Re: question about sending mail and postfix

2010-01-18 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:50:56 +, Adam Hardy wrote: > Camaleón on 18/01/10 18:35, wrote: >> Are there any content filters (i.e, amavisd-new, firewall rules or any >> network traffic restrictions) that are preventing e-mails going out? >> >> Can you normally send e-mails to remote sites or is yo

Re: lenny boot problem

2010-01-18 Thread Christian Koerner
On Mon, 18 Jan 2010, amka wrote: Le dimanche 17 janvier 2010 à 00:11 +, Christian Koerner a écrit : On Sun, 17 Jan 2010, amka wrote: Le samedi 16 janvier 2010 à 21:37 +, Christian Koerner a écrit : On Sat, 16 Jan 2010, amka wrote: On boot : ramdisk: couldn't find valid ram disk im

Re: question about sending mail and postfix - slightly OT question

2010-01-18 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20100118_133220, Adam Hardy wrote: > This is possibly an exceptionally easy question to answer because I > feel like all the documentation I've read about sending mail and > postfix starts at step 2, and step 1 is just common knowledge that I > somehow failed to pick up. > > I have a new server

Re: rsync: different target size

2010-01-18 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jan 18, 2010, at 12:20 PM, Leonardo Canducci wrote: I'm using rsync -aHS to backup some stuff (mostly jpgs and docs from my home) to an external usb hard drive (same ext3 fs). After a backup I ran du -s to get a fast check on size and found source and target to be slightly different. Even us

Re: Sid on PowerPC has broken xserver-xorg-core

2010-01-18 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jan 18, 2010, at 11:55 AM, Michel Dänzer wrote: The following packages have unmet dependencies: xserver-xorg-core: Conflicts: xserver-xorg-input-4 which is a virtual package. This means at least one of the xserver-xorg-video-* packages to be installed hasn't been rebuilt against the new

Re: lenny backups and recovery

2010-01-18 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20100118_132425, Adam Hardy wrote: > Paul E Condon on 15/01/10 22:48, wrote: > >On 20100114_133757, Adam Hardy wrote: > >>Just recovered from a kernel-not-loading situation, without any data > >>loss and happily wondering what I should do now to make sure I don't > >>get the same adrenalin shot

OT: Camcorder .VRO format

2010-01-18 Thread Thomas H. George
I purchased a Cannon DC410 camcorder. Took some very nice videos that totem can play but I can't edit the file which has the .VRO extension. A Google search turned up commercial packages to convert the file to a .VOB file and a note that this is really an mpeg-2 file which apps may play if the ext

Re: question about sending mail and postfix

2010-01-18 Thread Adam Hardy
Camaleón on 18/01/10 18:35, wrote: Are there any content filters (i.e, amavisd-new, firewall rules or any network traffic restrictions) that are preventing e-mails going out? Can you normally send e-mails to remote sites or is your Postfix configured to send only "locally"? OK, right, so I c

Re: need help on config openvpn in etch

2010-01-18 Thread consul tores
2010/1/18 Long Wind : > I am in China > I want to bypass government censorship > so I install openvpn > but can't figure out how to use it, > though I have read many documentation > > THANKS! shortly: 1. instal it. 2. creating keys. Read the readme at /usr/share/doc/openvpn, and man openvpn 3. wri

Re: Upgrade wants too many packages (X and apache).

2010-01-18 Thread Tony Nelson
On 10-01-18 16:35:51, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Monday 18 January 2010 14:30:50 Tony Nelson wrote: > > On 10-01-18 09:08:45, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > > > Ok, i'm getting somewhere: > > > > > > # aptitude why apache2-mpm-prefork > > > i php-mdb2 Dependsphp-pear (>= 5.2

Re: problems with MS life cam VX5000 and V4L

2010-01-18 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Hi! sorry for answer my own email... but the problem with ekiga was solved installing the libpt-xxx-plugins-v4l2 packages, and choosing the v4l2 plugin in the ekiga video configuration. Regards Marcelo 2010/1/18 Marcelo Chiapparini > Hello > > I am running Lenny. I have a Microsoft Life Cam V

Re: Strange work of eth0.

2010-01-18 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 12:41:08AM +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: > Good day. > > > Why I have such situation: > > $ sudo /sbin/ifdown eth0 > SIOCDELRT: No such process > > $ /sbin/ifconfig > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:19:b9:53:34:18 > inet addr:192.168.0.125 Bcast:192.168.0.2

Re: only scp

2010-01-18 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sat,16.Jan.10, 21:12:17, Vadkan Jozsef wrote: >> anybody got any tips/howtos/docs for this?: >> >> - restrict the users, to only use scp ["no shell"] >> - but a root, admin can still login with ssh > > apt-cache show scponly

Re: 2.6.32-trunk-686 kernel (+some other upgrade?) can't see home file system

2010-01-18 Thread Paul Scott
green wrote: Paul Scott wrote at 2010-01-15 17:24 -0600: Paul Scott wrote: As reported in another thread a reboot of my sid system on Dec. 26 to a 2.6.32-trunk-686 kernel finds errors with my the file system in my home partition and won't mount it. Now we have a new thread, so context is lost

Re: umask for init?

2010-01-18 Thread Wayne
Scott Gifford wrote: On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Laurent Guignard < lguignard.deb...@gmail.com> wrote: On Sun, 17 Jan 2010 06:45:09 +0100, Peter Jordan wrote: Hi, under debian lenny during the boot process all created run files are 0644, but I want 0640. Does anyone know how to configur

Re: Strange work of eth0.

2010-01-18 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sthu Deus wrote: > Good day. > > > Why I have such situation: > > $ sudo /sbin/ifdown eth0 > SIOCDELRT: No such process > > $ /sbin/ifconfig > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:19:b9:53:34:18 > inet addr:192.168.0.125 Bcast:192.16

problems with MS life cam VX5000 and V4L

2010-01-18 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Hello I am running Lenny. I have a Microsoft Life Cam VX5000 usb camera. This camera works like a charm with skype (v 2.1.0.47), chesse and luvcview. But it doesn't work with ekiga. Each time I run ekiga I get the message: Error while opening video device Microsoft LifeCam VX-5000 A moving logo w

Re: Upgrade wants too many packages (X and apache).

2010-01-18 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 18 January 2010 14:30:50 Tony Nelson wrote: > On 10-01-18 09:08:45, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > > Ok, i'm getting somewhere: > > > > # aptitude why apache2-mpm-prefork > > i php-mdb2 Dependsphp-pear (>= 5.2.0-8) > > p php-pear Dependsphp5-common (

Re: deactivating network connexion using NetworkManager

2010-01-18 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bernard wrote: > A few weeks ago, I have decided that, whenever my PC was to stay on for > awhile without being used, I would disconnect the internet connexion, > using the Gnome "Network Manager" for this purpose (right click then > uncheck "activate

Re: apt-get files transfering to another machine.

2010-01-18 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Sthu Deus [Tue, Jan 19 2010, 02:22:38AM]: > Good day. > > > Which files I should copy from one machine to another after > > apt-get update > > command lunched at one machine so that another machine might have the same > info as if I lunched the command in it? For the same architec

Re: rsync: different target size

2010-01-18 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Leonardo Canducci wrote: > I'm using rsync -aHS to backup some stuff (mostly jpgs and docs from > my home) to an external usb hard drive (same ext3 fs). [snip] > I'd like the size of the backup to be exactly the same and check sync > result with du.

Re: inserting USB key causes reboot (sometimes)

2010-01-18 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 11:21:19AM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Saturday 16 January 2010 19:45:14 Rob Owens wrote: > > I need help diagnosing a problem. I have a Lenny system that sometimes > > reboots when I insert a USB key. It happens with multiple USB keys, but > > I can't figure

Re: lenny boot problem

2010-01-18 Thread amka
Le dimanche 17 janvier 2010 à 00:11 +, Christian Koerner a écrit : > On Sun, 17 Jan 2010, amka wrote: > > Le samedi 16 janvier 2010 à 21:37 +, Christian Koerner a écrit : > >> On Sat, 16 Jan 2010, amka wrote: > >>> On boot : > >>> > >>> ramdisk: couldn't find valid ram disk image starting

Re: Any Linux CAD tools?

2010-01-18 Thread Stefaan Himpe
What other options are available on the Linux platform? If you're not afraid of mathematics, perhaps you can use asymptote to program your graphics. http://asymptote.sourceforge.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: Upgrade wants too many packages (X and apache).

2010-01-18 Thread Tony Nelson
On 10-01-18 09:08:45, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > Ok, i'm getting somewhere: > > # aptitude why apache2-mpm-prefork > i php-mdb2 Dependsphp-pear (>= 5.2.0-8) > p php-pear Dependsphp5-common (>= > 5.2.12.dfsg.1-2) > p A php5-common Recommends

Re: umask for init?

2010-01-18 Thread Scott Gifford
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Laurent Guignard < lguignard.deb...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, 17 Jan 2010 06:45:09 +0100, Peter Jordan wrote: > > Hi, > > > > under debian lenny during the boot process all created run files are > > 0644, but I want 0640. > > > > Does anyone know how to configure

acpi scripts for Lenny on EeePC 701SD

2010-01-18 Thread Gav Ford
Hello, I'm trying to figure out which script should be called by acpi when the lid closes on my EeePC 701SD netbook. It's running Lenny and I keep it up to date with regular a dist-upgrade. Under Gnome, closing the lid causes the machine to suspend, which is what I hope to happen, Under Fluxb

Re: umask for init?

2010-01-18 Thread Laurent Guignard
On Sun, 17 Jan 2010 06:45:09 +0100, Peter Jordan wrote: > Hi, > > under debian lenny during the boot process all created run files are > 0644, but I want 0640. > > Does anyone know how to configure that? > > Thanks > > PJ > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org w

apt-get files transfering to another machine.

2010-01-18 Thread Sthu Deus
Good day. Which files I should copy from one machine to another after apt-get update command lunched at one machine so that another machine might have the same info as if I lunched the command in it? Thanks for Your time. PS Please, reply to the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-u

Re: lenny boot problem

2010-01-18 Thread amka
Le samedi 16 janvier 2010 à 21:37 +, Christian Koerner a écrit : > On Sat, 16 Jan 2010, amka wrote: > > On boot : > > > > ramdisk: couldn't find valid ram disk image starting at 0 > > list of all partitions: > > ... # I don't remember the line, and the last one is : > > > > Kernel Panic

Re: Help needed to find why mouse not working

2010-01-18 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 18. 01. 2010 19:39:01 je Alan Chandler napisal(a): I would like to initially prove that when I move my hand on the touchpad it is sending information to the computer. How can I see that something is being sent (which devices should be the mouse?) By running xev from a terminal in X yo

apt-listbugs false positives?

2010-01-18 Thread Johan Grönqvist
Hi all, texlive-base migrated to testing today, but when I attempt an upgrade, I am warned by apt-listbugs (I guess) that there is a grave bug (#534427) that is unfixed in the version I am about to install. The bug report says that the bug was fixed in versions uploaded for stable and oldsta

Help needed to find why mouse not working

2010-01-18 Thread Alan Chandler
I have just purchased a KeySonic ACK-540 RF wireless keyboard and touchpad to work with my KDE4 based Debian Squeeze computer. This is primarily because it is a mythtv box and I want to sit remotely to control it. The keyboard seems to work fine - its recognised by grub and works without a p

Re: question about sending mail and postfix

2010-01-18 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 17:49:23 +, Adam Hardy wrote: > Camaleón on 18/01/10 17:29, wrote: >> You don't need a "database" (at least not SQL/LDAP one) at all :-? >> >> /etc/aliases (is just a "table") is the standard (and easiest) way to >> setting up local e-mail aliases in Postfix and many othe

Re: Strange work of eth0.

2010-01-18 Thread Arthur Machlas
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 11:41 AM, Sthu Deus wrote: > > Why I have such situation: > > $ sudo /sbin/ifdown eth0 > SIOCDELRT: No such process > > $ /sbin/ifconfig > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:19:b9:53:34:18 > inet addr:192.168.0.125 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 >

Re: Strange work of eth0.

2010-01-18 Thread Aioanei Rares
Sthu Deus wrote: Good day. Why I have such situation: $ sudo /sbin/ifdown eth0 SIOCDELRT: No such process $ /sbin/ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:19:b9:53:34:18 inet addr:192.168.0.125 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::219:b9ff:fe

Re: exim4-SASL auth

2010-01-18 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Sun January 17 2010, Camaleón wrote: > "/etc/default/sasluthd" OPTIONS value? > > Greetings, thank you! I changed this line: #OPTIONS="-c -m /var/spool/postfix/var/run/saslauthd -r" to this, and it is better! OPTIONS="-c -m /var/run/saslauthd -r" -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 3

Re: question about sending mail and postfix

2010-01-18 Thread Adam Hardy
Camaleón on 18/01/10 17:29, wrote: On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 15:37:12 +, Adam Hardy wrote: Andrei Popescu on 18/01/10 13:40, wrote: On Mon,18.Jan.10, 13:32:20, Adam Hardy wrote: I have a new server online with lenny that I want to configure to send all its mail for root to my email address, and

Strange work of eth0.

2010-01-18 Thread Sthu Deus
Good day. Why I have such situation: $ sudo /sbin/ifdown eth0 SIOCDELRT: No such process $ /sbin/ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:19:b9:53:34:18 inet addr:192.168.0.125 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::219:b9ff:fe53:3418/64 Scope:Li

Re: question about sending mail and postfix

2010-01-18 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 15:37:12 +, Adam Hardy wrote: > Andrei Popescu on 18/01/10 13:40, wrote: >> On Mon,18.Jan.10, 13:32:20, Adam Hardy wrote: >> >>> I have a new server online with lenny that I want to configure to send >>> all its mail for root to my email address, and that's all. I don't >

Re: Upgrade wants too many packages (X and apache).

2010-01-18 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 17 January 2010 16:27:52 Nuno Magalhães wrote: > I don't know why would any package depend specifically on apache > instead of on a webserver (which i have), and apt-cache rdepends > didn't show me anything interesting. Try (aptitude why $package_it_wants_to_install) or (aptitude why-not

Re: inserting USB key causes reboot (sometimes)

2010-01-18 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Saturday 16 January 2010 19:45:14 Rob Owens wrote: > I need help diagnosing a problem. I have a Lenny system that sometimes > reboots when I insert a USB key. It happens with multiple USB keys, but > I can't figure out the pattern as to when it reboots and when it > doesn't. While my current

rsync: different target size

2010-01-18 Thread Leonardo Canducci
I'm using rsync -aHS to backup some stuff (mostly jpgs and docs from my home) to an external usb hard drive (same ext3 fs). After a backup I ran du -s to get a fast check on size and found source and target to be slightly different. Even using du -cb or du-cbk size doesn't match. So what's wrong?!

Re: Can't recognize Realtek 8187 USB wireless adapater

2010-01-18 Thread Wayne
Putting this back on the list where is belongs. Xianwen Chen wrote: It just doesn't recognize. Because when I'm running ifconfig -a, wlan0 dosen't show up. So to figure out just what is happening and why, you will have to tell us more then you have so far. What card is this anyway? 1. Wh

Re: question about sending mail and postfix

2010-01-18 Thread Adam Hardy
James Wu on 18/01/10 16:24, wrote: I apologize, I just double checked and I think the "mailutils" package is the more common one. You shouldn't need a database for it. However, I'd check to make sure you don't already have it the mail command in your system. Check your PATH by typing "env | grep

Re: Is anyone using eclipse on debian ?

2010-01-18 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:13:29 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 17:03:20 +0100, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > >> I seems to start ok, but then again I cannot install anything. I can >> add http://download.xmlmodeling.com/hyperModel/updates/site.xml, it >> properly display a bunch of option

Re: Debian on Acer netbook

2010-01-18 Thread Marco Vaschetto
Lisi ha scritto: On Sunday 17 January 2010 22:29:35 you wrote: Lisi ha scritto: On Sunday 17 January 2010 12:00:13 Rodolfo Medina wrote: On Friday 15 January 2010 23:04:14 Rodolfo Medina wrote: Does anybody know if Debian works fine on the netbook Acer Aspire ONE 531H

Re: Sid on PowerPC has broken xserver-xorg-core

2010-01-18 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 01:11 -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: > Does anybody know what's causing this? > > Is there anything I can do? It's been a couple of weeks like this. > > I understand "Normal Sid churn": Something like this happened on i386 > a while ago and it took over a month to resolve th

Re: Can't recognize Realtek 8187 USB wireless adapater

2010-01-18 Thread Wayne
Xianwen Chen wrote: I think it's supported. It's a Realtek 8187B adapter. This is what lsusb shows: Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 002 Device 003: ID 0204:6025 Chipsbank Microelectronics Co., Ltd

Re: outdated ssl cert

2010-01-18 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Saturday 16 January 2010 10:56:29 Vadkan Jozsef wrote: > ..I mean does an outdated self-signed certificate give the same security > as a normal cert? It depends on what you mean by security. You do get the same level of end-to- end encryption -- so attackers attempting to read the connection a

RE: question about sending mail and postfix

2010-01-18 Thread James Wu
I apologize, I just double checked and I think the "mailutils" package is the more common one. You shouldn't need a database for it. However, I'd check to make sure you don't already have it the mail command in your system. Check your PATH by typing "env | grep PATH" in the command line and check

Finally Ending Quest for Working PCMCIA Serial Port Dell Enspiron

2010-01-18 Thread Martin McCormick
After some further study, it looks like the PCMCIA port may actually register as two devices with only one available for use. At least there is only one DB9 on the front of the adaptor. From syslog: Jan 18 06:11:41 delta kernel: [ 15.260818] :03:00.0: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3400 (i

Re: Is anyone using eclipse on debian ?

2010-01-18 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 17:03:20 +0100, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: (...) > Instead I tried to download from the official website. I selected > eclipse-cpp-galileo-SR1-linux-gtk-x86_64.tar.gz: > http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?file=/technology/epp/ downloads/release/galileo/SR1/eclipse-cpp

Is anyone using eclipse on debian ?

2010-01-18 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Hi there, I am trying to get eclipse working on my amd64 debian/lenny box. I tried the official 3.4 release: $ apt-cache policy eclipse eclipse: Installed: 3.4.1-1 Candidate: 3.4.1-1 Version table: *** 3.4.1-1 0 100 http://ftp.fr.debian.org unstable/main Packages 100 /v

Re: need help on config openvpn in etch

2010-01-18 Thread Marco Vaschetto
Camaleón ha scritto: On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 04:59:39 -0500, Long Wind wrote: I am in China I want to bypass government censorship so I install openvpn but can't figure out how to use it, though I have read many documentation Be a bit more specific about the problem you are facing with op

Re: question about sending mail and postfix

2010-01-18 Thread Adam Hardy
Andrei Popescu on 18/01/10 13:40, wrote: On Mon,18.Jan.10, 13:32:20, Adam Hardy wrote: I have a new server online with lenny that I want to configure to send all its mail for root to my email address, and that's all. I don't want it to receive any email or relay or anything else. 'man aliase

RE: question about sending mail and postfix

2010-01-18 Thread James Wu
There are probably multiple "mail" commands that are with different packages. The one I mentioned, bsd-mailx, seems to be the standard one that I've come across. It might be the "default" in some setups although I'm not sure about that. James -Original Message- From: Adam Hardy [mailto:ad

Re: need help on config openvpn in etch

2010-01-18 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 04:59:39 -0500, Long Wind wrote: > I am in China > I want to bypass government censorship so I install openvpn > but can't figure out how to use it, > though I have read many documentation Be a bit more specific about the problem you are facing with openVPN (installation, con

Re: Upgrade wants too many packages (X and apache).

2010-01-18 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Well using aptitude safe-upgrade didn't prompt for any x- or apache-related packages. Thanks, Nuno -- () 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 "unsubsc

Re: deactivating network connexion using NetworkManager

2010-01-18 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 18. 01. 2010 11:23:07 je Bernard napisal(a): it seems likely that the Internet link must still be up, if it was not the case, how to explain that the re-activating process is so quick ? Well, I'm not familiar with your setup, but you may have a router or a dedicated machine somewher

Re: question about sending mail and postfix

2010-01-18 Thread Adam Hardy
-Original Message- From: Adam Hardy [mailto:adam@cyberspaceroad.com] Sent: January 18, 2010 8:32 AM To: debian-user Subject: question about sending mail and postfix This is possibly an exceptionally easy question to answer because I feel like all the documentation I've read about se

Re: deactivating network connexion using NetworkManager

2010-01-18 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 11:23:07 +0100, Bernard wrote: > Hi to Everyone, > > A few weeks ago, I have decided that, whenever my PC was to stay on for > awhile without being used, I would disconnect the internet connexion, > using the Gnome "Network Manager" for this purpose (right click then > uncheck

RE: question about sending mail and postfix

2010-01-18 Thread James Wu
Assuming you can install new packages, the mail command comes in the package bsd-mailx. Otherwise, you can try using the Postfix sendmail command. You'll probably have to read the man page as the flags are different from mail. James -Original Message- From: Adam Hardy [mailto:adam@cy

mounts via init.d early in the boot process

2010-01-18 Thread Micha Feigin
I have a system where I use a readonly nfs root with a local hard drive and I need to have some local settings for each computer (mainly /etc/hosts, ip address for network devices, hostname and nfs server settings). I do that by mounting the local disk on /local and then overiding some settings usi

Re: Any Linux CAD tools?

2010-01-18 Thread green
Ogya Chief wrote at 2010-01-17 08:47 -0600: >I am looking for a CAD tool to draw among other things contours. I have >tried to use the spline feature of QCAD. The issue is that I don't seem to >find any way of joining two splines together or extending an open spline. > >I have also

Re: 2.6.32-trunk-686 kernel (+some other upgrade?) can't see home file system

2010-01-18 Thread green
Paul Scott wrote at 2010-01-15 17:24 -0600: > Paul Scott wrote: > >As reported in another thread a reboot of my sid system on Dec. 26 > >to a 2.6.32-trunk-686 kernel finds errors with my the file system > >in my home partition and won't mount it. Now we have a new thread, so context is lost. It i

Re: Upgrade wants too many packages (X and apache).

2010-01-18 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Ok, i'm getting somewhere: # aptitude why apache2-mpm-prefork i php-mdb2 Dependsphp-pear (>= 5.2.0-8) p php-pear Dependsphp5-common (>= 5.2.12.dfsg.1-2) p A php5-common Recommends php5-suhosin i A php5-suhosin Dependsphpa

RE: Any Linux CAD tools?

2010-01-18 Thread Ogya Chief
> If you are looking for something similar to 3DS Max, or Maya, or > Houdini, ie a full featured 3D modelling app, then hav a look at > 'blender' > > http://www.blender.org/ > > Regards, Tim. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "u

Re: graphviz hidden

2010-01-18 Thread Jon Dowland
On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 07:51:53PM +, Camaleón wrote: > It seems the package itself installs various set of tools > located at the usual location: For reference, you can look at the list of files installed by a package with "dpkg -L ". I find "dpkg -L | grep /bin" often to be useful. -- Jo

Re: question about sending mail and postfix

2010-01-18 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,18.Jan.10, 13:32:20, Adam Hardy wrote: > I have a new server online with lenny that I want to configure to > send all its mail for root to my email address, and that's all. I > don't want it to receive any email or relay or anything else. 'man aliases' and don't forget to run newaliases a

Re: Upgrade wants too many packages (X and apache).

2010-01-18 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,18.Jan.10, 13:25:59, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > So, if i change now to aptitude will all my problems be solved? No, but it might help you find the real problem. Try aptitude why to see why a package would be installed. It is also safe to switch to aptitude now, it shouldn't conflict with

question about sending mail and postfix

2010-01-18 Thread Adam Hardy
This is possibly an exceptionally easy question to answer because I feel like all the documentation I've read about sending mail and postfix starts at step 2, and step 1 is just common knowledge that I somehow failed to pick up. I have a new server online with lenny that I want to configure to

Re: Disallow other users from reading my $HOME

2010-01-18 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,18.Jan.10, 14:31:59, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > There are various ways to limit access to sftp only if an additional > > server is not desired and speed is not an issue. > > Speed is an issue (transfering gigs), but if it is not excessively > slow than we could live with it. What are the vario

Re: Upgrade wants too many packages (X and apache).

2010-01-18 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 02:04, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > you should probably be using aptitude, but regardless, you have > installed, at some point, xserver-xorg-video-all, which depends on all > the video-* packages. remove that package and directly install the > drivers you actually need.

Re: lenny backups and recovery

2010-01-18 Thread Adam Hardy
Paul E Condon on 15/01/10 22:48, wrote: On 20100114_133757, Adam Hardy wrote: Just recovered from a kernel-not-loading situation, without any data loss and happily wondering what I should do now to make sure I don't get the same adrenalin shot next time it happens. [snipped] I am looking at htt

Re: How to move an OS install from one primary partition to another?

2010-01-18 Thread Dotan Cohen
> If beside the drive letters (partition locations) their respective > sizes are also a problem, just resize them with GParted, it's an > *incredibly* mature piece of software. > Sorry for the late reply. Yes, the problem was that Windows was installed in a partiton of the wrong size, not leaving

Re: File managers that support SFTP and don't mangle timestamps?

2010-01-18 Thread Dotan Cohen
2009/12/8 Camaleón : > On Tue, 08 Dec 2009 11:01:40 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > >> Are there any KDE file managers, or other file managers that support >> SFTP and work decently in a KDE environment, that do not suffer from >> this bug: >> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55804 >> >> The bug is

Re: Disallow other users from reading my $HOME

2010-01-18 Thread Dotan Cohen
2010/1/10 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

Re: Can't recognize Realtek 8187 USB wireless adapater

2010-01-18 Thread Xianwen Chen
I think it's supported. It's a Realtek 8187B adapter. This is what lsusb shows: Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 002 Device 003: ID 0204:6025 Chipsbank Microelectronics Co., Ltd CBM2080 Flash drive co

Bogus Keycodes from Linux host to virtualbox client

2010-01-18 Thread Mark Neidorff
I'm running Lenny and Virtualbox 3.0.12. The client OS in VB is XP. Yesterday, I wanted to listen to a web based music stream, so in lenny I connected to a radio station's stream using "movie player." Music plays, everything works. Then I started virtualbox/XP/MS Word. Every few seconds, w

Re: Can't recognize Realtek 8187 USB wireless adapater

2010-01-18 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-01-18 11:34 +0100, Xianwen Chen wrote: > My newly installed Lenny doesn't recognize Realtek 8187 USB wirelss > adapater, even after running "modprobe rtl8187". Am I missing some > settings in the /etc? Maybe the chipset is not supported by the Lenny kernel and you have to install a newer

Can't recognize Realtek 8187 USB wireless adapater

2010-01-18 Thread Xianwen Chen
Hi friends, My newly installed Lenny doesn't recognize Realtek 8187 USB wirelss adapater, even after running "modprobe rtl8187". Am I missing some settings in the /etc? Best regards, Wen -- Xianwen Chen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsu

Re: Virtualbox and usb-SOLVED

2010-01-18 Thread Thierry Chatelet
> > you have to install the virtualbox from birtualbox.org not the ose > version in the debian repo > > > Thanks, > > > > Mark > Hi Mark Does your keyboard have a cold? Thierry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

deactivating network connexion using NetworkManager

2010-01-18 Thread Bernard
Hi to Everyone, A few weeks ago, I have decided that, whenever my PC was to stay on for awhile without being used, I would disconnect the internet connexion, using the Gnome "Network Manager" for this purpose (right click then uncheck "activate the network"). Today, I wonder how efficient that

Re: Virtualbox and usb-SOLVED

2010-01-18 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 05:08:22AM -0500, Mark Neidorff wrote: > On Wednesday 13 January 2010 06:35 am, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > > On Wednesday 13 January 2010 02:03:10 Rob Owens wrote: > > > On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 12:25:10AM +0100, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > As the title says, I

Re: Virtualbox and usb-SOLVED

2010-01-18 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Monday 18 January 2010 11:08:22 Mark Neidorff wrote: > > What did you do to get the USB working with Virtualbox? > > Thanks, > > Mark > Well, not much. Unfortunately this box is gone now, so I will have to explain from what I remember, and not be able to check my information. But, as far a

Re: Virtualbox and usb-SOLVED

2010-01-18 Thread Mark Neidorff
On Wednesday 13 January 2010 06:35 am, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > On Wednesday 13 January 2010 02:03:10 Rob Owens wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 12:25:10AM +0100, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > > > Hi, > > > As the title says, I am looking for a virtualbox, under lenny, that > > > sees the usb device

need help on config openvpn in etch

2010-01-18 Thread Long Wind
I am in China I want to bypass government censorship so I install openvpn but can't figure out how to use it, though I have read many documentation THANKS! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian

Re: Sid on PowerPC has broken xserver-xorg-core

2010-01-18 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-01-18 07:11 +0100, Rick Thomas wrote: > Does anybody know what's causing this? > > Is there anything I can do? Maybe. Hopefully. >> dillserver:~# aptitude -Pv full-upgrade >> Reading package lists... Done >> Building dependency tree >> Reading state information... Done >> Reading extend

Re: owner permissions

2010-01-18 Thread Alan Hutchinson
Hi there, so sorry that I did not get back to you sooner , believe it or not I have bean locked out of my G-mail for about two years don't ask me why or how for that matter, the most important thing is I am back, there has bean quite a lot of changes since the last time I talked to you, one of them