Re: Testing needed for openjdk-6 security updates

2013-07-22 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - > From: "Rob Owens" > > - Original Message - > > From: "Moritz Muehlenhoff" > > > > As discussed on debian-release some time ago security support > > for openjdk will be following upstream releases

Re: Booting degraded software raid1 with failed /dev/sda

2013-08-05 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - > From: "Tad Bak" > > Background. > I have Debian Wheezy 64bit installed on a machine with 2 SATA drives. > On the hard drives I have two software RAID1 partitions, md0 and > md1. The bigger md1 uses LVM and has separate volumes for swap, > /tmp, /var, /opt, /usr, and

Re: Sansa clip music player is shown empty.

2013-08-25 Thread Rob Owens
On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 12:55:19AM -, atar wrote: > Hi there!! > > I've a SanDisk Sansa MP3 music player which I've put into it songs > using Win-XP, but when I've mounted it in Debian Wheezy, all the > songs are strangely disappeared. the interesting thing is although > they're disappeared, t

Re: dhcpd runs as root

2013-08-27 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 08:13:43PM -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > On 8/27/2013 5:26 PM, Andrew Wood wrote: > >Why does dhcpd (installed from isc-dhcp-server package in WHeezy) run as > >root not a less privileged user? > > > >The only reference to this subject I can find is this bug report first > >

Re: unique install question?

2012-06-11 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 08:24:29PM -0400, Karen Lewellen wrote: > Hi, > first, the test image of wheezy came with software speech installed, > which is why I wanted it. > second, it took me a year to find anyone who could create these > images for me. and I cannot burn the stable squeeze cd myself,

Re: unique install question? (Squeeze audio install using the Wheezy-di from a USB drive)

2012-06-12 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 06:51:31PM -0400, Karen Lewellen wrote: > fourth, unless there is a list? somewhere of what packages are on > which image, I do not want to guess from the installer, which is > why I why install all I have before picking and choosing the first > time out. I have heard that

Re: resize pictures received by mailserver

2012-06-13 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 12:45:13PM +0200, Randall wrote: > > is it possible to have all messages received by the mailinglists MTA > scanned for pictures and have these automatically scaled to a > default size before its being redistributed to the receivers on the > mailinglist and subsequently the

Re: resize pictures received by mailserver

2012-06-14 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 11:47:52AM +0530, Kushal Kumaran wrote: > On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 11:17 PM, Rob Owens wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 12:45:13PM +0200, Randall wrote: > >> > >> is it possible to have all messages received by the mailinglists MTA > >>

Re: java alternatives

2012-06-27 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 03:53:53PM -0600, ChadDavis wrote: > I want to see the script that installs the alternatives when the > sun-java6-jdk is installed. I'm not that familiar with the .deb > structure, etc. I guess it's in some lifecycle script, but I don't > know where those end up. The upda

Re: sshfs more like NFS (or vice-versa)

2012-06-27 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 12:49:33AM +0200, Andre Majorel wrote: > Are there any alternatives to sshfs that offer proper multi-user > support ? By which I mean letting user alice@client access a > remote file system as both bob@server and (by using sudo on > client) root@server. > I'm not sure if it

Re: Filezilla a security risk

2012-06-28 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 10:03:19AM +0200, Claudius Hubig wrote: > Hello francis, > > francis picabia wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 4:46 PM, Andrei POPESCU > > wrote: > > > On Mi, 27 iun 12, 16:26:48, francis picabia wrote: > > >> I've just learned Filezilla is a security risk.  It stores sa

Re: Filezilla a security risk

2012-06-28 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 04:24:43PM -0300, francis picabia wrote: > On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 12:35 PM, Shane Johnson > wrote: > > > > > Please remember that FTP by nature is insecure.  All it would take is > > for someone to packet sniff the connection and they would have the > > user name and pass

Re: TLS encrypted source for Debian iso signing keys?

2012-07-03 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 11:34:15AM -0700, anots...@fastmail.fm wrote: > Is there any TLS encrypted source for downloading the Debian iso signing > keys? > > Of course, from a source verified by a common root certificate. Not from > the Debian CA, because there is no way to get this one from a trus

OT: need a simple CMS / website builder

2012-07-03 Thread Rob Owens
My kids want to make their own webpages. I intend to host them on my own server and limit who has access to them. I need some recommendations. Wordpress? Drupal? This will be on a Squeeze system. I have a dyndns account to provide access to my dynamic IP address. The kids are between 6 and 1

Re: OT: need a simple CMS / website builder

2012-07-03 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 05:05:09PM -0400, Rob Owens wrote: > My kids want to make their own webpages. I intend to host them on my > own server and limit who has access to them. I need some > recommendations. Wordpress? Drupal? This will be on a Squeeze system. > > I have a dy

Re: Small xorg?

2012-07-05 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, Jul 04, 2012 at 06:29:55PM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: > Any recommendations for a small, compact version of X (limited features OK) > for an old Thinkpad 240X -- max RAM 192MB (design limit.  won't take more.   > tried.), 500MHz P3, 800x600 screen--to install Squeeze on?  I'm running Etc

Re: OT: need a simple CMS / website builder

2012-07-07 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 05:05:09PM -0400, Rob Owens wrote: > My kids want to make their own webpages. I intend to host them on my > own server and limit who has access to them. I need some > recommendations. Wordpress? Drupal? This will be on a Squeeze system. > Thanks for all t

Re: OT: need a simple CMS / website builder

2012-07-07 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 02:54:53PM -0700, Go Linux wrote: > --- On Tue, 7/3/12, Rob Owens wrote: > > > From: Rob Owens > > Subject: OT: need a simple CMS / website builder > > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Date: Tuesday, July 3, 2012, 4:05 PM > >

Re: OT: need a simple CMS / website builder

2012-07-07 Thread Rob Owens
On Sat, Jul 07, 2012 at 01:42:35PM -0600, Glenn English wrote: > > On Jul 7, 2012, at 1:19 PM, Rob Owens wrote: > > > On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 05:05:09PM -0400, Rob Owens wrote: > >> My kids want to make their own webpages. I intend to host them on my > >> own s

Re: Iceweasel trouble, anyone else?

2012-07-11 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 07:20:45PM -0400, Eike Lantzsch wrote: > Hi: > > Debian testing, i386, KDE 4.8.4, iceweasel 13.0.1 > > Lately iceweasel suddenly started to blank all text on webpages of different > sites. Usually restarting iceweasel helped (sort of). But now even after a > restart it c

Re: Iceweasel trouble, anyone else?

2012-07-12 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 02:01:08AM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Rob Owens wrote: > > I recently had issues with iceweasel using 80% of my CPU. I tried > > upgrading from 3.something to 10.something in the mozilla.debian.net > > repos. That didn't fix it. > > >

Re: How to auto start bbpager in fluxbox

2012-07-17 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 03:36:51PM +, user1 wrote: > I am using and fluxbox 1.3.2-2 and bbpager 0.4.7 (ubuntu 12.04) > > I have placed 'bbpager &' in '~/.fluxbox/startup' but it will not > autostart > > bbpager starts fine manually > > I have several other programs which autostart fine in f

Re: To pulse or not to pulse?

2012-07-20 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 05:53:34PM -0400, Brad Alexander wrote: > On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Camaleón wrote: > > On Tue, 17 Jul 2012 19:57:58 -0400, Brad Alexander wrote: > > > > (...) > > > >> So I tried to like pulse, tried to get along with it, but I'm having a > >> really hard time with

Re: To pulse or not to pulse?

2012-07-20 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 04:40:46AM -0400, Brad Alexander wrote: > On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 12:57 AM, Raffaele Morelli > wrote: > > > Have a try with ALSA+Jack (qjackctl gui) and use vlc phonon backend for KDE4 > > (gstreamer backend really sucks IMHO). > > Phonon is currently set up for vlc. > >

Re: Need suggestions on a backup issue

2012-07-20 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 09:50:53AM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > Debian already provides an email facility that allows cron scripts to > email me with error messages. I need a way to test in Bash whether, or > not, there actually is a disk mounted at /media/wdp8. > > What test can I code in Ba

Re: Call for testers - perl script to connect to the Juniper VPN

2012-07-24 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 03:00:24PM +0200, Alex Samorukov wrote: > Hello, > > I wrote a Perl script to connect to the Juniper VPN from Linux. It > works without Java and requires perl only. I used wireshark to > analyze management protocol of the juniper binary to emulate java > GUI behaviour. If y

Re: Changing GTK+ theme

2012-07-27 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 05:58:49PM -0700, Kevin Ross wrote: > I just updated my Wheezy laptop, and now all of the widgets are the > ugly, square blocky ones, as well as the toolbars in various > programs. When I change the GTK+ theme in gnome-tweak-tool, nothing > happens. I've seen this happen b

Re: multiple swap areas and RAID 1

2012-08-08 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 04:25:01PM +0300, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: > Hi. > > I'm going to configure Debian GNU/Linux with software RAID 1 and I > think to put swap area on RAID 1 (/dev/mdX), but someone told me > that if the computer have multiple swap partition (e.g. /dev/sda2, > /dev/sdb2) with

Re: [OT] Will upcoming Debian 8 release default to XFCE for the CD media?

2012-08-08 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 05:45:40PM +, Camaleón wrote: > > I wonder what the other linux distributions are doing in this regard, > what the GNOME teams (Debian and upstream) think about it and what other > desktop environments can be also considered as good options to be used > for the defau

Re: No-Script for backports iceweasel?

2012-08-13 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 02:18:06PM -0700, Steven Sciame wrote: > Hello, > > I am using Squeeze and recently upgraded from iceweasel 3.5 to the release > version from Debian Mozilla Backports.  During the process, Iceweasel > informed me that the versions of Greasemonkey and No-Script that I was

Re: Wheezy and Sun-Java

2012-08-14 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 08:29:41PM -0300, Dr Beco wrote: > Dear linuxers, > > According to this blog ( > http://sylvestre.ledru.info/blog/sylvestre/2011/08/26/sun_java6_packages_removed_from_debian_u > ) > from Sylvestre, responsible for maintaining sun-java*, Java did not > renew it's license, an

Re: Testing ALSA and writing an appropriate .asoundrc

2012-08-15 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 08:42:20AM +0200, José Luis Segura Lucas wrote: > Hi all! > > I have a little mess up with ALSA on one of my computers. > > The computer has two sound cards: one of them, an integrated Intel > (lspci related output in [1]) and a audio device from Nvidia, for using > with a

Re: Wheezy and Sun-Java

2012-08-15 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 08:32:01PM -0300, Dr Beco wrote: > > Rod and Aidan, you both commented about icedtea plugin. I'll test it > on my baking next weekend. So as I understand, there is no > open-jdk-plugin? One should use icedtea-plugin with open-jdk, is that > so? Thanks! > That is correct.

Re: Standard for soft return by automatic word and line wrap

2012-08-25 Thread Rob Owens
On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 06:33:02PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > Evolution does provide those options for HTML and plain text and it has > got impact to plain text mails. > > This should become a never ending line, because I switched to preformatted. > Usually this would cause lines that force

L2TP VPN configuration

2013-12-03 Thread Rob Owens
I've followed a couple different tutorials on the internet, but I haven't been able to use L2TP to connect to a VPN from my Wheezy desktop. Connecting from an Android device works, so I know the server and my credentials are ok. Has anybody on the list successfully connected to a VPN using L2TP?

Re: L2TP VPN configuration

2013-12-04 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 08:24:02PM -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote: > On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 09:28:20AM -0500, Rob Owens wrote: > > I've followed a couple different tutorials on the internet, but I haven't > > been able to use L2TP to connect to a VPN from my Wheezy deskto

Re: Recovering my USB-Key content

2013-12-07 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 11:21:58AM +0200, Jean-Marc wrote: > Hi the list, > > The partition table of my USB-key has gone and I got some read-error > messages. > > I recovered the files stored on it using photorec but it is a little > bit a raw-recover splitted into generic directories with generi

Re: Goodbye GNOME, Hello XFCE

2013-12-07 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Dec 05, 2013 at 04:37:45PM -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote: > On Thu, 05 Dec 2013, Stephen Powell wrote: > > > Well, the latest update to Debian jessie did it. GNOME 3 apparently > > no longer has a "fallback mode" for X drivers which don't support 3D > > acceleration. Mine doesn't. And the

Re: install debian on usb stick

2013-12-13 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 05:59:46PM +0700, Diogene Laerce wrote: > Hi, > > Tuto : > http://verahill.blogspot.com.au/2013/03/361-installing-debian-on-usb-stick-from.html > > I try to install deby on a stick but I have this warning message > whatever action I do : > > #

Re: how to upgrade only from stable.

2013-12-20 Thread Rob Owens
Somebody mentioned apt pinning, which will achieve what you want. But the easier way is to put this in /etc/apt/apt.conf: APT::Default-Release "squeeze"; Test this by running 'apt-get update && apt-get upgrade'. You don't have to go through with the upgrade, just look and see what is being upgr

Re: Installing Debian 7.3.0

2013-12-21 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 10:29:40PM -0800, Alireza Bahrami wrote: > Hi, > > I'm an Iranian electronic engineer focused on industrial automation projects.  > After some years of work experience I've come to the conclusion that I should > learn linux for doing my projects in a more efficent way.  Un

Re: Copy and Paste between xterm and other windows in a Debian XFCE environment

2013-12-21 Thread Rob Owens
On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 02:53:20PM -0500, Stephen Powell wrote: > I am having trouble copying text from an xterm window into another > application, > such as iceweasel, and vice versa. When I was using GNOME, this worked fine > between gnome-terminal and other applications. But I'm using XFCE no

Re: Gmail Grrrr.

2013-12-21 Thread Rob Owens
On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 10:31:16PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > My husband, a real technophobe, is going away for three weeks to > house-sit. It is a last minute booking. He is going at 5:30 in the > morning. I am giving him my netbook so that he can keep up with his > emails. I have to keep i

Re: L2TP VPN configuration

2013-12-28 Thread Rob Owens
On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 12:08:57AM +0800, Ma Xiaojun wrote: > FYI, Android uses an entirely different stack to handle PPTP and L2TP; > it even involves new kernel modules. You may refer to my mail here: > http://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/ce-android-mainline/2013-December/000114.html > >

OT: setting up public wifi

2014-01-28 Thread Rob Owens
I need to set up wifi in a church, and share the wifi with the rectory (a separate building). I've been doing some research, but am looking advice to help me get through this quicker. Here's what I'm thinking about so far: 1) Get a router that has a "guest" account, or some other internet-only

Re: OT: setting up public wifi

2014-01-29 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 3:46 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > On 1/28/2014 1:42 PM, Rob Owens wrote: > >> I need to set up wifi in a church, and share the wifi with the rectory >> (a separate building). I've been doing some research, but am looking >> advice to hel

Re: OT: setting up public wifi

2014-01-29 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 2:04 PM, John L. Ries wrote: > I actually had a similar job when my wife asked me to set up public WiFi > for her yarn shop (her office and mine are also on site). What I ended up > doing was to use two routers; the "outer" (public) router being connected > directly to the

Re: OT: setting up public wifi

2014-01-29 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 1:27 PM, John L. Ries wrote: > On Wed, 29 Jan 2014, Rob Owens wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 2:04 PM, John L. Ries >> wrote: >> I actually had a similar job when my wife asked me to set up >> public WiFi >> for her y

Re: video compression?

2014-02-17 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 08:23:26AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > Is there a best debian program to compress avi videos enough to send > them by email? > > I have found ffmpeg and avidemux and am trying to learn to use them but > have not had much success so far. > I like avidemux, but handbrak

Re: video compression?

2014-02-18 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 09:30:23PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 06:22:13PM -0500, Rob Owens wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 08:23:26AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > > > Is there a best debian program to compress avi videos enough to send &

Re: How to configure eth0 with static ip and eth1 dhcp

2014-02-23 Thread Rob Owens
On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 07:15:20AM -0500, Dan Purgert wrote: > It's been ages since I've done routing on a 2-NIC PC/router. I've probably > gotten something a bit wrong. > I *think* for the pc to act as a router you need to have: net.ipv4.ip_forward=1 in /etc/sysctl.conf Then you configure yo

Re: How to configure eth0 with static ip and eth1 dhcp

2014-02-23 Thread Rob Owens
On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 11:29:40PM -0300, Markos wrote: > Tomorrow I'll change the network card of the server and see if the > problem is on the network card. > Check to see if the network cable is cat 5, cat 5e, or cat 6. If you have a gigabit speed network card, it might reject a cat 5 cable.

Re: ethernet and wifi together

2014-02-25 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 03:32:08PM +0100, S3v3ran . wrote: > Hello > > My scenario is the following. I'm connected to the wired network, which is > the default network i'm using. The default gateway, DNS server and > everything else is via this interface. On the other side i have some > virtual ma

Re: Replacing systemd

2014-03-04 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 08:50:09PM -0500, Steve Litt wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I just checked with my local Linux group (GoLUG), and the opinions > there are that systemd is not a particularly good thing. I also heard > from our LUG's most vociferous proponent of Daemontools that Daemontools > wou

Re: mounting nfs on boot -- Was: Replacing systemd

2014-03-04 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, Mar 04, 2014 at 01:52:19PM +, Darac Marjal wrote: > Boot speed isn't systemd's goal. It's just a side-effect. > > Systemd's real goals are being event driven (so, for example, you don't > mount a file system until the device is ready - at the moment, debian > does this with a two-pass

Re: mounting nfs on boot -- Was: Replacing systemd

2014-03-04 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, Mar 05, 2014 at 11:07:00AM +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 05/03/14 10:36, Rob Owens wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 04, 2014 at 01:52:19PM +, Darac Marjal wrote: > >> Boot speed isn't systemd's goal. It's just a side-effect. > >> > >> S

Re: Brand new install, now how do I play a Youtube video?

2014-03-06 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 10:31:34AM -0500, Patrick Chkoreff wrote: > I recently installed Debian on this laptop. Here's the detail: > > $ uname -a > Linux laptop 3.2.0-4-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 3.2.54-2 i686 GNU/Linux > > I'm using the IceWeasel browser, but I can't play a Youtube video. I > don't

Re: What happened to "use control-alt-backspace to terminate X server?"

2014-03-09 Thread Rob Owens
On Sun, Mar 09, 2014 at 04:08:06AM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: > In Wheezy, I used to be able to use > dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration > to (among other things) set the option to use control-alt-backspace to > terminate the X server. > I think you can still terminate the X server with t

Re: Best and most popular distros for the enterprise desktop

2011-03-04 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 02:04:20AM +1100, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > Hi Boyd, > > Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > >I do believe a Free Software system should be as easy to use as MS > >Windows for "Joe Sixpack" and "Jane Boxwine". This might already > >be the case; it is really hard for me to judg

Re: Your favorite server apps (firewall, DHCP, etc.)

2011-03-05 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 09:48:49AM -0600, Jason Hsu wrote: > Since I'm looking for a job as a Linux IT consultant, I need a portfolio of > favorite server applications - firewall, DHCP server, mail server, print > server, etc. Just as I have favorite distros for the desktop (Puppy Linux, > Linu

Re: Has anyone installed squeeze on an HP Pavillion ?

2011-03-05 Thread Rob Owens
On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 09:49:32AM -0600, Charlie wrote: >My attempted installation gave me a warning about problems > with apic, which I have not been able to fix. Has anyone else > encountered this? > My experience with two different HP dv6xxx laptops was not good. They both "corroded" slo

Re: Assistance for Visually Impaired Student

2011-03-06 Thread Rob Owens
On Sun, Mar 06, 2011 at 11:47:19AM -0800, ow...@netptc.net wrote: > List > > I teach a course in Digital Integrated Circuits at the local University. One > of my students is visually impaired-not totally blind but he requires a > powerful reader for documents and the equilivant of a telescope t

Re: SIP services and softphones: what do you guys use?

2011-03-12 Thread Rob Owens
On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 12:02:50AM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > I'm trying to get rid of proprietary Skype and two of my most > important contacts are willing to give SIP a try. We all installed > Ekiga and signed up for ~@ekiga.net SIP addresses, but the sound > quality was very choppy and unusable

Re: help with nvidia and BusID

2011-03-12 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 09:37:02PM -0500, Rob Owens wrote: > I'm trying to run the nvidia proprietary driver for a PCI video card. I > also have an onboard video card. I think xorg.conf needs to specify the > BusID in the device section like this: > > Section "

problem building lirc modules

2011-03-12 Thread Rob Owens
When I run 'm-a a-i lirc' I get this error: echo " ERROR: Kernel configuration is invalid."; \ echo " include/linux/autoconf.h or include/config/auto.conf are missing."; \ echo " Run 'make oldconfig && make prepare' on kernel src to fix

Re: problem building lirc modules

2011-03-13 Thread Rob Owens
On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 09:03:15AM +, Liam O'Toole wrote: > On 2011-03-13, Rob Owens wrote: > > When I run 'm-a a-i lirc' I get this error: > > > > echo " ERROR: Kernel configuration is invalid."; \ > > echo

Re: problem building lirc modules

2011-03-13 Thread Rob Owens
On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 05:35:16PM +, Liam O'Toole wrote: > Just checking :-) module-assisitant has never failed me once prepared > properly. Mind you, I've never tried to compile and install lirc. > > Anyway, apt-file reports that the files include/linux/autoconf.h and > include/config/auto.c

Re: problem building lirc modules

2011-03-14 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 02:37:57PM +, Liam O'Toole wrote: > > Funny thing is, I successfully build lirc on another similar (but not > > identical) system. The two systems are my MythTV frontends. So I'm > > pretty sure I'm not screwing up anything with module-assistant or > > lirc. I purged

Re: OT: servers vs. lightning and power outages

2011-03-14 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 01:58:00AM +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Hi ! > > On 15/03/11 01:31, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > >Jason Hsu put forth on 3/14/2011 1:31 PM: > >>How do you protect servers from lightning? > > > >During facility construction: > >www.erico.com/public/library/fep/LT1421.pdf > > > >>

SPAM SPAM SPAM !!! Re: Sip?

2011-03-14 Thread Rob Owens
I've seen posts like this on Freecycle, and they're almost always spam or malware. I haven't looked at this link, and I suggest you don't either. -Rob On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 11:08:20AM +1000, Heddle Weaver wrote: > With reference to some of the posts I have seen here lately, this looks > intere

custom init script

2011-03-18 Thread Rob Owens
If I create a custom init script (it's for a second instance of ssh), do I still use the update-rc.d command to set that script to start in the various runlevels? Or is there some new procedure due to the dependency-based init sequence. During the squeeze upgrade, I had to remove my custom init s

Re: [help-a-newb] adduser okay? (problem with authenticating with gui users-groups manager)

2011-03-20 Thread Rob Owens
On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 10:19:45PM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: > On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 10:16 PM, Joel Rees wrote: > > Nuts. I keep forgetting the list when using google's webmail. > > > > On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 7:10 PM, Lisi wrote: > >> On Saturday 19 March 2011 05:50:19 Joel Rees wrote: > >>>  Af

Re: custom init script

2011-03-20 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 02:39:27PM +0100, Alex Mestiashvili wrote: > On 03/18/2011 01:35 PM, Rob Owens wrote: > >If I create a custom init script (it's for a second instance of ssh), > >do I still use the update-rc.d command to set that script to start in > >the vario

Re: I should not be trying to use tor, but...

2011-03-20 Thread Rob Owens
On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 05:50:10AM +0100, Nomen Nescio wrote: > >I am trying to install tor without knowing what > I'm doing. I typed apt-get install tor, and that > seemed to work. Then I downloaded torbutton from > the tor website, and it seemed to install. [was > that a mistake?] > A wh

Re: recover partition table

2011-03-26 Thread Rob Owens
On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 02:59:20PM +0100, Geronimo wrote: > Hello, > > thank your for your assistance. > > Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > > Am Samstag, 26. März 2011 schrieb Geronimo: > > > Can anybody please shine me a light, how to patch the partition tables > > > with informations from that file, so

system-wide bogofilter, procmail, fetchmail

2011-04-04 Thread Rob Owens
I'm successfully using fetchmail, procmail, and bogofilter as my user, but I'm looking to set it up system-wide and have some questions. I'm running an IMAP server with accounts for several family members. I'd like to scan for spam and file the spam in a "spam" folder for each user. My personal .

Re: system-wide bogofilter, procmail, fetchmail

2011-04-05 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Apr 04, 2011 at 09:42:55PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 04/04/2011 07:43 PM, Rob Owens wrote: > >I'm successfully using fetchmail, procmail, and bogofilter as my user, > >but I'm looking to set it up system-wide and have some questions. > > > >I'

Re: Ubuntu Versions (was: Re: Let's say you never want to upgrade from Lenny...)

2011-04-06 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 03:37:16PM -0700, Mark wrote: > On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Freeman wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 03:03:41PM -0400, Matt Harrison wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. > > > wrote: > > > > On 2011-04-05 12:24:39 Matt Harrison wrote

Re: Ubuntu Versions

2011-04-06 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 06:15:26PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 04/05/2011 05:37 PM, Mark wrote: > [snip] > >upgrading. For all its flaws, one nice thing about Windows is that it > >has a 10-year (14-year for XP) support cycle, so while there may be > >service packs, etc., to the end user, the i

Re: Managing large numbers (100+) of Debian-based machines

2011-04-07 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Apr 07, 2011 at 12:21:30PM +0100, Laurence Hurst wrote: > Hi folks, > I am looking at possibly deploying Debian (or a derivative thereof) on a > large number of machines (initially 80 but I fully expect the final number to > end up being in excess of 100) which are intermittently connecte

Re: Ubuntu Versions (was: Re: Let's say you never want to upgrade from Lenny...)

2011-04-07 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Apr 07, 2011 at 07:08:54AM -0400, Tom H wrote: > On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 6:27 AM, Tom H wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 9:56 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. > > wrote: > >> In , Tom H wrote: > >>>On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 7:17 PM, Rob Owens wrote: > >

Re: Managing large numbers (100+) of Debian-based machines

2011-04-08 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Apr 08, 2011 at 12:11:31AM +0200, Peter Beck wrote: > On Thu, 2011-04-07 at 17:55 -0400, Rob Owens wrote: > > If you decide not to go with your own apt repo, I highly recommend you > > at least use something like apt-cacher-ng. It'll save a lot of > > download ba

Re: obtaining copy of debian

2011-04-10 Thread Rob Owens
On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 07:22:34AM -0400, Whit Hansell wrote: > Re Windows and ISO's. 'Doze "don't do ISO's." IOW you can't use a > native Windows MS product to burn ISO's to CD. There is a free > program out there, can't remember the name, that you can use. It's infra recorder. I've used it

Re: mua and mail service provider statistics

2011-04-13 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 09:05:43PM +0800, Chen Wei wrote: > hi list, > > as a first time debian-user subscriber, I feel been buried alive by > incoming emails, though I heard there are some monster maillists, > linux kernel maillist for example, are carrying even heavier traffic. > Wondering how

Re: Procmailrc question

2011-04-17 Thread Rob Owens
On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 03:38:21PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > I once had my email working nicely, but over the last few years > the setup has decayed. I am now running wheezy with fetchmail to > get email from my ISP, exim4 to send outgoing email to my ISP, and > do other things locally, and pro

Re: Ideas for mapping users to specific uids

2011-04-21 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 10:16:45PM -0400, Brad Alexander wrote: > I know the answer is going to be LDAP, but that's not really an option for > me. > > I have, at work, a number of boxes with various users spread across our > network. And I have encountered this on several different jobs. In essenc

Re: taskbar is missing

2011-04-21 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 11:33:46AM +0200, Engi Zoltán wrote: > Hi, > > I upgraded to Debian 6.0. After upgrading the taskbar is missing. > I can get back it with "killall gnome-panel" command. > > What is wrong? > Same thing is happening to my father on his Ubuntu 10.04 machine. It's intermitte

Re: Using Files Without Mounting A Share From Another System

2011-04-23 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 01:03:00PM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: > I now know I can use smbclient to read files on an SMB share without having > to mount it, but I need to do more than that. > > I want to be able to access either Java classes or an executable on a shared > volume on a server without

Re: Using Files Without Mounting A Share From Another System

2011-04-24 Thread Rob Owens
On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 12:28:01AM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: > > On Apr 23, 2011, at 3:51 PM, Rob Owens wrote: > > > On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 01:03:00PM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: > >> I now know I can use smbclient to read files on an SMB share without > >> hav

Re: fullscreen video with mencoder

2011-04-30 Thread Rob Owens
On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 09:37:25PM +0530, Jeffrin Jose wrote: > Hello Everybody, > > Is there any method to encode DVD to a fullscreen > video without getting stretched,using mencoder ? > I'm not an expert, but maybe you could use '-vf expand' to do this. -Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debi

Re: fullscreen video with mencoder

2011-04-30 Thread Rob Owens
On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 01:12:36PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 04/30/2011 11:07 AM, Jeffrin Jose wrote: > >Hello Everybody, > > > >Is there any method to encode DVD to a fullscreen > >video without getting stretched,using mencoder ? > > > > I don't think that mencoder is the right tool for that

mythnetvision on Squeeze -- anybody got it working?

2011-04-30 Thread Rob Owens
I've installed mythnetvision from debian-multimedia, but can't seem to subscribe to any sites. Can anybody confirm for me that it does work? And were there any special tricks required? Thanks -Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: mythnetvision on Squeeze -- anybody got it working?

2011-05-02 Thread Rob Owens
On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 03:30:25PM +, Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 30 Apr 2011 22:42:21 -0400, Rob Owens wrote: > > > I've installed mythnetvision from debian-multimedia, but can't seem to > > subscribe to any sites. Can anybody confirm for me that it does work? &g

Re: Sound for Intel 82801DB-ICH4

2011-05-04 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, May 05, 2011 at 12:45:34AM +0100, Freddie wrote: > Dear Debian-user, > > Please could you help me get sound working on this laptop? It's a > phillips freeline X10. > Have you made sure that the the volume is up and not muted? Are you sure you've plugged your speaker into the correct jack

Re: OT: Safe to access SSH server from work?

2011-05-05 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, May 05, 2011 at 03:46:27PM -0700, cac...@quantum-sci.com wrote: > On Thursday 5 May, 2011 15:09:02 Brian wrote: > > Use a strong password or ssh keys for access to the server. The question > > is whether you trust the machine you use at work. > > OK, say you -don't- trust your machine at w

lirc serial IR blaster

2011-05-10 Thread Rob Owens
I'm trying to get my serial IR blaster to work. Before I join the lirc mailing list, does anybody know of any bugs in Debian Squeeze that would prevent this from working? I bought the light-up blaster from here: http://www.irblaster.info/ It is lighting when I send channel change signals, but i

change subject of emails on ISP's IMAP server

2014-12-12 Thread Rob Owens
When my ISP encounters an email that it cannot scan for viruses, it prepends ***UNCHECKED*** to the subject. This occurs on every encrypted email I receive. It's highly annoying, and the ISP refuses to fix this. What tools can I use to detect this tag and delete it? I'd prefer to modify the sub

Re: change subject of emails on ISP's IMAP server

2014-12-13 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 09:47:55PM -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > On 12/12/2014 at 08:53 PM, Rob Owens wrote: > > > When my ISP encounters an email that it cannot scan for viruses, it > > prepends ***UNCHECKED*** to the subject. This occurs on every > > encrypted email

Re: change subject of emails on ISP's IMAP server

2014-12-16 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 05:38:03PM +, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 08:53:51PM -0500, Rob Owens wrote: > > When my ISP encounters an email that it cannot scan for viruses, it > > prepends ***UNCHECKED*** to the subject. This occurs on every encrypted > > e

mounting removable media without systemd on Jessie

2014-12-17 Thread Rob Owens
Just posting something I discovered recently in case anybody's interested... On a Jessie system without systemd you can mount USB sticks and other removable media using the pmount command, as others have pointed out on this list. I was looking for a gui method, and I've found it. Spacefm is a fi

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