Re: asterisk-1.6.2 broken on debian squeeze

2009-11-14 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 11:27:56AM +0300, Rustam Kovhaev wrote: > Hello there, > It's been broken for 2 months already. What do you mean by "broken"? Could you please be more specific? -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's t

Re: Weird mirrors error on fresh Lenny installation

2009-11-14 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 02:00:45PM +, Lisi wrote: > > Thanks Osamu and Artur. The computer actually belongs to a client, and I > have > not at this moment got access to it. I am still very grateful for your > suggestions and shall try to put them into practice when I can. You mean no X c

acpitool vs acpi-support

2009-11-14 Thread T o n g
Hi, The acpitool and acpi-support look very similar to me: acpitool: acpi-support: The primary target audience are laptop users, since these people are most interested in things like battery status, thermal status and the ability to suspend (sleep mode). The program simply accesses the /proc/

Inquiry:Where to download Debian 3.1 kernel 2.6.15.7.ki-2 iso image for x86 platform?

2009-11-14 Thread hadi motamedi
Dear All Please be informed that I needed to install Debian 3.1 kernel 2.6.15.7.ki-2 for x86 platform but my current kernel is as 2.4.27-2-386 . Can you please do me favor and let me have the link to download its iso image for x86 platform ? Let me thank you in advance

Network automatic installation with custom mirror

2009-11-14 Thread Ding Honghui
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi list, I try to install my server from pxe boot and encounter some issue. Because my network bandwidth is very limited and I can't wait too long to install a server, so I collect all I need packages include packages from security.debian.org and ftp

Inquiry:How to enable Telnet & SSH on my Debian 3.1 server?

2009-11-14 Thread hadi motamedi
Dear All Can you please do me favor and let me know how can I enable telnet & ssh on my Debian 3.1 server (as it does not support them at now) ? Let me thank you in advance

Re: which package can help me bypass Internet censorship

2009-11-14 Thread Long Wind
The Chinese government even block facebook www.facebook.com www.cnd.org is in Chinese On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 4:03 AM, brownh wrote: > Long Wind, > > I suspect there may be ways to alleviate your problem somewhat, but it > may depend on what sites you need to visit. It would help if you were

Re: Inquiry:How to disable my Debian server firewall ?

2009-11-14 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 07:50:29AM +, hadi motamedi wrote: > Dear All Can you please do me favor and let me know how can I disable > my Debian server firewall ? As I know , on the Linux server , I can There is no firewall by default, so you must have installed something. Grep through /etc/ini

Re: Hooking Debian to a Windows VM VPN connection

2009-11-14 Thread Cassiano Leal
2009/11/14 Chris Davies : > Cassiano Leal wrote: >> [...] to hook to the company's VPN I need some proprietary tools that >> again only run on Windows [...] > > Do you know for a fact these VPN connection tools only work on > Windows? (And more importantly, would you prefer to run your VPN > conne

Re: Hooking Debian to a Windows VM VPN connection

2009-11-14 Thread Cassiano Leal
Joe, thanks for your comments. See my own below: 2009/11/14 Joe : > Cassiano Leal wrote: >> >> Hi list, >> >> I would like to know if it is possible to achieve what I am trying to. >> > You just say 'VPN', which is becoming a generic term for any kind of remote > access protocol. Do you actually m

Re: [OT] Old machine bsd vs. linux

2009-11-14 Thread Chris Jones
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 11:54:08PM EST, Javier Vasquez wrote: > Hi, > > Sorry to ask specially through this list... > > I've been a linux user for around 10 years now, however lately some > 800MHz Coppermine machines are not performing as well as they used to. 650 MHz Coppermine + 386M RAM. How

Can't build from a CD-RW made by dfsbuild

2009-11-14 Thread Jiří Paleček
Hello, I use dfsbuild to create live ISO images I sometimes boot from to test some things. Recently, I ran into problems with the generated ISOs. I use a CD-RW disc to boot from. The problem is, that the computer doesn't boot from the CD - it stops after disc drive detection, the CD starts

Re: Hooking Debian to a Windows VM VPN connection

2009-11-14 Thread Chris Davies
Cassiano Leal wrote: > [...] to hook to the company's VPN I need some proprietary tools that > again only run on Windows [...] Do you know for a fact these VPN connection tools only work on Windows? (And more importantly, would you prefer to run your VPN connection from your Debian system is you

Re: Include a ftp client in initrd

2009-11-14 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 11:02:52AM -0800, Kushal Koolwal wrote: > > I just need a client program. > > Also I figured that just copying an ftp program would not be sufficient. I > will need to copy the shared libraries also. I was wondering what is the best > way to find out the shared libraries

Re: Inquiry:How to set the Debian server to be automatically rebooted at pre-specified times ?

2009-11-14 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 07:44:57AM +, hadi motamedi wrote: > Thank you for your reply . Please be informed that I checked for my Debian > server version , as the followings : > #more /proc/version > Linux version 2.4.27-2-386 (ho...@tabatha.lab.ultramonkey.org) (gcc version > 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.

Re: Inquiry:How to set the Debian server to be automatically rebooted at pre-specified times ?

2009-11-14 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 05:32:42AM +, hadi motamedi wrote: > Thank you very much for your reply . Can you please do me favor and let me > know what is the equivalent of Linux "/etc/rc.local" bootup script in Debian > ? In Linux , I put the "crontab crontab.txt" in /etc/rc.local bootup script >

Re: [OT] Old machine bsd vs. linux

2009-11-14 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 08:31:09PM +, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > Why not using a minimal linux distro? Or LFS? Why would you want to use LFS? What's wrong with running Debian on it? -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's tza

cyrus mail + saslauthd + pam_winbond

2009-11-14 Thread Alex Samad
Hi has nay one got this working, I have spend the last 2 week stracing / debug and not getting anywere i have tested the samba side of things wbinfo -i -a -K work I can authenticate. when I try testsaslauthd it fails Just like to know somebody has (current packages) working environment.

Re: [OT] Old machine bsd vs. linux

2009-11-14 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Why not using a minimal linux distro? Or LFS? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: [OT] Old machine bsd vs. linux

2009-11-14 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 09:36:03AM -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: > >> On Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:54:08 -0600 >> Javier Vasquez wrote: >> >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Sorry to ask specially through this list... >>> >>> I've been a linux user for around 10 years now, however lately some >>> 800MHz Coppermine ma

Re: Hooking Debian to a Windows VM VPN connection

2009-11-14 Thread Joe
Cassiano Leal wrote: Hi list, I would like to know if it is possible to achieve what I am trying to. Here's the situation.. In my work I have a few tools that only work on Windows. Apart from that, to hook to the company's VPN I need some proprietary tools that again only run on Windows. To wor

dpkg-query -W -f='${Conffiles}\n' | grep obsolete

2009-11-14 Thread bossekr
Hi, is it true that this call `dpkg-query -W -f='${Conffiles}\n' | grep obsolete` show all obsolate files which can be removed ? I read about this at http://wiki.debian.org/LSBInitScripts/DependencyBasedBoot while upgrading sysv-rc for dependency booting. My script to detect obsolate files is

Re: [Pkg-fglrx-devel] Bug#521323: fglrx-driver: Failed to open DRM connection (ATI 9.10 + xserver-xorg 1:7.4+4)

2009-11-14 Thread Raphael Bossek
Hi all, I'm sorry. I used xserver-xorg-driver-radeonhd and switched back to fglrx-driver and can not reproduce my previous problem. I colose the bug report now. # aticonfig --install Here my /etc/X11/xor.conf file (see attachment). Greetings, Raphael xorg.conf.aticonfig.gz Description: GNU Zi

Hooking Debian to a Windows VM VPN connection

2009-11-14 Thread Cassiano Leal
Hi list, I would like to know if it is possible to achieve what I am trying to. Here's the situation.. In my work I have a few tools that only work on Windows. Apart from that, to hook to the company's VPN I need some proprietary tools that again only run on Windows. To work around these issues I

re: setting screen resolution to 1366x768

2009-11-14 Thread Alexander Kaphuk
I'd like to thank all those that have responded to my email about setting screen resolution to 1366x768 the other day. Here's what I did... 1. Stopped gdm; 2. Downloaded the nVidia driver off their website ( NVIDIA-Linux-x86-190.42-pkg1.run); 3. Downloaded and installed the linux-headers and

Re: Weird mirrors error on fresh Lenny installation

2009-11-14 Thread Lisi
On Friday 13 November 2009 14:34:36 Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 12:05:51PM +, Lisi wrote: > > This morning I installed Lenny using netinstall. I have done this with > > Debian many times over the years without problem. > > > > I always install the base system, let the standard

Re: samba query

2009-11-14 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 10:50:10PM -0500, David Parker wrote: >This works fine for me.  You might simply be missing a line in your config >file or something. > >In your smb.conf: Thanks:) I'll give that a shot and see how it goes. On a home network with wpa encryption, and a firewall

Re: setting screen resolution to 1366x768

2009-11-14 Thread Bob
Modern xorg doesn't need a .conf file on the whole but I find that with funky screen sizes and quirky multi-monitor set-ups they are still necessary. I never quite got 1366x768 the best I've done is 1360x768, I've frequently seen it said that horizontal resolutions must be divisible by 8 and

Re: unable to configure ati fglrx driver

2009-11-14 Thread Johan Grönqvist
Umarzuki Mochlis skrev: I had been doing (installing & reinstalling) this more than 5 times, before I reinstall my whole Debian Lenny, I would like to know if anyone ever get pass this problem # aticonfig --initial Unable to open /etc/ati/control, please reinstall the driver. Uninitialised fil

Re: Inquiry:How to set the Debian server to be automatically rebooted at pre-specified times ?

2009-11-14 Thread Jochen Schulz
hadi motamedi: > > Sorry . According to you , I created my own /etc/rc.local and put my own > bootup script in it . But when I reboot my Debian server I don't see my > intended startup scripts being effective on my Debian server . Can you > please let me know why ? Did you read the comments in the

Re: Inquiry:How to set the Debian server to be automatically rebooted at pre-specified times ?

2009-11-14 Thread hadi motamedi
Sorry . According to you , I created my own /etc/rc.local and put my own bootup script in it . But when I reboot my Debian server I don't see my intended startup scripts being effective on my Debian server . Can you please let me know why ? Thank you in advance On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 9:51 AM, J

Re: Ctrl Alt F11 gives me trouble

2009-11-14 Thread Jason Filippou
Never having fully understood what the trouble was, I achieved to solve the grief produced by playing with the kde fonts through system settings and, of course, uninstalling pulseaudio, which I had thought to have been already uninstalled. Thank you all for your time. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: Inquiry:How to set the Debian server to be automatically rebooted at pre-specified times ?

2009-11-14 Thread Jochen Schulz
Please don't top-post. hadi motamedi: > > Sorry . Why my Debian server does not contain /etc/rc.local bootup file ? I don't know, but nothing keeps you from creating it. The default file looks like this: #!/bin/sh -e # # rc.local # # This script is executed at the end of each multiuser runlevel.

Re: OT - multitail - Connecting a video camera

2009-11-14 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In <4afd57ba.7080...@googlemail.com>, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: >> Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: >>> What does 'watch' deliver that 'tail -f' does not? 'tail -f' is even >>> realtime, something that watch is not. >> Nothing I guess, thanks for pointing this bashism. T

Re: Inquiry:How to set the Debian server to be automatically rebooted at pre-specified times ?

2009-11-14 Thread hadi motamedi
Sorry . Why my Debian server does not contain /etc/rc.local bootup file ? Thank you in advance On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 8:40 AM, Jochen Schulz wrote: > Please don't top-post. > > hadi motamedi: > > > > Thank you very much for your reply . Can you please do me favor and let > me > > know what is

Re: Inquiry:How to set the Debian server to be automatically rebooted at pre-specified times ?

2009-11-14 Thread Jochen Schulz
Please don't top-post. hadi motamedi: > > Thank you very much for your reply . Can you please do me favor and let me > know what is the equivalent of Linux "/etc/rc.local" bootup script in Debian > ? Debian uses /etc/rc.local as well. It's a Linux system, after all. ;-) J. -- I use a Playstatio

Re: debian-5.0.3 on ThinkPad A21e : dude, where's my RAM ?

2009-11-14 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-11-14 06:21 +0100, Ionreflex wrote: > I've just installed a fresh debian on an old IBM ThinkPad A21e (see cpuz > info in attachement) and I'm kinda bedazzled - in the wrong sense! - at how > much an idle system seems to hog RAM : out of 256, half of it is always > used... It is used as a

Re: Weird mirrors error on fresh Lenny installation

2009-11-14 Thread Artur Frydel
On Fri, 13 Nov 2009, Lisi wrote: I always install the base system, let the standard system be set up automatically and then install anything else I want manually after rebooting. Today, that didn't work. Check if you have transparent proxy through way to your mirror. Try to use ftp:// instea

Re: debian-5.0.3 on ThinkPad A21e : dude, where's my RAM ?

2009-11-14 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat,14.Nov.09, 00:21:58, Ionreflex wrote: > Hi all, > > I've just installed a fresh debian on an old IBM ThinkPad A21e (see cpuz > info in attachement) and I'm kinda bedazzled - in the wrong sense! - at how > much an idle system seems to hog RAM : out of 256, half of it is always > used... If