[PATCH]: lenny - kernel-package 11.015 for use with kernel_2.6.33

2010-03-05 Thread Mart Frauenlob
As this one: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=561569 does not really work on debian lenny (although suggested on some websites) and i had to work myself through to get it working, here's a patch for the kernel-package 11.015, that's currently in debian lenny, for the use with a vani

RE: how to open a port?

2010-03-05 Thread Hadi Motamedi
Try running 'netstat -nat | grep 4965' and paste the output. Also, try running iptables -L and post the output. Try telnetting from the local machine that runs iptrans. Maybe something is blocking the outbound traffic on that machine or somehow it's not getting through. As there is another

Monitor Resolution issues

2010-03-05 Thread Linux User
Hello all, I have a BenQ 20" G2220HD series monitor, and I was wondering if anyone knows what I can put in the Xorg.conf file. I've just switched from Debian to Kubuntu briefly for reasons that would take time to explain. Debian Lenny 5.0.4 sets a very high resolution and makes everything far too

Is there a command line tool for creating 3d text effects?

2010-03-05 Thread Micha Feigin
I'm trying to get some nice 3d text into beamer presentations for the title instead of the boring standard text. Something like this hopefully: http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~michf/example.jpg Only solution I found is to use \write18 and some external tool to create an image. I got convert to create

Re: Overwrite existing partition with zeros without hurting partition table? (Debian Lenny)

2010-03-05 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-05 22:14, Mark wrote: On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 5:55 PM, Jochen Schulz wrote: Why do you think you need to blank the partition before installing lenny? There *are* reasons to do that, but they have nothing to do with the installation of a new OS. Just a habit I've acquired over the

Re: Overwrite existing partition with zeros without hurting partition table? (Debian Lenny)

2010-03-05 Thread Mark
>On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 5:55 PM, Jochen Schulz wrote: > > > >Why do you think you need to blank the partition before installing > >lenny? There *are* reasons to do that, but they have nothing to do with > >the installation of a new OS. > Just a habit I've acquired over the years - I like to have

Re: Instability in Iceweasel

2010-03-05 Thread Freeman
On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 02:19:12PM +, Alan Chandler wrote: > Has anyone else noticed an instability in Iceweasel recently. > Sometimes, when I close a tab, it just exits. Starting it up again > brings back all the tabs, including the one I tried to close. I can > normally then close the singl

Re: Instability in Iceweasel

2010-03-05 Thread Freeman
On Sat, Mar 06, 2010 at 09:38:49AM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > On Fri, 5 Mar 2010, Stephen Powell wrote: > > > > >On Fri, 5 Mar 2010 12:17:30 -0500 (EST), Celejar wrote: > >> > >>Probably this: > >> > >>http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=571237 > >>http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugre

Image tagging multiple music files

2010-03-05 Thread Paul Johnson
I have a directory of music full of subdirectories sorted by artist, and inside the artist directories, by album. In the album directories, there is one or more tracks, and a cover.jpg file with the cover art. My iRiver E100 is able to display this cover art, if it's part of the music tag. easyt

no network after sleep on squeeze with gnome

2010-03-05 Thread Richard Otte
I had a minimal Lenny system that I upgraded to Squeeze and installed Gnome Desktop on. I never used the sleep function before, but set it to go to sleep after 10 minutes of inactivity. After awakening from sleep I find I no longer have a network connection, but can get it back by typing: /etc/i

Re: qemu or qemu-kvm for kvm in squeeze

2010-03-05 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
Oops, correction: where my last post stated: ... If your processor couldn't run kvm, you would install that and run qemu ... I meant: ... If your processor couldn't run kvm, you would install and run qemu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "uns

Re: qemu or qemu-kvm for kvm in squeeze

2010-03-05 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 5:49 PM, Martin Kraus wrote: > Hi. I have been wondering what is the difference between qemu and qemu-kvm > packages > for kvm virtualization. Manual page in qemu packages shows, that it should be > able to work with kvm. Uncle google is silent about this. > To run kvm, yo

Re: Overwrite existing partition with zeros without hurting partition table? (Debian Lenny)

2010-03-05 Thread Jochen Schulz
Mark: > > I hope there is a simple answer to this question (fingers crossed): how do I > overwrite an existing partition (hda2 for example) with all zeros > (essentially blanking the partition clean in preparation for installing > Lenny), without destroying the partition table? Why do you think yo

Re: Instability in Iceweasel

2010-03-05 Thread Bret Busby
On Fri, 5 Mar 2010, Stephen Powell wrote: On Fri, 5 Mar 2010 12:17:30 -0500 (EST), Celejar wrote: Probably this: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=571237 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=571248 The solution, if that's your problem, is to downgrade libcairo2, a

Re: OT: KVM switch with Debian Lenny

2010-03-05 Thread David Christensen
Mark wrote: > Would love to hear other's input as well. I went through two (?) mail order KVM's and then a half dozen more from Fry's Electronics before coming upon an IOGear MiniView 8 Port PS/2 KVM Switch (model GCS78): http://www.iogear.com/product/GCS78KIT/ IOGear also makes a P

hotplug disk (howto power off)

2010-03-05 Thread nico
i have a HP server with 3 hotplug disks, 2 in one array 5 and 1 that i use for backup, the problem is that i cannot power the disk off from debian. I'm pluging it, use hpacucli and i create the array 0, the kernel detect the disk, i mount it, copy all the info, then i umount it and here is the

Re: Overwrite existing partition with zeros without hurting partition table? (Debian Lenny)

2010-03-05 Thread Bob McGowan
Mark wrote: >>On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 3:13 PM, Aioanei Rares > mailto:debian.dev.l...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > > > >Something like dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/hda2 bs=4096 > Yes, with emphasis on "something like" ;) /dev/null would return an immediate EOF: 0+0 records in 0+0 records out

Re: Overwrite existing partition with zeros without hurting partition table? (Debian Lenny)

2010-03-05 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Saturday 06 March 2010 00:36:31 Mark wrote: > >On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > > >"If" I understand your question correctly; you want to keep your 200 Gb > > > > and > > > > >do a new install.First question: are those 200 gb on a separated > > > > partition? If > > >

Re: critical bugs of libc6 - a problem for sid?

2010-03-05 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 14:47:34 -0800, John Magolske wrote: > When trying to `aptitude install xserver-xorg-video-vesa` I see: > > The following packages will be upgraded: > ... libc6 ... > ... > critical bugs of libc6 (2.9-6 -> 2.10.2-6) > #555205 - libc6: segfault whe

Re: Overwrite existing partition with zeros without hurting partition table? (Debian Lenny)

2010-03-05 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-05 17:36, Mark wrote: On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Thierry Chatelet wrote: "If" I understand your question correctly; you want to keep your 200 Gb and do a new install.First question: are those 200 gb on a separated partition? If no, then you should save the music on a exte

Re: critical bugs of libc6 - a problem for sid?

2010-03-05 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-05 16:47, John Magolske wrote: When trying to `aptitude install xserver-xorg-video-vesa` I see: The following packages will be upgraded: ... libc6 ... ... critical bugs of libc6 (2.9-6 -> 2.10.2-6) #555205 - libc6: segfault when upgrading from 2.9-25 -> 2.10

Re: Overwrite existing partition with zeros without hurting partition table? (Debian Lenny)

2010-03-05 Thread Mark
>On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > > > >"If" I understand your question correctly; you want to keep your 200 Gb > and > >do a new install.First question: are those 200 gb on a separated > partition? If > >no, then you should save the music on a external drive, or create a

Clamav mail scan with Mutt

2010-03-05 Thread Omar Campagne
Hello: I've been fighting to get clamav to scan my email. I currently use offlineimap + msmtp and I can't really get clamsmtp to "work". Usually the logs say little (if error) or nothing (even with success). For some reason logs are (even) a bit less verbose as initially. "clamsmtp -d 4" shows i

Re: Overwrite existing partition with zeros without hurting partition table? (Debian Lenny)

2010-03-05 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Saturday 06 March 2010 00:09:58 Mark wrote: > I hope there is a simple answer to this question (fingers crossed): how do > I overwrite an existing partition (hda2 for example) with all zeros > (essentially blanking the partition clean in preparation for installing > Lenny), without destroying t

Re: Overwrite existing partition with zeros without hurting partition table? (Debian Lenny)

2010-03-05 Thread Mark
>On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 3:13 PM, Aioanei Rares wrote: > > > >Something like dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/hda2 bs=4096 > Thanks Aioanei, I'll give that a try. I know it's a dumb question I just don't want to get it wrong!

Re: Overwrite existing partition with zeros without hurting partition table? (Debian Lenny)

2010-03-05 Thread Aioanei Rares
On 03/06/2010 01:09 AM, Mark wrote: I hope there is a simple answer to this question (fingers crossed): how do I overwrite an existing partition (hda2 for example) with all zeros (essentially blanking the partition clean in preparation for installing Lenny), without destroying the partition tab

Overwrite existing partition with zeros without hurting partition table? (Debian Lenny)

2010-03-05 Thread Mark
I hope there is a simple answer to this question (fingers crossed): how do I overwrite an existing partition (hda2 for example) with all zeros (essentially blanking the partition clean in preparation for installing Lenny), without destroying the partition table? I've used the shred command to wipe

Re: critical bugs of libc6 - a problem for sid?

2010-03-05 Thread Aioanei Rares
On 03/06/2010 12:47 AM, John Magolske wrote: When trying to `aptitude install xserver-xorg-video-vesa` I see: The following packages will be upgraded: ... libc6 ... ... critical bugs of libc6 (2.9-6 -> 2.10.2-6) #555205 - libc6: segfault when upgrading from 2.9-25

Re: Minimum size for /home?

2010-03-05 Thread thib
If you intend to use the same filesystem types for both home partitions and maybe even the shared one, you could just format a single filesystem and bind some subdirectories from each system. In case you're not familiar with mount binding, it would look like this: From the first distro, try it

critical bugs of libc6 - a problem for sid?

2010-03-05 Thread John Magolske
When trying to `aptitude install xserver-xorg-video-vesa` I see: The following packages will be upgraded: ... libc6 ... ... critical bugs of libc6 (2.9-6 -> 2.10.2-6) #555205 - libc6: segfault when upgrading from 2.9-25 -> 2.10.1-5 on squeeze renders system unusabl

Re: OT: KVM switch with Debian Lenny

2010-03-05 Thread Mark
>On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 12:07 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > > [snip] > >It takes an odd duck to acquire "new" gear, hook it up to a known good > >machine, then blame the known good machine when the new gear doesn't play > >well with it. > > > >Have I correctly summed it up? > [snip] Thanks for

Re: Heads up for NVIDIA users

2010-03-05 Thread Mark Allums
On 3/5/2010 2:20 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2010-03-05 20:49 +0100, Jason Filippou wrote: I don't see this mentioned anywhere in the latest posts so I thought I'd post it: The latest proprietary linux driver on the NVIDIA website (195.36.08, URL: http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_

Re: Multiple address the same client - dhpcd.conf

2010-03-05 Thread olafrv
Dhcp can configure only one ip per mac address (no alias ip support) you must specify two hosts with two diferent mac address in config file. If you have one mac (nic card) use a post script in host entry to configure on the same mac a fixed ip and an alias (virtual) ip. "You don't know wher

Re: Heads up for NVIDIA users

2010-03-05 Thread Angus Hedger
> > > I don't see this mentioned anywhere in the latest posts so I thought > > I'd post it: The latest proprietary linux driver on the NVIDIA website > > (195.36.08, URL: > > http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_195.36.08.html), which > > I understand covers many more GPUs than my GT220

Re: Heads up for NVIDIA users

2010-03-05 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-03-05 20:49 +0100, Jason Filippou wrote: > I don't see this mentioned anywhere in the latest posts so I thought > I'd post it: The latest proprietary linux driver on the NVIDIA website > (195.36.08, URL: > http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_195.36.08.html), which > I understan

Re: OT: KVM switch with Debian Lenny

2010-03-05 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Mark put forth on 3/5/2010 1:35 PM: > Hi Stan, I think I hear what you're saying is that it's the KVM switch's > fault it can't handle the machine, instead of the machine being the > problem. However, seeing the keyboard and mouse connected directly to the > desktop whether via ps/2 or usb, and s

Heads up for NVIDIA users

2010-03-05 Thread Jason Filippou
Hello, I don't see this mentioned anywhere in the latest posts so I thought I'd post it: The latest proprietary linux driver on the NVIDIA website (195.36.08, URL: http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_195.36.08.html), which I understand covers many more GPUs than my GT220 causes X to no

Re: OT: KVM switch with Debian Lenny

2010-03-05 Thread Mark
>On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: [snip] > > > >KVM problems are almost _never_ caused by a PC or server. 99.999% of > >the time it's the KVM switch itself. I can't count the number of times > I've > >acquired KVMs that just won't work and hearing the same from colleag

Re: OT: KVM switch with Debian Lenny

2010-03-05 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Mark put forth on 3/5/2010 12:31 PM: > I work with some electrical engineers and they suggested a possible faulty > circuit, or if a surge occurred at some point, a part of the power supply or > mobo might be fused closed where it is supposed to stay open when the > machine is turned off. This wo

Re: Minimum size for /home?

2010-03-05 Thread postid
The laptop in use here has a 40 GB hard drive. Part of that is taken up by a hidden recovery partition. If I had 320 GB of hard drive space, I'd be less concerned with allocation. The use of this laptop includes OpenOffice (word processing, spreadsheet and a little database), Scribus (DTP), Gi

Multiple address the same client - dhpcd.conf

2010-03-05 Thread marcus
I need to add two ip address for the same linux client in my network. I use debian lenny and dhcpd3. Looking for help, I read the following text at the dhcpd.conf manual. #man dhcpd.conf "If it is desirable to be able to boot a DHCP or BOOTP client on more than one subnet with fixed addresse

Panner and Gnome Terminal lag time.

2010-03-05 Thread Chris
Greetings, Has anyone noticed when using squeeze that when you have a terminal opened on one virtual desktop in the panner in Gnome, that when you change to another desktop it works pretty fast but, when going back to the desktop that is running a terminal (in my case, Terminator but does the sam

Re: OT: KVM switch with Debian Lenny

2010-03-05 Thread Mark
>On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 10:21 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > > >Yes, that sounds like what I had, which worked great when the cheap ones > won't. > > > >I don't know if this could have any after-effects, but those switches > >are designed for a maximum screen resolution, which may not exceed > >768*1

Re: Instability in Iceweasel

2010-03-05 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 5 Mar 2010 12:17:30 -0500 (EST), Celejar wrote: > > Probably this: > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=571237 > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=571248 > > The solution, if that's your problem, is to downgrade libcairo2, as > mentioned there. (Sigh.) I r

Re: OT: KVM switch with Debian Lenny

2010-03-05 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 5 March 2010 20:15, Mark wrote: >>On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote: >> >> > >> >Belkin KVM switch? Then get another one! >> > >> >The cheap ones on Ebay are no good either. I had a decent no-brand KVM >> >with a hefty hand-switch that worked great, if I can dig it up I'll >>

Re: OT: KVM switch with Debian Lenny

2010-03-05 Thread Mark
>On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > > >Belkin KVM switch? Then get another one! > > > >The cheap ones on Ebay are no good either. I had a decent no-brand KVM > >with a hefty hand-switch that worked great, if I can dig it up I'll > >look for some serial number or something. >

Re: OT: KVM switch with Debian Lenny

2010-03-05 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 5 March 2010 19:58, Mark wrote: > Looking for some ideas from this smart group as the problem I'm seeing is a > new one to me.  I recently installed a 4-port KVM switch (ps/2, not usb) > connecting 3 desktop boxes at my house, 1 XP and 2 Debian Lenny systems. > Different brands, models, etc. of

OT: KVM switch with Debian Lenny

2010-03-05 Thread Mark
Looking for some ideas from this smart group as the problem I'm seeing is a new one to me. I recently installed a 4-port KVM switch (ps/2, not usb) connecting 3 desktop boxes at my house, 1 XP and 2 Debian Lenny systems. Different brands, models, etc. of the desktops. One of them is an Hp Worksta

Re: SpamAssassin not following private whitelist commands

2010-03-05 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-05 03:57, Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:34:46 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 2010-03-04 08:15, Camaleón wrote: Mmmm, what MTA/POP3/IMAP design are you using? fetchmail/postfix/spamassassin/maildrop $ grep spam /etc/postfix/master.cf smtp inet n - n - - \

Re: Instability in Iceweasel

2010-03-05 Thread Javier Barroso
Hi, On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 6:17 PM, Celejar wrote: > On Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:19:12 + > Alan Chandler wrote: > >> Has anyone else noticed an instability in Iceweasel recently. >> Sometimes, when I close a tab, it just exits.  Starting it up again >> brings back all the tabs, including the one I

Re: Minimum size for /home?

2010-03-05 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20100304_223459, postid wrote: > Pairing /home with either / or data files offers the greatest > flexibility, but it doesn't accomplish what I'm trying to do. On the > other hand, maybe I'm just trying to do it the hard way. > > I looked at a handful of machines here and observed that a single

Re: Instability in Iceweasel

2010-03-05 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:19:12 + Alan Chandler wrote: > Has anyone else noticed an instability in Iceweasel recently. > Sometimes, when I close a tab, it just exits. Starting it up again > brings back all the tabs, including the one I tried to close. I can > normally then close the single

Re: frozen mouse pointer in Lxde in Squeeze

2010-03-05 Thread peasthope
* Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2010 07:49:28 -0800 I wrote, > ... Squeeze ... > Consequently, the Lxde screen appears OK except that the > mouse pointer is immobile. This appears pertinent, pe...@joule:/var/log$ cat /var/log/X*old | grep "(EE) MGA" (EE) MGA(0): [drm] Failed to initialize DMA! (-2) a

Re: qtparted and kernel disagree about partitions

2010-03-05 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 5 Mar 2010 10:28:29 -0500 (EST), David Goodenough wrote: > Actually the problem is (as I have pointed out in the bug report) worse > that this, because while the kernel has been updated to take note of > the HPA, the tools such as *parted have not. So if your disk has an HPA > and you try

Re: bigmem kernel

2010-03-05 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 5 Mar 2010 09:54:00 -0500 (EST), Marc Auslander wrote: > I am confused by this and the other explainations. > > To be clear - I am only concerned about the vmlinuz symlink. I know > package management works. > > When I installed bigmen, it swung vmlinuz to the newly installed > kernel, jus

Re: qtparted and kernel disagree about partitions

2010-03-05 Thread David Goodenough
On Friday 05 March 2010, consul tores wrote: > 2010/3/5 David Goodenough : > > On Friday 05 March 2010, consul tores wrote: > >> 2010/3/5 David Goodenough : > >> > On Friday 05 March 2010, consul tores wrote: > >> >> 2010/3/4 Mike Dresser : > >> >> > On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, David Goodenough wrote: >

Re: bigmem kernel

2010-03-05 Thread Marc Auslander
Olaf Reitmaier Veracierta writes: >On 04/03/10 12:16, Marc Auslander wrote: > > having installed the bigmem kernel package, should I then remove the > regular kernel package? > >No. > > my concern is that if I don't, the next update to it will replace > vmlin

Re: qtparted and kernel disagree about partitions

2010-03-05 Thread consul tores
2010/3/5 David Goodenough : > On Friday 05 March 2010, consul tores wrote: >> 2010/3/5 David Goodenough : >> > On Friday 05 March 2010, consul tores wrote: >> >> 2010/3/4 Mike Dresser : >> >> > On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, David Goodenough wrote: >> >> >> hda: Host Protected Area detected. >> >> >> ^Icurren

Re: small problem when installing a recompiled kernel

2010-03-05 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 5 Mar 2010 07:50:59 -0500 (EST), Lorenzo Bettini wrote: > > I compiled the kernel sources with ubuntu patches (2.6.31) following > this guide > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Kernel/Compile#AltBuildMethod and > everything works fine (I also tried to install the kernel and run it). >

Re: Instability in Iceweasel

2010-03-05 Thread Javier Barroso
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 3:19 PM, Alan Chandler wrote: > Has anyone else noticed an instability in Iceweasel recently. Sometimes, > when I close a tab, it just exits.  Starting it up again brings back all the > tabs, including the one I tried to close.  I can normally then close the > single tab wit

Instability in Iceweasel

2010-03-05 Thread Alan Chandler
Has anyone else noticed an instability in Iceweasel recently. Sometimes, when I close a tab, it just exits. Starting it up again brings back all the tabs, including the one I tried to close. I can normally then close the single tab without problems. My system is in a wierd state right now in

Re: qtparted and kernel disagree about partitions

2010-03-05 Thread David Goodenough
On Friday 05 March 2010, consul tores wrote: > 2010/3/5 David Goodenough : > > On Friday 05 March 2010, consul tores wrote: > >> 2010/3/4 Mike Dresser : > >> > On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, David Goodenough wrote: > >> >> hda: Host Protected Area detected. > >> >> ^Icurrent capacity is 268435455 sectors (137

Re: qtparted and kernel disagree about partitions

2010-03-05 Thread consul tores
2010/3/5 David Goodenough : > On Friday 05 March 2010, consul tores wrote: >> 2010/3/4 Mike Dresser : >> > On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, David Goodenough wrote: >> >> hda: Host Protected Area detected. >> >> ^Icurrent capacity is 268435455 sectors (137438 MB) >> >> ^Inative  capacity is 312581808 sectors (16

Re: Anyone playing Supertux in Debian Lenny?

2010-03-05 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 05. 03. 2010 05:23:59 je Olaf Reitmaier Veracierta napisal(a): I've been occasionally playing computer games on and off (more off than on) for a quarter of a century now, and I am ashamed to admit that Urban Terror is the only game so far to actually get me addicted. However, it's a FP

Re: How to obtain UUID of drives (squeeze udev lacks vol_id)

2010-03-05 Thread Constantine
blkid On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 3:31 PM, Osamu Aoki wrote: > Hi, > > Recent udev packges in squeeze/sid lack vol_id command since 22 Aug 2009 > (146-1). What is the best way to obtain UUID of partition? > > I could read it like ... > > $ ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid|grep sda4 > > Is this the best way?

small problem when installing a recompiled kernel

2010-03-05 Thread Lorenzo Bettini
Hi I compiled the kernel sources with ubuntu patches (2.6.31) following this guide https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Kernel/Compile#AltBuildMethod and everything works fine (I also tried to install the kernel and run it). However, during the installation of the generated .deb package I get

How to obtain UUID of drives (squeeze udev lacks vol_id)

2010-03-05 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, Recent udev packges in squeeze/sid lack vol_id command since 22 Aug 2009 (146-1). What is the best way to obtain UUID of partition? I could read it like ... $ ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid|grep sda4 Is this the best way? Any thoughts ? Osamu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@l

TCP wrapper and hostname issue

2010-03-05 Thread Brian O'Mahony
Hi there guys. I am new to the list, but have done a search for this and cant seem to find any information. In fact its being annoying me for some time. I have a running Debian box (4.0) that is used as a CVS server. Everything is working fine on the system, except the tcp wrapper logging. Here

Re: SpamAssassin not following private whitelist commands

2010-03-05 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:34:46 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2010-03-04 08:15, Camaleón wrote: >> Mmmm, what MTA/POP3/IMAP design are you using? > > fetchmail/postfix/spamassassin/maildrop > > $ grep spam /etc/postfix/master.cf > smtp inet n - n - - \ >smtpd -

Re: Installing TTF Unicode fonts in Debian

2010-03-05 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 04 Mar 2010 23:21:20 +0100, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: > Op Thu, 4 Mar 2010 18:37:56 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: (...) >> I have putted (copy/paste) all *.ttf fonts under >> "/usr/share/local/fonts" so they get not mixed with the system ones. > > I assume you mean "/usr/local/share/fonts".

Re: unexpected problem with icedove : hundred of storaged mails no longer have a body !

2010-03-05 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 04 Mar 2010 22:48:53 +0100, Bernard wrote: > Camaleón wrote: (...) >> Maybe your mbox is corrupted... have you ever perfomed a "compact" >> operation? >> >> > No, I never have. I read the interresting article on Mozillazine.org, > and I have understood that my mbox got corrupted be

Re: qtparted and kernel disagree about partitions

2010-03-05 Thread David Goodenough
On Friday 05 March 2010, consul tores wrote: > 2010/3/4 Mike Dresser : > > On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, David Goodenough wrote: > >> hda: Host Protected Area detected. > >> ^Icurrent capacity is 268435455 sectors (137438 MB) > >> ^Inative capacity is 312581808 sectors (160041 MB) > > > > Is this a PATA dri

Re: useradd: Problem joining into a Samba domain

2010-03-05 Thread Jari Fredriksson
On 5.3.2010 5:46, Olaf Reitmaier Veracierta wrote: > > On 04/03/10 17:02, Jari Fredriksson wrote: >> I have an ancient domain, originally started with Red Hat 7.x. It is >> running on latest Lenny now, and works fine, except.. >> >> Now I try to add a new server into the domain. >> >> I found out