how to open a port?

2010-03-02 Thread Hadi Motamedi
Dear All On my Lenny , I want to open tcp port 4965 but my server does not contain /etc/sysconfig/iptables . Can you please let me know how to open this port ? Thank you _ Your E-mail and More

Re: Two Lenny problems

2010-03-02 Thread Cecil Knutson
Tony, You said there was an ATA limit of 16 partitons on Lenny, but the HD on the Dimension 8400 is a SATA. Does that make a difference? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http:

Re: Two Lenny problems

2010-03-02 Thread Cecil Knutson
Tony, > > Modern kernels use SCSI emulation for ATA and are restricted to 16 > partitions per drive, so don't go wild here. (LVM is not affected.) > The reduced limit has been a problem for some Fedora users. The drive on the Dimension 8400 is a SATA, does that make a difference in the number

Sony voice recorder on Lenny

2010-03-02 Thread Girish Kulkarni
Is there a way to access Sony voice recorders from a Lenny system? I am using model ICD-PX720; dmesg reports this when I plug that in: [ 5732.005617] usb 5-5: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4 [ 5732.136338] usb 5-5: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice [ 5732.137559] usb

Re: Two Lenny problems

2010-03-02 Thread Cecil Knutson
Tony, > > Modern kernels use SCSI emulation for ATA and are restricted to 16 > partitions per drive, so don't go wild here. (LVM is not affected.) > The reduced limit has been a problem for some Fedora users. But the Dell has SATA, does that make a difference in the number of partitions? --

Re: SpamAssassin not following private whitelist commands

2010-03-02 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-02 21:54, green wrote: Ron Johnson wrote at 2010-03-02 19:38 -0600: per-user whitelist addresses go in ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs with the format: whitelist_from f...@bar.com However, whitelisted accounts are still being scored as spam. Any thoughts? Perhaps you need the line:

Re: Capturing SWF video from URL

2010-03-02 Thread i'll teach you to turn away.
Siju George wrote: uh ok, i can't reply to your latest comment because of some stupid translation error in tin, but did you try refreshing it a bunch like it says? i usually get the link around refresh 7-8. lish "figured out what you're good for: cr...@g

Two Lenny problems

2010-03-02 Thread Cecil Knutson
Stephen, Just finished installing Lenny on my Fujitsu which has on-board sound; alsamixer says: PCM (100), Surround (MM), Center (MM), LFE (MM), Side (MM), IEC958 (MM), IEC958D (00), PC Speak (100); Sound Preferences, in the Sound Capture section, has a test sound choice which produced a to

Re: Capturing SWF video from URL

2010-03-02 Thread Siju George
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 11:35 AM, i'll teach you to turn away. wrote: > Siju George wrote: What tools can I use in debian to capture http://cdn.livestream.com/grid/LSPlayer.swf?channel=joshuageneration&clip=pla_3c2b3ec1-9317-4fdd-8d60-e7e4d080db0c&autoPlay=true > SG> I tried the Download

Re: Capturing SWF video from URL

2010-03-02 Thread i'll teach you to turn away.
Siju George wrote: >>> What tools can I use in debian to capture >>> http://cdn.livestream.com/grid/LSPlayer.swf?channel=joshuageneration&clip=pla_3c2b3ec1-9317-4fdd-8d60-e7e4d080db0c&autoPlay=true SG> I tried the Download Helper and Fast Video Downloader plugins for SG> Firefox but both dont work

Re: SpamAssassin not following private whitelist commands

2010-03-02 Thread green
Ron Johnson wrote at 2010-03-02 19:38 -0600: > per-user whitelist addresses go in ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs with > the format: > whitelist_from f...@bar.com > However, whitelisted accounts are still being scored as spam. Any > thoughts? Perhaps you need the line: allow_user_rules 1 in /etc/spa

kismet & gpsd

2010-03-02 Thread Dale
Hi all, I have a problem when using kismet 2008-05-R1-4.1 and gpsd 2.90.1~svn6819-1+b1 under Debian squeeze (testing) When having gpsd enabled in kismet it causes gpsd to run at high cpu usage ie 70 - 100% Has anyone else come across this problem, and how do I stop kismet from running gpsd at su

SpamAssassin not following private whitelist commands

2010-03-02 Thread Ron Johnson
Hi, (Up-to-date Sid system.) SA, which is "attached" to Postfix, isn't doing what I think it should do. According to instructions I found on the Intarweb, per-user whitelist addresses go in ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs with the format: whitelist_from f...@bar.com (Yes, I restarted SA after

Re: Fresh Debian Install w/o Exim?

2010-03-02 Thread thib
You could always reinstall choosing the most basic system, [...] I believe the base system (not the standard system task) pulled by the d-i currently installs exim as a Recommends dependency to cron. Only way would be preseeds or plain debootstrap, I think. -thib -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: host trying to connect using IPv6 without having IPv6 global address

2010-03-02 Thread Mark Kamichoff
On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 11:50:09PM +0200, Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: > It sits behind an ordinary adsl router, with no IPv6 capabilities, it > gets its private 192.168.x.x address etc. > > Now the problem is that it tries to connect to hosts returning quad-A > records using IPv6, but it has no IPv6 glo

Re: unexpected problem with icedove : hundred of storaged mails no longer have a body !

2010-03-02 Thread thib
Wow. If you haven't already, you should immediately backup the box before trying some magic on it. It's probably located at ~/.mozilla-thunderbird/$profile/Mail/Local Folders/Inbox. What's the size of the box? If it looks too small, open it with a text editor or another mail agent and check

Pénz az Interneten - Akár napi 40.000 Ft

2010-03-02 Thread Steve
Hello, Steve Terence vagyok. Azért írok, mert kidolgoztam egy jó pénzkeresési lehetőséget. Az Interneten, napi néhány órával, akár mellékesként is megkereshet, akár napi 200 - 400 Eurót, ami most olyan 50 - 100.000.- HUF. http://www.penzeso.com/?utm_source=mail01 Ez egy hatékony és teljesen i

Re: IMAP timing issue-SOLVED

2010-03-02 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Tue March 2 2010, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > Those are both the same protocol has far as what's "on the wire".  As a > KMail user, I'd never use "IMAP" it has minimal caching so a server > round-trip is required for most operations, including reading mail.  It > would only be appropriate fo

Re: IMAP timing issue

2010-03-02 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Tue March 2 2010, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > I don't use kmail, but AIUI, it should only be loading the email > _headers_ and not the entire emails. It should only load the email > when she tries to view it. That said, if there are a whole lot of > emails, it could still take a few seconds t

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2010 #364

2010-03-02 Thread Jason Filippou
> I have no idea on how kdeglobals is recreated, but the culprit may in whatever > recreates it. That' s why, in my case moving away both .kde and .kde4 did > work. Now, maybe moving only one of the 2 should have be sufficient, but I did > not want to spend to much time on it. > Thierry Apparently

host trying to connect using IPv6 without having IPv6 global address

2010-03-02 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
Hello to all! I am having the following strange problem on a fully updated squeeze. It sits behind an ordinary adsl router, with no IPv6 capabilities, it gets its private 192.168.x.x address etc. Now the problem is that it tries to connect to hosts returning quad-A records using IPv6, but it has

Re: ACPI problem on linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-amd64 powering off

2010-03-02 Thread Stephen Powell
On Tue, 2 Mar 2010 15:37:28 -0500 (EST), campbell mcleay wrote: > > I am running 64-bit Debian Squeeze with kernel > linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-vserver-amd64, and when > I initiate a shutdown to halt/poweroff the system, either within a > Gnome session or on the console, > it reboots instead of powe

Easy way to permanently change font size in xterm?

2010-03-02 Thread Edward C. Jones
I am presently using a recent Debian Testing, i386 port, on a computer with a Intel i3-530 chip. I installed KDE. Is there an easy way to permanently change the font size in all xterms? My previous machine had Debian 5.0 Stable where I could permanently change fonts and font sizes in xterms wit

Re: Squeeze Frozen, NOT

2010-03-02 Thread Freeman
On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 10:28:57PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Tue,02.Mar.10, 11:15:19, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Mon,01.Mar.10, 17:46:11, Stephen Powell wrote: > > > > > Since the resources are fixed at $0 (donated free labor) and the time > > > interval is fixed at one year, the release

ACPI problem on linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-amd64 powering off

2010-03-02 Thread campbell mcleay
Hi, I am running 64-bit Debian Squeeze with kernel linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-vserver-amd64, and when I initiate a shutdown to halt/poweroff the system, either within a Gnome session or on the console, it reboots instead of powering off. I can see what looks like a kernel oops error message at the v

Re: Squeeze Frozen, NOT

2010-03-02 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Tue,02.Mar.10, 11:15:19, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Mon,01.Mar.10, 17:46:11, Stephen Powell wrote: > > > Since the resources are fixed at $0 (donated free labor) and the time > > interval is fixed at one year, the release goals go out the window. > > You just can't eat your cake and have it too

Re: -i386 to amd64

2010-03-02 Thread Angus Hedger
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 6:35 PM, Charles Kroeger < ckro...@frankensteinface.com> wrote: > > > You're right Angus, and I did take precautions, that is why I was still > able > to post to the newsgroup, however I thought maybe an extra emphasis > wouldn't > hurt. I'm not confident that getting the u

Re: w32codecs

2010-03-02 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,01.Mar.10, 10:30:39, Celejar wrote: > Ah, thanks. My problem was that I hadn't realized that d-m had a > non-free section at all. I had always assumed that everything there > was basically non-free anyway. In Oldstable, the package is indeed in > main, but not in more recent flavors. T

Re: Fresh Debian Install w/o Exim?

2010-03-02 Thread John Hasler
Carlos Williams writes: > This purges a bunch more. I think thats the best I am going to get on > Debian...until we have the choice to omit specific packages. You do have that choice. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscrib

Re: -i386 to amd64

2010-03-02 Thread Charles Kroeger
> I think I'll just wait for: > > aptitude -a amd64 --arch_upgrade > > Surely that's right around the corner... Maybe for Squeeze? > > :) > > James Damn right, keep a watch on your /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg file for an upgrade. -- C. -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.

Re: -i386 to amd64

2010-03-02 Thread Charles Kroeger
> Anyway, I think the huge **WARNING** notes should have been enough to let > you know the whole thing was not without risk ;) > > Regards, > > Angus > You're right Angus, and I did take precautions, that is why I was still able to post to the newsgroup, however I thought maybe an extra emphas

Re: Two Lenny problems

2010-03-02 Thread Tony Nelson
On 10-03-02 01:26:39, Cecil Knutson wrote: ... > ...and the news that Linux can address 63 partitions. ... ... Modern kernels use SCSI emulation for ATA and are restricted to 16 partitions per drive, so don't go wild here. (LVM is not affected.) The reduced limit has been a problem for some

Re: Fresh Debian Install w/o Exim?

2010-03-02 Thread Carlos Williams
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 1:14 PM, Robert Holtzman wrote: > The command you ran was not apt-get --purge exim4 but (from your > original post) apt-get remove --purge exim4. Is there any chance apt-get > invoked remove and ignored purge? I just got everything sorted out. If I run: # apt-get remove --

Re: VLC no longer plays *.flv and *.mpg files

2010-03-02 Thread godo
AG wrote: Hi VLC has suddenly, and for no apparent reason, stopped playing *.flv and *.mpg files. I believe that I have all of the right codecs - w32codecs is the latest and kmplayer plays such files without problem. Anybody else experienced this recently and/ or is there a likely fix? Tha

Re: after upgrade etch -> lenny, problem with vim syntax highlighting in bash scripts

2010-03-02 Thread Mart Frauenlob
On 01.03.2010 16:59, Mart Frauenlob wrote: > On 01.03.2010 12:06, Mart Frauenlob wrote: >> On 28.02.2010 09:29, Mart Frauenlob wrote: > >>> after I upgraded from etch to lenny a few days ago (new config files >>> have been installed for vim), I noticed that syntax highlighting for my >>> bash scri

Re: Fresh Debian Install w/o Exim?

2010-03-02 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 09:54:51AM -0500, Carlos Williams wrote: > On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 9:23 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: > > Please elaborate.  Which files are left? > > > > Sven > > If you remove Exim manually using apt-get --purge exim4 or if you > install an alternative MTA and the package manag

Re: Clearing Screen on Logout?

2010-03-02 Thread Carlos Williams
I found a pretty global / easy resolution. http://www.patoche.org/LTT/screen/0004.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/d80f793f1003021010uf9e611a

RE: Clearing Screen on Logout?

2010-03-02 Thread James Zuelow
> -Original Message- > From: ludovico van [mailto:ludovicova...@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, 02 March, 2010 09:00 > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Clearing Screen on Logout? > > On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 6:52 PM, Carlos Williams > wrote: > > I noticed that with Debian whe

Re: Clearing Screen on Logout?

2010-03-02 Thread Chris Jackson
Carlos Williams wrote: I think having to type 'clear' before log out is crazy. Also if I have 1,000 users, thats a log of files to edit. Is there no global file config that will achieve this? /etc/bash.logout -- Chris Jackson Shadowcat Systems Ltd. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-r

Re: Clearing Screen on Logout?

2010-03-02 Thread Carlos Williams
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 1:00 PM, ludovico van wrote: > i have this in $HOME/.bash_logout : > # ~/.bash_logout: executed by bash(1) when login shell exits. > > # when leaving the console clear the screen to increase privacy > > if [ "$SHLVL" = 1 ]; then >    [ -x /usr/bin/clear_console ] && /usr/bin

Re: Clearing Screen on Logout?

2010-03-02 Thread Stephen Powell
On Tue, 2 Mar 2010 12:52:31 -0500 (EST), Carlos Williams wrote: > > I noticed that with Debian when I logout of my system, it doesn't > clear the screen to the login screen via bash only (non GUI). Normally > in RHEL, Arch, Ubuntu, and most other distributions when a user logs > out or exits from

Re: Clearing Screen on Logout?

2010-03-02 Thread ludovico van
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 6:52 PM, Carlos Williams wrote: > I noticed that with Debian when I logout of my system, it doesn't > clear the screen to the login screen via bash only (non GUI). i have this in $HOME/.bash_logout : # ~/.bash_logout: executed by bash(1) when login shell exits. # when leav

Clearing Screen on Logout?

2010-03-02 Thread Carlos Williams
I noticed that with Debian when I logout of my system, it doesn't clear the screen to the login screen via bash only (non GUI). Normally in RHEL, Arch, Ubuntu, and most other distributions when a user logs out or exits from a shell, their history is not visible on the screen but in Debian, it is. I

Skype stopped working on three different computers with Debian Lenny

2010-03-02 Thread Kum G.
Hi All! We have 3 computers with Debian Lenny and the newest Skype. Two are usually upgraded, one absolutely not. Some months ago, when we tried, Skype was working perfectly, but now on all computers microphones are silent. Settings were not changed, and tried with the default settings too. (Sou

Re: Driver for Gigabyte NVidia GV-N220OC-1GI card?

2010-03-02 Thread Angus Hedger
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 5:22 PM, Mathieu Malaterre < mathieu.malate...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 6:18 PM, Angus Hedger wrote: > > > 1) The easy automatic way, with sgfxi: > > http://techpatterns.com/forums/about933.html > > Wow ! The script is 6268 line long ! > > What does it br

Re: Driver for Gigabyte NVidia GV-N220OC-1GI card?

2010-03-02 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 6:18 PM, Angus Hedger wrote: > Hey, > As far as I know, Lenny and squeeze do not have the newest nVidia binary > driver packaged, and I think you need the newest ( 19X.XXX )  driver to use > that card, I cant check because nVidias website seems to be down at the > moment tho

Re: Driver for Gigabyte NVidia GV-N220OC-1GI card?

2010-03-02 Thread Angus Hedger
Hey, As far as I know, Lenny and squeeze do not have the newest nVidia binary driver packaged, and I think you need the newest ( 19X.XXX ) driver to use that card, I cant check because nVidias website seems to be down at the moment though. There is two ways to install the nVidia driver the "nVid

Re: Fresh Debian Install w/o Exim?

2010-03-02 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-03-02 15:54 +0100, Carlos Williams wrote: > If you remove Exim manually using apt-get --purge exim4 or if you > install an alternative MTA and the package manager uninstalls Exim, > either way you're left with this much mess & that doesn't include the > user accounts and groups: > > r...@m

Re: Fresh Debian Install w/o Exim?

2010-03-02 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In , Carlos Williams wrote: >On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 10:24 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. > wrote: >> It's nothing to do with the order your installed packages. It is the >> difference between removed and purged. Confiles -- files where changes by >> the local administrator are preserved when upgradi

Re: Fresh Debian Install w/o Exim?

2010-03-02 Thread Eric Gerlach
On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 02:59:23PM -0500, Carlos Williams wrote: > I am trying to install Debian (Testing) via 'netinst' disk and for > some reason am completely unable to install Debian w/o Exim. It > appears that Cron is a default package and depends on Exim. Does > anyone know how I can complete

Re: Fresh Debian Install w/o Exim?

2010-03-02 Thread Lisi
On Tuesday 02 March 2010 13:17:27 Carlos Williams wrote: > On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 3:27 AM, Lisi wrote: > > type > > aptitude install nullmailer > > in a root konsole.  Press . > > Lisi > > Yes I understand now but as I stated before that installing Postfix, > Sendmail, or any other alternative MTA

Re: IMAP timing issue

2010-03-02 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <201003020607.16885@pcartwright.com>, Paul Cartwright wrote: >I'm not sure what to do about this, maybe I am doing something wrong.. >I setup my wifes account as IMAP so she could read her email from > home(Kmail) & work (using web mail). The problem is, at home, on our debian > box, she run

Re: Squeeze Frozen, NOT

2010-03-02 Thread Lisi
On Tuesday 02 March 2010 09:15:19 Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Mon,01.Mar.10, 17:46:11, Stephen Powell wrote: > > > There is no plan for timed release cycles, only timed freezes. > > > > Hmm. Well, I suppose that timed freezes is better than timed > > release cycles, but it still breaks the traditio

Re: Fresh Debian Install w/o Exim?

2010-03-02 Thread Stephen Powell
On Tue, 2 Mar 2010 09:54:51 -0500 (EST), Carlos Williams wrote: > > If you remove Exim manually using apt-get --purge exim4 or if you > install an alternative MTA and the package manager uninstalls Exim, > either way you're left with this much mess & that doesn't include the > user accounts and gro

Re: Fresh Debian Install w/o Exim?

2010-03-02 Thread Carlos Williams
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 10:24 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > It's nothing to do with the order your installed packages.  It is the > difference between removed and purged.  Confiles -- files where changes by the > local administrator are preserved when upgrading -- are kept after removal. > Wh

Re: Fresh Debian Install w/o Exim?

2010-03-02 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <4b8cc633.7090...@hardwarefreak.com>, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. put forth on 3/2/2010 1:21 AM: >> In <4b8c7c66.6070...@hardwarefreak.com>, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > it auto removes Exim4 however still leaves all the > orphaned files and junk.* I'm not convinced

Re: IMAP timing issue

2010-03-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 06:07:16AM -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote: [...] > The problem is, at home, on our debian box, she runs > Kmail. When she clicks on the inbox it takes forever to bring in all the > messages, and if she clicks on another folder NOT in her inbox, next time she > goes back, it

Re: Fresh Debian Install w/o Exim?

2010-03-02 Thread Carlos Williams
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 9:23 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: > Please elaborate.  Which files are left? > > Sven If you remove Exim manually using apt-get --purge exim4 or if you install an alternative MTA and the package manager uninstalls Exim, either way you're left with this much mess & that doesn't i

Re: Fresh Debian Install w/o Exim?

2010-03-02 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 9:23 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2010-03-02 14:17 +0100, Carlos Williams wrote: > >> Yes I understand now but as I stated before that installing Postfix, >> Sendmail, or any other alternative MTA has no impact on the real >> problem at hand. What ever MTA you choose to inst

Re: Fresh Debian Install w/o Exim?

2010-03-02 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-03-02 14:17 +0100, Carlos Williams wrote: > Yes I understand now but as I stated before that installing Postfix, > Sendmail, or any other alternative MTA has no impact on the real > problem at hand. What ever MTA you choose to install, APT auto removes > Exim but leaves tons of files and d

Re: KDE session dead

2010-03-02 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Tuesday 02 March 2010 13:46:09 Philipp Pagel wrote: > Jason Filippou wrote: > > Hello list, > I see the same effect after a recent upgrade. I have spent some time > debugging the problem and was able to identify the culprit: > > ~/.kde/share/config/kdeglobals > > If I remove the file I can lo

Re: confused by bug

2010-03-02 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 07:35:10PM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: > > Contrast this with the "stable" version, which has migrated from > > stable-proposed-updates to stable. > > Sorted. After I realised you were talking about texlive-bin, while > texlive-latex-base is built from texlive-base, I read

Re: Fresh Debian Install w/o Exim?

2010-03-02 Thread Carlos Williams
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 3:27 AM, Lisi wrote: > type > aptitude install nullmailer > in a root konsole.  Press . > Lisi Yes I understand now but as I stated before that installing Postfix, Sendmail, or any other alternative MTA has no impact on the real problem at hand. What ever MTA you choose to

Re: KDE session dead

2010-03-02 Thread Philipp Pagel
Jason Filippou wrote: > Hello list, > After updating my debian squeeze box yesterday I'm having trouble > logging into my KDE session. More specifically, after I choose "KDE" > from the available sessions from kdm, the kde splash screen begins > loading but then I get a white screen followed by

Re: /etc/group

2010-03-02 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-03-02 12:34 +0100, Alexey Salmin wrote: > Just wondering: why there are so many users and groups which are not > created on package installation? Historical reasons, often. Most of these users and groups are expected to exist on a Unix system. Besides, the list of static system users an

Re: /etc/group

2010-03-02 Thread Alexey Salmin
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 5:53 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2010-03-02 12:20 +0100, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > >> Users and groups that are not created on package installation are >> documented in the base-passwd package.  For example, for the ssh group >> you mention it contains the following informa

Re: /etc/group

2010-03-02 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-03-02 12:20 +0100, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > Users and groups that are not created on package installation are > documented in the base-passwd package. For example, for the ssh group > you mention it contains the following information: > > ssh: ssh-agent is setgid to ssh in order to pre

Re: Squeeze Frozen, NOT

2010-03-02 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 02. 03. 2010 10:15:19 je Andrei Popescu napisal(a): Yes, it is free donated labor, but it doesn't mean that it's worth $0! Of *course* it doesn't (on the contrary, if I may add). It simply means that you "can't increase the amount of donated labor at will", since, in donated labor, pay

ssh

2010-03-02 Thread consul tores
hello If i do # ssh from Lenny against Slackware or OpenBSD, then i get only 1 key, but if i do # ssh from Lenny to Lenny, then i receive 2 keys! It happens when i am outside of my lan which has a router DLink as gateway, when i test it at inside, i recieve only 1 key for Slackware, OpenBSD and Le

Re: /etc/group

2010-03-02 Thread Alexey Salmin
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 5:20 PM, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > Hi, > > Alexey Salmin writes: > >> Hello! /etc/group in default debain installation contains dozens of >> groups and I'm wondering: how to determine their purpose? Which >> package did some specific group came from? What purpose does it se

Re: /etc/group

2010-03-02 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi, Alexey Salmin writes: > Hello! /etc/group in default debain installation contains dozens of > groups and I'm wondering: how to determine their purpose? Which > package did some specific group came from? What purpose does it serve? Users and groups that are not created on package installatio

/etc/group

2010-03-02 Thread Alexey Salmin
Hello! /etc/group in default debain installation contains dozens of groups and I'm wondering: how to determine their purpose? Which package did some specific group came from? What purpose does it serve? It's not very convenient to search info about group XXX in every installed package documentation

IMAP timing issue

2010-03-02 Thread Paul Cartwright
I'm not sure what to do about this, maybe I am doing something wrong.. I setup my wifes account as IMAP so she could read her email from home(Kmail) & work (using web mail). The problem is, at home, on our debian box, she runs Kmail. When she clicks on the inbox it takes forever to bring in all t

Re: Squeeze Frozen, NOT

2010-03-02 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,01.Mar.10, 17:46:11, Stephen Powell wrote: > > There is no plan for timed release cycles, only timed freezes. > > Hmm. Well, I suppose that timed freezes is better than timed > release cycles, but it still breaks the traditional concept of > "release goals", does it not? Historically, a

Re: setting sensor limits fails

2010-03-02 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 02. 03. 2010 10:29:32 je Klistvud napisal(a): (However, your fan being so loud is actually a good sign.) The *passive* trip point is particularly crucial in this context. Whoops, I managed to make two major mistakes in two short sentences: 1. The OT makes no mention of loud fans. 2. The *

Re: Fresh Debian Install w/o Exim?

2010-03-02 Thread Lisi
On Tuesday 02 March 2010 00:32:10 Carlos Williams wrote: > On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 5:59 PM, Lisi wrote: > >> I use nullmailer in these situations > > > > +1 > > Installing nullmailer will remove exim for you. > > I am sorry but I don't understand what you mean by 'install > nullmailer'. Is this som

Re: setting sensor limits fails

2010-03-02 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 01. 03. 2010 23:55:43 je s. keeling napisal(a): > I don't think this should be a threat to your laptop, the sensors > only read temperature (and other data) they don't interfere with > the working of the CPU, hard drive or other components. I think you > have no reasons to worry. They

Re: KDE session dead

2010-03-02 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Tuesday 02 March 2010 08:55:51 Jason Filippou wrote: > Hello list, > > After updating my debian squeeze box yesterday I'm having trouble > logging into my KDE session. More specifically, after I choose "KDE" > from the available sessions from kdm, the kde splash screen begins > loading but th

KDE session dead

2010-03-02 Thread Jason Filippou
Hello list, After updating my debian squeeze box yesterday I'm having trouble logging into my KDE session. More specifically, after I choose "KDE" from the available sessions from kdm, the kde splash screen begins loading but then I get a white screen followed by a completely black screen, with

Re: Fresh Debian Install w/o Exim?

2010-03-02 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. put forth on 3/2/2010 1:21 AM: > In <4b8c7c66.6070...@hardwarefreak.com>, Stan Hoeppner wrote: it auto removes Exim4 however still leaves all the orphaned files and junk.* >>> >>> I'm not convinced this is a statement of fact, but depending on how the >>> installer