Re: DPkg::Pre-Invoke

2009-06-05 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat,06.Jun.09, 07:51:13, Peter Jordan wrote: > > i want to log every change of packages in my system. More than you already have in /var/log/dpkg.log /var/log/aptitude /var/log/apt/term.log ? Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Ein

Printing to HP Deskjet 940c

2009-06-05 Thread lrhorer
I have CUPS setup under Debian "Lenny" an an AMD Athlon 64 x 2 CPU with 4G of RAM. I cannot get the system to print to my HP Deskjet 940c printer attached via USB. The system says it sees the printer, and the driver seems to be properly installed, but if I send a print job to the printer, it just

Re: flash drive encryption between different OS's

2009-06-05 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 04:52:40PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: > Daryl Styrk wrote: > [snip] > I later bought a 1.5 TB external drive for backup images. I ran into > two limitations: FAT32 doesn't support files larger than 4 GB (I have > *.avi files larger than that) and Linux cannot write

Diver X-server things configuration wanted.

2009-06-05 Thread Sthu Deus
Good day. Could You please share: . Your xorg.conf in case it . or an utility that makes working the following items: . ATI Radeon RS485M 3D support; . 2nd monitor, with optional configuration of its prefer dimension and V-stability . switching on/off primary/secondary monitors. Thank You

Re: DPkg::Pre-Invoke

2009-06-05 Thread Peter Jordan
Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson, Fri Jun 05 2009 20:24:48 GMT+0200 (CEST): On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 12:03:25PM +0200, Peter Jordan wrote: Hello, is it possible to pass the package name and package version to a script with DPkg::Pre-Invoke? If not, is there any other way? Its really unclear what it is

Re: up-to-date Sid, Need help with xorg.conf

2009-06-05 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 06:54:55PM -0300, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > Curt Howland wrote: > > > > So, I'm stuck creating my own screen/modline, and I could use a bit of > > help. > > > > The values I want to use are 1360x768, 47.7KHz h., 60Hz v. 24/32 bits > > of course. > > > > Anyone want to ta

Re: changing to UTF-8

2009-06-05 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 06:08:01PM -0400, Andrew Schulman wrote: > Thank you both for your help. > > > You could try cleaning things up a bit with 'localepurge' > > Looking at the package description, this doesn't seem like a good idea. And > anyway, my problem isn't that I have too many locales.

Re: network Q.: host name gets ".local" added after sometime

2009-06-05 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 04:30:31PM -0400, H.S. wrote: > H.S. wrote: > > > > > I read the Debian and the files quickly. I am not very familiar with > > mdsn so I didn't understand everything. Only that the order is fixed > > during package installation and is not updated later. I have changed the

Re: why must emacs depend on sound packages?

2009-06-05 Thread Chris Jones
On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 05:41:20PM EDT, Barclay, Daniel wrote: > Chris Jones wrote: > >> Yes, C-h in Emacs should perform some kind of backspace operation > >> (back-deletion or at least movement), since C-h in ASCII is the > >> Backspace character. > > > > I believe that like C-S/C-Q and friends

Re: Best way of restoring /etc from backups after fresh install?

2009-06-05 Thread Chris Jones
On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 04:35:21PM EDT, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In <4a2963a8.3030...@gmail.com>, Tony Baldwin wrote: > >Laurentiu Pancescu wrote: > >> P.S. Please cc me when replying, I'm not subscribed to debian-user > >> (too high volume). > >Oh...I get it... You want to benefit from t

A little gift - Omar

2009-06-05 Thread Omar Lokman
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Re: Best way of restoring /etc from backups after fresh install?

2009-06-05 Thread Chris Jones
On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 02:27:52PM EDT, Tony Baldwin wrote: > Laurentiu Pancescu wrote: > >Hello everyone, > > >P.S. Please cc me when replying, I'm not subscribed to debian-user (too > >high volume). > > > > Oh...I get it... > You want to benefit from the expertise on the list, but you're too b

gnome accessibility update followup

2009-06-05 Thread Jude DaShiell
Two of the packages distributed for squeeze with --print-installation-architecture in them are x11-common and xorg-server. If those architectures are critical to gnome and xwindows running this may explain part of why that doesn't happen. I'm going to go on a grep search and change the effecte

Freezing in GIMP

2009-06-05 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Twice today while doing some minor editing in GIMP my whole system froze to the point where I had to do the ctrl-alt-sysreq thing. Nothing else was running. Anybody else experience this ??? Gnome/testing under an i386 GIMP 2.66 , Gnome 2.24.3

RE: flash drive encryption between different OS's

2009-06-05 Thread David Christensen
Daryl Styrk wrote: > I'm looking for a solution to encrypt a flash drive formated in FAT32 > so it can easily be decrypted across multiple OS's with the least > amount of software needed. I recently went down the same path and settled on LUKS on Linux and FreeOTFE on Windows XP. I wrote a couple

Re: How to make my desktop fit my laptop screen?

2009-06-05 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Hi, On Sat, 2009-06-06 at 00:34 +0200, Ron Kamm wrote: > > I have just installed debian on a very old laptop and have looked this > up in various forums but haven't found an answer... > > Debian works beautifully so far... but I can't seem to use my whole > screen: there is always a huge black b

Re: flash drive encryption between different OS's

2009-06-05 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 5 Jun 2009 15:58:33 -0400 Daryl Styrk wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > I'm looking for a solution to encrypt a flash drive formated in FAT32 so > it can easily be decrypted across multiple OS's with the least amount of > software needed. There's bcrypt, but

How to make my desktop fit my laptop screen?

2009-06-05 Thread Ron Kamm

why do package "configure"s during install take forever?

2009-06-05 Thread Robert P. J. Day
(PLEASE cc me on any responses as i am not subscribed to this list.) i have all 5 lenny amd64 DVDs, and i'm installing on a gateway MX7120 (64-bit AMD) laptop. i could have sworn that the first couple test installs went fine (basic install, LVM, accept multiple filesystems). all this was do

Re: changing to UTF-8

2009-06-05 Thread Andrew Schulman
Thank you both for your help. > You could try cleaning things up a bit with 'localepurge' Looking at the package description, this doesn't seem like a good idea. And anyway, my problem isn't that I have too many locales. It seems to be a font problem. > $ sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales Yes, I h

how to start paros?

2009-06-05 Thread John O Laoi
Hi I am using squeezef. I installed paros proxy with aptitude install paros. After some googleing, I found that to start Paros, I needed to use sh /usr/share/paros/startserver.sh This told me that it could not find the file paros.jar, so I edited to the file to point to its location, ie I ch

Re: up-to-date Sid, Need help with xorg.conf

2009-06-05 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Curt Howland wrote: > Hi. Running up-to-date Sid. > > I bought a new monitor, and it seems somewhat limited in its screen > modes. The manual gives some particulars, but I can't seem to get > dpkg-reconfigure to give me the old interactive way of defining > Xwindows. > > So, I'm stuck creating my o

Re: why must emacs depend on sound packages?

2009-06-05 Thread Barclay, Daniel
Chris Jones wrote: > On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 11:02:03AM EDT, Barclay, Daniel wrote: ... > >> Yes, C-h in Emacs should perform some kind of backspace operation >> (back-deletion or at least movement), since C-h in ASCII is the >> Backspace character. > > I believe that like C-S/C-Q and friends thi

up-to-date Sid, Need help with xorg.conf

2009-06-05 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi. Running up-to-date Sid. I bought a new monitor, and it seems somewhat limited in its screen modes. The manual gives some particulars, but I can't seem to get dpkg-reconfigure to give me the old interactive way of defining Xwindows. So, I'm stu

Re: Strange printing problem(s)

2009-06-05 Thread Wayne Topa
andmalc wrote: Wayne Topa-4 wrote: ... I gave attached the cupsd.conf & client.conf files. ... LogLevel warning ... Try changing the log level in cupsd.conf to debug and follow the log while printing. You may also turn on debug logging by running sudo cupsctl --debug-logging More info:

can't get printer to work after dist upgrade

2009-06-05 Thread John O Laoi
Hello, Yesterday, I did a dist upgrade from lenny to squeeze. I edited sources.list, changes lenny to squeeze everywhere, and then did aptitude update aptitude install apt dpkg aptitude aptitude full-upgrade I also installed a lot of upgrades to packages, as suggested by synaptic. Everything see

Re: flash drive encryption between different OS's

2009-06-05 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 05:08:51PM -0300, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > On Sex, 05 Jun 2009, Daryl Styrk wrote: [snip] >> >> Ideas or better search terms? > > Windows does support some kind of encryption out of the box, but I don't > think Linux can read it. > > Windows cannot read luks encrypte

Re: bash alias ineffective?

2009-06-05 Thread Marcin Rzepecki
Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 03:43:25PM -0400, Tony Baldwin wrote: > I put > alias rm='rm -i' > in .bashrc > but rm still removes without asking for confirmation. Are you sure that ~/.bashrc is included at opening shell time? Check if you have: # include .bashrc if it exists if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then

(SOLVED) Re: How do I add an already encrypted /home during install?

2009-06-05 Thread Aniruddha
On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 8:19 PM, Peter Jordan wrote: > i would leave the encrypted partition untouched during installation and add > it after the installation. > > PJ > Thanks for the help! I did some more research and this appears to be the only method to reuse encrypted partitions. Even worse no

Re: network Q.: host name gets ".local" added after sometime

2009-06-05 Thread H.S.
H.S. wrote: > > I read the Debian and the files quickly. I am not very familiar with > mdsn so I didn't understand everything. Only that the order is fixed > during package installation and is not updated later. I have changed the > order with dns in the second place. which is no go :( -- Pl

Re: Best way of restoring /etc from backups after fresh install?

2009-06-05 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <4a2963a8.3030...@gmail.com>, Tony Baldwin wrote: >Laurentiu Pancescu wrote: >> P.S. Please cc me when replying, I'm not subscribed to debian-user (too >> high volume). > >Oh...I get it... >You want to benefit from the expertise on the list, but you're too busy >to delete a few e-mails to contri

Re: network Q.: host name gets ".local" added after sometime

2009-06-05 Thread H.S.
Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 02:17:32PM -0400, H.S. wrote: >> Osamu Aoki wrote: >>> See: >>> http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch05.en.html#_the_hostname_resolution >> Spot on! Nice. > ... >> So I supposed I just need to recorder the 'hosts' line to: >> hosts:

Re: To download only difference between installed version of a package and its new version

2009-06-05 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 02:08:02AM +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: > Is it possible for any package manager to download only difference between > installed version of a package and its new version? Unortunately, no. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "un

Re: flash drive encryption between different OS's

2009-06-05 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On Sex, 05 Jun 2009, Daryl Styrk wrote: I'm looking for a solution to encrypt a flash drive formated in FAT32 so it can easily be decrypted across multiple OS's with the least amount of software needed. I don't know a whole lot about Windows and what comes installed if anything by default to han

Re: bash alias ineffective?

2009-06-05 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 03:43:25PM -0400, Tony Baldwin wrote: > I put > alias rm='rm -i' > in .bashrc > but rm still removes without asking for confirmation. > > Why? you need to source it using . .bashrc or source .bashrc HTH, -- Zhengquan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@li

Re: bash alias ineffective?

2009-06-05 Thread Daryl Styrk
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 03:43:25PM -0400, Tony Baldwin wrote: > I put > alias rm='rm -i' > in .bashrc > but rm still removes without asking for confirmation. > > Why? Log out of the shell and back in again. - -- Daryl Styrk Naples FL, USA -BE

flash drive encryption between different OS's

2009-06-05 Thread Daryl Styrk
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm looking for a solution to encrypt a flash drive formated in FAT32 so it can easily be decrypted across multiple OS's with the least amount of software needed. I don't know a whole lot about Windows and what comes installed if anything by default

Re: AltGr broken in GTK apps (?) since yesterday's upgrade

2009-06-05 Thread Carl Fürstenberg
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 22:46, Davide Mancusi wrote: >        Running Sid. I upgraded some 400 packages yesterday and since > then the AltGr key has stopped working in some applications, notably > Iceweasel and Claws Mail (i.e. the applications I use 90% of the > time, of course). Specifically, when

bash alias ineffective?

2009-06-05 Thread Tony Baldwin
I put alias rm='rm -i' in .bashrc but rm still removes without asking for confirmation. Why? thanks tony -- http://www.baldwinsoftware.com free/open source software tcl yer os with a feather... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". T

Freezing in GIMP

2009-06-05 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Twice today while doing some minor editing in GIMP my whole system froze to the point where I had to do the ctrl-alt-sysreq thing. Nothing else was running. Anybody else experience this ??? Gnome/testing under an 1386 GIMP 2.66 , Gnome 2.24.3

To download only difference between installed version of a package and its new version

2009-06-05 Thread Sthu Deus
Is it possible for any package manager to download only difference between installed version of a package and its new version? Thank You. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: network Q.: host name gets ".local" added after sometime

2009-06-05 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 02:17:32PM -0400, H.S. wrote: > Osamu Aoki wrote: > > See: > > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch05.en.html#_the_hostname_resolution > > Spot on! Nice. ... > So I supposed I just need to recorder the 'hosts' line to: > hosts: files dns mdns4_min

Re: An utility or whatever that can monitor/log all the activities in OS of the compromised machine

2009-06-05 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Tzafrir: > > And, what is more > > important - could You share Your experience on how to illuminate from whence > > the criminal got its root privileges? > > In a manner that root cannot rewrite? > > Please state your assumptions here. > > (A reliable remot

Re: Automate ddclient installation

2009-06-05 Thread Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson
On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 12:04:40PM +0100, Paulo Santos wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I was wondering how I could automate a ddclient installation. The > default installation pops a ncurses wizard. Is there a way to avoid that? Have a look through man 7 debconf (you need debconf-doc installed). C

Re: changing to UTF-8

2009-06-05 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 02:52:00AM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 12:55:29PM -0400, Andrew Schulman wrote: > > In order to avoid problems with CUPS (yes Master, I shall comply) and get > > consistency within my LAN, I'm finally giving up on the ISO-8859-1 locale > > and

Re: Best way of restoring /etc from backups after fresh install?

2009-06-05 Thread Tony Baldwin
Laurentiu Pancescu wrote: Hello everyone, P.S. Please cc me when replying, I'm not subscribed to debian-user (too high volume). Oh...I get it... You want to benefit from the expertise on the list, but you're too busy to delete a few e-mails to contribute your assistance to others on the

Re: How do I add an already encrypted /home during install?

2009-06-05 Thread Peter Jordan
Aniruddha, Fri Jun 05 2009 17:36:52 GMT+0200 (CEST): I have setup an encrypted /home with dm-crypt. Now I try to reinstall Debian. The installer sees a partition with a ext3 file system. How do I proceed (without destroying my data on /home)? Should I configure the partition as encrypted with 'er

Re: DPkg::Pre-Invoke

2009-06-05 Thread Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson
On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 12:03:25PM +0200, Peter Jordan wrote: > Hello, > > is it possible to pass the package name and package version to a script > with DPkg::Pre-Invoke? If not, is there any other way? Its really unclear what it is you want to do, is this a bash script your talking about? A pe

Best way of restoring /etc from backups after fresh install?

2009-06-05 Thread Laurentiu Pancescu
Hello everyone, After a fresh (re)install of Lenny, I installed all cca. 800 previously installed packages (from a list file, via "xargs aptitude install") and then restored /etc from my rdiff-backup archive (containing just /etc, /home and lists of installed packages). It worked fine, but I e

Re: network Q.: host name gets ".local" added after sometime

2009-06-05 Thread H.S.
Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 12:48:16PM -0400, H.S. wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I have a Debian Unstable machine connected to an old machine running as >> a router. The router is running dnsmasq and my local network is >> configured as home.pvt. >> >> This Unstable machine is given the na

Re: changing to UTF-8

2009-06-05 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 12:55:29PM -0400, Andrew Schulman wrote: > In order to avoid problems with CUPS (yes Master, I shall comply) and get > consistency within my LAN, I'm finally giving up on the ISO-8859-1 locale > and switching my desktop host to use UTF-8. I've already corrected > /etc/

Re: changing to UTF-8

2009-06-05 Thread Daryl Styrk
On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 12:55:29PM -0400, Andrew Schulman wrote: > In order to avoid problems with CUPS (yes Master, I shall comply) and get > consistency within my LAN, I'm finally giving up on the ISO-8859-1 locale > and switching my desktop host to use UTF-8. I've already corrected > /etc/local

Re: lvm on a single big partition or just a single big partition?

2009-06-05 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 09:53:18AM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 07:23:19PM -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 09:39:42AM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 10:04:36PM -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: > > > > On Wed, Jun 03, 2

Re: network Q.: host name gets ".local" added after sometime

2009-06-05 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 12:48:16PM -0400, H.S. wrote: > Hello, > > I have a Debian Unstable machine connected to an old machine running as > a router. The router is running dnsmasq and my local network is > configured as home.pvt. > > This Unstable machine is given the name of Blue by the dnsmasq

Re: Anyone compiled the driver for BCM4312?

2009-06-05 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 15:19:37 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > I've tried to compile the wireless driver for BCM4312 on two different > machines, after running m-a prepare. It always fails with the same > message: > > /home/ac/bcm/src/wl/sys/wl_linux.c:1899: error: dereferencing pointer to > i

Re: Configuring Tor and Privoxy in Squeeze [SOLVED]

2009-06-05 Thread AG
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 19:46:54 +0100, AG wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 18:31:43 +0100, AG wrote: AG wrote: I am attempting to get Tor and Privoxy working with Iceweasel, but it keeps throwing up errors. [.

changing to UTF-8

2009-06-05 Thread Andrew Schulman
In order to avoid problems with CUPS (yes Master, I shall comply) and get consistency within my LAN, I'm finally giving up on the ISO-8859-1 locale and switching my desktop host to use UTF-8. I've already corrected /etc/locale.gen, to change the default locale to UTF-8: $ egrep -v '^(#|$)' /etc/l

Re: An utility or whatever that can monitor/log all the activities in OS of the compromised machine

2009-06-05 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 12:11:32AM +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: > Good day. > > Is there an utility or whatever that can monitor/log all the activities in OS > of the compromised machine to investigate the situation? > > And, what is more > important - could You share Your experience on how to illumin

network Q.: host name gets ".local" added after sometime

2009-06-05 Thread H.S.
Hello, I have a Debian Unstable machine connected to an old machine running as a router. The router is running dnsmasq and my local network is configured as home.pvt. This Unstable machine is given the name of Blue by the dnsmasq server on on the router using dhcp (based on Blue's mac address). H

How do I add an already encrypted /home during install?

2009-06-05 Thread Aniruddha
I have setup an encrypted /home with dm-crypt. Now I try to reinstall Debian. The installer sees a partition with a ext3 file system. How do I proceed (without destroying my data on /home)? Should I configure the partition as encrypted with 'erase' unchecked? And if so how do I know if the default

Re: No protocol specified, cannot open display error

2009-06-05 Thread Aniruddha
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 5:28 PM, Lorenzo wrote: > Well, googling "no protocol specified cannot open display" gave me a hint: > are you trying to run gedit with root privilege, as in "sudo gedit > /etc/apt/sources.list" (or /boot/grub/menu.lst or whatever)? > If that's the case, you can: > 1) try so

Re: info on network-connected web cameras, esp. config. and access protocols?

2009-06-05 Thread green
Barclay, Daniel wrote at 2009-06-04 09:20 -0600: >Does anyone here know of good articles/site about network-connected >web cameras, in particular, what protocols they use (what interface >they provide) for configuation and for access? You might want to check out the zoneminder package/

Re: mailining list deactivate

2009-06-05 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <0brlf6x81t@ursa-major.network.ursamundi.org>, Paul Johnson wrote: >Though there's no reason that the list couldn't tag on another text part >with the unsubscribe footer "Patches welcome." -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)

LILO not run after kernel install/update

2009-06-05 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
Well, re-sending since nobody replied... On 02.06.09 18:52, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > I noticed that in lenny, installing new linux image doesn't cause lilo to be > run, therefore the system might get unbootable. I don't see any info about lilo (or any boot loader) being called > Is there

Re: Anyone compiled the driver for BCM4312?

2009-06-05 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hey ! Have you try with older kernel (2.6.2[78]) ? hth, Jerome Anthony Campbell wrote: I've tried to compile the wireless driver for BCM4312 on two different machines, after running m-a prepare. It always fails with the same message: /home/ac/bcm/src/wl/sys/wl_linux.c:1899: error: dereferenci

Re: What happened to network devices?

2009-06-05 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
> On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 12:09:53PM +0200, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > > > On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 11:55:11PM +0100, James Youngman wrote: > > > > > So what did you use instead? I have never had trouble with using > > > > > "eth0" or "/dev/eth0" before, so I didn't check if such a file > > > >

Re: Suggestion for a mail package

2009-06-05 Thread ghe
Mag Gam wrote: > We are planning to run an email server at my university. We would like > to use something that has a nice Web based gui for its configuration. > Does anyone have any good ideas? We have tried courier and exim, but > their web-based GUIs were not that good. Any other email packages

Anyone compiled the driver for BCM4312?

2009-06-05 Thread Anthony Campbell
I've tried to compile the wireless driver for BCM4312 on two different machines, after running m-a prepare. It always fails with the same message: /home/ac/bcm/src/wl/sys/wl_linux.c:1899: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type make[3]: *** [/home/ac/bcm/src/wl/sys/wl_linux.o] Error 1 mak

Re: lvm on a single big partition or just a single big partition?

2009-06-05 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 07:23:19PM -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: > On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 09:39:42AM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 10:04:36PM -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: > > > On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 06:48:03PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > > On Wed, Jun 03, 2

Re: A question about `aptitude purge'

2009-06-05 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 05:38:43PM +0200, Sven Joachim was heard to say: > On 2009-06-04 18:16 +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > > > I did: > > > > # aptitude purge mplayer > > > > . After that, the bash completion was still working for the `mplayer' > > command, > > That's because bash reads t

google cal issues, questions re: epiphany, iceweasel, iceowl

2009-06-05 Thread Tony Baldwin
I suppose there are 2 issues here...or more...I'm bad at math. First, no amount of cache clearing, etc., is allowing me to view my google calendar in iceweasel. I've tried to view it in lynx, elinks and w3m, all to no avail, as I might have expected... So, I want to install another gui browser

Re: What happened to network devices?'

2009-06-05 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 11:06:49AM -0500, lee was heard to say: > On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 12:09:53PM +0200, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > > > On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 11:55:11PM +0100, James Youngman wrote: > > > > > So what did you use instead? I have never had trouble with using > > > > > "eth

Re: [OT] Hosting a DNS

2009-06-05 Thread GNUbie
Hello all, On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 9:23 PM, GNUbie wrote: > Hello all, > > What do you think is the main reason or the importance of hosting your > own DNS when your ISP and/or Domain Registrar can host it for you for > FREE? Thank you for all your insights. To wrap up, it's all about control on

Backup tar (/dev/st0)

2009-06-05 Thread Márcio Luciano Donada
I have a backup that uses 4 tapes with tar, but must return a single file that is in the second tape, but when I put the second tape and give the tar-xvf / dev/st0 it does not agree and says it is continuing another volume, now the question is this, I have to necessarily use the first tape? -- Már

Re: VLC not showing video

2009-06-05 Thread David Kinyua
Bernd Kloss wrote: Am Samstag, 30. Mai 2009 schrieb Florian Kulzer: On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 11:41:42 -0400, mathengejr AT aim DOT com wrote: How do i get video to work on vlc. I noticed this since I reconfigure kernel. I do not think that your new kernel is responsible for your

customize emacs

2009-06-05 Thread abdelkader belahcene
Hi, Emacs is very huge software, it is not easy to customise!!! I need customizing 2 things: 1. I want to change the size permanently. I always do it by using , shift+ right click and choose the font, unfortunately I have to do it each time I run emacs. I want to save this option 2

Suggestion for a mail package

2009-06-05 Thread Mag Gam
We are planning to run an email server at my university. We would like to use something that has a nice Web based gui for its configuration. Does anyone have any good ideas? We have tried courier and exim, but their web-based GUIs were not that good. Any other email packages out there we can try?

Re: How many users will fall for my Disposition-Notification-To?

2009-06-05 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 09:00:21AM +0800, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: > Fellas, what happens when I put a Disposition-Notification-To: m...@... > header at the top of my mail? Yes I know all about the protocol, > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return_receipt#Message_Disposition_Notifications > I'm jus

gnome accessibility update follow up

2009-06-05 Thread Jude DaShiell
When I start the system, I get the login beep but can't log in. I can log in after hitting control-alt-f1 then hitting enter to a command line console using the same credentials I tried using for an X session though. When I try logging in with X though, I key in username after beep then hit re

Re: pptp on a virtual machine

2009-06-05 Thread Steve Kemp
On Fri Jun 05, 2009 at 04:42:05 +0300, Toba wrote: > But there is nothing in /lib/modules > > vps2:~# ls /lib/modules/ > vps2:~# > vps2:~# uname -a > Linux vps2.samyount.info 2.6.24-vz-hostnoc-4.0.0-i386-libata #1 SMP Wed Dec 3 > 19:08:12 EST 2008 i686 GNU/Linux > vps2:~# > > So how can I install

Re: SOLVED, Re: amd64 install hangs installing base system

2009-06-05 Thread gcrimp
On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 12:48:30AM -0400, Dave Witbrodt wrote: > gcr...@vcn.bc.ca wrote: >> Thing is, I ran memtest86+ last night but it the computer froze midway >> through test #3 of the first pass. I assumed it was because I was running >> a 32 bit version of memtest on a 64 bit architecture, b

Re: How many users will fall for my Disposition-Notification-To?

2009-06-05 Thread marc
jidanni said: > Fellas, what happens when I put a Disposition-Notification-To: m...@... > header at the top of my mail? Yes I know all about the protocol, > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Return_receipt#Message_Disposition_Notifications > I'm just curious about how many users will "fall" for my > h