Hi everyone:
I really wanted to let everyone know that I've created @Debian_Security on
Twitter and setup a cron job to parse the DSA feed and post it to Twitter.
It's been working for a little while now and I think it's stable enough to
announce to the world.
Forgive me if this isn't the way t
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> I wonder when we'll get that in Oaxaca, Mexico?
My guess is that will happen sometime /after/ everyone in the State of
Oaxaca has clean, running water on more than a seasonal basis.
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On Tue, 3 Mar 2009, Lisi Reisz wrote:
On Tuesday 03 March 2009 15:49:02 Daniel Burrows wrote:
it looks like in Gnome, I can right-click on Applications
and pick "Edit Menus", and choose whether or not various menu items
appear.
In KDE, I just run kappfinder. Then tick (check) the things tha
On Tue, 03 Mar 2009 21:33:10 +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote:
>> I get
>>
>> ImportError: No module named _gobject
>>
>> error when running python applications under Lenny. I'm wondering why
>> and how I can fix it. . .
>
> It looks like all the relevant packages are installed correctly. Maybe
> som
On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 08:27:02AM +, Bob Cox wrote:
> > de...@gontran:/var/cache/apt$ sudo aptitude update
> > Hit http://security.debian.org etch/updates/main Sources
> > Hit http://security.debian.org etch/updates/contrib Sources
> > Ign http://ftp.uk.debian.org etch/contrib Packages/DiffIn
FYI
The following site as Debian and Linux training video materials on sale
at reasonable prices.
http://www.pctech101.com/
http://www.pctech101.com/linux-training/distribution-training/debian-training
http://www.pctech101.com/linux-training/distribution-training/samba-training
Though their D
Dear Tim,
On Mar 02 2009, Tim Beauregard wrote:
> Rogério Brito wrote:
> > Therefore, I would like to know the experiences of people from the
> > Debian community regarding both software and hardware for this very
> > task. I would like to record what I have in analog form with the highest
> > qua
Hi, Rainer.
On Mar 02 2009, Rainer Kluge wrote:
> Rogério Brito schrieb:
> >
> > I have a friend of mine that has an old ATI Rage 128 card (if I am not
> > mistaken) with line in. Would it be possible to make it work under
> > Linux?
>
> Should work without problems, I had this card working in t
Hi!
"Daniel Aleksandersen" writes:
> I forgot to mention, I don’t have a graphical user interface. No xorg either.
Sorry, I am not sure if this is what you are searching for, but
I found this:
,---[ /etc/console-tools/config ]
# screen saver/DPMS settings: all VCs
# These settings a
El vie, 27-02-2009 a las 13:51 -0800, Kelly Clowers escribió:
> On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 10:43, Marcos Fernandez wrote:
> > It doesn't works.
> >
> > Any idea?
> >
> > Thank you very much, I appreciate your help.
>
> Maybe the old style will work?
>
> Section "Screen"
>Identifier "Defau
On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 15:37:56 -0600, Dennis Wicks wrote:
>> On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 20:08:06 -0600, Dennis Wicks wrote:
>>>
>>> I have two programs that are failing at startup with this message;
>>>
/usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1: undefined symbol: FT_Select_Size
[...]
>> dpkg -l libfreetyp
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Hi,
I'm trying to update an older system to Etch. I'm following Release
Notes for Debian GNU/Linux 4.0. For hardware reasons, I ran the command
aptitude -t etch-backports install linux-image-2.6-686
Output for the command
aptitude show linux-image-2.6-686
includes
State: installed
However,
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On Tuesday 03 March 2009, Nuno Magalhães was
heard to say:
> From what i've been able to find, this pc will only handle a max of
> 384MB of ram[1] (3*128). From the Debian manual, a minimal install
> for X requires 512MB. From my experience i did hav
Debian Lenny
Lirc 0.8.3-3
Kernel 2.6.26-1-686
I can not compile lirc modules. Here is what I did:
# dpkg-reconfigure lirc-modules-source
# m-a prepare
# m-a a-i lirc
But:
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/modules/lirc'
sed -e "s!\$KVERS!2.6.26-1-686!g;
s!\$KSRC!/lib/modules/2.6.26-1-686/bu
Hi all,
Hi. I have a problem with the icons for ODF files (using Lenny, Gnome).
I had Lotus Symphony installed and removed it again promptly (what a
terrible app!). When it was installed, it changed the icons of ODF files
to match it's own icons. After removing Symphony again the old icons
that De
Florian Kulzer wrote the following on 02/28/2009 06:40 AM:
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 20:08:06 -0600, Dennis Wicks wrote:
Greetings;
I have two programs that are failing at startup with this message;
/usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1: undefined symbol: FT_Select_Size
Does any one know what the proble
Sendt: Tue, 03 Mar 2009 21:26:38 +0100
Fra: Jörg-Volker Peetz
> Maybe, 'setterm' from the util-linx package does what you want.
> I haven't tried it myself.
This should work:
setterm -blank 1
setterm -powersave powerdown
setterm -powerdown 2
setterm -store
The screen does blank after 1 minute, bu
Is there a utility that perform this conversion?
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On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 22:59:12 +, T o n g wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I get
>
> ImportError: No module named _gobject
>
> error when running python applications under Lenny. I'm wondering why and
> how I can fix it:
>
> $ python
> Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Jan 4 2009, 17:40:26)
> [GCC 4.3.2] on
Maybe, 'setterm' from the util-linx package does what you want.
I haven't tried it myself.
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On Tue, 2009-03-03 at 20:12 +0100, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote:
> Op Sun, 01 Mar 18:35:46 -0500 Frank wrote:
> > Just installed Debian squeeze...and am looking for help. Seems xsane
> > will only run as root...made myself a member of scanner group, but
> > still have to run gksudo to get it to find the s
On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 08:54:03PM +0100, Robert Latest wrote:
> Hello there,
>
> when I want to use sound on my computer, I always have to start the
> (GUI app) "gnome-alsamixer" and un-mute it. Even on the Gnome desktop
> it's not enough to click off the little red mute symbol next to the
> loud
On Tue, 3 Mar 2009 13:15:13 -0600
Chris wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> Here's my dilemma:
> I keep claws in workspace 5. I also keep IceW in workspace 4.
> If there is a link I wish to click on in mail (in workspace 5), IceW
> moves from workspace 4 into workspace 5.
>
> I know this does not happen u
Hello there,
when I want to use sound on my computer, I always have to start the
(GUI app) "gnome-alsamixer" and un-mute it. Even on the Gnome desktop
it's not enough to click off the little red mute symbol next to the
loudspeaker in the upper right corner, no, I also have to go
explicitly through
After upgrading to 5.0 yesterday, I can't seem to get bandwidthd
working again. Any ideas?
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Simple question - how do I find out what configure options have
been used in creating a Debian package.
I want to use the Debian squid3 package but need to know what
configure options were used.
I require the following:-
./configure --enable-auth=”basic”
-enable-basic-auth-helpers="LDAP" --
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Sendt: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 20:29:47 +0100
Fra: Daniel Lannstrom
Til: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Emne: Re: Turn off monitor after inactivity
> On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 08:24:44PM +0100, Daniel Aleksandersen wrote:
> > Hi list
> >
> > My notebook’s screen turns b
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 7:00 PM, Daniel Lannstrom wrote:
> [...] Also,
> don't expect that firefox will be very fast. You might want to install
> another browser. I have heard that Opera has a smaller memory footprint
> (don't knwo if that's true with current versions though).
Yeah after sending i
On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 08:24:44PM +0100, Daniel Aleksandersen wrote:
> Hi list
>
> My notebook’s screen turns blank when left inactive for a couple of minutes. I
> want it to turn off instead, and turn back on when I start typing. How do I
> achieve this?
>
> I have installed a base system and
Hi list
My notebook’s screen turns blank when left inactive for a couple of minutes. I
want it to turn off instead, and turn back on when I start typing. How do I
achieve this?
I have installed a base system and the laptop packages.
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Greetings,
Here's my dilemma:
I keep claws in workspace 5. I also keep IceW in workspace 4.
If there is a link I wish to click on in mail (in workspace 5), IceW
moves from workspace 4 into workspace 5.
I know this does not happen under Fedora nor Ubuntu. How can I prevent
this from happening und
Op Sun, 01 Mar 18:35:46 -0500 Frank wrote:
> Just installed Debian squeeze...and am looking for help. Seems xsane
> will only run as root...made myself a member of scanner group, but
> still have to run gksudo to get it to find the scanner.
>
> Advice ??
I'd suggest to follow the steps for scanne
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> On Monday 02 March 2009 12:05:20 marca...@gmail.com wrote:
>> I am using a repository that doesn't sign its package. I know and
>> trust it.
>
> That's not exactly what the signatures are about. They are mainly about
On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 06:51:16PM +, Nuno Magalhães wrote:
> gnome-basic will do? Other suggestions? Other window managers?
Don't use gnome. The current versions will grind the computer to a halt.
Instead get fluxbox or some other lightweight window manager. Also,
don't expect that firefox w
Hi,
Sorry for the contradicting subject line. I have a Compaq Presario
5166 that has 128RAM and is running Win2K. Not sluggish actually, but
it doesn't get used a lot either. I might replace it with Sid.
>From what i've been able to find, this pc will only handle a max of
384MB of ram[1] (3*128).
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Rodrigo Hashimoto escreveu:
> Hi,
>
> I just compiled the kernel 2.6.28.7 and now I can mount the mobile
> phone, but now even when I dismount it the mobile phone keeps in USB
> MODE, then I'm forced to turn it off to unplug the usb cable.
Try 'eject ' after 'umount '. (Or you can just
use eject,
On Tuesday 03 March 2009 15:49:02 Daniel Burrows wrote:
> it looks like in Gnome, I can right-click on Applications
> and pick "Edit Menus", and choose whether or not various menu items
> appear.
In KDE, I just run kappfinder. Then tick (check) the things that I want added
to the menu, and click
Hi,
I just compiled the kernel 2.6.28.7 and now I can mount the mobile
phone, but now even when I dismount it the mobile phone keeps in USB
MODE, then I'm forced to turn it off to unplug the usb cable.
Any idea ?
On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 12:31 +, Virgo Pärna wrote:
> On Sun, 01 Mar 2009 16:24:
Rodrigo Hashimoto wrote :
> Just to complement,
>
> I must press the ENTER key for many times, or the POWER KEY only once,
> it worked as well but I pressed it only once and the boot continue fine.
>
> Thanks
>
>
> On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 20:26 -0300, Rodrigo Hashimoto wrote:
>> Hey there,
>>
>>
On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 11:41:06PM +0900, Bret Busby was heard
to say:
>> It would seem logical, given one point of view, but as I mentioned
>> previously, that's not the behaviour that I desire from a package manager
>> any more than I want a link to the executable binary automagically added
>>
> Yes; each workstation installation that we have, whilst it has more than
> one user account, is used by only one person at a time, and is primarily a
> single-user system (but, I really don't like the pseudo thingy that Ubuntu
> uses, rather than having a root account. I much prefer having a roo
Serveur POP : pop3.live.com (Port 995 avec connexion SSL)
Serveur SMTP : smtp.live.com (Port 25 avec connexion SSL)
T o n g wrote:
> On Tue, 03 Mar 2009 19:35:01 +1100, Daniel Dalton wrote:
>
> > Anyway I solved it found
> > out hotmail had pop and smtp servers so I just use that... works for me
'lo
I just realize something funny today. debian team has put a lot of
effort to remove all the firefox logo from the debian package. But a
logo came back in unnoticed by anyone:
$ apt-get install cmake
$ xdg-open /usr/share/cmake-2.6/Modules/CPack.background.png.in
$ apt-cache policy cmake
c
Just to complement,
I must press the ENTER key for many times, or the POWER KEY only once,
it worked as well but I pressed it only once and the boot continue fine.
Thanks
On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 20:26 -0300, Rodrigo Hashimoto wrote:
> Hey there,
>
> Something very weird is happening in my OS. I
On Tue, 03 Mar 2009 23:41:06 +0900, Bret Busby wrote:
> One major problem with Ubuntu, apart from the pseudo thingy, is the
> colour. I much prefer the blue colour of Debian (kind of like some people
> and cars; "What kind of car do you drive?" - "A red one" ; "what kind of
> linux do I prefer? - "
Why is it not the 'best' idea? Infinite loops can be used to your
advantage. It's already been remarked that cron will not work because it
is fixed-frequency. That means OP will have to start maintaining state
via files to avoid race conditions.
An infinite while;do;done construct can be inter
On Tue, 03 Mar 2009 19:35:01 +1100, Daniel Dalton wrote:
> Anyway I solved it found
> out hotmail had pop and smtp servers so I just use that... works for me
with a free account?
What are the hotmail's pop and smtp servers?
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Frank Bonnet wrote:
Florian Kulzer wrote:
On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 16:40:39 +0100, Frank Bonnet wrote:
[...]
Would be *great* if the maintainer(s) of the php5-sybase package
could give me all arguments passed into the configure script ...
You can run
apt-get source php5-sybase
and look a
Sjors Gielen schreef:
You probably want to kill -9 the window manager or a Xorg process or so.
Just restarting the server will not help.
Oh, nevermind, I just figured your X server wasn't even running anymore.
(Never hurts to check though. ;-) )
Sjors
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tyler schreef:
Hi,
My xserver crashed this morning, due apparently to some known bugs in
the intel video drivers. However, after the crash I couldn't restart X
from the command line, and had to reboot to get everything back working
again. There must be someway to clean up after X crashes without
Hi,
My xserver crashed this morning, due apparently to some known bugs in
the intel video drivers. However, after the crash I couldn't restart X
from the command line, and had to reboot to get everything back working
again. There must be someway to clean up after X crashes without
rebooting? I've
On Tue, 3 Mar 2009, Thorny wrote:
Also, I had (apparently, completely wrongly) understood that, when
installing a package with Synaptic, it was the role of Synaptic, as the
package manager, to ensure that the package was added to the relevant
menu, in the Applications menu hierarchy.
As I
On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 17:58:35 -0800, Jimmy Johnson wrote:
[...]
> I agree with what you say, but is not the case with Debian-Live it only
> covers amd64 and i386.
Great for a desktop system Jimmy, however, Debian is for more than just
desktop systems. You have stated a preference for live CDs and
i dont think that script with an eternal loop is the best ideia. If u want
keep this script running for a long time ( even when ur user is loged out,
u will need a screen desatached [ screen ^a ^d]). My advice will be that u
make this script and set a rule at ur crontab for every min:
#crontab
Mark Neidorff wrote, on 2009-02-18 01:21:
Is there a solution to configuring sound? If not, where is the proper place
to ask for one?
There is an alsa-user mailing list
http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Mailing-lists
I've found part of the fun being that there isn't a clear mappin
>> Also, I had (apparently, completely wrongly) understood that, when
>> installing a package with Synaptic, it was the role of Synaptic, as the
>> package manager, to ensure that the package was added to the relevant
>> menu, in the Applications menu hierarchy.
>>
>>
As I mentioned previously, no
I am having a few problems with my wireless connection and am coming to
the conclusion its the driver.
I am running Lenny with a pci wireless card with an RT2560F chipset -
but I only get very slow speeds out of it <1M. I have checked everything
else and now think its the driver - as anyone el
On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 03:56:04AM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote:
> I'm adding a new system to my LAN. The DNS is running DNSMasq and is on
> Etch. The new system is running Lenny. I edited the /etc/network/
> interfaces file to include the following (other than loopback, the only
> interface in t
On Mon, 02 Mar 2009 01:41:38 -0600
Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 02/28/2009 11:14 AM, green wrote:
> > On Sat, 2009-02-28, 059, Bob Cox wrote:
> >> On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 08:21:16 +, Bob Cox
> >> (debian-u...@lists.bobcox.com) wrote:
> >>> You may need noflushd (no flush daemon) to do
> >>> what
Hallo,
If have a problem with browsing the Windows network under samba.
Under my previous version of smaba (3.0.24) browsing worked.
I will browse the Windows network with nautilus with root rights,
because i can plece files where i want them.
For this i use the command :
gksu -u root "nautilus
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 8:56 AM, Hal Vaughan wrote:
> I'm adding a new system to my LAN. The DNS is running DNSMasq and is on
> Etch. The new system is running Lenny. I edited the
> /etc/network/interfaces file to include the following (other than loopback,
> the only interface in the file):
>
>
On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 06:18:29PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 11:59:23PM +, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 06:57:46PM +, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> >
> > >> How can I adjust the top and side margin at my pleasure in xpdf reader?
> > >> I
> >
Hi you all,
I am experiencing a strange behaviour with desktop locking...that is I can
not unlock
Unlocking fails everytime and I can only kill the kdesktop_lock process...
any ideas?
r
Florian Kulzer wrote:
On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 16:40:39 +0100, Frank Bonnet wrote:
[...]
Would be *great* if the maintainer(s) of the php5-sybase package could
give me all arguments passed into the configure script ...
You can run
apt-get source php5-sybase
and look at the commands in php
On 02 Mar 2009, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> Happy to report that 2.6.28 from Sid also works with Nvidia non free
> driver 96.43.11.
>
> The start up sequence is different from 2.6.26: the console goes blank
> before starting X. But afterwards all is OK.
>
> Hugo
According the Nvidia site I need d
Robert Latest wrote:
Hello Kelly,
As far as I know, any mode other than 80x25 is FB. There are two
way to display a penguin, one is the kernel option for a boot logo
(off by default in debian), the other is a boot splash program, such
as splashy or usplash.
Yeah, but I don't want the penguin
On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 04:52:43PM +0800, Mr. Wang Long wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 16:14, Dylan M. wrote:
> > It is taking a very long to boot up the debian os. How long should it take
> > to boot up?
> Normally around one minute, maybe 30 sec, maybe 2 min.
It all depends on how much and wha
On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 13:44:52 +0530, sathiya moorthy
(mail2sathiyamoor...@gmail.com) wrote:
> But why should we do all these handy..
>
> when we have plugins already. check it out.
> http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=365
It certainly looks interesting, but there is quite a di
I'm adding a new system to my LAN. The DNS is running DNSMasq and is
on Etch. The new system is running Lenny. I edited the /etc/network/
interfaces file to include the following (other than loopback, the
only interface in the file):
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 172.16.7.111
n
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 16:14, Dylan M. wrote:
> It is taking a very long to boot up the debian os. How long should it take
> to boot up?
>
>
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h, this was like from 2 months ago... wow! Anyway I solved it found
out hotmail had pop and smtp servers so I just use that... works for me
[using fetchmail]
Daniel
On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 08:57:17PM +, Christopher Cole wrote:
>I've been banging my head trying to get hotmail through
It is taking a very long to boot up the debian os. How long should it
take to boot up?
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On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 18:26:25 -0500, Jacques Dery (de...@inforco.com) wrote:
> Thank you for the suggestion but the problem still exists.
>
> Here is the output
>
> de...@gontran:/var/cache/apt$ sudo rm pkgcache.bin
>
> de...@gontran:/var/cache/apt$ ls -ails
> total 12
Hello Kelly,
> As far as I know, any mode other than 80x25 is FB. There are two
> way to display a penguin, one is the kernel option for a boot logo
> (off by default in debian), the other is a boot splash program, such
> as splashy or usplash.
Yeah, but I don't want the penguin anyway. What I wa
But why should we do all these handy..
when we have plugins already. check it out.
http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=365
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 5:52 PM, Andrew McGlashan <
andrew.mcglas...@affinityvision.com.au> wrote:
> Chris Bannister wrote:
>
>> If you use vim for your editing,
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