for linux

On Thursday 15 May 2008, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: > On 15/05/2008, Jimmy Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So just a quick summary: > > I think I will go and learn how to use gnuplot (just to get familiar > > with at least the basics). > > I'll also go take a look at VTK and R and see how

Re: reportbug problem

On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 8:27 AM, Jan Willem Stumpel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I tried to file a bug via reportbug yesterday, and it was not > sent. Instead, the mail message was saved as a file in /var/tmp. > I've successfully sent bug reports through reportbug in the past, > so what could be th

missing log messages

Hi folks, I'm tweaking a new kernel for my old laptop to install a new module. At boot I see a number of 'fail' messages scroll past on the screen, but they don't show up in dmesg /var/log/dmesg /var/log/syslog /var/log/messages etc. These files are practically devoid of error messages. Where

reportbug problem

I tried to file a bug via reportbug yesterday, and it was not sent. Instead, the mail message was saved as a file in /var/tmp. I've successfully sent bug reports through reportbug in the past, so what could be the matter now? Using Sid. Regards, Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Blocking Gmail ads

On 15/05/2008, Rich Healey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How does this work with GPLv3? They changed it from "distribute" to > > "convey". Is Airbus conveying the software to its customers or not? If > > there is a way to bring a USB dongle and get some of the software from > > the entertainme

Re: difficulties updating Etch

Mumia W.. wrote: On 05/15/2008 07:29 PM, Celejar wrote: Nitpick - the apt-get command doesn't need to be run as superuser if it's just printing uris. :-O Why you're right! Now I might be able to use apt-get to experiment with potential changes without damaging the system. Thanks. actu

Re: Blocking Gmail ads

On 16/05/2008, Gregory Seidman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 09:44:50PM -0500, Jordi Guti?rrez Hermoso wrote: > > On 15/05/2008, Gregory Seidman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Looks like Apple did terrible harm by devoting resources to improving > > > the function

Re: Icedove time categories

John Allen wrote: > View->Sort By->Group By This did not work (it actually says "Group By Sort G" instead of just "Sort By" in my case) but View->Sort By->Order Received worked. Thanks! Regards, Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Re: checking which ports iptables is blocking

Adam Hardy on 15/05/08 18:16, wrote: I would like to check whether some particular ports on my home gateway machine are blocked by iptables. just for the record, sendip is what I needed. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL P

Re: Using 2.6.25 + Nvidia + VMware

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, In upgrading to 2.6.25 I ran into problems, as follows: 1. When I use linux-image-2.6.25-1-686 or 2-686 from binary or from source I cannot use vga=791 or I get "undefined video mode number: 317". When I compile from kernel.org's 2.6.25.3 I don't get that problem. I

Re: top command results from an ssh

On Fri May 16 2008 04:39:10 avilella wrote: > how can I get the results of doing a "top" sorted by memory usage from > an ssh command? > > Sth like: > > ssh a-computer top > > Is this doable? It's doable but ugly: ssh a-computer top -b -n1 | tail -n+8 | sort -n -k1.46,1.50 You might want to se

Re: top command results from an ssh

avilella: > > how can I get the results of doing a "top" sorted by memory usage from > an ssh command? I am not sure what exactly you are trying to do, but $ ssh -t host top will show top's output from the remote host in your current terminal. You need the -t option when you want to force ssh t

Re: Inconsistent state in util-linux

On 05/15/2008 12:49 PM, Joey Hess wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8/Errno.pm is not part of Debian. Get rid of Well, the sysadmin should be able to put whatever they want in /usr/local without messing up debian automated systems. Why is apt or grub or whatever trying

Re: difficulties updating Etch

On 05/15/2008 07:29 PM, Celejar wrote: Nitpick - the apt-get command doesn't need to be run as superuser if it's just printing uris. :-O Why you're right! Now I might be able to use apt-get to experiment with potential changes without damaging the system. Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: packages.org/changelogs is down ?

On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 1:26 PM, Johannes Wiedersich < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 2008-05-16 13:17, Javier Barroso wrote: > > Now the web is fine, but I get the same message: > > > > $ LANG=C aptitude changelog vim ; LANG=C dpkg -l aptitude >

Re: Blocking Gmail ads

On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 09:44:50PM -0500, Jordi Guti?rrez Hermoso wrote: > On 15/05/2008, Gregory Seidman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Looks like Apple did terrible harm by devoting resources to improving > > the functionality and releasing them to the world, eh? Oh, but it > > isn't gettin

top command results from an ssh

Hi, how can I get the results of doing a "top" sorted by memory usage from an ssh command? Sth like: ssh a-computer top Is this doable? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: packages.org/changelogs is down ?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2008-05-16 13:26, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > (Still) Works here: That was on lenny. If I do / 13:31:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ LANG=C aptitude changelog vim/sid Unable to find an archive "sid" for the package "vim" Unable to find an archiv

Re: packages.org/changelogs is down ?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2008-05-16 13:17, Javier Barroso wrote: > Now the web is fine, but I get the same message: > > $ LANG=C aptitude changelog vim ; LANG=C dpkg -l aptitude > Ign ChangeLog of vim > > E: Couldn't fetch URL > http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/

Re: packages.org/changelogs is down ?

Now the web is fine, but I get the same message: $ LANG=C aptitude changelog vim ; LANG=C dpkg -l aptitude Ign ChangeLog of vim E: Couldn't fetch URL http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main///_/changelog E: Couldn't find a changelog for vim Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Stat

SASL AUTH problem

Hello. I try the following: testsaslauthd -f /var/spool/postfix/var/run/saslauthd/mux -u test -p passwordgood (pass OK) This is OK testsaslauthd -f /var/spool/postfix/var/run/saslauthd/mux -u test -p passwordgoodX (pass OK) This should FAIL The password is "passwordgood" but "

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