Re: gimp?

Zach escribe: > i need to know how to add a transparent background to an image (an > existing image). would like the new image to be saved as PNG. and i > need to shrink variable sized images down to 40x40 pixels. what is > best way to shrink so the final quality is still good? asked in #gimp > an

Re: gimp?

Zach escribió: i need to know how to add a transparent background to an image (an existing image). would like the new image to be saved as PNG. and i need to shrink variable sized images down to 40x40 pixels. what is best way to shrink so the final quality is still good? asked in #gimp and #gimp

gimp?

i need to know how to add a transparent background to an image (an existing image). would like the new image to be saved as PNG. and i need to shrink variable sized images down to 40x40 pixels. what is best way to shrink so the final quality is still good? asked in #gimp and #gimp-users but every

Re: Basic SELinux Question

On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 06:34:22AM +0100, William Pursell wrote: > Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > >On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 03:22:11PM -0600, Telly Williams wrote: > >> I was going to use an SE Linux mailing list for this, but, figured I'd > >> ask on this list first, figuring that I may have a bet

Re: Basic SELinux Question

Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 03:22:11PM -0600, Telly Williams wrote: I was going to use an SE Linux mailing list for this, but, figured I'd ask on this list first, figuring that I may have a better chance of not getting a biased answer. I've heard all of this "talk

Re: Comparing files in two directories

L.V.Gandhi wrote: On 6/14/07, *William Pursell* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: L.V.Gandhi wrote: > I have two directories A and B. In each directory, I have nearly 1000 > files with same names. I would like to compare both directories and find > out

Compiz as default window manager

Hi, right now I have metacity as default window manager and I activate compiz doing "compiz --replace" at gnome start... Is there a way to use compiz instead of metacity as default window manager? I mean without using "compiz --replace". Thanks. By the way Ihave Debian Lenny. -- Miguel J. Jimé

setpci : find the correct register

Hi all, I'm trying to be able to wake on lan a computer. I have tried directly with ethtool but i have the classic error : "Cannot get current wake-on-lan settings: Operation not supported" So, after hours of searching on the web, i found that it's possible to address directly the bus to have

Re: error while loading shared libraries

On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 12:20:15AM +0200, Gilles Sadowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > > that its for shure an acces denied, try creating a new user and do the same > > and chek > > if the problem persist, if it does, then this might be a bug. > > I created a new user account and this

Re: Update -- maybe troubles in advance...

On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 02:57:57PM -0300, Altamir Dias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > I got in troubles when I tried to update debian this week. I use dselect > to do that. When I used "dselect install", it uninstall several gnome > packages. Are you running stable, testing, or unsta

Re: Printing with lprng; no CUPS! :-)

On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 09:53:40PM +, "s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Larry Irwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > So! If you want lprng... - after a fresh install of linux: > > 1) Stop the cups processes: > > for i in /etc/init.d/cups*; do; $i stop; done > > 2) Edit the init

Re: Iceweasel Display Problem

Ron Johnson cox.net> writes: > > On 06/14/07 20:46, Sean Zimmermann wrote: > >> Create a virgin account, log in from it and see if you still have > >> the same problem. > > > > I created a new account, but Iceweasel had the same problem. > > Hmmm. Wish I could help you more. > Iceweasel i

Re: how to downgrade a suite of packages?

On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 19:08 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 05:25:17PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > > [...] > > > > > The advice I've found on the list gave methods that were good for > > downgrading a package, or the whole system, but seem awkward with a > > whole s

Re: Printing with lprng; no CUPS! :-)

On 06/14/07 20:45, s. keeling wrote: Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On 06/14/07 16:19, s. keeling wrote: [copious output snipped] I rest my case. User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1pl1 (Debian) No wonder it wanted to pull in 145 packages: you're a text mode octogenarian! You're probably also run

Re: Iceweasel Display Problem

On 06/14/07 20:46, Sean Zimmermann wrote: Create a virgin account, log in from it and see if you still have the same problem. I created a new account, but Iceweasel had the same problem. Hmmm. Wish I could help you more. -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats

Subinterface within a same VLAN

Hi, I'm creating the VLAN on my Debian. Is there anyway I can create subinterfaces within a same VLAN?? Thanks and regards, Rachel Seok -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how to downgrade a suite of packages?

On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 05:25:17PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: [...] > > The advice I've found on the list gave methods that were good for > downgrading a package, or the whole system, but seem awkward with a > whole set of packages (I realize with enough time I could write a script > that would g

Re: Printing with lprng; no CUPS! :-)

John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > s. keeling wrote: > > (0) heretic /home/keeling_ aptitude -s install foomatic-gui > > ... > > The following packages will be automatically REMOVED: > > lprng > > toncho/~ sudo apt-get -s install foomatic-gui > Reading package lists... Done > Building depend

Re: Iceweasel Display Problem

> Create a virgin account, log in from it and see if you still have > the same problem. I created a new account, but Iceweasel had the same problem. Sean -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: install the driver in etch but couldn't find the directory /lib/modules/2.6.18-4-686/build

chloe K wrote: > make: *** /lib/modules/2.6.18-4-686/build: No such file or directory. Stop. > I install the linux-source but what I lack of? The build directory is a symlink that is installed if the source is available. If the source is not available then the kernel deb postinst script removes

Re: Printing with lprng; no CUPS! :-)

Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 06/14/07 16:19, s. keeling wrote: > > [copious output snipped] > > I rest my case. > > User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1pl1 (Debian) > > No wonder it wanted to pull in 145 packages: you're a text mode > octogenarian! You're probably also running NetBSD on a VAX

Re: Printing with lprng; no CUPS! :-)

On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 05:51:00PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > s. keeling wrote: > > (0) heretic /home/keeling_ aptitude -s install foomatic-gui > > ... > > The following packages will be automatically REMOVED: > > lprng > > ... > > ... > > toncho/~ sudo apt-get -s install foomatic-gui Thank yo

how to downgrade a suite of packages?

I recently caught the X upgrade in testing and discovered that none of the available drivers would work. I've since fixed that, but it got me wondering what a good way to dowgrade all of X was. The advice I've found on the list gave methods that were good for downgrading a package, or the whole s

Re: Identical Install

On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 03:05:50PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 21:50:56 +0300 > Chaim Keren Tzion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I have two machines that are the same hardware but were installed in > > different > > procedures. I would like to make the two systems

Re: error while loading shared libraries

Gilles Sadowski wrote: > How come that the search path is different for different user? Is LD_LIBRARY_PATH set? Other possibilities would be any of the LD_* variables. What does this show? If you find any variables, unset them, find where they are set and remove them. Does that fix things?

Re: Basic SELinux Question

On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 03:22:11PM -0600, Telly Williams wrote: >I was going to use an SE Linux mailing list for this, but, figured > I'd ask on this list first, figuring that I may have a better chance of > not getting a biased answer. > >I've heard all of this "talk" about how secure S

Re: Comparing files in two directories

L.V.Gandhi wrote: > William Pursell wrote: > > Here's a scriptlet that will print the name of all the files for > > which diff produces more than 5 lines of output. (Which is not quite > > to say that they differ in 5 lines, but it's close). > > > > for file in $(find A -type f); do if test $(diff

Re: [OT] change user when executing some script

Galevsky wrote: > Many thanks for your comment and piece of code ;) I would not want to have warned that the sky was falling without being able to direct people to an underground bunker where they would be safe. :-) > In fact, I need my team to run a ruby tool, Yeah! Ruby! Good stuff. (I am

Re: Got a boot error when starting up

On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 01:00:03PM -0700, yong lee wrote: > I am not a Linux expert. I hope someone would kindly > help me or give me some suggestions to fix the > problem. > > I just installed a pre-made/customized Linux 2.6.x > kernel. I converted its installation package from the > .rpm format

Re: schroot leaving sessions

shame <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Did you find a satisfactory solution to this problem? > I also have the nasty build up of sessions using schroot. > > Using schroot -e --all-sessions does clear out the sessions but I > can't find a way to automate this. It's worth mentioning that the latest sc

Re: Printing with lprng; no CUPS! :-)

s. keeling wrote: > (0) heretic /home/keeling_ aptitude -s install foomatic-gui > ... > The following packages will be automatically REMOVED: > lprng > ... > ... toncho/~ sudo apt-get -s install foomatic-gui Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done The following extra packa

Re: Aptitude warning msg

On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 07:26:45PM +, Manon Metten wrote: > On 6/14/07, Mathias Brodala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >deb http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/ etch main > >> deb-src http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/ etch main > >> […] > >> deb http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/ etch main contrib non-f

Re: Detecting disk drives from an installation script

On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 17:51:24 -0500 Dallas Clement <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can anyone please recommend the best way to programatically obtain disk > drive information, partition, and format from an install script? > > I presume I could parse the output of "fdisk -l" to get the drive info. > S

Re: Printing with lprng; no CUPS! :-)

s. keeling writes: > So, in other words, Debian sans CUPS isn't possible. You may not have to > actually run it, but you have to have it installed. I guess I'm not running Debian: toncho/~ sudo apt-get -s remove cupsys-client Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Package

Detecting disk drives from an installation script

Can anyone please recommend the best way to programatically obtain disk drive information, partition, and format from an install script? I presume I could parse the output of "fdisk -l" to get the drive info. Seems like there has got to be a better or less error prone method for doing this sort of

Re: Comparing files in two directories

On 6/14/07, William Pursell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: L.V.Gandhi wrote: > I have two directories A and B. In each directory, I have nearly 1000 > files with same names. I would like to compare both directories and find > out which files differ more than say 5 lines. I use kompare and see > manu

Re: some problem in scripting.

On 6/14/07, William Pursell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: L.V.Gandhi wrote: > I created a .csv file in this format from a original file from the net. > The last field here is the last field in original file also. I made this > file as original file has empty lines and single field lines also. > SYM

Re: Basic SELinux Question

Telly Williams writes: > I've heard all of this "talk" about how secure SE Linux is. However, how > secure can this thing be if it has been developed by the NSA? I mean, > wouldn't THEY know how to get into your computer? If they are capable of sneaking a backdoor past the FOSS community why wou

Re: Got a boot error when starting up

yong lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I am not a Linux expert. I hope someone would kindly help me or > give me some suggestions to fix the problem. > > I just installed a pre-made/customized Linux 2.6.x kernel. I > converted its installation package from the .rpm format to a .deb > format using

Re: error while loading shared libraries

On Fri, 15 Jun 2007 00:20:15 +0200 Gilles Sadowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > $ ldd $(which ls) > > > /bin/sh: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open > > > shared object file: No such file or directory > > > /bin/bash: error while loading shared libraries: li

Re: Printing with lprng; no CUPS! :-)

Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > OK, I see, libgtk2.0-0 might be difficult to avoid on a desktop system > and it depends on libcupsys2 in Lenny and Sid. However, the foomatic-* > packages do not seem to depend on any CUPS packages. foomatic-filters > and foomatic-filters-ppds both recom

Re: Basic SELinux Question

Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 03:22:11PM -0600, Telly Williams wrote: I've heard all of this "talk" about how secure SE Linux is. However, how secure can this thing be if it has been developed by the NSA? I mean, wouldn't THEY know how to get into your computer? And

Re: error while loading shared libraries

> > > > $ ldd $(which ls) > > /bin/sh: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open > > shared object file: No such file or directory > > /bin/bash: error while loading shared libraries: libdl.so.2: cannot open > > shared object file: No such file or directory > > > There!!, l

Re: error while loading shared libraries

> > > >After upgrading, I have the following problem when trying to execute some > >programs, e.g. "ls": > > > >$ ls > >ls: error while loading shared libraries: librt.so.1: cannot open shared > >object file: No such file or directory > > > >[Same problem with many other programs ("locate", "find",

Re: Printing with lprng; no CUPS! :-)

On 06/14/07 16:53, s. keeling wrote: [snip] So, in other words, Debian sans CUPS isn't possible. You may not have to actually run it, but you have to have it installed. That's ridiculous. This is viral software. Start filing bugs against the deep-level dependers. apt-rdepends is your frie

Re: Basic SELinux Question

On 06/14/07 16:38, andy wrote: Telly Williams wrote: Hi, I was going to use an SE Linux mailing list for this, but, figured I'd ask on this list first, figuring that I may have a better chance of not getting a biased answer. I've heard all of this "talk" about how secure SE Linux is.

Re: Basic SELinux Question

On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 03:22:11PM -0600, Telly Williams wrote: > >I've heard all of this "talk" about how secure SE Linux is. > However, how secure can this thing be if it has been developed by the > NSA? I mean, wouldn't THEY know how to get into your computer? And, > it's the NSA! If

Re: Printing with lprng; no CUPS! :-)

On 06/14/07 16:19, s. keeling wrote: Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 17:21:50 +, s. keeling wrote: Damned near everything drags in CUPS. I already had lprng installed, and foomatic-* wanted to remove it and install CUPS. Should I just Is it really that bad a

Re: Printing with lprng; no CUPS! :-)

Larry Irwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I've got about 300 servers out there using lprng. > My 1st run-in with cups gave me some surprises. > 1) Removing cups generally removes X, desktop, etc... That's one of the best reasons I can think of for not installing it in the first place. > So! If you w

Re: error while loading shared libraries

On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 23:50:28 +0200 Gilles Sadowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > I did a major upgrade (including "libc6"), had to rerun "apt-get upgrade" > > > several times. When I first noticed the problem, all users seemed to be > > > affected, then, when all packages were upgrade

Re: error while loading shared libraries

> > > > I did a major upgrade (including "libc6"), had to rerun "apt-get upgrade" > > several times. When I first noticed the problem, all users seemed to be > > affected, then, when all packages were upgraded, some accounts behaved > > correctly again, but not all! Weird indeed... > > > > And

Re: error while loading shared libraries

Gilles Sadowski wrote: Hello. After upgrading, I have the following problem when trying to execute some programs, e.g. "ls": $ ls ls: error while loading shared libraries: librt.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory [Same problem with many other programs ("locate", "f

Re: Basic SELinux Question

Telly Williams wrote: Hi, I was going to use an SE Linux mailing list for this, but, figured I'd ask on this list first, figuring that I may have a better chance of not getting a biased answer. I've heard all of this "talk" about how secure SE Linux is. However, how secure can this t

Re: error while loading shared libraries

On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 23:25:08 +0200 Gilles Sadowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > After upgrading, I have the following problem when trying to execute some > > > programs, e.g. "ls": > > > > > > $ ls > > > ls: error while loading shared libraries: librt.so.1: cannot open shared > > > obj

Re: Printing with lprng; no CUPS! :-)

Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 17:21:50 +, s. keeling wrote: > > Damned near > > everything drags in CUPS. I already had lprng installed, and > > foomatic-* wanted to remove it and install CUPS. Should I just > > Is it really that bad as far as CUPS is concer

Re: error while loading shared libraries

> > > > After upgrading, I have the following problem when trying to execute some > > programs, e.g. "ls": > > > > $ ls > > ls: error while loading shared libraries: librt.so.1: cannot open shared > > object file: No such file or directory > > > > [Same problem with many other programs ("locate"

Basic SELinux Question

Hi, I was going to use an SE Linux mailing list for this, but, figured I'd ask on this list first, figuring that I may have a better chance of not getting a biased answer. I've heard all of this "talk" about how secure SE Linux is. However, how secure can this thing be if it has been

Re: error while loading shared libraries

On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 22:54:51 +0200 Gilles Sadowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello. > > After upgrading, I have the following problem when trying to execute some > programs, e.g. "ls": > > $ ls > ls: error while loading shared libraries: librt.so.1: cannot open shared > object file: No such f

error while loading shared libraries

Hello. After upgrading, I have the following problem when trying to execute some programs, e.g. "ls": $ ls ls: error while loading shared libraries: librt.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory [Same problem with many other programs ("locate", "find", "su", ...).] I not

Re: Network card found but not configured with Etch / 2.6 kernel

On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 08:20:08 -0400, Ken McCord wrote: > Hope someone out there can help me with this one, cause I'm stumped. > > Have an IBM NetVista 6341-64U system (1.0 GHz Celeron, 512 MB RAM, onboard > Intel Ethernet adapter) that when Etch boots on it, will detect an > installed network

Re: install the driver in etch but couldn't find the directory /lib/modules/2.6.18-4-686/build

On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 04:04:49PM -0400, chloe K wrote: > Hi all > > I try to install the driver > > but got the message > > make: *** /lib/modules/2.6.18-4-686/build: No such file or directory. Stop. > > I install the linux-source but what I lack of? > Setting up linux-source-2.6.18 (2.6.18.

Re: install the driver in etch but couldn't find the directory /lib/modules/2.6.18-4-686/build

On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 16:04:49 -0400 (EDT) chloe K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all > > I try to install the driver > > but got the message > > make: *** /lib/modules/2.6.18-4-686/build: No such file or directory. Stop. > > I install the linux-source but what I lack of? > Setting up linux-so

Re: Printing with lprng; no CUPS! :-)

On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 17:21:50 +, s. keeling wrote: [...] > Damned near > everything drags in CUPS. I already had lprng installed, and > foomatic-* wanted to remove it and install CUPS. Should I just > complain to linuxprinting.org that they're flat out lying when they > say I can use pre

Re: Got a boot error when starting up

On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 13:00:03 -0700 (PDT) yong lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am not a Linux expert. I hope someone would kindly > help me or give me some suggestions to fix the > problem. > > I just installed a pre-made/customized Linux 2.6.x > kernel. I converted its installation pa

install the driver in etch but couldn't find the directory /lib/modules/2.6.18-4-686/build

Hi all I try to install the driver but got the message make: *** /lib/modules/2.6.18-4-686/build: No such file or directory. Stop. I install the linux-source but what I lack of? Setting up linux-source-2.6.18 (2.6.18.dfsg.1-12etch2) Thank you - All ne

Re: Aptitude warning msg

On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 07:26:45PM +, Manon Metten wrote: > Hi Matthias, Douglas, > > On 6/14/07, Mathias Brodala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >deb http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/ etch main > >> deb-src http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/ etch main > >> […] > >> deb http://ftp.nl.debian.org/d

Got a boot error when starting up

Hi, I am not a Linux expert. I hope someone would kindly help me or give me some suggestions to fix the problem. I just installed a pre-made/customized Linux 2.6.x kernel. I converted its installation package from the .rpm format to a .deb format using alien command. After the installation and a

Re: some problem in scripting.

L.V.Gandhi wrote: I created a .csv file in this format from a original file from the net. The last field here is the last field in original file also. I made this file as original file has empty lines and single field lines also. SYMBOL,HIGH_PRICE,LOW_PRICE,HI_52_WK,LO_52_WK BHARTIARTL,809.00,7

Re: Aptitude warning msg

Hi Matthias, Douglas, On 6/14/07, Mathias Brodala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: deb http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/ etch main > deb-src http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/ etch main > […] > deb http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/ etch main contrib non-free > deb-src http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/ etc

Re: Comparing files in two directories

L.V.Gandhi wrote: I have two directories A and B. In each directory, I have nearly 1000 files with same names. I would like to compare both directories and find out which files differ more than say 5 lines. I use kompare and see manually. How to do it in command line easily? Here's a scriptle

Re: Aptitude warning msg

On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 07:08:56PM +, Manon Metten wrote: > > When I run aptitude update, I keep getting this error message: > > W: Duplicate sources.list entry http://ftp.nl.debian.org etch/main Packages > (/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.nl.debian.org_debian_dists_etch_main_binary-i386_Packages) >

Re: Aptitude warning msg

Hi Manon. Manon Metten, 14.06.2007 21:08: > When I run aptitude update, I keep getting this error message: > > […] > Here's my etc/apt/sources.list: > > # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r0 _Etch_ - Official i386 kde-CD Binary-1 > 20070407-12:10] etch contrib main > deb http://ftp.nl.debian.org/

Aptitude warning msg

Hi, When I run aptitude update, I keep getting this error message: W: Duplicate sources.list entry http://ftp.nl.debian.org etch/main Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.nl.debian.org_debian_dists_etch_main_binary-i386_Packages) W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems When

Re: Identical Install

On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 21:50:56 +0300 Chaim Keren Tzion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have two machines that are the same hardware but were installed in > different > procedures. I would like to make the two systems the same, to the extent > possible. Is there a way to export a list of i

Re: etch - iptables question

Hi Ann, On 6/13/07, ann kok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote I just install new debian. but it seems nothing iptable in the default installation how can I install? I have used Guarddog to config my iptables. It's very easy to use and it will take only about 15 - 30 mins reading the manual and setti

Re: udev rule writing help needed

Hi Graham, On Mon, 11 Jun 2007, Graham Evans wrote: On Sun, 10 Jun 2007 19:30:16 +0200, Don Hayward wrote: ---snip So my questions are: 1) what string substitution do I use to get the needed bit into my command? 2) do I need quoting in the rule? 3) can this work anyway? Thanks for any hel

Identical Install

Hi, I have two machines that are the same hardware but were installed in different procedures. I would like to make the two systems the same, to the extent possible. Is there a way to export a list of installed packages from one machine in a format that can be easily applied to an apt-install o

Re: undsub

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Update -- maybe troubles in advance...

Hi, I got in troubles when I tried to update debian this week. I use dselect to do that. When I used "dselect install", it uninstall several gnome packages. If you use apt to that some gnome packages are uninstalled, too. Identification: uname -a --> Linux sala15 2.6.18-4-486 #1 Mon Mar 26

Re: Printing with lprng; no CUPS! :-)

I've got about 300 servers out there using lprng. My 1st run-in with cups gave me some surprises. 1) Removing cups generally removes X, desktop, etc... 2) lpstat no longer works (at least in the same manner, depending on the flavor of Linux)... 3) Manual intervention into cups setup tends to get

Re: Inet security

On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 11:08:39PM -0700, Mike McClain wrote: > I saw this on usenet and wonder about the validity of this statement. > > 'Seriously any system is as secure as the services you export, if you > have nothing listening that can do you harm you are secure...' > > Disregarding email e

missing ghostscript fonts

References: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 17:16:08 -0400, I wrote: > In my recently installed Etch system, ghostscript seems unable to find some > common fonts. On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 20:15:37 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty asked: > Are you running gs and do you have the gs

Re: Printing with lprng; no CUPS! :-)

JWS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > S. Keeling wrote: > > > So, perhaps ca. two thousand, six hundred, and ninety five files > > which have nothing to do with my printer? At least they're all > > Astonishing. I've never understood the reason for having CUPS at I've never liked it from the first time I

Re: Printing with lprng; no CUPS! :-)

Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 14 Jun 2007, CaT wrote: > > > > Then don't use it. > > I gave up on CUPS a long time ago. I did have it working but the results Previous to this non-DE install, I did a full Etch install just to see what it was like. I had CUPS working. It printed o

Re: Printing with lprng; no CUPS! :-)

CaT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 01:29:49AM +, s. keeling wrote: > > > > Good for you, I'm glad for you; and irrelevant. Yes, CUPS works. > > What if you don't want to use CUPS? Have you not seen all the posts > > Then don't use it. Sigh. My point is, that's far easier

Re: [OT] change user when executing some script

Many thanks for your comment and piece of code ;) In fact, I need my team to run a ruby tool, but $RUBYLIB and the main routine call is done into a setgid shell script. The script belongs to special user and group: myTeam:myTeam, and all the members of the team have the ability to log as myTeam s

Re: Iceweasel Display Problem

On 06/14/07 11:21, Sean Zimmermann wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom care2.com> writes: I just went to http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/news.html and it looks fine to me. A blackish background with light grey-brown letters. Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070310 Iceweasel/2.

Re: resizing pictures and EXIF

On 06/14/07 11:20, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 04:07:39PM +0200, Lubos Vrbka wrote: does anyone know good way how to resize jpg pictures and preserve EXIF at the same time, preferably using graphics/imagemagick? it seems that graphicsmagick removes the EXIF information, b

Re: Printing with lprng; no CUPS! :-)

On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 05:08:35PM +0200, JWS wrote: > S. Keeling wrote: > > > So, perhaps ca. two thousand, six hundred, and ninety five files > > which have nothing to do with my printer? At least they're all > > gzipped ... > > Astonishing. I've never understood the reason for having CUPS at

Re: /lib/init/rw

Hans du Plooy wrote: > What does this do? It is used by the initscripts. Among other things see this bug and read the message from Henrique de Moraes Holschuh on Mon, 1 Jan 2007. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=%23403863 Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: /lib/init/rw

Hans du Plooy wrote: Hi guys, What does this do? jduplooy:~# df -lh FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda2 52G 42G 7.7G 85% / tmpfs 503M 0 503M 0% /lib/init/rw<--- ?? jduplooy:~# ls -lha /lib/init/rw/ total 4.0K drw

Re: [OT] change user when executing some script

Galevsky wrote: > When user3 will launch the script later, he will get the user1 > permissions thanks to the setguid flag on the script, and will be able Setuid scripts are a security hole! It is almost impossible to prevent anyone from becoming the owner of the script in those cases. Better wou

Re: Installation process and optional predefined collections of package

On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 05:09:27PM +0200, Bruno Costacurta wrote: > > during the installation process, there is the opportunity to select > predefined > collections of software to set up ie. 'Desktop environment' .. etc .. > > Is it possible to re-run this application after installation ? > And

Re: resizing pictures and EXIF

On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 04:07:39PM +0200, Lubos Vrbka wrote: > > does anyone know good way how to resize jpg pictures and preserve EXIF > at the same time, preferably using graphics/imagemagick? it seems that > graphicsmagick removes the EXIF information, but maybe there is some > option i miss

Re: Iceweasel Display Problem

Hugo Vanwoerkom care2.com> writes: > > I just went to http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/news.html and it looks > > fine to me. A blackish background with light grey-brown letters. > > > > Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070310 > > Iceweasel/2.0.0.3 (Debian-2.0.0.3-2)

Re: switch from xserver-xorg-video-i810 to -intel and unsupported modes

On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 06:34:51PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 07:31:16PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 09:32:40AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > I'm trying to configure a monitor my wife purchased for her machine > > > >

Re: Comparing files in two directories

On 6/14/07, Ilias Paraponiaris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: UNISON I use unison (ssh / static IP) to synchronize my laptop with my desktop (i.e. two not-local directories). The only issues are i) that the "modified date" is not preserved and ii) that it is too slow (I had unison installed in winxp

Re: Comparing files in two directories

On 6/13/07, Cameron Hutchison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: L.V.Gandhi wrote: >On 6/13/07, Keith Christian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> L.V.Gandhi wrote: >> > I have two directories A and B. In each directory, I have nearly 1000 >> > files with same names. I would like to compare both director

Re: Installation process and optional predefined collections of package

On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 17:09:27 +0200, Bruno Costacurta wrote: > Hello to all, > > during the installation process, there is the opportunity to select > predefined > collections of software to set up ie. 'Desktop environment' .. etc .. > > Is it possible to re-run this application after instal

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