On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 01:18:22PM +, Brian wrote:
> On Thu 01 Mar 2012 at 02:56:15 -1000, Joel Roth wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 01:40:38PM +, Brian wrote:
> > >
> > > It might be particular to the ppd you have. Tell CUPS to use one in
> > > /usr/share/ppd. Still the same error?.
Claudius Hubig wrote:
> bash(1) does not appear to mention $@.
It does but unfortunately it mentions it as a variable named @ and not
as $@ making it difficult to search. This problem has been discussed
upstream for instance here:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2011-12/msg00097.htm
Bijoy Lobo wrote:
> Is there a way where i can only assign a few binaries to user like, "su -"
> "ls" ? I do not want him to access anything else from /bin or /usr/local/bin
This is difficult, subtle and tricky to accomplish completely. It is
one of those tasks that "if you have to ask" then it
Mitchell Laks wrote:
> I see now that unless less is invoked with the -q option i will get
> the sound.
> ...
> and that successfully shut up sound on less and pager
> but it did not shut up sound for man.
>
> I still have a beepy noisy man.
Camaleón posted what I think is a better solution but
On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 3:40 PM, Claudius Hubig wrote:
> Andrei POPESCU wrote:
>>On Jo, 01 mar 12, 18:02:40, Claudius Hubig wrote:
>>>
>>> #!/bin/sh
>>> /bin/less -q $*
>>
>>I've read somewhere that "$@" (including the quotes) is safer in such
>>situations.
>
> That’s also what keeps lingering in
2012/3/2 Bijoy Lobo
> Hello Everyone,
>
> Is there a way where i can only assign a few binaries to user like, "su
> -" "ls" ? I do not want him to access anything else from /bin or
> /usr/local/bin
>
You can remove /bin/ and/or /usr/local/bin from his PATH by changing its
/home/user/.profile
B
On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 12:02 PM, Claudius Hubig wrote:
>
> /bin/lessq (I would actually suggest using /usr/local/bin/lessq)
Better, yes.
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On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 9:32 AM, Mitchell Laks wrote:
>> Yes, this all the result of the alternatives "system".
>>
>> Is it "/usr/bin/pager" or "/usr/pager"?
>
> yes it is "/usr/bin/pager"
>
> "/usr/pager" does not exist on my systems
I meant to write "/bin/pager" and "/usr/bin/lessq" below...
At 08:26 PM 3/1/2012, Charles Kroeger wrote:
> W [29/Feb/2012:16:14:07 -0500] failed to CreateDevice:
> org.freedesktop.ColorManager.AlreadyExists:device id
> 'cups-OkiData10ex' already exists
humm..now that you've tried everything else, try installing:
cups-bsd
can't hurt.
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On 2 March 2012 12:50, Charles Krinke wrote:
> So, one should be able to tail /var/log messages and see what the kernel did
> at the time of the freeze.
I've had problems with write caching causing the last few messages to
be lost after a panic*, so if you don't see anything suspicious, maybe
tur
On 01/03/12 11:15 PM, Charles Krinke wrote:
I have two related questions after updating to wheezy today.
1. Gnome classic desktop displays no desktop icons. That is, the
launchers from ~/Desktop/ do not display. Is there a way to caues them
to display? I have temporarily changed to XFCE and the
On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 05:11:28PM +, Camale??n wrote:
> On Thu, 01 Mar 2012 03:17:10 -1000, Joel Roth wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 03:01:53AM -1000, Joel Roth wrote:
> >> On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 02:21:03PM +, Camale??n wrote:
> (...)
> >> > If the printer also supports PCL5/6, you
On the next boot, /var/log/messages shoild contain the last printk's from
the kernel which would include any panic.
So, one should be able to tail /var/log messages and see what the kernel
did at the time of the freeze.
Remembdr that the fresh boot is appendex to /var/log/messages, so you need
to
Hi list,
For the better part of a year, now, something has been causing my machine to
freeze. The mouse stops moving on the screen, pressing any key (including keys
that should toggle lights) does nothing. The freezes are intermittent, without
warning, and I've been unable to determine if there
I have two related questions after updating to wheezy today.
1. Gnome classic desktop displays no desktop icons. That is, the launchers
from ~/Desktop/ do not display. Is there a way to caues them to display? I
have temporarily changed to XFCE and the icons from ~/Desktop/ now display
properly, bu
Hi,
sorry again, a bit off-topic.
My question is that how to cite something in the text. usually is superscript.
like [8] as superscript default in \cite{aaa},
as normal text for one citing case, not all.
sometimes when write something like "the detailed review please see
Ref. \cite{bbb}", here
Hello Everyone,
Is there a way where i can only assign a few binaries to user like, "su -"
"ls" ? I do not want him to access anything else from /bin or /usr/local/bin
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On 03/01/12 17:18, Brian wrote:
http://packages.qa.debian.org/b/bzr-hg.html
Thanks. It's obvious I didn't read the bug reports closely
enough. I saw that
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=659888 was
resolved, and didn't look inside to see that the resolution was
removal.
> W [29/Feb/2012:16:14:07 -0500] failed to CreateDevice:
> org.freedesktop.ColorManager.AlreadyExists:device id
> 'cups-OkiData10ex' already exists
humm..now that you've tried everything else, try installing:
cups-bsd
can't hurt.
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Dom wrote:
>On 01/03/12 20:40, Claudius Hubig wrote:
>> Andrei POPESCU wrote:
>>> On Jo, 01 mar 12, 18:02:40, Claudius Hubig wrote:
->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->
#!/bin/sh
/bin/less -q $*
>>> I've read somewhere that "$@" (including the quotes)
On Thu 01 Mar 2012 at 16:49:47 -0500, Max Hyre wrote:
>bzr-hg's bug list has nothing relevant, and I could find no mention of
> the lack in the last couple of months of debian-user, so here it is:
> where'd it go, and should it come back?
http://packages.qa.debian.org/b/bzr-hg.html
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Dear Debian:
Starting to play with Bazaar, I figured I'd practice on a
Mercurial repository I have lying around. My box follows unstable,
and when I did ``apt-get install bzr-hg'' I was told
E: Unable to locate package bzr-hg
But it's right there:
http://packages.deb
On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 11:11, Joost Kraaijeveld
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to run Debian Testing AMD64 with Gnome3 and the Radeon
> OpenSource driver, xserver-xorg-video-radeon. All are the latest
> versions, updated today (9 november 2011).
>
> After some time and always after clicking on an ic
On 01/03/12 20:40, Claudius Hubig wrote:
Andrei POPESCU wrote:
On Jo, 01 mar 12, 18:02:40, Claudius Hubig wrote:
->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->
#!/bin/sh
/bin/less -q $*
I've read somewhere that "$@" (including the quotes) is safer in such
situations.
T
Hi All,
I used to have an UML based sid which I use to build FPC/Lazarus. This
was working very well for many years. The host itself is running
testing.
Since few weeks, I'm starting experiencing many hangs. This seems to be
related to memory usage or high disk access rate. But I'm not able to
de
Andrei POPESCU wrote:
>On Jo, 01 mar 12, 18:02:40, Claudius Hubig wrote:
>>
>> ->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->
>> #!/bin/sh
>> /bin/less -q $*
>
>I've read somewhere that "$@" (including the quotes) is safer in such
>situations.
That’s also what keeps lingerin
On Thu, 1 Mar 2012 22:23:15 +0200
Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Jo, 01 mar 12, 15:03:55, richard wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I getting bounce messages from the listmaster.
> > The problem is my stupid ISP uses gmail, and if the "from" is the
> > same as the "to", as it is when you post to the list and a copy
On Jo, 01 mar 12, 15:03:55, richard wrote:
> Hi,
> I getting bounce messages from the listmaster.
> The problem is my stupid ISP uses gmail, and if the "from" is the same
> as the "to", as it is when you post to the list and a copy of that
> message is sent back.
Why would From: be the same as To:
On Jo, 01 mar 12, 18:02:40, Claudius Hubig wrote:
>
> ->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->
> #!/bin/sh
> /bin/less -q $*
I've read somewhere that "$@" (including the quotes) is safer in such
situations.
Kind regards,
Andrei
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Im trying to use an EETI/eGalax SAW touch controller which I think it
model TITAN 6001 ( http://home.eeti.com.tw/web20/eg/TITAN6001.html)
It works eratically with the 3.1 kernel in Wheezy (pointer jumps around
constantly) and not at all with the new 3.2 kernel.
Ive done some Googling and a
On 03/01/2012 01:33 PM, Camaleón wrote:
Hello,
After a recent set of updates in wheezy (it could be the kernel package
that was updated to 3.2.6 but I'm not sure) "network-manager" is going
crazy asking for the AP password every five minutes (disconnects-asks-
reconnects... disconnects-asks-reco
Camale?n, 1.03.2012:
> Hello,
>
> After a recent set of updates in wheezy (it could be the kernel package
> that was updated to 3.2.6 but I'm not sure) "network-manager" is going
> crazy asking for the AP password every five minutes (disconnects-asks-
> reconnects... disconnects-asks-reconnects
> On Thu, 1 Mar 2012 18:33:11 + wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> After a recent set of updates in wheezy (it could be the kernel package
> that was updated to 3.2.6 but I'm not sure) "network-manager" is going
> crazy asking for the AP password every five minutes (disconnects-asks-
> reconnects... d
On Thu, 01 Mar 2012 18:33:11 +, Camaleón wrote:
(...)
> It was working pretty stable all this time but it's unusable in its
> current state.
More info from dmesg:
[12335.026800] wlan0: authenticate with 00:23:f8:9d:ad:11 (try 1)
[12335.224081] wlan0: authenticate with 00:23:f8:9d:ad:11 (tr
Hello,
After a recent set of updates in wheezy (it could be the kernel package
that was updated to 3.2.6 but I'm not sure) "network-manager" is going
crazy asking for the AP password every five minutes (disconnects-asks-
reconnects... disconnects-asks-reconnects... disconnects-asks-
reconnects..
Am Donnerstag, 1. März 2012 schrieb Curt Howland:
> But, when the bug was fixed and UDEV started working again, the same
> entry was still in 70-persistent-net.rules to make it eth3.
>
> Ok. I can live with it. I guess it's better than the good old days
> when one's ethernet ports, if there were m
On Thu, 01 Mar 2012 09:35:26 +0200, Johann Spies wrote:
> When I left-click on a tab in gnome-terminal the focus is on the tab and
> not in the terminal at the prompt. How can I change that behaviour to
> take the focus to where the prompt is?
Can you see a dotted border around the tab?
When I
On Thu, 01 Mar 2012 06:32:44 -0800, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote:
> Hi, Im running Debian testing with XFCE, and PulseAudio as my sound
> system.
>
> I currently have a pair of cheap speakers plugged into the "sound out"
> on my computer, and then two different USB speakers for higher-quality
> st
01/03/2012 18:01, Sian Mountbatten wrote:
> Hello All!
>
> I started to watch a DVD last night with VLC when the screen froze.
> Nothing would work, neither the mouse nor the keyboard. I did a H/W
> reset and rebooted the OS and VLC. I set the film to close to where
> it froze and went on watching
On 18:02 Thu 01 Mar , Claudius Hubig wrote:
> That’s because you only set this variable to your shell and did not
> export it. Observe:
that was what i wanted to know. now i see that export makes it available to
programs.
> would then contain something like:
>
> ->->->->->->->->->->->->->->
Hello All!
I started to watch a DVD last night with VLC when the screen froze.
Nothing would work, neither the mouse nor the keyboard. I did a H/W
reset and rebooted the OS and VLC. I set the film to close to where
it froze and went on watching. A few minutes later, the computer froze
again.
T
On Thu, 01 Mar 2012 03:17:10 -1000, Joel Roth wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 03:01:53AM -1000, Joel Roth wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 02:21:03PM +, Camale??n wrote:
(...)
>> > If the printer also supports PCL5/6, you can also try with the
>> > generic driver.
>>
>> Yes, I see that it s
On 2012-03-01 16:24 +0100, Edward C. Jones wrote:
> I have just compiled and installed octave from source and removed the Debian
> octave packages. If I do
>
> cd /usr/local/bin
> ls -il
>
> the output includes
>
> 1584647 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root staff 12 Feb 29 22:14 octave -> octave-3.6.1
> 1584644
Mitchell Laks wrote:
>however putting
>PAGER="less -q"
>alone seemed to set the variable (ie echo $PAGER
>responded less -q)
>
>but it did not change the behavior of say "man pdl"
That’s because you only set this variable to your shell and did not
export it. Observe:
->->->->->->->->->->->->->-
On Thu, 01 Mar 2012 10:24:01 -0500, Edward C. Jones wrote:
(...)
> If I type "octave", it does not run. The error message is:
>
> bash: /usr/bin/octave: No such file or directory
Because "which octave" is pointing to the wrong path?
The binary file is not there ("/usr
On 01/03/12 15:24, Edward C. Jones wrote:
262067 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Mar 21 2011 python -> python2.6
262052 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2288272 Dec 26 2010 python2.6
1584647 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root staff 12 Feb 29 22:14 octave -> octave-3.6.1
1584644 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root staff 7346 Feb 29 22:
Hi,
I got exactly the same Problem.
Using Debian wheezy (fresh install in Dec. 2012, so no update from
squeeze/gnome2.x with a radeon hd 5850 Card with one Monitor.
Disable KMS = only fallback Modus , so no realy solution.
Any other Idea?
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On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 16:40:22 -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote:
> Just loaded squeeze onto a Lenovo T420i and the max resolution I get is
> 1024x768. According to System -> Preferences -> Monitors the only
> resolutions available are 1024x768, 960x600, and 800x600. xrandr shows
> the same thing. Using
On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 13:53:00 -0800, Peter Easthope wrote:
> I don't see any way to give Icedove the References and In-reply-to
> fields for the
> header but they are here.
?
Icedove can cope with that automatically.
> All fonts in the system where Iceweasel displays the upper half brackets
> ar
I use Debian stable linux (squeeze). "echo $PATH" gives (newlines added and
name replaced):
/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:
/usr/games:/home//bin:/home//lib:/home//lib/python:
/home//bin:/home//lib:/home/xxx
On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 23:17:10 +0300, Stayvoid wrote:
>> Does it work when you're on a tty?
> I don't really understand why did you mention tty.
tty → terminal
> What should I do to check it?
Jump to a terminal of your choice and test from there.
What I'm trying to discern is a problem with the
On Thu, 01 Mar 2012 15:03:55 +, richard wrote:
> I getting bounce messages from the listmaster. The problem is my stupid
> ISP uses gmail, and if the "from" is the same as the "to", as it is when
> you post to the list and a copy of that message is sent back.
> Is there anything I can do with
Hi,
I getting bounce messages from the listmaster.
The problem is my stupid ISP uses gmail, and if the "from" is the same
as the "to", as it is when you post to the list and a copy of that
message is sent back.
Is there anything I can do with my subscription to stop this, or do I
just get auto unsu
On 01/03/12 14:30, Johann Spies wrote:
what version are you running? im running testing and it seems the latest
version in debian
$ aptpolicy gnome-terminal
Where do you get aptpolicy?
apt-cache policy
also, i have all the versions of debian in my sources.list, so it
reveals all versions
> Because PAGER isn't set by default.
>
> You can set it in "/etc/environment" or "~/.bashrc" or "~/.profile".
ok i put the line
export PAGER="less -q"
in the .bash_aliases
file (or in .bashrc)
and that worked.
however putting
PAGER="less -q"
alone seemed to set the variable (ie echo $PAGER
re
Hi, Im running Debian testing with XFCE, and PulseAudio as my sound system.
I currently have a pair of cheap speakers plugged into the "sound out" on my
computer, and then two different USB speakers for higher-quality stuff.
I want to get a pair of small USB speakers as my "main" desktop speaker
On Tuesday 28 of February 2012 15:06:48 lina wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I wonder:
>
> 1]
>
> can the output like:
>
> 5
> 3
> 1
> 5
> 3
>
What about 'num-utils' ?
There is 'numsum'.
Zbigniew
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At 11:05 AM 2/24/2012, Brian wrote:
On Thu 23 Feb 2012 at 20:10:11 -0500, Ethan Rosenberg wrote:
>> You could completely purge CUPS and all its related packages. Then
>> reinstall (with the Recommends:) and install your printer.
>
> I need instructions how to do it.
Backup /etc/cups first.
On Thu 01 Mar 2012 at 02:56:15 -1000, Joel Roth wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 01:40:38PM +, Brian wrote:
> >
> > It might be particular to the ppd you have. Tell CUPS to use one in
> > /usr/share/ppd. Still the same error?.
Knowing the outcome of doing this would have been useful.
What i
>
> what version are you running? im running testing and it seems the latest
> version in debian
>
> $ aptpolicy gnome-terminal
Where do you get aptpolicy?
apt-file search aptpolicy
gets nothing.
So does:
wajig search apt | grep -i policy
and
dpkg -S aptpolicy
dpkg-query: no path found
On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 12:11:18PM +0200, Jon Dowland wrote:
> I think that will require patching the source. However it's probably a patch
> that upstream would be interested in; although, having the tab bar focussed is
> probably necessary for some keyboard-only operation.
It is no problem whe
On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 03:01:53AM -1000, Joel Roth wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 02:21:03PM +, Camale??n wrote:
> > On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 12:05:08 -1000, Joel Roth wrote:
> >
> > > After a recent sid dist-upgrade, I'm having problems printing.
> > >
> > > The CUPS test page prints a border
* On 2012 28 Feb 16:06 -0600, Joel Roth wrote:
> After a recent sid dist-upgrade, I'm having problems
> printing.
>
> The CUPS test page prints a border with this text only:
>
> Brother HL-5340D Series
> 3010.106 5
> -88807824
>
> That is using the 5240 driver.
>
> I tried a couple other Broth
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 02:21:03PM +, Camale??n wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 12:05:08 -1000, Joel Roth wrote:
>
> > After a recent sid dist-upgrade, I'm having problems printing.
> >
> > The CUPS test page prints a border with this text only:
> >
> > Brother HL-5340D Series
> > 3010.106 5
>
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 01:40:38PM +, Brian wrote:
> On Tue 28 Feb 2012 at 12:05:08 -1000, Joel Roth wrote:
>
> > After a recent sid dist-upgrade, I'm having problems
> > printing.
> >
> > The CUPS test page prints a border with this text only:
> >
> > Brother HL-5340D Series
> > 3010.106 5
> Hi Weaver!
>I have tried lynx, links, links2, elinks and w3m. I work with those
> exclusively. I still mostly stick by lynx, but that is just laziness,
> since it
> really doesn't do a few things.
>I have found, that from the above collection elinks is the best. It can
> be
> customised
On 01/03/12 08:35, Johann Spies wrote:
When I left-click on a tab in gnome-terminal the focus is on the tab and not
in the terminal at the prompt. How can I change that behaviour to take
the focus to where the prompt is?
Regards
Johann
what version are you running? im running testing and it s
On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 09:35:26AM +0200, Johann Spies wrote:
> When I left-click on a tab in gnome-terminal the focus is on the tab and not
> in the terminal at the prompt. How can I change that behaviour to take
> the focus to where the prompt is?
I think that will require patching the source.
Good time of the day, Darac.
[skipped]
>Now, re-verifying the signature should confirm that you trust the
>signature.
>
>(Alternatively, if meeting up with the owner of the key is difficult,
>you may find members of your local LUG have already signed the key and
>you can use the marginal trust n
On Sunday 26 of February 2012 19:40:16 Camaleón wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Feb 2012 19:56:20 +0100, Zbigniew Komarnicki wrote:
> > which package to use to see the hardware temperature on AMD FX(tm)-6100
> > Six-Core Processor and GPU using Debian Squeeze, Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64
>
> "lm-sensors"? :-)
I ha
I got rid of it!
Here is what I did:
1. Removed the symlinks in /etc/rc#.d
2. Placed strategic exit 0 in update-rc.d and invoke=rc.d scripts
3. Created fake /var/run/postgresql/8.1-main.pid" and
/usr/share/postgresql/8.1/tsearch_data files since it returned errors about
them missing.
4. Finally
On Jo, 01 mar 12, 08:43:11, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote:
>
> Hi Ashton,
> maybe something is overwritten. Take a look at
> /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-synaptics.conf
> and search for the entry ->> Option "TapButton1" "1" and
> Option "TapButton2" "2".
>
> If they miss, just add them and restar
On Mi, 29 feb 12, 16:40:22, Robert Holtzman wrote:
> Just loaded squeeze onto a Lenovo T420i and the max resolution I get is
> 1024x768. According to System -> Preferences -> Monitors the only
> resolutions available are 1024x768, 960x600, and 800x600. xrandr shows
> the same thing. Using the on bo
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