Re: Laptop

2009-03-20 Thread Victor Padro
2009/3/20 Andrei Popescu > On Tue,10.Feb.09, 02:57:04, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > > Chris Jones wrote: > > > > you seem to be right leo & Co does not know > > > > it means something like a "free time hacker spirit" in this case :-D > > bastel - to tinker > > kunst - art > > > > Finjan, > > Laptophe

Re: 64 vs 32 lenny

2009-03-20 Thread Mark Allums
Micha Feigin wrote: On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 18:54:58 -0500 Mark Allums wrote: Oops, make that *3* GB or less. The PC architecture allows more, but while 4 GB fits into 32-bits, the video card and other hardware is memory-mapped into the upper GB, so the 4th GB of physical memory must be rema

Re: skype lenny amd64

2009-03-20 Thread Norbert Zeh
> > I am running skype on Debian Lenny amd64 and am using the AMD64 build > > for Ubuntu. Works without problems. I don't remember the hoops any > > more I had to jump through, but they were very, very few. I don't > > remember, though, how I found the hint to use the Ubuntu build. Google? > >

wireless

2009-03-20 Thread Leo
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Re: 64 vs 32 lenny

2009-03-20 Thread Mark Allums
Stefan Monnier wrote: In theory, with PAE segments you can address that memory with a 32-bit OS, but in practice, 64-bit is required. Actually, practice suggests otherwise: % uname -a Linux pastel 2.6.28-1-686-bigmem #1 SMP Mon Feb 23 04:05:37 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux % free

Re: 64 vs 32 lenny

2009-03-20 Thread Micha Feigin
On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 23:08:03 -0400 Stefan Monnier wrote: > > In theory, with PAE segments you can address that memory with a 32-bit > > OS, but in practice, 64-bit is required. > > Actually, practice suggests otherwise: > >% uname -a >Linux pastel 2.6.28-1-686-bigmem #1 SMP Mon Feb 23 0

Re: specific network traffic

2009-03-20 Thread green
Lorenzo Bettini wrote at 2009-03-20 11:53 -0600: > randall wrote: >> sorry, i ment iftop > > Thanks > > this looks nice and also dns lookups the addresses; it does not show > process information though... but surely looks pretty useful :-) You might want to check out nethogs. signature.asc De

Re: 64 vs 32 lenny

2009-03-20 Thread Micha Feigin
On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 18:54:58 -0500 Mark Allums wrote: > Mark Allums wrote: > > prad wrote: > >> i've recently returned to debian on a amd64 3400+ machine with 1G ram > >> in it. > >> > >> i am running the 32bit version of lenny. > >> > >> would there be benefits to use 64bit lenny instead? > >> >

Re: 64 vs 32 lenny

2009-03-20 Thread Stefan Monnier
> In theory, with PAE segments you can address that memory with a 32-bit > OS, but in practice, 64-bit is required. Actually, practice suggests otherwise: % uname -a Linux pastel 2.6.28-1-686-bigmem #1 SMP Mon Feb 23 04:05:37 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux % free total us

Re: 64 vs 32 lenny

2009-03-20 Thread Roger Leigh
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 06:47:56PM -0500, Chris wrote: > > > On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 03:50:50PM -0700, prad wrote: > > > > > > i am running the 32bit version of lenny. > > Interesting... If one has 32-bit installed, is there some sort of > upgrade / overwrite to the 64-bit version? At present,

Re: Gateway P-7805u Any success - install & using debian on this laptop? Bios upgrade procedure?

2009-03-20 Thread Daryl Styrk
Mark Goldshtein wrote: a) AFAIR, Debian has a special mailing list fully deducated to laptops. That may be more useful. b) Try one of the Debian stable LiveCD, for example: http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/5.0.0-live/i386/iso-cd/debian-live-500-i386-gnome-desktop.iso and that will give you

Re: 64 vs 32 lenny

2009-03-20 Thread Mark Allums
prad wrote: On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 18:54:58 -0500 Mark Allums wrote: I recommend 64-bits for new installs, but for existing setups, there is no need to update, unless you have specific needs. this is good advice. however, since i have just installed lenny with the intent of experimenting with i

Re: 64 vs 32 lenny

2009-03-20 Thread prad
On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 18:54:58 -0500 Mark Allums wrote: > I recommend 64-bits for new installs, but for existing setups, there > is no need to update, unless you have specific needs. > this is good advice. however, since i have just installed lenny with the intent of experimenting with it (came fro

Re: -- SPAM -- rc.local is not executed

2009-03-20 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri,13.Feb.09, 12:13:00, Ron Johnson wrote: > Because I don't have any GUI app activations in my rc.local. Only > daemons and other CLI apps. Here's what mine looks like: > > * BEGINNING OF rc.local > #!/bin/sh -e > > echo 210 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_max_freq

Re: good webcam for Linux (low light, mic, 'just works')

2009-03-20 Thread Michal R. Hoffmann
On 17/03/09 22:46, Alex Samad wrote: Hi Sorry to revive an old thread, but I was wondering if any one has used Logitech Quickcam Sphere AF looking for a pan tilt webcam I can use under linux ? Alex I had the webcam for one day (one of my friends bought it) - it worked nicely, however witho

Kbarcode - dead? unusable in Lenny for business cards.

2009-03-20 Thread A. F. Cano
Hello, I went looking for some software to create business cards. Since I'm running kde, I thought kbarcode would do. In addition to a lot more, it claims it can do simple business cards, and from the user interface it seems pretty powerful. The problem is that it is almost unusable under Lenn

Re: how to association mailto mime type with icedove

2009-03-20 Thread T o n g
On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 17:08:06 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=16187 >>> >>> i followed the instruction, but it doesn't work for me: >> >> Yep, that last message from the above url concurs this, i.e., the >> method ceased to be working after 1.5 years later,

Re: 64 vs 32 lenny

2009-03-20 Thread Chris
On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 23:35:41 + Roger Leigh wrote: > On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 03:50:50PM -0700, prad wrote: > > i've recently returned to debian on a amd64 3400+ machine with 1G > > ram in it. > > > > i am running the 32bit version of lenny. > > > > would there be benefits to use 64bit lenny

Re: 64 vs 32 lenny

2009-03-20 Thread Mark Allums
Mark Allums wrote: prad wrote: i've recently returned to debian on a amd64 3400+ machine with 1G ram in it. i am running the 32bit version of lenny. would there be benefits to use 64bit lenny instead? in the archives, i found posts suggesting there is no benefit unless you are using 64-bit ap

Re: 64 vs 32 lenny

2009-03-20 Thread Mark Allums
prad wrote: i've recently returned to debian on a amd64 3400+ machine with 1G ram in it. i am running the 32bit version of lenny. would there be benefits to use 64bit lenny instead? in the archives, i found posts suggesting there is no benefit unless you are using 64-bit apps that require extr

Re: 64 vs 32 lenny

2009-03-20 Thread Roger Leigh
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 03:50:50PM -0700, prad wrote: > i've recently returned to debian on a amd64 3400+ machine with 1G ram > in it. > > i am running the 32bit version of lenny. > > would there be benefits to use 64bit lenny instead? Yes. > in the archives, i found posts suggesting there is n

Re: xhost: cannot connect to X server [SOLVED]

2009-03-20 Thread Dieder Vervoort
Florian Kulzer wrote: Hmm, on my system that is enough to make Xorg listen to port 6000 (after I restart kdm). However, looking at /etc/init.d/kdm I get the impression that in some cases you also have to edit /var/run/kdm/kdmrc to remove ServerArgsLocal. If that does not help then I would like t

64 vs 32 lenny

2009-03-20 Thread prad
i've recently returned to debian on a amd64 3400+ machine with 1G ram in it. i am running the 32bit version of lenny. would there be benefits to use 64bit lenny instead? in the archives, i found posts suggesting there is no benefit unless you are using 64-bit apps that require extra processing p

Re: kde, dual monitor, maximize windows to the current monitor

2009-03-20 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 20 March 2009 17:16:40 Antonio Diaz wrote: >Please, anyone can help me? First, read the Code of Conduct for the list. http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct is the URL. I can't read your mails very well because they are in HTML, so I'm ignoring them. -- Boyd Stephen Smith

Re: lvm on an external enclosure?

2009-03-20 Thread Mike Castle
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 2:04 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > You *may* have to run 'vgscan && vgchange -ay', but that should be enough. I would imagine that one could probably somewhat automated with udev. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: SOLVED Re: Lenny won't install on an old Pentium that used to run Etch. Try 2

2009-03-20 Thread prad
On Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:40:05 +0100 Robert Hodgins wrote: > Turns out the problem was likely hardware related. > ok this is good to know since we have several older machines we want to install debian on. does it ever make sense to install older versions on older machines? or is it better to just

Re: Technical Inquiry

2009-03-20 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 20 March 2009 22:06:24 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Friday 20 March 2009 11:57:29 Lisi Reisz wrote: > >On Friday 20 March 2009 13:50:27 Jeffrey Cao wrote: > >> It does not demands the root password. It just request you to give root > >> a new password, which is the chance you could

Re: kde, dual monitor, maximize windows to the current monitor

2009-03-20 Thread Antonio Diaz
The option "window maximize support" is enabled but it fails. When I realized that I worked under the root user, I looked at his options in order to check if there were something different, but his configuration is exactly the same as my standard user. I have also found out that it also fail

Re: lvm on an external enclosure?

2009-03-20 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 20 March 2009 16:25:03 Ron Johnson wrote: >On 2009-03-20 16:04, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> On Friday 20 March 2009 09:02:24 Ron Johnson wrote: >>> 1. What kind of problems or issues might I have when trying to boot >>> and lvm doesn't see a vg? I'm guessing Linux will squawk and >>

Re: VMware

2009-03-20 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 21:53 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2009-03-20 21:43 +0100, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: > > The older gcc 4.1.3 is not available in debian.snapshot.net . > > But it is available from the Debian mirrors in the gcc-4.1 package: > > , > | % LANG=C gcc-4.1 --version > | gcc-4.1 (

Re: how to association mailto mime type with icedove

2009-03-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-03-20 16:59, T o n g wrote: On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 21:37:29 +, T o n g wrote: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=16187 thanks, i followed the instruction, but it doesn't work for me: Yep, that last message from the above url concurs this, i.e., the method ceased to be workin

Re: Lenny + Dell PE 2970

2009-03-20 Thread M. Lewis
Mark Goldshtein wrote: On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 11:40 PM, M. Lewis wrote: Thorny wrote: On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:58:32 -0500, M. Lewis posted: I'm trying to install Lenny on a Dell Power Edge 2970 with little success. The problem I'm running into is installing grub. My .iso images check with

Re: Technical Inquiry

2009-03-20 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 20 March 2009 11:57:29 Lisi Reisz wrote: >On Friday 20 March 2009 13:50:27 Jeffrey Cao wrote: >> It does not demands the root password. It just request you to give root >> a new password, which is the chance you could change root password without >> knowing the old one. > >We must have di

Re: how to association mailto mime type with icedove

2009-03-20 Thread T o n g
On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 21:37:29 +, T o n g wrote: >> http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=16187 > > thanks, > > i followed the instruction, but it doesn't work for me: Yep, that last message from the above url concurs this, i.e., the method ceased to be working after 1.5 years later, sinc

Re: Laptop

2009-03-20 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Tue,10.Feb.09, 02:57:04, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > Chris Jones wrote: > > you seem to be right leo & Co does not know > > it means something like a "free time hacker spirit" in this case :-D > bastel - to tinker > kunst - art > > Finjan, > Laptophersteller werden immer besser, aber du musst s

Re: Stock kernel - it works everywhere because?

2009-03-20 Thread Matthew Smith
Quoth Stefan Monnier at 2009-03-21 00:15... one that I use) requires me to re-build the kernel so that it and the VMware modules are compiled with the same version of gcc. Are you sure that module-assistant wouldn't be able to build the module you need without having to rebuild the whole kernel

Re: Lenny + Dell PE 2970

2009-03-20 Thread Mark Goldshtein
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 11:40 PM, M. Lewis wrote: > > Thorny wrote: >> >> On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:58:32 -0500, M. Lewis posted: >> >>> I'm trying to install Lenny on a Dell Power Edge 2970 with little >>> success. >>> The problem I'm running into is installing grub. My .iso images check >>> with >>

Re: how to association mailto mime type with icedove

2009-03-20 Thread T o n g
On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 11:57:46 -0400, mitch wrote: >> how to association mailto mime type with icedove? > > http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=16187 thanks, i followed the instruction, but it doesn't work for me: cd ~/.mozilla/firefox/*.default $ grep network.protocol-handler.app.mailto

Re: lvm on an external enclosure?

2009-03-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-03-20 16:04, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Friday 20 March 2009 09:02:24 Ron Johnson wrote: 1. What kind of problems or issues might I have when trying to boot and lvm doesn't see a vg? I'm guessing Linux will squawk and continue booting. Probably won't even squawk. IIRC, scanning

Re: Gateway P-7805u Any success - install & using debian on this laptop? Bios upgrade? still need info

2009-03-20 Thread Mark Goldshtein
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 9:43 PM, tech lists wrote: > Before spending over $1000 on this laptop I'm just trying to confirm > that linux (hopefully debian) works with it. [...] Last Windows I've used > was 3.11/95sr2/98SE.  I'm finished with Windows. > Just trying to protect my money for an expens

Re: crontab job

2009-03-20 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 20 March 2009 11:05:05 hadi motamedi wrote: >45 1 * * * find /usr/local/statsvr/counters/main/processed -atime +60 -exec >rm -f {} ';' >Can you please let us know what is the meaning of "-atime" & "-exec" >commands used here ? "-atime" filters the find results based on the last-access ti

Re: rereading/reloading keyboard layout files without relogging in?

2009-03-20 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu,05.Feb.09, 20:43:09, Florian Kulzer wrote: > If you only have to change a few key definitions then it might be more > convenient to use xmodmap from the command line or ~/.xmodmaprc at every > startup of X. More convenient to just create ~/.Xmodmap. gdm and startxfce4 use it without any

Re: Technical Inquiry

2009-03-20 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Fri, 20 Mar 2009, Jeffrey Cao wrote: Boot into single user mode, and you are the root. Then, you can change root password. Says he, carefully snipping the admonition in the post he quoted about top posting. Priceless. On 2009-03-20, Sudev Barar wrote: 2009/3/20 hadi motamedi : "We h

Re: "Domain of sender address does not resolve" in mail logs

2009-03-20 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 20 March 2009 10:02:56 Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: >> Quoth Bob Cox at 2009-03-18 18:39... >> ... >> >> >The question is whether you should be rejecting email from any user >> >@act.gov.au just because act.gov.au does not resolve. > >On 18.03.09 19:31, Matthew Smith wrote: >> we need to

Re: kde, dual monitor, maximize windows to the current monitor

2009-03-20 Thread debian
On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 19:39:44 + Antonio Diaz wrote: > >I work with dual monitor configuration. I'm using Debian Sid and > KDE 3.5.10. So far whenever I maximized a window it just maximized to > the current monitor. However, a few days ago I updated my system (new > kernel and "safe-upgrad

Re: lvm on an external enclosure?

2009-03-20 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 20 March 2009 09:02:24 Ron Johnson wrote: >1. What kind of problems or issues might I have when trying to boot >and lvm doesn't see a vg? I'm guessing Linux will squawk and >continue booting. Probably won't even squawk. IIRC, scanning for VGs is done during the boot process as long as

Re: VMware

2009-03-20 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-03-20 21:43 +0100, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: > Trying to install VMware in sid, just to run another OS locally. > As far as I can see, VMware Server 2, obtainable from > www.vmware.com/freedownload is what I would need. > > Installation was successful. > But during the configuration new kerne

VMware

2009-03-20 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Trying to install VMware in sid, just to run another OS locally. As far as I can see, VMware Server 2, obtainable from www.vmware.com/freedownload is what I would need. Installation was successful. But during the configuration new kernel modules are built, and this error shows up: Your kernel

Re: Lenny + Dell PE 2970

2009-03-20 Thread M. Lewis
Thorny wrote: On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:58:32 -0500, M. Lewis posted: I'm trying to install Lenny on a Dell Power Edge 2970 with little success. The problem I'm running into is installing grub. My .iso images check with md5sum correctly. With three different DVDs, I get the error: Unable to inst

Re: Help! Grub is broken

2009-03-20 Thread Alex Infantes
On Jueves 19 Marzo 2009 01:01:04 明覺 escribió: > It all happened suddenly. I was editing a file in gedit 3 minutes ago, and > when I was saving it, it said "readonly filesystem". then i restarted my > machine, it ccould not shutdown for it said it's a readonly file system. > then i pressed reset to

Re: Gateway P-7805u Any success - install & using debian on this laptop? Bios upgrade procedure?

2009-03-20 Thread Mark Goldshtein
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 9:02 PM, tech lists wrote: > Has anyone successfully installed & used Debian on either this > (P-7805u) or the simiilar 7811 Gateway laptops?  I'm having trouble > finding any success stories on Google ( or this mailing list, or the > debian-laptop mailing list, or linux la

Re: Lenny + Dell PE 2970

2009-03-20 Thread M. Lewis
Ansgar Esztermann wrote: On Mar 20, 2009, at 11:04 , M. Lewis wrote: New box, off the 'shelf'. No partitions there unless Dell put them on to begin with. It was purchased without an O/S. Dell servers usually have a "utility" partition pre-installed. For what it's worth, I have a PE 2950 he

kde, dual monitor, maximize windows to the current monitor

2009-03-20 Thread Antonio Diaz
   I work with dual monitor configuration. I'm using Debian Sid and KDE 3.5.10. So far whenever I maximized a window it just maximized to the current monitor. However, a few days ago I updated my system (new kernel and "safe-upgrade") and this behavior seems to be changed. Now windows are maxi

Re: How to setup a PPPoE Server?

2009-03-20 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Michelle Konzack wrote: > Hmmm, now I have searched again the Debian Packages and it seems, the > "Roaring Penguin PPPoE server software" is not in Debian... > > Do you know why? No. FWIW, on my system: 20:20:44-johan...@e13-v21:~$ man -k pppoe [...] pppoe-server (8) - user-space PPPoE s

Re: How to setup a PPPoE Server?

2009-03-20 Thread Michelle Konzack
Thanks Johannes, Hmmm, now I have searched again the Debian Packages and it seems, the "Roaring Penguin PPPoE server software" is not in Debian... Do you know why? Thanks, Greetings and nice Day/Evening Michelle Konzack Systemadministrator 24V Electronic Engineer Tamay Dogan N

Re: Gateway P-7805u Any success - install & using debian on this laptop? Bios upgrade? still need info

2009-03-20 Thread tech lists
On 3/20/09, Daryl Styrk wrote: > tech lists wrote: >> Has anyone successfully installed & used Debian on either this >> (P-7805u) or the simiilar 7811 Gateway laptops? I'm having trouble >> finding any success stories on Google ( or this mailing list, or the >> debian-laptop mailing list, or linu

Re: How to setup a PPPoE Server?

2009-03-20 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Michelle Konzack wrote: > Hello, > > For my network (there will be over 4000 customers) I need PPPoE > authentification. The customer database is a PostgreSQL. > > Does someone know how to setup such network? Uncle Google seems to offer some advice on 'pppoe server authentification'. F

Re: Gateway P-7805u Any success - install & using debian on this laptop? Bios upgrade procedure?

2009-03-20 Thread Daryl Styrk
tech lists wrote: Has anyone successfully installed & used Debian on either this (P-7805u) or the simiilar 7811 Gateway laptops? I'm having trouble finding any success stories on Google ( or this mailing list, or the debian-laptop mailing list, or linux laptops website) for these laptops or any

Re: specific network traffic

2009-03-20 Thread Lorenzo Bettini
randall wrote: randall wrote: Lorenzo Bettini wrote: randall wrote: randall wrote: Lorenzo Bettini wrote: Hi I'd like to see the network traffic in a detailed way, e.g., which process is accessing a specific address, the protocol, and the current network usage. something similar to top,

Gateway P-7805u Any success - install & using debian on this laptop? Bios upgrade procedure?

2009-03-20 Thread tech lists
Has anyone successfully installed & used Debian on either this (P-7805u) or the simiilar 7811 Gateway laptops? I'm having trouble finding any success stories on Google ( or this mailing list, or the debian-laptop mailing list, or linux laptops website) for these laptops or any Gateway FX laptops (

Re: specific network traffic

2009-03-20 Thread randall
randall wrote: Lorenzo Bettini wrote: randall wrote: randall wrote: Lorenzo Bettini wrote: Hi I'd like to see the network traffic in a detailed way, e.g., which process is accessing a specific address, the protocol, and the current network usage. something similar to top, but for the net

Re: specific network traffic

2009-03-20 Thread randall
Lorenzo Bettini wrote: randall wrote: randall wrote: Lorenzo Bettini wrote: Hi I'd like to see the network traffic in a detailed way, e.g., which process is accessing a specific address, the protocol, and the current network usage. something similar to top, but for the network; I tried n

Re: specific network traffic

2009-03-20 Thread Lorenzo Bettini
randall wrote: randall wrote: Lorenzo Bettini wrote: Hi I'd like to see the network traffic in a detailed way, e.g., which process is accessing a specific address, the protocol, and the current network usage. something similar to top, but for the network; I tried ntop, but it does not see

Re: Technical Inquiry

2009-03-20 Thread Daryl Styrk
Lisi Reisz wrote: When I need to change a root password on Etch or Lenny because I do not know the root password, I chroot from a live CD which does allow root access. Lisi Agree... I just changed the password on a laptop I rarely use running Lenny this way. Alternatively $ sudo su o

Re: specific network traffic

2009-03-20 Thread randall
randall wrote: Lorenzo Bettini wrote: Hi I'd like to see the network traffic in a detailed way, e.g., which process is accessing a specific address, the protocol, and the current network usage. something similar to top, but for the network; I tried ntop, but it does not seem to present the

Re: Technical Inquiry

2009-03-20 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 20 March 2009 17:11:20 Chris Jones wrote: > On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 12:57:29PM EDT, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Friday 20 March 2009 13:50:27 Jeffrey Cao wrote: > > > On 2009-03-20, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > > On Friday 20 March 2009 09:01:17 Sudev Barar wrote: > > > >> 2009/3/20 Jeffrey Cao

Re: specific network traffic

2009-03-20 Thread randall
Lorenzo Bettini wrote: Hi I'd like to see the network traffic in a detailed way, e.g., which process is accessing a specific address, the protocol, and the current network usage. something similar to top, but for the network; I tried ntop, but it does not seem to present these information a

specific network traffic

2009-03-20 Thread Lorenzo Bettini
Hi I'd like to see the network traffic in a detailed way, e.g., which process is accessing a specific address, the protocol, and the current network usage. something similar to top, but for the network; I tried ntop, but it does not seem to present these information as top do for CPU and me

Re: skype lenny amd64

2009-03-20 Thread Bob Cox
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 16:53:28 +0100, josep (k.joseph1...@gmail.com) wrote: [...] > Running apt-file gives nothing :( > > apt-file search libQtDBus.so.4 > apt-file search libQtGui.so.4 > apt-file search libQtNetwork.so.4 > apt-file search libQtCore.so.4 $ apt-file search libQtDBus.so.4 libqt

How to setup a PPPoE Server?

2009-03-20 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello, For my network (there will be over 4000 customers) I need PPPoE authentification. The customer database is a PostgreSQL. Does someone know how to setup such network? Thanks, Greetings and nice Day/Evening Michelle Konzack Systemadministrator 24V Electronic Engineer

Re: iceweasel rendering problem

2009-03-20 Thread Leonardo Canducci
That's what I see with iceweasel 3.0.7-1 from sid with default charachter zoom: http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/3033/schermatatuxfeedhomeice.png and this is the same page on the same pc (different partition) with iceweasel 3.0.6 in lenny: http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/3033/schermatatuxfeedhomeice

Re: skype lenny amd64

2009-03-20 Thread thveillon.debian
Norbert Zeh a écrit : >> I want to install Skype on Debian Lenny amd64 > > I am running skype on Debian Lenny amd64 and am using the AMD64 build > for Ubuntu. Works without problems. I don't remember the hoops any > more I had to jump through, but they were very, very few. I don't > remember, t

Re: Technical Inquiry

2009-03-20 Thread Chris Jones
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 12:57:29PM EDT, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Friday 20 March 2009 13:50:27 Jeffrey Cao wrote: > > On 2009-03-20, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > On Friday 20 March 2009 09:01:17 Sudev Barar wrote: > > >> 2009/3/20 Jeffrey Cao : > > >> > Boot into single user mode, and you are the root. >

Re: DVD authoring

2009-03-20 Thread Frank
On Fri, 2009-03-20 at 10:20 -0400, JoeHill wrote: > Frank McCormick wrote: > > > I am also looking for software to convert some mpeg4 files I have to > > avi's. > > Try WinFF, follow the instructions here: > > http://code.google.com/p/winff/wiki/DebianInstallation > > -- Unfortunately, win

Re: Netinstall and ADSL

2009-03-20 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 10 March 2009 20:51:25 German wrote: > Is that possible to netinstall Debian with ADSL? Thanks. Yes, it is easy if you use a modem/router for ADSL access. It Just Works. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: Technical Inquiry

2009-03-20 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 20 March 2009 16:14:03 Juan Carlos Avila Sanchez wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: Lisi Reisz [mailto:lisi.re...@gmail.com] > > Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 3:34 AM > > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Subject: Re: Technical Inquiry > > > > On Friday 20 March 2009 09:01:

Re: Technical Inquiry

2009-03-20 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 20 March 2009 13:50:27 Jeffrey Cao wrote: > On 2009-03-20, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Friday 20 March 2009 09:01:17 Sudev Barar wrote: > >> 2009/3/20 Jeffrey Cao : > >> > Boot into single user mode, and you are the root. > >> > Then, you can change root password. > >> > >> Ah..banging my h

Re: skype lenny amd64

2009-03-20 Thread Norbert Zeh
> I want to install Skype on Debian Lenny amd64 I am running skype on Debian Lenny amd64 and am using the AMD64 build for Ubuntu. Works without problems. I don't remember the hoops any more I had to jump through, but they were very, very few. I don't remember, though, how I found the hint to us

Re: iceweasel rendering problem

2009-03-20 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Leonardo Canducci wrote: It only happens in a few websites (i.e. http://www.tuxfeed.it/ ) and in debian sid only, lenny is ok. The webpage is a little messy with frames and decorations out of place. Zooming charachters in or out (ctrl + ctrl -) fixes the problem but using default size (ctrl 0) re

RE: Technical Inquiry

2009-03-20 Thread Juan Carlos Avila Sanchez
> -Original Message- > From: Lisi Reisz [mailto:lisi.re...@gmail.com] > Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 3:34 AM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Technical Inquiry > > On Friday 20 March 2009 09:01:17 Sudev Barar wrote: > > 2009/3/20 Jeffrey Cao : > > > Boot into single user

RE: Netinstall and ADSL

2009-03-20 Thread João Batista Amorim de oliveira Junior
> On 2009-03-10, German wrote: > > Is that possible to netinstall Debian with ADSL? Thanks. > > > > > I don't think so. At least you have to set up dhcp service > in your local network and provide a mini ISO. > I don't think you can config pppoe before you get your minimal > system installed. > B

Re: crontab job

2009-03-20 Thread T o n g
On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 09:05:05 -0700, hadi motamedi wrote: > We have > received the following instruction command to be set as crontab job for > root user, as the followings : > 45 1 * * * find /usr/local/statsvr/counters/main/processed -atime +60 > -exec rm -f {} ';' > Can you please let us know w

Re: how to association mailto mime type with icedove

2009-03-20 Thread mitch
On Fri, 2009-03-20 at 15:17 +, T o n g wrote: > Hi, > > how to association mailto mime type with icedove? > > Currently, when clicking on a mailto url, firefox gives me an error > message saying that there is no association for the mailto mime type. I > want to association with icedove, how

crontab job

2009-03-20 Thread hadi motamedi
Dear All We have one HP t5725 server with Debian Linux 3.1 installed. We have received the following instruction command to be set as crontab job for root user, as the followings : 45 1 * * * find /usr/local/statsvr/counters/main/processed -atime +60 -exec rm -f {} ';' Can you please let us know wh

skype lenny amd64

2009-03-20 Thread josep
Hi I want to install Skype on Debian Lenny amd64 so: 1) apt-get install libasound2 libc6 libgcc1 libqt4-core libqt4-gui libsigc++-2.0-0c2a libstdc++6 libx11-6 wget http://skype.com/go/getskype-linux-deb dpkg -i --force-architecture skype-*_*.deb 2) I want to run skype: skype: error while loadin

Re: Netinstall and ADSL

2009-03-20 Thread Jeffrey Cao
On 2009-03-10, German wrote: > Is that possible to netinstall Debian with ADSL? Thanks. > > I don't think so. At least you have to set up dhcp service in your local network and provide a mini ISO. I don't think you can config pppoe before you get your minimal system installed. Better options are t

how to association mailto mime type with icedove

2009-03-20 Thread T o n g
Hi, how to association mailto mime type with icedove? Currently, when clicking on a mailto url, firefox gives me an error message saying that there is no association for the mailto mime type. I want to association with icedove, how can I do that? I've tried to configure Gnome's system preferen

Re: Stock kernel - it works everywhere because?

2009-03-20 Thread Jeffrey Cao
On 2009-03-20, Adrian Levi wrote: > 2009/3/20 Matthew Smith : >> Hi Folks >> >> Nearing the end of my journey now (Gentoo to Debian migration.)  Setting up >> VMware Workstation from the official distribution (this is the commercial >> one that I use) requires me to re-build the kernel so that it

Re: "Domain of sender address does not resolve" in mail logs

2009-03-20 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
> Quoth Bob Cox at 2009-03-18 18:39... > ... > >The question is whether you should be rejecting email from any user > >@act.gov.au just because act.gov.au does not resolve. On 18.03.09 19:31, Matthew Smith wrote: > Tempting though it is, rejecting mail on the basis of RFC-non compliance > is NO

Re: Console font size change on xorg exit [RESOLVED]

2009-03-20 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
> Quoth Matthew Smith at 2009-03-18 08:36... > >The issue is this: > > > >* Boot machine. > >* Console font size is sensible. > >* Run xorg (startx). > >* Close xorg. > >* Console font size is now enormous on all TTYs to the point of being > >unusable. (Have to reboot to be able to work again.) O

Re: DVD authoring

2009-03-20 Thread JoeHill
Frank McCormick wrote: > I am also looking for software to convert some mpeg4 files I have to > avi's. Try WinFF, follow the instructions here: http://code.google.com/p/winff/wiki/DebianInstallation -- J -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "u

Re: DVD authoring

2009-03-20 Thread Daryl Styrk
That's what she said. This has been getting dropped at work for a couple weeks now... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: DVD authoring

2009-03-20 Thread JoeHill
Frank wrote: > On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 13:03 -0700, David Fox wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 10:03 AM, Frank McCormick > > wrote: > > > Running Squeezeand lookng for a comprehensive DVD authoring > > > software. There doesn't seem to be much in the repositories , at least > > > nothing w

lvm on an external enclosure?

2009-03-20 Thread Ron Johnson
Hi, (I tried Googling this, but my Google-fu must be lacking.) I want to put 2 1TB drives in an external enclosure, lvm them together and use them as a backup devices. Two questions: 1. What kind of problems or issues might I have when trying to boot and lvm doesn't see a vg? I'm guessing L

Re: Technical Inquiry

2009-03-20 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 04:14:57PM +0530, Sudev Barar wrote: > 2009/3/20 hadi motamedi : > > Dear Sudev Barar > > Thank you very much for your reply . Can you please let me know from where I > > can download the Debian Linux 3.1 and burn the CD for this purpose ? > > Looking forward your reply > >

coovachilli at lenny anyone succeeded ?

2009-03-20 Thread Frank Bonnet
Hello Anyone has succeeded to install coovachilli at lenny ? coovachilli is the successor of chillispot which is no longer available in lenny packages Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.de

Re: Technical Inquiry

2009-03-20 Thread Jeffrey Cao
On 2009-03-20, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Friday 20 March 2009 09:01:17 Sudev Barar wrote: >> 2009/3/20 Jeffrey Cao : >> > Boot into single user mode, and you are the root. >> > Then, you can change root password. >> >> Ah..banging my head why I did not think of this... > > Because it doesn't work in

Re: Stock kernel - it works everywhere because?

2009-03-20 Thread Stefan Monnier
> one that I use) requires me to re-build the kernel so that it and the VMware > modules are compiled with the same version of gcc. Are you sure that module-assistant wouldn't be able to build the module you need without having to rebuild the whole kernel? Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: Technical Inquiry

2009-03-20 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 09:33:54AM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Friday 20 March 2009 09:01:17 Sudev Barar wrote: > > 2009/3/20 Jeffrey Cao : > > > Boot into single user mode, and you are the root. > > > Then, you can change root password. > > > > Ah..banging my head why I did not think of this...

Re: Help! Grub is broken

2009-03-20 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 04:51:53 -0700 Thorny wrote: > > > >[T]> A simple answer is that Linux "virus" exist as a proof-of-concept, > >there > >> aren't any "in the wild". If you think about it, there isn't a > >> mechanism for propagation. You don't run as root do you? You can find > >> out lots mo

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