Re: restarting pppd automatically

2020-12-28 Thread Graham Seaman
On 28/12/2020 09:34, Tixy wrote: > On Sun, 2020-12-27 at 23:56 +0000, Graham Seaman wrote: >> I'm having problems with pppd and an intermittent phone line connection. >> My external line occasionally drops out, usually briefly (I'm trying to >> get this fix

Re: restarting pppd automatically

2020-12-28 Thread Graham Seaman
Hi Tomas On 28/12/2020 09:28, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sun, Dec 27, 2020 at 11:56:21PM +0000, Graham Seaman wrote: >> I'm having problems with pppd and an intermittent phone line > > Wow. Memories fading :-) > > OK, my recollection on inittab is a bit dusty, and

restarting pppd automatically

2020-12-27 Thread Graham Seaman
ave now). Can anyone tell me what the recommended way to achieve this is now? Thanks Graham

Re: Encountered a bug with a dependency of wondershaper, but I'm unsure which dependency, and how to proceed with submitting a bug report

2020-11-18 Thread Graham Bull
On 11/17/20 9:34 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: Graham Bull wrote: I've been using wondershaper on Debian Stable for the past couple of years and it's been excellent. I got a new pc recently with modern hardware and thus I installed Debian Testing on it. I've noticed when I set the sa

Encountered a bug with a dependency of wondershaper, but I'm unsure which dependency, and how to proceed with submitting a bug report

2020-11-17 Thread Graham Bull
y issue. Any advice of how to collect more info for debugging purposes or how to proceed would be very much appreciated! Regards, Graham

Re: grub update and reinstallation

2020-08-02 Thread Graham Seaman
On 02/08/2020 04:31, Tom Dial wrote: On 8/1/20 11:09, Graham Seaman wrote: I already reinstalled grub-pc (using a rescue-usb) , that's how I got the system booting again. But I don't know if the current grub is trustable or not. My experience, now on eight machines, indicates that it

Re: grub update and reinstallation

2020-08-01 Thread Graham Seaman
On 01/08/2020 14:00, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2020-08-01 12:23 +0100, Graham Seaman wrote: > >> On 01/08/2020 07:50, Tom Dial wrote: >>> I have a laptop that became unbootable because >>> the initial loader failed to find a symbol (grub_calloc) and balked. >&

Re: grub update and reinstallation

2020-08-01 Thread Graham Seaman
s are sorted upstream? Graham

Re: psu or firmware?

2020-07-21 Thread Graham Seaman
component problem at the time (you'd think there would be more stress on the CPU Cheers Graham Cheers, David.

Re: psu or firmware?

2020-07-20 Thread Graham Seaman
e of fixing. Sticky tape it is then. Graham

Re: psu or firmware?

2020-07-18 Thread Graham Seaman
f the ones on Amazon are less than that. I've just bought one for £21.99 - a Chinese clone of the original, I imagine. I shall see if that does it or it turns out to be an onboard regulator or similar, in which case I guess I give up on it. Graham

Re: psu or firmware?

2020-07-18 Thread Graham Seaman
On 18/07/2020 21:42, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday, July 18, 2020 04:21:31 PM Graham Seaman wrote: Where did you find them? All I can find on ebay or elsewhere is AC adapters (I'm searching on 'dell vostro 1520 psu' or 'dell vostro 1520 power supply', but all

Re: psu or firmware?

2020-07-18 Thread Graham Seaman
On 18/07/2020 13:47, Klaus Singvogel wrote: Graham Seaman wrote: I'm running Debian on an old Dell Vostro 1520 - old and slow, but has been working fine. Recently the PSU has stopped charging. It is genuinely empty; if I power down and then try to boot with no power cable attached the l

Re: psu or firmware?

2020-07-18 Thread Graham Seaman
On 18/07/2020 13:39, Dan Ritter wrote: Graham Seaman wrote: I'm running Debian on an old Dell Vostro 1520 - old and slow, but has been working fine. Recently the PSU has stopped charging. It is genuinely empty; if I power down and then try to boot with no power cable attached the lapt

psu or firmware?

2020-07-18 Thread Graham Seaman
6.0-3.2) Jul 17 14:53:50 argos kernel: [   22.227213] battery: ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT1] (battery present) Jul 17 14:53:50 argos kernel: [   22.665955] intel_powerclamp: No package C-state available Is any of that helpful for working out what might be wrong? Thanks for any advice Graham

kde, localization and keyboards

2020-03-08 Thread Graham Seaman
here a configuration option I'm missing? Graham

Re: help with gitlab on buster

2020-02-18 Thread Graham Seaman
On 17/02/2020 22:41, David Wright wrote: On Mon 17 Feb 2020 at 15:27:06 (+), Graham Seaman wrote: I hadn't thought of running a VM clone of the server - might be generally useful. But the server's main jobs are as a router, firewall, dnsmasq, mail server, which is where the mai

Re: help with gitlab on buster

2020-02-17 Thread Graham Seaman
On 17/02/2020 06:30, john doe wrote: On 2/16/2020 11:45 PM, Graham Seaman wrote: Of course, though this would be easier if I was more sure where everything was. But the data's no use without the software to read it. https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/raketasks/backup_restore.html Thanks

Re: help with gitlab on buster

2020-02-16 Thread Graham Seaman
On 14/02/2020 17:39, john doe wrote: On 2/14/2020 5:42 PM, Graham Seaman wrote: I run a debian house server for firewall, routing etc. The last few years I've also run gitlab on it, which I use to manage text files I work on from an assortment of laptops/PCs; I have a lot of these

help with gitlab on buster

2020-02-14 Thread Graham Seaman
how to get myself a working gitlab again. without losing the current data? I could live with a command-line only version, if I couldn't get the web side working again. Thanks for any advice Graham

Missing linux-headers-4.7.8-1~bpo8+1

2017-01-08 Thread Graham McNeil-Watson
nux-headers-4.7 didn't return anything either. Can anyone shed any light on why I can find the kernel image but not the sources for this version? (I've not used a backport before so not very familiar with how the versioning works.) Many thanks, -- Graham

Re: networking stopped after upgrade

2015-11-05 Thread Graham Seaman
This turned out to be a hardware problem after all - short in an ethernet cable. Though I don't understand how I got quite the symptoms I did, it has now all been working for a couple of days so I guess that was it. Graham On 03/11/15 15:33, Graham Seaman wrote: > On 03/11/15 15:15, Ren

Re: networking stopped after upgrade

2015-11-03 Thread Graham Seaman
On 03/11/15 15:15, Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: > On Tue, 3 Nov 2015 12:49:44 + > Graham Seaman wrote: > >> For some years I've been using a debian system as my household >> firewall/router. It's been sitting quietly working without any major >> chang

networking stopped after upgrade

2015-11-03 Thread Graham Seaman
up provider dsl-provider # I'd made no changes at all to any configuration files before this setup stopped working, and it had previously worked unchanged for a long time. Any suggestions? Thanks Graham

Re: Brazilian portuguese keyboard and accented characters (á, ç, ã)

2015-09-23 Thread Michael Graham
> ~ + a -> ã > ... > > How to configure the IBM ThinkPad X60 keyboard to do the same? > > Thanks, > Markos > -- Michael Graham

backuppc plus smbclient in jessie

2015-06-15 Thread Graham Seaman
g back to really old software versions? Thanks Graham -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/557eb24c.3080...@theseamans.net

Re: ssh hangs for 5 seconds for a particular machine

2015-04-08 Thread Michael Graham
host name and check that the resolved host name for the remote IP address maps back to the very same IP address. The default is “yes”. Cheers, -- Michael Graham -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contac

Re: Redirect HTTPS with Squid3+Squidguard

2015-03-26 Thread Michael Graham
On Thu, 26 Mar 2015 17:18 Reco wrote: > > Hi. > > On Thu, 26 Mar 2015 12:44:11 -0700 > rog...@queernet.org wrote: > > > On 3/26/15 12:42 PM, Michael Graham wrote: > > > On 26 March 2015 at 14:18, Reco wrote: > > >> Then it's even wor

Re: Redirect HTTPS with Squid3+Squidguard

2015-03-26 Thread Michael Graham
SSL bump. Just out of curiosity where do you live? As MITM proxies in school/business seem to be pretty common in the US and the UK. Cheers, -- Michael Graham -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact lis

Re: IPv6 duplicate address detection (DAD)

2015-03-25 Thread Michael Graham
tom of this. [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=705996 [2] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=781143 Cheers, -- Michael Graham -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

IPv6 duplicate address detection (DAD)

2015-03-24 Thread Michael Graham
Hi all, I've been trying to understand what I should do about my current IPv6 wows. I have an IPv6 enabled network but when on a clean boot I don't get an IPv6 address (in Jessie BTW), I've tracked this down to this message in dmeg: IPv6: wlan0: IPv6 duplicate address fe80::fef8:aeff:fe7b:115f d

Re: [OT?]Squeeze: update Flashplugin?

2015-02-10 Thread Michael Graham
xed it but the crazy rename trick did. No idea how it fixed it but restarting wasn't enough. -- Michael Graham -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: ht

Re: [OT?]Squeeze: update Flashplugin?

2015-02-10 Thread Michael Graham
nce to many people under 35." > > — Zelda Fitzgerald > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: https://lists.debian.org/slrnmdk6kq.27v.cu.

Re: [OT?]Squeeze: update Flashplugin?

2015-02-09 Thread Michael Graham
oblem appeared). > > -- > > "Anything incomprehensible has a sexual significance to many people under 35." > > — Zelda Fitzgerald > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

Debian on iBook G4 Running OSX Tiger

2014-12-27 Thread Graham Todd
have any Tiger installation disks and I'm not sure if any specific versions of Debian are required. I intent to partition the hard drive for Debian only. Can this be done and can easily understood instructions be referred to to help me? -- Graham Todd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

Slow graphics performance in Gnome 3.14

2014-11-08 Thread Michael Graham
Graphics Controller (rev 09) NVIDIA Corporation GK107M [GeForce GT 750M] (it's worth noting the issue happens regardless of which graphics card I use) Any pointers will be greatly appreciated. Thanks, -- Michael Graham -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.or

Re: My sound blaster live disappeared

2011-11-19 Thread Graham
that deals with the issue: http://blog.andrewbeacock.com/2005/09/creating-dummy-debian-package-for.html Graham -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/2019212505.760ad...@pluto.lan

Re: update-flashplugin-nonfree issue

2011-11-13 Thread Graham
kage. Still, you're depending on him being quick or slow, which isn't to everyone's cup of tea, but I have no complaints so far over the years that I've been using his Flash package. Graham -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: no recent Squeeze updates

2011-07-23 Thread Graham
kages installed that haven't had security fixes recently, which isn't the same as there being no security updates for Squeeze as a whole. Graham -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas.

Re: console screen

2011-06-30 Thread Graham
> Bonno Bloksma > > Hi > edit /etc/default/grub with below line > GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="vga=791" > then > update-grub2 > > will give you what you want Yes, that'll work. Though another way, and one that won't affect your "Recovery Mode"

Re: labeling swap partitions, a question

2011-03-24 Thread Graham
one can specify a label string to be written onto a partition in > mkswap. But, I can't find a way to read/verify whether there is > already a label on an existing swap partition. Is there a way to > read? How? > > TIA blkid is your friend. To know more about your friend, try man

Re: cannot install iceweasel 3.5 from lenny-backports

2010-01-23 Thread Graham
s page (hadn't sipped my morning coffee ;) ), so thought that there was no Iceweasel 3.5.6 package for any architecture. Still, if you need the latest, you could always get the tarball from Mozilla. Graham -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subj

Re: cannot install iceweasel 3.5 from lenny-backports

2010-01-23 Thread Graham
cal/bin), then run it from there. Putting it in your home directory will mean that it'll be easy for it to auto-update. Graham -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Re: dependency problem

2009-10-17 Thread Graham Seaman
On 0, graham wrote: > > [...] > libhdf4-alt-dev: Depends: libhdf4-0-alt (= 4.2r4-6) but 4.2r4-5 is > to be installed > E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or > specify a solution). > [...] > The first thing to do would be to

dependency problem

2009-10-14 Thread graham
rs were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/libhdf4-alt-dev_4.2r4-6_amd64.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Any suggestions? I don't even know what these things are... Thanks Graham -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists

Re: see ya

2009-10-11 Thread Graham
otten decent help from exactly > _one_ person, and that was Florian, IIANM. Otherwise, this list just > takes up space. Thanks for freeing up precious space. Bye. Graham -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Reporting List Mail As SPAM

2009-09-01 Thread Graham
On Tue, 01 Sep 2009 21:59:20 -0400 Chris Jones wrote: > On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 08:40:02PM EDT, Graham wrote: > > On Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:48:03 -0400 > > Chris Jones wrote: > > > > > As far as I know, gmail's spam filter doesn't have any settings >

Re: Reporting List Mail As SPAM

2009-09-01 Thread Graham
into the webmail, select a message from this list, then click on the show details link, where you'll find you can make a filter and stop it going to spam. Below is the filter I made for this list on Gmail: Matches: list:"" Do this: Never send it to Spam Graham --

Re: FireFox and UK spell checker

2009-08-26 Thread Graham
; walls. Not sure if I'm reading you right, but have you right-clicked in the text box, then gone to Languages and then selected Add Dictionaries...? Doing that will take you to Mozilla's Addons site, where you can select a British English dictionary (which will be installed into your use

Re: Iceweasel 3.5

2009-08-12 Thread Graham
without > echoing any error message in xterm. Too tired to read /var/log just > now. Yeah, that's how I've done it for years whenever I've used the extracted tar.gz method. Scroll down to about halfway down the Mozilla Support page below to see it's Mozilla's way, too: h

Re: Iceweasel 3.5

2009-08-12 Thread Graham
ect file: No such file or directory You're not meant to run ./firefox-bin, you're meant to run ./firefox Try that and it should work. Graham -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Using a package from unstable if stable has a bug?

2009-08-05 Thread Graham
anged build depend or depend is optional (and not needed by you) during compilation, then you could edit the debian/rules file to remove that dependency during compile time (google about debian/rules if you want to learn more about that sort of thing). Another file to look at is the debian/contro

Re: Google Chrome

2009-06-13 Thread Graham
your actual sources.list file. If you don't want it to do this, you can touch /etc/defaults/google-chrome before installing. Still, yeah, I'm not happy about this sort of thing as default myself. Graham -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of &

Re: upgrade Sarge -> Etch -> Lenny

2009-06-08 Thread Graham
ansition is as smooth as it can be. Graham -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: etch to lenny upgrade - X apps no longer see keystrokes?

2009-04-22 Thread Graham Williams
for that pointer, and for persisting in helping to resolve this. It is much appreciated. Regards, Graham -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: etch to lenny upgrade - X apps no longer see keystrokes?

2009-04-21 Thread Graham Williams
Received Tue 21 Apr 2009 7:57am +1000 from Florian Kulzer: > On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 13:49:53 +1000, Graham Williams wrote: > > Received Sat 18 Apr 2009 3:34am +1000 from Florian Kulzer: > > > On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 14:46:58 +1000, Graham Williams wrote: [...] > There

Re: etch to lenny upgrade - X apps no longer see keystrokes?

2009-04-19 Thread Graham Williams
Thanks again Florian. Received Sat 18 Apr 2009 3:34am +1000 from Florian Kulzer: > On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 14:46:58 +1000, Graham Williams wrote: > > Received Wed 15 Apr 2009 5:32am +1000 from Florian Kulzer: > > > On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 09:21:11 +1000, Gra

Re: etch to lenny upgrade - X apps no longer see keystrokes?

2009-04-16 Thread Graham Williams
Received Wed 15 Apr 2009 5:32am +1000 from Florian Kulzer: > On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 09:21:11 +1000, Graham Williams wrote: > > Received Fri 10 Apr 2009 6:31am +1000 from Florian Kulzer: > > > On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 18:10:41 +1000, Graham Williams wrote: > >

Re: HOWTO run xorg without hal

2009-04-14 Thread Graham
hen Xorg can run without. It just seems restrictive and unnecessary. I just hope they return HAL to a recommends. Graham -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: etch to lenny upgrade - X apps no longer see keystrokes?

2009-04-13 Thread Graham Williams
Received Fri 10 Apr 2009 11:30pm +1000 from Thorny: > On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 06:44:42 +1000, Graham Williams posted: > > > Received Thu 09 Apr 2009 9:12pm +1000 from Thorny: > >> On Thu, 09 Apr 2009 18:10:41 +1000, Graham Williams posted: > >> > >> >

Re: etch to lenny upgrade - X apps no longer see keystrokes?

2009-04-13 Thread Graham Williams
Received Fri 10 Apr 2009 6:31am +1000 from Florian Kulzer: Thanks for the suggestions Florian. More details below. > On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 18:10:41 +1000, Graham Williams wrote: > > Have just upgraded > > To what? Lenny, Squeeze, or Sid? >From etch to len

Re: etch to lenny upgrade - X apps no longer see keystrokes?

2009-04-09 Thread Graham Williams
Received Thu 09 Apr 2009 9:12pm +1000 from Thorny: > On Thu, 09 Apr 2009 18:10:41 +1000, Graham Williams posted: > > > Have just upgraded a fairly vanilla etch install on a Dell Precision 690 > > (AMD64) with an nvidia graphics chip. All seemed to proceed well, but on > >

etch to lenny upgrade - X apps no longer see keystrokes?

2009-04-09 Thread Graham Williams
other keys simple cause this screen resolution change. Any ideas? Thanks, Graham -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Fedora guy byebyes Debian

2009-03-08 Thread Graham
; that's understandable, but some random guy? I don't understand it. > > That said, goodbye, and good luck in your future endeavors. You're too generous. ;) Graham -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: etch -> lenny, update-initramfs interrupts dpkg

2009-03-06 Thread Graham
On Sat, 7 Mar 2009 02:57:48 + Graham wrote: > > aptitude show mktemp > > > > says, no, it's not installed. But if I do try to install it: > > > > deneb:~# apt-get install mktemp > > E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'd

Re: etch -> lenny, update-initramfs interrupts dpkg

2009-03-06 Thread Graham
tall mktemp > E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' > to correct the problem. > > So it seems I'm stuck in a vicious circle. > > Can this circle be broken? Found this solution at Debian User Forums: apt-get install mktemp The threa

Re: how to find why packages are automatically installed?

2009-02-24 Thread Graham
tml#searchArchive Graham -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Celestia, Kstars, Etc.

2009-01-12 Thread Graham
rium (http://www.stellarium.org/)? You can find it in the repositories. Well worth downloading if you're into astronomy. Graham -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Nice looking terminal applications

2009-01-01 Thread Graham
menting out requires two hashes). After doing that, run update-grub as root in a console, which will add the defoptions to your default kernel parameters (this is done automatically when you install a kernel using Debian package management). Graham -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-

Re: no flash in opera after upgrade - someone got an "old" version?

2008-05-16 Thread Graham
ersions come with. Another thing is to get the previous version of Flash, which will work with 9.27... but that comes with a security risk, too. Time to move on, I think. ;) Graham -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: no flash in opera after upgrade

2008-05-15 Thread Graham
oing, and move onto the betas of 9.5. Opera 9.5b2 is quite good and stable for me, and Flash works with it, too. You'll find more info about this issue using the link below: http://my.opera.com/community/forums/search.dml?term=flash&id=26&x=0&y=0 You can find the 9.5b2 version

Re: Delay when typing in konsole

2008-04-26 Thread Graham
e lightest). Mind you, whether you want to install Xfce to get it, is another issue. ;) Mrxvt can do tabs, but I've only briefly had a go on that some time ago (just before I installed Xfce for the first time), so can't really say much more about it. However, you can find more info about i

Re: update manger question

2008-04-13 Thread Graham
thing new. If a package requires a new package to satisfy a dependency, then you need to use apt-get dist-upgrade instead of the usual upgrade, because that will add new packages if needed. Graham -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debian and cryptography perfomance (shibboleth)

2008-04-04 Thread graham
graham wrote: Hi, I was going to try experimenting with Shibboleth on Debian when I ran into the following warning: "Debian Users, Stop! Debian 4.0 has shown very poor cryptographic operation performance during our testing. Since the IdP spends a great deal of its time, per request,

debian and cryptography perfomance (shibboleth)

2008-03-20 Thread graham
n issue with any current debian packages? I would really prefer not to have to install RH on my machines... Graham -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Security update of etch did not update my Kernel. Still vulnerable. Why???

2008-03-09 Thread Graham
increment updates since 2.6.18-3, with some packages needing new dependencies, etc, which the normal "apt-get upgrade" would hold back, as well as the fact that kernel 2.6.18-6 would be seen as a new package (it can live happily side-by-side with your current kernel, seeing it's vie

Re: automatix2 and debian 4.0r3

2008-03-07 Thread Graham
ot use Automatix on Debian. Keep such trash software on Ubuntu, where it belongs. Most, if not all, of the things that Automatix installs and configures can be done by the user, as long as they do a *little* googling and use the non-free, contrib sections in the Debian repositories and also use the De

Re: Latest kernel security update wont boot

2007-12-13 Thread Graham
on after that message is displayed, so you should of hit the "OK" instead of immediately rebooting. If you followed the procedure correctly, then sorry if I've wasted your time, but thought it worth asking. Graham -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to install from .deb file

2007-11-30 Thread Graham
> Can anyone refresh my memory? dpkg -i package.deb Graham -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: crontab -e

2007-09-03 Thread Graham
nnot find alternative `/usr/bin/vim'. Use "#update-alternatives --set editor /usr/vim/vim.basic". Alternatively, use "#update-alternatives --config editor" to get the interactive configuration. Graham -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: fstab and removable usb drives

2007-08-28 Thread Graham
me, so haven't really had the need for it... plus I'm lazy and stuck in an old routine. ;) Glad your issue is resolved. Graham -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: fstab and removable usb drives

2007-08-27 Thread Graham
you connect, any additional ones connected up after the first one will have to be /dev/sdb1 and so on. Change /media/removable to the mount point you want. I have no issues with booting my system with the above, nor do I have issues with mounting USB devices. Graham -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

unattended-upgrades

2007-08-22 Thread graham
es it really never need manual intervention? hopefully someone will now point me to the really obvious man page I missed and I will look embarassed ;-) Graham -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: cups yet again

2007-08-07 Thread graham
Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 12:06:25 +0100, graham wrote: >> Florian Kulzer wrote: >> > That should be fixable by putting the "lp" module in /etc/modules. You were right. I'd just assumed that was there by default. After installing the lp m

Re: cups yet again

2007-08-07 Thread graham
nel: ppdev: user-space parallel port driver but the symptoms didn't change. My printcap is: lp0|HL5040: \ :lp=/dev/lp0: \ :force_localhost: \ :if=/usr/bin/foomatic-rip: \ :ppd=/usr/local/ppd/Brother-HL-5040-hl1250.ppd: \ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp: \ :mx#0:sh: Graham -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: cups yet again

2007-08-06 Thread graham
amba print server). If that fails, then I shall try to dredge up my memories of the 90s and getting the filter chain working again.. Thanks for letting me know it's still possible! Graham Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: cups yet again

2007-08-06 Thread graham
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 18:52:56 +0100, graham wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 17:02:07 +0100, graham wrote: I have a standard printer with a reliable driver (Brother HL5040). It was working using the parallel port on my old PC. Said PC died

Re: cups yet again

2007-08-06 Thread graham
Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 05:02:07PM +0100, graham wrote: Yet another cups problem (the one program which makes me feel like I do when running windows - like putting a foot through the computer). So why run cups? Use LPRng and Apsfilter or foomatic print filters

Re: cups yet again

2007-08-06 Thread graham
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 17:02:07 +0100, graham wrote: I have a standard printer with a reliable driver (Brother HL5040). It was working using the parallel port on my old PC. Said PC died, replaced it with a new one, installed 64bit lenny. Configured cups for printer

cups yet again

2007-08-06 Thread graham
. Feels like I've hit a time warp and ended up in 1990. Any ideas? Logs are quiet. cupsd.conf refers to a /var/run/cups/printcap, which doesn't exist, but says it will be created automatically (there's no /etc/printcap) Have uninstalled and reinstalled cupsys, no change. Thanks

Re: Help - Gnome won't rune

2007-07-14 Thread Graham
g that F1 is already in use) and then type "startx -- :1" (no quotes), then do your Ctrl+Alt+F8, and now you'll have two graphical sessions running. If you want more, log into another console (maybe Ctrl+Alt+F3), then "startx -- :2" (no quotes), using Ctrl+Alt+F9 to go to your third graphical session. Graham -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Opera is faster, but...

2007-07-11 Thread Graham
in. Then block the adverts using Block Content in Opera (right-click on the page, etc). You can use some simple regular expressions in the Block Content configuration to remove some usual suspects, too. I hardly see any ads when using Opera. Graham -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: system resource measurement

2007-07-11 Thread Graham
#x27;s great. Another one to try would be htop (http://htop.sourceforge.net), which you'll find in the repositories. Graham -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dist-upgrade problem

2007-07-08 Thread Graham Williams
t-get is trying to upgrade you. Unless you have a specific reason to stay with tetex, might be best to just go with the flow. My observation is that the transition, left to apt-get, works just fine. Regards, Graham -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: udev rule writing help needed

2007-06-11 Thread Graham Evans
nd save it in /usr/ bin/... #!/bin/bash if [ "$ACTION" != 'add' ] ; then exit fi export PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin LocalDisplay=':0' X11User=`who | grep $LocalDisplay | sed -n 1p | cut -f 1 -d ' '` Command='sudo xterm -e scsiScriptForUdev' export DISPLAY=$LocalDisplay nice -n 19 su $X11User -c "$Command &> /tmp/udevScriptErrorOutput.txt" & Seems crazy and I am sure there is a neater way to do it - but perhaps with the xterm output and the output in the /tmp/ text file you will have more information to work with. If you do manage to get it working and/or optimise it let us know. Graham

Re: RAW image file

2007-06-08 Thread Graham Evans
ly in Nautilus (preview and open). The is a dcraw gimp plugin and I think a ufraw plugin too. dcraw is generally a command line tool but the plug in has a gui. Graham E

Re: Multimedia working in debian?

2007-06-01 Thread Graham Evans
you can find all the instructions at www.debian-multimedia.org and www.debian-unofficial.org Graham E

Re: pros/cons of installing from source

2007-05-04 Thread Daniel Graham Palmer
On Friday 04 May 2007 05:36, Greg Folkert wrote: > like encoders and decoders. Along with the entire Going to be very machine specific... one of the biggest groans against GCC is that is supports so many target platforms but doesn't do any of them particularly well. Intel's compiler generates v

Re: usb/cups printer problem after etch upgrade

2007-05-01 Thread graham
will try stripping out cups and starting again. Thanks for all your time Graham Florian Kulzer wrote: On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 00:56:24 +0100, graham wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: [...] Compare a directory listing before and after you plug in the printer if necessary. You can use something

Re: usb/cups printer problem after etch upgrade

2007-04-29 Thread graham
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 20:32:59 +0100, graham wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: find /dev/ -name usblp0 -exec ls -l {} \; ^ I'd still like to see the output of the above command just to be sure. Oops, sorry thought I'

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