[debian-user] Cleanning up mixture of debian-multimedia packages and official ones...

2010-08-02 Thread Javier Vasquez
Hi, I use debian unstable, and as such I never worried much about /etc/apt/preferences (well /etc/apt/preferences.d/* are not recognized by aptitude as of now), so I always had a misxture of official debian packages, the ones coming from debian-multimedia, and debian unofficial ones. Yesterday, a

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2010-08-02 Thread Kent West
On 8/2/10 7:06 PM, juan gonzalez wrote: > all right, I have 2 questions. can I use .deb files on the the teminal > version? and can I upgrade from the terminal one to the desktop one? > and how? > > > Yes; if you just have a .deb (say, "whatever.deb"), you can install it with "dpkg -i whatever.d

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2010-08-02 Thread juan gonzalez
all right, I have 2 questions. can I use .deb files on the the teminal version? and can I upgrade from the terminal one to the desktop one? and how? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Arc

Re: failing to mount usb flash drives

2010-08-02 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 02/08/10 Michael P. Soulier said: > I will do some testing and get back to this thread. Oddly, a reboot fixed the issue. The usb drives mount fine and my network is still working. Perhaps the hardware got into some odd state. If I happens again I'll do further experimentation. Thanks, Mike

Re: keylogger.c

2010-08-02 Thread Aaron Toponce
On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 10:59:00PM +0200, Jozsi Vadkan wrote: > are there any working keyloggers, written in c, that works under Debian > Lenny? > > Does anyone has one ready? :P or just an url? I would suggest you look at strace for starters. -- . O . O . O . . O O . . . O . . . O .

Re: match across line using grep

2010-08-02 Thread Karl Vogel
>> On Mon, 02 Aug 2010 14:56:45 +0800, >> Zhang Weiwu said: Z> I'm grepping a bunch of files each have a segment code that executes a Z> SQL. My problem is that the query spans across several lines and I Z> can't seem to make grep honor (?s) for that. Perl Is Our Friend. Here's some text t

Re: bug 530024 on squeeze

2010-08-02 Thread Brad Rogers
On Mon, 02 Aug 2010 17:13:03 -0400 "John A. Sullivan III" wrote: Hello John, > I wonder if this is why there are some many problems with Evolution > 2.30 breaking. From those threads, it seems that Evolution is looking I don't use Evo, but from what you say, it seems highly likely that Network

Re: keylogger.c

2010-08-02 Thread Jordon Bedwell
On 8/2/2010 3:59 PM, Jozsi Vadkan wrote: are there any working keyloggers, written in c, that works under Debian Lenny? Does anyone has one ready? :P or just an url? Purpose? I know plenty keyloggers, some C, some not C, some for the Kernel, others that aren't, some that are in the Kernel and

Re: bug 530024 on squeeze

2010-08-02 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Mon, 2010-08-02 at 11:22 +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Mon, 02 Aug 2010 10:48:14 +0100 > Joao Ferreira gmail wrote: > > Hello Joao, > > > ... or has anyone been able to safelly overcome the issue without any > > side impacts... :) > > My connection comes up at boot and that's all I care abo

Re: failing to mount usb flash drives

2010-08-02 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 02 Aug 2010 15:50:58 -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > On 02/08/10 Camaleón said: > >> Have you discarded a bad flash unit/hardware error? I mean, does it >> work/ is it recognized when you plug it into another computer? > > I've tried several, all of which work just fine on other linux

keylogger.c

2010-08-02 Thread Jozsi Vadkan
are there any working keyloggers, written in c, that works under Debian Lenny? features: - be simple - support utf-8 [or any char on the keyboard] - run in background ["./something.bin &" ?] - output to a local file, e.g.: cat keyblog.txt [date] [time] [pressed char] 2010.08

Re: failing to mount usb flash drives

2010-08-02 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 02/08/10 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh said: > Bad cable, bad/crappy USB hub, bad device, or fried USB port. Note that if > it is not an USB port directly soldered to the motherboard, it *has* a cable > inside the chassis. My NIC is working off of a port on the same cable as the one that isn't

Re: failing to mount usb flash drives

2010-08-02 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 02/08/10 Camaleón said: > Have you discarded a bad flash unit/hardware error? I mean, does it work/ > is it recognized when you plug it into another computer? I've tried several, all of which work just fine on other linux systems and windows systems. I'm wondering if it has something to do wi

Re: Network Manager on Squeeze (was: bug 530024 on squeeze)

2010-08-02 Thread Joao Ferreira gmail
On Mon, 2010-08-02 at 20:07 +0100, Tixy wrote: > On Mon, 2010-08-02 at 18:23 +, Camaleón wrote: > > Just for the record, editing "/etc/NetworkManager/nm-system-settings.conf" > > file (as per bug suggestion), adding "managed=true" and resarting the > > system seems to "resurrect" eth0 cable c

Re: Network Manager on Squeeze (was: bug 530024 on squeeze)

2010-08-02 Thread Tixy
On Mon, 2010-08-02 at 18:23 +, Camaleón wrote: > Just for the record, editing "/etc/NetworkManager/nm-system-settings.conf" > file (as per bug suggestion), adding "managed=true" and resarting the > system seems to "resurrect" eth0 cable connection and becomes available > into NM again. > >

making a dev with udev; was Re: ownership of /dev/raw1394

2010-08-02 Thread peasthope
* Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 10:49:44 -1000 * From: Joel Roth > 1) write your own udev rule Plug in the Unibrain Fire-i camera, S/N:0040053291. Converted to hexadecimal the serial number is 02632A2B. pe...@joule:~$ grep 0263 /var/log/syslog Aug 2 09:46:38 joule kernel: [8.815859] ie

Feedback wanted: funding service for free Debian book

2010-08-02 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hello, if you don't follow Planet Debian, you're probably not aware that Roland Mas and myself are planning to translate our French Debian book into English. If we manage to get the work funded, we'll publish the translation under a DFSG-compliant license. That said we need your feedback to pick t

Re: Network Manager on Squeeze (was: bug 530024 on squeeze)

2010-08-02 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 02 Aug 2010 15:18:44 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 02 Aug 2010 15:29:09 +0100, Joao Ferreira gmail wrote: > >> I really use Network Manager a bit... I use it to manage my eth0, >> wireless and some VPNs too... I need to connect to several networks in >> 3 or 4 diferent locations and NM

Re: Two lvm questions

2010-08-02 Thread Aaron Toponce
On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 01:23:28PM -0400, S Scharf wrote: >I am running Squeeze with two 1.5 TB disks. Each disk has a /boot >partition and a swap partition. The rest of each disk >is 1/2 of a mdadm raid1 (/dev/md0). md0 is then used as the physical >volume for lvm which hosts my 10

Re: Kvm, how to switch to console

2010-08-02 Thread Anand Sivaram
Goto monitor mode by "ctrl-alt-2" In the monitor mode, use sendkey "sendkey ctrl-alt-f1" or "sendkey ctrl-alt-f7" or "sendkey ctrl-alt-del" go back to the guest system to activate the sendkey by "ctrl-alt-1" On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 09:41, Matthew Moore wrote: > On Sunday August 1 2010 10:06:15 pm

Two lvm questions

2010-08-02 Thread S Scharf
I am running Squeeze with two 1.5 TB disks. Each disk has a /boot partition and a swap partition. The rest of each disk is 1/2 of a mdadm raid1 (/dev/md0). md0 is then used as the physical volume for lvm which hosts my 100GB root and 500GB /home partitions. Having plenty of extra space I also have

Re: Download statistics

2010-08-02 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 02 Aug 2010 14:38:07 +0900, Kuniyasu Suzaki wrote: > Are there any statistics for Debian package download? I want know the > difference of download for binary package(*.deb) and source > package(*.dsc, *.tar.gz, diff.gz). I'll take it as you want to know what is people downloading more, i

Re: Setting up local Debian mirror

2010-08-02 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 02 Aug 2010 09:09:02 +0200, TooMeeK wrote: (...) > I used following how-to to create local Debian mirror: > http://www.howtoforge.com/local_debian_ubuntu_mirror (...) > So my sources should be available at: http://tomcio.podzone.org/debian/ > ---> Debian main contrib non-free > h

Re: failing to mount usb flash drives

2010-08-02 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 02 Aug 2010, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > Still, when I put a couple of my flash drives into a usb slot, very little > happens. > > [1183228.208121] hub 4-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 4 Bad cable, bad/crappy USB hub, bad device, or fried USB port. Note that if it is not a

Re: Argument to start_daemon, use of --

2010-08-02 Thread Bob Proulx
Malte Forkel wrote: > The example init script init.d.lsb.ex provided by dh-make 0.46 contains > this call to start_daemon: >start_daemon -p $PIDFILE $DAEMON -- $DAEMON_OPTS > This always passes "--" as first argument to my daemon. Wouldn't >start_daemon -p $PIDFILE -- $DAEMON $DAEMON_OPTS >

Re: failing to mount usb flash drives

2010-08-02 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 02 Aug 2010 11:08:35 -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > I'm running Lenny, and I have no problem mounting my WD external > harddrive, and using my ASUS USB-N13 wireless NIC. > > Still, when I put a couple of my flash drives into a usb slot, very > little happens. > > [1183228.208121] hub

Re: dosfslabel linux-base grub mess

2010-08-02 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 31 Jul 2010, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sb, 31 iul 10, 14:46:55, Thomas H. George wrote: > > It is grub2. I checked and the # kopt is in the new format and the > > UUID is that of the root partition. I ran update-grub just to be sure > > and now the system will boot from a MBR written by

failing to mount usb flash drives

2010-08-02 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Hi, I'm running Lenny, and I have no problem mounting my WD external harddrive, and using my ASUS USB-N13 wireless NIC. Still, when I put a couple of my flash drives into a usb slot, very little happens. [1183228.208121] hub 4-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 4 [1183228.448050] usb

Re: Network Manager on Squeeze (was: bug 530024 on squeeze)

2010-08-02 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 02 Aug 2010 15:29:09 +0100, Joao Ferreira gmail wrote: > I really use Network Manager a bit... I use it to manage my eth0, > wireless and some VPNs too... I need to connect to several networks in 3 > or 4 diferent locations and NM does what I need :) (...) You can install a virtual machi

Re: [SOLVED] Re: samba: mounting as cifs not working (works in Windows though)

2010-08-02 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 10:18 AM, H.S. wrote: > On 01/08/10 02:52 AM, Tom H wrote: >> >> Run >> mkdir /home/hs/testsamba >> tail -f /var/log/messages >> on the client and try both >> mount -v -t cifs //192.168.0.8/testsamba /home/hs/testsamba -o >> domain=smbwg,username=hs,password=,port=139 >> mou

Network Manager on Squeeze (was: bug 530024 on squeeze)

2010-08-02 Thread Joao Ferreira gmail
Hi all, I really use Network Manager a bit... I use it to manage my eth0, wireless and some VPNs too... I need to connect to several networks in 3 or 4 diferent locations and NM does what I need :) In Lenny things are working ok... but I'dd like to jump to Squeeze asap so... is anyone using

Re: bug 530024 on squeeze

2010-08-02 Thread Brad Rogers
On Mon, 02 Aug 2010 10:48:14 +0100 Joao Ferreira gmail wrote: Hello Joao, > ... or has anyone been able to safelly overcome the issue without any > side impacts... :) My connection comes up at boot and that's all I care about. The fact that it's not available to Network Manager doesn't worry m

Re: Status of RAID (md)

2010-08-02 Thread Daniel Bareiro
Hi, Martin. On Monday, 02 August 2010 08:30:03 +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Daniel Bareiro [2010.08.02.0420 +0200]: > > md2 : active raid5 sda3[0] sdd3[4](F) sdc3[2] > > 2136170880 blocks level 5, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [4/2] [U_U_] > […] > > That is to say, the RAID has fou

Re: match across line using grep

2010-08-02 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 02 Aug 2010 14:56:45 +0800, Zhang Weiwu wrote: > I'm grepping a bunch of files each have a segment code that executes a > SQL. My problem is that the query spans across several lines and I can't > seem to make grep honor (?s) for that. (...) Google says there is a package named "pcregre

Re: Argument to start_daemon, use of --

2010-08-02 Thread Jordon Bedwell
On 8/2/2010 3:36 AM, Malte Forkel wrote: So its a bug that I should report? If the -- is in a Debian specific script from a maintainer I would, and post the proof that -- is being passed to the executable before _OPTS and ask them if this is intended and then explain to them how it breaks wh

Re: bug 530024 on squeeze

2010-08-02 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 02 Aug 2010 10:48:14 +0100, Joao Ferreira gmail wrote: > can anyone confirm the status of this issue in current Squeeze ? I also > had this problem some months ago but I ended up installing Lenny > (because of other reasons too) > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=530024

bug 530024 on squeeze

2010-08-02 Thread Joao Ferreira gmail
Hello all, can anyone confirm the status of this issue in current Squeeze ? I also had this problem some months ago but I ended up installing Lenny (because of other reasons too) http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=530024 ... or has anyone been able to safelly overcome the issue wit

[Solved]Re: udev: renamed network interface eth0 to eth1

2010-08-02 Thread Guo Jiahua
在 2010-08-02一的 09:32 +0200,Wolodja Wentland写道: > On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 15:16 +0800, Guo Jiahua wrote: > > I don't know why udev renames the name of my network interface > > ---an item in /var/log/syslog : > > > > kernel: [6.949035] udev: renamed network interface eth0 to eth1 > > Take a loo

Re: Download statistics

2010-08-02 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 02. 08. 2010 07:38:07 je Kuniyasu Suzaki napisal(a): Hello, Are there any statistics for Debian package download? I want know the difference of download for binary package(*.deb) and source package(*.dsc, *.tar.gz, diff.gz). Thank you. -- suzaki Debian popularity contest perhaps?

Re: brightness control on Dell Studio 1558

2010-08-02 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 02. 08. 2010 04:42:00 je Martín Jamilis napisal(a): Any ideas? Thanks in advance Martín In my experience, the feature might be dependent on the video driver you're using. On my Debian lenny HP laptop (ATI card), the brightness control works with the proprietary fglrx driver, but do

Re: Argument to start_daemon, use of --

2010-08-02 Thread Malte Forkel
Am 01.08.2010 16:26, schrieb Jordon Bedwell: > On 8/1/2010 9:03 AM, Malte Forkel wrote: >> Hi, >> >> The example init script init.d.lsb.ex provided by dh-make 0.46 contains >> this call to start_daemon: >> >> start_daemon -p $PIDFILE $DAEMON -- $DAEMON_OPTS >> >> This always passes "--" as firs

Re: Download statistics

2010-08-02 Thread Alexander Batischev
On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 02:38:07PM +0900, Kuniyasu Suzaki wrote: > Are there any statistics for Debian package download? > I want know the difference of download for binary package(*.deb) and > source package(*.dsc, *.tar.gz, diff.gz). What do you mean? Do you want to know which percentage of peopl

Re: udev: renamed network interface eth0 to eth1

2010-08-02 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 15:16 +0800, Guo Jiahua wrote: > I don't know why udev renames the name of my network interface > ---an item in /var/log/syslog : > > kernel: [6.949035] udev: renamed network interface eth0 to eth1 Take a look at /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules and verify tha

Re: udev: renamed network interface eth0 to eth1

2010-08-02 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 02 Aug 2010 15:16:12 +0800, Guo Jiahua wrote: > I don't know why udev renames the name of my network interface > > > ---an item in /var/log/syslog : > > kernel: [6.949035] udev: renamed network interface eth0 to eth1 > > ---an iten in /etc/network/interfaces : > > auto eth0 > ifac

Setting up local Debian mirror

2010-08-02 Thread TooMeeK
Hello, I would like enjoy and help Debian project exsist :) This is really great OS for any network usage, so I'm trying to use it everywhere where it can be used. Recently, I finished upgrading my server, now I'm expecting bandwith increase. Currently, my network connection is 2048kbps downl

match across line using grep

2010-08-02 Thread Zhang Weiwu
I'm grepping a bunch of files each have a segment code that executes a SQL. My problem is that the query spans across several lines and I can't seem to make grep honor (?s) for that. Here's an example: grep --E 'select.*from.*;' . so that matches the following fine: select * from mytable whe

udev: renamed network interface eth0 to eth1

2010-08-02 Thread Guo Jiahua
I don't know why udev renames the name of my network interface ---an item in /var/log/syslog : kernel: [6.949035] udev: renamed network interface eth0 to eth1 ---an iten in /etc/network/interfaces : auto eth0 iface eth0 inet manual pre-up /sbin/ifconfig $IFACE hw ether 00:11:5b:cf:fe:ce