Re: Bash Script for Mail sending Check

2009-04-17 Thread Tapani Tarvainen
On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 08:27:43AM +0300, Andrei Popescu (andreimpope...@gmail.com) wrote: > On Sat,18.Apr.09, 08:04:12, Kurian Thayil wrote: > > only whether the port is open or not. But what I need is to check if an > > SMTP server is listening in that port. So I guess the best tool is > > tel

Re: module named cairo, python-gtk

2009-04-17 Thread Mark Grieveson
On Sat, 18 Apr 2009 05:29:54 + (UTC) debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: > In some python applications, such as exfalso, or gdebi-gtk, I get an > error regarding there being no "module named cairo". For example, Never mind. I fixed this by dpkg-reconfiguring the packages pyt

Re: hidden files everywhere

2009-04-17 Thread Mark Grieveson
On Sat, 18 Apr 2009 05:29:54 + (UTC) debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: > You can toggle hidden files with Ctrl-H. This works also in nautilus > BTW. Saludosss Thanks. That solved it. Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: screen shaking with analog lcd connection

2009-04-17 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat,18.Apr.09, 01:30:59, Hashimoto wrote: > Hello guys, > > I'm used to connect my laptop to my LCD monitor, and using the analog > connection because it's the only way to do that. But I realized that the > screen shake a lot mainly to watch a movie. I'm not sure what you mean by "shaking", bu

Re: default web browser

2009-04-17 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri,17.Apr.09, 16:27:05, Mark Grieveson wrote: > On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 19:00:05 + (UTC) > debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: > > > Here's your problem. For some reason you are missing the > > x-www-browser=20 link. You could try: > > > > # update-alternatives --auto x-www-bro

Re: Bash Script for Mail sending Check

2009-04-17 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat,18.Apr.09, 08:04:12, Kurian Thayil wrote: > Hi, > > Even I am in the same opinion as Tapani. `nc` or `nmap` actually shows > only whether the port is open or not. But what I need is to check if an > SMTP server is listening in that port. So I guess the best tool is > telnet and to check 220

help with seg fault in aptitude and booting xen

2009-04-17 Thread whollygoat
This is a recently installed firewalling router/gateway running Lenny. For two or three days it has been running for long periods with no interruptions in connectivity or with booting. p3 500Mhz slot 1 seanix columbia sx mobo i440bx chipset Today it suddenly died in the middle of my web br

clean up the laptop body/keyboard

2009-04-17 Thread Hashimoto
Hi there, What kind of product do you suggest to use to clean up my laptop body and keyboard ? Thanks

screen shaking with analog lcd connection

2009-04-17 Thread Hashimoto
Hello guys, I'm used to connect my laptop to my LCD monitor, and using the analog connection because it's the only way to do that. But I realized that the screen shake a lot mainly to watch a movie. If this information helps my video card is the GeForce 7150M and the driver is updated, and my ker

Re: Is it secure to use testing/backport repos for production server?

2009-04-17 Thread Michael Pobega
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 11:39:25AM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In <20090416152722.ga23...@greedo>, Michael Pobega wrote: > >On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 09:50:46PM +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: > >> Is it secure to use testing/backport repos for production server? > >Realistically, the most 'secure

Re: Bash Script for Mail sending Check

2009-04-17 Thread Kurian Thayil
Hi, Even I am in the same opinion as Tapani. `nc` or `nmap` actually shows only whether the port is open or not. But what I need is to check if an SMTP server is listening in that port. So I guess the best tool is telnet and to check 220 status. I don't think that I'll have to use KILL as there w

CUPS in Lenny prints from some apps but not all

2009-04-17 Thread Ken Heard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 1. CUPS in Lenny will *not* print: 1.1 An icedove e-mail. The print window gives only one option: PostScript/default. It will not print to printer (no job appears in the spool), nor will it print to file. 1.2 Files from dosemu applications, e.g. Wo

Re: Blank CDRW wierdness

2009-04-17 Thread Jack Schneider
On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 07:59:17 -0500 John W Foster wrote: > On Fri, 2009-04-17 at 14:16 +0300, Aioanei Rares wrote: > > John W Foster wrote: > > > I have Debian Lenny on a box that I use to burn Data CD's on I > > > have recently noticed that when I burn one and for some reason > > > need to read i

Re: where are all Debian SPARC install CDs/DVDs?

2009-04-17 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 06:25:28PM -0300, Marcello Di Marino Azevedo wrote: > Hello, I'm not sure this is the correct list to ask this but I was asked > to install Debian on a Sparc machine but not all CDs/DVDs are available > to download under main download server. > > Take a look at: http://c

Re: Dell Poweredge 2300/500 i2o:iop0: Unable to start controller

2009-04-17 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/4/18 Adrian Levi : > i2o:iop0: Unable to start controller. Found out that i2o and linux kernel don't play nice. I disabled i2o in the Perc's bios by typing ^M and selecting adaptor and switching from i2o to mass storage. All working now. Still don't understand why it would install perfectly

xfce 4.6 and user menus

2009-04-17 Thread Alex Samad
Hi I have just installed xfce 4.6 from 4.4 and I am having some problems with user menus. I have built a user defined menu in ~/.config/xfce4/desktop/ it was xml based. Now I am on 4.6, this doesn't work and their is no menu editor ! I have noticed the new menus are kept in /etc/xdg/menu and a

module named cairo, python-gtk

2009-04-17 Thread Mark Grieveson
In some python applications, such as exfalso, or gdebi-gtk, I get an error regarding there being no "module named cairo". For example, m...@debian:~$ exfalso Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/exfalso", line 69, in main(sys.argv) File "/usr/bin/exfalso", line 46, in main

Dell Poweredge 2300/500 i2o:iop0: Unable to start controller

2009-04-17 Thread Adrian Levi
Unit has 1G ram 6x 18G drives configured as following: 2 as raid 1 partitioned 500M /boot 10G / 5G /usr and remainder as swap ~1G 4 drives in raid 5 as a /svr Discs are connected to the Perc2/SC controller, primary on board controller is set to disabled, secondary on board controller has CD-ROM d

Re: no sound on lenny

2009-04-17 Thread Nigel Henry
On Friday 17 April 2009 23:09, you wrote: > Nigel, > > Ok, thanks. > > I installed the oss-compat package, and rebooted. This time I heard the > speaker pop, at least. > > When I ran aplay again still no sound. > I double-checked my mute status and volume levels again in alsamixer and > everything

Re: hidden files everywhere

2009-04-17 Thread Oscar Morante
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 05:58:13PM -0400, Mark Grieveson wrote: > Back in the good old days of Etch, when I needed to edit a hidden file, > I sometimes would open it with gedit by using Ctrl-L, and then obtain > the file, and open it. I did this after upgrading to Lenny, and now > find that every

not replicate

2009-04-17 Thread michal krajcirovic
Hello, i create new tercial dns and copy ns2 table with domains (with power dns). but ns2 say to log this: Apr 17 22:06:42 mon pdns[1344]: Domain sarji.net is stale, master serial 2006012312, our serial 0 Apr 17 22:06:42 mon pdns[1344]: Domain sarkan.cz is stale, master serial 2006012301, our

GTK+ apps crapflood my console after hibernate

2009-04-17 Thread Jordi Gutiérrez Hermos
This has been happening for quite a while... whenever I thaw X from hibernation and open any GTK+ app from console, all X events in the GTK+ app crapflood my console with errors like these: (emacs22-gtk:13958): atk-bridge-WARNING **: failure: no device event controller found. (mysql-query-br

hidden files everywhere

2009-04-17 Thread Mark Grieveson
Back in the good old days of Etch, when I needed to edit a hidden file, I sometimes would open it with gedit by using Ctrl-L, and then obtain the file, and open it. I did this after upgrading to Lenny, and now find that every single application, always, shows every file, be it hidden or not. Or,

Re: key bindings

2009-04-17 Thread Daniel Dalton
Thanks very much, I'll give that a shot. Cheers, Daniel. On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 10:08:39AM +0100, David Jardine wrote: > On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 12:00:19PM +1000, Daniel Dalton wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm looking at doing some remaps on my system with the keymap. After > > reading man dumpkeys,

Re: tftpd-hpa fails to start.

2009-04-17 Thread Nuno Magalhães
>  I only found it by doing "netstat" -- because it's inetd > triggered, the "bad" tftp doesn't show up in the process list. Yup, i was wondering why was the socket misteriously spoken for and yet netstat -l |grep ftp showed nothing... Solved it already, thanks. Nuno -- () ascii ribbon campaig

Re: tftpd-hpa fails to start.

2009-04-17 Thread Andrew Reid
On Friday 17 April 2009 12:14:52 Nuno Magalhães wrote: > Hi, i'm having a slight issue following this article [1]. My client > will boot through PXE and find the host, then it won't find an image > and keeps on showing TFTP timeouts. I ran into this recently -- it turned out that the non-hpa TFT

Re: redirect time to file

2009-04-17 Thread Erik Xavior
wow. Thank you!! and can I append the output of "time" to a file? [like "time echo hi >> file"] eg.: it could be good, for measuring a commands running time several times, then avg the "time"'s output!! :D :O

Re: tftpd-hpa fails to start. [solved]

2009-04-17 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Turns out it was mostly user-error. 1) i was having issues starting tftpd-hpa through /etc/init.d - the tftp daemon was already being run by inetd, i was unaware of that, got it to run stand-alone since it's a one-time job anyway and i'm goofing around. 2) dhcp3-server gave the client the ip, but

where are all Debian SPARC install CDs/DVDs?

2009-04-17 Thread Marcello Di Marino Azevedo
Hello, I'm not sure this is the correct list to ask this but I was asked to install Debian on a Sparc machine but not all CDs/DVDs are available to download under main download server. Take a look at: http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/5.0.1/sparc/iso-cd/ and http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-

Re: xine was unable to initialize any audio drivers (in sid)

2009-04-17 Thread niclas w
Kelly Clowers wrote: On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 11:56, niclas wahlgren wrote: Kelly Clowers wrote: On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 22:45, niclas w wrote: 'xine was unable to initialize any audio drivers' error message when starting amarik. No sound when using amarok(or any other player). But I hear

Re: ethernet card, the debian way ?

2009-04-17 Thread Dieder Vervoort
Check this: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-networking-3/replaced-eth0-network-card-new-network-card-comes-up-as-eth1-713488/ in my system it is z25_persistent-net.rules success ! Bob Cox wrote: On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 14:21:49 -0600, Paul E Condon (pecon...@mesanetworks.net) wro

Re: default web browser

2009-04-17 Thread Mark Grieveson
On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 19:00:05 + (UTC) debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: > Here's your problem. For some reason you are missing the > x-www-browser=20 link. You could try: > > # update-alternatives --auto x-www-browser > # aptitude reinstall iceweasel > # aptitude purge iceweas

Re: ethernet card, the debian way ?

2009-04-17 Thread Bob Cox
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 14:21:49 -0600, Paul E Condon (pecon...@mesanetworks.net) wrote: > Since I think I have good reason to believe that the built-in has gone > bad, I would like to have it skipped over during all setup. How? I > can't exactly remove it. It seems to be soldered in place. Th

Re: ethernet card, the debian way ?

2009-04-17 Thread Nuno Magalhães
An uneducated guess: fiddling around with lspci or lshw actually would probably give you some info on the controller... then checking out which /dev is mapped to it and somehow block it? HTH Nuno -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ ascii-rubanda kampajno - kontraŭ html-a retpo

Re: tftpd-hpa fails to start.

2009-04-17 Thread Nuno Magalhães
2009/4/17 Nuno Magalhães : >>  Very odd.  Could be that it is listed in /etc/inetd.conf and >>  is just not running at the instance that you look ..? Well, yes, it was being controlled by inetd and some rtfm-ing later i thought it better to be stand-alone. So, it's running: i get the prompt back a

ethernet card, the debian way ?

2009-04-17 Thread Paul E Condon
A few days ago, communication with one of the Debian computers on my LAN became unreliable. Rsync transfers were interrupted with an error message about the MAC address changing. After a visual inspection and moving a few cables, the problem did not go away, so I added a lan card to the box and gav

Re: redirect time to file

2009-04-17 Thread Bob Cox
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 15:12:36 -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. (b...@iguanasuicide.net) wrote: > In , Erik > Xavior wrote: > >$ time echo hi > file > > > >real0m0.000s > >user0m0.000s > >sys 0m0.000s > >$ > > > >why doesn't it redirect the: > > > >real0m0.000s > >user0m0.000

Re: no sound on lenny

2009-04-17 Thread Nigel Henry
On Friday 17 April 2009 21:05, you wrote: > Nigel, > > Ok here you go: > > type of system: > gateway 7200X CTO desktop > pentium II 3.0ghz > 4 gb ram 250 gb harddrive > > output from "cat /proc/asound/cards" > > 0 [Intel ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel > HDA Intel at 0x9220

Re: redirect time to file

2009-04-17 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In , Erik Xavior wrote: >$ time echo hi > file > >real0m0.000s >user0m0.000s >sys 0m0.000s >$ > >why doesn't it redirect the: > >real0m0.000s >user0m0.000s >sys 0m0.000s > >to the "file"? > >even >time echo hi 2>&1 > file >doesnt work :O This is specific to bash, and only

redirect time to file

2009-04-17 Thread Erik Xavior
$ time echo hi > file real0m0.000s user0m0.000s sys 0m0.000s $ why doesn't it redirect the: real0m0.000s user0m0.000s sys 0m0.000s to the "file"? even time echo hi 2>&1 > file doesnt work :O

grub-install: File stage2 is not read properly

2009-04-17 Thread Sthu Deus
Good day. How I can install grub in MBR on the disk where to I've copied a warking OS if grub-install /dev/sda says: File stage2 is not read properly - or something like that. And it is not get installed into MBR. What I did is: copied all the files to root on an empty partition did copy /d

Re: tftpd-hpa fails to start.

2009-04-17 Thread Nuno Magalhães
>  Very odd.  Could be that it is listed in /etc/inetd.conf and >  is just not running at the instance that you look ..? It's actually the only thing active in that file, all others are comented out. tftp dgram udp waitroot /usr/sbin/in.tftpd /usr/sbin/in.tftpd -s /var/lib/tf

Re: new xorg working except for screen resolution

2009-04-17 Thread Paul Scott
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Fri,17.Apr.09, 01:45:38, Paul Scott wrote: please post /var/log/X0rg.0.log Attached. From what I can tell, Xorg doesn't recognize your monitor. You are either using a quite old monitor, or the EDID information doesn't get through (did you check the c

Re: tftpd-hpa fails to start.

2009-04-17 Thread Steve Kemp
On Fri Apr 17, 2009 at 19:59:22 +0100, Nuno Magalh??es wrote: > Still no results... why wouldn't a process list itself? The socket is > there but there's no process listening on it? Very odd. Could be that it is listed in /etc/inetd.conf and is just not running at the instance that you look .

Re: tftpd-hpa fails to start.

2009-04-17 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 19:42, Steve Kemp wrote: >  (ie. There is another tftpd deamon already running.) I assumed that, but i find none. >  No.  The message is talking about a network socket.  Kill the existing >  process and all will be well. There is a network socket: # netstat -l | grep ft

Re: default web browser

2009-04-17 Thread Mark Grieveson
On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:29:47 -0400 Mark Grieveson wrote: > This has brought up another issue, > which I've had with some other gtk programs (IE, emelfm). In trying > to run galternatives, I received the following error: Quick correction to an error I made. When I cited emelfm as an example in

Re: tftpd-hpa fails to start.

2009-04-17 Thread Steve Kemp
On Fri Apr 17, 2009 at 19:34:52 +0100, Nuno Magalh??es wrote: > > Usually I'd say look at /var/log/daemon.log - if that doesn't > > work I'd add "set -x" to the init script and see how far it > > gets. > > Ah, daemon.log it's a socket issue: > > Apr 17 19:12:57 box in.tftpd[15899]: cannot bin

Re: default web browser

2009-04-17 Thread Mark Grieveson
In further looking at the issue of the dead links in /etc/alternatives directory, leading to sensible-browser opening lynx rather than iceweasel, I attempted to install a gui program entitled galternatives, to see if that could assist me. This has brought up another issue, which I've had with some

Re: tftpd-hpa fails to start.

2009-04-17 Thread Nuno Magalhães
> Usually I'd say look at /var/log/daemon.log - if that doesn't > work I'd add "set -x" to the init script and see how far it > gets. Ah, daemon.log it's a socket issue: Apr 17 19:12:57 box in.tftpd[15899]: cannot bind to local IPv4 socket: Address already in use There's nothing "pending" o

Re: no sound on lenny

2009-04-17 Thread Nigel Henry
On Friday 17 April 2009 19:03, Don Raikes wrote: > Hello, > I installed lenny yesterday on a desktop system I have. I installed it > without a graphical desktop since I am not currently interested in anything > other than console-based applications, and it is an experimental > environment. > > Afte

Re: default web browser

2009-04-17 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri,17.Apr.09, 13:25:08, Mark Grieveson wrote: > On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:15:58 + (UTC) > debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: > > > Can you please show the output of these commands (as user, not root): > > > > echo $DISPLAY > > which x-www-browser > > m...@debian:~$ echo $DIS

Re: default web browser

2009-04-17 Thread Mark Grieveson
On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:15:58 + (UTC) debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: > After running the update-alternatives commands, reportbug now uses > dillo as I wanted it to. > > Anthony Congratulations. Still no luck here, but I feel I'm getting closer. I checked the links in the

no sound on lenny

2009-04-17 Thread Don Raikes
Hello, I installed lenny yesterday on a desktop system I have. I installed it without a graphical desktop since I am not currently interested in anything other than console-based applications, and it is an experimental environment. After teh install, I ran: apt-get update then apt-get install al

Re: default web browser

2009-04-17 Thread Mark Grieveson
On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:15:58 + (UTC) debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: > Can you please show the output of these commands (as user, not root): > > echo $DISPLAY > which x-www-browser m...@debian:~$ echo $DISPLAY :0.0 m...@debian:~$ which x-www-browser m...@debian:~$ Mark

Re: etch to lenny upgrade - X apps no longer see keystrokes?

2009-04-17 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 14:46:58 +1000, Graham Williams wrote: > Received Wed 15 Apr 2009 5:32am +1000 from Florian Kulzer: > > On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 09:21:11 +1000, Graham Williams wrote: > > > Received Fri 10 Apr 2009 6:31am +1000 from Florian Kulzer: > > > > On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 18:10:41

Re: Problem with emacs

2009-04-17 Thread John Hasler
Maurice Guerrier writes: > I'm using emacs on debian, when I try to edit a file with emacs, it takes > many to open the file. for exemple: emacs /etc/resolv.conf ---> it takes > many times before opening the file. Please show us exactly what you did and exactly what happened. Cut and paste: don'

problem with samba for sharing folder

2009-04-17 Thread Maurice Guerrier
I configure samba just to share my folders between win Xp et Debian. When I'm on Windows I access to the sharing folder on debian, but I can't create new file insede it. It's the same when I'm in debian, I access on sharing folder Windows but I can't create new file inside it What do you thi

Re: Problem with emacs

2009-04-17 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Maurice Guerrier wrote: > I'm using emacs on debian, when I try to edit a file with emacs, it takes > many to open the file. > > for exemple: emacs /etc/resolv.conf ---> it takes many times before opening > the file. > > What do you think about this problem To ch

Re: tftpd-hpa fails to start.

2009-04-17 Thread Mirco Piccin
Hi > Hi, i'm having a slight issue following this article [1]. My client > will boot through PXE and find the host, then it won't find an image > and keeps on showing TFTP timeouts. did you check if tftp is running on you server ? # ps -A | grep tftp > The thing is, to use the articles example,

Re: tftpd-hpa fails to start.

2009-04-17 Thread Steve Kemp
On Fri Apr 17, 2009 at 17:14:52 +0100, Nuno Magalh??es wrote: > The thing is, to use the articles example, instead of: > r...@itchy:~# /etc/init.d/tftpd-hpa start > Starting HPA's tftpd: in.tftpd. > r...@itchy:~# itchy! I remember that machine .. > I'm using unstable's tftp-hpa 0.49 and don't

Problem with emacs

2009-04-17 Thread Maurice Guerrier
I'm using emacs on debian, when I try to edit a file with emacs, it takes many to open the file. for exemple: emacs /etc/resolv.conf ---> it takes many times before opening the file. What do you think about this problem Guerrier MAURICE Cell.: +33(0) 6 10 30 43 46

tftpd-hpa fails to start.

2009-04-17 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Hi, i'm having a slight issue following this article [1]. My client will boot through PXE and find the host, then it won't find an image and keeps on showing TFTP timeouts. The thing is, to use the articles example, instead of: r...@itchy:~# /etc/init.d/tftpd-hpa start Starting HPA's tftpd: in.tft

Re: date - if - bash

2009-04-17 Thread Mike Bird
On Fri April 17 2009 07:59:39 Erik Xavior wrote: > > why isn't working? :S > > if [ $(date +%H) > 10 ]; then echo "later then 10h"; else echo "before > 10h"; fi; "> 10" created a file called "10". You probably want "-gt 10". --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@li

Re: date - if - bash

2009-04-17 Thread Erik Xavior
it gives an output, yes, but if "date +%H" is smaller then 10, it still says "later then 10h" if [ $(date +%H) > 10 ]; then echo "later then 10h"; else echo "before 10h"; fi;

Re: date - if - bash

2009-04-17 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 04:59:39PM +0200, Erik Xavior wrote: > > why isn't working? :S > > if [ $(date +%H) > 10 ]; then echo "later then 10h"; else echo "before 10h"; > fi; because '>' is a string operator? try '-gt' A signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: date - if - bash

2009-04-17 Thread CaT
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 04:59:39PM +0200, Erik Xavior wrote: > > why isn't working? :S > > if [ $(date +%H) > 10 ]; then echo "later then 10h"; else echo "before 10h"; > fi; Because > is a string comparison. Do help test in bash or man test -- "A search of his car uncovered pornograph

date - if - bash

2009-04-17 Thread Erik Xavior
why isn't working? :S if [ $(date +%H) > 10 ]; then echo "later then 10h"; else echo "before 10h"; fi;

Re: which websites are running debian

2009-04-17 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 10:00:07AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > http://www.debian.org/users/ > > Organizations are listed there only if the submit a request. Many more > are probably running Debian and are not listed there. This is very useful promotion tool. -- Zhengquan -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: which websites are running debian

2009-04-17 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 01:12:43PM +0200, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > nmap -v -A scanme.nmap.org I am running a sid on my desktop but this does not return I am running sid.. -- Zhengquan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: default web browser

2009-04-17 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 17 Apr 2009, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 16 Apr 2009, Mark Grieveson wrote: > > > > m...@debian:~$ update-alternatives --list x-www-browser > > bash: update-alternatives: command not found > > m...@debian:~$ su > > Password: > > debian:/home/mark# update-alternatives --list x-www-browser > >

ffmpeg not support swf video in Lenny?

2009-04-17 Thread Dancing Fingers
I'm trying to convert an avi video to a swf video in Lenny. So I download swftools, and look under the FAQ's, you find that avi2swf is no longer supported. They actually give an ffmpeg example: ffmpeg -i video.mpg -b -s y -pass 1 -passlogfile log_file video.flv How this relates to swf files is b

Re: updating with aptitude

2009-04-17 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
> 2009/4/15 orange > > I see, thanks for clarification. > > Could someone please confirm that simply replacing 'lenny' with > > 'testing' in sources.list (and then pressing u and U in aptitude) will > > work. > > IIRC, in past it used to be much more complicated, with some dist- > > upgrade and co

Re: Blank CDRW wierdness

2009-04-17 Thread John W Foster
On Fri, 2009-04-17 at 14:16 +0300, Aioanei Rares wrote: > John W Foster wrote: > > I have Debian Lenny on a box that I use to burn Data CD's on I have > > recently noticed that when I burn one and for some reason need to read > > it on the Debian box, it says I have inserted anothe 'blank' CD. It w

Re: default web browser

2009-04-17 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri,17.Apr.09, 08:01:35, Mark Grieveson wrote: > On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 08:46:27 + (UTC) > debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: > > > What does sensible-browser give? > > The "update-alternatives --list sensible-browser" just stated "No > alternatives for sensible-browser."

Re: default web browser

2009-04-17 Thread Mark Grieveson
On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 08:46:27 + (UTC) debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: > What does sensible-browser give? The "update-alternatives --list sensible-browser" just stated "No alternatives for sensible-browser." Running "sensible-browser" on its own was not possible -- it requ

Re: IE in lenny?

2009-04-17 Thread randall
Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: Hello, I need to run M$ Internet Explorer in lenny. Can be a old version, like 5.5. Is it possible? I tried with wine 1.0.1 from lenny and with wine 1.1.19 from wine site. In both cases without success. The html rendering was disabled... best Marcelo http://www

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2009 #708

2009-04-17 Thread Mark Grieveson
On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 08:46:27 + (UTC) debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: > What does sensible-browser give? The "update-alternatives --list sensible-browser" just stated "No alternatives for sensible-browser." Running "sensible-browser" on its own was not possible -- it requ

IE in lenny?

2009-04-17 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Hello, I need to run M$ Internet Explorer in lenny. Can be a old version, like 5.5. Is it possible? I tried with wine 1.0.1 from lenny and with wine 1.1.19 from wine site. In both cases without success. The html rendering was disabled... best Marcelo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-re

Re: which websites are running debian

2009-04-17 Thread Paul Johnson
Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Wed,15.Apr.09, 22:46:16, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: >> Dear debian community, >> >> I wonder if there is some official resource that show who is running >> debian on there servers. The boss knows redhat and gentoo and would like >> to know more about debian. > > This is not

Re: Versioning control

2009-04-17 Thread Micha Feigin
On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 20:05:27 + Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 09:45:03PM +0200, Jesús M. Navarro wrote: > > > Section 1.2 of the CVS manual is very enlighting: > > > > "1.2 What is CVS not? > > CVS can do a lot of things for you, but it does not try to be everything > > fo

Re: Blank CDRW wierdness

2009-04-17 Thread Aioanei Rares
John W Foster wrote: I have Debian Lenny on a box that I use to burn Data CD's on I have recently noticed that when I burn one and for some reason need to read it on the Debian box, it says I have inserted anothe 'blank' CD. It will no longet read it. I have been using GnomeBaker to do this. I c

Re: which websites are running debian

2009-04-17 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
> > 明覺 wrote: >> If they can report the distribution of linux, that will be more >> interesting. Tim McDonough schreef: > The extent of the report seems to be site specific. I tried several > other sites and some just simply say "Linux". What can be found out about your system depends on Apache-s

Re: presentation programs on GNU/Linux

2009-04-17 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 07:03 +0530, Girish Kulkarni wrote: > Hi all, > > Wondering after a recent seminar about what presentation program > people prefer on Linux systems. I am really looking for suggestions > to improve my own presentations. > > I use Beamer, which provides all the typographic

Re: new xorg working except for screen resolution

2009-04-17 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri,17.Apr.09, 01:45:38, Paul Scott wrote: >> please post /var/log/X0rg.0.log > > Attached. From what I can tell, Xorg doesn't recognize your monitor. You are either using a quite old monitor, or the EDID information doesn't get through (did you check the cables?). If this is really an old

grip/lenny doesn't extract audio CDs first tracks

2009-04-17 Thread Nicolas BERCHER
Hi, On one of my Debian systems, grip is unable to extract the first track of any audio CD. $ apt-cache policy grip grip: Installé : 3.3.1-15+b2 Candidat : 3.3.1-15+b2 Table de version : *** 3.3.1-15+b2 0 500 http://ftp.fr.debian.org stable/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Re: key bindings

2009-04-17 Thread David Jardine
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 12:00:19PM +1000, Daniel Dalton wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking at doing some remaps on my system with the keymap. After > reading man dumpkeys, man keymaps and man loadkeys, briefely, I was just > wondering if someone could tell me where the default keymap is stored so > I ca

Re: Searching for splash image ... none found, skipping . ...

2009-04-17 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu,16.Apr.09, 21:08:56, e s wrote: > > Searching for splash image ... none found, skipping . ... > > > anyone have a clue? > just installed a new kernel. > with update-grub > menu.lst is updated just fine > with new kernel > all is set default in menu.lst > > but splash image do not update? >

iptables - computer hangs

2009-04-17 Thread Erik Xavior
I have a simple iptables script. If I put it in rc2.d, it runs at boot, works OK...but. when I want to shutdown OR restart the pc, it just hangs (I can see the shutdown button is still pressed). :S I can only shutdown the pc, when I press ctrl+alt+backspace if it helps, I can post my firewall

Re: presentation programs on GNU/Linux

2009-04-17 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Girish Kulkarni (gir...@hri.res.in) [17.04.09 03:34]: > Hi all, > Hi, > > I use Beamer, which provides all the typographical beauty of LaTeX. > But it is primitive when it comes to visual aids -- animations are > hard and there is lack of freedom in placing elements on a slide. It does that o

Re: new xorg working except for screen resolution

2009-04-17 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu,16.Apr.09, 03:36:06, Paul Scott wrote: > Before the upgrades I had 1600x1200 resolution. Now 800x600 is the > highest I can get. All of the possible choices are rejected because of > hsync or vrefresh out of range. > > This what lspci shows for my video: > VGA compatible controller: n

Re: which websites are running debian

2009-04-17 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed,15.Apr.09, 22:46:16, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: > Dear debian community, > > I wonder if there is some official resource that show who is running > debian on there servers. The boss knows redhat and gentoo and would like > to know more about debian. This is not about websites, but should help