Re: How to activate VESA mode on boot-up?

2009-07-06 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Sun, 2009-07-05 at 21:59 +0200, Robert Latest wrote: > > Long story short, when I put "vga=ask" in grub's menu.lst, I can't > enter anything but the 80-by-something modes. I've searched the Net up > and down, have tried the 0x30... modes in hex, in decimal , with the > '0x' and without ... noth

Wireless not loaded at boot

2009-07-06 Thread JoeHill
I've got wireless working on a notebook (after much assistance) with a Broadcom driver. However, the module is not loaded a boot, and so I have to do a 'modprobe wl' to get it working. Before anyone posts a 'lmgtfy', I am looking at the Debian Wiki right now for articles about how to load kernel

Re: KDE, openoffice bug

2009-07-06 Thread Dotan Cohen
2009/7/7 Red Hen : > Sirs-- > > I have designated Firefox my Debian Lenny system's MAIN web browser, as > stipulated in the KDE Control Center. > Which version of KDE? Did you type in "/usr/bin/firefox" or "firefox" or select Firefox from the list? Note that Firefox is called Iceweasel in Debian d

Re: Help with ndiswrapper and Broadcom wireless

2009-07-06 Thread JoeHill
Florian Kulzer wrote: > Try "modprobe -v wl" as root; that should either give you wlan0 or some > error messages that tell us what goes wrong. (I suspect that you might > need a newer kernel.) It worked! Well, I still am not on wireless, because I use WPA on my router and I'm not sure how to ge

Re: sha1summ of complete directory?

2009-07-06 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 07:30:19PM -0500, Ron Johnson was heard to say: > > How would one go about computing a *single* hash value for a complete > directory tree? Depending on how important uniqueness is, you could just cat the whole thing (sorting filenames first, of course) and pipe it to

find - output order

2009-07-06 Thread Alex Samad
Hi does find out put files in any sort order ? for example for x in $(seq -w 00 99); do touch $x ii$x aa$x; done && find ii* [0-9]* aa* is the output guaranteed to be in sort order, i.e. ii* files first and sorted and then [0-9]* files next and sorted and then aa* files and sorted Alex si

Re: sha1summ of complete directory?

2009-07-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-07-06 23:08, Scott Gifford wrote: Ron Johnson writes: On 2009-07-06 20:29, Adrian Levi wrote: 2009/7/7 Mark Neidorff : On Monday 06 July 2009 08:30 pm, Ron Johnson wrote: How would one go about computing a *single* hash value for a complete directory tree? This is what I was thinki

KDE, openoffice bug

2009-07-06 Thread Red Hen
Sirs-- I have designated Firefox my Debian Lenny system's MAIN web browser, as stipulated in the KDE Control Center. HOWEVER, I CANNOT open links in openoffice.org writer documents with firefox. No matter how many times I have reset the KDE Control component to stipulate firefox as the defau

Re: sha1summ of complete directory?

2009-07-06 Thread Scott Gifford
Ron Johnson writes: > On 2009-07-06 20:29, Adrian Levi wrote: >> 2009/7/7 Mark Neidorff : >>> On Monday 06 July 2009 08:30 pm, Ron Johnson wrote: How would one go about computing a *single* hash value for a complete directory tree? >> This is what I was thinking, If you don't want to re

Re: sha1summ of complete directory?

2009-07-06 Thread CaT
On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 07:30:19PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > How would one go about computing a *single* hash value for a complete > directory tree? hash everything and then hash the result? (if you don't care about metadata that is - if you do add a nice stat of everything into the final hash)

Re: sha1summ of complete directory?

2009-07-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-07-06 20:29, Adrian Levi wrote: 2009/7/7 Mark Neidorff : On Monday 06 July 2009 08:30 pm, Ron Johnson wrote: How would one go about computing a *single* hash value for a complete directory tree? This is what I was thinking, If you don't want to retain the tar file then pipe it to sha1

Re: sha1summ of complete directory?

2009-07-06 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/7/7 Mark Neidorff : > On Monday 06 July 2009 08:30 pm, Ron Johnson wrote: >> How would one go about computing a *single* hash value for a >> complete directory tree? This is what I was thinking, If you don't want to retain the tar file then pipe it to sha1sum. Adrian -- 24x7x365 != 24x7x52

Re: sha1summ of complete directory?

2009-07-06 Thread Mark Neidorff
On Monday 06 July 2009 08:30 pm, Ron Johnson wrote: > How would one go about computing a *single* hash value for a > complete directory tree? > > -- > Scooty Puff, Sr > The Doom-Bringer Tar the tree and then calculate the sha1sum of the tar file. Easy, no? Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to deb

sha1summ of complete directory?

2009-07-06 Thread Ron Johnson
How would one go about computing a *single* hash value for a complete directory tree? -- Scooty Puff, Sr The Doom-Bringer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

movies in a beamer (latex) presentation and linux (movie15)

2009-07-06 Thread Micha Feigin
I tried to use the package movie15 to include a movie in a beamer presentation (latex via lyx) which worked great under windows but doesn't work under linux. Any way to do this under linux? Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: ia32-apt-get doesn't create ia32 package list

2009-07-06 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, 07 Jul 2009 07:56:38 +0900 Miles Bader wrote: > Andrei Popescu writes: > > ia32-libs is going through a lot of changes at the moment, there is a > > huge thread about it on debian-devel. You *might* be able to fix stuff > > if you downgrade relevant packages to testing/squeeze. > > I

Re: ia32-apt-get doesn't create ia32 package list

2009-07-06 Thread Miles Bader
Andrei Popescu writes: > ia32-libs is going through a lot of changes at the moment, there is a > huge thread about it on debian-devel. You *might* be able to fix stuff > if you downgrade relevant packages to testing/squeeze. I downgraded some packages to testing (ia32-libs, gcc, gcc libs, libc6

ext4 - 52.2% non-contiguous

2009-07-06 Thread Daryl Styrk
I'm trying to understand what is causing fsck to report /dev/sda4 being highly fragmented. The filesystem is only a couple days old. I created the it with mke2fs -t ext4. After initially building the filesystem I ran fsck which showed something like 0.7% if I remember correctly. I then copied a

Re: MTA

2009-07-06 Thread Jochen Schulz
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.: > In <20090706212028.gd31...@wasteland.homelinux.net>, Jochen Schulz wrote: >> >> I would avoid Sendmail since it is *really* old and hard to configure. > > Sendmail gets more modern all the time, but m4 is quite the beast for > configuration files. Still, if you learn i

Re: MTA

2009-07-06 Thread Pete Boyd
I recommend following this tutorial by Christoph Haas: http://workaround.org/articles/ispmail-etch/ which will soon be updated for Debian 5.0 Lenny. There's a community around it, reached through a mailing list, which gives you a fairly good backing when you need help. The tutorial is used by a lot

Re: MTA

2009-07-06 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <20090706212028.gd31...@wasteland.homelinux.net>, Jochen Schulz wrote: >Pawel Cholewinski: >> I want to install MTA in my network. I want to know which mail transfer >> agent is recommended (postfix, exim, sendmail or other else) and why. >> And which is unsafe and why. > >I would avoid Sendmail

Re: MTA

2009-07-06 Thread Jochen Schulz
Pawel Cholewinski: > > I want to install MTA in my network. I want to know which mail transfer > agent is recommended (postfix, exim, sendmail or other else) and why. > And which is unsafe and why. I would avoid Sendmail since it is *really* old and hard to configure. Exim is Debian's default MT

Re: MTA

2009-07-06 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <4a525b15.7050...@wp.pl>, Pawel Cholewinski wrote: >I want to install MTA in my network. I want to know which mail transfer >agent is recommended (postfix, exim, sendmail or other else) and why. >And which is unsafe and why. http://lmgtfy.com/?q=mta+comparison&l=1 (which leads to:) http://shear

Re: ia32-apt-get doesn't create ia32 package list

2009-07-06 Thread Micha Feigin
On Mon, 6 Jul 2009 19:04:47 +0300 Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Mon,06.Jul.09, 18:55:25, Micha Feigin wrote: > > it seems that ia32-libs is replaced with ia32-apt-get (which conflicts with > > it > > at the moment), but it doesn't seem to create the ia32 library list. I'm > > trying > > to get acr

MTA

2009-07-06 Thread Pawel Cholewinski
Hi I want to install MTA in my network. I want to know which mail transfer agent is recommended (postfix, exim, sendmail or other else) and why. And which is unsafe and why. Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Re: How to creat private PGP key ?

2009-07-06 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <1246840985.5325.84.ca...@ursa-minor.network.ursamundi.org>, Paul Johnson wrote: >On Sun, 2009-07-05 at 09:56 -0700, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: >> On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 11:31:17AM +0430, a dehqan wrote: >> > I'll be thankfull if you guide ; How to creat private PGP key in >> > debian 5 ? with whic

Re: Errors were encountered while processing: linux-image-2.6-amd64

2009-07-06 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 10:11:49 +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > Hi there, > > I did a dist-upgrade this morning and since then I keep getting: > > > Setting up linux-image-2.6.30-bpo.1-amd64 (2.6.30-1~bpo50+1) ... > Running depmod. > Running update-initramfs. > update-initramfs: Generating

Re: bug in installer? (was Re: debian testing installer & encrypted LVM question)

2009-07-06 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <4a50a818.8060...@ccf.auth.gr>, Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: >Anyway, does it make >any sense to partition a logical volume? Not usually. Might be useful in some odd corner case -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984

Re: system taking ages to resolve dns

2009-07-06 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 17:25:24 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote: [...] > >Do you see any difference in the response time for the following two > >queries? > > > >dig -t A debian.org > > > >dig -t debian.org > > > > Florian, I get the following (edited) results: > > h.

Re: Can postfix misconfiguration lead to OS breakage?

2009-07-06 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <4a4e39d8.1c05d00a.378f.e...@mx.google.com>, Sthu Deus wrote: >Thank You very much for Your time and answer, Boyd: >> Can your kernel flash your BIOS? In theory it could hide there and in >> whatever NVRAM your system has. > >I use common kernels from common repos. Can they? I believe they

Re: Are these scan logs dangerous ?

2009-07-06 Thread Riku Valli
a dehqan wrote: In The Name Of God Thanks alot for your attentions ; Yes ,service is inetd .How can port 113 be closed ? You can example close all services with command update-inetd and when all services were disabled restart openbsd-inetd. Service isn't start if all services are diasbled. R

Re: How to create hidden files?

2009-07-06 Thread Bob McGowan
Dennis Wicks wrote: > Greetings; > > Back in the dim distant past I remember that one could create hidden or > "secret" file with Basic on DOS and at least early Windows (3.0). I was > never able to figure out where those files were. > > Any way, is there a way of doing this in linux? I know that

Re: ia32-apt-get doesn't create ia32 package list

2009-07-06 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,06.Jul.09, 18:55:25, Micha Feigin wrote: > it seems that ia32-libs is replaced with ia32-apt-get (which conflicts with it > at the moment), but it doesn't seem to create the ia32 library list. I'm > trying > to get acroread working again and as a start it is complaining that libxml2 is > mi

ia32-apt-get doesn't create ia32 package list

2009-07-06 Thread Micha Feigin
it seems that ia32-libs is replaced with ia32-apt-get (which conflicts with it at the moment), but it doesn't seem to create the ia32 library list. I'm trying to get acroread working again and as a start it is complaining that libxml2 is missing but with the current state of ia32-apt-get it doesn't

Re: Problem with preseed partitioning

2009-07-06 Thread Eric Gerlach
On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 04:19:04PM +0200, Andy Kannberg wrote: > I've solved the problem. > > Leaving out the escapes chars and putting the whole recipe on one line did > the job. Now it works like a charm. You probably had spaces after the backslashes. That'll do it. Cheers, -- Eric Gerlach,

Re: system taking ages to resolve dns

2009-07-06 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 06:11:38AM -0400, Alan Greenberger wrote: > > system works fine, and no one else on the network seems to have issues > > Some routers don't know IPV6. Look at /etc/resolv.conf . It probably has the > IP of your router. Remove it and put in your ISP's DNS numbers to bypas

Re: system taking ages to resolve dns

2009-07-06 Thread Norbert Zeh
> Your nameserver does not handle IPv6 queries correctly (as Norbert and > Alan have already surmised in their recent messages in this thread). > Debian waits for the IPv6 request to time out before it sends an IPv4 > request, causing the delays you are experiencing. > > I would try this (elaborat

Re: system taking ages to resolve dns

2009-07-06 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 20:29:54 +1000, Daniel Dalton wrote: > On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 02:49:49PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 22:03:39 +1000, Daniel Dalton wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I just reinstalled debian this week. It has not solved my issue of > > > resolving

Re: Are these scan logs dangerous ?

2009-07-06 Thread a dehqan
In The Name Of God Thanks alot for your attentions ; Yes ,service is inetd .How can port 113 be closed ? #netstat -lnop|grep ":113" > tcp0 0 0.0.0.0:113 0.0.0.0:* > LISTEN 3550/inetd off (0.00/0/0) > lsof -i :113 > COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE NO

Re: system taking ages to resolve dns

2009-07-06 Thread Alan Greenberger
On 2009-07-05, Daniel Dalton wrote: > > I just reinstalled debian this week. It has not solved my issue of > resolving dns taking a long time. Basically the issue is: If I want to > .. REMOVED > problem? Only occuring on my debian system, windows vista on the same > system works fine, and no one e

Re: system taking ages to resolve dns

2009-07-06 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 02:49:49PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 22:03:39 +1000, Daniel Dalton wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I just reinstalled debian this week. It has not solved my issue of > > resolving dns taking a long time. Basically the issue is: If I want to > > access

Re: Multimonitor system

2009-07-06 Thread Masood
On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 11:16 PM, Jesus arteche wrote: > Hey, > > I have a multimonitor system working right... but now i want the cube of > compiz working in just one monitor and i'd like the others works > normal...someone knows how i can do it... I guess that would work if you setup a separate

Errors were encountered while processing: linux-image-2.6-amd64

2009-07-06 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Hi there, I did a dist-upgrade this morning and since then I keep getting: Setting up linux-image-2.6.30-bpo.1-amd64 (2.6.30-1~bpo50+1) ... Running depmod. Running update-initramfs. update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.30-bpo.1-amd64 W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/tigo

Re: how do i grep boobies

2009-07-06 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Mon, 6 Jul 2009, Dotan Cohen wrote: I like to offend midgets. Can we do that now? Just a few small jokes? I'd prefer if you do a Jew joke! I'll do my best not to get offended. You might not but I might send "Moishe the Shtarker" to push a button on him. Thin skinned? Yup! -- Bob Holtz

Re: how do i grep boobies

2009-07-06 Thread Cybe R. Wizard
On Mon, 6 Jul 2009 09:30:34 +0300 Dotan Cohen wrote: > I'd prefer if you do a Jew joke! I'll do my best not to get offended. > Anybody else volunteer for humiliation? Little Jewish boy asks his father for thirty dollars. Dad says, "Twenty dollars! Why do you need ten dollars?" Unfortunately,