Package for Kernel Bug?

2017-12-23 Thread Mason Dean Kukosky
I'm trying to send a bug report with reportbug, and It's asking for the package name. What do I put under package name if it's a bug with the Linux kernel? Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com) Secure Email.

Re: How to key Esperanto characters

2011-12-12 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
Check out http://askubuntu.com/questions/29731/rebind-alt-key-to-win-using-setxkbmap it might give you some hints to solve your problem. Sorry for top posting, stupid droid email won't allow interspersed reply... -- rbmj Dr Sian Mountbatten wrote: >Robert Blair Mason Jr. wrote: >

Re: How to key Esperanto characters

2011-12-12 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Mon, 12 Dec 2011 10:40:23 + (UTC) Cousin Stanley wrote: > Doug wrote: > > > > > The answer is to set up your Compose key. > > > > The following link might help > to learn how to set up the Compose key > > http://userbase.kde.org/Tutorials/ComposeKey > I just

Re: Choosing a distribution (was: Just a simple query)

2011-10-27 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 20:58:51 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 13:59:38 -0400, Burhan Hanoglu wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 1:43 PM, Camaleón > > wrote: > >> On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 22:55:40 +0530, Linux Tyro wrote: > >> > >>> I am beginner in Linux and do another job. But I

Re: PCManFM in SID

2011-10-13 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:35:37 -0400 "Robert Blair Mason Jr." wrote: > On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 08:23:20 +0530 > "Sridhar M.A." wrote: > > > On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 04:46:08PM -0400, Robert Blair Mason Jr. > > wrote: > >> > >> PCMa

Re: PCManFM in SID

2011-10-11 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 08:23:20 +0530 "Sridhar M.A." wrote: > On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 04:46:08PM -0400, Robert Blair Mason Jr. > wrote: >> >> PCManFM Releases: >> >> 0.9.9 - August 2011 - this version works fine >> 0.9.8 (SID) - Oc

Re: installare debian su macair

2011-10-10 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Mon, 10 Oct 2011 23:15:40 +0200 Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Ciao Alessandro, > > Am Montag, 10. Oktober 2011 schrieb alessandro soprana: > > valdagno, 10.10.2011 > > > > ho un mac air da febbraio 2011 e vorrei installare debian. Mentre su > > altri notebook riesco ad installarlo su questo no

Re: PCManFM in SID

2011-10-10 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Mon, 10 Oct 2011 18:36:50 + (UTC) Walter Hurry wrote: > On Mon, 10 Oct 2011 13:28:27 -0400, Robert Blair Mason Jr. wrote: > > > Hi list, > > > > Just a quick question - does anybody know where I can go to figure > > out the status of getting a new ve

PCManFM in SID

2011-10-10 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
Hi list, Just a quick question - does anybody know where I can go to figure out the status of getting a new version of PCManFM? The version currently in SID is still pretty old and has some showstopper (won't start, crashes, etc. - these have been filed for some time but not fixed) bugs for those

Re: LXDE Menu editing

2011-10-10 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Sun, 09 Oct 2011 10:55:52 -0600 Javier Vasquez wrote: > On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 7:21 PM, Robert Blair Mason Jr. > wrote: > > > ... > > > > I don't want to provoke anyone or start a flame war, but why does > > the debian menu system still exist?  It h

Re: LXDE Menu editing

2011-10-08 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Sat, 08 Oct 2011 23:25:14 +0100 Richard wrote: > On Sat, 08 Oct 2011 13:03:03 -0500 (CDT) > Blair Mason wrote: > > > Oct 8, 2011 11:52:04 AM, richard.b...@blueyonder.co.uk wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I'm trying out LXDE, much less system load, very not

Re: LXDE Menu editing

2011-10-08 Thread Blair Mason
Oct 8, 2011 11:52:04 AM, richard.b...@blueyonder.co.uk wrote: > Hi, > I'm trying out LXDE, much less system load, very noticeable . > Is there a menu editor similar to gnome alcatel, I'd like to customise the > "other" menu section. You can try lxmed : http://sourceforge.net/projects/lxmed/ Alt

Re: HD Data Recovery

2011-10-03 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Mon, 03 Oct 2011 23:27:42 + (UTC) Walter Hurry wrote: > On Mon, 03 Oct 2011 16:07:23 -0400, Robert Blair Mason Jr. wrote: > > > A few days ago one of my parents' computers stopped booting, and > > they don't have any external backups > > I am sick and

HD Data Recovery

2011-10-03 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
Hey list, A few days ago one of my parents' computers stopped booting, and they don't have any external backups, so I have to try and backup the data. BIOS POST revealed that the cause was a hard disk error. I swapped the drive in as a slave on another comp of mine and attempted to see if I could

Re: [OT] British vs. American English

2011-10-03 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Mon, 03 Oct 2011 09:13:25 +0200 Lorenzo Sutton wrote: > On 02/10/2011 18:36, John Hasler wrote: > > consul tores wrote: > > > > Lisi writes: > >> Maybe we should coin an adjective. USian perhaps? > > > > And you can be EUian. > > TERRAn? > (finalizing the spaceship thingy sitting in the gara

Re: OFF-TOPIC: HTML to send data out a certain port

2011-10-03 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Mon, 03 Oct 2011 10:56:36 -1000 Joel Roth wrote: > On Mon, Oct 03, 2011 at 02:32:15PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > > Yes, off-topic, but you folks are the brightest group with which I'm > > affiliated > > > > We're thinking of building a Debian-based web-server that offers up > > a "remote

Re: Curlftpfs replacement?

2011-09-09 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Fri, 09 Sep 2011 14:52:06 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 09 Sep 2011 10:43:06 -0400, Robert Blair Mason Jr. wrote: > > (...) > > > I do know that FTP doesn't use any encryption unless you use TLS, > > which the servers I'm connecting to appear to u

Re: Curlftpfs replacement?

2011-09-09 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Fri, 09 Sep 2011 02:21:11 -0400 Chris Brennan wrote: > On 9/8/2011 11:06 PM, Robert Blair Mason Jr. wrote: > > > > I've googled some, but can't seem to find any active project > > providing FTP mounts. Currently I've installed curlftpfs, but cf >

Curlftpfs replacement?

2011-09-08 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
Hi list, I've googled some, but can't seem to find any active project providing FTP mounts. Currently I've installed curlftpfs, but cf wikipedia the project appears to be abandoned. Is there a new version or project that is still being developed upstream that anyone here knows about? Thanks, -

Re: Ugly appearence after upgrade

2011-09-05 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Mon, 05 Sep 2011 17:32:27 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 05 Sep 2011 16:47:46 +, Walter Hurry wrote: > > > On Mon, 05 Sep 2011 11:57:13 +, Camaleón wrote: > > > >> I neither like gnome-shell in its current state (I tested GNOME > >> 3.0 in openSUSE and did not feel good with i

Re: How to set mailto application

2011-09-02 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Thu, 01 Sep 2011 18:45:49 -0400 "Robert Blair Mason Jr." wrote: > > How can I configure chromium to open claws-mail as the mailto link > handler? Right now it just opens a new chromium window to the new tab > page. > Nevermind, I figured it out. Apparently /usr/b

How to set mailto application

2011-09-01 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
Hi list, How can I configure chromium to open claws-mail as the mailto link handler? Right now it just opens a new chromium window to the new tab page. Thanks, -- rbmj -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas.

Re: sharing one r/w unix filesystem between different machines and users

2011-08-29 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Sun, 28 Aug 2011 19:18:35 -0400 shawn wilson wrote: > I don't understand what is hard about this. I mean if you don't care > about security, just make sure the mount has a umask of 770 (or > whatever) and make an export, reload exports, and mount it from > wherever you want. > > What am I mis

Re: sharing one r/w unix filesystem between different machines and users

2011-08-28 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Sun, 28 Aug 2011 10:01:05 -0400 "Robert Blair Mason Jr." wrote: > > I understand OSX doesn't help anyone here... perhaps someone could > request an implementation of this command in the mount source code? > It seems simple - just check if the filesystem has noowne

Re: sharing one r/w unix filesystem between different machines and users

2011-08-28 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Fri, 26 Aug 2011 08:41:35 +0200 Christoph Groth wrote: > "Robert Blair Mason Jr." writes: > > > Christoph Groth wrote: > > > > Will something like the following work? This works on any filesystem > > using standard unix permissions (such

Re: sharing one r/w unix filesystem between different machines and users

2011-08-25 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Fri, 26 Aug 2011 01:02:57 +0200 Christoph Groth wrote: > Blair Mason writes: > > > Permission schemes on removable media are not too powerful annyway, > > as anyone with root on any machine can change them... my $0.02. > > Exactly -- I wonder whether there are any

Re: sharing one r/w unix filesystem between different machines and users

2011-08-25 Thread Blair Mason
Can you use the other permission set? Or does it need to be specifically those users only? Permission schemes on removable media are not too powerful annyway, as anyone with root on any machine can change them... my $0.02. -- rbmj

Re: how to change root passwd (if forgotten)

2011-08-11 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Thu, 11 Aug 2011 15:48:02 -0600 Aaron Toponce wrote: > > sulogin is easy enough to bypass. > > * Boot Live CD > * Mount / > * Edit /etc/inittab > * Comment out si::sysinit:/etc/init.d/rcS > * Reboot into single user mode > > Much easer than chroots, or any of the other pr

Re: how to change root passwd (if forgotten)

2011-08-11 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Thu, 11 Aug 2011 07:14:23 + (GMT) Francois Cerbelle wrote: > Le Wed, 10 Aug 2011 18:10:02 +0200, Thierry Chatelet a écrit : > > On Wednesday 10 August 2011 17:53:26 Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > >> if i'm not mistaken you can just go to single user mode on centos > >> by appending "1" or "sing

Re: [SOLVED] GLX Missing

2011-08-11 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
I figured out my issue. I was playing with OpenCL and it pulled in a bunch of nvidia stuff because it was selecting nvidia-libopencl1 by default. Then, when I was googling how to fix the video drivers I was blindly filtering all of the instructions through s/apt-get/aptitude/ and aptitude wasn't

GLX Missing

2011-08-10 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
Hello list, I am unable to get 3d graphics on my laptop. I've tried the standard reinstall xserver-xorg, xserver-xorg-video-intel, dpkg-reconfigure, and then restart, but it hasn't worked. My video card: $ lspci | grep VGA 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Core Processor Inte

Re: Boost sound volume?

2011-08-10 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Wed, 10 Aug 2011 20:06:19 +0200 Tomas Kral wrote: > On Wed, 2011-08-10 at 16:07 +0200, Robert Blair Mason Jr. wrote: > > On Wed, 10 Aug 2011 06:01:46 -0400 > > Carl Fink wrote: > > > No, it's a well-known problem with PulseAudio. It gives max > > > vol

Re: [OT] plot execution flows from C/C++ sources

2011-08-10 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Wed, 10 Aug 2011 14:33:46 +0100 Joao Ferreira Gmail wrote: > Hello all, > > [ maybe some programers out there... :) ] > > I recently stared working on a project for maintenance and new > developments on an existing huge code base of C/C++ > > It's quite a challenge for newcommers. > > D

Re: Boost sound volume?

2011-08-10 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Wed, 10 Aug 2011 06:01:46 -0400 Carl Fink wrote: > No, it's a well-known problem with PulseAudio. It gives max volumes > much, much lower than Windows for no special reason I know of. Is it possible for me to just kill the PulseAudio server when I'm starting certain applications, or force them

Boost sound volume?

2011-08-09 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
Hi list, Is there a way to boost the system sound volume? Playing DVDs in VLC with the alsa, pulseaudio, and vlc volumes all maxed out is still about 30-40% of max volume in 'doze. I don't like pulseaudio, but for some reason skype doesn't work without it, and my family won't allow me to not hav

Re: ad-hoc wifi - network unreachable

2011-08-06 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Sat, 06 Aug 2011 21:10:53 +0200 Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2011-08-05 09:42:11 -0400, Robert Blair Mason Jr. wrote: > > I am unable to connect to adhoc networks on debian sid using wicd. > > Whenever I try to connect to an adhoc network (in this case the one > > broadc

ad-hoc wifi - network unreachable

2011-08-05 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
Hi everyone, I am unable to connect to adhoc networks on debian sid using wicd. Whenever I try to connect to an adhoc network (in this case the one broadcast by barnacle on my phone, but the problem is reproducible on any adhoc network), wicd appears to go through all of the steps to connect succe

Re: wicd

2011-08-03 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Wed, 03 Aug 2011 10:55:26 +0200 Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2011-08-03 10:18:15 +1000, Charlie wrote: > > On Tue, 2 Aug 2011 11:45:05 -0400 "Mark Grieveson > > dg...@torfree.net" suggested this: > > > > >So, I looked and > > >found only the latch, which also had something that sort of seemed

Re: Overwriting a 4096 byte sector harddisk drive with random data

2011-07-21 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 21:36:28 +1000 yudi v wrote: > On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 8:28 PM, Robert Blair Mason Jr. > wrote: > > > On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 19:47:44 +1000 > > yudi v wrote: > > > > > Hi > > > > > > I need to write random data to a partiti

Re: Overwriting a 4096 byte sector harddisk drive with random data

2011-07-21 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 19:47:44 +1000 yudi v wrote: > Hi > > I need to write random data to a partition before encrypting it. > Suggested way is to use urandom: > > #dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sda2 > > What is the use of operand "bs" in the following case? I see the above > command executed as fo

Re: Setting up FTP server with specific username and password

2011-07-20 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 18:19:15 +0100 Alan Chandler wrote: > On 20/07/11 13:22, Dejan Ribič wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am trying to set up a FTP server, with specific username and > > password, because i have a router backup set up, to backup every > > hour now on Windows 7 I have FTP Server set-up li

Re: ASUS u52 builtin microphone (alsa-driver-linuxant)

2011-07-18 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Sun, 10 Jul 2011 18:20:45 -0400 "Robert Blair Mason Jr." wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > So I've been trying to get my laptop (ASUS u52) microphone to work. > First off, if anybody knows how to get the builtin microphone to work > without bothering with alsa-driver

ASUS u52 builtin microphone (alsa-driver-linuxant)

2011-07-10 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
Hello Everyone, So I've been trying to get my laptop (ASUS u52) microphone to work. First off, if anybody knows how to get the builtin microphone to work without bothering with alsa-driver-linuxant, or if I didn't know the correct google-foo to find a binary package for alsa-driver-linuxant that w

Clang include paths

2011-04-17 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
I'm running a fresh install of debian-testing on an amd64 laptop. I do lots of C++ compiling, and prefer clang's error messages to g++'s cryptic gobbledygook. After installing clang, I was surprised to find that nothing compiled. Stepping back, I tried to compile hello world: $ clang++ test.cpp

Re: Backup/Restore (WAS:Help needed)

2011-03-14 Thread Blair Mason
Mar 14, 2011 04:48:22 AM, balaji.p...@gmail.com wrote:> Hi,> I am using Debian Lenny, kernel version: 2.6.26-1-686.> I am very new to linux. > Can you please let me know the steps for backing up my linux PC (maybe to a CD) and later restoring from it when required. > Also let me know if I can ins

Re: What is the most secure FTP server?

2011-03-10 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Thu, 10 Mar 2011 13:20:26 -0500 shawn wilson wrote: > On Mar 10, 2011 12:27 PM, wrote: > > > > Hello Jason, > > > > From: Jason Hsu > > Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 09:56:32 -0600 > > > What is your favorite alternative and why? Implicit FTPS? SFTP? FTP > over SSH? Or something else? > > >

Re: help

2011-01-28 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Thu, 27 Jan 2011 17:03:18 + Lisi wrote: > On Thursday 27 January 2011 02:35:08 Robert Blair Mason Jr. wrote: > > As far as chrome goes, you can easily do this by opening up a terminal > > (command prompt) and typing: > > > > sudo aptitude install chromium-brows

Re: help

2011-01-27 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Thu, 27 Jan 2011 10:20:52 -0200 Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > On Qui, 27 Jan 2011, "Robert Blair Mason Jr." wrote: > > As far as chrome goes, you can easily do this by opening up a > > terminal (command prompt) and typing: > > > > sudo aptitude insta

Re: help

2011-01-26 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Wed, 26 Jan 2011 13:41:23 -0500 Padilla Juan Leon II wrote: > greetings ! > > i just installed my debian 5.0.7 in my laptop. > > i just want to install 3 things in my debian OS > > 1 google chrome > 2 skype > 3 adobe flash player > > i read some of the text in the web but i can't install a

Re: Why is Debian not secure by default?

2011-01-23 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 09:04:32 +0100 Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2011-01-23 07:29 +0100, Rico Secada wrote: > > > After having brushed up on some technical aspects of security I would > > like to understand why Debian isn't secure be default. > > > > As we all know a lot of security breaches occur be

Re: JACK configuration

2011-01-18 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 14:00:49 -0800 Bob McGowan wrote: > On 01/16/2011 11:15 AM, Robert Blair Mason Jr. wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I am attempting to record audio on my laptop. To this end, i've installed > > Ardour/JACK. I have *finally* managed to get ALSA to

JACK configuration

2011-01-16 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
Hi all, I am attempting to record audio on my laptop. To this end, i've installed Ardour/JACK. I have *finally* managed to get ALSA to work. However, I now have a problem - the sound that is wired into the Mic In jack on the front of the laptop will play back (so basically my laptop is funct

Re: Re: piping find to zip -- with spaces in path

2011-01-12 Thread Blair Mason
>Jan 12, 2011 02:02:19 PM, b...@proulx.com wrote:>Bob Proulx wrote:>> Real Unix(TM) users never put [^[:ascii:]] characters in file names.>>That is what I get for attemping humor on a technical list! Sure>spaces and other whitespace are ASCII and so the attempt inevitably>falls into a syntactical

Re: Autorun installation CD

2011-01-12 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Tue, 11 Jan 2011 12:32:12 +0200 Juha Tuuna wrote: > On 11.1.2011 11:41, Kousik Maiti wrote: > > Hi List, > > I want to create a CD that can run automatically on Linux system and start > > installation from a .jar file. Is it possible? I googled it but don't get > > any > > proper answer. > >

Re: piping find to zip -- with spaces in path

2011-01-12 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Tue, 11 Jan 2011 22:02:48 -0500 Doug wrote: > On 01/11/2011 08:46 PM, Robert Blair Mason Jr. wrote: > > On Tue, 11 Jan 2011 14:53:33 -0700 > > Bob Proulx wrote: > > > >> Robert Blair Mason Jr. wrote: > >>> Rob Owens wrote: > >>>

Re: piping find to zip -- with spaces in path

2011-01-11 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Tue, 11 Jan 2011 14:53:33 -0700 Bob Proulx wrote: > Robert Blair Mason Jr. wrote: > > Rob Owens wrote: > > > I tried this and it successfully creates myfile.zip: > > > > > > find ./ -iname "*.jpg" -print | zip myfile -@ > > > > &g

Re: piping find to zip -- with spaces in path

2011-01-11 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Mon, 10 Jan 2011 20:50:19 -0500 Rob Owens wrote: > I tried this and it successfully creates myfile.zip: > > find ./ -iname "*.jpg" -print | zip myfile -@ > > But it fails if there are spaces in the path or filename. How can I > make it work with spaces? > > Thanks > > -Rob > I think the

Re: DD To a Smaller Partition

2011-01-09 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Sun, 09 Jan 2011 14:21:22 -0500 Hal Vaughan wrote: > I have a 10 GB partition that is nowhere near full, less than 5 GB of data on > it (far less). Unfortunately, the partition I'd like to copy it to is 5 GB. > I can do "rsync -av" but normally I'd use DD. Is there a way to copy an > ima

Re: o/t ipod

2010-12-26 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Sun, 26 Dec 2010 14:10:27 +0100 Peter Beck wrote: > On Sun, 2010-12-26 at 06:32 -0600, Ted Wager wrote: > > My son has bought me an ipodtouch for Xmas..Anyone tell me how I can > > transfer the music files on his ipod to mine ?..I only have Linux on my > > machines but can get access to a Wi

Re: Enquiry related to Debian Usage and Features.

2010-11-20 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Sat, 20 Nov 2010 16:36:30 +0530 "Kambesh_Support ." wrote: > > Debian supports Java. I am planning to develop my software in Java and > install it in embedded OS. > > Does Debian supports full J2SE functions? If No, then can I install my own > JVM in debian. > If you want the official JVM,

Re: Frustration made me do it.

2010-11-19 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 13:20:21 -0500 john wrote: > On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 16:26:52 + > Michal wrote: > > > On 19/11/10 05:37, Dan Serban wrote: > > > After years of running the mozilla suite (remember when you couldn't > > > refresh a POST document in mozilla 0.6?) and begrudgingly moving to > -

Re: Re: Packages - what's the best way?

2010-11-15 Thread Blair Mason
Kelly Clowers writes:>> On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 23:20, Andrei Popescu wrote:>>> On Du, 14 nov 10, 20:54:42, Bob Proulx wrote: And if 'sudo' isn't configured for you then that is the first thingthat you will want to do. :-)   # visudo   rob     ALL=(ALL) ALL>> What's w

Re: Making /tmp noexec

2010-11-13 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Sat, 13 Nov 2010 03:34:36 + teddi...@tmo.blackberry.net wrote: > > This is more of an F-MY-I question, but if the /tem dir is a separate > partition and your using a mount command in fstab, could you limit the > execute capabilities via umask? > > I would think umask=111 would set the d

Re: Using Stable Dist modify repos to install/update xen from testing

2009-02-18 Thread Roberto Mason
testing From: "Roberto Mason" Date:Tue, February 17, 2009 1:05 pm To: "Tzafrir Cohen" -- I just downloaded Lenny before it became stable, and I installed it. it's rc2 if I remember corre

Using Stable Dist modify repos to install/update xen from testing

2009-02-14 Thread Roberto Mason
I'm intend to install Debian this stable this weekend. What I want to do is run XEN 3.2x which is in the testing dist. I'd like to know how to modify the repos so that I can install xen 3.2 from the test distro -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "

Etch, unexplained reboots?

2007-04-11 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
until this kernel upgrade. It's a production box, so this is a bit worrisome. :) Thanks in advance! I'll be happy to provide any additional information folks might want. -- Mason Loring Bliss((IF I HAD KNOWN IT WAS HARMLESS [EMAIL PROTECTED] ))I WOULD HAVE KILLED IT MYS

Re: Anyone seen this?

2006-07-19 Thread John Mason
unlink is not really a "link"... it's the name of the command. The "unlink" command really just means delete. Not a clue why they call it unlink and not delete but basically calling unlink on a file OR a hard link OR a symbolic link will remove the link/file. Anyhow, the error means that the p

CyberPower UPS AE550 (550SL)

2006-04-13 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
en one of these things to speak intelligibly before... Thanks in advance! -- Mason Loring Bliss [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://blisses.org/ "I am a brother of jackals, and a companion of ostriches." (Job 30 : 29) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

USB 802.11G recommendation? (iBook)

2005-06-18 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
e in town for managing this, but I'm happy to be corrected. Thank you kindly, in advance! -- Mason Loring Bliss [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ewige Blumenkraft! awake ? sleep : random() & 2 ? dream : sleep; -- Hamlet, Act III, Scene I pgph5KtjE61TV.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: cut&paste doest not work with mozilla-firefox on some hosts?

2005-01-03 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
I'm stumped, at present. Thanks in advance! -- /\ Mason Loring Bliss/()\http://blisses.org/ Squeak to me of love! /\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgpmnnT26yEkf.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Replacing Dying Harddisk (ReiserFS)

2004-12-21 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
at the moment... A tar process on either side of a pipe would work, if the mount point of the target disk is explicitly excluded. -- Mason Loring Bliss [EMAIL PROTECTED]Oderint dum metuant! http://blisses.org/ awake ? sleep : random() & 2 ? dream : sleep; pgpXhEllyHc

Re: xv

2004-12-21 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
ams. I'd be happy with ImageMagick's display if it had a -maxpect. -- Mason Loring Bliss [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cthulhu fhtagn! http://blisses.org/awake ? sleep : random() & 2 ? dream : sleep; pgpHmn00G9r3t.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: visual c++ equivalent

2004-12-15 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
nging the GUI to the desktop. They released the Lisa in 1983, and then the Macintosh 128K in 1984, which was immediately popular. Microsoft release Windows 1.0 near the end of 1985. Windows did not become popular until version 3.1, which was released in October of *1992*. -- Mason Loring Bliss

Re: Reading input piped to a bash script

2004-10-18 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
if not use $1. What I've listed above does the opposite, but presumably you can accomplish your goals with that behaviour. -- Mason Loring Bliss(( "In the drowsy dark cave of the mind dreams [EMAIL PROTECTED] )) build their nest with fragments dropped http://blisses.org/ (( from day's caravan." - Rabindranath Tagore pgpMBZxHUYUc1.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: xterm ignores XTerm*backarrowKey resource

2004-10-17 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
is will bite people. It's non-standard behaviour for no intelligible reason. -- Mason Loring Bliss[EMAIL PROTECTED]https://blisses.org/ 'I' before 'E', except after 'C', unless the word is sufficiently weird. pgpWwuXIPCvQB.pgp Description: PGP signature

xterm ignores XTerm*backarrowKey resource

2004-10-10 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
*Foreground are being set, and so forth. Can someone suggest why xterm might be ignoring "XTerm*backarrowKey: true"? Thanks! -- Mason Loring Bliss [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cthulhu fhtagn! https://bliss.dyndns.org/ awake ? sleep : random() & 2 ? dream : sleep; pgp1PMXuu1T91.pgp Description: PGP signature

Figured out Sarge kernel issue re: automatic configuration...

2004-09-15 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
oved cardmgr from /etc/rc*.d/.) -- Mason Loring Bliss [EMAIL PROTECTED] They also surf who awake ? sleep : dream; https://bliss.dyndns.org/only stand on waves. pgpnt5OxSv4Jj.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: A couple issues with Sarge; requesting assistance.

2004-09-14 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
ult Debian 2.4.26-1-i386 kernel, I get an error message > > about some module or other having a problem. > > This usually winds up in /var/log/dmesg. It's unfortunately not there. Are there any other possibilities? -- Mason Loring Bliss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "A genera

A couple issues with Sarge; requesting assistance.

2004-09-13 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
es between kernel-load and gettys running? Thanks kindly in advance for your assistance! -- Mason Loring Bliss [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ewige Blumenkraft! https://bliss.dyndns.org/ awake ? sleep : random() & 2 ? dream : sleep; pgpGpqXxzv1QL.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: EXT3 and data=journal

2004-09-03 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
Thank you! If it does the trick, I'll make a diff for the mount(8) man page and submit it... It'll be useful to learn how to submit bugs and such anyway. Again, thank you both! -- Mason Loring Bliss [EMAIL PROTECTED] They also surf who awake ? sleep : dream; https://bliss.dyn

EXT3 and data=journal

2004-09-02 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
How can I use data=journal mode in Sarge, stock kernel 2.4.26-1-i386? If I include data=journal in /etc/fstab, I'm told that I can't change the journal mode during a remount. Using tune2fs to set journal=data doesn't seem to help. Thanks in advance for assistance! -- Mas

Stable kernel packages to fix the most-recent problem?

2004-07-13 Thread Mac Mason
/2004/ seems to imply that they have not. My situation is one of "I'd like to get these systems patched, but stabilty is so important (and all users are trusted enough) that I'd much rather not roll my own kernel images." Anybody know / have a timeframe? Thanks! --M

Package question, Woody versus Sarge

2004-07-06 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
to be able to access packages from another release automatically, without having to wrangle the .deb files by hand...? Thanks, all. -- Mason Loring Bliss (( "In the drowsy dark cave of the mind dreams [EMAIL PROTECTED] )) build their nest with fragments dropped https:

Default config file for 3.0?

2004-06-16 Thread Julian M. Mason
, but work with these, does anybody know where I could find the .config files? Thanks! --Mac -- Julian "Mac" Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Science '06 (909)-607-3129 Harvey Mudd College -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Debian based working distribution

2003-11-15 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
installation of Woody and then did apt-get dist-upgrade (or somesuch) to bring it up to -current. Didn't require too much effort... If you're not going to run a stable release, I assume that the extra effort won't be an issue. -- /\ Mason

Re: Help with Netgear MA401 wireless card...?

2002-11-15 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 05:29:09PM -0500, Mason Loring Bliss wrote: > eth0: Error -19 reading firmware info. Wildly guessing capabilities... > eth0: Station identity ::: > eth0: Looks like an Intersil firmware version 0.00 > eth0: Intersil firmware earlier than v0.

Help with Netgear MA401 wireless card...?

2002-11-14 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
some step, as folks on the Net seem to have gotten this card to work for them. I'm simply unsure about what I need to do. I know the card works fine because, as I said before, I'm using it right now. Thanks in advance for clues. -- Mason Loring Bliss [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ewige Blumen

RE: syslog.conf: filtering out individual processes

2002-03-03 Thread Chris Mason
Please forgive my stupidity... cucipop does log at the mail.* category. I miss read a log file. Chris -Original Message- From: Chris Mason [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 03 March 2002 11:44 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: syslog.conf: filtering out individual processes Hi

syslog.conf: filtering out individual processes

2002-03-03 Thread Chris Mason
in Advance, Kind Regards, Chris Mason

RE: Cable Modem on Linux

2001-08-06 Thread Chris Mason
Not a good way to do it. The place for a firewall is before the machines. I built a pentium 133 with two interfaces as a firewall, and that works great. Connect the external interface to the hub, use dhcp to get the IP, and use non-routable IPs for the internal network. Connect a hub or switch to t

update postfix, other

2001-05-05 Thread Chris Mason
I would like to bring postfix and a couple of other packages up to date with regards to patches, it's been a while since I set them up. What's the easiest way? Chris Mason Box 340, The Valley, Anguilla, British West Indies Tel: 264 497 5670 Fax: 264 497 8463 USA Fax (561) 382-7771 Take

gateway settings

2001-03-10 Thread Chris Mason
I have debian 2.2.17 on my dual homed firewall. I know that the network card IPs are set in /etc/networks/interfaces but where is the gateway set? The only place I could find is /etc/init.d/network but there are settings for the interfaces there also, and they don't work. Chris Mason Box 340

Upgraded to Windows 2000 - now all files saved are corrupt

2001-02-25 Thread Chris Mason
I installed Win2k on two workstations now all the files I open and save back to my Debian 2.2  file server are corrupt, filled with nonesense (probably nulls). I downloaded and upgraded samba to 2.0.7 but the problem still persists. Can anyone help me with this problem?   Chris MasonBox 340

midgard glibc

2001-01-30 Thread Chris Mason
I'm trying to install Midgard content management system, which requires glibc. I installed the libglibc library .deb file, but I still can't compile the midgard files, the error message I get is: configure: error: glib-config not found. Did you install glib? Any help? Chris Mason Bo

RE: Cyrus refuses admin password

2001-01-12 Thread Chris Mason
That's hasn't fixed it, but thanks for the advice. I suspect it's a shadow password issue. Chris Mason Box 340, The Valley, Anguilla, British West Indies Tel: 264 497 5670 Fax: 264 497 8463 USA Fax (561) 382-7771 Take a virtual tour of the island http://net.ai/ The Anguilla Guid

Cyrus refuses admin password

2001-01-12 Thread Chris Mason
passwords installed. Can anyone help me work out how too make this work? Chris Mason Box 340, The Valley, Anguilla, British West Indies Tel: 264 497 5670 Fax: 264 497 8463 USA Fax (561) 382-7771 Take a virtual tour of the island http://net.ai/ The Anguilla Guide Find out more about NetConcepts www.netc

postfix, cyrus and procmail: need to forward mail for one account

2001-01-09 Thread Chris Mason
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Need some help with Cyrus/Postfix configuration

2000-12-19 Thread Chris Mason
cf to uncomment the cyrus line. No mailk is getting to the user account in IMAP. In fact it's not going anywhere. Can any give me a few hints here? Chris Mason Box 340, The Valley, Anguilla, British West Indies Tel: 264 497 5670 Fax: 264 497 8463 USA Fax (561) 382-7771 Take a virtual tour of

Cyrus IMAP config

2000-12-18 Thread Chris Mason
le to get mail, but I uninstalled it in favour of Cyrus.Cynus is running, but will not allow me to access mail for the one user account that's on the system. Can anyone give me a concise config primer. Chris Mason Box 340, The Valley, Anguilla, British West Indies Tel: 264 497 5670 Fax: 264 49

IMAP/webmail

2000-12-14 Thread Chris Mason
I need to setup a debian box with postfix and imap, ands web based mail. Any recommendations for packages I should consider using? I know postfix so I am going to use that, but I have no ideas on imap and webmail. Chris Mason Box 340, The Valley, Anguilla, British West Indies Tel: 264 497 5670

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