Re: login manager problem for root

Paul Johnson wrote: On Mon, 2009-08-31 at 16:19 +0530, Mohammed Rashad wrote: I am using Debian Lenny 5.0 when i open login manager select properties of root account home directory for root changes from /root to /home/root Though one wonders why you're trying to log in to a graphical e

Re: [SOT] Installing additional Wesnoth campaigns

Celejar wrote: On Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:33:56 +0200 "thveillon.debian" wrote: AG wrote: ... Download add-ons (campaigns but not only) from: http://www.wesnoth.org/addons/1.6/ (again for 1.6) Unpack the archives, copy the whole campaign folder into: /usr/share/games/wesnoth/da

Re: [SOT] Installing additional Wesnoth campaigns

Celejar wrote: > On Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:33:56 +0200 > "thveillon.debian" wrote: > >> AG wrote: > > ... > >> Download add-ons (campaigns but not only) from: >> >> http://www.wesnoth.org/addons/1.6/ >> >> (again for 1.6) >> >> >> Unpack the archives, copy the whole campaign folder into: >> >> /us

Re: Laptop getting so warm : (

On 9/7/09, Hashimoto wrote: > I believe the problem is not the java/flash, the firefox doesn't work very > well with many tabs. At least now it's in a good temperature. > Not aiming for a browser flame-war, here, but check Opera (and perhaps Midori) for a browser alternative, when Firefox starts

Re: Deb install on USB device destroys MBR of hard disk

Tim Legg wrote: > Hello, I have a pretty exasperating problem with installing Debian onto a USB > device using the netinstall CD. When it asks for the GRUB boot loader, I > told it 'Yes' install it and it went ahead and installed on the hard disk > /dev/hda instead of /dev/sde where everything

Re: Getting network connection

On 2009-09-06 04:02, Jason Hsu wrote: It's a wired Ethernet connection. The procedure for getting on the Internet through the Ethernet connection in Puppy Linux is: 1. Make sure that your DSL modem is powered on and properly connected to both your computer and the phone line. 2. Click o

Deb install on USB device destroys MBR of hard disk

Hello, I have a pretty exasperating problem with installing Debian onto a USB device using the netinstall CD. When it asks for the GRUB boot loader, I told it 'Yes' install it and it went ahead and installed on the hard disk /dev/hda instead of /dev/sde where everything else was being installed

Re: mount -o remount,rw as user

On Sun, Sep 06, 2009 at 10:40:48AM +0200, Mirco Piccin wrote: > HI, > > > mike@/deb40:~> mount -o remount,ro /d > > mount: only root can do that > > for this issue you can use sudo (for more info: # man sudoers). > Hope this helps you. Big help, thanks Mirco. Is there any other way to give mike

Re: boinc configuration file

sorry it should be BOINC_HOME 2009/9/7 Umarzuki Mochlis : > already got, it's in /etc/default/boinc-client > > i just add > HOME_HOME=/path/in/partition/with/bigger/space > > 2009/9/7 Umarzuki Mochlis : >> I got "project needs more 300 MB space..." >> where is boinc configuration file so i can cha

Re: boinc configuration file

already got, it's in /etc/default/boinc-client i just add HOME_HOME=/path/in/partition/with/bigger/space 2009/9/7 Umarzuki Mochlis : > I got "project needs more 300 MB space..." > where is boinc configuration file so i can change its home another > partition with more available space? > > -- > Re

Re: how to set up iceweasel 3.5 to use mutt as mailer for "link sendto"

Elimar Riesebieter : > I've tried settings -> apps -> mailto -> shellscript > > Shellscript: > > #!/bin/sh > exec xterm -e mutt "$@" > > The xterm only pops up for 1 second. > > Any hints? Ben at linuxgazette.net and I've been playing with this for years (I haven't used it in a while; ca

Re: Inquiry:How to totally wipe out the entire hard drive

Sven Joachim wrote: On 2009-09-06 21:12 +0200, John Hasler wrote: Napoleon writes: Overwriting with zeros (or ones) once is not at all secure. It can easily be nearly 100% recovered by someone with the necessary equipment, even more so on a modern drive. Please provide evidence that anyone h

boinc configuration file

I got "project needs more 300 MB space..." where is boinc configuration file so i can change its home another partition with more available space? -- Regards, Umarzuki Mochlis http://gameornot.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: How do I start auto DHCP?

as root # dhclient eth0 where eth0 is the 1st interface 2009/9/6 Jason Hsu : > I successfully installed Debian on a laptop, but it's refusing to connect to > the Internet.  It had no difficulty connecting during the installation > process, but it's not connecting now.  How do I start a network

How do I start auto DHCP?

I successfully installed Debian on a laptop, but it's refusing to connect to the Internet. It had no difficulty connecting during the installation process, but it's not connecting now. How do I start a network connection? How do I start auto DHCP? It's a wired Ethernet connection. In Damn S

Re: Sysv-rc (Urgent)

Hi, On Sun, Sep 06 2009, Sven Joachim wrote: > Hint: your mails are easier to read if you put a blank line between > citations and your reply. > On 2009-09-06 21:47 +0200, David Baron wrote: >> On Sunday 06 September 2009 21:23:10 debian-user-digest- >> requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: >>> > The

Re: Lenny annoyance

On Sun, 6 Sep 2009 07:25:48 -0500, David in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: > Ever since I upgraded from Etch to Lenny, I've been having problems. My PC > is > a Toshiba Satellite 1805-S274 with a Netgear PCMCIA wifi card (Atheros > chipset). I'm using a stock kernel (2.6.26-2-686). My desktop

Re: Laptop getting so warm : (

On Sun, 2009-08-30 at 22:15 +0100, Liviu Andronic wrote: > Hello > > On 8/29/09, Hashimoto wrote: > > > > Hi guys, I'm back ; ) > > > > But with the same problem : ( > > > > My laptop is getting near to 70C easily running firefox or a virtual > > machine in VirtualBox. > > > Did you play wit

Re: Transparent reply-to-mailing-list for broken mailers

On Wed, 2009-09-02 at 09:10 -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In <1251868974.4290.6.ca...@paddington.network.ursamundi.org>, Paul Johnson > wrote: > >On Sat, 2009-08-29 at 16:53 -0600, ghe wrote: > >> FORMAIL=/usr/bin/formail > >> > >> :0Hfhw > >> > >> * ^Return-Path: > >> > >> | $FORMAIL -i

Re: What is this PulseAudio applet?

On Tue, 2009-09-01 at 16:40 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 11:55:20AM -0400, JoeHill wrote: > > > > No complaints so far, but I've got this new Pulseaudio applet in my > > notification area (looks like a little headphone jack) and I'm not sure what > > it's all about

Re: Reporting List Mail As SPAM

On Tue, 2009-09-01 at 22:06 -0400, Tim Tebbit wrote: > Chris Jones wrote: > > > > Maybe debian lists should make it a requirement that you do not > > subscribe from a gmail account..? > > > > CJ > > > > > > I don't see that happening anytime soon. gmail for what? gmx? yahoo? > hotmail? If you

Re: How to "make install" apt?

On Tue, 2009-09-01 at 21:22 -0500, Peng Yu wrote: > I am only interested in the source packages but not the compiled > packages. My understanding is that the source codes of any give > package (the same version) in redhat and debian should be the same. Am > I correct? Red Hat is not Debian is not

Re: Inquiry:How to totally wipe out the entire hard drive

On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 5:52 PM, Christopher Walters wrote: > Lee Winter wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: > >> [snip] > > Jumping into that discussion, here is evidence that this is not possible >> with modern drives: >> >> >> http://www.h-online.com/news/Secure-de

Re: Sysv-rc (Urgent)

David Baron wrote: > Purging bittorrent and the othes leaves me with obsolete init.d scripts from > jackd and timidity. I want these packages but not necessarily the init.d > scripts to start them. (In fact, Timidity now has a separate daemon package.) > So how do I fix this. The correct way t

Re: [SOT] Installing additional Wesnoth campaigns

On Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:33:56 +0200 "thveillon.debian" wrote: > AG wrote: ... > Download add-ons (campaigns but not only) from: > > http://www.wesnoth.org/addons/1.6/ > > (again for 1.6) > > > Unpack the archives, copy the whole campaign folder into: > > /usr/share/games/wesnoth/data/campai

Re: apache on debian

> 1) Recently I've started to get a lot of this error: > >  ALERT - canary mismatch on efree() - heap overflow detected (attacker >  '64.12.116.75', file '/var/www/org/acc-tm/index.php') > 2) *Sometimes* a page is not passed through the php interpreter so the > browser gets a php document that it

Re: apache on debian

On Sun, Sep 06, 2009 at 03:54:52PM -0400, S. Fishpaste wrote: > On Wed, 2 Sep 2009 11:57:10 -0400, Rick Pasotto in gmane.linux.debian.user > wrote: > > Where is the best place for me to ask questions about running apache on > > my debian system? For the most part everything is working fine but the

Re: Fast booting for a Debian system - and suggestions for said system

> As for speeding up the bootprocess: > > # aptitude install dash > # dpkg-reconfigure dash # let it take over the /bin/sh link > # aptitude install insserv > # dpkg-reconfigure insserv > # echo "CONCURRENCY=shell" >> /etc/default/rcS Andrei After applying the method you outlined above

Re: Getting network connection

It's a wired Ethernet connection. The procedure for getting on the Internet through the Ethernet connection in Puppy Linux is: 1. Make sure that your DSL modem is powered on and properly connected to both your computer and the phone line. 2. Click on the "Connect" icon on the desktop.

Re: Inquiry:How to totally wipe out the entire hard drive

On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 3:08 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. < b...@iguanasuicide.net> wrote: > In <4aa40ac8.2050...@attglobal.net>, Napoleon wrote: > >John Hasler wrote: > >> I wrote: > >>> If you want to destroy all the data for security purposes install and > >>> use shred. It will take quite a whil

Re: Inquiry:How to totally wipe out the entire hard drive

Lee Winter wrote: > On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Sven Joachim > wrote: > [snip] > > Jumping into that discussion, here is evidence that this is not > possible > with modern drives: > > > http://www.h-online.com/news/Secure-deletion-a-single-overwrite-wil

Re: Inquiry:How to totally wipe out the entire hard drive

Napoleon wrote: > John Hasler wrote: >> I wrote: >>> If you want to destroy all the data for security purposes install and >>> use shred. It will take quite a while on a large disk. >> >> Ron Johnson writes: >>> This really is a myth. > [snip] > (Should have gone to the list but I screwed up the f

Re: static ip address is being reset constantly

2009/9/5 Jesús M. Navarro : > On Friday 04 September 2009 14:21:25 John O Laoi wrote: >>> Verify that no dhcp process is running in the background. If there is >>> none remove the network manager. >> Indeed there was DHCP processes running: >> # ps aux | grep dhc >> root      3650  0.0  0.0    

Re: Sysv-rc (Urgent)

Hint: your mails are easier to read if you put a blank line between citations and your reply. On 2009-09-06 21:47 +0200, David Baron wrote: > On Sunday 06 September 2009 21:23:10 debian-user-digest- > requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: >> > The upgrade from sid finds it unsafe to change to dependenc

Re: dependency based boot sequencing

On 2009-09-06 23:17 (+0300), Teemu Likonen wrote: > I think "aptitude purge ~c" is much simpler than a command like: > > COLUMN=200 dpkg --list | awk '/^rc/ {print $2}' | xargs -r dpkg -P -- ^^ Must be "COLUMNS". -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org w

Re: dependency based boot sequencing

On 2009-09-06 15:53 (-0400), Charles Kroeger wrote: >> # aptitude purge ~c > > Thanks for that suggestion but I don't use aptitude..I use apt, dpkg, and > smartpm. Well, use aptitude then! :-) I think "aptitude purge ~c" is much simpler than a command like: COLUMN=200 dpkg --list | awk '/^r

Re: Conf insserv broken

On 2009-09-06 21:47 +0200, Stefaan Himpe wrote: > When I do apt-get dist-upgrade --simulate, I get the following warnings: > > Inst insserv [1.12.0-10] (1.12.0-11 Debian:unstable) [insserv on sysv-rc] [] > Conf insserv broken > Breaks:sysv-rc > [] > > and > > E: Conf Broken insserv > > > The err

Re: Inquiry:How to totally wipe out the entire hard drive

In <4aa40f4c.1050...@attglobal.net>, Napoleon wrote: >John Hasler wrote: >> Napoleon writes: >>> Overwriting with zeros (or ones) once is not at all secure. It can >>> easily be nearly 100% recovered by someone with the necessary >>> equipment, even more so on a modern drive. >> >> Please provide

Re: Inquiry:How to totally wipe out the entire hard drive

On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2009-09-06 21:12 +0200, John Hasler wrote: > > > Napoleon writes: > >> Overwriting with zeros (or ones) once is not at all secure. It can > >> easily be nearly 100% recovered by someone with the necessary > >> equipment, even more so on a

Re: dependency based boot sequencing

On Sat,05.Sep.09, 21:33:42, Charles Kroeger wrote: > Some questions: is there a command in dpkg to purge these package related > files 'after' the package has been removed? I hacked up this little script, which i often use: apt-get autoclean; apt-get autoremove; orphaner; rm -f /var/cache/apt/ar

Re: Inquiry:How to totally wipe out the entire hard drive

In <4aa40ac8.2050...@attglobal.net>, Napoleon wrote: >John Hasler wrote: >> I wrote: >>> If you want to destroy all the data for security purposes install and >>> use shred. It will take quite a while on a large disk. >> >>> Ron Johnson writes: This really is a myth. >> >>> What is? >> >> In

Re: login manager problem for root

On Mon, 2009-08-31 at 16:19 +0530, Mohammed Rashad wrote: > I am using Debian Lenny 5.0 > when i open login manager select properties of root account home > directory for root changes from /root to /home/root Though one wonders why you're trying to log in to a graphical environment as root. sign

Re: Epiphany browser always starts up off-line

On Tue, 2009-09-01 at 11:49 -0400, JoeHill wrote: > Arthur Barlow wrote: > > > I have a fairly recent clean install of Debian "testing" and everything > > works well. Just one thing I find annoying. Whenever I start up the > > Epiphany web browser, it by default begins in the "work offline" mod

Re: apache on debian

On Wed, 2 Sep 2009 11:57:10 -0400, Rick Pasotto in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: > Where is the best place for me to ask questions about running apache on > my debian system? For the most part everything is working fine but there > are a few anomolies I'd like to get cleared up. > Probably here.

Re: Sysv-rc (Urgent)

On Sunday 06 September 2009 21:23:10 debian-user-digest- requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: > > The upgrade from sid finds it unsafe to change to dependency based boot > > and leaves it unconfigured with a couple of missing .rc files. > > What are .rc files? Reinstalling over testing did not flag th

Re: dependency based boot sequencing

> # aptitude purge ~c Thanks for that suggestion but I don't use aptitude..I use apt, dpkg, and smartpm. dpkg -P works but it would seem each package must be listed seperately. Is there a command that gets all the unpurged stuff in one go, like your suggestion above with apititude? Apropos to

Conf insserv broken

Hello list, When I do apt-get dist-upgrade --simulate, I get the following warnings: Inst insserv [1.12.0-10] (1.12.0-11 Debian:unstable) [insserv on sysv-rc] [] Conf insserv broken Breaks:sysv-rc [] and E: Conf Broken insserv The error message looks scary... is it the case that insserv is

Re: Inquiry:How to totally wipe out the entire hard drive

John Hasler wrote: Napoleon writes: Overwriting with zeros (or ones) once is not at all secure. It can easily be nearly 100% recovered by someone with the necessary equipment, even more so on a modern drive. Please provide evidence that anyone has ever done this on a modern drive. In any cas

Re: Inquiry:How to totally wipe out the entire hard drive

On 2009-09-06 21:12 +0200, John Hasler wrote: > Napoleon writes: >> Overwriting with zeros (or ones) once is not at all secure. It can >> easily be nearly 100% recovered by someone with the necessary >> equipment, even more so on a modern drive. > > Please provide evidence that anyone has ever do

Re: Inquiry:How to totally wipe out the entire hard drive

John Hasler wrote: I wrote: If you want to destroy all the data for security purposes install and use shred. It will take quite a while on a large disk. Ron Johnson writes: This really is a myth. What is? So, just run "dd if=/dev/urandom of=..." over it a couple of times. man shred. T

Re: Inquiry:How to totally wipe out the entire hard drive

Napoleon writes: > Overwriting with zeros (or ones) once is not at all secure. It can > easily be nearly 100% recovered by someone with the necessary > equipment, even more so on a modern drive. Please provide evidence that anyone has ever done this on a modern drive. In any case I doubt that th

Re: Error in Squeeze after log on: There was an error starting the GNOME Settings Daemon.

Hi, On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 7:03 PM, Foss User wrote: > I am using Squeeze. Whenever I power on and log into GNome, I get the > following error. Is there a way to fix it? > > There was an error starting the GNOME Settings Daemon. > > Some things, such as themes, sounds, or background settings may

Re: Inquiry:How to totally wipe out the entire hard drive

Andrew M.A. Cater writes: > If you want to wipe an entire drive > dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sda Shred can wipe a drive. > repeated a couple of times if necessary. And it takes care of the repeats and is faster than dd. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.d

Re: Preserving uppercase filenames on vfat partitions

On 2009-09-06 21:07 +0200, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > I recently encountered a problem others have run into before - the > default behavior on Linux of converting short, uppercase filenames on > vfat partitions to lower case. Every time I mounted a disk with a > vfat partition on it, a directory wi

Preserving uppercase filenames on vfat partitions

Hello, all: I recently encountered a problem others have run into before - the default behavior on Linux of converting short, uppercase filenames on vfat partitions to lower case. Every time I mounted a disk with a vfat partition on it, a directory with an uppercase name suddenly had a lowercase

DBAN (was: Inquiry:How to totally wipe out the entire hard drive)

-- Forwarded message -- From: Lee Winter Date: Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 2:21 PM Subject: Re: Inquiry:How to totally wipe out the entire hard drive To: "Andrew M.A. Cater" On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 6:39 AM, Andrew M.A. Cater < amaca...@galactic.demon.co.uk> wrote: > Better, by far, is to

Re: Sysv-rc (Urgent)

On 2009-09-06 18:30 +0200, David Baron wrote: > The upgrade from sid finds it unsafe to change to dependency based boot and > leaves it unconfigured with a couple of missing .rc files. What are .rc files? > 1. Is the system bootable at this point? I think yes, you will get the same boot order

Re: Inquiry:How to totally wipe out the entire hard drive

On Sun, Sep 06, 2009 at 11:13:42AM +0100, hadi motamedi wrote: > Dear All > Can you please let me know how can I totally wipe out the entire of my hard > drive under Debian OS ? > Thank you in advance > Regards > H.Motamedi If you want to wipe out a portion (say the contents of one home directory

Re: [SOT] Installing additional Wesnoth campaigns

thveillon.debian wrote: AG wrote: Hello Sorry if this is too far OT, but I was hoping for some Debian-specific advice on obtaining and using Battle for Wesnoth campaigns. The website/ forum provides some linkages to additional campaigns, but after following their instructions I just can't s

Re: Switching from GNOME to another window manager

On Sun, 2009-09-06 at 10:21 +0800, Jason Hsu wrote: > I used the default install to install Debian on a laptop as the sole OS. > > It boots up in GNOME, which is too slow and sluggish. How can I switch to > XFCE, Fluxbox, or some other lightweight window manager? > 1) You could do a reinstall:

Re: How to save live video (mms) ?

On Sun, Sep 06, 2009 at 12:49:52AM +0430, a dehqan wrote: > In The Name Of God > > Thanks for your attentions ; > I apologize from you jochen if i bothered you ; now problem is how to make > seekable dump . > > Andrew would you tell how to use mencoder to make it seekable ? Without meaning to se

Sysv-rc (Urgent)

The upgrade from sid finds it unsafe to change to dependency based boot and leaves it unconfigured with a couple of missing .rc files. 1. Is the system bootable at this point? 2. Downgrade this to testing? I did that but can always re-upgrade. 3. Leaving the co-version sysvinit-utils for now unti

Re: [SOT] Installing additional Wesnoth campaigns

AG wrote: > Hello > > Sorry if this is too far OT, but I was hoping for some Debian-specific > advice on obtaining and using Battle for Wesnoth campaigns. The > website/ forum provides some linkages to additional campaigns, but after > following their instructions I just can't seem to call the su

Re: Switching from GNOME to another window manager

On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 9:21 PM, Jason Hsu wrote: > I used the default install to install Debian on a laptop as the sole OS. > > It boots up in GNOME, which is too slow and sluggish.  How can I switch to > XFCE, Fluxbox, or some other lightweight window manager? You d'load/install the wm/de you wa

Re: Getting network connection

On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 10:46 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2009-09-05 21:24, Jason Hsu wrote: >> >> I successfully installed Debian on a laptop, but it's refusing to >> connect to the Internet.  It had no difficulty connecting during >> the installation process, but it's not connecting now.  How do I

Re: Inquiry:How to totally wipe out the entire hard drive

I wrote: > If you want to destroy all the data for security purposes install and > use shred. It will take quite a while on a large disk. Ron Johnson writes: > This really is a myth. What is? > So, just run "dd if=/dev/urandom of=..." over it a couple of times. man shred. That's essentially w

Re: Switching from GNOME to another window manager

On Sep 6, 2009, at 9:31 AM, paragasu wrote: i am using openbox, a very lightweight WM. #apt-get install openbox Or xfce or ... After you do that, there's a button (called "Sessions" IIRC) in the login window (still from Gnome, probably) that will let you switch around between the window

Re: Getting network connection

On 2009-09-05 21:24, Jason Hsu wrote: I successfully installed Debian on a laptop, but it's refusing to connect to the Internet. It had no difficulty connecting during the installation process, but it's not connecting now. How do I start a network connection? How do I start auto DHCP? Wired

Re: Switching from GNOME to another window manager

i am using openbox, a very lightweight WM. #apt-get install openbox On 9/6/09, Jason Hsu wrote: > I used the default install to install Debian on a laptop as the sole OS. > > It boots up in GNOME, which is too slow and sluggish. How can I switch to > XFCE, Fluxbox, or some other lightweight win

Getting network connection

I successfully installed Debian on a laptop, but it's refusing to connect to the Internet. It had no difficulty connecting during the installation process, but it's not connecting now. How do I start a network connection? How do I start auto DHCP? -- Jason Hsu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Switching from GNOME to another window manager

I used the default install to install Debian on a laptop as the sole OS. It boots up in GNOME, which is too slow and sluggish. How can I switch to XFCE, Fluxbox, or some other lightweight window manager? -- Jason Hsu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: Inquiry:How to totally wipe out the entire hard drive

On Sun, Sep 06, 2009 at 11:13:42AM +0100, hadi motamedi wrote: > Dear All > Can you please let me know how can I totally wipe out the entire of my > hard drive under Debian OS ? Thank you in advance http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch10.en.html#_erasing_an_entire_hard_disk 10.2

Re: Lenny annoyance

David wrote: Ever since I upgraded from Etch to Lenny, I've been having problems. My PC is a Toshiba Satellite 1805-S274 with a Netgear PCMCIA wifi card (Atheros chipset). I'm using a stock kernel (2.6.26-2-686). My desktop is Xfce, although I've tried Gnome and KDE as well. On a regular ba

Re: Inquiry:How to totally wipe out the entire hard drive

On 2009-09-06 07:10, John Hasler wrote: H.Motamedi writes: Can you please let me know how can I totally wipe out the entire of my hard drive under Debian OS ? Depends on what you want to accomplish. If you merely want to make the disk appear empty use fdisk to delete all the partitions. If y

Re: Inquiry:How to totally wipe out the entire hard drive

H.Motamedi writes: > Can you please let me know how can I totally wipe out the entire of my > hard drive under Debian OS ? Depends on what you want to accomplish. If you merely want to make the disk appear empty use fdisk to delete all the partitions. If you want to destroy all the data for secu

[SOT] Installing additional Wesnoth campaigns

Hello Sorry if this is too far OT, but I was hoping for some Debian-specific advice on obtaining and using Battle for Wesnoth campaigns. The website/ forum provides some linkages to additional campaigns, but after following their instructions I just can't seem to call the supposedly installe

Re: Inquiry:How to totally wipe out the entire hard drive

On 2009-09-06 07:00, Tim Tebbit wrote: hadi motamedi wrote: Dear All Can you please let me know how can I totally wipe out the entire of my hard drive under Debian OS ? Thank you in advance Regards H.Motamedi wipe dd DBAN This is all you need on modern dives: dd bs=1M count=Z if=/dev/ura

cisco vpnclient: not able to get shell output for more than a few lines

Hi, I need to access a cisco vpn concentrator. I tried using vpnc and keep getting a message vpnc: response was invalid [1]: (ISAKMP_N_INVALID_EXCHANGE_TYPE)(7) which I cannot figure out the cause for. any ideas on how to handle that? and so I am using the proprietary cisco vpnclient which

Lenny annoyance

Ever since I upgraded from Etch to Lenny, I've been having problems. My PC is a Toshiba Satellite 1805-S274 with a Netgear PCMCIA wifi card (Atheros chipset). I'm using a stock kernel (2.6.26-2-686). My desktop is Xfce, although I've tried Gnome and KDE as well. On a regular basis, my system

Re: Inquiry:How to totally wipe out the entire hard drive

On Sun, Sep 06, 2009 at 11:13:42AM +0100, hadi motamedi wrote: > Dear All > Can you please let me know how can I totally wipe out the entire of my hard > drive under Debian OS ? What for? For installing a different OS? (Which one?) To hide data? -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org |

Getting a lot of HTTP 502 from php-cgi +/- since last upgrade.

Greetings. I can't be sure, but ever since my last apt-get dist-upgrade, a few of my sites are constantly producing http 200 for a while, then http 502 for the same amount of time, then 200, 502, etc... this isn't exactly an accurate measure since all i do is reload the browser, but you get the id

Re: lprng needed by AUCTeX?

On Sun, Sep 06, 2009 at 01:06:16PM +0200, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > I would like to know how you decided to install the "cups" package, since its > description says it provides a print *server*. Well, three reasons: a) I thought a print server would provide print services, and that's what I wa

Re: Inquiry:How to totally wipe out the entire hard drive

hadi motamedi wrote: > Dear All > Can you please let me know how can I totally wipe out the entire of my > hard drive under Debian OS ? > Thank you in advance > Regards > H.Motamedi > wipe dd DBAN -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: Server freezes sporadically

Adrian Kirchner wrote: > The whole /var/log/messages can be found here: > http://pastebin.com/f194c41e2 > The whole /var/log/syslog can be found bzipped here: > http://www.box.net/shared/azgde0yqfg It seems, that one of your disks is dying... Look at http://pastebin.com/f194c41e2 from line 4449. Th

Re: lprng needed by AUCTeX?

I would like to know how you decided to install the "cups" package, since its description says it provides a print *server*. Nevertheless the cups package depends on the package "cups-clients" which contains "client programs (SysV)", i.e., the lp command for submitting a print job. So you don'nt n

Re: Inquiry:Can I make use of external memory stick for Debian installation ?

On Sun, Sep 06, 2009 at 08:30:30AM +0100, hadi motamedi wrote: > Thank you for your reply . Can you please let me know how can I write the > *.iso installation images to the external USB memory stick to be usable for > Debian OS installation ? > http://wiki.debian.org/DebianAcerOne#PreparingtheUS

Wireless card only works after an ifconfig ra0 up

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I am using a wireless Ralink network card on my network, equipped with Debian Lenny. If I only do $ ifconfig , I receive info about lo and eth0. When doing $ ifconfig ra0 up , I can do $ iwconfig with success (there was no wireless extension di

Re: Inquiry:Can I make use of external memory stick for Debian installation ?

AG wrote: hadi motamedi wrote: Dear All Can you please do me favor and let me know how can I make use of the external memory stick for Debian installation ? Please be informed that my server doesn't come with internal CDROM drive so I need to make use of the external memory stick for this pur

Inquiry:How to totally wipe out the entire hard drive

Dear All Can you please let me know how can I totally wipe out the entire of my hard drive under Debian OS ? Thank you in advance Regards H.Motamedi

Re: Inquiry:Can I make use of external memory stick for Debian installation ?

Indeed, all you do is copy whichever .iso image you want alongside the other files. While I have very little understanding of the internal workings of the boot process that results from that how-to, all I could tell when I used the method was that the initial boot files copied onto the USB stick c

Re: Inquiry:Can I make use of external memory stick for Debian installation ?

hadi motamedi skrev: Excuse me , the link you provided me is for zcat *.gz but my case relates to "how to *.iso" . Can you please let me how to copy *.iso files onto USB memory sticks as bootable ones ? It seems to me that he link provided covers the iso-case. Read the last 2 lines of section

Re: mount -o remount,rw as user

HI, > On a mostly Etch system with this line in /etc/fstab >/dev/hda5 /dmsdos defaults,rw,user,umask=0001 0 0 > user mike can mount the partition and write to it but not remount it > read only in any way I can discover. to make the partition mounted readonly, simply change rw (

Re: Inquiry:Can I make use of external memory stick for Debian installation ?

Excuse me , the link you provided me is for zcat *.gz but my case relates to "how to *.iso" . Can you please let me how to copy *.iso files onto USB memory sticks as bootable ones ? On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 8:45 AM, Norbert Zeh wrote: > On Sun, Sep 06, 2009 at 07:56:26AM +0100, hadi motamedi wro

Re: Inquiry:Can I make use of external memory stick for Debian installation ?

hadi motamedi wrote: Dear All Can you please do me favor and let me know how can I make use of the external memory stick for Debian installation ? Please be informed that my server doesn't come with internal CDROM drive so I need to make use of the external memory stick for this purpose . I ha

Re: Inquiry:Can I make use of external memory stick for Debian installation ?

On Sun, Sep 06, 2009 at 07:56:26AM +0100, hadi motamedi wrote: > Dear All > Can you please do me favor and let me know how can I make use of the > external memory stick for Debian installation ? Please be informed that my > server doesn't come with internal CDROM drive so I need to make use of the

Re: dependency based boot sequencing

On Sat,05.Sep.09, 21:33:42, Charles Kroeger wrote: > Some questions: is there a command in dpkg to purge these package related > files 'after' the package has been removed? Sure, but it is easier to use aptitude: # aptitude purge ~c Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don'

Re: Fast booting for a Debian system - and suggestions for said system

On Sat,05.Sep.09, 13:44:01, John Fry wrote: > Andrei Popescu writes: > > > As for speeding up the bootprocess: > > > > # aptitude install dash > > # dpkg-reconfigure dash # let it take over the /bin/sh link > > That saved me 1s. > > > # aptitude install insserv > > # dpkg-reconfigure insserv >

mount -o remount,rw as user

On a mostly Etch system with this line in /etc/fstab /dev/hda5 /dmsdos defaults,rw,user,umask=0001 0 0 user mike can mount the partition and write to it but not remount it read only in any way I can discover. Same with this line /dev/hda5 /dmsdos defaults,rw,users,