Re: installing deb files from unstable or testing

2010-05-27 Thread Ingo Kasten
Andrei Popescu schrieb: On Thu,27.May.10, 21:47:16, Ingo Kasten wrote: Israel Garcia schrieb: Some times ago (I could not find on google), I could create a deb file for my lenny from unstable or testing debian (done remember now). I remember I follow some steps from a blog or something and I su

Re: Ugrade from Lenny to Squeeze on old PC Box

2010-05-27 Thread Paul Chany
Eike Lantzsch writes: > On Thursday 27 May 2010, Paul Chany wrote: >> >> I have an old PC Box on which I was run Debian Lenny with kernel >> 2.6.26-2-486. I used it as a Desktop for small jobs. >> >> Yesterday I decided to upgrade it to Squeeze. >> I did the following: >> 1 change the lenny to

Debian alternative kernels [OT]

2010-05-27 Thread thib
consul tores wrote: Yes, Linux (kernel) is very tweakable, but normal users are not able to compile their own kernel; i am more remembering when i could install using 3 diskettes, and now i can not do it anymore. If, we consider that the environment has changed; we have Red Hut, Ubuntu and Suse;

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-05-27 Thread Stefan Monnier
> If, we consider that the environment has changed; we have Red Hut, > Ubuntu and Suse; pushing to include every thing into the kernel, what > is the best for them, then we have a huge kernel; which is not the > best for older ordenators, but it is the best for newer boxes. As we > can see, Linus

Re: Dependency based boot sequence conversion

2010-05-27 Thread Joey Hess
Sven Joachim wrote: > > What will the boot sequence be when I convert? > > Anybody know how to wring that out of insserv? > > Try the following (you don't have to be root for that): > > $ cp -a /etc/{init,rc?}.d /tmp/ > $ /sbin/insserv -p /tmp/init.d/ > > And inspect the /tmp/rc?.d directories.

Re: daemonizing a command

2010-05-27 Thread Carl Johnson
Israel Garcia writes: > Hi, > > I need to daemonize this command on a debian lenny? > > ruby apd.rb > > It's a simple app for my network. > > I was thinking to use nohup ruby app.rb & at rc.local, but I want to > know if there's other ways to do it. Have you looked at the libdaemons-ruby package

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-05-27 Thread consul tores
2010/5/26 thib : > consul tores wrote: >> We have lost the posibility to install from disquette, we have to add >> an initrd, SElinux have been added by default because of Linus, Linus >> kernels define what to do, and ad infinitum. > > Linux is still extremely tweakable, and you are free to build

modem Agere Systems LT WinModem

2010-05-27 Thread cosme
modem Agere Systems LT WinModem Hola tengo un modem interno Agere Systems LT WinModem. Donde puedo encontrar drivers para instalarlo??? Uso Debian Lenny Salu2 Cosme

Re: Ugrade from Lenny to Squeeze on old PC Box

2010-05-27 Thread Eike Lantzsch
On Thursday 27 May 2010, Paul Chany wrote: > Hi, > > I have an old PC Box on which I was run Debian Lenny with kernel > 2.6.26-2-486. I used it as a Desktop for small jobs. > > Yesterday I decided to upgrade it to Squeeze. > I did the following: > 1 change the lenny to squeeze in sources.list > 2

Re: [OT] Licencias y patentes en el paquete "gstreamer-ffmpeg"

2010-05-27 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 27 May 2010 21:17:41 +, Camaleón wrote: > Abro un nuevo hilo con un asunto más acorde a la temática. Sorry, wrong list :-P Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.

[OT] Licencias y patentes en el paquete "gstreamer-ffmpeg"

2010-05-27 Thread Camaleón
Hola, Abro un nuevo hilo con un asunto más acorde a la temática. Para pensar un poco... adjunto listado (no limitativo) de algunos repos de distintas distribuciones donde se incluye el paquete "gstreamer-ffmpeg" que es el único que se necesita para poder ver archivos 3GP con códec de vídeo H263

Re: installing deb files from unstable or testing

2010-05-27 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu,27.May.10, 21:47:16, Ingo Kasten wrote: > Israel Garcia schrieb: > >Some times ago (I could not find on google), I could create a deb file > >for my lenny from unstable or testing debian (done remember now). I > >remember I follow some steps from a blog or something and I > >successfully cre

Re: (OT) suggestion on terse wording of "IT Helpdesk"

2010-05-27 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu,27.May.10, 20:09:13, Zhang Weiwu wrote: > As explained the tag in email address is to convey information from my > user to me. Since my user knows my email address, that is the only place > where the tag can be. I can ask my users to include tag in subject but > they will not always rememb

Re: installing deb files from unstable or testing

2010-05-27 Thread Ingo Kasten
Israel Garcia schrieb: Some times ago (I could not find on google), I could create a deb file for my lenny from unstable or testing debian (done remember now). I remember I follow some steps from a blog or something and I successfully created a new version of a deb file. Can you help me to get th

Re: daemonizing a command

2010-05-27 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/27/2010 02:52 PM, Israel Garcia wrote: Hi, I need to daemonize this command on a debian lenny? ruby apd.rb It's a simple app for my network. I was thinking to use nohup ruby app.rb& at rc.local, but I want to know if there's other ways to do it. Using Python, I create a module named

Re: daemonizing a command

2010-05-27 Thread Neal Hogan
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Israel Garcia wrote: > Hi, > > I need to daemonize this command on a debian lenny? > > ruby apd.rb > > It's a simple app for my network. > > I was thinking to use nohup ruby app.rb & at rc.local, but I want to > know if there's other ways to do it. It's been awhil

Re: Monitoring network activity

2010-05-27 Thread AG
On 27/05/10 15:08, Liam O'Toole wrote: On 2010-05-27, AG wrote: On 27/05/10 10:44, Mirco Piccin wrote: Hi, How would I go about finding out what application is connecting to the web and/ or what is connecting to my machine to cause the modem light activity? i thi

daemonizing a command

2010-05-27 Thread Israel Garcia
Hi, I need to daemonize this command on a debian lenny? ruby apd.rb It's a simple app for my network. I was thinking to use nohup ruby app.rb & at rc.local, but I want to know if there's other ways to do it. -- Regards; Israel Garcia -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.de

Ugrade from Lenny to Squeeze on old PC Box

2010-05-27 Thread Paul Chany
Hi, I have an old PC Box on which I was run Debian Lenny with kernel 2.6.26-2-486. I used it as a Desktop for small jobs. Yesterday I decided to upgrade it to Squeeze. I did the following: 1 change the lenny to squeeze in sources.list 2 sudo aptitude update 3 sudo aptitude install apt dpkg aptitu

Re: Dependency based boot sequence conversion

2010-05-27 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-05-27 20:26 +0200, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > I just finished a dist-upgrade (1107 packages) and found out that Sid > is moving (has moved?) to a dependency based boot sequence. This happened quite some time ago, yes. > That explains why the prior dist-upgrade was a failure because the > p

Re: Ports like system for debian.

2010-05-27 Thread Kyle Dassoff
It isn't Debian, but Arch is a nice distro as long as you don't mind configuring more of the system on your own. I've been using Arch for a while (as well as Debian). Gentoo is also a good choice if you want tons of control over how packages are compiled (look up USE flags on Gentoo's documentat

Re: Chromium in Sid

2010-05-27 Thread Steve Fishpaste
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 06:47:43AM -0600, Aaron Toponce uttered: > On 05/26/2010 05:49 AM, Steve Fishpaste wrote: > > On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 07:18:12AM -0600, Aaron Toponce uttered: > >> On 05/24/2010 12:42 AM, Javier Barroso wrote: > >>> It is in experimental, and work fine for me: > >> > >> ...b

Re: Chromium in Sid

2010-05-27 Thread Steve Fishpaste
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 07:27:02AM -0500, John Hasler uttered: > Steve Fishpaste writes: > > With Chromium there is no "stable" or "beta" it's a development > > branch. So being the development branch, > > If it truly has no stable (or even beta) branch it should not be > anywhere in Debian except

Dependency based boot sequence conversion

2010-05-27 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, I just finished a dist-upgrade (1107 packages) and found out that Sid is moving (has moved?) to a dependency based boot sequence. That explains why the prior dist-upgrade was a failure because the partition became unbootable. I since overlaid that partition so I cannot research whether i

Re: Chromium Browser in Sid

2010-05-27 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
David Baron wrote: A poster rightly noted that chromium is NOT google chrome. Installed it (still in 5.). Looks like Google's. Taste's like it. I do believe it loads up noticeably faster (was not that the whole point of chromium in the first place?). Flash seems more reliable as well (I un

Re: Blockage on Internet maps - is a firewall intervening? Was: Re: PART DIAGNOSED: Re: Trying to install Google Earth on Lenny. How on earth??????

2010-05-27 Thread deloptes
Lisi wrote: > worse. :-( And I still need to learn about firewalls. > > I would value, and be very grateful for, any advice on the best procedure > to follow - or what FM to read - _before_ I manage to kybosh my entire > system, rather than after. > > Thanks, > Lisi google earth required GL an

Re: Ports like system for debian.

2010-05-27 Thread Javier Vasquez
On 5/26/10, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Madhurya Kakati put forth on 5/26/2010 10:15 PM: >> Is there a bsd ports like system in debian? > > I believe you're looking for the Gentoo Portage system: > > http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/about.xml > > AFAIK, there is no Debian equivalent, nor any other Linux d

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-05-27 Thread Praveen A
2010/5/26 Joachim Wiedorn : > Harald Braumann wrote on Tue, 25 May 2010: >> >> On simple standard system -- one disk, one kernel in /boot, no fancy >> stuff -- it works quite well. > > This is enough to use grub2 for new installing of Debian. > >> On other systems it often breaks miserably. Update

Re: Evony Age II does lot load: why?

2010-05-27 Thread Mark Allums
On 5/27/2010 7:38 AM, John W Foster wrote: -Original Message- From: Mark Allums To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Evony Age II does lot load: why? Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 16:16:43 -0500 On 5/26/2010 8:22 AM, JW Foster wrote: Evony Age II does lot load on Iceweasel. It stalls

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-05-27 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Samuel Thibault writes: > Paul Vojta, le Thu 27 May 2010 00:47:14 +, a écrit : >> In article , >> Ferenc Wagner wrote: >> >>> Sorry, I don't trust in the future of LILO myself. If there's anything >>> which only LILO can do, I recommend you start complaining on the >>> Syslinux and the Gru

Re: Mail errors or attacks?

2010-05-27 Thread David Baron
On Tuesday 25 May 2010 21:13:03 David Baron wrote: > On Tuesday 25 May 2010 20:06:29 debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org > > wrote: > > | > It is a spamer... > > | > > > | > > > | > > > | > It it is always the same IP, add it to the backlist > > | > > | How do I do this obvious task? I

Re: Chomium in Sid

2010-05-27 Thread David Baron
So I have both chromium from Sid and google-chrome from google installed, sharing the same .config directory. No problem with deleted extensions. Having both around does confuse the default browser and each will ask anew every single time. So with chromium running, I click a link on an email an

Re: Monitoring network activity

2010-05-27 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2010-05-27, AG wrote: > On 27/05/10 10:44, Mirco Piccin wrote: >> Hi, >> >> > How would I go about finding out what application is connecting to the >> > web and/ or what is connecting to my machine to cause the modem >> > light activity? >> >> i think that with wireshark or ntop you should obt

Re: (OT) suggestion on terse wording of "IT Helpdesk"

2010-05-27 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 27 May 2010 20:09:13 +0800, Zhang Weiwu wrote: > On 2010年05月27日 12:32, Ron Johnson wrote: >> Email headers are the canonical solution for this type of problem. >> >> However, I can't discover any method by which one can add ad hoc >> headers to individual mails using Outlook, Thunderbird o

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Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-05-27 Thread thib
Samuel Thibault wrote: [snip] Grub1 could because it was small enough to fit in a well-known usable area in the ext2fs filesystem, but grub2 can not any more. In the filesystem, you're sure? I'm curious, what part? [snip] -t -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.

Re: Evony Age II does lot load: why?

2010-05-27 Thread John W Foster
-Original Message- From: Mark Allums To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Evony Age II does lot load: why? Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 16:16:43 -0500 On 5/26/2010 8:22 AM, JW Foster wrote: > Evony Age II does lot load on Iceweasel. It stalls at 27% every time. > when I first started p

Re: Monitoring network activity

2010-05-27 Thread Miles Fidelman
AG wrote: Every now and again the lights on my broadband modem start flashing which indicates package transmission/ receiving. When I have deliberately started an application to access the web (e.g. web browser, email client, etc.) that's fine. I do get a little concerned however when the

Re: make-kpkg fails writing to weird directories on dual or multi core processors

2010-05-27 Thread Robert Key
Hi Here it fails again. this is version 12.033 instead of 12.032 I downloaded kernel--package-12.033.tar.gz invoke like this CONCURRENCY_LEVEL=3 make-kpkg --initrd --append-to-version dickhead1.0 kernel_image kernel_headers All done in /usr/src/linux-source-2.6.32. I am running kernel vmlin

Re: (OT) suggestion on terse wording of "IT Helpdesk"

2010-05-27 Thread Zhang Weiwu
On 2010年05月27日 12:32, Ron Johnson wrote: > Email headers are the canonical solution for this type of problem. > > However, I can't discover any method by which one can add ad hoc > headers to individual mails using Outlook, Thunderbird or Gmail. > The difficulty is not to add ad hoc header to my em

Re: mount failed

2010-05-27 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/27/2010 06:19 AM, roberto wrote: hello, i am trying to mount an external USB hard disk whose partitions i have previously deleted entirely; i am trying to repartition it with only one large ext3 partition but when i plug the disk in i receive the following: # dmesg | tail -24 [119345.37625

make-kpkg fails writing to weird directories on dual or multi core processors

2010-05-27 Thread Robert Key
Hi I have using make-kpkg successfully on my amd64 dual core system until about a month ago. I did the following: installed debian testing amd64 apt-get install kernel-package make g++ gcc build-essentail libncurses5-dev linux-source-2.6.32 and any other files I needed to build a kernel I

mount failed

2010-05-27 Thread roberto
hello, i am trying to mount an external USB hard disk whose partitions i have previously deleted entirely; i am trying to repartition it with only one large ext3 partition but when i plug the disk in i receive the following: # dmesg | tail -24 [119345.376254] usb 4-3: new high speed USB device usi

Re: partitioning a new hard disk

2010-05-27 Thread roberto
On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 3:27 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Which is the "real" XP partition, sda2 or sda5? > > If nothing's on sda5, then that should be more than enough for a laptop > install. > it seems i am not an Xp expert anymore ... i totally missed that the VAIO_ (aka D:) partition is totally

Re: Monitoring network activity

2010-05-27 Thread AG
On 27/05/10 10:44, Mirco Piccin wrote: Hi, > How would I go about finding out what application is connecting to the > web and/ or what is connecting to my machine to cause the modem > light activity? i think that with wireshark or ntop you should obtain the information you need. Regards M

Re: make-kpkg fails writing to weird directories on dual or multi core processors

2010-05-27 Thread formind22
Hi Rob, > WARNING: Couldn't open directory /usr/src/linux-source-2.6.26/debian/linux-image-/lib/modules/2.6.32-live1.0: No such file or directory FATAL: Could not open /usr/src/linux-source-2.6.26/debian/linux-image-/lib/modules/2.6.32-live1.0/modules.dep.temp for writing: No such file or directo

Re: [URGENT] Assistance Requested in Looking for Dr Francis T. Seow, Harvard Law School Research Fellow

2010-05-27 Thread Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming)
On 05/27/2010 03:28 PM, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 01:55:39PM +0800, Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) wrote: Hi, First, I would like to apologize for the out-of-topic post. I will keep this as short as I possibly could. Does anybody know Dr. Francis T. Seow, the former

Re: [URGENT] Assistance Requested in Looking for Dr Francis T. Seow, Harvard Law School Research Fellow

2010-05-27 Thread Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming)
Dear Christopher, I have sent countless emails to many governmental, non-governmental and international organizations in the world with the subject "Plea for Medical Help/Assistance". But surprisingly I get very few replies. Maybe the replies have been deleted or the emails I sent have been de

Re: installing deb files from unstable or testing

2010-05-27 Thread Mirco Piccin
Hi > I meant "using testing and unstable packages in Lenny".. There are two way2 to do the job: backports (as Camaleón suggests) apt-pinning (as John suggests) Regards M

Re: Monitoring network activity

2010-05-27 Thread Michal
On 27/05/2010 10:44, François TOURDE wrote: > Le 14756ième jour après Epoch, > AG écrivait: > >> Is there a bash command (or a GUI app) that will identify what the >> connection is and who/ what initiated it, etc.? wireshark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org wi

Blockage on Internet maps - is a firewall intervening? Was: Re: PART DIAGNOSED: Re: Trying to install Google Earth on Lenny. How on earth??????

2010-05-27 Thread Lisi
On Tuesday 25 May 2010 01:44:44 godo wrote: > > It is, at least in part, due to a problem on my box. I had been > > installing Fedora on another box and when it finished I tried Google maps > > - and bingo! So it is neither me nor my router, but my box. I clearly > > have to solve this, but not t

Re: Monitoring network activity

2010-05-27 Thread François TOURDE
Le 14756ième jour après Epoch, AG écrivait: > Is there a bash command (or a GUI app) that will identify what the > connection is and who/ what initiated it, etc.? Maybe ntop could help you. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble

Re: Monitoring network activity

2010-05-27 Thread Mirco Piccin
Hi, > How would I go about finding out what application is connecting to the > web and/ or what is connecting to my machine to cause the modem > light activity? i think that with wireshark or ntop you should obtain the information you need. Regards M

Re: installing deb files from unstable or testing

2010-05-27 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 27 May 2010 10:09:04 +0200, Israel Garcia wrote: > Some times ago (I could not find on google), I could create a deb file > for my lenny from unstable or testing debian (done remember now). I > remember I follow some steps from a blog or something and I successfully > created a new version

Re: [URGENT] Assistance Requested in Looking for Dr Francis T. Seow, Harvard Law School Research Fellow

2010-05-27 Thread Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming)
Dear Christopher, I have sent countless emails to many governmental, non-governmental and international organizations in the world with the subject "Plea for Medical Help/Assistance". But surprisingly I get very few replies. Maybe the replies have been deleted or the emails I sent have been de

Monitoring network activity

2010-05-27 Thread AG
Hi List Every now and again the lights on my broadband modem start flashing which indicates package transmission/ receiving. When I have deliberately started an application to access the web (e.g. web browser, email client, etc.) that's fine. I do get a little concerned however when the lig

Re: installing deb files from unstable or testing

2010-05-27 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 10:09 +0200, Israel Garcia wrote: > Some times ago (I could not find on google), I could create a deb file > for my lenny from unstable or testing debian (done remember now). I > remember I follow some steps from a blog or something and I > successfully created a new version

Re: ./configure options used for binary packges

2010-05-27 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 04:43 +0300, Skirmantas wrote: > I would like to see what options where used to "./configure" this > binary package: > http://packages.debian.org/lenny/libapache2-mod-php5 > (and some others) That is easy. Just issue "apt-get source libapache2-mod-php5" and take a look at i

Re: installing deb files from unstable or testing

2010-05-27 Thread Israel Garcia
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 10:44 AM, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 10:09 +0200, Israel Garcia wrote: >> Some times ago (I could not find on google), I could create a deb file >> for my lenny from unstable or testing debian (done remember now). I >> remember I follow some steps f

Re: installing deb files from unstable or testing

2010-05-27 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 10:09 +0200, Israel Garcia wrote: > Some times ago (I could not find on google), I could create a deb file > for my lenny from unstable or testing debian (done remember now). I > remember I follow some steps from a blog or something and I > successfully created a new version o

Re: (OT) suggestion on terse wording of "IT Helpdesk"

2010-05-27 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 27 May 2010 10:32:51 +0800, Zhang Weiwu wrote: > On 2010年05月25日 15:48, Camaleón wrote: >> Hard to tell as you are not providing many details :-) > > Perhaps culture difference does play a role in this. Or perpahs you didn't properly explain your main goal. Sub-addressing (+) is a very

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-05-27 Thread Samuel Thibault
Stefan Monnier, le Thu 27 May 2010 00:58:14 -0400, a écrit : > >> > for much. But I am opposed to the removal of lilo. > >> > Both grub-legacy and grub-pc use sectors on the hard disk outside > >> > of the master boot record (cylinder 0, head 0, sector 1). In other > >> > words they use cylinder

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-05-27 Thread Martin Buck
In gmane.linux.debian.devel.general Stephen Powell wrote: > But like lilo it stays out of unallocated (and therefore not backed up) > sectors. The boot block of extlinux is installed in the boot sector > of a partition, and the second stage loader occupies a file within the > partition. It does

installing deb files from unstable or testing

2010-05-27 Thread Israel Garcia
Some times ago (I could not find on google), I could create a deb file for my lenny from unstable or testing debian (done remember now). I remember I follow some steps from a blog or something and I successfully created a new version of a deb file. Can you help me to get this steps? -- Regards; I

Re: microphone

2010-05-27 Thread deloptes
Adam Hardy wrote: > > The first one on the list was one of the sites that I had in mind when I > complained about them. It's a problem a lot of newbies in a subject area > have, dealing with sites written by techies who are deeply immersed in the > subject area. The same goes for the wikipedia si

Re: extlinux

2010-05-27 Thread Michael Tokarev
26.05.2010 22:32, Daniel Baumann wrote: [] how about adding your parameters to EXTLINUX_PARAMETERS in /etc/default/extlinux? then they will be used for all images in the config automatically. in case that's not what you were looking for: as stated in another mail, i've added update-extlinux/extl

Re: extlinux

2010-05-27 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 05/27/2010 08:54 AM, Michael Tokarev wrote: > Just one question: why /boot/extlinux/ ? Why can't it be > placed directly to /boot, so that all kernel images may be > referenced using relative paths? there's more than one file used for the config, so putting them into an own directory is bette