Re: vpnc times out after about 30 minutes i think

2009-12-28 Thread Javier Barroso
Hi, On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 6:28 AM, Mitchell Laks wrote: > Hi > I need to connect via a cisco router from a debian machine to a debian > machine. > after i run vpnc and after I am  connected, > suddenlym after about 30 minutes (i think), i find myself disconnected, even > in the > middle of ac

Re: changing rootdn password

2009-12-28 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
> Didar Hossain : > > I would like to change that admin password without calling > > 'dpkg-reconfigure slapd'. > > Is there an ldap utility or built-in command for that purpose? > Please, do not cross-post the same message to multiple mailing lists - > instead use separate messages. Ok, heard. >

Re: changing rootdn password

2009-12-28 Thread Didar Hossain
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: > Manao ahoana, Hello, Bonjour, > > On a Debian and a Ubuntu I install OpenLDAP with the package manager. > It usually asks for an admin password. > > But when looking in /etc/ldap/ I found no place where it is stored > (even in an e

Keyboard fails at running gksu in KDE-3.5.9

2009-12-28 Thread Sthu Deus
Good day. As I run kate from KDE-menu as follows gksu -u edit kate I often get my keyboard does not respond and in the process list I see dcopserver running under that user w/ 'suicide' parameter. Logging from another session and getting my keyboard to work, I'm able to kill the process and i

changing rootdn password

2009-12-28 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
Manao ahoana, Hello, Bonjour, On a Debian and a Ubuntu I install OpenLDAP with the package manager. It usually asks for an admin password. But when looking in /etc/ldap/ I found no place where it is stored (even in an encrypted form). I would like to change that admin password without calling 'd

vpnc times out after about 30 minutes i think

2009-12-28 Thread Mitchell Laks
Hi I need to connect via a cisco router from a debian machine to a debian machine. after i run vpnc and after I am connected, suddenlym after about 30 minutes (i think), i find myself disconnected, even in the middle of active interaction. I tried including the line DPD idle timeout (our sid

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Re: Having Grub2 use UUID instead of (hd0,1)?

2009-12-28 Thread Tom H
>> Do both the "set root" and "search" lines point to the partition where /boot >> is? >> To check the UUID of /boot: >> grub-probe -t fs_uuid /boot > Yes. >> [And (just in case), unlike grub1, for grub2 sda1<-->(hd0,1), >> sda2<-->(hd0,2).] For the sake of thread-completeness, to check the g

Re: Ugly VGA fonts with console-setup (Squeeze)

2009-12-28 Thread Tom H
>> I think that you mean "set gfxpayload=keep". I did not mention it >> because it has not worked for me (my boot-up stops with a black >> screen) but I have seen various sites that recommend it. > That would (should?) work if you also set $GRUB_GFXMODE to the desired > mode (which resulted in str

Re: Having Grub2 use UUID instead of (hd0,1)?

2009-12-28 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Tom H [2009 Dec 28 20:18 -0600]: > I am going through this thread backwards, with apologies... > > Do both the "set root" and "search" lines point to the partition where /boot > is? > > To check the UUID of /boot: > grub-probe -t fs_uuid /boot Yes. > [And (just in case), unlike grub1, for g

Re: Having Grub2 use UUID instead of (hd0,1)?

2009-12-28 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Tom H [2009 Dec 28 19:55 -0600]: > >From /usr/lib/grub/grub-mkconfig_lib (which is sourced by all files in > /etc/grub.d): > > > # If there's a filesystem UUID that GRUB is capable of identifying, use it; > # otherwise set root as per value in device.map. > echo "set root=`${grub_probe} --dev

Re: Having Grub2 use UUID instead of (hd0,1)?

2009-12-28 Thread Tom H
> Is it possible to tell Grub2 to use the UUID of the partition > /boot/grub resides instead of its default (hd0,1) notation? The reason > I ask is that I am using a custom kernel that treats all drives as sda, > but Debian's Grub2 pukes on it. Specifically, installing and updating > Grub results i

Re: Having Grub2 use UUID instead of (hd0,1)?

2009-12-28 Thread Tom H
> I'm not sure that's what the OP was asking for, though, because I'm > unclear as to how he could have a kernel that treats all drives as sda.. > Sounds pretty risky to me. This is standard behaviour for Fedora and Ubuntu. The kernel uses libata for both SATA and PATA. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: Having Grub2 use UUID instead of (hd0,1)?

2009-12-28 Thread Tom H
>> Hmm, didn't need to do anything special. The default config for grub2 in >> squeeze and sid has this: >> ,[ /etc/default/grub ] >> | # Uncomment if you don't want GRUB to pass "root=UUID=xxx" parameter to >> Linux >> | #GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID=true > That's not what I'm asking about.  My k

Re (2): configuration file for "Automatically Started Applications"

2009-12-28 Thread peasthope
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 23:52:50 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote, > Here is one of my .desktop files created with Xfce4: > > ,[ .config/autostart/YeahConsole.desktop ] > | [Desktop Entry] > ... Good. Thanks! This works here. # ~/.config/autostart/twinkle.desktop [Desktop Entry] Type=Applicati

Re: Change keyboard layout

2009-12-28 Thread Anthony Baldwin
--- On Mon, 12/28/09, Andrei Popescu wrote: > From: Andrei Popescu > Subject: Re: Change keyboard layout > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Date: Monday, December 28, 2009, 3:40 PM > On Mon,28.Dec.09, 06:35:07, Anthony > Baldwin wrote: > > > > I just do > > $ setxkbmap us intl > > Sure, but

Re: building a custom kernel:IT WORKED

2009-12-28 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 28 Dec 2009 05:37:11 -0500 Paul Cartwright wrote: > On Sun December 27 2009, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > Seconded.  Way to go Paul.  Many people have surrendered due to frustration > > and given up building a custom kernel.  Kudos to you for sticking it out > > until you got it the first tim

Re: Can I check packages integrity with debsums on sums check failed DVDs?

2009-12-28 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Andrei: >What are you trying to accomplish? My first goal was to check OS packages integrity... -as I have understood it is impossible w/ debsums. Now I try to learn how to do securely w/ updating/installing packages on Debian in the view of bad connection t

Re: Change keyboard layout

2009-12-28 Thread pch0317
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sat,26.Dec.09, 20:30:27, pch0317 wrote: Hi list I have problem with changing my keyboadr layout. I want to change it to polish, so I type ''dpkg-reconfigure console-data'' and choose ''qwert'' and ''polish''. But still I can't type my symbol. What I can do? I use Debi

Re: Exim4 redirect question

2009-12-28 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 28 Dec 2009, Alan Chandler wrote: > Anthony Campbell wrote: > > Somthing like the following in the .forward file of the account > which receives that e-mail > > # Exim Filter > if error_message then finish endif > if $h_to: contains "a-u...@msn.com" then >deliver a-differentu...@gmail.com

Re: A-posteriori use of another HDD for the /home/username

2009-12-28 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 05:57:00PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Tue,29.Dec.09, 00:25:06, Osamu Aoki wrote: ... > > $ cd /path/to/source ; cp -a ./ destination/ > > > > This does trick since adding ./ after destination/ is still destination/ :-) > > Why is this better than 'cd /path/to/source

Re: A-posteriori use of another HDD for the /home/username

2009-12-28 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Tue,29.Dec.09, 00:25:06, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 04:17:01PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Mon,28.Dec.09, 06:27:32, Glenn English wrote: > > > > > I still don't understand how 'source/.' would work, though. > > Yah ... it will create destination/source/* At least on

Re: A-posteriori use of another HDD for the /home/username

2009-12-28 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 04:17:01PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Mon,28.Dec.09, 06:27:32, Glenn English wrote: > > > I still don't understand how 'source/.' would work, though. > > I discovered that by chance, but I don't see any reason why it shouldn't > work. Yah ... it will create destin

Re: Change keyboard layout

2009-12-28 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,28.Dec.09, 06:35:07, Anthony Baldwin wrote: > > I just do > $ setxkbmap us intl Sure, but this won't survive a restart of X. Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic signature.asc Des

Re: Any mozilla extension to list web page urls?

2009-12-28 Thread Chris Jones
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 10:07:29AM EST, T o n g wrote: > On Sun, 27 Dec 2009 12:44:18 +0100, Klistvud wrote: > > >> I remember having installed a mozilla extension which can give me a > >> list of urls the web page contains. but I can't find it any more. What > >> could it be? > >> > >> > > mozi

Re: Any mozilla extension to list web page urls?

2009-12-28 Thread T o n g
On Sun, 27 Dec 2009 12:44:18 +0100, Klistvud wrote: >> I remember having installed a mozilla extension which can give me a >> list of urls the web page contains. but I can't find it any more. What >> could it be? >> >> > mozilla-ctxextensions I'm afraid that mozilla-ctxextensions isn't able to

Re: Fw: Re: flash video sound issue

2009-12-28 Thread Anthony Baldwin
--- On Mon, 12/21/09, Marc Shapiro wrote: > From: Marc Shapiro > Subject: Re: Fw: Re: flash video sound issue [resolved] > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Date: Monday, December 21, 2009, 2:13 AM > Anthony Baldwin wrote: > > --- On Sun, 12/20/09, Marc Shapiro > wrote: > > > >> From: Marc Sh

Re: Iceweasel repeatedly hangs for 5 seconds

2009-12-28 Thread Anthony Baldwin
--- On Mon, 12/28/09, Kevin Ross wrote: > From: Kevin Ross > Subject: Re: Iceweasel repeatedly hangs for 5 seconds > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Date: Monday, December 28, 2009, 3:21 AM > Jack Dodds wrote: > > If anyone can identify this problem, or offe

Re: Change keyboard layout

2009-12-28 Thread Anthony Baldwin
--- On Mon, 12/28/09, Andrei Popescu wrote: > From: Andrei Popescu > Subject: Re: Change keyboard layout > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Date: Monday, December 28, 2009, 10:45 AM > On Sat,26.Dec.09, 20:30:27, pch0317 > wrote: > > Hi list > > I have problem with changing my keyboadr layout.

Re: Setting up Atheros Ar5001 wifi[Solved]

2009-12-28 Thread Sebastian
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 09:15AM +0200, Ogya Chief wrote: > Hello Sebi, Hello Ogya > This is to inform you that my wifi is working. The problem was that I supplied > a wrong passphrase. Glad you got it going. > Thank you very much for your help in the last three days. I do appreciate it > so >

Re: A-posteriori use of another HDD for the /home/username

2009-12-28 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,28.Dec.09, 06:27:32, Glenn English wrote: > I still don't understand how 'source/.' would work, though. I discovered that by chance, but I don't see any reason why it shouldn't work. Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.or

Re: Having Grub2 use UUID instead of (hd0,1)?

2009-12-28 Thread Chris Jones
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 07:14:14AM EST, Nate Bargmann wrote: > * Chris Jones [2009 Dec 28 05:49 -0600]: [..] > > unclear as to how he could have a kernel that treats all drives as > > sda.. > All Ubuntu kernels treat any drive as an sd? and since I'm > experimenting with a Sidux kernel to get t

Re: A-posteriori use of another HDD for the /home/username

2009-12-28 Thread Glenn English
On Dec 28, 2009, at 5:48 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote: > Unless I'm doing something wrong 'cp -a .*' will try to copy the parent > directory as well Hmm. Bears looking into. But I swear I've been doing '.*' forever. Maybe that explains the high disk drive bills :-) > The correct solution > from

Re: Having Grub2 use UUID instead of (hd0,1)?

2009-12-28 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,28.Dec.09, 15:04:01, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Mon,28.Dec.09, 06:24:19, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > > Lines 4 and 5 seem to be in conflict with each other. Why have a "set > > root=(hd1.1)" line when the "search" line that follows specifies the > > correct UUID? My question was, how can I

Re: Having Grub2 use UUID instead of (hd0,1)?

2009-12-28 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,28.Dec.09, 06:24:19, Nate Bargmann wrote: > Lines 4 and 5 seem to be in conflict with each other. Why have a "set > root=(hd1.1)" line when the "search" line that follows specifies the > correct UUID? My question was, how can I tell the scripts to not issue > the "set root" line and just

Re: A-posteriori use of another HDD for the /home/username

2009-12-28 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,28.Dec.09, 04:49:07, Glenn English wrote: > > On Dec 28, 2009, at 3:37 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > >> I always just say 'cp -a .* ' in addition to what you > >> already did to copy (recursively) everything beginning with a period. > > > > Why would '.*' be better than a simple '*'? >

Re: Having Grub2 use UUID instead of (hd0,1)?

2009-12-28 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Andrei Popescu [2009 Dec 28 04:42 -0600]: > Hmm, didn't need to do anything special. The default config for grub2 in > squeeze and sid has this: > > > ,[ /etc/default/grub ] > | # Uncomment if you don't want GRUB to pass "root=UUID=xxx" parameter to > Linux > | #GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID=t

Re: Having Grub2 use UUID instead of (hd0,1)?

2009-12-28 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Chris Jones [2009 Dec 28 05:49 -0600]: > I am able to boot a clone of my "lenny" system that lives on a USB stick > and I actually had to manually remove the "set root=" statement, because > it was confusing grub2 - namely a "set root=(hd1,1) .. or hd2, or hd3.. > or sda, sdb, sdc.. always resul

Re: Exim4 redirect question

2009-12-28 Thread Alan Chandler
Anthony Campbell wrote: On 27 Dec 2009, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: Anthony Campbell wrote: I receive emails from a-u...@msn.com. I would like to redirect these (and only these) to a-differentu...@gmail.com. Is this possible with exim4? From reading the docs I think it should be possible to do

Re: A-posteriori use of another HDD for the /home/username

2009-12-28 Thread Glenn English
On Dec 28, 2009, at 3:37 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote: >> I always just say 'cp -a .* ' in addition to what you >> already did to copy (recursively) everything beginning with a period. > > Why would '.*' be better than a simple '*'? Because '*' doesn't get the invisible files, and Merciadri'd alr

Re: Having Grub2 use UUID instead of (hd0,1)?

2009-12-28 Thread Chris Jones
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 05:40:52AM EST, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Fri,25.Dec.09, 16:19:13, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > Is it possible to tell Grub2 to use the UUID of the partition > > /boot/grub resides instead of its default (hd0,1) notation? The reason > > I ask is that I am using a custom kernel

Re: Bug Perhaps: Debian Testing AMD64 2009-12-27 Daily Build NetInst

2009-12-28 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,28.Dec.09, 00:22:35, Chris Brandstetter wrote: > > Now the system asks to load the tigon/tg3_tso.bin firmware. (Broadcom > Network Card firmware) > > I selected no and continued on the install. (Strange, did it get the > firmware from somewhere else, or was there an open source alternativ

Re: Change keyboard layout

2009-12-28 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat,26.Dec.09, 20:30:27, pch0317 wrote: > Hi list > I have problem with changing my keyboadr layout. > I want to change it to polish, so I type ''dpkg-reconfigure > console-data'' and choose ''qwert'' and ''polish''. > But still I can't type my symbol. > What I can do? > I use Debian testing amd

Re: offtopic: /lib/libc.so.6

2009-12-28 Thread Eric Meijer
Jerome BENOIT wrote: [ ... /lib/libc.so.6 appears executable and prints version info ... ] It is good to know. Nevertheless I am curious to know how we can make a libXXX.so file prints something. Does anyone have any hint ? Interesting. I found this reference: http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-he

Re: building a custom kernel:IT WORKED-THANKS!

2009-12-28 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Sun December 27 2009, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > -- > Stan > > P.S.  If you care to diff the files or just manually browse for > differences, here's the .config that results in my 1.5MB kernel package. >  Also note that I do not use an initrd, but boot the kernel directly, and > that this is a headl

Re: Having Grub2 use UUID instead of (hd0,1)?

2009-12-28 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri,25.Dec.09, 16:19:13, Nate Bargmann wrote: > Is it possible to tell Grub2 to use the UUID of the partition > /boot/grub resides instead of its default (hd0,1) notation? The reason > I ask is that I am using a custom kernel that treats all drives as sda, > but Debian's Grub2 pukes on it. Spe

Re: building a custom kernel:IT WORKED

2009-12-28 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Sun December 27 2009, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > P.S.  If you care to diff the files or just manually browse for > differences, here's the .config that results in my 1.5MB kernel package. >  Also note that I do oh, and THANKS! I almost overlooked the bottom part of your message, I thought it was t

Re: building a custom kernel:IT WORKED

2009-12-28 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Sun December 27 2009, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Seconded.  Way to go Paul.  Many people have surrendered due to frustration > and given up building a custom kernel.  Kudos to you for sticking it out > until you got it the first time.  As Dave states, building others gets > easier over time as you l

Re: A-posteriori use of another HDD for the /home/username

2009-12-28 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri,25.Dec.09, 15:25:56, Glenn English wrote: > > On Dec 25, 2009, at 2:40 PM, Merciadri Luca wrote: > > > You were right. I just made a diff, and folders beginning with a dot > > were not copied. I was simply using > > $ cp --recursive --update *.* [...] [...] > > > > What would be these app

Re: Can I check packages integrity with debsums on sums check failed DVDs?

2009-12-28 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri,25.Dec.09, 20:54:04, Sthu Deus wrote: > Thank You for Your time and answer, (sorry for long reply) Boyd: > > >Depends on how you got the package. There is a "chain of trust" between > >your apt keyring and the package contents. The Release and Packages files > >have detached signatures,

Re: LAME for Lenny

2009-12-28 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu,24.Dec.09, 20:19:12, Bernard wrote: > Hi to Everyone, > > On my older Sarge system, I used 'lame' to encode wav files to mp3. > However I can't find 'lame' for Lenny. Could someone tell me where > to find the appropriate package ? You already got a solution for your problem, I just want to

Re: Ugly VGA fonts with console-setup (Squeeze)

2009-12-28 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu,24.Dec.09, 20:29:19, Tom H wrote: > > > Sorry for the vagueness, but as I'm at work I can't look into > > /etc/grub/default or /etc/grub.d/debian-05 ... hopefully its enough to > > google the exact commands. > > I think that you mean "set gfxpayload=keep". I did not mention it > because it

Re: Exim4 redirect question

2009-12-28 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 27 Dec 2009, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > Anthony Campbell wrote: > > I receive emails from a-u...@msn.com. I would like to redirect these > > (and only these) to a-differentu...@gmail.com. > > > > Is this possible with exim4? From reading the docs I think it should be > > possible to do so usi

Re: Can't manage my iPod

2009-12-28 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 27 Dec 2009 10:19:03 +0100, Matteo Riva wrote: > I used to be able to manage my iPod fine, but now it's almost > impossible. The device mounts and is browseable, although I get this > output from fdisk > > Disk /dev/sdb: 4095 MB, 4095737344 bytes 241 heads, 62 sectors/track, > 535 cyl

Re: post script file display differently in /every/ viewer

2009-12-28 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 26 Dec 2009 16:12:11 +0800, Zhang Weiwu wrote: > Postscript is always a pain, you can hardly expect it behave the same > way. However I had more luck with PDFs. Usually PDF opens the same in > all viewers. > > Here is an example postscript file I fought with it for half a day. It > displa

offtopic: /lib/libc.so.6

2009-12-28 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, after upgrading to Squeeze, I looked for a way to get the glibc version on different systems: it appears that entering the command `/lib/libc.so.6' give the answer. On my Squeeze box: /lib/libc.so.6 gives GNU C Library (EGLIBC) stable release version 2.10.2, by Roland McGrath et a