Re: Default directory to put ".mo" file (language)

2013-10-02 Thread Beco
On 3 October 2013 02:49, Beco wrote: > Hi mentors, > > Please, > > Would I better use > > /usr/share/locale > > or > > /usr/local/share/locale > > > I'm programming an old game (from the 8 bits times). I'm starting with > this because I got a suggestion on debian-user-list that starting with > a l

Default directory to put ".mo" file (language)

2013-10-02 Thread Beco
Hi mentors, Please, Would I better use /usr/share/locale or /usr/local/share/locale I'm programming an old game (from the 8 bits times). I'm starting with this because I got a suggestion on debian-user-list that starting with a library to learn packaging would be too hard. Now, this game is

Re: Re (2): autostarting a terminal.

2013-10-02 Thread Pontus Goffe
2013-10-03 00:57, peasth...@shaw.ca skrev: your issue looks similar to this: http://superuser.com/questions/593246/launching-a-shell-script-via-desktop-in-raspbian-wheezy And what if the shellscript needs to be prefixed with sudo? I have tried the below, both runs sudo which asks for passw

Re: Building computer

2013-10-02 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 10/2/2013 9:42 AM, Rhiamom wrote: > >> On Oct 2, 2013, at 4:59 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote >> >> This is the limiting factor. And this is why I implore people to buy >> the fastest dual core and forgo the quad, six, eight core models. And >> in fact, for non gamer daily use, I recommend the sing

Re: VLC freezes system

2013-10-02 Thread Kailash
On Thursday 03 October 2013 09:37 AM, Anubhav Yadav wrote: > Hi list, > > Recently whenever I open some videos in vlc, debian freezes, I cannot > even switch to tty1 and all I have to do is restart the system. > > I see that I have VLC media player 2.0.3 Twoflower (revision > 2.0.2-93-g77aa89e)

VLC freezes system

2013-10-02 Thread Anubhav Yadav
Hi list, Recently whenever I open some videos in vlc, debian freezes, I cannot even switch to tty1 and all I have to do is restart the system. I see that I have VLC media player 2.0.3 Twoflower (revision 2.0.2-93-g77aa89e) installed in debian, I tried installing the latest VLC (2.1.0) from the

Re: Building computer

2013-10-02 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 10/2/2013 8:23 AM, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 03:59:15AM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> This will really throw you for a loop. Open a shell window and execute >> >> ~$ sudo echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches > > She'll probably get 'Permission denied', you need elevated p

Re: Getting Postfix to sort spam into different folders

2013-10-02 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 10/2/2013 10:17 AM, Robin Kipp wrote: > Hi all, > I've been running my own mail server for a while (Postfix as the MTA and > Dovecot for retrieving mail via IMAP). > Yesterday, I added amavis-new for content filtering, and so far have > implemented spam checking using spamassassin and virus fi

Re: Getting Postfix to sort spam into different folders

2013-10-02 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 05:17:53PM +0200, Robin Kipp wrote: > So, now that spamassassin is flagging junk mail, I really would like a way of > having said junk sorted into a different folder for each user. I'm aware this > can also be done on the MUA side, but on some end-user devices (such as >

Re: dpkg segmentation fault

2013-10-02 Thread Bob Proulx
Bob Proulx wrote: > Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > My guess would be an incomplete or otherwise screwed-up Perl transition > > > (dpkg-reconfigure is a Perl script and debconf's postinst calls a bunch > > > of Perl scripts as well). Check the status of the Perl packages on y

Re: dpkg segmentation fault

2013-10-02 Thread Bob Proulx
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote: > > My guess would be an incomplete or otherwise screwed-up Perl transition > > (dpkg-reconfigure is a Perl script and debconf's postinst calls a bunch > > of Perl scripts as well). Check the status of the Perl packages on your > > friend's machine, he

Re: network/bridging problems

2013-10-02 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 12:40:26PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > Can anyone explain to me what difference between tap and the bridge is? > They both seem to do the same thing*, but apparently tap needs to be hooked > in to a bridge. And for some reason the qemu/kvm docs seems to recommend > tap. Ok

Re (2): autostarting a terminal.

2013-10-02 Thread peasthope
From: Dmitrii Kashin Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2013 01:35:17 +0400 > Why don't you tell us which DE you are using? LXDE From: david...@ling.ohio-state.edu Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2013 17:17:31 -0400 (EDT) > OP, what do you have /etc/alternatives/x-terminal-emulator linked to? peter@dalton:~$ ls -l /et

Re: autostarting a terminal.

2013-10-02 Thread Dmitrii Kashin
peasth...@shaw.ca writes: > Given ~/.config/autostart/openaterminal.desktop containing > Exec=lxterminal > Terminal=false > a terminal is opened on the desktop following login. > > If the two lines changed to > Exec=sh > Terminal=true > no terminal is opened. Why don't you tell us whic

Re: autostarting a terminal.

2013-10-02 Thread davidson
On Wed, 2 Oct 2013, Sarunas Burdulis wrote: On 10/02/2013 09:17 AM, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: Given ~/.config/autostart/openaterminal.desktop containing Exec=lxterminal Terminal=false a terminal is opened on the desktop following login. If the two lines changed to Exec=sh Terminal=true n

Re: dpkg segmentation fault

2013-10-02 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 03:11:24 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: I am helping a buddy with his Sid system. He went several months without upgrading. Then recently tried to upgrade. This resulted in some problems. Currently the system produces a segmentation fault when trying t

Re: Re (2): Multiplicity of accounts.

2013-10-02 Thread Dan Ritter
On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 02:59:45PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > Dan Ritter wrote: > >On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 01:05:33PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > >> > >>So why shouldn't I want the same privileges in the GUI as I have > >>after issuing su in the command line mode? > > > >It's easy to screw u

Re: Re (2): Multiplicity of accounts.

2013-10-02 Thread Dan Ritter
On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 01:05:33PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > I have three machines. I am the *ONLY* person with access to any of > them. > > One machine has my projects and associated data. There is an image > of its hard drive on a 1TB USB drive which is currently not > connected. This machi

Re: Re (2): Multiplicity of accounts.

2013-10-02 Thread Richard Owlett
Dan Ritter wrote: On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 01:05:33PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: I have three machines. I am the *ONLY* person with access to any of them. One machine has my projects and associated data. There is an image of its hard drive on a 1TB USB drive which is currently not connected. T

Re: network/bridging problems

2013-10-02 Thread Ross Boylan
In response to Emanuel's question, > How did you configured eth2? dhcp too? why you tap as bridge port intend of eth2? and Bob's question below on network managers: When the system started /etc/network/interfaces did not mention eth2. network-manager is installed but wicd is not. My wireless rout

Re: dpkg segmentation fault

2013-10-02 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 03:11:24 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > I am helping a buddy with his Sid system. He went several months > without upgrading. Then recently tried to upgrade. This resulted in > some problems. Currently the system produces a segmentation fault > when trying to install package

texlive: eurosans.sty missing

2013-10-02 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
I used the eurosans latex package since more than 10 years, and it suddenly disappered. I now get: ! LaTeX Error: File `eurosans.sty' not found. Of course, I could get a fix by downloading the file from CTAN, I'm curious to know: 1/ how it could suddenly disappear. 2/ on what Debian package i

Re: Re (2): Multiplicity of accounts.

2013-10-02 Thread Richard Owlett
peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: From: Joel Rees Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2013 15:30:26 +0900 On MSWindows XP, ... surfing the net as the primary admin user ... was the primary path of ingress and the primary cause of the proliferation of 'bot nets. A flaw in Windows to contrast with Debian? And acce

iscsi not create block device

2013-10-02 Thread Shane Johnson
I ran into a problem with this last night and was wondering if anyone else had and if there where any suggestions. I set up the target like usual pointing it to a lvm then restarted the service so it would be visible. then on the initiators I did the discovery and adding the credentials for the ta

Re: autostarting a terminal.

2013-10-02 Thread Sarunas Burdulis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/02/2013 09:17 AM, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > Given ~/.config/autostart/openaterminal.desktop containing > Exec=lxterminal > Terminal=false > a terminal is opened on the desktop following login. > > If the two lines changed to > Exec=sh

Re: Re (2): Multiplicity of accounts.

2013-10-02 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 10/2/2013 12:24 PM, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: From: Joel Rees Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2013 15:30:26 +0900 On MSWindows XP, ... surfing the net as the primary admin user ... was the primary path of ingress and the primary cause of the proliferation of 'bot nets. A flaw in Windows to contrast

Re (2): Multiplicity of accounts.

2013-10-02 Thread peasthope
From: Joel Rees Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2013 15:30:26 +0900 > On MSWindows XP, ... surfing the net as the primary admin user > ... was the primary path of ingress and the primary cause of the > proliferation of 'bot nets. A flaw in Windows to contrast with Debian? > And accessing your bank logged

Re: Getting Postfix to sort spam into different folders

2013-10-02 Thread Jonathan Dowland
I do this using procmail on my server, with a .procmailrc in each user's folder. I do use virtual accounts but there's at least one UNIX account behind each virtual one (so it's many virtual:one UNIX mapping), so if you don't have real UNIX accounts at the bottom this won't work. Also procmail is h

Re: Building computer

2013-10-02 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 2 Oct 2013 10:42:57 -0400 Rhiamom wrote: > > On Oct 2, 2013, at 4:59 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote ... > > You would be correct if the number you're looking at reflected > > application memory usage. But it doesn't. On any of the modern > > operating systems one must damn near be a compute

Getting Postfix to sort spam into different folders

2013-10-02 Thread Robin Kipp
Hi all, I've been running my own mail server for a while (Postfix as the MTA and Dovecot for retrieving mail via IMAP). Yesterday, I added amavis-new for content filtering, and so far have implemented spam checking using spamassassin and virus filtering using clamav. All this appears to be workin

Re: Building computer

2013-10-02 Thread Rhiamom
> On Oct 2, 2013, at 4:59 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote > > This is the limiting factor. And this is why I implore people to buy > the fastest dual core and forgo the quad, six, eight core models. And > in fact, for non gamer daily use, I recommend the single core AMD > Sempron, because a dual core

Re: Building computer

2013-10-02 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 03:59:15AM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > This will really throw you for a loop. Open a shell window and execute > > ~$ sudo echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches She'll probably get 'Permission denied', you need elevated permissions for the writing process, which in this case

autostarting a terminal.

2013-10-02 Thread peasthope
Given ~/.config/autostart/openaterminal.desktop containing Exec=lxterminal Terminal=false a terminal is opened on the desktop following login. If the two lines changed to Exec=sh Terminal=true no terminal is opened. Nothing in /var/log/* contains "autostart". What has happened in the

keyboard keycodes (squeeze)

2013-10-02 Thread David Emerson
I've just purchased an external keyboard for my laptop, and the keycodes reported by xev (and showkey on VT) are not as expected. The keyboard is an IBM SK-8840; the laptop is an IBM Thinkpad, with a very similar keyboard. Both keyboards include two extra keys by the arrow keys, designated "ba

Re: Building computer

2013-10-02 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 10/2/2013 5:41 AM, Jeff Bauer wrote: > On 10/02/2013 04:59 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> On 10/1/2013 5:13 PM, Catherine Gramze wrote: >> >>> I have also looked at my memory usage. At this very moment, not running >>> WoW, I have 5.22 gig being used. 4 gig would not be sufficient for me. >> You wo

Re: Download speeds from your servers.

2013-10-02 Thread Hermann Sorgel
You can try "netselect" packages to find best mirror for your location: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-basico.en.html#s-netselect On 10/02/2013 02:37 PM, Tom Grace wrote: On 02/10/13 03:42, Hakan Ozturk wrote: Hi, We are trying to find out what download and upload speeds your se

Re: Download speeds from your servers.

2013-10-02 Thread Tom Grace
On 02/10/13 03:42, Hakan Ozturk wrote: Hi, We are trying to find out what download and upload speeds your servers support. Is there a place at your website where each server's download/upload capacity is documented? What max. speeds should we expect to get when downloading an ISO file? As

Re: Building computer

2013-10-02 Thread Jeff Bauer
On 10/02/2013 04:59 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 10/1/2013 5:13 PM, Catherine Gramze wrote: I have also looked at my memory usage. At this very moment, not running WoW, I have 5.22 gig being used. 4 gig would not be sufficient for me. You would be correct if the number you're looking at reflect

dpkg segmentation fault

2013-10-02 Thread Bob Proulx
I am helping a buddy with his Sid system. He went several months without upgrading. Then recently tried to upgrade. This resulted in some problems. Currently the system produces a segmentation fault when trying to install packages. For example: # dpkg-reconfigure debconf Segmentation faul

Re: Building computer

2013-10-02 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 10/1/2013 5:13 PM, Catherine Gramze wrote: >>> On Sep 30, 2013, at 10:33 PM, Stan Hoeppner > wrote: > >> Actually they were, up to the point you finally told us what screen >> resolution you use. That changes things quite a bit, or I should say >> changed one thing dramatically. > >> I recom

Re: cron and package upgrade

2013-10-02 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2013-09-30 04:03:54 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 03:45:01PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Sun, 2013-09-29 at 01:15 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > > > On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 02:20:39AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > > > > > > During important upgrades such a

Re: network/bridging problems

2013-10-02 Thread Bob Proulx
Ross Boylan wrote: > /etc/network/interfaces has (on the advice of a wiki page on Debian and > kvm) Which page is "a wiki page"? I didn't find a wiki.debian.org one that had an example like it. How about this one? It has good working examples. http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Networking > auto

Re: network/bridging problems

2013-10-02 Thread Arun Khan
On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 12:35 PM, Ross Boylan wrote: > I setup bridging on my system for kvm, but on restart of the host system > (no guest VM's running) could not ping outside my local network. > > Bringing the bridge down corrected the problem, but I'm trying to > understand what is going on, an

Re: device naming (was: should an end user stick to a kernel with an initrd?)

2013-10-02 Thread Jan Ingvoldstad
On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 5:18 PM, Linux-Fan wrote: > On 09/28/2013 04:54 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > > I only want to mention that this never happened on my machine within the > > last >= 10 years and I turn my PC often on and off. How often does it > > switch on your machine? Does anybody exper

Re: network/bridging problems

2013-10-02 Thread emmanuel segura
How did you configured eth2? dhcp too? why you tap as bridge port intend of eth2? 2013/10/2 Ross Boylan > I setup bridging on my system for kvm, but on restart of the host system > (no guest VM's running) could not ping outside my local network. > > Bringing the bridge down corrected the probl

network/bridging problems

2013-10-02 Thread Ross Boylan
I setup bridging on my system for kvm, but on restart of the host system (no guest VM's running) could not ping outside my local network. Bringing the bridge down corrected the problem, but I'm trying to understand what is going on, and how I can make networking from the VM's work. /etc/network/