Re: Installing a Linux OS from a SATA 6 port

2012-07-02 Thread Mark Panen
On 03/07/2012 08:19, Chris Bannister wrote: On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 02:46:15AM +0200, Mark Panen wrote: Then I read on Google that you cannot install a Linux OS from SATA 6 port. link? link long lost, but Ubuntu 12.04 amd64 during installation failed six times and once I had an error message

Re: Server monitoring

2012-07-02 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 5:33 PM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > do you guyz think that "*.* @syslog-server" is a good option to use. > are you guys forwarding specific messages or using *.* > > i have listed servers > > 3 KVM qemu (vertualization) > 3 Squid servers. > 2 Samba storage servers. > 2 fi

Re: Installing a Linux OS from a SATA 6 port

2012-07-02 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 02:46:15AM +0200, Mark Panen wrote: > > Then I read on Google that you cannot install a Linux OS from SATA 6 port. link? -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing

Re: CD/DVD diagnostic tools needed

2012-07-02 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 02:37:42PM +, Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 02 Jul 2012 11:34:00 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > > Ouch!!, at least try different media first, some media are problematic > > with some DVD/CD drives (according to some stuff I've read) > > The above "weird, inconsistent, and

Re: Squeeze update hplip

2012-07-02 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 03:40:12AM +0200, Mark Panen wrote: > Hi, > > My HP multi function printer prints fine but xsane opens with an > error "no devices found" > > hplip 3.10.6-2+squeeze1 is installed, i need 3.11 > > How can i get the 3.11 package, tried wheezy sources but dependency > nightm

Squeeze update hplip

2012-07-02 Thread Mark Panen
Hi, My HP multi function printer prints fine but xsane opens with an error "no devices found" hplip 3.10.6-2+squeeze1 is installed, i need 3.11 How can i get the 3.11 package, tried wheezy sources but dependency nightmare. Nothing in backports. Afraid to try HP's way on there web site as

NFS mount points on Squeeze

2012-07-02 Thread Mark Panen
Hi, I do not always have all my machines powered on and when i power up my main Squeeze machine, the boot sequence waits forever to mount the NFS mount points because machine 2 is powered down for example. I put "defaults" in my /etc/fstab in the NFS line. Is there a better entry to use? --

Installing a Linux OS from a SATA 6 port

2012-07-02 Thread Mark Panen
Hi, I have only managed successfully, touch wood, managed to install Squeeze with my SATA 6 HDD directly connected to my SATA 6 port on my mobo with a SATA 6 cable. I tried many other of the top 5 distro's and the installation failed at one stage or the other or completed and then crashed.

Re: Marvel controller gives errors Squeeze

2012-07-02 Thread Mark Panen
On 02/07/2012 16:26, Camaleón wrote: Is ata2 your hdd? Run "dmesg | grep -i ata2" to find out. ata8 is my HDD [0.888232] ata8: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m2048@0xf7fff800 port 0xf7fff980 irq 36 [1.371432] ata8: SATA link up 6.0 Gbps (SStatus 133 SControl 370) [1.375914] ata8.00: ATA-8

Re: Backports on Squeeze

2012-07-02 Thread Eike Lantzsch
On Monday 02 July 2012 16:09:03 Robert Holtzm wrote: > On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 12:48:36PM -0400, Eike Lantzsch wrote: > > On Monday 02 July 2012 03:46:30 Mika Suomalainen wrote: > > > Remember that you are enabling Backports with your own risk in case > > > you decide to enable them. > > > > I sec

Re: PS2 Keyboard not working after latest update

2012-07-02 Thread Roger Leigh
On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 10:32:17AM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 02:20:25PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 09:43:56AM +0100, James Allsopp wrote: > > > Tried both of those but nothing. I have a theory that it might be a Udev > > > problem, but can't

Re: Backports on Squeeze OT question/issue

2012-07-02 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 05:34:19PM +, Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 02 Jul 2012 10:09:49 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > but how does one know of the existance of a backported package. > > As usual, you go to the online search and type the name of the package. > If there's a backport counterpart

Re: PS2 Keyboard not working after latest update

2012-07-02 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 02:20:25PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 09:43:56AM +0100, James Allsopp wrote: > > Tried both of those but nothing. I have a theory that it might be a Udev > > problem, but can't be certain. Does anyone have any ideas why a problem > > like that might

Re: ot: slightly, is debian tied to a nonprofit?

2012-07-02 Thread Karen Lewellen
Hi Tony, ...all tony all the time? lol! Seriously, thanks, that was just what I desired. Kare On Mon, 2 Jul 2012, Tony Baldwin wrote: On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 04:36:10PM -0400, Karen Lewellen wrote: If that is the name of the nonprofit, thanks. Karen On Mon, 2 Jul 2012, Paul Johnson wrote: O

Three problems with TDE 3.5.13 ?Bugs?

2012-07-02 Thread Lisi
Soory, Slávek. I didn't mean it to go to you. I had the following 3 problems with a 3.5.13 installation with Slávek's patches. Suggestions for solutions? 1st When I tried to install kaffeine: kaffeine-trinity? I looked for it before trying to install, so got it right, but I am not sure n

Re: ot: slightly, is debian tied to a nonprofit?

2012-07-02 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 04:36:10PM -0400, Karen Lewellen wrote: > If that is the name of the nonprofit, thanks. > Karen > > On Mon, 2 Jul 2012, Paul Johnson wrote: > > >On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 1:25 PM, Karen Lewellen > >wrote: > > > >> > >>I ask because of the references to foundation? > > > > >

Re: TLS encrypted source for Debian iso signing keys?

2012-07-02 Thread Roger Leigh
On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 02:08:08PM -0700, anots...@fastmail.fm wrote: > I still do believe a TLS encrypted source to obtain the iso signing keys > is necessary. TLS encryption means that - what travels over the connection is encrypted, and in theory only decryptable at the two endpoints - the id

Re: Bridging eth0/br0 & NetworkManager - can they coexist?

2012-07-02 Thread Neal Murphy
On Monday 02 July 2012 12:30:32 Steve Dowe wrote: > On 29/06/12 17:34, Neal Murphy wrote: > > The bridge device (e.g. br0) is a network interface. The NIC is a network > > interface. The tap device (e.g. tap0) appears as a network interface to > > the VM. A bridge device doesn't need a real NIC to

Re: TLS encrypted source for Debian iso signing keys?

2012-07-02 Thread Roger Leigh
On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 10:49:14PM +0200, Jochen Spieker wrote: > What I find more interesting is that the key 0x6294BE9B ("Debian CD > signing key") only has nine signatures and only one from someone using > his "official" @debian org address (0x3442684E, Steve McIntyre). That > could surely be im

Re: TLS encrypted source for Debian iso signing keys?

2012-07-02 Thread anotst01
I still do believe a TLS encrypted source to obtain the iso signing keys is necessary. What about the people who live many miles away from the next developer? Someone living on an isle should take the next flight just to get the gpg keys? What about the people who are unable to meet with the next

Re: TLS encrypted source for Debian iso signing keys?

2012-07-02 Thread Jochen Spieker
anots...@fastmail.fm: > > Is there any TLS encrypted source for downloading the Debian iso signing > keys? None that I know of, but I don't see a need for that either. Sure, you could use one of the built-in certificates in your browser to bootstrap the chain of trust to the signing keys. But that

Re: ot: slightly, is debian tied to a nonprofit?

2012-07-02 Thread Karen Lewellen
If that is the name of the nonprofit, thanks. Karen On Mon, 2 Jul 2012, Paul Johnson wrote: On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 1:25 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote: I ask because of the references to foundation? Software in the Public Interest, Inc. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.

Re: ot: slightly, is debian tied to a nonprofit?

2012-07-02 Thread Paul Johnson
On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 1:25 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote: > > I ask because of the references to foundation? Software in the Public Interest, Inc.

ot: slightly, is debian tied to a nonprofit?

2012-07-02 Thread Karen Lewellen
I ask because of the references to foundation? Alfi for a possible funding project tied to a thread from a different Linux users list. Thanks, Karen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Backports on Squeeze

2012-07-02 Thread Robert Holtzm
On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 12:48:36PM -0400, Eike Lantzsch wrote: > On Monday 02 July 2012 03:46:30 Mika Suomalainen wrote: > > > > Remember that you are enabling Backports with your own risk in case > > you decide to enable them. > > I second that. Especially when trying to install newer kernels fr

Re: TLS encrypted source for Debian iso signing keys?

2012-07-02 Thread Roger Leigh
On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 11:34:15AM -0700, anots...@fastmail.fm wrote: > Is there any TLS encrypted source for downloading the Debian iso signing > keys? > > Of course, from a source verified by a common root certificate. Not from > the Debian CA, because there is no way to get this one from a trus

Re: startup script

2012-07-02 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 02/07/12 20:39, rjc wrote: > > Try here: > http://docs.kde.org/stable/en/kde-workspace/kcontrol/autostart/index.html > Ah, thanks. -- Tony van der Hoff | mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Ariège, France | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

TLS encrypted source for Debian iso signing keys?

2012-07-02 Thread anotst01
Is there any TLS encrypted source for downloading the Debian iso signing keys? Of course, from a source verified by a common root certificate. Not from the Debian CA, because there is no way to get this one from a trusted source either, or is there? If the answer is no, which were to correct comp

getting gnome 3

2012-07-02 Thread Kristoffer Gustafsson
Hi. Ok, I give up installing wheezy now, since it doesn't work. Is there an easy way to install gnome 3 and the latest packages in squeeze? Because that I can install. /Kristoffer

Re: startup script

2012-07-02 Thread rjc
On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 06:14:45PM BST, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > >> As mentioned, I have a link to that script in ~/kde/autostart. > >> Unfortunately it doesn't autostart. > > > > And it won't. > > Why not? You chastise me for giving insufficient information, but you're > equally terse ;) Sorr

Re: Backports on Squeeze OT question/issue

2012-07-02 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 02 Jul 2012 10:09:49 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > On 20120702_144837, Camaleón wrote: >> On Mon, 02 Jul 2012 02:15:42 +0200, Mark Panen wrote: >> >> > Is it safe to have backports enabled on a stable Squeeze 6.05 system? >> >> I'd say now is even safer than before because the backported

Re: Bridging eth0/br0 & NetworkManager - can they coexist?

2012-07-02 Thread Steve Dowe
On 02/07/12 17:34, Camaleón wrote: >> Testing on the same subnet :) > > Yes but what solution? KVM, VMware, Xen, VirtualBox... Oh heck, sorry. It's KVM. I thought I'd mentioned that. Oops. >> Basically, you need eth0 bridged (using br0) to allow other virtual >> machines to pick up an IP add

Re: Fwd: i386 testing: java not recognizing its libraries and libreoffice and okular not launching

2012-07-02 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 02 Jul 2012 17:11:38 +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote: > In addition, I have now noticed that even okular does not start anymore > after that infamous apt-get update/upgrade with i386 testing: > > francesco@deb32:~$ okular > okular(3765): you need to call Settings::instance before using KCra

Re: startup script

2012-07-02 Thread Tony van der Hoff
Thanks, rjc, for a very informative post. Unfortunately, my setup (Stock Debian 6.0.5) doesn't seem to agree with your description. On 01/07/12 19:31, rjc wrote: > >> The reason I asked here is because I previously tried doing exactly what >> you suggest by putting a link in ~/.kde/Autostart to th

Re: i386 testing: java not recognizing its libraries and libreoffice not launching

2012-07-02 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 02 Jul 2012 15:52:59 +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote: > Following update/upgrade, java does not recognize libjli.so any more. I > had to set LD_LIBRARY... to remedy. > > Nonetheless, libreoffice does not start any more: > > francesco@deb32:~$ libreoffice > terminate called after throwing

Re: Blog Post re libav vs ffmpeg

2012-07-02 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 02 Jul 2012 10:31:31 -0400, Stephen Allen wrote: > Interesting blog-post here (1) on the controversy. Any particular reason > why Debian decided to go the libav route My wild guess is that because it will be easier to maintain and debug. But there was a response here coming from one of

Re: Bridging eth0/br0 & NetworkManager - can they coexist?

2012-07-02 Thread Steve Dowe
On 29/06/12 23:47, Chris Davies wrote: > Steve Dowe wrote: >> The issue I'm having, using wheezy, is that if I set up a bridged >> ethernet interface for eth0 (br0), as per instructions on the Debian >> wiki etc, NetworkManager can no longer manage my wired ethernet connection. > > You can't do t

Re: Backports on Squeeze

2012-07-02 Thread Eike Lantzsch
On Monday 02 July 2012 03:46:30 Mika Suomalainen wrote: > Hi, > > On 02.07.2012 03:15, Mark Panen wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Is it safe to have backports enabled on a stable Squeeze 6.05 > > system? > > I have them enabled on stable Squeeze system and I know some other > people too and we haven't ex

Re: Bridging eth0/br0 & NetworkManager - can they coexist?

2012-07-02 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 02 Jul 2012 17:14:02 +0100, Steve Dowe wrote: > I'm sorry for the tardy response - IceDove hid a load of Debian list > mail in "Junk". > > On 29/06/12 18:06, Camaleón wrote: >> Maybe is time now for you to tell us more about the kind of VM you are >> planning to use... > > Testing on the

Re: Bridging eth0/br0 & NetworkManager - can they coexist?

2012-07-02 Thread Steve Dowe
On 29/06/12 17:34, Neal Murphy wrote: (...) > another program running whose sole purpose is to slurp CPU cycles, take up > screen real estate I'm all for machine efficiency, but I don't find NM to do either of those. On a laptop, I find it sacrifices my human efficiency to /not/ have it. > and

Re: Linux install bug

2012-07-02 Thread Gary Dale
On 02/07/12 07:51 AM, greens...@care4free.net wrote: Hi, I'd like to start by apologising if this is in the wrong place. I have looked, and not found a beginners/install problems place. Meanwhile I discover this glitch goes back at least to 2005. Please help me recover my faith in Debian/Linux

Re: Bridging eth0/br0 & NetworkManager - can they coexist?

2012-07-02 Thread Steve Dowe
I'm sorry for the tardy response - IceDove hid a load of Debian list mail in "Junk". On 29/06/12 18:06, Camaleón wrote: > Maybe is time now for you to tell us more about the kind of VM you are > planning to use... Testing on the same subnet :) > I still don't see the relation of using N-M and t

Re: Backports on Squeeze OT question/issue

2012-07-02 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20120702_144837, Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 02 Jul 2012 02:15:42 +0200, Mark Panen wrote: > > > Is it safe to have backports enabled on a stable Squeeze 6.05 system? > > I'd say now is even safer than before because the backported packages are > integrated within the official repositories whic

Re: CD/DVD diagnostic tools needed

2012-07-02 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 02 Jul 2012 08:37:34 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > Camaleón wrote: >> Optical media is more and more becoming a complete headache. > > Why? (...) - Because these components are usually poorly manufactured and of very bad quality (mixing plastic with laser that neeed a precise calibr

Re: Linux install bug

2012-07-02 Thread Lisi
On Monday 02 July 2012 12:51:53 greens...@care4free.net wrote: > Also, please, someone explain why this slightly fundamental glitch is still > present after what ... seven years or more? I have never had this problem, and have used the 6.0.5 netinstall frequently. Perhaps there is something unus

Re: CD/DVD diagnostic tools needed

2012-07-02 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 02 Jul 2012, Richard Owlett wrote: > Camaleón wrote: > >On Sun, 01 Jul 2012 09:30:21 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > >>I'm having various random problems installing from Live CD's. The > >>problems are weird, inconsistent, and intermittent. The first thing is > >>to determine whether or

Linux install bug

2012-07-02 Thread greenstar
Hi, I'd like to start by apologising if this is in the wrong place. I have looked, and not found a beginners/install problems place. Meanwhile I discover this glitch goes back at least to 2005. Please help me recover my faith in Debian/Linux. I'm a 'straight out of the box' user, fail abyssmally

Re: e1000, only 2 of 4 expected ports available

2012-07-02 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 01 Jul 2012 23:23:35 -0700, Scott Edwards wrote: (please, don't cross-post or at least warn the users about it...) > I have a Dell poweredge 850 server with a quad port intel gigabit > ethernet pci-x card, but I'm only getting 2 of the 4 expected ports > listed. You mean you get only 2

Fwd: i386 testing: java not recognizing its libraries and libreoffice and okular not launching

2012-07-02 Thread Francesco Pietra
In addition, I have now noticed that even okular does not start anymore after that infamous apt-get update/upgrade with i386 testing: francesco@deb32:~$ okular okular(3765): you need to call Settings::instance before using KCrash: Application 'okular' crashing... KCrash: Attempting to start /usr/l

Re: Backports on Squeeze

2012-07-02 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 02 Jul 2012 02:15:42 +0200, Mark Panen wrote: > Is it safe to have backports enabled on a stable Squeeze 6.05 system? I'd say now is even safer than before because the backported packages are integrated within the official repositories which should lead to less packages/libraries collis

Re: dumb scanner question

2012-07-02 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 01 Jul 2012 19:51:06 -0400, Rodney D. Myers wrote: > How does everyone here scan books and magazines into their systems, > without destroying said magazines/books? By buying the digital edition? ;-P > What type of scanners do you use? Flatbed (yes, the binding suffers), although there a

Re: CD/DVD diagnostic tools needed

2012-07-02 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 02 Jul 2012 11:34:00 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sun, Jul 01, 2012 at 04:24:05PM +, Camaleón wrote: >> On Sun, 01 Jul 2012 09:30:21 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: >> >> > I'm having various random problems installing from Live CD's. The >> > problems are weird, inconsistent, and

Re: Filezilla a security risk

2012-07-02 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 01 Jul 2012 19:08:52 -0400, Celejar wrote: > On Fri, 29 Jun 2012 15:13:13 + (UTC) Camaleón > wrote: > >> Anyway, aren't most of us still using plain pop3 and smtp connections >> with no message encryption at all? Who are we blaming? >;-) > > We are? I can't speak for anyone else, bu

Blog Post re libav vs ffmpeg

2012-07-02 Thread Stephen Allen
Hi folks: Interesting blog-post here (1) on the controversy. Any particular reason why Debian decided to go the libav route and what about the quote in the article where it mentions that the Debian Packager is spreading misinformation? As a Debian user for some time I'm astonished that Debian dec

Re: Debian's grub doesn't detect Ubuntu

2012-07-02 Thread Siard
Tom H wrote: > Siard wrote: > > Mika Suomalainen wrote: > > > It seems that Debian's grub can only detect Debian and Windows 7, > > > but not Ubuntu. > > > > First make sure that Ubuntu's /boot/grub/grub.cfg contains a > > menuentry for Ubuntu in the section starting with > > ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/

Re: Crontab, Scripting and Syslog

2012-07-02 Thread Chris Davies
Titanus Eramius wrote: > * 04 * * * /home/titanus/scripts/web-log >> /dev/null 2>&1 > The line runs every morning at 4, and AFAIK, the /dev/-part should > redirect all but errors to null. No. 1. This runs every minute while the hour is 4. If you want the script to run only a 4am, you need to sp

Re: Marvel controller gives errors Squeeze

2012-07-02 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 01 Jul 2012 23:06:40 +0200, Mark Panen wrote: > On 01/07/2012 18:11, Camaleón wrote: >> Is ata2 your hdd? Run "dmesg | grep -i ata2" to find out. > yes looks like it: > > [0.900101] ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m2048@0xf3ff7000 port 0xf3ff7180 > irq 35 > [1.722809] ata2: SATA li

[OT] Re: CGI Scripts

2012-07-02 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 01 Jul 2012 17:05:51 -0400, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: > 1] Where should I put the CGI scripts that I write Inside a directory with the right perms and accessable by your web server. > 2] Where should the Scriptalias be located and what should be its > structure. That's up to the web serv

i386 testing: java not recognizing its libraries and libreoffice not launching

2012-07-02 Thread Francesco Pietra
Following update/upgrade, java does not recognize libjli.so any more. I had to set LD_LIBRARY... to remedy. Nonetheless, libreoffice does not start any more: francesco@deb32:~$ libreoffice terminate called after throwing an instance of 'com::sun::star::uno::RuntimeException' francesco@deb32:~$

Re: Crontab, Scripting and Syslog

2012-07-02 Thread Titanus Eramius
snip > # min hr dom mon dow command > > * 04 * * * /home/titanus/scripts/web-log >> /dev/null 2>&1 > > That is, every minute during hour 4, on every day of every month (that > being every day of the week), the command is run. > > Presumably, webalizer writes its output to the same place

Re: CD/DVD diagnostic tools needed

2012-07-02 Thread Richard Owlett
Chris Bannister wrote: On Sun, Jul 01, 2012 at 04:24:05PM +, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 01 Jul 2012 09:30:21 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: I'm having various random problems installing from Live CD's. The problems are weird, inconsistent, and intermittent. The first thing is to determine wheth

Re: CD/DVD diagnostic tools needed

2012-07-02 Thread Richard Owlett
Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 01 Jul 2012 09:30:21 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: I'm having various random problems installing from Live CD's. The problems are weird, inconsistent, and intermittent. The first thing is to determine whether or not I have faulty hardware, be it the target box or the box

Re: PS2 Keyboard not working after latest update

2012-07-02 Thread Roger Leigh
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 09:43:56AM +0100, James Allsopp wrote: > Tried both of those but nothing. I have a theory that it might be a Udev > problem, but can't be certain. Does anyone have any ideas why a problem > like that might arise? Yes, if something removes the udev state in /dev/.udev (or /r

Re: Crontab, Scripting and Syslog

2012-07-02 Thread Darac Marjal
On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 02:51:06PM +0200, Titanus Eramius wrote: > Hi folks > On my webserver I've recently added a log-sorting and presentation > program by the name of Webalizer. To make it run, I've put this line in > the crontab (everything runs as a normal user): > > * 04 * * * /home/titanus/

Crontab, Scripting and Syslog

2012-07-02 Thread Titanus Eramius
Hi folks On my webserver I've recently added a log-sorting and presentation program by the name of Webalizer. To make it run, I've put this line in the crontab (everything runs as a normal user): * 04 * * * /home/titanus/scripts/web-log >> /dev/null 2>&1 The line runs every morning at 4, and AFAI

Re: Server monitoring

2012-07-02 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
do you guyz think that "*.* @syslog-server" is a good option to use. are you guys forwarding specific messages or using *.* i have listed servers 3 KVM qemu (vertualization) 3 Squid servers. 2 Samba storage servers. 2 firewall (IPCOP) and more to come.. mailserver. VOIP e.t.c in this kind

Re: PS2 Keyboard not working after latest update

2012-07-02 Thread istimsak abdulbasir
I have never encountered this problem before. All updates I did to squeeze never bothered my keyboard. Then again I am using a usb-keyboard. Not PS/2 connection type. I've noticed in the past using PS/2 keyboard they did not always work. I will have to do a little investigation on this matter. Howe

Re: Backports on Squeeze

2012-07-02 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 11:15:33PM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 08:10:07AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > Shouldn't be necessary, the backports versioning is specifically > > designed so that the version in testing is higher (the magic of ~) > > http://www.debian.org/

Re: Server monitoring

2012-07-02 Thread Denis Witt
On 02.07.2012 12:06, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: as you all vote for loganalyzer but i may also want to send an prompt alert on my cellphone via sms or VIA email. so do loganalyzer support this feature? No (AFAIK), but Nagios does. E-Mail works out of the box. For SMS you will need some kind o

Re: Backports on Squeeze

2012-07-02 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 08:10:07AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 02 iul 12, 15:46:40, Chris Bannister wrote: > > I think there is an issue regarding security updates. Also I think you > > need appropriate pinning, maybe wrong though. > > Would you care to elaborate on this? The default pi

Re: Server monitoring

2012-07-02 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
as you all vote for loganalyzer but i may also want to send an prompt alert on my cellphone via sms or VIA email. so do loganalyzer support this feature? Thanks, On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 9:26 PM, Denis Witt wrote: > On 29.06.2012 12:46, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > >> i want your suggestion in i

Re: dumb scanner question

2012-07-02 Thread Darac Marjal
On Sun, Jul 01, 2012 at 07:51:06PM -0400, Rodney D. Myers wrote: > How does everyone here scan books and magazines into their systems, > without destroying said magazines/books? > > What type of scanners do you use? Personally, I've never really been too bothered about it, but the definitive solu

ST Visual Programmer on Squeeze

2012-07-02 Thread Fred Zinsli
Hello all This is probably a wine specific question, but I thought I would start here. I am attempting to get ST Visual Programmer working properly on Squeeze. The application installed under WINE without error, and it actually starts and I can load programs etc, but I can't seem to send the p

Re: startup script

2012-07-02 Thread rjc
On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 04:38:50AM BST, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Du, 01 iul 12, 18:31:24, rjc wrote: > > > > Desktop Environments or Window Managers do not run $SHELL startup > > files, nor should they. > No, but some display managers do :) > At least gdm (and gdm3 IIRC) and kdm do this, which s

Re: backuppc failed full backup of itself

2012-07-02 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
2012/6/27 Keith McKenzie : > The system isn't backed up normally, as you would have installation > media to restore it; you would just backup configuration. Having said > that, if you do want to back it up, use a live media, not the running > system. > > (Usually it is only your data that is irrep

Re: why ABIWORD?

2012-07-02 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 30 Jun 2012, Joe wrote: > On Sat, 30 Jun 2012 11:16:04 +0200 > Francesco Pietra wrote: > > > Hello: > > With my i386 wheezy, a today update/upgrade led to libreoffice (text) > > not launching. I resorted to abiword, new in my experience. I found > > abiword in great troubles with tables made b

Re: Backports on Squeeze

2012-07-02 Thread Mika Suomalainen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02.07.2012 10:47, debian-user@lists.debian.org wrote: > __ Type your response ABOVE THIS > LINE to reply > > > Re: Backports on Squeeze > > *1QA4xxx2a* | JUL 02, 2012 | 07:47AM UTC Thank you for > submitting yo

Re: Backports on Squeeze

2012-07-02 Thread Mika Suomalainen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On 02.07.2012 03:15, Mark Panen wrote: > Hi, > > Is it safe to have backports enabled on a stable Squeeze 6.05 > system? I have them enabled on stable Squeeze system and I know some other people too and we haven't experienced any problems. By d