Re: telnetd in Squeeze; was new authentication mechanism in Squeeze?

2010-06-13 Thread Mark Allums
On 6/13/2010 10:29 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: On 06/13/2010 09:58 PM, Mark Allums wrote: On 6/13/2010 8:23 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: (Presumably you know that telnet is considered a Bad Idea Who's Time Has Passed?) What about ssh? VNC? RDP? What about them? Exactly.

Re: telnetd in Squeeze; was new authentication mechanism in Squeeze?

2010-06-13 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/13/2010 09:58 PM, Mark Allums wrote: On 6/13/2010 8:23 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: (Presumably you know that telnet is considered a Bad Idea Who's Time Has Passed?) What about ssh? VNC? RDP? What about them? -- "There is usually only a limited amount of damage that can be done by dull or

Re: GPG / GMail

2010-06-13 Thread H.S.
On 13/06/10 10:49 PM, Steve Fishpaste wrote: > On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 12:16:16PM -0400, H.S. uttered: >> On 13/06/10 02:24 AM, Steve Fishpaste wrote: >>> On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 01:46:32PM -0400, H.S. uttered: replying! If you wanted to reply to the OP, you should have done that >>

Re: telnetd in Squeeze; was new authentication mechanism in Squeeze?

2010-06-13 Thread Mark Allums
On 6/13/2010 8:23 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: (Presumably you know that telnet is considered a Bad Idea Who's Time Has Passed?) What about ssh? VNC? RDP? On 06/13/2010 07:51 PM, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: Does anyone have telnetd working in Squeeze. What error(s) are you getting? -- To

Re: GPG / GMail

2010-06-13 Thread Steve Fishpaste
On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 12:16:16PM -0400, H.S. uttered: > On 13/06/10 02:24 AM, Steve Fishpaste wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 01:46:32PM -0400, H.S. uttered: > >> replying! If you wanted to reply to the OP, you should have done that > ^^^ > >> instead

Re: telnetd in Squeeze; was new authentication mechanism in Squeeze?

2010-06-13 Thread Ron Johnson
(Presumably you know that telnet is considered a Bad Idea Who's Time Has Passed?) On 06/13/2010 07:51 PM, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: Does anyone have telnetd working in Squeeze. What error(s) are you getting? -- "There is usually only a limited amount of damage that can be done by dull or stu

telnetd in Squeeze; was new authentication mechanism in Squeeze?

2010-06-13 Thread peasthope
Does anyone have telnetd working in Squeeze. Thanks, ... Peter E. -- Carnot is down, waiting for a disk replacement. Personal site works; http://members.shaw.ca/peasthope/ . -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? C

xvidtune doesn't work after upgrade

2010-06-13 Thread Arthur Barlow
I'm running Squeeze in a x86 processor, and I noticed after a recent package update that I now get an error when I try to run xvidtune. The error says: "Unable to query monitor info." I'm using an Nvidia GeForce 4 MX 4000 card.

Re: connecting to wifi accesspoint..

2010-06-13 Thread Alexander Batischev
On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 09:40:29PM +0530, sudheendra.kal...@gmail.com wrote: > i can get wireless extension for eth1, but notable to connect to accesspoint. > > here is the > > ifconfig -a > > (...skipped...) > > lspci gives following o/p > > (...skipped...) > > thanks, > sudheendra > > > But

Re: /etc/cron.daily/apt obsolete after installing cron-apt?

2010-06-13 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2010-06-13, b1 wrote: > Hello all > > Recently I installed cron-apt in order to perform automatic updates and > in order to get the Summary per E-mail. > Now I am wondering whether the /etc/cron.daily/apt script becomes > obsolete, by installing cron-apt. Can I simply remove > the /etc/cron.d

new authentication mechanism in Squeeze?; was > Re (n): xorg-server failing on IBM NetVista with Intel 82815 video

2010-06-13 Thread peasthope
* From: Stephen Powell * Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 17:41:29 -0400 (EDT) > Please consider a reinstall first. Who knows how many other hidden > problems are lurking in your system. The freshly installed Squeeze is working almost as well as Lenny did before Xmas. The Squeeze system rout

Re: Enigmail: why couldn't I sign an HTML message?

2010-06-13 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thanks for your answer. Here, I'm using Gnus (through emacs, then) to post to usenet, but, for e-mails, I use more often Thunderbird (actually, Icedove) that I had already configured for PGP/MIME, for the reason you gave just before. Thanks. - -- Mer

Re: Enigmail: why couldn't I sign an HTML message?

2010-06-13 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 13 Jun 2010 17:43:20 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > Camaleón writes: >> *** >> http://enigmail.mozdev.org/documentation/quickstart-ch3.php#id2533703 > Thanks. It looks like you have some real expertise in search engines. I > did more than 10,000 Google searches, but you're (still) better

Re: World Cup, Adobe and upgrading from Etch to Lenny

2010-06-13 Thread Bill
On Sat, 2010-12-06 at 16:44 +, Camaleón wrote: > > 1/ Download Flash Player from Adobe site > http://www.adobe.com/go/getflash > > 2/ Unpack the "tar.gz" file and put the "libflashplayer.so" into your > "~/ > mozilla/plugins/" folder (if not present, just create it). > > 3/ Launch Icewasel a

Re: GPG / GMail

2010-06-13 Thread H.S.
On 13/06/10 02:24 AM, Steve Fishpaste wrote: > On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 01:46:32PM -0400, H.S. uttered: >> replying! If you wanted to reply to the OP, you should have done that ^^^ >> instead of replying to me. I am not sure which email client you are > > Y

Re: connecting to wifi accesspoint..

2010-06-13 Thread sudheendra . kalgar
i can get wireless extension for eth1, but notable to connect to accesspoint. here is the ifconfig -a eth0  Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:26:22:02:e0:c2    inet addr:192.168.1.2  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0   inet6 addr: fe80::226:22ff:fe02:e0c2/64 Scope:Li

Re: Enigmail: why couldn't I sign an HTML message?

2010-06-13 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Camaleón writes: > On Sun, 13 Jun 2010 14:39:43 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > >> Apparently, I am obliged to send a message in plain/text format for it >> to be signed with OpenPGP through Thunderbird's Enigmail add-on. Why? >> Thanks. > > *** > htt

Re: Upgrade Kernel, Lose External Display

2010-06-13 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
On 06/11/2010 04:30 PM, Andreas Rönnquist wrote: I've ran into this too, and got this solved by blacklisting the nouveau module in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf (adding a line containing just "blacklist nouveau"), and adding modeset=0 to my kernel line in /boot/grub/menu.lst (I am still on gru

Re: Upgrade Kernel, Lose External Display

2010-06-13 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
On 06/12/2010 03:20 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: You may as well blacklist nouveau then, since it is completely useless without KMS (the nouveau X driver requires KMS). Note, however, that without an xorg.conf the most recent xserver-xorg-core will still load the module. I decided to take baby st

Re: does apt-get source verify signature?

2010-06-13 Thread Rob Owens
On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 09:04:58AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Rob Owens wrote: > > When I > > > > apt-get source somepackage > > > > as a regular user, does the system do a signature check on the source > > that is downloaded? Where does the signature reside? > > Yes; in the .dsc file. > > A

Re: connecting to wifi accesspoint..

2010-06-13 Thread Boris Bobrov
Hello. Post here ifconfig -a and lspci. В сообщении от Воскресенье 13 июня 2010 11:33:02 автор sudheendra.kal...@gmail.com написал: > Dear all, > > I have been using Debian squeeze and i am not able to connect to wifi > accesspoint. I have lenovo laptop with BCM 4312 wireless card. I have > in

Re: Enigmail: why couldn't I sign an HTML message?

2010-06-13 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 13 Jun 2010 14:39:43 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > Apparently, I am obliged to send a message in plain/text format for it > to be signed with OpenPGP through Thunderbird's Enigmail add-on. Why? > Thanks. *** http://enigmail.mozdev.org/documentation/quickstart-ch3.php#id2533703 Write a p

Re: does apt-get source verify signature?

2010-06-13 Thread Joey Hess
Rob Owens wrote: > When I > > apt-get source somepackage > > as a regular user, does the system do a signature check on the source > that is downloaded? Where does the signature reside? Yes; in the .dsc file. A failure to verify the signature will only result in a warning message. -- see s

Enigmail: why couldn't I sign an HTML message?

2010-06-13 Thread Merciadri Luca
Hi, Apparently, I am obliged to send a message in plain/text format for it to be signed with OpenPGP through Thunderbird's Enigmail add-on. Why? Thanks. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail clie

/etc/cron.daily/apt obsolete after installing cron-apt?

2010-06-13 Thread b1
Hello all Recently I installed cron-apt in order to perform automatic updates and in order to get the Summary per E-mail. Now I am wondering whether the /etc/cron.daily/apt script becomes obsolete, by installing cron-apt. Can I simply remove the /etc/cron.daily/apt script? Or ist it somehow esse