Re: check against and extract info from .changes

2013-04-25 Thread Jaikumar Sharma
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 2:41 AM, Jerome BENOIT wrote: >is there any tools to check against and to extract info from .changes Debian files ? Can you mention as to what you want to achieve? Probably, *man dpkg-genchanges* would give your more hints. --Jaikumar

Re: Install debian from scratch and keep a home partition

2013-04-25 Thread Bob Proulx
Dan wrote: > - Backup home and the files from /etc passwd, group, shadow and gshadow > ... > - merge the old passwd, group, shadow and gshadow with the new files > found in /etc You so far have three votes against doing this but I will vote *for* doing it. I think this is okay. It all depends up

Re: MUA & Yahoo Mail (WAS:Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?)

2013-04-25 Thread Peter Tynan
> On Thu, 2013-04-25 at 11:57 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > When I set up my Rocketmail accounts, Evolution automatically wanted to > > use IMAP, but I forced to use POP. > > > > This are my Rocketmail settings: > > > > Server: pop.mail.yahoo.com > > Port: 995 > > Security:

Re: Fwd: Question

2013-04-25 Thread Dan Ritter
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 03:03:00PM -0300, german carutti wrote: > Hello. > I am a teacher of hardware and software Argentina high school and yesterday > I was going to buy a cell phone, my main option was android, but I have > found that this system is corporate because you are not allowed to > mod

check against and extract info from .changes

2013-04-25 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, is there any tools to check against and to extract info from .changes Debian files ? Thanks in advance, Jerome -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debi

Re: Und last aptitude safe-upgrade

2013-04-25 Thread Steven Post
On Thu, 2013-04-25 at 13:10 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Thu, 2013-04-25 at 12:52 +0200, Dan wrote: [...] > > > I checked, and the kernel has not been updated. > > That's strange, if you downgraded to the old version of X and the kernel > version still is the same, but it doesn't work, then so

Re: Introductory reading on firewall/iptables/etc for new Debian user?

2013-04-25 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 25 April 2013 17:39:14 Richard Owlett wrote: > I think I'm happier for having looked for shoals first. Looking for shoals is one thing. But you are creating them. And I always read manuals first. It isn't that unusual. ;-) Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lis

Re: touch /var/lib/sudo/$USER / use sudo when unlocking xscreensaver (xfce)

2013-04-25 Thread Kevin Chadwick
> > > > Not quite. I want sudo 'activated' when I enter my password. > > > > Ie, when I log in to XFCE, or when I unlock the xscreensaver, I have > > in both cases just entered my password. So because I just entered my > > password, I expect sudo to be 'activated'. > > Ah, now I get it. :) >

Fwd: Question

2013-04-25 Thread german carutti
Hello. I am a teacher of hardware and software Argentina high school and yesterday I was going to buy a cell phone, my main option was android, but I have found that this system is corporate because you are not allowed to modify, interact with the root and also google can see who your contacts, cal

Re: Introductory reading on firewall/iptables/etc for new Debian user?

2013-04-25 Thread Richard Owlett
Lisi Reisz wrote: On Wednesday 24 April 2013 11:40:17 Richard Owlett wrote: One thing perhaps wasn't clear. I was referring to my Windows experience Sorry, Richard. :-( I didn't take in that you had actually _said_ that. You simply can't use your Windows experience to predict the problems t

Re: Introductory reading on firewall/iptables/etc for new Debian user?

2013-04-25 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 24 April 2013 11:40:17 Richard Owlett wrote: > One thing perhaps wasn't clear. I was referring to my > Windows experience Sorry, Richard. :-( I didn't take in that you had actually _said_ that. You simply can't use your Windows experience to predict the problems that you will have

Re: Introductory reading on firewall/iptables/etc for new Debian user?

2013-04-25 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 25 April 2013 16:48:53 Charles Kroeger wrote: > > I have never noticed my free version of 9 updating itself. :-/ > > That's good, it won't. If you occasionally try: Thanks for the reply, Charles! I am quite happy with things as they are, for now. The OP was worried about his copy of

Re: Introductory reading on firewall/iptables/etc for new Debian user?

2013-04-25 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 13:40:01 +0200 Lisi Reisz wrote: > I have never noticed my free version of 9 updating itself. :-/ That's good, it won't. If you occasionally try: #apt-get autoremove you will probably see it is trying to rid itself of 'acroread' files. If you want to upgrade Adobe reader y

Re: Install debian from scratch and keep a home partition

2013-04-25 Thread Morel Bérenger
Le Jeu 25 avril 2013 12:54, Dan a écrit : > Hi, > > > As I explained in a previous email I had an issue with the ATI driver > and squeeze and I decided to wipe squeeze and install wheezy. Luckily the > home partition is separated from the rest. > > Which would be the best way to proceed? > > > I wa

Re: MUA & Yahoo Mail (WAS:Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?)

2013-04-25 Thread David Guntner
Patrick Bartek grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > >> From: Dave Thayer >> >> On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 07:44:29PM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: >>> >>> How? What MUA did you use? When I initially set up my Yahoo >>> Mail accounts (I have several)--this was years ago--there was no >>> option with th

Re: 8 port serial PCI card on squeeze

2013-04-25 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there ML mail wrote: Thanks for your help. So to answer your question of where I added the 8250 kernel parameters, that would be in /etc/default/grub file in the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX variable. With your hints I was now able to find out that somehow my machine (a Soekris net6501-30 board)

Re: [Debian installer] Problem with umounting hd-media

2013-04-25 Thread Brian
On Tue 23 Apr 2013 at 15:22:06 +0100, Brian wrote: > On Tue 23 Apr 2013 at 10:58:16 +0200, Julien Groselle wrote: > > > We don't know if it is a bug or a normal behavior... > > It is not the behaviour with a Squeeze ISO but someone on debian-boot is > likely to know whether the change in iso-sca

Re: 8 port serial PCI card on squeeze

2013-04-25 Thread ML mail
Dear Rob, Thanks for your help. So to answer your question of where I added the 8250 kernel parameters, that would be in /etc/default/grub file in the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX variable. With your hints I was now able to find out that somehow my machine (a Soekris net6501-30 board) has one console se

Re: MUA & Yahoo Mail (WAS:Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?)

2013-04-25 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 19:44:29 -0700 (PDT) Patrick Bartek wrote: Hello Patrick, >How?  What MUA did you use?  When I initially set up my Yahoo Mail >accounts (I have I use Claws Mail which, as you may know, started out as a branch of Sylpheed. Others have listed the settings required and also sa

gvfs-* from shell

2013-04-25 Thread Pol Hallen
Hi folks! Using mate, often I mount by caja file manager remote share: smbmount://ip/share from caja works perfectly but I can't use this mounted share from shell where I see that mounted share? thanks! Pol -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: Install debian from scratch and keep a home partition

2013-04-25 Thread Jean-Marc
On Thu, 25 Apr 2013 12:54:37 +0200, Dan wrote: > Hi, Hi Dan, > > As I explained in a previous email I had an issue with the ATI driver > [SNIP] > I was going to do the following: > > - Backup home and the files from /etc passwd, group, shadow and gshadow Always back-up your data; good practice

Re: 8 port serial PCI card on squeeze

2013-04-25 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there ML mail wrote: I am trying to configure an 8 port serial PCI card and managed to get the 3 first ports working but the 5 others do not work. The ouput of /proc/tty/drivers/serial is the following: 0: uart:TI16750 port:03F8 irq:4 tx:2608 rx:0 RTS|CTS|DTR|DSR 1: uart:16C950/954 m

Re: Install debian from scratch and keep a home partition

2013-04-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2013-04-25 at 12:54 +0200, Dan wrote: > - merge the old passwd, group, shadow and gshadow with the new files > found in /etc Don't do that! Set up the groups again and add new passwords again. > Remove the home directory No need to do that. Just install Debian with home, included to the

Re: Und last aptitude safe-upgrade

2013-04-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Any interesting output by $ grep EE /var/log/Xorg.0.log $ cat ~/.xsession-errors ? It also could be that some security things changed for polkit or what ever. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.d

Re: Und last aptitude safe-upgrade

2013-04-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2013-04-25 at 12:52 +0200, Dan wrote: > That means that AMD will not support Linux and X anymore? Is it better > to use the opensource driver? No, they don't update drivers for aged graphics, if you buy new ATI cards, they provide drivers for current versions of X. It's likely that the up

Install debian from scratch and keep a home partition

2013-04-25 Thread Dan
Hi, As I explained in a previous email I had an issue with the ATI driver and squeeze and I decided to wipe squeeze and install wheezy. Luckily the home partition is separated from the rest. Which would be the best way to proceed? I was going to do the following: - Backup home and the files fro

Re: Und last aptitude safe-upgrade

2013-04-25 Thread Dan
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 12:27 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Thu, 2013-04-25 at 12:20 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> >> >> On Thu, 2013-04-25 at 12:01 +0200, Dan wrote: >> > I was able to downgrade >> > But this didn't work. >> >> Downgrading the kernel, so that it can use the old modules, that fit t

Re: Und last aptitude safe-upgrade

2013-04-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2013-04-25 at 12:20 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > On Thu, 2013-04-25 at 12:01 +0200, Dan wrote: > > I was able to downgrade > > But this didn't work. > > Downgrading the kernel, so that it can use the old modules, that fit to > the kernel version would work ;) or you build the modules

Re: Und last aptitude safe-upgrade

2013-04-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2013-04-25 at 12:01 +0200, Dan wrote: > I was able to downgrade > But this didn't work. Downgrading the kernel, so that it can use the old modules, that fit to the kernel version would work ;) or you build the modules to fit to the new kernel ;). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-us

Re: Und last aptitude safe-upgrade

2013-04-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2013-04-25 at 00:57 +0200, Dan wrote: > Hi, > > > I did an aptitude safe-upgrade of my Squeeze debian. And now the > drivers for the graphics card are broken. I am using an Radeon > Graphics card, but I downloaded the drivers directly from the webpage. > > > How could I undo the aptitud

Re: MUA & Yahoo Mail (WAS:Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?)

2013-04-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
When I set up my Rocketmail accounts, Evolution automatically wanted to use IMAP, but I forced to use POP. This are my Rocketmail settings: Server: pop.mail.yahoo.com Port: 995 Security: SSL on a dedicated port Authentication: Password Server: smtp.mail.yahoo.com

Re: MUA & Yahoo Mail (WAS:Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?)

2013-04-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2013-04-25 at 11:57 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > When I set up my Rocketmail accounts, Evolution automatically wanted to > use IMAP, but I forced to use POP. > > This are my Rocketmail settings: > > Server: pop.mail.yahoo.com > Port: 995 > Security: SSL on a dedica

Re: Und last aptitude safe-upgrade

2013-04-25 Thread Dan
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 11:35 AM, Jean-Marc wrote: > On Thu, 25 Apr 2013 10:17:31 +0100, Darac Marjal > wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 12:57:21AM +0200, Dan wrote: > >>Hi, > >>I did an aptitude safe-upgrade of my Squeeze debian. And now the > drivers > >>for the graphics card are

Re: Why does my ssh session terminate immediately?

2013-04-25 Thread Jean-Marc
On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 23:19:19 +0200, Andreas Leha wrote: > Hi Jean-Marc, Hi Andreas, > > thanks for your suggestions. See the results inline. > > [SNIP] > > So it says 'disconnected by user'? I might mention, that can login to > (all) other machines with that client without problems. Strange,

Re: alternative email clients (was ... Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?)

2013-04-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2013-04-25 at 03:27 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > http://www.yorba.org/projects/geary/ On Wed, 2013-04-24 at 17:38 +0200, Luca Cappelletti wrote: > http://trojita.flaska.net/ Thank you, I'll take a look, assumed they are available by the Debian, Ubuntu and Arch repositories. --

Re: Wheezy Sleezy Gnome

2013-04-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2013-04-24 at 09:07 -0700, Steven Rosenberg wrote: > I knew that GNOME Shell had won me over. Since GNOME still is alive, there seem to be many people using GNOME 3. I can't understand this ;). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubsc

Re: MUA & Yahoo Mail (WAS:Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?)

2013-04-25 Thread Brian
On Wed 24 Apr 2013 at 23:02:48 -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: > Okay.  I found the Yahoo IMAP help page.  The POP help still states > you need a "for pay" Yahoo Mail Plus account, but no mention of that > for IMAP.  I'll run a test.  I already have Sylpheed on this system, > and it is both POP or IM

Re: Und last aptitude safe-upgrade

2013-04-25 Thread Jean-Marc
On Thu, 25 Apr 2013 10:17:31 +0100, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 12:57:21AM +0200, Dan wrote: >>Hi, >>I did an aptitude safe-upgrade of my Squeeze debian. And now the drivers >>for the graphics card are broken. I am using an Radeon Graphics card, but >>I downloaded

Re: Und last aptitude safe-upgrade

2013-04-25 Thread Darac Marjal
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 12:57:21AM +0200, Dan wrote: >Hi, >I did an aptitude safe-upgrade of my Squeeze debian. And now the drivers >for the graphics card are broken. I am using an Radeon Graphics card, but >I downloaded the drivers directly from the webpage. >How could I undo t