On Feb 1, 2008 1:10 PM, Dennis G. Wicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What should I be worried about and start looking for?
> BTW, nobody can get access to my system unless they
> break into my house, and that hasn't happened. I even
> did a reinstall of the login package just to make sure
> the abo
Kevin Buhr wrote the following on 01/31/2008 12:50 PM:
> paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> It is possible to do 'su someuser' from root but it's not possible to
>> get back to root then using just 'su' or change from a normal user to
>> another user account.
>
> [ . . . ]
>
>> Jan 31 15:44:18 m
On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 12:51:28AM -0200, Sergio Belkin wrote:
> I've stuck with a weird problem...
>
> I can't download "big" files, I mean, I can't download well DVD iso
> files, for example, if I try download any file of
> 257M??? Why other iso files has similar problem
>
> At first gl
Hi there,
I am planning to propose to the management folks at work a Debian Workstation
that will be used to automate testing of the network devices that we produce.
I have done extensive research on testing tools. And I have come up with two
main choices.
1. DejaGNU
* http://www.gnu.org/so
Hey guys,
I have Etch running like a charm here. But recently I've been experiencing some
unstable wireless connection on this laptop. Here are a few notes of the issue:
* Connection suddenly is lost and goes to 0/92 (according to sudo iwconfig)
* Started occurring randomly during the past mon
On Thursday 31 January 2008 21:51, Sergio Belkin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've stuck with a weird problem...
>
> I can't download "big" files, I mean, I can't download well DVD iso files,
> for example, if I try download any file of
> http://linux.cucea.udg.mx/geeklog/staticpages/index.php?page=20080123170
Hi,
I've stuck with a weird problem...
I can't download "big" files, I mean, I can't download well DVD iso files, for
example, if I try download any file of
http://linux.cucea.udg.mx/geeklog/staticpages/index.php?page=20080123170324195
I get something so:
wget
http://linux.cucea.udg.mx/esp
Celejar wrote:
The status of support for [9]4311 rev 02 cards is not entirely clear;
Larry Finger (one of the devs) wrote on Sep. 24, 2007[0]:
Harry Wert wrote:
Don't know if this will help but it might. I am using a HP Pavillion
dv9210 with AMD dual processor 64bit and 2G memory. It
> > Actually one more thing, any benefits to doing this? Besides the geek
> > satisfaction that all of us get from compiling a new kernel.
>
> I think self-compiling kernels is generally overrated. I'd suggest
> trying pre-packaged kernels from sid first.
>
Pre-packaged kernels from sid. Will th
Marc Auslander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> A while ago I upgraded to etch from sarge. I now discover the g++ is
> missing. aptitude doesn't show the package. my sources.list points
> at
...
My dumb mistake.
aptitude search appears to be reg exp, so searching for g++ doesn't
work! Search fo
On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:44:43 + (UTC)
Angie NegrónRolón <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ivan Glushkov mail.desy.de> writes:
>
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I want to have wikipedia locally on my debian laptop.
> >
> > Which way of installing wikipedia would take the least disk space?
> > What software
On Jan 30, 2008 5:07 PM, Jimmy Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I sort of have this working, there's a few more things I have to take care of.
>
> First, how do I add an entry in gdm to run compiz instead of xfwm4?
> I tried to use the method of putting a .desktop file in
> /usr/share/xsessions, po
On 1/31/08, Yi Shi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have a Debian Linux 4 running on Sun Ultra 60 machine. I want to install
> FreeNX on it so I can access the desktop remotely. I understand there is no
> binary available for Sparc machines. Could someone send detailed
Have you thought a
On January 31, 2008 03:54:43 am Brad Rogers wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 19:57:36 +
> Alan Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hello Alan,
>
> > I was trying to overburn the DVD with too much data. For some reason
> > the main display said the DVD was 8GB big, when in fact it only held
>
>
Thanks for the help. Not quite sure if I'm providing the right info,
but...
1. I don't know any initrd files in the dom1, only the domU. The
link to the initrd.gz is (from the xen ".cfg"): /boot/
initrd.img-2.6.18-6-xen-amd64
2. The rootdelay=30 did not resolve it.
Here's the configura
Hi All,
I have a Debian Linux 4 running on Sun Ultra 60 machine. I want to install
FreeNX on it so I can access the desktop remotely. I understand there is no
binary available for Sparc machines. Could someone send detailed
instructions on how to install it?
Thanks in advance!
Yi Shi
On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 09:54:34 -0700
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Just in case, that this information could be helpful. Here is the PCI
> address of Broadcom WLAN interface:
>
> # lspci
> 03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM94311MCG wlan
> mini-PCI (rev 02)
Th
also sprach Ari Epstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.02.01.1056 +1100]:
> Console output is as follows:
Can you mount the filesystem and provide me with a link to the
initrd.gz file for the kernel? The RAID does not start and it may be
because the disk names have changed. Also, try adding rootdelay=3
Hi there,
I'm running a web server/email server over a xen VPS (called xen1,
dom0 is xen0). Had some oddities after the last upgrade and
suspected filesystem corruption. So I shut it down, backed up the
image, and tried to fix the problematic partition. When I try to
fsck (which I was
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On 01/31/08 16:43, Marc Auslander wrote:
> A while ago I upgraded to etch from sarge. I now discover the g++ is
> missing. aptitude doesn't show the package. my sources.list points
> at
>
> deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ etch main
> deb-src
Gaudenz Steinlin wrote:
On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 12:50:23PM -0800, Bob McGowan wrote:
Well, the primary advantage to rolling your own is that you can customize the kernel for your
hardware.
Generic kernels include drivers for all sorts of things, most of which you
don't have.
This can reduc
On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 11:34 +, Jose Rodriguez wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:48:37 -0200
> Marcelo Chiapparini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > My problem is with encryption (WPA).
>
> This is what I have:
>
> /etc/network/interfaces (relevant lines to wireless link only):
>
> #DHCP doesn'
On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 17:29 -0800, Amit Uttamchandani wrote:
> The problem with WPA is the vendors sometimes implement it in their own way.
> That is why there a lot incompatibility issues with it.
>
> Why not just use WEP? I am sure it offers a good enough level of encryption
> for your needs.
A while ago I upgraded to etch from sarge. I now discover the g++ is
missing. aptitude doesn't show the package. my sources.list points
at
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ etch main
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ etch main
deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main
w
Bob McGowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Generic kernels include drivers for all sorts of things, most of which
> you don't have.
>
> This can reduce the size of the kernel, which can translate into
> faster operations, as well as reduced space needed to hold it (and the
> modules you build, if an
On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 12:50:23PM -0800, Bob McGowan wrote:
> Well, the primary advantage to rolling your own is that you can customize the
> kernel for your
> hardware.
>
> Generic kernels include drivers for all sorts of things, most of which you
> don't have.
>
> This can reduce the size
Hi All,
I have a Debian Linux 4 running on Sun Ultra 60 machine. I want to install
FreeNX on it so I can access the desktop remotely. I understand there is no
binary available for Sparc machines. Could someone send detailed
instructions on how to install it?
Thanks in advance!
Yi Shi
Kevin Buhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> If your version of the "login" package is the latest official Etch
> version 1:4.0.18.1-7, then "md5sum /bin/su" should give:
>
> 1381ae1ac77b512258657b096522bb6a /bin/su
Sorry. That was sloppy of me. The above hash is for the amd64
architecture.
On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 08:48:04PM +, Stephen Allen wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 09:58:37PM -0800, sobriquet wrote:
> >
> > Hi.
> > Is there something equivalent to Camtasia (screen recording software)
> > on the windows platform for linux?
> > Preferably, it should yield movies of a level
up until yesterday I was able to play this game, today I can't. a terminal
session just shows this:
$ ksudoku
Segmentation fault
$
any clues or ideas? running Debian Lenny, updated as of just now. Today I got
about 18 updates. It didn't work before or after todays updates.
--
Paul Cartwright
Re
For some time I've been running fetchmail and getting the warning:
"upgrade to TLS failed." I was told I could ignore it, for fetchmail can
only use TLS (Transpost Layer Security protocol) if it's compiled with
SSL support, which my binary version does not support. I'm using
fetchmail 6.3.6.1etch1.
> > I am trying to burn a Data DVD+R
>
> > When I hit the burn button, the dialog box that
> pops up normally has a
> > drop down box which says the type of media
> detected. This remains
> > steadfastly saying no media loaded regardless of
> whether I have or
> > not - meaning I cannot start
On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 11:57:01AM +0200, Krasimir Ganchev wrote:
> I am using the current Debian Testing as a distribution tree and have
> recently updated the system. Since that last update I continue regularly
> receiving the following errors:
>
> Jan 31 10:18:19 lila kernel: [ 44.844774] exim4
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 09:58:37PM -0800, sobriquet wrote:
>
> Hi.
> Is there something equivalent to Camtasia (screen recording software)
> on the windows platform for linux?
> Preferably, it should yield movies of a level of quality that compares
> to Camtasia.
http://xvidcap.sourceforge.net/ht
On Jan 30, 2008 5:07 PM, Jimmy Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Secondly, is there some sort of compiz settings gui in debian etch? I
> couldn't find one, and the only thing I have available is
> gconf-editor, which is usable but difficult. For example, I wanted to
> turn off the wobbly plugin but
Amit Uttamchandani wrote:
Hey guys,
I apologize for the fairly primitive question. But I have been fairly curious
as to the advantages of compiling the most recent kernels.
As I understand, the new kernel has a new scheduler (CFS). Haven't seen much
benchmarks but the early ones I have seen s
paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> It is possible to do 'su someuser' from root but it's not possible to
> get back to root then using just 'su' or change from a normal user to
> another user account.
[ . . . ]
> Jan 31 15:44:18 myserver su[27729]: (pam_unix) authentication failure;
> logname=
On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 01:29:32PM -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> I'm not sure that original post was as much
> spam as inappropriate or a troll..
I agree. It was mostly just inappropriate. And it lacked a lot of the
key signs of spam so even a well trained spam filter would likely have
missed i
On Wed January 30 2008, mouss wrote:
> so we can no more discuss Puppy Linux or the Puppy package manager on
> debian lists?
yes!
>
> keyword filtering on general public lists is risky. I wonder if training
> bayes with a large corpus would help (the problem is what spam to use in
> the corpus).
I
On Jan 30, 2008, at 11:57 AM, Alan Chandler wrote:
I was trying to overburn the DVD with too much data. For some reason
the main display said the DVD was 8GB big, when in fact it only held a
lot less (somewhat arround the 4.7GB point, but definately less than
that). As soon as I had a little b
Chris Henry and others,
At Tue, 29 Jan 2008 09:22:10 +0800 Chris wrote,
"xlogin should be the program ..."
"which xlogin" reports nothing.
While the X login display is visible,
dalton:~# ps aux | grep login
root 3020 0.0 0.2 3068 704 pts/0R+ 09:03 0:00 grep login
and
dal
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On 01/31/08 10:46, Brian McKee wrote:
> On 31-Jan-08, at 11:29 AM, Ron Johnson wrote:
>
>> My desktop has more memory than some of our old still-in-service
>> workhorse Alphas.
>
>
> A friend has more RAM and a faster processor in his video card tha
On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 04:47:20PM +0100, Dan H. wrote:
> So to fix that I wanted to chroot into my mounted USB disk again but was
> rebuffed:
>
> chroot: cannot run command `/bin/bash': Permission denied
>
> WTF? There were no changes to that disk since chroot worked just before the
> reboot. I
On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 04:47:20PM +0100, Dan H. wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 03:56:10PM +0100, Dan H. wrote:
>
> > like the subject says, I want to set up a Debian system on a bootable
> > external USB hard disk
>
> Followup: I've discovered debootstrap and have used it to set up a system on
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On 31-Jan-08, at 11:29 AM, Ron Johnson wrote:
My desktop has more memory than some of our old still-in-service
workhorse Alphas.
A friend has more RAM and a faster processor in his video card than I
do in my laptop.
Brian
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On 2008-01-31 15:25 +0100, Kunszt Árpád wrote:
> I want to create an "alternate" package for libmysqlclient15off. It
> means I tried to create an dvrt-libmysqlclient15off package which can
> replace the libmysqlclient15off package in the dependency checks. The
> control files relevant part is now:
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On 01/31/08 08:57, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 06:37:03AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
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>> On 01/31/08 01:38, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
>>> On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 20:13
paul wrote:
Hello,
on my debian etch machine 'su' doesn't work if a password is needed.
It is possible to do 'su someuser' from root but it's not possible to
get back to root then using just 'su' or change from a normal user to
another user account.
myserver:/tmp$ su
Password:
su: Authenticati
Sorry for the mistake, although otherwise clear from the context: 16GB total is
correct as there are 4GB per cpu.
francesco
--- Francesco Pietra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 07:39:43 -0800 (PST)
> From: Francesco Pietra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Total vs per-cpu memory
Hello,
on my debian etch machine 'su' doesn't work if a password is needed.
It is possible to do 'su someuser' from root but it's not possible to
get back to root then using just 'su' or change from a normal user to
another user account.
myserver:/tmp$ su
Password:
su: Authentication failure
Sor
Just in case, that this information could be helpful. Here is the PCI
address of Broadcom WLAN interface:
# lspci
03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM94311MCG wlan
mini-PCI (rev 02)
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Kent West wrote:
On Jan 31, 2008 12:14 AM, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On the machine having the 2.6.22 kernel, I can not. Here's the error:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ smbmount //faculty/web netShares/web/
Password:
mount error 2 = No such file or directory
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manua
On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 03:56:10PM +0100, Dan H. wrote:
> like the subject says, I want to set up a Debian system on a bootable
> external USB hard disk
Followup: I've discovered debootstrap and have used it to set up a system on
that mobile disk. I chrooted to that disk (using the procedure from
Michael Marsh wrote:
On Jan 31, 2008 12:14 AM, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On the machine having the 2.6.22 kernel, I can not. Here's the error:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ smbmount //faculty/web netShares/web/
Password:
mount error 2 = No such file or directory
Refer to the mount.cifs(8)
Hello,
like the subject says, I want to set up a Debian system on a bootable
external USB hard disk to use with a (normally) Windows laptop. Of course I
could just pop in a netinstall CD on the target computer and do the normal
installation
process. However, I have a couple of full-featured Debian
On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 06:37:03AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
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> On 01/31/08 01:38, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 20:13 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> >> The only solution is to take out that excess RAM and send it to me!
>
Hi!
I want to create an "alternate" package for libmysqlclient15off. It
means I tried to create an dvrt-libmysqlclient15off package which can
replace the libmysqlclient15off package in the dependency checks. The
control files relevant part is now:
Package: dvrt-libmysqlclient15off
Section: libs
A
If it belongs to a debian package it would probably be the
xserver-xorg-video-ati. If you use the binary fglrx driver from ati
then this bug doesn't belong to debian.
However the UseFBDev option might help. But I often read about those
console-switching issues and I believe they are already known a
On Jan 31, 2008 12:14 AM, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On the machine having the 2.6.22 kernel, I can not. Here's the error:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ smbmount //faculty/web netShares/web/
> Password:
> mount error 2 = No such file or directory
> Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g
> I have two Debian boxes:
> On the machine having the 2.6.18 kernel, with the "real"
> /usr/bin/smbmount command, I can mount an SMB file system exported from
> a Sun 5.9 box.
>
> On the machine having the 2.6.22 kernel, I can not. Here's the error:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ smbmount //faculty/web
I have an ACER TM7720 (ATI Mobility Radeon 2400 XT card)
laptop under Debian 4.0.
When I press Alt-Ctrl-F1 from the gdm login window or from the gnome
desktop to switch session and then come back with Alt-Ctrl-F7, the
screen is screwed up with a mess of colors; mouse and keyboard seem to
work fine.
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On 01/31/08 01:38, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 20:13 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
>> The only solution is to take out that excess RAM and send it to me!
> Sorry,.. I've already threw it away ;-P
Are you old enough to remember
Angie NegrónRolón myamail.com> writes:
> Mirco Piccin gmail.com> writes:
> > Hi!
> > I use BackupPC.
> > It stores files by incremental or full backup, using ssh, rsynch or
> > smb (so you can backup Win or Linux or Mac without problems).
> > It also compress files, and handles versioning.
>
On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:48:37 -0200
Marcelo Chiapparini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My problem is with encryption (WPA).
This is what I have:
/etc/network/interfaces (relevant lines to wireless link only):
#DHCP doesn't work very well with wpa here, so I use static
#addresses. Also, it's a way
On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 12:04:01PM +0100, Adrian Chapela wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a centralized log server with syslog-ng. Now I am looking for a
> log analysis Web GUI. Know you some one ?
Aptitude knows:
$ aptitude search '~Gsecurity::log-analyzer'
p acidbase- Basi
Hello,
I have a centralized log server with syslog-ng. Now I am looking for a
log analysis Web GUI. Know you some one ?
Thank you!
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Mirco Piccin gmail.com> writes:
> Hi!
> I use BackupPC.
>
> It stores files by incremental or full backup, using ssh, rsynch or
> smb (so you can backup Win or Linux or Mac without problems).
> It also compress files, and handles versioning.
> It has also a web gui very simple to use.
It looks
Ivan Glushkov mail.desy.de> writes:
>
> Hi,
>
> I want to have wikipedia locally on my debian laptop.
>
> Which way of installing wikipedia would take the least disk space?
> What software I need to install/configure/run to have a local copy with
> the full search functionality?
http://use
Ralph Katz rcn.com> writes:
>
> On 01/30/2008 04:53 PM, Angie NegrónRolón wrote:
> > Do you know any backup solution which store backup like mirror,
but each file is
> > compressed? And then can do incremental backups without an original
file? (like
> > rdiff http://linux.die.net/man/1/rdiff)
On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 22:43 -0800, Amit Uttamchandani wrote:
>
> As I understand, the new kernel has a new scheduler (CFS). Haven't
> seen much benchmarks but the early ones I have seen showed some fairly
> decent performance gains.
CFS was in 2.6.23 already and actually has some issues in 2.6.2
I am using the current Debian Testing as a distribution tree and have
recently updated the system. Since that last update I continue regularly
receiving the following errors:
Jan 31 10:18:19 lila kernel: [ 44.844774] exim4[3153] general protection
eip:b785f4ec esp:bfba2ff8 error:0
Jan 31 10:18:42
Hi,
I want to have wikipedia locally on my debian laptop. I tried to google
about it, but the only useful link I found is
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download
, which does not really explain in details the installation process. Do
you know a nice HowTo on the topic answering
Jabka Atu wrote:
> Good day,..
>
>
> since i can't send find a fast way to send many pictures to Gmail /
> ISP mail (Quata limit for single mail).
>
> I thought it will be fun to do it in one line :
>
> find *.jpg -exec uuencode '{}' '{}' | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] \;
I think you're us
On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 19:57:36 +
Alan Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello Alan,
> I was trying to overburn the DVD with too much data. For some reason
> the main display said the DVD was 8GB big, when in fact it only held
I've found that, if you insert a DVD/CD after starting K3b the r
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