Re: two local networks

Adam Hardy: > > I am trying to install a Belkin wireless print server and it's got a web > interface factory setting on 192.168.2.253 which I currently can't browse > with my setup as it is (request timed out). > > I'm working on my LAN's gateway server, which has two NICs, one for the > local

Re: two local networks

Adam Hardy: > Jochen Schulz on 25/01/10 14:46, wrote: >> >> # route add -host 192.168.2.253 eth0 > > OK grand, with that route cmd, I can access the printer server. > > One more question - where should I put this in the gateway's networking > setup to mak

Re: two local networks

Adam Hardy: > > If I said: > > route add -net 192.168.2.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 eth0 > > then all IP addresses from 1 to 255 would be routed, according to man. True. > I saw that using the -host option causes the routing table to set up a > route with the netmask 255.255.255.255 - not quite s

Re: Debian Squeeze and encrypted LVM

Nima Azarbayjany: > > Today I installed Debian Squeeze on an entirely encrypted LVM partition as > proposed by the Installer (beta2). After several hours of initializing my > disk it finally installed and when I booted into the new system I saw an > unrecognized partition entry in my Places menu,

Re: firewall package for laptop wi-fi client

Russell L. Harris: > * tv.deb...@googlemail.com [110103 09:24]: > >> But if you do only web browsing and email and don't run any >> web-facing services you should be fine anyway. > > I do not understand; what is a "web-facing service"? It is a program accepting random connections from arbitrary

Re: SOLVED: permissions all zero when using 'cp'

Martin Lorenz: > > Thanks to all, who helped > > it definitely was a rootkit. > came in by this exim bug: Just out of curiosity: do you know when the attacker succeeded? The DSA was published Dec 10th. Did you have a (theoretical) chance to install the patch beofre the attack? J. -- I am on th

Re: Debian (sid) painfully slow.

Neil Youngman: > > Since I "upgraded" to testing my system has been slow, occasionally to the > point that I have power cycled it because I couldn't get it to respond to > anything else. What's in the syslog? Does 'top' report what the system is doing? > It can take several seconds to pop up

Re: Debian (sid) painfully slow.

Neil Youngman: > On Friday 07 Jan 2011 16:53:05 Jochen Schulz wrote: >> Neil Youngman: >> >>> It can take several seconds to pop up a menu and, in the worst case, >>> swapping from one window to another can take minutes, even if the other >>> window is a

Re: Debian (sid) painfully slow.

Neil Youngman: > On Friday 07 Jan 2011 16:53:05 Jochen Schulz wrote: >> Neil Youngman: >>> Since I "upgraded" to testing my system has been slow, occasionally to >>> the point that I have power cycled it because I couldn't get it to >>> respond

Re: Debian (sid) painfully slow.

Neil Youngman: > On Saturday 08 Jan 2011 03:28:47 Jochen Schulz wrote: >> >> I wanted to make sure that the slow graphics you are abserving aren't >> just the result of a more general problem with your system. If compiling >> a kernel (with output redirection)

Re: [SOLVED] Is squeeze compatible with WD20EARS and other 2TB drives?

Klistvud: > > Before partitioning and formatting: > > obelix# hdparm -tT /dev/sda … > After partitioning the drive, aligned on modulo 8 sector boundaries: > > obelix:# hdparm -tT /dev/sda Your test is unsuitable to detect any alignment-related performance issues. J. -- No-one appears to be ab

Re: [SOLVED] Is squeeze compatible with WD20EARS and other 2TB drives?

Klistvud: > Dne, 09. 01. 2011 17:35:07 je Jochen Schulz napisal(a): >> Klistvud: >>> >>> After partitioning the drive, aligned on modulo 8 sector boundaries: >>> >>> obelix:# hdparm -tT /dev/sda >> >> Your test is unsuitable to detect

Re: Basic questions about Debian package tools

pt3...@gmail.com: > > Is it true I should avoid APT and use some other frontend or, better, > dpkg directly? Never use dpkg directly if you don't have to. Apt-get and aptitude are both good frontends with similar capabilities. Which one you use is mostly a question of personal preference. Only wh

Re: [SOLVED] Is squeeze compatible with WD20EARS and other 2TB drives?

Dotan Cohen: > > So despite the "feel" of the drive, the green SATA drive blows the two > "snappier" IDE drives out of the water. Remember you only tested near sequential access. That's what hard disks are still quite good at. What makes your system feel sluggish is random access and WD's 5400rpm

Re: [OT] Hard Drive Energy Not Worth Conserving drives?

teddi...@tmo.blackberry.net: > > I think what we mainly should take from all this is Western Digital > sucks and we should never buy their crap... Yeah, we should rush out and buy Samsung drives with their faulty firmware which "forgets" write operations if one sends the wrong IDE command at the

Re: [OT] Hard Drive Energy Not Worth Conserving drives?

Stan Hoeppner: > Jochen Schulz put forth on 1/11/2011 3:19 AM: > >> And those pesky 4k blocks will never take hold. 512 bytes were a good >> idea in the 1950s, so what's wrong with it now!? > > 4KB blocks are great. Too bad these drives report 512B blocks to the k

Re: [SOLVED] Is squeeze compatible with WD20EARS and other 2TB drives?

Stefan Monnier: > > I don't care much about performance: I have a WD10EADS in a wl700ge, for > example (yes, that's a home router with a 266MHz MIPS cpu and 64MB of > RAM: no fan, no noise). My two WD10EARS are sitting in a MiniITX case with four hotswap bays. The system runs 24/7, uses an Atom C

Re: Maximum size of temporary files

Rodolfo Medina: > > > All right, I didn't want to be prolix. This happens when I try to catch a > streaming video from internet. On my system, while the video is running from > the web, it is stored in the directory ~/.mozilla/firefox//Cache. > After it's all stored, I collect it from there and

Re: Maximum size of temporary files

Rodolfo Medina: > Jochen Schulz writes: >> >> What about about:config, media.cache_size? Just a guess. > > > It's not a matter of Cache size, that I already set to a very large value: > it's > a problem of single files size. I know, that'

Re: Help with a bash script please

Adrian Levi: > > This is going to be my new backup script, I don't want to keep you from learning shell scripting, but I generally advise against scripting your own backup solution. From my experience the result is error prone, tends to attract feature creep and is hard to deploy to new environme

Re: aptitude: set all packages auto-installed except given list?

Florian Kulzer: > > […] Backticks should also work if you want to avoid the $(...) > bashism. That's not a bashism, it's perfectly legal POSIX/SUS. http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/xcu_chap02.html#tag_02_06_03 J. -- In this bunker there are women and children. There are

Re: How do I install PHP together with Trac?

Daniel Andersson: > > # aptitude install php5 > The following NEW packages will be installed: > apache2-mpm-prefork{ab} libapache2-mod-php5{a} libonig2{a} > libqdbm14{a} php5 php5-cli{a} php5-common{a} php5-suhosin{a} > 0 packages upgraded, 8 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > Ne

Re: Let's talk about HTTPS Everywhere

Eduardo M KALINOWSKI: > > However, SSL has the added benefit that no one will be spying on > your traffic, even if it's basically public information that is > available via other means. ACK. And additionally, it becomes harder to distinguish "public" from "private" communication. Why should anyon

Re: external drive enclosures / esata / port multipliers?

Monte Milanuk: > > I'm somewhat inclined to go with option 'C': an HP Proliant > Microserver N36L - comes without OS (certified for RHEL5), 1GB ECC > memory + 160gb SATA drive. Move the OEM drive to the optical drive > bay, stuff the four HDD bays with 2TB drives and call it a day. A > little m

Re: Let's talk about compression rates

S Mathias: > > [7z] > > real 6m43.608s > user 10m1.092s > sys 0m3.957s > > [xz] > real 10m40.788s > user 10m33.363s > sys 0m2.106s Apparently, 7z uses multiple cores, while xz doesn't. Otherwise, performance is mostly the same. J. -- I wish I could do more to put the sparkle back into

Re: Question related to FDE (Full Disk Encryption) solution under Linux Debian Lenny

(Ccing the OP since I am unsure whether he reads the list.) Thomas Nguyen Van: > > Our company needs to encrypt hard drives on our machines running under > Linux Debian Lenny. […] Instead of reposting your question from last Wednesday, it would be more polite to answer to the replies you already

Re: java 5 in squeeze

Joe Riel: > Bob Proulx wrote: > >> If you absolutely need Java 1.5 then you will need to install the >> older version from the Lenny non-free archive. >> >> http://packages.debian.org/lenny/sun-java5-jre > > Right. How would I do that? In order to install packages from the non-free section,

Re: Apache SSL named based virtual hosts

Bob Proulx: > Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > >> ... Apache (from upstream) has supported it for a while and I've had >> it in production (system based on Ubuntu Maverick) for a number of >> months. > > Re: NameVirtualHost *:443 > > This is good to hear but if so then how do they pull that off?

Re: java 5 in squeeze

(Please don't Cc: people in the list unless requested.) Joe Riel: > On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 21:32:48 +0100 >> >> In order to install packages from the non-free section, just add >> "non-free" at the end of your sources.list lines. Example for squeeze: >> >> deb http://ftp2.de.debian.org/debian/ sque

Re: Let's talk about HTTPS Everywhere

Celejar: > > I understand that you're technically adding traffic and processor > overhead; the question is how much? My 1.66GHz atom D510 can encrypt/decrypt AES with ~20MByte/s on a single core. Typically, my wifi reaches only 10% of that throughput. Additionally, encryption is usually done by t

Re: Let's talk about HTTPS Everywhere

Celejar: > On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 22:33:28 +0100 > Jochen Schulz wrote: > >> Celejar: >>> >>> I understand that you're technically adding traffic and processor >>> overhead; the question is how much? >> >> My 1.66GHz atom D510 can encrypt

Re: putting "/tmp" to memory help

Celejar: > > I'm somewhat confused about this. My system has 2GB of RAM, and I have: > > $ uptime > 20:46:09 up 5 days, 5:30, 9 users, load average: 0.06, 0.09, 0.25 > > $ free > total used free sharedbuffers cached > Mem: 20651721047312101

Re: Apache SSL named based virtual hosts

Bob Proulx: > Jochen Schulz wrote: > >> Modern browsers appear to support that TLS extension: >> https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Server_Name_Indication#Browser\ > s > > I will implement this in a test installation and get some experience > with t

Re: Let's talk about HTTPS Everywhere

Celejar: > On Tue, 25 Jan 2011 07:58:28 +0100 >> >> A single core get's used 100% by the kworker thread. But actually it's >> not 20MB/s, but 25MB/s while reading (decrypting) and 35MB/s while >> writing (encrypting). I just tested it again. > > So does that mean that your wireless throughput wit

Re: Linux disk partition encryption

Celejar: > Brad Alexander wrote: > >> Linux admins used LUKS, and as a further step, I put /boot (the only >> partition that cannot be encrypted) on a USB stick, so that if anyone >> got the laptop, they had no access to the data. > > Why does putting /boot on a USB stick gain you anything? Bec

Re: Linux disk partition encryption

Celejar: > Jochen Schulz wrote: >> Celejar: >>> >>> Why does putting /boot on a USB stick gain you anything? >> >> Because an unencrypted /boot may be altered by an attacker without you >> noticing it. Theoretically, the kernel may be replaced by a

Re: Linux disk partition encryption

Sjoerd Hardeman: > Celejar schreef: >> >> Oh, basically the Evil Maid attack. Fair enough. But then you have to >> make sure the attacker can't flash the BIOS ... >> > Bother to explain how it works? If you have an encrypted partition, > no adapted kernel will ever be able to access it. Of cour

Re: loud f'ing noise

shawn wilson: > > second, where do i find the cause of this alarm? i looked in my the log > files of when it started (well, kern, messages, syslog) and sent along the > only thing i saw... now, this was a $400 supermicro motherboard when i > bought it a few years ago, I have a Supermicro board as

Re: Recommendation for buy Hardware

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh: > On Fri, 28 Jan 2011, Alfonso Ruiz wrote: >> The ST2000DL003 is 4096 bytes per sector, can this have problems with >> squeeze? > > Squeeze tries to align everything to 1MB boundaries, so it shouldn't cause > problems. Do you refer to the installer only, or does that

Re: java 5 in squeeze

Andrew McGlashan: > Vu Ngoc VU wrote: >> >> As sun-java5-jre doesn't exist on Squeeze, there is no clue. >> But if you want to install some package that have the same name on >> both distros, you can use option -t with apt-get. > > If sun-java5 continues to be important, then why not have a port

Re: Recommendation for buy Hardware

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh: > On Fri, 28 Jan 2011, Jochen Schulz wrote: >> Henrique de Moraes Holschuh: >>> >>> Squeeze tries to align everything to 1MB boundaries, so it shouldn't cause >>> problems. >> >> Do you refer to the installer o

Re: Help with Sun Java in Debian Sid

Nick Lidakis: > > In trying to track down what was going on, I realized I had the Sun Java jre > installed from the non-free repository and openjdk-6-jre > openjdk-6-jre-headless. I tried using update-aletrnatives --config java to > pick between the two to no avail. I removed the openjdk packages

Re: Help with Sun Java in Debian Sid

Nick Lidakis: > On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 01:49:10AM +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote: >> Java includes tons of alternatives, not only "java". I guess you still >> have other alternatives pointing to openjdk. Use >> 'update-java-alternatives' to fix them all at on

Re: How to use mount.crypt remount

T o n g: > > I can't figure out how to use the remount option of mount.crypt from its > man page. All the following that I've tried have failed: > > mount.crypt -o remount ro /dev/sdaxx /mnt/point > mount.crypt -v -o remount=ro /dev/sdaxx /mnt/point Use a comma to separate mount options, just

Re: sid: upgrade wants to remove xserver packages

Hugo Vanwoerkom: > > Doing a dist-upgrade in Sid this morning wants to remove all xserver > packages. Wait a bit? That's why I always preach not to run dist-upgrades (or full-upgrades, as aptitude calls them) but simple upgrades. That way you won't have to fear removing half of your system. J. -

Re: best labtop for debian

hamed hosseini: > i want buy labtop,tell me best labtop for debian os? > 900$-1300$ > "my choice is lenovo labtop" I have been using an X200 for the last two years and I am still very pleased with it. The X201 is a bit more expensive and features more recent CPUs, but you might want to consider ge

Re: Sticking with Lenny

Tony van der Hoff: > > I have a headless VPS running Lenny. For the time being, until I get > some time to attend to it, I wish to keep it that way. However, my > sources.list points to "stable": Then change that to "lenny" and run apt-get update. If you didn't install any packages from squeeze (w

Re: best labtop for debian

Andrei Popescu: > > Of course, a ThinkPad is not perfect for everyone, True. > here are some possible cons: > > - battery life is not very good Depends on the model and the battery. > - quite heavy Dito. My 12" X200 weighs less than 1.5kg. Quite portable, I would say. > - many models have o

Re: Debian way of compiling a kernel.

Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.: > > If you just want a .deb to install, I've heard there's a makefile target in > the kernel tarball that works fine. I believe but can't confirm that the > .debs generated by the makefile in the kernel tarball will properly invoke > the postint scripts that are used to

Re: Installation on SSD

Allan Wind: > On 2011-02-09T09:31:51, Brandon Ros wrote: >> >> What is the bottom line with: >> mount options (TRIM, noatime) > > All I did was ensuring that I was on a recent enough kernel for > TRIM support (2.6.33 and I think Debian added it to 2.6.32-12), > and added noatime and nodiratime

Re: Middle button copy/paste

Please don't top-post. Instead, trim the quotes and write your reply below or in-between. Radhakrishna Bhat: > > Not sure, but I think you need to be running 'gpm' daemon for middle button > paste to work. Gpm is only needed for mouse support in the VTs. X doesn't need that. J. -- Atrocities co

Re: OpenOffice has become LibreOffice?

John Jason Jordan: > > Does anyone know of a place that has a fairly detailed but not too > technical list of why one would want to use LibreOffice over OOo, > disregarding the open source issues. I would be surprised to find something like this. The fork has purely political reasons and as it is

Re: OpenOffice has become LibreOffice?

Adrian Levi: > On 16 February 2011 02:47, Jochen Schulz wrote: > >> I would be surprised to find something like this. The fork has purely >> political reasons and as it is still quite young, it shouldn't have >> deviated from OOo by much until now. > > LibreOf

Re: upgrade using aptitude

Qi Qi: > > I have been using debian unstable. After debian 6.0 released, aptitude > upgrading asks me to remove gnome, gnome-core, and > gnome-desktop-enviroment,etc. I doubt that you are using (safe-)upgrade. You are probably having trouble using full-upgrade which you didn't have if you used a

Re: upgrade using aptitude

Heddle Weaver: > On 16 February 2011 20:06, Jochen Schulz wrote: >> Qi Qi: >>> >>> I have been using debian unstable. After debian 6.0 released, aptitude >>> upgrading asks me to remove gnome, gnome-core, and >>> gnome-desktop-enviroment,etc. >>

Re: Disc encryptian.

Heddle Weaver: > > looking at the collective knowledge factor, what's the best disc encryption > package? > What's everybody using? > Two examples of Xzibit this week and hash changes showing up in the logs. > No damage, just nosy kids. I am not sure what you are saying, but be aware that disk en

Re: dd or cp over network: should I use scp?

Dotan Cohen: > > I need to dd or cp my laptop's harddrive over the LAN. For a reason > that I'd rather not get into I cannot remove the drive from the > laptop. What do you want to achieve? Cloning a filesystem that is in use always has some drawbacks, depending on the method. If you use LVM: use

Re: How to set battery charge thresh in Debian 6 ?

Please don't top-post. waterloo: > > In gentoo, I set battery thresh in > /sys/devices/platform/smapi/BAT0/start_charge_thresh . > But in Debian 6 I can not find that file . module-assistant auto-install tp-smapi-source J. -- The news at ten makes me peevish but animal hospital makes me cry. [

Re: How to set battery charge thresh in Debian 6 ?

green: > Jochen Schulz wrote at 2011-02-24 11:07 -0600: >> waterloo: >>> In gentoo, I set battery thresh in >>> /sys/devices/platform/smapi/BAT0/start_charge_thresh . >>> But in Debian 6 I can not find that file . >> >> module-assistant auto-inst

Re: Boot problem after crashed update

> I made a fresh install of debian squeeze just after its release and > dutifully installed the updates suggested by the package manager > whenever necessary. What's the content of your sources.list? > 2) The only thing that worked was switching between x (ctrl+alt+f7) and >the terminal (ctrl

Re: Boot problem after crashed update

Simon Hoerder: > > deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian sid main contrib That line points to unstable, aka "sid". Sid is the permanent alias for the unstable distribution, unlike the rolling aliases for testing and stable. > Assuming Sven is correct: > B) Am I correct that the easiest way to retu

Re: Boot problem after crashed update

Simon Hoerder: > > Is there an easy way to remove all unstable packages? No, at least no easy way I could come up with. You could use aptitude search to identify installed packages from unstable, remove them and reinstall them from squeeze. But since you apparently already have libc from unstable,

Re: Boot problem after crashed update

Javier Barroso: > > So, why not, simply wait one month without upgrading, remove sid from > your sources.list (and keep only wheezy), and then aptitude update; > aptitude safe-upgrade; aptitude full-upgrade ? Because the OP would still run some kind of more or less mixed wheezy/sid system even th

Re: Tracing Filesystem Accesses

Bob McConnell: > > Before we go any further, lets get a couple of things sorted out. > What type of SSD (Solid State Drive) are you all talking about here? > > If it contains Flash memory, What else do you have in mind? > then yes, there is a limit to the > number of ERASE cycles each sector ca

Re: Problem with the global weigh of several files

Gorka: > > I am looking for the best way of appending commands to obtain the global > amount of Mb of the modified files of my PC. > > Something like this: > > find ./ -mtime -7 | du -Sch In bytes: find ./ -mtime -7 -ls | awk 'BEGIN { s=0 } { s+=$7 } END { print s } ' You can use 'print s/10

Re: IndexError: list index out of range

lina: > > when I tried AutoDockTools, which showed me something like > > IndexError: list index out of range > > Is it something relevant to driver or Pmv or ? It's a programming error in the application. Either a real bug or "only" missing error handling. J. -- If I was Mark Chapman I would

Re: consolekit makes trouble

> Hello list, > > […] I saved my package list by dpkg --get-selections > package.txt, and > after the fresh installation, I could reinstall them again. I did this with > the command: apt-get install $(cut -f1 package.txt), which worked fine. Just as a side note: This procedure has the probably

Re: clone LVM disk to a larger disk

Peter Beck: > > Now I've got a 1TB disk which I would like to use instead of the > 160GB disk. My question: Can I just clone the small disk to the new > large disk and then resize the LV on it ? Does that work ? I would > say yes, but I've never done that, so I am not sure... ;) What I would prob

Re: clone LVM disk to a larger disk

Gilles Mocellin: > On dim. 05 juin 2011 16:51:26 CEST, Jochen Schulz > wrote: >> >> What I would probably do is: >> >> - install new disk alongside the old one >> - put one big partition on the new disk and pvcreate the partition >> - vgext

Re: clone LVM disk to a larger disk

Peter Beck: > On 06/05/2011 04:51 PM, Jochen Schulz wrote: >> What I would probably do is: >> >> - install new disk alongside the old one >> - put one big partition on the new disk and pvcreate the partition >> - vgextend the existing VG with the new partition &

Re: floppy drive in debian stable

[CC'ed as per request] Charlie Derr: > > mount: special device /dev/fd0 does not exist Your friend probably needs to load the 'floppy' module manually. To make the system auto-load it on boot, just add a line containing 'floppy' to /etc/modules. J. -- After the millenium I will shoot to kill.

Re: how to get to runlevel 3

Mark Panen: > > why is X running at runlevel 2 and not 5? As Dave said: in Debian, there's no difference between runlevels 2-5. J. -- Thy lyrics in pop songs seem to describe my life uncannily accurately. [Agree] [Disagree]

Re: Gnome desktop settings borked on testing after reboot

AG: > > These are some of the issues: > 1. Windows manager is "unknown" and no configuration tool is registered > 2. windows are launched at the top of the screen & I cannot drag > these elsewhere > 3. clicking a mouse on a window does not bring it to the fore > 4. there are no longer multiple wor

Re: After the Libc6 Fiasco

David Baron: > > Luckily, using the live-CD, I was able to download and re-install the > "testing" packages for libc6 and friends and finally get my system working > again. What problem are you referring to? The breakage from the missing symlinks on amd64? That issue has been fixed some weeks ag

Re: is debian on 7 dvds waqar from pakistan

Waqar Ali: > > Waqar ali from pakistan. little confusion about downloading iso > image of debian i386. tell me is debian on 7 dvds kindly tell me how to > download debian on 1 dvd waiting for your quick response You only need to download all DVDs if you actually need the complete set of

Re: /etc/hosts in debian resets itself on reboot

Tapas Mishra: > > I've been having a problem where when our vps provider decides to > restart the server (running Debian 5.0.8), the server fails to > remember changes to /etc/hosts. All I need is an database alias that > is used for the webapps on the server which points to 127.0.0.1 > localhost.

Re: Almost everyday a new issue: this time Amarok

AG: > > What on earth is going on here? Applications don't install > correctly, or they crash when opened? Welcome to testing! :) > What have I done wrong on this, why would an ordinary safe-update of > Amarok crash? Your question appears to imply that the word "safe" in "safe-ugrade" gives an

Re: Debian safe-upgrade to 6.0.2 - don't run within X session

Scott Ferguson: > > I've never had a desktop (KDE) session crash from an upgrade, > dist-upgrades are different. No, dist-upgrades aren't different. The only difference between aptitude's "safe-upgrade" and "full-upgrade" is that they use different algorithms for dependency resolution. The upgra

Re: Debian safe-upgrade to 6.0.2 - don't run within X session

Scott Ferguson: > On 28/06/11 00:54, Jochen Schulz wrote: >> >> No, dist-upgrades aren't different. > > If you believe that then file a bug report. > > ref: man apt-get Apparently we are talking at cross-purposes, but your quote doesn't refute my claim: ap

Re: I have big problem choose corect distribution Debian

Jozef Dunajčan: > > I want Debian only command promt without grafics(X, window). > Please help me choose Debian distribution. > I have industrial computer: > HDD: IDE 2GB > CPU: 486 66MHz > RAM: 64MB The installer for i386 should work: http://www.debian.org/releases/squeeze/debian-installer/ But

Re: I have big problem choose corect distribution Debian

lee: > Jochen Schulz writes: > >> Depending on what you want to use the machine for, you may be better >> off using something like Damn Small Linux or even OpenWrt. When using >> Debian, you will have to tweak the system quite a bit to ensure it >> runs as fast as

Re: clamav 0.97.1 not coming to squeeze-updates ?

Camaleón: > > I will try to keep lenny until reaches its end of life, which should > happen when wheezy comes out. NACK. Security support for stable releases ends one year after stable+1: http://www.debian.org/security/faq#lifespan Lenny will reach its EOL in January 2012. > Now I feel old.

Re: clamav 0.97.1 not coming to squeeze-updates ?

Camaleón: > On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 00:07:23 +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: >> >> NACK. Security support for stable releases ends one year after stable+1: >> >> http://www.debian.org/security/faq#lifespan >> >> Lenny will reach its EOL in January 2012. > &g

Re: clamav 0.97.1 not coming to squeeze-updates ?

Camaleón: > > I prefer installing from scratch, in-site upgrades is something I avoid > as much as I can :-) Forget your experiences with SuSE. This is Debian. :) (Disclaimer: I am still running one lenny system as well, but that's mostly because I need to prod my hosting provider to install a

security support for lenny / upgrades from lenny to wheezy (was: How to get the stable iso for lenny)

Steve McIntyre: > > We will cease support for Lenny early next year, Funny that you mention it. We just yesterday discussed whether this news item is still relevant today: / http://www.debian.org/News/2009/20090729 | Since Debian's last release happened on Feb. 14th 2009, there will | only be ap

Re: security support for lenny / upgrades from lenny to wheezy (was: How to get the stable iso for lenny)

Steve McIntyre: > On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 04:13:28PM +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: >> >> I argued that upgrading from 5.0 to 7.0 will not actually be supported >> (and hence, lenny will not be supported for longer than one year after >> squeeze release) because 6.0 wa

Re: Debian safe-upgrade to 6.0.2 - don't run within X session

D G Teed: > > I wonder if my previous problem was triggered by the > time of day as it was just around midnight. > > I noticed this in the aptitude output: > > Setting up gdm3 (2.30.5-6squeeze3) ... > Scheduling reload of GNOME Display Manager configuration: gdm3. That only means that gdm3 will

Re: cloning a lvm crypto volume to a bigger disk

Colin: > > So I have this machine with a lvm crypto volume done with a debian > testing install. This is on a disk with 160GB. > But now I would like to clone it to a new disk: 500GB. > What are my options? What's the order of the block layers? - LVM on top of dm-crypt on top of raw device, or -

Re: cloning a lvm crypto volume to a bigger disk

Colin: > > I don't remember the specifics when I did the install but here's what I got: Thanks. Now please add the output of 'pvs', 'lvs'. And just to make sure: you only want to move the encrypted volume to the new disk and keep the old one? J. -- I use a Playstation to block out the existence

Re: cloning a lvm crypto volume to a bigger disk

Jochen Schulz: > Colin: >> >> I don't remember the specifics when I did the install but here's what I got: > > Thanks. Now please add the output of 'pvs', 'lvs'. Erm, that probably sounded rude. What I forgot to add is that I should have asked

Re: cloning a lvm crypto volume to a bigger disk

Colin: > > I want to move the crypto volume to new disk so I can use it and boot > from the new. Thanks for the information. Now I know what your setup looks like. I am still a bit unsure about your exact partition layout, because I didn't ask for that either, but AFAICS you have at least this:

Re: bash script fails in squeeze

Bonno Bloksma: > > This bash script has been doing it's job for the past few years but > suddenly stopped working in squeeze. Each part seems to work but the > complete script does not. :-( I must admit that I am not really inclined to try to understand what your scripts should do and and why the

Re: cloning a lvm crypto volume to a bigger disk

Colin: > > Wow ... now I have a lot to do :-) Hey, it's only about seven comands, plus some file editing. :) Don't let my lengthy explanations scare you from doing it that way. It's a great feeling to shuffle an OS around under your butt while it's running! > Just glancing through I'm thinking if

Re: clamav 0.97.1 not coming to squeeze-updates ?

D G Teed: >> > > It is finicky.  I played with various repo sources and once did > see clamav package group appear as possible.  I said 'n' to abort > because I wanted to understand exactly where the package was > coming from. You can use 'apt-cache policy $package' to see which source apt choos

Re: vimdiff

shawn wilson: > > could someone please tell me how i'm messing up? i know they didn't > remove vimdiff from debian stable: > > > \h:\w\$ vimdiff > This Vim was not compiled with the diff feature. There are several vim packages with different features compiled in. Try running 'dpkg -l vim\*' to s

Re: pdf tool to stitch 2 pages together side by side

T o n g: > > Further onto the thread "stitching together 2 pdf files", of all the > tools mentioned, which one do you think (no guess please) can stitch 2 > pages together side by side from the same pdf file. I.e., think of doing > the 2-up printing (onto the paper), that's the effect that I wa

Re: USB device attached via RS232 adaptor

Dotan Cohen: >>> >>> A neighbor with an old Debian (probably etch but could be sarge) >>> machine needs to know where a USB smart card reader attached via RS232 >>> adaptor >> >> Huh??? > > He's got a few of these connected via serial adaptors: > http://www.infinityusb.com/default.asp?show=produc

Re: debian on routerstation pro

Jozsi Vadkan: > > on a lenny/amd64bit pc, i give out the: > > # debootstrap lenny --arch=mips something/ > I: Retrieving Release > E: unknown location something/dists/lenny/Release > # > > command. "something" is a mounted partition of an usb drive. AFAICS, you need to pass the "suite" argument

Re: curious gnome desktop behaviour after upgrade

Camaleón: > On Wed, 05 May 2010 10:36:34 +0100, John O Laoi wrote: > >> What would ye think of doing >> >> aptitude purge gnome >> followed by >> aptitude install gnome >> >> Is that likely to break lots of other things? Usually not, but I don't see the point in doing that. It appears you would

Re: (OT) suggestion on terse wording of "IT Helpdesk"

Zhang Weiwu: > Hello. In our company we use a email naming convention like this: > > Zhang Weiwu on Holz Project > > Problem being when a special email address is needed for Office IT, it > become too long for many web forms and email clients: Are you sure that the problem is the length of the

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