Re: Debian 6 uninstallable?

2011-03-02 Thread Bret Busby
On Wed, 2 Mar 2011, Bret Busby wrote: Hello. To try to install Debian 6, I downloaded, as advised on the Debian web site, the Debian 6 netinst iso file, wrote it to a CD, and tried to install Debian 6, using it. However, the computer on which I tried to install it, did not boot from the C

Re: VMware Workstation

2011-03-02 Thread Greg Madden
On Wednesday 02 March 2011 03:26:37 pm Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > on 14:54 Wed 02 Mar, Greg Madden (gomadtr...@gci.net) wrote: > > On Wednesday 02 March 2011 01:59:50 pm Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > > > Why would one chose one over the other? > > > > OT but, Vbox is gpl and in Debians repositoriies. > >

Re: Debian 6 uninstallable?

2011-03-02 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 03/03/11 15:50, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In <4d6f198b.1080...@gmail.com>, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> AMD - hmmm I've had a few problems with AMD boards - if the NIC requires >> forcedeth I *always* disable it in the BIOS and replace it with a card >> that GNU/Linux actually supports. forced

Re: FAT filesystem with a directory cycle

2011-03-02 Thread Ron Johnson
On 03/02/2011 11:20 PM, Joel Roth wrote: Hi, I'm repairing a system for a friend with a FAT filesystem problem. There is a directory cycle, so that for example: rm -rf directory_with_cycle doesn't work, because rm encounters and endless succession of subdirectories. The directory content

Re: Debian 6 uninstallable?

2011-03-02 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 03/03/11 05:40, Jason Hsu wrote: > I've also had problems installing Debian 6.0.0 on my 10-year-old IBM NetVista > computer using the full CD-1 ISO. When I selected “Install” or “Graphical > Install” on the installer boot menu, the screen froze up and then flickered. > > Further investigatio

Re: please help me write a udev rule

2011-03-02 Thread Yuwen Dai
On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 10:31 AM, Hal Vaughan wrote: > > On Mar 2, 2011, at 9:08 PM, Yuwen Dai wrote: > > > Dear all, > > > > I always run a command like this when I plug a USB disk: > > > > echo 1024 > /sys/block/sdb/device/max_sectors > > > > however, the disk is not always `sdb'. Can I write

Re: IPV6 DNS query

2011-03-02 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 11:47 PM, elbbit wrote: > On 03/03/11 03:18, T o n g wrote: >> >> So, how to do IPV6 DNS query? > > host -6 "host -6" (and "dig -6") use ipv6 to make the query but don't run an ipv6 query (unless they do an query by default along the a query, but not sure about this).

Re: sysv-rc-conf and LSB headers

2011-03-02 Thread Freeman
On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 02:17:17PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Ma, 01 mar 11, 11:38:20, freeman wrote: > > Hey, > > > > Is there a replacement for sysv-rc-conf? I assume it is obsolete since LSB > > headers now control the initscript sequence. > > > > Been using /usr/lib/lsb/[install|remove

Re: Revert to lenny's grub

2011-03-02 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 11:39 AM, George wrote: > > After upgrading to squeeze the new grub was chainloading through the > old one. It was working fine, so I elected to run > upgrade-from-grub-legacy. After this grub was failing with "Error 15", > not even giving me the option to press a key to res

FAT filesystem with a directory cycle

2011-03-02 Thread Joel Roth
Hi, I'm repairing a system for a friend with a FAT filesystem problem. There is a directory cycle, so that for example: rm -rf directory_with_cycle doesn't work, because rm encounters and endless succession of subdirectories. The directory content is not important, however I'd be intereste

Re: Revert to lenny's grub

2011-03-02 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 2:58 PM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: > > The way to do that is to first remove grub-pc and it will cleanup grub for > you, remember not to reboot yet ;-), then make sure you have a > /etc/boot/grub folder, now install grub-legacy, next run 'grub-update > /dev/sdax' (x being the par

Re: IPV6 DNS query

2011-03-02 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 10:18 PM, T o n g wrote: > > If I knew how to do IPV6 DNS query, I might have prevented the problem. > So, how to do IPV6 DNS query? dig maroon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listma

Re: Debian 6 uninstallable?

2011-03-02 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <4d6f198b.1080...@gmail.com>, Scott Ferguson wrote: >AMD - hmmm I've had a few problems with AMD boards - if the NIC requires >forcedeth I *always* disable it in the BIOS and replace it with a card >that GNU/Linux actually supports. forcedeth is crap - I defy anyone to >get them to continuously

Re: IPV6 DNS query

2011-03-02 Thread elbbit
On 03/03/11 03:18, T o n g wrote: > So, how to do IPV6 DNS query? host -6 Such as: :~$ host -6 www.debian.org www.debian.org has address 86.59.118.148 www.debian.org has address 82.195.75.97 www.debian.org has IPv6 address 2001:41b8:202:deb:216:35ff:fec4:6340 www.debian.org has IPv6 address 200

Re: Debian 6 uninstallable?

2011-03-02 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 03/03/11 05:22, george.stand...@gmail.com wrote: >> Did you verified the checksum of the ISO image before burn it and also >> the whole CD once it was written in the medium? > > MD5 sums of the ISOs are correct, I'm not going to MD5 the burned > images - takes a long time, and I don't believe t

Re: Debian 6 uninstallable?

2011-03-02 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 03/03/11 04:19, george.stand...@gmail.com wrote: > I too am having serious issues with the debian-6.0.0-* ISOs on an ASUS > AMD64 system, they don't boot past the initial screen with "ISOLINUX > 4.02 debian-20101014 EHDD Copyright (C) 1994-2010 H. Peter Anvi et al" > and a flashing "_" > > I te

RE: How do you use TCPDump?

2011-03-02 Thread Mike Viau
> On Wed, 2 Mar 2011 22:00:41 -0600 wrote: > > I have it installed, and I can look up the parameters in the command. > > What I don't understand is how I use it to investigate intrusions. Can > someone shed some light on this? > What kind of intrusions are you looking for? TCPDump is a pack

How do you use TCPDump?

2011-03-02 Thread Jason Hsu
I have it installed, and I can look up the parameters in the command. What I don't understand is how I use it to investigate intrusions. Can someone shed some light on this? -- Jason Hsu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou

PasswordAuthentication option in /etc/ssh/sshd_config

2011-03-02 Thread Jason Hsu
The value can be yes or no. But in the default version of the /etc/ssh/sshd_config file, the command setting the value of the PasswordAuthentication parameter is #'d out. What does this mean? Should I leave it as is, or should I uncomment the line? If the latter is the case, should I set the

IPV6 DNS query

2011-03-02 Thread T o n g
On Sat, 26 Feb 2011 14:57:25 +, T o n g wrote: > using hostname for remote host NOK > > tong@coral:~$ ssh -C -A -X -p 21 -o > UserKnownHostsFile=/tmp/32083.tmpf.32124.uknf maroon -v OpenSSH_5.5p1 > Debian-4ubuntu4, OpenSSL 0.9.8o 01 Jun 2010 debug1: Reading > configuration data /home/

Re: VMware Workstation

2011-03-02 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 23:50 Wed 02 Mar, teddi...@tmo.blackberry.net (teddi...@tmo.blackberry.net) wrote: > Ed Morbius ask; > > Does anyone have actual or apparent performance comparisons between vbox > and VMWare? > > Why would one chose one over the other? > - > > I would say VMWare's market share is in the

Re: please help me write a udev rule

2011-03-02 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Mar 2, 2011, at 9:08 PM, Yuwen Dai wrote: > Dear all, > > I always run a command like this when I plug a USB disk: > > echo 1024 > /sys/block/sdb/device/max_sectors > > however, the disk is not always `sdb'. Can I write a udev rule according to > the UUID of the disk? Do you mean a spec

please help me write a udev rule

2011-03-02 Thread Yuwen Dai
Dear all, I always run a command like this when I plug a USB disk: echo 1024 > /sys/block/sdb/device/max_sectors however, the disk is not always `sdb'. Can I write a udev rule according to the UUID of the disk? Best regards, Yuwen

Re: VMware Workstation

2011-03-02 Thread Brad Alexander
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 12:44 PM, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI < edua...@kalinowski.com.br> wrote: > On Qua, 02 Mar 2011, hamed hosseini wrote: > > can i install VMware Workstation Linux 7.1.3 in debian 6 64bit and how? >> > > Maybe. It used to be a pain because the kernel changed but the vmware > drivers

Re: Debian 6 64-bit and Openbox: Opinions, Suggestions, Pitfalls.

2011-03-02 Thread Tom Furie
On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 10:04:12AM -0500, Chris Brennan wrote: > On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 7:27 AM, Andrei Popescu > wrote: > > AFAIK this is the 64bit version. I had no issues with it, but I'm not a > > heavy flash user. > > > > > ia32 =! ia64 nor is it amd64 ... it is Intel Architecture, 32-bit.

Re: VMware Workstation

2011-03-02 Thread Shaffin Bhanji
I have successfully installed VMWare Workstation 7.X on Debian 6 without any issues. You need to install as root and then make sure that the user has r/w access tot he directory where you place you VM image files. Shaffin. On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 7:26 PM, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > on 14:54 Wed 02

Re: VMware Workstation

2011-03-02 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 14:54 Wed 02 Mar, Greg Madden (gomadtr...@gci.net) wrote: > > > On Wednesday 02 March 2011 01:59:50 pm Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > > > Why would one chose one over the other? > > OT but, Vbox is gpl and in Debians repositoriies. Well, yeah, besides the obvious I meant. I've schlepped over the

Re: VMware Workstation

2011-03-02 Thread Greg Madden
On Wednesday 02 March 2011 01:59:50 pm Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > Why would one chose one over the other? OT but, Vbox is gpl and in Debians repositoriies. -- Peace, Greg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact list

Re: VMware Workstation

2011-03-02 Thread teddieeb
Ed Morbius ask; Does anyone have actual or apparent performance comparisons between vbox and VMWare? Why would one chose one over the other? - I would say VMWare's market share is in the Corporate environment, Either for the few features it has over VirtualBox or for the same reasons Red

Re: Debian 6 64-bit and Openbox: Opinions, Suggestions, Pitfalls.

2011-03-02 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Wed, 3/2/11, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Ma, 01 mar 11, 09:34:28, Patrick > Bartek wrote: > > > > Is this really Flash 64-bit or just a wrapped 32-bit > one?  What version? > > > > The reason I ask is the only 64-bit version being > distributed > > currently by Adobe is a 10.2 preview ca

Re: VMware Workstation

2011-03-02 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 18:43 Wed 02 Mar, Mathieu Malaterre (mathieu.malate...@gmail.com) wrote: > I tried vmware once. When I realized the script needed root power, I stopped. > > I moved to VirtualBox without regret so far. The version in debian > does not have USB & rdesktop, but that was not on my requirement. >

Re: Debian 6 uninstallable?

2011-03-02 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 13:41 Wed 02 Mar, Bret Busby (b...@busby.net) wrote: > Hello. > > To try to install Debian 6, I downloaded, as advised on the Debian > web site, the Debian 6 netinst iso file, wrote it to a CD, and tried > to install Debian 6, using it. What URL did you download, specifically? > However, the

Re: Debian 6 uninstallable?

2011-03-02 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On 2011-03-02 15:48:43 Jason Hsu wrote: >I tried adding acpi=off, then noapic, and then noacpi. I still got the >"Error reading release file" message. > >It looks like I'll be sticking with Debian Lenny. At least I have at least >a year or two to resolve this Squeeze issue or figure out how to pr

Re: Debian 6 uninstallable?

2011-03-02 Thread Jason Hsu
I tried adding acpi=off, then noapic, and then noacpi. I still got the "Error reading release file" message. It looks like I'll be sticking with Debian Lenny. At least I have at least a year or two to resolve this Squeeze issue or figure out how to properly upgrade to Squeeze. I'm keeping th

Re: Debian 6 uninstallable?

2011-03-02 Thread Christopher Judd
On Wednesday 02 March 2011 15:27:46 Jason Hsu wrote: > Thanks. I was able to add those boot codes. Unfortunately, the installer > couldn't properly detect my CD drive, and I got the "Error reading Release > file" error. Are there additional boot codes I need to add? > You might want t

Re: Debian 6 uninstallable?

2011-03-02 Thread Jason Hsu
Thanks. I was able to add those boot codes. Unfortunately, the installer couldn't properly detect my CD drive, and I got the "Error reading Release file" error. Are there additional boot codes I need to add? On Wed, 2 Mar 2011 16:14:11 -0400 Joey Hess wrote: > Jason Hsu wrote: > > When I bo

Re: Debian 6 uninstallable?

2011-03-02 Thread Joey Hess
Jason Hsu wrote: > When I boot up the Debian CD, I am never offered the option of adding boot > codes. How do I add "vga=normal fb=false"? Press Tab. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Revert to lenny's grub

2011-03-02 Thread Jimmy Johnson
George wrote: After upgrading to squeeze the new grub was chainloading through the old one. It was working fine, so I elected to run upgrade-from-grub-legacy. After this grub was failing with "Error 15", not even giving me the option to press a key to restart. I can boot now using Super Grub Disk

Re: Debian 6 uninstallable?

2011-03-02 Thread Jason Hsu
When I boot up the Debian CD, I am never offered the option of adding boot codes. How do I add "vga=normal fb=false"? On Wed, 2 Mar 2011 15:33:08 -0400 Joey Hess wrote: > Jason Hsu wrote: > > I've also had problems installing Debian 6.0.0 on my 10-year-old IBM > > NetVista computer using the f

Re: Debian 6 uninstallable?

2011-03-02 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Steve Kleene wrote: I also just deleted my copies. I do still have the two CDs I made but don't know how to regenerate the iso file from the CDs (unless a copy of the intact iso file is on the CD; I forget). It's been awhile since I've done it but I do know that k3b will make an iso from th

Re: Things I Don't Understand About Debian

2011-03-02 Thread Steven Ayre
Normal users will clear screen on logout, root will not. -Steve On 23 February 2011 22:26, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2011-02-23 23:14 +0100, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> On 02/23/2011 03:11 PM, Carlos Mennens wrote: >>> 1. Screen from console is not cleared as root or regular user once you log >>>

Re: Debian 6 uninstallable?

2011-03-02 Thread Joey Hess
Jason Hsu wrote: > I've also had problems installing Debian 6.0.0 on my 10-year-old IBM > NetVista computer using the full CD-1 ISO. When I selected “Install” > or “Graphical Install” on the installer boot menu, the screen froze up > and then flickered. Boot the kernel with the parameters: vga=no

question about mysql sintax

2011-03-02 Thread mike cutie and maia
hi, when I enter this to create a database for my mail server I get errors here is the code followed bye the error mysql> GRANT SELECT ON mailserver.* TO 'mailuser'@'127.0.0.1' IDENTIFIED BY 'mailuser2009'; Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec) mysql> flush privileges; Query

Re: checkrestart + out-of-date kernel

2011-03-02 Thread Steven Ayre
Great, thanks! Perhaps checkrestart could be updated to check that file too? -Steve On 2 March 2011 17:11, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 04:08:15PM +, Steven Ayre wrote: >> I just upgraded the linux kernel package on a Lenny server and then >> ran checkrestart. It reported a

Re: Best and most popular distros for the enterprise desktop

2011-03-02 Thread Chris Brennan
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 12:33 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: I'm nearing 31, but I mostly still act 25. :P My first exposure to > UNIX-like > systems wasn't until my early teens, but I didn't really get to dive in > until > I was 18. > > It still took me quite a while to move to Linux. My fir

Re: Debian 6 uninstallable?

2011-03-02 Thread Jason Hsu
I've also had problems installing Debian 6.0.0 on my 10-year-old IBM NetVista computer using the full CD-1 ISO. When I selected “Install” or “Graphical Install” on the installer boot menu, the screen froze up and then flickered. Further investigation confirmed that the Debian 6.0.0 ISO and my o

Re: Debian 6 uninstallable?

2011-03-02 Thread george.stand...@gmail.com
> Did you verified the checksum of the ISO image before burn it and also > the whole CD once it was written in the medium? MD5 sums of the ISOs are correct, I'm not going to MD5 the burned images - takes a long time, and I don't believe this to be the issue. > How about booting using a USB key?

Re: VMware Workstation

2011-03-02 Thread hamed hosseini
thanks,for help

Re: VMware Workstation

2011-03-02 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 02 Mar 2011 21:09:32 +0330, hamed hosseini wrote: > can i install VMware Workstation Linux 7.1.3 in debian 6 64bit and how? It seems someone did it: http://communities.vmware.com/message/1694605#1694605 > and tell me your opinion about vmware in linux I've always heard about problems

Re: ndiswrapper-common 1.53-2

2011-03-02 Thread Jeffrin Jose
On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 02:26:05PM -0800, Alan Hutchinson wrote: >if some one could pleas point me in the right direction, thank you . How About http://wiki.debian.org/NdisWrapper /Jeffrin. -- software engineer. department of computer science rajagiri school of engineering and technology. --

Re: VMware Workstation

2011-03-02 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On Qua, 02 Mar 2011, hamed hosseini wrote: can i install VMware Workstation Linux 7.1.3 in debian 6 64bit and how? Maybe. It used to be a pain because the kernel changed but the vmware drivers were slow to catch up. It probably still is. and tell me your opinion about vmware in linux Gi

Re: Debian 6 uninstallable?

2011-03-02 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 02 Mar 2011 12:19:17 -0500, george wrote: > I too am having serious issues with the debian-6.0.0-* ISOs on an ASUS > AMD64 system, they don't boot past the initial screen with "ISOLINUX > 4.02 debian-20101014 EHDD Copyright (C) 1994-2010 H. Peter Anvi et al" > and a flashing "_" And this

Re: VMware Workstation

2011-03-02 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
I tried vmware once. When I realized the script needed root power, I stopped. I moved to VirtualBox without regret so far. The version in debian does not have USB & rdesktop, but that was not on my requirement. VirtualBox support most images, but you can always use qemu to convert your vmware to

VMware Workstation

2011-03-02 Thread hamed hosseini
can i install VMware Workstation Linux 7.1.3 in debian 6 64bit and how? and tell me your opinion about vmware in linux

Re: Best and most popular distros for the enterprise desktop

2011-03-02 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On 2011-03-02 09:04:20 Andrew McGlashan wrote: >Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> I do believe a Free Software system should be as easy to use as MS Windows >> for "Joe Sixpack" and "Jane Boxwine". This might already be the case; it >> is really hard for me to judge. I've been programming since I

Re: Revert to lenny's grub

2011-03-02 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 02 Mar 2011 18:39:36 +0200, George wrote: > After upgrading to squeeze the new grub was chainloading through the old > one. It was working fine, so I elected to run upgrade-from-grub-legacy. > After this grub was failing with "Error 15", not even giving me the > option to press a key to re

Re: Debian 6 uninstallable?

2011-03-02 Thread george.stand...@gmail.com
I too am having serious issues with the debian-6.0.0-* ISOs on an ASUS AMD64 system, they don't boot past the initial screen with "ISOLINUX 4.02 debian-20101014 EHDD Copyright (C) 1994-2010 H. Peter Anvi et al" and a flashing "_" I tested with the AMD64 netinstall, the i386 netinstall and the dual

Re: creating a pv guest Ubuntu on a Ubuntu desktop is failing on pv-ops Dom0 kernel

2011-03-02 Thread Jonathan Matthews
Tapas - As someone else already pointed out, this isn't an ubuntu mailing list. You probably want to retry your request here: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users. Jonathan -- Jonathan Matthews London, UK http://www.jpluscplusm.com/contact.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to de

Re: checkrestart + out-of-date kernel

2011-03-02 Thread Darac Marjal
On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 04:08:15PM +, Steven Ayre wrote: > I just upgraded the linux kernel package on a Lenny server and then > ran checkrestart. It reported a few services that needed restarting > because the openssl package had also been updated, but it didn't say > anything about the fact t

Re: importing evolution into icedove

2011-03-02 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 01 Mar 2011 09:53:37 -0600, mike cutie and maia wrote: > Is their a way to import your inbox from evolution into icedove? As both use by default "mbox" format, you should have no problem at all (meaning that, as Umarzuki says, you can just drop the files from Evolution into Icedove fold

Re: Intermittent internet since upgrading to squeeze

2011-03-02 Thread Russell L. Harris
Yesterday while browsing on the machine running Squeeze, at first things appeared to be working normally. But suddenly, some web sites could not be loaded, and others could not be reloaded. At first, I suspected a DSL outage, but then I discovered that I could ping some common URLs, but not oth

Re: Intermittent internet since upgrading to squeeze

2011-03-02 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 02 Mar 2011 18:36:32 +0200, George wrote: > On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 5:48 PM, Camaleón wrote: (...) >> As first step, you could (as root): >> >> grep -i dhcp /var/log/syslog > > Thanks to everyone that replied, however the problem seems to have fixed > itself. I don't recall doing anythin

Revert to lenny's grub

2011-03-02 Thread George
After upgrading to squeeze the new grub was chainloading through the old one. It was working fine, so I elected to run upgrade-from-grub-legacy. After this grub was failing with "Error 15", not even giving me the option to press a key to restart. I can boot now using Super Grub Disk. I want to reve

Re: Intermittent internet since upgrading to squeeze

2011-03-02 Thread George
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 5:48 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 22:31:55 +0200, George wrote: > >> On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 2:04 PM, Camaleón wrote: > >>> Simple ethernet networking can be "not that simple" :-) >>> >>> Are you using dhcp or any dial client (pppd)? Are you using >>> NetworkMan

Re: Debian 6 uninstallable?

2011-03-02 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 02 Mar 2011 13:41:54 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > To try to install Debian 6, I downloaded, as advised on the Debian web > site, the Debian 6 netinst iso file, wrote it to a CD, and tried to > install Debian 6, using it. > > However, the computer on which I tried to install it, did not boot

Re: Good News from debian-multimedia

2011-03-02 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 01 Mar 2011 08:58:59 -0800, Jimmy Johnson wrote: > 22/02/2011 : > Finaly I'm trying to restore Oldstable/Lenny. Should be finished tonigth > or tomorrow. Sorry Thanks for the heads-up :-) Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

checkrestart + out-of-date kernel

2011-03-02 Thread Steven Ayre
I just upgraded the linux kernel package on a Lenny server and then ran checkrestart. It reported a few services that needed restarting because the openssl package had also been updated, but it didn't say anything about the fact that I was running an earlier kernel than the one installed. Are ther

Re: creating a pv guest Ubuntu on a Ubuntu desktop is failing on pv-ops Dom0 kernel

2011-03-02 Thread Slicky Johnson
This is not Ubuntu. -- 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.org/20110302110728.01f92a53@t61.debian-linux

Re: help setting up an e-mail server for a newbie

2011-03-02 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 19:58:01 -0600, mike cutie and maia wrote: > I am new when it comes to setting up mail servers I got my bind9 to work > but I need some instructions to set up a mail server with pop3 and also > to make sure that people using Microsoft can fatch and retrieve mail > from the serv

Re: Input methods and terminal - any ideas?

2011-03-02 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 01 Mar 2011 11:16:31 +1100, Rob Hurle wrote: (...) > To my surprise, I find that Gnome terminal > already has all of the input methods that I need. Where did they come > from? Neither konsole nor xterm seem to have an input method option. SCIM is enabled with GTK+ and so most of the GN

Re: Debian 6 uninstallable?

2011-03-02 Thread Steve Kleene
On 02/03/11 23:43, I wrote: > In my hands it was uninstallable. With an md5sum-checked CD of this: > Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.0 "Squeeze" - Official i386 NETINST Binary-1 \ > 20110205-14:34 > it booted, got about halfway through the install, and then started giving CD > errors. I tried a second

Re: Intermittent internet since upgrading to squeeze

2011-03-02 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 22:31:55 +0200, George wrote: > On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 2:04 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> Simple ethernet networking can be "not that simple" :-) >> >> Are you using dhcp or any dial client (pppd)? Are you using >> NetworkManager? >> Can you still make local pings? >> Can you browse

Re: Debian 6 64-bit and Openbox: Opinions, Suggestions, Pitfalls.

2011-03-02 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 16:02:51 -0500, shawn wilson wrote: (...) > But, just curious is there an 'ap guideline' for proper mailing list > submissions somewhere? I don't think I'm going to be able to change > gmail but I'd like to know when something is foobar all the same. You can "live in the clou

Re: Best and most popular distros for the enterprise desktop

2011-03-02 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi Boyd, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: I do believe a Free Software system should be as easy to use as MS Windows for "Joe Sixpack" and "Jane Boxwine". This might already be the case; it is really hard for me to judge. I've been programming since I was 5 and a fan of UNIX and UNIX-like syste

Re: Debian 6 64-bit and Openbox: Opinions, Suggestions, Pitfalls.

2011-03-02 Thread Chris Brennan
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 7:27 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote: AFAIK this is the 64bit version. I had no issues with it, but I'm not a > heavy flash user. > > ia32 =! ia64 nor is it amd64 ... it is Intel Architecture, 32-bit. So where did you get 64bit from that? or are you implying that the 32bit versio

Re: question about storage

2011-03-02 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi Kristian, Kristian Seney wrote: Stan- I recently needed to acquire an box with the same requirements... So on to Ebay ugh... and found: These cases are well laid out and very quiet too. Got this with an offer of $80 per unit. plus $30 ship http://cgi.ebay.com/2U-Server-Case-Asus-KFSN4-DRE

Re: opened OpenSSL port

2011-03-02 Thread Chris Davies
erikmccaskey64 wrote: > Main question: is it safe, to open a port for an openssl server? No, it's not 100% safe. One has to evaluate the risk vs requirement and act accordingly. > Is it secure? - it could be DOSed' [DenialofService] or could it be > attacked in any way? Yes, of course it can.

Re: Debian 6 uninstallable?

2011-03-02 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 02/03/11 23:43, Steve Kleene wrote: > In my hands it was uninstallable. With an md5sum-checked CD of this: > Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.0 "Squeeze" - Official i386 NETINST Binary-1 \ > 20110205-14:34 > it booted, got about halfway through the install, and then started giving CD > errors. I tri

Re: A Debian -offtopic mailing list: to be or not to be

2011-03-02 Thread Joe
On Wed, 02 Mar 2011 07:34:35 -0500 Chris Jones wrote: Are OT threads of such interest that they should remain > public so others get a chance to join in..? Are they worth archiving > in a public repos for posterity? > > Sometimes. Google has occasionally found me an answer in a casual off-hand r

Re: Re: question about storage

2011-03-02 Thread Kristian Seney
Stan- I recently needed to acquire an box with the same requirements... So on to Ebay ugh... and found: These cases are well laid out and very quiet too. Got this with an offer of $80 per unit. plus $30 ship http://cgi.ebay.com/2U-Server-Case-Asus-KFSN4-DRE-SAS-AMD-2x-Opteron-2214-/130492425232?pt

Re: Best and most popular distros for the enterprise desktop

2011-03-02 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Wed, 2011-03-02 at 13:53 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Ma, 01 mar 11, 05:15:36, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > > > > There are examples besides OpenOffice. For example, we are eagerly > > awaiting Iceweasel/Firefox 3.6 because the HTML5 support will finally > > allow multiple attachments at

Re: Debian 6 uninstallable?

2011-03-02 Thread Steve Kleene
In my hands it was uninstallable. With an md5sum-checked CD of this: Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.0 "Squeeze" - Official i386 NETINST Binary-1 \ 20110205-14:34 it booted, got about halfway through the install, and then started giving CD errors. I tried a second checked CD as well, and trying to ins

Re: NTP-Server no longer available in Squeeze?

2011-03-02 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Tue, 2011-03-01 at 19:55 -0800, Jimmy Johnson wrote: > John Hasler wrote: > > Jimmy Johnson writes: > >> Instead of the 'ntp' server what you probably want is 'ntpdate' > >> installed... > > > > Ntpdate is deprecated. > > > >> ...it's the client... > > > > It is a client, and a very limite

Re: A Debian -offtopic mailing list: to be or not to be

2011-03-02 Thread Chris Jones
On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 06:48:47AM EST, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Ma, 01 mar 11, 19:59:25, Chris Jones wrote: > > > That shouldn't be a problem, the list is setup as close as > > > possible[1] to debian-user: posting open, no reply-to munging, > > > etc. so all you would need to do to move a disc

Re: NTP-Server no longer available in Squeeze?

2011-03-02 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <4d6dbfcb.2030...@gmail.com>, Jimmy Johnson wrote: >John Hasler wrote: >> Jimmy Johnson writes: >>> Instead of the 'ntp' server what you probably want is 'ntpdate' >>> installed... >> >> Ntpdate is deprecated. > >I appreciate your post and it's not the first time mentioned, I've been >using ntp

Re: Debian 6 64-bit and Openbox: Opinions, Suggestions, Pitfalls.

2011-03-02 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Ma, 01 mar 11, 09:34:28, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > Is this really Flash 64-bit or just a wrapped 32-bit one? What version? > > The reason I ask is the only 64-bit version being distributed > currently by Adobe is a 10.2 preview called Square. (By "preview" I'm > thinking pre-alpha.) It was

Re: sysv-rc-conf and LSB headers

2011-03-02 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Ma, 01 mar 11, 11:38:20, freeman wrote: > Hey, > > Is there a replacement for sysv-rc-conf? I assume it is obsolete since LSB > headers now control the initscript sequence. > > Been using /usr/lib/lsb/[install|remove]_initd . (Don't know whether insserv > is better.) > > sysv-rc-conf was a ni

Re: Best and most popular distros for the enterprise desktop

2011-03-02 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Ma, 01 mar 11, 05:15:36, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > > There are examples besides OpenOffice. For example, we are eagerly > awaiting Iceweasel/Firefox 3.6 because the HTML5 support will finally > allow multiple attachments at once in Zimbra Web Client (if I understand > it correctly). PDF e

Re: A Debian -offtopic mailing list: to be or not to be

2011-03-02 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Ma, 01 mar 11, 19:59:25, Chris Jones wrote: > > > > That shouldn't be a problem, the list is setup as close as possible[1] > > to debian-user: posting open, no reply-to munging, etc. so all you > > would need to do to move a discussion is reply-to-all and replace d-u > > with d-OT. > > Well, I

Re: Debian 6 uninstallable?

2011-03-02 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 02/03/11 16:41, Bret Busby wrote: > Hello. > > To try to install Debian 6, I downloaded, as advised on the Debian web > site, the Debian 6 netinst iso file, wrote it to a CD, and tried to > install Debian 6, using it. > > However, the computer on which I tried to install it, did not boot from

Re: Debian 6 uninstallable?

2011-03-02 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 02/03/11 16:41, Bret Busby wrote: > Hello. > > To try to install Debian 6, I downloaded, as advised on the Debian web > site, the Debian 6 netinst iso file, wrote it to a CD, and tried to > install Debian 6, using it. > > However, the computer on which I tried to install it, did not boot from

Re: A Debian -offtopic mailing list: to be or not to be

2011-03-02 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 02/03/11 11:59, Chris Jones wrote: > On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 04:10:01AM EST, Andrei Popescu wrote: >> On Lu, 28 feb 11, 22:47:17, Chris Jones wrote: > >>> So what do I do..? recommend we continue our heated discussion on >>> the OT mailing list..? too bad.. she's not subscribed to D-OT .. and >

Re: NTP-Server no longer available in Squeeze?

2011-03-02 Thread Mart Frauenlob
On 01.03.2011 23:36, Steve Smith wrote: Was going to setup a central time server, but found that NTP-Server is no longer available in Squeeze. Are there any alternatives? apt-cache search "^ntp" aptitude search "^ntp" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a s