Re: find encoding of filenames

2007-03-26 Thread Jochen Schulz
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi: Moreover, the original question still remains. Given a bunch of files, how do I determine their current encoding? Just a thought: $ touch äöüß.éèâ $ ls -lh äöüß.éèâ -rw-r--r-- 1 jrschulz jrschulz 0 2007-03-26 18:40 äöüß.éèâ $ ls -1 filelist $ file filelist

Re: Hardware Change .... How to update

2007-03-27 Thread Jochen Schulz
Khurram Pirzada: What must I do for my Debian to see new modem and install/use it for 56k connection? What exactly are you expecting Debian to do? If you are running a stock kernel, you probably only need to install the software you want to use with the modem and use it. I don't know your

Re: how to install debian if I can only boot from harddisk ?

2007-03-28 Thread Jochen Schulz
Ken Hu: The dvd rom of my notebook is broken(can not read anything), and there's no other removable devices like floppy or usb pen that can be used on that notebook. The only way I can boot is from the existed WindowsXP on 1 of my 2 partitions. So , if I want to install debian on the

Re: how to install debian if I can only boot from harddisk ?

2007-03-28 Thread Jochen Schulz
Atis: On 3/28/07, Ken Hu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for your information, I will give it a try. Before I do this , do you think I am safe if I want to keep my WinXP installation along with my new debian OS ? Then you would need to resize windows partition first. You need to resize it,

Re: What's the best way to get from stable to testing?

2007-03-28 Thread Jochen Schulz
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: It seems that the testing dist has more good stuff in it than stable, but how do I upgrade? Edit /etc/apt/sources.list to include source lines for etch, run 'aptitude update aptitude upgrade', then 'aptitude dist-upgrade'. During the last stept you have to make sure

Re: Openssh-server installation in etch

2007-03-29 Thread Jochen Schulz
Tim Yang: However I found a little problem. Since it is a server, I try to connect from another box with SSH and it was refused. I found out the problem was that the SSH server was not installed. Only openssh client was installed, not the server. I have to manually apt-get the openssh

Re: sshd daemon failed to start

2007-03-29 Thread Jochen Schulz
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: i have sarge 3.1 kernel 2.6 ,the start-stop-daemon in the init.d script cannot start the ssh daemon , no error is printed to stdout , error logged in /var/log/auth.log : sshd[4008]: fatal: daemon() failed: Success Run 'invoke-rc.d ssh restart' and post the terminal output

Re: sshd daemon failed to start

2007-03-29 Thread Jochen Schulz
Please don't top post. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: unfortunately the invoke-rc.d didn't succeeded to force sshd init, the output to stdout is the echo sentence of start init script : Restarting OpenBSD Secure Shell server: sshd. Strange. Looks perfect. despite set of log level debug3 in the

Re: sshd daemon failed to start

2007-03-29 Thread Jochen Schulz
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: did you have any idea about what can change /dev/null to regular file. No idea. perhaps i installed a package that did this big mistake , i don't know. If it really was an official Debian package, probably a lot of other people would have been affected (and it would be a

Re: simple image upload server to coexist with wiki?

2007-03-30 Thread Jochen Schulz
mmiller3: We're running a wiki on a debian box (using moinmoin) and I'd like to set up a simple web-based system that allows users to upload images. What I'd like a cgi that lets a user submit an image, stores it on the web server and returns a permanent link to it that can be used in the

Re: GPG and Signing

2007-04-01 Thread Jochen Schulz
Michael Pobega: I got this for your mail: [-- PGP output follows (current time: Sun 01 Apr 2007 08:09:36 AM EDT) --] gpg: Signature made Sun 01 Apr 2007 04:27:11 AM EDT using DSA key ID 70859BD9 gpg: Can't check signature: public key not found [-- End of PGP output --] This means that

Re: getmail question

2007-04-01 Thread Jochen Schulz
Jude DaShiell: I'm trying to get getmail to work and am needing to have the incoming e-mail filtered through clamscan which last night had clamscan throw several errors one aout executing root commands. All I want to do with the filtering is have clamscan inspect incoming messages and have

Re: Desktop user: Etch or the next testing?

2007-04-02 Thread Jochen Schulz
Wei Chen: You know that Etch is about to release. This means that new features and software will not get into it any more. Correct. So what is a better choice now, to stick to Etch or to switch to the next testing? I am not sure which is more important for desktop users, stability or new

Re: Desktop user: Etch or the next testing?

2007-04-02 Thread Jochen Schulz
Wei Chen: But I once heard that things in the Testing distribution always change gradually. And the big gap between stable and testing will cause the upgrade not so easy after some time of the release of stable. Is that true? Yes, more or less. If you do upgrades, there is always a chance

Re: Desktop user: Etch or the next testing?

2007-04-02 Thread Jochen Schulz
Wei Chen: Also, maybe one disadvantage of upgrading to a newer version early is that one can in fact upgrade at any time if still using the old one. But once upgraded, it is never possible to get the old one back again... It is *possible*, it just isn't supported. You can always go to

Re: Desktop user: Etch or the next testing?

2007-04-03 Thread Jochen Schulz
Owen Heisler: We have the names: Sarge, Etch, Lenny and aliases: stable, testing, sid I am not sure whether I understand this correct, but I think you got the current release process wrong. Sid is always unstable, it will never be released. Lenny is going to start off as an exact copy of

Re: Desktop user: Etch or the next testing?

2007-04-03 Thread Jochen Schulz
Wei Chen: Might there be conflicts for backports and distribution upgrade? Theoretically: yes. But since backport.org's maintainers are Debian developers themselves (at least most of them, I think), compatibility to the official repositories is very good and there shouldn't be any problems

Re: Desktop user: Etch or the next testing?

2007-04-03 Thread Jochen Schulz
Joe Hart: Jochen Schulz wrote: Owen Heisler: We have the names: Sarge, Etch, Lenny and aliases: stable, testing, sid I am not sure whether I understand this correct, but I think you got the current release process wrong. Sid is always unstable, it will never be released. Lenny is going

Re: Desktop user: Etch or the next testing?

2007-04-03 Thread Jochen Schulz
Wei Chen: Jochen Schulz wrote: Theoretically: yes. But since backport.org's maintainers are Debian developers themselves (at least most of them, I think), compatibility to the official repositories is very good and there shouldn't be any problems apart from human mistakes. Exceptions

Re: Some cleanup questions

2007-04-05 Thread Jochen Schulz
Hans du Plooy: ii apache-common 1.3.34-4 support files for all Apache webservers ii apache2.2-common 2.2.3-3.3 Next generation, scalable, extendable web se Do I need both? No, only one of them. Which one depends on whether you are running Apache2 or the earlier version. J. -- If I won

Re: dovecot does not work

2007-04-05 Thread Jochen Schulz
Nevruz Mesut Sahin: Deae friends in my system dovecot 1.0 is running I configured then I wrote below commands There is no Dovecot 1.0 yet, only a number of 1.0 release candidates (latest version is RC29, I think). RC29 is in sid, RC15 is in etch. chkconfig --level 2345 dovecot on chkconfig

Re: Help! My gnome desktop has been cleared!

2007-04-06 Thread Jochen Schulz
Dennis G. Wicks: I rebooted and my desktop has been cleaned off. All the icons for the computer, my home dir, mounted drives and some launchers I had set up are gone. Are you using Gnome? Then it sounds like nautilus either isn't running or has been configured not to manage the desktop

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

2007-04-09 Thread Jochen Schulz
csanyipal: I use iptables as a firewall and have added a rule to open the port 22: That probably means you are blocking any traffic not explicitly allowed, correct? Maybe it would help to show us your complete iptables script. And you are connected directly to the internet, right? No NAT? $

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

2007-04-09 Thread Jochen Schulz
csanyipal: On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 03:53:24PM +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: I use iptables as a firewall and have added a rule to open the port 22: That probably means you are blocking any traffic not explicitly allowed, correct? Maybe it would help to show us your complete iptables script

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

2007-04-09 Thread Jochen Schulz
csanyipal: On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 08:56:40PM +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: If you can see either both incoming and outgoing packets or no packets at all, your setup is fine and someone else is dropping them. If you see only incoming packets, it's your fault. Could you try to login again

Re: Disabling Write-Caching

2007-04-10 Thread Jochen Schulz
Jonathan Kaye: Not being one to argue, I dutifully did #hdparm -W 0 /dev/hda and now write-caching is no longer enabled. For my own reassurance, was this the sensible thing to do? You lose some write performance, but apart from that it doesn't hurt and a lot of people think it is a good

Re: less or man clear-screen issue

2007-04-10 Thread Jochen Schulz
Daniel Haude: when viewing man pages (or any kind of file, really) with less, what bugs me is that less restores the screen content before its execution on exit. Which means that I always need to switch between two terminals (or use screen) when I need to keep an eye on the manpage while

Re: Noob question - best way to install software

2007-04-14 Thread Jochen Schulz
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am wondering about the best way to install software. I have used the apt-get method, which is pretty simple, and have also downloaded and compiled from source tarballs which is a little more complicated but doesn't seem to be a big deal. Are there significant advantages

Re: dnsmasq in debian

2007-04-15 Thread Jochen Schulz
Gunnar Björkdahl: I'm trying to setup dnsmasq on my LAN. I configured the adresses in /etc/hosts and I can ping them fine. But I am unable to ping the outside world. What have I done wrong or missed? There is no way to know. You didn't tell us what you wanted to use dnsmasq for (DNS, DHCP?),

Re: Fetchmail Problems

2007-04-17 Thread Jochen Schulz
Michael Pobega: On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 06:39:56PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: Is ssmtp a daemon? Maybe you need to restart it. Have you tried looking in /var/log/mail.log? There doesn't seem to be a daemon for it. I *think* fetchmail can use any sendmail-compatible binary

Re: Fetchmail Problems

2007-04-17 Thread Jochen Schulz
Michael Pobega: Well the last thing I need is to get procmail working, if I can't I may end up just abandoning Debian altogether (I'm not threatening it, but it's just really annoying, and I NEED procmail, it's not even a nice thing to use, I NEED it). /me too. I really don't get why

Re: Debian boxes not replying to multicast and broadcast pings

2007-04-18 Thread Jochen Schulz
Jeff D: On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Urs Thuermann wrote: When I ping to the broacast address or the allhosts multicast address I get replies from the embedded and the self-built sysem, but not from the two Debian boxes: -- snip if you want it to reply to broadcast pings: echo 0

Re: texlive, beamer and etch

2007-04-19 Thread Jochen Schulz
Lubos Vrbka: has anyone succeeded in installing texlive and latex-beamer at the same time on an etch box? I am running unstable and I had no problems having both of the packages installed at the same time in the last couple of months. Only recently aptitude has warned me it would have to

Re: apache2: no listening sockets

2007-04-23 Thread Jochen Schulz
michael: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart Forcing reload of web server (apache2)...apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.0.1 for ServerName You may want to set ServerName in your apache configuration to get rid of

Re: lenny

2007-04-23 Thread Jochen Schulz
seeds: how do i upgrade to lenny? am using debian etch. Compulsory answer: if you don't know how to do it, you shouldn't do it. Lenny is not in a releasable state which means you may encounter problems that are much harder to fix than it is to upgrade from stable to testing. But since you

Re: apache2: no listening sockets

2007-04-25 Thread Jochen Schulz
michael: On Mon, 2007-04-23 at 12:06 +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: michael: httpd (no pid file) not running apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.0.1 for ServerName (98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address

Re: apt-get install synaptic / sources.list

2007-04-27 Thread Jochen Schulz
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: I added the lines: Deb cdrom: [Debian GNU/Linux 4.0r0 _Etch_ -Official i386 DVD Binary-1 20070407-11:40]/ etch contrib main Deb cdrom: [Debian GNU/Linux 4.0r0 _Etch_ -Official i386 DVD Binary-2 20070407-11:40]/ etch contrib main Deb cdrom: [Debian GNU/Linux 4.0r0

Re: Default Media Player

2007-04-27 Thread Jochen Schulz
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Totem? XFMedia? Because it didn't look like either. It was awesome and I want to add it to my xfce only environment. It was GTK+2 and had a playlist on the right side as default. Sounds like totem (which's sidebar may be switched off). J. -- I wish I looked more like a

Re: z25_persistent-net.rules

2007-04-27 Thread Jochen Schulz
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: My network card isn't listed, Where do you look for it? How? concerning the files: /etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-net.rules /etc/network/interfaces There is no reference to Realtek, who make my card at all. I have been told that there should be. Not literally.

Re: apt-get install synaptic / sources.list

2007-04-27 Thread Jochen Schulz
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Jochen Schulz wrote: Apt-get install synaptic And it came up with errors that the repositories do not exist. The DVD Binary-1 was mounted. Did you run 'apt-get update' before trying to install? If not, it couldn't have possibly worked. Apt needs to know which packages

Re: Debian policy on copyright

2007-05-02 Thread Jochen Schulz
Marty: The recent media debate over a released HD-DVD key, and resulting DMCA take-down notices, got me thinking about a broad range of questions regarding Debian policy about IP rights in general, and specifically about numbers as copyrighted intellectual propery. Any piece of digital

Re: how to hide the mouse pointer

2007-05-03 Thread Jochen Schulz
Tyler Smith: Not a real burning issue, I know. Is this possible, and if so how? Is this something that X can do, or is it controlled by the wm? Just install unclutter and run it after logging in. How to do the latter automatically depends on your WM / desktop environment. And believe me, when

Re: mutt: slow reading d-u

2007-05-08 Thread Jochen Schulz
Andrei Popescu: On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 10:23:05AM -0400, Allan Wind wrote: Are you using maildir (opposed to mailbox)? If you keep a lot of content around consider using ext3 with dir_index enabled. Do you have That's on Did you enable it yourself or did the installer do it for you? If

Re: [OT] Good, evil and religion [WAS] Re: A way to compile 3rd party modules into deb system?

2007-05-09 Thread Jochen Schulz
Ron Johnson: And Christianity teaches love your neighbor as yourself. That doesn't mean that the humans who purport to believe in it actually follow it correctly. In a religion that constantly reminds everyone that the natural man is an enemy to God, most people don't love themselves

Re: [OT] Good, evil and religion [WAS] Re: A way to compile 3rd party modules into deb system?

2007-05-09 Thread Jochen Schulz
Ron Johnson: On 05/09/07 04:02, Jochen Schulz wrote: Ron Johnson: And Christianity teaches love your neighbor as yourself. That doesn't mean that the humans who purport to believe in it actually follow it correctly. In a religion that constantly reminds everyone that the natural man

Re: mutt is the bomb! (LDAP addressbook integration)

2007-05-09 Thread Jochen Schulz
Karl E. Jorgensen: In vim, you don't need to select the text first though - 'gq' reformats the current paragraph. As an alternative in Vim, you could try :set filetype=mail textwidth=72 formatoptions+=ac OMG! I for about six years now and *that's* the one thing I always missed.

Re: [OT] Screen

2007-05-10 Thread Jochen Schulz
Tyler Smith: On 2007-05-10, Amy Templeton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, I just prefer having fewer windows open. And if for some reason I have to restart X, I don't lose whatever was going on in the terminal since it just detaches instead of closing and killing whatever process is

Re: Best Debian packages

2007-05-11 Thread Jochen Schulz
Deboo ^: Is there a list of best (most used) packages in debian? http://popcon.debian.org/ Definition of usage is tricky, though. J. -- No-one appears to be able to help me. [Agree] [Disagree] http://www.slowlydownward.com/NODATA/data_enter2.html signature.asc

Re: Debian on the Linksys NSLU2

2007-05-21 Thread Jochen Schulz
George Barnett: As the box has no KVM (well, there is a serial port, but it's inside and I'm unlikely to open it) I'd like to remove kpsmoused and kseriod which I understart are the serial keyboard/mouse bits. These are both kernel threads (as you can see from ps output where such threads

Re: Debian on the Linksys NSLU2

2007-05-22 Thread Jochen Schulz
Bob Cox: George Barnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think my biggest win is going to be ditching openssh :) How would you talk to the NSLU2 then ? ;-) There are alternative implementations of the SSH protocol. Dropbear is quite popular on small devices, for example. J. -- I wish I had

Re: I don't understand the new aptitude

2007-05-22 Thread Jochen Schulz
Dan H: (...and I just noticed I had to copy that by hand because aptitude --and only aptitude!-- seems to disallow copying text from the xterm it's running in! What kind of sadism is that?) :) This isn't sadism, it's a feature of your terminal and aptitude. You probably can use the mouse to

Re: Revert to simple Window Manager

2007-06-10 Thread Jochen Schulz
Telly Williams: I'm currently using the Gnome Desktop environment. As I learn to use Linux/GNU more, I find that I want to slim down my computer as much as possible. Hence, I would like to use just a window manager instead of a full GUI. Is it possible to revert (maybe, apt-get remove

Re: Can debian act as an USB mass storage device?

2007-06-12 Thread Jochen Schulz
Lethal Possum: I have a pretty simple question but so far I have not been able to find the answer on the Net. I have a file server running Debian (etch) that I currently connect to with samba. It is great but I would also like to be able to simply plug my laptop into the server with a USB

Re: FW: Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r0 Etech - could not setup syslog

2007-06-13 Thread Jochen Schulz
Kuruvilla, Chindu: Most forums documents recommend using a Linux box is best for setting up a syslog since it has the syslog daemon built-in. I decided to use the most recent release(4.0 r0 “Etech”) It's called Etch (without the additional 'e'), but well. I could not setup the syslogd

Re: Getting Email from 7 acounts with getmail every 20 seconds

2007-06-13 Thread Jochen Schulz
Orestes leal: Recently i've setup a mail service for my 7 users through my and pop3 server and getmail to get the email from every account from my main pop3 server, everything ok but i can't setup getmail to get email from the 7 accounts of my main server at the same time, and because that I

Re: USB enclosure?

2007-06-17 Thread Jochen Schulz
Zach: I just bought an external HDD enclosure for my old IDE disks so I can attack to my laptop using USB. How do I set this up? What exactly do you want to achieve? If you don't need automounting, you don't need to do anything at all. As soon as you plug the drive in, the necessary module

Re: firefox slows system

2007-06-18 Thread Jochen Schulz
Liam O'Toole: Russell L. Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a fix for Firefox, or should I learn to like Epiphany? Try creating a fresh profile for yourself using the command 'firefox -ProfileManager'. It may be that your current profile is to blame. Which is, of course, just

Re: how hot is my xeon?

2007-06-22 Thread Jochen Schulz
michael: I've tried unsuccessfully to monitor my dual Xeon box but lm-sensors doesn't seem to detect anything. I've a Intel Server Board SE7320SO2 with two 3. GHz Xeon chips. Anybody know how to get mobo/chip/internal temps (and pref fan speeds)... my box gets noisy and I'm trying to see if

Re: Using Debian Package Manager

2007-06-25 Thread Jochen Schulz
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: I just installed Debian. I'm wondering about the Synaptic Package Manager. As I've never used a GUI for Linux before, I will need to get used to how things work. If you already have experience in using the command line, nothing stops you from keeping to use it. In many

Re: kernel module static compilation: how to pass options

2006-10-25 Thread Jochen Schulz
Stephane Durieux: 1 - In the case of two ethernet cards : how to distinguish one from the other , more precisely to affect the name that I want to each (eth0,1,2 ..) kernel ether=..,..,eth0 ether=..,..,eth1 ? If you are using sarge, I guess the best option is ifrename, if you are using

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

2006-10-26 Thread Jochen Schulz
* cd-ripper [ abcde ] * Desktop Environment [ none (IceWM as WM) ] * development [ Python ] * e-mail client [ mutt ] * browser [ firefox -- I use it since Phoenix 0.4 days but start to hate it. It's only the large number of useful extensions that keep

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

2006-10-27 Thread Jochen Schulz
Miles Bader: Jochen Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * ftp [ lftp -- also does sftp and the like and supports resuming, even for sftp. ] Hmm, lftp does sftp too?!? It's been a long time since I've used it, but it looks like I'll have to check it out again (the standard

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

2006-10-27 Thread Jochen Schulz
José Alburquerque: Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: On 10/26/06, José Alburquerque [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * mathematics [ calculator ] Which is this? Can't find it in Debian... Sorry, I meant 'gcalctool'. I'm not sure it's a package, but it's the command that brings up the gnome

Re: switching from mbox to maildir in mutt, exim, etc.: how?

2006-10-28 Thread Jochen Schulz
Paul E Condon: I'm looking at my system backups and notice that there is some clutter form mbox files being updated almost daily. What kind of clutter? If you are doing incremental backups (in the form of diffs to previous versions) mbox should be alright. A good comparison between both

Re: switching from mbox to maildir in mutt, exim, etc.: how?

2006-10-28 Thread Jochen Schulz
Ron Johnson: On 10/28/06 10:01, Paul E Condon wrote: But for active email correspondents, the whole collection of old emails is copied six or seven times per week. I can live with the waste of disk space, but I would like to see the time-stamp on individual messages from 'ls -l'.

Re: switching from mbox to maildir in mutt, exim, etc.: how?

2006-10-28 Thread Jochen Schulz
Ron Johnson: On 10/28/06 16:26, Jochen Schulz wrote: But one should mention that there are few automatically generated filenames that are as ugly (and mostly meaningless) as those of maildirs. Ugly? yes. Meaningless? Definitely not. For example, the first field in a Maildir name

Re: flashplugin-nonfree: Flash Player 9 beta

2006-10-29 Thread Jochen Schulz
Bart Martens: Users of Debian testing are invited try flashplugin-nonfree version 9.0.21.55.1 from experimental. This version installs Flash Player 9 beta [1]. On unstable this appears to work fine. I installed the package from experimental, searched google for need flashplayer 8 and found

Re: Classic Gnubie accident

2006-10-29 Thread Jochen Schulz
Ron Johnson: On 10/29/06 15:21, anthony wrote: -rw-rw-r-- 1 anthony anthony 26 2006-09-21 18:56 /home/anthony/.dmrc but the login message is the same. Look into ~/.xsession-errors, maybe there's more info. And BTW, my ~/.dmrc is 600: -rw--- 1 jrschulz jrschulz 37 2006-08-09 10:46

Re: Classic Gnubie accident

2006-10-30 Thread Jochen Schulz
Ron Johnson: On 10/29/06 15:57, Jochen Schulz wrote: Ron Johnson: And then purge xdm, gdm, kdm and log in like a Real Geek. Real geeks may still have their terminals running under X. :) startx is your friend. It's not that I don't know how to start X from a console. But I (almost

Re: Classic Gnubie accident

2006-10-30 Thread Jochen Schulz
anthony: I don't have a problem getting at the files, booting single user or into a failsafe terminal as myself (username=anthony) the problem is exactly how to correctly 'check/fix owner/permissions until you are happy.' You only need chown, chmod and ls. # chown -R anthony:anthony

Re: flashplugin-nonfree: Flash Player 9 beta

2006-10-31 Thread Jochen Schulz
Marc Shapiro: What is the likelihood that this will actually make it into Etch before the December release? What is the likelyhood of etch being released in December? :- Seriously, I hate to say it, but http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/ doesn't look very convincing that the schedule

Re: Classic Gnubie accident

2006-10-31 Thread Jochen Schulz
Ron Johnson: On 10/30/06 03:04, Jochen Schulz wrote: It's not that I don't know how to start X from a console. But I (almost) always need X anyway. And apart from that, I have a non-geek girlfriend[1] using my computer from time to time. My wife was *easily* trained not to fear

Re: Classic Gnubie accident

2006-10-31 Thread Jochen Schulz
Ron Johnson: On 10/31/06 05:08, Jochen Schulz wrote: Ron Johnson: Certainly your GF can be similarly trained. Well, at least not by me. I still have a hard time teaching her about the concept of files and folders. :) And what I actually find more important is that she grasps GUI

Re: Window managers-which one?

2006-10-31 Thread Jochen Schulz
B. Hoffmann: Must confess I'm still a bit confused as to what exactly a WM does as some seem to have themes available for them which I thought was down to the DE. Yes and No. A WM is supposed to, well, manage windows (or give the user the chance to do it). Typically this includes: * place

Re: Classic Gnubie accident

2006-10-31 Thread Jochen Schulz
[Disclaimer: writing this mail took some time and I frequently jumped from topic to topic. Please excuse me if it doesn't appear to be very coherent.] anthony: So, happy as I am that you guys found an excuse to chat about your respective girlfriends here, I think mine would prefer I talked

Re: flashplugin-nonfree: Flash Player 9 beta

2006-10-31 Thread Jochen Schulz
Marc Shapiro: Marc Shapiro wrote: Jochen Schulz wrote: But, once it does get into Sid, or whatever testing will be, then it is almost certain to get backported so that those of us that prefer a 'stable' machine can get to all the sites that want 'the most current version of Flash' which

Re: What is this in my syslog????????

2006-11-06 Thread Jochen Schulz
M-L: My system is secure and in full stealth mode according to http://www.grc.com I cannot comment on your very strange log messages, but just as a side note: there is no such thing as stealth mode on the internet. Either your system behaves standards compliant and rejects connections on every

Re: Installation of further packages

2006-11-07 Thread Jochen Schulz
Hi Stephan, debian-user-german kennst Du auch? Nur nebenbei, Du bist hier natürlich genauso willkommen. stephan.sens: I successfully downloaded Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 r3 Sarge - Official i386 Binary-1 and burned it on a bootable CD-R. My computer (i386) was able to boot from this CD and

Re: etc partially deleted

2006-11-07 Thread Jochen Schulz
Carlos Ojea: I recently deleted part of my /etc by mistake. Whoops! I wish to hear your advice about how to proceed to recover the system. It depends on what exactly you are trying to achieve. Best thing would probably be to restore from a recent backup. ;-) Next best thing: try to restore

Re: Is a kernel upgrade necessary ?

2006-11-07 Thread Jochen Schulz
Nicolas Pillot: But i just noticed the kernel was still the same (2.2.20), although there are newer 2.4.X and 2.6.X kernels out there. So my questions are : - is it worth an upgrade ? If you don't have a problem: no. You *may* have problems with udev or something like that (ever rebooted

Re: Failing to use Linux PC as router

2006-11-12 Thread Jochen Schulz
Hans Vogelsberger: Some weeks ago I bought an AMD64 X2 which now I must connect to the internet, using my old Pentium 4 as router to the dynamic address I receive from my cable provider whenever I boot. Having used Testing since it came up in Potato times, I never needed and never acquired

Re: Cannot access terminals ( ctrl+alt+Fx ) in fluxbox

2006-11-14 Thread Jochen Schulz
Richard Lyons: On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 10:19:45PM -0300, piter wrote: I'm using Etch with fluxbox, everything was OK before doing apt-get dist-upgrade a few days ago. After that, i can't access the terminals from tty1 to tty6 (i mean that nothing happens when i press ctrl+alt+Fx).

Re: Some error messages from Cron Deamon

2006-11-15 Thread Jochen Schulz
Yuriy Padlyak: Could you please help me with those error messages? Or I have to submit backup-manager bug? /usr/sbin/backup-manager: line 188: [: 5907376643783245169990: integer expression expected If you didn't edit /usr/sbin/backup-manager yourself, a bug report would be appropriate. J.

Re: mini-itx server

2006-11-15 Thread Jochen Schulz
Martinez Perez Alberto: I'm planning to install a home server. I would like to install apache, mysql, a firewall and oracle. I'm considering to use a mini-itx mainboard. Does anyone has tried it? I don't know if it will be able to support the installation. I am running a mini-itx board with

Re: Reporting brute force ssh login attempts

2006-11-15 Thread Jochen Schulz
Shri Shrikumar: 1. Report each ip address that does this. However, a lot of them seems to be from asia with no proper abuse@ address to contact. Additionally, this can be very time consuming. I do not think you achieve much by doing this. Doing this automatically, as you suggested below,

Re: apt-get update error..

2006-11-21 Thread Jochen Schulz
Ishwar Rattan: Just saw this: W: GPG error: http://ftp.us.debian.org testing Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY A70DAF536070D3A1 W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems # How do I fix this?

Re: orientation with respect to tex, auctex, tetex, texlive, etc.

2006-11-23 Thread Jochen Schulz
Russell L. Harris: I have been using LaTeX for five years, but with Debian I always have taken the system for granted -- it always has been there, and it Just Works. Is this going to change in the near future? Where can I go for a basic orientation and for more information on the

Re: ripping several hundred cds?

2006-11-26 Thread Jochen Schulz
Matt Price: as part of this project I want to rip all of our cds to mp3 or ogg (if someone has a suggestion ofr an ogg-friendly ipod-replacement?). See http://rockbox.org/. Every player supported by Rockbox can play Ogg Vorbis and many other formats. I have an iriver H120 myself (not

Re: pseudo network interface

2006-11-28 Thread Jochen Schulz
Kostas Robotis: From googling I found the tun program in NetBSD http://www.daemon-systems.org/man/tun.4.html. Is there something similar for linux, or an obvious solution that I miss, with ifconfig or another command? Linux includes a tun module which I assume is the same as NetBSD'ѕ. It

Re: Preferred Mirrors for Apt

2006-12-06 Thread Jochen Schulz
David Baron: ALL the alternatives available are in /etc/apt/sources.list. I do not want to delete access to ftp.us.debiian.org. I want the local mirrors to be tried first. There is absolutely no reason to keep several official mirrors in your sources.list. They all contain the same software

Re: Preferred Mirrors for Apt

2006-12-08 Thread Jochen Schulz
David Baron: However, with the scheme I propose, all Debian packages would be taken care of. Other stuff like qmail, systemimage, stuff that one needs a repository other than Debian's own mirrors, would need be explicitely listed. This is the current situation. IIRC, the installer even

Re: opening ports

2006-12-10 Thread Jochen Schulz
Bruce: 1) How would I open ftp ports after doing an apt-get install proftpd? On Debian, all ports are open by default (but there are not many services listening, so it doesn't matter). If a service is being installed, it can be assumed that it should actually be available. FTP uses ports 20

Re: opening ports

2006-12-11 Thread Jochen Schulz
Andrei Popescu: On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 08:28:16AM +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote: On Debian, all ports are open by default (but there are not many services listening, so it doesn't matter). If a service is being installed, it can be assumed that it should actually be available. FTP uses

Re: opening ports

2006-12-11 Thread Jochen Schulz
Mike McCarty: Andrei Popescu wrote: firewall are sometimes called filtered (by nmap) or stealth (by some Windows firewalls). A stealthed port appears not to exist to the external world, but that does not mean that there is no service listening on it. Stealthed almost always means that

Re: icewm nautilus

2006-12-18 Thread Jochen Schulz
csanyipal: The windowmanager is icewm and I want to use the nautilus with it. I try to edit the ~/.xinitrc : exec /usr/X11R6/bin/icewm exec /usr/X11R6/bin/nautilus This will icewm and then, when icewm exits, run nautilus. You need to run nautilus first, with an appended ampersand (). J.

Re: have to learn python

2007-06-28 Thread Jochen Schulz
abdelkader belahcene: have I need to learn python, I know several interpreters (fro example bash scripting, ) and laguages (php, C++,C..). I administrate servers on linux end developpe application at know using depending of course of type of application so from bash, to C, C++ ( graphical

Re: URGENT: my gnome desktop is dead

2007-07-16 Thread Jochen Schulz
Dot Deb: This morning I switched my laptop on, as usual, but after logging in (using gdm), gnome only shows me the tomboy window. No panels, no background, no icons ... I guess your session information is broken. You could try to move all your ~/.gnome2* files and directories out of the way

Re: dir command

2007-07-30 Thread Jochen Schulz
William Pursell: To get sizes, du is the obvious choice, but you could do the ridiculous: $ find . -type f -exec cat {} \; | wc -c Note that this is different from du in that it counts characters, not bytes. In some encodings a character may be larger than one byte, so your result would be a

Re: bash vs. python scripts - which one is better?

2007-08-09 Thread Jochen Schulz
Nelson Castillo: I make trailing spaces and TABS visible in vim. I know it's hard to keep conventions when you work with a team. http://wiki.freaks-unidos.net/weblogs/arhuaco/visible-spaces-in-vim I am using set listchars=tab:»·,trail:· in my ~/.vimrc. That makes tabs and taling spaces

Re: Font Smoothing in Xterm

2007-08-14 Thread Jochen Schulz
Amit Uttamchandani: Anyways, font smoothing has been working quite well on this laptop screen except for xterm. I finally figured out how to change the font in xterm to bitstream vera sans mono but the fonts in xterm look jagged and terrible in this screen. Put Xft.antialias: 1 Xft.dpi:

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