Re: Debian vs. other firewall/server operating systems

2011-02-27 Thread Eero Volotinen
> Why do people use Ubuntu on the server given that Debian is more stable?  Why > do people use RedHat given that it has proprietary features in it?  (While > it's not Windows, it sounds like a step in the wrong direction.)  I've heard > that CentOS is RHEL is supported seven to ten years on ea

Re: Reading later boot files failed

2011-02-27 Thread waterloo
Thanks a lot ! 2011/2/27 Camaleón > On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 03:08:39 +0800, waterloo wrote: > > > 2011/2/28 Camaleón > > > >> On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 02:02:16 +0800, waterloo wrote: > >> > >> > Mon Feb 28 01:57:45 2011: Reading early boot files > >> > >> A quick Google search returns that this messa

Re: ssd / smart question

2011-02-27 Thread Doug
On 02/21/2011 09:06 AM, Brian Ryans wrote: Quoting Paul Berry on 2011-02-14 01:47: There is only one problem. The firmware update does not have a Linux installer. You need to install Windows 7 or Vista on a separate boot drive, then boot from it to use the firmware tool. I did a temporary An

Debian vs. other firewall/server operating systems

2011-02-27 Thread Jason Hsu
I can't comment on other distros as servers, as my experience at the server level has so far been with a minimal command-line only Debian Stable installation. (When I'm given the option of installing packages for the graphical desktop, web server, mail server, etc., I don't select any of them.)

free jewel case insert: Debian 6.0.0 "Squeeze" Official i386 xfce+lxde-CD

2011-02-27 Thread Eric De Mund
All, Made for myself; perhaps also useful to others. I made it so I'd have ready access to the disc's SHA512 checksum. Available at: http://ixian.com/ead/debian/debian-6.0.0-i386-xfce+lxde-CD-1.odt http://ixian.com/ead/debian/debian-6.0.0-i386-xfce+lxde-CD-1.pdf Text reads: +---

/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lQtGui

2011-02-27 Thread Sthu Deus
Good day. I try to compile a program w/ the help of qmake and make and on make running stage I get: $ make g++ -c -pipe -O2 -Wall -W -D_REENTRANT -DQT_NO_DEBUG -DQT_GUI_LIB -DQT_CORE_LIB -I/usr/share/qt4/mkspecs/linux-g++ -I. -I/usr/include/qt4/QtCore -I/usr/include/qt4/QtGui -I/usr/include/qt4

Can you recommend a audio/video package?

2011-02-27 Thread Long Wind
Currently I use helix producer 9. It meets my three requirements: 1) It works on slow PC. It can run on my P3/550. (I have another PC that runs P4/1.6G) 2) It use compression. For video size 384x288, it take about 100 M for one hour of TV recording 3) It can be played on Windows and Linux (by Re

Re: Debian 6 64-bit and Openbox: Opinions, Suggestions, Pitfalls.

2011-02-27 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Sun, 2/27/11, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Du, 27 feb 11, 12:05:11, Patrick > Bartek wrote: > > > > My system: > > > > Abit KN9 motherboard, built-in audio and ethernet > > Watch for firmware errors in dmesg and install the > apropiate package > from non-free if needed I'll keep an weat

Re: How do I tel SSL to trust a certificate?

2011-02-27 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 02/27/11 21:02, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: In<4d6ac759.1000...@gmail.com>, Marc Shapiro wrote: I am trying to access my work computer from home using the Citrix client. First, I connect to the companies web-site and log in. I navigate from there to a link for remote login. On selecting

Re: Debian 6 64-bit and Openbox: Opinions, Suggestions, Pitfalls.

2011-02-27 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Sun, 2/27/11, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/27/2011 02:05 PM, Patrick > Bartek wrote: > > Having tired of Fedora's short support life (13 > [snip] > > > > My system: > > > > Abit KN9 motherboard, built-in audio and ethernet > > AMD Athlon64 X2 2.9 GHZ > > EVGA GeForce 8400GS graphics card, fa

How do you avoid server/firewall downtime?

2011-02-27 Thread Jason Hsu
I have successfully installed a firewall and DHCP server with a minimal Debian Lenny installation. I successfully upgraded Debian Lenny to Debian Squeeze. Of course, it helps that I upgraded immediately after completing the fresh installation of Debian Lenny. Now I'm trying to get the Shorevi

Re: need help debugging my email in squeeze and/or testing (both) not merely old squeeze from before the release

2011-02-27 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <20110227153610.36fdb...@resin17.mta.everyone.net>, pecon...@mesanetworks.net wrote: >2011-02-27 09:04:28 1Ptj6i-0004BD-8e failed to expand "<; ${if >exists{/etc/exim4/passwd.client}{${lookup{$host}nwildlsearch{/e >tc/exim/passwd.client{$host_address}}}{}}"while check >ing a list

Re: How do I tel SSL to trust a certificate?

2011-02-27 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <4d6ac759.1000...@gmail.com>, Marc Shapiro wrote: >I am trying to access my work computer from home using the Citrix >client. First, I connect to the companies web-site and log in. I >navigate from there to a link for remote login. On selecting that, I >should be presented with a login for my

Re: How do I tel SSL to trust a certificate?

2011-02-27 Thread Michael Tsang
On Monday 28 February 2011 05:51:21 Marc Shapiro wrote: > I am trying to access my work computer from home using the Citrix > client. First, I connect to the companies web-site and log in. I > navigate from there to a link for remote login. On selecting that, I > should be presented with a login

Re: bash variables

2011-02-27 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <20110228004108.GA3922@playground>, Mike McClain wrote: >On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 12:45:27PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> In <20110225222127.GA1996@playground>, Mike McClain wrote: >> >This only bites me once in a while but when it does it can be very >> >frustrating so any hints / tip

Re: Things I Don't Understand About Debian

2011-02-27 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In , shawn wilson wrote: >On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 1:32 PM, >Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> In <4d685bbb.2010...@gmail.com>, Aaron Toponce wrote: >> >More garbage. There are _many_ good reasons to reboot a UNIX or >> >GNU/Linux server: >> > >> >* Forcing applications to use the new libraries. >

Re: How long has your Lenny -> Squeeze upgrade taken?

2011-02-27 Thread Yuwen Dai
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 7:33 AM, Mark wrote: > Realizing this is dependent on computer specs, just curious what some of > the people on this list have experienced for how much time it took to do the > Lenny to Squeeze upgrade, (assuming a fully up-to-date Lenny system). > I downloaded the first

Re: Debian stable vs. testing for Swift Linux (antiX derivative)

2011-02-27 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 08:52:22PM -0600, Jason Hsu wrote: > I recently started a new Linux distro called Swift Linux > (www.swiftlinux.org). > I wonder if you ever considered creating a Debian Pure Blend instead of a standalone distro. http://wiki.debian.org/DebianPureBlends I think some adv

Re: bash variables

2011-02-27 Thread Mike McClain
On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 12:45:27PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In <20110225222127.GA1996@playground>, Mike McClain wrote: > >This only bites me once in a while but when it does it can be very > >frustrating so any hints / tips are welcome. > > FOO="stuff 'with' qu\"otes" > echo $FOO > e

Re: Debian Wiki participation..?

2011-02-27 Thread Dan Serban
On Sat, 26 Feb 2011 23:31:56 + Peter Tynan wrote: > One of the things I've never understood about Debian is why the wiki > is so inactive when compared to other distributions, the simple fact ... [snip] ... > netizen I do not register, I do not make my suggestion and I start to > understand

Runaway process detection.

2011-02-27 Thread Dan Serban
I've run into a bit of a problem that I'd like to tackle: I'm running lenny in an appserver setup with ltsp. Everything works dandy, and until I have tested the upgrade path to squeeze (possible x.org issues) I'd like to tackle an annoying problem I keep running into. Because of a bug in gtk, ic

Re: xinetd UDP vs. TCP Output

2011-02-27 Thread Hal Vaughan
Short answer: It's not possible. Long answer: After the research it took me, I'm just too damned lazy to write it up. Just trust me, can't be done. Hal On Feb 24, 2011, at 3:49 AM, Hal Vaughan wrote: > I'm using a small program that's started by xinetd. The incoming signal to > it would

Re: disabling irq assigned to sata hard drives

2011-02-27 Thread Wayne Topa
On 02/27/2011 06:16 PM, Mark Copper wrote: Hi All, In the last week, my desktop has been disabled by disabling an IRQ several times. <--SNIP--> uname -a Linux rigel 2.6.32-5-686 #1 SMP Wed Jan 12 04:01:41 UTC 2011 i686 GNU/Linux How can I narrow the problem down? For example, the box isn

Re: Things I Don't Understand About Debian

2011-02-27 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/27/2011 04:56 PM, shawn wilson wrote: On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 1:32 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.< b...@iguanasuicide.net> wrote: In<4d685bbb.2010...@gmail.com>, Aaron Toponce wrote: More garbage. There are _many_ good reasons to reboot a UNIX or GNU/Linux server: * Forcing applications t

Re: How long has your Lenny -> Squeeze upgrade taken?

2011-02-27 Thread Brian Ryans
Quoting Clive Standbridge on 2011-02-18 03:35: > Also if you rely on the system for anything important, you need to > allow time to diagnose and fix the fallout i.e. breakages that aren't > covered in the release notes. It happens unfortunately. And time to research whether said breakages are know

Re: ssd / smart question

2011-02-27 Thread Brian Ryans
Quoting Paul Berry on 2011-02-14 01:47: > There is only one problem. The firmware update does not have a Linux > installer. You need to install Windows 7 or Vista on a separate boot > drive, then boot from it to use the firmware tool. I did a temporary And THIS is why I mourn the loss of the ve

Re: apt-setup

2011-02-27 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Du, 27 feb 11, 23:34:45, Lisi wrote: > > > If you need some interface to change > > sources.list try synaptic ;) > > Ouch!! ;-) Give me Kwrite or another good editor and sources.list itself! Not for you personally! :) Regards, -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: ht

need help debugging my email in squeeze and/or testing (both) not merely old squeeze from before the release

2011-02-27 Thread
Please excuse an earlier email in HTML. I was and am still now using the web mail system of my ISP, which I do not know, and which has very muddled descriptions of what the various buttons do. I think (and sincerely hope) that I have turned off the 'helpful' feature of automatic HTML. I have use

Re: apt-setup

2011-02-27 Thread Lisi
On Sunday 27 February 2011 23:08:17 Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Du, 27 feb 11, 16:27:49, Lisi wrote: > > I am a little confused about this. I had never heard of it, so have been > > looking it up. There is no man entry, and the man apt entry, which > > mentions and gives hyperlinks to toher apt ap

squeeze and touchpad

2011-02-27 Thread Atif CEYLAN
Hi all, I bought a new packard bell easynote lm98 laptop. synaptics and related packages are installed on my squeeze but my touchpad's name is shown as "Macintosh mouse button emulation" and my keyboard's name is shown as "AT Translated Set 2 keyboard" in the "dmesg | egrep -i 'input|touch|trac

havp package missing in squeeze

2011-02-27 Thread Edward C. Lang
Hi, Does anyone know the status of the package havp for squeeze? The package seems to be abandoned by the maintainer as the last two updates were NMUs: http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/h/havp/havp_0.91-1.2/changelog http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2010/10/msg01172.

disabling irq assigned to sata hard drives

2011-02-27 Thread Mark Copper
Hi All, In the last week, my desktop has been disabled by disabling an IRQ several times. Feb 20 14:46:05 rigel kernel: [17358.879005] irq 19: nobody cared (try booting with the "irqpoll" option) Feb 20 14:46:05 rigel kernel: [17358.879011] Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.32-5-686 #1 Feb 20

Re: Debian 6 64-bit and Openbox: Opinions, Suggestions, Pitfalls.

2011-02-27 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Du, 27 feb 11, 12:05:11, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > My system: > > Abit KN9 motherboard, built-in audio and ethernet Watch for firmware errors in dmesg and install the apropiate package from non-free if needed > AMD Athlon64 X2 2.9 GHZ > EVGA GeForce 8400GS graphics card, fanless (by design)

Re: apt-setup

2011-02-27 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Du, 27 feb 11, 16:27:49, Lisi wrote: > I am a little confused about this. I had never heard of it, so have been > looking it up. There is no man entry, and the man apt entry, which mentions > and gives hyperlinks to toher apt applications (apt-cache etc.) does nto > mention it. > > Googlin

Re: Sid still wants to remove nvidia-glx (was Re: sid: upgrade wants to remove xserver packages)

2011-02-27 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/27/2011 02:41 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2011-02-27 09:04 +0100, Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/07/2011 12:40 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2011-02-07 19:33 +0100, Ron Johnson wrote: The problem for me is that dist-upgrade wants to install libdrm-nouveau1, which blasts nvidia-glx. No, nvidia-

Re: Things I Don't Understand About Debian

2011-02-27 Thread shawn wilson
On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 1:32 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. < b...@iguanasuicide.net> wrote: > > In <4d685bbb.2010...@gmail.com>, Aaron Toponce wrote: > >More garbage. There are _many_ good reasons to reboot a UNIX or > >GNU/Linux server: > > > >* Forcing applications to use the new libraries. > > Poo

Re: Need to confirm re 'fstab', before rebooting my Squeeze

2011-02-27 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Du, 27 feb 11, 10:49:28, Brian wrote: > > The same thing came into my mind at the time but I moved on. Perhaps it > has been fixed in a daily build. I don't like reporting as bugs > something which I'm not sure about so I'll have a closer look at it > today. Which package would I report the bug

Intermittent internet since upgrading to squeeze

2011-02-27 Thread George
Ever since I upgraded to squeeze I have intermittent internet. It works for about 30-45 seconds, then it stops. I have to do ifdown -a ifup -a which brings it back, only for it to go down again. The strange part is that no such problems occur when booting into recovery mode. I tried disabling ipv

Re: Debian 6 64-bit and Openbox: Opinions, Suggestions, Pitfalls.

2011-02-27 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/27/2011 02:05 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: Having tired of Fedora's short support life (13 months)--I've been using it since FC3, but have only been upgrading every 3rd release since 6--and wanting a distro where longevity and stability are paramount, and SELinux is an option, not the defau

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

2011-02-27 Thread Celejar
On Sat, 26 Feb 2011 01:49:51 +0200 Dotan Cohen wrote: > On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 16:22, Celejar wrote: > > [Please don't cc me on replies.] > > > > Sorry. The Open Office list is just the opposite (we _must_ cc as one > need not be subscribed to post, and lots of new users don't > subscribe). I'

Re: need help debugging my email in squeeze and/or testing (both) not merely old squeeze from before the release

2011-02-27 Thread kuLa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 27/02/11 18:51, pecon...@mesanetworks.net wrote: > Some background information: > sic > 2011-02-27 09:04:28 1Ptj6i-0004BD-8e failed to expand "<; ${if > exists{/etc/exim4/passwd.client} > {${lookup{$host}nwildlsearch{/etc/exim4/passwd.client}{$ho

Re (2): Sound lost - SOLVED

2011-02-27 Thread peasthope
Anthony, From: Anthony Campbell Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2011 13:29:30 + > Well, in the end it was the sound card. I replaced it with a new one and > sound is now working again. If the new card uses a driver different from the previous, another possibility is a bug related to that driver. Th

How do I tel SSL to trust a certificate?

2011-02-27 Thread Marc Shapiro
I am trying to access my work computer from home using the Citrix client. First, I connect to the companies web-site and log in. I navigate from there to a link for remote login. On selecting that, I should be presented with a login for my computer at work. This has worked in the past, but

Re: Squeeze: can Bluetooth headset work without pulseaudio???

2011-02-27 Thread Celejar
On Sat, 26 Feb 2011 12:55:42 -0500 John wrote: > I have used pulseaudio in the past, and it was horrible to install > and understand. But for a while, I had it working on some machine or > other, with Etch or Lenny (I think). Sinks, sources, wonderful. That > machine is long gone. > > I rece

Re: Sid still wants to remove nvidia-glx (was Re: sid: upgrade wants to remove xserver packages)

2011-02-27 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-02-27 09:04 +0100, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/07/2011 12:40 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: >> On 2011-02-07 19:33 +0100, Ron Johnson wrote: >> >>> The problem for me is that dist-upgrade wants to install >>> libdrm-nouveau1, which blasts nvidia-glx. >> >> No, nvidia-glx is broken by the xserver-x

Re: [OT] programming Dbus

2011-02-27 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Jeffrin Jose wrote: On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 08:25:58AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Anybody tried using dbus as root non-gui like Hal does? Following link may be helpful for you... 1. http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-dbus.html Try using the following files in root mode. 1. h

Re: Apt Crippled

2011-02-27 Thread David Baron
On Sunday 20 February 2011 21:42:29 David Baron wrote: > On Wednesday 16 February 2011 22:56:40 David Baron wrote: > > On Saturday 12 February 2011 22:54:16 David Baron wrote: > > > On Saturday 12 February 2011 21:30:20 debian-user-digest- > > > > > > requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: > > > > > For

Debian 6 64-bit and Openbox: Opinions, Suggestions, Pitfalls.

2011-02-27 Thread Patrick Bartek
Having tired of Fedora's short support life (13 months)--I've been using it since FC3, but have only been upgrading every 3rd release since 6--and wanting a distro where longevity and stability are paramount, and SELinux is an option, not the default, I've settled on Debian 6. However, my custo

Re: opened OpenSSL port

2011-02-27 Thread Jeffrin Jose
On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 01:50:24AM -0800, erikmccaskey64 wrote: > Main question: is it safe, to open a port for an openssl server? It may be safe not to open a port because it can cause attacks. It may not be safe to close a port because you may not be able to run the service. So it may be safe

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

2011-02-27 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 23:01:00 +0100 David Jardine wrote: > On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 10:40:55PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > I don't consider a debian-user subscriber a "typical desktop / laptop > > user" :) > > A typical debian-user subscriber may not be a typical desktop/laptop > user,

Re: Reading later boot files failed

2011-02-27 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 03:08:39 +0800, waterloo wrote: > 2011/2/28 Camaleón > >> On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 02:02:16 +0800, waterloo wrote: >> >> > Mon Feb 28 01:57:45 2011: Reading early boot files >> >> A quick Google search returns that this message can be related to >> "readahead" (or "readahead-f

Re: need help debugging my email in squeeze and/or testing (both) not merely old squeeze from before the release

2011-02-27 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <20110227105102.36f21...@resin14.mta.everyone.net>, pecon...@mesanetworks.net wrote: >size="2">Some background [...] >file, http://iguanasuicide.net/\_/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

How to manage iPod and keep it in sync

2011-02-27 Thread Simon Brandmair
Hi group, I am looking for a program to properly manage my iPod. I am aware of some programs to add and delete songs (like amarok), but I am looking for a program which * displays missing files on iPod, which are in local music collection * syncs by prompting to add them to iPod or delete them

Re: Reading later boot files failed

2011-02-27 Thread waterloo
Yes , I install readahead-fedora . How to make readahead-fedora work correctly ? Thanks a lot ! 2011/2/28 Camaleón > On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 02:02:16 +0800, waterloo wrote: > > > Below is my /var/log/boot file . Thanks > > Keeping the interesting data and removing the rest of the logs: > > > Mon Feb

Re: Suspend to disk fails after Squeeze upgrade

2011-02-27 Thread Richard Lawrence
Hi Jeffrin, Thanks for the advice. > I think some module which help in the suspend/resume > process has failed to complete initialization. > EDAC(Error Correction And Detection) module might > have found error in a device or may be the module > needs a patch. > > You can do dmesg | grep edac and

Re: Debian Wiki participation..?

2011-02-27 Thread Joey Hess
Peter Tynan wrote: > One of the things I've never understood about Debian is why the wiki > is so inactive when compared to other distributions, the simple fact > of life is that nine times out of ten I find the information I'm > looking for on the Arch or Gentoo wikis - not the Debian wiki. I am

Re: Suspend to disk fails after Squeeze upgrade

2011-02-27 Thread Richard Lawrence
Camaleón writes: > Well, no kernel oops is "good" but if you can reproduce this kernel bug > every time you trigger the hibernation from GNOME when resuming the > system, at least you can open a bug for this in Debian BTS. You are > clearly having some sort of problem with the kernel. Right o

need help debugging my email in squeeze and/or testing (both) not merely old squeeze from before the release

2011-02-27 Thread
Some background information:I have used mutt/fetchmail/exim4 for several years without much problem. I keep backup copies of /etc so I am confident that my exim4 configuration is the same as it was whenit last worked a few days ago. I have looked at the config file that is causing a problem and it

Re: Debian Wiki participation..?

2011-02-27 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In , Peter Tynan wrote: >I'm not signing up for another mailing list just to make a >single post Most Debian mailing lists do not require subscription in order to post. Most users of Debian mailing lists will honor a request to be CC'd on replies, as instructed in the code of conduct. -- Boyd

Re: bash variables

2011-02-27 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <20110225222127.GA1996@playground>, Mike McClain wrote: >This only bites me once in a while but when it does it can be very >frustrating so any hints / tips are welcome. FOO="stuff 'with' qu\"otes" echo $FOO echo stuff 'with' qu\"otes Yes, quote removal happens after parameter expansion, but i

Re: Debian Squeeze Dovecot Sieve

2011-02-27 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <1298740005.3781.4.camel@michael-laptop>, Michael wrote: >Anyone got any pointers on installing sieve on Squeeze? The sieve plugin to dovecot is included in the Debian packaging. I used cmusieve with dovecot in Lenny (through Debian packaging) and I upgrade that system to Squeeze and migrate

Re: dhcpd tftp boot server configuration

2011-02-27 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <20110225224107.36ea4...@resin06.mta.everyone.net>, urpion urpion wrote: >Hello! I need [...] >declaration?here's what I got in >/etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf## Sample >configuration file for ISC dhcpd for >Debian### The I can't understand you through the HTML. Also, it is against list policy to post

Re: Things I Don't Understand About Debian

2011-02-27 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <4d685bbb.2010...@gmail.com>, Aaron Toponce wrote: >More garbage. There are _many_ good reasons to reboot a UNIX or >GNU/Linux server: > >* Proper maintenance ensuring all services start on boot. Good reason. >* Cleaning out stale memory and swap as a "refresh". Poor reason; almost all of thi

Re: Reading later boot files failed

2011-02-27 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 02:02:16 +0800, waterloo wrote: > Below is my /var/log/boot file . Thanks Keeping the interesting data and removing the rest of the logs: > Mon Feb 28 01:57:45 2011: Reading later boot files (...) > Mon Feb 28 01:57:45 2011: Reading later boot files... > ^[[31mfailed!^[[3

Re: Another "No devices found" in X problem

2011-02-27 Thread Steve McCarthy
On Sunday 27 Feb 2011, Camaleón wrote: > > I wonder what is the current status for Sandy Bridge in current Debian > releases :-? > > I've read that Intel X driver 2.14.0 does fully support that chipset > (H67) but you seem to be using 2.13.0 and Xorg 1.7.7. Will that combo > work? > > Greetings,

Re: Reading later boot files failed

2011-02-27 Thread waterloo
Below is my /var/log/boot file . Thanks > Mon Feb 28 01:57:43 2011: Setting parameters of disc: (none). > > Mon Feb 28 01:57:43 2011: Setting preliminary keymap...done. > > Mon Feb 28 01:57:43 2011: Activating swap...done. > > Mon Feb 28 01:57:43 2011: Checking root file system...fsck from >> util

Re: apt-setup

2011-02-27 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello Lisi, you may want to read http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch02.en.html Have fun, Jerome On 27/02/11 17:27, Lisi wrote: I am a little confused about this. I had never heard of it, so have been looking it up. There is no man entry, and the man apt entry, which mentio

apt-setup

2011-02-27 Thread Lisi
I am a little confused about this. I had never heard of it, so have been looking it up. There is no man entry, and the man apt entry, which mentions and gives hyperlinks to toher apt applications (apt-cache etc.) does nto mention it. Googling brings up the information that Potato users used t

Re: weird font problem with white lines

2011-02-27 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 27 Feb 2011 20:50:19 +0530, Abhishek Dasgupta wrote: > This problem appears on a fresh Debian 6 install -- it is intermittent > and the position of the white lines vary. I can not track the source of > the problem and it seems to affect all fonts at some time or the other. > > This pictur

Re: Squeeze: can Bluetooth headset work without pulseaudio???

2011-02-27 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 26 Feb 2011 12:55:42 -0500, John wrote: > I recently installed Squeeze/KDE 4.45, and I wanted to use a bluetooth > headset. My Googling led me to believe that it CAN NOT be done without > pulseaudio. (...) I dunno where your googling led you but this blog entry seems to be pretty exp

weird font problem with white lines

2011-02-27 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
Hello, This problem appears on a fresh Debian 6 install -- it is intermittent and the position of the white lines vary. I can not track the source of the problem and it seems to affect all fonts at some time or the other. This picture will explain it much better than words: http://www.flickr.com/

Re: Debian Wiki participation..?

2011-02-27 Thread Peter Tynan
On Sun, 27 Feb 2011, Simon Hollenbach wrote: - Original message - On Sun, 27 Feb 2011 12:26:57 +0100, Simon Hollenbach wrote: I hereby ask the OP to post the link when a bug was opened... At the moment it is way, way past my bed-time (I'm desperately trying to stay awake until the

Re: Debian Wiki participation..?

2011-02-27 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 27 Feb 2011 13:53:09 +0100, Simon Hollenbach wrote: >> (please, avoid using html) > Sorry about that, i took the time to dig in modest, my mail client, to > find that option. I prefer it as well, so thanks... No problem. >> That is something up to wiki maintainers/admins, so you should c

Re: Debian Wiki participation..?

2011-02-27 Thread Simon Hollenbach
- Original message - > On Sun, 27 Feb 2011 12:26:57 +0100, Simon Hollenbach wrote: > > (please, avoid using html) Sorry about that, i took the time to dig in modest, my mail client, to find that option. I prefer it as well, so thanks... > That is something up to wiki maintainers/admins,

Re: Debian Wiki participation..?

2011-02-27 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 27 Feb 2011 12:22:48 +, Peter Tynan wrote: > On Sun, 27 Feb 2011, Camaleón wrote: > >> All valid concerns (#2 a bit paranoid, IMO), but I think they will be >> better managed and properly addressed in the right mailing list: >> >> http://wiki.debian.org/DebianWiki/Contact#content-admi

Re: Debian Wiki participation..?

2011-02-27 Thread Peter Tynan
On Sun, 27 Feb 2011, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 27 Feb 2011 11:28:44 +, Peter Tynan wrote: All valid concerns (#2 a bit paranoid, IMO), but I think they will be better managed and properly addressed in the right mailing list: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianWiki/Contact#content-admins Probabl

Re: Problems installing VLC

2011-02-27 Thread Brian
AG wrote: > I am having troubles installing VLC on testing/ wheezy. You have now solved your problem but if you have Debian-Multimedia in your sources.list it may have been the cause of your problem. My testing upgrade today wanted to remove vlc and vlc-nox. Commenting out the D-M archive and re

Re: Another "No devices found" in X problem

2011-02-27 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 26 Feb 2011 13:12:40 -0800, Steve McCarthy wrote: (...) > The vesa driver works fine. I've since removed it and fbdev trying to > force the intel choice. Here's the resulting X.log: (...) > (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/intel_drv.so (II) Module > intel: vendor="X.Org Founda

Re: Debian Wiki participation..?

2011-02-27 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 27 Feb 2011 12:26:57 +0100, Simon Hollenbach wrote: (please, avoid using html) > Hello Camaléon, > so we got a privacy statement, but as the wiki states, this shouldn't be > part of what is editable by everyone, but become a static page. That is something up to wiki maintainers/admins, s

Re: Debian Wiki participation..?

2011-02-27 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 27 Feb 2011 11:28:44 +, Peter Tynan wrote: > On Sun, 27 Feb 2011, Camaleón wrote: > >> http://wiki.debian.org/DebianWiki/EditorQuickStart#Account > > Thanks for the link, three thoughts... > > 1: II think it would be helpful if there were links to the Privacy and > Copyright pages o

Re: How do you remotely access a home server/network?

2011-02-27 Thread Brian
On Sat 26 Feb 2011 at 19:18:13 -0500, Slicky Johnson wrote: > Jason, also have a look at the securing Debian manual with attention on > ssh. Perhaps removing passwords all together and only using a key, no > root, etc. From experience I will say moving your listening port from > 22 to something el

Re: Debian Wiki participation..?

2011-02-27 Thread Peter Tynan
On Sun, 27 Feb 2011, Camaleón wrote: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianWiki/EditorQuickStart#Account Thanks for the link, three thoughts... 1: II think it would be helpful if there were links to the Privacy and Copyright pages on the registration page. 2: Still does not answer my primary conce

Re: Debian Wiki participation..?

2011-02-27 Thread Simon Hollenbach
- Original message - /snip > > http://wiki.debian.org/DebianWiki/EditorQuickStart#Account /snip Hello Camaléon, so we got a privacy statement, but as the wiki states, this shouldn't be part of what is editable by everyone, but become a static page. Furthermore, I suppose a link from the

Re: Debian Wiki participation..?

2011-02-27 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 26 Feb 2011 23:31:56 +, Peter Tynan wrote: > One of the things I've never understood about Debian is why the wiki is > so inactive when compared to other distributions, the simple fact of > life is that nine times out of ten I find the information I'm looking > for on the Arch or Gento

Re: Need to confirm re 'fstab', before rebooting my Squeeze

2011-02-27 Thread Brian
On Sun 27 Feb 2011 at 12:00:36 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > If you used the mini.iso to install to a different device[1], then it > sounds like a bug. I can't think of any reason for the installer to > offer anything but the MBR of the device holding /boot as *default* for > installing grub.

Re: bash variables

2011-02-27 Thread Mart Frauenlob
On 25.02.2011 23:21, Mike McClain wrote: I occasionally have problems with bash variables, for instance the following command lists (along with everything else) 2 *.deb files in /home/mike/ root@/deb40a:~> FIND1="-maxdepth 1 -type f -print -name '*'"; \ GREP="-v '\.\(deb\|gz\|tgz\|bz2\|t

Re: Need to confirm re 'fstab', before rebooting my Squeeze

2011-02-27 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Du, 27 feb 11, 09:25:24, Brian wrote: > On Sat 26 Feb 2011 at 20:19:50 -0500, PMA wrote: > > > Well, I've rebooted and come out alive. So the Squeeze installer's > > suggested GRUB destination, which I happily accepted, must have > > been /dev/sdb. Lucky me. For next time, thanks for this al

opened OpenSSL port

2011-02-27 Thread erikmccaskey64
Main question: is it safe, to open a port for an openssl server? e.g.: server side - generate a self-signed cert. time openssl req -x509 -nodes -days 365 -newkey rsa:8192 -keyout mycert.pem -out mycert.pem openssl s_server -accept 52310 -cert mycert.pem Is it secure? - it could be DOSed' [

Re: Need to confirm re 'fstab', before rebooting my Squeeze

2011-02-27 Thread Brian
On Sat 26 Feb 2011 at 20:19:50 -0500, PMA wrote: > Well, I've rebooted and come out alive. So the Squeeze installer's > suggested GRUB destination, which I happily accepted, must have > been /dev/sdb. Lucky me. For next time, thanks for this alert! I may have alarmed you unduly and should have

Re: How do you remotely access a home server/network?

2011-02-27 Thread shawn wilson
On Feb 27, 2011 3:23 AM, "Andrei Popescu" wrote: > > On Sb, 26 feb 11, 18:11:08, Slicky Johnson wrote: > > > > The reason to move away from 22 is to give yourself an added buffer of > > security for port sweeps by the script kiddies. > > IMVHO, I disagree. Moving a service away from it's default p

Re: Debian Wiki participation..?

2011-02-27 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sb, 26 feb 11, 23:31:56, Peter Tynan wrote: > > On the registration page quite reasonably I'm asked for my email > address HOWEVER I can find no link to any form of privacy statement > saying what will be done with my email address so being a cautious > netizen I do not register, I do not make

Re: How do you remotely access a home server/network?

2011-02-27 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sb, 26 feb 11, 18:11:08, Slicky Johnson wrote: > > The reason to move away from 22 is to give yourself an added buffer of > security for port sweeps by the script kiddies. IMVHO, I disagree. Moving a service away from it's default port does not bring additional security, just less noise in t

Strategic Scenario Planning 27th -28th April 2011

2011-02-27 Thread Noraini Othman [CSI]
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Re: bash variables

2011-02-27 Thread Teemu Likonen
* 2011-02-27 09:12 (+0200), Teemu Likonen wrote: > * 2011-02-25 14:21 (-0800), Mike McClain wrote: >> root@/deb40a:~> FIND1="-maxdepth 1 -type f -print -name '*'"; \ >> GREP="-v '\.\(deb\|gz\|tgz\|bz2\|tbz\|zip\)$'"; \ >> find /home/mike/ $FIND1 | grep $GREP ; > Try removing the single q

Sid still wants to remove nvidia-glx (was Re: sid: upgrade wants to remove xserver packages)

2011-02-27 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/07/2011 12:40 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2011-02-07 19:33 +0100, Ron Johnson wrote: The problem for me is that dist-upgrade wants to install libdrm-nouveau1, which blasts nvidia-glx. No, nvidia-glx is broken by the xserver-xorg-core upgrade. Any word on this? (The rest of X seems to