Re: How to Choose dependencies using apt-get/aptitude

2007-04-20 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 07:40:40PM +0530, Santanu Chatterjee wrote: Hi Everybody, I was trying to install mediawiki1.7 using aptitude. This package has 'apache | httpd' as one of its dependencies. I don't want to install apache. lighttpd seems to provide httpd. So I installed that. Now,

Re: to lvm or not to lvm?

2007-04-20 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 10:37:35AM -0500, Default User wrote: Hi! After installing fresh Etch with encrypted lvm (all except /boot), per non-expert install, I am reconsidering whether lvm is a good idea. It works fine - now - but what if it stops working? The only partition that seems to

Re: dumb questions about video editing and camcorders...

2007-04-20 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 03:48:42PM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: Dear Debianists, thanks for all the useful comments on video editing etc. I do have a few other questions that I have accumulated after investigating this a little further. I have nosing into the various different kinds

Re: to lvm or not to lvm?

2007-04-20 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 07:11:29PM -0500, Default User wrote: intended use: standard home system, single user, not mission critical (except that to everyone, their own data is always mission critical). nothing exotic or fancy. do really need lvm? if i have to ask, then the answer is,

Re: SONY DVD RW AW-G170A

2007-04-20 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 05:45:30PM +0100, Neil Sumner wrote: I cannot boot with this drive. It is IDE/atapi and it works fine with windows. Despite its inexpensive price it was reasonably 'exotic' 6 months ago as it has an 18x write speed, it works fine with windows OK, this problem has

Re: Synch file with Unison on remote server

2007-04-20 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 06:46:00PM +0200, Mirco Piccin wrote: But it takes many minutes to tar all, every day. So i think to use Unison (it copy only last modified or new files) with the remote server. First, i try to use Unison directly with the server, but it wants the same version both

Re: RAID

2007-04-20 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 12:44:41PM -0700, John Jason Jordan wrote: On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 11:23:59 -0700 Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] dijo: On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 03:07:49PM -0300, Rogerio wrote: I want use RAID in Debian, do I have to use the MDADM package? Is it the best

Re: dumb question about nvidia nforce and geforce cards and AMD boxes....

2007-04-20 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 08:12:45PM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: I have been reading a little on the web about graphics cards. The machine I currently use is an AMD 64 Sempron 3200 machine (AM2 board) with what is termed on board graphics. I also have an 80GB ATA drive in it and a

Re: to allow root logins or not?

2007-04-20 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 03:53:50PM -0500, Default User wrote: Gee, I hate to ask another question, but - During an Etch install, it asks if I want to allow root logins. If not, no root account is set up (I guess as a security measure), and all admin access is done by sudo. Now I normally

Re: Backup: optical disk, and RAID

2007-04-19 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 09:10:59AM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Masatran, R. Deepak wrote: I need to backup a partition on my hard drive. Currently, I am trying to get CDRW-Taper to work. Is that the best, or does anyone recommend anything else? There is no 'best' for all cases. It

Re: Restrict server access

2007-04-16 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 02:08:12AM -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: Will Parkinson wrote: Hi All, I was wondering if there was any way to restrict server ssh, ftp and even http access to certain countries / ip ranges? I've been using debian for a while at home but am pretty new

Re: Confusion between hde1 and hda1

2007-04-16 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 04:00:52PM +0100, Steven Maddox (Architect) wrote: My first message, be kind! When I installed debian etch several weeks ago (the XFCE CD), the installer believed it could see hda and thus / became hda1. When booting debian for the first time it saw it as hde -

Re: files in /var/tmp

2007-04-16 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 10:45:24AM -0400, Daniel B. wrote: Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 03:44:33PM -0700, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: ... My system (Debian Etch) has been recently compromised and I deleted most of the suspicious files. However I am not sure about these. Is

Re: Debian Etch LAMP

2007-04-16 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 05:28:41PM +0100, Steven Maddox (Cyorxamp) wrote: I am using Debian 4.0 as my new server - yey! I have installed it using the XFCE cd as I love XFCE and I am/will be using freenx to control it as well as SSH (whenever I get freenx working SO! What I need is to

Re: Noob question - best way to install software

2007-04-15 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 06:57:16AM -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote: I have one recurring problem with aptitude. It keeps trying to remove gnome and everything related to it and a bunch of other stuff. Fortunately it takes up enough real estate on the screen that it is hard to miss and I just

Re: Setting monitor resolution using gnome preferences

2007-04-15 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 10:03:21PM -0500, Charles Blair wrote: My monitor is supposed to have an optimal resolution of 1080 by 1240 (or something like that). I have installed the testing distribution with the default gnome interface. I have tried clicking on Preferences and monitor

Re: Network Performance Issues.

2007-04-15 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 08:06:02AM -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 11:02:17PM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: Downloading a video from youtube onto Machine D's desktop I get a download speed of about 7Kbytes/sec. Which is very low. If I try to download the same one by

Re: Old Compaq 5670 system: Problem with netinst

2007-04-15 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 09:14:38AM +0200, Johan Schildt wrote: I have been trying to install Debian via the netinstCD on an old Compaq 5670, 450Mhz PII with 8Gb disk. The problem is that during the install of all packages the space on the system partition seems to run out. These are

Re: Problem mounting Ext2 CDs

2007-04-15 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 10:03:42AM -0400, Celejar wrote: On Sun, 15 Apr 2007 04:07:46 -0700 Deboo ^ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have a couple of CDs which were written on a Debian Sarge machine a few months or an year ago. I wish to access them and copy the reqd. data on

Re: Restrict server access

2007-04-15 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 10:03:02AM +1000, Will Parkinson wrote: Hi All, I was wondering if there was any way to restrict server ssh, ftp and even http access to certain countries / ip ranges? I've been using debian for a while at home but am pretty new to the security side of things.

Re: DeLi Linux

2007-04-14 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 09:36:00PM +0300, David Baron wrote: On Friday 13 April 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why not have a look at DeLi linux. http://delili.lens.hl-users.com/ DeLi Linux stands for Desktop Light Linux. It is a Linux Distribution for old computers, from 486 to

Re: Noob question - best way to install software

2007-04-14 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 09:22:56PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been using Debian for about a month, and just upgraded to Etch. I'm very happy with it so far - my compliments to the people who create this great piece of work. I am wondering about the best way to install software. I

Re: Noob question - best way to install software

2007-04-14 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 02:36:40PM -0700, Adam Frank wrote: For beginners I'd definitely recommend apt-get, or even one of its GUI fronteds like Synaptic. The only problem for a beginner using Synaptic is that if it is all she knows, and X crashes, they have no experience to fall back on. Its

Re: Noob question - best way to install software

2007-04-14 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 06:00:02PM -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: Curious: what does apt-get do that aptitude non-interactive do; how does the user's experience of each differ? I thought that aptitude for simple stuff a drop-in replacement for apt-get

Re: Network Performance Issues.

2007-04-14 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 11:02:17PM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: I have spent all day looking for clues as to how to debug network performance issues without success. Nobody seems to answered my previous post on this subject - so I thought I would try again. The problem I have is this. I

how to scp from one box to another with no root ssh?

2007-04-13 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
In the past, to move config or script files from one box to another on my home network I've used scp or rsync. However, recent discussions on the list have pointed out that root login with ssh should not be allowed. How then to copy files that either only root can read or only root can place, or

Re: udev trouble

2007-04-12 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 10:26:54PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] I've revved four machines from Sarge to Etch now, following the release notes and letting it replace devfs with udev. All worked fine. The fifth machine was a

Re: Aptitude Advanced Searching

2007-04-12 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 07:04:48AM -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 12:03:20AM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 11:39:03PM -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: Also, how do I search for descriptions with multiple words? ~dsuper nintendo doesn't seem

Re: iceweasel/iceape/epiphany/galeon download manager problems (etch)

2007-04-12 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 07:03:43PM +0200, Andreas Goesele wrote: having moved from sarge to etch I now have a big problem with the browsers in the subject line: Downloading a page is incredibly slow or even makes the browsers hang: In all case it takes a long time for the download manager to

Re: TERM for small bw monitor?

2007-04-12 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 11:03:35AM -0700, charles norwood wrote: On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 07:17 -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 11:45:36PM +1000, Paul Dwerryhouse wrote: On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 08:47:35AM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote

Re: Replicate installed packages to new system

2007-04-12 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 02:36:38PM -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 06:21:08PM -, McNamee, John wrote: I've been evaluating Etch for several months on a test machine, and now I'd like to install it on a production server. What's the best way to get the list of

Re: distro for 486 with 32 MB ram

2007-04-12 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 02:34:36PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 04/04/07 15:17, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: [snip] I know that I can get debian to do it, but the more hoops I have to jump through to do it, the more its like a roll-your-own linux that happens to use apt. At some point

Re: etch upgrade problem

2007-04-12 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 06:21:34PM -0500, Seth Goodman wrote: Andrei Popescu mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Tuesday, April 10, 2007 10:35 AM -0500: I am curious whether some debconf action, or dependencies in the deb files, could have warned the user? Prior to a new release, I wonder if

Re: Replicate installed packages to new system

2007-04-12 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 11:19:55PM -, McNamee, John wrote: How do you use the output from aptitude search to re-install the packages on the new system? I just go through aptitude interactive manually. New versions of packages may have different depends and recommends. The list of

Re: Dual-booting with GRUB, md, and hardware RAID

2007-04-12 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 05:23:57PM -0700, Michael Armida wrote: I am having a problem with the Debian installer whereby I can't get my machine to find the GRUB loader. This is probably a problem with my motherboard (asus m2n sli deluxe), and not so much the installer per se, but please let

What uses port/service 81?

2007-04-11 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
Hello all, Running Etch amd64. I just found this in my logwatch: - iptables firewall Begin Listed by source hosts: Rejected 4 packets on interface ppp0 From 209.29.44.21 - 4 packets To 207.246.138.125 - 1 packet Service: 81

TERM for small bw monitor?

2007-04-11 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
I have an 8 bw monitor I use on a spare box. With the normal TERM=linux, some things aren't readable (e.g. some things on man pages) because 'dim' is dark. Short of working out a setterm recipe, does anyone know of a TERM setting I can uses that only does white, bright-white, and black? If I

Re: What uses port/service 81?

2007-04-11 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 02:03:06PM +0100, Dave Ewart wrote: *unsure* I vaguely remember that Smoothwall used this port for remote access, I think. (i.e. you could connect to your own Smoothwall installation on that port to configure it. Reviewing what I was doing on the box last night:

Re: TERM for small bw monitor?

2007-04-11 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 11:45:36PM +1000, Paul Dwerryhouse wrote: On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 08:47:35AM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: Short of working out a setterm recipe, does anyone know of a TERM setting I can uses that only does white, bright-white, and black? If I use TERM=dumb, I

Re: IBM x346

2007-04-11 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 04:51:01PM +0300, Ercan Gunes wrote: Hii all ; I had a new ibm x346 intel xeon and I want to install debian on ibm server. But there is a problem with scsi raid . I created raid 1 from scsi bios. And I start to install new installation. when I came to creating

Re: Upgrading kernal from sarge to etch

2007-04-11 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 10:13:10AM -0500, Michael Kerwin wrote: I got the sources right for apt thanks to an earlier post and now am trying to get the kernel upgrade according to the release notes for going from sarge to etch. I have a desktop system and I am trying to do the command

Re: OT: Thanks to the developers

2007-04-11 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 06:30:13PM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Many thanks to our release managers and all developers for spending the past 21 months preparing and releasing Etch! Debian's policy has never been to be the sexiest distribution around, and while media etc. like to hype

Re: Problem downloading Debian DVDs...

2007-04-11 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 09:47:51AM -0700, Redefined Horizons wrote: I see that Debian has a new release out, and I was going to try to download the DVDs for the testing version. I tried to download the .iso images from this page: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/i386/iso-dvd/

Re: Document reader?

2007-04-11 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 01:25:09PM -0500, Dave Walker wrote: On 4/10/07, Jeff D [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 10 Apr 2007, Dave Walker wrote: In anticipation of distribution upgrading from Sarge (kernel 2.4) to Etch, I wanted to review the information on kernel 2.6.8 for Sarge. I

Re: a Debian user's introduction to Redhat EL4?

2007-04-11 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 12:32:45AM +0200, Peter Teunissen wrote: I've got a great opportunity to promote opensource at my job by working on a BI project for Oxfam. But, I'm forced to use Redhat EL4 and need to get up and running in a short time. I've been looking for a Debian user's

Re: sarge - etch: aptitude problem

2007-04-11 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 01:01:53AM +0200, Andreas Goesele wrote: Hi, doing an upgrade I encountered among others the following problem: I so far used apt-get, but following the release notes I switched to aptitude. But as a result much to much packages were installed: So my question: How

Re: a Debian user's introduction to Redhat EL4?

2007-04-11 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 09:03:31PM -0400, Roberto C. S?nchez wrote: On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 12:32:45AM +0200, Peter Teunissen wrote: Hi All, I've got a great opportunity to promote opensource at my job by working on a BI project for Oxfam. But, I'm forced to use Redhat EL4 and

Re: Daily Updates

2007-04-11 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 10:51:23PM -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 08:32:33AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: Joe Hart writes: if you're running Etch you won't be getting many, if you're running Lenny (which is kind of hard because AFAIK it isn't all complete yet)

Re: Daily Updates

2007-04-11 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 11:07:39PM -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 10:56:14PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 10:51:23PM -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 08:32:33AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: Joe Hart writes

Re: Aptitude Advanced Searching

2007-04-11 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 11:39:03PM -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: I've been reading the documentation on Aptitude available in /usr/share/doc/aptitude/README, trying to figure out how to search based on multiple terms but I just can't get it quite right. As a test I've been trying to search

Re: Linux kernel for external hard drive

2007-04-10 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 01:59:02PM +0530, Masatran, R. Deepak wrote: 1. In an external hard drive which is used on multiple computers, what Linux kernel is appropriate? I work on Pentium 4 / Sempron / Athlon 64, and similar computers. I am currently considering linux-image-686. 2. Can I

Re: Problems with sarge to etch upgrade

2007-04-10 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 02:00:09AM -0400, Patrick Cummings wrote: Hello list, I just upgraded from sarge to etch using apt-get dist-upgrade. I have a few problems. The OS won't completely start. I made a complete capture of the console output, if anybody is kind enough to try to understand

Re: Console Login of kdm disappeared after upgrade to Etch

2007-04-10 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 03:44:57PM +0800, Uwe Dippel wrote: I did the upgrade, with some minor problems on X. In order to debug it, I need a console login. Alas, kdm has lost the 'Console Login' option here. Also, X cannot be killed with a series of Ctrl-Alt-Backspace any longer, it came

Re: permission of shadow file and upgrade the kernel

2007-04-10 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 05:52:19AM -0700, ann kok wrote: --- Douglas Allan Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 12:47:23PM -0700, ann kok wrote: why the permission of the shadow file in debian is 640? and how can I upgrade the kernel? eg: 686 kernel

Re: What is the URL for the Etch i386 iso MD5SUMs (e.g. debian-40r0-i386-CD-1.iso)

2007-04-10 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 07:32:07AM -0600, Keith Christian wrote: I'm downloading the Etch i386 iso's with jigdo-lite (brilliant program) and, while I've not experienced any problems with CD #1, I'd like to verify the MD5SUM on each .iso after it's constructed as a final check. Jigdo-lite

Re: MD5SUMS/SHA1SUMS files correct ?

2007-04-10 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 01:43:35PM -0400, Freels, James D. wrote: Folks, I have downloaded the new dvd images from both the original source here: http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/4.0_r0/i386/iso-dvd/ and a mirror here: http://debian.cites.uiuc.edu/pub/debian-cd/4.0_r0/i386/iso-dvd/

Re: SSH port 22 is invisible from the internet!! :(

2007-04-09 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 03:01:32PM +0200, csanyipal wrote: Hello! I have installed on Etch openssh-client openssh-server. I can to login to localhost with ssh. I want to allow a remote user to login with ssh on to my system. I use iptables as a firewall and have added a rule to open

Re: etch upgrade problem

2007-04-09 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 09:41:06AM -0500, Seth Goodman wrote: I've started an upgrade from Sarge to Etch through the Synaptic Package manager under Gnome. The package repositories all look for stable. I selected the normal level of questions from the terminal interface. Please note that the

Re: could you help with c++ ? (HW)

2007-04-09 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 07:33:47PM +0300, Jabka atu wrote: i know that it bad to ask for help in codding. im bad codder - i know that this allready could you please write what I've got this hw asignmet: build a program that will get two string (unkown size) and make the next Carrick Bend?

Re: could you help with c++ ? (HW)

2007-04-09 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 08:18:57PM +0300, Jabka Atu wrote: ok i fill strange i google for Carrick Bend i get answers about bend typies didn't understand the commecnt On 4/9/07, Douglas Allan Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 07:33:47PM +0300, Jabka atu wrote: i know

Re: permission of shadow file and upgrade the kernel

2007-04-09 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 12:47:23PM -0700, ann kok wrote: Hi all why the permission of the shadow file in debian is 640? and how can I upgrade the kernel? eg: 686 kernel 1. What do you think the permissions of shadow should be? The only user who needs to read /etc/shadow is root,

Re: Sources list for upgrade from sarge to etch?

2007-04-09 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 03:45:29PM -0500, Michael Kerwin wrote: I am trying to upgrade a computer from sarge to etch and I am reading the release notes about it and it says to use aptitude to update and etc. My question is what should I change my sources.list in /etc/apt to? Because it says

Re: checking if my system is compromised

2007-04-09 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 09:31:41PM -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: John L Fjellstad wrote: I usually enable the recent module in iptables, which means that you can only login once every 1 minute or so. It usually give the attacker only one try before they get shut down. Thanks

Re: [debian-user] The List Standard

2007-04-09 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 08:01:37PM -0600, Ted Hilts wrote: http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/du-guidelines.html This helps a lot but I have a few issues with a couple of the statements. First: as I understand your guideline I am not to use the reply key but simply address my

Re: aptitude cancel actions

2007-04-08 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 01:12:12PM -0400, Mark Grieveson wrote: Hi. I'm wondering how, via the keyboard, I can select Actions, and then select Cancel pending actions, when running aptitude. I've only been able to select this using a mouse. What happens if you hit 'q'? Doug. -- To

Re: Etch released.

2007-04-08 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 08:29:55PM +0200, Helmut Sennewald wrote: Hello, Is it necessary to download all 3 DVD-ISO-images just to install this version? I am wondered a little bit because other distributions have only one ISO-DVD. Are on DVD-2 and DVD-3 only sources? No. The full DVD set

Re: files in /var/tmp

2007-04-08 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 03:44:33PM -0700, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: Hi all Can someone throw some light on as to what does /var/tmp/fast-mech.tgz and /var/tmp/raw directories do? My system (Debian Etch) has been recently compromised and I deleted most of the suspicious files. However I

Re: Newbie Questions - Program dir?

2007-04-07 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 05:37:28PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: Randy Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am in the process of RTFM, I'm in chapter 4 :-) and have googled without really finding an answer. When installing non-Debian packages (EsayEclipse for PHP) from tar.gz files, where

Re: checking if my system is compromised

2007-04-07 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 08:33:59PM -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 03:33:34PM -0700, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: Hi all I am using Debian Etch (currently testing). Today from the abuse department of my ISP, I received the following warning (pasted in the end). My

how tell Konqueror to put cash in $TMP?

2007-04-07 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
I have /tmp on tmpfs and use libpam-tmp so I have per-user $TMP, and swap is encrypted. I would like Konquorer (and anything else with a cache) to put the cache in $TMP. Is there a way to change where it puts it? Thanks, Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Relabel partition didn't work

2007-04-06 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 09:35:24AM +0200, Joe Hart wrote: Greg Folkert wrote: On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 20:49 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: This discussion wouldn't be complete without a note about the FHS. (see man hier and the debian policy manual). There are four places within

Re: ext3 Partition 6GB less than underlying logical volume even after resizing using resize2fs

2007-04-06 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 06:52:30PM +0530, Siju George wrote: Hi, I got a Server Installed with LVM by a third party. the /var/www is on LV /dev/vg1/www df -h Shows /var/www is only 394 GB whereas lvdisplay shows /dev/vg1/www to be 400 GB I use JFS for everything, running Etch with

Re: Relabel partition didn't work

2007-04-06 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 04:41:02PM +0200, Joe Hart wrote: It seems that many guides say to put your windows partition in /mnt/windows or /media/windows. That would suggest to me that that is the place where other file systems go. That's where my question stems from as to why /mnt and

Re: ext3 Partition 6GB less than underlying logical volume even after resizing using resize2fs

2007-04-06 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 09:58:41PM +0530, Siju George wrote: On 4/6/07, Douglas Allan Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 06:52:30PM +0530, Siju George wrote: I got a Server Installed with LVM by a third party. the /var/www is on LV /dev/vg1/www df -h Shows /var/www

Re: ext3 Partition 6GB less than underlying logical volume even after resizing using resize2fs

2007-04-06 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 10:54:28PM +0530, Siju George wrote: On 4/6/07, Douglas Allan Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about JFS's Speed compared to ext3, ReiserFS. XFS etc in your observation? I din't try XFS; I forget the specifics but there seem to have been problems. Even on my 486

Re: MBR Confusion

2007-04-06 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 01:30:57AM +0200, Matt Miller wrote: I've attached an external hard drive to my etch AMD64 box, booted my AMD64 box into the debian installer, and installed a fresh i386 etch onto the external drive. Now I can't boot my box without the external drive attached,

Re: Booting without swap or make debian knows my swap

2007-04-06 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 11:07:42AM +0700, Ms Linuz wrote: I just broke one disk which contained the swap partition of my system. Lucky me, the other disk that holds my file system is ok. But somehow I can't boot. It looks like the system trying to find out the lost swap. I've already created

Re: Desktop user: Etch or the next testing?

2007-04-05 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 02:25:47PM +0800, Wei Chen wrote: 5) Is there an easy and supported way to convert my current disks (and data on the disks) to LVM? As Doug said, and because lv are just normal partitions that are mounted normally, you are just asking to move your current

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-05 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 01:38:13PM +0200, Joe Hart wrote: Why Gnome is the Default Desktop for Distributions like Ubuntu/Debian, RedHat/CentOS/Fedora and OpenSuse? Because Gnome is superior, of course. :-) Flamebait! Oh now, now we're going to get a flamewar over which DE is best.

Re: [OT] Graphics programming

2007-04-05 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 01:51:03PM +0200, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: I would like to try some simple graphics programming on Linux -- plotting points, lines, and arcs to a window, filling areas with colour, etc. Preferably with a C interface, something like what you could do with Turbo C on DOS

Re: Relabel partition didn't work

2007-04-05 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 07:06:51AM -0500, Manon Metten wrote: Linux debian 2.6.18-4-486 #1 Mon Mar 26 16:39:10 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux I want to change the name and access point of a partition on my second hd. It's labeled /xyz now (coz I could think of no better name when installing etch).

Re: [OT] Graphics programming

2007-04-05 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 03:41:20PM +0200, Pierre THIERRY wrote: Scribit Douglas Allan Tutty dies 05/04/2007 hora 09:32: Personally, I only program in two languages: Fortran and Python. So I would suggest python. Why not Fortran? ;-) Python is easier to get stuff done in. My usual

Re: Portable Debian?

2007-04-05 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 11:10:51PM +, - Tong - wrote: On Thu, 05 Apr 2007 09:33:24 -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 10:30:34AM +0200, Joe Hart wrote: Well, for xmas i do something like that as gift for my customers. I prepare a usb with many tiny linux distro

Re: Relabel partition didn't work

2007-04-05 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 02:41:03PM -0500, Manon Metten wrote: On 4/5/07, Douglas Allan Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 07:06:51AM -0500, Manon Metten wrote: Linux debian 2.6.18-4-486 #1 Mon Mar 26 16:39:10 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux I want to change the name and access

Re: Relabel partition didn't work

2007-04-05 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 04:58:12PM -0500, Manon Metten wrote: On 4/5/07, Greg Folkert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 16:43 -0500, Manon Metten wrote: The odd thing however is, when I type 'ls /' /xyz as well as /store show up, although /xyz is not mounted of course. How do

Re: [OT] Graphics programming

2007-04-05 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 12:20:19PM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 01:51:03PM +0200, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: I would like to try some simple graphics programming on Linux -- plotting points, lines, and arcs to a window, filling areas

Re: Sarge to Etch, slighrly botched

2007-04-05 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 12:54:15PM -0700, Terrence Branscombe wrote: Today I followed the official Etch release notes to upgrade from Sarge to Etch and all went pretty well, except for some X services, i.e., the XDM and XFS services are no longer started at boot, nor can I start them

Re: Desktop user: Etch or the next testing?

2007-04-05 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 09:39:28AM +0800, Bob wrote: Interesting, the layout I was considering with 2 drives was to have the system (including swap and /tmp) on a RAID0 array with the resultant speed boost that entails, and have /home on a RAID1 array with the protection that offers. If a

Re: Desktop user: Etch or the next testing?

2007-04-05 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 11:42:06AM +0800, Bob wrote: Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 09:39:28AM +0800, Bob wrote: Yes writes, sorry :) You mean no *writes* have to happen every time something is read, and the faster the system can access its binaries the faster it feels

Re: Which is the right Kernel Image for Dual-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 2210

2007-04-04 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 07:48:32AM -0400, Don Hayward wrote: On Wed, 4 Apr 2007, Siju George wrote: === websrv-1:~# apt-cache search kernel-image | grep amd64 kernel-image-2.6-amd64-generic - Linux kernel image for

Re: Desktop user: Etch or the next testing?

2007-04-04 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 05:38:18PM +0800, Wei Chen wrote: One day, one of my friends messed things up on her system that was on LVM. After re-installing the system, she had trouble activating the LVM partitions. (The problem was solved at last.) I learn from that and do not use this

Re: How to find all packages installed from backports?

2007-04-04 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 11:52:22AM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Hallo list! Before upgrading from sarge to etch, I would like to uninstall all those packages that were installed from backports.org. I know that apt-cache policy packagename will show if packagename is from

Re: Desktop user: Etch or the next testing?

2007-04-04 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 08:55:55PM +0800, Wei Chen wrote: 1) How does LVM handle power/disk faults? Think layers. A logical volume is made up of one or more physical volumes. The filesystem sees the logical volume as just another block device. If the power fails its no different with LVM as

Re: IDE to USB Adapter SOLVED?

2007-04-04 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 05:32:18PM +0200, Matt Miller wrote: My new Vantec SATA/IDE to USB 2.0 Adapter is not being recognized under etch. Okay, it's working fine now. Apparently I wasn't attaching things in the right order. I needed to first power up the device, and then plug the USB

Re: Which is the right Kernel Image for Dual-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 2210

2007-04-04 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 05:45:09PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: Douglas Allan Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The new standard kernels can tell if they're running on an SMP and use it. If not, they don't. I think the 486 image is the exception. You mean I can't run my quad-core 486-DX

Re: distro for 486 with 32 MB ram

2007-04-04 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 08:22:37PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: Am 2007-03-20 14:00:22, schrieb Douglas Allan Tutty: I have a 486 with 32 MB ram, ISA bus NIC, currently running Sarge. Now that Etch RC2 is out I'm starting to plan for the future of this box. The Etch install manual says

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-04 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 05:12:28PM -0500, Randy Patterson wrote: I have only had Debian up and going for about two weeks. Had Sarge installed but had problems with my USB hardware so just did a clean install of Etch. Works great!! Since I am a new user I don't have a favorite windowing system

Re: shutdown - md0 busy

2007-04-04 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 02:03:45AM +0300, Artem Zolochevskiy wrote: hi all I've created 2 soft-raid1 when installing etch: /dev/md0 for / /dev/md1 for /home the installation goes smoothly and success.But when I shutdown system,there show the following output ... ...

Re: delete lines that contain duplicated column items

2007-04-03 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 08:19:10PM +0800, Jeff Zhang wrote: I have a simple txt file, like: ... a a aa a b b ba b ... I want to just keep the lines that first appeared in column 2 and delete the follow lines that contain duplicated ones in column 2. then it will like: ... a a b b

Re: Desktop user: Etch or the next testing?

2007-04-03 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 08:33:49PM +0800, Wei Chen wrote: Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: So why not do both? Assuming that all your hardware runs under Etch, have a good etch setup that just works, on one set of partitions/drives. Put /home on its own partition. Put Lenny on its own set

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