Re: Rotation of Xorg log files

2012-06-16 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2012-06-17 at 06:23 +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: > Can anyone tell me what is supposed to be rotating (and cleaning Xorg > log files). I've just noticed /var/log contains about 540 versions of > the log Wow, fortunately my X logs for Debian are limited to spinymouse@precise:~$ ls /media

Rotation of Xorg log files

2012-06-16 Thread Alan Chandler
Can anyone tell me what is supposed to be rotating (and cleaning Xorg log files). I've just noticed /var/log contains about 540 versions of the log -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscri

Re: Installing squeeze in Virtual box

2012-06-16 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2012-06-17 at 06:01 +0530, L V Gandhi wrote: > Any blog or tutorial for installing squeeze in virtual box of windows? > How to make virtual partitions for root and swap in virtual box? http://www.wired.com/geekdad/wp-content/gallery/installing-debian-on-virtualbox/31_Debian_Install_15.png

Re: books on debian of a beginner nature?

2012-06-16 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 4:19 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > >> > I doubt a blind person would be asking for printed books on Debian. > >> Blind person could ask books for Debian if they are written with >> Braille, but they might be more rare than normal books about Debian. > > My English is broken, bu

Re: Debian 6.0.5 and loadlin

2012-06-16 Thread Howard Eisenberger
On 2012-06-16, Mike McClain wrote: > I'm accustomed to running loadlin to launch different versions > of Linux from dos and it's worked dependably for me for many years. > I installed a copy of squeeze yesterday on a partition, copied the > kernel and initrd to C: and tried to boot into squeez

Installing squeeze in Virtual box

2012-06-16 Thread L V Gandhi
Any blog or tutorial for installing squeeze in virtual box of windows? How to make virtual partitions for root and swap in virtual box? -- L V Gandhi

Re: Debian 6.0.5 and loadlin

2012-06-16 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 16 Jun 2012 14:15:10 -0400 (EDT), Mike McClain wrote: > > I'm accustomed to running loadlin to launch different versions > of Linux from dos and it's worked dependably for me for many years. > I installed a copy of squeeze yesterday on a partition, copied the > kernel and initrd to C: and

Re: Syslogd message...............

2012-06-16 Thread Charlie
On Sat, 16 Jun 2012 17:13:26 + (UTC) "Camaleón noela...@gmail.com" suggested this: >On Sat, 16 Jun 2012 08:14:03 +1000, Charlie wrote: > >> This happens with both powered and powered only through a USB >> connection, external hard drives. Both with ext3 file systems: >> >> Message from sysl

Re: books on debian of a beginner nature?

2012-06-16 Thread Lisi
On Wednesday 13 June 2012 16:01:26 Karen Lewellen wrote: > For example while I found a debian for beginners e-book from the free > technology academy, In Europe I think as the license references the > European Union, the zip format seemed unusual. There's a Linux for beginners, which makes use of

Re: /tmp is too small

2012-06-16 Thread Roger Leigh
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 04:09:01AM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: > > On Jun 7, 2012, at 6:48 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > >Or alternatively, how can I enlarge the tmpfs? I need it enlarged > >from > >anout 200M to about 2G for this week's project. Yes, that's a lot > >bigger > >than my RAM. > > Inc

Re: Sound disappeared after unstable upgrade

2012-06-16 Thread Roger Leigh
On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 09:01:23AM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: > It is still not fixed for me. I am getting the udev errors during > startup and then get to the logon point with no mouse or keyboard. > To get them, I have to unplug and plug them in again and they come > back. I can then login. >

Re: failures on boot.

2012-06-16 Thread Roger Leigh
On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 05:53:22PM +0200, Camaleón wrote: > El 2012-06-14 a las 09:01 +0200, Mauro escribió: > > (resending to the list) > > > On 13 June 2012 18:01, Camaleón wrote: > > (...) > > > >> Yes, the message is on every boot. > > > > > > Okay. > > > > > > Looking at the scripting rou

Re: [OT] Documenting new stuff (was: /tmp is too small)

2012-06-16 Thread Roger Leigh
On Sat, Jun 09, 2012 at 08:10:39PM +, Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 09 Jun 2012 20:01:33 +0200, Slavko wrote: > > > Ahoj, > > > > Dňa Sat, 9 Jun 2012 16:36:39 + (UTC) Camaleón > > napísal: > > > >> On Fri, 08 Jun 2012 00:04:46 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > >> > >> Andrei, I'd be more than

Re: what causes these apt-get/aptitude errors?

2012-06-16 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Neal, Neal Murphy wrote: > Installed the https transport package to try https: in sources.list. But now > I > see a few "Failed to connect to 2001:500:61:28::70: Network is unreachable" > (or address 2607:ea00:101:3c0b:207:e9ff:fe00:e595). Why are any IPV6 addrs > being used? Why not?

Re: Incompatible group permission - Is it a bug?

2012-06-16 Thread Vivek Prakash
Hi Slavko, On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 1:19 AM, Slavko wrote: > IMO, you must to logout/login to new memberships can be in play :-) > > or use the newgrp command. Thank you for these suggestions. They do work :) I had a look at the newgrp source code and it does what i expect it to do. newgrp is in

Re: configuring interface & configuring MTA time out

2012-06-16 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 16 Jun 2012 15:05:50 -0400, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: > On 06/16/2012 02:04 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> You have to ask yourself if you really need that package in your >> system. I never heard of it before nor read about it is needed for >> running VB nor any other virtual machine :-? >> >>

Firefox performance (was: Adobe Flash in Chromium out of date: stable debian)

2012-06-16 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 16 Jun 2012 20:33:57 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sat, 2012-06-16 at 17:48 +, Camaleón wrote: >> That can be because you are using too many addons within Firefox, IIRC. > > 3 addons + an Ubuntu-plug + Personas. > > Is this much? Yes. One is even too much ;-P > Iceweasel 12 for

[SOLVED] Re: Network Security Services Update question

2012-06-16 Thread ricccardo
On Sun, 2012-06-10 at 10:44 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 09 Jun 2012 22:55:58 +0200, ricccardo wrote: > > > On Sat, 2012-06-09 at 20:34 +, Camaleón wrote: > > >> > Is there some operation should I do to check if all is really working > >> > fine?? > >> > >> Ah! It seems that backports

Re: Incompatible group permission - Is it a bug?

2012-06-16 Thread Slavko
Hi, Dňa Sun, 17 Jun 2012 01:04:44 +0530 Vivek Prakash napísal: > # whoami > vivek > # cd /home/foo/ > bash: cd: /home/foo/: Permission denied > # groups vivek > vivek : vivek foo > > This is totally weird. Though user `vivek' is in group `foo', and > group bits for /home/foo/ is set to rwx, `vi

Debian 6.0.5 and loadlin

2012-06-16 Thread Mike McClain
I'm accustomed to running loadlin to launch different versions of Linux from dos and it's worked dependably for me for many years. I installed a copy of squeeze yesterday on a partition, copied the kernel and initrd to C: and tried to boot into squeeze but it just resets the computer. It's a P3

Re: what causes these apt-get/aptitude errors?

2012-06-16 Thread Neal Murphy
On Friday 15 June 2012 02:07:02 Claudius Hubig wrote: > Hello Neal, > > Neal Murphy wrote: > > Aptitude also reports "W: GPG error on security.debian.org > > squeeze/updates Release: the following signatures were invalid: NODATA > > 2" > > > > So I give up. Next time I'm down there, I'm going to

Incompatible group permission - Is it a bug?

2012-06-16 Thread Vivek Prakash
Hi, I am creating another user and placing an existing user in the group of other user, hoping to write in the home directory of other user. Sounds very simple! # uname -a Linux vini 2.6.38-11-generic #50-Ubuntu SMP Mon Sep 12 21:18:14 UTC 2011 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux # whoami vivek # su root

Re: configuring interface & configuring MTA time out

2012-06-16 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
On 06/16/2012 02:04 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 16 Jun 2012 13:47:38 -0400, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: > >> On 06/16/2012 01:28 PM, Camaleón wrote: > Matthew pointed out that my use of netscript 2.4 is sort of non-standard for a regular Debian desktop. >>> >>> (...) >>> >>> And he is rig

Re: dd_rescue No additional sense

2012-06-16 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2012-06-16 at 19:17 +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 07:33:13AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > I would copy the files (tar) instead of running some dd command. If it > > fails to copy a file, you could try again, just for this file. Broken > > drives tend to fail ;) and s

Re: Adobe Flash in Chromium out of date: stable debian

2012-06-16 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2012-06-16 at 17:48 +, Camaleón wrote: > That can be because you are using too many addons within Firefox, IIRC. 3 addons + an Ubuntu-plug + Personas. Is this much? Iceweasel 12 for Debian is empty and regarding to the speed, it's the same as for Firefox 13 on Ubuntu with add-ons. F

Re: dd_rescue No additional sense

2012-06-16 Thread Jon Dowland
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 07:33:13AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > I would copy the files (tar) instead of running some dd command. If it > fails to copy a file, you could try again, just for this file. Broken > drives tend to fail ;) and sometimes they need to rest some days before > going on or a cl

Re: configuring interface & configuring MTA time out

2012-06-16 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
On 06/16/2012 01:24 PM, Tom H wrote: > On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Camaleón wrote: >> On Fri, 15 Jun 2012 19:56:59 -0400, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: >>> On 06/15/2012 12:58 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> > Thank you for your ideas, and I'll return to this thread when I have > any kind of inform

Re: ..selling a surplus wintendo sticker, was: dd_rescue No additional sense

2012-06-16 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sat, 16 Jun 2012 11:03:33 +0200, Ralf wrote in message <1339837413.3429.58.camel@precise>: > On Sat, 2012-06-16 at 18:01 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > > Maybe this?: > > > > Just some results from 'intel microsoft vista "home basic" scandal' > > search on Google: > > > > http://www.techno

Re: configuring interface & configuring MTA time out

2012-06-16 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 16 Jun 2012 13:47:38 -0400, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: > On 06/16/2012 01:28 PM, Camaleón wrote: >>> Matthew pointed out that my use of netscript 2.4 is sort of >>> non-standard for a regular Debian desktop. >> >> (...) >> >> And he is right. >> >> The first thing I would do is removing t

Re: Adobe Flash in Chromium out of date: stable debian

2012-06-16 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 16 Jun 2012 19:29:08 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sat, 2012-06-16 at 16:46 +, Camaleón wrote: >> Iceweasel "slow"? At least for me Firefox 13 is fast as hell :-) (...) > BOT, yes, Iceweasel and Firefox are slow. It doesn't matter on fast > machines with fast Internet access. Tha

Re: configuring interface & configuring MTA time out

2012-06-16 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
On 06/16/2012 01:28 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 16 Jun 2012 13:06:11 -0400, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: > >> On 06/16/2012 10:42 AM, Camaleón wrote: >>> If you are using the "resolvconf" package I bet you have to trust what >>> the "/etc/revolv.conf" file warning says in uppercase about do not >>> e

Re: Adobe Flash in Chromium out of date: stable debian

2012-06-16 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2012-06-16 at 19:29 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sat, 2012-06-16 at 16:46 +, Camaleón wrote: > > Iceweasel "slow"? At least for me Firefox 13 is fast as hell :-) > > Firefox is very fast, fast enough for my needs, but it can't compare to > browsers with less features on my machine.

Re: Adobe Flash in Chromium out of date: stable debian

2012-06-16 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2012-06-16 at 16:46 +, Camaleón wrote: > Iceweasel "slow"? At least for me Firefox 13 is fast as hell :-) Firefox is very fast, fast enough for my needs, but it can't compare to browsers with less features on my machine. Firefox 13 sometimes force me to kill it and sometimes to reset t

Re: configuring interface & configuring MTA time out

2012-06-16 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 16 Jun 2012 13:06:11 -0400, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: > On 06/16/2012 10:42 AM, Camaleón wrote: >> If you are using the "resolvconf" package I bet you have to trust what >> the "/etc/revolv.conf" file warning says in uppercase about do not >> editing the file because is dynamically changed ;

Re: configuring interface & configuring MTA time out

2012-06-16 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 15 Jun 2012 19:56:59 -0400, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: >> On 06/15/2012 12:58 PM, Camaleón wrote: > Thank you for your ideas, and I'll return to this thread when I have any kind of information. >>> >>> Ok, keep us informed. I feel

Re: Syslogd message...............

2012-06-16 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 16 Jun 2012 08:14:03 +1000, Charlie wrote: > This happens with both powered and powered only through a USB > connection, external hard drives. Both with ext3 file systems: > > Message from syslogd@nomad at Jun 16 08:04:30 ... kernel:[ 3187.986721] > journal commit I/O error Being USB vol

Re: configuring interface & configuring MTA time out

2012-06-16 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
On 06/16/2012 10:42 AM, Camaleón wrote: > If you are using the "resolvconf" package I bet you have to trust what > the "/etc/revolv.conf" file warning says in uppercase about do not > editing the file because is dynamically changed ;-) > > http://wiki.debian.org/NetworkConfiguration#The_resolvco

Re: Adobe Flash in Chromium out of date: stable debian

2012-06-16 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 15 Jun 2012 11:05:16 -0500, John W. Foster wrote: > Far a while now the adobe flash player/plugin in Debian's Chromium > browser has been 'out of date' with the approriate warnings popping up , > asking to update the flashplayer. I thought the flashplayer was 'built > in' in Chromium as it

Re: Sid Synaptic authenticates with sudo

2012-06-16 Thread Joe
On Sat, 16 Jun 2012 04:46:32 -0400 Tom H wrote: > On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 4:15 AM, Joe wrote: > > On Fri, 15 Jun 2012 17:08:19 -0500 > > Mark Allums wrote: > > > >> Synaptic has begun asking for my user password rather than the root > >> password.  Why is this happening, and how do I make it st

Re: How to use spamfilters at home

2012-06-16 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 16 Jun 2012 11:55:44 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > do spamfilters for our MUAs interact with libraries used for servers? (...) No. What you can do is using the server-side spamfilter tags to instruct your MUA to act in the way you prefer (if your MUA's anti-spam filter can read from th

Re: How to use spamfilters at home

2012-06-16 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2012-06-17 at 01:09 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > tal% apt-cache show bogofilter On Debian I don't use a mailer at the moment and on Ubuntu I'm already using bogofilter. Bogofilter is working perfect for me. I'm asking for a shared database, because some are still annoyed by Joe and Sam

Re: not autocompleting

2012-06-16 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 16 Jun 2012 14:16:51 +0100, mk bane wrote: > A while ago I upgraded to Squeeze. > I've noticed filename completion does not appear to work for some > commands, such as oocalc. > Anybody point me the direction of a solution? Thanks, Is it only failing for a specific set of filenames (OOo)?

Re: configuring interface & configuring MTA time out

2012-06-16 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 15 Jun 2012 19:56:59 -0400, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: > On 06/15/2012 12:58 PM, Camaleón wrote: (...) >>> Thank you for your ideas, and I'll return to this thread when I have >>> any kind of information. >> >> Ok, keep us informed. I feel curious about what's going on here :-) >> >> > J

not autocompleting

2012-06-16 Thread mk bane
A while ago I upgraded to Squeeze. I've noticed filename completion does not appear to work for some commands, such as oocalc. Anybody point me the direction of a solution? Thanks, -- Michael @mkbane_mcr

Re: How to use spamfilters at home

2012-06-16 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 01:19:44PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > You're right. Anyway, my question is about a shared database for spam, > between spamfilters for home computer MUA and servers such as mailing > list servers. I suspect that (for good reasons) there usually isn't such > a shared dat

Re: Syslogd message...............

2012-06-16 Thread Charlie
On Sat, 16 Jun 2012 11:30:34 +0700 "Sthu Deus sthu.d...@gmail.com" suggested this: >> mount /mnt/lpics >> mount: special device /dev/sdd1 does not exist > >Why don't You mount /dev/sdb1 but /dev/sdd1 ? > >Also, You can mount by UUID. > >What I would do in Your situation is: > >. connect HDD d

Re: How to use spamfilters at home

2012-06-16 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2012-06-16 at 13:09 +0200, Tom H wrote: > On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 11:55 AM, Ralf Mardorf > wrote: > > > > Unfortunately Joe and Sam still aren't filtered by the Debian mailing > > list filter, but fortunately threads that aren't important for me, also > > aren't filtered by the list server

Re: How to use spamfilters at home

2012-06-16 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 11:55 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > Unfortunately Joe and Sam still aren't filtered by the Debian mailing > list filter, but fortunately threads that aren't important for me, also > aren't filtered by the list server. I assume that by "Joe" you mean Joe Assistly. The emails

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-06-16 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Fri, 15 Jun 2012 16:40:56 -0500 Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Well lets look at this more closely. The disks may not be bad. How > old are they? Send me your dmesg output: Sorry I forgot to write the last time: The WD20EARS I have bough between 14. Dec 2010 and 01. Oct 2011. Maybe it was also ca

Re: resize pictures received by mailserver

2012-06-16 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Fri, 15 Jun 2012 18:26:08 +0100, Tixy wrote in message <1339781168.3116.8.ca...@computer2.home>: > On Fri, 2012-06-15 at 04:34 +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > On Thu, 14 Jun 2012 01:37:18 -0500, Christofer wrote in message > > : > > > > > > It's much simpler to do: > > > > > > > > mogrify -r

Re: How to use spamfilters at home

2012-06-16 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2012-06-16 at 11:55 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Hi :) > > do spamfilters for our MUAs interact with libraries used for servers? > At home we easily can mark junk manually. Joe and Sam for example aren't > really annoying for me. OTOH I sometimes use the spamfilter to sort out > mailing li

How to use spamfilters at home

2012-06-16 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi :) do spamfilters for our MUAs interact with libraries used for servers? At home we easily can mark junk manually. Joe and Sam for example aren't really annoying for me. OTOH I sometimes use the spamfilter to sort out mailing list threads, that aren't important for me and indeed, it works too,

What one of the problems has been?

2012-06-16 Thread Sam
Surgery at a young age resulting in an oral implant that made it difficlt to brush teeth, and mouthwash was always medically necessary, consistent denial of it in a socially awkward way due to alcohol content perhaps ? All parties invoved , due to what has happened already, and at fault, perhaps on

Re: books on debian of a beginner nature?

2012-06-16 Thread Ralf Mardorf
> > I doubt a blind person would be asking for printed books on Debian. > Blind person could ask books for Debian if they are written with > Braille, but they might be more rare than normal books about Debian. My English is broken, but perhaps the term "printed" isn't valid for braille. I suspec

Re: something about slurm-llnl

2012-06-16 Thread Curt
On 2012-06-16, lina wrote: > > I have purged the slurm based on the suggestions and my failure > attempt to configure it. > > Thanks for all and have a nice weekend, Sorry about that. I didn't realize you were clustered because as I mentioned those other threads where you mention your clustered s

Re: ..selling a surplus wintendo sticker, was: dd_rescue No additional sense

2012-06-16 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2012-06-16 at 18:01 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > Maybe this?: > > Just some results from 'intel microsoft vista "home basic" scandal' > search on Google: > > http://www.technoledge.com.au/pdfs/marketing-windows7.pdf > http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/microsoft-employee-caught-out-by

Re: Sid Synaptic authenticates with sudo

2012-06-16 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 4:34 AM, Tom H wrote: > > You're welcome. PolicyKit can be more fine-grained than just setting > an admin group. You can find specific synaptic authorizations by > running "pkaction" and then display the actual authorization with > "pkaction --verbose --action-id ". Lookin

Re: Sid Synaptic authenticates with sudo

2012-06-16 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 4:15 AM, Joe wrote: > On Fri, 15 Jun 2012 17:08:19 -0500 > Mark Allums wrote: > >> Synaptic has begun asking for my user password rather than the root >> password.  Why is this happening, and how do I make it stop?  I want >> only users with root privileges to use >> apt/a

Re: Sid Synaptic authenticates with sudo

2012-06-16 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 10:45 PM, Mark Allums wrote: > On 6/15/2012 7:01 PM, Tom H wrote: >> On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 7:41 PM, Tom H wrote: >>> On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 6:08 PM, Mark Allums wrote: Synaptic has begun asking for my user password rather than the root password.  Why is

Re: books on debian of a beginner nature?

2012-06-16 Thread Mika Suomalainen
On 15.06.2012 22:09, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 05:55:07PM +0100, keith wrote: >> > On Sat, 2012-06-16 at 03:55 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: >>> > > Mmmm, surely it is faster to read something than to listen to someone >>> > > reading it aloud? >> > >> > Perhaps not if you'

Re: Sid Synaptic authenticates with sudo

2012-06-16 Thread Joe
On Fri, 15 Jun 2012 17:08:19 -0500 Mark Allums wrote: > Synaptic has begun asking for my user password rather than the root > password. Why is this happening, and how do I make it stop? I want > only users with root privileges to use > apt/aptitude/synaptic/gdebi/etc. and I want the original

Re: Sound disappeared after unstable upgrade

2012-06-16 Thread Alan Chandler
On 15/06/12 07:28, Alan Chandler wrote: On 14/06/12 22:27, Alan Chandler wrote: I upgraded my sid system with the latest set of packages. I have now lost by sound, but I am not sure why. When I run alsamixer as root I see a device that appears to be the sound chip on my motherboard, and usi