Re: Network concerns and configuration draft 4

I would ask would a static ip really be able to allow the machines to reach the outer network? On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 6:55 AM, Cousin Stanley wrote: > > > Ok so here is the issue I have a desire to run my own linux server > > as an rt box and to do wiki web serving plus email. > > > > I run off

Re: Reportbug not reporting bugs

Hello, On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 7:47 AM, Omar Campagne wrote: > Hello: > > I'm running Debian testing/sid (very little sid, OO and the likes, no core > packages) and my problem is that whenever I fill a report, reportbug will > take me through the steps with no problems (well, the gui crashed a coup

Reportbug not reporting bugs

Hello: I'm running Debian testing/sid (very little sid, OO and the likes, no core packages) and my problem is that whenever I fill a report, reportbug will take me through the steps with no problems (well, the gui crashed a couple of times :), and at the end, it informs me that the report wa

Re: Musings on debian-user list

On Tue, 28 Jul 2009, Neal Hogan wrote: ... I think Mark has hit the proverbial nail-on-the-head ... Yes, with a top-posted HTML message, sent using Gmail. :-) -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - athene.org.in/girish -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Problem with Xen in Squeeze

Hi. Can't run xend in debian squeeze. Install packages: linux-image-xen-amd64 xen-hypervisor-3.2-1-amd64 And reboot using: title Xen 3.2-1-amd64 / Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.26-2-xen-amd64 root(hd0,0) kernel /boot/xen-3.2-1-amd64.gz module /boot/vmlinuz

Re: U3 and other firmware USB thumbdrives

The only usb key I have encountered with U3 on it was a sandisk. Every other kind I have is just a plain simple USB key. So I would say most are simply USB keys. If they have U3 or similar they tend to advertise it as if it was an amazing and useful feature. Useful links for getting rid

How to Install Java in Lenny? SOLVED

I use the amd64 port. Put deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ sid non-free in /etc/apt/sources.list Install sun-java6-bin and sun-java6-plugin. They bring in a few other packages including sun-java6-jre. Java5 cannot be used since sun-java5-plugin is not yet in unstable for the amd64 port

apt.conf and ia32-apt-get

Does the new 'ia32-apt-get' system honor anything in /etc/apt after initially being installed, such as 'apt.conf'? Or should 'apt.conf' be copied to '/etc/ia32-apt'? Dave W. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact l

Re: [Fwd: Re: Musings on debian-user list]

On 2009-07-29 19:42, Miles Fidelman wrote: [snip] Well, actually, I read mail on my Mac, with SeaMonkey, but that's another story. I keep a copy of Alpine on the server for those times There's a reply-to-list addon for Tbird, but I don't know if it works with SeaMonkey. -- Scooty Puff, S

Re: Musings on debian-user list

>> Hmm.. not quite.. text-mode browsers are also useful insofar as they >> remove all the fluff and reveal the actual content. > Leaving nothing at all of most Web sites. Yup: the actual content, Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

[Fwd: Re: Musings on debian-user list]

Ron Johnson wrote: On 2009-07-29 19:04, Miles Fidelman wrote: Some of us run servers :-) And presumably you're experienced enough to run Mutt. Give OP some time... Well, actually, I read mail on my Mac, with SeaMonkey, but that's another story. I keep a copy of Alpine on the server for

ai estão as fotos como prometi..

- This mail is a HTML mail. Not all elements could be shown in plain text mode. - Anexo: fotos_saojoao.pps (152,0 Kb) Pessoal, Tirei da máquina as fotos e to enviando pra todo mundo ok Eu adore!!! Bjs,uma ótima semana! Carla.

Re: Musings on debian-user list

On 2009-07-29 19:04, Miles Fidelman wrote: Ron Johnson Wrote On 2009-07-28 13:09, Mark wrote: [snip] When I feel adventurous one weekend I'll try a Debian install without the desktop environment. But what will you *do* with it? Mutt will frustrate you to no end, and the int

Re: Musings on debian-user list

Ron Johnson wrote: On 2009-07-28 16:03, Tim Beauregard wrote: [snip] Altavisting? Yahooing? It really is a jungle out there. Altavista... Haven't thought about that in a good long time. Funny thing, I just checked, Altavista is still out there! So is Excite for that m

Re: What is the correct way to disable NCQ? Where to report upstream?

On 2009-07-29 14:17, Allan Wind wrote: On 2009-07-29T13:48:49, Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] What chipset driver? Fusion MPT ScsiHost drivers for SAS (mptsas.c). Maybe the drive or driver doesn't support NCQ? -- Scooty Puff, Sr The Doom-Bringer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...

Re: Musings on debian-user list

Ron Johnson Wrote On 2009-07-28 13:09, Mark wrote: [snip] When I feel adventurous one weekend I'll try a Debian install without the desktop environment. But what will you *do* with it? Mutt will frustrate you to no end, and the intarweb has become too graphics-oriented to

Re: can I use ext4 now?

On 2009-07-29 17:10, Rick Pasotto wrote: On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 05:16:34PM -0400, Clemens Eisserer wrote: As far as I know 2.6.27 included stable ext4 support. Is there a debian package? 'apt-cache policy linux-image-686' shows only 2.6.30 in unstable and 2.6.26+17+lenny1 in testing. Dunno

Re: HDD,SSD,diagnostic,integrity verify tools.Free,Opensource.

On Sun, 26 Jul 2009, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 12:07:35PM -0700, Luis Maceira wrote: > > What is the best tool available in the free,OpenSource world to verify > > the integrity of HDD but,specially SSD drives(the fading capacity problem > > with too many writes to the same blocks

Re: Musings on debian-user list

CJ writes: > Hmm.. not quite.. text-mode browsers are also useful insofar as they > remove all the fluff and reveal the actual content. Leaving nothing at all of most Web sites. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

Re: Musings on debian-user list

On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 06:47:55PM -0400, Chris Jones wrote: > On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 01:20:00AM EDT, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 28 2009, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > > On 2009-07-28 13:09, Mark wrote: > > > [snip] > > >> When I feel adventurous one weekend I'll try a Debian install wi

Re: Musings on debian-user list

On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 01:20:00AM EDT, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Tue, Jul 28 2009, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > On 2009-07-28 13:09, Mark wrote: > > [snip] > >> When I feel adventurous one weekend I'll try a Debian install without the > >> desktop environment. > > > > But what will you *do* with i

Re: can I use ext4 now?

On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 05:16:34PM -0400, Clemens Eisserer wrote: > As far as I know 2.6.27 included stable ext4 support. Is there a debian package? 'apt-cache policy linux-image-686' shows only 2.6.30 in unstable and 2.6.26+17+lenny1 in testing. -- "Isn't it nice that people who prefer Los Ange

Re: Amarok2 for i386

In <200907292309.34862.kom...@uvt.cz>, komodo wrote: >I tried to install Amarok2 from unstable but i always get amarok 1.4. > >Now i see that there is only 1.4 version for i386, is there anybody who > knows when will be second version of Amarok avaliable for i386 ? Soon. I believe some transition

Re: can I use ext4 now?

As far as I know 2.6.27 included stable ext4 support. - Clemens 2009/7/29 Rick Pasotto : > I just got a new 1tb sata drive and formated it and then created a > filesystem with 'mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdc1'. This completed without errors but > evidently 'mount' doesn't know about ext4. The command I tried

Amarok2 for i386

Hi I tried to install Amarok2 from unstable but i always get amarok 1.4. Now i see that there is only 1.4 version for i386, is there anybody who knows when will be second version of Amarok avaliable for i386 ? Thanks Martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

can I use ext4 now?

I just got a new 1tb sata drive and formated it and then created a filesystem with 'mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdc1'. This completed without errors but evidently 'mount' doesn't know about ext4. The command I tried was: mount -t ext4 -o nodelalloc /dev/sdc1 /s3 I'm running 'testing' and my kernel is: Linux

Re: Reproducible filesystem corruption in lenny

In <97cbd1a90907291319wc4cca42r87cb799f94fe8...@mail.gmail.com>, Josh Kelley wrote: >I'm not sure the >best way to further track down the problem from here. Is there an >easy way (short of compiling my own kernel) to try out 2.6.27? Compiling your own kernel from upstream sources is not *that*

Re: Musings on debian-user list

On Wed, Jul 29 2009, Ron Johnson wrote: > Really? Tbird has pretty good keyboard controls, and allows me to > display just a potload of folders and subjects on screen at any one > time. (Note, though, that I work in 2-pane mode, with individual > mails in a separate window.) If I can't

Re: What is the correct way to disable NCQ? Where to report upstream?

On 2009-07-29T21:13:53, Stephan Seitz wrote: > No, not sysctl.conf, use /etc/sysfs.conf (package sysfsutils). You can > then add the two lines: > block/sda/device/queue_depth=1 > block/sdb/device/queue_depth=1 > > sysctl.conf is for /proc/sys. Perfect. Thanks. /Allan -- Allan Wind Life Integ

Re: Inquiry:Debian server Remote Desktop Connection

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Re: Reproducible filesystem corruption in lenny

On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Emil Pedersen wrote: > Don't know if it is at all related, but I had some usb sticks > behaving quiet strange too (on a debian etch 64bit). > > The symptons where that a file (kernel actually) that was copied > to the stick could not be run the next time the stick w

Re: Back up routines

On Tuesday 28 July 2009 05:35:20 Jon Dowland wrote: > On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 08:51:31PM +0200, Johan Grönqvist > > wrote: > > The homepage also > > mentions some graphical front ends that may be useful, but > > I have not tried any of them. > > I am in the process

Re: What is the correct way to disable NCQ? Where to report upstream?

On 2009-07-29T13:48:49, Ron Johnson wrote: >> Subsequently, I disabled NCQ with: >> >> $ echo 1 > /sys/block/sda/device/queue_depth >> $ echo 1 > /sys/block/sdb/device/queue_depth > > I'd put them in rc.local, or /etc/sysctl.conf (depending on if Google > says that /etc/sysctl.conf says that's the

Re: What is the correct way to disable NCQ? Where to report upstream?

On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 01:48:49PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: Subsequently, I disabled NCQ with: $ echo 1 > /sys/block/sda/device/queue_depth $ echo 1 > /sys/block/sdb/device/queue_depth I'd put them in rc.local, or /etc/sysctl.conf (depending on if Google says that /etc/sysctl.conf says that's t

Re: What is the correct way to disable NCQ? Where to report upstream?

At Wed, 29 Jul 2009 14:03:07 -0400, Allan Wind wrote: > > ... > > Subsequently, I disabled NCQ with: > > $ echo 1 > /sys/block/sda/device/queue_depth > $ echo 1 > /sys/block/sdb/device/queue_depth > > which rendered the system stable. Is there a better way of > implementing t

Re: Musings on debian-user list

On 2009-07-29 13:04, Manoj Srivastava wrote: On Wed, Jul 29 2009, Ron Johnson wrote: Is there a way in fvwm to have a panel/dock with applets (weather, volume, date/time and "window list" are really useful to me) and have look like Windows 2000 (aka Crux theme and borders, and GNOME-like icons

Re: Musings on debian-user list

On 2009-07-29 12:19, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 29 Jul 2009, Ron Johnson wrote: On 2009-07-29 02:36, Anthony Campbell wrote: [snip] Incidentally, the same comments apply to mutt. What's wrong with it? Nothing's *wrong* with it. Except that "opaque" is it's middle name. I do have it around,

Re: How to make from source debian package?

On Wed 29 Jul 2009 at 16:00:16 +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: > the gnustep packages are very old when installed from the official > repositories so I wish to make debian packages from sources: tarballs, > or SVN to make the fresh gnustep debian packages for the Lenny. If the packages in unstable are n

Re: linux-image-2.6.30-1-amd64 + ext4

Roger Leigh wrote: On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 03:06:35PM -0700, Jimmy Johnson wrote: I thought "linux-image-2.6.30-1-amd64" had ext4 support built into it or what I'm I doing wrong? I can't mount ext4. This kernel is working fine for me with ext4. What errors are you getting? The typical mess

Re: What is the correct way to disable NCQ? Where to report upstream?

[snip] ... Subsequently, I disabled NCQ with: $ echo 1 > /sys/block/sda/device/queue_depth $ echo 1 > /sys/block/sdb/device/queue_depth I'd put them in rc.local, or /etc/sysctl.conf (depending on if Google says that /etc/sysctl.conf says that's the correct place). which rendered the system

Re: How to make from source debian package?

> the gnustep packages are very old when installed from the official > repositories so I wish to make debian packages from sources: tarballs, > or SVN to make the fresh gnustep debian packages for the Lenny. > By the way I wish to translate it to Hungarian too. > When I get sources with 'apt-get

Re: should I get SATA drives for old PC?

On 2009-07-29 08:54, I wrote: > Before I build a Lenny system on my 5-year-old PC, I want to replace the two > internal hard drives. I'm not too swift with hardware specs and want to make > sure I get the right drives. Thanks to all of you for your helpful advice. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to d

What is the correct way to disable NCQ? Where to report upstream?

I have a pair of Western Digital RE4-GP (WD2002FYPS) drives in a software RAID1 configuration using Linux 2.6.30.3 on a LSISAS1068E controller. Within hours one of the drives was kicked out of the array with: [ 4907.485324] end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 3907028974

Re: Error loading operating system

> sda1 /10Gb > sda2 /usr 10Gb > sda3 /var 10 Gb > sda5 swap 1 Gb > sda6 /tmp 1 Gb > sda7 /home the rest of the driveabout 456 Gb Every one has his favorite partitioning scheme (and prefers or avoids LVM), so I won't delve into that, but in my experience, you'd be better off addi

Re: Back up routines

I haven't had a chance to try it out but http://www.boxbackup.org/ looks like a pretty cool solution. --Ben On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> I trust Amazon more than a HD.  You're free not to, but I've seen more >> HDs fail than I have Amazons. > > I'm not sure the HD's r

Re: Musings on debian-user list

On Wed, Jul 29 2009, AG wrote: > Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 28 2009, AG wrote: >> >> >>> Care to elaborate on that, John? This is a serious question - I used >>> to use Xfce back in the days of Slackware 8.1, but that was still a WM >>> (or was that a DE?). Are you referring to th

SOLVED Re: Sid: Grub2 faling to boot: Unknown device UUID

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Just to continue to with the saga, today I decided to just screw it and reintall, to try to install Grub2 first since upgrading from Grub to Grub2 just would not boot. I installed Grub2, with only /dev/hda plugged in so that /dev/hdb would not be

Re: Musings on debian-user list

On Wed, Jul 29 2009, Ron Johnson wrote: > Is there a way in fvwm to have a panel/dock with applets (weather, > volume, date/time and "window list" are really useful to me) and have > look like Windows 2000 (aka Crux theme and borders, and GNOME-like > icons)? You can certainly have panel

Re: Back up routines

> I trust Amazon more than a HD. You're free not to, but I've seen more > HDs fail than I have Amazons. I'm not sure the HD's reliability is much of an issue: you wouldn't want to backup to a single drive which you bring back home at night, otherwise, during the day you're at the mercy of a big a

Re: question about email delivery triggered by resent thread on musings

Paul E Condon : > > I think it has something to do with Procmail. I run Procmail to > distribute emails by topic/sender/etc. When fetchmail terminates, > procmail is still running, I suspect. Is this what is happening? Is procmail will log its activities, with "VERBOSE = yes" giving plenty of

Re: Musings on debian-user list

On 29 Jul 2009, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2009-07-29 02:36, Anthony Campbell wrote: [snip] > > > >Incidentally, the same comments apply to mutt. What's wrong with it? > > Nothing's *wrong* with it. Except that "opaque" is it's middle name. > > I do have it around, though, and configured for IMAP,

Re: Musings on debian-user list

On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 04:04:45PM EDT, Michael Pobega wrote: [..] > Mark, a GUI-less system is useless (unless it's some sort of server). My setup would probably qualify as "GUI-less" - i.e. the _interface_ is terminal/cell-based, not graphics/pixel-based, and yet it let me read this interesti

Re: should I get SATA drives for old PC?

Steve Kleene writes: > Before I build a Lenny system on my 5-year-old PC, I want to replace the two > internal hard drives. I'm not too swift with hardware specs and want to make > sure I get the right drives. I will probably get 500GB drives and do not > expect to set up RAID. > > The drives n

Re: should I get SATA drives for old PC?

Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2009-07-29 08:54, Steve Kleene wrote: >> Before I build a Lenny system on my 5-year-old PC, I want to replace the two internal hard drives. I'm not too swift with hardware specs and want to make sure I get the right drives. I will probably get 500GB drives and do not

Re: Back up routines

On Tue, 28 Jul 2009 11:08:24 -0400 Eric Gerlach wrote: Hello Eric, > 2. Pay Amazon $3/mo and don't worry about it; Ron's already pointed out that, at the drop of a hat, Amazon can just delete your account. If relying on one 3rd party for backups you should worry. Probably a lot. For example,

Re: should I get SATA drives for old PC?

[snip] 1. What difficulties (if any) might I expect in setting up the SATA drives? > A quick search found quite a few posts where people had to mess with the > BIOS, add a SATA driver, etc. with this motherboard. > > 2. If I buy a SATA 3 GB/s drive, will this motherboard only give me 150 >>

Re: java-gcj installation bug

On Sunday 12 July 2009 16:16:07 David Baron wrote: > Setting up java-gcj-compat-headless (1.0.80-5.1) ... > update-alternatives: error: alternative rmiregistry can't be master: it is > a slave of java > dpkg: error processing java-gcj-compat-headless (--configure): > subprocess installed post-inst

Re: should I get SATA drives for old PC?

At Wed, 29 Jul 2009 09:54:14 -0400, I asked: > Before I build a Lenny system on my 5-year-old PC, I want to replace the > two internal hard drives. ... What difficulties (if any) might I expect in > setting up the SATA drives? ... If I buy a SATA 3 GB/s drive, will this > motherboard only give me

Re: GCC

Johan Grönqvist wrote: simon h skrev: I wonder why Debian needs three versions of the GCC compiler: 4.1, 4.2, and 4.3? Shouldn't one be enough? Is it because the compiler has no down-compatibility? I think that is the reason, yes. I also think that lack of manpower is the reason there are not

Re: ssh says Cannot listen to port: 6000

On 29 Jul 2009, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2009-07-29 08:49, Anthony Campbell wrote: > >On 29 Jul 2009, Siggy Brentrup wrote: > >>>Or simply put these 2 lines at the top of your ~/.ssh/config > >>> > >>>Host * > >>> ForwardX11 no > >>Please forget this nonsense, I read only the subject line, not > >>

Re: ssh says Cannot listen to port: 6000

On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 14:49 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > Thanks to you and Ron I now know that port 6000 is being used by X11. > And in fact, if I ssh at a terminal without starting X I can connect. > But then, of course, I can't start X! > > How can this be resolved? It must be possible be

Re: rsync problem

Just a correction to my example here: On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 07:25:48AM -0700, Daniel Burrows was heard to say: > $ mkdir foo > $ echo > --test > $ rsync --test foo > rsync error: syntax or usage error (code 1) at main.cc(1440) > [client=3.0.6] > $ rsync -- test foo Ob

Re: Can't do security updates in aptitude for 3 packages

On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 11:49:47AM +0200, Csanyi Pal was heard to say: > Hi, > > my system is Debian GNU/Linux Lenny with linux-image 2.6.26-2-486. > > When I run: > > $ sudo aptitude > > and did update I get that there is three packages for sevurity updates > available. > > When I hit 'g'

Re: How to make from source debian package?

On 2009-07-29 09:00, Csanyi Pal wrote: Hi, the gnustep packages are very old when installed from the official repositories so I wish to make debian packages from sources: tarballs, or SVN to make the fresh gnustep debian packages for the Lenny. By the way I wish to translate it to Hungarian too

Re: should I get SATA drives for old PC?

On 2009-07-29 08:54, Steve Kleene wrote: Before I build a Lenny system on my 5-year-old PC, I want to replace the two internal hard drives. I'm not too swift with hardware specs and want to make sure I get the right drives. I will probably get 500GB drives and do not expect to set up RAID. The

Re: GCC

Johan Grönqvist wrote: simon h skrev: I wonder why Debian needs three versions of the GCC compiler: 4.1, 4.2, and 4.3? Shouldn't one be enough? Is it because the compiler has no down-compatibility? I think that is the reason, yes. I also think that lack of manpower is the reason there are not

Re: ssh says Cannot listen to port: 6000

On 2009-07-29 08:49, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 29 Jul 2009, Siggy Brentrup wrote: Or simply put these 2 lines at the top of your ~/.ssh/config Host * ForwardX11 no Please forget this nonsense, I read only the subject line, not the body of your message. Thanks to you and Ron I now know th

Re: Reproducible filesystem corruption in lenny

--On onsdag, juli 29, 2009 09.07.16 -0400 Josh Kelley wrote: On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 12:31 AM, Owen Townend wrote: Just to be clear here: When using one of these fraudulent drives filling it up will produce no errors. Reading it back will show corruption once passed the actual size of the

How to make from source debian package?

Hi, the gnustep packages are very old when installed from the official repositories so I wish to make debian packages from sources: tarballs, or SVN to make the fresh gnustep debian packages for the Lenny. By the way I wish to translate it to Hungarian too. When I get sources with 'apt-get sourc

Re: GCC

simon h skrev: I wonder why Debian needs three versions of the GCC compiler: 4.1, 4.2, and 4.3? Shouldn't one be enough? Is it because the compiler has no down-compatibility? I think that is the reason, yes. I also think that lack of manpower is the reason there are not even more (older) versi

should I get SATA drives for old PC?

Before I build a Lenny system on my 5-year-old PC, I want to replace the two internal hard drives. I'm not too swift with hardware specs and want to make sure I get the right drives. I will probably get 500GB drives and do not expect to set up RAID. The drives now are Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 8 6K

Re: ssh says Cannot listen to port: 6000

On 29 Jul 2009, Siggy Brentrup wrote: > > > > Or simply put these 2 lines at the top of your ~/.ssh/config > > > > Host * > > ForwardX11 no > > Please forget this nonsense, I read only the subject line, not > the body of your message. > > duck > Siggy > -- Thanks to you and Ron I now kno

Re: Reproducible filesystem corruption in lenny

On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 12:31 AM, Owen Townend wrote: > Just to be clear here: When using one of these fraudulent drives > filling it up will produce no errors. Reading it back will show > corruption once passed the actual size of the device. > > Your comment didn't mention whether you were able to

kdm login problem

Hi, I'm running testing (amd64) on this box. After doing an aptitude full-upgrade yesterday, I can no longer login to kdm. If I kill kdm and login, I can then run startx which starts the usual kde session. I did some googling and found some references to pam upgrades, but those package

Re: Can't do security updates in aptitude for 3 packages

On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 13:51 +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: > Siggy Brentrup writes: > > > On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 11:49 +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> my system is Debian GNU/Linux Lenny with linux-image 2.6.26-2-486. > >> > >> When I run: > >> > >> $ sudo aptitude > >> > >> and did

Re: ssh says Cannot listen to port: 6000

On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 14:48 +0200, Siggy Brentrup wrote: > On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 06:49 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 2009-07-29 06:40, Ron Johnson wrote: > > >On 2009-07-29 03:59, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > >>I'm trying to connect via ssh to a remote server, with > > >> ssh -f -L 6000:loca

samba idmap and openldap. user add problem.

Hello! There is a samba (configured with backend idmap - http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-4844 and http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Ldapsam_Editposix) and ldap from lenny. Catalog filled with the necessary data for the samba. Workstations and users part of the domain. But there is a problem: A

Re: ssh says Cannot listen to port: 6000

On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 06:49 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2009-07-29 06:40, Ron Johnson wrote: > >On 2009-07-29 03:59, Anthony Campbell wrote: > >>I'm trying to connect via ssh to a remote server, with > >> ssh -f -L 6000:localhost:4499 campb...@91.204.208.39 -N > >>channel_setup_fwd_listener:

Re: Lenny does not recognise blank CD; Etch does.

Hi, On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 7:34 AM, Bruce Ward wrote: > On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 07:35 +0200, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: >> On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 16:49 +1200, Bruce Ward wrote: >> > On Sun, 2009-06-21 at 12:18 +0200, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: >> > > On Sun, 2009-06-21 at 21:35 +1200, Bruce Ward wrote: >> > >

Re: Set non-English font in Yakuake?

On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 04:09:44PM -0400, Michael Yang wrote: > Hi, > > Anyone knows how to set non-English fonts in Yakuake? (I'm using > debian/lenny + xfce4). > > By right-click options -> Setting -> Fonts -> Select.., only monospace fonts > are available to choose, I wonder how to set fonts f

USB Ethernet adapter and pegasus hang the computer?

Hi, My system is Debian GNU/Linux Lenny with linux-image 2.6.26-2-486 on an old Toshiba laptop 'Satellite 2540CDS'. I love it! I'm using USB2.0 Ethernet adapter to connect to the Internet. The box is on LAN at my home. I'm using cable modem to connecting to the Internet. There is kernel modules

установка RAID 1

Добрый день. При установке debian-40r5-i386-CD-1.iso сталкнулся с проблемой, что при конфигурировании разметки дисков нет пунка меню по настройке программного RAID. Подскажите, можно ли каким либо образом воспользоватся им? При установке пользуюсь командой install acpi=off. Использую одинаковые S

Re: U3 and other firmware USB thumbdrives

> The only usb key I have encountered with U3 on it was a sandisk. > Every other kind I have is just a plain simple USB key.  So I would say > most are simply USB keys.  If they have U3 or similar they tend to > advertise it as if it was an amazing and useful feature. Same here for my usb keys. Th

Re: Can't do security updates in aptitude for 3 packages

Siggy Brentrup writes: > On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 11:49 +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: >> Hi, >> >> my system is Debian GNU/Linux Lenny with linux-image 2.6.26-2-486. >> >> When I run: >> >> $ sudo aptitude >> >> and did update I get that there is three packages for sevurity updates >> available. >

Re: ssh says Cannot listen to port: 6000

On 2009-07-29 06:40, Ron Johnson wrote: On 2009-07-29 03:59, Anthony Campbell wrote: I'm trying to connect via ssh to a remote server, with ssh -f -L 6000:localhost:4499 campb...@91.204.208.39 -N channel_setup_fwd_listener: cannot listen to port: 6000 When I enter the password I get: bind: A

Re: Musings on debian-user list

On 2009-07-29 02:36, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 28 Jul 2009, John Hasler wrote: Mark wrote: When I feel adventurous one weekend I'll try a Debian install without the desktop environment. Ron Johnson writes: But what will you *do* with it? Mutt will frustrate you to no end, and the intarweb h

Re: ssh says Cannot listen to port: 6000

On 2009-07-29 03:59, Anthony Campbell wrote: I'm trying to connect via ssh to a remote server, with ssh -f -L 6000:localhost:4499 campb...@91.204.208.39 -N channel_setup_fwd_listener: cannot listen to port: 6000 When I enter the password I get: bind: Address already in use channel_setup_fwd_l

Re: approx: infinite loop during update, importing

On 29-07-2009, whollyg...@letterboxes.org wrote: > > > On Tue, 28 Jul 2009 10:09 +, "Sylvain Le Gall" > wrote: >> On 28-07-2009, whollyg...@letterboxes.org >> wrote: >> > I've two questions re approx version 3.3.0 on >> > lenny i386. The first is, anybody else get >> > caught in an infinit

GCC

Hello all, just a little existential question: I wonder why Debian needs three versions of the GCC compiler: 4.1, 4.2, and 4.3? Shouldn't one be enough? Is it because the compiler has no down-compatibility? Thanks for sharing your knowledge. Simon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: Can't do security updates in aptitude for 3 packages

On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 11:49 +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: > Hi, > > my system is Debian GNU/Linux Lenny with linux-image 2.6.26-2-486. > > When I run: > > $ sudo aptitude > > and did update I get that there is three packages for sevurity updates > available. > > When I hit 'g' to did security up

Re: Musings on debian-user list

On Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:27:57 -0500 Manoj Srivastava wrote: You get to create gestures, and bind them to keys, and with fvwm-themes it is themable, it can be extended, and you can use perl functions to add to fvwm. All in all, I would say while heavy customization takes time, you can ra

Re: Can't retrieve online quotes with gnucash

On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Andrew Sackville-West > wrote: >> >> On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 05:14:01PM -0400, Bernard Fay wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > Using GNUcash version 2.2.6 with Debian 5.0, I have the following >> > message >> > when I try to get online quotes for US stock exchanges: >> > >>

Can't do security updates in aptitude for 3 packages

Hi, my system is Debian GNU/Linux Lenny with linux-image 2.6.26-2-486. When I run: $ sudo aptitude and did update I get that there is three packages for sevurity updates available. When I hit 'g' to did security updates I get message: --\ Packages being automatically held in their current st

Re: Re: Sid: Grub2 faling to boot: Unknown device UUID

Charlie Kroeger wrote: Ok, another in the continuing saga. When I upgrade Grub2 which is frequently, I get the following error message when I reboot: Booting 'Debian Gnu/Linux, Linux 2.6.30-1-686 error: unknown argument '--no-floppy' failed to boot default entries. press any key to cont

Re: Set non-English font in Yakuake?

On Michael Yang wrote: > Hi, > > Anyone knows how to set non-English fonts in Yakuake? (I'm using > debian/lenny + xfce4). > > By right-click options -> Setting -> Fonts -> Select.., only monospace > fonts are available to choose, I wonder how to set fonts for > non-English characters? Try DejaVu

ssh says Cannot listen to port: 6000

I'm trying to connect via ssh to a remote server, with ssh -f -L 6000:localhost:4499 campb...@91.204.208.39 -N channel_setup_fwd_listener: cannot listen to port: 6000 When I enter the password I get: bind: Address already in use channel_setup_fwd_listener: cannot listen to port: 6000 Could not

Re: proper place for iptables script

Hi, On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Javier Barroso wrote: > On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 7:46 AM, Siggy Brentrup wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 22:23 -0400, Andrew Reid wrote: >>> On Tuesday 28 July 2009 22:04:20 Rob Owens wrote: >>> > In the interest of learning new things, I'm moving from shorew

Re: proper place for iptables script

On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 7:46 AM, Siggy Brentrup wrote: > On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 22:23 -0400, Andrew Reid wrote: >> On Tuesday 28 July 2009 22:04:20 Rob Owens wrote: >> > In the interest of learning new things, I'm moving from shorewall to plain >> > old iptables.  I've got my script made, but I'm

Re: Musings on debian-user list

On 28 Jul 2009, John Hasler wrote: > Mark wrote: > > When I feel adventurous one weekend I'll try a Debian install without the > > desktop environment. > > Ron Johnson writes: > > But what will you *do* with it? Mutt will frustrate you to no end, and > > the intarweb has become too graphics-orien

Re: New debian-user-dutch mailinglist?

Paul van der Vlis schreef: > Hallo, > > Ik wou een beetje polsen of er hier mensen zijn die interesse hebben in > een Debian mailinglijst in het Nederlands. Ik heb al een paar mensen die > geinteresseerd zijn, mochten er nog een paar bij komen dan zal ik er een > starten. > > Uiteraard is er al N

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