Re: Boot Debian to a command line and prevent X from starting on boot

2009-04-24 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 11:25:36AM -0400, Robert Menes wrote: Hi folks, I have a Debian lenny-stable install that I need a little memory refresher with. I need to boot and go straight to a terminal, and not start X on bootup. I know there was a way of doing so, but I forgot (I'm a little

Re: Creating passwordless account in Lenny

2009-04-23 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 05:53:08PM +0200, Klistvud wrote: Dear Debianites, is there any guru out there who can instruct me how to temporarily disable passwords (or allow zero-length passwords), so that I can create two passwordless accounts for my pre-school kids? Editing /etc/pam.d/

Re: Creating passwordless account in Lenny

2009-04-23 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 05:53:08PM +0200, Klistvud wrote: Dear Debianites, is there any guru out there who can instruct me how to temporarily disable passwords (or allow zero-length passwords), so that I can create two passwordless accounts for my pre-school kids? Editing /etc/pam.d/

Re: Japanese write

2009-04-21 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 03:40:06PM -0500, Neal Hogan wrote: I'm new to Debian (not to the *nix community) and have been looking around for answers to my question. The stuff I've found a years old and not doesn't seem to fit my needs. I apologize if I've overlooked something obvious. My wife

Re: pinning not working

2009-03-31 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, It is tricky but apt-pin only works with testing/stable/unstable/experimental/... suite names. You are using codename. See http://people.debian.org/~osamu/pub/getwiki/html/ch03.en.html#tweakingcandidateversion On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 10:05:09AM -0400, Luis Finotti wrote: Hi, I am

Re: please help, destroyed ext3 root partition

2009-03-30 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 06:47:54AM -0700, orange wrote: can someone please help me recover Debian ext3 partiton (/) I tried booting windowsxp by typing some commands at boot prompt and it seems to have trashed (MBR?) linux partition. the other Linux partitions are fine (home). is there a

Re: Configuring fallback font.

2009-03-07 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Mar 07, 2009 at 07:03:18AM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: How does one configure the fallback font for the OS to use when the currently-selected font does not have a particular character glyph? #1 install required fonts #2 configure fontconfig selection order with using ~/.fonts.conf.

Re: New installation can only boot to command line as root

2009-03-06 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 11:12:11AM -0600, Ray Lozano wrote: Thanks, Umarzuki, but I still got the same result: no X windows. In root, why not run depmod -a to generate modules.dep and map files. I hit similar bug. I do not know where it came from but this fixed it. What system are you

Re: etch - lenny, update-initramfs interrupts dpkg

2009-03-06 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 05:30:47PM -0600, Mark Copper wrote: Hi, Updating from etch to lenny following release notes. aptitude upgrade ends with Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ... update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.18 /usr/sbin/mkinitramfs: line 164: mktemp:

Re: How to automount USB disks at boot-up?

2009-03-02 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 05:17:33AM +1030, Arthur Marsh wrote: Osamu Aoki wrote, on 2009-03-02 01:25: On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 01:56:12PM +0100, Robert Latest wrote: Hello people, the subject says it all. I (often, but not always) have a portable USB disk connected to the computer that I would

FYI: No X ... oops

2009-03-01 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, (CCing Carlos Carrero Gutierrez since it may be his problem too) I did some minor system tweaks and rebooted... alas, X does not start on lenny. Careful reading of error message pointed me to missing /dev/agpgart. My dual boot system function works OK. So this is software issue. #

Re: How to automount USB disks at boot-up?

2009-03-01 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 01:56:12PM +0100, Robert Latest wrote: Hello people, the subject says it all. I (often, but not always) have a portable USB disk connected to the computer that I would like to have automounted on boot. I could just knit some init script for this task, but before I do

Re: Protecting files in linux

2009-02-28 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 02:20:11PM +0100, Jorge Delgado wrote: Hi, i would like to protect files like passwords and websites of Firefox (iceweasel), and this cannot be done encripting the files. I guess you mean those files containing such information to be encrypted if someone steal your

Re: mount options to not reduce life of a USB memory stick

2009-02-28 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 11:16:44PM -0500, H.S. wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/27/2009 04:38 PM, H.S. wrote: Any suggestion if this can be improved to prolong the life of the memory stick? Or at least not reduce it on a Debian Testing system? 1. noatime has the most impact. Okay.

Re: Any info about http://www.goodbye-microsoft.com/

2009-02-20 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 04:22:50PM +, Bob Cox wrote: On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 09:47:40 -0600, Cybe R. Wizard (cybe_r_wiz...@earthlink.net) wrote: Dennis Wicks w...@mgssub.com said: Greetings; I saw a regerence to http://www.goodbye-microsoft.com/ in a recent email, but

Re: USB networking

2009-02-20 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 10:31:44AM -0500, Mark Neidorff wrote: I just saw an ad for a IOGear GUN262WV. It is a USB network cable to connect 2 PCs directly. Its listed as working with Vista XP only. If anyone has this cable working with Debian (I'm using Etch) would someone please tell me

Re: testing or unstable?

2009-02-17 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 01:02:38PM +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: ... so now I'm thinking of switching to a testing/unstable Debian version for good. Now, my question is: which one is more advisable, testing or unstable? Excuse the basicness of my question, thanks for any reply This

Re: Orphaned packages libs removal question

2009-02-15 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 10:24:50AM -0600, John W Foster wrote: I want to clean up my system as best I can. I have installed the gtkorphan and deborphan for this purpose. My question is will these ONLY remove .deb installed libs. I have several non-debian apps that I use and do NOT want to

Re: Orphaned packages libs removal question

2009-02-15 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 10:43:53AM -0600, John Hasler wrote: John W. Foster writes: I want to clean up my system as best I can. I have installed the gtkorphan and deborphan for this purpose. My question is will these ONLY remove .deb installed libs? They will only remove files installed

Re: Orphaned packages libs removal question

2009-02-15 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 11:24:52AM -0600, John W Foster wrote: On Mon, 2009-02-16 at 01:57 +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 10:24:50AM -0600, John W Foster wrote: I want to clean up my system as best I can. I have installed the gtkorphan and deborphan for this purpose

Re: locale broken

2009-02-13 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 12:16:18AM -0500, Zach Uram wrote: running testing, how can i fix my locale? http://pastebin.com/f453bb540 Suppose you have perl program called foo, you have to run it as: $ LANG=C foo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: Browsing offline filesystems

2009-02-10 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 04:11:27PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: $ find specific directoryfilelist.txt like $ find ~/hugeDirectory/filelist.txt generates you a textfile with a list of all files, directories (and special files). Should be enough. To search, use less or grep.

Re: Typing Shorthand Programs in Linux?

2009-02-10 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 05:53:59AM -0800, Dancing Fingers wrote: Hey guys, I'm a Debian user who has cerebral palsy. One thing that I miss from the Windows world is a typing shorthand program to help with typing. set alias in shell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: grub error in fresh installation lenny

2009-02-10 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 06:24:09AM -0800, Angus Auld wrote: I'm uncertain from your post if you are trying to use grub legacy or grub2, but there is/was a clear warning that grub2 is a work in progress, and that breakage should be expected. I have stayed with grub legacy and have not had any

Re: Modem and NIC Gateway

2009-02-05 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 05:11:47PM +0200, Zanga Chimombo wrote: You said 'i am able to ping 172.21.5.136 but not 172.21.0.1' from a client machine on the internal network. and 'i can connect fine to the internet from the gateway'. So you can ping, say google.com from your gateway machine

Re: hg Behind Proxy

2009-02-05 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 10:16:28PM +0700, Zaki Akhmad wrote: Hello, I am trying to install mwlib following this instructions[1]. My computer is behind proxy. I've done this command (with the result) $ hg clone http://code.pediapress.com/hg/mwlib mwlib.hg abort: error: Connection timed

Re: I don't need an MTA

2009-02-01 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 09:58:01PM +, Nuno Magalhães wrote: Greetings. I use webmail, i'm not running a mail server. At most i'd use an MUA to comunicate with whichever mail services i use. However, i must have exim4 installed. How can i work around this? Regardless of how much

Re: I don't need an MTA

2009-02-01 Thread Osamu Aoki
was right one for sarge, I guess.) To kill REAL exim4, kill one of these on your system: exim4-daemon-light exim4-daemon-heavy exim4-daemon-custom This explains why. Oddly enough running grep exim * on /var/log only returns matches in the popularity contest, but not in dmesg. Osamu Aoki

Re: flash / iceweasel / all that

2009-01-30 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 08:14:40PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Wed,. Jan 28, 2009 at 11:23:04PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 01/28/2009 07:52 PM, Glenn Becker wrote: ... Clear anything else you've downloaded. Use the adobe-flashplugin in Sid non-free - which will go to the Adobe

Re: Who is allowed to help on this list. was: Re: Scim does not work with openoffice -- on-line

2009-01-29 Thread Osamu Aoki
Anyone is allowed to help on this list within the ML rule. Your posting was completely within rule. On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 04:41:21PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Wednesday 28 January 2009 16:15:18 you wrote: Please be careful to tell some info like this to others.  I know I fail sometime

Re: flash / iceweasel / all that

2009-01-29 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 11:23:04PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: You mean install_flash_player_10_linux.deb? I got that, installed it with dpkg -i, and now have (squeezing out spaces): $ dpkg -l | grep flash ii adobe-flashplugin 10.0.15.3-1hardy1 Adobe Flash Player plugin version 10

Re: Scim does not work with openoffice

2009-01-27 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 08:30:24PM +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: On Sunday 25 January 2009 15:56:20 Rodolfo Medina wrote: Please let me know if you catch some more information about how you granddaughter does. It works fine with everything here. OO can print Japanese nicely (with

Re: resolv.conf getting erased

2009-01-26 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 03:13:53PM -0400, tyler wrote: Celejar cele...@gmail.com writes: annoying. Any idea how I find out what is messing up my resolv.conf files? I'm no guru, but perhaps the audit package can help? Thanks for all the tips, on and off-list. I noticed that at the

Re: Need Help with Display in Chroot

2009-01-25 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 05:31:14PM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 02:09:14AM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 09:53:45AM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 05:15:40PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: Following Debian Reference

Re: Exim4 with a Goddady account

2009-01-25 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 07:05:13PM -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: Is there some way to control the message ID? If you look at this message ID it is shown as @localhost whereas the other two message posted through my prior Exim configuration show @personal.dom and the first message in this thread

Re: .xsession crashes X (was: Scim does not work with openoffice)

2009-01-25 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 03:13:20PM +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 04:29:37 -0800, Rodolfo Medina wrote: I need to create a file .xsession to fill with the following settings: export XMODIFIERS=@im=SCIM export GTK_IM_MODULE=scim export QT_IM_MODULE=scim

Re: Exim4 with a Goddady account

2009-01-25 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 08:13:16AM -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: * Osamu Aoki os...@debian.org [2009 Jan 25 06:17 -0600]: On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 07:05:13PM -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: Is there some way to control the message ID? If you look at this message ID it is shown as @localhost

Re: Exim4 with a Goddady account

2009-01-24 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 08:20:52AM -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: Finally, to close the loop on this, I found that daemon mail from crontab was being sent to the smarthost. This means you missed this bogus domain listed to be local for exim4. Did your dc_other_hostnames in

Re: Need Help with Display in Chroot

2009-01-24 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 09:53:45AM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 05:15:40PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: Following Debian Reference 8.6.35.1-3 Please install lnny version of DR. The latest is also available at:

Re: [locales] change date/time display format for german locale in lenny like it has been on etch

2009-01-20 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 09:59:13PM +0100, bugtrac...@slideomania.com wrote: LC_TIME=| etch | lenny - de_DE.UTF-8 | 2007-01-19 21:32 | Jan 19 2007 en_DK.UTF-8 | 2007-01-19 21:32 | Jan 19 2007 Is this true. My lenny/sid

Re: [locales] change date/time display format for german locale in lenny like it has been on etch

2009-01-19 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 02:31:09PM +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: bugtrac...@slideomania.com wrote: Hi list, I recently noticed (took a while of head-scratching like WTF? Something is very weird here, but what is it?) that after the upgrade from etch to lenny, the default

Re: [locales] change date/time display format for german locale in lenny like it has been on etch

2009-01-19 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 03:17:12PM +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Osamu Aoki wrote: It was important to use en_IE when we were using non-UTF-8 locales. Now even en_US.UTF-8 gives nice 2008-12-29 05:43 display. IIUC, OP wants 29.12.2008 05:43 instead. He uses 2008-12-29 05:43

Re: [locales] change date/time display format for german locale in lenny like it has been on etch

2009-01-19 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 03:47:24PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2009-01-19 15:17 +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Osamu Aoki wrote: It was important to use en_IE when we were using non-UTF-8 locales. Now even en_US.UTF-8 gives nice 2008-12-29 05:43 display. IIUC, OP wants

Re: wireless gui configuration utility

2009-01-17 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 07:53:50AM +0800, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: sadly, wicd currently won't work with my wireless: broadcomm 4315 on presario CQ40-115AU. Perhaps i need a little tweaking or something, any idea? You can always rely on basic /etc/network/interface and swich manually. If this

Re: kernel panic after Lenny update

2009-01-17 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 08:54:32PM -0800, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 20:59:29 + Vladimir Komendantsky komendant...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm sorry to tell you that today's package update cost me a system crash. The problem was with the package netatalk which was

Re: How to let a user login locally with a weak password

2009-01-17 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 10:08:41PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: I'd like to setup an account that can use a weak password. To make up for it, the account should only be accessible locally, not over the network. Weak is not easy ... there is minimum number of character for password. But no

Re: mounting two disks on the same mount point (not at the same time)

2009-01-17 Thread Osamu Aoki
HI, On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 05:38:02PM -0600, Reid Priedhorsky wrote: I have a couple of USB disks that I use for backups. I rotate them so only one is attached at the same time. I have a nightly cron that mirrors the directories of interest onto whichever one is attached using rsync. I'd

Re: How to let a user login locally with a weak password

2009-01-17 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 09:21:23AM +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: Osamu Aoki wrote: Hi, On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 10:08:41PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: I'd like to setup an account that can use a weak password. To make up for it, the account should only be accessible locally, not over

Re: wireless gui configuration utility

2009-01-16 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 02:56:03PM +, thveillon.debian wrote: +1 for wicd, with atheros chips (and ath5k driver) and wpa it has performed very well. During the past release of *buntu 8.10 *NetworkManager has gone crazy on many wireless chips, especially atheros, and since then wicd has

Re: Logging passwords of SSH attacks

2009-01-16 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 07:16:41PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: 2009/1/16 Sjoerd Hardeman sjo...@lorentz.leidenuniv.nl: I would try either honeyd or tinyhoneypot for that. You don't need a full blown ssh dameon for this. Thank you Sjoerd. I do, however, need sshd for the legitimate user who

Re: Logging passwords of SSH attacks

2009-01-16 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 08:20:57PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: 2009/1/16 Osamu Aoki os...@debian.org: If you atill want password login to ssh, look into knockd package. Thanks, I will google that. ا-ب-ت-ث-ج-ح-خ-د-ذ-ر-ز-س-ش-ص-ض-ط-ظ-ع-غ-ف-ق-ك-ل-م-ن-ه‍-و-ي Hmmm... I am missing 200d

Re: wireless gui configuration utility

2009-01-15 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 10:25:25PM +0800, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: Please kindly share your favorite utility that you are using daily on lenny amd64/i386 so i can gain something to make my wireless experience better. I do not use wireless but NetwokManager is one to use. See

Re: destroying one's account, the easy way?

2009-01-13 Thread Osamu Aoki
HI, On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 07:56:56PM +0100, Florian Mickler wrote: Hi! Last week my mother (supplied by me with a debian-testing system, running kde) did call me with fear in hear voice: the computer isn't working anymore! and all my files are lost! and my emails! and the internet has

Re: howto make root emacs open in X

2009-01-11 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 02:07:38AM -0600, Harry P wrote: Osamu Aoki os...@debian.org writes: Hmmm... you must have set up passwordless SSH to root. Come to think of ... passwordless SSH is quite secure. I was tired :-) I hope this sshd is not accessible from Internet. You may

Re: root's offsite mail

2009-01-10 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 09:04:19AM -0800, root wrote: How can I get 'root' out of the 'From:' line of root's offsite mail? I've scanned the docs for exim4, mutt and mailx on this Debian etch(mostly) system but nothing found so far. I know I can send mail as another user but would

Re: howto make root emacs open in X

2009-01-10 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 03:36:33PM +0100, Axel Freyn wrote: Hi, On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 03:19:03PM +0100, Tom Rauchenwald wrote: Harry P rea...@newsguy.com writes: I'm running a recently installed lenny with default xfce desktop. While working in the X session I often ssh to

Re: howto make root emacs open in X

2009-01-10 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 09:26:07AM -0600, Harry P wrote: Axel Freyn axel-fr...@gmx.de writes: Why do you use ssh to connect to the local machine? I would propose to I have no security worries for the desktop as this is a home machine. Point of Axel is use of SSH wastes CPU resource while

Re: [exim] update-exim4.conf.conf

2009-01-10 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 10:11:25AM -0600, Harry P wrote: What does this line refer to dc_other_hostnames='vm25.local.lan' In /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf This is created by debconf. Reading its dialog helps. /var/lib/dpkg/info/exim4-config.templates contains Template:

Re: [exim] update-exim4.conf.conf

2009-01-10 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 10:11:25AM -0600, Harry P wrote: What does this line refer to dc_other_hostnames='vm25.local.lan' In /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf one more best hit source: $ man update-exim4.conf or the same page can be seen by $ man update-exim4.conf.conf Osamu -- To

Re: howto make root emacs open in X

2009-01-10 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 04:04:03PM -0600, Harry P wrote: Osamu Aoki os...@debian.org writes: On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 09:26:07AM -0600, Harry P wrote: Axel Freyn axel-fr...@gmx.de writes: Why do you use ssh to connect to the local machine? I would propose to Point of Axel is use of SSH

Re: Local Language (Localization)

2009-01-08 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 03:23:27PM +0700, Zaki Akhmad wrote: Hello, I come from Indonesia. I see Ubuntu already package Indonesian language. How do I activate Indonesian language on Debian? Install tasks related to Indonesian language from aptitude. OOps, I do not find them. Strange. Time

Re: Local Language (Localization)

2009-01-08 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 10:41:37AM +, Pedro Insua wrote: On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 03:23:27PM +0700, Zaki Akhmad wrote: Hello, I come from Indonesia. I see Ubuntu already package Indonesian language. How do I activate Indonesian language on Debian? You can read The Debian

Re: Local Language (Localization)

2009-01-08 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 06:00:07PM +0700, Zaki Akhmad wrote: On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Pedro Insua wrote: You can read The Debian Reference Guide: 9.7 Localization (l10n) I've done and generate UTF-8 # dpkg-reconfigure locales id_ID.UTF-8 UTF-8 And I have see it on

Re: Local Language (Localization)

2009-01-08 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 08:39:15PM +0700, Zaki Akhmad wrote: By accident, I restart my computer. Back login to Debian/GNU Linux. Voila! My Indonesian language is active ;-) Good for you but I am still wondering why we have no task for indonesia. Gnome seems to provide po files for all

Re: Debian social contract - who reports bugs upstream?

2009-01-02 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Thu, Jan 01, 2009 at 02:34:12PM +1030, Arthur Marsh wrote: I read this at http://www.debian.org/social_contract : 2 We will give back to the free software community YES! ... It appears that there have been problems with gnu-fdisk that weren't passed upstream to the mailing list

Re: pbuilder trouble

2008-12-27 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 10:34:42AM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: Hi, I'm having trouble getting pbuilder create run with the following error: ... My /etc/pbuilerrc looks thus: START MIRRORSITE=http://localhost/sid DEBOOTSTRAP=debootstrap

Re: Best File System for Cross-Platform backup

2008-12-27 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 09:42:39PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Thu,25.Dec.08, 19:51:52, Dotan Cohen wrote: 2008/12/25 Andrei Popescu andreimpope...@gmail.com: Fat32 has other limitations which can create problems: - max file size of 2GB I think that should be 4 GB. Somehow

Re: 64-bit Flash Player

2008-12-27 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 12:47:30AM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: FYI: Currently it seems sid amd64 system has broken flashplugin-nonfree at this moment. It was working :-) It works again: $ sudo update-flashplugin-nonfree --uninstall $ sudo update-flashplugin-nonfree --install

Re: pbuilder trouble -- bingo!

2008-12-27 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 07:26:38PM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: ... Running (c)debootstrap alone gives no problems so I don't know where to start diagnosing my problem. You are creating very special setting. I do not even know if you have /home/wena/live/ directory or your

Re: ssh time to see if remote server is up

2008-12-26 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 11:35:46PM -0500, H.S. wrote: Thomas Karpiniec wrote: ... Take a look at the ssh_config(5) manpage, specifically the ... But I only checked 'man ssh' and that does not explain the meaning of the variables. Did not occur to me to check manpage for ssh_config. I thank

Re: How to install chinese fonts for ps output file?

2008-12-25 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 11:30:01AM -0500, H.S. wrote: Osamu Aoki wrote: Hmmm... current unstable lacks Chinese tasks??? No no it is under: * Simplified Chinese desktop * Traditional Chinese desktop e.g. Here: i ttf-arphic-ukai

Re: How to install chinese fonts for ps output file?

2008-12-24 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 05:23:32PM +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: With Emacs, I correctly open a file including chinese characters. The characters are correctly displayed in the text file, but when I try to create the ps file, with `C-u M-x pr-ps-print-buffer-preview' or `C-u M-x

Re: How do I get the japanese font back that is broken since the last update? (2)

2008-12-24 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 10:48:39AM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Tuesday 2008 December 23 09:45:42 Osamu Aoki wrote: The document by Estival Guillaume found by Dirk is about Etch (i.e., old stable) as it is written there. It links to updated page for Sarge (current stable

Re: How to install chinese fonts for ps output file?

2008-12-24 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 12:56:40PM +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: I apt-get installed the following: ttf-arphic-bkai00mp ttf-arphic-bsmi00lp ttf-arphic-gbsn00lp , but that didn't help. What else should I install? It should although it may be not so nice looking. Rodolfo Hmmm... current

Re: How do I get the japanese font back that is broken since the last update? (2)

2008-12-23 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 03:11:43AM +0100, Dirk wrote: found it.. myself(!).. http://dspnet.fr.eu.org/~lonewolf/LinuxJapan/Howto_English_Japanese.html Thanks for nothing! Hmmm... Not too fast. I do not think your search was through enough and I do not want people to think this is the

Re: Parallel GZIP

2008-12-22 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 02:48:41PM +0200, Volkan YAZICI wrote: On Mon, 22 Dec 2008, Tzafrir Cohen tzaf...@cohens.org.il writes: Could you please giva a usage scenario? Compressing a database backup file of size 300GB. Is the task really CPU bound and not i/o bound? top -d 1 tells

Re: Parallel GZIP -- speed instead of 2 CPUs running

2008-12-22 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 05:13:17PM +0200, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: Thomas Preud'homme wrote: The Monday 22 December 2008 13:53:43 Eugene V. Lyubimkin, you wrote : ... I have a core 2 duo and time give me a usage of almost 200% with pbzip2 Anyone has better results ? Yes, see

Re: Parallel GZIP -- speed instead of 2 CPUs running

2008-12-22 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, I am wonderig why Ron Johnson replied to my post with just bzip2 bench marks. Maybe I was unclear about myself. Osamu: The full story is here on my amd64 core2duo system: Summary: (with -1 option for speed, real time for compression) Binary filesText file

Re: Why no apt-pinning by release name?

2008-12-17 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 12:00:14PM +0100, bugtrac...@slideomania.com wrote: ... Long story short, why is it not possible to pin by release name? Searching for this returns lots of web pages that show examples with pinning by release name, and I'm wondering why they all propose

Re: 64-bit Flash Player

2008-12-15 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 02:09:07PM +0100, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: Girish Kulkarni wrote: On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 6:27 PM, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: Can you post your sources.list? It almost seems that the multimedia repository gets the flash-package compiled for lenny or sid, and you have etch.

Re: How to set user locale, instead of global locale?

2008-12-15 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 11:50:49AM -0200, Mauricio wrote: Hi, Do you know how can I change my locale as user of a remote system (with only terminal access)? The locale I want is already available on the system, and I tried to change mine setting LC_ALL to the proper value in my shell

Re: Copy a file one hundred times

2008-12-13 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 07:12:32PM +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: I need the right syntax to copy file.jpg 100 times with one command so to get 100 files named file1.jpg, file2.jpg, ..., file100.jpg. Can anybody suggest how to achieve that? ere is one without looping :-) $ seq 1 100 | sed

Re: Copy a file one hundred times

2008-12-13 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 09:13:07PM +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 03:50:31AM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 07:12:32PM +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: I need the right syntax to copy file.jpg 100 times with one command so to get 100 files named

Re: Issues with PCF and BDF Fonts after regular lenny updates

2008-12-06 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 12:21:39PM -0800, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: I do my usual Lenny/Testing updates every couple of days and this time however, my terminal and X fonts are messed up. The curios thing is that it is only PCF or BDF fonts. TrueType fonts display correctly. For

Re: xorg and fonts

2008-12-06 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Dec 06, 2008 at 01:23:31AM -0600, lee wrote: Hi, is there something that is supposed to update /etc/X11/xorg.conf regarding font paths --- or something that is supposed to make the installed fonts available otherwise? I got an automatically created xorg.conf with no font paths

Re: Remote signing of large files

2008-12-05 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 12:26:31PM +, Magnus Therning wrote: At work I want to add signing to our automatic build system. In theory it's a simple application of `gpg` at the end of building to get a detached signature would do, but I'm weary of sticking the secret key on the build

Re: kpdf disable font smoothing

2008-11-28 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 06:48:50AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Is it possible to disable font smoothing/antialias in Kpdf? How? I do not use kpdf but ... Did you try to configure fontconfig XML with local preference? What is your ~/.fonts.conf. http://fontconfig.org/wiki/ -- To

Re: Proxies with Linux?

2008-11-28 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 05:46:21PM +0100, Carlos Carrero Gutierrez wrote: Hi, i would like to use proxies with my browser but Iceweasel and Ephifany don't have the configuration for this. Is this ture. (Not in sid version) Edit - Preference - Advanced - Network - Connection - Setting I

Re: Help - Adding size to a document? - No security, think differently

2008-11-23 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, (I send direct reply to OP and Ubuntu intentionally with reason... I am afraid message from OP may spread a wrong idea.) I know double posting to ML (Debian and Ubuntu in this case.) is not generally considered good. If the original poster uses Ubuntu, he should post there only. On Sun,

Re: Help - Restrict root privileges - What is indispensable?

2008-11-23 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 12:54:09AM +0100, Manuel Gomez wrote: Hi, i would like to restrict the privileges of root. Now goes the question: why? But if you restrict too far, you can not manage system with GUI etc. I only need the essential for run my OS: If you really want this, disable sudo

Re: 64-bit Flash Player

2008-11-22 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 05:50:25PM +0530, Girish Kulkarni wrote: Has anyone had any success in using the new 64-bit Adobe Flash player for Linux on Debian? -- Yes. Here with amd64 system. http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/ Do not stress yourself :-) Just install

Re: What version of debian should I install at this point in time?

2008-11-22 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 10:49:18AM -0500, Chris Jones wrote: ... I have heard that Lenny will soon replace Etch as the stable version. Yes. Should I wait a bit, or is there any way I can finalize my Lenny install at a later date without having to reinstall? Here is the simplest way: Your

Re: Any textual web browser handling javascript?

2008-11-22 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 10:11:43PM +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: No, that's the same I do and I know. So there's no hope to access that account with a textual browser? I missed this discussion. As far as Debian archive package discription goes, I do not see one supporting javascript with a

Re: Chkrootkit Problem/Finding

2008-11-22 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 09:18:54PM +0200, David Baron wrote: Runs normally until a flood of /usr/bin/find: `head' terminated by signal 13 messages. What does this mean? 13 is signal for PIPE. (See man kill) I also see bug report as: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=505718

Re: oss and alsa and audio devices -- facts on Debian

2008-11-21 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, I agree that if you have modern system (bought new last 5 years or so), you should be OK with ALSA. But let's be more precise beyond this. On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 03:56:22AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: ... Given that OSS has been deprecated for FIVE years, and I *VERY STRONGLY* doubt that

Re: oss and alsa and audio devices

2008-11-21 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 10:39:15AM -0500, H.S. wrote: Kelly Clowers wrote: ... And in KDE's sound configuration gui, one of the systems to choose from is OSS. Probably hardwired, and would show up in any case. ... this does make sense. However, if I select OSS from KDE's sound

Re: dynamic resolv.conf issues

2008-11-21 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 11:50:09AM -0500, Damon L. Chesser wrote: ... Both run current Lenny. A pulls it's dns from what looks like my home router. B does not. I might have put that dns info there in the past, but if so, it does not get overwritten. I still don't know what is

Re: dpkg fails with parse error in /var/lib/dpkg/status

2008-11-21 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 10:42:30PM +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: I tried to do a dist-upgrade on my machine running sid, when dpkg failed complaining about the following parse error in the `status' file. = # apt-get -f install ... dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/status'

Re: mount problem (cifs)

2008-11-21 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 04:33:28PM +0100, Pol Hallen wrote: Hi folks :-) upgrading kernel from 2.6.22 to 2.6.27.7 and mount the share of samba.. mount //ip/share1 /home/user1/share1 -o user=user,pass=pass ... (using konqueror smb://ip/share I can correctly write on share of samba) Any

Re: Q: List Policy

2008-11-18 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, Here is fact ... On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 01:43:53PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: I was fairly sure that the policy for this list, and most of the Debian mailing lists was to NOT CC the poster in replies unless they requested it. Is that correct? See

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