Re: New testing install; no /boot/grub/menu.lst exists.

2010-01-09 Thread Tom H
>>  What is your 40... entry? > Generic chainloader +1 stuff: >   # OpenBSD 4.6 on /dev/hda1 >   title         OpenBSD 4.6 >   root          (hd0,0) >   savedefault >   makeactive >   chainloader +1 >>  Are you loading the ufs module(s)? > Never heard of 'em. Will research, thanks. (1a) There i

Re: unable to open mailbox

2010-01-09 Thread RobertHoltzman
On Sat, Jan 09, 2010 at 08:09:57PM -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > RobertHoltzman put forth on 1/9/2010 5:45 PM: > > On Sat, Jan 09, 2010 at 10:27:33AM -0200, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > >> Klistvud wrote: > >>> I've heard maildir is more robust than mbox in that regard. Can anybody > >>> confirm

Re: How to install Eclipse 3.5 on Debian 5 (lenny) stable release ?

2010-01-09 Thread Tsang Kim Wai
Hi Mat, Thanks for your suggestion. I have downloaded the "eclipse_3.4.1-1_i386.deb" file from the link you provided. I am now finding information on installing this eclipse 3.4 using "dpkg". However, one point I want to be clear in advance is that would the eclipse 3.4 installati

Re: Having Grub2 use UUID instead of (hd0,1)?

2010-01-09 Thread Tom H
> I just did an update on the laptop and I get the following output from > aptitude when upgrading the Grub2 packages: > Setting up grub-common (1.98~20100101-1) ... > Installing new version of config file /etc/grub.d/00_header ... > Setting up grub-pc (1.98~20100101-1) ... > /usr/sbin/grub-probe:

Re: How to install Eclipse 3.5 on Debian 5 (lenny) stable release ?

2010-01-09 Thread Mathias
On Sun, 10 Jan 2010, Tsang Kim Wai wrote: Hi All, I am a newbie in Debian and have just installed Debian 5 (lenny) stable release. I have used "apt-get install eclipse" to install a version of eclipse into my system and that version runs well. However, later I find that the installed

How to install Eclipse 3.5 on Debian 5 (lenny) stable release ?

2010-01-09 Thread Tsang Kim Wai
Hi All, I am a newbie in Debian and have just installed Debian 5 (lenny) stable release. I have used "apt-get install eclipse" to install a version of eclipse into my system and that version runs well. However, later I find that the installed version of eclipse is 3.2 and I would like t

Re: Recommended NIC module

2010-01-09 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Mathias put forth on 1/9/2010 7:31 PM: > Which module would you guys (or gals :) recommend for this NIC, the e100 or > the eepro100? > > 00:02.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557/8/9/0/1 Ethernet > Pro 100 (rev 08) I have a server with both rev 05 and rev 08 cards installed: 00:0b.0 Et

Re: unable to open mailbox

2010-01-09 Thread Stan Hoeppner
RobertHoltzman put forth on 1/9/2010 5:45 PM: > On Sat, Jan 09, 2010 at 10:27:33AM -0200, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: >> Klistvud wrote: >>> I've heard maildir is more robust than mbox in that regard. Can anybody >>> confirm if that's true or not? >>> >> >> I'd say so. Since each message is a

Recommended NIC module

2010-01-09 Thread Mathias
Which module would you guys (or gals :) recommend for this NIC, the e100 or the eepro100? 00:02.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557/8/9/0/1 Ethernet Pro 100 (rev 08) Mat -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Con

How to remove old version glib

2010-01-09 Thread hce
Hi, I am running an old version debian 3.0 with old version glib 1.12.4 in /usr directory. The "/usr" partition space is full, so I have to build new version of lib-2.20.4 as well as other packages in another partition /opt. Now I need to remove old glib 1.12.4 from "/usr", but if I run following

Re: Back to Debian after 10 years

2010-01-09 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Sat January 9 2010, Andrei Popescu wrote: > You might want to try wicd as well. I just installed lenny/stable on a > friends network and network-manager (a.k.a. nework mangler) simply > wouldn't connect to my AP. wicd worked right away. I second that.. I had problems with my laptop & wireless,

Re: unable to open mailbox

2010-01-09 Thread RobertHoltzman
On Sat, Jan 09, 2010 at 10:27:33AM -0200, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > Klistvud wrote: > > I've heard maildir is more robust than mbox in that regard. Can anybody > > confirm if that's true or not? > > > > I'd say so. Since each message is a file, if one file gets corrupted > only that messa

Re: Back to Debian after 10 years

2010-01-09 Thread Vasco Costa
On Sun, 2010-01-10 at 00:55 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Fri,08.Jan.10, 00:02:50, Vasco Costa wrote: > > > > Lenny supports all my hardware except my Atheros wireless card (ath9k). > > Backports came to rescue with linux-image-2.6.30-bpo.2-686. > > You might want to try wicd as well. I just

Re: How to fix ipaddress

2010-01-09 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu,07.Jan.10, 09:47:56, J.H.Kim wrote: > Hi, everyone > > I want to use network in my office locally. > Not connected to internet, I wish to do network in my office only. > The network cable is connected with cross-cable to another computer. > > I set /etc/network/interfaces as follows : >

Re: How to connect my ipod?

2010-01-09 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Jan 09, 2010 at 11:13:56AM +0100, Joost Kraaijeveld wrote: [...] > Is it possible to let the iPod appear consistently at /media/ipod so > that I can use it with GtkPod, which expects it to be at that mount > point (or any other consistent mount point I guess)? If so, how does one > do that

Re: Disallow other users from reading my $HOME

2010-01-09 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri,08.Jan.10, 22:57:50, green wrote: > > I would consider Samba to be more secure (other thoughts anyone?); I feel > cautious about giving someone a network-accessible shell. > > Samba will limit access to a specific folder. There are various ways to limit access to sftp only if an addition

Re: Disallow other users from reading my $HOME

2010-01-09 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed,06.Jan.10, 15:11:17, Bob McGowan wrote: > And 700 is not excessively paranoid. Since anyone can belong to a > group, it is possible for the "personal" group to have other names added > to it. Using 700 guarantees they have no access, if this should happen. Only root can do that and if y

Re: Back to Debian after 10 years

2010-01-09 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri,08.Jan.10, 00:02:50, Vasco Costa wrote: > > Lenny supports all my hardware except my Atheros wireless card (ath9k). > Backports came to rescue with linux-image-2.6.30-bpo.2-686. You might want to try wicd as well. I just installed lenny/stable on a friends network and network-manager (a.k

Re: Roman Gelfand has invited you to open a Google mail account

2010-01-09 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Tue,05.Jan.10, 13:41:18, Mark Allums wrote: > I guess your sarcasm meter is broken today. Better get it service. > (The hotmail post is satire, guys.) Quote from RFC 1855, section 2.1.1 (emphasis mine): "Remember that the recipient is a human being whose culture, language, and humor have di

Re: Squeeze vs. Lenny update frequency?

2010-01-09 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu,07.Jan.10, 15:05:27, Mark wrote: > Probably a dumb question, but...if a person uses Squeeze for pretty much > nothing but web browsing with Iceweasel and whose system works just fine as > of today, what risk would it be to not run Update Manager except say, once a > month? We're talking a

Gnome buggers: please reopen bug 358731

2010-01-09 Thread Dotan Cohen
Does someone here have the proper permissions to reopen a Gnome bug that was incorrectly marked as dupe? Thanks: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=358731 -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org w

Re: Undefined video mode number: 314

2010-01-09 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <4b48eca8.8040...@gmail.com>, Stanisław T. Findeisen wrote: >(II) s3(0): Not using default mode "1024x768" (insufficient memory for mode) > >What does this mean?? Is my graphics card memory already too little to >run X?? How much video memory is needed to run X? I am sure both the >monitors supp

grub directory missing (but grub still runs!)

2010-01-09 Thread Carlos Davila
As I mentioned in an earlier post, using the synaptic package manager, I got: Removing xcircuit ... Processing triggers for menu ... Processing triggers for man-db ... Setting up linux-image-2.6.26-2-686 (2.6.26-19lenny2) ... Running depmod. Running mkinitramfs-kpkg. Not updating initrd symbolic l

Re: Undefined video mode number: 314

2010-01-09 Thread Stanisław T. Findeisen
Stephen Powell wrote: > On 2010-01-09 at 12:52:03 -0500, Stanisław T. Findeisen wrote: >> Hi! >> >> I am trying to install Debian 5.0.3 on AMD 64 platform. My motherboard >> is ASUS K8U-X (Socket 754). I downloaded debian-503-amd64-netinst.iso >> and chose "graphical expert install". Then I got thi

Re: iceweasel window raised with remote open

2010-01-09 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 12:09, Steve Kleene wrote: > On Sat, 9 Jan 2010 12:50:33 -0500, I wrote: > >> I keep an iceweasel process open but iconized (lowered) all the time. >> When I open a site as follows >> >>   iceweasel -remote openurl\(http:blah.html\) >> >> it raises the iceweasel window to th

Re: iceweasel window raised with remote open

2010-01-09 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 09. 01. 2010 18:50:33 je Steve Kleene napisal(a): Two workarounds come to mind: - if your session is not cookie-based, you could try to keep logged in by re-requesting the page with wget or a similar command-line tool at regular intervals; - or you could install devilspie and try fiddlin

Re: iceweasel window raised with remote open

2010-01-09 Thread Steve Kleene
On Sat, 9 Jan 2010 12:50:33 -0500, I wrote: > I keep an iceweasel process open but iconized (lowered) all the time. > When I open a site as follows > > iceweasel -remote openurl\(http:blah.html\) > > it raises the iceweasel window to the foreground. (-new-tab does the > same.) Is there a setti

Re: Undefined video mode number: 314

2010-01-09 Thread Stephen Powell
On 2010-01-09 at 12:52:03 -0500, Stanisław T. Findeisen wrote: > Hi! > > I am trying to install Debian 5.0.3 on AMD 64 platform. My motherboard > is ASUS K8U-X (Socket 754). I downloaded debian-503-amd64-netinst.iso > and chose "graphical expert install". Then I got this: > > Undefined video mode

Re: iceweasel window raised with remote open

2010-01-09 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2010-01-09, Steve Kleene wrote: > I keep an iceweasel process open but iconized (lowered) all the time. > When I open a site as follows > > iceweasel -remote openurl\(http:blah.html\) > > it raises the iceweasel window to the foreground. (-new-tab does the > same.) Is there a setting I can

Re: How to temporary set dvorak keymap in terminal

2010-01-09 Thread Chris Jones
On Sat, Jan 09, 2010 at 12:29:34PM EST, Anthony Baldwin wrote: > --- On Sat, 1/9/10, Chris Jones wrote: [..] > > xmodmap? > > > > This may help: > > > > http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=2004022913081779 > > > > CJ > > > > How about simply > > :~$ setxkbmap dvorak Had a feeling

Undefined video mode number: 314

2010-01-09 Thread Stanisław T. Findeisen
Hi! I am trying to install Debian 5.0.3 on AMD 64 platform. My motherboard is ASUS K8U-X (Socket 754). I downloaded debian-503-amd64-netinst.iso and chose "graphical expert install". Then I got this: Undefined video mode number: 314 and was offered a selection of a number of text modes. I conti

iceweasel window raised with remote open

2010-01-09 Thread Steve Kleene
I keep an iceweasel process open but iconized (lowered) all the time. When I open a site as follows iceweasel -remote openurl\(http:blah.html\) it raises the iceweasel window to the foreground. (-new-tab does the same.) Is there a setting I can change so that iceweasel will remain iconized?

Re: Synaptics touchpad works even though it's not in xorg.conf

2010-01-09 Thread Freeman
On Sat, Jan 09, 2010 at 02:54:53PM +, George wrote: > My synaptics touchpad is working even though it's not in xorg.conf. > The only input devices there are the keyboard and the mouse. How can I > disable it? I tried adding it, restarting xorg and then use synclient > to disable it but it looks

Re: How to temporary set dvorak keymap in terminal

2010-01-09 Thread Anthony Baldwin
--- On Sat, 1/9/10, Chris Jones wrote: > From: Chris Jones > Subject: Re: How to temporary set dvorak keymap in terminal > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Date: Saturday, January 9, 2010, 4:48 PM > On Sat, Jan 09, 2010 at 07:21:23AM > EST, Sebastian wrote: > > Hi Camaleón and thanks for your

Re: Apt-zip-inst keeps trying to use internet

2010-01-09 Thread Jason Heeris
2010/1/6 Javier Barroso : > Hi, > > On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 7:43 AM, Jason Heeris wrote: > apt-zip worked for me sometime ago, but now there is a new replacement: > > http://packages.debian.org/apt-offline Ooh, thanks, I'll look into that. > Yes apt-zip works without any connetion. > > I remember

Re: How to temporary set dvorak keymap in terminal

2010-01-09 Thread Chris Jones
On Sat, Jan 09, 2010 at 07:21:23AM EST, Sebastian wrote: > Hi Camaleón and thanks for your time > > I was hoping there would be a way without using root. But loadkeys > changes the keymap for all users on all virtual terminals AFAIK which > is what I'm trying to avoid cause I do usually have sever

Re: Synaptics touchpad works even though it's not in xorg.conf

2010-01-09 Thread Stan Hoeppner
George put forth on 1/9/2010 9:37 AM: > On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 3:08 PM, Nick Douma wrote: > >> Don't you have button on your laptop that disables it? On my Acer it is >> a combination of Fn + a number. > > As I said, it doesn't have a button combination, but it has a > dedicated button, which do

Re: Synaptics touchpad works even though it's not in xorg.conf

2010-01-09 Thread George
On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 3:08 PM, Nick Douma wrote: > Don't you have button on your laptop that disables it? On my Acer it is > a combination of Fn + a number. As I said, it doesn't have a button combination, but it has a dedicated button, which doesn't work in debian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Synaptics touchpad works even though it's not in xorg.conf

2010-01-09 Thread Pier Paolo
On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 16:08, Nick Douma wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 9-1-2010 15:54, George wrote: > > My synaptics touchpad is working even though it's not in xorg.conf. > > The only input devices there are the keyboard and the mouse. How can I > > disable it?

Re: Synaptics touchpad works even though it's not in xorg.conf

2010-01-09 Thread Nick Douma
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 9-1-2010 15:54, George wrote: > My synaptics touchpad is working even though it's not in xorg.conf. > The only input devices there are the keyboard and the mouse. How can I > disable it? I tried adding it, restarting xorg and then use synclient > to

Re: Synaptics touchpad works even though it's not in xorg.conf

2010-01-09 Thread George
On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 3:10 PM, Mihira Fernando wrote: > On Sat, 9 Jan 2010 14:54:53 + > George wrote: > >> My synaptics touchpad is working even though it's not in xorg.conf. >> The only input devices there are the keyboard and the mouse. How can I >> disable it? I tried adding it, restartin

Re: Synaptics touchpad works even though it's not in xorg.conf

2010-01-09 Thread Mihira Fernando
On Sat, 9 Jan 2010 14:54:53 + George wrote: > My synaptics touchpad is working even though it's not in xorg.conf. > The only input devices there are the keyboard and the mouse. How can I > disable it? I tried adding it, restarting xorg and then use synclient > to disable it but it looks like

Synaptics touchpad works even though it's not in xorg.conf

2010-01-09 Thread George
My synaptics touchpad is working even though it's not in xorg.conf. The only input devices there are the keyboard and the mouse. How can I disable it? I tried adding it, restarting xorg and then use synclient to disable it but it looks like the Synaptics section in xorg.conf is not detected. How c

Re: Sound problem

2010-01-09 Thread S. Fishpaste
On Sat, 09 Jan 2010 10:57:48 +0100, Peter Ulrich Kruppa in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: > Am Freitag, den 08.01.2010, 18:37 -0500 schrieb S. Fishpaste: >> On Fri, 8 Jan 2010 21:32:09 +0100 (CET), Peter Ulrich Kruppa in >> gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: >> > On Fri, 8 Jan 2010, Stephen Powell wro

Re: Hosting in the US

2010-01-09 Thread Nuno Magalhães
+1 for linode.com, i used them for a while. Slicehost seems similar but i've never used it. -- () ascii-rubanda kampajno - kontraŭ html-a retpoŝto /\ ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". T

Re: Sound problem

2010-01-09 Thread Peter Ulrich Kruppa
Am Freitag, den 08.01.2010, 18:37 -0500 schrieb S. Fishpaste: > On Fri, 8 Jan 2010 21:32:09 +0100 (CET), Peter Ulrich Kruppa in > gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: > > On Fri, 8 Jan 2010, Stephen Powell wrote: > > >> Have you checked the volume levels in the mixer application > >> (e.g. alsamixer)?

Samba 3.4.3 PDC + Win7Pro can't connect to domain

2010-01-09 Thread Adrian Levi
I have spent many late nights looking into this problem but have gone nowhere, I would really appreciate someone to shine some light on this problem for me. I have 2 workstations ascoffice1 which is a WinVistaBusiness client - works perfectly although doing anything that requires privledge escallat

Re: How to temporary set dvorak keymap in terminal

2010-01-09 Thread Sebastian
Hi Camaleón and thanks for your time I was hoping there would be a way without using root. But loadkeys changes the keymap for all users on all virtual terminals AFAIK which is what I'm trying to avoid cause I do usually have several running sessions under several different usernames (e.g. myself

Re: unable to open mailbox

2010-01-09 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Klistvud wrote: > I've heard maildir is more robust than mbox in that regard. Can anybody > confirm if that's true or not? > I'd say so. Since each message is a file, if one file gets corrupted only that message will be affected. -- I met a wonderful new man. He's fictional, but you can't

Re: How to use Sun Java instead of gcj

2010-01-09 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 08:56:17PM -0430, Olaf Reitmaier Veracierta wrote: > You can remove OpenOffice and GCJ with apt-get, then install ooo* > packages for Debian downloaded from OpenOffice.org. And what would that buy you? -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafr

Re: chroot a few apps

2010-01-09 Thread lego_12239
On Sat, Jan 09, 2010 at 10:26:47AM +0100, Vadkan Jozsef wrote: > Hi. > > What kind of chroot should I use, if I want to make a more secured > desktop, running e.g.: > > pdf reader > webbrowser > audio player > video player > openoffice > picture viewer > mua > ooo > virtualbox For web browser

Re: Grub 2

2010-01-09 Thread s. keeling
Tixy : > On Fri, 2010-01-08 at 12:33 +, James Allsopp wrote: > > > Problem is, I want to use grub2 as the first thing I'm going to do > > is upgrade to debian testing, which uses this. > > > Is there a reason for not just installing Debian Testing rather than > trying to get Lenny on ther

Re: New testing install; no /boot/grub/menu.lst exists.

2010-01-09 Thread s. keeling
Klistvud : > Dne, 08. 01. 2010 01:32:32 je s. keeling napisal(a): > > > > Thanks. That's looking very tempting at the moment. So far, I've not > > solved it. > > It would not be unwise to switch to Grub 2 (the new Grub that's slowly > becoming the default in many distros). It stores its co

Re: New testing install; no /boot/grub/menu.lst exists.

2010-01-09 Thread s. keeling
Tom H : > > What is your 40... entry? Generic chainloader +1 stuff: # OpenBSD 4.6 on /dev/hda1 title OpenBSD 4.6 root (hd0,0) savedefault makeactive chainloader +1 > Are you loading the ufs module(s)? Never heard of 'em. Will research, thanks. -- Any te

Re: New testing install; no /boot/grub/menu.lst exists.

2010-01-09 Thread s. keeling
Freeman : > On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 03:30:32AM +, s. keeling wrote: > > I'm new to testing. I've been running stable on primary box and (eg.) > > sid on sandbox for years. This is testing is on my sandbox for the > > first time. I just installed both squeeze(?)/testing and OpenBSD 4.6. > >

Re: Recovering data from NTFS disk

2010-01-09 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, I made a list of forensics packages: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch10.en.html#listofpackagesfoforensicanalysis On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 07:30:37PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > The filesystem on the disk is clearly toast. Mounting it as the wrong > type won't help. Sta

Re: unable to open mailbox

2010-01-09 Thread Freeman
On Sat, Jan 09, 2010 at 03:38:17PM +0530, Jeffrin Jose wrote: > > But since something must be moving your mail to Mail/mbox rather than > > the default, I would take a look at your MDA's (procmail) configuration > > as recommended by the mutt FAQ. > > i have invoked " fetchmail -v --mda /usr/bin

Re: how to force removal of etch-backport trac after upgrade to lenny

2010-01-09 Thread Guy Marcenac
I have many times been asked off list if I found a fix. For myself, I simply disabled the test for old files in /usr/bin/pycentral. I commented out the following code if found_old_base and found_base2: raise PyCentralError, \ 'shared files found in old (%s) and new l

Re: unable to open mailbox

2010-01-09 Thread Teemu Likonen
On 2010-01-09 15:38 (+0530), Jeffrin Jose wrote: > i have invoked " fetchmail -v --mda /usr/bin/procmail" > my procmailrc is ... > :0 > * ^To.*bugs.debian.org > debian-bugs You use mbox format so you really should use use lock files when writing to mailboxes. That is, use ":0:" instead of ":0"

Re: read command not reading from pipe. why?

2010-01-09 Thread Eric Meijer
Mark Allums wrote: On 1/4/2010 1:10 PM, Foss User wrote: I see that the read command stores input entered only on the console into the variables. Example: $ read a foo $ echo $a foo But when I don't enter input on the console by keyboard, but pipe it into the standard input of read, I am unabl

How to connect my ipod?

2010-01-09 Thread Joost Kraaijeveld
Hi, I got a brand new toy, an iPod classic 160 GB, for my birthday today. When I connect I can see it through Nautilus. But depending on the mood of my machine (?) it is mounted as /dev/sdd, /dev/sde of whatever sd* it sees fit at /media/usb0 or /media/usb1 if I happened to have a usb-memory stick

Re: unable to open mailbox

2010-01-09 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 09. 01. 2010 10:51:41 je Chris Jones napisal(a): Sounds like the mbox has been corrupted: I've heard maildir is more robust than mbox in that regard. Can anybody confirm if that's true or not? -- Regards, Klistvud Certifiable Loonix User #481801 http://bufferoverflow.tiddlyspot.com

Re: unable to open mailbox

2010-01-09 Thread Jeffrin Jose
> But since something must be moving your mail to Mail/mbox rather than > the default, I would take a look at your MDA's (procmail) configuration > as recommended by the mutt FAQ. i have invoked " fetchmail -v --mda /usr/bin/procmail" my procmailrc is ... { MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/m

Re: Sound problem

2010-01-09 Thread Peter Ulrich Kruppa
Am Freitag, den 08.01.2010, 18:37 -0500 schrieb S. Fishpaste: > On Fri, 8 Jan 2010 21:32:09 +0100 (CET), Peter Ulrich Kruppa in > gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: > > On Fri, 8 Jan 2010, Stephen Powell wrote: > > >> Have you checked the volume levels in the mixer application > >> (e.g. alsamixer)?

Re: unable to open mailbox

2010-01-09 Thread Chris Jones
On Sat, Jan 09, 2010 at 03:35:58AM EST, Jeffrin Jose wrote: > hello > when i try to open my mail box Mail/mbox it gives ...Mail/mbox is not > a mailbox but /var/mail/jeffrin works. here are some outputs.. > { > mbox: ISO-8859 mail text, with very long lines > /var/mail/jeffrin: ASCII mail text,

chroot a few apps

2010-01-09 Thread Vadkan Jozsef
Hi. What kind of chroot should I use, if I want to make a more secured desktop, running e.g.: pdf reader webbrowser audio player video player openoffice picture viewer mua ooo virtualbox e.g.: if theres a javascript vulnerability in google chrome [I haven't heard a NoScript extension for it :( ]

unable to open mailbox

2010-01-09 Thread Jeffrin Jose
hello when i try to open my mail box Mail/mbox it gives ...Mail/mbox is not a mailbox but /var/mail/jeffrin works. here are some outputs.. { mbox: ISO-8859 mail text, with very long lines /var/mail/jeffrin: ASCII mail text, with very long lines } why am i unable to read mbox ? /all thanks -- T

Can you help me with my login screen problem?

2010-01-09 Thread Lee Clark
I am really new to this though I have tried several times over the years since 92. I installed debian on this HP compaq about 3 weeks ago. Some how I have screwed up the login screen. It loads up and starts X and it was giving me a login screen. Now all I get is a black screen, it still plays the