Proposal for a Yearly Stable Release Cycle for Educational Institutions

2025-03-04 Thread Sarbjit Singh Sandhu
a shorter cycle. Thank you for considering this proposal. I look forward to your feedback and discussion on this matter. Best regards, Gurlagan Singh.

Re: Help installing gdb package using apt

2024-07-15 Thread Pranjal Singh
Hi Demetrius, On 15/07/24 17:12, Demetrius Stanton wrote: [...] I recently encountered a weird error, and I can't seem to find a fix online. When I run the command ` sudo apt update && sudo apt install gdb -y `, I receive an 404 error stating failed to fetch https://deb.debian.org/debian/pool

Re: Modifying Desktop Icons [Solved]

2024-06-22 Thread Pranjal Singh
Hi Gareth, I have solved it. The solution: *drumroll* Switch from Ubuntu to Bookworm. On 22/06/24 15:33, Gareth Evans wrote: [...] There is no "[-]-private" option according to the grep I performed, and [-]-private produces a non-private window when run here from the command line. Thanks B

Re: Modifying Desktop Icons

2024-06-20 Thread Pranjal Singh
Hi Eben, Sorry for the late reply. I realise I could've added more details. On 18/06/24 01:31, e...@gmx.us wrote: On 6/17/24 15:29, Pranjal Singh wrote: Hi, I am trying to modify the Firefox desktop icon so that it opens an incognito window by default. ... What I've done is cha

Modifying Desktop Icons

2024-06-17 Thread Pranjal Singh
Hi, I am trying to modify the Firefox desktop icon so that it opens an incognito window by default. I've modified and created .desktop files as per tutorials on the net and rebooted, but it doesn't work. What I've done is changing /usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop: - Exec=firefox %u + Ex

RE: drm.edid_firmware (nvidia on-demand)

2022-06-08 Thread Amrit Singh
Hi, Can you please share bug report for triage purpose. Regards, Amrit Singh From: isapgsw...@gmail.com Sent: Sunday, June 5, 2022 10:49 AM To: linux-bugs ; ubuntu-us...@lists.ubuntu.com; debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc: Aaron Plattner Subject: drm.edid_firmware (nvidia on-demand) External

Change the keyboard shortcut to switch tty.

2019-07-07 Thread Amit Singh
Hi!I am trying Debian for the first time. I just finished a fresh installation of Debian Buster on my laptop. I have installed the standard desktop environment (GNOME). I noticed that `Super + Right Arrow Key` not only makes the active window occupy the right half of the current display but als

Not log in boss Linux

2019-04-27 Thread rajendra kumar singh
Jump to bottom Open Failed to start LSB: exim Mail Transport Agent #29

Re: Emacs info documentation missing in Debian Unstable

2018-01-22 Thread Nishan Singh Mann
davidson wrote: > On Mon, 22 Jan 2018, davidson wrote: > > > On Mon, 22 Jan 2018, Nishan Singh Mann wrote: > > > >> Hello, on Ubuntu 17.10 which to my knowledge is based on Debian > >> unstable, installing Emacs via $sudo apt install emacs and then > >> tryi

Emacs info documentation missing in Debian Unstable

2018-01-21 Thread Nishan Singh Mann
up with a local copy of the GNU emacs manual. Did the documentation get delegated to another package or am I missing something? Thanks, Nishan -- Nishan Singh Mann

extracted-rpm bin files and gcc executables on GNUroot debian on Android phone/device

2017-05-13 Thread Rupinder Singh
Hi, I'm using GNUroot Debian bash on my Anroid phone. While I have been to install many packages like java, python, ruby, node.js, scala, groovy via apt-get install and use them to write and run programs, I'm finding difficulty with extracted rpm files and gcc executables. That is, they come with

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2016-09-19 Thread Riya Singh
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2016-07-11 Thread Abhinav Kumar Singh
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White hat SEO strategies,

2015-09-30 Thread Singh
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Re: Debian 8

2015-08-14 Thread Pravin Singh
n reviewing my issue. > > Did you install the wireless tools along with everything else? I'm > assuming you have a notebook. They don't always get installed by > default. Check your install docs under wireless or wifi. Instructions > should be there. > > B > > -- *Dr P Singh* *S**enior Lecturer* *Mathematics* *UKZN* fax 086 637 8639 tel 031 2607686

Re: Fall-back after "upgrade"?

2015-07-28 Thread Pravin Singh
store from it. >> >> 2. Install Stretch as a dual boot with Jessie. > > ...or a virtual machine via VirtualBox, > > Peter HB > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? C

Re: Gnome doesn't save brightness setting

2013-07-25 Thread Amandeep Singh
stions/145314/how-to-save-brightness-settings > > I'm getting tired too :), same issue here, so maybe I will implement > some workaround > > > Regards, > > On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 7:05 AM, Amandeep Singh > wrote: > > Hey Thanks William, > > > > I will t

Re: Gnome doesn't save brightness setting

2013-07-23 Thread Amandeep Singh
11:02am, Amandeep Singh wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am using Debian wheezy on my lenovo t430 laptop. And each time I start > my > > laptop, it starts in full brightness mode, and each time I have to reduce > > it. I am tired of doing this. Does anyone know any solut

Gnome doesn't save brightness setting

2013-07-20 Thread Amandeep Singh
Hi, I am using Debian wheezy on my lenovo t430 laptop. And each time I start my laptop, it starts in full brightness mode, and each time I have to reduce it. I am tired of doing this. Does anyone know any solution. Is this a known bug, or am I the only person experiencing it? Thanks, Amandeep

RE: Receiving fatal flex scanner error

2011-08-11 Thread Harpreet Singh Anand
_next_buffer >called from another yyinput call these global change in similar way. Now at >the END_OF_BUFFER case in yylex, the global get changed due to buffer state >being BUFFER_NEW. These changed globals are causing fatal error. Kindly, somebody please provide some inputs. Thanks &

Receiving fatal flex scanner error

2011-08-09 Thread Harpreet Singh Anand
quot;. Upon matching "//" I am eating up all characters till newline or file change using yyinput. Input file set: File1: last line contains a comment not containing "\n" character. File2: Has very big comment Thanks & Regards, Harpreet Singh

How to get the stable iso for lenny

2011-06-29 Thread brijesh singh
Hello Everybody, Good Morning !! For validation of a product we were looking for lenny version of Debian for desktop. Please could any of you help me to get the valid mirror location where I can get the lenny (iso/source) for i386 platform? Thanks and Regards -Brijesh

Setting max open files inside a chroot

2010-09-17 Thread Alok G. Singh
This question was posted on Serverfault.com[1] by me but I did not get any responses. Any help appreciated. I have setup the limits in the host (the chroot being the guest) via /etc/security/limits.conf and that works just fine: $ ulimit -n 65535 However, inside the chroot it is still the old va

Re: IBM thinkpad X60 on debian..

2010-03-22 Thread Alok G. Singh
If you care about power, you'd probably be better off with a low-power CPU model (X61s, for example). The X200 and X300 have an option for SSD which will save some more power. I've been using my X61s with sid for the past 2 years and haven't had a problem. Everything works, with free software (exc

Re: [OT] iceweasel vs. Firefox

2010-03-21 Thread Alok G. Singh
Apparently it is no longer an issue[1]. Footnotes: [1] http://glandium.org/blog/?p=933 -- Alok The Phone Booth Rule: A lone dime always gets the number nearly right. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: Interrupting a hibernate

2010-03-18 Thread Alok G. Singh
Micha wrote: > Try escape, works with tux on ice,maybe others as well Doesn't seem to do anything here. -- Alok Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. -- H. L. Mencken -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubsc

Interrupting a hibernate

2010-03-17 Thread Alok G. Singh
When I was using uswsusp, hitting Backspace would interrupt the suspend. Now I just use pm-utils and there appears to be no way of cancelling a suspend once initiated. Is there a way ? -- Alok And Bruce is effectively building BruceIX -- Alan Cox -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to de

Re: Oracle on (current) Debian Sid

2010-03-15 Thread Alok G. Singh
I did write up[1] what I did to install 10g on Lenny a couple of months ago. Everything had to be done by hand, but it was simple enough. There's a togaware page linked from the wiki page which was invaluable for external setup (kernel params, etc). Footnotes: [1] http://trac.klp.org.in/wiki/Ora

Re: Log Summariser

2010-03-15 Thread Alok G. Singh
logwatch is fine for some, but you might also want to take a gander at logcheck. It has user defined rules to ignore known issues so that familiarity does not breed contempt. -- Alok A kiss is a course of procedure, cunningly devised, for the mutual stoppage of speech at a moment when words are

resume - suspend cycle on 2.6.30-2

2009-10-28 Thread Alok G. Singh
On my X61s, since I upgraded to the latest kernel in sid, the system immediately suspends on resuming. Booting with the older 2.6.30-1 fixes the problem. Are the hacks in acpi-support still necessary for s2disk or is there a cleaner way to do suspend now ? -- Alok If time heals all wounds, how

Debian for ARM, Gemini, Centroid, GIGANAS

2009-07-14 Thread Ramanjit Singh Lamba
d GIGANAS page: http://mrt.nas-central.org/wiki/Category:35HD-DUAL-NAS-E DUAL HDD NAS: http://mrt.nas-central.org/wiki/Category:35HD-DUAL-NAS I hope that some of you will be able to provide me some assistance. Thanks in anticipation -- /*Ramanjit Singh Lamba */

dh-make-perl and dependencies

2009-05-26 Thread Alok G. Singh
I've been trying to package some modules $ dh-make-perl --cpan Template::Latex --dh 7 --requiredeps [...] Needs the following debian packages: libtemplate-perl $ dpkg -l libtemplate-perl ii libtemplate-pe 2.19-1.1lenny1 template processing system written in perl How do I make dh-make-perl see t

Re: Thinkpad X61s hotkeys

2009-05-08 Thread Alok G. Singh
Andrei Popescu wrote: > | XKBMODEL="thinkpad60" Nope. This made no discernable difference. -- Alok -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Thinkpad X61s hotkeys

2009-05-07 Thread Alok G. Singh
Ever since upgrading to the new hal/X.org in sid, I have lost the hotkeys which did work earlier. Now, there are no symbols for many of the hotkeys like "Switch display", "Eject", etc. but the two keys that I care about (sleep and suspend) do have symbols. When I press them, this is what I see in

Re: PXE boot debian-installer

2009-04-19 Thread Alok G. Singh
Thanks for all the helpful links and advice. I finally just made the router relay DHCP requests and setup a dhcp3 server which allows me to do everything. -- Alok -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lis

Test Mail.

2009-04-19 Thread Om Prakash Singh //Kotak /Bank
Test Mail. DISCLAIMER: This communication is confidential and privileged and is directed to and for the use of the addressee only. The recipient if not the addressee should not use this message if erroneously received, and access and use of this e-mail in any manner by anyone other than the ad

Re: PXE boot debian-installer

2009-04-16 Thread Alok G. Singh
Eric Gerlach wrote: >> I don't think there is, strictly speaking, a difference. But, a DHCP >> client on a booted system will just ignore all the netboot >> information in the response. So, generally you just run one DHCP >> server that gives everyone the netboot information and there's little >

PXE boot debian-installer

2009-04-16 Thread Alok G. Singh
What I want to do is to deploy a dhcp+tftp server in the network that people can boot into debian-installer via PXE. The idea is to have an easy way to install Debian/Ubuntu without having to cart DVDs around. The DHCP server running on the router assigns addresses in the 192.168.1.0/24 subnet. I

sony ericsson w550i for internet connection

2009-02-19 Thread jagdev singh
hi i am using sony ericsson w550i mobile . i want to use it for internet on debian 4.03r . please tell me the method for doing it.

RE: Logging passwords of SSH attacks

2009-01-16 Thread Om Prakash Singh //Kotak /Bank
If I am not wrong in this issue I would rather suggest that one can check the login attempts by users in their system log files. As the syslog system logs all the user.info and user.error messages in /var/log/messages or syslog file. Regards, Om Prakash Singh Please report the problems

nss_ldap issue

2008-09-21 Thread Harpreet Singh Wadhwa
Hi I am facing a problem of nss_ldap i.e. when a user tries to connect to courier services, they get the following error. user.info: Sep 18 11:24:35 nscd: nss_ldap: reconnecting to LDAP server... user.err: Sep 18 11:24:35 nscd: nss_ldap: could not connect to any LDAP server as uid=example,dc=com

Re: nvidia drivers on debian

2008-03-13 Thread Alok G. Singh
On 13 Mar 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > But I think that Debian might be a better try now since the standard > graphics driver is already so good. The nv driver does no 3D acceleration. You could try nouveau [1] which has excellent 2D acceleration and limited 3D acceleration. Footnotes: [1]

Re: Intel Graphics Drivers

2008-02-28 Thread Alok G. Singh
On 29 Feb 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am attempting to compile the graphics drivers from > www.intellinuxgraphics.com on Debian Etch but I am having some > problems. You do know that they are already packaged for Debian, right ? xserver-xorg-video-intel is the package. You probably need t

Re: Firefox error - SSL_ImplementedCiphers

2008-01-23 Thread Alok G. Singh
On 23 Jan 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > /usr/lib/iceweasel/firefox-bin: Symbol `SSL_ImplementedCiphers' has > different size in shared object, consider re-linking See bug #459356 [1] Footnotes: [1] http://bugs.debian.org/459356 -- Alok E Pluribus Unix -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

Adding a new style file to auctex

2008-01-02 Thread Alok G. Singh
I have been trying to install the qcm class [1] to typeset question papers. I have added qcm.el to /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex/Makefile.in and ran update-auctex-elisp and qcm.elc was written to /var/lib/auctex. However, I am unable to use the features of qcm.el. Is there any additional setu

Re: beryl/compiz

2007-11-09 Thread Alok G. Singh
On 10 Nov 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is the debian.beryl-project repository still in working order? The official position is described at http://wiki.debian.org/XStrikeForce/Compiz -- Alok "...if the church put in half the time on covetousness that it does on lust, this would be a bette

Suspicious PAM messages

2007-07-25 Thread Alok G. Singh
Hello, Of late (a week or so) I have started noticing some strange syslog messages: su: PAM [dlerror: libselinux.so.1: failed to map segment from shared object: Cannot allocate memory]: 2 Time(s) su: PAM [dlerror: libsepol.so.1: failed to map segment from shared object: Cannot allocate memory]:

Re: Airtel won't working on LAN

2007-06-06 Thread Alok G. Singh
On 5 Jun 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > while i go through in both modems the Airtel has firewall enabled > but in VSNL the firewall is disabled. > > is it the cause ? how to disable it ? or else what will be the > problem? Not really the best forum to ask, but you could ask Airtel themselves

Re: Debian package for Emacs XFT

2007-05-04 Thread Alok G. Singh
On 5 May 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I can find packages of Emacs with XFT for Ubuntu everywhere, but > none for Debian Etch. Did anybody packaged Emacs+XFT for Debian > Etch? where can I get those packages? Thanks. twb has a script to build the debs [1]. I have some debs for i386 and amd6

Re: latex to html

2007-04-23 Thread Alok G. Singh
On 24 Apr 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am using latex2html to convert files from latex to html, but > latex2html seems not maintened, I have used hevea with mixed results. By and large, I've had better luck with it than with latex2html. This is also on the CTAN FAQ: http://www.tex.ac.uk/cg

Re: How to use dead keys

2007-04-11 Thread Alok G. Singh
On 11 Apr 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> So basically, what I want is to press a dead key and than a vowel >> to produce an accented char. How do I achieve this? You can do that with a 'Compose' key. Here [1] is a guide for GNOME/GTK+. You can do the same thing with xmodmap as well. I suppose

Re: raggle and iceweasel

2007-04-04 Thread Alok G. Singh
On 5 Apr 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 'browser_cmd' => ['iceweasel', '%s'], Try 'browser_cmd' => [ 'iceweasel', '-a iceweasel -remote \'openURL(%s, new-tab)\'" ] That's the command line to open a new tab in an existing window. -- Alok "Why waste negative entropy on comments

Re: aroused Girl in harrd fuckiing.

2007-01-16 Thread Anuj Singh
WTF, please stop spamming the mailing list.. On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 00:11 -0600, Patty Benjamin wrote: > Yooung optimal virginss at hardcorre Porrno. > > http://argonnational.info > > signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: pppoe configuration - unable to ping outside

2006-12-28 Thread Anuj Singh
ISP (Threw my telephone line) ---> Connected to ADSL ROUTER (Connected with a splitter +phone line, ethernet port to linux machine) ---> [Debian machine with eth0 and eth1] eth0 Connected to my adsl router(on which pppoe is not configured cause I want to use my os for this pppoe) eth1 is for LAN m

Re: pppoe configuration - unable to ping outside

2006-12-28 Thread Anuj Singh
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >On Tue, Dec 26, 2006 at 06:32:40PM +0100, Thilo Six wrote: > > > > > > > > >>Anuj Singh wrote the following on 25.12.2006 06:28: > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >>>I have

Re: pppoe configuration - unable to ping outside

2006-12-27 Thread Anuj Singh
Telephone Line (ISP) ---> ---> [eth0, eth1 < [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 26, 2006 at 06:32:40PM +0100, Thilo Six wrote: > > > > > >>Anuj Singh wrote the following on 25.12.2006 06:28: > >> > >> > >> > >>>I

Re: pppoe configuration - unable to ping outside

2006-12-25 Thread Anuj Singh
27;) after fresh installation ??? regards anuj On Mon, 2006-12-25 at 14:08 +0530, Anuj Singh wrote: > hello, > Yes my router is set as a default gw, > output of route is > Kernel IP routing table > Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref >

Re: pppoe configuration - unable to ping outside

2006-12-25 Thread Anuj Singh
teway server hence same from local to out too) regards anuj On Mon, 2006-12-25 at 00:54 -0500, Celejar wrote: > On Mon, 25 Dec 2006 10:58:27 +0530 > Anuj Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello, > > Greetings, > > This is my first mail to to users list. > &g

pppoe configuration - unable to ping outside

2006-12-24 Thread Anuj Singh
Hello, Greetings, This is my first mail to to users list. Recently I installed Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (`sarge') I have eth0 connected to my adsl router and eth1 to my local network. I configured my adsl with pppoeconf, logs shows me I am connected, and ifconfig gives me ppp0 address too. route -n gi

Debian in Dell PowerEdge

2006-11-10 Thread Deepesh singh
Hi all,   What kernel version will support Debain  Dell powerEdge installation with aic79xx card?   Brgds, Deepesh Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

Re: Unofficial Firefox packages?

2006-10-27 Thread Alok G. Singh
On 27 Oct 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Has anyone set up a repository with unofficial Firefox packages, for > until whatever is going on is done? If you mean FF 2.0, it is in experimental. -- Alok You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake. -- Jeannette Rankin

Re: Degraded i810/i915 Rendering Performance After Xorg 7 Upgrade

2006-09-21 Thread Alok G. Singh
On 20 Sep 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > However, rendering performance seems to have degraded somewhat. Is there anything relevant in /var/log/Xorg.0.log ? -- Alok Happiness makes up in height what it lacks in length. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsu

Re: First general purpose unmoderated newsgroup for Debian

2004-08-31 Thread Madhusudan Singh
John Summerfield wrote: > If you do this, pls ensure you do use a bogus address and not some other > poor sod's address. Or [EMAIL PROTECTED] I believe that use of spam.invalid is the norm. > > No, I don't mean that. Bill has enough problems already. What, with > Longhorn slipping and fragmenti

Re: First general purpose unmoderated newsgroup for Debian

2004-08-31 Thread Madhusudan Singh
John Hasler wrote: > Madhusudan Singh writes: >> It is not. I received the following message from a moderation robot when >> I tried to post a message to linux.debian.user : > >> "linux.debian.user is a moderated newsgroup in gateway >> with a mailing list. >

Re: First general purpose unmoderated newsgroup for Debian

2004-08-31 Thread Madhusudan Singh
Paul Johnson wrote: > <#secure method=pgp mode=sign> > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Madhusudan Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> This is not a "fracture" or "duplication". To post to this group, I had >>

Re: First general purpose unmoderated newsgroup for Debian

2004-08-31 Thread Madhusudan Singh
Paul Johnson wrote: > <#secure method=pgp mode=sign> > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Madhusudan Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> alt.os.linux.debian >> >> Please help in propagating this newsgroup to your favori

First general purpose unmoderated newsgroup for Debian

2004-08-31 Thread Madhusudan Singh
alt.os.linux.debian Please help in propagating this newsgroup to your favorite news server by requesting them to carry it. Let us get it started. -- CHARTER: For questions and answers relating to the ins

New newsgroup for Debian users

2004-08-26 Thread M Singh
Hi Had to reveal my email address for this post, but I guess its ok if this new newsgroup takes off and opens up a choice for Debian users. Following positive response in comp.os.linux.misc and generally supportive response in alt.config, I have created the first unmoderated newsgroup for Debian

Re: Unidentified subject!

2004-06-25 Thread Harish Singh Bohara
of my code) it shows copy_to_user unresolved symbole. So if u ahv any solution of this prob pls let me know On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Ishwar Rattan wrote: > > > On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Harish Singh Bohara wrote: > > > > > > > Hi > > This is harish. I got ur is fro

Unidentified subject!

2004-06-24 Thread Harish Singh Bohara
Hi This is harish. I got ur is from net. I have some prob. And i was trying to load my module by "insmod ./test.o". But i am getting this prob. So could u help me. Thanks Harish ## Hint: You are trying to load a m

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2004-03-14 Thread Sharninder Singh
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2004-03-14 Thread Sharninder Singh
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Re: pointing device on thinkpad

2003-07-31 Thread Sharninder Singh
> Woody bf2.4 on Thinkpad570. I have "mouse" (that red nipple in the > middle of the keyboard) working normally in X, but nothing when in > text mode. I can't see anything obviously relevant on google. Can > anyone point me in the right direction? I am particularly keen to > have middle button

Re: apt-get -d is cool, but now to install them

2003-07-29 Thread Sharninder Singh
> The apt-get --download-only is neat, but what about now later when you > want to install them? No single command to then install all you've > recently downloaded, without editing each history entry or scanning > ctimes of files in /var/cache/apt/archives/? > apt-get install should work ... it

Re: [OT] SCO is going all out now

2003-07-21 Thread Sharninder Singh-662
> > Do you suspect there could be a long enough delay between releasing > the alleged infractions and producing a clean kernel that fully > changing OSes could make sense, however? > like u said .. if worst comes to worse. either ppl will develop patches and features for the latest hardware or som

Re: [OT] SCO is going all out now

2003-07-21 Thread Sharninder Singh-662
> > If worst comes to worst and SCO finally show some incriminating code > in 2.4, stepping back to 2.2 until the relevant bits are purged from > 2.4 is all anyone should need to do to cover their assets in countries > where this becomes an issue. ya .. very true and debian makes it even better by

Re: Shared address book for Outlook?

2003-07-18 Thread Sharninder Singh-662
> I'm looking for software to set up a shared address book (names, email have u looked at opengroupware. that might be what u need. it just reached version 1 few days back. but that should'nt stop u .. would it ;) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: Exim virus scanner?

2003-07-10 Thread Sharninder Singh-662
check out clamav .. its in testing - Original Message - From: "Louie Miranda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 10:27 AM Subject: Exim virus scanner? > Hello, > > Does anyone know an exim virus scanner for debian? > > > -- > Thank you, > Louie Mirand

Re: pdf creator

2003-07-08 Thread Sharninder Singh-662
> > Is it possible to create new, clean .pdf files under linux? If it is, > then which program do I need to use? > ps2pdf . txt2pdf .. basically u need ghostscript and the scripts that come with it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: S3 Trio 64/32

2003-07-08 Thread Sharninder Singh-662
> On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 08:47, Jose colmenares wrote: > > I've just installed Debian, but cannot configure the video card. I > > have a S3 Trio 64/32, but don't know what driver to use. The closest > > option that appears when I run dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 it's > > something like s3verig

Re: Securing a Debian server

2003-07-08 Thread Sharninder Singh-662
have a question concerning this. RH offers to check servers and optimizing these for maximum security, does Debian offer this? Or is there a guide on how to do this somewhere? there is a securing debian guide somewhere on the documentation pages. as u know, debian is a volunteer driven service so

Re: Totally Remote Debian Install Help

2003-06-15 Thread Sharninder Singh-662
> > > Now, I'm trying to figure out how to replace its current Windows 98, with > > Debian Linux, preferably without having to rely on anyone there doing > > anything to the machine beyond switching it on (and perhaps hitting the > > reset button). If anyone has done something similar, or can see

Re: Console password generator

2003-06-12 Thread Sharninder Singh-662
> Im not sure if debian package has a password generator. > Do we have one? I think I saw one but I couldn't figure where. > try apt-cache search password generator. i don't have access to my debian box rite or else i would have given u the output. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Beginers guide to spamassain ?

2003-06-09 Thread Sharninder Singh
he >> message, >> and send spam _with password_, in over 5 years of using it. Mostly if >> it's >> _real_ spam, the reply bounces. >> > I fed this into Google and apt-cache search and drew blanks. > > Where can I get a look at this, I'm currently c

[possibly OT] squirrelmail login problem

2003-06-05 Thread Sharninder Singh-662
i recently upgraded to testin from stable. i had squirrelmail 1.4.0 under stable and have the same version under testing also now. but it refuses to authenticate the users and shows some error saying invalid user etc. all the configurations are fine. what could be the problem... when i telnet to po

Re: Debian installation from hard disk

2003-06-05 Thread Sharninder Singh-662
> > Ah, OK. I think this is where I suffered burnout myself. If you > mentioned it before, it just didn't click. You may be SOL in this > case, however, I did find Linux+WindowsNT HOWTO on TLDP. Have you > seen it yet? > http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/Linux+WinNT.html > the above document is u

Re: [SOLVED] can't access machine after upgrade !

2003-06-05 Thread Sharninder Singh-662
> How about > > /etc/hosts.deny > /etc/hosts.allow > hehe .. it turns out that somehow iptables added a few default rules to the INPUT chain on the machine. and i was only seeing the rules which seemed fine but overlooked the default rule in the brackets which said DROP. i changed that and now eve

Re: Debian installation from hard disk

2003-06-05 Thread Sharninder Singh-662
> > This is the machine without a floppy or CD and running Windows that you want > to install Debian over the network? yes this machine only has a net connection. it's my office machien and as company policy i can install anything off the net but they won't give me a CD/floppy drive. > > I won't

Re: debian install without floppy or CD

2003-06-05 Thread Sharninder Singh-662
> > So you have no floppy, no CD drive, and no network? > um.. sorry my fault .. this box is connected to the net on a fairly fast link .. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian installation from hard disk

2003-06-05 Thread Sharninder Singh-662
> > Please quote as if you're in a conversation. > http://ursine.ca/jargon/html/email-style.html ok .. i tried doing that only but i guess i missed out on a line or two here and there but i've been in front of the monitor for 8 straight hours now ... > > OK, have you tried Googling for your probl

Re: Print quota package

2003-06-05 Thread Sharninder Singh-662
check out printbill .. u'l have to upgrade to testing though for that. or download it from the authours site. google would help u in that. > Hi, > > Is there a printing quota package for Debian? > What packages/programs do you recommend? > > Thanks > Mike > > > >

Re: Debian installation from hard disk

2003-06-04 Thread Sharninder Singh-662
t;[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Sharninder Singh-662" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 4:39 PM Subject: Debian installation from hard disk > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 03:19:59PM +0530, Sharninder Singh-

Re: Problems upgrading from potato to woody

2003-06-04 Thread Sharninder Singh-662
> > First question: can I force the configure stage of mc ('Setting up > mc-common (4.5.55-1.2)') to run again, so that I can get the new file? do u want this ... dpkg-reconfigure mc > > I have never got this to work before, but I had hoped it would this > time, plus I thought it would be n

Re: can't access machine after upgrade !

2003-06-04 Thread Sharninder Singh-662
the module is being loaded because i can use access the other machines on network from this machine and so ifconfig and route also don't show anything as such. i saw the ifconfig output and it's fine. will check the output of route and let u know later..tell me one thing is it possible that route l

debian install without floppy or CD

2003-06-04 Thread Sharninder Singh-662
is there any way for me to install debian on my machine here without a CD drive and a floppy drive..ie. totally off the network .. at the max. i can only get the ISOs on my machine or some other machine ... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

can't access machine after upgrade !

2003-06-04 Thread Sharninder Singh-662
hi, i had a debian stable machine running since the last one year or so since woody had been released. but last week i decided to upgrade it to testing and that was the worst decision IMO. after the upgrade i could'nt boot into the machine because of some lilo error. which is fine now after i playe

Re: error from root

2003-06-03 Thread Sharninder Singh-662
> > I keep getting this error: > Subject: Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> root test -e /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts > --report /etc/cron.daily > this is cron trying to run anacron. disable this is cron.daily or whatever ... by default in debian cron is setup to perform a lot of necessary/unnecessary cl

Re: [Partially Solved] upgrade to testing messed up lilo

2003-06-03 Thread Sharninder Singh-662
> Please refer to LILO documentation at /usr/share/doc/lilo/README.common.problems i read the docs and still am clueless because everything seems fine on the system. anyways i popped in the rescue disk used chroot to run lilo again and this time everything was fine but then i had to leave the mac

Re: odd line in sources list

2003-06-02 Thread Sharninder Singh-662
> > AFAIK u have to add the sources.list line for unstable and then install only > > cyrus from that using something like apt-get install -t unstable cyrus > > Yes, but there are things to do before that. Better take a good > read at the apt HOWTO manual. > hmmm, ya and that's what i meant when i

Re: odd line in sources list

2003-06-02 Thread Sharninder Singh-662
> I'd like to add cyrus imap from unstable to my otherwise testing setup. > I have read back through the list & it would seem to be possible to add > this to my sources list but I cannot sort the exact line to add. Can > anyone suggest the line for a single package from unstable. > AFAIK u have

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