Re: Debian pdf files

On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 09:19:31AM +0545, Bikash Poudel wrote: > Hellow, > > I want to switch from Windows to Linux, and intending to adopt Debian > distribution. Since I do not have regular and reliable internet,I want > to download all free PDF files of manuals,books,HOW TOs and references > of

Re: Debian pdf files

On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 09:19:31AM +0545, Bikash Poudel wrote: > Hellow, > > I want to switch from Windows to Linux, and intending to adopt Debian > distribution. Since I do not have regular and reliable internet,I want > to download all free PDF files of manuals,books,HOW TOs and references > of

Re: Re: losing xmodmap settings during X startup

Hi Joey I'm experiencing exactly the same problem. > Now here is where it gets strange. Testing a workaround... Ha, pressing a key and it works. Funny... I've tried to delay it before, but in the background, where this doesn't work :) This seems to be a general Linux related problem as I am havi

Re: Debian pdf files

2010/3/25 Bikash Poudel > Hellow, > > I want to switch from Windows to Linux, and intending to adopt Debian > distribution. Since I do not have regular and reliable internet,I want > to download all free PDF files of manuals,books,HOW TOs and references > of Debian. Is there a package of all book

Debian pdf files

Hellow, I want to switch from Windows to Linux, and intending to adopt Debian distribution. Since I do not have regular and reliable internet,I want to download all free PDF files of manuals,books,HOW TOs and references of Debian. Is there a package of all books downloadable? Thank you bikash pou

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

Hi Paul, > For me, linux device names have become very intuitive. Certainly more > intuitive than UUIDs. I've been thinking about UUIDs for a little over > a week. To me, the idea of UUIDs suffers from a great excess of > pseudo-intellectual baggage. A convention for naming things that is > delibe

Re: Iceweasel not remembering saved passwords

On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 21:17:32 -0500 Dennis Wicks wrote: ... > Thanks for that info! I started searching for a workaround > and found an answer in the Mozilla KB > > (http://kb.mozillazine.org/User_name_and_password_not_remembered > >if anyone else is interested.) > > I wouldn't have tho

[SOLVED] SCSI module eata no longer loading automatically from initrd on Sid on i386

On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 20:23:28 -0400 (EDT), Arthur Marsh wrote: > Stephen Powell wrote, on 25/03/10 02:47: >> In the case of eata, the best way to handle the situation is to >> create an external alias. >> >> What I would do is to create a file called /etc/modprobe.d/local. In it >> I would put the

Re: Booting from newly installed Kernel package?

On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 18:51:25 -0400 (EDT), Jen wrote: > > Hello, > > I have the latest version of the Kernel package installed, and have grub2. > > Can you please tell me what I need to modify in order to get my machine to > boot from the 2.6.32-4-i686? > > Thanks, > Jen. I'm not sure what you

Re: snort on ossim

Kaushal Shriyan put forth on 3/24/2010 9:29 PM: > On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 7:49 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 2010-03-24 20:59, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> can i discuss about ossim >>> http://www.alienvault.com/community.php?section=Home in this mailing >>> list. >> >> Depends. What

Re: snort on ossim

On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 7:49 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2010-03-24 20:59, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> can i discuss about ossim >> http://www.alienvault.com/community.php?section=Home in this mailing >> list. > > Depends.  What's to say that isn't marketing fluff and is vaguely relevan

Re: snort on ossim

On 2010-03-24 20:59, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: Hi, can i discuss about ossim http://www.alienvault.com/community.php?section=Home in this mailing list. Depends. What's to say that isn't marketing fluff and is vaguely relevant to Debian? -- "History does not long entrust the care of freedom to

Re: Iceweasel not remembering saved passwords

Celejar wrote the following on 03/24/2010 08:16 PM: On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 17:19:32 -0500 Dennis Wicks wrote: Celejar wrote the following on 03/22/2010 10:03 PM: On Mon, 22 Mar 2010 19:49:08 -0500 Dennis Wicks wrote: Greetings; All of a sudden Iceweasel has forgotten my userid and password

snort on ossim

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Re: Iceweasel not remembering saved passwords

On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 17:19:32 -0500 Dennis Wicks wrote: > Celejar wrote the following on 03/22/2010 10:03 PM: > > On Mon, 22 Mar 2010 19:49:08 -0500 > > Dennis Wicks wrote: > > > >> Greetings; > >> > >> All of a sudden Iceweasel has forgotten my userid and > >> password for Paypal. All the othe

Re: SCSI module eata no longer loading automatically from initrd on Sid on i386

Stephen Powell wrote, on 25/03/10 02:47: On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 07:05:13 -0400 (EDT), Arthur Marsh wrote: Why shouldn't the eata driver be loaded once the PCI bus has been scanned and a device that the eata driver knows about [1044:a400] in this case is detected? 00:08.0 SCSI storage controller

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Re: Booting from newly installed Kernel package?

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

On 20100322_175115, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2010-03-22 17:05, Paul E Condon wrote: > [snip] > > > >You answered my question --- I didn't know about blkid utility. > >With this one can give every partition a meaningful labels like --- > > > >LABEL="hda1" > > > >or whatever is displayed as the system

Re: Iceweasel not remembering saved passwords

Celejar wrote the following on 03/22/2010 10:03 PM: On Mon, 22 Mar 2010 19:49:08 -0500 Dennis Wicks wrote: Greetings; All of a sudden Iceweasel has forgotten my userid and password for Paypal. All the others seem to be fine. Also, it will not offer to remember the info when I logon to Pay

Re: Linux and Windows partitioners fail to see opposite partitions

On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 16:07:53 -0400 (EDT), Joe wrote: > In addition to Stephen's post, which covers most of what you need to > know in practical terms, there are plenty more gory details here: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_boot_record Good link, Joe. Thanks. wikipedia is one of my fav

Re: Linux and Windows partitioners fail to see opposite partitions

It couldn't be said better than this way. :-) "You don't know where your shadow will fall", Somebody.- Olaf Reitmaier Veracierta (BB) http:/

Re: Linux and Windows partitioners fail to see opposite partitions

Elmer E. Dow wrote: page says for the command W) with rewriting the mbr as you said. It's sinking in now that evidently the mbr and the partition table are the same thing. I need to do some reading to get a better understanding of the workings of a computer system in general and the boot pro

Re: ssh warning!

2010/3/24 Berni Elbourn : > consul tores wrote: >> >> Hello >> >> I do not want to create panic, but playing with my Lenny Laptop, >> against Squezee and ArchLinux; i got (literaly) access without >> password. >> Conditions: >> New installation in my testing box, from Lenny i was ready to edit >> s

Re: playing/ripping audio cds

Sorry for just putting in another thought, maybe I am wrong: During upgrade of the kernel and/or udev the devices are sometimes newly recognized. This makes udev create "new" devices , too. It doesn't matter as far the devices are mounted by uuid in fstab, but cdrom and dvd aren't mounted this wa

Re: virt-manager on debian lenny

> Liam O'Toole : >On 2010-03-23, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: >> --000e0cd138a0bec34f048273a887 >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 >> >> hi, how do i get to install virt-manager on debian lenny 64-bit >> aside from compiling the whole thing and it dependencies? >> > >It is available at backpor

Re: Trouble using an Epson Stylus SX600FW network printer

On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 18:46:39 +0100, Thibaut GIRKA wrote: > Hi, > I have an Epson Stylus SX600FW network printer that worked fine with > cups+gutenprint a few months ago (yeah, I use it rarely), but now, it > doesn't print anything... > > I've purged cups, foomatic and all, then reinstalled cups (

Re: Linux and Windows partitioners fail to see opposite partitions

On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 14:01:19 -0400 (EDT), Elmer E. Dow wrote: > > It's sinking in now that evidently the mbr and the partition table are the > same thing. The master boot record is cylinder 0, head 0, record 1, the very first record on the hard disk, which is outside of any partition. The maste

Re: Linux and Windows partitioners fail to see opposite partitions

Mark wrote: On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 9:13 AM, Elmer E. Dow > wrote: [snip] I found the answer here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=437814 fdisk /dev/hda m w Maybe you didn't see my email reply to Debian List when you first posted this

Re: Where is this deb.opera.com repository still coming from?

Tech Geek wrote : > I was under the impression that whenever you run apt-get update it reads > the repositories listed in /etc/apt/sources.list file and fetches the > contents of it but apparently something else is going on too... > > So somtime back I added the following line in my /etc/apt/sour

Re: playing/ripping audio cds

On 2010-03-24 12:49, Rick Pasotto wrote: On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 12:31:33PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 2010-03-24 12:08, Rick Pasotto wrote: On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 10:46:11AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 2010-03-24 09:37, Rick Pasotto wrote: On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 03:39:53PM -0500, Ron Jo

Re: Where is this deb.opera.com repository still coming from?

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 5:42 PM, Tech Geek wrote: > I was under the impression that whenever you run apt-get update it reads the > repositories listed in /etc/apt/sources.list file and fetches the contents > of it but apparently something else is going on too... > > So somtime back I added the fol

Re: playing/ripping audio cds

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 12:31:33PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2010-03-24 12:08, Rick Pasotto wrote: > >On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 10:46:11AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > >>On 2010-03-24 09:37, Rick Pasotto wrote: > >>>On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 03:39:53PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2010-03-23

Trouble using an Epson Stylus SX600FW network printer

Hi, I have an Epson Stylus SX600FW network printer that worked fine with cups+gutenprint a few months ago (yeah, I use it rarely), but now, it doesn't print anything... I've purged cups, foomatic and all, then reinstalled cups (using unstable version), and reconfigured it (using system-config-pri

Where is this deb.opera.com repository still coming from?

I was under the impression that whenever you run apt-get update it reads the repositories listed in /etc/apt/sources.list file and fetches the contents of it but apparently something else is going on too... So somtime back I added the following line in my /etc/apt/sources.list: # Opera Browser Rep

Re: playing/ripping audio cds

On 2010-03-24 12:08, Rick Pasotto wrote: On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 10:46:11AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 2010-03-24 09:37, Rick Pasotto wrote: On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 03:39:53PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 2010-03-23 15:21, Rick Pasotto wrote: Additional problem: I aborted the ripping becaus

Re: Flash drive internal fragmentation.

On 2010-03-24 12:07, Bob McGowan wrote: [snip] And, I used VFAT for the filesystem type: That's the key difference, since vfat "is" fat32. $ mount|grep sde /dev/sde on /var/autofs/usb/centon type vfat ... Try this: $ mount -lt vat -- "History does not long entrust the care of freedom to

Re: playing/ripping audio cds

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 10:46:11AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2010-03-24 09:37, Rick Pasotto wrote: > >On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 03:39:53PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > >>On 2010-03-23 15:21, Rick Pasotto wrote: > >>>Additional problem: I aborted the ripping because it caused the monitor > >>>to t

Re: Flash drive internal fragmentation.

R. Clayton wrote: > <<--deleted background details-- > > $ ls --block-size=1k -ls > total 896 > 64 -rwxr-xr-x 1 rclayton rclayton 18 2010-03-23 14:42 branniga.htm > 64 -rwxr-xr-x 1 rclayton rclayton 3 2010-03-23 14:42 fig1.gif > 64 -rwxr-xr-x 1 rclayton rclayton 1 2010-03-23 14:42 fig

Re: Flash drive internal fragmentation.

On 2010-03-24 10:51, R. Clayton wrote: [snip] to an empty 4G thumb drive $ /sbin/fdisk -l /dev/sda Disk /dev/sda: 4009 MB, 4009754624 bytes 124 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1018 cylinders Units = cylinders of 7688 * 512 = 3936256 bytes Disk identifier: 0x Device Boot S

Re: tc download always to "default"

Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote at 2010-03-22 05:42 -0500: > My problem is all the traffic is caught by "classid 1:10", the default > class. > > Nothing is trapped by "classid 1:301" -> "classid 1:426" > > At a first glance, would you see something wrong in these? I don't see anything, sorry; I su

Re: Linux and Windows partitioners fail to see opposite partitions

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 9:13 AM, Elmer E. Dow wrote: [snip] > I found the answer here: > > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=437814 > > > fdisk /dev/hda > m > w > Maybe you didn't see my email reply to Debian List when you first posted this but this is exactly what I said to do, except I

Re: SCSI module eata no longer loading automatically from initrd on Sid on i386

On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 07:05:13 -0400 (EDT), Arthur Marsh wrote: > Why shouldn't the eata driver be loaded once the PCI bus has been > scanned and a device that the eata driver knows about [1044:a400] in > this case is detected? > > 00:08.0 SCSI storage controller [0100]: Adaptec (formerly DPT) >

Re: Linux and Windows partitioners fail to see opposite partitions

Joe wrote: Elmer E. Dow wrote: Recall that I used the DOS console to run fdisk /mbr to get XP to boot. Would installing grub on the MBR make Linux once again see the whole drive? It should at least allow correct booting. I wish I knew for sure. The XP Disc Manager and fdisk seem to agree

Re: Intel Core i5 integrated graphics

To Pasi: I'm using the xorg stuff - nothing special from Intel. Sorry for the ambiguity. To Stan: I didn't ask for, nor had I received any recommendation - you must be thinking of someone else. You had responded to a query I raised earlier when I had problems with the RealTek n

Flash drive internal fragmentation.

[ This isn't really a debian question; it's more of a linux question or maybe a file system question, but because this is the most appropriate of the groups I read, I'll pretend it's really important that this happened on a debian system. ] I tried to copy a 1.4G directory $ du -sh dr-dob

Re: playing/ripping audio cds

On 2010-03-24 09:37, Rick Pasotto wrote: On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 03:39:53PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 2010-03-23 15:21, Rick Pasotto wrote: Something has gotten broken on my system and I don't know where to start looking. I am running the 2.6.32-3-686 kernel and most of what's available fro

RE: Monitoring AutoFS in SNMP

> If it spawns a new process each time it mounts a new > partition, would it > not have a parent process that would at least be constant > on the server? > If that's the case, maybe you should just monitor the > parent process. > Otherwise, it would make sense to monitor a partition > instead of

Re: playing/ripping audio cds

On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 03:39:53PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2010-03-23 15:21, Rick Pasotto wrote: > >Something has gotten broken on my system and I don't know where to start > >looking. > > > >I am running the 2.6.32-3-686 kernel and most of what's available from > >testing. > > Most? Mixed

Re: SCSI module eata no longer loading automatically from initrd on Sid on i386

Stephen Powell wrote, on 24/03/10 01:29: On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 04:56:05 -0400 (EDT), Arthur Marsh wrote: Stephen Powell wrote, on 2010-03-23 00:50: OK, there are a couple of things to check. First of all, make sure you have MODULES=most listed in /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf. grep -v \#

Re: pivot_root. unmount old root

On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 04:16:20 -0400 (EDT), K. Haselhorst wrote: > Stephen Powell wrote: >> >> Maybe lsof doesn't necessarily list everything. What does "fuser -m >> /old_root" >> show? What about doing "fuser -k -m /old_root"? > > Ok, I finally got the old root unmounted. There were some tmpfs mo

Re: [OT] Pronunciation of "metacity" (was Manage window: change positions, etc.)

On 2010-03-24 08:01, Stephen Powell wrote: On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 18:45:09 -0400 (EDT), Ron Johnson wrote: From an old metacity README: Metacity is not a meta-City as in an urban center, but rather Meta-ness as in the state of being meta. i.e. metacity : meta as opacity : opaque. Al

Re: [OT] Pronunciation of "metacity" (was Manage window: change positions, etc.)

On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 18:45:09 -0400 (EDT), Ron Johnson wrote: > > From an old metacity README: > Metacity is not a meta-City as in an urban center, but > rather Meta-ness as in the state of being meta. i.e. > metacity : meta as opacity : opaque. Also it may have > something to

Re: ssh warning!

consul tores wrote: Hello I do not want to create panic, but playing with my Lenny Laptop, against Squezee and ArchLinux; i got (literaly) access without password. Conditions: New installation in my testing box, from Lenny i was ready to edit sshd_config after intallation, and i opened a console

Re: SCSI module eata no longer loading automatically from initrd on Sid on i386

Stephen Powell wrote, on 2010-03-24 01:29: On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 04:56:05 -0400 (EDT), Arthur Marsh wrote: Stephen Powell wrote, on 2010-03-23 00:50: OK, there are a couple of things to check. First of all, make sure you have MODULES=most listed in /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf. grep -v \

Re: Intel Core i5 integrated graphics

On 2010-03-23, Frank Miles wrote: > Sound has worked without any particular intervention - straight > ALSA. I don't do anything complex with the sound system, > though. I tried the sound yesterday and it just worked. That was nice. > As far as the video - while I'm presently

Re: pivot_root. unmount old root

>> The umount command fails with "device is busy". privot root and chroot >> work fine. > > So everything works except the umount. Interesting. From the example > in the man page they obviously expect it to be possible to umount the > old root file system. > >>> Kill should be able to kill any pr