Re: Have DVD burner, will backup!

On Jul 1, 2006, at 11:52 PM, David E. Fox wrote: [Long discourse on backups and how they were done ten years ago.] 2. External hard disks are slightly less portable than DVD's. 3. External hard disks *might* take up slightly more phhysical space over DVD's, depending on the size/density of

Re: Did Libranet ever make available the source code for their Admin utility and their other add-ons?

On Jul 1, 2006, at 1:34 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robert Glueck wrote: Libranet took Debian, added their famed Admin utility, an installer and a bunch of other perks to it and then marketed it for pay. [snip] Were they required t

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Hi I saw now Debian packages almost all come with tags. E.g.: Tag: admin::forensics, hardware::storage, interface::commandline, role::sw:utility, use::scanning Is there any tools to search tools based on the tags? Where is the vocabulary collection that available for tagging and searching the

Re: apt-get pinning ? - Sarge / Stable - only install certain/specific packages from "testing"

On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 04:00:09PM -0700, Willie Wonka wrote: > > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > Hi; > > what does apt-cache policy hdparm show? > > ~$ apt-cache policy hdparm > hdparm: > Installed: 6.1-2 > Candidate: 6.6-1 > Package Pin: 6.6-1 > Version Table: > 6.6-1 990 >

Re: Have DVD burner, will backup!

On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 21:38:05 -0600 Nate Duehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Requirement: Single touch, full-backup? Faster speeds in case > interation is required? Well, that would be nice. :) In the "old" days when my biggest disk was 1.6 gig, I got a DAT tape drive precisely for easy backup -

Re: Have DVD burner, will backup!

On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 07:20:48 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > DVD's are more likely to survive EMP. Relevant if your data have to > survive a nuclear war if you do. Ironic, given the fact that I've written many DDV-RWs that have proved later (in maybe a few months) to have developed scads of ba

Re: pinpointing the cause of a full lockup: denemo under KDE

On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 08:54:14AM +0930, Arthur Marsh wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > >machine. Ideally, if you have another machine, you could try to ssh in > >to the locked box. sometimes this works as you can get into the > >machine and using top and other tools, see what is causing tr

Re: Did Libranet ever make available the source code for their Admin utility and their other add-ons?

Robert Glueck wrote: Libranet took Debian, added their famed Admin utility, an installer and a bunch of other perks to it and then marketed it for pay. And not much pay, at that. I bought 2 and 2.8.1. when I was just starting out. If I got stuck, they were always happy to help via email before

Re: new email address

holy cow. you know, there's an email option called "Bcc:" you should learn to use it. your friends will thank you. http://email.about.com/od/emailnetiquette/a/cc_and_bcc.htm --- tom arnall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi, folks! > > please note the 'from' email address. it is my new one

Re: Installation Problem

On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 08:26:32PM -0700, Haster wrote: > Can't seem to get debian to install on a 40 gig > partation, it finds all other but that one.. ive tried > to leave it unallocated, formatted but no drive leter, > both physical and logical types and still can't find > it. If you left it u

Installation Problem

Can't seem to get debian to install on a 40 gig partation, it finds all other but that one.. ive tried to leave it unallocated, formatted but no drive leter, both physical and logical types and still can't find it. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam?

GPG error during apt-get upgrade

I'm getting the following error when running "apt-get upgrade": Reading package lists... Done W: GPG error: http://security.debian.org stable/updates Release: Unknown error executing gpgv W: GPG error: http://security.debian.org testing/updates Release: Unknown error executing

mplayer packages for offline install

Dear Debian user, I am taking the first eight CDs of Debian Sarge to a low bandwidth location for install. These CDs have most of the software I need. Now, I know that mplayer insn't in Sarge. What I would like to know is, which packages are to be taken so that all dependencies for mplayer are c

Re: dchroot with sid

Owen Heisler wrote: > As a workarround, you can set the SU_NO_SHELL_ARGS environment variable > before calling dchroot, or execute > dchroot -- -c "command" > instead of > dchroot -- command > ___ > > And you say write a script, so I put the following in ~/go > ___ > #!/bin/bash >

Re: pinpointing the cause of a full lockup: denemo under KDE

Andrew Sackville-West wrote: Are there any guides on how to debug a full machine lock-up on GNU/Linux? I'm sure there are, but first, you should confirm that the machine is fully locked up. you may have a process or to that are out of control and have locked you out of the keyboard, but not nec

Strange Boxes instead of letter-font in X

Maybe this question is asked already several times, but I did not found the answer in the Net right now. Because sometimes late at night you have no time to crawl all over the internet to get it work, I ask this question again! I run Etch with the recent updates on an Acer Aspire Laptop. But s

Re: apt-get pinning ? - Sarge / Stable - only install certain/specific packages from "testing"

Andrew Sackville-West wrote: Hi; > what does apt-cache policy hdparm show? ~$ apt-cache policy hdparm hdparm: Installed: 6.1-2 Candidate: 6.6-1 Package Pin: 6.6-1 Version Table: 6.6-1 990 500 ftp://ftp.us.debian.org testing/main Packages *** 6.1-2 990 990 ftp://ftp.

RE: cannot install aptitude: Broken packages

Andrew, Well, the upgrade seems to be working great. I just changed every mention of woody in apt/sources.list to sarge and did apt-get update. Then I did 'apt-get install aptitude' and aptitude installed fine. Then I did 'aptitude dist-upgrade' and it seems to be working too. Thanks to all for th

Re: How to perform search in gnome terminal?

Rodolfo Medina wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What do you mean with "word search"? Search for a word or an expression in the whole terminal `history'. This is very useful, almost indispensable in some cases. I used to use that quite often with KDE graphical environment, before switching to

Re: apt-get pinning ? - Sarge / Stable - only install certain/specific packages from "testing"

On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 12:22:47PM -0700, Willie Wonka wrote: > Willie Wonka wrote: > > Ok folks - now I'm really confused...but hey; I may just get it (have it) > right > *crosses-fingers* > > This was done after I reread the 'man' pages for 'apt_preferences', apt.conf, > sources.list _and_ aft

Re: apt-get pinning ? - Sarge / Stable - only install certain/specific packages from "testing"

Willie Wonka wrote: Ok folks - now I'm really confused...but hey; I may just get it (have it) right *crosses-fingers* This was done after I reread the 'man' pages for 'apt_preferences', apt.conf, sources.list _and_ after reading the info;

Re: Did Libranet ever make available the source code for their Admin utility and their other add-ons?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robert Glueck wrote: > Libranet took Debian, added their famed Admin utility, an > installer and a bunch of other perks to it and then > marketed it for pay. [snip] > Were they required to do so > by the GPL? adminmenu was closed so

Re: crontab permissions

On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 08:46:33PM +0200, Dimitar Vukman wrote: > On Sat, 1 Jul 2006 11:36:18 -0700 > Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > no i haven't, but its solved. My /usr/bin/crontab had the wrong > > permissions -- it was owner:group root:root instead of root:crontab > > w

New i2c Error on Bootup

kernel: i2c_adapter i2c-3: SMBus Quick command not supported, can't probe for chips Never saw this one before. Any ideas? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Intuix S800 USB DVB-T stick

Hello, I got a Intuix S800 USB DVB-T stick and I'm trying to get it to work on my Debian Unstable box. According to http://www.chez.com/treza/liteon.htm the driver at http://linuxtv.org/hg/~pb/v4l-dvb.stk3000p should work. However, when I try to load the module dvb-usb-dibusb-common I'm getti

Re: Did Libranet ever make available the source code for their Admin utility and their other add-ons?

Robert Glueck wrote: > Libranet took Debian, added their famed Admin utility, an > installer and a bunch of other perks to it and then > marketed it for pay. Did they ever return their coding > efforts to the open source community, e.g. by making > available the source code of their add-ons or giv

Re: crontab permissions

On Sat, 1 Jul 2006 11:36:18 -0700 Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > no i haven't, but its solved. My /usr/bin/crontab had the wrong > permissions -- it was owner:group root:root instead of root:crontab > with gid. that's fixed now and it works whether I am in the crontab > group o

Re: crontab permissions

On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 07:56:53PM +0200, Dimitar Vukman wrote: > On Sat, 1 Jul 2006 10:33:31 -0700 > Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > hmm... that doesn't do it., but I'm not in the crontab group, are you? > > Neithere am I. > Have you tried deleting the /var/spool/crontabs

Did Libranet ever make available the source code for their Admin utility and their other add-ons?

Libranet took Debian, added their famed Admin utility, an installer and a bunch of other perks to it and then marketed it for pay. Did they ever return their coding efforts to the open source community, e.g. by making available the source code of their add-ons or giving back to the FOSS in any oth

Re: crontab permissions [solved?]

On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 10:12:50AM -0800, Ken Irving wrote: > On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 10:33:31AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 06:39:17PM +0200, Dimitar Vukman wrote: > > > Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > can someone provide their pe

Re: crontab permissions

On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 08:02:58PM +0200, Dimitar Vukman wrote: > On Sat, 1 Jul 2006 10:33:31 -0700 > Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > hmm... that doesn't do it., but I'm not in the crontab group, are you? > > It seems strange that a file would have an owner that is not in

Re: Is apt-file working in Testing ?

Liam O'Toole gmail.com> writes: [..] > > The "Contents" files are not being maintained. See > > http://ftp.debian.org/dists/etch/Contents-i386.gz > > for example. Ditto with unstable. apt-file needs those files to build > its cache of package contents. So, does anybody know why that is s

Re: crontab permissions

On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 10:33:31AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 06:39:17PM +0200, Dimitar Vukman wrote: > > Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > can someone provide their permissions, group and owner settings or > > > perhaps some other insigh

Re: crontab permissions

On Sat, 1 Jul 2006 10:33:31 -0700 Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hmm... that doesn't do it., but I'm not in the crontab group, are you? > It seems strange that a file would have an owner that is not in the > same group as the file's group. I've got an idea. What are your per

Re: xorgconfig

On (01/07/06 10:57), João Paulo Just wrote: > Clive Menzies wrote: > > /etc/X11/xorg.conf > > No, no, no. That's 'xorg.conf', I'm asking for 'xorgconfig', that > utility used to create a new 'xorg.conf'. Apologies for misunderstanding. How about dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg You need to follow

Re: crontab permissions

On Sat, 1 Jul 2006 10:33:31 -0700 Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hmm... that doesn't do it., but I'm not in the crontab group, are you? Neithere am I. Have you tried deleting the /var/spool/crontabs/* ? -- "Infinite Love Is The Only Truth, Everything Else Is Illusion!"

Re: Hello Nethelpers [SSH / PUTTY]Strange behaviour with telnetd

Håkon Alstadheim wrote: JB MORLA wrote: Hi, I have installed sshd on Debian and PuTTY on XP. PuTTY only connects via SSH when the line: telnetd is in inetd.conf not commented. Are you sure putty is connecting via SSH? I have sometimes seen putty come up with telnet as the default proto

Re: crontab permissions

On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 06:39:17PM +0200, Dimitar Vukman wrote: > On Sat, 1 Jul 2006 09:27:39 -0700 > Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > can someone provide their permissions, group and owner settings or > > perhaps some other insight? > > > > A > > > [06:38 PM Sat Jul [EMAI

Re: pulling my hair: doodle 0.6.5-3 update / doodled unstoppable

On Saturday 01 July 2006 11:14, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 09:24:08 -0400, Eike Lantzsch wrote: > > On Monday 26 June 2006 16:35, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > [...] > > > > What exactly happens now if you try to start the doodle daemon again > > > yourself? (Starting it again shou

Re: eth0: flipped to 10baseT appears on login prompt

> This appears because of something like the following in syslog.conf > # *.=debug;*.=info;\ > # *.=notice;*.=warn /dev/tty8 There are no entries in syslog.conf for /dev/tty1 (local console) or any other console except a "|/dev/xconsole" entry which seems to be for some mail rela

Re: How to perform search in gnome terminal?

Rodolfo Medina wrote: > > Search for a word or an expression in the whole terminal `history'. > This is very useful, almost indispensable in some cases. > I used to use that quite often with KDE graphical environment, > before switching to Gnome. > Assuming you are using bash, you can use Ctrl-R

Re: IPTables Location

On Fri, 2006-06-30 at 09:29 +1200, Johnno wrote: > Hello All, > > I have just install debian, but can't find the location where the IPTable > routines are loaded on bootup.. > > Can any one tell me where I can find this file So I can edit it > > Many Thanks, > > Johnno > > you can use a pre-u

Re: How to perform search in gnome terminal?

Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> I have Debian Sarge 3.1 r2, with Gnome. >> It seems that the gnome terminal does not support >> word search? It looks strange to me, 'cause it's >> an important function: I couldn't find any item >> that would do that. >> Any hint? [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > What do

new email address

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Re: crontab permissions

On Sat, 1 Jul 2006 09:27:39 -0700 Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > can someone provide their permissions, group and owner settings or > perhaps some other insight? > > A [06:38 PM Sat Jul [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/spool/cron/crontabs # ls -al total 12 drwx-wx--T 2 root crontab 4

Re: pinpointing the cause of a full lockup: denemo under KDE

On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 01:09:53AM +0930, Arthur Marsh wrote: > Hi, I've been interested in running denemo and have KDE 3.5.3 but not > Gnome installed on a PII-266 with 440LX chip set and SoundBlaster Live! > 5.1 model 0220 sound card. I have aplaymidi set-up (with some > difficulty, as the Sid

crontab permissions

hey gang, I'm curious what others have for permissions on their crontab files. I am unable to edit mine as a regular user: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:$ crontab -e crontabs/andrew: Permission denied and must do: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:$ sudo crontab -u andrew -e according to man crontab: If the /etc/cron.al

debian-printing mailinglist charter

On Sat, 01 Jul 2006, Roger Leigh wrote: > Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > End user help is part of the list description, though is not its > primary purpose: > > "Discussion of issues related to printing on Debian systems. This > covers all aspects of printing, from spool

pinpointing the cause of a full lockup: denemo under KDE

Hi, I've been interested in running denemo and have KDE 3.5.3 but not Gnome installed on a PII-266 with 440LX chip set and SoundBlaster Live! 5.1 model 0220 sound card. I have aplaymidi set-up (with some difficulty, as the Sid version of denemo has a bug that prevents command line options for t

Mouse Pointer in Enlightenment

Hello I'm using Enlightenment Manager Windows, for me is the best. Any way I use in Enlightenment a big Virtual Desktop with the "edge flip" enabled, sometime when I lose the pointer I move the mouse in order to catch it with my eyes again, and sometime because of this moving, I pass to the n

RE: eth0: flipped to 10baseT appears on login prompt

> > There's a 3com EtherLink III 3C589B PCMCIA adapter > > and when the system boots and the login prompt appears > > a message "eth0: flipped to 10baseT" appears twice > > and messes up the login prompt. > Ok. When u log yourself into the system and do a dmesg|grep > eth0 what do u > read? eth0

Re: How to perform search in gnome terminal?

On Sat, 2006-07-01 at 17:17 +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Hi. > > I have Debian Sarge 3.1 r2, with Gnome. > It seems that the gnome terminal does not support > word search? It looks strange to me, 'cause it's > an important function: I couldn't find any item > that would do that. > Any hint? Wh

How to perform search in gnome terminal?

Hi. I have Debian Sarge 3.1 r2, with Gnome. It seems that the gnome terminal does not support word search? It looks strange to me, 'cause it's an important function: I couldn't find any item that would do that. Any hint? Thanks, Rodolfo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a su

Re: pulling my hair: doodle 0.6.5-3 update / doodled unstoppable

On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 09:24:08 -0400, Eike Lantzsch wrote: > On Monday 26 June 2006 16:35, Florian Kulzer wrote: [...] > > What exactly happens now if you try to start the doodle daemon again > > yourself? (Starting it again should generate a new PID file.) > > That is the weird thing, which I

Re: GUI lock-up after accessing unmounted samba share

Egor Kobylkin wrote: Hi All, Just after I click in Nautilus 2.14.1 on a folder, which is an unmounted samba share, the computer locks-up and the only thing I can do is reboot. Can anybody tell which package it might be, so I can file a bug report? Below a snip from /var/log/messages and a d

connect-debounce failed problem

hi guys, the following error message is flooding my console: hub 5-0:1.0: connect-debounce failed, port 6 disabled it's being printed nearly every second and also fills the logs :( any hints how to get rid of these messages? i tried googling and it seems to be somehow related to usb, it seems

Re: HP Printer and Pre-Rendering

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, Chris Bannister wrote: >> There is a debian-printing mailing list. > > Which is not for end-user help, but rather for dealing directly with package > development, bugs, and coordination between the different packages t

Re: Gimp: No Printer in File Menu - Thanks

"Thomas H. George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > gimp-print was missing. I suppose I must have had it in the past > as, when installed, the print command included two long dead and > gone printers with no way to delete them. Hmm, I hadn't noticed that omission before. You can edit or delete ~/.

Re: pulling my hair: doodle 0.6.5-3 update / doodled unstoppable

Thank you for answering, Florian: On Monday 26 June 2006 16:35, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 17:16:41 -0400, Eike Lantzsch wrote: > > On Sunday 25 June 2006 08:43, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 20:20:41 -0400, Eike Lantzsch wrote: > > > > running sid on i38

mbmon

i was using mbmon with gkrellm for a gpod while now. recently, after an update and upgrade, gkrellm did not display sensors data anymore.following msg during boot-up, i edited /etc/default/mbmon to set START_MBMON to 1 but it makes no diff.Is something wrong with the binary?jz How low will we go

GUI lock-up after accessing unmounted samba share

Hi All, Just after I click in Nautilus 2.14.1 on a folder, which is an unmounted samba share, the computer locks-up and the only thing I can do is reboot. Can anybody tell which package it might be, so I can file a bug report? Below a snip from /var/log/messages and a dmesg. I have left the

Re: Hello Nethelpers [SSH / PUTTY]Strange behaviour with telnetd

On Saturday, July 01, 2006 6:57 AM GMT, jbmorla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: < which is decoded automatically by the SSH daemon on the Debian side. > How could sshd automatically decode data sent by the PuTTY session If it does not have the key to do it ? I have one ssh manual, 2 ssh howto, the

Re: Hello Nethelpers [SSH / PUTTY]Strange behaviour with telnetd

JB MORLA wrote: Hi, I have installed sshd on Debian and PuTTY on XP. PuTTY only connects via SSH when the line: telnetd is in inetd.conf not commented. Are you sure putty is connecting via SSH? I have sometimes seen putty come up with telnet as the default protocol. Make sure you click

Re: Hello Nethelpers [SSH / PUTTY]Strange behaviour with telnetd

On Sat, 1 Jul 2006 07:57:51 +0200 "jbmorla" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, sorry I don't understand how the mailing list works. > > > > Should I reply directly from my mail client : gmail in IE6 ? > > Or should I do what I do now, reply to my own thread in the list itself ? > When you rep