Re: Remove root access from folder/directory

2013-12-04 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 05/12/13 17:01, Muntasim-Ul-Haque wrote: > Hi, > I've unzipped a folder and it became root protected. The folder icon is > showing a lock sign. Now that, I cannot copy/move this folder in any > other place. What can I do now? How can I move/copy this folder to other > places? How to remove root

Remove root access from folder/directory

2013-12-04 Thread Muntasim-Ul-Haque
Hi, I've unzipped a folder and it became root protected. The folder icon is showing a lock sign. Now that, I cannot copy/move this folder in any other place. What can I do now? How can I move/copy this folder to other places? How to remove root access from this folder? With thanks, Muntasim-Ul

Re: Best Mail Client

2013-12-04 Thread Weaver
On Wed, December 4, 2013 2:06 am, David Baron wrote: > KMail is a mess right now. > Messages not readable until kmail restart > Broken mail resources until kde restart > etc. > > I'm not finding this. But then I'm not running KMail as a solo app, either. I'm running it in coordination with the ful

Re: L2TP VPN configuration

2013-12-04 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 08:24:02PM -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote: > On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 09:28:20AM -0500, Rob Owens wrote: > > I've followed a couple different tutorials on the internet, but I haven't > > been able to use L2TP to connect to a VPN from my Wheezy desktop. > > Connecting from an Andr

Re: how to activate php in apache

2013-12-04 Thread Bob Proulx
François Patte wrote: > But in php.ini file (from debian), we can read: > > ; short_open_tag > ; Default Value: On<-- > ; Development Value: Off > ; Production Value: Off Those are comments. The ';' is a comment character. The file has templates for things people might wan

Re: My apologies

2013-12-04 Thread Brian
On Wed 04 Dec 2013 at 15:00:49 -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 12/4/2013 5:18 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 04:52:06PM -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > >> > >> Many threads will wonder a bit and everyone accepts this. Just try to > > > > Agreed! Also ... wander. :) > > Th

Re: My apologies

2013-12-04 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 12/4/2013 5:18 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 04:52:06PM -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> >> Many threads will wonder a bit and everyone accepts this. Just try to > > Agreed! Also ... wander. :) Those damn homonyms... Heheh, just caught it myself on a re-read of my posts

Re: key error message from squeeze-updates repository

2013-12-04 Thread Lisi Reisz
Hi, Kailash Thank you for your reply. It is much appreciated. On Tuesday 03 December 2013 05:05:38 Kailash wrote: > On Monday 02 December 2013 11:06 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > I am getting the following error message when I run aptitude > > update: > > > > W: GPG error: http://mirror.ox.ac.uk squ

Re: A rookie's query: Want to about Debian and the related

2013-12-04 Thread Brian
On Wed 04 Dec 2013 at 12:17:21 -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Lisi writes: > > Can't we just drop it > > Can't you just killfile it? Show her concern for the well-being and usefulness of this list by ignoring behaviour which disrupts its intended purpose? That requires a bit of thought. -- To UN

Re: A rookie's query: Want to about Debian and the related

2013-12-04 Thread Brian
On Wed 04 Dec 2013 at 13:19:04 -0500, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > A lot of your questions can be answered by just looking though the > various menu items, especially Tools-Options. AP is on a roll; all attention is focused on him/her. There is no need to stop the fingers typing because there will alwa

Re: Stopping early crypto disks fails

2013-12-04 Thread Volker Wysk
Am Dienstag, 3. Dezember 2013, 20:54:05 schrieb Celejar: > On Tue, 03 Dec 2013 17:43:39 +0100 > > Volker Wysk wrote: > > Hi ! > > > > I've encrypted my hard drives, but when I shut down the computer, amongst > > the shutdown messages, I get the following message: > > > > [fail] Stopping early c

Re: A rookie's query: Want to about Debian and the related

2013-12-04 Thread David Guntner
Lisi Reisz grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > > This thread has now been going on for 11 days. And not intermittently > for 11 days, but full on with loads of emails every day. It becomes > less and less relevant to Debian, since Debian is simply not in > question any more. > > Can't we just dr

Re: A rookie's query: Want to about Debian and the related

2013-12-04 Thread David Guntner
John Hasler grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > Lisi writes: >> Can't we just drop it > > Can't you just killfile it? She shouldn't have to. THIS list is for discussing things that are directly related to Debian Linux. What mail program you want to use for this, that, and the other doesn't even rem

Re: A rookie's query: Want to about Debian and the related

2013-12-04 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 12/4/2013 12:08 PM, AP wrote: On Wednesday, December 04, 2013 01:00:44 PM Jerry Stuckle wrote: As for the logins - I also let the browser store usernames and passwords (encrypted, of course). How this particular step you achieve? It varies somewhat by release, but it's under Options in

Re: A rookie's query: Want to about Debian and the related

2013-12-04 Thread John Hasler
Lisi writes: > Can't we just drop it Can't you just killfile it? -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA -- 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/

Re: A rookie's query: Want to about Debian and the related

2013-12-04 Thread AP
On Wednesday, December 04, 2013 11:42:56 AM John Hasler wrote: > > But earlier you said they don't store cookies on PC...Ok you mean they > > ask? > They offer cookies but continue to allow access when you refuse them. Well this is okay...Just refuse and still surf...:-) > Other ways to handle

Re: A rookie's query: Want to about Debian and the related

2013-12-04 Thread AP
On Wednesday, December 04, 2013 01:00:44 PM Jerry Stuckle wrote: > As for the logins - I also let the browser store usernames and passwords > (encrypted, of course). How this particular step you achieve? -- Regards, AP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: A rookie's query: Want to about Debian and the related

2013-12-04 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 12/4/2013 11:46 AM, John Hasler wrote: Jerry writes: I keep cookies, because they're also used for other things. For instance, the "Remember me" checkbox on a site will store a cookie on your system which contains your userid and password (hopefully encrypted!). That way I don't have to sig

Re: A rookie's query: Want to about Debian and the related

2013-12-04 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 04 December 2013 17:42:56 John Hasler wrote: > AP writes: > > But earlier you said they don't store cookies on PC...Ok you mean > > they ask? > > They offer cookies but continue to allow access when you refuse > them. > > Other ways to handle unwanted cookies (which Firefox/Iceweasel >

Re: A rookie's query: Want to about Debian and the related

2013-12-04 Thread John Hasler
AP writes: > But earlier you said they don't store cookies on PC...Ok you mean they > ask? They offer cookies but continue to allow access when you refuse them. Other ways to handle unwanted cookies (which Firefox/Iceweasel doesn't offer) is to either accept the cookie and save it to /dev/null or

Re: A rookie's query: Want to about Debian and the related

2013-12-04 Thread AP
On Wednesday, December 04, 2013 10:43:43 AM John Hasler wrote: > Note that all of the sites I mentioned attempt to send cookies and run > scripts, and try to convince you that by refusing them you are missing > out on something terribly important. Most sites do this. In most cases > they work fi

Re: A rookie's query: Want to about Debian and the related

2013-12-04 Thread John Hasler
Jerry writes: > I keep cookies, because they're also used for other things. For > instance, the "Remember me" checkbox on a site will store a cookie on > your system which contains your userid and password (hopefully > encrypted!). That way I don't have to sign on manually every time I > visit a

Re: A rookie's query: Want to about Debian and the related

2013-12-04 Thread John Hasler
AP writes: > Then I need to correct myself. I was in wrong impression > really. Thanks for clariying this!! Note that all of the sites I mentioned attempt to send cookies and run scripts, and try to convince you that by refusing them you are missing out on something terribly important. Most sites

Re: A rookie's query: Want to about Debian and the related

2013-12-04 Thread AP
On Wednesday, December 04, 2013 03:28:20 PM you wrote: > It is in the code of conduct that private messages should not be > posted on list. Especiallly some time after I thought that we had > resolved the differences. :-/ As I said, I had un-null-filed you. > This really isn't relevant to Debia

Re: A rookie's query: Want to about Debian and the related

2013-12-04 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 04 December 2013 14:19:25 AP wrote: > On Wednesday, December 04, 2013 08:45:26 PM you wrote: > > Lisi wrote: > > > I shall now null-file you as I have done with Ralph. I have > > > had enough of your unpleasantness. > > > > I was had any unpleasantness with you but okay.Better is

Re: A rookie's query: Want to about Debian and the related

2013-12-04 Thread AP
On Wednesday, December 04, 2013 08:45:26 PM you wrote: > Lisi wrote: > > I shall now null-file you as I have done with Ralph. I have had > > enough of your unpleasantness. > > I was had any unpleasantness with you but okay.Better is to confabulate > over lists, at least with you. Correction:

Re: hi

2013-12-04 Thread AP
Lisi wrote: > I believe Xfce. > I gave my granddaughter a laptop (second hand!) some years ago and > administered it for her. We ended up with OpenSUSE as the only > distro we could find that her school wi-fi would agree to talk to - > it was, not surprisingly, but sadly, set up basically for Wi

Re: hi

2013-12-04 Thread AP
Lisi wrote: > I believe Xfce. > I gave my granddaughter a laptop (second hand!) some years ago and > administered it for her. We ended up with OpenSUSE as the only > distro we could find that her school wi-fi would agree to talk to - > it was, not surprisingly, but sadly, set up basically for Wi

Re: A rookie's query: Want to about Debian and the related

2013-12-04 Thread AP
Lisi wrote: > I shall now null-file you as I have done with Ralph. I have had > enough of your unpleasantness. I was had any unpleasantness with you but okay.Better is to confabulate over lists, at least with you. -- Regards, AP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.deb

Re: A rookie's query: Want to about Debian and the related

2013-12-04 Thread AP
On Wednesday, December 04, 2013 09:53:09 AM Jerry Stuckle wrote: > I keep cookies, because they're also used for other things. For > instance, the "Remember me" checkbox on a site will store a cookie on > your system which contains your userid and password (hopefully > encrypted!). That way I do

Re: A rookie's query: Want to about Debian and the related

2013-12-04 Thread AP
On Wednesday, December 04, 2013 08:32:27 AM John Hasler wrote: > Youtube requires scripts but not cookies. Google search requires > neither. Wiktionary requires neither. Visiting public Facebook pages > requires neither. Yahoo search requires neither. Then I need to correct myself. I was in w

Re: A rookie's query: Want to about Debian and the related

2013-12-04 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 12/3/2013 11:40 PM, AP wrote: On Tuesday, December 03, 2013 01:15:21 PM Jerry Stuckle wrote: And exactly what is wrong with using cookies on a bank transaction? In fact, all banks I know of need to use cookies to manage signons. It's how the bank (or any site that uses signons) knows whic

Re: how to activate php in apache

2013-12-04 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 12/4/2013 2:14 AM, Bob Proulx wrote: Jerry Stuckle wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: Jerry Stuckle wrote: Ownership of the directory is root:root, but the scripts should *never* be owned by root:root. Uhmm... No. There is no problem whatsoever with php files being owned by root:root. Why do you

Re: "Best Mail Client" - Was: [closed] A rookie's query: Want to about Debian and the related

2013-12-04 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 03 December 2013 23:05:14 AP wrote: > On Tuesday, December 03, 2013 12:46:05 PM Brad Alexander wrote: > > I like kmail's interfaces. It's just the backend encryption that > > has a problem. For whatever reason, it won't let me decrypt and > > add my > > s/mime > > > certificate on my ins

Re: A rookie's query: Want to about Debian and the related

2013-12-04 Thread John Hasler
AP writes: > I meant in general and most of the websites means websites like > youtube, facebook, google, dictionary, pogo, yahoo which end users use > most of the times. Youtube requires scripts but not cookies. Google search requires neither. Wiktionary requires neither. Visiting public Faceb

Re: A rookie's query: Want to about Debian and the related

2013-12-04 Thread AP
On Wednesday, December 04, 2013 07:57:18 AM John Hasler wrote: > Not true in general. The vast majority of the sites I use work fine > with no cookies (and without scripts). I meant in general and most of the websites means websites like youtube, facebook, google, dictionary, pogo, yahoo which

Re: updating debian 6 to debian 7

2013-12-04 Thread Nemeth Gyorgy
2013-12-04 13:17 keltezéssel, John Lindsay írta: > I am following the instructions on the following site --- > > https://library.linode.com/upgrading/upgrade-to-debian-7-wheezy Official Debian release notes is better source I think. http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch-upg

Re: A rookie's query: Want to about Debian and the related

2013-12-04 Thread John Hasler
AP writes: > Having cookies in Firefox is not an issue because websites cannot work > without it. Not true in general. The vast majority of the sites I use work fine with no cookies (and without scripts). -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-u

Re: CD drive not showing up anymore

2013-12-04 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 04 Dec 2013 14:54:24 +0530 Kailash Kalyani wrote: Hello Kailash, >If this works, your udev rules are fine. You'd then have to look at the >desktop side - gvfs in gnome's case. I've been suffering this issue under KDE, so I suspect gvfs isn't the problem here. >In case this doesn't wor

updating debian 6 to debian 7

2013-12-04 Thread John Lindsay
I am following the instructions on the following site --- https://library.linode.com/upgrading/upgrade-to-debian-7-wheezy I do sudo apt-get update and get the following N: Ignoring file 'google-chrome.list.save' in directory '/etc/apt/sources.list.d/' as it has an invalid filename extension W

Re: "Best Mail Client" - Was: [closed] A rookie's query: Want to about Debian and the related

2013-12-04 Thread Brad Alexander
On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 6:05 PM, AP wrote: > On Tuesday, December 03, 2013 12:46:05 PM Brad Alexander wrote: > > > I like kmail's interfaces. It's just the backend encryption that has a > > > problem. For whatever reason, it won't let me decrypt and add my s/mime > > > certificate on my installat

Re: CD drive not showing up anymore

2013-12-04 Thread Kailash Kalyani
On Wednesday 04 December 2013 02:54 PM, Kailash Kalyani wrote: On Wednesday 04 December 2013 12:46 AM, Slavko wrote: Ahoj, Dňa Tue, 03 Dec 2013 10:38:00 +0100 Ralf Mardorf napísal: On Tue, 2013-12-03 at 10:31 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Tue, 2013-12-03 at 10:23 +0100, Matthias Bodenbinder

Re: My apologies

2013-12-04 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 04:52:06PM -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > Many threads will wonder a bit and everyone accepts this. Just try to Agreed! Also ... wander. :) -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are

Re: CD drive not showing up anymore

2013-12-04 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 08:16:00PM +0100, Slavko wrote: > > My daughter has similar problem. I investigated it remotely only, but > it seems, that the CD/DVD drive is not recognized at boot time. Then it > is not a DE's related problem. I cannot tell more yet. Occasionally I have a similar probl

Re: Request For Sponsor: Bug 731282

2013-12-04 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 04 dec 13, 09:25:25, ChrisofBristol (gmail) wrote: > I'm told that I need to "file a separate RFS bug against the > sponsorship-requests pseudo-package". JFTR, that was me, while triaging bugs filed against unknown packages. > I have spent hours reading the documentation and I thought tha

Re: how to activate php in apache

2013-12-04 Thread François Patte
Le 04/12/2013 02:33, Bob Proulx a écrit : > François Patte wrote: > Think back... How many times have someone asked you for help with > something. And you asked them what did they do? And they said, "I > didn't do anything!" And of those times how often did it turn out > that they had actuall

Re: Best Mail Client

2013-12-04 Thread David Baron
KMail is a mess right now. Messages not readable until kmail restart Broken mail resources until kde restart etc. -- 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/15987

Request For Sponsor: Bug 731282

2013-12-04 Thread ChrisofBristol (gmail)
I'm told that I need to "file a separate RFS bug against the sponsorship-requests pseudo-package". I have spent hours reading the documentation and I thought that I had done this, I am totally mystified about what else I need to do and how. Has anyone got any helpful suggestions please? -

Re: CD drive not showing up anymore

2013-12-04 Thread Kailash Kalyani
On Wednesday 04 December 2013 12:46 AM, Slavko wrote: Ahoj, Dňa Tue, 03 Dec 2013 10:38:00 +0100 Ralf Mardorf napísal: On Tue, 2013-12-03 at 10:31 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Tue, 2013-12-03 at 10:23 +0100, Matthias Bodenbinder wrote: Can this be a dbus issue? MO it could, but as written

Re: Squeeze dpkg --get-selections usable in any way in Wheezy?

2013-12-04 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 03 dec 13, 17:51:11, Brad Alexander wrote: > > One point I would like to make is that it is probably not a bad idea to > capture this from all of your machines as a starting point to have a pool > of machine "types." For instance, being a believer in bastion hosts, I have > a separate firew