Configure postfix to send out emails on local machine

2008-01-21 Thread rockymaxsource
Hey, Our company has a domain www.ourcompany.com registered and the site is hosted at a hosting company. The company does not provide SMTP service neither does my ISP. But I will need to send out e-newsletters once a while. My local machine is running Debian. I'm thinking of setting up my local bo

Re: Problem with console and locales

2008-01-21 Thread Alejandro Aguila Sáinz
On 1/21/08, Lennart Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * Alejandro Aguila Sáinz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-01-21 21:59-0600] > >Hi, now I sent dpkg-reconfigure again and I get this: > >debian:/home/alekz# dpkg-reconfigure locales > >perl: warning: Setting locale failed. > >perl:

Re: Via UniChrome Pro IGP with Sid's X server

2008-01-21 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 10:58:12PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 10:29:30PM +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > With the following system, xorg can only use the "vesa" video driver, > > and not the "via" one. This is an on-board display adapter, and the > > system has no extr

Re: help installing to this machine?

2008-01-21 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 09:31:09PM -0200, Bruno Buys wrote: > Hi all, > I am helping my friend install debian in this machine: > > CPU Intel Q6600 - CORE2 QUAD Q6600 1066 Mhz 2.4 Ghz > - Mobo Intel DQ35MPE Sound / VGA / SATA / GBLAN > - CPU Intel Q6600 in a box > - 4.0 Gb mem DDR2 800 Mhz (4 x 1

Re: etch --> testing

2008-01-21 Thread Rick Dooling
On Jan 21, 7:20 pm, charlie derr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > He's really eager to upgrade from etch to something newer. You didn't say why? Is there a particular program he craves a newer version of? I went the Ubuntu route a couple of years ago. It's fun until you do a routine update and every

Re: Problem with console and locales

2008-01-21 Thread Alejandro Aguila Sáinz
Hi, now I sent dpkg-reconfigure again and I get this: debian:/home/alekz# dpkg-reconfigure locales perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = "Es_es", LC_ALL = "Es_es", LANG = "es_MX" are supported and install

Re: Via UniChrome Pro IGP with Sid's X server

2008-01-21 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 10:29:30PM +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > With the following system, xorg can only use the "vesa" video driver, > and not the "via" one. This is an on-board display adapter, and the > system has no extra card. What error does xorg give you when you tell it to use the via dri

Re: problemas

2008-01-21 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 11:20:51PM +0100, Carlos Enrique Carleos Artime wrote: > Hello! > > I have a home network with three computers (A, B and C). > > Computer A has a direct connection to internet by a cable-modem. > It has interfaces: > - eth0 to internet, uses DHCP > - eth1 to computer B, st

Re: Problem with console and locales

2008-01-21 Thread Alejandro Aguila Sáinz
Hey there! Thanks for your interest, and yes the font I have supports my special characters, and everything was ok untill I reconfigured locales. Thanks On 1/21/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 22/01/2008, Alejandro Aguila Sainz wrote: > > Hi, I have a problem with my conso

Re: Problem with console and locales

2008-01-21 Thread kumar . appaiah
On 22/01/2008, Alejandro Aguila Sainz wrote: > Hi, I have a problem with my console, I changed my locales by using > dpkg-reconfigure locales but now the console is not taking all the > characters, I'm from Mexico so I use locales es_MX UTF-8, and console can't > see or type acents, if someone can

Re: recent updates

2008-01-21 Thread Frank McCormick
On Mon, 21 Jan 2008 20:39:25 -0500 Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 21 Jan 2008 05:50:44 -0600 (CST) > Jude DaShiell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Is anyone else using pppoeconf also noticing a problem with the > > most recent version of dhclient where pppoeconf has to be run after

Problem with console and locales

2008-01-21 Thread Alejandro Aguila Sáinz
Hi, I have a problem with my console, I changed my locales by using dpkg-reconfigure locales but now the console is not taking all the characters, I'm from Mexico so I use locales es_MX UTF-8, and console can't see or type acents, if someone can help me would be great! Thanks. -- Alejandro Aguila

Re: Wrong size on the screen

2008-01-21 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 05:29:55PM -0600, Jack Barnett wrote: > I have two kittens and they attack my linuxs too! > Why do pets like to bite the linux? Because it doesn't have spines like OpenBSD's Puffy. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". T

Re: Where do you put your swap partition?

2008-01-21 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 05:40:04PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > As I see it, the problem with swap partitions is their static > nature. (Once you partition the whole disk, it's partitioned. Of > course, you can leave some un-allocated space on the disk, but that > seems a waste.) So, if a year

Re: Where do you put your swap partition?

2008-01-21 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/21/08 19:44, Andres Migliazzo wrote: > Well... > As far as now we have advanced in discussing where the swap partition > should be (the location on the hard disk)... or even if is convenient to > have a swap file or a disk partition... > Are we i

Re: etch --> testing

2008-01-21 Thread steve
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 charlie derr wrote: | An associate is not quite as avid a linux user as I am (though he's been | at it at least as long). He's got a machine that's running etch that he | uses as a general all-purpose workstation desktop (gnome, icedove, | iceweasel,

Re: Where do you put your swap partition?

2008-01-21 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/21/08 17:58, John Hasler wrote: > Ron Johnson writes: >> So, if a year down the road, you add more RAM and commensurately want to >> increase the swap space, you're stuck. > > Adding memory is not a reason to increase swap. The old "you need 2x

Re: Where do you put your swap partition?

2008-01-21 Thread Andres Migliazzo
Well... As far as now we have advanced in discussing where the swap partition should be (the location on the hard disk)... or even if is convenient to have a swap file or a disk partition... Are we in conditions to make a wrap up and a close up conclusion? What do you think? On Jan 21, 2008 10:3

Re: recent updates

2008-01-21 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 21 Jan 2008 05:50:44 -0600 (CST) Jude DaShiell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is anyone else using pppoeconf also noticing a problem with the most > recent version of dhclient where pppoeconf has to be run after each reboot > in order to connect to the internet at all? The dhclient softwa

Re: etch --> testing

2008-01-21 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
charlie derr wrote: An associate is not quite as avid a linux user as I am (though he's been at it at least as long). He's got a machine that's running etch that he uses as a general all-purpose workstation desktop (gnome, icedove, iceweasel, ooo, emacs, cups, and a bunch more often-used apps)

Re: Where do you put your swap partition?

2008-01-21 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 21 Jan 2008 20:51:14 -0200 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 21 Jan 2008, Thomas Flaig wrote: > > Am Montag, 21. Januar 2008 15:50 schrieb Ron Johnson: > > > On 01/21/08 03:16, Thomas Flaig wrote: > > > > Am Samstag, 19. Januar 2008 03:30 schrieb Ron Johnson:

Re: Creating CD's frpm .iso files

2008-01-21 Thread Angus Auld
--- Robert Hodgins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I am trying to use the "InfraRecorder" program > that I downloaded from > > the Ubuntu web site. > > I've used CdBurnerXP Pro with no problems: > http://cdburnerxp.se/ >> Are you trying to burn the iso's und

etch --> testing

2008-01-21 Thread charlie derr
An associate is not quite as avid a linux user as I am (though he's been at it at least as long). He's got a machine that's running etch that he uses as a general all-purpose workstation desktop (gnome, icedove, iceweasel, ooo, emacs, cups, and a bunch more often-used apps). He's really eager t

Re: vanishing spam -- a puzzle

2008-01-21 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 21 Jan 2008, Michael Shuler wrote: > On 01/21/2008 11:42 AM, Russell L. Harris wrote: >> About a week ago, the volume of spam (flagged by SpamAssassin at the >> outfit which hosts my web site and supplies me with a pop3 account) >> suddenly plumeted by an order of magnitude. I had been rec

Re: Where do you put your swap partition?

2008-01-21 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 21 Jan 2008, John Hasler wrote: > Ron Johnson writes: > > So, if a year down the road, you add more RAM and commensurately want to > > increase the swap space, you're stuck. > > Adding memory is not a reason to increase swap. No, but if you use the swap partition for hibernation, you migh

Re: Where do you put your swap partition?

2008-01-21 Thread John Hasler
Ron Johnson writes: > So, if a year down the road, you add more RAM and commensurately want to > increase the swap space, you're stuck. Adding memory is not a reason to increase swap. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contac

Enabling TLS support for Exim as server ?

2008-01-21 Thread Felix Karpfen
As a perennial Newbie, I find the explanation in "/usr/share/doc/exim4-base/examples/exim-gencert" a bit too cryptic. What information do I need to have to hand in order to run the above-mentioned script - i.e which requested inputs are mandatory and which are optional? I would like to be a

help installing to this machine?

2008-01-21 Thread Bruno Buys
Hi all, I am helping my friend install debian in this machine: CPU Intel Q6600 - CORE2 QUAD Q6600 1066 Mhz 2.4 Ghz - Mobo Intel DQ35MPE Sound / VGA / SATA / GBLAN - CPU Intel Q6600 in a box - 4.0 Gb mem DDR2 800 Mhz (4 x 1 Gb) - Video GF 8600GT 512 Mb PCI-E, XFX, 128 bits - HD 500 Gb SATA II, 8

Re: Wrong size on the screen

2008-01-21 Thread Jack Barnett
Karl Gustafsson wrote: Hi! I've got a little problem with the size configuration when I'm running Debian. The thing is that my dog bite the screen on my Macbook so I must use a external screen. But instead of getting a nice view of everything I get the configuration 1024x768 when the screen se

Re: Where do you put your swap partition?

2008-01-21 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/21/08 16:51, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Mon, 21 Jan 2008, Thomas Flaig wrote: >> Am Montag, 21. Januar 2008 15:50 schrieb Ron Johnson: >>> On 01/21/08 03:16, Thomas Flaig wrote: Am Samstag, 19. Januar 2008 03:30 schrieb Ron John

Re: Creating CD's frpm .iso files

2008-01-21 Thread joseph lockhart
--- Joe Hopkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a very basic Debian question. I downloaded > all of the 25 Debian .iso files and want to > convert/write them to CDs. I am trying to use the > "InfraRecorder" program that I downloaded from the > Ubuntu web site. (I also plan to install Ubunt

Re: package names in aptitude

2008-01-21 Thread Javier Barroso
On Jan 21, 2008 11:37 PM, Rick Pasotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Aptitude is displaying some package names with a '{a}' tacked on the > end. What does that mean? >From /usr/share/doc/aptitude/NEWS: "Here {a} indicates that a package was automatically installed or removed, and {u} indicates tha

problemas

2008-01-21 Thread Carlos Enrique Carleos Artime
Hello! I have a home network with three computers (A, B and C). Computer A has a direct connection to internet by a cable-modem. It has interfaces: - eth0 to internet, uses DHCP - eth1 to computer B, static IP-address: 192.168.0.2 Its operating system is Debian etch, with default IPMASQ configu

Re: Creating CD's frpm .iso files

2008-01-21 Thread Robert Hodgins
> I am trying to use the "InfraRecorder" program that I downloaded from > the Ubuntu web site. I've used CdBurnerXP Pro with no problems: http://cdburnerxp.se/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: vanishing spam -- a puzzle

2008-01-21 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jan 21, 2008, at 1:14 PM, John Hasler wrote: Russel writes: The spam simply has disappeared. You can have mine. Neither the hosting outfit nor my local ISP has an explanation. One of them probably started doing some filtering, using an RBL, checking rDNS, etc. My guess is that th

Re: One Button Backup--USB External HD

2008-01-21 Thread Gilles Mocellin
Le Monday 21 January 2008 03:05:38 David S, vous avez écrit : > Gilles Mocellin wrote: > > Argh ! > > My freeagent just died in two weeks. > > Permanent bus reset, and finally, I/O errors and no more access to the > > disk. I'm not the only one. Theses FreeAgent seems really fragile. > > I've also

Creating CD's frpm .iso files

2008-01-21 Thread Joe Hopkins
I have a very basic Debian question. I downloaded all of the 25 Debian .iso files and want to convert/write them to CDs. I am trying to use the "InfraRecorder" program that I downloaded from the Ubuntu web site. (I also plan to install Ubuntu's version of Linux on some unused PCs that I have.

Re: Where do you put your swap partition?

2008-01-21 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 21 Jan 2008, Thomas Flaig wrote: > Am Montag, 21. Januar 2008 15:50 schrieb Ron Johnson: > > On 01/21/08 03:16, Thomas Flaig wrote: > > > Am Samstag, 19. Januar 2008 03:30 schrieb Ron Johnson: > > > > I think it's foolish to have a swap *partition* in the 21st century. > > > But there are o

Re: wlan in etch

2008-01-21 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 12:44 +, Jose Rodriguez wrote: > >After running "dmesg |grep 2200" > > > > I got the following output: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dmesg |grep 2200 > > ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.1.2kmq > > ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporatio

no snd with Intel ICH5

2008-01-21 Thread J. Price
Installed etch, 2.6.18-5-686 ran alsaconf; sees the controller. Unmuted in alsamixer. Verified user is in audio group. etc/modules is empty Perhaps I mistakenly did something during installation?? Ran modprobe -l and it showed the modules Intel8x0. Ran modprobe -v and copy/pasted the full

package names in aptitude

2008-01-21 Thread Rick Pasotto
Aptitude is displaying some package names with a '{a}' tacked on the end. What does that mean? -- "Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have." -- Dale Carnegie Rick Pasotto[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: installing packages from iso file

2008-01-21 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 07:00:27PM +0100, Paul Csanyi wrote: > Hello! > > I installed Debian Etch on a PC box with netinstall CD. > > Now I want to remove CD driver from this box. > > But I want before that to copy the netisntall.iso file > to HDD on that box. > > So, when I have removed the CD

Via UniChrome Pro IGP with Sid's X server

2008-01-21 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
Hi With the following system, xorg can only use the "vesa" video driver, and not the "via" one. This is an on-board display adapter, and the system has no extra card. $ lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN700/VN800/P4M800CE/Pro Host Bridge 00:00.1 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, I

Re: umask

2008-01-21 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 10:02:39AM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 12:20:24PM +0100, Christian Ruffer wrote: > > i want to change the umask permanently for one user. > > > > 1. I change the .bash_profile file. uncommented umask > > nothing > > Have you tried setting it in .

KVM problems in sid

2008-01-21 Thread Jonathan Doe
Hello, I have just noticed a problem with kvm in Debian Sid. Whenever I try to launch an instance of kvm, be it a disk virtual machine image I have already made or a livecd, a window for kvm appears and just stays blank. If I try to do the same thing with qemu everything works fine. If I try to

Re: Wrong size on the screen

2008-01-21 Thread Charlie
On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, Karl Gustafsson shared this with us all: >--} Hi! >--} I've got a little problem with the size configuration when I'm running >--} Debian. >--} The thing is that my dog bite the screen on my Macbook so I must use a >--} external screen. >--} But instead of getting a nice view o

fails to make a bootable initramfs

2008-01-21 Thread Zoho Vignochi
Hello: I have a root partition on lvm which is encrypted, setup during installation. When I installed a new kernel (2.6.23-1-686) from the repositories it fails to create a initramfs that recognizes my root partition. It fails saying "Begin: Waiting for root filesystem...". After a few moments it

Re: Wrong size on the screen

2008-01-21 Thread Magnus Therning
Karl Gustafsson wrote: > Hi! > I've got a little problem with the size configuration when I'm running > Debian. > The thing is that my dog bite the screen on my Macbook so I must use a > external screen. > But instead of getting a nice view of everything I get the configuration > 1024x768 when the

wodim writes DVD

2008-01-21 Thread Misko
I am trying to burn iso image to DVD with no success. Already wasted 5 discs and have no clue what is wrong. Here is what dmesg report after wodim filed to write to DVD: $ dmesg | tail attempt to access beyond end of device hdc: rw=0, want=68, limit=4 isofs_fill_super: bread failed, dev=hdc, iso_

Re: installing packages from iso file

2008-01-21 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Jan 21, 2008 10:00 AM, Paul Csanyi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello! > > I installed Debian Etch on a PC box with netinstall CD. > > Now I want to remove CD driver from this box. > > But I want before that to copy the netisntall.iso file > to HDD on that box. > > So, when I have removed the CD

Re: Sarge r7 CDs released

2008-01-21 Thread Jens Franik
Guten Tag Mattias Wadenstein, am Sonntag, 20. Januar 2008 um 10:29 schriebst Du: >>> http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/archive/3.1_r7/ > They are now authorized on the tracker I put on my seeding this images: debian-31r7-i386-binary-1.iso debian-31r7-i386-binary-2.iso debian-31r7-i386-busine

Re: powerline ethernet

2008-01-21 Thread Scott Lair
Barry Samuels wrote: > On 17/01/08 18:14:05, Scott Lair wrote: > > Barry Samuels wrote: > > > > > > I have recently purchased two Solwise 200Mbps > > > NET-PL-200AV-PUSH. They installed (nothing other than plugging them > > > in really) and worked. I've had no trouble with them and transfer > > >

Unable to play mp3 files after yesterday's dist-upgrade on Lenny

2008-01-21 Thread Amogh Hooshdar
till yesterday, mp3 files were running fine using totem, xine as well as VLC. But after a dist-upgrade, it refuses to play in these players. Currently I am able to play mp3 files with mplayer only. This is the error message I get when I try to play them with various applications. xine - xine engi

Re: how to install sun java plugin for iceweasel in Debian?

2008-01-21 Thread Amogh Hooshdar
but in your aptitude list I can't find sun java plugin anywhere. and adobe flash player works fine on my system. I am unable to get java plugin with iceweasel. On Jan 17, 2008 3:59 PM, Wackojacko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chris Howie wrote: > > On Jan 13, 2008 1:56 PM, Amogh Hooshdar <[EMAIL PR

Re: vanishing spam -- a puzzle

2008-01-21 Thread John Hasler
Russel writes: > The spam simply has disappeared. You can have mine. > Neither the hosting outfit nor my local ISP has an explanation. One of them probably started doing some filtering, using an RBL, checking rDNS, etc. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a sub

Re: mp3 file manager similar to midnight commander

2008-01-21 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 08:37:42AM +0100, dulev wrote: > > I am in search of a file manager similar to midnight commander, but > > for use with mp3 files. > > sudo apt-cache show moc Only if you do some tricks with the ExecCommand configs. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, yo

Re: vanishing spam -- a puzzle

2008-01-21 Thread Michael Shuler
On 01/21/2008 11:42 AM, Russell L. Harris wrote: About a week ago, the volume of spam (flagged by SpamAssassin at the outfit which hosts my web site and supplies me with a pop3 account) suddenly plumeted by an order of magnitude. I had been receiving about a thousand spam mails each day; now I a

Wrong size on the screen

2008-01-21 Thread Karl Gustafsson
Hi! I've got a little problem with the size configuration when I'm running Debian. The thing is that my dog bite the screen on my Macbook so I must use a external screen. But instead of getting a nice view of everything I get the configuration 1024x768 when the screen seems to be 1300x800 or so

Re: vanishing spam -- a puzzle

2008-01-21 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Quoth Russell L. Harris: > Is perhaps a third party intercepting my mail and discarding spam? Is > there a way for me to investigate this possibility? Or perhaps some Botnet that had your e-mail address went down? Some of them crank out several thousands of e-mails a day, if one or two went down

installing packages from iso file

2008-01-21 Thread Paul Csanyi
Hello! I installed Debian Etch on a PC box with netinstall CD. Now I want to remove CD driver from this box. But I want before that to copy the netisntall.iso file to HDD on that box. So, when I have removed the CD drive, I want that, that apt can use this iso file to install some packages. Ho

vanishing spam -- a puzzle

2008-01-21 Thread Russell L. Harris
About a week ago, the volume of spam (flagged by SpamAssassin at the outfit which hosts my web site and supplies me with a pop3 account) suddenly plumeted by an order of magnitude. I had been receiving about a thousand spam mails each day; now I am receiving only about a hundred. The spam simply

Re: Where do you put your swap partition?

2008-01-21 Thread Thomas Flaig
Am Montag, 21. Januar 2008 17:34 schrieb Ron Johnson: > On 01/21/08 09:53, Thomas Flaig wrote: > > Am Montag, 21. Januar 2008 15:50 schrieb Ron Johnson: > >> On 01/21/08 03:16, Thomas Flaig wrote: > >>> Am Samstag, 19. Januar 2008 03:30 schrieb Ron Johnson: > I think it's foolish to have a swa

Re: unable to su to root, sudo works SOLVED sort of

2008-01-21 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Damon L. Chesser wrote: subject says it all, from auth.log: Jan 19 15:56:06 dam-main su[5800]: pam_unix(su:auth): authentication failure; logname=damon uid=1000 euid=1000 tty=pts/2 ruser=damon rhost= user=root Jan 19 15:56:09 dam-main su[5800]: pam_authenticate: Authentication failure Jan 19

Re: Where do you put your swap partition?

2008-01-21 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/21/08 09:53, Thomas Flaig wrote: > Am Montag, 21. Januar 2008 15:50 schrieb Ron Johnson: >> On 01/21/08 03:16, Thomas Flaig wrote: >>> Am Samstag, 19. Januar 2008 03:30 schrieb Ron Johnson: I think it's foolish to have a swap *partition* in

Re: umask

2008-01-21 Thread Christian Ruffer
Sorry, I changed it in user/.bashrc What can I do? I want umask for this user permanently as 002. concarnet - Die Internetlösung für Fleischer. Fabian Krumbholz & Christian Ruffer GbR Bayerstraße 89, D-80335 München Fon: (089) 52031048 Fax: (089) 52031053 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.concarnet.

Re: Few Questions About Debian

2008-01-21 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 04:55:25PM +0100, ??. wrote: > Quoth Depo Catcher: > > Say I want > > to apply all the security patches [or to get all updates] for my version, > > is there an easy way to do that? > > Debian stable is already very secure, the mainta

Re: Server fails to boot after upgrade

2008-01-21 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 10:54:59AM +0100, Thomas Damgaard wrote: > On Jan 19, 2008 5:14 AM, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 10:51:13PM +0100, Thomas Damgaard wrote: > > > > > I do not have any monitor or a keyboard, so I cannot see exactly what > > > is happe

Re: umask

2008-01-21 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 12:20:24PM +0100, Christian Ruffer wrote: > i want to change the umask permanently for one user. > > 1. I change the .bash_profile file. uncommented umask > nothing Have you tried setting it in .bashrc? Depending on how a shell comes into existence, .bash_profile may or m

Re: unable to su to root, sudo works

2008-01-21 Thread joseph lockhart
did you check to make sure that the appropriate users are added to "wheel" group? gpasswd -a wheel or usermod -G wheel also check /etc/pam.d/su if PAM is installed jwlockhart Registered Linux User #458799 Registered Kubuntu User #19678 this user is penguin powered _

Re: Few Questions About Debian

2008-01-21 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Quoth Depo Catcher: > During install there is an option to install to encrypted disk which is > pretty sweet sounding. > How does that work, I'm assuming everything but /boot is encrypted? Does > it use GELI or something else? I'll go down that road soon, too. I'm still on unencrypted fs' but

Re: Troubles with Apache 2 And Subversion (Etch)

2008-01-21 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Quoth Sergio Cuéllar Valdés: > You said you are using trac. Have you already configured your trac to > point to your svn repository ? If you are using trac, I think you dont > need what you are doing with your Apache. > > You can run Trac with its standalone server or with Apache. Try first > with

Re: Delete QT4 library

2008-01-21 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Quoth David S: > hce wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Due to limited root space, I am going to delete QT4 library. I am not > > sure if following library is used by any system applications or not as > > I am using Opera and Open office. Would be safe if I delete following > > package permenentaly by using p

Re: umask

2008-01-21 Thread Christian Ruffer
But this worx only once? After a new login all settings are gone :( concarnet - Die Internetlösung für Fleischer. Fabian Krumbholz & Christian Ruffer GbR Bayerstraße 89, D-80335 München Fon: (089) 52031048 Fax: (089) 52031053 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.concarnet.de/ David Paleino schrieb: I

Re: Where do you put your swap partition?

2008-01-21 Thread Thomas Flaig
Am Montag, 21. Januar 2008 15:50 schrieb Ron Johnson: > On 01/21/08 03:16, Thomas Flaig wrote: > > Am Samstag, 19. Januar 2008 03:30 schrieb Ron Johnson: > > > I think it's foolish to have a swap *partition* in the 21st century. > > But there are other reasons for a swap partition in the 21st centu

Re: which to use: ext3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS?

2008-01-21 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 07:22:40PM -0800, Joe Brenner wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Reiserfs = designed by one person who has had some kind of problems (I > > haven't looked into it). If damage occurs (e.g. unclean shutdown), may > > not be able to fix the damage and

Re: Where do you put your swap partition?

2008-01-21 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/21/08 03:16, Thomas Flaig wrote: > Am Samstag, 19. Januar 2008 03:30 schrieb Ron Johnson: >> I think it's foolish to have a swap *partition* in the 21st century. > It is not. > If you mean that you should install enough RAM to avoid swapping, tha

Re: OT: How to detect a keypress, and in which language?

2008-01-21 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 21/01/2008, Joseph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >silently ignore keypresses while the speaker is already beeping. The married men on the list will no doubt recognize that tactic. Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת

Re: Few Questions About Debian

2008-01-21 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Depo Catcher wrote: I've played around with this a bit and considering switching over my workstation to Debian. Currently I use FreeBSD - but the Virtual Machine software I use (VMWare) it's supported as well as on Linux. Few questions I have: During install there is an option to install to

Re: Few Questions About Debian

2008-01-21 Thread Sam Leon
Depo Catcher wrote: > > I've played around with this a bit and considering switching over my > workstation to Debian. > Currently I use FreeBSD - but the Virtual Machine software I use > (VMWare) it's supported as well as on Linux. > > Few questions I have: > > During install there is an option to

Re: [OT] where is conio.h with getch()?

2008-01-21 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: You can use ncurses, but if it is only a getch() you want, you can implement it using select() (not a function which is easy to understand BTW). Just google for "getch" together with "select". A sample implementation is here: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/1999-08/msg0038

Re: wlan in etch

2008-01-21 Thread Jose Rodriguez
>After running "dmesg |grep 2200" > > I got the following output: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dmesg |grep 2200 > ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.1.2kmq > ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation > ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection > ip

Re: OT: How to detect a keypress, and in which language?

2008-01-21 Thread Joseph
As others suggested, check python. It's not to difficult and most of it is cross platform. There are several ways to get chars, both blocking and non-blocking. I was thinking about curses, but there are other ways. >From python docs: > While curses is most widely used in the Unix environment, ve

Re: Where do you put your swap partition?

2008-01-21 Thread Thomas Flaig
Am Samstag, 19. Januar 2008 03:30 schrieb Ron Johnson: > I think it's foolish to have a swap *partition* in the 21st century. It is not. If you mean that you should install enough RAM to avoid swapping, that's ok. But there are other reasons for a swap partition in the 21st century: * There are

recent updates

2008-01-21 Thread Jude DaShiell
Is anyone else using pppoeconf also noticing a problem with the most recent version of dhclient where pppoeconf has to be run after each reboot in order to connect to the internet at all? The dhclient software when run is claiming option space encapsulate doesn't exist but is configured. The m

Re: umask

2008-01-21 Thread David Paleino
Il giorno Mon, 21 Jan 2008 12:20:24 +0100 Christian Ruffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: > Hello, > > i want to change the umask permanently for one user. > > 1. I change the .bash_profile file. uncommented umask > nothing Did you source it once edited? $ source ~/.bash_profile or $ . ~/.b

Re: OT: How to detect a keypress, and in which language?

2008-01-21 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 19/01/2008, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey folks! > > Apologies for the very off-topic post; I've been googling for the answer > off-and-on for two days unsuccessfully, so I've finally decided to turn > to the smartest group of people around. > > I want to write a basic little Morse

umask

2008-01-21 Thread Christian Ruffer
Hello, i want to change the umask permanently for one user. 1. I change the .bash_profile file. uncommented umask nothing 2. I added a .pam_umask file with 002 in it. nothing 3. I tryed to change umask for all in /etc/pam.d/common-session nothing 4. I changed /etc/passwd for all. This worx. But

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2008-01-21 Thread ZENYTH - Silver Street Management
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Re: SSH slowness

2008-01-21 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 11:55:07PM +0100, Javier Barroso wrote: > On Jan 20, 2008 11:29 PM, Curt Howland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Does ssh do a dns lookup or something that could be messing up? > > > Add the server at /etc/hosts and see if it is the problem. (Yes, ssh plays > with dns look

Re: Re: [OT] where is conio.h with getch()?

2008-01-21 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
You can use ncurses, but if it is only a getch() you want, you can implement it using select() (not a function which is easy to understand BTW). Just google for "getch" together with "select". A sample implementation is here: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/1999-08/msg00385.html Regards, Jan -- T

Re: How to link name to IP address in DHCP request

2008-01-21 Thread Jochen Schulz
hce: > > I have several computers which all use DHCP (udhcpc) to get IP > addresses. They have simple web server on it so I can connect it to > use a brower such as http://192.168.0.6. The problem is I don't know > the IP address it is assigned to. How can I send DHCP request to link > computer's

Re: OT: How to detect a keypress, and in which language?

2008-01-21 Thread Ken Irving
On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 04:27:50PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Wayne Topa wrote: >> Kent West([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: >>> Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Kent West wrote: > All I want to do is to detect two keys, say the left- and > right-shift keys, or the < and > key