Re: Can't run apps as root in KDE

2011-07-02 Thread T Elcor
--- On Sat, 7/2/11, Scott Ferguson wrote: > >> > >> Also the output, if any, of:- $ dpkg > --get-selections sudo > > > > $ dpkg --get-selections sudo No packages found > matching sudo > > > > And yet you say it "was" originally enabled... (?) :-/ Yes, it was working a while ago in squeeze an

Re: Can't run apps as root in KDE

2011-07-02 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 03/07/11 04:15, T Elcor wrote: > --- On Fri, 7/1/11, Scott Ferguson > wrote: > > > Yes, I missed the step 2. Now I've tried it and the "File Manager - > Super User Mode" behaves seemingly in the same non-functional way, > that is, shows up in the bottom launch panel like it's starting up, >

OT: Camaleón

2011-07-02 Thread T o n g
On Sat, 02 Jul 2011 12:36:14 +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: > you're best sticking with Camaleón if possible - she does run Gnome and > . . . I don't know western names well and I had always thought that Camaleón is a man, although being "overly" polite (than ordinary man). Is Camaleón really a

Re: My CD and DVD are messed up

2011-07-02 Thread T o n g
On Sat, 02 Jul 2011 16:06:23 +, Camaleón wrote: > just read Debian udev the docs to follow the instructions. Hi Camaleón, Thanks for your reply. However, I was having a hard time trying to find what you meant by "Debian udev the docs". All that I found are bit and pieces here and there. W

Re: install squeeze con core i5 2500 motherboard 1155

2011-07-02 Thread Pablo Sánchez
Well, i got an ASUS P8H67-M LX with H67 B3 revision intel chipset with a core i5 2500 . The machine has 3 Samsung 1TB disks , that i see on the bios config, connected to sata 3gb ports . After inserting an usb stick with realtek firmware-realtek 0.28, config the network, I'm stuck on Scannin

Re: Squeeze: How to hide certain partitions in Nautilus

2011-07-02 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 03/07/11 02:22, Hoang Le wrote: > Dear Camaleón and Scott, > > Thank you for your great support. Don't mention... really, don't ;-) *I* steered you up the wrong path - "don't worry about UUID" or words to that effect! Ouch! :-) Missed by any margin is still a miss! > It finally works, us

Re: pre-seed was Re: Headless Install Debian Squeeze

2011-07-02 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 03/07/11 00:01, Martin McCormick wrote: > I downloaded the following image: > > debian-6.0.2.1-kfreebsd-i386-CD-1.iso > > So, my questions all boil down to, "Can you take that > off-the-shelf image and introduce your pre-seed configurations > such that they happen automatically?"

Re: solved: emacs: ugly characters

2011-07-02 Thread Leandro DUTRA
2011/7/2 lee : > > Well, I switched back to fvwm-crystal after using KDE for a while Because of Emacs, after trying Unity and Gnome Shell, I am happily settled on StumpWM. -- Skype:leandro.gfc.dutra?chat      Yahoo!: ymsgr:sendIM?lgcdutra +55 (61) 3546 7191        Google Talk: xmpp:leand...@jab

Re: NetworkManager

2011-07-02 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, 02 Jul 2011 17:53:50 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > Thanks for the advice. I'll ssh in and if the text consoles don't > reappear after completing the upgrade, I can investigate further at > leisure. Upgrade completed using ssh over a LAN. Unfortunately, I won't have time to reboot and

Re: join 2 contiguous ext3 partitions

2011-07-02 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 9:45 AM, Joao Ferreira Gmail wrote: > Hello, > > can I somehow join 2 ext3 partitions ? > > /dev/sda6      28G   15G   12G  56% /media/armazem > /dev/sda7      19G  8.2G  9.3G  47% /media/despensa > > they both contain data. > > thx > Joao Use lsof to make sure nothing live

Re: Stranded between lenny and squeeze

2011-07-02 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 5:10 AM, Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 02 Jul 2011 01:47:38 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > (...) > >> Or is there some devious trick I'm missing?  Will an ssh connection from >> another machine survive the upgrade process, for example? > > Yes, I would try that way. > > Given yo

Re: solved: emacs: ugly characters

2011-07-02 Thread lee
Miles Bader writes: > lee writes: >> Isn't ant-aliasing supposed to make fonts more pretty and easier to read >> instead of messing them up and making them very straining for the eyes? > > It generally does, but like anything, YMMV. > [...] > Sometimes it just depends on the > particular font an

Re: monitor detection maybe not working

2011-07-02 Thread Paul Scott
On 07/02/2011 12:23 PM, Paul Scott wrote: On 07/02/2011 02:05 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 01 Jul 2011 13:22:02 -0700, Paul Scott wrote: I'm running sid. My monitor stopped going to the correct resolution some upgrades ago. I have an nVidia Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX - nForce GPU] (rev

Re: Problen installing Debian

2011-07-02 Thread Eike Lantzsch
On Saturday 02 July 2011 18:30:56 Robert Mansell wrote: > I installed Debian on my desktop and it works fine. > I tried installing Debian on a laptop and a another desktop and neither > computer > is even booting up. Can anyone help? Probably yes - *IF* you'll be so kind as to supply details - err

Problen installing Debian

2011-07-02 Thread Robert Mansell
I installed Debian on my desktop and it works fine. I tried installing Debian on a laptop and a another desktop and neither computer is even booting up. Can anyone help? -- Respectfully Robert Mansell a.k.a. Tamyyr

[SOLVED] Re: Can't run apps as root in KDE

2011-07-02 Thread T Elcor
--- On Fri, 7/1/11, T Elcor wrote: > Am having problems running KDE apps as root. To reproduce: > 1. Open the KDE Menu Editor > 2. Setup a new app item (for example, copy and paste > Konqueror to Konqueror-2) > 3. Goto the "Advanced" tab and check the "Run as a > different user" checkbox > 4. Typ

RE: NVIDIA - URGENT

2011-07-02 Thread Hans Vogelsberger
On Sat, Jul 2, I wrote: > Todays testing update, safe-upgrade and full-upgrade totally killed my X. After that, I went to the TV and saw some news. When I returned to the computer, I already found important answers: Chris Brennan: > Try reinstalling the nvidia driver, the kernel likely changed

Re: Stranded between lenny and squeeze

2011-07-02 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, 02 Jul 2011 14:34:46 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > (However, sshing in to upgrade a system running network manager does > indeed not work; while I feel it's a serious bug the bug report about > that has still not been dealt with sadly.) > Maybe I missed it, but it doesn't even appear to b

Re: NVIDIA - URGENT

2011-07-02 Thread David Baron
On Saturday 30 Sivan 5771 21:00:28 debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: > > That's not the problem at my end. I had nvidia-kernel-dkms installed, > > which automatically takes care of that. I haven't had to recompile > > the driver on a kernel upgrade for months. > > I think the p

Re: monitor detection maybe not working

2011-07-02 Thread Paul Scott
On 07/02/2011 11:58 AM, Brian wrote: On Sat 02 Jul 2011 at 11:01:52 -0700, Paul Scott wrote: On 07/02/2011 07:40 AM, Brian wrote: There is a direct connection between the monitor and the video adapter? AFAIK It would be visually obvious. But the card doesn't do 1280x1024 or 1024x768. Why

Re: monitor detection maybe not working

2011-07-02 Thread Paul Scott
On 07/02/2011 02:05 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 01 Jul 2011 13:22:02 -0700, Paul Scott wrote: I'm running sid. My monitor stopped going to the correct resolution some upgrades ago. I have an nVidia Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX - nForce GPU] (rev a3). Which VGA driver are you using? Whate

Re: monitor detection maybe not working

2011-07-02 Thread Brian
On Sat 02 Jul 2011 at 11:01:52 -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > On 07/02/2011 07:40 AM, Brian wrote: >> >> There is a direct connection between the monitor and the video >> adapter? > > AFAIK It would be visually obvious. >> But the card doesn't do 1280x1024 or 1024x768. > > Why do you say that? From

Re: Can't run apps as root in KDE

2011-07-02 Thread T Elcor
--- On Sat, 7/2/11, T Elcor wrote: > Anyway, I just discovered I can't run konqueror from Alt+F2 > even without switching the user Never mind, it's fine. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian

Re: Stranded between lenny and squeeze

2011-07-02 Thread Joey Hess
Hendrik Boom wrote: > But I'm stuck. The next step is to issue > > apt-get dist-upgrade > > but I can't figure out where to type this in. I can log in using gdm, > but terminals found there may expire during the upgrade, leaving > everything in an inconsistent state. Debian takes care to kee

Re: Can't run apps as root in KDE

2011-07-02 Thread T Elcor
--- On Fri, 7/1/11, Scott Ferguson wrote: > What you have described is not sufficient to enable a > hidden menu entry. > It is unclear to me that you followed all the steps I > outlined, please > confirm that you did the following. *Pay particular > attention to step 2.* Yes, I missed the step 2

Re: GRUB failure

2011-07-02 Thread Joel Roth
On Sun, Jul 03, 2011 at 02:14:28AM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > On Fri, 1 Jul 2011, Joel Roth wrote: > > > > >On Sat, Jul 02, 2011 at 03:07:24AM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > >>Hello. > >> > >>I have a "laptop" computer with winXP Pro, Unbuntu 8.04 and Debian 5 (I > >>think it is 5), installed. > >> >

Re: Can't run apps as root in KDE

2011-07-02 Thread T Elcor
--- On Fri, 7/1/11, Scott Ferguson wrote: > What you have described is not sufficient to enable a > hidden menu entry. > It is unclear to me that you followed all the steps I > outlined, please > confirm that you did the following. *Pay particular > attention to step 2.* Yes, I missed the step 2

Re: GRUB failure

2011-07-02 Thread Bret Busby
On Fri, 1 Jul 2011, Joel Roth wrote: On Sat, Jul 02, 2011 at 03:07:24AM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: Hello. I have a "laptop" computer with winXP Pro, Unbuntu 8.04 and Debian 5 (I think it is 5), installed. With a recent electricity supply failure, I ran an orderly shutdown on the computer. Si

Re: monitor detection maybe not working

2011-07-02 Thread Paul Scott
On 07/02/2011 07:40 AM, Brian wrote: On Fri 01 Jul 2011 at 20:47:02 -0700, Paul Scott wrote: On 07/01/2011 03:46 PM, Brian wrote: xrandr believes VGA-1 is only capable of 1024x768. Why do you believe 1280x1024 is possible? 1. The monitor keeps telling me it works better at 1280x1024. Mine

Re: NVIDIA - URGENT

2011-07-02 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-07-02 18:44 +0200, Hans Vogelsberger wrote: > Todays testing update, safe-upgrade and full-upgrade totally killed my > X which ran with NVIDIA driver. Even this posting I must send from my > old computer which is in a terrible state because I did nothing on it > since I use the new one. Wi

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Re: NetworkManager

2011-07-02 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, 02 Jul 2011 19:36:31 +0200, Claudius Hubig wrote: > Hendrik Boom wrote: >>What do I have to do to make sure the network manager is off, either >>temporarily or permanently? > > AFAIK, it won’t touch interfaces defined in /etc/network/interfaces. > Using update-rc.d, one can also complete

Re: diff original .conf files in packages with the ones installed

2011-07-02 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-07-02 19:38 +0200, Hendrik Boom wrote: > What I would love is to have all the true configuration files checked > into a revision management system (such as monotone). There would be a > vendor branch, various changes performed during installation, and finally > any changes made by the s

Re: NetworkManager

2011-07-02 Thread Lisi
On Saturday 02 July 2011 18:36:31 Claudius Hubig wrote: > Just deinstalling it should also be possible. This is how I get rid of it. It is the only way that I have found of conclusively stopping it interfering. For desktops I use /e/n/i with static IP. For laptops/netbooks I use wicd with DH

Re: monitor detection maybe not working

2011-07-02 Thread Paul Scott
On 07/02/2011 04:04 AM, Claudius Hubig wrote: Paul Scott wrote: On 07/01/2011 03:46 PM, Brian wrote: On Fri 01 Jul 2011 at 15:19:21 -0700, Paul Scott wrote: 1024x768 60.0* 800x60060.3 56.2 848x48060.0 640x48059.9 My LCD monitor's native re

Re: NVIDIA - URGENT

2011-07-02 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-07-02 19:08 +0200, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > That's not the problem at my end. I had nvidia-kernel-dkms installed, > which automatically takes care of that. I haven't had to recompile > the driver on a kernel upgrade for months. I think the problem is the new multiarch path of libGL.so.1

Re: diff original .conf files in packages with the ones installed

2011-07-02 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, 01 Jul 2011 09:44:41 +0200, alberto fuentes wrote: > This would be handy to checkout messed up systems to be able to tell > apart easily whats has been touched. > > Is there already something that makes this? > > The easier way it comes to mind is to dpkg --get-selections, > debootstrap,

Re: NetworkManager

2011-07-02 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hendrik Boom wrote: >What do I have to do to make sure the network manager is off, either >temporarily or permanently? AFAIK, it won’t touch interfaces defined in /etc/network/interfaces. Using update-rc.d, one can also completely disable the daemon like this: update-rc.d network-manager disabl

Re: NetworkManager (was: Re: Stranded between lenny and squeeze)

2011-07-02 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, 02 Jul 2011 14:16:54 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 02 Jul 2011 13:54:02 +, Curt wrote: > >> On 2011-07-02, Camaleón wrote: Let’s just say that GDM is a good indicator of someone also using NM. >>> >>> A notebook or a portable system is more inclided to be an indicator >

Re: NVIDIA - URGENT

2011-07-02 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Chris Brennan wrote: > * Hans Vogelsberger [2011-07-02 18:44:43 +0200]: > >> Todays testing update, safe-upgrade and full-upgrade totally killed my X >> which ran with NVIDIA driver. Even this posting I must send from my old >> computer which is in a terrible state

Re: NVIDIA - URGENT

2011-07-02 Thread Chris Brennan
* Hans Vogelsberger [2011-07-02 18:44:43 +0200]: > Todays testing update, safe-upgrade and full-upgrade totally killed my X > which ran with NVIDIA driver. Even this posting I must send from my old > computer which is in a terrible state because I did nothing on it since > I use the new one. W

Re: NVIDIA - URGENT

2011-07-02 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 12:44 PM, Hans Vogelsberger wrote: > Todays testing update, safe-upgrade and full-upgrade totally killed my X > which ran with NVIDIA driver. Even this posting I must send from my old > computer which is in a terrible state because I did nothing on it since I > use the new o

NVIDIA - URGENT

2011-07-02 Thread Hans Vogelsberger
Todays testing update, safe-upgrade and full-upgrade totally killed my X which ran with NVIDIA driver. Even this posting I must send from my old computer which is in a terrible state because I did nothing on it since I use the new one. Without X, most work I do on my computer cannot be done. N

Re: diff original .conf files in packages with the ones installed

2011-07-02 Thread William Hopkins
On 07/01/11 at 08:50pm, alberto fuentes wrote: > On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 8:03 PM, William Hopkins wrote: > > > On 07/01/11 at 09:44am, alberto fuentes wrote: > > > This would be handy to checkout messed up systems to be able to tell > > apart > > > easily whats has been touched. > > > > > > Is ther

Re: netstat performance

2011-07-02 Thread William Hopkins
On 07/02/11 at 02:06pm, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Sb, 02 iul 11, 09:35:35, Erwan David wrote: > > > > That's what I do : I have unbound locally for recursive, and it caches > > for the local network + bind for authoritative. > > Not sure what "recursive" means [...] Recursive queries are what a

Re: Squeeze: How to hide certain partitions in Nautilus

2011-07-02 Thread Hoang Le
> I have used a plain USB flash key (fat32 formatted), edited "/etc/fstab" > and added: > > *** > UUID=12345-6789 /mnt    auto    defaults,noauto 0       0 > *** > > And after reboot, neither nautilus nor "mount" command showed up the > volume as mounted nor even as present. > > Once I run "mount -

Re: Can't run apps as root in KDE

2011-07-02 Thread William Hopkins
On 07/01/11 at 03:20pm, T Elcor wrote: > --- On Fri, 7/1/11, William Hopkins wrote: > > > Try the same command from a terminal window, and see what > > errors you get. > > luser@testbox:~$ kdesu konqueror > bash: kdesu: command not found > luser@testbox:~$ whereis kdesu > kdesu: /usr/share/man/m

Re: My CD and DVD are messed up

2011-07-02 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 02 Jul 2011 14:37:35 +, T o n g wrote: > On Tue, 28 Jun 2011 17:07:08 +, Camaleón wrote: > >>> On my system the /dev/cdrom is actually DVD while My CD is actually >>> /dev/ cdrom1. >> >> That does not match with a "correct" fstab file. >> >> Your primary device (dvd?) should poi

Re: My CD and DVD are messed up

2011-07-02 Thread Brian
On Sat 02 Jul 2011 at 14:37:35 +, T o n g wrote: > BTW, that document is about 5 years old now, and my Debian doesn't have > commands like udevtrigger, udevcontrol and udevtest for udev rules > testing and debugging and more. > > What are the equivalents for them? udevadm(8) or use the co

Re: monitor detection maybe not working

2011-07-02 Thread Brian
On Fri 01 Jul 2011 at 20:47:02 -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > On 07/01/2011 03:46 PM, Brian wrote: >> >> xrandr believes VGA-1 is only capable of 1024x768. Why do you believe >> 1280x1024 is possible? > > 1. The monitor keeps telling me it works better at 1280x1024. Mine has a button to press which

Re: pre-seed was Re: Headless Install Debian Squeeze

2011-07-02 Thread T o n g
On Fri, 01 Jul 2011 16:19:42 +0100, Wawrzek Niewodniczanski wrote: >> I think it can be introduced on a USB stick or possibly even a floppy >> although the USB stick method would work on just about any P.C. made in >> the last 15 years. . . >> > [...] > I use http to server preseed file . . . U

Re: My CD and DVD are messed up

2011-07-02 Thread T o n g
Hi, Thanks everyone for the follow ups. Sorry for responding late. On Tue, 28 Jun 2011 17:07:08 +, Camaleón wrote: >> On my system the /dev/cdrom is actually DVD while My CD is actually >> /dev/ cdrom1. > > That does not match with a "correct" fstab file. > > Your primary device (dvd?) s

Re: Can't run apps as root in KDE

2011-07-02 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 02 Jul 2011 22:18:32 +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Sat, Jul 02, 2011 at 10:57:15AM +, Camaleón wrote: ... >> I only have 2 users in my debian box: me and root. > > You can create new account from GUI, too. Yes, and I was just talking from my POV and a concrete scenario. I know how d

Re: solved: emacs: ugly characters

2011-07-02 Thread Miles Bader
lee writes: > Isn't ant-aliasing supposed to make fonts more pretty and easier to read > instead of messing them up and making them very straining for the eyes? It generally does, but like anything, YMMV. Anti-aliasing parameters can have a big effect on the final look (e.g., subpixel rendering

Re: NetworkManager (was: Re: Stranded between lenny and squeeze)

2011-07-02 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 02 Jul 2011 13:54:02 +, Curt wrote: > On 2011-07-02, Camaleón wrote: >>> >>> Let’s just say that GDM is a good indicator of someone also using NM. >> >> A notebook or a portable system is more inclided to be an indicator for >> NM presence but not a DE or a display manager :-) >> >>

Re: pre-seed was Re: Headless Install Debian Squeeze

2011-07-02 Thread Martin McCormick
I downloaded the following image: debian-6.0.2.1-kfreebsd-i386-CD-1.iso I am still a bit confused as to whether one can use a pre-seed file with that CD without remastering it or having to arrow down. It is not that those steps are a big problem, but if one is going to do a headless insta

Re: NetworkManager (was: Re: Stranded between lenny and squeeze)

2011-07-02 Thread Curt
On 2011-07-02, Camaleón wrote: >> >> Let’s just say that GDM is a good indicator of someone also using NM. > > A notebook or a portable system is more inclided to be an indicator for > NM presence but not a DE or a display manager :-) > > I disable NM in all of my workstations that run GNOME. B

Re: Can't run apps as root in KDE

2011-07-02 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sat, Jul 02, 2011 at 10:57:15AM +, Camaleón wrote: ... > I only have 2 users in my debian box: me and root. You can create new account from GUI, too. > When I need to test if there is a configuration issue with the browser > (or my Gnome profile), I launch it as root because it has a

solved: emacs: ugly characters

2011-07-02 Thread lee
lee writes: > how comes that emacs displays the text with ugly characters? > > The characters from the emacs frame are somehow messed up. I've tried > different monospace fonts and different sizes, and they all get messed > up alike. Someone wrote me that it looks as if some anti-aliasing is don

Re: NetworkManager (was: Re: Stranded between lenny and squeeze)

2011-07-02 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 02 Jul 2011 14:01:18 +0200, Claudius Hubig wrote: > Camaleón wrote: >>I run GDM and NM is off :-) > > Let’s just say that GDM is a good indicator of someone also using NM. A notebook or a portable system is more inclided to be an indicator for NM presence but not a DE or a display mana

NetworkManager (was: Re: Stranded between lenny and squeeze)

2011-07-02 Thread Claudius Hubig
Camaleón wrote: >I run GDM and NM is off :-) Let’s just say that GDM is a good indicator of someone also using NM. >But I take your point: if NM is not even capable of surviving from a >remote ssh session then here you have a very good reason to disable it >ASAP. It ‘simply’ drops all network

Re: Stranded between lenny and squeeze

2011-07-02 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 02 Jul 2011 13:13:22 +0200, Claudius Hubig wrote: > Camaleón wrote: >>On Sat, 02 Jul 2011 01:47:38 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: >> >>(...) >> >>> Or is there some devious trick I'm missing? Will an ssh connection >>> from another machine survive the upgrade process, for example? >> >>Yes,

Re: Stranded between lenny and squeeze

2011-07-02 Thread lee
Claudius Hubig writes: > If you absolutely have to use an SSH connection, install screen > beforehand and run the upgrade from inside screen, so it can continue > when the connection drops. You can also use screen in a terminal in an X session. It will survive quitting X, and you can reattach t

Re: Can't run apps as root in KDE

2011-07-02 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Friday 01 July 2011 21:07:25 T Elcor wrote: > Hi, > > Am having problems running KDE apps as root. To reproduce: > 1. Open the KDE Menu Editor > 2. Setup a new app item (for example, copy and paste Konqueror to > Konqueror-2) 3. Goto the "Advanced" tab and check the "Run as a different > user"

Re: Stranded between lenny and squeeze

2011-07-02 Thread Claudius Hubig
Camaleón wrote: >On Sat, 02 Jul 2011 01:47:38 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > >(...) > >> Or is there some devious trick I'm missing? Will an ssh connection from >> another machine survive the upgrade process, for example? > >Yes, I would try that way. > >Given your current situation I'd say a SSH

Re: netstat performance

2011-07-02 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 02 iul 11, 09:35:35, Erwan David wrote: > > That's what I do : I have unbound locally for recursive, and it caches > for the local network + bind for authoritative. Not sure what "recursive" means, but dnsmasq shines on your gateway, where it can provide DHCP too and make sure your local

Re: monitor detection maybe not working

2011-07-02 Thread Claudius Hubig
Paul Scott wrote: >On 07/01/2011 03:46 PM, Brian wrote: >> On Fri 01 Jul 2011 at 15:19:21 -0700, Paul Scott wrote: >>> 1024x768 60.0* >>> 800x60060.3 56.2 >>> 848x48060.0 >>> 640x48059.9 >>> My LCD monitor's native resolution is 1280x1024 >> xrandr

Re: Can't run apps as root in KDE

2011-07-02 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 02 Jul 2011 18:57:11 +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > I have to admit that for some desktop system with passwordless sudo > policy, you may not gain much security advantage by not using root, > since your user account is practically root in terms of security... ¿? > On Sat, Jul 02, 2011 at 08:

Re: Can't run apps as root in KDE

2011-07-02 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, I have to admit that for some desktop system with passwordless sudo policy, you may not gain much security advantage by not using root, since your user account is practically root in terms of security... On Sat, Jul 02, 2011 at 08:40:31AM +, Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 02 Jul 2011 11:42:13

Re: Stranded between lenny and squeeze

2011-07-02 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, 02 Jul 2011 03:14:12 -0400, William Hopkins wrote: > On 07/02/11 at 01:47am, Hendrik Boom wrote: >> >> I'm in the middle of the upgrade from lenny to squeeze. I have a >> partially working system. I've been following the instruction ins the >> release notes, >> http://www.debian.org/rel

Re: spamassassin -- cron.daily warning

2011-07-02 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, Camaleón wrote: I can't see the problem now that you made the change. Is there still anything wrong with your current setup? :-? No, it is all fine with the change. I was going to post this as solved, but thought it might be better to see what others thought about the change and to make

Re: monitor detection maybe not working

2011-07-02 Thread Brad Rogers
On Fri, 01 Jul 2011 13:22:02 -0700 Paul Scott wrote: Hello Paul, > nVidia Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX - nForce GPU] (rev a3). > > I'm researching many things from this list etc. to attempt to solve > the problem but one concern is that I don't think my monitor is being > detected correctly.

Re: Stranded between lenny and squeeze

2011-07-02 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 02 Jul 2011 01:47:38 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: (...) > Or is there some devious trick I'm missing? Will an ssh connection from > another machine survive the upgrade process, for example? Yes, I would try that way. Given your current situation I'd say a SSH session would be more than

Re: monitor detection maybe not working

2011-07-02 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 01 Jul 2011 13:22:02 -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > I'm running sid. > > My monitor stopped going to the correct resolution some upgrades ago. I > have an > > nVidia Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX - nForce GPU] (rev a3). Which VGA driver are you using? Nvidia closed driver provides "nvidia

Re: Stranded between lenny and squeeze

2011-07-02 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, 01 Jul 2011 23:54:39 -0500, Brian Ryans wrote: > Quoting Hendrik Boom on 2011-07-01 20:47: >> And I can't use cntl-alt-F1 to get a text console, because all I get is >> a blank black screen. Is gdm taking over the text consoles and >> disallowing them? How do I get my text consoles back

Re: spamassassin -- cron.daily warning

2011-07-02 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 02 Jul 2011 16:06:08 +1000, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > On a server that still has lenny, I was getting a message (started on > 27th June) as follows each day (from /etc/cron.daily/spamassassin > script: > > Jul 2 15:16:26.778 [17797] warn: netset: cannot include 127.0.0.0/8 as > it has al

Re: Can't run apps as root in KDE

2011-07-02 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 02 Jul 2011 11:42:13 +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Fri, Jul 01, 2011 at 12:07:25PM -0700, T Elcor wrote: >> Am having problems running KDE apps as root. (...) > I do not know about exact reason why but... > > Generally, it is bad idea to run desktop application as root. So > applica

Re: netstat performance

2011-07-02 Thread Erwan David
On 01/07/11 23:21, William Hopkins wrote: > On 07/02/11 at 12:01am, Andrei POPESCU wrote: >> On Mi, 29 iun 11, 20:08:16, Brian wrote: >>> On Wed 29 Jun 2011 at 12:22:26 -0600, Glenn English wrote: >>> For a good time, 'apt-get install bind' :-) >>> >>> For an even better time (and to escape

Re: GRUB failure

2011-07-02 Thread Joel Roth
On Sat, Jul 02, 2011 at 03:07:24AM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > Hello. > > I have a "laptop" computer with winXP Pro, Unbuntu 8.04 and Debian 5 (I think > it is 5), installed. > > With a recent electricity supply failure, I ran an orderly shutdown > on the computer. > > Since that shutown, each t

Re: Copying a bootable CD

2011-07-02 Thread William Hopkins
On 07/02/11 at 12:54pm, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 02/07/11 07:20, Brian wrote: > > On Fri 01 Jul 2011 at 23:49:56 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > >> conv=notrunc means "do not truncate the output file" according to the > >> manpage, but I have no ideea what it's good for, but doesn't sound li

Re: Stranded between lenny and squeeze

2011-07-02 Thread William Hopkins
On 07/02/11 at 01:47am, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > I'm in the middle of the upgrade from lenny to squeeze. I have a > partially working system. I've been following the instruction ins the > release notes, http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes/ > ch-upgrading.en.html and I've g