Re: rkhunter report

2010-11-20 Thread Norbert Zeh
Paul Cartwright [2010.11.20 1528 -0500]: > On 11/20/2010 03:14 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > >> >Warning: Application 'gpg', version '1.4.10', is out of date, and > >> >possibly a > >> >security risk. Warning: Application 'openssl', version '0.9.8n', is out of > >> >date, and possibly a secu

Re: [TexLive] This math formula work a few month a go, but nowadays it didn't work anymore

2010-04-29 Thread Norbert Zeh
Marcelo Laia [2010.04.29 1321 -0300]: > Hi, > > I have opened this thread http://tinyurl.com/2amjquj > > Could you help there or here? > > Thank you very much! Hmm, there's something weird here. You are missing the font file fmex8.pfb. If I search for it using apt-file, apt-file claims that t

Re: Does bcm4310 work with Debian Lenny?

2010-04-16 Thread Norbert Zeh
Norbert Zeh [2010.04.15 1517 -0300]: > Mark [2010.04.13 1542 -0700]: > > Hi, > > > > I'm considering purchasing a new laptop like this one > > http://www.thelinuxlaptop.com/viper-linux-laptop.php which uses a Dell > > Wireless 1490 card a.k.a. bcm43

Re: Does bcm4310 work with Debian Lenny?

2010-04-15 Thread Norbert Zeh
Mark [2010.04.13 1542 -0700]: > Hi, > > I'm considering purchasing a new laptop like this one > http://www.thelinuxlaptop.com/viper-linux-laptop.php which uses a Dell > Wireless 1490 card a.k.a. bcm4310. I've used b43-fwcutter with great > results on older dell bcm43xx cards in Lenny but bcm4310

Re: Does everything depend on everything?

2009-10-31 Thread Norbert Zeh
On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 10:46:34AM -0500, Dennis Wicks wrote: > Johannes Wiedersich wrote the following on 10/31/2009 09:06 AM: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Micha wrote: >> >> [snip some talk about testing and unstable] >> >>> For a desktop you want one of these but the

Re: Inquiry:Can I make use of external memory stick for Debian installation ?

2009-09-06 Thread Norbert Zeh
s of section 4.3.1 again. > > Hope it helps. > > / johan > >> >> >> On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 8:45 AM, Norbert Zeh > <mailto:n...@cs.dal.ca>> wrote: >> >> On Sun, Sep 06, 2009 at 07:56:26AM +0100, hadi motamedi wrote: >> > Dear

Re: Inquiry:Can I make use of external memory stick for Debian installation ?

2009-09-06 Thread Norbert Zeh
On Sun, Sep 06, 2009 at 07:56:26AM +0100, hadi motamedi wrote: > Dear All > Can you please do me favor and let me know how can I make use of the > external memory stick for Debian installation ? Please be informed that my > server doesn't come with internal CDROM drive so I need to make use of the

Re: system taking ages to resolve dns

2009-07-06 Thread Norbert Zeh
> Your nameserver does not handle IPv6 queries correctly (as Norbert and > Alan have already surmised in their recent messages in this thread). > Debian waits for the IPv6 request to time out before it sends an IPv4 > request, causing the delays you are experiencing. > > I would try this (elaborat

Re: system taking ages to resolve dns

2009-07-05 Thread Norbert Zeh
Are you behind a router that serves as your local DNS server? If that's the case, then you may have a similar situation as I had before. What happened in my case was that the dhcp client set the domain to search to the domain of my ISP and somehow through the router this didn't work well. The wa

Re: problem with nvidia module and kernel 2.6.26-2-amd64

2009-06-27 Thread Norbert Zeh
> 'aptitude search nvidia' showed the following packages as installed: > nvidia-settings > nvidia-kernel-common > nvidia-xconfig > nvidia-glx > nvidia-kernel-2.6.26-1-amd64 I'm just guessing, but shouldn't you install nvidia-kernel-2.6.26-2-amd64 if you run linux-image-2.6.26-2-amd64? A

Re: any substitute for x window system?

2009-06-23 Thread Norbert Zeh
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 10:22:36AM +0800, 明覺 wrote: > On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 11:41 PM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 11:58:22AM +0800, 明覺 wrote: > >> I'm looking for a pure c/c++ programmed desktop manager, while the > >> xorg is depandent on perl, so i do not like it, is the

Re: mysterious pdf file won't be printed, all others will!

2009-04-21 Thread Norbert Zeh
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 05:02:08PM +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 03:15:30PM +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > > >> In my sister's home directory there is a pdf file that won't respond to the > >> `lp' command. All others pdf files in the same directory behave all right, > >>

Re: Error while installing nvidia driver

2009-04-20 Thread Norbert Zeh
On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 07:25:52PM -0800, Greg Madden wrote: > On Sunday 19 April 2009, a dehqan wrote: > > In The name of God > > > > I'll be thankfull if you guide to fix this problem ; > > This is nvidia installer log : > > > > regards dehqan > > It seems to me you should link the compiler that

Re: boot failure diagnostics

2009-04-13 Thread Norbert Zeh
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 08:36:29AM -0700, Vwaju wrote: > Out of the blue, Debian failed to boot. Did it complain about some file system inconsistency? fsck can help only in these cases. Some details of the failure would help here. > Using debian-live-500-i386-rescue.iso I mounted the root parti

Re: getmail vs fetchmail, WAS: Re: fetchmail and DNS resolution

2009-04-03 Thread Norbert Zeh
> > I don't know getmail, but what I like about fetchmail's delivery through > > the local SMTP server is that I can use procmail to filter my messages. > > Can getmail do this? > > Yes it can. Have a look at: > > http://pyropus.ca/software/getmail/faq.html#faq-integrating-procmail > > It basica

Re: getmail vs fetchmail, WAS: Re: fetchmail and DNS resolution

2009-04-03 Thread Norbert Zeh
> AFAIK fetchmail defaults to delivering your mail by using a local SMTP. > This is a Bad Thing (tm), because it can create a lot of problems, YMMV I don't know getmail, but what I like about fetchmail's delivery through the local SMTP server is that I can use procmail to filter my messages. Can

Re: DVD Region Codes and Debian multimedia software

2009-03-27 Thread Norbert Zeh
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 06:34:50PM +0100, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > Living in France, I play DVD's from Canada by changing the region set. > Thierry And your DVD drive does not complain if you switch back and forth? - Norbert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org wi

Re: Illogical drives?

2009-03-27 Thread Norbert Zeh
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 11:23:22AM -0600, postid wrote: > Greetings: > > Thank you all for your explanations and patience. I've done some more > reading, though I'm not sure that I completely understand. > > Here's what I think I'm hearing: When I look at a directory I'm looking > at a file syste

Re: DVD Region Codes and Debian multimedia software

2009-03-27 Thread Norbert Zeh
> @ftc-p01:~$ aptitude search region > p regionset - view and modify the region code of DVD > dri This may not help much if he also wants to play Australian DVD's, as they would then have the wrong region code, and I am not sure whether you can switch region codes at will.

Re: skype lenny amd64

2009-03-20 Thread Norbert Zeh
> > I am running skype on Debian Lenny amd64 and am using the AMD64 build > > for Ubuntu. Works without problems. I don't remember the hoops any > > more I had to jump through, but they were very, very few. I don't > > remember, though, how I found the hint to use the Ubuntu build. Google? > >

Re: skype lenny amd64

2009-03-20 Thread Norbert Zeh
> I want to install Skype on Debian Lenny amd64 I am running skype on Debian Lenny amd64 and am using the AMD64 build for Ubuntu. Works without problems. I don't remember the hoops any more I had to jump through, but they were very, very few. I don't remember, though, how I found the hint to us

Re: Buffer I/O Error ... End_request

2009-03-18 Thread Norbert Zeh
> > Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 358650 > > End_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 1434600 > > ... > > > This seems like a disk failure. Try booting with a live cd, mount the disk > in read-only and backup anything that you can. It doesn't, at least not one you should worry abo

Re: Upgraded to Lenny can't Disable Screen Blanking

2009-03-17 Thread Norbert Zeh
> xset s off does not seem to have worked either. What do you use as your screensaver? If it's nothing, the above should work (and does for me on Lenny). If it's xscreensaver, gnome-screensaver or other, they already do what xset s off would achieve and control blanking the screen themselves. -

Re: Upgraded to Lenny can't Disable Screen Blanking

2009-03-17 Thread Norbert Zeh
> xset -s noblank I believe what you want here is "xset s off". At least that's what I do, and if I understand the manpage correctly, xset s (no)blank does not affect the activation of the screensaver, only what it does when it activates. Cheers, Norbert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-use

Re: SMART -d ata or -d sat

2009-03-13 Thread Norbert Zeh
Thanks, guys. Just wanted to make sure. -N -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

SMART -d ata or -d sat

2009-03-12 Thread Norbert Zeh
Hi Debianites, I have just installed smartmontools on my Lenny box and am using smartd to monitor two SATA IDE drives. I've read on the web that the right option to use for such a drive is "-d ata" to force smartd to treat it as an ATA drive. On the other hand, when starting smartd without any -