Re: I want beep in urxvt terminal - SOLVED but not for urxvt

2011-02-25 Thread Csanyi Pal
Paul Chany writes: > Csanyi Pal writes: > >> Andrei Popescu writes: >> >>> On Jo, 17 feb 11, 09:16:16, Ron Johnson wrote: Yes, I use nvidia, and no I won't use nouveau. >>> >>> You could try it out just to confirm it makes your computer beep ;) >> >> I used nvidia driver and haven't

Re: Setting the screen resolution in grub2

2011-02-25 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 11:48 PM, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 02:30:12PM +, darkestkhan wrote: >> 2011/2/23 Rob van der Putten : > [..] >> > How do I set the screen resolution to 640x480? >> > GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="vga=769" in /etc/default/grub doesn't work. >> > There is lo

Reading later boot files failed

2011-02-25 Thread waterloo
when boot , I see an error : Reading later boot files failed . What is the matter ? I use Debian 6 amd64 . Thanks

Re: setting parameters of disc /dev/sda failed .

2011-02-25 Thread waterloo
I delete below in /etc/hdparm.conf , it is now ok. > /dev/sda { >apm = 254 >spindown_time = 60 >dma = on > } But why did "cancelling in 'Services' config" not work ? Thanks 2011/2/26 waterloo > Thanks first . > > 2011/2/25 Camaleón > >> On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 13:32:34 +0800, wat

Re: Setting the screen resolution in grub2

2011-02-25 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 02:30:12PM +, darkestkhan wrote: > 2011/2/23 Rob van der Putten : [..] > > How do I set the screen resolution to 640x480? > > GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="vga=769" in /etc/default/grub doesn't work. > > There is lots of stuff on the web on how to do this, but I couldn't find > >

[OT] Wheezy release goals (was Re: Is there anything wrong with sticking with Lenny?)

2011-02-25 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 04:04:19PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > [OT] Have the Wheezy release goals been published? I hope that multi-arch > APT > and wide (>%80 of main) package support is one of them. http://release.debian.org/wheezy/goals.txt -- "Religion is excellent stuff for ke

Re: Things I Don't Understand About Debian

2011-02-25 Thread shawn wilson
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 8:56 PM, Aaron Toponce wrote: > > On 02/25/2011 06:35 PM, shawn wilson wrote: > > however, if you are a restaurant with a small web site, you are probably > > not getting that many visitors in the first place (defacement isn't > > going to cost you much), you probably aren'

Re: Things I Don't Understand About Debian

2011-02-25 Thread Aaron Toponce
On 02/25/2011 06:35 PM, shawn wilson wrote: > i don't think your examples are very good / secure. however, if you want > security, you might go with openbsd. http://allthatiswrong.wordpress.com/2010/01/20/the-insecurity-of-openbsd/ Security isn't a binary function, and it's not something that is

Re: Things I Don't Understand About Debian

2011-02-25 Thread Aaron Toponce
On 02/25/2011 06:16 PM, shawn wilson wrote: > 'nothing but time' - you know that businesses spend tons of money to get > more 9s of uptime. > if a website grosses $500 an hour (for ads or for what they sell) and > you wipe the box and reinstall, you might have lost $2k (if you're real > good at set

Re: Things I Don't Understand About Debian

2011-02-25 Thread shawn wilson
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 8:06 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/25/2011 06:30 PM, John Hasler wrote: > >> Andrei Popescu wrote: >> >>> But there is no 100% way to tell the machine is clean, so you will >>> have to wipe and reinstall anyway. >>> >> >> But if the machine is in fact clean you will have

Re: Things I Don't Understand About Debian

2011-02-25 Thread shawn wilson
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 7:30 PM, John Hasler wrote: > Andrei Popescu wrote: > > But there is no 100% way to tell the machine is clean, so you will > > have to wipe and reinstall anyway. > > But if the machine is in fact clean you will have lost nothing but time. > Which is better: to know for sur

You want embarrassing? (was Re: [SOLVED] Re: Cannot use USB floppy drive in Squeeze)

2011-02-25 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/25/2011 06:49 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: [snip] I have found the culprit: it was a bad floppy disk! The media was physically defective and was causing I/O errors. Once I put a good floppy in it, everything worked fine. How embarrassing! Thanks to all who replied, and sorry for the noise

Re: Things I Don't Understand About Debian

2011-02-25 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/25/2011 06:30 PM, John Hasler wrote: Andrei Popescu wrote: But there is no 100% way to tell the machine is clean, so you will have to wipe and reinstall anyway. But if the machine is in fact clean you will have lost nothing but time. Which is better: to know for sure that the Russian maf

[SOLVED] Re: Cannot use USB floppy drive in Squeeze

2011-02-25 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 02:07:27 -0500 (EST), Dom wrote: > On 25/02/11 02:32, Stephen Powell wrote: >> ... >> Does anyone, anywhere, have a working USB >> floppy drive under Debian Squeeze? If so, I'd like to know about >> it, and what you did to get it working. >> ... > Yes. I have a USB floppy driv

Re: Things I Don't Understand About Debian

2011-02-25 Thread John Hasler
Andrei Popescu wrote: > But there is no 100% way to tell the machine is clean, so you will > have to wipe and reinstall anyway. But if the machine is in fact clean you will have lost nothing but time. Which is better: to know for sure that the Russian mafia got all your customer records or suspect

Re: dd or cp over network: should I use scp?

2011-02-25 Thread shawn wilson
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 6:49 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 16:22, Celejar wrote: > > >> It is atypical as it is not webmail! Very few people today are using > >> something they access via POP3 or IMAP, and even most of those aren't > >> running on their desktop but rather at

Re: Things I Don't Understand About Debian

2011-02-25 Thread shawn wilson
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 3:13 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Vi, 25 feb 11, 12:42:51, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > > The fact that a compromised user account = a compromised machine is > > of course very true. However, when detected it might be that the > > attacker did not manage yet to get root permi

Re: bash variables

2011-02-25 Thread Javier Barroso
Hi Mike, Please add OT to subject ;-) On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 11:21 PM, Mike McClain wrote: > I occasionally have problems with bash variables, for instance > the following command lists (along with everything else) >  2 *.deb files in /home/mike/ > > root@/deb40a:~> FIND1="-maxdepth 1 -type f -

Re: dd or cp over network: should I use scp?

2011-02-25 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 16:22, Celejar wrote: > [Please don't cc me on replies.] > Sorry. The Open Office list is just the opposite (we _must_ cc as one need not be subscribed to post, and lots of new users don't subscribe). I'm on 40+ lists so I loose track. >> It is atypical as it is not webm

bash variables

2011-02-25 Thread Mike McClain
I occasionally have problems with bash variables, for instance the following command lists (along with everything else) 2 *.deb files in /home/mike/ root@/deb40a:~> FIND1="-maxdepth 1 -type f -print -name '*'"; \ GREP="-v '\.\(deb\|gz\|tgz\|bz2\|tbz\|zip\)$'"; \ find /home/mike/ $FIND1 |

Re: dd or cp over network: should I use scp?

2011-02-25 Thread David Jardine
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 10:40:55PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > I don't consider a debian-user subscriber a "typical desktop / laptop > user" :) A typical debian-user subscriber may not be a typical desktop/laptop user, but a typical Debian desktop/laptop user may well be a debian-user subs

Re: dd or cp over network: should I use scp?

2011-02-25 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Jo, 24 feb 11, 16:27:20, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Thursday 24 February 2011 16:10:09 Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Jo, 24 feb 11, 16:33:09, Celejar wrote: > > > Certainly - but my advice stands for typical, general purpose desktops, > > > laptops and servers. > > > > I doubt typical, g

Re: Things I Don't Understand About Debian

2011-02-25 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Vi, 25 feb 11, 12:42:51, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > The fact that a compromised user account = a compromised machine is > of course very true. However, when detected it might be that the > attacker did not manage yet to get root permissions. Thus, it buys > some time. But there is no 100% way to

Re: question about storage

2011-02-25 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 09:10:01 +0100 Stan Hoeppner wrote: > The sky is the limit Thanks Stan, I really enjoyed your plain speaking about desktop hardware. By the way, I can't seem to access hardwarefreak.com, well it's there but I see nothing, is this right? -- CK -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Three mail server questions

2011-02-25 Thread Camaleón
El 2011-02-25 a las 13:47 -0500, Brad Alexander escribió: (resending to the list) > On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 12:22 PM, Camaleón wrote: (...) > > > r...@hornet.bar.com>, relay=none, delay=0.05, delays=0.04/0.01/0/0, > > > dsn=4.4.1, status=deferred (connect to hornet.bar.com[192.168.1.13]:25: > >

Re: Suspend to disk fails after Squeeze upgrade

2011-02-25 Thread Jeffrin Jose
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 08:56:10PM -0800, Richard Lawrence wrote: > But I'm uncertain where to look for more information (I can't find > anything more informative anywhere in /var/log), or how to go about > determining whether this is a configuration issue I can fix or a bug > that I should file. >

Re: Suspend to disk fails after Squeeze upgrade

2011-02-25 Thread Richard Lawrence
Thanks, Camaleón, for these suggestions. > Make a quick and easy test: create a new user and try to hibernate/resume > from there and see how it goes. Ok, here's where I'm at: 1) A new user (pmtest) can indeed hibernate and resume from the console without issue 2) My regular user account (rwl)

Re: Debian Multi-Media.

2011-02-25 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 18:48:43 +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: >> Did I mention Christian at all? > > Christian is toe Owner/Responsable for the Domain D-M. Yes, I know. But I did not mention anyone in special, my question was rather generic. >> If you read the full thread you'll find out what (

Re: Debian Multi-Media.

2011-02-25 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Camaleón, Am 2011-02-25 14:43:25, hacktest Du folgendes herunter: > Did I mention Christian at all? Christian is toe Owner/Responsable for the Domain D-M. > If you read the full thread you'll find out what (and why) I was asking > what I asked. In my opinion, USERS which use external arc

Re: aptitude upgrade errors

2011-02-25 Thread Kelly Harding
solved this now. So simple in the end, simply removing the _'s from the version field in /var/lib/dpkg/status fixed it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.or

Re: Debian stable vs. testing for Swift Linux (antiX derivative)

2011-02-25 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 20:52:22 -0600, Jason Hsu wrote: (...) > However, I'm now considering having all subsequent versions use Debian > Testing packages, as the Swift Linux base is Debian Testing, and I'm > not sure that the Debian Stable packages really mean that much > improvement in stability.

Re: Create a separate X session for displaying a single app

2011-02-25 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 22:10:36 +, Ryan Braun wrote: > I have a dual output nvidia videocard that I would like to setup the > second display to be a dumb display that would just display a single app > with no user control whatsoever. So no window manager or desktop > environment needed or wanted

Re: Three mail server questions

2011-02-25 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 19:58:35 -0500, Brad Alexander wrote: > I have three mail server questions, if I might. (...) > On the mail server: > Feb 24 13:16:06 merrimac postfix/qmgr[14271]: A5D97F1852: from=< > r...@hornet.bar.com>, size=1143, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Feb 24 13:16:06 > merrimac postfix/

Re: setting parameters of disc /dev/sda failed .

2011-02-25 Thread waterloo
Thanks first . 2011/2/25 Camaleón > On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 13:32:34 +0800, waterloo wrote: > > > I use 'nohdparm' in kernel parameter. When booted , I find a line : ' > > skipping (warning)' . So I am sure that error is about hdparm . I > > use below in /etc/hdparm.conf : > > > > /dev/sda { >

Re: Suspend to disk fails after Squeeze upgrade

2011-02-25 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 20:56:10 -0800, Richard Lawrence wrote: > I upgraded from Lenny to Squeeze this past weekend. Since then, I > haven't been able to successfully resume after a suspend to disk, which > had been working fine in Lenny (with Linux 2.6.26). Basically, on boot, > I see a blinking c

Re: Unrecognized security certificate warning is gone

2011-02-25 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 07:29:13 -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: > On 02/25/11 04:01, Camaleón wrote: >> Try to open a brand-new session for Firefox, for example, by running it >> as another user or by creating a new profile. >> > The client is currently set up just for me, not systemwide. However, > the

Re: Unrecognized security certificate warning is gone

2011-02-25 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 02/25/11 04:01, Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 20:37:52 -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: I am using Firefox, not Iceweasel, but I think this question should apply in either case. I am trying to connect to work using the Citrix client. I used to get a warning that the certificate was not rec

Re: Things I Don't Understand About Debian

2011-02-25 Thread shawn wilson
On Feb 25, 2011 8:40 AM, "Aaron Toponce" wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 12:42:51PM +0100, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > > SQL injecting and web forms will not work for ssh directly, unless > > you have a very poorly configured apache+mysql-config. Of course > > there are ways of obtaining someone's

Re: Unrecognized security certificate warning is gone

2011-02-25 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 02/25/11 01:01, Michael Tsang wrote: On Friday 25 February 2011 12:37:52 Marc Shapiro wrote: I am using Firefox, not Iceweasel, but I think this question should apply in either case. I am trying to connect to work using the Citrix client. I used to get a warning that the certificate was not

Re: Where is cvsnt package in squeeze?

2011-02-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 25 February 2011 04:10:31 g o wrote: > I'm installed a fresh server with squeeze (debian 6.0) netisntall iso. > > I've tried to install the cvsnt packages... but no packages found! Where is > cvsnt in Lenny there was It was removed; a link to that bug already exists in this

Re: Debian Multi-Media.

2011-02-25 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 15:25:51 +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Hello Camaleón, > > Am 2011-02-23 19:50:36, hacktest Du folgendes herunter: >> I wasn't saying that they *should* provide _packages_ for oldstable >> releases but *notify* here -in this same mailing list, where people can >> then sprea

Re: Debian Multi-Media.

2011-02-25 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Camaleón, Am 2011-02-23 19:50:36, hacktest Du folgendes herunter: > I wasn't saying that they *should* provide _packages_ for oldstable > releases but *notify* here -in this same mailing list, where people can > then spread those changes elsewhere- for any update in D-M repositories. WHY

Re: dd or cp over network: should I use scp?

2011-02-25 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 18:08:28 -0500 shawn wilson wrote: > On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 4:33 PM, Celejar wrote: > > > On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 15:48:00 -0500 > > shawn wilson wrote: > > > > > On Feb 24, 2011 3:40 PM, "Celejar" wrote: > > > > > > > > On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 10:22:56 -0500 > > > > Curt Howland

[OT] programming Dbus

2011-02-25 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, This is a long shot, but anyway... Qt has good dbus classes: http://doc.qt.nokia.com/4.6/examples-dbus.html However, using their non-GUI examples you can only execute them in X as a user. Anybody tried using dbus as root non-gui like Hal does? Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-u

Re: dd or cp over network: should I use scp?

2011-02-25 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 16:55:15 -0600 "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." wrote: > On Thursday 24 February 2011 16:49:30 Celejar wrote: > > On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 16:27:20 -0600 > > "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." wrote: > > > NB: I don't keep backups. I know I should, but I don't. I gave up after > > > calculating t

Re: dd or cp over network: should I use scp?

2011-02-25 Thread Celejar
[Please don't cc me on replies.] On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 15:57:19 +0200 Dotan Cohen wrote: > On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 00:47, Celejar wrote: > > I always thought my getmail POP setup was pretty typical - I have it > > configured to use /var/spool/mail/username as the mail spool.  Is that > > atypical

Apache spawning hundreds of pids

2011-02-25 Thread Aaron Toponce
After updating from Lenny to Squeeze, my Apache2 server has been acting really weird. Hundreds of pids will have been spawned, filling up RAM and filling up swap, causing the kernel OOM killer to start. Nothing in /var/log/messages or dmesg gives any indication of what is happening. Nothing in /var

Re: To 64 or Not to 64?

2011-02-25 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/24/2011 02:01 PM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: [snip] I do program development, compiles, etc. and have to say that for me 64-bit is definitely faster, to wit: Have you tried Tiny CC? When it's sufficient for the task, it's compile times are pretty fast. http://global.p

Re: dd or cp over network: should I use scp?

2011-02-25 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 00:47, Celejar wrote: > I always thought my getmail POP setup was pretty typical - I have it > configured to use /var/spool/mail/username as the mail spool.  Is that > atypical, or a bad idea for some reason? > It is atypical as it is not webmail! Very few people today are

Re: dd or cp over network: should I use scp?

2011-02-25 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 22:40, Celejar wrote: > I'd strongly recommend backing up at least parts of /var (what if you > have mail in the mail spool when the system dies?). > Also, /var/www might be a bit important. Aren't the MySQL files in /var as well. I also do /opt if it exists. -- Dotan

Re: dd or cp over network: should I use scp?

2011-02-25 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 17:22, Curt Howland wrote: >> I need to dd or cp my laptop's harddrive over the LAN. > > Don't use dd if its a mounted file system. > Thanks! > scp will work, but you have to be careful about thing like symlinks > which scp WILL FOLLOW, and which can increase disk space

Re: Things I Don't Understand About Debian

2011-02-25 Thread Aaron Toponce
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 12:42:51PM +0100, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > SQL injecting and web forms will not work for ssh directly, unless > you have a very poorly configured apache+mysql-config. Of course > there are ways of obtaining someone's password. Heh. SQL injections can get you all sorts of th

Re: dd or cp over network: should I use scp?

2011-02-25 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 16:04, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > I would recommend rsync instead - simply because if things go wrong during the > copy, it can pick up from where it left, rather than restarting from scratch: > >        rsync -av --numeric-ids / root@otherhost:/ > > --numeric-ids is to ens

[OT] Written communication (was: Debian Multi-Media.)

2011-02-25 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 12:32:53 +, Lisi wrote: > On Thursday 24 February 2011 15:05:19 Camaleón wrote: >> On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 18:37:42 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: >> > On 02/23/2011 06:11 PM, Chris Jones wrote: >> >> When I read it, I felt Camaléon meant ‘What do you guys think?’.. >> >> rather tha

Re: dd or cp over network: should I use scp?

2011-02-25 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 15:05, BOYPT wrote: > netcat may help: > > dd if=/dev/sdX | nc -l 4321 > > On the other box: > > nc ip.of.the.serverbox 4321 | dd of=/dev/sdY > Somehow I've never heard of netcat before. That is one handy feline. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what

Re: dd or cp over network: should I use scp?

2011-02-25 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 14:44, Steven Ayre wrote: > You can use dd via ssh if you wish. I think the command would be: > dd if=/dev/sda1 | ssh user@host "dd of=/path/to/sda1.img" > Wow, that is really cool. I did not know that dd could be piped as such. Thanks! -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.c

Re: dd or cp over network: should I use scp?

2011-02-25 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 14:41, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > I would use rsync, as it allows compression > > rsync -aAXxPz / root@178.63.65.136:/ > where -a preserves permissions, modification times etc > -A preserves acls > -X preserves xattrs > -x keeps you in one filesystem (so you won't copy /dev e

Re: Where is the conky package on sqeeze?

2011-02-25 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 05:57:35 -0500, Shaffin Bhanji wrote: > I wanted to install conky as a docapp on Debian 6.0 under gnome but > cannot find the package, anyone provide some guidance please. http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/conky Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-

Re: Debian Multi-Media.

2011-02-25 Thread Lisi
On Thursday 24 February 2011 15:05:19 Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 18:37:42 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 02/23/2011 06:11 PM, Chris Jones wrote: > >> When I read it, I felt Camaléon meant ‘What do you guys think?’.. > >> rather than suggest that the DM team was under any obligation to

Re: cannot play video/audio after/when streaming flash video on web browser

2011-02-25 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 17:05:21 +0800, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > 2011/2/23 Camaleón > >> > has anyone experienced the same issue on squeeze amd64? >> >> What flash plugin do you have installed (adobe, gnash)? Is it native >> for your architecture (64-bits) or are you using any wrapper? > > > flash

Re: Where does evolution store emails now?

2011-02-25 Thread Dietrich Bollmann
Hi Camaleón, Thanks to your hint I found my mail in ~/.local/share/evolution/mail :) Thank you very much! Best wishes, Dietrich PS: It would have been nice to inform the users about this change. I relied on the former directory with other tools... I wonder if it is possible to configure the

Re: setting parameters of disc /dev/sda failed .

2011-02-25 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 13:32:34 +0800, waterloo wrote: > I use 'nohdparm' in kernel parameter. When booted , I find a line : ' > skipping (warning)' . So I am sure that error is about hdparm . I > use below in /etc/hdparm.conf : > > /dev/sda { > apm = 254 > spindown_time = 60 > dma =

Re: Where does evolution store emails now?

2011-02-25 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 14:21:41 +0900, Dietrich Bollmann wrote: > Where does Evolution store my emails? It should be under your user's home. > Searching for some old email with grep in the usual folder revealed it > to be empty and neither in the preferences nor in the web I can find any > hint ab

Re: Unrecognized security certificate warning is gone

2011-02-25 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 20:37:52 -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: > I am using Firefox, not Iceweasel, but I think this question should > apply in either case. I am trying to connect to work using the Citrix > client. I used to get a warning that the certificate was not recognized > and do I want to conti

Re: Problems installing VLC [SOLVED]

2011-02-25 Thread AG
On 25/02/11 11:10, teddi...@tmo.blackberry.net wrote: AG said: Actually it was deceptively simple: added a line for unstable in my sources.list, updated, and then installed vlc. Hopefully this will not come back to bite me, but all went very easily. Just be sure to comment the unstable

Re: Things I Don't Understand About Debian

2011-02-25 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Aaron Toponce schreef: On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 04:51:30PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: For example, you might let one user "sudo" without a password, disable root logins via ssh, have every other user (including root) be disabled in /etc/shadow, disable password logins via ssh, and have

Re: Things I Don't Understand About Debian

2011-02-25 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Dr. Ed Morbius schreef: on 17:25 Thu 24 Feb, Sjoerd Hardeman (sjo...@lorentz.leidenuniv.nl) wrote: Dr. Ed Morbius schreef: on 16:24 Wed 23 Feb, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. (b...@iguanasuicide.net) wrote: On Wednesday 23 February 2011 15:11:25 Carlos Mennens wrote: 3. Debian installer defaults to c

Re: Where is cvsnt package in squeeze?

2011-02-25 Thread azrael
it's discontinued, maybe you can try another cvs like git, mercurial, or subversion On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 11:23:48 +0100, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=597869 > > On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 11:10 AM, g o wrote: >> Hi to all, >> >>     I'm installed a fr

Re: Where is the conky package on sqeeze?

2011-02-25 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-02-25 12:10 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > The conky package has been moved to contrib (does anyone know why?) Found out myself: http://bugs.debian.org/579102. Quite a pity, I hope this will be solved sometime. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: Problems installing VLC [SOLVED]

2011-02-25 Thread teddieeb
AG said: Actually it was deceptively simple: added a line for unstable in my sources.list, updated, and then installed vlc. Hopefully this will not come back to bite me, but all went very easily. Just be sure to comment the unstable repos from your sources list after the fact # apt-get c

Re: Where is the conky package on sqeeze?

2011-02-25 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-02-25 11:57 +0100, Shaffin Bhanji wrote: > I wanted to install conky as a docapp on Debian 6.0 under gnome but > cannot find the package, anyone provide some guidance please. The conky package has been moved to contrib (does anyone know why?), you have to include that in your sources.list

Where is the conky package on sqeeze?

2011-02-25 Thread Shaffin Bhanji
I wanted to install conky as a docapp on Debian 6.0 under gnome but cannot find the package, anyone provide some guidance please. Thanks, Shaffin. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Ar

Re: Where is cvsnt package in squeeze?

2011-02-25 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=597869 On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 11:10 AM, g o wrote: > Hi to all, > >     I'm installed a fresh server with squeeze (debian 6.0) netisntall iso. > After installation I have write my sources.list as usual: > > ## Debian Squeeze sources.list > > ## De

Where is cvsnt package in squeeze?

2011-02-25 Thread g o
Hi to all, I'm installed a fresh server with squeeze (debian 6.0) netisntall iso. After installation I have write my sources.list as usual: ## Debian Squeeze sources.list ## Debian security updates: deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main contrib non-free deb-src http://security

Re: How can I disable Internet access for programs running in Wine?

2011-02-25 Thread Pol Hallen
> I just can find any solution... > Please help! > thanks.. create a new user and block it with the rules of iptables Pol -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian

How can I disable Internet access for programs running in Wine?

2011-02-25 Thread erikmccaskey64
I just can find any solution... Please help! thanks..

Re: cannot play video/audio after/when streaming flash video on web browser

2011-02-25 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
2011/2/23 Camaleón > On Tue, 22 Feb 2011 23:01:35 +0800, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > > > as the title goes, this can only be resolved by closing the web browser > > (iceweasel, google-chrome, firefox, chromium, epiphany-browser) > > > > has anyone experienced the same issue on squeeze amd64? > > Wh

Re: Unrecognized security certificate warning is gone

2011-02-25 Thread Michael Tsang
On Friday 25 February 2011 12:37:52 Marc Shapiro wrote: > I am using Firefox, not Iceweasel, but I think this question should > apply in either case. I am trying to connect to work using the Citrix > client. I used to get a warning that the certificate was not recognized > and do I want to contin

Re: aptitude upgrade errors

2011-02-25 Thread Kelly Harding
(I must of been sleep deprived when I replied last month as I inadvertantly replied directly to godo rather than the list as well) /var/lib/available seems to be empty I noticed. Removing virtualbox-2.1 from /var/lib/dpkg/status doesn't make a difference. It seems it is a bug in virtualbox-2.1, f

Re: aptitude upgrade errors

2011-02-25 Thread Kelly Harding
On 27 January 2011 09:37, Wolodja Wentland wrote: > On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 07:13 +, Kelly Harding wrote: >> hi >> >> have been getting following errors when tryign to upgrade my Debian sid box: >> >> dpkg-query: parse error, in file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line > > [...] > >> Results in i

Re: Console resolution

2011-02-25 Thread Dom
On 18/02/11 20:11, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2011-02-18 20:22 +0100, Dom wrote: On 18/02/11 18:24, Camaleón wrote: To make this a bit more clear, nvidia card owners can run either: a) KMS+nouveau b) nvidia propietary driver c) vesa/fb d) nv (obsolete but still available, AFAICT) d) is the onl