Re: Bash email attachment

2010-03-09 Thread Johann Spies
On Mon, Mar 08, 2010 at 02:53:38PM +0100, Raven wrote: > > To encode the image I use: > > /usr/bin/uuencode img.jpg img.jpg > attachment.txt > cat hdr.txt body.txt attachment.txt > message.txt > $SENDMAIL "-f" $4 "--" $2 > > Anyone knows how to solve this? Have a look at mpack. I use it regu

[OT] Hanlon's Razor (was: Debian 5 security issue)

2010-03-09 Thread Jochen Schulz
Ron Johnson: >> > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor Completely unrelated to the OP, but the best extension to Hanlon's Razor is given by the previous Friday's Dilbert: http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2010-03-05/ :) J. -- Ultimately, the Millenium Dome is a spectacular monument

Re: How to know if DVI connection is digital or analogue?

2010-03-09 Thread Dotan Cohen
> It probably doesn't matter at this point but my two cents:  The DVI monitors > I have here, they all indicate whether they're receiving digital or analog > when they're powered on or when the signal cable gains signal. > Thanks, that is useful to know. -- Dotan Cohen http://bido.com http://w

Re: rendering languages?

2010-03-09 Thread Dotan Cohen
>> Ok go to this website: >> http://yutori7.2ch.net/test/read.cgi/news4vip/1268146249/l50 >> Instead of seeing Japanese characters I see a bunch of square boxes. >> If I copy/paste into Gedit I see same weird boxes. > > I see Japanese characters.  Since I'm nothing but a bog-standard American > who

Re: Debian 5 security issue

2010-03-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-09 21:46, Bret Busby wrote: Hello. In running sybaptic, to check for available system updates, I encountered the following message, and it is not the first time that I have encountered the message. "Granted permissions without asking for password I think this is specific to this

Re: rendering languages?

2010-03-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-09 21:23, Zachary Uram wrote: On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 2:23 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote: Please post detailed reproduction instructions. Which browser to open, which page to go to and which text to copy, and where to paste it. Also, _how_ you paste it (middle-click, context menu, keyboard sh

Re: custom SNMP for custom graph

2010-03-09 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
> Then in my /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf, I added: > exec .1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.254 ocsigen /usr/local/bin/ocsigen_access grepping the logs: Mar 10 07:00:11 ns309487 snmpd[12609]: /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf: line 335: Error: ERROR: This output format has been deprecated Please use the 'extend' directive i

Re: Getting no reply from this mailing list

2010-03-09 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:40:04 +0530 surreal wrote: > Its a couple of times I have noticed that I am not getting reply in my > inbox.. What do you mean by your inbox? > I had raised some queries and people had replied to it, but I didnt get any > of it in my inbox, had to manually go and see it.

Getting no reply from this mailing list

2010-03-09 Thread surreal
Its a couple of times I have noticed that I am not getting reply in my inbox.. I had raised some queries and people had replied to it, but I didnt get any of it in my inbox, had to manually go and see it.. Is there some problem with mailing list software or is it under heavy stress due to traffic

Re: NFS mount from a particuliar interface ?

2010-03-09 Thread Alexander Samad
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 9:42 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2010-03-09 16:16, Alexander Samad wrote: >> >> On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 5:38 AM, Ron Johnson >> wrote: >>> >>> On 2010-03-08 08:40, Frank Bonnet wrote: [snip] like the following eth0 <--OTHER TRAFFIC> LAN eth1 <--

Debian 5 security issue

2010-03-09 Thread Bret Busby
Hello. In running sybaptic, to check for available system updates, I encountered the following message, and it is not the first time that I have encountered the message. "Granted permissions without asking for password The '/usr/sbin/synaptic' program was started with the privileges of the

Re: rendering languages?

2010-03-09 Thread Zachary Uram
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 2:23 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote: >> > > Please post detailed reproduction instructions. Which browser to open, > which page to go to and which text to copy, and where to paste it. > Also, _how_ you paste it (middle-click, context menu, keyboard > shortcut). Ok go to this website

Re: /boot partition changes when it should not

2010-03-09 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Clive McBarton writes: >Stephen Powell wrote: >> For example, the boot loader may be updating the mount >> count or updating the "last referenced date/time", if there is such >> a field in the filesystem, for the kernel image or the initial RAM >> disk image. >I assume you mean "atime", which ex

Re: Re: Installing to Flash Drive

2010-03-09 Thread Weaver2World
On Mar 10, 2010 11:28am, thib wrote: http://www.pendrivelinux.com/ Great link. Thanks for that. Perhaps the installer team could take a look with regard to inclusion. Current flash install, from a windows PC, at least, would appear to be far from trivial. Regards, Weaver.

Re: Re: Installing to Flash Drive

2010-03-09 Thread Weaver2World
On Mar 10, 2010 11:27am, Rob Owens wrote: Hello Rob, You might want to take a look at Debian Live, and make use of the "persistence" feature. This will let you boot your flashdrive off of any computer, not just the one in the internet cafe. Thanks for that. A pity that facility doesn't

Re: /boot partition changes when it should not

2010-03-09 Thread Stephen Powell
On Tue, 9 Mar 2010 18:50:59 -0500 (EST), Clive McBarton wrote: > Stephen Powell wrote: >> But the >> boot loader doesn't know that Linux is going to mount the filesystem >> read-only. > > That's a highly interesting point. It doesn't? I thought everything in > the boot process mounts everything i

Re: Installing to Flash Drive

2010-03-09 Thread thib
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Re: Installing to Flash Drive

2010-03-09 Thread Rob Owens
On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 03:29:51PM +0930, Heddle Weaver wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying a first time exercise, for me, hereattempting to mount a > Lenny dist. onto a 32Gb Corsair flashdrive by way of a MS XP loaded P.C. > > Installation is fine until it comes to where the boot record is to be

Re: /boot partition changes when it should not

2010-03-09 Thread thib
Clive McBarton wrote: I'm not saying grub cannot do it, but I do see a reason: grub has its config in a *file*. By default anyway. Something called menu.lst which controls how the grub display looks like and so on. When grub loads, it loads this file first. There are also other files, like devic

Re: /boot partition changes when it should not

2010-03-09 Thread thib
Clive McBarton wrote: Up to now, I never heard of any advantage whatsoever of ext2 over ext3. ext3 now differs from ext2, aside from the journal. We can run ext3 without one, so there's no real reason to continue to use ext2. One could say the same thing about ext3 and ext4, actually, but t

Re: /boot partition changes when it should not

2010-03-09 Thread Clive McBarton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 thib wrote: > Clive McBarton wrote: >>> For the record, grub can also load a kernel and an initrd by just >>> providing a block list, as you described for lilo. Since the filesystem >>> is made read-only, this shouldn't be too ugly and certainly worth

Re: /boot partition changes when it should not

2010-03-09 Thread thib
Clive McBarton wrote: For the record, grub can also load a kernel and an initrd by just providing a block list, as you described for lilo. Since the filesystem is made read-only, this shouldn't be too ugly and certainly worth trying. Really? Great. How exactly? I looked at the man and info pag

Re: /boot partition changes when it should not

2010-03-09 Thread Clive McBarton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 >> ro Mount filesystem read only. Note that ext3 will replay >> the journal (and thus write to the partition) even when >> mounted "read only". Mount options "ro,noload" can be >> used to prevent writes to the filesystem. Great! Spect

Re: device name problem after update

2010-03-09 Thread thib
Ron Johnson wrote: On 2010-03-09 14:57, Angelin Lalev wrote: After almost each update of my debian lenny kernel I have my IDE disk name changed. Once it's hda1 then is hdc1 and keeps flip-flopping. Is it a known problem? That's udev. Does your fstab use /dev/hdX, labels or uuids? Whatever

Re: editing grub in lenny to boot from ext4 partition

2010-03-09 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
2010/3/10 Andrei Popescu > On Wed,10.Mar.10, 00:27:19, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > > So now i had installed grub2 and it does not automatically detects a > distro > > i had installed (before installing debian) on /dev/sda3 > > > > I saw this message on /boot/grub/grub.cfg > > # DO NOT EDIT THIS FIL

Re: /boot partition changes when it should not

2010-03-09 Thread Clive McBarton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 thib wrote: > For the record, grub can also load a kernel and an initrd by just > providing a block list, as you described for lilo. Since the filesystem > is made read-only, this shouldn't be too ugly and certainly worth trying. Really? Great. How e

Re: /boot partition changes when it should not

2010-03-09 Thread thib
Stephen Powell wrote: You might try switching to lilo as your boot loader and see if that solves your problem. I use lilo as my boot loader and have for a long time. I may be able to assist you if you have difficulty. For the record, grub can also load a kernel and an initrd by just providing

Re: NFS mount from a particuliar interface ?

2010-03-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-09 16:16, Alexander Samad wrote: On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 5:38 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: On 2010-03-08 08:40, Frank Bonnet wrote: Hello I have a Lenny server with two ethernet interfaces which is NFS CLIENT to a NETAPP filer I wonder if it would be possible to force NFS traffic to/fro

Re: Bash email attachment

2010-03-09 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, Mar 08, 2010 at 02:53:38PM +0100, Raven wrote: > Hi all, > > I recently wrote a small content filter script (in bash) to use on my > local Postfix installation. The script receives via "pipe:" the > recipient and the sender's addresses then responds by sending back a > message containing s

Re: Installing Debian using custom kernel

2010-03-09 Thread Tushar Joshi
Thanks for this, the latest amd64 kernel 2.6.32 worked. I had actually managed to crack this finally by making my own kernel on another machine and copying over the simple-cdd image before the ISO was created but this felt like a bit of a hack even though it worked and I opted for Kmuto's images i

Re: NFS mount from a particuliar interface ?

2010-03-09 Thread Alexander Samad
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 5:38 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2010-03-08 08:40, Frank Bonnet wrote: >> >> Hello >> >> I have a Lenny server with two ethernet interfaces which is NFS CLIENT to >> a NETAPP filer >> >> I wonder if it would be possible to force NFS traffic to/from the filer on >> one ether

Re: Iceweasel 3.5.6 global spellcheck

2010-03-09 Thread Dean Montgomery
> * Base System: Lenny > * iceweasel: 3.5.6-1~bpo50+1 > * myspell-en-us: 1:2.4.0-3 I found/fixed the problem: cd /usr/lib/iceweasel sudo ln -s ../../share/myspell/dicts dictionaries Restart Firefox. I'm not sure if I should report this as a bug or not. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-us

Re: /boot partition changes when it should not

2010-03-09 Thread Stephen Powell
On Tue, 9 Mar 2010 14:08:34 -0500 (EST), Karl Klinger wrote: > Clive McBarton wrote: >> >> Good point, that is probably important. ext3. >> > > From: http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt > > roMount filesystem read only. Note that ext3 will replay > the jour

Re: device name problem after update

2010-03-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-09 14:57, Angelin Lalev wrote: After almost each update of my debian lenny kernel I have my IDE disk name changed. Once it's hda1 then is hdc1 and keeps flip-flopping. Is it a known problem? That's udev. Does your fstab use /dev/hdX, labels or uuids? -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson

Re: /boot partition changes when it should not

2010-03-09 Thread Stephen Powell
On Tue, 9 Mar 2010 14:02:48 -0500 (EST), thib wrote: > Bob McGowan wrote: >> On further consideration, there are other places where things could be >> happening, before the "system" is fully started, meaning before the >> 'mount' options you're using would have any effect. >> >> These don't necess

device name problem after update

2010-03-09 Thread Angelin Lalev
After almost each update of my debian lenny kernel I have my IDE disk name changed. Once it's hda1 then is hdc1 and keeps flip-flopping. Is it a known problem? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.deb

Re: How to know if DVI connection is digital or analogue?

2010-03-09 Thread Chance Platt
Dotan Cohen wrote: I'd say he's facing a very strange and uncommon situation. I've never seen that before, as I told you. And from the other user's comments I think neither they have. The thing is, I wonder just how uncommon it is! Would thinks of these things? It would not surprise me to learn

Re: editing grub in lenny to boot from ext4 partition

2010-03-09 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed,10.Mar.10, 00:27:19, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > So now i had installed grub2 and it does not automatically detects a distro > i had installed (before installing debian) on /dev/sda3 > > I saw this message on /boot/grub/grub.cfg > # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE > # > # It is automatically generated

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

2010-03-09 Thread Angus Hedger
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 8:07 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > thib put forth on 3/8/2010 5:10 PM: > > Stan Hoeppner wrote: > >> I'm constantly Googling trying to find new ones. Apparently (and > >> unfortunately), thoughtful, thorough, and fair comparative Linux > >> filesytem > >> benchmarking is a ver

Re: Bash email attachment

2010-03-09 Thread Allan Wind
On 2010-03-08T14:53:38, Raven wrote: > /usr/bin/uuencode img.jpg img.jpg > attachment.txt > cat hdr.txt body.txt attachment.txt > message.txt > $SENDMAIL "-f" $4 "--" $2 http://lifeintegrity.com> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". T

Re: How to know if DVI connection is digital or analogue?

2010-03-09 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:06:09 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: >> I'd say he's facing a very strange and uncommon situation. I've never >> seen that before, as I told you. And from the other user's comments I >> think neither they have. > > The thing is, I wonder just how uncommon it is! Would thinks of

Re: Installing Debian using custom kernel

2010-03-09 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
Have checked to see if the Kmuto installer fits your needs? I should have drivers for the Broadcom netextreme (assuming that is what it is) but I am not sure about the RAID controller. You can check it out at: http://kmuto.jp/debian/d-i/ On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 2:14 PM, Tushar Joshi wrote: > > I'v

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

2010-03-09 Thread Stan Hoeppner
thib put forth on 3/8/2010 5:10 PM: > Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> I'm constantly Googling trying to find new ones. Apparently (and >> unfortunately), thoughtful, thorough, and fair comparative Linux >> filesytem >> benchmarking is a very rare hobby. :( > > Best thing to do would be to lurk on Phoroni

Re: How to know if DVI connection is digital or analogue?

2010-03-09 Thread Dotan Cohen
> I'd say he's facing a very strange and uncommon situation. I've never > seen that before, as I told you. And from the other user's comments I > think neither they have. The thing is, I wonder just how uncommon it is! Would thinks of these things? It would not surprise me to learn that 90% of Win

Re: Iceweasel 3.5.6 global spellcheck

2010-03-09 Thread Dean Montgomery
>> * Base System: Lenny >> * iceweasel: 3.5.6-1~bpo50+1 >> * myspell-en-us: 1:2.4.0-3 > >Was it working before you upgraded iceweasel from backports? Yes spellcheck was working before upgrading to iceweasel backport. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subje

Re: Problem using totem

2010-03-09 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2010-03-09, Aioanei Rares wrote: ---SNIP--- > It's either a defective allocation of memory or really insufficient RAM. If the latter, the xshm output option will might help. -- Liam O'Toole Birmingham, United Kingdom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org wi

Re: Burning cue/mp3 files on Debian

2010-03-09 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 17:49, Mark Kamichoff wrote: > Hi - > > Does anyone have any bright ideas on how one's supposed to burn cue/mp3 > files on Debian? > > The normal ways (cdrdao, wodim, etc.) don't seem to work because the > Debian packages for these applications have been built without MP3 >

Re: Flash Player Install Confusion

2010-03-09 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:28:58 +0100, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: > Camaleón wrote: >> It's just that the installation of the Adobe plugin from the Adobe site >> is plain easy to achieve (download, copy and paste), works very well >> (plugin is detected by the browser) and you always get the la

Installing Debian using custom kernel

2010-03-09 Thread Tushar Joshi
I've just bought a new Dell R410 and it seems the Broadcom ethernet and the H700 raid card aren't supported with Lenny's CD netinst. I've created a custom kernel but I wonder if anyone has any pointers on how to create an initrd image for this and put this on a netinst CD. I've used simple-cdd to

Re: How to know if DVI connection is digital or analogue?

2010-03-09 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:03:18 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: >> Or better yet, you can tell the user to get a DVI-D to DVI-D cable, as >> I suggested in my /very first/ post >:-) >> >> > He does not want to invest in any new hardware. I personally also don't > think that a hardware solution is the corre

Re: Flash Player Install Confusion

2010-03-09 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:32:14 -0500, Stephen Powell wrote: > >> On Tue, 9 Mar 2010 12:45:54 -0500 (EST), Camaleón wrote: >>> My advice is that you get the plugin from Adobe: >> I'm curious. Why do you advise getting the plugin directly from Adobe, >> bypassing the Debian archive?

Re: How to know if DVI connection is digital or analogue?

2010-03-09 Thread Dotan Cohen
>> Why get a new cable? His current cable works fine. > > Because is a cheap and easy way to assure the connection goes fully > digital. > A software solution would be cheaper, and is in my own opinion "the fix", not a workaround like a new cable is. >> He just wants to know >> whether the video

Re: Problem using totem

2010-03-09 Thread Aioanei Rares
Liam O'Toole wrote: On 2010-03-09, John Salmon wrote: On Mon, 2010-03-08 at 22:26 +, Liam O'Toole wrote: On 2010-03-08, John Salmon wrote: I'm running Lenny on a PC. When I try to use totem to display a .mpg file I get the fpllowing; --- SNIP --- The program

Re: /boot partition changes when it should not

2010-03-09 Thread Karl Klinger
Clive McBarton wrote: Good point, that is probably important. ext3. From: http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt ro Mount filesystem read only. Note that ext3 will replay the journal (and thus write to the partition) even when mounted "read onl

Re: How to know if DVI connection is digital or analogue?

2010-03-09 Thread Dotan Cohen
> Or better yet, you can tell the user to get a DVI-D to DVI-D cable, as I > suggested in my /very first/ post >:-) > He does not want to invest in any new hardware. I personally also don't think that a hardware solution is the correct solution. In a general sense, it would be good to know how to

Re: /boot partition changes when it should not

2010-03-09 Thread thib
Bob McGowan wrote: On further consideration, there are other places where things could be happening, before the "system" is fully started, meaning before the 'mount' options you're using would have any effect. These don't necessarily do anything (in the "write" sense ;), but are places to consid

Re: Problem using totem

2010-03-09 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2010-03-09, John Salmon wrote: > On Mon, 2010-03-08 at 22:26 +, Liam O'Toole wrote: >> On 2010-03-08, John Salmon wrote: >> > I'm running Lenny on a PC. When I try to use totem to display a .mpg >> > file I get the fpllowing; >> > --- SNIP --- >> > The program 'totem' received an X Window

Re: /boot partition changes when it should not

2010-03-09 Thread thib
Ron Johnson wrote: On 2010-03-09 02:58, thib wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: I'd hash each of the files in /boot (storing the results in a thumb drive if you are paranoid) just before you reboot and then just after. How would you do it after with an offline system? That would require to systemati

Re: Flash Player Install Confusion

2010-03-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-09 12:32, Stephen Powell wrote: On Tue, 9 Mar 2010 12:45:54 -0500 (EST), Camaleón wrote: My advice is that you get the plugin from Adobe: I'm curious. Why do you advise getting the plugin directly from Adobe, bypassing the Debian archive? What's wrong with the standard Debian packa

Re: Flash Player Install Confusion

2010-03-09 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:32:14 -0500, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Tue, 9 Mar 2010 12:45:54 -0500 (EST), Camaleón wrote: >> My advice is that you get the plugin from Adobe: > > I'm curious. Why do you advise getting the plugin directly from Adobe, > bypassing the Debian archive? What's wrong with th

Re: NFS mount from a particuliar interface ?

2010-03-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-08 08:40, Frank Bonnet wrote: Hello I have a Lenny server with two ethernet interfaces which is NFS CLIENT to a NETAPP filer I wonder if it would be possible to force NFS traffic to/from the filer on one ethernet interface and use the other interface for all other traffics ? li

Re: Flash Player Install Confusion

2010-03-09 Thread Aioanei Rares
On 03/09/2010 07:45 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:33:21 -0500, Carlos Mennens wrote: > > >> I just did a fresh install of Debian Squeeze X64 and I can't find Adobe >> Flash Plugin anywhere via Apt. >> > My advice is that you get the plugin from Adobe: > > http://labs.adobe.co

Re: Single root filesystem evilness decreasing in 2010? (on workstations) [LONG]

2010-03-09 Thread Robert Brockway
On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, thib wrote: OTOH - I haven't studied XFS - but from the little overviews I read about it, I suppose its allocation groups are a way to scale with this problem (along with other unrelated advantages like parallelism in multithreaded environments). What happens if a filesystem

Re: Flash Player Install Confusion

2010-03-09 Thread Stephen Powell
On Tue, 9 Mar 2010 12:45:54 -0500 (EST), Camaleón wrote: > My advice is that you get the plugin from Adobe: I'm curious. Why do you advise getting the plugin directly from Adobe, bypassing the Debian archive? What's wrong with the standard Debian package flashplugin-nonfree? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

RE: Install Xen from repository

2010-03-09 Thread Mike Viau
> Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 13:06:37 -0500 > From: hfollm...@itcfollmann.com > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Install Xen from repository > > On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 06:43:30PM +0100, pch0317 wrote: > > Hi > > > > I would like to install Xen on my Debian testing amd64 from repository

Re: /boot partition changes when it should not

2010-03-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-09 02:58, thib wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: I'd hash each of the files in /boot (storing the results in a thumb drive if you are paranoid) just before you reboot and then just after. How would you do it after with an offline system? That would require to systematically run the machin

Re: Install Xen from repository

2010-03-09 Thread Henning Follmann
On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 06:43:30PM +0100, pch0317 wrote: > Hi > > I would like to install Xen on my Debian testing amd64 from repository. > I use "aptitude install xen-hypervisor" but when I restart my machine I > don't see any xen entry in grub list. > What is wrong. > > Thanks > > It looks you

Re: Flash Player Install Confusion

2010-03-09 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:57:06 -0500, Carlos Mennens wrote: > On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 12:45 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> My advice is that you get the plugin from Adobe: >> >> http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10_64bit.html >> >> And put "libflashplayer.so" under your ~/.mozilla/plugins >> >> That

Re: Flash Player Install Confusion

2010-03-09 Thread Angus Hedger
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 5:44 PM, Carlos Mennens wrote: > On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 12:40 PM, Aioanei Rares > wrote: > > Squeeze is testing at the moment, so what is written in the wiki > > regarding testing works for you. Just follow the instructions carefully. > > What is written on the Wiki is: >

Re: Flash Player Install Confusion

2010-03-09 Thread Carlos Mennens
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 12:45 PM, Camaleón wrote: > My advice is that you get the plugin from Adobe: > > http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10_64bit.html > > And put "libflashplayer.so" under your ~/.mozilla/plugins > > That's all, at least for Iceweasel :-) No such directory structure exi

Re: Flash Player Install Confusion

2010-03-09 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:33:21 -0500, Carlos Mennens wrote: > I just did a fresh install of Debian Squeeze X64 and I can't find Adobe > Flash Plugin anywhere via Apt. My advice is that you get the plugin from Adobe: http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10_64bit.html And put "libflashplayer.

Re: Flash Player Install Confusion

2010-03-09 Thread Carlos Mennens
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 12:40 PM, Aioanei Rares wrote: > Squeeze is testing at the moment, so what is written in the wiki > regarding testing works for you. Just follow the instructions carefully. What is written on the Wiki is: "To do only once : Make sure your APT sources (/etc/apt/sources.list

Install Xen from repository

2010-03-09 Thread pch0317
Hi I would like to install Xen on my Debian testing amd64 from repository. I use "aptitude install xen-hypervisor" but when I restart my machine I don't see any xen entry in grub list. What is wrong. Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "

Re: Iceweasel 3.5.6 global spellcheck

2010-03-09 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:44:57 -0800, Dean Montgomery wrote: > I can't seem to get global spellcheck working for Iceweasel. I don't > want to have all users download dictionaries to their HOME folder but > rather a centraly installed dictionary for all users. > > In the past Iceweasel would detect

Re: Flash Player Install Confusion

2010-03-09 Thread Aioanei Rares
On 03/09/2010 07:33 PM, Carlos Mennens wrote: > I just did a fresh install of Debian Squeeze X64 and I can't find > Adobe Flash Plugin anywhere via Apt. > > I searched the Wiki and found this link: > > http://wiki.debian.org/FlashPlayer > > My current source.list looks like: > > deb http://ftp.us.d

Flash Player Install Confusion

2010-03-09 Thread Carlos Mennens
I just did a fresh install of Debian Squeeze X64 and I can't find Adobe Flash Plugin anywhere via Apt. I searched the Wiki and found this link: http://wiki.debian.org/FlashPlayer My current source.list looks like: deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main non-free deb-src http://ftp.us.

Re: How to know if DVI connection is digital or analogue?

2010-03-09 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:48:28 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > On 8 March 2010 16:16, Camaleón wrote: >>> He is using the cable that came with the monitor. >> >> Can't he get a new one? Or at least, can't he determine what type of >> cable is it? DVI-I, DVI-D... I find that a hardware solution is the >

Re: How to know if DVI connection is digital or analogue?

2010-03-09 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:31:53 +, Roger Leigh wrote: (...) > The only other choices cable-wise are DVI-I which can carry both > signals, and this should result in autoselection of the correct output > (which should be digital) and DVI-A (which you don't need to care > about). If you have a DV

Re: How to know if DVI connection is digital or analogue?

2010-03-09 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:33:44 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: (none of my previous posts seem to have arrived to the list. Gmane has been... again) >> The only other choices cable-wise are DVI-I which can carry both >> signals, and this should result in autoselection of the correct output >> (which sho

extra 1~ added into front of middle button capture on ibook using Xorg not in gpm

2010-03-09 Thread Mitchell Laks
Hi, I noticed recently when i try to copy paste using F10 to emulate the middle mouse on my ibook g4 running debian sid that if I am in the standard terminal all is ok. However under Xorg in any application even though I have set # from http://pierre.baudu.in/ibook/ dev/mac_hid/mouse_button_em

Re: /boot partition changes when it should not

2010-03-09 Thread Bob McGowan
Clive McBarton wrote: > Bob McGowan wrote: >> It is almost certainly the mount count. > > I just manually unmounted and mounted the device a few times. With the > arguments I have in fstab ("ro","noatime"). In other words, I did > > umount /boot; mount /boot; dd_rescue /dev/sda1 /tmp/boot1; > umo

FW: Bug#538099: marked as done (enable GFXPAYLOAD on /etc/default/grub)

2010-03-09 Thread Andrei Popescu
- Forwarded message from Debian Bug Tracking System - [...] Changes: grub2 (1.98-1) unstable; urgency=low . * New upstream release (closes: #572898). - Fix grub-script-check to handle empty lines (closes: #572302). - Fix offset computation when reading last sectors. Parti

Re: NFS mount from a particuliar interface ?

2010-03-09 Thread Alexander Samad
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 1:40 AM, Frank Bonnet wrote: > Hello > > I have a Lenny server with two ethernet interfaces which is NFS CLIENT to a > NETAPP filer > > I wonder if it would be possible to force NFS traffic to/from the filer on > one ethernet interface and use the other interface for all oth

Re: editing grub in lenny to boot from ext4 partition

2010-03-09 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
So now i had installed grub2 and it does not automatically detects a distro i had installed (before installing debian) on /dev/sda3 I saw this message on /boot/grub/grub.cfg # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE # # It is automatically generated by /usr/sbin/grub-mkconfig using templates # from /etc/grub.d and

RE: custom SNMP for custom graph

2010-03-09 Thread James Wu
I think you want to use sh instead of exec. Quoting from the man page: "The PROG argument for exec directives must be a full path to a real binary, as it is executed via the exec() system call. To invoke a shell script, use the sh directive instead." Also, I'd double check to make sure the sc

Re: Problem using totem

2010-03-09 Thread John Salmon
On Mon, 2010-03-08 at 22:26 +, Liam O'Toole wrote: > On 2010-03-08, John Salmon wrote: > > I'm running Lenny on a PC. When I try to use totem to display a .mpg > > file I get the fpllowing; > > > > epc_publisher_create_server: listening on http://peace:58293/ > > ** (totem:12145): DEBUG: Init

Re: javascript-common does not install

2010-03-09 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 1:53 PM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > Hi there, > >  I am trying to install javascript-common on my gandi server: > > $ wget > http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/j/javascript-common/javascript-common_5_all.deb > $ sudo dpkg -i javascript-common_5_all.deb > Selecting pr

javascript-common does not install

2010-03-09 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Hi there, I am trying to install javascript-common on my gandi server: $ wget http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/j/javascript-common/javascript-common_5_all.deb $ sudo dpkg -i javascript-common_5_all.deb Selecting previously deselected package javascript-common. (Reading database ... 16

Re: KDE and Squeeze

2010-03-09 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On Seg, 08 Mar 2010, lrhorer wrote: I loaded up an embedded system with Debian recently. I was having problems relating to the older kernel in Lenny, so I want ahead and installed Squeeze. I got things working, but I was mortified with KDE4, which installed with Squeeze. It's horrible.

Re: KDE and Squeeze

2010-03-09 Thread Cassiano Leal
On 9 March 2010 00:22, Sam Leon wrote: > lrhorer wrote: >> >>        I loaded up an embedded system with Debian recently.  I was having >> problems relating to the older kernel in Lenny, so I want ahead and >> installed Squeeze.  I got things working, but I was mortified with >> KDE4, which instal

Re: How to know if DVI connection is digital or analogue?

2010-03-09 Thread =?iso-8859-1?q?Camale=F3n?=
On Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:33:44 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: (it seems none of my previous posts have arrived to the list. Gmane has been offline... again) >> The only other choices cable-wise are DVI-I which can carry both >> signals, and this should result in autoselection of the correct output >> (w

custom SNMP for custom graph

2010-03-09 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
Manao ahoana, Hello, Bonjour, I have an already working MRTG+SNMP+Apache here: http://srv3.rktmb.org:90/mrtg/ I try to make a custom MRTG graph First, I need to build SNMP stuff. Say I want to monitor the access of my web server by counting the number of lines of my access_log file. Just that si

Re: Custom debian installeur on DVD

2010-03-09 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, my understand is that you need to know how to burn a bootable DVD. My 2 cents, Jerome marion.de...@fr.thalesgroup.com wrote: Hi, Actually, I try to make a debian installeur DVD but customized. I explain : In my company, we used to install debian cusomized with other packages. We

Re: How to know if DVI connection is digital or analogue?

2010-03-09 Thread Dotan Cohen
> I mean DVI-D cable to DVI-I socket (this will ensure the signal is > digital).  On my monitors and computers, all sockets are always DVI-I > and all cables are DVI-D.  You can verify this on your monitor checking > if it has the four analogue connectors and the same on the cable.  If > it doesn't

Re: Custom debian installeur on DVD

2010-03-09 Thread randall
if you have the .iso already that is what i would understand as well cdrecord dev=/dev/cdrom nameofyourimage.iso or you could use the build in tools to burn iso's in nautilus or K3B brasero On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 18:41 +0800, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Hello List, > > my understand is that you nee

Custom debian installeur on DVD

2010-03-09 Thread Marion . DELEY
Hi, Actually, I try to make a debian installeur DVD but customized. I explain : In my company, we used to install debian cusomized with other packages. We made an ISO and put it on an USB key bootable. We add preseed.seed and syslinux.cfg. It work really fine. But we want to do the same thing w

Re: How to know if DVI connection is digital or analogue?

2010-03-09 Thread Roger Leigh
On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 09:22:24AM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > As you can see from the pictures, the pinout variations¹ allow different > > subsets of the pins to be used.  Typically the female end on your > > graphics card will be DVI-I and support all options, while the cable from > > the displ

China Netcom SIP

2010-03-09 Thread randall
hi all, i'm setting up some SIP phones in China and we have a broadband connection with China Netcom. i can't seem to be able to register the voip phones to the PBX in another location but i do see the connection going out. there seems to be some filtering going on by the ISP, does anybody have e

Re: /boot partition changes when it should not

2010-03-09 Thread thib
Ron Johnson wrote: I'd hash each of the files in /boot (storing the results in a thumb drive if you are paranoid) just before you reboot and then just after. How would you do it after with an offline system? That would require to systematically run the machine in a virtualized environment (an