Re: [1/8OT] How to open .cgi

2012-03-09 Thread David Christensen
On 03/07/2012 11:47 PM, lina wrote: Do you use podwebserver? I use Apache: 2012-03-09 21:53:39 dpchrist@p43400e ~ $ sudo apache2 -v Server version: Apache/2.2.16 (Debian) Server built: Feb 5 2012 21:02:00 David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian

Re: [1/8OT] How to open .cgi

2012-03-09 Thread David Christensen
On 03/07/2012 09:58 PM, lina wrote: # df -h /usr/lib/cgi-bin/ Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda915G 7.2G 7.0G 51% /usr is the /usr/lib/cgi-bin/ big enough if keep those scripts there, or better use some links? 7.0 GB = 7.5 billion bytes (7.5E+09), which is fa

Re: Make not installing man pages

2012-03-09 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 10:05:35PM +, Sian Mountbatten wrote: > Hi All. > > I maintain a Debian package. There are two documents (man pages) in > a sub-directory. Here is the Makefile which should be installing the > two manpages into the /usr/share/man/man1 directory. Pasting "installing man

Re: free software mini pc

2012-03-09 Thread Joel Rees
On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 1:05 AM, green wrote: > Miles Fidelman wrote at 2012-02-27 16:57 -0600: >> Perhaps not quite the answer you're looking for, but yours might be >> a situation that calls for looking at something other than Debian, >> or even Linux.  I'm thinking particularly that FreeBSD and

Re: free software mini pc

2012-03-09 Thread Joel Rees
(You just sparked another rant.) On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 6:55 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Jo, 16 feb 12, 08:43:20, Joe wrote: >> >> Hardware compatibility happens in the MS world because the boot is on >> the other foot, in that manufacturers have no choice but to engineer >> their products to

Re: How to direct output into the LibreOffice Calc

2012-03-09 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 10:10:32PM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Thu, 8 Mar 2012 05:15:05 +1300, Chris wrote in message You wrote: ata_std_bios_param (9) - generic bios head/sector/cylinder calculator used by sd. > > Mmmm, "apt-cache show sd" :( > > ..try a Sid box: ;o) > arnt@celsius:~/spei

Re: How to share the Internet with Linux and an iPad by Wi-Fi?

2012-03-09 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 09 mar 12, 16:48:58, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Fri, 2012-03-09 at 11:59 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Vi, 09 mar 12, 05:14:39, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > I'm guessing this paragraph is about my question. If you have only > one > > computer + the iPad then you don't need bridging. > > Yes

Re: KVM problem

2012-03-09 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
09/03/2012 22:31, 0xAAA wrote: > On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 08:59:35PM +0100, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: >>> On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 11:56:53AM -0500, Neal Murphy wrote: I'm sure virt-manager is very nice. But there are no GUIs where I'm going: no X11, no vnc, no kde or gnome. On

Re: X forwarding to a Windows 7 PC

2012-03-09 Thread yudi v
> > You have two (or more) computers connected to each other. I'm assuming > they are also connected to the Internet somehow (you didn't mention). If > you trust every other computer (and users) in your internal network > *and* you trust your protection from the Internet, then you don't need > SSH.

Re: SATA SB700/SB80 io errors

2012-03-09 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 3/9/2012 5:05 AM, Robert Gstoehl wrote: > Hey there, > > Our DRBD primary machine expirenced a rather spontanous reboot some time ago. > > We were happily starting / stopping kvm virtual machines, syncing a > new drbd resource and > then this happened: [snipped logs] > node2 drbd primary > H

Make not installing man pages

2012-03-09 Thread Sian Mountbatten
Hi All. I maintain a Debian package. There are two documents (man pages) in a sub-directory. Here is the Makefile which should be installing the two manpages into the /usr/share/man/man1 directory. -- #!/usr/bin/make # #-- Documentation sources --- ctrans_doc := compl.t

Re: How to keep track of files installed from sources?

2012-03-09 Thread Jude DaShiell
The dance only need be done once. If before doing the dance script is typed and after the dance exit is typed. The file typescript will then have the whole dance program inside it.On Fri, 9 Mar 2012, Karl Vogel wrote: > >> On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 21:53:49 +0100, > >> Csanyi Pal said: > > C>

Menu program in KDE?

2012-03-09 Thread Sian Mountbatten
Hello All Which program is responsible for displaying the launcher menu in KDE (version 4.7.2)? Surely, the lack of a Debian entry in the Launcher menu is the fault of that program, rather than kmenuedit which now appeaars to be working. -- Sian Mountbatten Algol 68 Specialist -- To UNSUBSC

Re: KVM problem

2012-03-09 Thread 0xAAA
On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 08:59:35PM +0100, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 11:56:53AM -0500, Neal Murphy wrote: > >> I'm sure virt-manager is very nice. But there are no GUIs where I'm going: > >> no > >> X11, no vnc, no kde or gnome. Only plain old command line (POCL).

Re: Securing Debian Manual: 4.17.6 Protecting against ARP attacks

2012-03-09 Thread Brad Alexander
Read up on iptables. On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 9:24 AM, Stayvoid wrote: > Hello. > > "Implement IP traffic filtering validating the MAC address." > How to do this? > > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/ch4.en.html > > Cheers > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ.

Re: Securing Debian Manual: 4.2 Execute a security update

2012-03-09 Thread Brad Alexander
Personally, I don't do any automatic updates, however I do run apticron, which emails me a list every day, including a list of urgency levels, and a description of each package being upgraded. I then go through and prioritize my upgrades based on the function of the server (e.g. if there is a new B

Re: KVM problem

2012-03-09 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
09/03/2012 19:33, Barthel Christian wrote: > On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 11:56:53AM -0500, Neal Murphy wrote: >> I'm sure virt-manager is very nice. But there are no GUIs where I'm going: >> no >> X11, no vnc, no kde or gnome. Only plain old command line (POCL). > > Sorry, this message is not relate

Re: How to keep track of files installed from sources?

2012-03-09 Thread Karl Vogel
>> On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 21:53:49 +0100, >> Csanyi Pal said: C> I want to install GNUstep from sources on my Debian GNU/Linux SID sytem. C> How can I know where come installed files after I did run: ./configure C> && make && sudo -E make install commands? C> this is important if I decide later to

Re: synaptic bombs!

2012-03-09 Thread Brian
On Fri 09 Mar 2012 at 10:36:21 -0600, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: > On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 08:46, Brian wrote: > > > Log in as root (or use sudo) for this command to be successful. > > > > thanks! > sudo apt-get clean >is successfull, while /var/cache/apt

Re: CUPS

2012-03-09 Thread Brian
On Fri 09 Mar 2012 at 11:22:13 -0500, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: Everything on the parallel port looks kosher (hopefully, other eyes are peeking to) but when you report: > rosenberg:/home/ethan# lpinfo -v > WARNING: gnome-keyring:: couldn't connect to: > /tmp/keyring-e42sxy/pkcs11: No such file or

Re: KVM problem

2012-03-09 Thread Barthel Christian
On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 11:56:53AM -0500, Neal Murphy wrote: > I'm sure virt-manager is very nice. But there are no GUIs where I'm going: no > X11, no vnc, no kde or gnome. Only plain old command line (POCL). Sorry, this message is not related to your problem. Which command line programms do y

Re: Cron, > 1 month but < 2 months

2012-03-09 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 09 Mar 2012 05:09:23 +, T o n g wrote: > Is there any easy way to schedule a job for a duration that is greater > than one month but shorter than 2 months? Any duration will do, as long > as it is easy to schedule. Mmm... I wonder if using steps values (*/*) in crontab could be possib

Re: KVM problem

2012-03-09 Thread Neal Murphy
On Friday 09 March 2012 10:16:48 Jon Dowland wrote: > On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 06:52:03PM -0500, Neal Murphy wrote: > > Howdy! > > > > A friend is having the devil's own time trying to get qemu-kvm working > > for himself. I have no such trouble. > > > > We are both using Squeeze. I have a quad Ph

Re: screensaver login password failed with correct password

2012-03-09 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 10 Mar 2012 00:25:52 +0800, lina wrote: > On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 11:12 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> I would first create a new user, login with it and check if >> xscreensaver works for there just to discard a problem with the package >> itself. > Thanks for your suggestions. > > It's pretty

Re: synaptic bombs!

2012-03-09 Thread Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen
see below. On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 08:46, Brian wrote: > On Fri 09 Mar 2012 at 08:43:06 -0600, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: > > > kjetil@kjetil:~$ apt-get clean > > Log in as root (or use sudo) for this command to be successful. > thanks! sudo apt-get clean i

Re: synaptic bombs!

2012-03-09 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 09 Mar 2012 07:09:07 -0600, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: > This is debian testing, with recent updates. > > When starting synaptic, it explodes, with the following message: > > "E: Unable to increase the size of the MMap as the limit of 8388608 > bytes is already reached. > E: Dyna

Re: synaptic bombs!

2012-03-09 Thread Chris Davies
Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: > I rebooted the compuetr [...] You shouldn't need to do that. > kjetil@kjetil:~$ apt-get clean > E: Could not open lock file /var/cache/apt/archives/lock - open (13: > Permission denied) You need to run apt-get as root. > and something strange: apt-get did

Re: synaptic bombs!

2012-03-09 Thread Chris Davies
Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: > This is debian testing, with recent updates. > When starting synaptic, it explodes, with the following message: > "E: Unable to increase the size of the MMap as the limit of 8388608 bytes > is already reached. > E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room. Please increas

Re: screensaver login password failed with correct password

2012-03-09 Thread lina
On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 11:12 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 09 Mar 2012 21:16:19 +0800, lina wrote: > >> since last time I >> >> cp /etc/passwd passwd.old >> >> Later used vipw deleted one un-existed user entry. >> >> I thought something wrong, so I >> mv passwd,old passwd back. >> >> Anyway, later

Re: CUPS

2012-03-09 Thread Ethan Rosenberg
At 08:47 AM 3/9/2012, Brian wrote: On Fri 09 Mar 2012 at 08:35:59 -0500, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: > Find New Printers - No Printers Found. At https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingPrintingProblems there is some parallel port printer troubleshooting advice. You might want to post the outputs of so

Re: free software mini pc

2012-03-09 Thread green
Stefan Monnier wrote at 2012-02-27 19:48 -0600: > > I need a fanless mini PC; it will run Debian. It will be used in a > > production environment. I need good Linux support to facilitate fast > > deployment and low maintenance. Avoiding non-free software really helps in > > that regard, so I con

Re: How to share the Internet with Linux and an iPad by Wi-Fi?

2012-03-09 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2012-03-09 at 11:59 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Vi, 09 mar 12, 05:14:39, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > I'm guessing this paragraph is about my question. If you have only one > computer + the iPad then you don't need bridging. Yes, it is about your question. I only need it for 1 computer and

Re: free software mini pc

2012-03-09 Thread green
Miles Fidelman wrote at 2012-02-27 16:57 -0600: > Perhaps not quite the answer you're looking for, but yours might be > a situation that calls for looking at something other than Debian, > or even Linux. I'm thinking particularly that FreeBSD and NetBSD > run on LOTS of hardware platforms, provide

Re: the missing firmware files are: bnx2/bnx2-mips-06-5.0.0.j3.fw

2012-03-09 Thread Keith McKenzie
On 09/03/12 14:28, Joey L wrote: I am using an IBM x3650 7979 that i believe has a netextreme network card. On install of Debian Squeeze - I get the following messege: the missing firmware files are: bnx2/bnx2-mips-06-5.0.0.j3.fw does anyone know how i can get around this ? Make the network car

Re: Securing Debian Manual: 4.9 Mounting partitions the right way

2012-03-09 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 15:39, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Jo, 08 mar 12, 17:07:21, Stayvoid wrote: >> Hello. >> >> "This sounds great, but it: only applies to ext2 or ext3 file systems…" [1] >> What about ext4 (and others)? > > You may safely assume ext4 includes any features that ext2 and ext3 > i

Re: big problem with TP-LINK WiFi card

2012-03-09 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 09 Mar 2012 11:08:31 +0100, Bernard wrote: > Bernard wrote: >> Hi to Everyone, >> >> On the Desktop of my association, there was no wireless card. So, I >> purchased one that is said to be Debian compatible. It is a PCI card >> TP-LINK >> TL-WN751ND >> >> It is supposedly based on an Ather

Re: KVM problem

2012-03-09 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 06:52:03PM -0500, Neal Murphy wrote: > Howdy! > > A friend is having the devil's own time trying to get qemu-kvm working for > himself. I have no such trouble. > > We are both using Squeeze. I have a quad Phenom-II with 8GB RAM, nVidia > video. > He has a dual Athlon wi

Re: screensaver login password failed with correct password

2012-03-09 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 09 Mar 2012 21:16:19 +0800, lina wrote: > since last time I > > cp /etc/passwd passwd.old > > Later used vipw deleted one un-existed user entry. > > I thought something wrong, so I > mv passwd,old passwd back. > > Anyway, later I use vipw again deleted that entry. > > But the problem

Re: synaptic bombs!

2012-03-09 Thread Brian
On Fri 09 Mar 2012 at 08:43:06 -0600, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: > kjetil@kjetil:~$ apt-get clean Log in as root (or use sudo) for this command to be successful. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas.

Re: the missing firmware files are: bnx2/bnx2-mips-06-5.0.0.j3.fw

2012-03-09 Thread Brian
On Fri 09 Mar 2012 at 09:28:52 -0500, Joey L wrote: > I am using an IBM x3650 7979 that i believe has a netextreme network card. > On install of Debian Squeeze - I get the following messege: > > the missing firmware files are: bnx2/bnx2-mips-06-5.0.0.j3.fw > > does anyone know how i can get arou

Re: why MaxRequestsPerChild is defaulted to 0 in apache2 prefork default conf?

2012-03-09 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 09 Mar 2012 14:25:40 +0100, Alberto Fuentes wrote: > I didnt have time to checkout the ntp thing of one my latest questions > to answer that mail... but let me ask another unrelated question ;) > > in the prefork module, the MaxRequestsPerChild defaults to 0. I wonder > why such thing is

Re: synaptic bombs!

2012-03-09 Thread Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen
see below. On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 07:26, Brian wrote: > On Fri 09 Mar 2012 at 07:09:07 -0600, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: > > > This is debian testing, with recent updates. > > > > When starting synaptic, it explodes, with the following message: > > > > "E: Unable to increase the size of

Re: the missing firmware files are: bnx2/bnx2-mips-06-5.0.0.j3.fw

2012-03-09 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 09 Mar 2012 09:28:52 -0500, Joey L wrote: > I am using an IBM x3650 7979 that i believe has a netextreme network > card. On install of Debian Squeeze - I get the following messege: > > the missing firmware files are: bnx2/bnx2-mips-06-5.0.0.j3.fw > > does anyone know how i can get around

the missing firmware files are: bnx2/bnx2-mips-06-5.0.0.j3.fw

2012-03-09 Thread Joey L
I am using an IBM x3650 7979 that i believe has a netextreme network card. On install of Debian Squeeze - I get the following messege: the missing firmware files are: bnx2/bnx2-mips-06-5.0.0.j3.fw does anyone know how i can get around this ? Make the network card be seen during install ? or after

Re: CUPS

2012-03-09 Thread Brian
On Fri 09 Mar 2012 at 08:35:59 -0500, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: > Find New Printers - No Printers Found. At https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingPrintingProblems there is some parallel port printer troubleshooting advice. You might want to post the outputs of some of the suggested commands. -- T

Re: synaptic bombs!

2012-03-09 Thread Brian
On Fri 09 Mar 2012 at 07:09:07 -0600, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: > This is debian testing, with recent updates. > > When starting synaptic, it explodes, with the following message: > > "E: Unable to increase the size of the MMap as the limit of 8388608 bytes > is already reached. > E: Dy

why MaxRequestsPerChild is defaulted to 0 in apache2 prefork default conf?

2012-03-09 Thread Alberto Fuentes
I didnt have time to checkout the ntp thing of one my latest questions to answer that mail... but let me ask another unrelated question ;) in the prefork module, the MaxRequestsPerChild defaults to 0. I wonder why such thing is done. The only reason to do so is to increase performance with hea

Re: CUPS

2012-03-09 Thread Ethan Rosenberg
At 05:35 AM 3/9/2012, Brian wrote: On Fri 09 Mar 2012 at 00:10:09 -0500, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: > ls $HOME/PDF does not find the directory. It should be created on the first use of the PDF printer. However, configuring cups-pdf wasn't really part of the agenda and being able to use it is not cr

screensaver login password failed with correct password

2012-03-09 Thread lina
Hi, since last time I cp /etc/passwd passwd.old Later used vipw deleted one un-existed user entry. I thought something wrong, so I mv passwd,old passwd back. Anyway, later I use vipw again deleted that entry. But the problem showed up: for user lina, I can login, no problem, but once the scr

Re: Cron, > 1 month but < 2 months

2012-03-09 Thread Florian Ernst
On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 12:08:38PM +0100, Jochen Spieker wrote: > Florian Ernst: > > On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 05:09:23AM +, T o n g wrote: > >> Is there any easy way to schedule a job for a duration that is greater > >> than one month but shorter than 2 months? Any duration will do, as long >

Re: Cron, > 1 month but < 2 months

2012-03-09 Thread Jochen Spieker
Florian Ernst: > Hello there, > > On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 05:09:23AM +, T o n g wrote: >> Is there any easy way to schedule a job for a duration that is greater >> than one month but shorter than 2 months? Any duration will do, as long >> as it is easy to schedule. > > Easy? Hmmm. > > 0 1

SATA SB700/SB80 io errors

2012-03-09 Thread Robert Gstoehl
Hey there, Our DRBD primary machine expirenced a rather spontanous reboot some time ago. We were happily starting / stopping kvm virtual machines, syncing a new drbd resource and then this happened: ... Feb 29 06:53:47 node2 kernel: [217385.578661] ata3.00: disabled Feb 29 06:53:47 node2 kernel:

Re: CUPS

2012-03-09 Thread Brian
On Fri 09 Mar 2012 at 00:10:09 -0500, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: > ls $HOME/PDF does not find the directory. It should be created on the first use of the PDF printer. However, configuring cups-pdf wasn't really part of the agenda and being able to use it is not critical. Of far more importance is whe

Re: big problem with TP-LINK WiFi card

2012-03-09 Thread Bernard
Bernard wrote: Hi to Everyone, On the Desktop of my association, there was no wireless card. So, I purchased one that is said to be Debian compatible. It is a PCI card TP-LINK TL-WN751ND It is supposedly based on an Atheros chipset AR 9227 I plugged it inside the Central Unit on a PCI slot

Re: How to share the Internet with Linux and an iPad by Wi-Fi?

2012-03-09 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 09 mar 12, 05:14:39, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Thu, 2012-03-08 at 19:14 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > It is a bit more complicated if you also need a bridge (do you?). ... > I don't know what I need. I will be able to browse the web and to send > and receive emails, to sync the iPad

Re: Securing Debian Manual: 3.2.1 Choose an intelligent partition scheme

2012-03-09 Thread Rares Aioanei
On 03/08/2012 04:37 PM, Stayvoid wrote: The one which suits your needs :p Could you point me to the guide that actually explains this? Every guide I read says something like: "do foo because foo is the right way." It doesn't make any sense. You're the only one who knows what you need. When you

Re: Cron, > 1 month but < 2 months

2012-03-09 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello there, On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 05:09:23AM +, T o n g wrote: > Is there any easy way to schedule a job for a duration that is greater > than one month but shorter than 2 months? Any duration will do, as long > as it is easy to schedule. Easy? Hmmm. 0 12 * * 1 [ $(expr $(/bin/date +\%