aptitude

2009-02-24 Thread consultores1
Situation: (Sid-Kde) 1 week ago, aptitude could not connect to a server in Canada; then I changed to US server, and aptitude misbehave working. Now, I dont have Internet connection anymore; I have tried with ifconfig/iwconfig/iwlist/dhcpcd/dhclient and I can not stay connected. Strangely, I can

Re: Skype

2009-02-24 Thread Laurent Guignard
On mar, 24 fév 2009 21:18:09 +0100, Pablo López Martín wrote: > El Tue, 24 Feb 2009 11:28:30 + > Lisi Reisz escribió: > > > Has anyone used this software on Lenny? Etch? Sid? > > > > http://www.skype.com/download/skype/linux/ > > > > If you have, may I have some comments? Good, bad or ind

Re: iptables not opening ports after reinstall of lenny

2009-02-24 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 10:46:44PM -0500, Rob Singelais wrote: > Alex Samad wrote: >> on that box, try turning off iptables, try a wget -v canyouseeme.org -O >> /dev/null >> >> what does >> >> netstat -panelt | grep 8080 >> >> give you and show us /etc/hosts.allow and hosts.deny >> >> >> >> >

Re: Can't mount RAID 5: "Can't find ext3 filesystem"

2009-02-24 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 08:20:57AM +0100, Jose Legido wrote: > On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 3:33 AM, Alex Samad wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 07:29:12PM -0500, Jose Legido wrote: > >> On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 7:09 PM, Alex Samad wrote: > >> > On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 06:53:54PM -0500, Jose Legido w

Re: Can't mount RAID 5: "Can't find ext3 filesystem"

2009-02-24 Thread Jose Legido
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 3:33 AM, Alex Samad wrote: > On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 07:29:12PM -0500, Jose Legido wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 7:09 PM, Alex Samad wrote: >> > On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 06:53:54PM -0500, Jose Legido wrote: >> >> Hello! >> >> I have one IDE hard disk hda with the system

Re: Skype

2009-02-24 Thread David Fox
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 9:47 PM, H.S. wrote: > I am seriously thinking of shifting from Skype to Ekiga. Does the latter > support encryption? As far as I can tell, no. > > Also, I see that we have these version in Debian I'm running ekiga 3.0.1 in ubuntu Jaunty & Intrepid. Perhaps there's a t

Re: Skype

2009-02-24 Thread H.S.
Celejar wrote: > On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 18:59:20 -0600 > Wu-Kung Sun wrote: > >> Just this weekend I started looking at skype. I read conflicting web >> pages about whether or not skype for linux has voicemail. Can anyone >> tell me? Also is there any other software which allows pc-to-phone >> an

Re: Skype

2009-02-24 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, Lisi Reisz wrote: Has anyone used this software on Lenny? Etch? Sid? http://www.skype.com/download/skype/linux/ If you have, may I have some comments? Good, bad or indifferent. Skype is proprietory, it is also a risk for your Internet connection if it is run with high enough privileg

Re: Recommended TrueType fonts

2009-02-24 Thread T o n g
On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 19:13:34 -0800, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: >> I want to install a minimum set of TrueType fonts. Which are ther >> recommended good ones? > > one of the fedora guys did some research on all the available free fonts > (as defined by fedora guidelines). The web site is very usefu

Re: What is the relationship between debian maillist and google groups?

2009-02-24 Thread Mr. Wang Long
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 12:53, Bob Cox wrote: > > If by moderation, you mean censorship or removal of messages then there > is probably none. Oh I don't think so, look at this page: http://groups.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=46491&topic=9253 > > Why is it important to you? Actually it

Re: lvm2 and e2fsck

2009-02-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/24/2009 06:15 PM, Matthew Moore wrote: On Tuesday 24 February 2009 02:44:14 pm Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] No, I definitely have /sbin/fsck.ext4. But running it doesn't fix the group descriptor error? This person is having the same problem and looks to have resorted to dumping the fs and

Re: What is the relationship between debian maillist and google groups?

2009-02-24 Thread Bob Cox
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 02:28:52 +, Mr. Wang Long (mr.wang.l...@gmail.com) wrote: > On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 06:18, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 02/24/2009 12:11 AM, Mr. Wang Long wrote: > >> > >> In http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/ I found the maillist is not > >> moderated, but in > >> ht

Re: how to find why packages are automatically installed?

2009-02-24 Thread Michael Pobega
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 05:17:50PM +, Graham wrote: > On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 09:14:37 -0500 > Michael Pobega wrote: > > > aptitude search ~A > > I think you meant: aptitude search ~M > > aptitude search ~A is used to search within an archive, like unstable, > testing, etc. Info below. > > htt

Re: Dup apt keys into chroot

2009-02-24 Thread T o n g
On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 19:57:59 +, Magnus Therning wrote: >> I want to duplicate my current apt keys into my debootstrap'ed chroot >> system. What's the minimum set of files to duplicate over? >> > . . . you need to copy the > following files: Thanks, will try then report back. > Just out of

Re: how to uninstall packages installed using dpkg -i

2009-02-24 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 18:32, Mr. Wang Long wrote: > On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 02:23, paragasu wrote: >> i download a deb package somewhere, it is for ubuntu. out of curiosity >> i installed this package on my debian lenny. It doesn't work well, and >> i want to remove it from my system. >> >> how

Re: chroot or vm?

2009-02-24 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 16:16, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > Greetings, > > i'm planning on running an http server, mainly for fun and to learn a > bit, on my home machine. That's the same machine that has my personal > stuff. I know this is sort of a religious question, but what do you > guys recomend:

Re: iptables not opening ports after reinstall of lenny

2009-02-24 Thread Rob Singelais
Alex Samad wrote: on that box, try turning off iptables, try a wget -v canyouseeme.org -O /dev/null what does netstat -panelt | grep 8080 give you and show us /etc/hosts.allow and hosts.deny wget went through fine. After turning off iptables. linux:/home/rob# netstat -panelt | gr

Re: OT: file system versus databases

2009-02-24 Thread David Fox
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 5:28 PM, Mag Gam wrote: > Paul: > For instance, grep "something" country/2005/??/01/foo.txt > > It gives an instant result. Thats how we are using it and we love it. Are there a lot of files in each directory, or are there a lot of directories? One thing I can think off

Re: Recommended TrueType fonts

2009-02-24 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 05:01:30 + (UTC) T o n g wrote: > Hi, > > I want to install a minimum set of TrueType fonts. Which are ther > recommended good ones? one of the fedora guys did some research on all the available free fonts (as defined by fedora guidelines). The web site is very useful:

Re: OT: file system versus databases

2009-02-24 Thread Ken Teague
Mag Gam wrote: For instance, country/2005/01/01/foo.txt ... For instance, grep "something" country/2005/??/01/foo.txt It gives an instant result. Thats how we are using it and we love it. I would suspect it's two-fold. 1. Your data is already separated and well organized down to country

Re: iptables not opening ports after reinstall of lenny

2009-02-24 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 07:47:30PM -0500, Rob Singelais wrote: > I have reinstalled lenny and used the same iptables used from the > previous install from backups. After days of trying to get my webserver > port 8080 to respond from outside the network and getting connection > refused or time

Re: Can't mount RAID 5: "Can't find ext3 filesystem"

2009-02-24 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 07:29:12PM -0500, Jose Legido wrote: > On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 7:09 PM, Alex Samad wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 06:53:54PM -0500, Jose Legido wrote: > >> Hello! > >> I have one IDE hard disk hda with the system (debian testing) > >> I have a RAID5 with devices sda,b,c

Re: how to uninstall packages installed using dpkg -i

2009-02-24 Thread Mr. Wang Long
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 02:23, paragasu wrote: > i download a deb package somewhere, it is for ubuntu. out of curiosity > i installed this package on my debian lenny. It doesn't work well, and > i want to remove it from my system. > > how to do it? > > > thanks > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Secret newlines in openoffice

2009-02-24 Thread Hendrik Boom
I'm trying to store openoffice test files in a format that's friendly to revisino control systems -- thus text should be broken up into reasonably short lines so that edits are likely to be on different lines and not conflict during a merge. Che compressed zipped directories are, of course, no

Re: What is the relationship between debian maillist and google groups?

2009-02-24 Thread Mr. Wang Long
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 06:18, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/24/2009 12:11 AM, Mr. Wang Long wrote: >> >> In http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/ I found the maillist is not >> moderated, but in >> http://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.user/about what I found is >> "debian-user@lists.debian.org

how to uninstall packages installed using dpkg -i

2009-02-24 Thread paragasu
i download a deb package somewhere, it is for ubuntu. out of curiosity i installed this package on my debian lenny. It doesn't work well, and i want to remove it from my system. how to do it? thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscri

VPN connection using openvpn and openssl certs

2009-02-24 Thread linuksos
Hi Guys, I have just simple question in regards to the OpenVPN connections. When using a Certificates and "server" directive in openvpn configuration file : server 192.168.0.0 255.255.0.0 the vpn tunnel is created is follows: SERVER: inet addr:192.168.0.1 P-t-P:192.168.0.2 Mask:255.255.255.255 C

Re: Debian Lenny Based SimplyMEPIS 8.0 is Released

2009-02-24 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Michael M. Moore wrote: Daryl Styrk wrote: Jimmy Johnson wrote: Hi Neil, I'm along time Debian user (7 years) and if there was something wrong with Mepis I would not suggest you trying it, saying that, Mepis has one click tools that Debian don't have, like it will repair grub for you with a

Re: Skype

2009-02-24 Thread H.S.
Wu-Kung Sun wrote: > Just this weekend I started looking at skype. I read conflicting web > pages about whether or not skype for linux has voicemail. Can anyone Not sure about voicemail. > tell me? Also is there any other software which allows pc-to-phone > and phone-to-pc connections? > Ek

Re: Skype

2009-02-24 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 18:59:20 -0600 Wu-Kung Sun wrote: > Just this weekend I started looking at skype. I read conflicting web > pages about whether or not skype for linux has voicemail. Can anyone > tell me? Also is there any other software which allows pc-to-phone > and phone-to-pc connections

Re: how to install kernel source 2.6.8

2009-02-24 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 15:31:38 -0800 Mike McClain wrote: > I've a mostly etch system and wanted to try the 2.6 kernel. ... > root@/deb40a:~> apt-get update > root@/deb40a:~> grep "Package: kernel-source" /var/lib/dpkg/available > Package: kernel-source-2.4.27 > Package: kernel-source-2.2.25 > Pac

Re: OT: file system versus databases

2009-02-24 Thread Mag Gam
Paul: Thanks for the response. > I will guess that, at your company, there are very few updates of this > transaction data, New transactions are added to the record as they > happen. The *.txt files may contain references to prior transactions, > but these are human readable text, not some sort

Non-dpkg owned libc6 etch-lenny upgrade

2009-02-24 Thread John Fleming
Consider me a newbie - trying to upgrade etch to lenny, getting msg about having a non-dpkg owned copy of libc6-i686. "Can't live with it, can't live without it". Can't remove it. Can't upgrade with what I have. Previously I've done all installs and upgrades with apt-get. I started this syst

Re: Debian Lenny Based SimplyMEPIS 8.0 is Released

2009-02-24 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:20:07 -0800 Jimmy Johnson wrote: > H.S. wrote: > > Jimmy Johnson wrote: > >> Neil Ellwood wrote: > >> > >>> Personally I haven't found anything easier than Debian and it is more > >> reliable than anything else I have tried. Why use a derivative when the > >> original is ma

Re: Debian Lenny Based SimplyMEPIS 8.0 is Released

2009-02-24 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 17:09:38 -0800 "Michael M. Moore" wrote: ... > They don't call it "the universal operating system" for nothing. I > think only NetBSD, 'the operating system you can run on your toaster,' > supports more architectures, but my impressions may be outdated. And now it runs on

Re: Debian Lenny Based SimplyMEPIS 8.0 is Released

2009-02-24 Thread Michael M. Moore
Daryl Styrk wrote: Jimmy Johnson wrote: Hi Neil, I'm along time Debian user (7 years) and if there was something wrong with Mepis I would not suggest you trying it, saying that, Mepis has one click tools that Debian don't have, like it will repair grub for you with a click or reinstall a work

Re: Skype

2009-02-24 Thread Wu-Kung Sun
Just this weekend I started looking at skype. I read conflicting web pages about whether or not skype for linux has voicemail. Can anyone tell me? Also is there any other software which allows pc-to-phone and phone-to-pc connections? -- swk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@li

Re: how to install kernel source 2.6.8

2009-02-24 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 03:31:38PM -0800, Mike McClain wrote: > I've a mostly etch system and wanted to try the 2.6 kernel. > > mike@/deb40a:~> uname -a > Linux playground 2.4.27 #1 Mon Dec 24 13:55:08 PST 2007 i586 GNU/Linux > > The only un-commented lines in /etc/apt/sources.list are: > deb htt

iptables not opening ports after reinstall of lenny

2009-02-24 Thread Rob Singelais
I have reinstalled lenny and used the same iptables used from the previous install from backups. After days of trying to get my webserver port 8080 to respond from outside the network and getting connection refused or timed out, I think I've narrowed it down to the ports. Opening port 5900 for

how to install kernel source 2.6.8

2009-02-24 Thread Mike McClain
I've a mostly etch system and wanted to try the 2.6 kernel. mike@/deb40a:~> uname -a Linux playground 2.4.27 #1 Mon Dec 24 13:55:08 PST 2007 i586 GNU/Linux The only un-commented lines in /etc/apt/sources.list are: deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ etch main contrib non-free deb-src http://ftp.

Re: Can't mount RAID 5: "Can't find ext3 filesystem"

2009-02-24 Thread Jose Legido
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 7:09 PM, Alex Samad wrote: > On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 06:53:54PM -0500, Jose Legido wrote: >> Hello! >> I have one IDE hard disk hda with the system (debian testing) >> I have a RAID5 with devices sda,b,c,d. My raid works fine. >> One day, I reboot and my hda is converted to

Re: Debian Lenny Based SimplyMEPIS 8.0 is Released

2009-02-24 Thread Jimmy Johnson
H.S. wrote: Jimmy Johnson wrote: Neil Ellwood wrote: Personally I haven't found anything easier than Debian and it is more reliable than anything else I have tried. Why use a derivative when the original is marvellous? Hi Neil, I'm along time Debian user (7 years) and if there was something

chroot or vm?

2009-02-24 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Greetings, i'm planning on running an http server, mainly for fun and to learn a bit, on my home machine. That's the same machine that has my personal stuff. I know this is sort of a religious question, but what do you guys recomend: running the server in a chroot or in some VM? Or a combination o

Re: lvm2 and e2fsck

2009-02-24 Thread Matthew Moore
On Tuesday 24 February 2009 02:44:14 pm Ron Johnson wrote: > This looks reasonable. > # lvdisplay > Logging initialised at Tue Feb 24 15:42:45 2009 > Set umask to 0077 > lvdisplayFinding all logical volumes > lvdisplay --- Logical volume --- > lvdisplay LV Name/dev/m

Replying to the list (Was Re: Update manager)

2009-02-24 Thread Daryl Styrk
John, I see you are using Thunderbird as am I. Assuming your using the 2 pane view with the preview pane, you can easily click the drop down + just to the left of the subject to reveal additional header information and you should see the list's debian-user@lists.debian.org address.. You shou

Re: Can't mount RAID 5: "Can't find ext3 filesystem"

2009-02-24 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 06:53:54PM -0500, Jose Legido wrote: > Hello! > I have one IDE hard disk hda with the system (debian testing) > I have a RAID5 with devices sda,b,c,d. My raid works fine. > One day, I reboot and my hda is converted to sda. you upgraded your kernel ? at some point in time t

Re: Update Manager

2009-02-24 Thread John Lindsay
Thierry Chatelet wrote: John Hi John, Dont use reply to and change the subject of the thread, this does not start a new thread, but goes into the one you are therefore "highjacking". To start a new thread, you have to create a new message. Thierry My apologies to the group. I did

Can't mount RAID 5: "Can't find ext3 filesystem"

2009-02-24 Thread Jose Legido
Hello! I have one IDE hard disk hda with the system (debian testing) I have a RAID5 with devices sda,b,c,d. My raid works fine. One day, I reboot and my hda is converted to sda. I loaded an old kernel. Know, when I try to mount my RAID i get this error: # mount -t ext3 /dev/md0 /mnt/raid/ VFS: Ca

Re: how does GRUB read from /boot on software-RAID partition?

2009-02-24 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 03:21:23PM -0500, Barclay, Daniel wrote: > Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > > Barclay, Daniel wrote: > ... > >> Since GRUB hasn't loaded the kernel file yet, GRUB can't be using the > >> kernel > >> and its md driver, and therefore can't be reading the partition _as_a_RAID_ >

Re: how does GRUB read from /boot on software-RAID partition?

2009-02-24 Thread Jack Schneider
On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 17:14:54 -0500 "Barclay, Daniel" wrote: > Jack Schneider wrote: > > On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 15:21:23 -0500 > > "Barclay, Daniel" wrote: > > > >> Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > >>> Barclay, Daniel wrote: > ... > ... is GRUB taking advantage of the fact that the RAID metadata

Re: Upgrading from Etch to Lenny - aptitude ERROR

2009-02-24 Thread david carrasco
i nedd help how installing wifi driver rtl8187b on etc kernel 2.6.18 thanks dacarr25 2009/2/24 Csanyi Pal > Daniel Burrows writes: > > > On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 09:09:47PM +0100, Csanyi Pal > > was heard to say: > >> How can I find the package libapt-pkg-libc6.3-6-3.11 to download it > >> and

Re: Upgrading from Etch to Lenny - aptitude ERROR

2009-02-24 Thread Csanyi Pal
Daniel Burrows writes: > On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 09:09:47PM +0100, Csanyi Pal > was heard to say: >> How can I find the package libapt-pkg-libc6.3-6-3.11 to download it >> and install it with dpkg? > > That's a virtual package provided by apt. You need to install the > apt package that matc

Re: Debian Lenny Based SimplyMEPIS 8.0 is Released

2009-02-24 Thread Daryl Styrk
Jimmy Johnson wrote: Hi Neil, I'm along time Debian user (7 years) and if there was something wrong with Mepis I would not suggest you trying it, saying that, Mepis has one click tools that Debian don't have, like it will repair grub for you with a click or reinstall a working x-configuration

Re: Debian Lenny Based SimplyMEPIS 8.0 is Released

2009-02-24 Thread Kelly Harding
> Wonderful! Repairing grub and X with a click seems to be very useful to > desktop users. Can't Mepis give back to Debian by providing these > packages to Debian repos? Other such GUI conveniences too. > Not all of these GUI packages might be GPL, or free, so may not be possible to be in the Debi

Re: Debian Lenny Based SimplyMEPIS 8.0 is Released

2009-02-24 Thread H.S.
Jimmy Johnson wrote: > Neil Ellwood wrote: > >> Personally I haven't found anything easier than Debian and it is more > reliable than anything else I have tried. Why use a derivative when the > original is marvellous? > > > Hi Neil, I'm along time Debian user (7 years) and if there was something

Re: how does GRUB read from /boot on software-RAID partition?

2009-02-24 Thread Barclay, Daniel
Jack Schneider wrote: > On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 15:21:23 -0500 > "Barclay, Daniel" wrote: > >> Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: >>> Barclay, Daniel wrote: ... ... is GRUB taking advantage of the fact that the RAID metadata is written at the end of a partition ... >> ... If so, how reliable

Re: Debian Lenny Based SimplyMEPIS 8.0 is Released

2009-02-24 Thread Javier Barroso
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 10:01 PM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: > Neil Ellwood wrote: > > > Personally I haven't found anything easier than Debian and it is more > reliable than anything else I have tried. Why use a derivative when the > original is marvellous? > > > Hi Neil, I'm along time Debian user (7

Re: How to protect an encrypted file system for off-line attack?

2009-02-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/24/2009 03:35 PM, ow...@netptc.net wrote: [snip] Ron et al Actually this was the case with the DES; the NSA put out a RFP and worked with the potential vendors quite closely during the development. IBM (Tuchman and Myers) eventually won the bid. I attended a week-long security seminar ser

Re: lvm2 and e2fsck

2009-02-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/24/2009 03:34 PM, Matthew Moore wrote: On Tuesday 24 February 2009 11:49:26 am Ron Johnson wrote: Though, are there any commands which would indicate whether my LV or VGs are screwed up? (Fixing them might allow me to get my data back.) Do you think that your volume descriptors got hose

Re: How to protect an encrypted file system for off-line attack?

2009-02-24 Thread owens
> > > > Original Message >From: ron.l.john...@cox.net >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >Subject: Re: How to protect an encrypted file system for off-line >attack? >Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 12:47:15 -0600 > >>On 02/24/2009 09:50 AM, ow...@netptc.net wrote: >>[snip] >>> And in fact there alwa

Re: Samba PDC troubles

2009-02-24 Thread Javier Barroso
Hi, On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 8:10 PM, Fredrik Tolf wrote: > Hi list! > > I've been playing a little with Samba lately, trying to make it a PDC > ... The problem is that Samba isn't running as root > when it runs the "add machine script" and trying to do the actual work > of adding the workstatio

Re: lvm2 and e2fsck

2009-02-24 Thread Matthew Moore
On Tuesday 24 February 2009 11:49:26 am Ron Johnson wrote: > Though, are there any commands which would indicate whether my LV or > VGs are screwed up? (Fixing them might allow me to get my data back.) Do you think that your volume descriptors got hosed? The main LVM diagnostic commands are: pv

Re: how to find why packages are automatically installed?

2009-02-24 Thread Mike Castle
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 11:39 AM, Michael M. Moore wrote: > > It's just that, in this case, I actually wanted aptitude to wipe half > my system, and I didn't realize I was preventing that by marking a key > package as a keeper. I solved this problem by doing it this way: I created a few meta-pac

Re: how does GRUB read from /boot on software-RAID partition?

2009-02-24 Thread Jack Schneider
On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 15:21:23 -0500 "Barclay, Daniel" wrote: > Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > > Barclay, Daniel wrote: > ... > >> Since GRUB hasn't loaded the kernel file yet, GRUB can't be using > >> the kernel and its md driver, and therefore can't be reading the > >> partition _as_a_RAID_ _volum

Re: Debian Lenny Based SimplyMEPIS 8.0 is Released

2009-02-24 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Neil Ellwood wrote: > Personally I haven't found anything easier than Debian and it is more reliable than anything else I have tried. Why use a derivative when the original is marvellous? Hi Neil, I'm along time Debian user (7 years) and if there was something wrong with Mepis I would not s

Re: Dovecot problem after last sid update

2009-02-24 Thread David Baron
On Tuesday 24 February 2009 22:22:06 debian-user-digest- requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > After upgrading dovecot for sid Thunderbird no longer displays the > > contents of any emails > > > > I have had a working IMAP setup for as much as a year even though I > > don't understand

Re: How to protect an encrypted file system for off-line attack?

2009-02-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/24/2009 12:59 PM, John Hasler wrote: Ron Johnson writes: [An NSA backdoor in DES & successors] would only be possible if The Government controlled the source code, or had an "understanding" with those who write closed-source code. The claim is stronger than that. It is that there are ba

Re: how does GRUB read from /boot on software-RAID partition?

2009-02-24 Thread Barclay, Daniel
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > Barclay, Daniel wrote: ... >> Since GRUB hasn't loaded the kernel file yet, GRUB can't be using the kernel >> and its md driver, and therefore can't be reading the partition _as_a_RAID_ >> _volume_ (/dev/mdX), right? >> >> >> So is GRUB just reading the partition direc

Adding users when in gnome

2009-02-24 Thread polinsky
I installed Lenny using a netinstall disc. Last night as root, I used a 'startx' to start a Gnome desktop. While in the session, I decided to use the administrative tool to add a few users. All seemed to be normal, but when I exited the session and went to the /etc/passwd file, and the /etc/shadow

Re: Skype

2009-02-24 Thread Pablo López Martín
El Tue, 24 Feb 2009 11:28:30 + Lisi Reisz escribió: > Has anyone used this software on Lenny? Etch? Sid? > > http://www.skype.com/download/skype/linux/ > > If you have, may I have some comments? Good, bad or indifferent. > > TIA > Lisi > > Used it on Lenny and now on Sid. Working flawl

Re: Bug in Iceweasel: Graphics not displayed

2009-02-24 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-02-24 09:12 +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: > Thanks, I had permissions.default.image = 1. > Therefore, I guess the problem is related to the SVG viewer > adobesvg-3.01, since so much of Wikipedia is displayed as svg? Probably. > Although the error message says > > failed to initialize shar

Re: Dup apt keys into chroot

2009-02-24 Thread Magnus Therning
T o n g wrote: > Hi, > > I want to duplicate my current apt keys into my debootstrap'ed chroot > system. What's the minimum set of files to duplicate over? > > Would duplicating the following files into chroot be enough? Are they all > necessary? > > /root/.gnupg > /root/.gnupg/pubring.gpg > /

LyX and latex with mixed language documents (bidi) [WAS] Re: Java in Debian 5

2009-02-24 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 14:24:38 + Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 09:07:29AM -0500, Celejar wrote: ... > > Proper bidi support is indeed a sin qua non for me, which is why I'm > > reluctantly giving up LyX for my mixed language documents, even though > > I really like the LyX pa

How to log bad password with qpopper?

2009-02-24 Thread Account for Debian group mail
Hello, I don't know if this has come up before but is there a way to log what the bad password was in the auth.log file when a user is trying to get mail with qpopper? I know of the security risks - etc, but it sure would make it easier to trouble shoot these guy typing problems when you can

Re: how to find why packages are automatically installed?

2009-02-24 Thread Michael M. Moore
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 8:49 AM, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 03:42:36PM +, Aneurin Price > was heard to say: >> On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 2:05 PM, Daniel Burrows wrote: >> > On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 12:28:38PM +, Aneurin Price >> > was heard to say: >> >> To expand up

Re: How to protect an encrypted file system for off-line attack?

2009-02-24 Thread John Hasler
Ron Johnson writes: > [An NSA backdoor in DES & successors] would only be possible if The > Government controlled the source code, or had an "understanding" with > those who write closed-source code. The claim is stronger than that. It is that there are backdoors in the algorithms: weaknesses tha

Re: Dovecot problem after last sid update

2009-02-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/24/2009 10:59 AM, Paul Scott wrote: Hi All, After upgrading dovecot for sid Thunderbird no longer displays the contents of any emails I have had a working IMAP setup for as much as a year even though I don't understand dovecot configuration well enough to know how I got it to go in th

Re: lvm2 and e2fsck

2009-02-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/24/2009 06:21 AM, Mark Allums wrote: Mark Allums wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/23/2009 01:52 AM, Mark Allums wrote: [snip] 0. I have lvm2 running on top of Linux md RAID, and don't actually have any ext4 file sytem partitions to check, so that particular fsck command was destined t

Re: How to protect an encrypted file system for off-line attack?

2009-02-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/24/2009 09:50 AM, ow...@netptc.net wrote: [snip] And in fact there always has been suspicion in the crypto community that, in at least some of the ciphers (going back to the original DES) that the NSA had built in a "trapdoor" such that they could easily decrypt the message but anyone else,

Re: How to protect an encrypted file system for off-line attack?

2009-02-24 Thread Jeff Soules
>> there's no known practical attack on it. It performs well. So it is > > ^ > > That's the word, of course... Any government that discovers a successful > attack is going to keep quiet. Except in a certain side-channel sense -- any government that discovers a successful attac

Re: how does GRUB read from /boot on software-RAID partition?

2009-02-24 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Barclay, Daniel wrote: > Some articles about GRUB and md-based RAID1 (mirroring) seem to imply > that GRUB > > can read files (including the kernel and the initrd file) from /boot > on the > filesystem on a mirrored partition. > I never tried, but I've seen several reports that it works. > > Sinc

how does GRUB read from /boot on software-RAID partition?

2009-02-24 Thread Barclay, Daniel
Some articles about GRUB and md-based RAID1 (mirroring) seem to imply that GRUB can read files (including the kernel and the initrd file) from /boot on the filesystem on a mirrored partition. Since GRUB hasn't loaded the kernel file yet, GRUB can't be using the kernel and its md driver, and there

Re: how to find why packages are automatically installed?

2009-02-24 Thread Graham
On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 09:14:37 -0500 Michael Pobega wrote: > aptitude search ~A I think you meant: aptitude search ~M aptitude search ~A is used to search within an archive, like unstable, testing, etc. Info below. http://algebraicthunk.net/~dburrows/projects/aptitude/doc/en/ch02s03s05.html#sear

Dup apt keys into chroot

2009-02-24 Thread T o n g
Hi, I want to duplicate my current apt keys into my debootstrap'ed chroot system. What's the minimum set of files to duplicate over? Would duplicating the following files into chroot be enough? Are they all necessary? /root/.gnupg /root/.gnupg/pubring.gpg /root/.gnupg/trustdb.gpg /root/.gnupg/

Dovecot problem after last sid update

2009-02-24 Thread Paul Scott
Hi All, After upgrading dovecot for sid Thunderbird no longer displays the contents of any emails I have had a working IMAP setup for as much as a year even though I don't understand dovecot configuration well enough to know how I got it to go in the first place. Here is the output of dove

Re: Is there no way to RELIABLY disable mouse acceleration in Linux?

2009-02-24 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 24 Feb 2009, Dave Ewart wrote: > On Tuesday, 24.02.2009 at 06:09 -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 10:55:23AM +0100, Dirk was > > heard to say: > > > Everytime I start a game the mouse input is accelerated or just > > > messed up... > > > > > > I turned "xset m 0 0"

Re: repo gpg keys list

2009-02-24 Thread T o n g
On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 10:25:00 -0600, Stackpole, Chris wrote: >> A previous run of aptitude update or upgrade showed all my expired > keys >> and new keys. How do I get those info again? Or it has been taken care > of >> automatically? > > I am not sure I understand the question but I think this is

Re: how to find why packages are automatically installed?

2009-02-24 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 03:42:36PM +, Aneurin Price was heard to say: > On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 2:05 PM, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 12:28:38PM +, Aneurin Price > > was heard to say: > >> To expand upon this, I believe the OP's situation is some behaviour I've > >

RE: Re: repo gpg keys list

2009-02-24 Thread Stackpole, Chris
> From: news [mailto:n...@ger.gmane.org] On Behalf Of T o n g > Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 9:47 AM > Subject: Re: repo gpg keys list > > On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 07:36:04 +, Magnus Therning wrote: > > >> I noticed that the gpg keys were updated for repos, but I didn't wrote > >> it down befo

Re: 515...@bugs.debian.org

2009-02-24 Thread Chris Burkhardt
Ink Bottle wrote: > I quite don't understand how this bug had been treated, > or not treated. It was determined that the bug was not in midori but in swfdec or libwebkit. So the bug was reassigned to swfdec. It turns out the bug was actually in libwebkit (as you noted in your last comment on the b

Re: Skype

2009-02-24 Thread H.S.
Lisi Reisz wrote: > Has anyone used this software on Lenny? Etch? Sid? > > http://www.skype.com/download/skype/linux/ > > If you have, may I have some comments? Good, bad or indifferent. > > TIA > Lisi > > Yes, I have been using Skype with Debian Testing and Sid for the last some years. Wor

Re: How to protect an encrypted file system for off-line attack?

2009-02-24 Thread owens
> > > > Original Message >From: ron.l.john...@cox.net >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >Subject: Re: How to protect an encrypted file system for off-line >attack? >Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 04:27:31 -0600 > >>On 02/24/2009 02:36 AM, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: >>[snip] >>> >>> Anyway, the AES ciph

Re: repo gpg keys list

2009-02-24 Thread T o n g
On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 07:36:04 +, Magnus Therning wrote: >> I noticed that the gpg keys were updated for repos, but I didn't wrote >> it down before reboot. Anyway to list them now? > > Not sure I understand what you mean, but possibly this is what you are > looking for: > > # apt-key list H

Re: How to protect an encrypted file system for off-line attack?

2009-02-24 Thread owens
> > > > Original Message >From: javu...@gmail.com >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >Subject: Re: How to protect an encrypted file system for off-line >attack? >Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 03:31:51 +0100 > >>ow...@netptc.net escribió: Original Message From: javu...

Re: how to find why packages are automatically installed?

2009-02-24 Thread Aneurin Price
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 2:05 PM, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 12:28:38PM +, Aneurin Price > was heard to say: >> To expand upon this, I believe the OP's situation is some behaviour I've >> also seen, which seemed odd until I thought about it and couldn't actually >> come u

Re: OT: file system versus databases

2009-02-24 Thread Paul E Condon
On 2009-02-23_23:28:22, Mag Gam wrote: > I was curious why this was faster: > > At our company we store close to 50TB of certain transaction data and > we stored it on a UNIX filesystem raw without any DBMS help. I will guess that, at your company, there are very few updates of this transaction

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Re: CeBit

2009-02-24 Thread Henning Follmann
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 12:00:12PM +0100, Jende Niels [B.I.T. Datentechnik] wrote: > Hi Folks, > > just wondering if debian will have a boot at the cebit this year. And if ... > knows anyone where at? > > thx > > Niels > > There is an Open Source Center in Hall 6. Henning -- Henning Fo

Re: Is there no way to RELIABLY disable mouse acceleration in Linux?

2009-02-24 Thread Dave Ewart
On Tuesday, 24.02.2009 at 06:09 -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 10:55:23AM +0100, Dirk was > heard to say: > > Everytime I start a game the mouse input is accelerated or just > > messed up... > > > > I turned "xset m 0 0" into a cronjob now that runs the command 30 > > time

Re: Java in Debian 5

2009-02-24 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 09:07:29AM -0500, Celejar wrote: > On Sun, 22 Feb 2009 10:05:42 + > Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > ... > > > StartOffice 5.2 was a proprietary application, using the motif toolkit > > which had its own proprietary file formats. Has no decent support for > > bidirectional or

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