Can't ping to other ip addesss

I can't ping to other ip address as it complains"destination host unreachable." Can anybody help??? -- Wishing you the very best of everything, always!!! Kousik Maiti Staff Scientist Centre for Development of Advanced Computing(Formerly NCST) Website: www.cdacmumbai.in Registered Linux User #47402

Re: Flash player for Lenny/64 - But from where?

On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 7:23 AM, Matthew Smith wrote: > Is there a mirror of this anywhere that I can use or is there an > alternative, not-too-complicated way of doing this? Download the 64 Bit plugin from http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html extract it and copy and copy libflashpl

Re: Flash player for Lenny/64 - But from where?

On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Matthew Smith wrote: > Hi Folks > > A little research has shown me that to install Flash player for my > 64-bit Lenny Iceweasel I need to install flashplugin-nonfree > > However, when I get nothing but: > 0% [Connecting to www.backports.org (194.8.57.6)] ...followe

Flash player for Lenny/64 - But from where?

Hi Folks A little research has shown me that to install Flash player for my 64-bit Lenny Iceweasel I need to install flashplugin-nonfree However, when I get nothing but: 0% [Connecting to www.backports.org (194.8.57.6)] ...followed by a timeout, this makes it a bit tricky. Is there a mirror of t

Xwindow Failed Suddenly

Hello, I am using Debian Testing. While I am using computer on my xwindow, suddenly the xwindow it blink and failed. And I should restart my computer if I want my xwindow works again. The strange behaviour is, if I restart from terminal (# restart) then the splash works fine. Then it shows an err

Re: which package can display chart?

* Long Wind [2009-03-23 00:40:55 -0400]: > I have never seen crash or attack in Linux Then you should read this and think about it: -- Dave signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: which package can display chart?

I can't write patch IMO sarge and Linux in general is pretty safe In contrast Windows often has virus and strange problems (maybe caused by hackers) I have never seen crash or attack in Linux On 3/23/09, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Sunday 22 March 2009 22:44:45 Long Wind wrote: > >I have

Re: Copy data from a failed LVM drive

Stefan Monnier wrote: I had a drive failure (SMART errors) on a drive with LVM. I've replaced the drive, but now need to copy the data from the old drive. How can I do this? Vgscan only shows the VG of the 'current' drive. Are both drives connected? If so, have you created different VGs on eac

Re: which package can display chart?

On Sunday 22 March 2009 22:44:45 Long Wind wrote: >I have tried etch; >and I have installed lenny >IMO, sarge is better than both That's fine, I guess. I hope you intend on writing security patches for all the software you have installed though, 'cause no body is going to do it for you, and if

Re: Top posting vs Bottom posting

* Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [2009-03-22 20:34:50 -0500]: > That's hyperbole, at the very least. The original Pentium was released on > March 22, 1993. 3 1/2" disks had been available for a while. While the > first GB disk wouldn't be seen until 1995, 100MB drives were available. Not in '87.

Re:which package can display chart?

I have tried etch; and I have installed lenny IMO, sarge is better than both Thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Top posting vs Bottom posting

On Mar 22, 2009, at 10:20 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: On 2009-03-22 19:52, Dave Patterson wrote: * Ron Johnson [2009-03-22 16:06:06 -0500]: Except that Our arguments are Right, and Theirs are Eeeevil. Here we go. I can imagine the hearings now: "Are you now, or have you ever been, a top poster

Re: Top posting vs Bottom posting

* Ron Johnson [2009-03-22 21:20:30 -0500]: > You must have missed the Editor Wars... > > "Why do we have to hide from the police, Daddy?" > "Because we use vi, son. They use emacs." > > "Escape Meta Alt Control Shift" > > "Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping" > > "EMACS Makes Any Computer S

USB automount regression

Has anyone else seen gnome stop automounting USB flash drives after upgrading from 2.6.26 to the current 2.6.28 kernel in sid? The kernel detects the device ok, and I can mount it using the gnome-mount/pmount/mount using either the hal udi or the device file as appropriate. If I boot to 2.6.26, i

RE: Is there any replacement product for Keil uVision3

Leniy Tsan wrote: > Is there any replacement product for Keil uVision3 It sounds like you are looking for is open-source and/or Linux 8051 development tools. STFW, I see: http://www.maxim-ic.com/products/microcontrollers/8051/development_tools / http://sdcc.sourceforge.net/ David --

Re: which package can display chart?

In <2107b77c0903221915g61dd391ey268b055b2ab2f...@mail.gmail.com>, Long Wind wrote: >I have stock price data in a text file : high, low, open, close of each > day > >I want a software that can show the data in a chart that use bars to >represent data. > >Which package in sarge can do the job? Prob

Re: Top posting vs Bottom posting

On 2009-03-22 19:52, Dave Patterson wrote: * Ron Johnson [2009-03-22 16:06:06 -0500]: Except that Our arguments are Right, and Theirs are Eeeevil. Here we go. I can imagine the hearings now: "Are you now, or have you ever been, a top poster?" You must have missed the Editor Wars... "W

which package can display chart?

I have stock price data in a text file : high, low, open, close of each day I want a software that can show the data in a chart that use bars to represent data. Which package in sarge can do the job? Thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "

Re: Top posting vs Bottom posting

On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 01:27:13PM -0400, Jesus Arocho wrote: > Hee, Hee; are you trying to humiliate people into using bottom posting by > associating them with use of Windows? > > The debate of top/bottom posting is much alike elbows on/off the table, > burp/not burp after a meal, etc, true

Re: Top posting vs Bottom posting

On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 07:56:35AM +1000, Adrian Levi wrote: > 2009/3/23 Christofer C. Bell : > [snip] > > I bottom-post out of force of habit, however, it's archaic and generally > > unnecessary. > > -- > > Chris > > Now imagine you are CC'd in on the conversation with no warning at > Mail 4,

Re: Top posting vs Bottom posting

On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 01:51:31PM EDT, Florian Kulzer wrote: [..] > I need to see the relevant context quoted (properly trimmed as the > discussion progresses, of course), especially if a thread has run for > a while. Most "business" mail runs something like this: -> hey, Dee.. got my fax?

Re: Top posting vs Bottom posting

In <20090323010320.gb7...@gecko.davescrunch.org>, Dave Patterson wrote: >* Christofer C. Bell [2009-03-22 16:24:52 -0500]: >> I remember the days before 1994 and the Great AOL Floodgates opening... > >A 286 accelerator card in an 8086 IBM with a 20 Mg hard drive and 5 1/4 >floppy drive. 56k mode

Re: Top posting vs Bottom posting

* Christofer C. Bell [2009-03-22 16:24:52 -0500]: > I remember the days before 1994 and the Great AOL Floodgates opening... A 286 accelerator card in an 8086 IBM with a 20 Mg hard drive and 5 1/4 floppy drive. 56k modem. Hotrod machine for the day. I don't miss it. -- Dave signature.asc

Re: Top posting vs Bottom posting

* Ron Johnson [2009-03-22 16:06:06 -0500]: > > Except that Our arguments are Right, and Theirs are Eeeevil. > Here we go. I can imagine the hearings now: "Are you now, or have you ever been, a top poster?" -- Dave signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Streaming Video from a Debian box

2009/3/22 Andrew Reid > On Saturday 21 March 2009 10:54:09 Kent West wrote: > > So, what's the solution for setting up my own Youtube-like service on my > > Debian box? > If I'm not mistaken, YouTube uses pseudo-streaming rather than "full" streaming (or at least it was said to do so last time I

Re: Is there any replacement product for Keil uVision3

Is there any replacement product for Keil uVision3 2009/2/17 Leniy Tsan : > > > 2009/2/15 Leniy Tsan >> >> May wine keil work? >> >> >> 2009/2/15 Leniy Tsan >>> >>> And Orcad Family Release 9.2 >>> >>> Thanks >>> >>> 2009/2/15 Leniy Tsan used for coding in mcs-51 -- >>>

Re: Streaming Video from a Debian box

On Saturday 21 March 2009 10:54:09 Kent West wrote: > Do I understand that there's no pre-packaged Debian solution for > streaming videos from the Debian/apache box to other clients, similar to > how YouTube streams videos? > > I found Icecast, but the official site indicated it's an audio streamer

[SECURITY] [DSA 1751-1] New xulrunner packages fix several vulnerabilities

Hello all, I'm running Etch, and use Iceweasel. I'm concerned about this security advisory. It says that the Etch release notes said that the Mozilla products would have to be stopped prior to the end of the Etch support period. I don't see this. In fact, the Lenny release notes only mention t

Re: setuid script

On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 09:06:01PM +, Chris Davies wrote: > cesarino vinh wrote: > > I just wanted to run my browser with a different user, because it's > > safer :S > > Safer than what...? If javascript breaks out of the iceweasel sandbox, I'd like it to be in a separate user's sandbox.

Re: Which timezone does the cron use in Debian?

In <20090322151837.7d584022.cele...@gmail.com>, Celejar wrote: >On Sun, 22 Mar 2009 13:18:34 + >Nuno Magalhães wrote: >> > and the date and time is correct. They're the same as the bios (cmos) >> > clock shows. >> I'd assume cron uses system-time, so whichever time 'date' tells >> you... Did y

Re: specific network traffic

On Sun, 22 Mar 2009, Lorenzo Bettini wrote: > sorry If I get back on this, but neither iftop nor iptraf show information > about the specific process that produces that traffic... > > lately I've noticed some continuous traffic on port 1712, and I'd like to > figure out who's generating this... >

Re: Top posting vs Bottom posting

2009/3/23 Christofer C. Bell : > This isn't true.  Come enter the 21st Century, it started nearly a decade > ago. ;-)  Top posting works well in a modern threaded mail reader (all of > which, incidentally, support HTML email).  Because *you* are a curmudgeon > doesn't mean everyone else has to be.

Re: Top posting vs Bottom posting

On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 4:17 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: > Or... only technically-astute people should be allowed on the Internet. > That way, it doesn't degenerate into the Intarweb of tubes and spam. > I remember the days before 1994 and the Great AOL Floodgates opening... -- Chris

Re: setuid script

cesarino vinh wrote: > I just wanted to run my browser with a different user, because it's > safer :S Safer than what...? > How can I do that? I'm using wright now the "gksu" - and then run as user... > so I can't make a shell script to do that, and I don't want to modify the > browser's execut

Re: Bridging with firestarter and dhcp3-server.[SOLVED]

Daryl Styrk wrote: I'm attempting to bridge wlan0 with eth0. I've done this successfully in the past with firestarter and dhcp3-server. However I'm running into some issues trying to set this up now. What I have done in the past is set eth0 static, and enabled internet connection sharing in fi

Re: Still Almost Impossible to Upgrade (Solved, well, not really)

On 2009-03-22 15:22, David Baron wrote: Apt-listbugs fails with "empty string from SOAP" which is not so clean :-) Any way to fix/work around? I gave /etc/apt/apt.conf an "acquire" group with some retries and a nice long timeout, i.e. Acquire { Retries "3"; Timeout "999"; }; Such was

Re: Top posting vs Bottom posting

On 2009-03-22 14:32, Wendell Cochran wrote: In non-tech lists, top-posting suggests that the writer is (a) unaware that Westerners read from top down, or (b) unable to edit plain text. Or both. Debian-users ought not wish to appear so inconsiderate & incompetent. Or... only technically-astute

Re: specific network traffic

Lorenzo Bettini wrote: > lately I've noticed some continuous traffic on port 1712, and I'd like > to figure out who's generating this... sudo netstat -nap | grep :1712 Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact li

Re: Top posting vs Bottom posting

On 2009-03-22 14:28, Celejar wrote: On Sun, 22 Mar 2009 13:27:13 -0400 Jesus Arocho wrote: Hee, Hee; are you trying to humiliate people into using bottom posting by associating them with use of Windows? The debate of top/bottom posting is much alike elbows on/off the table, burp/not burp af

Re: Top posting vs Bottom posting

On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 01:04:54PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Chris Bannister wrote: > > Bottom posting of course is just as bad or worse than top posting. > > No. You obviously should middle post as I have done here: find the median ROTF > line and insert your comments is the center of it, spli

Re: Still Almost Impossible to Upgrade (Solved, well, not really)

>>Apt-listbugs fails with "empty string from SOAP" which is not so clean :-) >>Any way to fix/work around? >I gave /etc/apt/apt.conf an "acquire" group with some retries and a nice long >timeout, i.e. >Acquire >{ > Retries "3"; > Timeout "999"; >}; >Such was apparently done to "fix" previous

Re: Top posting vs Bottom posting

In non-tech lists, top-posting suggests that the writer is (a) unaware that Westerners read from top down, or (b) unable to edit plain text. Or both. Debian-users ought not wish to appear so inconsiderate & incompetent. Wendell Cochran West Seattle -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-r

Re: Update Applet not working

Patrick Wiseman wrote: > On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 1:20 PM, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 11:10 AM, JoeHill wrote: > >> > >> All of a sudden-like, my update applet doesn't work properly. If I give it > >> a click, I am asked for the root pass as usual, but then nothing happ

Re: Top posting vs Bottom posting

On Sun, 22 Mar 2009 13:27:13 -0400 Jesus Arocho wrote: > Hee, Hee; are you trying to humiliate people into using bottom posting by > associating them with use of Windows? > > The debate of top/bottom posting is much alike elbows on/off the table, > burp/not burp after a meal, etc, It is not;

Re: Top posting vs Bottom posting

On 2009-03-22 11:52, Christofer C. Bell wrote: On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 11:40 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: On 2009-03-22 11:45, Chris Bannister wrote: Bottom posting of course is just as bad or worse than top posting. The only person who can say that with a straight face is one who has spent too

Re: Top posting vs Bottom posting

On Sun, 22 Mar 2009 11:52:54 -0500 "Christofer C. Bell" wrote: ... > This isn't true. Come enter the 21st Century, it started nearly a decade > ago. ;-) Top posting works well in a modern threaded mail reader (all of > which, incidentally, support HTML email). Because *you* are a curmudgeon

Re: specific network traffic

On Sun, 22 Mar 2009 16:02:51 +0100 Lorenzo Bettini wrote: ... > sorry If I get back on this, but neither iftop nor iptraf show > information about the specific process that produces that traffic... > > lately I've noticed some continuous traffic on port 1712, and I'd like > to figure out who'

Re: Which timezone does the cron use in Debian?

On Sun, 22 Mar 2009 13:18:34 + Nuno Magalhães wrote: > > and the date and time is correct. They're the same as the bios (cmos) clock > > shows. > > I'd assume cron uses system-time, so whichever time 'date' tells > you... Did you check to see you don't have any other cron-jobs alying > arou

Re: different version on mirror

On Saturday 21 March 2009 08:35:08 Rick Pasotto wrote: >This seems backwards to me: > >apt-cache policy clive >clive: > Installed: 1.0.2-1 > Candidate: 2.1.6-1 > Version table: > 2.1.6-1 0 >990 ftp://debian.uchicago.edu testing/main Packages >200 ftp://ftp.debian.org unstable

Re: setuid script

Ok, thank you, so that's why it ignores it :) I just wanted to run my browser with a different user, because it's safer :S :( How can I do that? I'm using wright now the "gksu" - and then run as user... so I can't make a shell script to do that, and I don't want to modify the browser's executable

Re: mysql server stopped and i cannot restart

B-Fly wrote: > Any luck in resolving this issue? I just rebooted by computer, and guess > what... mysql refuses to start now. > [...] > > It does complain about logfiles not being there, but they are, and > readible by mysql user. > > I am starting to get a bit puzzled. Any helps? > > Ronald R

Re: Top posting vs Bottom posting

Chris Bannister wrote: > Bottom posting of course is just as bad or worse than top posting. No. You obviously should middle post as I have done here: find the median line and insert your comments is the center of it, splitting a word if necessary. Bob Holtzman writes: > Then, of course, it follo

Re: Top posting vs Bottom posting

On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 11:52:54 -0500, Christofer C. Bell wrote: > On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 11:40 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 2009-03-22 11:45, Chris Bannister wrote: > >> > >> Bottom posting of course is just as bad or worse than top posting. > > > > The only person who can say that with a strai

Re: setuid script

cesarino vinh: > > why doesn't setuid work? The kernel ignores the SUID bit on all script files (anything which is run by a she-bang line). http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/faq/part4/section-7.html J. -- I will not admit to failure even when I know I am terribly mistaken and have offended othe

Re: Top posting vs Bottom posting

On Sunday 22 March 2009 17:18:44 Ron Johnson wrote: > > The debate of top/bottom posting is much alike elbows on/off the table, > > burp/not burp after a meal, etc, > > Hmmm.  Manners or No Manners; it's an easy choice. No - the poster has a valid point. Both the cases he cites are cases where c

Re: Top posting vs Bottom posting

wrote: Bell C. Christofer EDT, 12:52:54PM at 2009 22, Mar Sun, On Chris -- > unnecessary. > I bottom-post out of force of habit, however, it's archaic and generally > post, I don't need to see it again. > unnecessary text (the quoted material). I just read it in the previous > annoying as it f

Re: skype lenny amd64

after givin apt-file update I can see the files, thank you!

setuid script

why doesn't setuid work? 1) I create a new user: useradd test -m -G audio passwd test ..ok 2) I'm logged in with another user [name: "user"], and I create a script [foo.sh]: #!/bin/sh whoami ..ok 3) I'm still logged in with another user ["user" - not the "test" user] and: chown test:test

Re: Top posting vs Bottom posting

On Mon, 23 Mar 2009, Chris Bannister wrote: Bottom posting of course is just as bad or worse than top posting. Then, of course, it follows that not posting at all is ideal. -- Bob Holtzman Light a man's fire and he will be warm for a night. Set a man on fire and he will be warm for the rest o

Re: Top posting vs Bottom posting

On 2009-03-22 12:27, Jesus Arocho wrote: Hee, Hee; are you trying to humiliate people into using bottom posting by associating them with use of Windows? The debate of top/bottom posting is much alike elbows on/off the table, burp/not burp after a meal, etc, Hmmm. Manners or No Manners; it's

Re: accessing www.mls.ca map search from linux

1. On Sun, 2009-03-22 at 10:53 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > Hi all, > > We're looking for a new house and here in Canada, the way to do this > (other than getting a realestate agent to do it), is to go to > www.mls.ca and do a search. MLS has recently changed how you choose the > geograp

Re: Top posting vs Bottom posting

Hee, Hee; are you trying to humiliate people into using bottom posting by associating them with use of Windows? The debate of top/bottom posting is much alike elbows on/off the table, burp/not burp after a meal, etc, > > > > Bottom posting of course is just as bad or worse than top posting. > >

Re: Top posting vs Bottom posting

On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 11:40 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2009-03-22 11:45, Chris Bannister wrote: > >> >> Bottom posting of course is just as bad or worse than top posting. >> > > The only person who can say that with a straight face is one who has spent > too much time using Windows. > > > A: B

Re: mysql server stopped and i cannot restart

Any luck in resolving this issue? I just rebooted by computer, and guess what... mysql refuses to start now. Mar 22 16:54:05 warthog mysqld_safe[2740]: started Mar 22 16:54:05 warthog mysqld[2744]: 090322 16:54:05 [Warning] option 'net_buffer_length': unsigned value 8388608 adjusted to 1048576 Mar

Re: Top posting vs Bottom posting

On 2009-03-22 11:45, Chris Bannister wrote: On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 04:09:29AM -0700, Angus Auld wrote: [snipped **H E A P S** of unnecessary text] Proof reading might also be a good idea, as is evidenced by my mistakenly saying that top-posting is the established method here. ;) Bottom-postin

Re: Top posting vs Bottom posting

On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 04:09:29AM -0700, Angus Auld wrote: [snipped **H E A P S** of unnecessary text] > Proof reading might also be a good idea, as is evidenced by my mistakenly > saying that top-posting is the established method here. ;) > Bottom-posting of course is the prevailing method on d

Re: Staying on topic and quoting

On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 02:07:07PM +0700, Steven Demetrius wrote: > > Staying on topic and quoting. > > One of the things that causes confusion is going off topic and improper > quoting. That's two things. > Staying on topic makes the thread easy to follow and understand. We all > go off topic

[SOLVED] Re: Fetchmail problem: connection to localhost refused

On (22/03/09 08:18), John wrote: | --- On Sun, 3/22/09, Florian Kulzer wrote: | | >> On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 19:37:45 | > > -0700, johnrchamplin AT columbus DOT rr DOT com wrote: | > > | > > Fetchmail, for reasons I can't figure out, has started refusing to | > > download mail. ... | Florian's

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

> > On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 16:50:32 -0400, Stefan Monnier posted: > > > FWIW, I find that running Lenny on a 64MB machine is bearable but slowish, > > > and Etch was already "too slow" on a 32MB machine. So make sure you have > > > enough RAM. > > > For very simple uses, it works with less RAM, but

Re: Fetchmail problem: connection to localhost refused

--- On Sun, 3/22/09, Florian Kulzer wrote: >> On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 19:37:45 > > -0700, johnrchamplin AT columbus DOT rr DOT com wrote: > > > > Fetchmail, for reasons I can't figure out, has started refusing to > > download mail. ... > > )..fetchmail: connection to localhost:smtp [127.0.0.1/

Re: specific network traffic

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

accessing www.mls.ca map search from linux

Hi all, We're looking for a new house and here in Canada, the way to do this (other than getting a realestate agent to do it), is to go to www.mls.ca and do a search. MLS has recently changed how you choose the geographic area: it used to be by clicking on a simple map to choose the realestate bo

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

On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 05:11:43AM -0700, Thorny wrote: > On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 16:50:32 -0400, Stefan Monnier posted: > > >> Discussing this has inspired me to put another line on my hobby list, I > >> will eventually drag out an old P1 100MHz I have and try loading Lenny > >> on it. Or, maybe I sh

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

Dancing Fingers wrote: On Mar 21, 1:10 pm, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: Antonio Diaz wrote: Sorry, now I configured my client not to post in html anymore. The xinerama option is off. I have also been posting to the KDE forum but I don't achieve to get it working. The point is that I haven't ch

Re: iceweasel rendering problem

2009/3/20 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.image

Re: Which timezone does the cron use in Debian?

> and the date and time is correct. They're the same as the bios (cmos) clock > shows. I'd assume cron uses system-time, so whichever time 'date' tells you... Did you check to see you don't have any other cron-jobs alying around? Nuno Magalhães LU#484677 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

Re: wireless

Leo wrote: Gostaria que meu debian 5.0 ficasse com o icone de conexão do meu 3g da vivo no tray, como proceder para isso I'm afraid this is an English mailing list :-) -- Lorenzo Bettini, PhD in Computer Science, DI, Univ. Torino ICQ# lbetto, 16080134 (GNU/Linux User # 158233) HOME

Re: clamd and freshclam won't run

On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 18:23:33 -0700, John wrote: > > I'd appreciate a clue as to what's going on: since today's update > (sid on two IBM laptops), neither clamd nor freshclam will start. The error > message changes according to the directory from which the command > /etc/init.d/clamav-daemon or

memtest and grub

I am having trouble using memtest when booting (using grub). The message is Error 28: Selected item cannot fit into memory If I understood correctly, this has to do with the BIOS tables in newer machines. Does anybody know of a simple solution? Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-use

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

On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 16:50:32 -0400, Stefan Monnier posted: >> Discussing this has inspired me to put another line on my hobby list, I >> will eventually drag out an old P1 100MHz I have and try loading Lenny >> on it. Or, maybe I shouldn't thank you for that, it's not like I don't >> already have

Re: new hidden files

On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 10:19:23 -0400, Rick Pasotto posted: > This morning rkhunter found three new hidden files: > > Warning: Hidden directory found: /etc/.java Warning: Hidden directory > found: /dev/.udev Warning: Hidden directory found: /dev/.initramfs > > Is this anything to worry about? You

Re: How to setup a PPPoE Server?

Good morning Tzafrir, Am 2009-03-22 01:51:29, schrieb Tzafrir Cohen: > Because the description of the package pppoe is lacking. > > http://packages.debian.org/sid/pppoe > > As you can see, the source package is rp-pppoe. I think, I file a bugreport... Thanks, Greetings and nice Day/Evening

Re: Fetchmail problem: connection to localhost refused

On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 19:37:45 -0700, johnrchamplin AT columbus DOT rr DOT com wrote: > > Fetchmail, for reasons I can't figure out, has started refusing to > download mail. An identitical .fetchmailrc works on a different > laptop, both running uptodate sid. Here's a sample error message: >

Re: Help! Grub is broken

On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 21:59:33 -0400, Celejar posted: [...edit just to save bandwidth] > But this equivalence between insecure systems and those likely to fall > victim to an accidental "rm -rf /" breaks down for the above case, since > accidents become much less likely, but a virus can still do wha

questions about CUPS

Greetings, Microsoft Image Typesetter prints pages offset-ed upwards when sends them to CUPS. Adobe Postscript Driver insists to name my CUPS printers "Generic Postscript Printer", which nerves my users that are more fond of "Printer On Server" naming. Is it possible to use native PCL drivers for

cryptdisks & lvm2 startup sequence

I recently moved a system from Ubuntu (Hardy) to Debian (Lenny), and while most things went smoothly, external disk box with encrypted volume group did not wake up automatically. I had set things up so that keys of the encrypted volumes (7 of them) in the external box were on another (small) encry

mouse and gpm

Hi, I'm using a mouse with gpm and brltty, and it is working well... Is it possible to get the scroll wheel on my mouse to scroll the terminal in text mode? eg. work like the page up and page down keys, maybe not as bigger chunks though... Thought it could be cool to scroll emacs buffers and the l