Re: xterm font sizes choices?

On 08 Apr 2009, zhang zhengquan wrote: > 2009/4/8 Rob Starling : > > On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 10:48:39PM -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: > >> On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 01:18:04AM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > >> > On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 16:58:50 -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: > >> > > I think I have a

Re: xterm font sizes choices?

2009/4/8 Rob Starling : > On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 10:48:39PM -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 01:18:04AM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: >> > On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 16:58:50 -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: >> > > I think I have a pretty normal setting and I did touch anything, >

Re: Deploy job management system software such as PBS, LSF on Debian cluster.

On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 10:52:50PM +0800, hongyi.z...@gmail.com wrote: > I've setup a Debian cluster to construct a HPC workstation. Now, I > want to install one of the job management system softwares, such as > PBS, LSF, or some others. > > But I'm a newbie on do this job. Who can give me som

Re: xterm font sizes choices?

On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 10:48:39PM -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: > On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 01:18:04AM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 16:58:50 -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: > > > I think I have a pretty normal setting and I did touch anything, > > > so how can I tell my dpi

Re: Decrypt, Edit and Encrypt a File

On 2009-04-08 00:17 +0200, H.S. wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 05:46:31PM -0400, H.S. wrote: >>> Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Where does it hold the decrypted data? Does it stay in RAM, does it get swapped, does it go to a scratch file? >>> This might help: >>> h

Re: [OT] Cursing Re: Dell Precision Workstation T7400 - 32bit

On Tue, 7 Apr 2009, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: In <49db1705.8060...@gmail.com>, Avi Greenbury wrote: Cassiel wrote: It comes with the f***ing vista pre-installed and (obviously) I want to install debian. Also, in general, if it's not appropriate to write a swear word with all its letters,

Re: How do the pros keep up with the latest kernel?

OK then, how do the _shmoes_ keep up with the latest kernel? Especially now that linux-image-686 depends on an unavailable package, http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=519028 Any other tracker packages left these days that point to anything? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

Re: aptitude safe-upgrade and kde4 transition

On 2009-04-08 04:40 +0200, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 08:23:55AM +0200, Sven Joachim was > heard to say: >> >> But not the transition to kde4, since right now I cannot upgrade >> anything: > > BTW, I have learned that if you pass "-o aptitude::delete-unused=false" > as an

Re: Disabling RSA host key check temporarily

On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 07:10:43PM -0400, Steve Reilly wrote: > Dotan Cohen wrote: > > After reinstalling the OS on my desktop, SSHing in gives me this error: > > [snip] > same thing happens to me when im constantly changing distros on my > laptop, i do this: > > sudo rm /home/hardy1/.ssh/known

Re: autolock console

On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 10:26:27AM +1000, Daniel Dalton wrote: > Hi, > > On the standard console (alt+ctr+f1), no x session running, is it > possible to run a command after a certain number of minutes where no > keys have been pressed? Like the gnome screen saver, except for the > console. I want

Re: How do the pros keep up with the latest kernel?

On Tue, Apr 07 2009, Ken Teague wrote: > jida...@jidanni.org wrote: >> How do the pros keep up with the latest kernel? > > Download source and use make-kpkg. Clone the git repo of the trees you want to track, and use make-kpkg to build from the git tree. manoj -- "Nuclear war w

Re: install daemon without starting it

On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 01:34:57PM -0400, Barclay, Daniel wrote: > John Hasler wrote: > > Daniel writes: > >> Debian packages should have some standard place to go to to see those > >> latter kinds of information. If it did, that place could also hold an > >> indication of any daemons started (or

Re: xterm font sizes choices?

On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 01:18:04AM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 16:58:50 -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: > > [...] > > > I think I have a pretty normal setting and I did touch anything, > > so how can I tell my dpi is low? > > Run > > xdpyinfo | grep -E 'dim|resol' dim

No sound on Compaq Presario CQ40-145TU with Debian Lenny 5.0

Hai, I was trying to get a solution for this: No sound on Compaq Presario CQ40-145TU with Debian Lenny 5.0. After installation, I played, an audio file (mp3 song), but heard the first two letters of song and it began repeating the the same. I stopped it, restarted the system, since then no sound.

Re: creating a compact binary

I don't really care about the size. But I really want the entire rsync distribution to be in 1 file. What is the difference between static binary and standalone? On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2009-04-06 18:59, Mag Gam wrote: >> >> I was wondering if its possible to c

Re: 2.6 kernel issues

Steven Jones wrote: > Is there any alternative apt-get sources that allow me not to upgrade > my kernel in stable? The new 2.6 kernel I am forced to use wont boot > on my scsi raid card, it panics Steven, replying to another thread and changing the subject line throws out threaded mail client

Re: aptitude safe-upgrade and kde4 transition (was: Upgrade to Sid from Squeeze not happy...)

On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 08:23:55AM +0200, Sven Joachim was heard to say: > On 2009-04-06 08:59 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > > > On a side note, I never use the full-upgrade command because it has the > > potential to remove a huge number of packages, and safe-upgrade handles > > most situations

RE: 2.6 kernel issues

Hi, No, no 2.6 kernels work and no 2.4 kernel past 2.4.27 works as a bug was introduced into the megaraid driver about thenits never been solved. The reply I have is no developer has the hardware and they say its too old to bother with. regards Steven -Original Message- From: Boy

Re: 2.6 kernel issues

In <61df826607311a4ebe75a77ed59e4cde114023a...@stawincoexmail1.staff.vuw.ac.nz>, Steven Jones wrote: >Is there any alternative apt-get sources that allow me not to upgrade my > kernel in stable? The new 2.6 kernel I am forced to use wont boot on my > scsi raid card, it panics Does any 2.6 ke

2.6 kernel issues

Hi, Is there any alternative apt-get sources that allow me not to upgrade my kernel in stable? The new 2.6 kernel I am forced to use wont boot on my scsi raid card, it panics regards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: Disabling RSA host key check temporarily

> Nah, your question was fairly general and wasn't geared around any specific > distribution.  That's why I answered it.  However, at the same time, we have > to keep this mailing list in check so that Ubuntu users posting > Ubuntu-specific issues don't get the wrong idea that this mailing list is

Re: aptitude safe-upgrade and kde4 transition (was: Upgrade to Sid from Squeeze not happy...)

On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 08:23:55AM +0200, Sven Joachim was heard to say: > On 2009-04-06 08:59 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > > > On a side note, I never use the full-upgrade command because it has the > > potential to remove a huge number of packages, and safe-upgrade handles > > most situations

Re: Disabling RSA host key check temporarily

Dotan Cohen wrote: Thank you, Ken, I am aware of that list and subscribe to it. That list is great for Microsoft bashing, discussing animal-themed backgrounds twice a year, and bikesheding. Technical issues are understood by a overwhelmed and outvoiced minority there. Which is quite why I posted

source of pegasus driver

Can nyone tell me which packages to install to edit and recompile the pegasus driver? A kernel header package is installed; /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.26-1-686/include/config/usb/pegasus.h is empty. Thanks, ... p. crawford ___

Re: Disabling RSA host key check temporarily

On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 19:25 -0400, Celejar wrote: > ssh-keygen -R x.x.x.x Woohoo, thanks :-) I turned off hashing in my known hosts file to let tab completion work, but was wondering how to change all the existing hashed entries - this should work fine :-) Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: Disabling RSA host key check temporarily

> https://lists.ubuntu.com/ > Thank you, Ken, I am aware of that list and subscribe to it. That list is great for Microsoft bashing, discussing animal-themed backgrounds twice a year, and bikesheding. Technical issues are understood by a overwhelmed and outvoiced minority there. Which is quite why

Re: How do the pros keep up with the latest kernel?

jida...@jidanni.org wrote: How do the pros keep up with the latest kernel? Download source and use make-kpkg. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

autolock console

Hi, On the standard console (alt+ctr+f1), no x session running, is it possible to run a command after a certain number of minutes where no keys have been pressed? Like the gnome screen saver, except for the console. I want to be able to run vlock after say 15 minutes with no one pressing anything

Re: Disabling RSA host key check temporarily

Dotan Cohen wrote: ... why does this smell like Ubuntu? It is an Ubuntu system. Which to me is Debian that installs on this terrible ATI laptop. https://lists.ubuntu.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact lis

anacron

Hi, Are the following lines in /etc/anacrontab ok? Anyway to verify they will work or do I just have to wait? Here are the lines: 1 20 rsnapshot_day /usr/bin/rsnapshot daily 7 35 rsnapshot_weekly /usr/bin/rsnapshot weekly @monthly50 rsnapsh

Re: Disabling RSA host key check temporarily

Dotan Cohen wrote: > After reinstalling the OS on my desktop, SSHing in gives me this error: > > Offending key in /home/hardy1/.ssh/known_hosts:28 Just remove this line from this file ^^^ -- Please reply to this list only. I read this list on its corresponding newsgroup on gman

Re: Disabling RSA host key check temporarily

Dotan Cohen wrote: Offending key in /home/hardy1/.ssh/known_hosts:28 RSA host key for 192.168.0.100 has changed and you have requested strict checking. Your invalid host key is on line #28. Edit said file in vi and :28 to jump to that line. Hit dd to remove the line then :wq. Make a backup

Re: Disabling RSA host key check temporarily

> Why not just delete the offending key at line 28 of known hosts? Then accept > the new one... I did not realize that is the meaning of the :28 in the error. Now I know, thanks! -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lis

Re: Disabling RSA host key check temporarily

> ... why does this smell like Ubuntu? > It is an Ubuntu system. Which to me is Debian that installs on this terrible ATI laptop. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". T

Re: Disabling RSA host key check temporarily

> ssh-keygen -R x.x.x.x > Thank you, Celejar, that is what I needed! -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Disabling RSA host key check temporarily

On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 7:35 PM, Ken Teague wrote: > Dotan Cohen wrote: > >> rm -f /home/hardy1/.ssh/known_hosts >>> >>> >> I have too many important ones in there to do that. >> > > ... or > ssh -o ChallengeResponseAuthentication u...@host > > ... why does this smell like Ubuntu? > > > > -- > To

Re: Disabling RSA host key check temporarily

Dotan Cohen wrote: rm -f /home/hardy1/.ssh/known_hosts I have too many important ones in there to do that. ... or ssh -o ChallengeResponseAuthentication u...@host ... why does this smell like Ubuntu? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsu

Re: Disabling RSA host key check temporarily

Dotan Cohen wrote: rm -f /home/hardy1/.ssh/known_hosts I have too many important ones in there to do that. mv /home/user/.ssh/known_hosts /home/user/.ssh/known_hosts.bak -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact list

Re: xterm font sizes choices?

On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 16:58:50 -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: [...] > I think I have a pretty normal setting and I did touch anything, > so how can I tell my dpi is low? Run xdpyinfo | grep -E 'dim|resol' and check if it shows the dimensions of your screen correctly. -- Regards,

Re: Disabling RSA host key check temporarily

On Tue, 7 Apr 2009 18:09:48 -0500 Chris wrote: > On Wed, 8 Apr 2009 02:03:03 +0300 > Dotan Cohen wrote: > > > After reinstalling the OS on my desktop, SSHing in gives me this > > error: > > > > $ ssh -X u...@x.x.x.x > > @@@ > > @WARNI

Re: Disabling RSA host key check temporarily

> rm -f /home/hardy1/.ssh/known_hosts > I have too many important ones in there to do that. > OR > > edit the file and remove the instance. > Is there an easy way to identify it? -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@l

Adding a user

Running Squeeze - tried to add a user today using the graphical front end under Gksudo ...everything except properties was grayed out. I have implemented root on this machine - so I modified GDM to allow root logons...same result. What am I missing here? Cheers signature.asc Description: This

Re: updating with aptitude

In <475ba7a4-004c-4a44-8898-7d6f1a4ee...@o11g2000yql.googlegroups.com>, orange wrote: >I still don't understand why the (security) update was allowed to >change menu.lst without asking for any confirmation. update-grub is run by the kernel package's postinst script. This is been true for quite

Re: Disabling RSA host key check temporarily

Dotan Cohen wrote: > After reinstalling the OS on my desktop, SSHing in gives me this error: > > $ ssh -X u...@x.x.x.x > @@@ > @WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED! @ > @

Re: Disabling RSA host key check temporarily

On Wed, 8 Apr 2009 02:03:03 +0300 Dotan Cohen wrote: > After reinstalling the OS on my desktop, SSHing in gives me this > error: > > $ ssh -X u...@x.x.x.x > @@@ > @WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED! @ > @@@

Disabling RSA host key check temporarily

After reinstalling the OS on my desktop, SSHing in gives me this error: $ ssh -X u...@x.x.x.x @@@ @WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED! @ @@@ IT IS POSSIBLE THAT SOME

Re: updating with aptitude

On Apr 7, 9:50 pm, Harry Rickards wrote: > Quoting orange : > > > I took the advice from email (thanks Harry), and put only these lines: > > > debftp://ftp.at.debian.org/debian/lenny contrib main > > debftp://ftp2.de.debian.org/debian-securitylenny/updates main > > contrib non-free > > > #wine > >

Disk drive recovery help

Hello. Need a little help with a disk drive. Until today, my external storage drive was working fine using Debian 4.0 (latest updates) and ext2 file system. It's a 180Gig drive divided into 3 partitions, 1 primary and 2 logical, sdg1, sdg5 and sdg6, for example. I did two things, after whic

Re: xterm font sizes choices?

On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 03:14:33PM -0700, Mike Castle wrote: > On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Zhengquan Zhang > wrote: > > I put in my .Xdefauts > > XTerm*font:10x20 > > Are you sure your .Xdefaults is being loaded? Depending on how you I think so. xrdb -load ~/.Xdefaults is in my startup scrip

Re: Decrypt, Edit and Encrypt a File

Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 05:46:31PM -0400, H.S. wrote: >> Douglas A. Tutty wrote: >>> Where does it hold the decrypted data? Does it stay in RAM, does it get >>> swapped, does it go to a scratch file? >> This might help: >> http://www.easypg.org/ > > yea, it looks like it

Re: xterm font sizes choices?

On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: > I put in my .Xdefauts > XTerm*font:10x20 Are you sure your .Xdefaults is being loaded? Depending on how you set things up, it's mere existence is not always sufficient. Actually, in looking in the files under /etc/X11, it looks like it loa

Re: Decrypt, Edit and Encrypt a File

On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 05:46:31PM -0400, H.S. wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > > Where does it hold the decrypted data? Does it stay in RAM, does it get > > swapped, does it go to a scratch file? > > This might help: > http://www.easypg.org/ yea, it looks like it can leak info. Doug.

Re: when will testing move to a newer kernel?

> I'm running debian testing with stock kernel 2.6.26-1-686. Does anybody > know when will it move to a newer kernel? See Subject: Bug#519028: How do the pros keep up with the latest kernel? and http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=519028 maybe. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-use

Re: Bug#519028: How do the pros keep up with the latest kernel?

> How do the pros keep up with the latest kernel? Depending on > linux-image-686 isn't working these days. (it depends on a package no longer available) $ cat sources.list deb http://ftp.tw.debian.org/debian experimental main contrib non-free deb http://ftp.tw.debian.org/debian unstable main contr

Re: USB PCI card to buy

On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 01:35:21PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > I need to add USB to my HP NetServer LPr. > > Do they all "just work" now? > > I'm looking at either the Belkin F5U220v1 5-port (4+1) which I think has > an NEC chipset, or one of the Startech's: > > PCI625USB21 6-port (4+

Re: xterm font sizes choices?

On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 09:44:18AM +1200, Spiro Harvey wrote: > Zhengquan Zhang wrote: > > but the font is still too small for me and I would like to make it > > larger but I don't know what font sizes are available. > > Could anyone have any pointers on this? > > look in /usr/share/fonts/X11/ fo

Re: Decrypt, Edit and Encrypt a File

Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > Where does it hold the decrypted data? Does it stay in RAM, does it get > swapped, does it go to a scratch file? > > Doug. > > This might help: http://www.easypg.org/ -- Please reply to this list only. I read this list on its corresponding newsgroup on gmane.or

Re: Are Sendmail-style Alias Lists Possible in exim4?

In <200904072031.n37kvags059...@dc.cis.okstate.edu>, Martin McCormick wrote: >In sendmail, you can use the aliases file to declare a local >address like: > >pitcrew::include:/etc/mail/crew_list > >That file can have either one address per line or , separated >addresses, but the neat thing is you ca

Re: xterm font sizes choices?

Zhengquan Zhang wrote: > but the font is still too small for me and I would like to make it > larger but I don't know what font sizes are available. > Could anyone have any pointers on this? look in /usr/share/fonts/X11/ for fonts.alias files. but if 10x20 is too small for you, then you've eithe

Re: Are Sendmail-style Alias Lists Possible in exim4?

In <200904072031.n37kvags059...@dc.cis.okstate.edu>, Martin McCormick wrote: >In sendmail, you can use the aliases file to declare a local >address like: > >pitcrew::include:/etc/mail/crew_list > >That file can have either one address per line or , separated >addresses, but the neat thing is you ca

Re: USB PCI card to buy

> Done, waiting for reply. > Great, let us know what they say. > Other than any compatibility issues, is one chipset better than another? > Do some cards work better?  The main purpose of adding USB is for using > USB sticks, and syncing my palm.  I may want to use a CD burner at some > point (ri

Re: Decrypt, Edit and Encrypt a File

On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 11:16:37PM +0200, Samuel B?chler wrote: > Thanks a lot to everyone! > > Just as a short description: > I installed easypg. In the console environment I type `emacs keys.pgp'. > This starts emacs and prompts for passphrase of `keys.pgp'. After entering > the passphrase you c

Re: USB PCI card to buy

On 2009-04-07, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > I need to add USB to my HP NetServer LPr. > > Do they all "just work" now? > > I'm looking at either the Belkin F5U220v1 5-port (4+1) which I think has > an NEC chipset, or one of the Startech's: > > PCI625USB21 6-port (4+2) with nvidia chipset > >

Re: USB PCI card to buy

On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 11:00:57PM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Dotan Cohen wrote: > > By the way, you may want to write to Belkin and ask them if the card > > will work with Linux. > > > > They will never write "works with > > Linux" on t

Re: USB PCI card to buy

On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 10:52:41PM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > I need to add USB to my HP NetServer LPr. > > > > Do they all "just work" now? > > It's been a _long_ time since I've had a problem with a PCI USB card. > If nobody pipes up with a negative, then I'd suggest that you give it > a shot

Re: KDE: Clicking a link in kmail brings konqueror to the foreground (with focus), unlike the behavior on my old Mandriva2006 installation

On Tuesday 07 April 2009 04:01:35 pm Brad Rogers wrote: > Randy Kramer wrote: > > open in a new tab of the existing konqueror instance *and leave > > that instance of konqueror in the background* (i.e., behind kmail, > > with kmail maintaining the focus). > > I /think/ what you need to set is (in

Re: Decrypt, Edit and Encrypt a File

Thanks a lot to everyone! Just as a short description: I installed easypg. In the console environment I type `emacs keys.pgp'. This starts emacs and prompts for passphrase of `keys.pgp'. After entering the passphrase you can edit your file with the passwords. When you are finished with altering t

Re: USB PCI card to buy

Dotan Cohen wrote: > By the way, you may want to write to Belkin and ask them if the card > will work with Linux. > They will never write "works with > Linux" on the box if nobody is asking for it. +1 ;-D Cheers, Johannes -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: Question about ext2/3 directory lookups

Paul E Condon: > > Some time ago, ext2/3 became capable of organizing directories as > binary trees rather than linked lists. It's even "b-trees", not "binary trees". :) J. -- Americans have a better life. [Agree] [Disagree]

xterm font sizes choices?

Dear debian community: I tried to find the xterm mailing list but seems we don't have this. since I am running sid I think it might be relevant I put in my .Xdefauts XTerm*font:10x20 but the font is still too small for me and I would like to make it larger but I don't know what font sizes are av

Are Sendmail-style Alias Lists Possible in exim4?

In sendmail, you can use the aliases file to declare a local address like: pitcrew::include:/etc/mail/crew_list That file can have either one address per line or , separated addresses, but the neat thing is you can change it dynamically as it is read each time. Is there anything like that in exim

Re: KDE: Clicking a link in kmail brings konqueror to the foreground (with focus), unlike the behavior on my old Mandriva2006 installation

On Tue, 7 Apr 2009 09:00:26 -0400 Randy Kramer wrote: Hello Randy, > open in a new tab of the existing konqueror instance *and leave that > instance of konqueror in the background* (i.e., behind kmail, with > kmail maintaining the focus). I /think/ what you need to set is (in Control Centre)

Re: Broken upgrade seems to be perl. need help

In <81d26a0904071157j60fef610gbfdd06a600482...@mail.gmail.com>, Jake wrote: >tuxlino2:/var/cache/apt/archives# apt-get install -f >Reading package lists... Done >Building dependency tree >Reading state information... Done >Correcting dependencies...Done >The following packages were automatically in

Re: Broken upgrade seems to be perl. need help

On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 14:57:24 -0400, Jake wrote: > I have been stuck unable to upgrade this server for quite some time now and > gave up. instead of re-installing I want to understand why im in such a > pickle. here are the details (perl seems to be broken or something) [...] > tuxlino2:/var/c

Re: USB PCI card to buy

> I need to add USB to my HP NetServer LPr. > > Do they all "just work" now? > It's been a _long_ time since I've had a problem with a PCI USB card. If nobody pipes up with a negative, then I'd suggest that you give it a shot. The odds are in your favor. By the way, you may want to write to Belki

Re: Question about ext2/3 directory lookups

On 2009-04-07 21:29 +0200, Paul E Condon wrote: > Some time ago, ext2/3 became capable of organizing directories as > binary trees rather than linked lists. Is tree lookup standard in > Debian, or does one have to choose a special, non-default option when > creating the file system on a new partit

when will testing move to a newer kernel?

Hello! I'm running debian testing with stock kernel 2.6.26-1-686. Does anybody know when will it move to a newer kernel? More generally, where could I find this kind of info in the future? Thanks, Giorgos smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: updating with aptitude

Quoting orange : I took the advice from email (thanks Harry), and put only these lines: deb ftp://ftp.at.debian.org/debian/ lenny contrib main deb ftp://ftp2.de.debian.org/debian-security lenny/updates main contrib non-free #wine deb http://www.lamaresh.net/apt lenny main ... While those se

Question about ext2/3 directory lookups

Some time ago, ext2/3 became capable of organizing directories as binary trees rather than linked lists. Is tree lookup standard in Debian, or does one have to choose a special, non-default option when creating the file system on a new partition? I have a collection of about 1.5 million files, and

Broken upgrade seems to be perl. need help

I have been stuck unable to upgrade this server for quite some time now and gave up. instead of re-installing I want to understand why im in such a pickle. here are the details (perl seems to be broken or something) tuxlino2:/var/cache/apt/archives# apt-get upgrade Reading package lists... Done B

Re: dpkg corrupted :(

oh yeah :) I got it... The solution was: I just "rm -f" the "ls -la /var/lib/dpkg/info | grep mc" files :) then apt-get update&&apt-get install -f, and it's ok now :) no errors

Re: dpkg corrupted :(

In <3c349660904071056h6dd806dyb6f6d1990828b...@mail.gmail.com>, cesarino vinh wrote: >dpkg -i --force-all mc_2%3a4.6.2~git20080311-4_amd64.deb ^^^ You broke it. You get to keep both pieces. >Setting up mc (2:4.6.2~git20080311-4) ... >update-alternatives: unable to make >/usr/sh

Re: dpkg corrupted :(

On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 19:56 +0200, cesarino vinh wrote: > Hi! :| > > I would be pleased, if someone could help me.. > > I just installed mc from it's deb file: > > aptitude download mc > > dpkg -i --force-all mc_2%3a4.6.2~git20080311-4_amd64.deb > > and then... I can't install or upgrade anyth

RE: Debian RAM supporting.

> > Awesome. :-) > > Futurama: Always relevant. > > Just recently saw episode where Fry is his own grandfather. > Almost as good as Red Dwarf. :) > > -- > Chris. > == Have you ever read Heinlein's All You Zombies?? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: new problem - networking is strange

In <49db5560.9000...@meetinghouse.net>, Miles Fidelman wrote: >Thorny wrote: >> On Mon, 06 Apr 2009 16:36:45 -0400, Miles Fidelman posted: >>> Standard behavior, for years, has been to expect eth0 to be assigned to >>> a machine's primary network interface. udev's behavior is more than a >>> littl

Re: dpkg corrupted :(

and I have enough free space on my hard drive :S > > I'm running "dpkg-reconfigure -a" wright now... :S

dpkg corrupted :(

Hi! :| I would be pleased, if someone could help me.. I just installed mc from it's deb file: aptitude download mc dpkg -i --force-all mc_2%3a4.6.2~git20080311-4_amd64.deb and then... I can't install or upgrade anything, because dpkg gives errors :( eg.: apt-get install mc Reading package li

Re: install daemon without starting it

Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Mon, Apr 06 2009, Barclay, Daniel wrote: > >> Debian packages should probably have some kind of post-installation >> read-me file to tell you essential things about an installed package >> (e.g, the commands now available; the manual/info/etc. pages now >> avaible; daem

USB PCI card to buy

I need to add USB to my HP NetServer LPr. Do they all "just work" now? I'm looking at either the Belkin F5U220v1 5-port (4+1) which I think has an NEC chipset, or one of the Startech's: PCI625USB21 6-port (4+2) with nvidia chipset PCI330USB2 4-port (3+1) with NEC D7201026c chips

Re: install daemon without starting it

John Hasler wrote: > Daniel writes: >> Debian packages should have some standard place to go to to see those >> latter kinds of information. If it did, that place could also hold an >> indication of any daemons started (or installed but pending further >> configuration) by installing a package. >

Re: install daemon without starting it

Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Mon,06.Apr.09, 13:21:49, Barclay, Daniel wrote: >> Andrei Popescu wrote: >>> On Mon,06.Apr.09, 12:52:02, Barclay, Daniel wrote: >>> Debian packages should have some standard place to go to to see those latter kinds of information. If it did, that place could al

Re: Consolechars Question

On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 08:57:36AM EDT, Thomas H. George wrote: [..] > I'd show you what my mutt output is like but I haven't figured out how > to capture it. I use the grab utility from the ezfb tarball - not sure there's a .deb for that. CJ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...

Gnome Terminal blinking cursor

Hi! Is there a way to turn off Gnome-terminals cursor blinking on Lenny? I have tried via gconf-editor, but that doesn't seem to have any effect. best regards -- Andreas Ronnquist -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

Re: KDE: Clicking a link in kmail brings konqueror to the foreground (with focus), unlike the behavior on my old Mandriva2006 installation

In <200904070900.26392.rhkra...@gmail.com>, Randy Kramer wrote: >On my recently retired Mandriva2006 system (replaced with a Debian 5.0 >installation using KDE), when I clicked a link in kmail (and there was >an instance of konqueror open on the same desktop), the link would open >in a new tab of t

Re: Squeeze/Sid + Gnome2 = security risk opening some kind of file

Hi, Il giorno mar, 07/04/2009 alle 10.58 +0200, Mirco Piccin ha scritto: > Hi all, > after upgrade from lenny/sid to sqeeze/sid, not all is working fine. > My actual problem is this: if i try to open some kind of file (i.e. > pdf, ods, png... ), happens that a popup tells me: > > "The filename

Re: Forthcoming changes in kernel-package

Hi, A few hours ago, a new version of kernel-package was uploaded to Experimental. This is a major change, the new kernel-package is far more nimble, more flexible, and supports people who make a minor change to a kernel, or who update the kernel sources (via git or otherwise), and wa

Re: bank web page problem in iceweasel/iceape

In <20090407074254.gd3...@localhost.localdomain>, Chris Bannister wrote: >On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 04:33:13PM -0400, Frank wrote: >>I'm not sure either...but on Debian testing I **never** use anything >> but FIREFOX. Matter of fact I don't think I've ever run..what is it?? >> Iceweasel ? > >icew

Re: debian testing

In <20090407003046.ga8...@debian-hp.lan>, Daniel Dalton wrote: >How stable is debian testing (squeeze)? Based solely on http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/, I'd say that Squeeze is about as stable as Lenny. BTW, does anyone know how to get a graph that is just a subsection of the graph on

Re: debian testing

On Tue, 07 Apr 2009 10:34:00 +0200, Brent Clark wrote: > Daniel Dalton wrote: >> Hi, >> >> How stable is debian testing (squeeze)? Is it worth updating to? Or >> should I wait a little bit until more development has been done? I used >> to run debian when it was testing, so wonder if squeez is thi

Re: NFS server still fails after upgrade to lenny

On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 22:28:59 +0100, Michael Wagner wrote: > * Michael Wagner 10.03.2009 > >> I have had the same problem here with sid on the workstation and lenny >> on the server. I found on the net the solution to write in >> /etc/default/rcS. >> >> ASYNCMOUNTNFS=no > > sorry for the incom

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