Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-02-06 Thread Paul Johnson
John Hasler wrote: > s. keeling writes: >> We're really not sure what the poem actually is >> about. Here it goes: > >><>!*''# >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>!*'$_ >>%*<>#4 >>&)../ >>|{~~SYSTEM HALTED > > > Yes, but what does it do when you run it? It _is_ Perl, is it not? N

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-02-06 Thread Paul Johnson
Hal Vaughan wrote: > On Thursday 01 February 2007 23:13, Paul Johnson wrote: >> Hal Vaughan wrote: >> > On Thursday 01 February 2007 00:43, Ron Johnson wrote: >> >> On 01/31/07 23:27, David E. Fox wrote: >> >> > On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 21:22:21 +0200 >> >> > >> >> > Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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Re: Trouble with encrypted filesystems

2007-02-06 Thread Dan H.
Florian Kulzer wrote: > With your kernel version and udev, hal, dbus + pmount it should be > possible to just plug in the drive, wait a few seconds until udev > creates the device node and mount it normally with pmount (it will ask > for the passphrase). This requires that you use LUKS and device

Re: vim filetype detection (was Re: Vim colour syntax)

2007-02-06 Thread Manu Hack
I noticed that vim-latexsuite no longer worked with vim 7.x whereas it was working with vim 6.x. Filed a bug against vim-latexsuite but no reply. yes, I reported the F5 problem and maybe they are working on it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tro

Re: Attracting newbies (Was Booting Debian/testing fails)

2007-02-06 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 05 Feb 2007, Michael Pobega wrote: [snip] > > I don't mean to change the subject, but I myself used Ubuntu because I > felt that Debian was way too outdated for me. Then after multiple system > breakages I decided to just switch over to Debian, and it ended up > working fine. Debian has a

RE: your mail

2007-02-06 Thread Andrew Critchlow
Tis ok, Its on a testing server and isn't live. It was a fresh installation so files couldn't have been tampered with. thanks anyhow > Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 02:23:00 +0100> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: > debian-user@lists.debian.org> Subject: Re: your mail> > On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 > at 1

Re: Sound jerking with via 82xx soundcard

2007-02-06 Thread Raffaele Morelli
> Why don't you use alsa? > > regards Im having troubles under alsa.. therefor everything that uses it (arts or /dev/dsp emulation) also inherits it... Anyway, it doesn't matter much now, as i bought Audigy and 5.1 speakers.. now playing with asoundrc... mhhh, it sounds very strange, alsa ca

Re: debian/unstable+KDE: screensaver/lock session not working SOLVED

2007-02-06 Thread Bruno . Voigt
Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb am 05.02.2007 17:01:39: > > So what global config shall I check next? > > If you try to run the following command > > /usr/bin/kdesktop_lock --forcelock Ahh.. I had installed these packages: ii kdebluetooth 0.99+1.0beta2-3

Re: Booting Debian/testing fails

2007-02-06 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon, 5 Feb 2007 22:01:43 -0500 Kamaraju Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 04 February 2007 20:45, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > What would happen if you asked debian-www to add it or put in in the > > debian wiki? > > > > Doug. > > The last time I looked, debian-www is full o

Re: Booting Debian/testing fails

2007-02-06 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Tue, 6 Feb 2007 20:21:49 +1300 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Bannister) wrote: > For example, I prefer to set up my system the way I want to, I don't > want a GUI whereas a newbie doesn't understand a computer without one. > Already you have a conflict. But an advanced user/DD would know how to ins

Re: Attracting newbies (Was Booting Debian/testing fails)

2007-02-06 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon, 5 Feb 2007 19:18:54 -0800 Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 06:43:14PM -0800, Michael M. wrote: > > > And yet, just saying "Windows is dangerous" doesn't say anything > > about why or how you should use Linux, nor does it say anything > > about whi

WARNING: Clamd was NOT notified: Can't find or parse configuration file true

2007-02-06 Thread nx13441a
Good day, after upgrade clamav; ii clamav 0.90~rc3-1 ii clamav-base0.90~rc3-1 ii clamav-daemon 0.90~rc3-1 ii clamav-freshcl 0.90~rc3-1 I'm getting this warning; ClamAV update process started at Mon Feb 5 13:13:14 2007 main.cvd is up to date (version: 42, sigs: 83951

Saludos PUCON - CHILE

2007-02-06 Thread Javier Henríquez
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Re: Attracting newbies (Was Booting Debian/testing fails)

2007-02-06 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon, 5 Feb 2007 16:15:41 -0800 Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip proposed changes to installer] I think you talk about the sarge installer. Did you try the latest etch? I have the 'kde' image and it is pretty close to what you describe. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't ex

First impressions of Etch and trying to get vmware server to run (amd64)

2007-02-06 Thread Paul Walsh
Background: The PC I use at work (Intel D945GCZL motherboard, Intel BTX P4, SATA2 HDD) has, until yesterday, been running SUSE 10.1 or openSUSE 10.2 (depending what mood I'm in). I'd successfully installed vmware server 1.0.1 on each version so that I could run a windoze XP VM (sadly, practical

SSH accounts - basic restriction

2007-02-06 Thread Jarek Buczyński
Hello How restrict default policy in debian: users (who have ssh account) can read files in /etc, /root, /home/other_users etc. I'd like change this, simultaneously don't cause conflicts with other working daemon -- Best Regards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Acroread Navigation Pane

2007-02-06 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
Hello, Does anyone know how to disable the "Navigation Pane" by default in acroread7? It's on the left side, and has "Bookmarks", "Pages", and "Attachments" tabs. It comes back every time I start acroread, and I can't find any options to disable it by default in the preferences. Btw. do any

generate RAM disk

2007-02-06 Thread Christian Christmann
Hi, I want to modify the default Etch kernel-2.6.18-3-SMP by adding the option highmem > 4 GB. In the default kernel, this option is disabled. So, my idea was to download the original kernel sources from kernel.org for the same version. Then, get the config file from /boot of the Etch kernel and

Re: First impressions of Etch and trying to get vmware server to run (amd64)

2007-02-06 Thread Jörg Becker
On Tuesday, 6. February 2007 10:56, Paul Walsh wrote: > Background: > > The PC I use at work (Intel D945GCZL motherboard, Intel BTX P4, SATA2 HDD) > has, until yesterday, been running SUSE 10.1 or openSUSE 10.2 (depending > what mood I'm in). I'd successfully installed vmware server 1.0.1 on each

Re: SSH accounts - basic restriction

2007-02-06 Thread Dave Ewart
On Tuesday, 06.02.2007 at 11:08 +0100, Jarek Buczyński wrote: > How restrict default policy in debian: users (who have ssh account) > can read files in /etc, /root, /home/other_users etc. > > I'd like change this, simultaneously don't cause conflicts with other > working daemon You can change t

RE: SSH accounts - basic restriction

2007-02-06 Thread Jarek Buczyński
Hello > You can change the permissions for home directories so that users cannot > see each others; you can also change the permissions for /root so that > it is invisible to non-root users (chmod 700 ...) OK. I've done this. But at /root/ catalog I have some scripts, this scripts have symbolic l

Re: First impressions of Etch and trying to get vmware server to run (amd64)

2007-02-06 Thread Bruno Buys
Paul Walsh wrote: Background: The PC I use at work (Intel D945GCZL motherboard, Intel BTX P4, SATA2 HDD) has, until yesterday, been running SUSE 10.1 or openSUSE 10.2 (depending what mood I'm in). I'd successfully installed vmware server 1.0.1 on each version so that I could run a windoze XP

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2007-02-06 Thread Dustin Ramirez
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Re: What UPS to buy: a MGE Evolution 850 or an APC Smart-UPS 750?

2007-02-06 Thread Max Hyre
Paul Johnson wrote: > Any battery loses capacity over time, though you can reduce these effects > through proper care. For more than you can possibly want to know about batteries, check out http://www.buchmann.ca/toc.asp (Registration requested, but not required.) -- Best wishes

Re: [ot] Re: XML editor wanted!

2007-02-06 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-02-02 22:32:02 +, Oleg Verych wrote: > On 2007-02-02, hendrik wrote: > > As a developer, I also inderstand that XML is a crazily complicated > > specification, probably much more complicated than needed to do its job. I'd say it's not that complicated compared to other languages. > F

Re: XML editor wanted!

2007-02-06 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-02-02 09:29:41 -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Package: psgml > Description: An Emacs major mode for editing SGML documents. > PSGML is a major mode for the editor Emacs used for editing SGML PSGML is for SGML, not for XML editing (though it may appear to work with some XML documents).

Re: First impressions of Etch and trying to get vmware server to run (amd64)

2007-02-06 Thread Paul Walsh
Bruno Buys wrote: Paul Walsh wrote: I did a amd64 etch install two days ago. There was an issue with vmware, but different from yours. Mine installed ok, but when running vmware-config.pl it complained about linux headers, which i did have ok. Look at a thread called 'vmware on newer kern

Re: First impressions of Etch and trying to get vmware server to run (amd64)

2007-02-06 Thread Bruno Buys
Paul Walsh wrote: Bruno Buys wrote: Paul Walsh wrote: I did a amd64 etch install two days ago. There was an issue with vmware, but different from yours. Mine installed ok, but when running vmware-config.pl it complained about linux headers, which i did have ok. Look at a thread called 'v

Re: What UPS to buy: a MGE Evolution 850 or an APC Smart-UPS 750?

2007-02-06 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 04:37:50PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > > The deeper and faster you discharge a battery, the 1) less juice you get > > out of it before it needs recharging and 2) the fewer cycles you get > > before it needs replacing. > > One thing to ad

Re: off to try my hand at "hurd"ing

2007-02-06 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Dave Witbrodt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007 Feb 05 23:31 -0600]: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > >here i go, installing the hurd. I'll report back. > > > >If you don't hear from me by the spring, I'm either dead or found > >paradise. Either way send whiskey and reinforcements. > > What hardware

Re: font problems

2007-02-06 Thread Mike Polyakov
I am trying to install ProggyClean pcf font from http://www.proggyfonts.com/index.php?menu=download. I've read a couple of tutorials on how to do this, but still the font does not show up in the font selection dialog of GVIM. xlsfonts shows that the font is installed. I can even choose it with xfo

Re: font problems

2007-02-06 Thread Mike Polyakov
I am trying to install ProggyClean pcf font from http://www.proggyfonts.com/index.php?menu=download. I've read a couple of tutorials on how to do this, but still the font does not show up in the font selection dialog of GVIM. xlsfonts shows that the font is installed. I can even choose it with xfo

Re: Advice on filing a bug report

2007-02-06 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 08:25 +0100, Dan Phillips wrote: > I had a problem with using a rt2500 based wireless card. The problem was > that it would not connect to the router without security enabled. I am > going to file a bug, but so not know what package to file it under, > rt2500-source or iwco

Re: font problems

2007-02-06 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 03:05:42 -0500 "Mike Polyakov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is the font seen by fontconfig at all? Check the output of the > > 'fc-list' command. If the font appears there then it should be > > available to other applications such as gedit. This should at least > > help you t

Re: Removing desktop environments

2007-02-06 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 11:04:45PM -0500, cga2000 wrote: > Is there any way I can have debian help me figure out if there is stuff > that should be removed such as libraries that nothing uses -- naturally > I did not remove a single library myself. > Wow. I've read all the gawking you've trie

Re: SSH accounts - basic restriction

2007-02-06 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 12:45:57PM +0100, Jarek Buczy?ski wrote: > > I'd like my users don't access to some file for example /etc/*, they > shouldn't see apache, bind, ftp etc config file. I think it's good practice, > probably :) > Have you looked at rssh? It restricts the user to a chroot that

Re: SSH accounts - basic restriction

2007-02-06 Thread Dave Ewart
On Tuesday, 06.02.2007 at 12:45 +0100, Jarek Buczyński wrote: > > You can change the permissions for home directories so that users > > cannot see each others; you can also change the permissions for > > /root so that it is invisible to non-root users (chmod 700 ...) > > OK. I've done this. But a

Re: Etch hangs on boot after printer installation

2007-02-06 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 06:13:01AM +0100, Fab wrote: > > I just installed the Linux driver for my printer a Samsung ML-1710, printer > worked fine but now the system hangs on boot, I have attached a screenshot > of where the boot stalls. > > I am not sure what to make of it, should I do a dpkg-

Re: re-partition my hard disk

2007-02-06 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 09:46:36PM -0800, rocky wrote: > Hey all, > > On my PC I have 2 hard disks. The primary one has Windows XP > installed. Afterwards, I decide to learn Linux. So I got another Hard > disk and installed Debian stable successfully on it. Now, I'm thinking > of make my PC serve

Re: Trouble with encrypted filesystems

2007-02-06 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 10:31:19AM +0100, Dan H. wrote: > Moreover I noticed that just having an encrypted partition mounted > --local or via USB-- will kill the system after a few minutes. > > Sheesh, this is starting to get on my nerves. This machine, by the way, > has been running sarge for a

Clamav problem

2007-02-06 Thread David Baron
Get this from the cron job: -x /usr/bin/freshclam ] && /usr/bin/freshclam >/dev/null WARNING: Clamd was NOT notified: Can't find or parse configuration file true Where might I find the call for a file named "true"? Recently, clamd.conf items were changed from whether or not they were present to

Re: VMWare on current kernels

2007-02-06 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Greg Madden wrote: On Mon, 05 Feb 2007 23:15:00 -0200 Bruno Buys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Greg Folkert wrote: On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 20:38 +0100, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: On Mon, 05 Feb 2007 the mental interface of Jan Schledermann told: [...] A significant

Re: Acroread Navigation Pane

2007-02-06 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Torquil Macdonald Sørensen wrote: > Hello, > > Does anyone know how to disable the "Navigation Pane" by default in > acroread7? It's on the left side, and has "Bookmarks", "Pages", and > "Attachments" tabs. It comes back every time I start acroread, and I > can't find any options to disable it by

Re: XML editor wanted!

2007-02-06 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Tue, 6 Feb 2007 13:12:33 +0100, Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On 2007-02-02 09:29:41 -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> Package: psgml Description: An Emacs major mode for editing SGML >> documents. PSGML is a major mode for the editor Emacs used for >> editing SGML > PSGML is f

Re: ldap + pam howto?

2007-02-06 Thread Grok Mogger
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 05:04:48PM +, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: Hi, I am using Testing, and I want to setup the debian way an LDAP + pam authentication system for system users. Would you know a recent howto talking about that? I dont need generic howto, I am

Re: Attracting newbies (Was Booting Debian/testing fails)

2007-02-06 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 07:45:17PM +, Chris Lale wrote: > Michael Pobega wrote: > >Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > >[...] I think in reality Debian doesn't cater to a lot of people's needs > > On the other hand, there must be a lot of people who would find Debian a > great solution if only t

Re: Acroread Navigation Pane

2007-02-06 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Torquil Macdonald Sørensen wrote: Btw. do any of the OSS PDF-viewers for linux have anti-aliasing for graphics (besides standard text). I think kpdf does not. Try out xpdf! Yes, but I want antialiasing for graphics besides text. Kpdf, which I normally use also has

Re: WARNING: Clamd was NOT notified: Can't find or parse configuration file true

2007-02-06 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
nx13441a wrote: Good day, after upgrade clamav; ii clamav 0.90~rc3-1ii clamav-base0.90~rc3-1 ii clamav-daemon 0.90~rc3-1 ii clamav-freshcl 0.90~rc3-1 I'm getting this warning; ClamAV update process started at Mon Feb 5 13:13:14 2007 main.cvd is up to date (version: 42

How to switch to text mode

2007-02-06 Thread myusernet
I am running xfce4 but I want to boot the system to console instead of gui. What am I supposed to do?

Re: How to switch to text mode

2007-02-06 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/06/07 08:44, myusernet wrote: > I am running xfce4 but I want to boot the system to console > instead of gui. What am I supposed to do? Congratulations on your brave adventure! Many of us have taken this road to True Geekdom and have never look

Re: howto build debian xen kernel?

2007-02-06 Thread Jonas Meurer
On 06/02/2007 Grok Mogger wrote: > >I didn't find any documentation about that topic. All howtos/tutorials/... > >that talk about building a xen kernel, use the original xen kernel > >sources, not the debian kernel source with patches. > > You may have some need to compile your own kernel, but if

Re: Booting Debian/testing fails

2007-02-06 Thread Wulfy
Chris Bannister wrote: For example, I prefer to set up my system the way I want to, I don't want a GUI whereas a newbie doesn't understand a computer without one. Already you have a conflict. I don't think it's quite that simple. Just because someone "prefers to set up [his] system the way [he]

Display problem with xfce4

2007-02-06 Thread myusernet
I have a problem about displaying Chinese in xfce4. When xterm is launched, some Chinese characters are displayed as square, but after the font of xterm was switched to large, everything is OK, what is the problem, how can I fix it?

Re: Acroread Navigation Pane

2007-02-06 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 15:39 +0100, Torquil Macdonald Sørensen wrote: > Yes, but I want antialiasing for graphics besides text. Kpdf, which I > normally use also has antialiasing, so text looks fine there aswell. It > is f.eks. line graphics that is the problem. I have a logo that looks > terribl

Re: How to switch to text mode

2007-02-06 Thread Glenn Becker
I am running xfce4 but I want to boot the system to console instead of gui. What am I supposed to do? IIRC you need to go into /etc/rc.d/rc*.d/ and mv 'S99gdm' to 'K99gdm' wherever it appears. Same if you see 'S99kdm' anywhere. This will keep the GUI login splash from starting up. GB +---

Re: Booting Debian/testing fails

2007-02-06 Thread Glenn Becker
To some of us, GUI tools are more intuitive than the opaque, cryptic command line tools. I appreciate your point(s) but to others of us the CLI is neither opaque nor cryptic. Choices is what it's all about - for me. G +-+ Glenn Becker -

exim4 smtp auth

2007-02-06 Thread Andrew Critchlow
Is there anyway i can check if my smtp auth is working with exim4? I have enabled TLS with certificates and i have unhashed, plain_server: I have also used htpasswd -nd username and put the output into /etc/exim4/passwd I have also set: MAIN_TLS_ENABLE = true But when I try and send an emai

Re: Acroread Navigation Pane

2007-02-06 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
Sven Arvidsson wrote: On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 15:39 +0100, Torquil Macdonald Sørensen wrote: Yes, but I want antialiasing for graphics besides text. Kpdf, which I normally use also has antialiasing, so text looks fine there aswell. It is f.eks. line graphics that is the problem. I have a logo tha

Re: How to switch to text mode

2007-02-06 Thread Kent West
Ron Johnson wrote: What you do is purge the packages gdm, xdm & kdm. You'll only have one of them installed, but I list them all just to be comprehensive. Not quite "all"; wdm is also a possibility; perhaps others. -- Kent West http://kentwest.blogspot.com

Re: How to switch to text mode

2007-02-06 Thread Kent West
Glenn Becker wrote: I am running xfce4 but I want to boot the system to console instead of gui. What am I supposed to do? IIRC you need to go into /etc/rc.d/rc*.d/ and mv 'S99gdm' to 'K99gdm' wherever it appears. Same if you see 'S99kdm' anywhere. This will keep the GUI login splash from st

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-02-06 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Monday 05 February 2007 22:58, Paul Johnson wrote: > Hal Vaughan wrote: > > On Thursday 01 February 2007 23:13, Paul Johnson wrote: > >> Hal Vaughan wrote: > >> > On Thursday 01 February 2007 00:43, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> >> On 01/31/07 23:27, David E. Fox wrote: > >> >> > On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 2

d-i dnld: many retries!

2007-02-06 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, Downloading RC1 and the dailybuild from http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ on a dialup system (takes about 8 hours): I had to use wget with the -t 0 option (unlimited retries) because the server would close about every 3 minutes or so. RC1 checksums matched but the dailybuilt

No keyboard in gdm-greeter on reboot

2007-02-06 Thread John Stoffel
Hi all, I've been running into a strange issue with gdm on bootup. The mouse works, but the keyboard doesn't. This has been opened as bug #406457 (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=406457), but I haven't heard anything back from the maintainer. I can work around the issue by goi

Acroread por defecto en Gnome

2007-02-06 Thread Daniel Garcia
Hola a todos, Utilizo el gnome como escritorio. Como hago para utilizar la aplicacion acroread para abrir por defecto los pdfs? Un saludo Daniel Looking for earth-friendly autos? Browse Top Cars by "Green

Re: ldap + pam howto?

2007-02-06 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 09:22:40AM -0500, Grok Mogger wrote: > > The LDAP client usually just sends all data (passwords > included!) in the clear to the LDAP server. This is bad. SASL > encrypts all the communication between the client and server. > Right, but your passwords should be hashed

Re: What UPS to buy

2007-02-06 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Mon, 05 Feb 2007 13:59:28 -0600 Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sun, 4 Feb 2007 19:44:30 -0500 Kevin Coyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Some of APC's UPS units allow you to set the voltage sensitivity via dip switches, some of the u

Re: Acroread por defecto en Gnome

2007-02-06 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 07:27:34AM -0800, Daniel Garcia wrote: > Hola a todos, > > Utilizo el gnome como escritorio. Como hago para utilizar la aplicacion > acroread para abrir por defecto los pdfs? > Daniel, esta lista es para discusiones en ingles. Si prefieres conversar en espanol, debes uti

Re: howto build debian xen kernel?

2007-02-06 Thread Grok Mogger
Jonas Meurer wrote: On 06/02/2007 Grok Mogger wrote: I didn't find any documentation about that topic. All howtos/tutorials/... that talk about building a xen kernel, use the original xen kernel sources, not the debian kernel source with patches. You may have some need to compile your own kernel

Re: How to switch to text mode

2007-02-06 Thread Glenn Becker
Whereas this will work (assuming you're using gdm or kdm instead of xdm or wdm), you'll have to do this for each runlevel. I find it easier to temporarily disable [gkxw]dm by editing /etc/init.d/[gkxw]dm and putting the single line "exit 0" as the first non-comment line in the script (or, fo

Re: ldap + pam howto?

2007-02-06 Thread Grok Mogger
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 09:22:40AM -0500, Grok Mogger wrote: The LDAP client usually just sends all data (passwords included!) in the clear to the LDAP server. This is bad. SASL encrypts all the communication between the client and server. Right, but your password

Re: highmem kernel question

2007-02-06 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon, 05 Feb 2007 18:07:26 -0600 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 02/05/07 17:24, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Mon, 05 Feb 2007 12:06:07 -0600 > > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> You need linux-image-2.6.18-4-686. >

Re: deborphan

2007-02-06 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 03.02.07 17:21, Greg Folkert wrote: > Funny, I was under the impression Deborphan was deprecated. Aptitude > supposedly gives you similar functionality. oh, no. I don't like aptitude and still use dselect, I hope i won't be pushed into using aptitude ... -- Matus UHLAR - fantomas, [EMAIL PROT

Re: How to switch to text mode

2007-02-06 Thread Atis
On 2/6/07, Glenn Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Whereas this will work (assuming you're using gdm or kdm instead of xdm > or wdm), you'll have to do this for each runlevel. > > I find it easier to temporarily disable [gkxw]dm by editing > /etc/init.d/[gkxw]dm and putting the single line "ex

Re: How to switch to text mode

2007-02-06 Thread Glenn Becker
Yes, I'd say much more elegant! :^) I'd say - no. Okay! :^) to remove: #update-rc.d -f gdm remove to restore: #update-rc.d gdm defaults I learned something, today, great! TMTOWTDI, I guess. G +-+ Glenn Becker - [EMAIL PROTECTED] SDF

Re: How to switch to text mode

2007-02-06 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 10:44:33PM +0800, myusernet wrote: > I am running xfce4 but I want to boot the system to console instead of gui. What am I supposed to do? While all the others have provided you with various solutions... here's the easy one... ;-P There is a command -- update-rc.d -- th

Re: ldap + pam howto?

2007-02-06 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 10:56:11AM -0500, Grok Mogger wrote: > > So forget SASL and just send everything through an SSL tunnel? > So you'd do something like this on the client... "ssh -L > :LDAPServer:$LDAPServerPORT -N [EMAIL PROTECTED]", and then > setup the LDAP client to send everything

Sound on Sarge r4 - Realtek ALC888 chip

2007-02-06 Thread john gennard
I've just made a new install of Sarge's latest release and its updates. I'm very weak with sound. The M/Board has onboard sound (a Realtek ALC888 chip) and I was hoping to use Alsa for the first time. There's virtually nothing on the 'net about this chip and literally nothing that helps me. Does

Re: How to switch to text mode

2007-02-06 Thread Atis
On 2/6/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 10:44:33PM +0800, myusernet wrote: In your case, if you're using gdm: update-rc.d -f gdm remove this will remove all the symlinks to gdm in all the runlevels so that gdm will not start at boot-up. If you want to

Re: generate RAM disk

2007-02-06 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 11:10:06AM +0100, Christian Christmann wrote: > Hi, > > I want to modify the default Etch kernel-2.6.18-3-SMP by > adding the option highmem > 4 GB. the default in that kernel is CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G=y, are you saying you want more? dang, lucky. So you want to enable CONFIG_H

Re: ldap + pam howto?

2007-02-06 Thread Grok Mogger
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 10:56:11AM -0500, Grok Mogger wrote: So forget SASL and just send everything through an SSL tunnel? So you'd do something like this on the client... "ssh -L :LDAPServer:$LDAPServerPORT -N [EMAIL PROTECTED]", and then setup the LDAP client t

Re: Attracting newbies (Was Booting Debian/testing fails)

2007-02-06 Thread Kevin Kempter
On Monday 05 February 2007 16:23, Michael Pobega wrote: > Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Mon, 05 Feb 2007 16:08:53 -0500 > > > > Michael Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I don't plan on heading this documentation, though. I just want to > >> try to get everyone involved in it, because I feel at

Re: font problems

2007-02-06 Thread Mike Polyakov
> $ fc-cache -vf ~./fonts > /home/mike./fonts: skipping, no such directory > /var/cache/fontconfig: not cleaning unwritable cache directory > /home/mike/.fontconfig: cleaning cache directory Note the typo in the invocation of fc-cache. Correct it, and try again. Hi, I'm sorry about the typo.

Re: No keyboard in gdm-greeter on reboot

2007-02-06 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
John Stoffel wrote: Hi all, I've been running into a strange issue with gdm on bootup. The mouse works, but the keyboard doesn't. This has been opened as bug #406457 (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=406457), but I haven't heard anything back from the maintainer. I can work ar

Re: Attracting newbies (Was Booting Debian/testing fails)

2007-02-06 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 11:52:37AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Mon, 5 Feb 2007 16:15:41 -0800 > Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [snip proposed changes to installer] > > I think you talk about the sarge installer. Did you try the latest > etch? I have the 'kde' image and

Re: off to try my hand at "hurd"ing

2007-02-06 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 12:26:33AM -0500, Dave Witbrodt wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > >here i go, installing the hurd. I'll report back. > > > >If you don't hear from me by the spring, I'm either dead or found > >paradise. Either way send whiskey and reinforcements. > > What hardware

Re: Booting Debian/testing fails

2007-02-06 Thread cassiano
Chris Bannister wrote: On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 09:03:34AM -0200, cassiano wrote: Didn't expect a personal reply. Could you please trim unnecessary parts. Kantonix, Mepis, Ubuntu, and others *based* on Debian. Personally, I don't think that Debian is geared towards newbies but more towards admi

Re: Sound on Sarge r4 - Realtek ALC888 chip

2007-02-06 Thread Bruno Buys
john gennard wrote: I've just made a new install of Sarge's latest release and its updates. I'm very weak with sound. The M/Board has onboard sound (a Realtek ALC888 chip) and I was hoping to use Alsa for the first time. There's virtually nothing on the 'net about this chip and literally nothing

Re: generate RAM disk

2007-02-06 Thread cassiano
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 11:10:06AM +0100, Christian Christmann wrote: I *believe* that when you build a kernel package .deb and use dpkg to install it the initrd is generated automatically. If its not, then you AFAIK, if you are compiling the kernel using kernel-kpk

RE: SSH accounts - basic restriction

2007-02-06 Thread Jarek Buczyński
> Files in /etc are designed to be readable to all processes, including > user processes. For example, /etc/resolv.conf for looking up hosts, > /etc/passwd for user details and so on. Anything which explicitly needs > to be hidden from normal users can have appropriate permissions set, > e.g. /e

Re: Clamd error messags (two postings)

2007-02-06 Thread David Baron
On Tuesday 06 February 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > NotifyClamd true > > # Check for new database 24 times a day > > Checks 24 > > DatabaseMirror db.pt.clamav.net > > DatabaseMirror db.local.clamav.net > > DatabaseMirror database.clamav.net > > > > > > Some help please. > > * * * * * > > Tha

Re: Hello --> Ref #[1MDB0BhCFE6lnjm]

2007-02-06 Thread announcement
Hello, Thank you for contacting Juno. Please be advised that this is an automated reply and no further response will be sent. The Juno Customer Support team is here to provide fast, easy and reliable ways for you to get answers to your questions regarding your Juno service. If you have an issu

Re: deborphan

2007-02-06 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 17:00 +0100, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > On 03.02.07 17:21, Greg Folkert wrote: > > Funny, I was under the impression Deborphan was deprecated. Aptitude > > supposedly gives you similar functionality. > > oh, no. I don't like aptitude and still use dselect, I hope i won't

Re: deborphan

2007-02-06 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 17:00 +0100, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > On 03.02.07 17:21, Greg Folkert wrote: > > Funny, I was under the impression Deborphan was deprecated. Aptitude > > supposedly gives you similar functionality. > > oh, no. I don't like aptitude and still use dselect, I hope i won't

Re: Attracting newbies (Was Booting Debian/testing fails)

2007-02-06 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Tue, 6 Feb 2007 08:42:03 -0800 Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 11:52:37AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Mon, 5 Feb 2007 16:15:41 -0800 > > Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > [snip proposed changes to installer] > > > > I t

dazuko and linux-image.2.6

2007-02-06 Thread Bill Thompson
Is anyone using the ClamAV file scanner with dazuko? I can not get the dazuko module to compile with the Debian packaged kernels. The error I get is that the "capabilities are built into the kernel" which indicates that I need to rebuild the kernel to use Linux Default Capabilities support as a mod

Re: How to switch to text mode

2007-02-06 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 06:21:36PM +0200, Atis wrote: > On 2/6/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 10:44:33PM +0800, myusernet wrote: > >In your case, if you're using gdm: > > > >update-rc.d -f gdm remove > > > >this will remove all the symlinks to gdm in

Re: Attracting newbies (Was Booting Debian/testing fails)

2007-02-06 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 08:33:13PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Tue, 6 Feb 2007 08:42:03 -0800 > Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 11:52:37AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > On Mon, 5 Feb 2007 16:15:41 -0800 > > > Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL P

Re: No keyboard in gdm-greeter on reboot

2007-02-06 Thread John Stoffel
Hugo> John Stoffel wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I've been running into a strange issue with gdm on bootup. The mouse >> works, but the keyboard doesn't. This has been opened as bug #406457 >> (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=406457), but I >> haven't heard anything back from the ma

Re: Attracting newbies (Was Booting Debian/testing fails)

2007-02-06 Thread Dustin
Kevin Kempter wrote: Hi; I'm just now looking into installing debian on my laptop to test it out. I'm not a newbie to Linux - I've run Redhat, Fedora, Mandrake and SuSE over the past several years. However I am a newbie per debian and/or debian based distros. I would be interested in adding

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