Re: Include a ftp client in initrd

2009-11-17 Thread Tech Geek
> Why not use a more complete busybox? I don't think busybox has ftp client in it. It has ftpget.

Re: results: debian-user's favourite FLOSS (2009)

2009-11-17 Thread Tixy
On Mon, 2009-11-16 at 20:31 -0500, Tim Tebbit wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > > > I noticed that as well. Kinda sad. Any thoughts as to why? > > > > my .02 is that the list doesn't seem to have quite the breadth of > > traffic it has had before. But that's a cursory observation at b

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2009-11-17 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 05 Nov 2009, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > Here's a template where you can fill in your favourites If something > doesn't fit in any of the categories, put it under misc utilities. > Please don't add what you haven't really used. You can include more > than one entrant per category. > desktop e

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2009-11-17 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
hi, thanks for ur votes; unfortunately I had already posted the results since the weren't votes for about 4 days On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 11:16, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 05 Nov 2009, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: >> Here's a template where you can fill in your favourites If something >> doesn't f

Very interesting!!!

2009-11-17 Thread Kyani
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Re: results: debian-user's favourite FLOSS (2009)

2009-11-17 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 03:31, Tim Tebbit wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > >> >> I noticed that as well. Kinda sad. Any thoughts as to why? >> >> my .02 is that the list doesn't seem to have quite the breadth of >> traffic it has had before. But that's a cursory observation at best. > > This

Re: results: debian-user's favourite FLOSS (2009)

2009-11-17 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 09:18, Dotan Cohen wrote: >>> sidenote: >>> this year has had probably the worst participation since I've started >>> this poll in 2005 :-( >> >> I noticed that as well. Kinda sad. Any thoughts as to why? >> >> my .02 is that the list doesn't seem to have quite the breadth o

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2009-11-17 Thread Allen
desktop environment OR window manager: KDE, Gnome, LXDE, Window Maker, Enlightenment, FVWM, FVWM2, FVWM Crystal (Yes, I do in fact use every one of those, all the time. I like having options on how my desktop will behave at any given time, and sometimes I want one that looks different like FVWM

Re: results: debian-user's favourite FLOSS (2009)

2009-11-17 Thread Dotan Cohen
> I actually once did, but am sure I'll be swamped if I try now - Ubuntu > is massive! It would be nice though to compare the response > (favourites) from both camps. I'll limit myself to Debian for now; > maybe next year :-( > Would you like me to do it? I am rather active on the Ubuntu and Kubun

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2009-11-17 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 12:17, Allen wrote: > > desktop environment OR window manager: KDE, Gnome, LXDE, Window Maker, > Enlightenment, FVWM, FVWM2, FVWM Crystal (Yes, I do in fact use every one of > those, all the time. I like having options on how my desktop will behave at > any given time, and s

Re: results: debian-user's favourite FLOSS (2009)

2009-11-17 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 12:25, Dotan Cohen wrote: >> I actually once did, but am sure I'll be swamped if I try now - Ubuntu >> is massive! It would be nice though to compare the response >> (favourites) from both camps. I'll limit myself to Debian for now; >> maybe next year :-( >> > > Would you li

Re: results: debian-user's favourite FLOSS (2009)

2009-11-17 Thread Dotan Cohen
>> Would you like me to do it? I am rather active on the Ubuntu and >> Kubuntu lists. I have no problem taking responsibility for those lists >> every year, and you keep up the good work with Debian. What do you >> say? > > magnificent! when u going to start it? I'm going to re-subscribe right > no

Re: results: debian-user's favourite FLOSS (2009)

2009-11-17 Thread Avi Greenbury
On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:01:20 +0200 Dotan Cohen wrote: > >> Would you like me to do it? I am rather active on the Ubuntu and > >> Kubuntu lists. I have no problem taking responsibility for those > >> lists every year, and you keep up the good work with Debian. What > >> do you say? > > > > magnifi

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2009-11-17 Thread Allen
On Tuesday 17 November 2009 05:51:08 am Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 12:17, Allen wrote: > > desktop environment OR window manager: KDE, Gnome, LXDE, Window Maker, > > Enlightenment, FVWM, FVWM2, FVWM Crystal (Yes, I do in fact use every one > > of those, all the time. I li

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2009-11-17 Thread Avi Greenbury
Allen wrote: > And YAST2 is probably the best system tool ever done. > Hmm, Yast made me want to hurt small things the last (and first) time I used it. I'm increasingly wondering that this might have been a fault at my end, since a lot of people seem to like it now. Has it improved drastically

Re: Include a ftp client in initrd

2009-11-17 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 12:31:09AM -0800, Tech Geek wrote: > > Why not use a more complete busybox? > I don't think busybox has ftp client in it. It has ftpget. And ftpput. What else do you actually need. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il |

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2009-11-17 Thread Allen
On Tuesday 17 November 2009 06:31:33 am Avi Greenbury wrote: > Allen wrote: > > And YAST2 is probably the best system tool ever done. > > Hmm, Yast made me want to hurt small things the last (and first) time I > used it. I'm increasingly wondering that this might have been a > fault at my end, sin

Re: Seamonkey, Enlightenment

2009-11-17 Thread Johan Grönqvist
Allen skrev: I'm running Debian 5.01, and I did a Netinstall. I'm wondering if there are any Debian packages for Seamonkey. I don't like Firefox, and I do like Seamonkey. In case you do not know, the corresponding package is called iceape in debian, and was excluded from the release due to la

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2009-11-17 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 13:59, Allen wrote: > On Tuesday 17 November 2009 06:31:33 am Avi Greenbury wrote: >> Allen wrote: >> > And YAST2 is probably the best system tool ever done. >> >> Hmm, Yast made me want to hurt small things the last (and first) time I >> used it. I'm increasingly wondering

Re: running acceleraation on ati-hardware

2009-11-17 Thread Dave Witbrodt
Steven Demetrius wrote: Sthu Deus wrote: I have ATI x1100 on a laptop and in x-server logs I see that it load >> Radeon driver with GLX module... - AFAIK it should allow 3D direct >> rendering - but it is not - visually and the glxinfo utility states >> the same. It also states about setting [

Re: debian-5.0.3 on ThinkPad A21e : dude, where's my RAM ?

2009-11-17 Thread Ionreflex
Thanks for your inputs, I'll proceed with Xfce installation for now... if I end up with another choking slug, I'll come back to haunt you! :o) 2009/11/14 Sven Joachim > On 2009-11-14 06:21 +0100, Ionreflex wrote: > > > I've just installed a fresh debian on an old IBM ThinkPad A21e (see cpuz > >

Which javas? (Was java / iceweasel)

2009-11-17 Thread Ken Heard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 In my box the command "update-alternatives --config java" returns the following: There are 3 alternatives which provide `java'. SelectionAlternative - --- 1/usr/bin/gij-4.3 *+2

Re: debian-5.0.3 on ThinkPad A21e : dude, where's my RAM ?

2009-11-17 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 15:09, Ionreflex wrote: > Thanks for your inputs, I'll proceed with Xfce installation for now... if I > end up with another choking slug, I'll come back to haunt you! :o) As it has been said, just because linux reports more than half of those 256MB doesn't mean it's active

Re: debian-5.0.3 on ThinkPad A21e : dude, where's my RAM ?

2009-11-17 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-11-17 10:22:38, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > From my free -m i get this: > total used freeshared bufferscached > Mem: 3934 3755 179 0 191 1703 > -/+ buffers/cache: 1859 2074 > Swap: 190650 1855

Libc6 Bug #551158

2009-11-17 Thread David Baron
I have been holding up the upgrade because of this. Meanwhile, several new versions have been on Sid. Other grave bugs have been closed. Is it safe to upgrade libc6 stuff? Is this bug still current? An amd-64 version bug? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Finding the source for a NIC driver.

2009-11-17 Thread peasthope
One of the NIC drivers is named pegasus. pc:/home/p# find /lib -type f -name '*pegasus*' -print /lib/modules/2.6.24-1-686/kernel/drivers/net/usb/pegasus.ko /lib/modules/2.6.30-2-686/kernel/drivers/net/usb/pegasus.ko /lib/modules/2.6.26-2-686/kernel/drivers/net/usb/pegasus.ko pc:/home/p# The sour

Re: Which javas? (Was java / iceweasel)

2009-11-17 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:16:24 -0500, Ken Heard wrote: > In my box the command "update-alternatives --config java" returns the > following: > > There are 3 alternatives which provide `java'. > > SelectionAlternative > - --- > 1/usr/bi

Re: Seamonkey, Enlightenment

2009-11-17 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 01:06:51PM +0100, Johan Gr?nqvist wrote: > Allen skrev: > >I'm running Debian 5.01, and I did a Netinstall. I'm wondering if > >there are any Debian packages for Seamonkey. I don't like Firefox, > >and I do like Seamonkey. > > In case you do not know, the corresponding pack

Re: Which javas? (Was java / iceweasel)

2009-11-17 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 05:43:13PM +, Camale?n wrote: > On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:16:24 -0500, Ken Heard wrote: > > > In my box the command "update-alternatives --config java" returns the > > following: > > > > There are 3 alternatives which provide `java'. > > > > SelectionAlternative >

Re: Finding the source for a NIC driver.

2009-11-17 Thread Tech Geek
The source of your NIC driver should be in all kernel sources for each of the kernel that is installed on your system. Does that help? Type: # uname -r and see what kernel are you running and then check the source of the corresponding kernel?

Re: results: debian-user's favourite FLOSS (2009)

2009-11-17 Thread Tim Tebbit
Dotan Cohen wrote: > > My guess would be the popularity of Ubuntu. Much of the pie went > there. As Ubuntu is Debian-derived, how about doing the poll there as > well? > Out of curiosity I extracted unique email address from ubuntu-users.mbox available from their archive site. The archive starts

repo key expired?

2009-11-17 Thread Zachary Uram
How can I fix this? I tried running 'apt-get update' again but got the same error: W: GPG error: http://debian.mirrors.pair.com squeeze Release: The following signatures were invalid: KEYEXPIRED 1246455239 W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems Zach -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Giving a user root priveleges?

2009-11-17 Thread Zachary Uram
I edited /etc/sudoers file and added: userALL=(ALL) ALL But when I try to sudo as that user to root I get error: $ sudo su root We trust you have received the usual lecture from the local System Administrator. It usually boils down to these three things: #1) Respect the privacy of othe

Re: Seamonkey, Enlightenment

2009-11-17 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 10:30, Alex Samad wrote: > On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 01:06:51PM +0100, Johan Gr?nqvist wrote: >> Allen skrev: >> >I'm running Debian 5.01, and I did a Netinstall. I'm wondering if >> >there are any Debian packages for Seamonkey. I don't like Firefox, >> >and I do like Seamonk

Weird issue with windows since I installed ATI driver

2009-11-17 Thread Zachary Uram
I installed the Catalyst driver (from manufacturer) for my ATI Radeon HD 4550 card and it is working (X acceleration works, good resolution, etc.) but I noticed something weird. Now when I move a window it no longer shows the window static as it is being moved, it's like it keeps redrawing it as I

Re: Which javas? (Was java / iceweasel)

2009-11-17 Thread Ken Heard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alex Samad wrote: > On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 05:43:13PM +, Camale?n wrote: >> On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:16:24 -0500, Ken Heard wrote: >> >>> In my box the command "update-alternatives --config java" returns the >>> following: >>> >>> There are 3 altern

Re: asterisk-1.6.2 broken on debian squeeze

2009-11-17 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Hello Rustam, On Sun, 2009-11-15 at 17:59 +0100, Michael Wagner wrote: > * Rustam Kovhaev 15.11.2009 > > when I try to aptitude asterisk, it tells me that > > package asterisk is Broken > > > > aptitude install asterisk [..] > > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > > asterisk: Dep

Re: Seamonkey, Enlightenment

2009-11-17 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 11:23:38AM -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 10:30, Alex Samad wrote: [snip] > one for v2 > > They don't make releases for x86-64, but they do make nightlies: > http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/seamonkey/nightly/2009-11-17-02-comm-1.9.1/seamonkey-

Using ICH10R or ICH9R created volumes

2009-11-17 Thread vr
Is using volumes created in chipset RAID utilities supported? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Which javas? (Was java / iceweasel)

2009-11-17 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 14:33 -0500, Ken Heard wrote: > > On Camaleón's advice in alternatives I changed my default java to the > sun-java6-jre version. In your post you also indicated that that > version is the best one to use. I have consequently purged the packages You might want to consider

Re: Using ICH10R or ICH9R created volumes

2009-11-17 Thread Jean-François Pirlet
> Is using volumes created in chipset RAID utilities supported? > > http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/SataRaid -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Giving a user root priveleges?

2009-11-17 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 02:03:26PM -0500, Zachary Uram wrote: > [sudo] password for zu22: Sorry, try again. [sudo] password for zu22: > sudo: pam_authenticate: Conversation error Looks like a PAM problem. If you've previously installed debsums, I'd suggest the following: debsums libpam-modul

Re: Giving a user root priveleges?

2009-11-17 Thread Preston Boyington
Zachary Uram wrote: > But when I try to sudo as that user to root I get error: > > $ sudo su root I think there is some confusion. I don't know of any reason to use both 'su' and 'sudo' in a command. either you would 'su' to root or you would 'sudo' to run a singular command. 'su' is to chang

Re: results: debian-user's favourite FLOSS (2009)

2009-11-17 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:01:53 -0500 Tim Tebbit wrote: > Dotan Cohen wrote: > > > > My guess would be the popularity of Ubuntu. Much of the pie went > > there. As Ubuntu is Debian-derived, how about doing the poll there as > > well? > > > > Out of curiosity I extracted unique email address from

Re: Giving a user root priveleges?

2009-11-17 Thread PaulNM
Preston Boyington wrote: I think there is some confusion. I don't know of any reason to use both 'su' and 'sudo' in a command. either you would 'su' to root or you would 'sudo' to run a singular command. 'su' is to change into superuser (root) until you exit. 'sudo' is to temporarily be superus

Re: Giving a user root priveleges?

2009-11-17 Thread John L Fjellstad
Zachary Uram writes: > I edited /etc/sudoers file and added: > > userALL=(ALL) ALL > > But when I try to sudo as that user to root I get error: > > $ sudo su root > > We trust you have received the usual lecture from the local System > Administrator. It usually boils down to these three thing

Re: Giving a user root priveleges?

2009-11-17 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 17 November 2009 16:06:50 PaulNM wrote: > Preston Boyington wrote: > > I don't know of any reason to use both 'su' and 'sudo' in a command. > > either you would 'su' to root or you would 'sudo' to run a singular > > command. > > > > 'su' is to change into superuser (root) until you exit.

Re: Giving a user root priveleges?

2009-11-17 Thread Tom H
> I edited /etc/sudoers file and added: > user    ALL=(ALL) ALL > > But when I try to sudo as that user to root I get error: > $ sudo su root > [sudo] password for zu22: > Sorry, try again. > [sudo] password for zu22: > sudo: pam_authenticate: Conversation error > How can I fix this? This message

Re: weird networking issue on lenny!

2009-11-17 Thread Tom H
Network Manager must be the culprit. >>> You have quoted 260 lines and your answer was one sentence still at the >>> end of the mail. Next time quote only the things which are necessary >>> for someone else, who read your mail at google for example. >> You may have enough time to count lines

IP Telephony Software

2009-11-17 Thread Roman Gelfand
Could somebody recommend a good stun server? Thanks in advance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

503-I386 net install problem

2009-11-17 Thread Fred Zinsli
Hello all I have been trying this for some time now and can't seem to resolve the problem. Version: Debian stable i386 503 netinst Downloaded today as an ISO from the Debian site. I get to the point where the installer asks for the mirror and it goes away and scans the mirror/security/vol

Tisztelt Cég, Marketing és Kommunikációs vezetőség!

2009-11-17 Thread Tóth Gergely
Tisztelt Cég, Marketing és Kommunikációs vezetőség! Szeretnék engedélyt kérni Önöktől, hogy elküdjem rövid bemutatkozásunkat. Úgy gondolom, profilunk tökéletesen lehetővé teszi az Önök online forgalmának növelését. Tisztelettel megköszönöm visszajelzésüket egy rövid reagálás formájában!

Re: repo key expired?

2009-11-17 Thread Omar Campagne
At least on my system, apt forgets about these keys every now and then. I do know it happened to all of us not so long ago due to changes in the ftp. aptitude reinstall debian-archive-keyring works when the first case occurs. Omar On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 02:01:40PM -0500, Zachary Uram wrote: > H

ejabberd-modlues...muc_logxml or another???

2009-11-17 Thread cosme
Hola Estoy en la busqueda de algún modulo que me ayude a guardar las conversaciones en ejabberd, comenzé con mod_log_chat pero nada me dice que ejecute ./build.sh en ese módule para que genere un archivos .beam pero hace nada, o no sé que hago mal??? Ahora estoy probando el modulo muc_logxm

Re: 503-I386 net install problem

2009-11-17 Thread Charlie
On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:43:05 +1300 Fred Zinsli shared this with us all: > > >Hello all > >I have been trying this for some time now and can't seem to resolve the >problem. > >Version: Debian stable i386 503 netinst > >Downloaded today as an ISO from the Debian site. > >I get to the point wher

Bizarre X windows behaviour?

2009-11-17 Thread Zachary Uram
Running Debian lenny. I installed the Catalyst driver (from manufacturer) for my ATI Radeon HD 4550 card and it seems to be working, but I noticed something weird. Now when I move a window it no longer shows the window static as it is being moved, it's like it keeps redrawing it as I move it. So as

Re: Seamonkey, Enlightenment

2009-11-17 Thread Allen
On Tuesday 17 November 2009 07:06:51 am Johan Grönqvist wrote: > Allen skrev: > > I'm running Debian 5.01, and I did a Netinstall. I'm wondering if there > > are any Debian packages for Seamonkey. I don't like Firefox, and I do > > like Seamonkey. > > In case you do not know, the corresponding pack

Re: results: debian-user's favourite FLOSS (2009)

2009-11-17 Thread T o n g
On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:51:31 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: >>> my .02 is that the list doesn't seem to have quite the breadth of >>> traffic it has had before. But that's a cursory observation at best. >> >> This seem to back that up. >> >> http://lists.debian.org/stats/debian-user.png > > T

Re: results: debian-user's favourite FLOSS (2009)

2009-11-17 Thread Dotan Cohen
> Isn't it a good thing? I think it is amazingly good. Take a look at all > those questions asked in the Ubuntu forum, >90% are tasteless. What's > worse, (have you flipped down several index pages?), the questions on the > 4th or 5th pages are just asked hours ago! I think the "huge success" of >

Window Maker

2009-11-17 Thread Allen
Hi, Am I the only one wondering where Window Maker's Themes went? If you google it, you're taken to a place on Freshmeat, which doesn't seem to have ANY Window Maker Themes. And if you try the Window Maker page, you are given the same link to nothing that you're looking for. I like Window Make