Re: loop back iptables

2013-10-08 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 6:04 PM, james gray wrote: > > working with Debian 7.0 > > working with the examples at > > https://wiki.debian.org/iptables > > when i write a example for a lo0 table as shown > > -A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT > > and follow procedure of > > iptables-restore < file-name > > i do

Re: Debian installer and raid0

2013-10-08 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 11:11 AM, Francesco Pietra wrote: > > I hope not to bother beyond the limit, but the security of mirror raid is > something of utmost importance, at least in my work of biochemist, with very > limited ability in recovering from disk failures. > > I planned to use the double-

Fwd: USB 3.0 Device Enumeration failed on USB 3.0 Port in Debian 6.0 "squeeze" 64 Bit OS

2013-10-08 Thread Ritesh Prajapati
Hi ALL, Please find the below mail and let me know your feedback as soon as possible. Thanks for your support. Regards, Ritesh Prajapati, System Level Solutions (India) Pvt.Ltd. = Diwali Shutdown: SLS will be closed from Oct

can has debian-reference manual (was Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-08 Thread davidson
On Tue, 8 Oct 2013, Stephen Allen wrote: On Tue, Oct 08, 2013 at 11:35:57AM -0400, david...@ling.ohio-state.edu wrote: On Tue, 8 Oct 2013, Florian Lindner wrote: Since I'm about to setup a new server using current stable wheezy, I want to recheck some of debian knowledge. [snip] you might fi

Re: which MTA to choose for a simple client?

2013-10-08 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 09 Oct 2013 03:13:27 +0200 berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: ... > For the fetcher, I am surprised that debian does not seems to recommend > or suggest using one, so I will not spend time on that -for now at > least- and will do as the article says, unless I discover something > int

Re: which MTA to choose for a simple client?

2013-10-08 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 10/8/2013 9:13 PM, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Hi. I finally decided myself to install a software to manage my mails. So, I think I'll go for mutt: it appears quite often on the list ( so I might ask if I have problems, before trying another one when everything will be ok ) and runs

trouble exporting NFS in wheezy

2013-10-08 Thread Ross Boylan
I have a fresh install of wheezy and am attempting to export some directories. It's not working, judging from showmount. I've tried various things and searched, but haven't found anything. I have not touched mounts.allow. Do I need to? The only access I have attempted has been direct from the

Re: Re: Disappearing text in FireFox

2013-10-08 Thread Rivera Valdez
Maybe a nouveau problem? I'm having this issue on a clean and recent Debian Testing installation, in any programs (medit, midori, chromium, leafpad, etx). $ lspci | grep -i vga 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 8x] (rev a2) Driver: Nouveau

Re: google-chrome-unstable apparently removes its executable

2013-10-08 Thread berenger . morel
Le 09.10.2013 02:43, Stephen Allen a écrit : On Sun, Oct 06, 2013 at 11:42:15AM -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: Updating two testing systems this morning, I found that my Chrome suddenly became unable to find any web pages. Attempting to relaunch, it wasn't there! 'which google-chrome' return

which MTA to choose for a simple client?

2013-10-08 Thread berenger . morel
Hi. I finally decided myself to install a software to manage my mails. So, I think I'll go for mutt: it appears quite often on the list ( so I might ask if I have problems, before trying another one when everything will be ok ) and runs into a terminal, which makes it perfect for me since I us

Re: What does 'apt' in /etc/cron.daily do?

2013-10-08 Thread Harry Putnam
Bob Proulx writes: Thanks for the in depth explanations and advice. Very helpful. >> Of course there are other ways, like removing the >> /etc/cron.daily/logrotate script altogether and running logrotate >> from roots' crontab. > > Under the principle of "where do you stop" I think that is worse

Re: apt-get vs. aptitude

2013-10-08 Thread Stephen Allen
On Tue, Oct 08, 2013 at 11:35:57AM -0400, david...@ling.ohio-state.edu wrote: > On Tue, 8 Oct 2013, Florian Lindner wrote: > >Since I'm about to setup a new server using current stable wheezy, I want to > >recheck some of debian knowledge. > > > >What is the prefered tool for installing on the CLI?

Re: apt-get vs. aptitude

2013-10-08 Thread Stephen Allen
On Tue, Oct 08, 2013 at 01:33:41PM +0200, Florian Lindner wrote: > Hello, > > Since I'm about to setup a new server using current stable wheezy, I want to > recheck some of debian knowledge. > > What is the prefered tool for installing on the CLI? apt-get or aptitude? > Last > time I read abou

Re: google-chrome-unstable apparently removes its executable

2013-10-08 Thread Stephen Allen
On Sun, Oct 06, 2013 at 11:42:15AM -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > Updating two testing systems this morning, I found that my Chrome > suddenly became unable to find any web pages. Attempting to relaunch, > it wasn't there! > > 'which google-chrome' returned nothing. I tried 'sudo apt-get install

Re: loop back iptables

2013-10-08 Thread Dan Ritter
On Tue, Oct 08, 2013 at 03:04:14PM -0700, james gray wrote: > working with Debian 7.0 > > > working with the examples at > > https://wiki.debian.org/iptables > > > when i write a example for a lo0 table as shown > > -A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT > > > and follow procedure of > > iptables-restor

Re: schroot

2013-10-08 Thread Roger Leigh
On Mon, Oct 07, 2013 at 12:38:04PM -0400, shawn wilson wrote: > This is at the top of every config file, but I can't find it documented: > > . "$SETUP_DATA_DIR/common-data" > . "$SETUP_DATA_DIR/common-functions" > . "$SETUP_DATA_DIR/common-config" > > Where is this being sourced from (ie, where i

Re: apt-pinning, strange behavior

2013-10-08 Thread berenger . morel
Le 08.10.2013 22:42, Sven Joachim a écrit : On 2013-10-08 19:06 +0200, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Since I had to reinstall from my last kernel error, I decided to stay with stable on that computer, but I need some softwares in less outdated versions, like development libraries or i

Re: should an end user stick to a kernel with an initrd?

2013-10-08 Thread Roger Leigh
On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 10:28:01PM +0300, Regid Ichira wrote: > On Fri, Fri, 27 Sep 2013 13:34:56 -0400, Tom H wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 3:12 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > On Thu, 2013-09-26 at 19:07 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > > >> > > >> Traditional device names, such as /dev/sda, /de

loop back iptables

2013-10-08 Thread james gray
working with Debian 7.0 working with the examples at https://wiki.debian.org/iptables when i write a example for a lo0 table as shown -A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT and follow procedure of iptables-restore < file-name i do receive a message "line failed" for that line as shown above. Questio

Re: building from source for different arch

2013-10-08 Thread Roger Leigh
On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 09:03:47PM +0200, Slavko wrote: > Hi, > > Dňa Wed, 11 Sep 2013 23:00:03 +0400 recovery...@gmail.com napísal: > > > Unless you intend to do something very strange (i.e. amd64.deb which > > contains i386 binaries), you'll probably better build package for i386 > > in a pure

Re: NFS in schroot/sbuild

2013-10-08 Thread Roger Leigh
On Fri, Sep 06, 2013 at 09:35:58AM +0200, Khaled Blah wrote: > On 04.09.2013 17:16, Chris Bannister wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 02:42:44PM +0200, Khaled Blah wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> > >> I'd like to mount an NFS mount point into a schroot session. I > >> understand I need to edit /etc/schro

Re: Reg: gcc option for printing large number (large double)

2013-10-08 Thread Roger Leigh
On Mon, Sep 09, 2013 at 10:11:21AM +0530, Balamurugan wrote: > I have an issue in printing a large number in a c program. Please > find below the code snippet : > > #include > > int main() > { > double temp = 0.0; > > temp = pow(2, 2000); > > printf("The value of temp i

RE: Debian wheezy boot problem - Boot sector not identified by board

2013-10-08 Thread Roland RoLaNd
for future reference if anyone faced this issue.disabling "EFI" in bios settings and initiating a clean install does the trick. From: r_o_l_a_...@hotmail.com To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Debian wheezy boot problem - Boot sector not identified by board Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2013 09:54:11 +0

Re: apt-pinning, strange behavior

2013-10-08 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-10-08 19:06 +0200, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > Since I had to reinstall from my last kernel error, I decided to stay > with stable on that computer, but I need some softwares in less > outdated versions, like development libraries or i3 ( this one is not > a need but a question

fips 140 and md5 problem

2013-10-08 Thread ChadDavis
Some software that I use has a functionality to automatically update itself from the web. This update process has quit working and is complaining that MD5 is not a FIPS140 compliant algorithm. I understand that this might not be a debian issue, but perhaps it is. Is there a way to replace the MD

Android, ADB, a useful script for copying files

2013-10-08 Thread David Emerson
By request, here is the script I use to copy multiple files from my android phone to my debian box, over the usb cable using ADB (Android Debug Bridge) Prerequisites: - adb. I am using android 4.1.2, which requires adb 1.0.31 - busybox (I think you need root to install busybox, not sure) - turn

re: Compatibility of libs for Berkeley DB (libdb5.1-dev or libdb4.8-dev)

2013-10-08 Thread peter green
I cannot install libdb4.8-dev + libdb4.8, because it conflicts with libdb5.1. This does not seem to be true, the dev packages conflict but afaict the libraries themselves (at least the versions from debian squeeze and wheezy) do not. So as long as you don't need libdb5.1-dev installed you shou

apt-pinning, strange behavior

2013-10-08 Thread berenger . morel
Since I had to reinstall from my last kernel error, I decided to stay with stable on that computer, but I need some softwares in less outdated versions, like development libraries or i3 ( this one is not a need but a question of comfort, I admit ), so I want to use apt-pining. I have set all p

Re: You can have any color you want - as long as it's Gnome?

2013-10-08 Thread Oliver Fairhall
Hi folks, Good read. Just want to offer my thanks for all the testing and info. Really helps a newb. Cheers, Oli -- 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/

Brother QL-1060N label printer: unwanted media feed after print job

2013-10-08 Thread Bruno Voigt
Hi, is there any body out there using the Brother QL label printer series under debian/wheezy? I'm printing labels via CUPS lp command and postscript files to an QL-1060N with 62mm width continuous roll. I'm facing the problem that after the print job is finished and the label is cut as expected

Re: apt-get vs. aptitude

2013-10-08 Thread davidson
On Tue, 8 Oct 2013, Florian Lindner wrote: Since I'm about to setup a new server using current stable wheezy, I want to recheck some of debian knowledge. What is the prefered tool for installing on the CLI? apt-get or aptitude? Last time I read about it, it was aptitude, due to better dependency

Re: Debian installer and raid0

2013-10-08 Thread Francesco Pietra
I hope not to bother beyond the limit, but the security of mirror raid is something of utmost importance, at least in my work of biochemist, with very limited ability in recovering from disk failures. I planned to use the double-opteron, two sockets, server, tya 64, as a victim for the test you su

Re: apt-get vs. aptitude

2013-10-08 Thread berenger . morel
Le 08.10.2013 16:15, Richard Owlett a écrit : berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 08.10.2013 13:33, Florian Lindner a écrit : Hello, Since I'm about to setup a new server using current stable wheezy, I want to recheck some of debian knowledge. What is the prefered tool for installing

Re: apt-get vs. aptitude

2013-10-08 Thread Jonathan Dowland
These days, it's apt-get: aptitude's resolver has some awkward bugs that haven't been stamped on yet. -- 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/20131008145128.GB

Re: I have an Openoffice question for small business.

2013-10-08 Thread berenger . morel
Le 08.10.2013 16:14, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org a écrit : Le 08.10.2013 14:10, Ezequiel a écrit : Hi all: I am Sysadmin at a small business. We have a complete mail-web-vpn infrastructure and my boss is happy with it. I guess we are a successful case of open software use in the "real world"

Re: apt-get vs. aptitude

2013-10-08 Thread Richard Owlett
berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 08.10.2013 13:33, Florian Lindner a écrit : Hello, Since I'm about to setup a new server using current stable wheezy, I want to recheck some of debian knowledge. What is the prefered tool for installing on the CLI? apt-get or aptitude? Last time I read

Re: I have an Openoffice question for small business.

2013-10-08 Thread berenger . morel
Le 08.10.2013 14:10, Ezequiel a écrit : Hi all: I am Sysadmin at a small business. We have a complete mail-web-vpn infrastructure and my boss is happy with it. I guess we are a successful case of open software use in the "real world" But -of course, there is always an issue- my users keep com

Re: apt-get vs. aptitude

2013-10-08 Thread berenger . morel
Le 08.10.2013 15:28, Whit Hansell a écrit : On 10/08/2013 08:57 AM, Morten Bo Johansen wrote: On 2013-10-08 Florian Lindner wrote: What is the prefered tool for installing on the CLI? apt-get or aptitude? Last time I read about it, it was aptitude, due to better dependency checking. What is

Re: apt-get vs. aptitude

2013-10-08 Thread berenger . morel
Le 08.10.2013 13:33, Florian Lindner a écrit : Hello, Since I'm about to setup a new server using current stable wheezy, I want to recheck some of debian knowledge. What is the prefered tool for installing on the CLI? apt-get or aptitude? Last time I read about it, it was aptitude, due to b

Re: apt-get vs. aptitude

2013-10-08 Thread Whit Hansell
On 10/08/2013 08:57 AM, Morten Bo Johansen wrote: On 2013-10-08 Florian Lindner wrote: What is the prefered tool for installing on the CLI? apt-get or aptitude? Last time I read about it, it was aptitude, due to better dependency checking. What is the current state? apt-get or aptitude? Does it

Re: apt-get vs. aptitude

2013-10-08 Thread Morten Bo Johansen
On 2013-10-08 Florian Lindner wrote: > What is the prefered tool for installing on the CLI? apt-get or > aptitude? Last time I read about it, it was aptitude, due to better > dependency checking. What is the current state? apt-get or aptitude? > Does it matter? What about using both? Both use lib

Re: I have an Openoffice question for small business.

2013-10-08 Thread Luis Bandarra
Hi, On 08-10-2013 13:10, Ezequiel wrote: Hi all: I am Sysadmin at a small business. We have a complete mail-web-vpn infrastructure and my boss is happy with it. I guess we are a successful case of open software use in the "real world" But -of course, there is always an issue- my users keep

I have an Openoffice question for small business.

2013-10-08 Thread Ezequiel
Hi all: I am Sysadmin at a small business. We have a complete mail-web-vpninfrastructure and my boss is happy with it. I guess we are a successful case of open software use in the "real world" But -of course, there is always an issue- my users keep complaining about OpenOffice migration to Libre

apt-get vs. aptitude

2013-10-08 Thread Florian Lindner
Hello, Since I'm about to setup a new server using current stable wheezy, I want to recheck some of debian knowledge. What is the prefered tool for installing on the CLI? apt-get or aptitude? Last time I read about it, it was aptitude, due to better dependency checking. What is the current sta

Ethernet bonding mode 5 only using one Slave adapter.

2013-10-08 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
i am using bond mode balance-alb. and here is my "/etc/network/interfaces" file ## # The loopback network interface auto lo iface lo inet loopback # The primary network interface allow-hotplug eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 10.X.X.221 netmask 255.25