Re: google to pull support for firefox 3,5

2011-06-02 Thread alberto fuentes
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 9:49 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > E.g. > http://www.ixquick.com/ > and > http://www.scroogle.org/cgi-bin/scraper.htm > can't replace Google for my needs. > Have you tried http://duckduckgo.com/ They say they do not track and results are pretty nice. I followed the guy for a w

Re: New Guy asks: I want to run Squeeze, except for a few particular things...

2011-06-02 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 4:41 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: > I want to run the stable distribution--Squeeze--except I need newer > versions of some key programs I use in my work, like LyX and R.  And > since the kernel included with Squeeze crashes when I unplug the USB > headset, I need to run a newer

Re: google to pull support for firefox 3,5

2011-06-02 Thread William Hopkins
On 06/03/11 at 02:01am, Arno Schuring wrote: > This is almost getting O/T, but anyways... > > Ralf Mardorf (ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net on 2011-06-02 21:49 +0200): > > Unfortunately there seems to be no search engine able to replace > > Google's search engine. > Like you said, it depends on what yo

Re: google to pull support for firefox 3,5

2011-06-02 Thread John Hasler
Arno Schuring writes: > I find DDG (http://duckduckgo.com/Duck_Duck_Go) satisfies my needs > perfectly. Requires Javascript. Google doesn't. > I've been using ever since Google decided to start showing site > thumbnails on mouseover events. I've never seen those. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBS

Re: Keeping stable stable.

2011-06-02 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 12:39:15AM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 6/1/2011 6:07 PM, R. Clayton wrote: > > I'm running squeeze on a system, and I'd like to keep the system on the > > stable > > release independent of what the release is called. I changed all > > non-commented > > appearances of

Re: google to pull support for firefox 3,5

2011-06-02 Thread Arno Schuring
This is almost getting O/T, but anyways... Ralf Mardorf (ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net on 2011-06-02 21:49 +0200): > Unfortunately there seems to be no search engine able to replace > Google's search engine. Like you said, it depends on what you use it for. I find DDG (http://duckduckgo.com/Duck_Duck

Re: google to pull support for firefox 3,5

2011-06-02 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2011-06-02 at 16:32 -0400, William Hopkins wrote: > On 06/02/11 at 10:21pm, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Thu, 2011-06-02 at 16:06 -0400, William Hopkins wrote: > > > On 06/02/11 at 09:49pm, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > > Unfortunately there seems to be no search engine able to replace > > > > Go

CUPS Cannot recognize lp0

2011-06-02 Thread Ethan Rosenberg
Dear List - I am trying to print from Debian and receive the following message: "Unable to open device file"/dev/lp0": Permission Denied" The permissions for lp0 are 666. Advice and comments, please. Thanks. Ethan Debian 6.0.1a squeeze(sid) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-req

Re: google to pull support for firefox 3,5

2011-06-02 Thread Javier Barroso
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 8:27 PM, William Hopkins wrote: > On 06/02/11 at 08:15pm, tadziu wrote: >> i'm just curious, is there any chance to bring iceweasel 4.0 to >> stable before google ends support for 3,5? i got 4.0 on my >> second computer with squeeze, but i had to mess a bit to get >> it work

Re: google to pull support for firefox 3,5

2011-06-02 Thread tadziu
> > I explicitly stated that I use plain HTML. I'm sure none of the fancy > javascript crap will keep working, which points out the foolishness of > treating a web page like an application. > i fully understand your point aswell as atitude towards web apps. but mind two cases: first: (not partic

Re: google to pull support for firefox 3,5

2011-06-02 Thread shawn wilson
On Jun 2, 2011 4:54 PM, "tadziu" wrote: > > > > > As I said, it works even in IE5. I just lie and say I'm using a 'supported' browser. the js-free version of gmail is a simple site. > > > > > > implying that i'd like to use gmail in plain html, but i dont. are you > shure that > i'll preserve my c

Re: New Guy asks: I want to run Squeeze, except for a few particular things...

2011-06-02 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On 2011-06-02 15:41:22 Paul Johnson wrote: >I want to run the stable distribution--Squeeze--except I need newer >versions of some key programs I use in my work, like LyX and R. http://www.iguanasuicide.net/node/4 Using pinning, it's fairly easy to tell APT to keep as much as possible from stable

Re: google to pull support for firefox 3,5

2011-06-02 Thread William Hopkins
On 06/02/11 at 10:54pm, tadziu wrote: > > > > As I said, it works even in IE5. I just lie and say I'm using a 'supported' > > browser. the js-free version of gmail is a simple site. > > > > > > implying that i'd like to use gmail in plain html, but i dont. are you > shure that > i'll preserve my

Re: New Guy asks: I want to run Squeeze, except for a few particular things...

2011-06-02 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Jo, 02 iun 11, 15:41:22, Paul Johnson wrote: > > I *think* pinning might be the right way to fix this, but I have not > found a configuration that would install updates from Wheezy when I > want them and take them from Squeeze when I don't. For example, > Squeeze still has the two editions of t

Re: google to pull support for firefox 3,5

2011-06-02 Thread tadziu
> > As I said, it works even in IE5. I just lie and say I'm using a 'supported' > browser. the js-free version of gmail is a simple site. > > implying that i'd like to use gmail in plain html, but i dont. are you shure that i'll preserve my current gmail functionality when i'll use your workaroun

Re: Anyone got ZTE K3565-Z working with Debian?

2011-06-02 Thread Brian
On Thu 02 Jun 2011 at 19:14:44 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > ...I couldn't. It's a usb stick for internet connection, sold by Vodafone. > Any help appreciated. The stuff I've found googling around didn't help in my > case. Oddly enough, knowing what failed for you would have been helpful. You

Re: New Guy asks: I want to run Squeeze, except for a few particular things...

2011-06-02 Thread shawn wilson
On Jun 2, 2011 4:41 PM, "Paul Johnson" wrote: > > I was using RedHat/Fedora for along time, then Ubuntu, now Debian. > I'm not new in Linux, just Debian. And I'm still having trouble > understanding some of the terminology. > > I want to run the stable distribution--Squeeze--except I need newer >

New Guy asks: I want to run Squeeze, except for a few particular things...

2011-06-02 Thread Paul Johnson
I was using RedHat/Fedora for along time, then Ubuntu, now Debian. I'm not new in Linux, just Debian. And I'm still having trouble understanding some of the terminology. I want to run the stable distribution--Squeeze--except I need newer versions of some key programs I use in my work, like LyX an

Re: google to pull support for firefox 3,5

2011-06-02 Thread William Hopkins
On 06/02/11 at 10:21pm, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Thu, 2011-06-02 at 16:06 -0400, William Hopkins wrote: > > On 06/02/11 at 09:49pm, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > Unfortunately there seems to be no search engine able to replace > > > Google's search engine. > > > > > > E.g. > > > http://www.ixquick.com

Re: google to pull support for firefox 3,5

2011-06-02 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2011-06-02 at 13:21 -0700, Jeff Grossman wrote: > On Thu, 02 Jun 2011 21:49:18 +0200, Ralf Mardorf > wrote: > > >On Thu, 2011-06-02 at 20:34 +0100, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > >> If their excuse was lack of standards' compliance maybe it'd kinda > >> make sense. If. There's something called g

Re: google to pull support for firefox 3,5

2011-06-02 Thread William Hopkins
On 06/02/11 at 10:17pm, tadziu wrote: > > Perhaps gmail desktop alerts shouldn't work, and you would be advised to > > upgrade if you wanted them, but gmail as a whole should continue working. > > ...as should all other google 'apps'... > > > > i doubt that. i failed to change google account sett

Re: pidofproc missing

2011-06-02 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mi, 01 iun 11, 19:32:06, lrhorer wrote: > Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > On Mi, 01 iun 11, 07:56:58, lrhorer wrote: > >> > >> Oh! I see. It's not a binary, at all. The init scripts just source > >> the function. Thanks! (I'd still like to know how `pidof` got > >> mangled.) > > > > Please p

Re: google to pull support for firefox 3,5

2011-06-02 Thread Jeff Grossman
On Thu, 02 Jun 2011 21:49:18 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >On Thu, 2011-06-02 at 20:34 +0100, Nuno Magalhães wrote: >> If their excuse was lack of standards' compliance maybe it'd kinda >> make sense. If. There's something called graceful degradation and it >> does "force" people to buy newer hardw

Re: google to pull support for firefox 3,5

2011-06-02 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2011-06-02 at 16:06 -0400, William Hopkins wrote: > On 06/02/11 at 09:49pm, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > Unfortunately there seems to be no search engine able to replace > > Google's search engine. > > > > E.g. > > http://www.ixquick.com/ > > and > > http://www.scroogle.org/cgi-bin/scraper.htm

Re: There was a problem with your email to debianHELP

2011-06-02 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mi, 01 iun 11, 18:46:12, Chris Brennan wrote: > > While I suspect the answer to this is no, does gmail have a feature such as > this? All I see now is reply/forward/reply-all, but no group reply... No, they probably expect everybody else to use Gmail as well and rely on the feature that does

Re: google to pull support for firefox 3,5

2011-06-02 Thread tadziu
> Perhaps gmail desktop alerts shouldn't work, and you would be advised to > upgrade if you wanted them, but gmail as a whole should continue working. > ...as should all other google 'apps'... > i doubt that. i failed to change google account settings with ff3,5. just got information that my brow

Re: google to pull support for firefox 3,5

2011-06-02 Thread William Hopkins
On 06/02/11 at 09:49pm, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Unfortunately there seems to be no search engine able to replace > Google's search engine. > > E.g. > http://www.ixquick.com/ > and > http://www.scroogle.org/cgi-bin/scraper.htm > can't replace Google for my needs. Scroogle IS google. So.. not a great

Re: google to pull support for firefox 3,5

2011-06-02 Thread William Hopkins
On 06/02/11 at 03:56pm, shawn wilson wrote: > On Jun 2, 2011 3:35 PM, "Nuno Magalhães" wrote: > > > > If their excuse was lack of standards' compliance maybe it'd kinda > > make sense. If. There's something called graceful degradation and it > > does "force" people to buy newer hardware. How green

Re: google to pull support for firefox 3,5

2011-06-02 Thread shawn wilson
On Jun 2, 2011 3:35 PM, "Nuno Magalhães" wrote: > > If their excuse was lack of standards' compliance maybe it'd kinda > make sense. If. There's something called graceful degradation and it > does "force" people to buy newer hardware. How green of Google Inc. > Reminds me to start migrating away f

Re: google to pull support for firefox 3,5

2011-06-02 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2011-06-02 at 20:34 +0100, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > If their excuse was lack of standards' compliance maybe it'd kinda > make sense. If. There's something called graceful degradation and it > does "force" people to buy newer hardware. How green of Google Inc. > Reminds me to start migrating

Re: google to pull support for firefox 3,5

2011-06-02 Thread Nuno Magalhães
If their excuse was lack of standards' compliance maybe it'd kinda make sense. If. There's something called graceful degradation and it does "force" people to buy newer hardware. How green of Google Inc. Reminds me to start migrating away from their products and start treating them as Microsoft's.

Re: Keeping stable stable.

2011-06-02 Thread Steven Rosenberg
On 06/01/2011 04:07 PM, R. Clayton wrote: I'm running squeeze on a system, and I'd like to keep the system on the stable release independent of what the release is called. I changed all non-commented appearances of "squeeze" with "stable" in sources.list; do I need to do anything else? Is this

Re: aptitude/apt-get hangs during update (plus) on IPv6

2011-06-02 Thread Jeffrey B. Green
On Wed, 1 Jun 2011 10:00:17 -0400 "Jeffrey B. Green" wrote: > > Doing the update from the firewall works, a conversation of 29 packets > in the captured pcap file. There are still 404s but none of the out of > sequence/lost sequence messages. Hmmm, now to see which of the packets > are being dro

Anyone got ZTE K3565-Z working with Debian?

2011-06-02 Thread Rodolfo Medina
...I couldn't. It's a usb stick for internet connection, sold by Vodafone. Any help appreciated. The stuff I've found googling around didn't help in my case. Thanks Rodolfo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact list

[solved] Restart always restarts with kexec

2011-06-02 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2011-06-02 at 20:35 +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > c) or edit /etc/default/kexec to disable kexec on reboot Thank you very much, I edited LOAD_KEXEC=false it was set to "true" before. Phew, kexec did cause issues for one of my hard disks! It's ok now :). Regards, Ralf -- To UNS

Re: Backup script

2011-06-02 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2011-06-02 at 14:23 -0400, shawn wilson wrote: > > On Jun 2, 2011 1:48 PM, "Ralf Mardorf" > wrote: > > > > On Thu, 2011-06-02 at 13:21 -0400, shawn wilson wrote: > > > > > > On Jun 2, 2011 1:06 PM, "Ralf Mardorf" > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > On Thu, 2011-06-02 at 14:01 +0100, Tom Furie

Re: Restart always restarts with kexec

2011-06-02 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Hello, Ralf Mardorf a écrit : > > after building and installing a kernel-rt a restart will always restart > with kexec. [...] > Is there an easy way to get back an usual reboot? IIUC your request, a) apt-get remove kexec-tools b) or run 'coldreboot' instead of 'reboot' to do a normal reboot c)

Re: Keeping stable stable.

2011-06-02 Thread shawn wilson
On Jun 2, 2011 2:19 PM, "William Hopkins" wrote: > > On 06/02/11 at 02:08pm, Tom Furie wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 11:15:37AM +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > > > Stan Hoeppner a écrit : > > > > > > > > You're much better off simply changing sources.list right > > > > before your next distri

Re: syncing on Debian Squeeze with pilot-link

2011-06-02 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 18 May 2011 15:29:15 -0400 Mark Grieveson wrote: > Hello. I use jpilot. I recently got a used Palm Pilot Zire 21. I had > previously been using a Palm IIIe, but it was a serial connection, > and did not use a usb to sync. I have used a Zire in the past, but I > can't seem to set this o

Re: google to pull support for firefox 3,5

2011-06-02 Thread William Hopkins
On 06/02/11 at 08:15pm, tadziu wrote: > i'm just curious, is there any chance to bring iceweasel 4.0 to > stable before google ends support for 3,5? i got 4.0 on my > second computer with squeeze, but i had to mess a bit to get > it working, and it's not performing as well as i've expected. > > >

Re: Backup script

2011-06-02 Thread shawn wilson
On Jun 2, 2011 1:48 PM, "Ralf Mardorf" wrote: > > On Thu, 2011-06-02 at 13:21 -0400, shawn wilson wrote: > > > > On Jun 2, 2011 1:06 PM, "Ralf Mardorf" > > wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, 2011-06-02 at 14:01 +0100, Tom Furie wrote: > > > > On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 04:24:52AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:

Re: Avoid POP3

2011-06-02 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 18 May 2011 18:27:29 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: ... > Next time you need to configure a POP3 account tell me if you leave > enable the "keep a copy in the server" setting. It's not the default, it > never has been in any MUA, or not in any I'm aware of. I don't think how > is that so

Re: Keeping stable stable.

2011-06-02 Thread William Hopkins
On 06/02/11 at 02:08pm, Tom Furie wrote: > On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 11:15:37AM +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > > Stan Hoeppner a écrit : > > > > > > You're much better off simply changing sources.list right > > > before your next distribution upgrade. This is what Debian recommends, > > > oddly en

google to pull support for firefox 3,5

2011-06-02 Thread tadziu
i'm just curious, is there any chance to bring iceweasel 4.0 to stable before google ends support for 3,5? i got 4.0 on my second computer with squeeze, but i had to mess a bit to get it working, and it's not performing as well as i've expected. http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/01/google-apps-to-pul

Re: Restart always restarts with kexec

2011-06-02 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-06-02 19:56 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > the vesa driver doesn't enable what I need. I don't need "nouveau" > either. I wish to get xorg-video-nv, but the available version conflicts > with the current installed X. Rebuilding the Squeeze version of xserver-xorg-video-nv on testing should

Re: Restart always restarts with kexec

2011-06-02 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2011-06-02 at 19:45 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2011-06-02 19:02 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > Hi :) > > > > after building and installing a kernel-rt a restart will always restart > > with kexec. > > > > The whole story: > > I started with a clean Debian stable install, now it sho

Re: (problem) LVM + USB drive

2011-06-02 Thread Roland Mueller
Hello, 2011/6/2 Itay > On Mon, 30 May 2011, Itay wrote: > > I'd like to set up a USB drive using LVM. Could someone knowledgable >> confirm that the following recipe should allow me to hot-plug the USB drive >> without rendering the LVM file-systems inaccessible? >> > > The recipe has a proble

Re: Backup script

2011-06-02 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2011-06-02 at 13:21 -0400, shawn wilson wrote: > > On Jun 2, 2011 1:06 PM, "Ralf Mardorf" > wrote: > > > > On Thu, 2011-06-02 at 14:01 +0100, Tom Furie wrote: > > > On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 04:24:52AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > > > > > It takes just some minutes to restore a complete

Re: Restart always restarts with kexec

2011-06-02 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-06-02 19:02 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Hi :) > > after building and installing a kernel-rt a restart will always restart > with kexec. > > The whole story: > I started with a clean Debian stable install, now it should be a clean > testing install, but I guess it's an uncertain mix. > I'

Re: Backup script

2011-06-02 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Guido Hecken wrote: -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Ralf Mardorf [mailto:ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net] Gesendet: Mittwoch, 1. Juni 2011 10:28 An: Debian-User Betreff: Backup script Hi :) I'm writing a script to backup the 4 Linux installs and the MBRs on my machine. Is there a way to

Re: Backup script

2011-06-02 Thread shawn wilson
On Jun 2, 2011 1:06 PM, "Ralf Mardorf" wrote: > > On Thu, 2011-06-02 at 14:01 +0100, Tom Furie wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 04:24:52AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > > > It takes just some minutes to restore a complete install from an > > > archive, IMO it makes no sense to make a deafult

Re: Backup script

2011-06-02 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2011-06-02 at 14:01 +0100, Tom Furie wrote: > On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 04:24:52AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > It takes just some minutes to restore a complete install from an > > archive, IMO it makes no sense to make a deafult install and then to > > copy back configs and data and to

Restart always restarts with kexec

2011-06-02 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi :) after building and installing a kernel-rt a restart will always restart with kexec. The whole story: I started with a clean Debian stable install, now it should be a clean testing install, but I guess it's an uncertain mix. I'm just about going to do a fresh Debian testing install, because

Re: [SOLVED] Lost network after lenny-to-squeeze upgrade

2011-06-02 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20110602_114715, Tom H wrote: > On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 10:03 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > > > > One pro-NM argument that I've seen is that dynamic configuration - a > la udev - is the way that a modern OS should function. I don't see why > a server would need dynamic configuration but that'

Re: [SOLVED] Lost network after lenny-to-squeeze upgrade

2011-06-02 Thread Tom H
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 10:03 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > > Try to set up pair-bonding, or bridged network devices for KVM use > correctly with NetworkManager. Unless something has really changed, > they're not supported, and these are very basic network configurations > for production servers.

Re: wget & certificates

2011-06-02 Thread Kamil Jońca
Camaleón writes: > On Thu, 02 Jun 2011 15:22:46 +0200, Kamil Jońca wrote: > >> Camaleón writes: >> >>> On Thu, 19 May 2011 07:27:34 +0200, Kamil Jońca wrote: >>> Validation SSL SGC CA': Unable to locally verify the issuer's authority. To connect to www.centrum24.pl insecurely,

Re: help on debian on Thinkpad R31

2011-06-02 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 01 Jun 2011 20:13:16 +0100, Mao Xiaoan wrote: > I am new to Linux. Yesterday, I installed Debian 6.0.1a on my Thinkpad > R31 (2656 J2C). It was installed successfully, but in the end when it > rebooted, the laptop monitor doesn't show anything (it is grey), > although it is still working f

Re: wget & certificates

2011-06-02 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 02 Jun 2011 15:22:46 +0200, Kamil Jońca wrote: > Camaleón writes: > >> On Thu, 19 May 2011 07:27:34 +0200, Kamil Jońca wrote: >> >>> Validation SSL SGC CA': >>> Unable to locally verify the issuer's authority. >>> To connect to www.centrum24.pl insecurely, use >>> `--no-check-certifica

Re: qemu port forward host -> guest: unable to get network access

2011-06-02 Thread Nicolas BERCHER
Sorry: the MAC I wrote is too long, please read aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff instead. Nicolas -- 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/4de79491.7070...@yahoo.fr

Re: wget & certificates

2011-06-02 Thread Kamil Jońca
Camaleón writes: > On Thu, 19 May 2011 07:27:34 +0200, Kamil Jońca wrote: > >> I have strange problem with wget: > > (...) > >> Validation SSL SGC CA': >> Unable to locally verify the issuer's authority. >> To connect to www.centrum24.pl insecurely, use `--no-check-certificate'. > > Wget cannot

qemu port forward host -> guest: unable to get network access

2011-06-02 Thread Nicolas BERCHER
Hi, I want to start a virtual machine and be able to connect to it from the host. Reading the qemu manual, I found I have to use "-net nic" to choose both NIC MAC and model and "-net user" in order to define port forwards from host to guest. I want to forward ports (tcp) this way: host:256

Re: Keeping stable stable.

2011-06-02 Thread Tom Furie
On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 11:15:37AM +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Stan Hoeppner a écrit : > > > > You're much better off simply changing sources.list right > > before your next distribution upgrade. This is what Debian recommends, > > oddly enough > > Oddly ? It's another of the strange idioms

Re: mountdevsubfs.sh

2011-06-02 Thread Roger Leigh
On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 02:21:19PM +0200, kalanikta wrote: > I've been trying to change the permissions on /dev/pts/* from crw--w to > crw-rw so that group has access to write to them. > A specific user was added to the tty group so only he has r/w permissions. > So I've changed the TTYMODE

Re: Backup script

2011-06-02 Thread Tom Furie
On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 04:24:52AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > It takes just some minutes to restore a complete install from an > archive, IMO it makes no sense to make a deafult install and then to > copy back configs and data and to install additional stuff. And what > is Fair enough. Whatever

mountdevsubfs.sh

2011-06-02 Thread kalanikta
I've been trying to change the permissions on /dev/pts/* from crw--w to crw-rw so that group has access to write to them. A specific user was added to the tty group so only he has r/w permissions. So I've changed the TTYMODE to 660 /etc/init.d/mountdevsubfs.sh but it's not changing any perm

Re: wget & certificates

2011-06-02 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 19 May 2011 07:27:34 +0200, Kamil Jońca wrote: > I have strange problem with wget: (...) > Validation SSL SGC CA': > Unable to locally verify the issuer's authority. > To connect to www.centrum24.pl insecurely, use `--no-check-certificate'. Wget cannot validate the CA and thus drops t

Backup script

2011-06-02 Thread Guido Hecken
> -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von: Ralf Mardorf [mailto:ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net] > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 1. Juni 2011 10:28 > An: Debian-User > Betreff: Backup script > > Hi :) > > I'm writing a script to backup the 4 Linux installs and the > MBRs on my machine. > > Is there a way to

Re: Keeping stable stable.

2011-06-02 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 01 Jun 2011 19:07:40 -0400, R. Clayton wrote: > I'm running squeeze on a system, and I'd like to keep the system on the > stable release independent of what the release is called. That seems a contradictory selection of words :-) Stable is _now_ squeeze but it will be wheezy as soon as

Re: Keeping stable stable.

2011-06-02 Thread Laurence Hurst
On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 12:07:40AM +0100, R. Clayton wrote: > I'm running squeeze on a system, and I'd like to keep the system on the stable > release independent of what the release is called. I changed all > non-commented > appearances of "squeeze" with "stable" in sources.list; do I need to do

Re: Keeping stable stable.

2011-06-02 Thread Erwan David
On 02/06/11 01:07, R. Clayton wrote: > I'm running squeeze on a system, and I'd like to keep the system on the stable > release independent of what the release is called. I changed all > non-commented > appearances of "squeeze" with "stable" in sources.list; do I need to do > anything else? Is t

Re: Keeping stable stable.

2011-06-02 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Stan Hoeppner a écrit : > > You're much better off simply changing sources.list right > before your next distribution upgrade. This is what Debian recommends, > oddly enough Oddly ? The recommended upgrade path described in the Release notes is usually more complex than just running "apt-get upd

Re: Backup script

2011-06-02 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2011-06-02 at 01:01 -0400, shawn wilson wrote: > > On Jun 2, 2011 12:30 AM, "Nico Kadel-Garcia" wrote: > > > > On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 4:27 AM, Ralf Mardorf > wrote: > > > Hi :) > > > > > > I'm writing a script to backup the 4 Linux installs and the MBRs > on my > > > machine. > > > > > >

Re: (problem) LVM + USB drive

2011-06-02 Thread Itay
On Mon, 30 May 2011, Itay wrote: I'd like to set up a USB drive using LVM. Could someone knowledgable confirm that the following recipe should allow me to hot-plug the USB drive without rendering the LVM file-systems inaccessible? The recipe has a problem in the vgcreate step (below, marked