Re: Plz suggest the kernels that can be used in GNU

[consul tores]

2010/2/6 Stan Hoeppner :

> What is your real question?  What are your goals in choosing a kernel?  If you
> feel one might be better for you than another, then state the _reasons_ why 
> you
> are on this "kernel searching" mission.
>
> --
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I can not know what this person is asking for, but a Linux kernel is
to big for a floppy disk, it includes SeLinux wich is not very welcome
in many boxes around the World, and it also defines what GNU does.


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Re: Grandma uses Logitech Vid, how to chat with her with Debian?

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Sun, Feb 07, 2010 at 10:40:14AM +0800, jida...@jidanni.org wrote:
> > "SF" == S Fishpaste  writes:
> SF> Check out Google's Talk - It can do video.
> Google Talk video doesn't seem to have a Linux version.

The protocol it uses is Jingle. I'm not sure if either one of Empathy,
Pidgin or Kopete support video in it. In fact, I'm not sure how well
they support audio in it.

> SF> Also check out Pidgin; it has video capability via plugins.
> Hmmm, I see on http://www.pidgin.im that it can connect to Google Talk...
> Well OK, but for now Skype works...

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Re: No Umlauts on console with Kernel 2.6.26

[Sven Joachim]

On 2010-02-07 00:46 +0100, Til Schubbe wrote:

> On 2010-02-06 Sven wrote:
>
>> What does the 'locale' command print?
>
> Now...
>
> $ locale
> LANG=de_DE.UTF-8

You should also change the system locale.  Please check /etc/enviroment
and /etc/default/locale and run 'dpkg-reconfigure locales' if necessary.

> Errormessages and texts are displayed in a weired way: The ls-command
> called with an illegal option says: "UngA.ltige Option" with the dot
> being a 1/4-sign. And the editor 'joe' tells in it's status line that
> the file has been "GeÃ#ndert" (3rd char: capital A with tilde, 4th
> char: Euro-sign).

So the programs output UTF-8, but your terminal is not ready for that.
Try to run 'unicode_start' and see if that helps.

The reason you need to set up a UTF-8 system locale is that
console-tools' init script checks for it and puts the terminal in
Unicode or ASCII mode depending on the value.

Sven


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Re: firewall on laptop

[Umarzuki Mochlis]

2010/2/7 Stan Hoeppner 

> Daniel Dalton put forth on 2/6/2010 11:22 PM:
>
> > If I'm offline then it shouldn't run.
>
> Why?  Does it hurt anything to have the rules active when you're not
> connected?
>  I can't see how it would.  All the rules do is cause the kernel to eat up
> a
> small amount of additional memory.  Iptables rules are kernel data
> structures,
> not programs.  Netfilter is part of the kernel.  Iptables rules merely
> program
> the behavior of Netfilter.
>
> Just run your iptables script at startup and forget about it.  Or, are you
> having some kind of problem that you think this up/down/up/down/up/down of
> your
> iptables rules will solve?
>

firestarter (GUI for iptables) would not start when the main interface had
been set up to go out the internet is inactive/not connected


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Re: firewall on laptop

[Stan Hoeppner]

Daniel Dalton put forth on 2/6/2010 11:22 PM:

> If I'm offline then it shouldn't run.

Why?  Does it hurt anything to have the rules active when you're not connected?
 I can't see how it would.  All the rules do is cause the kernel to eat up a
small amount of additional memory.  Iptables rules are kernel data structures,
not programs.  Netfilter is part of the kernel.  Iptables rules merely program
the behavior of Netfilter.

Just run your iptables script at startup and forget about it.  Or, are you
having some kind of problem that you think this up/down/up/down/up/down of your
iptables rules will solve?

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Re: Connect to Watchguard VPN

[Stan Hoeppner]

Matteo Riva put forth on 2/6/2010 11:09 AM:
> Hello, this is the first time I have to use a VPN so I need basic
> information on how to do it. I need to connect to a Watchguard VPN but
> the admin only sent me details for windows so I'm kinda clueless.
> 
> What packages should I use? What specific details should I ask the
> admin? I already asked for specific instructions but it could take time
> and I'd like to speed things up a little if I can, and learn something
> in the process too.

http://watchguard.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/watchguard.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=2693&p_created=1261693823&p_sid=6LxEzWTj&p_accessibility=0&p_redirect=&p_lva=&p_sp=cF9zcmNoPTEmcF9zb3J0X2J5PSZwX2dyaWRzb3J0PSZwX3Jvd19jbnQ9MTksMTkmcF9wcm9kcz0wJnBfY2F0cz0mcF9wdj0mcF9jdj0mcF9wYWdlPTEmcF9zZWFyY2hfdGV4dD1saW51eA**&p_li=&p_topview=1

when line wrap and size matter:
http://tinyurl.com/yfsblm7

The information you will find there is not a complete solution.  It should,
however, provide you with serious background information which should be helpful
in coordinating with your admin to get the VPN setup correctly on both ends.
Looks like you'll probably end up using SSL for the VPN tunnel encryption.

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Apache2 mime_magic not working on Upgrade.

[Account for Debian group mail]

Hello,

We just upgraded a web server to Lenny. Anyway on the upgrade Apache2 
mod_mime_magic is not working properly. We keeping getting Apache errors:

"[error] mod_mime_magic: invalid type 0 in mconvert()".

From what we can tell the problem lies in the /usr/share/file/magic.mime 
file. The file is there and I can see from Apache2 information that it is 
being loaded.


Anyone know how to fix this problem?

Thanks,

Ken


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Re: which debian i should install?

[Stan Hoeppner]

John Jason Jordan put forth on 2/6/2010 1:39 PM:

> This is a Debian list, so I know someone is going to jump on me for
> saying this, but if you are brand new to Linux Debian may not be the
> best distribution for you to start with.

I didn't thoroughly read the entire thread.  I just wanted to say that depending
on the OP's goals, Debian might be the perfect distro to cut teeth on.

Long ago I told a colleague I wanted to start using Linux and actually _learn_
something in the process.  He told me to download the net install floppies for
Potato, and perform a compact install.  That was 10 years ago, and I've learned
a lot over the past decade.  I'm still learning new things, and I hope this
trend will continue for some time. ;)

Starting from a compact text console install forces an OP to learn a lot of
things they'd never learn starting with a GUI workstation.  I'm so glad Casey
made this recommendation.

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firewall on laptop

[Daniel Dalton]

Hi,

What is the best way to run a firewall script with lots of iptables
lines in it when a connection is put up? Eg. when I connect to ethernet
or wifi the script should run. If I'm offline then it shouldn't run. I'm
using wicd  to manage all my wifi connections. Is it possible to get
this script to run every time I connect to a wifi network? 

Thanks,
Dan


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Re: Plz suggest the kernels that can be used in GNU

[Stan Hoeppner]

AZAD NIKARTHIL put forth on 2/6/2010 1:16 PM:
> Hello hackers.
> 
> Can any one give information about anyother kernel other than Linux is now 
> using in GNU
> Is there is any other good kernel other than Linux.
> plz suggest

This information is available only a couple of clicks deep from the debian home
page, thus very easy to find, thus you should know this already.

What is your real question?  What are your goals in choosing a kernel?  If you
feel one might be better for you than another, then state the _reasons_ why you
are on this "kernel searching" mission.

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Re: Tax software for Debian (Lenny)?

[Andrew Sackville-West]

On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 11:05:55AM +0530, Girish Kulkarni wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Feb 2010 20:35:26 -0800 Mark wrote:
> > I've done the typical Internet scrubbing and didn't find anything
> > specific to tax software for Debian (something similar to TurboTax,
> > for example).  I found a few interesting options but nothing in the
> > official Debian packages.  Here's what I have so far as options
> > (on-line versions), any insight into the most Linux/Debian-friendly
> > one of these?  I live in the USA and run Lenny on the machine I"ll
> > do my taxes with.
> 
> GnuCash (http://www.gnucash.org/) has some Income Tax related
> features.  Maybe useful?  

at most it allows you to attach tax categories to particular accounts
or transactions, but it doesn't actually do any income tax preparation
or anything like that. We've talked various times in the past about it
and the core-devs are definitely not interested.

been a while since I've been around them though, so that's slightly
dated information. 

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Re: one website gives "address not found" from LAN

[Stan Hoeppner]

Joe put forth on 2/6/2010 6:08 AM:
> Camaleón wrote:
>> 2010/2/5 Joe:
>>
>> (you forgot replying to the list)
>>
> Sorry. I use Icedove for mail and news, and I've yet to find out how to
> make it reply to the list. I need to remember to copy and paste the
> right address and I do occasionally forget. I take another debian list
> as a newsgroup and there's no problem then.

It's in the Message drop down menu, or available in the right-click context menu
when you right-click a list message, in Win32 T-Bird 3.0.x.  If you're running
the latest version of IceDove I would think these options exist for you.

Prior to T-Bird 3.0 I used a community plugin for "reply-to-list".  The native
function works a bit better IMO.  If you don't have the native function, search
for "reply-to-list" in the Thunderbird plugins.  I've used both extensively and
they both work well.  The native version is faster and less of a kludge.

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Re: Grandma uses Logitech Vid, how to chat with her with Debian?

[jidanni]

> "SF" == S Fishpaste  writes:
SF> Check out Google's Talk - It can do video.
Google Talk video doesn't seem to have a Linux version.
SF> Also check out Pidgin; it has video capability via plugins.
Hmmm, I see on http://www.pidgin.im that it can connect to Google Talk...
Well OK, but for now Skype works...


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Re: KMS, vga=791 and intel xorg driver

[Stephen Powell]

On Sat, 6 Feb 2010 16:36:02 -0500 (EST), Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote:
> 
> Hi to all!
> 
> After I upgraded last week to latest xorg drivers my squeeze box, I had
> problem getting a console: the X session just froze. I searched a bit
> and found bug #567563.  So I discovered that the problem was the
> 'vga=791' setting that I used to boot with, so that I have a decent
> resolution while booting, for the kernel messages.
> 
> So I removed vga=791 and problems with getting a console were resolved.
> 
> In order to have a good resolution for my console while the pc is
> booting, I used the
> GRUB_GFXMODE=1440x900 directive in the grub2 config, but while it starts
> at this resolution, after the message 'Loading the initial image' (or
> something like that), it reverts again to a very low analysis. How can I
> fix that?

The vga option is a most interesting "kernel" option.  It is documented in
the svga.txt file in the documentation subdirectory of the kernel source
tree.  Here's a link to an on-line version of this file for Linux kernel
2.6.26.

   http://lxr.kelp.or.kr/source/Documentation/svga.txt?v=2.6.26

The first paragraph of this file is most revealing.  I quote:

   This small document describes the "Video Mode Selection" feature which
   allows the use of various special video modes supported by the video BIOS. 
Due
   to usage of the BIOS, the selection is limited to boot time (before the
   kernel decompression starts) and works only on 80X86 machines.

We learn quite a bit from the second sentence.  First, we learn that the
video mode is set by making a call to the video BIOS, which as far as I
know means a good old-fashioned DOS-style interrupt.  And as far as I
know, the machine must be operating in real mode (as opposed to protected
mode) to make one of those calls.  Second, we learn that the BIOS call is
made before the kernel decompression starts.  I'm no kernel hacker, but
that definitely sounds to me like the video BIOS call is being made by
the boot loader, not by the kernel itself.

I run the lilo boot loader on my Squeeze system.
In the lilo boot loader, "vga" is a separate lilo configuration option:
you can't include it in the "append" option.  To add further evidence,
when I issue "dmesg|less" and look at the options passed to the
kernel at boot time, I do not find the vga option at all.

Putting it all together, the vga option is actually implemented by the
boot loader itself, not by the kernel.  The boot loader itself must
have support for the vga option.  When I originally installed my
Squeeze system, the installation of grub failed; so I installed lilo
instead.  I used vga=779 (132 columns by 50 rows) on my system.
Later, during an upgrade, grub-pc got installed, but the vga option
didn't work.  I made some attempts to get it to work, but when those
attempts failed, I went back to lilo because I knew it would work.
Since then, I received a number of suggestions to try, but I had
already switched back to lilo by then.  If you get it to work, let
me know what you did to get it to work.  I might give grub-pc another
try.  Eventually.  But for now, I'm happy with lilo.

P.S.  I used to use svgatextmode.  But svgatextmode has been dropped
from the archive for Squeeze.  The vga option of the boot loader
would therefore appear to be my only option at this point for a
high resolution (in terms of columns and rows) true hardware-level
text mode for virtual consoles 1-6.  Yes, I've heard of frame-buffer.
But that is not a true hardware-level text mode.  I'm *not* giving it up!

Regards,
Steve


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Re: local install with apt-get still producing caches in /var/lib/dpkg/{info,alternatives,info, ...}

[Andrei Popescu]

On Sat,06.Feb.10, 22:37:13, Albretch Mueller wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 1:24 PM, Andrei Popescu  
> wrote:
> > On Sat,06.Feb.10, 13:13:33, Albretch Mueller wrote:
> >
> >>  How is it being set to beging with if I don't explicitly use dpkg to
> >> install packages?
> >
> > Only dpkg installs packages. APT "just" takes care of resolving
> > dependencies and downloading the apropiate .deb files which are then
> > passed to dpkg.
> ~
>  I see but I can't find out how to change that directory, which is
> what I need ;-)
> ~

What exactly are you trying to achieve? Maybe there is a better way.

Regards,
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Re: Dosemu broken after Lenny upgrade

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> Ken
> 
> See: http://wiki.debian.org/mmap_min_addr

Thank you Steven.  I ran the two suggested commands.  For the same
reason I was probably unable to get qemu to run.  Will have to try qemu
again now.  I am pleased to see that the situation I encountered will be
 (has been?) fixed in Squeeze.

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Re: KMS, vga=791 and intel xorg driver

[Jochen Schulz]

Γιώργος Πάλλας:
> 
> In order to have a good resolution for my console while the pc is
> booting, I used the
> GRUB_GFXMODE=1440x900 directive in the grub2 config,

That only sets the resolution for the boot manager. To enable KMS at
boot time, add 'video=i915:modeset=1' to the kernel command line.

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Re: suspend on my asus eeepc

[Daniel Dalton]

On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 03:44:00PM +0100, Florian Reitmeir wrote:
> Package:
> uswsusp

Couldn't find this in squeeze, so used unstable's version. 

S2disk works ok and s2ram doesn't. I think when I close the lid it uses
command pm-suspend (found this after some research.)

Thanks,
Dan


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Re: No Umlauts on console with Kernel 2.6.26

[Til Schubbe]

On 2010-02-06 Sven wrote:

> What does the 'locale' command print?

Now...

$ locale
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_PAPER="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

$ echo $Language 
de_DE.UTF-8

> Which version of libfreetype6 do you have installed,

I realized that some years ago I compiled a libfreetype6 which
resided in /usr/local/lib/... I moved it away and
/usr/bin/utf8migrationtool ran fine. But the umlauts still don't
work correctly:

After logging out and in again, pushing an umlaut-key the first time
does nothing. Pushing a 2nd key displays the umlaut (!) and pushing a
3rd key displays the 2nd + the 3rd key!

Errormessages and texts are displayed in a weired way: The ls-command
called with an illegal option says: "UngA.ltige Option" with the dot
being a 1/4-sign. And the editor 'joe' tells in it's status line that
the file has been "GeÃ#ndert" (3rd char: capital A with tilde, 4th
char: Euro-sign).

Regards
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Re: KMS, vga=791 and intel xorg driver

[Matthew Moore]

On Saturday February 6 2010 2:36:02 pm Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote:
> So I removed vga=791 and problems with getting a console were resolved.
> 
> In order to have a good resolution for my console while the pc is
> booting, I used the
> GRUB_GFXMODE=1440x900 directive in the grub2 config, but while it starts
> at this resolution, after the message 'Loading the initial image' (or
> something like that), it reverts again to a very low analysis. How can I
> fix that?

I think that you need to append "video=i915" to the linux command line, via 
the variable GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT in /etc/default/grub. This specifies 
the KMS driver for the kernel to use. 

When KMS gets loaded, it resets the console's scrollback buffer. Since the KMS 
driver gets loaded late in the boot process in Debian (later than in most 
other distro's), you won't be able to see any of your boot messages once your 
machine reaches login. Apparently this is going to be fixed in the future.

MM


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Re: local install with apt-get still producing caches in /var/lib/dpkg/{info,alternatives,info, ...}

[Albretch Mueller]

On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 1:24 PM, Andrei Popescu  wrote:
> On Sat,06.Feb.10, 13:13:33, Albretch Mueller wrote:
>
>>  How is it being set to beging with if I don't explicitly use dpkg to
>> install packages?
>
> Only dpkg installs packages. APT "just" takes care of resolving
> dependencies and downloading the apropiate .deb files which are then
> passed to dpkg.
~
 I see but I can't find out how to change that directory, which is
what I need ;-)
~
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Re: Grandma uses Logitech Vid, how to chat with her with Debian?

[S. Fishpaste]

On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:11:55 -0400, Antonio Perez in gmane.linux.debian.user 
wrote:
> jida...@jidanni.org wrote:
>
>> Sirs, Grandma says: "I have a 2-way camera installation on my computer,
>> It's called Logitech Video. (It only cost $28.00 on sale, and John
>> installed it for me) The software was down-loaded free."
>> 
>> Apparently the software she installed was Logitech® Vid™.
>> 
>> Alas, on
>> 
> http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/584/6164%26cl=us,en?section=downloads&WT.ac=os|
> 5788||vidDL
>> there is no Linux version of Logitech® Vid™.
>> 
>> I have a EEEPC 702 (with its UVC webcam that works fine with luvcview).
>> What Debian package can I install in order to be able to video chat with
>> my super-old grandma?

Check out Google's Talk - It can do video. Also check out Pidgin; it
has video capability via plugins.


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Re: raid on mixed ide/sata drives (/dev/hda /dev/sda) not assembled at boot with initramfs

[martin f krafft]

also sprach Alex Samad  [2010.02.07.0952 +1300]:
> strange, trying changing your kernel options to 
> 
> init=/bin/bash
> 
> this will give you a command prompt when the initrd is loaded, but
> before anything is done.  check to see what can be seen by the system,
> can it see hda + sda ?

Appending 'break=mount' to the kernel command line has the same
effect, but the benefit of having the initramfs available, and the
ability to continue by exiting the shell.

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KMS, vga=791 and intel xorg driver

[Γιώργος Πάλλας]

Hi to all!

After I upgraded last week to latest xorg drivers my squeeze box, I had
problem getting a console: the X session just froze. I searched a bit
and found bug #567563.  So I discovered that the problem was the
'vga=791' setting that I used to boot with, so that I have a decent
resolution while booting, for the kernel messages.

So I removed vga=791 and problems with getting a console were resolved.

In order to have a good resolution for my console while the pc is
booting, I used the
GRUB_GFXMODE=1440x900 directive in the grub2 config, but while it starts
at this resolution, after the message 'Loading the initial image' (or
something like that), it reverts again to a very low analysis. How can I
fix that?

Thanks!
G.


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Re: cannot install to AMD Geode LX800 machine

[Camaleón]

On Sat, 06 Feb 2010 11:50:29 +0900, Hideki Yamane wrote:

(...)

>  I suggested to use "fb=false" as release note says, but it seems not to
>  help.
>  http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch05s03.html.ja#installer-
args
> 
>  If you have any suggestions about above problem, please let me know.
>  (Please CC to me, I'm not on the list)

There is a related bug:

Linux boot hangs on AMD Geode GX systems
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=443979

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Re: raid on mixed ide/sata drives (/dev/hda /dev/sda) not assembled at boot with initramfs

[martin f krafft]

also sprach Dr. KERÉKGYÁRTÓ István  [2010.02.07.0759 
+1300]:
> Is there a way to tell the initramfs in which order to detect the
> drives it needs (so that both sda and hda would be detected, with the
> appropriate modules loaded, and only after that would the raid array
> be assembled)?

Try passing rootdelay=10 to the kernel via Grub.

Or give the 3.1.1-1+incremental+4 package in experimental a shot!

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Re: Connect to Watchguard VPN

[Joe]

Matteo Riva wrote:

Hello, this is the first time I have to use a VPN so I need basic
information on how to do it. I need to connect to a Watchguard VPN but
the admin only sent me details for windows so I'm kinda clueless.

What packages should I use? What specific details should I ask the
admin? I already asked for specific instructions but it could take time
and I'd like to speed things up a little if I can, and learn something
in the process too.



The most important thing you need to know is which type of VPN it is. 
The Microsoft world uses three main types: PPTP, L2TP and IPSec. The 
first two are proprietary Microsoft protocols, but are well enough 
understood that they are de-facto standards. IPSec is an old standard 
and is very widely used for site-to-site VPNs, normally between 
perimeter firewalls or routers. IPSec uses the IP addresses of the 
endpoints for the encryption process, and so doesn't work by itself 
through NAT. There are various bodges to help matters, but IPSec is only 
really appropriate between routable IP addresses, not to or from 
machines behind NAT.


Since the Watchguard device is probably a perimeter firewall, it could 
well use any of these protocols, or OpenVPN. If you've been given 
Windows instructions, that suggests the VPN client will normally be a 
workstation, so probably PPTP, or just possibly L2TP. There is a PPTP 
client, pptp-linux, and at least one GUI wrapper for it. The most basic 
encryption for PPTP is MPPE, a Microsoft protocol, but included in 
kernels since early 2.4, I think. Quite exotic encryption and 
authentication is possible even with PPTP, but rarely used as it is a 
bit of a pig to get working. The default XP VPN client is PPTP, and the 
default settings are usually used. If it is PPTP, and you have egress 
filtering on your workstation or network, you need to pass TCP port 1723 
and *IP protocol*, not port, 47.


I can't be of much more help, as it is some time since I used VPN much, 
and then it was to connect to Windows servers.


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Re: raid on mixed ide/sata drives (/dev/hda /dev/sda) not assembled at boot with initramfs

[Alex Samad]

On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 07:59:05PM +0100, Dr. KER?KGY?RT? Istv?n wrote:
> [sorry if I post multiple times, but my message did not seem to get across,
> and moderation isn't supposed to last half a day]
> 
> Dear All,
> 
> I have a system with a raid1 array. I installed it first with a
> degraded raid array, one part of the array being /dev/hda2. After
> installation I added (mdadm --manage /dev/md2 --add /dev/sda2) the
> second drive, which went nicely, the array was assembled. This already
> shows that the array is made up of an IDE and a SATA drive (which
> might be unwise in general, I don't know, but I have these too drives
> at hand currently).
> 
> However, when I reboot, only one of the members of the array are
> detected. Depending on which drive I boot from (both are bootable with
> identical /boot partitions), either /dev/sda2 or /dev/hda2 is attached
> to the array (but not the other one). Looking at dmesg suggests that
> first the drive from which the system is booted is detected, then the
> md array is assembled, and the other drive is only detected
> afterwards.
> 
> Is there a way to tell the initramfs in which order to detect the
> drives it needs (so that both sda and hda would be detected, with the
> appropriate modules loaded, and only after that would the raid array
> be assembled)?


strange, trying changing your kernel options to 

init=/bin/bash

this will give you a command prompt when the initrd is loaded, but
before anything is done.  check to see what can be seen by the system,
can it see hda + sda ?

> 
> Thanks,
> I.

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What does "Stale NFS file handle" mean?

[Michael Yang]

When I list files under my $HOME, I found following two files that can not
be accessed:

ls: cannot access .xsession-errors: Stale NFS file handle
ls: cannot access .Xauthority: Stale NFS file handle
total 2384
-?   ? ?   ??? .xsession-errors
-?   ? ?   ??? .Xauthority

It looks like a remote access from NFS system from error message. But it is
my $HOME, which is a ext2 system. This is the entry in my /etc/fstab
/dev/sda8   /home   ext2defaults0   2

This error is probably causing another problem of accessing my $HOME files
from GTK-based application. When I "open -> file" from a gtk-based
application to open a file under $HOME, I can not see any files of $HOME
from the "open..file" dialog.

Anyone can help me with this?

Thanks very much.
Michael.

Re: Plz suggest the kernels that can be used in GNU

[Chance Platt]

Nuno Magalhães wrote:

Hi

Maybe you should ask on a gnu.org-list or something? I think Debian
also has hurd packages and maybe bsd, but you'll have to hack google
for the answers.

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Re: which debian i should install?

[Camaleón]

On Sat, 06 Feb 2010 10:49:35 -0800, rosy cutie wrote:

> i want to install debian on my computer.by searching its website i
> reaches at the page
> http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/5.0.4/i386/iso-cd/ but i am not able
> to decide which debian? i dont understand the computer jargon.i cannot
> install it via internet or through any network. i think i can install it
> by a cd and   debian-504-i386-CD-.iso will work for me but why there are
> cd-1 to cd-31. i also want to know what to do with MD5SUMS. is it also
> nessacery to download it.
> may be it is not nessacery but i want to know how to use it. please help
> me.

- If you have DVD writer, try the first iso DVD. It has many packages in 
just one medium.

- If you have only a CD writer, donwload the first iso CD and once 
installed, you can use a network connection to download additional 
packages.

More info here:

http://www.debian.org/CD/http-ftp/index.en.html

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Re: which debian i should install?

[John Jason Jordan]

On Sat, 6 Feb 2010 10:49:35 -0800 (PST)
rosy cutie  dijo:

>i want to install debian on my computer.by searching its website i
>reaches at the page
>http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/5.0.4/i386/iso-cd/ but i am not
>able to decide which debian? i dont understand the computer jargon.i
>cannot install it via internet or through any network. i think i can
>install it by a cd and   debian-504-i386-CD-.iso will work for me but
>why there are cd-1 to cd-31. i also want to know what to do with
>MD5SUMS. is it also nessacery to download it. may be it is not
>nessacery but i want to know how to use it. please help me.

It sounds as though you are completely new to Linux. People on this
list are very kind and helpful, but there are a lot of issues to
consider. For example, do you already have an operating system on the
computer that you want to keep so you can dual boot (Windows, MacOS,
some other Linux)? 

This is a Debian list, so I know someone is going to jump on me for
saying this, but if you are brand new to Linux Debian may not be the
best distribution for you to start with. Linux is famous for giving
people choices, and one of the choices is which distribution you
install. There are literally hundreds of different distributions,
although the popular ones number only a dozen or so. Debian is in the
top dozen, but so are Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora, OpenSuse, Mandriva, among
others. And for each of them there are usually options like whether you
want Gnome or KDE, 32-bit or 64-bit, and others. 

If you are completely new to Linux I recommend trying a live CD first.
There are live CDs for Debian here:

http://debian-live.alioth.debian.org/

On the above page look at the second paragraph and click on Gnome, KDE
or Xfce. 

You can download live CDs for the other distributions that I mentioned
from their web sites. Here is a web site with links to the web sites
for many distros:

http://www.livecdlist.com/?pick=All&showonly=Rescue&sort=&sm=1

The beauty of a live CD is that you boot your computer from the CD
drive instead of the hard disk. You'll have a completely operating
Linux without touching your hard drive. CD drives are not very fast, so
it will run slowly, but you can poke around and learn a lot without
actually installing Linux. For example, some distributions do a better
job of detecting and configuring hardware than others. So you can use
the live CD to make sure that the sound is working, the wireless and
network is working, the video is running at the resolution you want,
and so on. 

I spend a lot of time helping newcomers to Linux. I am part of a local
group that holds regular Linux Clinics where people can bring their
computers and we help them install Linux and get familiar with it. Over
several years of doing this we end up installing Ubuntu 90% of the
time. Ubuntu is based on Debian, is probably the most popular
distribution today, and is excellent at working well without needing
tweaks to get hardware working. 

Not only do I recommend Ubuntu for beginners, I also recommend trying
to find a local Linux group. Having someone sit with you while you get
started will make things a lot easier.

I hope that answered some of your questions. Please feel free to ask
further questions. 


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Re: No Umlauts on console with Kernel 2.6.26

[Sven Joachim]

On 2010-02-06 13:51 +0100, Til Schubbe wrote:

> On 2010-02-06 Sven wrote:
>
>> I suspect it's rather Ã, e.g. you're seeing "Ã?" instead of "ä".
>
> I sent the characters from the specific system to me via email. While
> on the specific system they look different, here they look like these:
>
> ae À
> oe ö
> ue Ì
> ss Ã\237

What does the 'locale' command print?

> # /usr/bin/utf8migrationtool
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/utf8migrationtool", line 3, in 
> import sys, locale, os, gtk, gobject
>   File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py",
> line 48, in 
> from gtk import _gtk
> ImportError: /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1: undefined symbol:
> FT_Select_Size

Which version of libfreetype6 do you have installed, and what does
'ldd /usr/lib/libfontconfig.1' print?

Sven


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Re: Plz suggest the kernels that can be used in GNU

[Nuno Magalhães]

Hi

Maybe you should ask on a gnu.org-list or something? I think Debian
also has hurd packages and maybe bsd, but you'll have to hack google
for the answers.

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Plz suggest the kernels that can be used in GNU

[AZAD NIKARTHIL]

Hello hackers.

Can any one give information about anyother kernel other than Linux is now 
using in GNU
Is there is any other good kernel other than Linux.
plz suggest


Thanks
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Re: which debian i should install?

[Rob Owens]

On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 10:49:35AM -0800, rosy cutie wrote:
> i want to install debian on my computer.by searching its website i reaches at 
> the page
> http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/5.0.4/i386/iso-cd/
> but i am not able to decide which debian?
> i dont understand the computer jargon.i cannot install it via internet or 
> through any network.
> i think i can install it by a cd and   debian-504-i386-CD-.iso will work for 
> me but why there are cd-1 to cd-31.
> i also want to know what to do with MD5SUMS.
> is it also nessacery to download it.
> may be it is not nessacery but i want to know how to use it.
> please help me.
> 
Are you set on using Debian?  Ubuntu is similar, is more focused on
beginners, and is a single CD download. www.ubuntu.com

I like Debian better, but Ubuntu does have its advantages.  Particularly
for people new to Linux.

If you definitely want to stick w/ Debian, you don't need to download
all 31 CDs, but I can't tell you which ones you need.  I always do a net
install.

-Rob


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raid on mixed ide/sata drives (/dev/hda /dev/sda) not assembled at boot with initramfs

[Dr . KERÉKGYÁRTÓ István]

[sorry if I post multiple times, but my message did not seem to get across,
and moderation isn't supposed to last half a day]

Dear All,

I have a system with a raid1 array. I installed it first with a
degraded raid array, one part of the array being /dev/hda2. After
installation I added (mdadm --manage /dev/md2 --add /dev/sda2) the
second drive, which went nicely, the array was assembled. This already
shows that the array is made up of an IDE and a SATA drive (which
might be unwise in general, I don't know, but I have these too drives
at hand currently).

However, when I reboot, only one of the members of the array are
detected. Depending on which drive I boot from (both are bootable with
identical /boot partitions), either /dev/sda2 or /dev/hda2 is attached
to the array (but not the other one). Looking at dmesg suggests that
first the drive from which the system is booted is detected, then the
md array is assembled, and the other drive is only detected
afterwards.

Is there a way to tell the initramfs in which order to detect the
drives it needs (so that both sda and hda would be detected, with the
appropriate modules loaded, and only after that would the raid array
be assembled)?

Thanks,
I.

which debian i should install?

[rosy cutie]

i want to install debian on my computer.by searching its website i reaches at 
the page
http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/5.0.4/i386/iso-cd/
but i am not able to decide which debian?
i dont understand the computer jargon.i cannot install it via internet or 
through any network.
i think i can install it by a cd and   debian-504-i386-CD-.iso will work for me 
but why there are cd-1 to cd-31.
i also want to know what to do with MD5SUMS.
is it also nessacery to download it.
may be it is not nessacery but i want to know how to use it.
please help me.


  

Re: don't upgrade grub or grub-pc ! what's wrong with LILO ?

[Peter]

Jon Dowland  debian.org> writes:

> 
> On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 03:42:57PM +0200, Aioanei Rares
> wrote:
> > A more practical approach : what should the average user
> > do in order to get his/her Debian back after this GRUB
> > bug?
> 
> Stick to stable in future, that's what.

This happened to me with someone's machine.  I don't quite recall how I did it,
but I booted into the command line, then did apt-get remove grub, apt-get
install lilo, and everything was just find afterwards.  Lilo is a bit ugly, but
it works fine.

Now, how did I manage to get to the command line?  There is a live CD available,
grub restore or something similar.  Think this was it.  It was not able to
restore grub to functioning but one of the options in there someplace is to boot
an existing system.  I think that was what got me to the command line on the
system that grub had blown up on.

Once you can boot from it, you can fix it by taking out grub and putting in 
lilo.




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Re: How to turn off all APT security checking?

[Tom H]

> I can't take it any more, day after day various incomplete apt-get
> updates, e.g., bug 564829 and Bug#553533: Seeing BADSIG 9AA38DCD55BE302B
> frequently. What apt-get -o option can I use to turn off all this
> security or whatever checking? It's just too much hassle.

Looked at the man page. Not sure, but might the following work?
--allow-unauthenticated


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Re: How to turn off all APT security checking?

[Steve Kemp]

On Sun Feb 07, 2010 at 00:47:10 +0800, jida...@jidanni.org wrote:

> I can't take it any more, day after day various incomplete apt-get
> updates, e.g., bug 564829 and Bug#553533: Seeing BADSIG 9AA38DCD55BE302B
> frequently. What apt-get -o option can I use to turn off all this
> security or whatever checking? It's just too much hassle.

  apt-get -o APT::Get::AllowUnauthenticated=true update
  apt-get -o APT::Get::AllowUnauthenticated=true upgrade

  You can see this option documented in "man apt-get" where you can also
 see "--allow-unauthenticated" documented.

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Connect to Watchguard VPN

[Matteo Riva]

Hello, this is the first time I have to use a VPN so I need basic
information on how to do it. I need to connect to a Watchguard VPN but
the admin only sent me details for windows so I'm kinda clueless.

What packages should I use? What specific details should I ask the
admin? I already asked for specific instructions but it could take time
and I'd like to speed things up a little if I can, and learn something
in the process too.

Thanks.


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Re: Tax software for Debian (Lenny)?

[briand]

On Sat,  6 Feb 2010 13:17:33 + (UTC)
debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote:

I like opentaxsolver.

I don't think it's available as a deb package, but it's free as in
speech software.

http://opentaxsolver.sourceforge.net/

Brian


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[SOLVED] Re: Tax software for Debian (Lenny)?

[Mark]

Thanks everyone for the replies, it looks like taxact best fits what I want
to do and is compatible with Iceweasel.  Now all I have to do is actually DO
the taxes grr  :)

Regards,
Mark

How to turn off all APT security checking?

[jidanni]

I can't take it any more, day after day various incomplete apt-get
updates, e.g., bug 564829 and Bug#553533: Seeing BADSIG 9AA38DCD55BE302B
frequently. What apt-get -o option can I use to turn off all this
security or whatever checking? It's just too much hassle.


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Re: Re: octave-forge in debian

[Svante Signell]

> On 5 February 2010 12:31, lc  wrote:
> > I want to install the package octave-specfun in debian unstable,
> 
> This isn't a question particular to Octave, but it's about Debian
> packaging. Please direct questions to Debian mailing lists or support
> channels.
> 
> At any rate, I'm CC debian-user@lists.debian.org, and please let's
> move the discussion over there. When you reply to this email, please
> remove help-oct...@octave.org from the CC.
> 
> > but it says
> > octave-specfun:
> > Depends: libhdf5-serial-1.8.3 but it is not going to be installed or
> >libhdf5-1.8.3
> >
> > because the newly upgraded octave3.2.4-1 depends and installed
> > libhdf5-1.8.4
> 
> I don't see how this could be happening. The current octave in sid
> also depends on  libhdf5-1.8.3
> 
> Where are you getting a 3.2.4-1 Octave package?

Octave 3.2.4-1 is in unstable since 31/1. Having that version installed
makes it impossible to install any octave-forge packages. Alternately,
having octave-forge packages installed makes upgrade to 3.2.4
impossible. Has anybody filed bug reports yet?


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Re: one website gives "address not found" from LAN

[Joe]

Andrei Popescu wrote:

On Sat,06.Feb.10, 12:08:58, Joe wrote:

Camaleón wrote:

2010/2/5 Joe:

(you forgot replying to the list)


Sorry. I use Icedove for mail and news, and I've yet to find out how
to make it reply to the list. I need to remember to copy and paste
the right address and I do occasionally forget. I take another
debian list as a newsgroup and there's no problem then.


There's a reply-to-list add-on/extension for Icedove.




Thank you. This reply has hopefully got to the right place...

It's taking a bit of effort to find TB/ID add-ons at the moment, as all 
roads seem to lead to FF add-ons, and they're pushing TB3. My first 
attempt, from within Icedove, crashed the computer badly enough to 
freeze the mouse pointer and kill the keyboard.


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Re: Dosemu broken after Lenny upgrade

[Steven Jan Springl]

Ken

See: http://wiki.debian.org/mmap_min_addr

Regards


Steven.


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Re: Bash question: get output as a variable?

[Mart Frauenlob]

On 06.02.2010 15:43, Mart Frauenlob wrote:
> On 06.02.2010 14:17, Javier Barroso wrote:
>> On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 7:10 PM, Chris Jackson  
>> wrote:
>>> Dotan Cohen wrote:
>>>
 I'm scripting a backup solution, the line that does the business looks
 like this:

 tar -zcvf - *  --exclude-from $EXCLUDES  | openssl des3 -salt -k $1 |
 dd of=$(hostname)-$(date +%Y%m%d).tbz

 Because of the "v" flag tar writes to stdout the name of each file
 copied. How can I get that output redirected to a variable, to use
 later in the script?

 Thanks!

>>>
>>>
>>> Use $() like you do with the date command. You have to redirect stderr back
>>> to stdout, which means running it in a subshell:
>>>
>>>
>>> FILES=$( ( tar -zcvf - *  --exclude-from $EXCLUDES  | openssl des3 -salt -k
>>> $1 | dd of=$(hostname)-$(date +%Y%m%d).tbz ) 2>&1 )
>>>
>>> It may cause unexpected results if there're spaces in the filenames though.
>>
>> If there are spaces in filenames, you can try:
>>
>> $ n=0; while read l; do files[n]="$l"; ((n++)); done < <((tar -zvcf -
>> * | openssl > $(hostname)-$(date +%Y%m%d)) 2>&1)
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>>
> Warning:
> 

[..]

> read strips of leading and trailing spaces.
> use the $REPLY variable to avoid that.

or by:
IFS=$'\n'

while IFS=$'\n'; read l [...] ; do ...

> 
> rare conditions of newline in filenames is not covered...

> 
> 


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Re: avi to dvd

[Bogdan]

Jens Van Broeckhoven wrote:

On Saturday 06 February 2010 20:49:56 Bogdan wrote:
  

Hey,

Can someone point me to a decent GUI  [i don't want to go through the
command line for this] avi to dvd converter? I've Googled a little and
found some references for DeVeDe and ManDVD, but i'm not able to make a
documented decision.

Thank you,




Devede is comparable with ConvertXtoDVD for windows.

 



  


Hey,

Thanks for your advice. I guess I'll go for Devede than.

Best regards,

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Timisoara, ROMANIA
E-mail: bogdan.dumitru.mar...@gmail.com
E-mail: mending...@gmail.com


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Re: grub2 + serial redirect

[Andrew Malcolmson]

On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Lev Lvovsky  wrote:[snip]
> Thanks, I'll give this a shot tonight, if it works, I'm assuming that this is 
> an upstream patch to the update-grub script?

Sorry for wasting your time.  I've retested my original setup both
over a serial cable to a single-board computer and by booting an image
file on my PC with 'kvm -nographic'.   I get the same issue you did:
no Grub menu over serial but shows fine over console.

I'm recompiling grub from the source in Sid with an explicit
'--enable-serial' configure option.  I'll let you know if I turn up
anything worthwhile.


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Re: avi to dvd

[Jens Van Broeckhoven]

On Saturday 06 February 2010 20:49:56 Bogdan wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> Can someone point me to a decent GUI  [i don't want to go through the
> command line for this] avi to dvd converter? I've Googled a little and
> found some references for DeVeDe and ManDVD, but i'm not able to make a
> documented decision.
> 
> Thank you,
> 

Devede is comparable with ConvertXtoDVD for windows.

 


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Re: Bash question: get output as a variable?

[Mart Frauenlob]

On 06.02.2010 13:39, Mart Frauenlob wrote:
> On 04.02.2010 23:09, Dotan Cohen wrote:
>> I'm scripting a backup solution, the line that does the business looks
>> like this:
>>
>> tar -zcvf - *  --exclude-from $EXCLUDES  | openssl des3 -salt -k $1 |
>> dd of=$(hostname)-$(date +%Y%m%d).tbz
>>
>> Because of the "v" flag tar writes to stdout the name of each file
>> copied. How can I get that output redirected to a variable, to use
>> later in the script?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
> 
> After reading many of the follow-ups, I'd suggest something like that:
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> 
> # create the archive local first, as if you use 'tar -v' and redirection
> # of stderr, you will also catch (possible) error messages of tar, not
> # only a file list.
> 
> tar -czf archive.tgz
> 
> # now list the content with 'tar -t'.
> # that ensures that we work only with files, which are in the archive.
> # you can put it into an array, or if that's not save enough (as the
> # array could become quite big and consume a lot of memory) redirect
> # the output to a file.
> 

forgot:
oifs=$IFS
IFS='$\n'

> array=( $(tar -tf archive.tgz) )
> 
> # or
> tar -tf archive.tgz > file.list
> 


If filename contains newline the whole thing still is in trouble though.



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Re: Tax software for Debian (Lenny)?

[Stephen Powell]

On Fri, 5 Feb 2010 23:35:26 -0500 (EST), Mark wrote:
> I've done the typical Internet scrubbing and didn't find anything specific
> to tax software for Debian (something similar to TurboTax, for example).  I
> found a few interesting options but nothing in the official Debian
> packages.  Here's what I have so far as options (on-line versions), any
> insight into the most Linux/Debian-friendly one of these?  I live in the USA
> and run Lenny on the machine I"ll do my taxes with.
>
> -taxact.com http://www.taxactonline.com/
> -taxslayer.com http://www.taxslayer.com/
> -taxgeek (looks a couple years old) http://taxgeek.sourceforge.net/

I'd go with the online software.  That way, you're never out
of date.  I've used both fileyourtaxes.com and taxact.com.
You have to enter fileyourtaxes.com from the IRS web site
"free file" link or else they'll charge you.  But I don't
remember them having any ads.  And you have to be below the
income limit (I think it's $50,000/year) to qualify for a free
return.  I used it to file a tax return for myself the first
year, before the income limit was put on.  After the income
limit I used it only to do my kid's returns.  One nice thing
about this company is that their server is in California;
so the e-file date/time stamp is California time.  If you live
in the eastern time zone, you can e-file as late as 2:59 AM
on April 16 and the e-file date/time stamp will say 11:59 PM
on April 15.  You filed on time!

Since I'm over the $50,000 limit, I use taxact.com.  You don't
have to enter that site from the IRS free-file link to get
free filing.  But they have three options.  I forget what
they're called, but I think its like basic,
advanced, and premium, or some such thing.  Only basic is free.
And you will be encouraged at several points along the way to
upgrade to advanced or premium.  Resist the temptation.
Basic can handle just about everything.  You will also be
encouraged to let them prepare your state return too.
They charge for that as well.  In my state, the state government
has a free web site for state income tax preparation; so
I always decline taxact's offer of state tax preparation.
My municipal tax return can be filed online free as well,
using a third government-sponsored web site.
I have to key everything in over again, of course, but once
the federal return has been prepared, it really doesn't take
too long to do the state return.  This site also has ads,
mostly for their advanced and premium filing services.
But I put up with it to get free filing.

As I recall, both sites whine about an unsupported browser.
Neither one of them likes Epiphany.  And you have to go through
some extra steps of "are you sure you want to use this
browser anyway?"  But Epiphany under Lenny worked fine last
year.

That reminds me.  I need to get started on my taxes.  :-(


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Re: Bash question: get output as a variable?

[Mart Frauenlob]

On 06.02.2010 14:17, Javier Barroso wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 7:10 PM, Chris Jackson  
> wrote:
>> Dotan Cohen wrote:
>>
>>> I'm scripting a backup solution, the line that does the business looks
>>> like this:
>>>
>>> tar -zcvf - *  --exclude-from $EXCLUDES  | openssl des3 -salt -k $1 |
>>> dd of=$(hostname)-$(date +%Y%m%d).tbz
>>>
>>> Because of the "v" flag tar writes to stdout the name of each file
>>> copied. How can I get that output redirected to a variable, to use
>>> later in the script?
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>
>>
>> Use $() like you do with the date command. You have to redirect stderr back
>> to stdout, which means running it in a subshell:
>>
>>
>> FILES=$( ( tar -zcvf - *  --exclude-from $EXCLUDES  | openssl des3 -salt -k
>> $1 | dd of=$(hostname)-$(date +%Y%m%d).tbz ) 2>&1 )
>>
>> It may cause unexpected results if there're spaces in the filenames though.
> 
> If there are spaces in filenames, you can try:
> 
> $ n=0; while read l; do files[n]="$l"; ((n++)); done < <((tar -zvcf -
> * | openssl > $(hostname)-$(date +%Y%m%d)) 2>&1)
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 
Warning:

~# read < <(printf "%s\n" " foo bar ")
~# printf "'%s'\n'" "$REPLY"
' foo bar '
~# read l < <(printf "%s\n" " foo bar ")
~# printf "'%s'\n'" "$l"
'foo bar'

read strips of leading and trailing spaces.
use the $REPLY variable to avoid that.

rare conditions of newline in filenames is not covered...

Best regards

Mart



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Dosemu broken after Lenny upgrade

[Ken Heard]

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Until today I have had no trouble using dosemu 1.4.0 with Lenny.
Yesterday however I upgraded Lenny.  When I tried to open dosemu for the
first time since the upgrade the dosemu command, when opened in a
console (my user) returned the following:

LOWRAM mmap: Invalid argument
Segmentation fault

I then got the user bang.

First, I would appreciate it if someone could tell me what those two
lines mean.

Second, could one of the packages upgraded yesterday break dosemu?  The
list of those packages is appended below.  I really need to get dosemu
working again because so many of my essential documents are still in
WordPerfect 5.1.

Regards, Ken Heard

2010-02-05 20:03 upgrade acroread-debian-files 0.2.2
2010-02-05 20:03 upgrade base-files 5lenny5
2010-02-05 20:03 upgrade dhcp-client 3.1.1-6+lenny4
2010-02-05 20:03 upgrade dhcp3-client 3.1.1-6+lenny4
2010-02-05 20:03 upgrade dhcp3-common 3.1.1-6+lenny4
2010-02-05 20:03 upgrade dpkg 1.14.28
2010-02-05 20:03 upgrade dpkg-dev 1.14.28
2010-02-05 20:03 upgrade dselect 1.14.28
2010-02-05 20:03 upgrade gnash 0.8.4-3~lenny1
2010-02-05 20:03 upgrade gnash-common 0.8.4-3~lenny1
2010-02-05 20:03 upgrade libfam0 2.7.0-13.3+lenny1
2010-02-05 20:03 upgrade libfinance-quote-perl 1.13-3+lenny1
2010-02-05 20:03 upgrade libfuse2 2.7.4-1.1+lenny1
2010-02-05 20:03 upgrade libglib2.0-0 2.16.6-3
2010-02-05 20:03 upgrade libkpathsea4 2007.dfsg.2-4+lenny2
2010-02-05 20:03 upgrade libmysqlclient15off 5.0.51a-24+lenny2+spu1
2010-02-05 20:03 upgrade libqt4-dbus 4.4.3-1+lenny1
2010-02-05 20:03 upgrade libqt4-designer 4.4.3-1+lenny1
2010-02-05 20:03 upgrade libqt4-network 4.4.3-1+lenny1
2010-02-05 20:03 upgrade libqt4-qt3support 4.4.3-1+lenny1
2010-02-05 20:03 upgrade libqt4-script 4.4.3-1+lenny1
2010-02-05 20:03 upgrade libqt4-sql 4.4.3-1+lenny1
2010-02-05 20:03 upgrade libqt4-sql-mysql 4.4.3-1+lenny1
2010-02-05 20:03 upgrade libqt4-xml 4.4.3-1+lenny1
2010-02-05 20:03 upgrade libqtcore4 4.4.3-1+lenny1
2010-02-05 20:03 upgrade libqtgui4 4.4.3-1+lenny1
2010-02-05 20:03 upgrade libsmbclient 2:3.2.5-4lenny8
2010-02-05 20:03 upgrade libwbclient0 2:3.2.5-4lenny8
2010-02-05 20:03 upgrade libxerces2-java 2.9.1-2+lenny1
2010-02-05 20:03 upgrade linux-image-2.6.26-2-686 2.6.26-21
2010-02-05 20:03 upgrade linux-libc-dev 2.6.26-21
2010-02-05 20:03 upgrade login 1:4.1.1-6+lenny1
2010-02-05 20:03 upgrade mozilla-plugin-gnash 0.8.4-3~lenny1
2010-02-05 20:03 upgrade mysql-common 5.0.51a-24+lenny2+spu1
2010-02-05 20:03 upgrade passwd 1:4.1.1-6+lenny1
2010-02-05 20:03 upgrade qt4-qtconfig 4.4.3-1+lenny1
2010-02-05 20:03 upgrade spamassassin 3.2.5-2+lenny2
2010-02-05 20:03 upgrade spamc 3.2.5-2+lenny2
2010-02-05 20:03 upgrade texlive-base-bin 2007.dfsg.2-4+lenny2
2010-02-05 20:03 upgrade tzdata 2010a-0lenny1
2010-02-05 20:03 upgrade tzdata-java 2010a-0lenny1
2010-02-05 20:03 upgrade usbutils 0.73-10lenny1


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Dosemu broken after Lenny upgrade

[Ken Heard]

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Until today I have had no trouble using dosemu 1.4.0 with Lenny.
Yesterday however I upgraded Lenny.  When I tried to open dosemu for the
first time since the upgrade the dosemu command, when opened in a
console (my user) returned the following:

LOWRAM mmap: Invalid argument
Segmentation fault

I then got the user bang.

First, I would appreciate it if someone could tell me what those two
lines mean.

Second, could one of the packages upgraded yesterday break dosemu?  The
list of those packages is appended below.  I really need to get dosemu
working again because so many of my essential documents are still in
WordPerfect 5.1.

Regards, Ken Heard

2010-02-05 20:03 upgrade acroread-debian-files 0.2.2
2010-02-05 20:03 upgrade base-files 5lenny5
2010-02-05 20:03 upgrade dhcp-client 3.1.1-6+lenny4
2010-02-05 20:03 upgrade dhcp3-client 3.1.1-6+lenny4
2010-02-05 20:03 upgrade dhcp3-common 3.1.1-6+lenny4
2010-02-05 20:03 upgrade dpkg 1.14.28
2010-02-05 20:03 upgrade dpkg-dev 1.14.28
2010-02-05 20:03 upgrade dselect 1.14.28
2010-02-05 20:03 upgrade gnash 0.8.4-3~lenny1
2010-02-05 20:03 upgrade gnash-common 0.8.4-3~lenny1
2010-02-05 20:03 upgrade libfam0 2.7.0-13.3+lenny1
2010-02-05 20:03 upgrade libfinance-quote-perl 1.13-3+lenny1
2010-02-05 20:03 upgrade libfuse2 2.7.4-1.1+lenny1
2010-02-05 20:03 upgrade libglib2.0-0 2.16.6-3
2010-02-05 20:03 upgrade libkpathsea4 2007.dfsg.2-4+lenny2
2010-02-05 20:03 upgrade libmysqlclient15off 5.0.51a-24+lenny2+spu1
2010-02-05 20:03 upgrade libqt4-dbus 4.4.3-1+lenny1
2010-02-05 20:03 upgrade libqt4-designer 4.4.3-1+lenny1
2010-02-05 20:03 upgrade libqt4-network 4.4.3-1+lenny1
2010-02-05 20:03 upgrade libqt4-qt3support 4.4.3-1+lenny1
2010-02-05 20:03 upgrade libqt4-script 4.4.3-1+lenny1
2010-02-05 20:03 upgrade libqt4-sql 4.4.3-1+lenny1
2010-02-05 20:03 upgrade libqt4-sql-mysql 4.4.3-1+lenny1
2010-02-05 20:03 upgrade libqt4-xml 4.4.3-1+lenny1
2010-02-05 20:03 upgrade libqtcore4 4.4.3-1+lenny1
2010-02-05 20:03 upgrade libqtgui4 4.4.3-1+lenny1
2010-02-05 20:03 upgrade libsmbclient 2:3.2.5-4lenny8
2010-02-05 20:03 upgrade libwbclient0 2:3.2.5-4lenny8
2010-02-05 20:03 upgrade libxerces2-java 2.9.1-2+lenny1
2010-02-05 20:03 upgrade linux-image-2.6.26-2-686 2.6.26-21
2010-02-05 20:03 upgrade linux-libc-dev 2.6.26-21
2010-02-05 20:03 upgrade login 1:4.1.1-6+lenny1
2010-02-05 20:03 upgrade mozilla-plugin-gnash 0.8.4-3~lenny1
2010-02-05 20:03 upgrade mysql-common 5.0.51a-24+lenny2+spu1
2010-02-05 20:03 upgrade passwd 1:4.1.1-6+lenny1
2010-02-05 20:03 upgrade qt4-qtconfig 4.4.3-1+lenny1
2010-02-05 20:03 upgrade spamassassin 3.2.5-2+lenny2
2010-02-05 20:03 upgrade spamc 3.2.5-2+lenny2
2010-02-05 20:03 upgrade texlive-base-bin 2007.dfsg.2-4+lenny2
2010-02-05 20:03 upgrade tzdata 2010a-0lenny1
2010-02-05 20:03 upgrade tzdata-java 2010a-0lenny1
2010-02-05 20:03 upgrade usbutils 0.73-10lenny1


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selinux question on debian lenny

[Dino Vliet]

Hi all,

I installed debian lenny with Xfs as it' s filesystem (in raid-1) and went on 
to install java (openjdk). This system also has a postgresql database server 
installation.

I tried to enable selinux by following the steps on this wiki:
http://wiki.debian.org/SELinux/Setup

However, after step 5 in that sequence, Run check-selinux-installation to check 
that everything has been setup correctly and to catch common SELinux problems. 
(Note: old-style-ptys aren't serious.), I got the following message:

FSCKFIX is not enabled - not serious, but could prevent system from booting

1) What is causing this and how can I correct it?

2) The next thing I did was to check my syslog. The last part of it says:

Feb  6 14:52:48 biserver kernel: [   91.461220] __ratelimit: 12 messages 
suppressed
Feb  6 14:52:48 biserver kernel: [   91.461224] type=1401 
audit(1265464368.175:41): security_compute_sid:  invalid context 
unconfined_u:unconfined_r:xdm_xserver_t:s0 for 
scontext=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0 
tcontext=system_u:object_r:xserver_exec_t:s0 tclass=process
Feb  6 14:52:48 biserver kernel: [   91.716479] SELinux:  context 
unconfined_u:unconfined_r:xdm_xserver_t:s0 is invalid
Feb  6 14:52:48 biserver acpid: client connected from 3448[0:0]
Feb  6 14:52:50 biserver kernel: [   93.801395] type=1401 
audit(1265464370.515:42): security_compute_sid:  invalid context 
unconfined_u:unconfined_r:xdm_xserver_t:s0 for 
scontext=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:xdm_xserver_t:s0 
tcontext=system_u:object_r:shell_exec_t:s0 tclass=process
Feb  6 14:52:50 biserver kernel: [   93.817255] type=1401 
audit(1265464370.531:43): security_compute_sid:  invalid context 
unconfined_u:unconfined_r:xdm_xserver_t:s0 for 
scontext=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:xdm_xserver_t:s0 
tcontext=system_u:object_r:bin_t:s0 tclass=process
Feb  6 14:52:51 biserver kernel: [   94.365592] type=1401 
audit(1265464371.079:44): security_compute_sid:  invalid context 
unconfined_u:unconfined_r:xdm_xserver_t:s0 for 
scontext=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:xdm_xserver_t:s0 
tcontext=system_u:object_r:shell_exec_t:s0 tclass=process
Feb  6 14:52:51 biserver kernel: [   94.372334] type=1401 
audit(1265464371.087:45): security_compute_sid:  invalid context 
unconfined_u:unconfined_r:xdm_xserver_t:s0 for 
scontext=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:xdm_xserver_t:s0 
tcontext=system_u:object_r:bin_t:s0 tclass=process
Feb  6 14:52:52 biserver kernel: [   95.820411] SELinux:  context 
unconfined_u:unconfined_r:xdm_xserver_t:s0 is invalid
Feb  6 14:52:53 biserver kernel: [   96.392035] SELinux:  context 
unconfined_u:unconfined_r:xdm_xserver_t:s0 is invalid
Feb  6 14:52:53 biserver kernel: [   96.500011] SELinux:  context 
unconfined_u:unconfined_r:xdm_xserver_t:s0 is invalid
Feb  6 14:52:53 biserver kernel: [   97.145973] SELinux:  context 
unconfined_u:unconfined_r:xdm_xserver_t:s0 is invalid
Feb  6 14:52:54 biserver kernel: [   98.193879] SELinux:  context 
unconfined_u:unconfined_r:xdm_xserver_t:s0 is invalid
Feb  6 14:52:56 biserver kernel: [   99.888604] SELinux:  context 
unconfined_u:unconfined_r:xdm_xserver_t:s0 is invalid
Feb  6 14:52:56 biserver kernel: [  100.276146] SELinux:  context 
unconfined_u:unconfined_r:xdm_xserver_t:s0 is invalid
Feb  6 14:52:57 biserver kernel: [  100.549781] SELinux:  context 
unconfined_u:unconfined_r:xdm_xserver_t:s0 is invalid
Feb  6 14:52:57 biserver kernel: [  100.696083] type=1400 
audit(1265464377.411:46): avc:  denied  { search } for  pid=2562 
comm="dbus-daemon" name="3488" dev=proc ino=13750 
scontext=system_u:system_r:system_dbusd_t:s0 
tcontext=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0 tclass=dir
Feb  6 14:52:57 biserver kernel: [  100.696128] type=1400 
audit(1265464377.411:47): avc:  denied  { read } for  pid=2562 
comm="dbus-daemon" name="cmdline" dev=proc ino=13751 
scontext=system_u:system_r:system_dbusd_t:s0 
tcontext=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0 tclass=file
Feb  6 14:52:57 biserver kernel: [  100.804317] SELinux:  context 
unconfined_u:unconfined_r:xdm_xserver_t:s0 is invalid
Feb  6 14:52:57 biserver kernel: [  101.253089] SELinux:  context 
unconfined_u:unconfined_r:xdm_xserver_t:s0 is invalid
Feb  6 14:53:02 biserver kernel: [  105.743291] SELinux:  context 
unconfined_u:unconfined_r:xdm_xserver_t:s0 is invalid
Feb  6 14:53:08 biserver kernel: [  111.857588] SELinux:  context 
unconfined_u:unconfined_r:xdm_xserver_t:s0 is invalid
Feb  6 14:53:08 biserver kernel: [  111.904995] SELinux:  context 
unconfined_u:unconfined_r:xdm_xserver_t:s0 is invalid
Feb  6 14:53:09 biserver kernel: [  113.069960] SELinux:  context 
unconfined_u:unconfined_r:xdm_xserver_t:s0 is invalid
Feb  6 14:53:10 biserver kernel: [  113.948280] SELinux:  context 
unconfined_u:unconfined_r:xdm_xserver_t:s0 is invalid
Feb  6 14:53:34 biserver kernel: [  137.596125] SELinux:  context 
unconfined_u:unconfined_r:xdm_xserver_t:s0 is invalid
Feb  6 14:53:34 biserver kernel: [  137.620644] SELinux:  context 
unconfined_u:unconfined_r:xdm_xse

Re: avi to dvd

[Mirco Piccin]

Hi,

> Can someone point me to a decent GUI  [i don't want
> to go through the command line for this] avi to dvd
> converter? I've Googled a little and found some references
> for DeVeDe and ManDVD, but i'm not able to make a
> documented decision.

i use DeVeDe.
It's very easy to use.
Also menu creation and conversion tasks are simplified...

Regards
M

Re: local install with apt-get still producing caches in /var/lib/dpkg/{info,alternatives,info, ...}

[Andrei Popescu]

On Sat,06.Feb.10, 13:13:33, Albretch Mueller wrote:

>  How is it being set to beging with if I don't explicitly use dpkg to
> install packages?

Only dpkg installs packages. APT "just" takes care of resolving 
dependencies and downloading the apropiate .deb files which are then 
passed to dpkg.

Regards,
Andrei
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Re: Bash question: get output as a variable?

[Javier Barroso]

On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 7:10 PM, Chris Jackson  wrote:
> Dotan Cohen wrote:
>
>> I'm scripting a backup solution, the line that does the business looks
>> like this:
>>
>> tar -zcvf - *  --exclude-from $EXCLUDES  | openssl des3 -salt -k $1 |
>> dd of=$(hostname)-$(date +%Y%m%d).tbz
>>
>> Because of the "v" flag tar writes to stdout the name of each file
>> copied. How can I get that output redirected to a variable, to use
>> later in the script?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>
>
> Use $() like you do with the date command. You have to redirect stderr back
> to stdout, which means running it in a subshell:
>
>
> FILES=$( ( tar -zcvf - *  --exclude-from $EXCLUDES  | openssl des3 -salt -k
> $1 | dd of=$(hostname)-$(date +%Y%m%d).tbz ) 2>&1 )
>
> It may cause unexpected results if there're spaces in the filenames though.

If there are spaces in filenames, you can try:

$ n=0; while read l; do files[n]="$l"; ((n++)); done < <((tar -zvcf -
* | openssl > $(hostname)-$(date +%Y%m%d)) 2>&1)

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local install with apt-get still producing caches in /var/lib/dpkg/{info,alternatives,info, ...}

[Albretch Mueller]

~
 After taking snapshots of my file system before and after
installations using apt-get, I noticed lots of files in:
~
/var/lib/dpkg/{info,alternatives,info, ...}
~
 relating to the files I installed, but those files I had grabbed
locally like this:
~
_SL=
apt-get update -o Dir::Etc::SourceList=${_SL}
apt-get install -y -V -o Dir::Etc::SourceList=${_SL} kate
~
 dpkg does have an admindir option to set the temporary local cache
~
# dpkg --help | grep admindir
  --admindir= Use  instead of /var/lib/dpkg.
~
 but I don't see an "admindir" option in apt-get
~
# apt-get --help | grep admindir
# apt-get --help | grep admin
# apt-get --help | grep var
~
 and apt-get(8) does not say a thing about caching files at:
~
 /var/lib/dpkg
~
 I am not using dpkg to any install packages, just to list installed
packages a la:
~
 dpkg -l > dpkg00.txt
~
 using the "clean" option of apt-get may delete the deb installation
files I do keep locally
~
 How do I set the "/var/lib/dpkg" directory to be used by apt-get?
~
 How is it being set to beging with if I don't explicitly use dpkg to
install packages?
~
 Thank you
 lbrtchx


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Re: one website gives "address not found" from LAN

[Andrei Popescu]

On Sat,06.Feb.10, 12:08:58, Joe wrote:
> Camaleón wrote:
> >2010/2/5 Joe:
> >
> >(you forgot replying to the list)
> >
> Sorry. I use Icedove for mail and news, and I've yet to find out how
> to make it reply to the list. I need to remember to copy and paste
> the right address and I do occasionally forget. I take another
> debian list as a newsgroup and there's no problem then.

There's a reply-to-list add-on/extension for Icedove.

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Re: No Umlauts on console with Kernel 2.6.26

[Til Schubbe]

On 2010-02-06 Sven wrote:

> I suspect it's rather Ã, e.g. you're seeing "Ã?" instead of "ä".

I sent the characters from the specific system to me via email. While
on the specific system they look different, here they look like these:

ae À
oe ö
ue Ì
ss Ã\237

> Generally I would 
> recommend to switch to a UTF-8 locale now,

Ok.

> the utf8-migration-tool 
> package can help you with the transition.

# /usr/bin/utf8migrationtool
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/utf8migrationtool", line 3, in 
import sys, locale, os, gtk, gobject
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py",
line 48, in 
from gtk import _gtk
ImportError: /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1: undefined symbol:
FT_Select_Size

# ls -l /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 2010-01-22 23:52
/usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1 -> libfontconfig.so.1.3.0
# ls -l /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1.3.0 
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 176720 2008-11-18 10:25
/usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1.3.0

What's wrong with utf8migrationtool resp.
/usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1?

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avi to dvd

[Bogdan]

Hey,

Can someone point me to a decent GUI  [i don't want to go through the 
command line for this] avi to dvd converter? I've Googled a little and 
found some references for DeVeDe and ManDVD, but i'm not able to make a 
documented decision.


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Re: Bash question: get output as a variable?

[Mart Frauenlob]

On 04.02.2010 23:09, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> I'm scripting a backup solution, the line that does the business looks
> like this:
> 
> tar -zcvf - *  --exclude-from $EXCLUDES  | openssl des3 -salt -k $1 |
> dd of=$(hostname)-$(date +%Y%m%d).tbz
> 
> Because of the "v" flag tar writes to stdout the name of each file
> copied. How can I get that output redirected to a variable, to use
> later in the script?
> 
> Thanks!
> 

After reading many of the follow-ups, I'd suggest something like that:

#!/bin/bash

# create the archive local first, as if you use 'tar -v' and redirection
# of stderr, you will also catch (possible) error messages of tar, not
# only a file list.

tar -czf archive.tgz

# now list the content with 'tar -t'.
# that ensures that we work only with files, which are in the archive.
# you can put it into an array, or if that's not save enough (as the
# array could become quite big and consume a lot of memory) redirect
# the output to a file.

array=( $(tar -tf archive.tgz) )

# or
tar -tf archive.tgz > file.list

# now do whatever work with the file list, either from the array or
# from the file.

: ...

Best regards

Mart


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Reply-to the list (was: one website gives "address not found" from LAN)

[Camaleón]

On Sat, 06 Feb 2010 12:08:58 +, Joe wrote:

> Camaleón wrote:
>> 2010/2/5 Joe:
>> 
>> (you forgot replying to the list)
>> 
> Sorry. I use Icedove for mail and news, and I've yet to find out how to
> make it reply to the list. I need to remember to copy and paste the
> right address and I do occasionally forget. I take another debian list
> as a newsgroup and there's no problem then.

Yep, no problem :-)

Some mailing lists do not want to hide the "From:" and they keep the 
original's sender e-mail so if your MUA has no "reply to the list" option 
(KMail or Mutt have) when you hit "Reply" your e-mail goes just to the OP.

I knew there was a bypass for Thunderbird (by setting 
"mailnews.clobber_list_reply" to "yes") but IIRC, that worked with 
openSUSE Thunderbird packages.

I wonder if Debian devs also ported this to Icedove :-?

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Re: one website gives "address not found" from LAN

[Joe]

Camaleón wrote:

2010/2/5 Joe:

(you forgot replying to the list)

Sorry. I use Icedove for mail and news, and I've yet to find out how to 
make it reply to the list. I need to remember to copy and paste the 
right address and I do occasionally forget. I take another debian list 
as a newsgroup and there's no problem then.


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Re: postfix doesn't receive message

[Camaleón]

On Sat, 06 Feb 2010 12:10:09 +0100, abdelkader belahcene wrote:

> I install postfix, just basic thing for local network ( to receive from
> other machine in my local area : 192.168.100.0/24) from other machine
> for example 192.168.100.25  I receive mail  if I use telnet
> telnet  192.168.100.100  25
> but with mail   b...@192.168.100.100
> I didn't receive anything here is the two connection from the remote
> machine 100.25  to the server 100.100

Review "/var/mail/user", the reason of the non-delivery should be there 
>:-)

> myhostname = server312.iap.dz
> alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases
> alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases
> myorigin = /etc/mailname
> mydestination = server312.iap.dz, localhost.iap.dz, localhost relayhost

Are you the owner of that domain name? :-?

s...@stt008:/var$ host iap.dz
iap.dz mail is handled by 10 mail.iap.dz.

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Re: Tax software for Debian (Lenny)?

[Bryce]

Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:

> In <4b6d040e.3090...@yahoo.com>, Marc Shapiro wrote:
>>Mark wrote:
>>> Here's what I have so far as options (on-line
>>> versions), any insight into the most
>>> Linux/Debian-friendly one of
>>> these?  I live in the USA and run Lenny on the machine
>>> I"ll do my taxes with.
>>>
>>> -taxact.com 
>>> http://www.taxactonline.com/ -taxslayer.com
>>>  http://www.taxslayer.com/
>>> -taxgeek (looks a couple years old)
>>> http://taxgeek.sourceforge.net/
>>
>>I have been using TaxAct for several years.
> 
> I've also been using it for 2-3 years.  Last year they
> made some changes and the web app. didn't work in my
> Konqueror anymore, but IceWeasel worked fine.
> 
>>This year they made some
>>changes making entry much easier by providing an option
>>for full screen entry on many forms instead of question by
>>question.
> 
> I haven't done mine, yet, this year.  It's good to know
> their interface keeps getting better.

I'm uneasy about doing my taxes online.  This year, the only 
option I found that would run on my old win2k install -- 
that lives on only to run taxes -- was TaxAct.  It worked 
flawlessly.  Just for fun, I tried it under debian+wine ... 
didn't work.



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postfix doesn't receive message

[abdelkader belahcene]

Hi everybody

I install postfix, just basic thing for local network ( to receive from
other machine in my local area : 192.168.100.0/24)
from other machine for example 192.168.100.25  I receive mail  if I use
telnet
telnet  192.168.100.100  25
but with mail   b...@192.168.100.100
I didn't receive anything here is the two connection from the remote machine
100.25  to the server 100.100

u...@debian25:~$ telnet 192.168.100.100 25
Trying 192.168.100.100...
Connected to 192.168.100.100.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 server312.iap.dz ESMTP Postfix (by Bela Debian/GNU)
HELO server312.iap.dz
250 server312.iap.dz
MAIL FROM: u...@debian.25
250 2.1.0 Ok
RCPT TO: b...@server312.iap.dz
250 2.1.5 Ok
DATA
354 End data with .
Hello There
with telenet 25
.
250 2.0.0 Ok: queued as 2FAEF3B20
QUIT
221 2.0.0 Bye

Connection closed by foreign host.
u...@debian25:~$ mail b...@192.168.100.100
Subject: With mail command
Hello there with mail  command
.
cc:
-

b...@server312:~$ mail
Mail version 8.1.2 01/15/2001.  Type ? for help.
"/var/mail/bela": 1 message 1 new
>N  1 u...@debian.25 Sat Feb  6 11:47   11/361
& 1
Message 1:
>From u...@debian.25  Sat Feb  6 11:47:19 2010
X-Original-To: b...@server312.iap.dz

Hello There
with telenet 25

The last part is what I receive  with telnet 25
Here is my main.cnf

myhostname = server312.iap.dz
alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases
alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases
myorigin = /etc/mailname
mydestination = server312.iap.dz, localhost.iap.dz, localhost
relayhost =
mynetworks = 127.0.0.0/8 192.168.100.0/24
mailbox_command = procmail -a "$EXTENSION"
mailbox_size_limit = 0
recipient_delimiter = +
inet_interfaces = all
html_directory = /usr/share/doc/postfix/html


thanks for help

Re: No Umlauts on console with Kernel 2.6.26

[Sven Joachim]

On 2010-02-06 11:17 +0100, Til Schubbe wrote:

> I upgraded a Lenny from Kernel 2.6.18-6-486 to 2.6.26-2-486.
> Booting with 2.6.26 I dont get any characters displayed by
> pressing German umlaut-keys on the console. X works fine.
>
> So I did a
> # dpkg-reconfigure console-data
> and set it to 'pc qwertz German latin1 - no dead keys'. Now
> pushing an umlaut-key generates 2 characters. First a capital 'A',
> and then a special character. But I don't get German umlauts.

I suspect it's rather Ã, e.g. you're seeing "ä" instead of "ä".

> Umlauts still work when I reboot with Kernel 2.6.18.

I think the 2.6.26 kernel uses UTF-8 by default which would explain the
discrepancy.

> Do I have to add something to /etc/console, boottime* etc.?
>
> What else do I have to do to get my umlauts back with 2.6.26?

Check /etc/default/locale, /etc/environment and your shell
initialization files for locale settings.  Generally I would recommend
to switch to a UTF-8 locale now, the utf8-migration-tool package can
help you with the transition.

Sven


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Re: Pango: Iceweasel vs. Chrome

[Florian Kulzer]

On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 11:00:16 +0530, Girish Kulkarni wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Feb 2010 09:30:07 + (UTC) Liam O'Toole wrote:
> > Basically the difference is that Chrome repects the XSETTINGS
> > configuration but not the detailed fontconfig settings. If you are
> > running both browsers in a GNOME session then Chrome will use
> > XSETTINGS. 
> 
> Thanks for the reply.  I'm quite unfamiliar with both XSETTINGS and
> fontconfig, and would like to translate the difference between Chrome
> and Iceweasel (that you point out) into improvement in Iceweasel's
> font-handling.  Wonder if there's some documentation on this?  

Step 1: Find out your font-related GTK settings. You can use the
gtksettings.c program from the chromium bug report that was pointed out
earlier by Liam[1], or you can try either "xrdb -query | grep Xft"
(basic X) or "gconftool-2 --all-entries /desktop/gnome/font_rendering"
if you use Gnome.

Step 2: Transfer these settings to your ~/.fonts.conf or the
system-level configuration files in /etc/fonts/. The documentation of
the configuration files[2] should already be on your system as part of
the fontconfig package. It might be easier to use a comparison of
fonts.conf with the xrdb output[3] to learn how to write an equivalent
fonst.conf.

Step 3: Iceweasel should respect the new fontconfig settings the next
time it is started.

[1] http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=18159#c11
[2] file:///usr/share/doc/fontconfig/fontconfig-user.html
[3] http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2006/11/msg03003.html

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Re: Unknown media type error message????

[Camaleón]

On Thu, 04 Feb 2010 18:10:45 -0600, JW Foster wrote:

> I get these with most every installation using any installer. Running
> testing latest update & this has been going on for some time. Anyone
> know how to get rid of the errors?
> 
> Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-msi-hessian'

(...)

> Installation  is successful just dont like the errors. 

It seems to be a known bug:

"Unknown media type" output message
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=469833

Which points to a freedesktop bug:

[PATCH] Add -q option to update-mime-database
http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16816

So by reading both reports, I think you can forget that noisy warnings, I 
guess they will be removed soon.

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No Umlauts on console with Kernel 2.6.26

[Til Schubbe]

Hi,

I upgraded a Lenny from Kernel 2.6.18-6-486 to 2.6.26-2-486.
Booting with 2.6.26 I dont get any characters displayed by
pressing German umlaut-keys on the console. X works fine.

So I did a
# dpkg-reconfigure console-data
and set it to 'pc qwertz German latin1 - no dead keys'. Now
pushing an umlaut-key generates 2 characters. First a capital 'A',
and then a special character. But I don't get German umlauts.

Umlauts still work when I reboot with Kernel 2.6.18.

Do I have to add something to /etc/console, boottime* etc.?

What else do I have to do to get my umlauts back with 2.6.26?

TIA
Til


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Re: Tax software for Debian (Lenny)?

[Michael Paulsen]

Mark wrote:
I've done the typical Internet scrubbing and didn't find anything 
specific to tax software for Debian (something similar to TurboTax, 
for example).  I found a few interesting options but nothing in the 
official Debian packages.  Here's what I have so far as options 
(on-line versions), any insight into the most Linux/Debian-friendly 
one of these?  I live in the USA and run Lenny on the machine I"ll do 
my taxes with.


-taxact.com  http://www.taxactonline.com/
-taxslayer.com  http://www.taxslayer.com/
-taxgeek (looks a couple years old) http://taxgeek.sourceforge.net/

Thanks!
Mark

I have also used taxact for many years and have found it fast and easy 
(Debian Lenny and Firefox 3.6).  I've looked for a Debian alternative 
but as yet have not found one.  Gnucash is a bookeeping system with tax 
tracking, but it won't file your taxes for you.  For free on-line 
federal tax filing solutions check with irs.gov they have many options 
available


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Re: Tax software for Debian (Lenny)?

[Klaus Wolf]

hi,

i am using equonomize since several years for the german Finanzamt. I
have configured account equal to german financial account plan and it
works very well for me.

best regards

klaus

Am Samstag, den 06.02.2010, 02:49 -0600 schrieb Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.:
> In <4b6d040e.3090...@yahoo.com>, Marc Shapiro wrote:
> >Mark wrote:
> >> Here's what I have so far as options (on-line
> >> versions), any insight into the most Linux/Debian-friendly one of
> >> these?  I live in the USA and run Lenny on the machine I"ll do my taxes
> >> with.
> >>
> >> -taxact.com  http://www.taxactonline.com/
> >> -taxslayer.com  http://www.taxslayer.com/
> >> -taxgeek (looks a couple years old) http://taxgeek.sourceforge.net/
> >
> >I have been using TaxAct for several years.
> 
> I've also been using it for 2-3 years.  Last year they made some changes and 
> the web app. didn't work in my Konqueror anymore, but IceWeasel worked fine.
> 
> >This year they made some
> >changes making entry much easier by providing an option for full screen
> >entry on many forms instead of question by question.
> 
> I haven't done mine, yet, this year.  It's good to know their interface keeps 
> getting better.



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Re: one website gives "address not found" from LAN

[Camaleón]

On Sat, 06 Feb 2010 12:12:50 +1300, Richard Hector wrote:

> On Fri, 2010-02-05 at 18:56 +, Camaleón wrote:
> 
>> It looks crystal clear to me: blame your ISP routing tables, any proxy
>> or service that it can be being used by them to filter Internet traffic
>> or just its DNS servers :-)
> 
> I'm just an observer of this conversation, but can you clarify your
> reasoning?

Sure :-)
 
> I'm curious as to the reason the name can be both resolved and not
> found, but I get the same result here, from two machines with completely
> different routing and dns (I think).

You maybe experiencing another issue, different than the OP's.

The OP was available to:

- Browse the site via proxy.
- Perform a dns lookup and getting a success response using another dns 
server.
- OTOH, was having no problem while connecting the site with his mobile 
phone.

So, that tells me the website is up and running and can be reached by 
normal browsing. The problem lays in the OP ISP.

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Re: Tax software for Debian (Lenny)?

[Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.]

In <4b6d040e.3090...@yahoo.com>, Marc Shapiro wrote:
>Mark wrote:
>> Here's what I have so far as options (on-line
>> versions), any insight into the most Linux/Debian-friendly one of
>> these?  I live in the USA and run Lenny on the machine I"ll do my taxes
>> with.
>>
>> -taxact.com  http://www.taxactonline.com/
>> -taxslayer.com  http://www.taxslayer.com/
>> -taxgeek (looks a couple years old) http://taxgeek.sourceforge.net/
>
>I have been using TaxAct for several years.

I've also been using it for 2-3 years.  Last year they made some changes and 
the web app. didn't work in my Konqueror anymore, but IceWeasel worked fine.

>This year they made some
>changes making entry much easier by providing an option for full screen
>entry on many forms instead of question by question.

I haven't done mine, yet, this year.  It's good to know their interface keeps 
getting better.
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