Re: pdf tool to stitch 2 pages together side by side

T o n g: > > Further onto the thread "stitching together 2 pdf files", of all the > tools mentioned, which one do you think (no guess please) can stitch 2 > pages together side by side from the same pdf file. I.e., think of doing > the 2-up printing (onto the paper), that's the effect that I wa

Re: vimdiff

shawn wilson: > > could someone please tell me how i'm messing up? i know they didn't > remove vimdiff from debian stable: > > > \h:\w\$ vimdiff > This Vim was not compiled with the diff feature. There are several vim packages with different features compiled in. Try running 'dpkg -l vim\*' to s

Re: clamav 0.97.1 not coming to squeeze-updates ?

D G Teed: >> > > It is finicky.  I played with various repo sources and once did > see clamav package group appear as possible.  I said 'n' to abort > because I wanted to understand exactly where the package was > coming from. You can use 'apt-cache policy $package' to see which source apt choos

Re: cloning a lvm crypto volume to a bigger disk

Colin: > > Wow ... now I have a lot to do :-) Hey, it's only about seven comands, plus some file editing. :) Don't let my lengthy explanations scare you from doing it that way. It's a great feeling to shuffle an OS around under your butt while it's running! > Just glancing through I'm thinking if

Re: bash script fails in squeeze

Bonno Bloksma: > > This bash script has been doing it's job for the past few years but > suddenly stopped working in squeeze. Each part seems to work but the > complete script does not. :-( I must admit that I am not really inclined to try to understand what your scripts should do and and why the

Re: cloning a lvm crypto volume to a bigger disk

Colin: > > I want to move the crypto volume to new disk so I can use it and boot > from the new. Thanks for the information. Now I know what your setup looks like. I am still a bit unsure about your exact partition layout, because I didn't ask for that either, but AFAICS you have at least this:

Re: cloning a lvm crypto volume to a bigger disk

Jochen Schulz: > Colin: >> >> I don't remember the specifics when I did the install but here's what I got: > > Thanks. Now please add the output of 'pvs', 'lvs'. Erm, that probably sounded rude. What I forgot to add is that I should have asked

Re: cloning a lvm crypto volume to a bigger disk

Colin: > > I don't remember the specifics when I did the install but here's what I got: Thanks. Now please add the output of 'pvs', 'lvs'. And just to make sure: you only want to move the encrypted volume to the new disk and keep the old one? J. -- I use a Playstation to block out the existence

Re: cloning a lvm crypto volume to a bigger disk

Colin: > > So I have this machine with a lvm crypto volume done with a debian > testing install. This is on a disk with 160GB. > But now I would like to clone it to a new disk: 500GB. > What are my options? What's the order of the block layers? - LVM on top of dm-crypt on top of raw device, or -

Re: Debian safe-upgrade to 6.0.2 - don't run within X session

D G Teed: > > I wonder if my previous problem was triggered by the > time of day as it was just around midnight. > > I noticed this in the aptitude output: > > Setting up gdm3 (2.30.5-6squeeze3) ... > Scheduling reload of GNOME Display Manager configuration: gdm3. That only means that gdm3 will

Re: security support for lenny / upgrades from lenny to wheezy (was: How to get the stable iso for lenny)

Steve McIntyre: > On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 04:13:28PM +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: >> >> I argued that upgrading from 5.0 to 7.0 will not actually be supported >> (and hence, lenny will not be supported for longer than one year after >> squeeze release) because 6.0 wa

security support for lenny / upgrades from lenny to wheezy (was: How to get the stable iso for lenny)

Steve McIntyre: > > We will cease support for Lenny early next year, Funny that you mention it. We just yesterday discussed whether this news item is still relevant today: / http://www.debian.org/News/2009/20090729 | Since Debian's last release happened on Feb. 14th 2009, there will | only be ap

Re: clamav 0.97.1 not coming to squeeze-updates ?

Camaleón: > > I prefer installing from scratch, in-site upgrades is something I avoid > as much as I can :-) Forget your experiences with SuSE. This is Debian. :) (Disclaimer: I am still running one lenny system as well, but that's mostly because I need to prod my hosting provider to install a

Re: clamav 0.97.1 not coming to squeeze-updates ?

Camaleón: > On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 00:07:23 +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: >> >> NACK. Security support for stable releases ends one year after stable+1: >> >> http://www.debian.org/security/faq#lifespan >> >> Lenny will reach its EOL in January 2012. > &g

Re: clamav 0.97.1 not coming to squeeze-updates ?

Camaleón: > > I will try to keep lenny until reaches its end of life, which should > happen when wheezy comes out. NACK. Security support for stable releases ends one year after stable+1: http://www.debian.org/security/faq#lifespan Lenny will reach its EOL in January 2012. > Now I feel old.

Re: I have big problem choose corect distribution Debian

lee: > Jochen Schulz writes: > >> Depending on what you want to use the machine for, you may be better >> off using something like Damn Small Linux or even OpenWrt. When using >> Debian, you will have to tweak the system quite a bit to ensure it >> runs as fast as

Re: I have big problem choose corect distribution Debian

Jozef Dunajčan: > > I want Debian only command promt without grafics(X, window). > Please help me choose Debian distribution. > I have industrial computer: > HDD: IDE 2GB > CPU: 486 66MHz > RAM: 64MB The installer for i386 should work: http://www.debian.org/releases/squeeze/debian-installer/ But

Re: Debian safe-upgrade to 6.0.2 - don't run within X session

Scott Ferguson: > On 28/06/11 00:54, Jochen Schulz wrote: >> >> No, dist-upgrades aren't different. > > If you believe that then file a bug report. > > ref: man apt-get Apparently we are talking at cross-purposes, but your quote doesn't refute my claim: ap

Re: Debian safe-upgrade to 6.0.2 - don't run within X session

Scott Ferguson: > > I've never had a desktop (KDE) session crash from an upgrade, > dist-upgrades are different. No, dist-upgrades aren't different. The only difference between aptitude's "safe-upgrade" and "full-upgrade" is that they use different algorithms for dependency resolution. The upgra

Re: Almost everyday a new issue: this time Amarok

AG: > > What on earth is going on here? Applications don't install > correctly, or they crash when opened? Welcome to testing! :) > What have I done wrong on this, why would an ordinary safe-update of > Amarok crash? Your question appears to imply that the word "safe" in "safe-ugrade" gives an

Re: /etc/hosts in debian resets itself on reboot

Tapas Mishra: > > I've been having a problem where when our vps provider decides to > restart the server (running Debian 5.0.8), the server fails to > remember changes to /etc/hosts. All I need is an database alias that > is used for the webapps on the server which points to 127.0.0.1 > localhost.

Re: is debian on 7 dvds waqar from pakistan

Waqar Ali: > > Waqar ali from pakistan. little confusion about downloading iso > image of debian i386. tell me is debian on 7 dvds kindly tell me how to > download debian on 1 dvd waiting for your quick response You only need to download all DVDs if you actually need the complete set of

Re: After the Libc6 Fiasco

David Baron: > > Luckily, using the live-CD, I was able to download and re-install the > "testing" packages for libc6 and friends and finally get my system working > again. What problem are you referring to? The breakage from the missing symlinks on amd64? That issue has been fixed some weeks ag

Re: Gnome desktop settings borked on testing after reboot

AG: > > These are some of the issues: > 1. Windows manager is "unknown" and no configuration tool is registered > 2. windows are launched at the top of the screen & I cannot drag > these elsewhere > 3. clicking a mouse on a window does not bring it to the fore > 4. there are no longer multiple wor

Re: how to get to runlevel 3

Mark Panen: > > why is X running at runlevel 2 and not 5? As Dave said: in Debian, there's no difference between runlevels 2-5. J. -- Thy lyrics in pop songs seem to describe my life uncannily accurately. [Agree] [Disagree]

Re: floppy drive in debian stable

[CC'ed as per request] Charlie Derr: > > mount: special device /dev/fd0 does not exist Your friend probably needs to load the 'floppy' module manually. To make the system auto-load it on boot, just add a line containing 'floppy' to /etc/modules. J. -- After the millenium I will shoot to kill.

Re: clone LVM disk to a larger disk

Peter Beck: > On 06/05/2011 04:51 PM, Jochen Schulz wrote: >> What I would probably do is: >> >> - install new disk alongside the old one >> - put one big partition on the new disk and pvcreate the partition >> - vgextend the existing VG with the new partition &

Re: clone LVM disk to a larger disk

Gilles Mocellin: > On dim. 05 juin 2011 16:51:26 CEST, Jochen Schulz > wrote: >> >> What I would probably do is: >> >> - install new disk alongside the old one >> - put one big partition on the new disk and pvcreate the partition >> - vgext

Re: clone LVM disk to a larger disk

Peter Beck: > > Now I've got a 1TB disk which I would like to use instead of the > 160GB disk. My question: Can I just clone the small disk to the new > large disk and then resize the LV on it ? Does that work ? I would > say yes, but I've never done that, so I am not sure... ;) What I would prob

Re: consolekit makes trouble

> Hello list, > > […] I saved my package list by dpkg --get-selections > package.txt, and > after the fresh installation, I could reinstall them again. I did this with > the command: apt-get install $(cut -f1 package.txt), which worked fine. Just as a side note: This procedure has the probably

Re: IndexError: list index out of range

lina: > > when I tried AutoDockTools, which showed me something like > > IndexError: list index out of range > > Is it something relevant to driver or Pmv or ? It's a programming error in the application. Either a real bug or "only" missing error handling. J. -- If I was Mark Chapman I would

Re: Problem with the global weigh of several files

Gorka: > > I am looking for the best way of appending commands to obtain the global > amount of Mb of the modified files of my PC. > > Something like this: > > find ./ -mtime -7 | du -Sch In bytes: find ./ -mtime -7 -ls | awk 'BEGIN { s=0 } { s+=$7 } END { print s } ' You can use 'print s/10

Re: Tracing Filesystem Accesses

Bob McConnell: > > Before we go any further, lets get a couple of things sorted out. > What type of SSD (Solid State Drive) are you all talking about here? > > If it contains Flash memory, What else do you have in mind? > then yes, there is a limit to the > number of ERASE cycles each sector ca

Re: Boot problem after crashed update

Javier Barroso: > > So, why not, simply wait one month without upgrading, remove sid from > your sources.list (and keep only wheezy), and then aptitude update; > aptitude safe-upgrade; aptitude full-upgrade ? Because the OP would still run some kind of more or less mixed wheezy/sid system even th

Re: Boot problem after crashed update

Simon Hoerder: > > Is there an easy way to remove all unstable packages? No, at least no easy way I could come up with. You could use aptitude search to identify installed packages from unstable, remove them and reinstall them from squeeze. But since you apparently already have libc from unstable,

Re: Boot problem after crashed update

Simon Hoerder: > > deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian sid main contrib That line points to unstable, aka "sid". Sid is the permanent alias for the unstable distribution, unlike the rolling aliases for testing and stable. > Assuming Sven is correct: > B) Am I correct that the easiest way to retu

Re: Boot problem after crashed update

> I made a fresh install of debian squeeze just after its release and > dutifully installed the updates suggested by the package manager > whenever necessary. What's the content of your sources.list? > 2) The only thing that worked was switching between x (ctrl+alt+f7) and >the terminal (ctrl

Re: Re: Does "apt-get dist-upgrade" upgrade the kernel?

KS: > > Surprisingly, dpkg does not show 2.6.38 whereas apt says that it exists! Dpkg doesn't know packages that were never installed. Apt does. J. -- I wish I had been aware enough to enjoy my time as a toddler. [Agree] [Disagree]

Re: OT: Safe to access SSH server from work?

George: > On 5/6/11, Jochen Schulz wrote: > >> You can authenticate to an OpenSSH server using a password, or using a >> keyfile. On the client side, simply run 'ssh-keygen' to create a >> keypair. > > So the attacker needs to guess my private key inste

Re: OT: Safe to access SSH server from work?

George: > On 5/6/11, Jochen Schulz wrote: > >> If you only allowing key-based authentication and install security >> patches in a timely manner, the risk from running a public OpenSSH >> server is low. Expect brute-force attempts to login using weak >> passwords,

Re: OT: Safe to access SSH server from work?

George: > > I have a computer at home that I'm doing some research on and I set up > an SSH server on it so I can access it from other computers at home. I > haven't opened up the network to the internet yet though, as I'm not > confident enough that it is safe. If you only allowing key-based auth

Re: Need help setting up a home LAN

Paul E Condon: > > […] I can see good reasons for DHCP, but I have never > understood how I could get my four Debian hosts to talk to each other > under DHCP. I see some things that can be configured to have DHCP > assign fixed IPs to certain devices based on their MAC address, but is > that what n

Re: Debian Lenny archives location ?

Ravi Roy: > > This might be a stupid question becuase of my ignorance, in case it is, > please excuse me. :) > Debian 6.0 Squeeze is stabe and Lenny (last point rel. 5.0.8) is old stable. > As per the posts I have come through so far, says that oldstable are moved > to http://archive.debian.org

Re: bash prompt \W (working dir) garbled

Jimmy Wu: > > $ PS1='\W ' > ~ cd /home > hmee cd /media > meiia cd /boot Same here, on squeeze and sid (both amd64, just as yours). It's already reported as #589084. A link to a patch is included, in case you want to rebuild bash yourself. J. -- I worry about people thinking I have lost directio

Re: Why doesn't debian remove the proprietary software from it's servers?

Andrei Popescu: > On Mi, 27 apr 11, 12:03:41, Jochen Schulz wrote: >> >> In short: no. Debian follows the DFSG, the FSF follows its own rules. > ^^^ > You probably meant the Social Contract here ;) I actually even wrote that but later

Re: Why doesn't debian remove the proprietary software from it's servers?

sdc: > > My beginner question is, why doesn't Debian remove the proprietary software > hosted on it's servers? Because Debian currently thinks keeping proprietary packages serves their users better than removing the "offending" packages. Officially, proprietary packages aren't part of Debian anywa

Re: [OT] Purchasing a wired switch; advice needed

Klistvud: > Dne, 20. 04. 2011 11:25:27 je Jochen Schulz napisal(a): >> Klistvud: >>> >>> I'm planning to purchase a wired (consumer grade) switch since I've >>> heard they're inherently more robust than (consumer grade) routers, >>> and

Re: [OT] Purchasing a wired switch; advice needed

Klistvud: > And here's what I need advice for: > > I'm planning to purchase a wired (consumer grade) switch since I've > heard they're inherently more robust than (consumer grade) routers, > and I'm planning to connect it *directly* to our cable broadband > modem. Then, the two families would conn

Re: Troubleshooting boot

Michaël Grünewald: > > But anyway I try it again: is there a kernel command line option > that disables parallelization of initialization and fixes the order > of it? Not a kernel option, but you can edit /etc/default/rcS and set CONCURRENCY=none. That should prevent init scripts from being run i

Re: Bugreport: "Netinstall DVD"? debian-testing-amd64-DVD-1.iso 18-Apr-2011

Тира Шюпаст: > > I am new at sending bug reports to Debian, so please bear with me, and my > English too. No problem. You just need to know that this list is not the right place to report bugs to Debian Developers, that's what the BTS is for (bugs.debian.org). But anyway, you mail's content suits

Re: sata hotplug

tux: > > I'm using squeeze, and I want to hutplug an sata device. > Someone said to me that sata and scsi is the same in linux. That's true to some extent, yes. Device naming is (and always was) the same, for example. > I searched the web, the way of hot plug for scsi is echo an string to > /pr

Re: Cannot umount: device is busy

T o n g: > > Is there any way that I can kill all those kernel processes associated > with the mount? For NFS run: /etc/init.d/nfs-kernel-server stop J. -- All participation is a myth. [Agree] [Disagree] signature.asc

Re: mua and mail service provider statistics

Slicky Johnson: > > I simply mark threads ignored and I don't seen anymore mails regarding > that topic. I currently use claws-mail, and I see you're using mutt. > If I remember correctly you should easily be able to mark a thread as > ignored. Unfortunately, this isn't the case. You can mark (su

Re: iceweasel 4 process not closing on exit

L V Gandhi: > > When ever I close iceweasel 4 in squeeze, process is not closing. How did you install Iceweasel 4? It isn't part of squeeze. J. -- I no longer believe in father christmas but have no trouble comprehending a nuclear apocalypse. [Agree] [Disagree]

Re: ssh between computers on my home network

Lisi: > > The Debian computers can be neither pinged nor ssh'd to. This is presumably > because of some setting that Debian puts in place by default, but I can't > find where or what. Debian doesn't install a firewall/packet filter by default. You just need to install openssh-server in the mac

Re: Debian was hacked: The Canterbury Distribution

tv.deb...@googlemail.com: > > On Sid: > > aptitude show cant > > Paquet : cant > État: non installé > Version : 0.8.15-1 > Priorité : supplémentaire > Section : admin > Responsable : Alexander Reichle-Schmehl This installs the following shell script as /usr/bin/cant: |#!/bin/bash | |args=(${@

Re: SSD's under Debian Linux

bars0 bars0: > > I recently bought an OCZ VERTEX 2 SSD. What precautions should I take > when installing Debian on it? You don't strictly need to do anything special. You may want to read the advice here anyway: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC/TipsAndTricks?highlight=%28ssd%29#Extending_flash

Re: What happened to debian - does "stable" keep having any meaning?

Geronimo: > Tom H wrote: > >> It looks like you've found a gem, especially given the external card >> and this post by Colin Watson (#54): I don't think that's related. The issue cannot be resolved by removing the external card. >> You can also verify this at a lower level by trying 'lspci' at a

Bug in grub-pc results in unbootable system after installation (was: What happened to debian - does "stable" keep having any meaning?)

Geronimo: > Jochen Schulz wrote: > >> a hint that this *might* actually be a graphics problem. See this bug >> report: >> >> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=594967 >> >> It looks like the fix didn't make into stable, but you can try

Re: What happened to debian - does "stable" keep having any meaning?

is *might* actually be a graphics problem. See this bug report: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=594967 It looks like the fix didn't make into stable, but you can try setting GRUB_TERMINAL=console. > Jochen Schulz wrote: >> Can you still make the system bootable ag

Re: What happened to debian - does "stable" keep having any meaning?

Geronimo: > > From a closer look to dpkg.log - there has been updates of python and grub > uses python. Could this lead the different behaviour? Looking at your dpkg.log again, I notice that grub-pc has been purged and replaced by grub-legacy. Which version of grub are we talking about again? :)

Re: What happened to debian - does "stable" keep having any meaning?

Geronimo: > Jochen Schulz wrote: >> Geronimo: >> >>> As every of my drives had an installed grub in mbr, >> >> Ok, I forgot that. (BTW, I find this setup really strange, but if it >> worked in the past with grub2 it should of course continue to work.)

Re: What happened to debian - does "stable" keep having any meaning?

Geronimo: > Jochen Schulz wrote: >> >> AFAICS, we can rule out the kernel as the cuplrit completely, as grub >> doesn't even get that far. > > VETO - after reboot, you might be right, but what happens during update-grub? update-grub only creates the configuratio

Re: What happened to debian - does "stable" keep having any meaning?

Geronimo: > Jochen Schulz wrote: >> >> - Which disks are connected to which controller? > > As told above, the "system disks" are attached to the main board. The system > disks are the three SSDs and a WD VelociRaptor (sdb) Ok, so to sum up: You have troub

Re: Automatically restart OpenVPN session

Kaushal Shriyan: > > I have multiple VPN Configs. is the below setting correct ? > > iface eth0 inet dhcp >openvpn > > iface wlan0 inet dhcp >openvpn I guess that should work, but I haven't tested it and I don't find an example for this in /usr/share/doc/openvpn/README.De

Re: Automatically restart OpenVPN session

Kaushal Shriyan: > > is there a way to automatically restart the OpenVPN session while i switch > to and fro from Wireless to Wired Network on Debian Squeeze ? Do you use network-manager? If not: you can add lines for OpenVPN to your entries for wired and wireless networks in /etc/network/interf

Re: What happened to debian - does "stable" keep having any meaning?

Geronimo: > Jochen Schulz wrote: >> Geronimo: >>> >>> the last update of debian broke my system completely! >> >> I am very sorry for your wasted time and loss of data. I see why you >> need to let off steam. > > Thank you very much! - usually

Re: What happened to debian - does "stable" keep having any meaning?

Geronimo: > > the last update of debian broke my system completely! I am very sorry for your wasted time and loss of data. I see why you need to let off steam. Nevertheless I think this threads leads nowhere unless you are more specific about the hardware in use and what kind of upgrade you actua

Re: sum two disks using RAID or LVM?

Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.: > > Buy another 500GB disk and do software RAID 5 if you really need 1TB of > space. > It won't be great, but it'll be a LOT safer than what you are proposing. mdadm can even do RAID10 on three drives (IBM calls it RAID 1E). You'll get 750GB of space with three 500GB dr

Re: sum two disks using RAID or LVM?

Γιώργος Πάλλας: > > A short question: I have two 500GB HDDs and I want to use their space as > one. Should I aggregate them with software RAID, or using LVM in regard > to data safety? If one of them malfunctions, is one of the two > approaches better? If your goal is to use the disks as a single

Re: Debian intallation

Yassine Ehssan: > > I have tried to I install the Debian operating system on a hard disk > partitioned using windows vista hard disk partition manager and I have > specified a primary partition of a capacity of 100 GB You most probably don't need that much space for Debian, but of course it doesn'

Re: How to set battery charge thresh in Debian 6 ?

green: > Jochen Schulz wrote at 2011-02-24 11:07 -0600: >> waterloo: >>> In gentoo, I set battery thresh in >>> /sys/devices/platform/smapi/BAT0/start_charge_thresh . >>> But in Debian 6 I can not find that file . >> >> module-assistant auto-inst

Re: How to set battery charge thresh in Debian 6 ?

Please don't top-post. waterloo: > > In gentoo, I set battery thresh in > /sys/devices/platform/smapi/BAT0/start_charge_thresh . > But in Debian 6 I can not find that file . module-assistant auto-install tp-smapi-source J. -- The news at ten makes me peevish but animal hospital makes me cry. [

Re: dd or cp over network: should I use scp?

Dotan Cohen: > > I need to dd or cp my laptop's harddrive over the LAN. For a reason > that I'd rather not get into I cannot remove the drive from the > laptop. What do you want to achieve? Cloning a filesystem that is in use always has some drawbacks, depending on the method. If you use LVM: use

Re: Disc encryptian.

Heddle Weaver: > > looking at the collective knowledge factor, what's the best disc encryption > package? > What's everybody using? > Two examples of Xzibit this week and hash changes showing up in the logs. > No damage, just nosy kids. I am not sure what you are saying, but be aware that disk en

Re: upgrade using aptitude

Heddle Weaver: > On 16 February 2011 20:06, Jochen Schulz wrote: >> Qi Qi: >>> >>> I have been using debian unstable. After debian 6.0 released, aptitude >>> upgrading asks me to remove gnome, gnome-core, and >>> gnome-desktop-enviroment,etc. >>

Re: upgrade using aptitude

Qi Qi: > > I have been using debian unstable. After debian 6.0 released, aptitude > upgrading asks me to remove gnome, gnome-core, and > gnome-desktop-enviroment,etc. I doubt that you are using (safe-)upgrade. You are probably having trouble using full-upgrade which you didn't have if you used a

Re: OpenOffice has become LibreOffice?

Adrian Levi: > On 16 February 2011 02:47, Jochen Schulz wrote: > >> I would be surprised to find something like this. The fork has purely >> political reasons and as it is still quite young, it shouldn't have >> deviated from OOo by much until now. > > LibreOf

Re: OpenOffice has become LibreOffice?

John Jason Jordan: > > Does anyone know of a place that has a fairly detailed but not too > technical list of why one would want to use LibreOffice over OOo, > disregarding the open source issues. I would be surprised to find something like this. The fork has purely political reasons and as it is

Re: Middle button copy/paste

Please don't top-post. Instead, trim the quotes and write your reply below or in-between. Radhakrishna Bhat: > > Not sure, but I think you need to be running 'gpm' daemon for middle button > paste to work. Gpm is only needed for mouse support in the VTs. X doesn't need that. J. -- Atrocities co

Re: Installation on SSD

Allan Wind: > On 2011-02-09T09:31:51, Brandon Ros wrote: >> >> What is the bottom line with: >> mount options (TRIM, noatime) > > All I did was ensuring that I was on a recent enough kernel for > TRIM support (2.6.33 and I think Debian added it to 2.6.32-12), > and added noatime and nodiratime

Re: Debian way of compiling a kernel.

Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.: > > If you just want a .deb to install, I've heard there's a makefile target in > the kernel tarball that works fine. I believe but can't confirm that the > .debs generated by the makefile in the kernel tarball will properly invoke > the postint scripts that are used to

Re: best labtop for debian

Andrei Popescu: > > Of course, a ThinkPad is not perfect for everyone, True. > here are some possible cons: > > - battery life is not very good Depends on the model and the battery. > - quite heavy Dito. My 12" X200 weighs less than 1.5kg. Quite portable, I would say. > - many models have o

Re: Sticking with Lenny

Tony van der Hoff: > > I have a headless VPS running Lenny. For the time being, until I get > some time to attend to it, I wish to keep it that way. However, my > sources.list points to "stable": Then change that to "lenny" and run apt-get update. If you didn't install any packages from squeeze (w

Re: best labtop for debian

hamed hosseini: > i want buy labtop,tell me best labtop for debian os? > 900$-1300$ > "my choice is lenovo labtop" I have been using an X200 for the last two years and I am still very pleased with it. The X201 is a bit more expensive and features more recent CPUs, but you might want to consider ge

Re: sid: upgrade wants to remove xserver packages

Hugo Vanwoerkom: > > Doing a dist-upgrade in Sid this morning wants to remove all xserver > packages. Wait a bit? That's why I always preach not to run dist-upgrades (or full-upgrades, as aptitude calls them) but simple upgrades. That way you won't have to fear removing half of your system. J. -

Re: How to use mount.crypt remount

T o n g: > > I can't figure out how to use the remount option of mount.crypt from its > man page. All the following that I've tried have failed: > > mount.crypt -o remount ro /dev/sdaxx /mnt/point > mount.crypt -v -o remount=ro /dev/sdaxx /mnt/point Use a comma to separate mount options, just

Re: Help with Sun Java in Debian Sid

Nick Lidakis: > On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 01:49:10AM +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote: >> Java includes tons of alternatives, not only "java". I guess you still >> have other alternatives pointing to openjdk. Use >> 'update-java-alternatives' to fix them all at on

Re: Help with Sun Java in Debian Sid

Nick Lidakis: > > In trying to track down what was going on, I realized I had the Sun Java jre > installed from the non-free repository and openjdk-6-jre > openjdk-6-jre-headless. I tried using update-aletrnatives --config java to > pick between the two to no avail. I removed the openjdk packages

Re: Recommendation for buy Hardware

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh: > On Fri, 28 Jan 2011, Jochen Schulz wrote: >> Henrique de Moraes Holschuh: >>> >>> Squeeze tries to align everything to 1MB boundaries, so it shouldn't cause >>> problems. >> >> Do you refer to the installer o

Re: java 5 in squeeze

Andrew McGlashan: > Vu Ngoc VU wrote: >> >> As sun-java5-jre doesn't exist on Squeeze, there is no clue. >> But if you want to install some package that have the same name on >> both distros, you can use option -t with apt-get. > > If sun-java5 continues to be important, then why not have a port

Re: Recommendation for buy Hardware

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh: > On Fri, 28 Jan 2011, Alfonso Ruiz wrote: >> The ST2000DL003 is 4096 bytes per sector, can this have problems with >> squeeze? > > Squeeze tries to align everything to 1MB boundaries, so it shouldn't cause > problems. Do you refer to the installer only, or does that

Re: loud f'ing noise

shawn wilson: > > second, where do i find the cause of this alarm? i looked in my the log > files of when it started (well, kern, messages, syslog) and sent along the > only thing i saw... now, this was a $400 supermicro motherboard when i > bought it a few years ago, I have a Supermicro board as

Re: Linux disk partition encryption

Sjoerd Hardeman: > Celejar schreef: >> >> Oh, basically the Evil Maid attack. Fair enough. But then you have to >> make sure the attacker can't flash the BIOS ... >> > Bother to explain how it works? If you have an encrypted partition, > no adapted kernel will ever be able to access it. Of cour

Re: Linux disk partition encryption

Celejar: > Jochen Schulz wrote: >> Celejar: >>> >>> Why does putting /boot on a USB stick gain you anything? >> >> Because an unencrypted /boot may be altered by an attacker without you >> noticing it. Theoretically, the kernel may be replaced by a

Re: Linux disk partition encryption

Celejar: > Brad Alexander wrote: > >> Linux admins used LUKS, and as a further step, I put /boot (the only >> partition that cannot be encrypted) on a USB stick, so that if anyone >> got the laptop, they had no access to the data. > > Why does putting /boot on a USB stick gain you anything? Bec

Re: Let's talk about HTTPS Everywhere

Celejar: > On Tue, 25 Jan 2011 07:58:28 +0100 >> >> A single core get's used 100% by the kworker thread. But actually it's >> not 20MB/s, but 25MB/s while reading (decrypting) and 35MB/s while >> writing (encrypting). I just tested it again. > > So does that mean that your wireless throughput wit

Re: Apache SSL named based virtual hosts

Bob Proulx: > Jochen Schulz wrote: > >> Modern browsers appear to support that TLS extension: >> https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Server_Name_Indication#Browser\ > s > > I will implement this in a test installation and get some experience > with t

Re: putting "/tmp" to memory help

Celejar: > > I'm somewhat confused about this. My system has 2GB of RAM, and I have: > > $ uptime > 20:46:09 up 5 days, 5:30, 9 users, load average: 0.06, 0.09, 0.25 > > $ free > total used free sharedbuffers cached > Mem: 20651721047312101

Re: Let's talk about HTTPS Everywhere

Celejar: > On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 22:33:28 +0100 > Jochen Schulz wrote: > >> Celejar: >>> >>> I understand that you're technically adding traffic and processor >>> overhead; the question is how much? >> >> My 1.66GHz atom D510 can encrypt

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