Re: ssh connection, secondary ok while prime not

2011-02-24 Thread elbbit
On 25/02/11 04:17, T o n g wrote: > /etc/init.d/ssh restart This method normally includes /etc/ssh/sshd_config when it starts the sshd binary. The directive you are looking for in the file is probably "PermitRootLogin yes". Adding or changing this entry in the sshd_config file will enable you t

Re: Cannot use USB floppy drive in Squeeze

2011-02-24 Thread Dom
On 25/02/11 02:32, Stephen Powell wrote: On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 13:47:30 -0500 (EST), Wayne Topa wrote: Not having a usb floppy I am just throwing this out there Have you installed the ufiformat package? A search of the package lists only show that (might) be helpful. Thanks for the suggesti

Re: Re: GPG error: http://security.debian.org etch/updates Release: The following signatures were invalid: BADSIG A70DAF536070D3A1

2011-02-24 Thread Tim | iHostNZ
Hi, It seems like this solved it for me: apt-get -f update ++Tim Hinnerk Heuer++ Website: http://www.ihostnz.com - Free Hosting! Blog: http://timheuer.com/hinnerk

Re: setting parameters of disc /dev/sda failed .

2011-02-24 Thread waterloo
I use 'nohdparm' in kernel parameter. When booted , I find a line : ' skipping (warning)' . So I am sure that error is about hdparm . I use below in /etc/hdparm.conf : > /dev/sda { > apm = 254 > spindown_time = 60 > dma = on > } > I do not revise /etc/default/hdparm . What is wro

Where does evolution store emails now?

2011-02-24 Thread Dietrich Bollmann
Hi, Where does Evolution store my emails? Searching for some old email with grep in the usual folder revealed it to be empty and neither in the preferences nor in the web I can find any hint about the new location used... Dietrich -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.

Re: setting parameters of disc /dev/sda failed .

2011-02-24 Thread waterloo
I can find hdparm using 'ps aux | grep hdparm' even when I cancelled 'hdparm' in Services config . Why does hdparm still exist ? thanks 2011/2/25 Camaleón : > On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 01:02:29 +0800, waterloo wrote: > >> 2011/2/25 Camaleón: >>> On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 00:32:16 +0800, waterloo wrote: >>> >>

Suspend to disk fails after Squeeze upgrade

2011-02-24 Thread Richard Lawrence
Hi all, I upgraded from Lenny to Squeeze this past weekend. Since then, I haven't been able to successfully resume after a suspend to disk, which had been working fine in Lenny (with Linux 2.6.26). Basically, on boot, I see a blinking cursor, followed by a completely blank (unresponsive -- no vi

Unrecognized security certificate warning is gone

2011-02-24 Thread Marc Shapiro
I am using Firefox, not Iceweasel, but I think this question should apply in either case. I am trying to connect to work using the Citrix client. I used to get a warning that the certificate was not recognized and do I want to continue, or not. I am no longer getting the warning, but Firefox

Re: Squeeze live cd

2011-02-24 Thread azrael
just type su then press enter. the password is "empty". no password set On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 03:45:29 +, Roman Gelfand wrote: > What is the root password on squeeze live cd? > > Thanks in advance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscr

ssh connection, secondary ok while prime not

2011-02-24 Thread T o n g
Hi, I have a very weird ssh connection problem -- I get Permission denied (publickey). error while trying to ssh into the box (as root) [1]. However, if I ssh into the same box, same as root, using the same sshd configuration, just a secondary debug ssh session, it works flawlessly [2]. I'

Re: Squeeze live cd

2011-02-24 Thread shawn wilson
sudo passwd On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 10:45 PM, Roman Gelfand wrote: > What is the root password on squeeze live cd? > > Thanks in advance > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > Ar

Squeeze live cd

2011-02-24 Thread Roman Gelfand
What is the root password on squeeze live cd? Thanks in advance -- 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/AANLkTik=vYCny=a3suwj27sr8arrr0r61kfsgw8at...@mail.gm

Re: Cannot use USB floppy drive in Squeeze

2011-02-24 Thread Roman Gelfand
I, actually, used unetbootin and squeeze live cd and it worked great for me. Just make sure to format the usb fat32 before using unetbootin. On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 2:32 AM, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 13:47:30 -0500 (EST), Wayne Topa wrote: >> >> Not having a usb floppy I am jus

Re: Cannot use USB floppy drive in Squeeze

2011-02-24 Thread Stephen Powell
On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 13:47:30 -0500 (EST), Wayne Topa wrote: > > Not having a usb floppy I am just throwing this out there > > Have you installed the ufiformat package? A search of the package > lists only show that (might) be helpful. Thanks for the suggestion, Wayne, but I need to crawl befo

Three mail server questions

2011-02-24 Thread Brad Alexander
I have three mail server questions, if I might. 1. I have set up most of the systems on my network to use my mail server for internal mail, things like ossec messages, apticron, etc. Most hosts run exim, so I have them set up with the mail server as my smarthost. However, one box, running Proxmox

Re: Things I Don't Understand About Debian

2011-02-24 Thread Aaron Toponce
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 04:51:30PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > For example, you might let one user "sudo" without a password, disable root > logins via ssh, have every other user (including root) be disabled in > /etc/shadow, disable password logins via ssh, and have all other non-root

Re: dd or cp over network: should I use scp?

2011-02-24 Thread shawn wilson
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 4:33 PM, Celejar wrote: > On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 15:48:00 -0500 > shawn wilson wrote: > > > On Feb 24, 2011 3:40 PM, "Celejar" wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 10:22:56 -0500 > > > Curt Howland wrote: > > > > > > ... > > > > > > > But in general, it's necessary to ba

Re: dd or cp over network: should I use scp?

2011-02-24 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 24 February 2011 16:49:30 Celejar wrote: > On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 16:27:20 -0600 > "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." wrote: > > NB: I don't keep backups. I know I should, but I don't. I gave up after > > calculating the size of the pile of DVDs I'd need to back up my 4TB file > > Why not use HD

Re: Things I Don't Understand About Debian

2011-02-24 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 24 February 2011 16:29:22 Aaron Toponce wrote: > On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 05:21:51PM +0100, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > > No, it is not. When root logins are allowed, you only need to know > > one password. When root-logins are not allowed, you need to know two > > passwords *and* a user na

Re: dd or cp over network: should I use scp?

2011-02-24 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 16:27:20 -0600 "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." wrote: > On Thursday 24 February 2011 16:10:09 Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Jo, 24 feb 11, 16:33:09, Celejar wrote: > > > Certainly - but my advice stands for typical, general purpose desktops, > > > laptops and servers. > > > > I doubt

Re: dd or cp over network: should I use scp?

2011-02-24 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 00:10:09 +0200 Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Jo, 24 feb 11, 16:33:09, Celejar wrote: > > > > Certainly - but my advice stands for typical, general purpose desktops, > > laptops and servers. > > I doubt typical, general purpose desktops and laptops (yes, I omitted > servers) ar

Re: Things I Don't Understand About Debian

2011-02-24 Thread Aaron Toponce
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 05:21:51PM +0100, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > No, it is not. When root logins are allowed, you only need to know > one password. When root-logins are not allowed, you need to know two > passwords *and* a user name. You assume that the only way into an SSH server is through us

Re: dd or cp over network: should I use scp?

2011-02-24 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 24 February 2011 16:10:09 Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Jo, 24 feb 11, 16:33:09, Celejar wrote: > > Certainly - but my advice stands for typical, general purpose desktops, > > laptops and servers. > > I doubt typical, general purpose desktops and laptops (yes, I omitted > servers) are usi

Create a separate X session for displaying a single app

2011-02-24 Thread Ryan Braun
I have a dual output nvidia videocard that I would like to setup the second display to be a dumb display that would just display a single app with no user control whatsoever. So no window manager or desktop environment needed or wanted on that display. Just the app with no screensavers or screen

Re: dd or cp over network: should I use scp?

2011-02-24 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Jo, 24 feb 11, 16:33:09, Celejar wrote: > > Certainly - but my advice stands for typical, general purpose desktops, > laptops and servers. I doubt typical, general purpose desktops and laptops (yes, I omitted servers) are using /var/spool/mail or /var/spool/cron/crontabs Regards, Andrei --

Re: Disc encryptian.

2011-02-24 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 24 February 2011 15:42:25 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/24/2011 08:30 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > On Thursday 24 February 2011 07:03:23 Ron Johnson wrote: > >> On 02/24/2011 06:22 AM, Brad Alexander wrote: > >>> Also, please remember, when the system is running, the filesystem is

Re: To 64 or Not to 64?

2011-02-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/24/2011 02:01 PM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: [snip] I do program development, compiles, etc. and have to say that for me 64-bit is definitely faster, to wit: Have you tried Tiny CC? When it's sufficient for the task, it's compile times are pretty fast. http://global.phoronix-test-suite.c

Re: Disc encryptian.

2011-02-24 Thread Erwan David
Le Thu 24/02/2011, Ron Johnson disait > On 02/24/2011 08:30 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > >On Thursday 24 February 2011 07:03:23 Ron Johnson wrote: > >>On 02/24/2011 06:22 AM, Brad Alexander wrote: > >>[snip] > >> > >>>Also, please remember, when the system is running, the filesystem is > >>>

Re: To 64 or Not to 64?

2011-02-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/24/2011 01:00 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Mi, 23 feb 11, 17:19:34, Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/23/2011 05:07 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Mi, 23 feb 11, 16:21:27, Ron Johnson wrote: There is a 64-bit kernel for the 32-bit distro. It would make installing the nvidia driver impossible thru

Re: Disc encryptian.

2011-02-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/24/2011 08:30 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Thursday 24 February 2011 07:03:23 Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/24/2011 06:22 AM, Brad Alexander wrote: [snip] Also, please remember, when the system is running, the filesystem is *decrypted*. Encryption is not going to protect you when the

Re: Problems installing VLC [SOLVED]

2011-02-24 Thread Wayne Topa
On 02/24/2011 02:38 PM, AG wrote: On 24/02/11 18:28, Wayne Topa wrote: On 02/24/2011 10:35 AM, AG wrote: Hi there I am having troubles installing VLC on testing/ wheezy. The error messages are: vlc: Depends: vlc-nox but it is not going to be installed Recommends: vlc-plugin-notify but it is

Re: dd or cp over network: should I use scp?

2011-02-24 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 15:48:00 -0500 shawn wilson wrote: > On Feb 24, 2011 3:40 PM, "Celejar" wrote: > > > > On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 10:22:56 -0500 > > Curt Howland wrote: > > > > ... > > > > > But in general, it's necessary to back up only /etc and /home. These > > > are where settings and user data

Re: Regular DHCP network drop

2011-02-24 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 21:18 Thu 24 Feb, Camaleón (noela...@gmail.com) wrote: > On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 11:43:02 -0800, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > > > on 17:14 Thu 24 Feb, Camaleón wrote: > > >> > And route shows my gateway but it's unpingable. > >> > >> (...) > >> > >> All seems to be right, I mean, your eth0 adapter is

Re: Regular DHCP network drop

2011-02-24 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 11:43:02 -0800, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > on 17:14 Thu 24 Feb, Camaleón wrote: >> > And route shows my gateway but it's unpingable. >> >> (...) >> >> All seems to be right, I mean, your eth0 adapter is getting all the >> data from dhcp server (ip, netmask, gateway, dns...) so

Re: basic audio editing software

2011-02-24 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 17:27:36 +0100 frank thyes wrote: > On Thu, 2011-02-24 at 16:19 +, Joao Ferreira gmail wrote: > > > I will need to make some simple volume adjustments and maybe some basic > > noise reduction on a few sound files (wav, maybe others). > > > > Is there some basic utility i

Re: dd or cp over network: should I use scp?

2011-02-24 Thread shawn wilson
On Feb 24, 2011 3:40 PM, "Celejar" wrote: > > On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 10:22:56 -0500 > Curt Howland wrote: > > ... > > > But in general, it's necessary to back up only /etc and /home. These > > are where settings and user data are stored, and rebuilding the whole > > system it can be better to build

Re: dd or cp over network: should I use scp?

2011-02-24 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
(TOFU corrected.) On Thursday 24 February 2011 14:20:57 shawn wilson wrote: > On Feb 24, 2011 10:31 AM, "Steven Ayre" wrote: > > On 24 February 2011 15:06, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. > > wrote: > > > On Thursday 24 February 2011 09:00:33 Steven Ayre wrote: > > >> No, it tries to talk to the rsync d

Re: dd or cp over network: should I use scp?

2011-02-24 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 10:22:56 -0500 Curt Howland wrote: ... > But in general, it's necessary to back up only /etc and /home. These > are where settings and user data are stored, and rebuilding the whole > system it can be better to build the "system" anew, then just recover > the user data and

Re: dd or cp over network: should I use scp?

2011-02-24 Thread shawn wilson
On Feb 24, 2011 10:31 AM, "Steven Ayre" wrote: > > Hmm, interesting. Didn't realise that was the case. > > -Steve > > > On 24 February 2011 15:06, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > On Thursday 24 February 2011 09:00:33 Steven Ayre wrote: > >> No, it tries to talk to the rsync daemon by default, b

Re: To 64 or Not to 64?

2011-02-24 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
David Baron wrote: I am currently running Sid, 32-bit with recent i686 32 bit kernels. Here is my cpu: ~$ lscpu Architecture: i686 CPU op-mode(s):32-bit, 64-bit CPU(s):2 Thread(s) per core:2 Core(s) per socket:1 CPU socket(s): 1 Vendor ID:

Re: Problems installing VLC [SOLVED]

2011-02-24 Thread AG
On 24/02/11 18:28, Wayne Topa wrote: On 02/24/2011 10:35 AM, AG wrote: Hi there I am having troubles installing VLC on testing/ wheezy. The error messages are: vlc: Depends: vlc-nox but it is not going to be installed Recommends: vlc-plugin-notify but it is not going to be installed Recommend

Re: Regular DHCP network drop

2011-02-24 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 17:14 Thu 24 Feb, Camaleón (noela...@gmail.com) wrote: > On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 16:18:21 -0800, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > > (...) > > > Feb 23 15:09:12 localhost dhclient: Invalid domain list. > ^^^ > > You should check if the avobe message is

Re: Things I Don't Understand About Debian

2011-02-24 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 17:25 Thu 24 Feb, Sjoerd Hardeman (sjo...@lorentz.leidenuniv.nl) wrote: > Dr. Ed Morbius schreef: > >on 16:24 Wed 23 Feb, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. (b...@iguanasuicide.net) wrote: > >>On Wednesday 23 February 2011 15:11:25 Carlos Mennens wrote: > > > >>>3. Debian installer defaults to creating user

Re: Weird problem with experimental repo

2011-02-24 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Jo, 24 feb 11, 19:12:26, Jaromír Mikeš wrote: > > Solution exist -> CLI + apt-get. > I will try anyway ask in synaptic ML on this behavior, I think it is > quite confusing. It's actually quite normal. In synaptic, the equivalent of the -t option for apt-get is to go to the 'Package' menu and

Re: ISC dhclient deconfigures all interfaces in configuration when ifdown is called

2011-02-24 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Jo, 24 feb 11, 03:34:27, Martin Kraus wrote: > Hi. I'm using ISC dhcp client from testing and I have an interface > configuration in dhclient.conf that sends special dhcp options on a matching > interface. > The problem is that if I have two interfaces configured using dhcp when one of > them g

Re: Things I Don't Understand About Debian

2011-02-24 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Jo, 24 feb 11, 17:21:51, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > > > >Security by obscurity my friend. Security by obscurity. > No, it is not. When root logins are allowed, you only need to know > one password. When root-logins are not allowed, you need to know two > passwords *and* a user name. The username

Re: Sound lost

2011-02-24 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 24 Feb 2011, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > Anthony, > > From: Anthony Campbell > Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 15:26:36 + > > I'm using Sid. Sound has worked without problems for many months. Today > > it is gone. > > A few hints here. > "http://wiki.debian.org/ALSA#Troubleshooting"; > > I made

Re: Dual monitor using ATI Radeon HD 6950

2011-02-24 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 13:40:31 -0500, Shaffin Bhanji wrote: > Coming from the SUSE world, anyone setup a shared desktop (GNOME) > between 2 monitors using the card above and Debian 6.0? Any feedback is > appreciated. Which drivers, radeon or fglxr? My first try would be with "xrandr" tool (from co

Re: To 64 or Not to 64?

2011-02-24 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mi, 23 feb 11, 17:19:34, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/23/2011 05:07 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: > >On Mi, 23 feb 11, 16:21:27, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> > >>There is a 64-bit kernel for the 32-bit distro. It would make > >>installing the nvidia driver impossible thru the Debian package, but > >>it *i

Solved: Aptitude with ISO and network repositories?

2011-02-24 Thread Per Dalgas Jakobsen
Hi all I think I solved it... I used some time to get it to work, so I'd better post what I have found: I primarily used the following information: http://www.debianhelp.org/node/10486 http://forum.linuxmce.org/index.php?topic=10408.0 http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/repository-howto/repository

Dual monitor using ATI Radeon HD 6950

2011-02-24 Thread Shaffin Bhanji
Coming from the SUSE world, anyone setup a shared desktop (GNOME) between 2 monitors using the card above and Debian 6.0? Any feedback is appreciated. Thanks, Shaffin. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@

Re: Weird problem with experimental repo

2011-02-24 Thread Jaromír Mikeš
2011/2/24 Osamu Aoki : > On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 03:58:04AM +0100, Jaromír Mikeš wrote: >> I having weird problem with experimental repository. >> I want try latest pulseaudio package pulseaudio-module-jack_0.9.22, >> but this package is available via synaptic. >> I tried also apt-get install, but

Re: Problems installing VLC

2011-02-24 Thread Wayne Topa
On 02/24/2011 10:35 AM, AG wrote: Hi there I am having troubles installing VLC on testing/ wheezy. The error messages are: vlc: Depends: vlc-nox but it is not going to be installed Recommends: vlc-plugin-notify but it is not going to be installed Recommends: vlc-plugin-pulse but it is not goin

Re: Debian Multi-Media.

2011-02-24 Thread Brad Rogers
On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 17:32:05 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: Hello Camaleón, > Let's give Christian a "big thanks" and help him as much as we can to > spread here any important D-M change/notice. There's also a "donate" (via PayPal) button on the D-M home page for those that /really/ want to expre

Re: dd or cp over network: should I use scp?

2011-02-24 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 24 February 2011, Darac Marjal > That's Canonical with a capital C. This is canonical with a lower > case C. Having never heard the word used in a computer context except in reference to Canonical/Ubuntu, I plead simple error. Good thin

Re: Sound lost

2011-02-24 Thread peasthope
Anthony, From: Anthony Campbell Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 15:26:36 + > I'm using Sid. Sound has worked without problems for many months. Today > it is gone. A few hints here. "http://wiki.debian.org/ALSA#Troubleshooting"; I made a ~/.asoundrc according to the referenced FAQ and find two

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Re: shopt -s checkwinsize gone?

2011-02-24 Thread Wayne Topa
On 02/24/2011 03:36 AM, Thilo Six wrote: Wayne Topa wrote the following on 24.02.2011 01:56 -- -- I haven't uses this in ages but IIRC shopt -s checkwinsize used to show the display size. $ echo $COLUMNS $LINES 90 42 Thanks Thilo Six, but that I knew. The problem I was was working on

Re: How to set battery charge thresh in Debian 6 ?

2011-02-24 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 00:59:26 +0800, waterloo wrote: > 2011/2/25 Camaleón >> >> On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 23:47:03 +0800, waterloo wrote: >> > In gentoo, I set battery thresh in >> > /sys/devices/platform/smapi/BAT0/start_charge_thresh . But in Debian >> > 6 I can not find that file . >> >> Do you mean

Re: Debian Multi-Media.

2011-02-24 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 16:34:36 +, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 15:26:39 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > > Hello Camaleón, > >> 1/ If that was going to be a "final" or just a "temporary" decision 2/ >> What was the problem ("broken" can mean many things) > > Indeed, neither point was

Re: How to set battery charge thresh in Debian 6 ?

2011-02-24 Thread Jochen Schulz
green: > Jochen Schulz wrote at 2011-02-24 11:07 -0600: >> waterloo: >>> In gentoo, I set battery thresh in >>> /sys/devices/platform/smapi/BAT0/start_charge_thresh . >>> But in Debian 6 I can not find that file . >> >> module-assistant auto-install tp-smapi-source > > In squeeze, all that is nec

Re: setting parameters of disc /dev/sda failed .

2011-02-24 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 01:02:29 +0800, waterloo wrote: > 2011/2/25 Camaleón: >> On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 00:32:16 +0800, waterloo wrote: >> >>> When boot , I find an error : ' setting parameters of disc : /dev/sda >>> failed ! ' . >>> How to do with it ? >>> I use Debian 6 amd64 thinkpad W500. >> >> Googl

Re: shopt -s checkwinsize gone?

2011-02-24 Thread Carl Johnson
Thilo Six writes: > Wayne Topa wrote the following on 24.02.2011 01:56 > > -- -- > >> I haven't uses this in ages but IIRC shopt -s checkwinsize used to show >> the display size. > > $ echo $COLUMNS $LINES > 90 42 $ stty size 57 118 -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: How to set battery charge thresh in Debian 6 ?

2011-02-24 Thread green
Jochen Schulz wrote at 2011-02-24 11:07 -0600: > waterloo: > > In gentoo, I set battery thresh in > > /sys/devices/platform/smapi/BAT0/start_charge_thresh . > > But in Debian 6 I can not find that file . > > module-assistant auto-install tp-smapi-source In squeeze, all that is necessary is to ins

Re: Regular DHCP network drop

2011-02-24 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 16:18:21 -0800, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: (...) > Feb 23 15:09:12 localhost dhclient: Invalid domain list. ^^^ You should check if the avobe message is okay (cosmetic error) or can indicate a problem. > 'ip' shows link:

Re: How to set battery charge thresh in Debian 6 ?

2011-02-24 Thread Jochen Schulz
Please don't top-post. waterloo: > > In gentoo, I set battery thresh in > /sys/devices/platform/smapi/BAT0/start_charge_thresh . > But in Debian 6 I can not find that file . module-assistant auto-install tp-smapi-source J. -- The news at ten makes me peevish but animal hospital makes me cry. [

Re: setting parameters of disc /dev/sda failed .

2011-02-24 Thread waterloo
But even I cancelled hdparm in Services , I still get that error message . Thanks 2011/2/25 Camaleón : > On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 00:32:16 +0800, waterloo wrote: > >> When boot , I find an error : ' setting parameters of disc : /dev/sda >> failed ! ' . >> How to do with it ? >> I use Debian 6 amd64 th

Re: How to set battery charge thresh in Debian 6 ?

2011-02-24 Thread waterloo
I add tp_smapi in /etc/modules,  now I can find that file . Now I am using is 0.40-9 . Do I need to compile tp_smapi module with 'make load HDAPS=1' like thinkwiki page . I can not find about 'make load HDAPS=1' in change log of tm_smapi directory in /usr/share/doc . Thanks 2011/2/25 Camaleón >

Re: Debian Multi-Media.

2011-02-24 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
>On the 24/02/2011 15:51, Camaleón wrote: >> On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 21:36:36 +0100, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: > > >> Hi, since debian-multimedia is a side project and not Debian proper it >> makes sense that news regarding d-m are posted on d-m list and not here. > > Yes, but not every Debian

Re: trackpoint settings of thinkpad in /etc/rc.local

2011-02-24 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 24 February 2011 10:30:21 waterloo wrote: > I use echo -n 255 > /sys/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/serio2/speed in > /etc/rc.local file . > But when boot , it says: /sys/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/serio2/speed no > such file or dirctory . > When coming into gnome , I can find there h

Re: dd or cp over network: should I use scp?

2011-02-24 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 24 February 2011 09:22:56 Curt Howland wrote: > > What is the canonical way of doing this? > > Canonical runs Ubuntu, you need to ask that question in the Ubuntu > forums. Whoa there! He used the word "canonical", not the trademark "Canonical". From wiktionary: Adjective canonical

Re: setting parameters of disc /dev/sda failed .

2011-02-24 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 00:32:16 +0800, waterloo wrote: > When boot , I find an error : ' setting parameters of disc : /dev/sda > failed ! ' . > How to do with it ? > I use Debian 6 amd64 thinkpad W500. Google says you have to review your "hdparm" settings. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: Debian Multi-Media.

2011-02-24 Thread Brad Rogers
On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 15:26:39 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: Hello Camaleón, > 1/ If that was going to be a "final" or just a "temporary" decision > 2/ What was the problem ("broken" can mean many things) Indeed, neither point was addressed by Christian, at the time of the announcement. It could h

Re: Things I Don't Understand About Debian

2011-02-24 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 11:25 AM, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > Dr. Ed Morbius schreef: >> >> The most compelling argument I could think of would be that NFS *still* >> only allows a maximum of (IIRC) 16 groups IDs to be associated with a >> given user. > > Since when does nfs keep track of the groups

Re: basic audio editing software

2011-02-24 Thread frank thyes
On Thu, 2011-02-24 at 16:19 +, Joao Ferreira gmail wrote: > I will need to make some simple volume adjustments and maybe some basic > noise reduction on a few sound files (wav, maybe others). > > Is there some basic utility in Debian for this. > > I really don't need sophisticated stuff, but

setting parameters of disc /dev/sda failed .

2011-02-24 Thread waterloo
When boot , I find an error : ' setting parameters of disc : /dev/sda failed ! ' . How to do with it ? I use Debian 6 amd64 thinkpad W500. Thanks

trackpoint settings of thinkpad in /etc/rc.local

2011-02-24 Thread waterloo
I use echo -n 255 > /sys/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/serio2/speed in /etc/rc.local file . But when boot , it says: /sys/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/serio2/speed no such file or dirctory . When coming into gnome , I can find there has /sys/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/serio2/speed . How to do

Re: Can't umount smb share because of nepomukse

2011-02-24 Thread Jeffrin Jose
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 09:20:09AM -0600, Kent West wrote: > > What is the correct way for me to unmount this share? > "You need to go to the K menu (the blue k in a square) then Settings> System Settings>Advanced>Nepomuk Services then deactivate the semantic server" the above is an extract

Re: Centrally locating email (was Re: SSH pauses)

2011-02-24 Thread Chris Davies
Nate Bargmann wrote: > I see a lot of mention of IMAP, what does it get me except downloading > all my mail *again* to my laptop? What is my misundertanding? IMAP gives you server-side storage of your email, which means that if you read your email from multiple places (clients) a delete or move

Re: Things I Don't Understand About Debian

2011-02-24 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Dr. Ed Morbius schreef: on 16:24 Wed 23 Feb, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. (b...@iguanasuicide.net) wrote: On Wednesday 23 February 2011 15:11:25 Carlos Mennens wrote: 3. Debian installer defaults to creating user group names which is just a mess. Actually, I prefer user group names. I'm not sure I

Re: Things I Don't Understand About Debian

2011-02-24 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Aaron Toponce schreef: On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 10:18:20AM +0100, Klistvud wrote: 4. The sshd daemon allows root logins by default. Oh brother. The ssh daemon also allows logins via passwords. I assume you think this is less secure as well, as ssh keys should be the preferred method. We should

basic audio editing software

2011-02-24 Thread Joao Ferreira gmail
Hello, I will need to make some simple volume adjustments and maybe some basic noise reduction on a few sound files (wav, maybe others). Is there some basic utility in Debian for this. I really don't need sophisticated stuff, but any ideas are welcome. :) Thanks Joao -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: Can't umount smb share because of nepomukse

2011-02-24 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 09:20:09 -0600, Kent West wrote: > I've smbmount'd a share, and when I try to umount it, I get the message: > > westk@westek:~$ sudo umount mnt > umount: /home/westk/mnt: device is busy. > (In some cases useful info about processes that use > the device is f

Re: dd or cp over network: should I use scp?

2011-02-24 Thread Darac Marjal
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 10:22:56AM -0500, Curt Howland wrote: > > > What is the canonical way of doing this? > > Canonical runs Ubuntu, you need to ask that question in the Ubuntu > forums. This is the Debian user list, and while Ubuntu gets their > software packages mostly from Debian, they ha

Re: Disc encryptian.

2011-02-24 Thread Brad Alexander
Quite true, Boyd. But he specifically mentioned the xzibit rootkit, which means he had to be online to get it. So I framed my answer in light of his concerns. --b On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 9:30 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. < b...@iguanasuicide.net> wrote: > On Thursday 24 February 2011 07:03:23 Ron

Re: How to set battery charge thresh in Debian 6 ?

2011-02-24 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 23:47:03 +0800, waterloo wrote: > 2011/2/24 Camaleón > >> On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 23:10:26 +0800, waterloo wrote: >> >> > Just as title . thanks >> >> You should explain a bit more your problem. I can't understand what you >> want. > In gentoo, I set battery thresh in > /sys/devi

Problems installing VLC

2011-02-24 Thread AG
Hi there I am having troubles installing VLC on testing/ wheezy. The error messages are: vlc: Depends: vlc-nox but it is not going to be installed Recommends: vlc-plugin-notify but it is not going to be installed Recommends: vlc-plugin-pulse but it is not going to be installed How do I over

Re: How to set battery charge thresh in Debian 6 ?

2011-02-24 Thread waterloo
In gentoo, I set battery thresh in /sys/devices/platform/smapi/BAT0/start_charge_thresh . But in Debian 6 I can not find that file . 2011/2/24 Camaleón > On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 23:10:26 +0800, waterloo wrote: > > > Just as title . thanks > > You should explain a bit more your problem. I can't und

re: dd or cp over network: should I use scp?

2011-02-24 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > I need to dd or cp my laptop's harddrive over the LAN. Don't use dd if its a mounted file system. scp will work, but you have to be careful about thing like symlinks which scp WILL FOLLOW, and which can increase disk space use. > scp -r / root@17

Re: How to set battery charge thresh in Debian 6 ?

2011-02-24 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 23:10:26 +0800, waterloo wrote: > Just as title . thanks You should explain a bit more your problem. I can't understand what you want. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

Re: dd or cp over network: should I use scp?

2011-02-24 Thread Steven Ayre
Hmm, interesting. Didn't realise that was the case. -Steve On 24 February 2011 15:06, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Thursday 24 February 2011 09:00:33 Steven Ayre wrote: >> No, it tries to talk to the rsync daemon by default, but you can run >> it over ssh using: > > No, it only tries to

Re: Debian Multi-Media.

2011-02-24 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 15:14:12 +, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 14:51:46 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > >> When I first read D-M notice about discontinuation of lenny, I reviewed >> D- M lists to find additional information or explanation about the >> change but there was no post on t

Sound lost

2011-02-24 Thread Anthony Campbell
I'm using Sid. Sound has worked without problems for many months. Today it is gone. It noticed it after I tried out a different video card, so I thought I might have disturbed the sound card, but I took that out and replaced it without result. I also had done a dist-upgrade which may have introduce

Re: Weird problem with experimental repo

2011-02-24 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 03:58:04AM +0100, Jaromír Mikeš wrote: > Hi all, > > I having weird problem with experimental repository. > I want try latest pulseaudio package pulseaudio-module-jack_0.9.22, > but this package is available via synaptic. > I tried also apt-get install, but same result

There Are Stupid Questions

2011-02-24 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
Here's how to ask Smart Questions: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html http://www.dumblittleman.com/2007/10/how-to-ask-smart-questions.html http://faculty.gvc.edu/ssnyder/121/Goodquestions.html -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net

Can't umount smb share because of nepomukse

2011-02-24 Thread Kent West
I've smbmount'd a share, and when I try to umount it, I get the message: westk@westek:~$ sudo umount mnt umount: /home/westk/mnt: device is busy. (In some cases useful info about processes that use the device is found by lsof(8) or fuser(1)) So I run westk@westek:~$ lsof | grep

Re: Things I Don't Understand About Debian

2011-02-24 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 07:25:39AM -0700, Aaron Toponce wrote: > On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 10:18:20AM +0100, Klistvud wrote: > > 4. The sshd daemon allows root logins by default. > > Oh brother. The ssh daemon also allows logins via passwords. I assume > you think this is less secure as well, a

Re: unsuscribe

2011-02-24 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 17:42:26 -0500, David wrote: (...) You can manage your subscription options from here: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/ (or read e-mails headers for instructions on how to get remove from this list) Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-re

Re: Debian Multi-Media.

2011-02-24 Thread Brad Rogers
On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 14:51:46 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: Hello Camaleón, > When I first read D-M notice about discontinuation of lenny, I > reviewed D- M lists to find additional information or explanation > about the change but there was no post on this matter or I couldn't > find any :-( Chri

How to set battery charge thresh in Debian 6 ?

2011-02-24 Thread waterloo
Just as title . thanks

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