Re: Stripping down Debian Squeeze

2012-01-15 Thread Bijoy Lobo
Hi, I did a netinstall of Debian and installed the 4 modules (Squid, iptables, Snort and VPN). All seem tobe in less than 1 GB. Anything else i should look out for? Thanks On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 2:28 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sb, 14 ian 12, 20:29:40, Brad Alexander wrote: >> >> 1. Do a b

Re: changing bootup parameters

2012-01-15 Thread Sharon Kimble
On 16/01/2012, Jude DaShiell wrote: > No point in doing that at all. If you want to see those messages after > login as root or as sudo root do dmesg >dmesg.log. Then less dmesg.log > will let you view those messages one screen at a time. Also for a > particular issue of interest, dmesg | grep

Re: changing bootup parameters

2012-01-15 Thread Jude DaShiell
No point in doing that at all. If you want to see those messages after login as root or as sudo root do dmesg >dmesg.log. Then less dmesg.log will let you view those messages one screen at a time. Also for a particular issue of interest, dmesg | grep -in "search_string" will show specific l

changing bootup parameters

2012-01-15 Thread Sharon Kimble
where do I change the file output of the boot screen messages that scroll by so fast and are so small as to be unreadable before you get to the logon screen please? i want to make them bigger and brighter so that they are readable, like in RHEL, Fedora or Centos. this is during bootup and before th

Re: touchpad: multitouch stopped working

2012-01-15 Thread David Zelinsky
Jörg-Volker Peetz writes: > What is the output of the following commands? > $ grep -A 9 -B 2 -i touch /proc/bus/input/devices > [To see if the touchpad is still recognized by the kernel] > $ grep -iE '(synaptic|option)' /var/log/Xorg.?.log > [To see what the X server does with the touchpad] > And

Re: Start a VirtualBox VM as a Service

2012-01-15 Thread Allan Wind
On 2012-01-15 22:22:22, T o n g wrote: > I've actually found the solution to start a VirtualBox VM as a Service, > My question is the next step. How can different users "see" that vm, be > it Windows or Linux, etc. ssh, vnc, or whatever protocol you need to interact with your vm. You may need

Re: Start a VirtualBox VM as a Service

2012-01-15 Thread Alexey Eromenko
Look at "phpvirtualbox" It lets you configure things -- configure user, and more. You also get nice Web GUI. But to to have actual display rendering (to "see") the VM, you must install non-free Oracle ext.pack, which provides RDP server for VBox. "phpvirtualbox" uses this RDP server. If you want

Re: Re: Squeeze. apt-get update failed to fetch .../binary-i386/Packages.gz

2012-01-15 Thread Alaric
I note you say you have not had any other comment. I get the same error. I still get the standard red gear wheel on the application bar, updates are downloaded and installed without problem and the programme reports my system is up to date but I still get an orange triangle with an exclamation

Re: Start a VirtualBox VM as a Service

2012-01-15 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Du, 15 ian 12, 22:22:22, T o n g wrote: > Hi, > > I've actually found the solution to start a VirtualBox VM as a Service, > My question is the next step. How can different users "see" that vm, be > it Windows or Linux, etc. Could you please expand on the "see" part? It's not very clear what

Re: Bug#655999: [bugs.debian.org] Reporting documentation - "What package does your bug report belong to?" points to user support groups

2012-01-15 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Du, 15 ian 12, 14:35:17, Filipus Klutiero wrote: > > debian-user's topic is user support. > > For technical discussions about development, the default group is > debian-de...@lists.debian.org. > Reference: > http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/webwml/webwml/english/Bugs/Reporting.wml?r1=1.18&r2=

Re: pppd no CHAP response when using NM

2012-01-15 Thread Ralf Madorf
On Sun, 2012-01-15 at 23:11 +0100, Ralf Madorf wrote: > On Sun, 2012-01-15 at 20:52 +0100, Stefan Rutzinger wrote: > > Dec 31 17:18:11 stefano NetworkManager[1725]:SCPlugin-Ifupdown: device > > added (path: /sys/devices/virtual/net/ppp0, iface: ppp0): no ifupdown > > configuration found. > > O

Re: ptrace suid?

2012-01-15 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
And the actual problem with virtualbox, alsaplayer, gxine, and presumably more programs I hadn't found yet was: Somehow, at some point in the past, a bunch of opengl-related files landed in my /usr/lib (only on the machine where things were failing, of course): snowball:511$ ls /usr/lib/libGL* /u

Re: pppd no CHAP response when using NM

2012-01-15 Thread Ralf Madorf
On Sun, 2012-01-15 at 20:52 +0100, Stefan Rutzinger wrote: > Dec 31 17:18:11 stefano NetworkManager[1725]:SCPlugin-Ifupdown: device > added (path: /sys/devices/virtual/net/ppp0, iface: ppp0): no ifupdown > configuration found. On Arch I had such an issue, can't remember what my Debian settings

Re: Which /var/ contents are disposable

2012-01-15 Thread Roger Leigh
On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 09:38:53PM +, T o n g wrote: > On Thu, 12 Jan 2012 11:51:19 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > >> Moreover, I'll throw in /var/log as well, because I don't care about > >> the logs either. > > > > You might benefit from putting it on tmpfs then ;) > > That brings up an

Re: suspend / power off

2012-01-15 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Du, 15 ian 12, 18:23:22, richard wrote: > Greetings, > > It may seem a daft question, BUT, what is the exact process when suspending ? > > On a laptop it doesn't matter as power is kept on when either the lid is shut > or suspended, the same action. > However, on a mains powered machine suspen

Re: Which /var/ contents are disposable

2012-01-15 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Du, 15 ian 12, 21:38:53, T o n g wrote: > > That brings up an interesting topic. -- No, I didn't put /var/log on > tmpfs, but /tmp, /var/run & /var/lock instead, because I was worrying > about wasting tmpfs with big logs, since my box might be up for months. > > I think staled tmpfs file mi

Re: Suggestion: Please change rights of cpufreq-set by default

2012-01-15 Thread Ralf Madorf
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Re: Excluding folders in rsync command?

2012-01-15 Thread J.A. de Vries
> is it possible to exclude directories/folders from a rsync command > please? i know you can do files using a wildcard like *.avi, but is it > possible to exclude e.g. /home/boztu/videos ? You can use the --exclude option if you want to specifiy the directory from the commandline. If you want to

Re: Excluding folders in rsync command?

2012-01-15 Thread Roel Wagenaar
Sharon Kimble wrote: > is it possible to exclude directories/folders from a rsync command > please? i know you can do files using a wildcard like *.avi, but is it > possible to exclude e.g. /home/boztu/videos ? > > Sharon. man rsync? -- Roel Wagenaar, Linux-User #469851 wi

Excluding folders in rsync command?

2012-01-15 Thread Sharon Kimble
is it possible to exclude directories/folders from a rsync command please? i know you can do files using a wildcard like *.avi, but is it possible to exclude e.g. /home/boztu/videos ? Sharon. -- A taste of linux = http://www.sharons.org.uk/taste/index.html efever = http://www.efever.blogspot.com/

Re: Which /var/ contents are disposable

2012-01-15 Thread T o n g
On Thu, 12 Jan 2012 11:51:19 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: >> Moreover, I'll throw in /var/log as well, because I don't care about >> the logs either. > > You might benefit from putting it on tmpfs then ;) That brings up an interesting topic. -- No, I didn't put /var/log on tmpfs, but /tmp, /var

Re: ptrace suid?

2012-01-15 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Camaleón writes: > > Check out this recent VB forum thread: > > [Solved] VBox 4.1.8 fails as non-root user > https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=47199 I have to confess to being a little bit mystified by the description there (I'll note that the user was having exactly the same deb

Re: Suggestion: Please change rights of cpufreq-set by default

2012-01-15 Thread Freeman
On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 08:36:58PM +0100, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > Dear list, > please let me describe a little problem. > > As powerdevil changed last year, I found no way, to force the cpu to stay at > lowest clock, even when a process wants full speed. > > My solution at the moment is, to use

Re: editing pdf files

2012-01-15 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
"Weaver" writes: >> On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 22:18:11 +0100 >> Claudius Hubig wrote: >> >>> Hello richard, >>> >>> richard wrote: >>> >You end up filling in a form sending it off , only to get an answer the >>> form >>> >was blank. >>> >Always worth checking a file exported as a pdf, is what you thi

Re: Grub cannot fit into boot record

2012-01-15 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Sun, 15 Jan 2012 08:24:40 -0500 (EST), Arno Schuring wrote: >> John Hasler (jhas...@newsguy.com on 2012-01-14 12:25 -0600): >>> >>> IMHO putting critical >>> boot software in an "unallocated" area that other software will (not >>> unreaso

pppd no CHAP response when using NM

2012-01-15 Thread Stefan Rutzinger
Hi, I'm trying to connect with a GSM USB modem ZTE MF-100 (USB ID 19d2:0039) to a mobile broadband network (German Congstar = network of German Telecom) with debian testing. Using KDE NetworkManager, my problem is that pppd doesn't answer the CHAP challenge and runs into a timeout (see log f

Suggestion: Please change rights of cpufreq-set by default

2012-01-15 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Dear list, please let me describe a little problem. As powerdevil changed last year, I found no way, to force the cpu to stay at lowest clock, even when a process wants full speed. My solution at the moment is, to use cpufreq-set, where I can set the cpu to lowest frequency. But there is a pro

Bug#655999: [bugs.debian.org] Reporting documentation - "What package does your bug report belong to?" points to user support groups

2012-01-15 Thread Filipus Klutiero
Package: bugs.debian.org Severity: normal The ITS requires a package to be specified to send a report. If the reporter doesn't know which package is concerned, our documentation about bug reporting says: If you are unable to determine which package your bug report should be filed against, pl

Re: Grub cannot fit into boot record

2012-01-15 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 15 Jan 2012 08:24:40 -0500 (EST), Arno Schuring wrote: > John Hasler (jhas...@newsguy.com on 2012-01-14 12:25 -0600): >> IMHO putting critical >> boot software in an "unallocated" area that other software will (not >> unreasonably) assume contains nothing important is a loony idea. > > It'

Re: editing pdf files

2012-01-15 Thread Siard
Jude DaShiell wrote: > can acroread and acroread-plugins work in a command line environment > or is this strictly gui? Not sure what you want. You can do a 'acroread filename.pdf', but of course you will need X for a PDF viewer. There are a few things you can do on the command line using acroread

suspend / power off

2012-01-15 Thread richard
Greetings, It may seem a daft question, BUT, what is the exact process when suspending ? On a laptop it doesn't matter as power is kept on when either the lid is shut or suspended, the same action. However, on a mains powered machine suspend will power off, I'm guessing a write to ram and umount

Re: editing pdf files

2012-01-15 Thread Siard
Curt: > Siard: > > Curt: > > > Siard: > > > > Acroread should be able to do it, it's in the non-free > > > > repository. > > > > > > It is? > > > > In Wheezy: > > > > $ apt-cache policy acroread > > acroread: > > Installed: 9.4.6-0.1 > > ... > > http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ wheezy/non-f

Re: editing pdf files

2012-01-15 Thread Claudius Hubig
richard wrote: >On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 22:18:11 +0100 >Claudius Hubig wrote: > >> Hello richard, >> >> richard wrote: >> >You end up filling in a form sending it off , only to get an answer the form >> >was blank. >> >Always worth checking a file exported as a pdf, is what you think you want. >> >

Re: Grub cannot fit into boot record

2012-01-15 Thread John Hasler
I wrote: > IMHO putting critical boot software in an "unallocated" area that > other software will (not unreasonably) assume contains nothing > important is a loony idea. Arno Schuring writes: > It's not any more loony than hardcoding the disk sectors in which the > kernel file resides. Like Gru

Re: OT: Impossible to scale document to fit on paper in loCalc.

2012-01-15 Thread Sthu Deus
Good time of the day, Camaleón. Thank You for Your time and answer. You worte: >> I can not scale (reduce) a page in preview in .ods file in localc in >> order to fit it on paper when printing. > >I think the print preview page is not the right place to control this. Well. So I did always befor

Re: editing pdf files

2012-01-15 Thread green
Weaver wrote at 2012-01-15 05:44 -0600: > You can scan it back in at your end and attach it. Or fill it out, print it to cups-pdf, then attach the resulting PDF. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: ptrace suid?

2012-01-15 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 13 Jan 2012 13:23:23 -0700, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > I've got a very strange virtualbox problem: I have two hosts sharing > /home with NFS. The two machines are very close to identical: same > CPU, same motherboard, same amount of memory. Same kernel version, same > virtualbox version, sa

Re: Grub cannot fit into boot record

2012-01-15 Thread Arno Schuring
John Hasler (jhas...@newsguy.com on 2012-01-14 12:25 -0600): > Panayiotis writes: > > I have another computer running Wheezy with lvm and it's working > > fine. Maybe it's the sum of the md driver + lvm driver that is too > > big to fit in the gap? > > Use Lilo. It doesn't use the "gap" at all. T

Re: grub-pc mdadm root

2012-01-15 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 6:00 PM, Marc Auslander wrote: > Tom H writes: >> >> Can you unpack your initrd and check whether you have an "mdadm" >> script in the "scripts" directory, an mdadm rule in the "udev" >> directory, and an "/etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf"? (I can't access a Debian >> box at the mome

Re: editing pdf files

2012-01-15 Thread Weaver
> On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 22:18:11 +0100 > Claudius Hubig wrote: > >> Hello richard, >> >> richard wrote: >> >You end up filling in a form sending it off , only to get an answer the >> form >> >was blank. >> >Always worth checking a file exported as a pdf, is what you think you >> want. >> >Xpdf tel

Re: problem mounting iso9660 dvds

2012-01-15 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 13 Jan 2012 22:50:59 +0100, Lars Callenbach wrote: > last December I have burned some backup DVDs on my box with growisofs. > It was possible to read the content (also under windows, other Linux > installations, ...). This week I tried to make another backup. Growisofs > complains with som

Re: editing pdf files

2012-01-15 Thread richard
on 14 Jan 2012 15:39:44 -0500 "John A. Sullivan III" wrote: > On Sat, 2012-01-14 at 20:10 +, richard wrote: > > On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 19:48:43 + (UTC) > > Curt wrote: > > > > > On 2012-01-14, Siard wrote: > > > > > > > > Acroread should be able to do it, it's in the non-free repository.

Re: Reciva website

2012-01-15 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 16:15:25 -0500, John Lindsay wrote: > Does anyone use Reciva to access some internet radio stations? If so, > how does one get WMA and MP3 formats to play. AAC format allows a > selection and allows movie player to open and receive the selected > station (only one I've run acro

Re: editing pdf files

2012-01-15 Thread richard
On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 22:18:11 +0100 Claudius Hubig wrote: > Hello richard, > > richard wrote: > >You end up filling in a form sending it off , only to get an answer the form > >was blank. > >Always worth checking a file exported as a pdf, is what you think you want. > >Xpdf tells the truth, but

Re: grub-pc mdadm root (really Resolved)

2012-01-15 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
15/01/2012 00:16, Marc Auslander wrote: From /etc/defaults/mdadm # INITRDSTART: # list of arrays (or 'all') to start automatically when the initial ramdisk # loads. This list *must* include the array holding your root filesystem. Use # 'none' to prevent any array from being started from t

Re: Stripping down Debian Squeeze

2012-01-15 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sb, 14 ian 12, 20:29:40, Brad Alexander wrote: > > 1. Do a base install of Debian. During the install, at the Software > Selection screen where it asks what to install, *uncheck everything* -- > except for ssh server, if you want that. This will give you the absolute > minimal install possible.