RE: OpenVPN and IP Forwarding

2013-01-15 Thread Bonno Bloksma
Hi, >>This is a good clarification. But still confusing. I think you need to >>give us a block diagram or picture of things. Because in the above it >>reads like you have two machines in your path where most of us would >>have only one. Because you say that you vpn to a server and that server

Re: how to buy an ideal laptop RAM module?

2013-01-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 10:57:46AM +0530, vishnu vardhan wrote: > > i have contacted toshiba & i am stumped by their reply : > > 3.The RAM can be extended up to 8 GB in your laptop. Hence, you > need to contact to the service center regarding the same. > > 4.The Ram details :- 204-Pin DD

Re: how to buy an ideal laptop RAM module?

2013-01-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 01:25:59AM -0500, Doug wrote: > On 01/16/2013 12:27 AM, vishnu vardhan wrote: > >i have contacted toshiba & i am stumped by their reply : > > > >3.The RAM can be extended up to 8 GB in your laptop. Hence, you > >need to contact to the service center regarding the same. >

Re: upgrade squeeze -> wheezy (issues)

2013-01-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 10:28:48PM -0600, Paul Johnson wrote: > I'm top posting because nobody should be expected to go through all that > stuff. And what is wrong with deleting the parts that "nobody should be expected to go through"? The process is called trimming. -- "If you're not careful,

Re: Install from DVD set

2013-01-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 02:00:10PM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > > I also discovered that the screen shots in the Synaptic help do not > match the actual synaptic display. As Squeeze is only getting > security patches and I do not have access to wheezy [I'm on dial up] > should I file a bug repor

Re: how to buy an ideal laptop RAM module?

2013-01-15 Thread Doug
On 01/16/2013 12:27 AM, vishnu vardhan wrote: The answer to this appears to be a large part of the problem. Vardhan, if you get the memory you are going to have to open the laptop up to install it. So, since you are going to have to do it anyway to install anything, why not pluck up courage and

Re: how to buy an ideal laptop RAM module?

2013-01-15 Thread vishnu vardhan
> The answer to this appears to be a large part of the problem. > Vardhan, if you get the memory you are going to have to open the laptop up to > install it. So, since you are going to have to do it anyway to install > anything, why not pluck up courage and open it up now, and count how many > me

Re: upgrade squeeze -> wheezy (issues)

2013-01-15 Thread Paul Johnson
I'm top posting because nobody should be expected to go through all that stuff. I believe you have to decide now whether your system is going to be amd64 only or multiarch. Because you now have ia32-libs installed, that means you want to have both 32 and 64. The ia32-libs framework is the old way

Re: disk labels mismatch

2013-01-15 Thread David Christensen
On 01/15/13 04:06, pavicic wrote: I thought I came to a Linux forum where people solve problems not scrap them. The latter sounds like from a Windoze forum. I have a SOHO network with my primary desktop/ VirtualBox server, two desktops, one backup server, and a Windows XP laptop. I used to do

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Re: Install from DVD set

2013-01-15 Thread Richard Owlett
Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Tue, 15 Jan 2013 14:37:37 +0100, Richard Owlett wrote: Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Tue, 15 Jan 2013 13:51:41 +0100, Richard Owlett wrote: 1. After an install completed, how do I scan the other 7 DVD's so Synaptic knows about all available packages? http://www.slideshare.

Re: Install from DVD set

2013-01-15 Thread Richard Owlett
berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 15.01.2013 15:12, Ralf Mardorf a écrit : On Tue, 15 Jan 2013 14:37:37 +0100, Richard Owlett wrote: Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Tue, 15 Jan 2013 13:51:41 +0100, Richard Owlett wrote: 1. After an install completed, how do I scan the other 7 DVD's so Synapt

Re: Full CD ISO image of Testing for USB Booting?

2013-01-15 Thread Brian
On Tue 15 Jan 2013 at 15:12:25 -0800, GoOSSBears wrote: > Hey advanced Debian users, > I would like to use a full CD ISO image of Testing/Wheezy (e.g., one of > the downloaded CD images from an /iso-cd subfolder of [1]) to make a > bootable USB stick onto a 1 GB, 2 GB or larger capacity stick.

Re: Best recommendations for posting anonymously?? Looking for pointers

2013-01-15 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 10:23:10AM +0100, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: .snip > > Is not tor a sort of "layer" over usual network layers? If yes, so, > for http, yes, stuff is clear. But, https is not, if I am not wrong. You're not wrong but would the OP be posti

Full CD ISO image of Testing for USB Booting?

2013-01-15 Thread GoOSSBears
Hey advanced Debian users, I would like to use a full CD ISO image of Testing/Wheezy (e.g., one of the downloaded CD images from an /iso-cd subfolder of [1]) to make a bootable USB stick onto a 1 GB, 2 GB or larger capacity stick. Several related questions really, all related to Section 4.3 of t

Re: What would be the appropriate forum?

2013-01-15 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 1/16/13, Richard Owlett wrote: > My ideas of what I'm looking for have been influenced by > reading about "Debian Pure Blends". They divide up primarily > along what can be loosely referred to as occupational. > > My interest is the operational environment. My primary > limitation is minimal or

Re: OpenVPN and IP Forwarding

2013-01-15 Thread cletusjenkins
>This is a good clarification. But still confusing. I think you need >to give us a block diagram or picture of things. Because in the above >it reads like you have two machines in your path where most of us >would have only one. Because you say that you vpn to a server and >that server you vpn'

Re: Grub gone nuts after recent dist-upgrade in unstable[SOLVED]

2013-01-15 Thread Charles Kroeger
I don't know what the hell happened there but I used Rescautux Disk again and selected the 'Super Grub2 Disk' option that then offers the powerful menu item of finding any bootable operating system on your computer..I was then able to boot into my AMD64 unstable partition and run dpkg-reconfigure

Re: Install from DVD set

2013-01-15 Thread cletusjenkins
cletusjenkins to "Ralf Mardorf" On Tue, 15 Jan 2013 08:22:08 -0800 Ralf Mardorf wrote > On Tue, 15 Jan 2013 16:10:45 +0100, wrote: > > Le 15.01.2013 15:12, Ralf Mardorf a écrit : > >> If you now will install a package with dependencies, Synaptic will > >> ask you to insert Disc x of y,

Re: Installing flash player into user's home dir. for chromium.

2013-01-15 Thread berenger . morel
Le 15.01.2013 15:24, Sthu Deus a écrit : Good time of the day. I wonder how a user can install adobe flash player (library?) for chromium himself - in case the OS's one is outdated?! Currently Debian wiki tells that it can be achieved though update-non-free-something install - but what about

Re: Debian Wiki account creation frozen?

2013-01-15 Thread Nate Bargmann
I was contacted by one of the admins in response to this message and it seems I got caught as a false positive in the new trap. He put me on the whitelist and my account is created and running. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fe

Re: Debian Wiki account creation frozen?

2013-01-15 Thread Bob Proulx
Nate Bargmann wrote: > Does anyone know if the Debian Wiki is accepting new accounts? I've > tried to create an account with no apparent success: > > Account creation failed: Error 913: please contact > debian-...@lists.debian.org for help if this continues. > > If there is no known freeze on ne

Re: Install from DVD set

2013-01-15 Thread Bob Proulx
Richard Owlett wrote: > I've a machine on which I've installed Debian Squeeze from the 8 DVD > set. During installation I did not chose the option to scan DVD's > 2-8. > > Questions: > 1. After an install completed, how do I scan the other 7 DVD's so > Synaptic knows about all available packages?

Re: OpenVPN and IP Forwarding

2013-01-15 Thread Bob Proulx
cletusjenkins wrote: > I have a route table entry to the private network, so after openvpn > makes its tun0 interface the default gw, anything heading for > 192.168.2.0/8 should work as before, but it doesn't quite work. Do you have firewall rules set up on your server? If so then it is probably

Grub gone nuts after recent dist-upgrade in unstable

2013-01-15 Thread Charles Kroeger
I've got installed: grub-common 1.99-26 grub-pc-bin [same] grub-pc [same] grub2-common [same] The upgrade rewrote the /boot/grub/grub.cfg file excluding two ext4 partitions and a NTFS partition on the second HD that is /dev/sdb The only options currently available is the i386 versio

Re: OpenVPN and IP Forwarding

2013-01-15 Thread Bob Proulx
Bonno Bloksma wrote: > > I have a machine with an internet connection, it acts as a router > > for other systems on a private network (192.168.2.0/8). > > I setup a VPN client with openvpn on this machine, the VPN works > > perfectly, but when connected to the VPN the machine does not > > route for

RE: OpenVPN and IP Forwarding

2013-01-15 Thread cletusjenkins
On Tue, 15 Jan 2013 02:23:29 -0800 Bonno Bloksma wrote > Hi, > > > I have a machine with an internet connection, it acts as a router for > > other systems on a private network (192.168.2.0/8). > > I setup a VPN client with openvpn on this machine, the VPN works > > perfectl

Debian Wiki account creation frozen?

2013-01-15 Thread Nate Bargmann
Does anyone know if the Debian Wiki is accepting new accounts? I've tried to create an account with no apparent success: Account creation failed: Error 913: please contact debian-...@lists.debian.org for help if this continues. If there is no known freeze on new accounts, I'll contact the debian

Re: Installing flash player into user's home dir. for chromium.

2013-01-15 Thread Patrick Bartek
- Original Message - > From: Sthu Deus > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Cc: > Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2013 6:24 AM > Subject: Installing flash player into user's home dir. for chromium. > >G ood time of the day. > > > I wonder how a user can install adobe flash player (libra

Logout from ISCSI Target hangs permanently

2013-01-15 Thread Dominik
Hi, i´ve got a big issue since the last weeks which i am unable to solve. First of all some information about my system: Debian Squeeze Kernel: 2.6.32-5-xen-amd64 Open-Iscsi-Version: 2.0.871.3-2squeeze1 iscsiadm-Version: 2.0-871 LVM-Version: 2.02.66-5 I connected an iscsi target with my server

Re: how is debian filling /dev/

2013-01-15 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-01-15 17:57 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 15.01.2013 16:22, schrieb Yaro Kasear: > >> Back when I used Gentoo most times the devtmpfs system wasn't even >> enabled in my kernel or in its default configs. From all I can find out >> devtmpfs is merely an option most distributions don't ac

Re: how is debian filling /dev/

2013-01-15 Thread Michael Biebl
On 15.01.2013 17:57, Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 15.01.2013 16:22, schrieb Yaro Kasear: > >> Back when I used Gentoo most times the devtmpfs system wasn't even >> enabled in my kernel or in its default configs. From all I can find out >> devtmpfs is merely an option most distributions don't actually

Re: how is debian filling /dev/

2013-01-15 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 15.01.2013 16:22, schrieb Yaro Kasear: > Back when I used Gentoo most times the devtmpfs system wasn't even > enabled in my kernel or in its default configs. From all I can find out > devtmpfs is merely an option most distributions don't actually use that > much because udev already handles the

Re: Install from DVD set

2013-01-15 Thread berenger . morel
Le 15.01.2013 17:22, Ralf Mardorf a écrit : On Tue, 15 Jan 2013 16:10:45 +0100, wrote: Le 15.01.2013 15:12, Ralf Mardorf a écrit : If you now will install a package with dependencies, Synaptic will ask you to insert Disc x of y, IOW you now are a DJ ;). Maybe he can make some iso files from

Re: Install from DVD set

2013-01-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 15 Jan 2013 16:10:45 +0100, wrote: Le 15.01.2013 15:12, Ralf Mardorf a écrit : If you now will install a package with dependencies, Synaptic will ask you to insert Disc x of y, IOW you now are a DJ ;). Maybe he can make some iso files from DVD, auto mount them at start-up, to avoid

Re: Install from DVD set

2013-01-15 Thread Brian
On Tue 15 Jan 2013 at 07:37:37 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > Ralf Mardorf wrote: > >On Tue, 15 Jan 2013 13:51:41 +0100, Richard Owlett > > wrote: > >>1. After an install completed, how do I scan the other 7 > >>DVD's so Synaptic knows about all available packages? > > > >http://www.slideshare.net

Re: Install from DVD set

2013-01-15 Thread Brian
On Tue 15 Jan 2013 at 06:51:41 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > 3. As I'm doing a number of test installs to the same machine, I'm > using preseeding. How do I force the installer to ask if additional > CD's are to be scanned? Manual input during a preseeded install is > obviously possible as the in

Re: how is debian filling /dev/

2013-01-15 Thread Yaro Kasear
On 01/15/2013 02:18 AM, Bob Proulx wrote: Michael Biebl wrote: Am 15.01.2013 09:04, schrieb Bob Proulx: Maroš Žilka wrote: device files are creatied by /dev/MAKEDEV but in my debian stable That documentation is the classic legacy way. It has since been completely obsoleted. The new way is w

Re: Install from DVD set

2013-01-15 Thread berenger . morel
Le 15.01.2013 15:12, Ralf Mardorf a écrit : On Tue, 15 Jan 2013 14:37:37 +0100, Richard Owlett wrote: Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Tue, 15 Jan 2013 13:51:41 +0100, Richard Owlett wrote: 1. After an install completed, how do I scan the other 7 DVD's so Synaptic knows about all available packages?

Installing flash player into user's home dir. for chromium.

2013-01-15 Thread Sthu Deus
Good time of the day. I wonder how a user can install adobe flash player (library?) for chromium himself - in case the OS's one is outdated?! Currently Debian wiki tells that it can be achieved though update-non-free-something install - but what about users' own "installation"?! - At adobe web

Re: Install from DVD set

2013-01-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 15 Jan 2013 14:37:37 +0100, Richard Owlett wrote: Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Tue, 15 Jan 2013 13:51:41 +0100, Richard Owlett wrote: 1. After an install completed, how do I scan the other 7 DVD's so Synaptic knows about all available packages? http://www.slideshare.net/linuxnandha/how

Re: how is debian filling /dev/

2013-01-15 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Michael Biebl wrote: Am 15.01.2013 09:04, schrieb Bob Proulx: Maroš Žilka wrote: I was reading The Linux System Administrator's Guide [http://www.tldp.org/LDP/sag/html/index.html] and there is stated that device files are creatied by /dev/MAKEDEV but in my debian stable instalation /dev/MAKEDEV

Re: Install from DVD set

2013-01-15 Thread Richard Owlett
Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Tue, 15 Jan 2013 13:51:41 +0100, Richard Owlett wrote: 1. After an install completed, how do I scan the other 7 DVD's so Synaptic knows about all available packages? http://www.slideshare.net/linuxnandha/how-to-add-dvd-repositories-in-ubuntu-4503966 That page evident

What would be the appropriate forum?

2013-01-15 Thread Richard Owlett
My ideas of what I'm looking for have been influenced by reading about "Debian Pure Blends". They divide up primarily along what can be loosely referred to as occupational. My interest is the operational environment. My primary limitation is minimal or *non-existent* networking. A goal is "mi

Re: start-stop-daemon : questions about retry

2013-01-15 Thread - -
Hi Bob, I checked the processes with ps -efH (thanks for that command) and everythings looked okay. After looking through the script I found a tiny typo. Embarassing, I know … So thanks everyone, my script is working now! Anyway, here the output of "ps -efH": root@euve3638:~# ps -efH UID   

Install from DVD set

2013-01-15 Thread Richard Owlett
I've a machine on which I've installed Debian Squeeze from the 8 DVD set. During installation I did not chose the option to scan DVD's 2-8. Questions: 1. After an install completed, how do I scan the other 7 DVD's so Synaptic knows about all available packages? 2. I know I've seen the answer _

Re: disk labels mismatch

2013-01-15 Thread pavicic
Hi > Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 19:43:50 -0800 > Subject: Re: disk labels mismatch > I'd suggest that you gather usage information for your various > partitions/ directories, back up everything, wipe the disks, and start > over. I thought I came to a Linux forum where people solve problems not scra

Re: Re (2): File descriptor 9 and VLC.

2013-01-15 Thread Darac Marjal
On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 01:31:21PM -0700, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > From: Darac Marjal > Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 10:36:47 + > > Simply, it is the ninth file handle that vlc has open. ... > > > > If you look at vlc's other opened files, you will probably see that they > > are a combination of

RE: OpenVPN and IP Forwarding

2013-01-15 Thread Bonno Bloksma
Hi, > I have a machine with an internet connection, it acts as a router for other > systems on a private network (192.168.2.0/8). > I setup a VPN client with openvpn on this machine, the VPN works perfectly, > but when connected to the VPN the machine does not route for the private > network sy

OpenVPN and IP Forwarding

2013-01-15 Thread cletusjenkins
i have a machine with an internet connection, it acts as a router for other systems on a private network (192.168.2.0/8). I setup a VPN client with openvpn on this machine, the VPN works perfectly, but when connected to the VPN the machine does not route for the private network systems. I can

Re: Best recommendations for posting anonymously?? Looking for pointers

2013-01-15 Thread berenger . morel
Le 15.01.2013 06:16, Robert Holtzman a écrit : On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 06:59:10PM -0500, Celejar wrote: On Sat, 12 Jan 2013 14:36:15 -0700 Robert Holtzman wrote: > On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 05:02:16PM +0100, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > > ..snip.. > > >

Re: how is debian filling /dev/

2013-01-15 Thread Bob Proulx
Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 15.01.2013 09:04, schrieb Bob Proulx: > > Maroš Žilka wrote: > >> device files are creatied by /dev/MAKEDEV but in my debian stable > > That documentation is the classic legacy way. It has since been > > completely obsoleted. The new way is with "udev". The goal is to >

Re: how is debian filling /dev/

2013-01-15 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 15.01.2013 09:04, schrieb Bob Proulx: > Maroš Žilka wrote: >> I was reading The Linux System Administrator's Guide >> [http://www.tldp.org/LDP/sag/html/index.html] and there is stated that >> device files are creatied by /dev/MAKEDEV but in my debian stable >> instalation /dev/MAKEDEV is just sy

Re: how is debian filling /dev/

2013-01-15 Thread Bob Proulx
Maroš Žilka wrote: > I was reading The Linux System Administrator's Guide > [http://www.tldp.org/LDP/sag/html/index.html] and there is stated that > device files are creatied by /dev/MAKEDEV but in my debian stable > instalation /dev/MAKEDEV is just symbolic link to /bin/true and i also > find out