Re: sshd

2009-11-01 Thread OmPs
do ssh -v localhost after installing the sshd services and starting the ssh server. This will give you the details the what is causing the connection to fail. On 01/11/2009, Jari Fredriksson wrote: > > > 31.10.2009 15:43, Roy Stuivenberg kirjoitti: > >> (Connection failed Service sshd >> >>

Re: Recommended Linux Backup

2009-11-01 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-11-01 02:21:45, lrhorer wrote: > > On Thursday October 29 2009 5:14:44 pm lrhorer wrote: > >> 1. Back up to removable hard drives > >> 2. Span multiple target volumes > >> 3. Maintain a virtual fileysystem so all snapshots look like a > >> single backup to the user. > >> 4. Maintain an easily

Re: Recommended Linux Backup

2009-11-01 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-11-01 02:01:18, lrhorer wrote: > > I don't see any mention of that venerable *nix utility, dump. > > Other than not looking like a mounted filesystem and possibly the > > sheer size of the data, dump should fulfill your requirements. > > I thought about dump, but I did notthink it

Re: a cautionary tale w/ successful recovery

2009-11-01 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 1 Nov 2009 14:57:49 -0800 Andrew Sackville-West wrote: ... > 3) is just a convenience really. I have a pretty good idea of what > packages I use on a daily basis are, but there are always random > things one forgets and they'll probably crop up routinely over the > next couple of months.

Re: wifi

2009-11-01 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello Peter, what about this wiki ? http://wiki.debian.org/WiFi hth, Jerome peter bouchard wrote: Hello I am new to the debian scene and i have no idea how to get the wifi suport i have looked online and cannot find anything. if you could please send me a link to a site that has a tutorial or

Re: wifi

2009-11-01 Thread Nate Bargmann
* peter bouchard [2009 Nov 01 19:27 -0600]: > Hello > I am new to the debian scene and i have no idea how to get the wifi > suport i have looked online and cannot find anything. if you could > please send me a link to a site that has a tutorial or please send me > one. thank you very much and i li

wifi

2009-11-01 Thread peter bouchard
Hello I am new to the debian scene and i have no idea how to get the wifi suport i have looked online and cannot find anything. if you could please send me a link to a site that has a tutorial or please send me one. thank you very much and i like your operating system very much thank you verey much

Re: a cautionary tale w/ successful recovery

2009-11-01 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 07:08:00PM -0500, Andrew Reid wrote: > On Sunday 01 November 2009 17:57:49 Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > > > So here is the real success part of the story: my backups worked! I > > had weekly backups of /etc and daily backups of /home. Since I'd not > > done any work o

Re: a cautionary tale w/ successful recovery

2009-11-01 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 07:20:23PM -0500, Rob Owens wrote: > On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 02:57:49PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > Hi all, mildly off-topic, perhaps. > > > > Due to a cascading series of errors on my part yesterday, I managed to > > not only wipe over my partition table, but a

Re: daylight savings / time zone issue

2009-11-01 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 07:36:34PM -0500, Rob Owens wrote: > On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 10:54:52AM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > > On 2009-11-01 10:33 +0100, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > > > > It appears to be correct now. One question though... shouldn't my > > > hwclock be set to UTC, which in my case

Re: daylight savings / time zone issue

2009-11-01 Thread Rob Owens
On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 10:54:52AM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2009-11-01 10:33 +0100, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > > It appears to be correct now. One question though... shouldn't my > > hwclock be set to UTC, which in my case would be 6 hours difference? > > Below shows only one hour... > > > >

Re: a cautionary tale w/ successful recovery

2009-11-01 Thread Rob Owens
On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 02:57:49PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > Hi all, mildly off-topic, perhaps. > > Due to a cascading series of errors on my part yesterday, I managed to > not only wipe over my partition table, but also overwrite enough data > in the actual disk to prevent reasonable

Re: a cautionary tale w/ successful recovery

2009-11-01 Thread Andrew Reid
On Sunday 01 November 2009 17:57:49 Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > So here is the real success part of the story: my backups worked! I > had weekly backups of /etc and daily backups of /home. Since I'd not > done any work of consequence in about 24 hours, I had not lost data! > Restoring was a s

Re: Blank CDs Not Being Detected

2009-11-01 Thread Neal Hogan
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 11:31 AM, Ed wrote: >     I went to try and burn a CD this morning (the latest ubuntu ;) ) and I > noticed my system does not recognize blank CDs anymore. How was your system before, when it did recognize them? What have you changed since you last stuck a black disc in? Per

Re: Disabling the timeout in Expect

2009-11-01 Thread Mike Ayers
On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 01:25:04AM -0600, lrhorer wrote: > > I've looked through my Expect manual, and browsed the web, but I > cannot > find any reference to disabling the timeout in an Expect script. I am > writing a script which may need to sit and wait for many hours or even > days f

Re: No "Shut Down..." option in "System" menu

2009-11-01 Thread Neal Hogan
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 4:23 PM, Merciadri Luca wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hello, > > I have no "shut down..." option in my "System" menu (I am using GNOME > front-end). I am thus obliged to shut down using the terminal. How can > I make these buttons appearing? G

a cautionary tale w/ successful recovery

2009-11-01 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
Hi all, mildly off-topic, perhaps. Due to a cascading series of errors on my part yesterday, I managed to not only wipe over my partition table, but also overwrite enough data in the actual disk to prevent reasonable recovery of the partitions with such tools as gpart. I could recover /boot, and

RE: A laptop installation challenge

2009-11-01 Thread Kevin Ross
> However, I cannot locate the HD, and suspect > that it is under a thin aluminium frame which > will involve dismantling the entire casing. > Under the key pad I can see the IDE ribbon and > connector so can locate the HD - I just don't > see a viable way of accessing it. > The laptop

Re: A laptop installation challenge

2009-11-01 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 09:40:12AM +, AG was heard to say: > On one disk I found something that booted into the grub prompt. I > did some reading up on grub and some basic commands. I didn't get > very far - it reports back that there is an ext2fs loaded on > /dev/hda1 which I'm assuming wa

No "Shut Down..." option in "System" menu

2009-11-01 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I have no "shut down..." option in my "System" menu (I am using GNOME front-end). I am thus obliged to shut down using the terminal. How can I make these buttons appearing? Thanks. - -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.

Re: Help needed in getting WiFi working with Debian

2009-11-01 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 01. 11. 2009 19:31:50 je Foss User napisal(a): > > 5. Right clicked the network icon in gnome panel and selected Edit > Connections, went to Wireless tab and clicked Add. Entered SSID, > selected Mode as Infrastructure, left the BSSID field blank, copied > MAC address from the output of ifcon

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Re: debian sur deux diques dur

2009-11-01 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
michel wrote : > bonjour, > j'aurai voulu installer Debian sur mes deux disques dur. un partage > entre les deux disques pour une seule OS. peut-on le faire ,je sais que > sur fedora on peu le faire, mais je préfère Debian > > > > Salut, ton message devrait être dirigé vers debian-user-french

debian sur deux diques dur

2009-11-01 Thread michel
bonjour, j'aurai voulu installer Debian sur mes deux disques dur. un partage entre les deux disques pour une seule OS. peut-on le faire ,je sais que sur fedora on peu le faire, mais je préfère Debian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscr

Re: xpdf printing with pdftops

2009-11-01 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 19:35:57 +0100, Andreas Goesele wrote: > >cat test.pdf | gs -q -dSAFER -sDEVICE=pswrite -dFIXEDMEDIA -dPDFFitPage > >-sPAPERSIZE=a4 -o %pipe%lpr - > > >The above combination of commands prints test.pdf on my default printer > >after scaling it to fit the page. Therefore I

Re: Unable to record voice using sound recorder

2009-11-01 Thread Tim Beauregard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Foss User wrote: > Earlier in Lenny when I used to click the sound icon in gnome panel, I > used to get options to control the mixer such as modifying PCM volume, > setting 'Capture' on, etc. Now, in Squeeze, it is no longer visible. I Do you have als

Re: OpenVPN

2009-11-01 Thread Consultores
On Saturday 31 October 2009 11:27:46 am Daniel Bareiro wrote: > On Wednesday, 28 October 2009 07:39:18 -0700, > > peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > > Daniel, > > Now I'm doing tests but this time with the OpenVPN server in the office > and a client in my house. The OpenVPN server is behind firewall of the

Re: PPP / ADSL / demand / GUI prompt question

2009-11-01 Thread stephen...@yahoo.com
--- On Sun, 11/1/09, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > stephen...@yahoo.com > put forth on 11/1/2009 3:19 AM: > > No not absolutely sure, I just assumed... > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point-to-Point_Protocol_over_ATM > > By saying > "DHCP" for all dynamic IP allocations, you're in essence > doing wha

Re (2): OpenVPN

2009-11-01 Thread peasthope
Daniel, My understanding of openvpn is minimal. Two elementary questions. > Now I'm doing tests but this time with the OpenVPN server in the office > and a client in my house. I don't understand the distinction of server and client. For my tunnel, are the roles of home and UBC not symmetri

Re: Re: xpdf printing with pdftops

2009-11-01 Thread Andreas Goesele
cat test.pdf | gs -q -dSAFER -sDEVICE=pswrite -dFIXEDMEDIA -dPDFFitPage -sPAPERSIZE=a4 -o %pipe%lpr - The above combination of commands prints test.pdf on my default printer after scaling it to fit the page. Therefore I would hope that the following works as a print command for XPDF (which I h

jre installation

2009-11-01 Thread roberto
hello, i try to install geogebra using its ".bin.sh" script and i get the following message: Extracting the installation resources from the installer archive... Configuring the installer for this system's environment... No Java virtual machine could be found from your PATH environment variable.

Unable to record voice using sound recorder

2009-11-01 Thread Foss User
Earlier in Lenny when I used to click the sound icon in gnome panel, I used to get options to control the mixer such as modifying PCM volume, setting 'Capture' on, etc. Now, in Squeeze, it is no longer visible. I want to use the GNome Sound recorder to record my voice, but when I try, the level alw

Re: Help needed in getting WiFi working with Debian

2009-11-01 Thread Jochen Schulz
Foss User: > > I have a question to the experts though. In step 5 and 6, I had to > manually configure wlan0. However, I never had to do such > configuration for eth1 when I was using Ethernet. Why so? Because these settings (SSID, encryption) just don't apply to Ethernet. With wifi, you have a s

Re: Help needed in getting WiFi working with Debian

2009-11-01 Thread Foss User
Thanks everyone. I got my WiFi up. Sharing the details here in case it helps someone in future. 1. aptitude update; aptitude install firmware-iwlwifi 2. modprobe -r iwl3945; modprobe iwl3945 (I am not sure whether step was required) But I got this message in /var/log/messages - ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP

Re: Can arguments be passed to a running kernel module?

2009-11-01 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 12:18:03PM +0100, Klistvud wrote: > Howdie, fellow Debianites! > > Is there a command for passing arguments to a running kernel module on > the fly, without rmmoding and re-modprobing it? Yes . /proc/module/$MODULE/parameters For instance, let's look at the module 'therm

Re: Are there any default "pasteboards" for Debian lists?

2009-11-01 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 07:28:29AM -0600, Jack Schneider wrote: > Hi, Try http://pastebin.com This is also the default of the package pastebinit . Another thing to note: if you want to post a message to this list and reference a pastebin post, consider that chance are that in a week or so it wil

Re: Blank CDs Not Being Detected

2009-11-01 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 11:31 AM, Ed wrote: >     I went to try and burn a CD this morning (the latest ubuntu ;) ) ... Make sure your user account is a member of the 'cdrom' group. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: Help needed in getting WiFi working with Debian

2009-11-01 Thread Tim Tebbit
Foss User wrote: > How is it that modinfo iwl3945 is giving me output when I don't have > the firmware installed? Because the driver has been included since around 2.6.24/26 but not the firmware. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: Help needed in getting WiFi working with Debian

2009-11-01 Thread Tim Tebbit
Foss User wrote: > I just checked that I don't have the firmware-iwlwifi package > installed. I'll be installing it now. But without the firmware > package, why do I get an output for ifconfig wlan0? Is it because of > some other firmware package being installed? Can I verify this > somehow? I wi

Re: Help needed in getting WiFi working with Debian

2009-11-01 Thread Foss User
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 10:27 PM, Foss User wrote: > On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 10:24 PM, Tim Tebbit wrote: >> Foss User wrote: >> > Please help me to get wireless working with Debian (recentmost Squeeze). What is the output of ifconfig wlan0? >>> >>> # ifconfig wlan0 >>> wlan0     Link

Re: Help needed in getting WiFi working with Debian

2009-11-01 Thread Foss User
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 10:24 PM, Tim Tebbit wrote: > Foss User wrote: > Please help me to get wireless working with Debian (recentmost Squeeze). >>> What is the output of ifconfig wlan0? >>> >> >> # ifconfig wlan0 >> wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1f:3c:6b:d5:62 >>           BROADCA

Re: Help needed in getting WiFi working with Debian

2009-11-01 Thread Tim Tebbit
Foss User wrote: >>> Please help me to get wireless working with Debian (recentmost Squeeze). >> What is the output of ifconfig wlan0? >> > > # ifconfig wlan0 > wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1f:3c:6b:d5:62 > BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > RX packets:0 err

Blank CDs Not Being Detected

2009-11-01 Thread Ed
I went to try and burn a CD this morning (the latest ubuntu ;) ) and I noticed my system does not recognize blank CDs anymore. I'm tried multiple CD brands, CD-Rs, CD-RWs, and a different drive. On ubuntu blank CDs are recognized just fine. On debian lenny (kernel 2.6.26-2-486) it is as if t

Re: Help needed in getting WiFi working with Debian

2009-11-01 Thread Foss User
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 9:26 PM, Tom H wrote: > On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Foss User wrote: >> I am using Squeeze. I run aptitude update; aptitude full-upgrade every >> day. I want to connect my laptop to the Wi-Fi I've setup in my home. I >> am able to connect to it using Windows but not usi

debian source.list

2009-11-01 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Ravi put forth on 11/1/2009 7:35 AM: > Thanks again Stan again, I really need to backport some of the packages > becuase of un-avoidable reasons that is why I am trying to use backport, > so it would be helpful me > if this could further be resolved. Please post the output of apt-get update. --

Re: debian source.list

2009-11-01 Thread Rakotomandimby Mihamina
11/01/2009 04:35 PM, Ravi: Thanks again Stan again, I really need to backport some of the packages becuase of un-avoidable reasons that is why I am trying to use backport, so it would be helpful me if this could further be resolved. Install lenny or squeeze. Please cut useless parts of what you

Re: Help needed in getting WiFi working with Debian

2009-11-01 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Foss User wrote: > I am using Squeeze. I run aptitude update; aptitude full-upgrade every > day. I want to connect my laptop to the Wi-Fi I've setup in my home. I > am able to connect to it using Windows but not using Debian. I know > the SSID and WPA2-PSK key I hav

Re: A laptop installation challenge

2009-11-01 Thread Lisi
On Sunday 01 November 2009 15:19:31 Tim Tebbit wrote: > Perhaps the local library would have old enough machines to write > floppies? Is there a LUG nearby that could write floppies for you? I can write floppies. Let me know what floppy exactly you want, and your snail mail address (off list, of

Re: Security.debian.org confused?

2009-11-01 Thread Tixy
On Sat, 2009-10-31 at 23:02 -0400, Tim Tebbit wrote: > Reading this thread made me realize I haven't seen an update for Sid in > 2 full days. Perhaps something else is going on. Could be the ftp masters' meeting this week; they seem to have been working hard on developing and testing improvements,

Re: Help needed in getting WiFi working with Debian

2009-11-01 Thread Tim Tebbit
Foss User wrote: > I am using Squeeze. I run aptitude update; aptitude full-upgrade every > day. I want to connect my laptop to the Wi-Fi I've setup in my home. I > am able to connect to it using Windows but not using Debian. I know > the SSID and WPA2-PSK key I have set. Channel of the router is s

Help needed in getting WiFi working with Debian

2009-11-01 Thread Foss User
I am using Squeeze. I run aptitude update; aptitude full-upgrade every day. I want to connect my laptop to the Wi-Fi I've setup in my home. I am able to connect to it using Windows but not using Debian. I know the SSID and WPA2-PSK key I have set. Channel of the router is set to 'Auto'. 'Broadcast

Re: How to create *.deb binary package using source code?

2009-11-01 Thread shampavman
shampavman wrote: surreal wrote: I have got source code of a program in *.tar.gz format. I want to create a debian binary package which includes documentation, binary executable, manual etc. Any place where I can get some help? Please help... -- Harshad Joshi Hi, This is how you do it...

Re: A laptop installation challenge

2009-11-01 Thread Tim Tebbit
AG wrote: > Could be my lack of clarity in writing and precision in terminology :-) > > I was installing Deb testing over a previously installed Slackware > system due to a number of hardware restrictions. First I downloaded a > new version of vmlinuz and initrd.gz and moved those into a director

Re: How to create *.deb binary package using source code?

2009-11-01 Thread shampavman
surreal wrote: I have got source code of a program in *.tar.gz format. I want to create a debian binary package which includes documentation, binary executable, manual etc. Any place where I can get some help? Please help... -- Harshad Joshi Hi, This is how you do it... For assumption , l

RE: OT: Standards was Re: Does everything depend on everything?

2009-11-01 Thread owens
> > > > Original Message >From: johan...@physik.blm.tu-muenchen.de >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >Subject: RE: OT: Standards was Re: Does everything depend on >everything? >Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 22:05:09 +0100 > >>-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >>Hash: SHA1 >> >>Dennis Wicks wrote

Re: newer python installation

2009-11-01 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 12:02:13PM +0100, roberto wrote: > hello, i am using lenny and i need to install > - python 2.6 and 3.0 > - python(x,y) (available in ubuntu) > - vpython > > and needed packages by those softwares; > as you already know they are not in lenny, but it seems to me they are > n

Re: A laptop installation challenge

2009-11-01 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi again, AG: On Saturday 31 October 2009 19:41:16 AG wrote: > Jesús M. Navarro wrote: > > Hi, AG: > > > > On Saturday 31 October 2009 18:49:14 AG wrote: > >> Tim Tebbit wrote: > > > > [...] > > > >> (3) The laptop's BIOS is too old to allow booting from a USB (only > >> allows HD, CD or floppy).

Re: newer python installation

2009-11-01 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 12:29 +0100, Wolodja Wentland wrote: > I would prefer all programs installed via the package manager to use > "#!/usr/bin/env python[X.Y]" instead of "#!/usr/bin/python[X.Y]" because > that would mean that I could use them regardless of the Python version > "env python" reso

Re: Are there any default "pasteboards" for Debian lists?

2009-11-01 Thread Jack Schneider
On Sun, 01 Nov 2009 12:04:55 +0100 Klistvud wrote: > Dne, 01. 11. 2009 11:43:21 je Andrei Popescu napisal(a): > > > > How about paste.debian.net? How long is the output anyway? > > Oh, there's no output yet. I was just wondering, for any future > occasions I might need it. > > Thanx > > Hi,

Re: A laptop installation challenge

2009-11-01 Thread AG
Stan Hoeppner wrote: AG put forth on 10/31/2009 12:49 PM: (3) The laptop's BIOS is too old to allow booting from a USB (only allows HD, CD or floppy). It requires something to boot first before it can mount additional files such a USB stick. AG put forth on 10/31/2009 10:41 AM: Th

Re: debian source.list

2009-11-01 Thread Ravi
Stan Hoeppner wrote: Ravi put forth on 11/1/2009 7:08 AM: Stan Hoeppner wrote: Ravi put forth on 11/1/2009 6:54 AM: I am new to Debian (in fact using Debian 4.0 "etch" version), I have been fighing to have a valid source.list, when I try to run apt-get update I most of the ti

debian source.list

2009-11-01 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Ravi put forth on 11/1/2009 7:08 AM: > Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> Ravi put forth on 11/1/2009 6:54 AM: >> >> >>> I am new to Debian (in fact using Debian 4.0 "etch" version), I have >>> been fighing to have a valid source.list, when I try to run apt-get >>> update I most of the time servers are not

Re: debian source.list

2009-11-01 Thread Ravi
Stan Hoeppner wrote: Ravi put forth on 11/1/2009 6:54 AM: I am new to Debian (in fact using Debian 4.0 "etch" version), I have been fighing to have a valid source.list, when I try to run apt-get update I most of the time servers are not found..and not able to upgrade to some of the pacakges

Re: debian source.list

2009-11-01 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Ravi put forth on 11/1/2009 6:54 AM: > I am new to Debian (in fact using Debian 4.0 "etch" version), I have > been fighing to have a valid source.list, when I try to run apt-get > update I most of the time servers are not found..and not able to upgrade > to some of the pacakges on my box. > Could

Re: [mutt] label mails with colored tags

2009-11-01 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Chris Bannister [2009 Nov 01 02:06 -0600]: > On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 10:05:32PM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > I just completed the conversion. Thanks to both of you for suggesting > > the mb2md package. I had not found that before and it made everything > > a snap. I embelished Mutt a bit

debian source.list

2009-11-01 Thread Ravi
Hi List, I am new to Debian (in fact using Debian 4.0 "etch" version), I have been fighing to have a valid source.list, when I try to run apt-get update I most of the time servers are not found..and not able to upgrade to some of the pacakges on my box. Could somebody help here please? Regar

Re: Security.debian.org confused?

2009-11-01 Thread Andrew Reid
On Sunday 01 November 2009 05:36:00 Florian Weimer wrote: > * Andrew Reid: > > http://security.debian.org//srv/security-master.debian.org/ftp/pool/updat > >es/main/e/expat/libexpat1_2.0.1-4+lenny1_amd64.deb > > This should have been fixed by now. > > During an internal migration, incorrect package

A laptop installation challenge

2009-11-01 Thread Stan Hoeppner
AG put forth on 10/31/2009 12:49 PM: > (3) The laptop's BIOS is too old to allow booting from a USB (only > allows HD, CD or floppy). It requires something to boot first before it > can mount additional files such a USB stick. AG put forth on 10/31/2009 10:41 AM: > Then I copied a netinst *.iso i

Re: git: pushing a branch to a remote git repository

2009-11-01 Thread Alan Chandler
On Sunday 01 Nov 2009, Micha wrote: > I'm using a clone of a local git repository to backup the repository. > The problem is that it seems that when pushing changes, only master > is pushed to the remote repository instead of all the branches. > > Is it possible to push/pull branches into an exi

Re: A laptop installation challenge

2009-11-01 Thread AG
Alex Samad wrote: On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 09:40:12AM +, AG wrote: Kevin Ross wrote: [snip] I took the back completely off this evening and although the CD drive now spins when a CD is inserted (there's progress), it doesn't if its an ide interface, why not plug it into a

Re: newer python installation

2009-11-01 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 12:02 +0100, roberto wrote: > hello, i am using lenny and i need to install > - python 2.6 and 3.0 You don't want to install 3.0 but the newest release of Python 3 which would be Python 3.1.1, or is there another reason why you need exactly 3.0? > - python(x,y) (available

Can arguments be passed to a running kernel module?

2009-11-01 Thread Klistvud
Howdie, fellow Debianites! Is there a command for passing arguments to a running kernel module on the fly, without rmmoding and re-modprobing it? Echoing new value(s) to the /proc subtree has long been deprecated now, and the new /sys interface seems largely to be read-only ... besides, interac

Re: HP G60-249WM Notebook overheats (on lenny)

2009-11-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 01:10:19PM -0700, Raquel wrote: > On Sat, 24 Oct 2009 11:00:09 -0700 > "Brian C. Wells" wrote: > > > On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 22:19 -0700, Raquel wrote: > > > On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:40:01 -0700 > > > "Brian C. Wells" wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > I don't -think- it's a fan

Re: Are there any default "pasteboards" for Debian lists?

2009-11-01 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 01. 11. 2009 11:43:21 je Andrei Popescu napisal(a): > > How about paste.debian.net? How long is the output anyway? Oh, there's no output yet. I was just wondering, for any future occasions I might need it. Thanx -- Regards, Klistvud Certifiable Loonix User #481801 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

newer python installation

2009-11-01 Thread roberto
hello, i am using lenny and i need to install - python 2.6 and 3.0 - python(x,y) (available in ubuntu) - vpython and needed packages by those softwares; as you already know they are not in lenny, but it seems to me they are not yet in squeeze too. Is there any way to get them working under debian

Re: Are there any default "pasteboards" for Debian lists?

2009-11-01 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun,01.Nov.09, 10:57:17, Klistvud wrote: > Howdie, fellow Debianites! > > I was just wondering if there are any default web sites where one can > post attachments/snippets which are too long to fit in a normal e-mail? > Do Debian lists have any such preferred locations? And, by the way: are

Re: How to create *.deb binary package using source code?

2009-11-01 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 08:22, Celejar wrote: > On Sun, 1 Nov 2009 12:48:51 +0500 > surreal wrote: > >> I have got source code of a program in *.tar.gz format. >> >> I want to create a debian binary package which includes documentation, See package checkinstall and the web, there are a few guides

Re: Security.debian.org confused?

2009-11-01 Thread Florian Weimer
* Andrew Reid: > http://security.debian.org//srv/security-master.debian.org/ftp/pool/updates/main/e/expat/libexpat1_2.0.1-4+lenny1_amd64.deb > This should have been fixed by now. During an internal migration, incorrect package metadata was pushed to the security mirror network. Sorry about th

Re: A laptop installation challenge

2009-11-01 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 09:40:12AM +, AG wrote: > Kevin Ross wrote: [snip] > > I took the back completely off this evening and although the CD > drive now spins when a CD is inserted (there's progress), it doesn't if its an ide interface, why not plug it into another hd instead of a cdrom !

Re: Recommended Linux Backup

2009-11-01 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 01. 11. 2009 08:21:45 je lrhorer napisal(a): > > Many archive utilities create indices of their archives which > are > stored on media other than the backup media (or in addition to it). > Enterprise level software like Amanda and Bacula use a database like > MySQL to maintain their

daylight savings / time zone issue

2009-11-01 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Sven Joachim put forth on 11/1/2009 3:59 AM: > On 2009-11-01 10:54 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > >> On 2009-11-01 10:33 +0100, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> >>> It appears to be correct now. One question though... shouldn't my >>> hwclock be set to UTC, which in my case would be 6 hours difference? >>>

Re: daylight savings / time zone issue

2009-11-01 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-11-01 10:54 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2009-11-01 10:33 +0100, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > >> It appears to be correct now. One question though... shouldn't my >> hwclock be set to UTC, which in my case would be 6 hours difference? >> Below shows only one hour... >> >> greer:/# date >> Su

Re: A laptop installation challenge

2009-11-01 Thread AG
Kevin Ross wrote: From: jamesb [mailto:jaggin...@videotron.ca] Sent: Saturday, October 31, 2009 3:18 PM i'm assuming you would be able to use at least iexplorer 3 or something with win 3.1.. it sure is a challenge but definitely possible ;) (it's likely you might have to copy win32s and iexpl

Are there any default "pasteboards" for Debian lists?

2009-11-01 Thread Klistvud
Howdie, fellow Debianites! I was just wondering if there are any default web sites where one can post attachments/snippets which are too long to fit in a normal e-mail? Do Debian lists have any such preferred locations? And, by the way: are such services called "pasteboards" at all? (English is

Re: daylight savings / time zone issue

2009-11-01 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-11-01 10:33 +0100, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > It appears to be correct now. One question though... shouldn't my > hwclock be set to UTC, which in my case would be 6 hours difference? > Below shows only one hour... > > greer:/# date > Sun Nov 1 03:32:06 CST 2009 > greer:/# hwclock > Sun Nov

daylight savings / time zone issue

2009-11-01 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Andrei Popescu put forth on 11/1/2009 3:49 AM: > What does 'grep UTC /etc/default/rcS' say? # Set UTC=yes if your system clock is set to UTC (GMT), and UTC=no if not. UTC=no -- Stan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Co

Re: daylight savings / time zone issue

2009-11-01 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Du,01.nov.09, 03:33:53, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > It appears to be correct now. One question though... shouldn't my > hwclock be set to UTC, which in my case would be 6 hours difference? > Below shows only one hour... > > greer:/# date > Sun Nov 1 03:32:06 CST 2009 > greer:/# hwclock > Sun Nov

PPP / ADSL / demand / GUI prompt question

2009-11-01 Thread Stan Hoeppner
stephen...@yahoo.com put forth on 11/1/2009 3:19 AM: > No not absolutely sure, I just assumed that was what was being used as I get > different IP addresses every time I connect. I am pretty sure pppd IS > working, which from what you write suggests I am not using DHCP. However I > vaguely re

daylight savings / time zone issue

2009-11-01 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Sven Joachim put forth on 11/1/2009 2:33 AM: > On 2009-11-01 09:16 +0100, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > >> Hay, um, I was sitting here watching the clocks, and my Lenny install >> didn't jump back an hour at 2am. It's still counting up in the 2 >> o'clock hour. 2:12am at present. Shouldn't it have fal

Re: daylight savings / time zone issue

2009-11-01 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-11-01 09:16 +0100, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Hay, um, I was sitting here watching the clocks, and my Lenny install > didn't jump back an hour at 2am. It's still counting up in the 2 > o'clock hour. 2:12am at present. Shouldn't it have fallen back to > 1:00am when the clock hit 2:00am? I'm

Re: How to create *.deb binary package using source code?

2009-11-01 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 1 Nov 2009 12:48:51 +0500 surreal wrote: > I have got source code of a program in *.tar.gz format. > > I want to create a debian binary package which includes documentation, > binary executable, manual etc. > > Any place where I can get some help? http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/

Re: PPP / ADSL / demand / GUI prompt question

2009-11-01 Thread stephen...@yahoo.com
Klistvud: > Well, another, quite intuitive way of achieving what you want would be > to write a script to launch Iceweasel Good idea, should have thought of that myself. On reflection though, although my guests will only want to use iceweasel, I occasionally use other internet programs such as

daylight savings / time zone issue

2009-11-01 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Hay, um, I was sitting here watching the clocks, and my Lenny install didn't jump back an hour at 2am. It's still counting up in the 2 o'clock hour. 2:12am at present. Shouldn't it have fallen back to 1:00am when the clock hit 2:00am? Today is the day: http://tf.nist.gov/general/dst.htm greer

How to create *.deb binary package using source code?

2009-11-01 Thread surreal
I have got source code of a program in *.tar.gz format. I want to create a debian binary package which includes documentation, binary executable, manual etc. Any place where I can get some help? Please help... -- Harshad Joshi

Re: [mutt] label mails with colored tags

2009-11-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 10:05:32PM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote: > * Wolodja Wentland [2009 Oct 24 04:45 -0500]: > > On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 19:00 -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > > Since a couple of you are recommending maildir, is there an easy way to > > > transisition from mox format to maildir?

Re: Recommended Linux Backup

2009-11-01 Thread lrhorer
> On Thursday October 29 2009 5:14:44 pm lrhorer wrote: >> 1. Back up to removable hard drives >> 2. Span multiple target volumes >> 3. Maintain a virtual fileysystem so all snapshots look like a single >> backup to the user. >> 4. Maintain an easily monitored index so the user can see which drive

Disabling the timeout in Expect

2009-11-01 Thread lrhorer
I've looked through my Expect manual, and browsed the web, but I cannot find any reference to disabling the timeout in an Expect script. I am writing a script which may need to sit and wait for many hours or even days for a response without timing out. Barring some way to disable the tim

Re: Recommended Linux Backup

2009-11-01 Thread lrhorer
> I don't see any mention of that venerable *nix utility, dump. Other > than not looking like a mounted filesystem and possibly the sheer size > of the data, dump should fulfill your requirements. I thought about dump, but I did notthink it would stop when a volume is full and prompt for