Re: Problems with adobe-flashplugin

2009-12-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 02:17:05PM -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: > On Sat, 05 Dec 2009 09:51:03 -0800 > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 11:59:03AM -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: > > > > > > > > > > I am having problems fixing the adobe-flashplugin package and > > [...]

Re: Slow connections in Debian squeeze

2009-12-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 07:44:42PM -0500, Celejar wrote: > On Sun, 06 Dec 2009 01:06:49 +0100 > Nick Douma wrote: > > ... > > > To further elaborate, when I send a message in Thunderbird, I notice > > that the "sending message" dialogue spends most of its time in the > > "Looking up server" stag

Re: Anyone running virtualbox?

2009-12-05 Thread Giff Hammar
On Sat, 2009-12-05 at 19:18 -0500, Wayne wrote: > Hey Guys > >I spent the last 2 hours installing virtualbox on squeeze and have > run into a little problem. I can't add users to the vboxusers group > because ther isn't and vbox'anything' group. The Debian wiki doesn't > help, probably be

Re: [OT] Customizing keyboard shortcuts in Iceweasel

2009-12-05 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 06. 12. 2009 01:16:53 je Celejar napisal(a): > > What I want to do is to bind keystroke combinations to bookmarks, so > that I can open sites easily with such combos. Is there a way to do > this? > A rather convoluted way would be to install Context Menu Extensions (they're in the Debian

Re: two questions about ssh tunneling

2009-12-05 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 4 Dec 2009 14:13:11 -0800 Tyler MacDonald wrote: > Tudod Ki wrote: ... > > - Can anyone sniff the traffic of computer "B"? e.g.: B computer is at a > > - server farm [others in the farm can see the traffic?] - I think yes, but > > - I'm not sure :O > > Yes, that's possible. However,

Re: Slow connections in Debian squeeze

2009-12-05 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 06 Dec 2009 01:06:49 +0100 Nick Douma wrote: ... > To further elaborate, when I send a message in Thunderbird, I notice > that the "sending message" dialogue spends most of its time in the > "Looking up server" stage. After that, the mail itself is sent in a > split second. > > Did some

Re: Anyone running virtualbox?

2009-12-05 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2009-12-06, Wayne wrote: > Hey Guys > >I spent the last 2 hours installing virtualbox on squeeze and have > run into a little problem. I can't add users to the vboxusers group > because ther isn't and vbox'anything' group. The Debian wiki doesn't > help, probably because it is out of d

Re: Slow connections in Debian squeeze

2009-12-05 Thread Nick Douma
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 5-12-2009 17:00, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 03:41:00PM +0100, Nick Douma wrote: >> Since I full-upgraded my Debian installation from lenny to squeeze, I >> have been experiencing slow connections buildup. This is especial

Anyone running virtualbox?

2009-12-05 Thread Wayne
Hey Guys I spent the last 2 hours installing virtualbox on squeeze and have run into a little problem. I can't add users to the vboxusers group because ther isn't and vbox'anything' group. The Debian wiki doesn't help, probably because it is out of date, so wonder how others got it workin

[OT] Customizing keyboard shortcuts in Iceweasel

2009-12-05 Thread Celejar
Mozilla claims that it can't be done: "Configuring keyboard shortcuts Firefox does not provide any method of customizing keyboard shortcuts." Is this for real (and up-to-date)?! A serious, sophisticated GUI application that doesn't allow this sort of customization?! I suppose that I could file

Re: no sound on debian squeeze

2009-12-05 Thread Celejar
On Sat, 05 Dec 2009 20:24:40 +0200 Alexander Kaphuk wrote: > G'day, > > I've recently upgraded to Debian Squeeze and the sound's stopped > working. It did work on Debian Lenny. > > I'd appreciate some advice on what to do please. http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html We need logs, e

Re: two questions about ssh tunneling

2009-12-05 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 4 Dec 2009 14:13:11 -0800 Tyler MacDonald wrote: ... > I believe when you use SOCKS, your browser stops doing DNS resolution and > just hands the hostnames directly to the SOCKS server. So all they would be > able to sniff is your encrypted SSH session, which they (hopefully) can't > d

Re: Problems with adobe-flashplugin

2009-12-05 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Op Sat, 05 Dec 2009 14:17:05 -0500 Frank McCormick wrote: > r...@squeeze:~# aptitude reinstall adobe-flashplugin > [.] > The following packages will be REINSTALLED: > adobe-flashplugin > 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove > and 3 not upgraded. Need to get 0B o

problem with locale (characters codeset etc...)

2009-12-05 Thread Bernard
I have not so far been able to get 'Lifelines' to work with the appropriate char codeset on my new Lenny system. What is amazing is that it did work on the same machine with my old Debian Sarge ; more amazing yet, it operates adequately on my laptop running on Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron). On bo

Re: CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED

2009-12-05 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 05 Dec 2009, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh > wrote: > > On Thu, 03 Dec 2009, Jochen Schulz wrote: > >> > Now when I try to boot, I get the message "... update kernel or > >> > disable CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPECATED...". > >> > >> This should b

Re: CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED

2009-12-05 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Thu, 03 Dec 2009, Jochen Schulz wrote: >> > Now when I try to boot, I get the message "... update kernel or >> > disable CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPECATED...". >> >> This should be negligible. > > It is not.  It will likely hang the box

Re: OT question about sound cards/chip-sets and high-end music systems

2009-12-05 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:52:45 -0500 Nick Lidakis wrote: > On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 03:40:33PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 08:51:52PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > > On 20091015_144147, Nick Lidakis wrote: > > > Equipment: > > > Adcom GTP-450 Tuner > > > Adcom GCD-70

Re: CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED

2009-12-05 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 03 Dec 2009, Jochen Schulz wrote: > > Now when I try to boot, I get the message "... update kernel or > > disable CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPECATED...". > > This should be negligible. It is not. It will likely hang the box during boot as stuff wait for udev to create nodes that never show up. I d

Re: quota script :)

2009-12-05 Thread Tudod Ki
I meant to say column 8) :D not row... --- On Sat, 12/5/09, Tudod Ki wrote: From: Tudod Ki Subject: quota script :) To: "Debian User" Date: Saturday, December 5, 2009, 7:19 PM How could I write a script that enables quota on that partition, what contains a specific users home dir? Writing t

quota script :)

2009-12-05 Thread Tudod Ki
How could I write a script that enables quota on that partition, what contains a specific users home dir? Writing the "usrquota, grpquota" to the 4th. row in the proper line of fstab? Isn't there another method? A command or something? thank you!

Re: increasing screen resolution, nvidia xconf.org

2009-12-05 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-12-04 23:07:42, Tomislav Butkovic wrote: > Hello, > > I have been for the last few months trying to figure out how to > increase the screen resolution on my Dell Inspiron 5150 running > Debian Lenny with a GeForce FX Go5200 64mb. > > The maximum screen resolution is currently 1024x768. >

Re: Problems with adobe-flashplugin

2009-12-05 Thread Frank McCormick
On Sat, 05 Dec 2009 09:51:03 -0800 Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 11:59:03AM -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: > > > > > > > I am having problems fixing the adobe-flashplugin package and > [...] > > > > This is what happens when I try to dist-upgrade now: > > > > > > sque

Re: Does email server OS needs clamav?

2009-12-05 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 04 Dec 2009, Sthu Deus wrote: > Personally, I do not trust the local network I have the deal with - much > more than the Internet... So, for me it is much better to protect the > server - to let it working as it should providing its services rather than > try to explain the people the primi

Re: Does email server OS needs clamav?

2009-12-05 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 02 Dec 2009, Sthu Deus wrote: > Do I need clamav mail check on mail server - if I would leave it to Clamav is fast (if you configure it right), and will let you reject a truckload of dangerous artifacts before they hit the content filters, saving on resources AND adding an extra layer of p

Re: no sound on debian squeeze

2009-12-05 Thread Brent Clark
On 05/12/2009 20:24, Alexander Kaphuk wrote: G'day, I've recently upgraded to Debian Squeeze and the sound's stopped working. It did work on Debian Lenny. I'd appreciate some advice on what to do please. Hiya When you mean "sound". Do you mean an application e.g. Rhythmbox, Aqualung, or

re: no sound on debian squeeze

2009-12-05 Thread Alexander Kaphuk
G'day, I've recently upgraded to Debian Squeeze and the sound's stopped working. It did work on Debian Lenny. I'd appreciate some advice on what to do please. Thanks in advance, Alexander Kapshuk. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscr

Re: Problems with adobe-flashplugin

2009-12-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 11:59:03AM -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: > > > > I am having problems fixing the adobe-flashplugin package and [...] > > This is what happens when I try to dist-upgrade now: > > > squeeze:/home/frank# aptitude dist-upgrade [...] > The following packages will be upgrad

Re: Problems with adobe-flashplugin

2009-12-05 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > I am having problems fixing the adobe-flashplugin package and > because it's broken, some other upgrades to my system (testing) > won't go ahead. I foolishly tried to install the package from > Adobe Replying to myself here -- This is what hap

Re: Compiling kernel

2009-12-05 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 11:11:08AM -0500, Dave Witbrodt wrote: >> Yes. In addition, I would highly recommend using kernel-package to >> compile your kernel to generate a deb. Here's a nice primer: >> >> http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.html > > I would recommend using the 'make-kp

Re: Compiling kernel

2009-12-05 Thread Dave Witbrodt
Kumar Appaiah wrote: On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 06:59:48AM -0700, deb...@toursbymexico.com wrote: I have a doubt about kernel compilation. Two days ago I compiled by hand 2.6.31.6 and it crashed during the boot process. The configuration was made by hand, starting from the default configuration and

Re: Slow connections in Debian squeeze

2009-12-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 03:41:00PM +0100, Nick Douma wrote: > Since I full-upgraded my Debian installation from lenny to squeeze, I > have been experiencing slow connections buildup. This is especially > evident when I ssh to another server, while on other workstations > (debian lenny and windows)

Re: Compiling kernel

2009-12-05 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 06:59:48AM -0700, deb...@toursbymexico.com wrote: > I have a doubt about kernel compilation. Two days ago I compiled by hand > 2.6.31.6 and it crashed during the boot process. The configuration was > made by hand, starting from the default configuration and perhaps I missed

Slow connections in Debian squeeze

2009-12-05 Thread Nick Douma
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Since I full-upgraded my Debian installation from lenny to squeeze, I have been experiencing slow connections buildup. This is especially evident when I ssh to another server, while on other workstations (debian lenny and windows) the connection is alm

Problems with adobe-flashplugin

2009-12-05 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am having problems fixing the adobe-flashplugin package and because it's broken, some other upgrades to my system (testing) won't go ahead. I foolishly tried to install the package from Adobe and now I guess because it's newer than the current pac

Compiling kernel

2009-12-05 Thread debian
Hello I have a doubt about kernel compilation. Two days ago I compiled by hand 2.6.31.6 and it crashed during the boot process. The configuration was made by hand, starting from the default configuration and perhaps I missed something. Since I had to restore my old slackware bakcup to recover som

rkhunter errors

2009-12-05 Thread Paul Cartwright
I just got this error message back from my rkhunter cron job: Warning: Application 'exim', version '4.69', is out of date, and possibly a security risk. Warning: Application 'gpg', version '1.4.9', is out of date, and possibly a security risk. Warning: Application 'named', version '9.5.1', is out

re: increasing screen resolution, nvidia xconf.org

2009-12-05 Thread Alexander Kaphuk
Please see an email below for a solution to a similar problem I had with the screen resolution not being detected properly on a HP Compaq Presario laptop. Original Message Subject:re: setting screen resolution to 1366x768 [SOLVED] Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 18:14:54 +020

Re: increasing screen resolution, nvidia xconf.org

2009-12-05 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 04 Dec 2009 23:07:42 -0500, Tomislav Butkovic wrote: > Hello, > > I have been for the last few months trying to figure out how to increase > the screen resolution on my Dell Inspiron 5150 running Debian Lenny with a > GeForce FX Go5200 64mb. > > The maximum screen resolution is currently

Re: Fatal: Only RAID1 devices are supported as boot devices

2009-12-05 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 10:45 PM, Tyler MacDonald wrote: > Tom H wrote: >> RAID0 is a truly silly misnomer. But many people use it because it >> gives them "one large and fast HD" on Windows, OS X, and Linux. If >> that is what Mathieu wants to do in spite of the lack of redundancy... > >        A