NEWBIE sanity check re gnome-ppp PLEASE

2012-04-22 Thread Richard Owlett
OK already -- I've written both UNread manuals and MISread test procedures ;/ What am I using - I'm not sure: 1. the *HAND written* label on CD I used to load identified it as DEBIAN 6.0.3 with GNOME desktop 2. initial attempt to use gnome-ppp failed 3. I then did man gnome-ppp

Re: Bash script problem [OT?]

2012-04-22 Thread Dom
On 22/04/12 22:02, Soare Catalin wrote: On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 10:25 PM, Dom wrote: On 22/04/12 08:34, Cam Hutchison wrote: Soare Catalin> writes: The script will take files or dirs as parameters and will back them up in a presefined location, using tar. Problems arise when it will en

Re: Xen memory management not working

2012-04-22 Thread Bob Proulx
Peter Viskup wrote: > The target_kb value changed on VPS, but the available memory didn't > increased for some unknown reason: You didn't say... Have you rebooted your VM since then? Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: how to retrieve info from a bad disk?

2012-04-22 Thread Bob Proulx
Gary Dale wrote: > With Debian, ddrescue seems to be the dd_rescue program, with the > real ddrescue available as gddrescue. Rather than getting into this > long explanation, I went for the package that is almost certainly > already installed on whatever live CD he boots from. In Debian there are

Re: [OT] Manually verifying PGP/MIME signature with GPG

2012-04-22 Thread Bob Proulx
Andrei POPESCU wrote: > I tried saving the individual parts ('v' and then 's' ), but that didn't > work. Not curious enough to try your mbox method, mutt's automatic > verification works fine :) That won't work because the saved part is the *body* of the part and not the raw encoded bits of that

Re: Icedove setting

2012-04-22 Thread Panayiotis Karabassis
On 04/17/2012 08:05 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 18 Apr 2012 00:20:32 +0800, lina wrote: > >> On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 9:46 PM, Camaleón wrote: > (...) > I noticed the google use 465 as SMTP port. >>> Every e-mail provider can use a different combo for authentication/ >>> configuration/port b

Re: Bash script problem [OT?]

2012-04-22 Thread Soare Catalin
On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 10:25 PM, Dom wrote: > On 22/04/12 08:34, Cam Hutchison wrote: > >> Soare Catalin> >> writes: >> >> The script will take files or dirs as parameters and will back them up >>> in a >>> presefined location, using tar. Problems arise when it will encounter >>> files >>> or

Re: [OT] Manually verifying PGP/MIME signature with GPG

2012-04-22 Thread Jon Dowland
On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 04:22:14PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > Can you reproduce this with local copies from a mail agent (ideally > mutt)? My quick experiments failed. Just curious, nothing critical. You need to get ahold of the signed part without mutt decoding it. I achieved it by piping th

Re: 2TB USB hard drive for backing up

2012-04-22 Thread Jon Dowland
On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 05:36:28PM +0100, Sian Mountbatten wrote: > I am going to buy a big USB hard drive to backup films, music and > photos. In fact, I might backup the system (at least, the list of > packages installed). > > Anybody out there tried a 2TB USB hard drive? What did you use as > f

Re: Bash script problem [OT?]

2012-04-22 Thread Dom
On 22/04/12 08:34, Cam Hutchison wrote: Soare Catalin writes: The script will take files or dirs as parameters and will back them up in a presefined location, using tar. Problems arise when it will encounter files or directories which contain spaces in their names. then #is it an existing d

Re: X problem (?) after fresh install on old laptop

2012-04-22 Thread Potato Jim
Thanks for your advice! Camaleón wrote:  > Okay, so from now on you are using the "nv" driver, right? Yes, NV for now. I realized that I now have one new issue, though not as bothersome as the original.  When I CTRL+ALT+F* into a terminal window, or during the start-up/shut-down messages (when

Re: How do Install debian kernel without updating to latest kernel image

2012-04-22 Thread Gary Dale
On 22/04/12 10:26 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Mi, 18 apr 12, 22:56:16, sarveshwar.ba...@emulex.com wrote: I guess I have not understood the basics of versioning in debian kernels. When you say 6.0.0 and 6.0.3 are outdated, does it mean everyone using those kernels are expected to move to 6.0.

Xen memory management not working

2012-04-22 Thread Peter Viskup
Hello everyone, we have issue with memory increase for virtual servers on one of our boxes. We are running Debian Squeeze and Xen 4.0. Looks like after last upgrade of xen-utils-4.0 and xenstore-utils without upgrade of xen-hypervisor and linux-image packages the memory management stopped worki

Re: Bash script problem [OT?]

2012-04-22 Thread Cam Hutchison
Soare Catalin writes: >The script will take files or dirs as parameters and will back them up in a >presefined location, using tar. Problems arise when it will encounter files >or directories which contain spaces in their names. >then #is it an existing directory? >BK_LIST="$BK_LIST ${PARAM}" h

Re: regarding debian join to window server2008r2 active directory

2012-04-22 Thread Camaleón
El 2012-04-22 a las 18:01 +0200, Erwan David escribió: (resending to the list) > On 22/04/12 16:20, Camaleón wrote: > > On Sun, 22 Apr 2012 15:48:36 +0530, AMIT RANA wrote: > > > >> actually i am using first debian os .i impressed with > >> its great functionality,but i want to kno

Re: [OT] Manually verifying PGP/MIME signature with GPG

2012-04-22 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 22 apr 12, 10:47:41, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sun, 22 Apr 2012, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > Can you reproduce this with local copies from a mail agent (ideally > > mutt)? My quick experiments failed. Just curious, nothing critical. As I said, just curious :) > mutt will

Re: USB Boot

2012-04-22 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 22 Apr 2012 04:59:16 +, 汗青 wrote: > I want to look for a software that can make USB Boot Disk of Debian.iso > on Windows 7 . Come on... is not that hard ;-) http://en.lmgtfy.com/?q=iso+to+usb Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: Alt key problem with MacBookPro

2012-04-22 Thread Daniel Landau
On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 12:47 AM, Riccardo Romoli wrote: > my name is Riccardo, and I'm a newbie of Debian. Using the Debian-Wiky > I was able to install Debian 6 as single boot on my MacBookPro > (v.3.1). The only problem I notice, till now, is about the Alt key > that doesn't work. I tried t

Re: Prompting for settings on first boot of a pre-installed image.

2012-04-22 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 21 Apr 2012 18:09:18 +0300, Mika Suomalainen wrote: > 21.04.2012 17:57, Camaleón kirjoitti: (...) >> I wonder how Canonical, Red Hat or SUSE SLES/SLED (i.e., commercial >> linux distributions) manage this... >> >> >> > I can only answer to your latest wondering. Ubuntu has option for

Re: how to retrieve info from a bad disk?

2012-04-22 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 21 Apr 2012 18:13:27 +0100, abdelkader belahcene wrote: > I check ntfs-3g ( tool on linux to manage ntfs file system) to fix the > error. But "ntfs-3g" is not a tool aimed to fix NTFS errors. > ntfsfix /dev/sdc1 gives the output: mft corrupted ... is there > a chance to recov

Re: How do Install debian kernel without updating to latest kernel image

2012-04-22 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 18 apr 12, 22:56:16, sarveshwar.ba...@emulex.com wrote: > > I guess I have not understood the basics of versioning in debian > kernels. When you say 6.0.0 and 6.0.3 are outdated, does it mean > everyone using those kernels are expected to move to 6.0.4? You are using Debian version num

Re: regarding debian join to window server2008r2 active directory

2012-04-22 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 22 Apr 2012 15:48:36 +0530, AMIT RANA wrote: > actually i am using first debian os .i impressed with > its great functionality,but i want to know that if i use it in window > server -client environment,will it work as a client of window > server2008r2 like another window cli

Re: how to fix aptitude errors upgrading LMDE UP3 -> UP4

2012-04-22 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 16 apr 12, 14:34:33, Tom Roche wrote: > > (Apologies if this is not the correct place to post (is there an > apt-user or aptitude-user list?), but it's been helpful in past.) This is the correct list for apt-get/aptitude usage in Debian ;) [snip] I see that you fixed your problem by usi

Re: I would to report a bug...

2012-04-22 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 16 apr 12, 12:27:39, Andrea Scarparo wrote: > Dear Debian Users, > I have a question for you. I'm trying debian testing in these day but I > found an annoying problem that appeared to me in various Ubuntu releases > and Debian Squeeze too. > I have a HP Pavilion DV5-1199el notebook, and when

Re: [OT] Manually verifying PGP/MIME signature with GPG

2012-04-22 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 22 Apr 2012 16:22:14 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Du, 15 apr 12, 16:28:28, Camaleón wrote: >> >> As I thought, verifying PGP/MIME detached signatures can be also done >> from command line with GPG. I have tried with some posts from this same >> mailing list coming from users that use

Re: [OT] Manually verifying PGP/MIME signature with GPG

2012-04-22 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 22 Apr 2012, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Du, 15 apr 12, 16:28:28, Camaleón wrote: > > As I thought, verifying PGP/MIME detached signatures can be also done from > > command line with GPG. I have tried with some posts from this same mailing > > list coming from users that use detached signa

Re: difficult to isolate problem - browser access to router has problems on on machine but not other

2012-04-22 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 17 apr 12, 23:17:10, Arthur Marsh wrote: > > I'd like to try a different chipset network card in the AMD64 machine next. Sounds like a good idea. Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-of

Re: Question to aptitude

2012-04-22 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 15 apr 12, 00:21:49, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > The according aptitude command is, e.g., > > aptitude purge '~i3\.0\.1-.*' > > if I'm not mistaken. '~i' searches only through installed packages. To further elaborate on this, aptitude tries to apply the operation ('purge') to the entire

regarding debian join to window server2008r2 active directory

2012-04-22 Thread AMIT RANA
dear sir/madam actually i am using first debian os .i impressed with its great functionality,but i want to know that if i use it in window server -client environment,will it work as a client of window server2008r2 like another window client.if it will work similar to window client wh

Re: USB Boot

2012-04-22 Thread Mika Suomalainen
22.04.2012 07:59, 汗青 kirjoitti: > I want to look for a software that can make USB Boot Disk of Debian.iso > on Windows 7 . I recommend Unetbootin. It can download the isos by itself or you can download them manually, it runs on Linux, Mac and Windows and has good documentation at their homepage. S

Re: [OT] Manually verifying PGP/MIME signature with GPG

2012-04-22 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 15 apr 12, 16:28:28, Camaleón wrote: > > As I thought, verifying PGP/MIME detached signatures can be also done from > command line with GPG. I have tried with some posts from this same mailing > list coming from users that use detached signatures and in every case it > worked fine: ...

Re: Evolution and POP3 problem: want to delete from server when moved from Inbox

2012-04-22 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 21 Apr 2012 10:48:01 -0700, Bill Harris wrote: > This is essentially a duplicate of a posting to the Evolution mailiing > list an hour or two ago. After posting there, I saw that they > considered the Squeeze version of Evolution obsolete and recommended > asking on one's distro mai

Re: X problem (?) after fresh install on old laptop

2012-04-22 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 21 Apr 2012 18:33:22 -0700, Potato Jim wrote: > SOLVED. Great! :-) > In my last response I had overlooked Sven's comment about having > updated the wiki.  I have now looked at the updated wiki and the > suggested new xorg.conf file did the trick -- verbatim even, and I'm > now using the

Re: USB Boot

2012-04-22 Thread Keith
On 22/04/12 06:08, Daniel Koch wrote: Am Sonntag, 22. April 2012, 06:59:16 schrieb 汗青: I want to look for a software that can make USB Boot Disk of Debian.iso on Windows 7 . dd or UNetBootIn --- Daniel Koch I believe also rawrite would do it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-