Setting up a Debian server as a client for X11

2008-12-19 Thread paulalt (via Nabble)
I'd like to set up Debian (etch) --my VPS (no GUI)-- as a client for X11. My server is X-Win32 on Vista. X-Win32 configuration gives me an error when I try to connect: starnetssh> 809 SSH2 key exchange complete. starnetssh> 810 Starting SSH2 user authentication. starnetssh> 816 SSH2 user authe

Re: Backup Image for my needs

2008-12-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On 12/19/08 20:52, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 04:01:26PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 12/19/08 13:09, Nate Duehr wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 08:42:15PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 12/17/08 19:51, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: No, these actually are

dircolors - debian etch - broken by design?

2008-12-19 Thread Chris Jones
I have had problems with the legibility of some of the default ls colors and figured it would take a quick read of the fine manual(s) and a bit of tweaking to change them. Well .. about four (!) hours and a lot of frustration later .. I have not been able to change the default settings. My .bashr

Re: compile help please

2008-12-19 Thread Daniel Dalton
> > Dumb question: is libc6-dev installed? I'm sure it would have to be to Yes it is. Thanks for your help. Cheers, Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Backup Image for my needs

2008-12-19 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 12:09:24PM -0700, Nate Duehr wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 08:42:15PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > >>On 12/17/08 19:51, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > >>>As far as I know, Debian doesn't have an installer feature like > >>>OpenBSD's where you can

Re: [OT]I just got a phish call!!!

2008-12-19 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 01:25:28PM +1100, CaT wrote: > On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 08:15:11PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > Hmmm. I have a distinct urge to call this 'phlegm'. ;) Only if the programming was done by hackers. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org wi

Re: Backup Image for my needs

2008-12-19 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 04:01:26PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 12/19/08 13:09, Nate Duehr wrote: > >Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >>On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 08:42:15PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > >>>On 12/17/08 19:51, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > No, these actually are large systems. A combination of

Re: compile help please

2008-12-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On 12/19/08 20:46, Daniel Dalton wrote: Hi, I'm trying to compile tesseract from svn so I can do ocr. Here is my problem I get compile errors... So, can someone please help? At the bottom of this email is the output of stderr and stdout for the following commands: ./configure and make So does

Re: Backup Image for my needs

2008-12-19 Thread Napoleon
Ron Johnson wrote: On 12/19/08 13:09, Nate Duehr wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 08:42:15PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 12/17/08 19:51, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: As far as I know, Debian doesn't have an installer feature like OpenBSD's where you can boot the installer,

compile help please

2008-12-19 Thread Daniel Dalton
Hi, I'm trying to compile tesseract from svn so I can do ocr. Here is my problem I get compile errors... So, can someone please help? At the bottom of this email is the output of stderr and stdout for the following commands: ./configure and make So does anyone know how I get this to compile? On

Re: [OT]I just got a phish call!!!

2008-12-19 Thread Robert Hodgins
On Fri, 2008-12-19 at 20:15 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > An automated voice told me that my (non-existant, of course) > Jefferson Parish[0] Credit Union Visa card has been blocked. > > I immediately hung up on it, of course, and am slightly unnerved > that "they" are now calling people at home

Re: [OT]I just got a phish call!!!

2008-12-19 Thread CaT
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 08:15:11PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > An automated voice told me that my (non-existant, of course) > Jefferson Parish[0] Credit Union Visa card has been blocked. > > I immediately hung up on it, of course, and am slightly unnerved > that "they" are now calling people at

[OT]I just got a phish call!!!

2008-12-19 Thread Ron Johnson
An automated voice told me that my (non-existant, of course) Jefferson Parish[0] Credit Union Visa card has been blocked. I immediately hung up on it, of course, and am slightly unnerved that "they" are now calling people at home with personalized scams. [0] Which is the county I live in.

Re: nrg2iso

2008-12-19 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * steef [Fri, Dec 19 2008, 12:58:35PM]: > this is the command i used to convert a (nero)file into a readable iso: Why don't you just NeroLinux then? > *sudo nrg2iso /home/steef/Desktop/PF2.nrg /home/steef/Desktop/PF3.iso > it seemed to work, > and i burnt the result, PF3.iso, onto a dv

Re: DD command

2008-12-19 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Fri, 19 Dec 2008, rjubio wrote: How long does a dd command take for an 80 GB IDE hd? Would you believe 300Gb took 11.5 hours? -- Bob Holtzman "The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it." -blatantly plagiarized - -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debia

Re: nrg2iso

2008-12-19 Thread steef
hi tzafrir, no real need to. just a try. after a bad dvd-burn without sudo. but, btw, you did not answer my question. reg., steef Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 12:58:35PM +, steef wrote: hi list, this is the command i used to convert a (nero)file into a readable iso:

Re: Message: process 'sysctl' is using deprecated sysctl

2008-12-19 Thread Sam Kuper
2008/12/19 Sven Joachim : > On 2008-12-19 22:43 +0100, Sam Kuper wrote: >> Is this a bug? > > Not really. AFAICS, "sysctl -A" just walks through /proc/sys and prints > everything that is available there, so it finds the deprecated kernel > parameter. > > In any case, that is nothing to worry about

Re: Message: process 'sysctl' is using deprecated sysctl

2008-12-19 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-12-19 22:43 +0100, Sam Kuper wrote: > When, in Lenny, I run: > > sysctl -A > > I get the following message printed to the console: > > [ 4485.916867 ] process 'sysctl' is using deprecated sysctl (syscall) > net.ipv6.neigh.default.retrans_time; Use > net.ipv6.neigh.default.retrans_time_ms i

Re: Backup Image for my needs

2008-12-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On 12/19/08 13:09, Nate Duehr wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 08:42:15PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 12/17/08 19:51, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: As far as I know, Debian doesn't have an installer feature like OpenBSD's where you can boot the installer, set up the disk par

Message: process 'sysctl' is using deprecated sysctl

2008-12-19 Thread Sam Kuper
Dear all, When, in Lenny, I run: sysctl -A I get the following message printed to the console: [ 4485.916867 ] process 'sysctl' is using deprecated sysctl (syscall) net.ipv6.neigh.default.retrans_time; Use net.ipv6.neigh.default.retrans_time_ms instead. Is this a bug? uname -a gives the foll

Re: tcpip stops working after some time

2008-12-19 Thread Jeff D
On Fri, 19 Dec 2008, Micha Feigin wrote: > On Sat, 13 Dec 2008 01:07:12 +0200 > subscriptions wrote: > > > On Fri, 2008-12-12 at 22:10 +0100, Micha Feigin wrote: > > > > > > For some reason after a few days of uptime , tcp stops working on my > > > machine. > > > Ping and dns lookups work, tcp do

Re: Help needed with xserver (plain text)

2008-12-19 Thread Dennis Wicks
Ron Johnson wrote the following on 12/19/2008 12:08 PM: On 12/19/08 11:54, w...@mgssub.com wrote: Greetings; (Sorry about the html. Different computer, different everything!) When I try to start gnome I get messages: (WW) RADEON: No matching device section for instance (Busid PCI:1:0:1) found

Re: Backup Image for my needs

2008-12-19 Thread Nate Duehr
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 08:42:15PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 12/17/08 19:51, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: As far as I know, Debian doesn't have an installer feature like OpenBSD's where you can boot the installer, set up the disk partitions, and run restore right from th

Re: Help needed with xserver (plain text)

2008-12-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On 12/19/08 11:54, w...@mgssub.com wrote: Greetings; (Sorry about the html. Different computer, different everything!) When I try to start gnome I get messages: (WW) RADEON: No matching device section for instance (Busid PCI:1:0:1) found ... drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0 ": open r

Re: Help needed with xserver

2008-12-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On 12/19/08 11:50, w...@mgssub.com wrote: Original Message Subject: Re: Help needed with xserver From: "Eugene V. Lyubimkin" Date: Fri, December 19, 2008 10:43 am To: w...@mgssub.com Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org What you didn't say is versions of Debian and Xorg you use.

Re: how to run debsums for 'ps' and 'readline'

2008-12-19 Thread oneman
On 19-dec-2008, at 12:41, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: Hi, oneman writes: chkrootkit is complaining about processes hidden from ps and readdir. So I'd like to run debsums on them to test the integrity of ps and readdir. However, 'debsums ps' doesn't work. Wich package name should I use to check t

Help needed with xserver (plain text)

2008-12-19 Thread wix
Greetings; (Sorry about the html. Different computer, different everything!) When I try to start gnome I get messages: (WW) RADEON: No matching device section for instance (Busid PCI:1:0:1) found ... drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0 ": open result is -1 (No such device or address) (sam

RE: Help needed with xserver

2008-12-19 Thread wix
Original Message Subject: Re: Help needed with xserver From: "Eugene V. Lyubimkin" Date: Fri, December 19, 2008 10:43 am To: w...@mgssub.com Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org What you didn't say is versions of Debian and Xorg you use. -- Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID: ja

Re: Help needed with xserver

2008-12-19 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
What you didn't say is versions of Debian and Xorg you use. -- Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID: jackyf.devel(maildog)gmail.com Ukrainian C++ Developer, Debian Maintainer, APT contributor signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Help needed with xserver

2008-12-19 Thread wix
Greetings;When I try to start gnome I get messages:(WW) RADEON: No matching device section for instance (Busid PCI:1:0:1) found...drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0": open result is -1 (No such device or address)(same msg repeated)": open failedand my desktop doesn't start.I start gnome fro

Re: DD command

2008-12-19 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-12-19 16:53 +0100, rjubio wrote: > Sven Joachim wrote: >> On 2008-12-19 07:36 +0100, rjubio wrote: >> >> >>> How long does a dd command take for an 80 GB IDE hd? >>> >> >> Not long ago I zeroed out the disk of my old machine because I wanted to >> sell it, and that took 80 GB /(53

Re: DD command

2008-12-19 Thread Bob Cox
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 08:52:00 -0500, Douglas A. Tutty (dtu...@vianet.ca) wrote: > On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 02:36:45PM +0800, rjubio wrote: > > How long does a dd command take for an 80 GB IDE hd? > > You could use hdparm testing to get the unbuffered speed and then do the > math. Thank you f

Re: DD command

2008-12-19 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 11:53:44PM +0800, rjubio wrote: > Sven Joachim wrote: > >On 2008-12-19 07:36 +0100, rjubio wrote: > > > >>How long does a dd command take for an 80 GB IDE hd? > > > >Not long ago I zeroed out the disk of my old machine because I wanted to > >sell it, and that took 80 GB /(

Re: DD command

2008-12-19 Thread rjubio
Sven Joachim wrote: On 2008-12-19 07:36 +0100, rjubio wrote: How long does a dd command take for an 80 GB IDE hd? Not long ago I zeroed out the disk of my old machine because I wanted to sell it, and that took 80 GB /(53 MiB/s) = 25 minutes. Sven I dont get it. I've been getting

Re: xserver-xorg under lenny

2008-12-19 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 04:47, steef wrote: > > hi paul, > > ...thanks for your answer. must be dumb today. where do i find the > *package* sgfxi? > > nothing turned up when i did: *apt-cache search sgfxi* > > (i did find a lot of explanation/script, googling) Please don't top post. A: Beca

Re: DD command

2008-12-19 Thread elijah rutschman
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 12:36 AM, rjubio wrote: > How long does a dd command take for an 80 GB IDE hd? I've found that setting a higher blocksize (using the bs= parameter) makes dd go much faster. I usually set the blocksize to about 50 megabytes, depending on available RAM. Regards, Elijah -

Re: Java on Debian

2008-12-19 Thread Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
2008/12/17 Alex Samad : >> Unfortunately, OpenJDK is too new to be packaged for etch, but you can >> try to build it from sources. > > openJDK is in unstable, no need to go to source And is backporting OpenJDK from unstable to etch trivial? - Jordi G. H. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

Re: Java on Debian

2008-12-19 Thread Dancing Fingers
On Dec 17, 3:40 pm, Alex Samad wrote: > On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 11:03:15AM -0600, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: > > 2008/12/17 Girish Kulkarni : > > > 1. What is the Java Runtime Environment?  And the Java Development Kit? > > > The JRE includes a virtual machine for running Java programs, the JD

Re: nrg2iso

2008-12-19 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 12:58:35PM +, steef wrote: > hi list, > > this is the command i used to convert a (nero)file into a readable iso: > > *sudo nrg2iso /home/steef/Desktop/PF2.nrg /home/steef/Desktop/PF3.iso Why would you need to be root to convert files? -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf.

Re: how to install skype on debian sid amd64?

2008-12-19 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Thursday 18 December 2008 22:24:40 Damon L. Chesser wrote: > On Thursday 18 December 2008 22:15:40 Star Liu wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 10:53 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. > > > > wrote: > > > On Thursday 2008 December 18 20:15:00 Star Liu wrote: > > >> I found that there is no official deb

Re: To-do-list Application

2008-12-19 Thread Zaki Akhmad
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Re: DD command

2008-12-19 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 02:36:45PM +0800, rjubio wrote: > How long does a dd command take for an 80 GB IDE hd? You could use hdparm testing to get the unbuffered speed and then do the math. It also depends if you're doing anything with the other drive on that IDE channel. I.e. dd from one to the

Re: Backup Image for my needs

2008-12-19 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 10:14:06PM -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 10:15:11AM -0800, Rob Starling > was heard to say: > > On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 09:11:10AM -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote: > By disabling auto-installation in step (a), you avoid that: you should > get only

Re: kernel version of debian testing.

2008-12-19 Thread Angus Auld
--- On Thu, 12/18/08, Jan Brosius wrote: > From: Jan Brosius > Subject: kernel version of debian testing. > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Date: Thursday, December 18, 2008, 6:55 PM > Hi, > > Does anyone know the kernel version in the latest version > of debian-testing? I > saw on the in

nrg2iso

2008-12-19 Thread steef
hi list, this is the command i used to convert a (nero)file into a readable iso: *sudo nrg2iso /home/steef/Desktop/PF2.nrg /home/steef/Desktop/PF3.iso it seemed to work, and i burnt the result, PF3.iso, onto a dvd with # growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/scd0:/home/steef/Desktop/PF3.iso no readable

Re: xserver-xorg under lenny

2008-12-19 Thread steef
thanks. kelly for your answer. i must copy the logs&& from the other hd before i send you the info. must be working all day today. so i'll do that later reg., steef Kelly Clowers wrote: On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 05:22, steef wrote: hi list, how do i get the magical xserver-xorg i

Re: xserver-xorg under lenny

2008-12-19 Thread steef
hi paul, ...thanks for your answer. must be dumb today. where do i find the *package* sgfxi? nothing turned up when i did: *apt-cache search sgfxi* (i did find a lot of explanation/script, googling) reg., steef Paul Cartwright wrote: On Thu December 18 2008, steef wrote: i never

Re: how to run debsums for 'ps' and 'readline'

2008-12-19 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 12:25:55PM +0100, oneman wrote: > Hi All, > > > chkrootkit is complaining about processes hidden from ps and readdir. So > I'd like to run debsums on them to test the integrity of ps and readdir. > However, 'debsums ps' doesn't work. Wich package name should I use to > ch

Problem after upgrade

2008-12-19 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi folks, Xen dom0/host Debian Etch, a workstation domU/guest Postfix mail server on Debian Etch dom0 after running # aptitude update # aptitude upgrade It works without problem. domU after running # aptitude update # aptitude upgrade 1) A new version of configuration file /e

Re: how to run debsums for 'ps' and 'readline'

2008-12-19 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi, oneman writes: > chkrootkit is complaining about processes hidden from ps and readdir. > So I'd like to run debsums on them to test the integrity of ps and > readdir. However, 'debsums ps' doesn't work. Wich package name should > I use to check the integrity of these two? $ dpkg -S /bin/ps

how to run debsums for 'ps' and 'readline'

2008-12-19 Thread oneman
Hi All, chkrootkit is complaining about processes hidden from ps and readdir. So I'd like to run debsums on them to test the integrity of ps and readdir. However, 'debsums ps' doesn't work. Wich package name should I use to check the integrity of these two? Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: debian etch on sata hds

2008-12-19 Thread steef
hi, newer kernels all are supposed to support sata-hd's AFAIK. installed this week without any problem lenny on a serial ata (sata, scsi) disk. reg., steef rjubio wrote: Does anyone know or has a link on how to install debian on a sata drive? My installer asks me for a driver to loa

Re: Adobe AIR installation

2008-12-19 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Bogdan wrote: On 12/18/08 14:48, Bogdan wrote: >"An error occurred while installing Adobe AIR. Installation may > not be allowed by your administrator. Please contact your > administrator" > > "Adobe AIR could not be installed because another appl

Re: tcpip stops working after some time

2008-12-19 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sat, 13 Dec 2008 01:07:12 +0200 subscriptions wrote: > On Fri, 2008-12-12 at 22:10 +0100, Micha Feigin wrote: > > > > For some reason after a few days of uptime , tcp stops working on my > > machine. > > Ping and dns lookups work, tcp doesn't. I tried both wired and > > wireless, > > removing

Re: DD command

2008-12-19 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-12-19 07:36 +0100, rjubio wrote: > How long does a dd command take for an 80 GB IDE hd? Not long ago I zeroed out the disk of my old machine because I wanted to sell it, and that took 80 GB /(53 MiB/s) = 25 minutes. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: DD command

2008-12-19 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-12-19 07:56 +0100, Juha Tuuna wrote: > rjubio wrote: >> How long does a dd command take for an 80 GB IDE hd? > > It depends on your hardware, are you writing or reading and other possible I/O > on that disk. On a laptop I got 3MiB/s on average. You do the math. Seems like the disk was in

Re: Instructions for upgrading from Etch to Lenny?

2008-12-19 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-12-19 01:25 +0100, Rick Thomas wrote: > I didn't encounter any problems with X.org stuff. It deleted a few > things that don't seem to have any counterparts in Lenny - > specifically "libsasl2", "libssp0", and "libvte4". I guess that's > normal? Yes, removing obsolete packages is fine

Re: To-do-list Application

2008-12-19 Thread Henri Salo
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 10:44:52PM +0700, Zaki Akhmad wrote: > I am looking for such a "post it" application. So that I can write my > to-do-list and view it on my Desktop. Any suggestion? I'm using riot http://modeemi.cs.tut.fi/~tuomov/riot/ - Henri Salo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-use

Re: DD command

2008-12-19 Thread rjubio
Juha Tuuna wrote: rjubio wrote: How long does a dd command take for an 80 GB IDE hd? It depends on your hardware, are you writing or reading and other possible I/O on that disk. On a laptop I got 3MiB/s on average. You do the math. Does the IDE or SATA setting of the hd affect the

debian etch on sata hds

2008-12-19 Thread rjubio
Does anyone know or has a link on how to install debian on a sata drive? My installer asks me for a driver to load after not detecting the sata drives. Thanks!! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists

Re: DD command

2008-12-19 Thread Owen Townend
2008/12/19 rjubio : > How long does a dd command take for an 80 GB IDE hd? > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject > of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > > Hey, As a tangent to the question, try running it in the backgrou