Re: putting "/tmp" to memory help

2011-01-24 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-01-25 02:50 +0100, Celejar wrote: > On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 17:41:07 -0600 > "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." wrote: > > ... > >> tmpfs doesn't reserve much (if any) memory. So, unless it is being actively >> used by files in the tmpfs, it can be used by other applications. > > I'm somewhat confuse

Re: Let's talk about HTTPS Everywhere

2011-01-24 Thread Jochen Schulz
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/decrypt AES with ~20MByte/s on a single >> core. Typically,

How to debug: "INIT: PANIC: segmentation violation at 0xb776c417! sleeping for 30 seconds."

2011-01-24 Thread Arturo R.
Hi all. Per the title, I'd love to get your input on how to debug/fix this particular issue. A description of my setup: Asus UL30A-X5 Laptop 1.3GHz Intel SU7300 Core 2 Duo 4GB of DDR3 RAM 500GB SATA Intel GMA 4500MHD Running Debian sid on a coLinux 0.7.8 (uname -a: "Linux colinux 2.6.33.5-co-0.7

Squeeze/Sony Vaio VPCee23eb/Keyboard Layout

2011-01-24 Thread Leonardo Ruoso
I'm trying Squeeze on a new Sony Vaio VPCee23eb. Touchpad only worked after adding the i8042.nopnp stuff to /etc/default/grub. But I never noticed before that there is no Sony Manufacturer at the Keyboard Layout Settings, at least at the Gnome Preferences Keyboard dialog. Also, I'd like to know

Re: Weird server mystery: self-reset, mostly

2011-01-24 Thread Andrew Reid
On Monday 24 January 2011 01:47:27 will trillich wrote: > Never seen this before -- all daemons and all user processes killed. Zap. > It happened around 23:17 Chicago time (that's when the log-daemons quit > logging). What would cause this? [ ... snippage ... ] > > *Anybody got a clue as to what m

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

2011-01-24 Thread David Christensen
Thomas Nguyen Van wrote: Our company needs to encrypt hard drives on our machines running under Linux Debian Lenny. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Unified_Key_Setup http://code.google.com/p/cryptsetup/ LUKS works on all machines, with or without cryptographic chipsets (e.g. Intel Truste

Re: Full Screen

2011-01-24 Thread godo
On 01/24/2011 11:32 PM, david wildgoose wrote: Hey everyone, I'm currently running Squeeze through VirtualBox on my Intel iMac. I'd like to run the VM in full screen however it appears that I'm only able to set 1280x768 in Squeeze (System/Settings/Screen Resolution). Any ideas how I can increa

apt-get/aptitude. Ist it true...

2011-01-24 Thread peter_someone
...that since lenny it's safe to mix the two because a. apt-get now handles (or can handle)orphans similarly thanks to autoremove and also uses the same database or better yet, has the same markings for automatically installed vs manually installed? I've been browsing for this for a while now

Re: Let's talk about HTTPS Everywhere

2011-01-24 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 15:44:47 -0800 GaRaGeD Style wrote: > yes there is some, that's why load balancers use hardware chips for > SSL protocol. a) WPA[2] != SSL b) We're discussing wireless networking, where there are usually (at least at the consumer level) only a few clients connected to an A

Re: putting "/tmp" to memory help

2011-01-24 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 17:41:07 -0600 "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." wrote: ... > tmpfs doesn't reserve much (if any) memory. So, unless it is being actively > used by files in the tmpfs, it can be used by other applications. I'm somewhat confused about this. My system has 2GB of RAM, and I have: $

Re: Let's talk about HTTPS Everywhere

2011-01-24 Thread 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/decrypt AES with ~20MByte/s on a single > core. Typically, my wifi reaches on

Re: What no Quanta in Squeeze!?

2011-01-24 Thread knl
On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 23:15:19 +0100 Rico Secada wrote: > I'll have to stick with Lenny or change the distro if quanta isn't > part of squeeze. You could create a livecd/dvd with Lenny and Quanta (with whatever extensions you need). Then boot that up and work from that when you need Quanta. Anywa

Re: Let's talk about HTTPS Everywhere

2011-01-24 Thread GaRaGeD Style
yes there is some, that's why load balancers use hardware chips for SSL protocol. On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 8:23 PM, Celejar wrote: > On Sat, 22 Jan 2011 21:00:12 + (UTC) > Camaleón wrote: > > ... > >> And WPA2 with AES encryption is considerably slow. There are also >> drawbacks when you enfo

Re: putting "/tmp" to memory help

2011-01-24 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <821513319-1295910389-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-57593962- @bda029.bisx.prod.on.blackberry>, teddi...@tmo.blackberry.net wrote: >Isn't messing with volatile /tmp somewhat a moot point, given that the >Linux memory manager manages virtual memory anyway? I mean, if /tmp is >heavily u

Re: What no Quanta in Squeeze!?

2011-01-24 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <20110124231519.b623efe3.coolz...@it.dk>, Rico Secada wrote: >I was just about to upgrade to squeeze on my laptop, but a quick search >in the debian package repo shows still no quanta package.. now, thats >going to be a problem for quite a lot of people. > >Anyone who knows the status of quanta

Re: java 5 in squeeze

2011-01-24 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <20110124131514.16ce33fe@gauss>, Joe Riel wrote: >On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 14:08:06 -0600 > >"Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." wrote: >> I recommend not changing back your sources.list and actually adding >> the security repository for Lenny as well. > >I may have misinterpreted this. Are you saying to chan

Re: putting "/tmp" to memory help

2011-01-24 Thread teddieeb
Isn't messing with volatile /tmp somewhat a moot point, given that the Linux memory manager manages virtual memory anyway? I mean, if /tmp is heavily used by your system, it will be cached in memory anyway. With 4 GB of RAM (as mentioned by kellyremo), you'll end with probably your entire

(Solved) Re: Where are "xrandr" settings stored?

2011-01-24 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 14:07:54 +, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 10:14:34PM +, Liam O'Toole wrote: >> On 2011-01-22, Camaleón wrote: >> > Hello, >> > >> > Yesterday I faced a "chicken-egg" problem :-) >> > >> > I have a virtual machine (virtualbox) in a notebook with Squeeze >

Re: need help making shell script use two CPUs/cores

2011-01-24 Thread Carl Johnson
Stan Hoeppner writes: > Now we have 4 CPUs on two memory channels. If not for caches, you'd > see > no speedup past 2 Imagemagick processes. Which is pretty much the behavior > identified by another OP with an Athlon II x4 system--almost zeo speedup from > 2 > to 4 processes. I think

editing /var/lib/dpkg/available

2011-01-24 Thread Waqqas Dadabhoy
I played around with Zimbra a while ago, but have removed it now. I get the following error whenever I use apt-get: warning, in file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 8727 package 'zimbra-ldap': error in Version string '6.0.8_GA_2661.DEBIAN5_64': invalid character in version number Since I won

Full Screen

2011-01-24 Thread david wildgoose
Hey everyone, I'm currently running Squeeze through VirtualBox on my Intel iMac. I'd like to run the VM in full screen however it appears that I'm only able to set 1280x768 in Squeeze (System/Settings/Screen Resolution). Any ideas how I can increase the resolution ? I believe the max resolution

Re: What no Quanta in Squeeze!?

2011-01-24 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
> coolz...@it.dk : >Anyone who knows the status of quanta in squeeze? http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=19662 -- RMA. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe"

What no Quanta in Squeeze!?

2011-01-24 Thread Rico Secada
I was just about to upgrade to squeeze on my laptop, but a quick search in the debian package repo shows still no quanta package.. now, thats going to be a problem for quite a lot of people. Anyone who knows the status of quanta in squeeze? I'll have to stick with Lenny or change the distro if qu

Re: Debian on Netbook mainly for PHP and AS3 Dev, but keeping Win XP

2011-01-24 Thread godo
On 01/24/2011 10:15 AM, Maurycy Zarzycki wrote: Hello, Hi My Netbook is MSI Wind U100, the specs: though I have 2GB of RAM and bigger HD. Let me list my concerns to make it easier: * There is some kind of visual interface... Right? If you m

Re: Squeeze. A problem with VT8623 [Apollo CLE266] integrated CastleRock videocard [SOLVED]

2011-01-24 Thread Mark Goldshtein
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 6:17 PM, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > Mark Goldshtein schreef: >> >> Hello, list! >> >> Would you, please, help to bring to normal functioning a subj's video >> board? >> >> VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8623 [Apollo >> CLE266] integrated CastleRock graphi

Re: Apache SSL named based virtual hosts

2011-01-24 Thread Bob Proulx
Jochen Schulz wrote: > The problem is/was that the TLS handshake was initiated before the > HTTP request was sent. Since only the request included the > Host-Header, the web server couldn't show a certificate for the > requested domain name. A better explanation can be found here: > > http://httpd

Re: Missing files in home-directory (SOLVED)

2011-01-24 Thread Matthias Andersson
Chalk this one up to human error. The files had not gone missing but actually had not beeen restored from a backup since a fresh install of Debian Lenny was performed on the machine in question. All files recovered safe and sound. Cheers, Matthias -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ..

Re: Let's talk about HTTPS Everywhere

2011-01-24 Thread Jochen Schulz
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: java 5 in squeeze

2011-01-24 Thread Joe Riel
On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 14:08:06 -0600 "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." wrote: > I recommend not changing back your sources.list and actually adding > the security repository for Lenny as well. I may have misinterpreted this. Are you saying to change it to lenny and not change it back after updating and in

Re: VirtualBox 4 fails building kernel module (the same with nvidia module)

2011-01-24 Thread MRH
On 23/01/11 04:53, Cameron Hutchison wrote: "tv.deb...@googlemail.com" writes: The problem with extraversion and 2.6.37 is known, it's been reported here if I remember, look for a message starting with "kernel-package: 2.6.37" in the archives. But since it seems to affect only proprietary soft

Re: VirtualBox 4 fails building kernel module (the same with nvidia module)

2011-01-24 Thread MRH
On 22/01/11 23:03, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: [...] I have the same setup, I build my kernel (2.6.37 currently) with kernel-package and both nvidia and VirtualBox 4 work fine (they build automatically with dkms). I don't use extraversion, only --append-to-version and --revision. The problem

Re: Debian on Netbook mainly for PHP and AS3 Dev, but keeping Win XP

2011-01-24 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 10:15:07 +0100 Maurycy Zarzycki wrote: > Hello, > > I hope this is the right place to ask. Recently I got under my care an > unmanaged Debian VPS, and I kinda grew to like it rather much, so an > idea struck me to install Debian on my netbook. I primarily use it for > PHP

Re: Let's talk about HTTPS Everywhere

2011-01-24 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 19:53:47 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 23:23:06 -0500, Celejar wrote: > > > On Sat, 22 Jan 2011 21:00:12 + (UTC) Camaleón > > wrote: > > > > ... > > > >> And WPA2 with AES encryption is considerably slow. There are also > >> drawbacks when you enfor

Re: Let's talk about HTTPS Everywhere

2011-01-24 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 12:50:34 -0700 david wildgoose wrote: > On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 12:43 PM, Camaleón wrote: > > > On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 23:21:20 -0500, Celejar wrote: > > > > > On Sat, 22 Jan 2011 13:37:20 -0600 "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." wrote: > > > > > >> In , Camaleón wrote: > > > > >> >I agr

Re: Apache SSL named based virtual hosts

2011-01-24 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <201101241443.22084@iguanasuicide.net>, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >http://wiki.apache.org/httpd/NameBasedSSLVHostsWithSNI > >I believe Lenny does actually have a recent enough version of both apache2 >and libssl0.9.8, but I've not tried using SNI with Lenny's version of >Apache. (Correc

Re: firewall package for laptop wi-fi client

2011-01-24 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 7 Jan 2011 19:51:59 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 07 Jan 2011 20:53:44 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > On Vi, 07 ian 11, 16:23:16, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > >> On Sex, 07 Jan 2011, Andrei Popescu wrote: > >> >If you consider an open wireless to be more dangerous, what addi

Re: java 5 in squeeze

2011-01-24 Thread Joe Riel
On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 21:32:48 +0100 Jochen Schulz wrote: > 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. H

Re: java 5 in squeeze

2011-01-24 Thread Jochen Schulz
(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: Apache SSL named based virtual hosts

2011-01-24 Thread Jochen Schulz
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: Apache SSL named based virtual hosts

2011-01-24 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <20110124202335.ga5...@hysteria.proulx.com>, Bob Proulx wrote: >In another thread: >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

Re: Apache SSL named based virtual hosts

2011-01-24 Thread David Sastre
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 01:23:35PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > In another thread: > Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > Is there a way to have all of the browsers use starttls > for https ... > and to be able to share virtual hosts with SSL on a single > IP address? That would be awesome! Where can I

Re: java 5 in squeeze

2011-01-24 Thread Jochen Schulz
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: Question related to FDE (Full Disk Encryption) solution under Linux Debian Lenny

2011-01-24 Thread Camaleón
El 2011-01-24 a las 10:51 +, Thomas Nguyen Van escribió: (replying to the list) > Morning Cameleon, > Thanks for your reply to my initial post You're welcome. *** > Hardware based FDE that uses BIOS for unlocking the drive should be OS- > independent and I think the above datasheet is ai

Apache SSL named based virtual hosts

2011-01-24 Thread Bob Proulx
In another thread: 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? I though

Re: Lenny Apache2: ReverseProxy -> https -> http://localhost:port

2011-01-24 Thread Bob Proulx
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > >Denny Schierz wrote: > >> NameVirtualHost 1.2.3.4:443 > >> > > > >SSL name based virtual hosts are not yet supported. You should remove > >that line from the configuration file. > > Is that just because Lenny's Apache is really old? 'Cause Ap

Re: java 5 in squeeze

2011-01-24 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <20110124193731.ga25...@hysteria.proulx.com>, Bob Proulx wrote: >One Option: >Temporarily change your references from squeeze or sid in >/etc/apt/sources.list to "lenny". Run 'apt-get update', and then >'apt-get update install sun-java5-jre' and install. Then restore your >previous /etc/apt/so

Re: Lenny Apache2: ReverseProxy -> https -> http://localhost:port

2011-01-24 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <20110124184103.gd30...@hysteria.proulx.com>, Bob Proulx wrote: >Denny Schierz wrote: >> NameVirtualHost 1.2.3.4:443 >> > >SSL name based virtual hosts are not yet supported. You should remove >that line from the configuration file. Is that just because Lenny's Apache is really old? 'Cause A

Re: Debian Squeeze Installation

2011-01-24 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Du, 23 ian 11, 13:06:15, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: I wholeheartedly agree. Except that the current mc for squeeze and sid is 4.0.7 which is very unfriendly in that it has moved to skin support of which there are none. Better stick with lenny which is 4.6.2 which is much fri

Re: Let's talk about HTTPS Everywhere

2011-01-24 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 23:23:06 -0500, Celejar wrote: > On Sat, 22 Jan 2011 21:00:12 + (UTC) Camaleón > wrote: > > ... > >> And WPA2 with AES encryption is considerably slow. There are also >> drawbacks when you enforce to use of the best encryption method. > > It is? Do you have either docu

Re: Missing Disk Space or Partition

2011-01-24 Thread Richard Mortimer
Sorry I hadn't realised this was being cross posted on debian-user and debian-sparc. My reply only went to debian-sparc (and I'd missed your reply to that). I'll follow up here anyway. On 24/01/2011 19:12, RR wrote: On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 1:08 PM, Carl Johnson mailto:ca...@peak.org>> wrote:

Re: Let's talk about HTTPS Everywhere

2011-01-24 Thread david wildgoose
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 12:43 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 23:21:20 -0500, Celejar wrote: > > > On Sat, 22 Jan 2011 13:37:20 -0600 "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." wrote: > > > >> In , Camaleón wrote: > > >> >I agree. Wired networks are not that exposed to these attacks. > >> > >> Not entire

Re: Let's talk about HTTPS Everywhere

2011-01-24 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 23:21:20 -0500, Celejar wrote: > On Sat, 22 Jan 2011 13:37:20 -0600 "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." wrote: > >> In , Camaleón wrote: >> >I agree. Wired networks are not that exposed to these attacks. >> >> Not entirely true. On a hubbed network, putting your network card into >> p

Re: Missing Disk Space or Partition

2011-01-24 Thread RR
> > Honestly, I'd rather just rebuild this machine, but I'm not there >> physically anymore and given the problems I had in installing Debian on >> that Sparc machine while I was actually there, if I have those again, >> when I'm now 8,000 miles away, that's going to be bad! On EVERY Sparc >> syst

Re: java 5 in squeeze

2011-01-24 Thread Bob Proulx
Joe Riel wrote: > 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? My knowledge of debian's package manager > is mi

Re: firewall package for laptop wi-fi client

2011-01-24 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 01:17:55 +0200, Eero Volotinen wrote: >> Open wifi hot-spots (or open networks) are dangerous because all your >> "neighbors" can represent a potential security risk (they have >> "physical" access to your machine), meaning that you should enforce >> your computer firewall rule

Re: Cannot turn on bell in xterm

2011-01-24 Thread Joe Riel
On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 11:24:54 -0800 Joe Riel wrote: > On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 19:06:34 + (UTC) > Camaleón wrote: > > > On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 14:04:47 -0800, Joe Riel wrote: > > > > > On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 21:48:29 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > > > > > >> > I just installed Debian 6 on a different

Re: java 5 in squeeze

2011-01-24 Thread Joe Riel
On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 20:05:21 +0100 "Hans-J. Ullrich" wrote: > Am Montag, 24. Januar 2011 schrieb Joe Riel: > > How can I install sun java 1.5 in squeeze? > > It isn't part of the release. > > The package is sun-java5-jre. > > If it is not here, add the repositoey of stable in sources.list. No,

Re: Cannot turn on bell in xterm

2011-01-24 Thread Joe Riel
On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 19:06:34 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 14:04:47 -0800, Joe Riel wrote: > > > On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 21:48:29 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > > > >> > I just installed Debian 6 on a different computer, with vastly > >> > different hardware, and it behaves the s

Re: java 5 in squeeze

2011-01-24 Thread Joe Riel
On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 12:12:22 -0700 Bob Proulx wrote: > Joe Riel wrote: > > How can I install sun java 1.5 in squeeze? > > It isn't part of the release. > > Java 1.6 is included in the non-free section. > > apt-get install sun-java6-jre > > Useful information about this can be found

Re: need help making shell script use two CPUs/cores

2011-01-24 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Bob Proulx put forth on 1/24/2011 12:21 PM: > Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> Why bother going up to 12 processes with a quad core chip? Anything >> over 4 processes/threads won't gain you anything, as your results >> above demonstrate. > > I went to 12 because it would demonstrate the behavior three ti

Re: inconsistent apt-get output

2011-01-24 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-01-24 20:02 +0100, Brad Alexander wrote: > On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 1:43 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: > >> I suspect Pierre has both Lenny and Squeeze in sources.list, and that >> apt-get somehow stumbles over the fact that gnome-network-admin is a >> real package in Lenny but a virtual package

Re: Missing Disk Space or Partition

2011-01-24 Thread RR
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 1:08 PM, Carl Johnson wrote: > RR writes: > > > On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 12:07 AM, Carl Johnson wrote: > > > >> RR writes: > >> > >> > I see as more messages are pouring in, this message is getting pushed > >> down > >> > further and people won't even see it anymore. Doe

Re: java 5 in squeeze

2011-01-24 Thread Bob Proulx
Joe Riel wrote: > How can I install sun java 1.5 in squeeze? > It isn't part of the release. Java 1.6 is included in the non-free section. apt-get install sun-java6-jre Useful information about this can be found on the wiki: http://wiki.debian.org/Java/Sun If you absolutely need Java 1.

Re: The classic KDE mouse cursor theme in Squeeze

2011-01-24 Thread Simon Hollenbach
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 5:19 PM, Zbigniew Komarnicki wrote: > why If I choose in KDE > System Settings -> Keyboard and Mouse -> Mouse -> Cursor Theme -> KDE Classic > > the KDE Classic cursor theme it is not preserved after log out and also in > many other applications is not preserved e.g. on Kru

Re: Cannot turn on bell in xterm

2011-01-24 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 14:04:47 -0800, Joe Riel wrote: > On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 21:48:29 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > >> > I just installed Debian 6 on a different computer, with vastly >> > different hardware, and it behaves the same way, that is no bell. >> >> It should be under "start / system / p

Re: java 5 in squeeze

2011-01-24 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Montag, 24. Januar 2011 schrieb Joe Riel: > How can I install sun java 1.5 in squeeze? > It isn't part of the release. The package is sun-java5-jre. If it is not here, add the repositoey of stable in sources.list. Good luck! Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debia

Re: inconsistent apt-get output

2011-01-24 Thread Brad Alexander
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 1:43 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: > I suspect Pierre has both Lenny and Squeeze in sources.list, and that > apt-get somehow stumbles over the fact that gnome-network-admin is a > real package in Lenny but a virtual package in Squeeze. Thats an interesting point. I've had stanz

Re: Squeeze. 'Buffer I/O error' message has flooding tty opened as root

2011-01-24 Thread Jens Van Broeckhoven
Op Mon, 24 Jan 2011 20:24:05 +0300 Mark Goldshtein schreef: > Hello, list! > > I am working as a root in a pure console (/etc/init.d/gdm3 stop, > trying to bring to life VIA8623 graphics) and there are flood of > messages: You don' need gdm or anything X related for plain console usage. > [time

java 5 in squeeze

2011-01-24 Thread Joe Riel
How can I install sun java 1.5 in squeeze? It isn't part of the release. -- Joe Riel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110124105325.7e867e42@gau

Re: inconsistent apt-get output

2011-01-24 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-01-24 19:30 +0100, Bob Proulx wrote: > Pierre Frenkiel wrote: >> ==>apt-get install gnome-network-admin >> ... >>The following packages have unmet dependencies: >> gnome-network-admin : Depends: gnome-system-tools but it is not going to >> be installed >>E: Broken packages >>

Re: Lenny Apache2: ReverseProxy -> https -> http://localhost:port

2011-01-24 Thread Bob Proulx
Denny Schierz wrote: > NameVirtualHost 1.2.3.4:443 > SSL name based virtual hosts are not yet supported. You should remove that line from the configuration file. > ProxyPass /calendars/ http://localhost:8008/calendars/ > ProxyPassReverse /calendars/ http://localhost:8008/calendars/ > ProxyP

Re: inconsistent apt-get output

2011-01-24 Thread Bob Proulx
Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > ==>apt-get install gnome-network-admin > ... >The following packages have unmet dependencies: > gnome-network-admin : Depends: gnome-system-tools but it is not going to > be installed >E: Broken packages > ... >ii gnome-system-tools 2.30.2-2

Re: need help making shell script use two CPUs/cores

2011-01-24 Thread Bob Proulx
Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Bob Proulx put forth: > > Here is some raw data from another test using GraphicsMagic from Debian > > Sid on an Intel Core2 Quad CPU Q9400 @ 2.66GHz. > > > > #CPUs real user sys > > 1 ... 32.17 100.15 2.29 > > 2 ... 28.02 102.09 2.25 > > 3 ... 26.96 101.4

Re: Debian Squeeze Installation

2011-01-24 Thread Joe
On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 02:35:24 +0200 Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Du, 23 ian 11, 23:54:14, Joe wrote: > > > > Are either you or Hugo running the X version? I've never used that, > > and I don't see any difference with the console version, either. > > I'm on an X-based Sid and a non-X Lenny server, a

inconsistent apt-get output

2011-01-24 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
hi, I have with network-admin a problem already reported in several forums and bug reports: the "interfaces" tab is missing. Following a fix proposed somewhere, I tried to install the package gnome-network-admin. I got the following: ==>apt-get install gnome-network-admin Reading package li

Re: Missing Disk Space or Partition

2011-01-24 Thread Carl Johnson
RR writes: > On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 12:07 AM, Carl Johnson wrote: > >> RR writes: >> >> > I see as more messages are pouring in, this message is getting pushed >> down >> > further and people won't even see it anymore. Does anyone have a personal >> > doco, blog , cheatsheet for modifying the

Re: Squeeze. 'Buffer I/O error' message has flooding tty opened as root

2011-01-24 Thread Bob Proulx
Mark Goldshtein wrote: > .. and there are flood of messages: > [time stamp] Buffer I/O error on device fd0, logical block 0 > end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 > > Messages are stopped after a while, though. Maybe 20-30 of them passed. I don't know what process is trying to access the fl

Squeeze. 'Buffer I/O error' message has flooding tty opened as root

2011-01-24 Thread Mark Goldshtein
Hello, list! I am working as a root in a pure console (/etc/init.d/gdm3 stop, trying to bring to life VIA8623 graphics) and there are flood of messages: [time stamp] Buffer I/O error on device fd0, logical block 0 end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 Messages are stopped after a while, thou

The classic KDE mouse cursor theme in Squeeze

2011-01-24 Thread Zbigniew Komarnicki
Hi, why If I choose in KDE System Settings -> Keyboard and Mouse -> Mouse -> Cursor Theme -> KDE Classic the KDE Classic cursor theme it is not preserved after log out and also in many other applications is not preserved e.g. on Krusader, Kile etc. Do you observe also such behavior? What to do

Re: Squeeze. A problem with VT8623 [Apollo CLE266] integrated CastleRock videocard

2011-01-24 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Mark Goldshtein schreef: Hello, list! Would you, please, help to bring to normal functioning a subj's video board? VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8623 [Apollo CLE266] integrated CastleRock graphics (rev 03) #lspci –k did not shows which driver is in use. Can you look in /e

Squeeze. A problem with VT8623 [Apollo CLE266] integrated CastleRock videocard

2011-01-24 Thread Mark Goldshtein
Hello, list! Would you, please, help to bring to normal functioning a subj's video board? VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8623 [Apollo CLE266] integrated CastleRock graphics (rev 03) #lspci –k did not shows which driver is in use. X is up fine but GUI screen is garbled after

Squeeze. Проблема с VT8623 [Apollo CLE266] videocard (CastleRock graphics)

2011-01-24 Thread Mark Goldshtein
Доброе время суток, рассылка! (радостный от инициации ценного обсуждения аттачментов, предпринимаю попытку номер два) Пожалуйста, помогите наладить нормальную работу с VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8623 [Apollo CLE266] integrated CastleRock graphics (rev 03) X грузится норма

Re: Debian Squeeze Installation

2011-01-24 Thread Alan Greenberger
On 2011-01-23, Roman Gelfand wrote: > When installing Squeeze, I chose standard system install and desktop > environment. However, it boots in line mode. How can I check if > desktop, in fact was installed? how to enable it? what is the name > of the of the gnome or kde packages? > > Thanks in

Re: Where are "xrandr" settings stored?

2011-01-24 Thread Darac Marjal
On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 10:14:34PM +, Liam O'Toole wrote: > On 2011-01-22, Camaleón wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Yesterday I faced a "chicken-egg" problem :-) > > > > I have a virtual machine (virtualbox) in a notebook with Squeeze > > installed and wanted to add an external 17" LCD display (nat

Re: Did I find a bug? If so, where to file?

2011-01-24 Thread Darac Marjal
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 11:03:23PM -0500, vr wrote: > [cut] > > I also ran into problems in /var/lib/dpkg/status with "Package: > procps" having typos of "Maintainerz" missing the colon and having a > "z". And typo "Reco>mends:". Where should those get reported? These look like file corruption t

Re: Let's talk about HTTPS Everywhere

2011-01-24 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 06:16:01 -0600 Nate Bargmann wrote: > * On 2011 23 Jan 22:24 -0600, Celejar wrote: > > I know very little about enterprise networking, but are hubs still in > > actual use today? > > Not in the company I work for, We've been very proactive getting rid of > hubs and putting s

Re: Cannot turn on bell in xterm

2011-01-24 Thread David Jardine
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 04:05:53AM +, T o n g wrote: > > I checked my log, the following is what I had in squeeze in on box, but I > don't have either of them in my current box: > > $ amixer | grep -ie 'Beep|Speaker' || echo no > no I think you would need 'Beep\|Speaker' to make that work a

Re: Let's talk about HTTPS Everywhere

2011-01-24 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2011 23 Jan 22:24 -0600, Celejar wrote: > I know very little about enterprise networking, but are hubs still in > actual use today? Not in the company I work for, We've been very proactive getting rid of hubs and putting switches in their place. Interestingly, ten years ago our network was

Re: Weird server mystery: self-reset, mostly

2011-01-24 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, frank thyes wrote: On Mon, 2011-01-24 at 00:47 -0600, will trillich wrote: 583 days Up since then... if the box is reachable from the internet I would'nt trust it and move on to reinstall. Is's much quicker then wasting your time analyzing this strange behaviour. What I don't understand

Re: putting "/tmp" to memory help

2011-01-24 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Sun, 2011-01-23 at 05:47 -0800, kellyremo wrote: > "to memory" means: mounting a ~2 GByte filesystem [ tmpfs?, or > ramfs? ], and put the "/tmp" on it. [ e.g.: 4 GByte ram in the pc ]. > what to write in the "/etc/fstab"? > > I would like to collect the [ answers too:P ]: > > Advantages: > - M

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

2011-01-24 Thread Jochen Schulz
(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: Disable sound of 1 application

2011-01-24 Thread Johan Grönqvist
2011-01-24 09:34, Sander Joris skrev: I'm looking for a way to disable the sound of one application without it interfering with any other applications. Is there a way to do this in Debian? I do not know if the solution is good in your case, as it is rather invasive, but per-application volume

Re: mkinitramfs tool makes a weirdly small initrd file.

2011-01-24 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
No wonder 2.6.37 compiled so fast on my crap machine. make-kpkg did not make most of the files at all. make works now. On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 3:54 PM, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: > Turns out, the kernel directory in /lib/modules is almost empty. I do > not know why > > On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 a

Debian on Netbook mainly for PHP and AS3 Dev, but keeping Win XP

2011-01-24 Thread Maurycy Zarzycki
Hello, I hope this is the right place to ask. Recently I got under my care an unmanaged Debian VPS, and I kinda grew to like it rather much, so an idea struck me to install Debian on my netbook. I primarily use it for PHP and AS3 development (pure as3, no flash professional flash-educated fol

Lenny Apache2: ReverseProxy -> https -> http://localhost:port

2011-01-24 Thread Denny Schierz
hi, I don't know, whats the problem: My ReverseProxy works with non-ssl to non-ssl, but not from ssl to non-ssl: == NameVirtualHost 1.2.3.4:443 ServerAdmin webmas...@foobar.bla ServerName www.foobar.bla SSLEngine on SSLCertificateFile "/etc/ssl/c

Disable sound of 1 application

2011-01-24 Thread Sander Joris
Hello, I'm looking for a way to disable the sound of one application without it interfering with any other applications. Is there a way to do this in Debian? Thanks in advance. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contac

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

2011-01-24 Thread Thomas Nguyen Van
Good morning Our company needs to encrypt hard drives on our machines running under Linux Debian Lenny. Seagate proposes FDE solutions with Momentus 5400 and/or 7200 (http://www.seagate.com/docs/pdf/fr-FR/whitepaper/mb595_2_momentus_fde_sed_ii_sq_kit.pdf) This solution is very interest

Re: Weird server mystery: self-reset, mostly

2011-01-24 Thread frank thyes
On Mon, 2011-01-24 at 00:47 -0600, will trillich wrote: > 583 days Up since then... if the box is reachable from the internet I would'nt trust it and move on to reinstall. Is's much quicker then wasting your time analyzing this strange behaviour. Bye Frank -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-