Re: Debian GNU/Linux wheezy/sid - Howto setup bootlogd?

2012-06-28 Thread Dom
On 29/06/12 03:53, Csanyi Pal wrote: Hi, on my system I have enabled bootlogd: in /etc/default/bootlogd I have: BOOTLOGD_ENABLE=Yes but the /var/log/boot file has timestamp dec 27 2011 so it seem's that bootlogd doesn't work. Why not? This may sound like a silly question, but do you have

Re: Debian GNU/Linux wheezy/sid - Howto setup bootlogd?

2012-06-28 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 29 iun 12, 04:53:53, Csanyi Pal wrote: > Hi, > > on my system I have enabled bootlogd: in /etc/default/bootlogd I have: > BOOTLOGD_ENABLE=Yes > > but the /var/log/boot > > file has timestamp dec 27 2011 > > so it seem's that bootlogd doesn't work. Why not? bootlogd is now in a separat

Re: grub-install says can't identify filesystem; won't install

2012-06-28 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 28 iun 12, 21:41:23, Dan B. wrote: > When I run "grub-install /dev/sdb1", it says: > > /usr/sbin/grub-setup: error: unable to identify a filesystem in hd1,gpt1; > safety check can't be performed. > > and does not install GRUB2. (It's still the same if I use the syntax > ("grub-install

Re: Filezilla a security risk

2012-06-28 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 29 iun 12, 13:16:25, Richard Hector wrote: > On 29/06/12 11:26, Denis Witt wrote: > >>> If your account is hosed, well, go to their second argument: "2. > >>> don't get the malware in the first place" ;-) > >Great Argument, btw. Oh, I got an Airbag on my car, get rid of the > >brakes pleas

Re: mutt messed up. colors black on black cant read any messages

2012-06-28 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 11:55:33PM -0400, Mitchell Laks wrote: > > > > Do you source config files from somewhere else? > > What happens when you comment out _all_ color statements? > > That didnt change anything. > > However I noticed that the /tmp file system was full (some pulse_* files) . >

Re: mutt messed up. colors black on black cant read any messages

2012-06-28 Thread Mitchell Laks
solved thank you for your help /tmp was full. Mitchell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120629040401.ga10...@earthlink.net

Re: mutt messed up. colors black on black cant read any messages

2012-06-28 Thread Mitchell Laks
> > Do you source config files from somewhere else? > What happens when you comment out _all_ color statements? That didnt change anything. However I noticed that the /tmp file system was full (some pulse_* files) . So I rebooted :( then all the temp files went away and mutt returned to nor

Re: PS2 Keyboard not working after latest update

2012-06-28 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 03:30:11PM +, James Allsopp wrote: > Hi, > I'm sorry but I'm having a bit of a problem with Debian squeeze. > > The keyboard hardware is working as I can use it in grub but as soon > as I get to GDM the keyboard does not respond. Even if I kill GDM > via ssh, the keyboa

Re: / almost full

2012-06-28 Thread Brad Alexander
On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 4:57 AM, Keith McKenzie wrote: > Mark Panen: >> >> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on >> /dev/sdc1             323M  304M  2.6M 100% / >> tmpfs                 3.9G     0  3.9G   0% /lib/init/rw >> udev                  3.9G  212K  3.9G   1% /dev >> tmpf

Debian GNU/Linux wheezy/sid - Howto setup bootlogd?

2012-06-28 Thread Csanyi Pal
Hi, on my system I have enabled bootlogd: in /etc/default/bootlogd I have: BOOTLOGD_ENABLE=Yes but the /var/log/boot file has timestamp dec 27 2011 so it seem's that bootlogd doesn't work. Why not? -- Regards from Pal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: Installing /dev/mixer.

2012-06-28 Thread R. Clayton
Is snd-mixer-oss loaded? It wasn't, and loading it solved the problem. Thanks for your reply to my message. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87ipea3

Re: Hash Sum mismatch......

2012-06-28 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 09:09:59PM +1000, Charlie wrote: > Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] y > Get: 1 http://www.deb-multimedia.org/ wheezy/main libvlccore5 i386 > 1:2.0.1-dmo3 [444 kB] Get: 2 http://www.deb-multimedia.org/ wheezy/main > vlc-data all 1:2.0.1-dmo3 [7,367 kB] Get: 3 > http://www.deb

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: 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

grub-install says can't identify filesystem; won't install

2012-06-28 Thread Dan B.
When I run "grub-install /dev/sdb1", it says: /usr/sbin/grub-setup: error: unable to identify a filesystem in hd1,gpt1; safety check can't be performed. and does not install GRUB2. (It's still the same if I use the syntax ("grub-install (hd1,gpt1)".) This is on a disk tht has a GPT partiti

Re: Filezilla a security risk

2012-06-28 Thread Richard Hector
On 29/06/12 11:26, Denis Witt wrote: > If your account is hosed, well, go to their second argument: "2. > don't get the malware in the first place" ;-) Great Argument, btw. Oh, I got an Airbag on my car, get rid of the brakes please. I don't need them anymore. That's the wrong way round. I h

Re: Filezilla a security risk

2012-06-28 Thread Denis Witt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > If your account is hosed, well, go to their second argument: "2. > don't get the malware in the first place" ;-) Great Argument, btw. Oh, I got an Airbag on my car, get rid of the brakes please. I don't need them anymore. The ONLY reason why Linux

Re: Installing /dev/mixer.

2012-06-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2012-06-28 at 16:48 -0400, R. Clayton wrote: > xmix http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=xmix "This interface to the sound driver mixer allows easy adjustment of the sound card's input and output levels, and selection of sound source for recording." - http://packages.debian.org/sque

Re: Installing /dev/mixer.

2012-06-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2012-06-28 at 22:58 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Did you run alsaconf? PS: http://wiki.debian.org/alsaconf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/134

Re: Installing /dev/mixer.

2012-06-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2012-06-28 at 22:58 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Is snd-mixer-oss loaded? Sorry, "$ lsmod | grep snd | cut -d ' ' -f 1 snd_intel8x0 snd_intel8x0m snd_ac97_codec snd_pcm snd_page_alloc snd_timer snd soundcore ac97_bus" Isn't it needed to get /dev/mixer? -- To UNSUBSC

Re: Installing /dev/mixer.

2012-06-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Did you run alsaconf? Btw. I don't know for what sound cards /dev/mixer is. Is snd-mixer-oss loaded? - Ralf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1340917102

Re: Slowness problem

2012-06-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2012-06-28 at 20:04 +, Camaleón wrote: > #Driver "nvidia" > Driver "nv" Usually nvidia drivers < 2xx.x don't cause issues. Ciao, Ralf Congratulations Italy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Con

Installing /dev/mixer.

2012-06-28 Thread R. Clayton
I have installed alsa $ dpkg -l \* | grep -i 'ii.*alsa' | awk '{ print $2 }' alsa-base alsa-oss alsa-tools alsa-tools-gui alsa-utils alsamixergui libasound2:i386 linux-sound-base $ lsmod | grep snd | cut -d ' ' -f 1 snd_intel8x0 snd_intel8x0m snd_ac97_codec snd_pcm

Re: java alternatives

2012-06-28 Thread Camaleón
El 2012-06-28 a las 13:33 -0600, ChadDavis escribió: (resending to the list) > >> I'm not looking for the update-java-alternatives or the > >> update-alternatives themselves.  I'm looking for the package lifecycle > >> scripts that actually invoke update-alternatives --install for each of > >> th

Re: Filezilla a security risk

2012-06-28 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 28 Jun 2012 20:48:27 +0200, Stanisław Findeisen wrote: > On 2012-06-28 16:45, Camaleón wrote: >>> 1. encryption: that's the file system's job >> >> True. > > Hm? You mean partition encryption? What? :-? > It won't help much if the malware is running with file owner's uid... or > even

Re: Slowness problem

2012-06-28 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 28 Jun 2012 17:52:17 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 27 Jun 2012 16:08:05 +, Camaleón wrote: > >> Sorry, no more ideas on what the problem can be located. > > (...) > > One more thing you can test if you still have not tried... and easy one: > create a fresh new user account and wo

Re: / almost full

2012-06-28 Thread Jochen Spieker
Keith McKenzie: > > Judging by your present setup, it looks like you have 8gb ram, half of > it being used as tmpfs; or am I wrong. Note that tmpfs doesn't reserve the space if it is not in use. It will only use as much space as is currently actually "saved" in it. J. -- I cannot comprehend the

Re: Filezilla a security risk

2012-06-28 Thread francis picabia
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 password to the account as they are transmitted in plain > text. Yes, this is all

Re: Filezilla a security risk

2012-06-28 Thread Stanisław Findeisen
On 2012-06-28 16:45, Camaleón wrote: >> 1. encryption: that's the file system's job > > True. Hm? You mean partition encryption? It won't help much if the malware is running with file owner's uid... or even if the system is booted at all (if you e.g. encrypt just /home). -- http://people.eise

Re: Slowness problem

2012-06-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
I haven't all emails in mind. Did we already ask you to turn of power and to reconnect all cards, RAM bars and cables? Resp. IIRC somebody already mentioned to test a LiveMedia? So what happens if you e.g. use http://partedmagic.com/doku.php?id=start ? - Ralf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: java alternatives

2012-06-28 Thread Camaleón
El 2012-06-28 a las 10:59 -0600, ChadDavis escribió: (resending to the list) > > sm01@stt008:~$ locate update-alternatives > > /usr/sbin/update-alternatives > > (...) > > > > sm01@stt008:~$ file /usr/sbin/update-alternatives > > /usr/sbin/update-alternatives: a /usr/bin/perl -- script text execut

Re: Slowness problem

2012-06-28 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 27 Jun 2012 16:08:05 +, Camaleón wrote: > Sorry, no more ideas on what the problem can be located. (...) One more thing you can test if you still have not tried... and easy one: create a fresh new user account and work for a while from there. Although I don't expect any improvemen

Re: problem with 2 monitors and full screen games in wine

2012-06-28 Thread Markus
Am 25.06.2012 00:28, schrieb Markus: Hi, i am running Wheezy with 2 monitors connected to a Nvidia Geforce 9800GTX. Twin-View is configured via nvidia-settings. And i am quit happy with that setup. But...If i run a game within wine in full screen the right monitor turns off and the game is displ

Re: Where does Debian define/specify "standard bundles"?

2012-06-28 Thread Keith McKenzie
On 28/06/2012, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 04:42:44PM +0100, Keith McKenzie wrote: >> If you want tasksel, it is part of the Debian install process. the >> regular (Debian suggested) desktop environment is Gnome, but you can >> choose between Gnome, KDE, XFCE, or LXDE on installat

Re: Where does Debian define/specify "standard bundles"?

2012-06-28 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 28 Jun 2012 10:26:57 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > Camaleón wrote: >> On Wed, 27 Jun 2012 10:31:26 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: >> >>> In trying to find a reasonable way to create a custom installation I >>> came across http://www.instalinux.com . I gather from what is on its >>> site and

Re: Where does Debian define/specify "standard bundles"?

2012-06-28 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 12:14 PM, Jon Dowland wrote: > > I think he does want tasksel, but it's not really part of the install > process, it's merely called by the install process. I believe the tasksel > maintainers have recently moved to a model where their tasks (bundles) are > now simply packa

Re: Filezilla a security risk

2012-06-28 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 08:58:39PM -0300, 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 saved > >> passwords and the last used password in a pl

Re: Where does Debian define/specify "standard bundles"?

2012-06-28 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 04:42:44PM +0100, Keith McKenzie wrote: > If you want tasksel, it is part of the Debian install process. the > regular (Debian suggested) desktop environment is Gnome, but you can > choose between Gnome, KDE, XFCE, or LXDE on installation. I think he does want tasksel, but

Re: netxen_nic firmware hang detected

2012-06-28 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 28 Jun 2012 14:11:38 +0200, Marco Barbero wrote: > 2012/6/27 Camaleón wrote: > >>> # uname -a >>> Linux firewall-slave 3.2.12 #1 SMP Wed Mar 21 17:33:10 CET 2012 x86_64 >>> GNU/Linux >> >> Self-compiled kernel with a firmware from backports? > > > Yes, not a smart decision? No way, I

Re: which tftp server supports IPv6

2012-06-28 Thread Camaleón
El 2012-06-28 a las 09:37 +0800, Yuwen Dai escribió: (resending to the list) > On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 10:51 PM, Camaleón wrote: > > > > On Wed, 27 Jun 2012 11:40:14 +0800, Yuwen Dai wrote: > > > > > Dear all, > > > > Please, avoid senindg html posts, thanks :-) > > Sorry, I'm using gmail, and

Re: Where does Debian define/specify "standard bundles"?

2012-06-28 Thread Keith McKenzie
You appear to be wanting to know the dependancies for packages, whereas, installinux appears to run a distros installer. If you want tasksel, it is part of the Debian install process. the regular (Debian suggested) desktop environment is Gnome, but you can choose between Gnome, KDE, XFCE, or LXDE

Re: Filezilla a security risk

2012-06-28 Thread Shane Johnson
On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 9:13 AM, francis picabia wrote: > On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 5:37 AM, Andrei POPESCU > wrote: >> On Mi, 27 iun 12, 20:58:39, francis picabia wrote: >>> >>> We have to do what ever possible to reduce the size of the target to >>> the hacker.   In this case we advise users to u

Re: i am getting errors when i run aptitude upgrade in debian squeeze

2012-06-28 Thread Mika Suomalainen
On 28.06.2012 15:13, Joby Mathew wrote: > root@test:~# aptitude upgrade > The following packages will be upgraded: > acpid at base-files bind9-host dnsutils host libapache2-mod-php5 libapr1 > libbind9-60 libbrlapi0.5 libdns69 libisc62 libisccc60 libisccfg62 > liblwres60 libmozjs2d libmysq

Re: Where does Debian define/specify "standard bundles"?

2012-06-28 Thread Richard Owlett
Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 27 Jun 2012 10:31:26 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: In trying to find a reasonable way to create a custom installation I came across http://www.instalinux.com . I gather from what is on its site and several reviews it creates the equivalent of a customized netinst iso by u

Re: / almost full

2012-06-28 Thread Keith McKenzie
Judging by your present setup, it looks like you have 8gb ram, half of it being used as tmpfs; or am I wrong. As for /tmp & /var, they would be under/on your / partition, as would /usr. That is why I was suggesting at least 10gb; you appear to be using about 4gb at present; that should leave enoug

Re: Debian's grub doesn't detect Ubuntu

2012-06-28 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 27 Jun 2012 10:37:08 +0300, Mika Suomalainen wrote: > I have three OSes on this computer. They are Debian Sid, Ubuntu Precise > and Windows 7. > > It seems that Debian's grub can only detect Debian and Windows 7, but > not Ubuntu. You have a clever computer ;-P > I have tried Googling a

Re: Filezilla a security risk

2012-06-28 Thread francis picabia
On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 5:37 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Mi, 27 iun 12, 20:58:39, francis picabia wrote: >> >> We have to do what ever possible to reduce the size of the target to >> the hacker.   In this case we advise users to uninstall Filezilla >> and use something else.  Not all Windows us

Re: Filezilla a security risk

2012-06-28 Thread Curt
On 2012-06-27, francis picabia wrote: > I've just learned Filezilla is a security risk. It stores saved > passwords and the last used password in a plain text file. > There's an interesting (well, for arbitrary definitions of the word interesting) discussion of the "problem" here: http://unshar

Re: Filezilla a security risk

2012-06-28 Thread francis picabia
On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 5:03 AM, Claudius Hubig wrote: > Your users, your _Windows_ users, are certainly your problem and not > one that should be discussed on the debian-user ML. I have a Debian system I administer that was compromised this way. If the hacker uses two mirrors and shaving cream

Re: Re (2): Apparent disagreement between df and cp.

2012-06-28 Thread Dom
On 28/06/12 16:18, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: From: Berni Elbourn Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 08:32:29 +0100 Are there too many files in target folder? 197 files here whereas Wikipedia mentions 65,460 files for "32 KB" clusters. From: Chris Davies Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 08:47:21 +0100 What

Re: 2D desktop Wheezy

2012-06-28 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 28 Jun 2012 10:32:49 +0200, Paul van der Vlis wrote: > I would like to see the 2D desktop in Wheezy. How can I see it on a > modern machine with Intel graphics? What do you mean by "2D desktop"? There are many 2D desktops available... > Background: when I remote login I see a wrong 2D de

Re: java alternatives

2012-06-28 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 27 Jun 2012 15:53:53 -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 update-al

Re: Filezilla a security risk

2012-06-28 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 27 Jun 2012 16:26:48 -0300, francis picabia wrote: > I've just learned Filezilla is a security risk. It stores saved > passwords and the last used password in a plain text file. In Mutt, for instance, you can face the same situation. > Malware commonly scoops up this info and hacks web

PS2 Keyboard not working after latest update

2012-06-28 Thread James Allsopp
Hi, I'm sorry but I'm having a bit of a problem with Debian squeeze. The keyboard hardware is working as I can use it in grub but as soon as I get to GDM the keyboard does not respond. Even if I kill GDM via ssh, the keyboard doesn't respond on the terminal. I'm all up to date on upgrades and

Re: / almost full

2012-06-28 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 09:57:13AM +0100, Keith McKenzie wrote: > Personally, I would re install if this is a personal system, it will > make life easier in the future. > > If you do decide to; > create a / partition of about 10gb (minimum) > a swap partition (if you want one) swap would be almos

Re (2): Apparent disagreement between df and cp.

2012-06-28 Thread peasthope
From: Berni Elbourn Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 08:32:29 +0100 > Are there too many files in target folder? 197 files here whereas Wikipedia mentions 65,460 files for "32 KB" clusters. From: Chris Davies Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 08:47:21 +0100 > What is the output of "mount | grep sdd1" ...

Re: Hash Sum mismatch......

2012-06-28 Thread Brad Rogers
On Thu, 28 Jun 2012 21:09:59 +1000 Charlie wrote: Hello Charlie, >But nothing has changed. [laughing] {snip} It might take time for the change to roll out fully. -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is / _)radnever immediately apparent" Going round on

Re: i am getting errors when i run aptitude upgrade in debian squeeze

2012-06-28 Thread Darac Marjal
On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 05:43:48PM +0530, Joby Mathew wrote: >root@test:~# aptitude upgrade� >The following packages will be upgraded:� [cut] >53 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. >Need to get 0 B/43.5 MB of archives. After unpacking 637 kB will b

i am getting errors when i run aptitude upgrade in debian squeeze

2012-06-28 Thread Joby Mathew
root@test:~# aptitude upgrade The following packages will be upgraded: acpid at base-files bind9-host dnsutils host libapache2-mod-php5 libapr1 libbind9-60 libbrlapi0.5 libdns69 libisc62 libisccc60 libisccfg62 liblwres60 libmozjs2d libmysqlclient16 libpolkit-agent-1-0 libpolkit-backend-1-0

Re: netxen_nic firmware hang detected

2012-06-28 Thread Marco Barbero
2012/6/27 Camaleón wrote: >> # uname -a >> Linux firewall-slave 3.2.12 #1 SMP Wed Mar 21 17:33:10 CET 2012 x86_64 >> GNU/Linux > > Self-compiled kernel with a firmware from backports? Yes, not a smart decision? >> In short: do I need another host-based firmware image after flashing new >> fi

Re: Hash Sum mismatch......

2012-06-28 Thread Charlie
On Thu, 28 Jun 2012 11:20:58 +0100 "Brad Rogers b...@fineby.me.uk" suggested this: >On Thu, 28 Jun 2012 20:14:59 +1000 >Charlie wrote: > >Hello Charlie, > >>I did, but thanks for the pointer in case I forgot. > >YW. > >>A kind reply from Christian Marillat says that there was a problem >>with h

Re: Hash Sum mismatch......

2012-06-28 Thread Brad Rogers
On Thu, 28 Jun 2012 20:14:59 +1000 Charlie wrote: Hello Charlie, >I did, but thanks for the pointer in case I forgot. YW. >A kind reply from Christian Marillat says that there was a problem with >his repository, but that's now fixed. Good news. No need for me to suggest it, then. ;-) --

Re: Debian's grub doesn't detect Ubuntu

2012-06-28 Thread Mika Suomalainen
On 27.06.2012 18:35, Helgi Örn Helgason wrote: > On 27 June 2012 07:37, Mika Suomalainen > wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > I have three OSes on this computer. They are Debian Sid, Ubuntu Precise >> > and Windows 7. >> > >> > It seems that Debian's grub can only detect Debian and Windows 7, but >> > not

Re: Hash Sum mismatch......

2012-06-28 Thread Charlie
On Thu, 28 Jun 2012 07:52:41 +0100 "Brad Rogers b...@fineby.me.uk" suggested this: >You did 'apt-get update' after changing the sources.list, didn't you? >It looks as though you did, but to be sure. I did, but thanks for the pointer in case I forgot. A kind reply from Christian Marillat say

Re: 2D desktop Wheezy

2012-06-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2012-06-28 at 10:32 +0200, Paul van der Vlis wrote: > I would like to see the 2D desktop in Wheezy. How can I see it on a > modern machine with Intel graphics? > > Background: when I remote login I see a wrong 2D desktop, but I don't > know how the good 2D desktop is.. Your desktop enviro

Re: / almost full

2012-06-28 Thread Keith McKenzie
Mark Panen: > > FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/sdc1 323M 304M 2.6M 100% / > tmpfs 3.9G 0 3.9G 0% /lib/init/rw > udev 3.9G 212K 3.9G 1% /dev > tmpfs 3.9G 2.6M 3.9G 1% /dev/shm > /dev/sdc9

Re: Wheezy: Virtualization package recommendations

2012-06-28 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Saturday 23 June 2012 21:51:22 green wrote: > T Elcor wrote at 2012-06-23 11:19 -0600: > > I'm looking into running Windows XP as guest on a Debian Wheezy box. The > > hardware is fairly recent (should support virtualization) and Windows XP > > will be used only occasionally, not a production en

2D desktop Wheezy

2012-06-28 Thread Paul van der Vlis
Hello, I would like to see the 2D desktop in Wheezy. How can I see it on a modern machine with Intel graphics? Background: when I remote login I see a wrong 2D desktop, but I don't know how the good 2D desktop is.. With regards, Paul van der Vlis -- Paul van der Vlis Linux systeembeheer, Gro

Re: how to open ssh tunnel port ?

2012-06-28 Thread J. Bakshi
On Wed, 27 Jun 2012 15:56:01 +0100 Laurence Hurst wrote: [...] > > ssh -L 192.168.0.1:3360:localhost:3306 A > > where '192.168.0.1' is the ip address you want to bind to (i.e. the ip > address of eth0, or whichever interface you want to use). The same > method applies if you are using -R

Re: Filezilla a security risk

2012-06-28 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 27 iun 12, 20:58:39, francis picabia wrote: > > We have to do what ever possible to reduce the size of the target to > the hacker. In this case we advise users to uninstall Filezilla > and use something else. Not all Windows users of FTP tools are IT savvy. > They need warnings and guida

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

2012-06-28 Thread Chris Davies
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. It's a fair question, but sshfs isn't the solution. The file

Re: Apparent disagreement between df and cp.

2012-06-28 Thread Chris Davies
peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > How can df report MiBs available while cp reports > "No space left on device"? > peter@dalton:~$ df /media/43* > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/sdd1 498648 18840479808 4% /media/4345-A417 It's possible

Re: Filezilla a security risk

2012-06-28 Thread Claudius Hubig
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 saved > >> passwords and the last used password in a plain text file. > > > > As

Re: / almost full

2012-06-28 Thread Jochen Spieker
Mark Panen: > > FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/sdc1 323M 304M 2.6M 100% / > tmpfs 3.9G 0 3.9G 0% /lib/init/rw > udev 3.9G 212K 3.9G 1% /dev > tmpfs 3.9G 2.6M 3.9G 1% /dev/shm > /dev/sdc9

Re: Apparent disagreement between df and cp.

2012-06-28 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2012-06-28 09:32 +0200, Berni Elbourn wrote: > On 28/06/12 05:45, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: >> How can df report MiBs available while cp reports >> "No space left on device"? >> >> peter@dalton:~$ df /media/43* >> Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on >> /dev/sdd1

Re: Hash Sum mismatch......

2012-06-28 Thread Brad Rogers
On Thu, 28 Jun 2012 16:19:09 +1000 Charlie wrote: Hello Charlie, >Thanks Brad, much obliged and the first part of your signature is YW. >probably true in my case. Indeed. Put there originally as a reminder to me, but others seem to benefit from it too. :-) And following on from your othe

Re: / almost full

2012-06-28 Thread Brad Rogers
On Thu, 28 Jun 2012 08:11:16 +0200 Mark Panen wrote: Hello Mark, >Am i in trouble and will i have to do another install? Is / the boot >partition? / is the root partition. You seem to have no separate /boot partition. You're only in a small amount of trouble. The best option is to download

Re: Apparent disagreement between df and cp.

2012-06-28 Thread Berni Elbourn
On 28/06/12 05:45, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: How can df report MiBs available while cp reports "No space left on device"? peter@dalton:~$ df /media/43* Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sdd1 498648 18840479808 4% /media/4345-A417 peter