Re: What package contains the time daemon?

2015-07-25 Thread Iain M Conochie
On 26/07/15 00:08, Bob Bernstein wrote: On Sat, 25 Jul 2015, Gary Dale wrote: ntp No. This is an incorrect response. Really? apt-cache search ntp | grep ^ntp ntp - Network Time Protocol daemon and utility programs ntp-doc - Network Time Protocol documentation ntpdate - client for settin

Re: Query about possible impact of leap second on Debian Linux

2015-05-21 Thread Iain M Conochie
On 21/05/15 22:15, Bob Proulx wrote: Iain M Conochie wrote: Bret Busby wrote: I have today seen the news report below, and wonder whether it needs some kind of patch for Debian Linux, and, if so, whether it has already been done, or is pending. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi

Re: Query about possible impact of leap second on Debian Linux

2015-05-21 Thread Iain M Conochie
existing versions of Debian Linux in use. I have today seen the news report below, and wonder whether it needs some kind of patch for Debian Linux, and, if so, whether it has already been done, or is pending. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=679882#87 Iain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Bluetooth mouse problems on Jessie

2015-05-18 Thread iain
On 29/04/15 09:10, Johann Spies wrote: > Since the weekend (and Jessie becoming Stable) I could not use my > bluetooth mouse which I have been using for years. I get the message > "successfully added but failed to connect". > > When I delete the device in the bluetooth setup and try to set it up

Re: xfce4 user switching with kdm as the display manager

2015-05-18 Thread Iain M Conochie
On 17/05/15 18:24, Iain M Conochie wrote: Hi all, I have recently switched my desktop (environment?) from KDE to xfce on a jessie install. I am still running kdm. I have noticed that the Switch User functionality within the action buttons on the top panel (Panel 1) is grey-out. Is there

xfce4 user switching with kdm as the display manager

2015-05-17 Thread Iain M Conochie
e-keyboard-shortcuts xfce4 xfce4-appfinder xfce4-mixer xfce4-notifyd xfce4-panel xfce4-session xfce4-settings xfce4-volumed xfdesktop4 xfdesktop4-data Cheers Iain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Book questions

2015-04-12 Thread Iain M Conochie
On 12/04/15 17:34, David Wright wrote: Quoting Iain M Conochie (i...@thargoid.co.uk): IMHO, the issues with perl and python is that you will have to understand Object Orientated Programming (OOP) to get the most out of them, especially for GUI development. This was one of the reasons I drew

Re: Book questions

2015-04-12 Thread Iain M Conochie
On 12/04/15 09:33, Petter Adsen wrote: On Sun, 12 Apr 2015 15:51:24 +0800 Bret Busby wrote: On 12/04/2015, Petter Adsen wrote: Now that you mention security, that leads me to another question - are there any good books on writing secure programs? I would guess that would be a good thing to

/ and separate partitions (was) Re: Upgrading Kernel - Out of Disk Space

2015-02-12 Thread Iain M Conochie
he whole /usr merge to me is annoying. If we do not _need_ /usr, why have it in the first place? Why have this separate directory that you should no longer split off onto a separate partition? Just have everything in / Iain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: glibc bug - time to patch

2015-01-28 Thread iain
vulnerable due to proper sanitization out of glibc. Indeed, however you will notice that the list on the second link does not contain exim, the default SMTP server software for debian. This was used for proof-of-concept code. http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q1/274 Cheers Iain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

glibc bug - time to patch

2015-01-28 Thread iain
Cheers Iain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/28f1fa682337d21078d8c83d9c9e0...@thargoid.co.uk

Re: Have I been hacked?

2015-01-12 Thread Iain M Conochie
On 12/01/15 16:41, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 1/12/2015 10:10 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: Oh, come on! http://www.thefreedictionary.com/context It is all about *who* you are, or claim to be. https://danielmiessler.com/blog/security-identification-authentication-and-authorization/ You have comp

Re: Fwd: Re: Have I been hacked?

2015-01-12 Thread Iain M Conochie
" versus "is". Not at all. I am trying to show you a different point of view. If you do not wish to view from this point of view then fair enough. Gets boring going round in circles. And the security of these three items are in DESCENDING order. In your opinion. Again, shouting

Fwd: Re: Have I been hacked?

2015-01-12 Thread iain
e" a key stored on my computer (protected by a password). I "have" a fingerprint. In your opinion. Not in mine (within the context of this discussion) And the security of these three items are in DESCENDING order. In your opinion. Again, shouting does not make you rig

Re: Have I been hacked?

2015-01-12 Thread iain
On 2015-01-12 08:24, Joel Rees wrote: On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 7:32 AM, Iain M Conochie wrote: On 10/01/15 20:31, Brian wrote: By all means advocate and use ssh keys. But at least provide some substantial reason for spurning password login for that particular situation. A blanket "don&

Re: Have I been hacked?

2015-01-11 Thread Iain M Conochie
On 11/01/15 23:47, Bob Proulx wrote: Iain M Conochie wrote: These increase in security as you go higher up the number. So (assuming the implementation is secure) my fingerprint (being something I am) is more secure than a password. Also, an ssh-key (being something I have) is more secure than

Re: Have I been hacked?

2015-01-11 Thread Iain M Conochie
On 11/01/15 23:18, Brian wrote: On Sun 11 Jan 2015 at 22:32:39 +, Iain M Conochie wrote: On 10/01/15 20:31, Brian wrote: By all means advocate and use ssh keys. But at least provide some substantial reason for spurning password login for that particular situation. A blanket "don&

Re: Have I been hacked?

2015-01-11 Thread Iain M Conochie
ing something I have) is more secure than a password. In each case we have the _implementation_ to let us down. #1 is up to the user whereas #2 and #3 are up to the programmer. Who do you trust ;) Iain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "uns

Re: init scripts [was: If Not Systemd, then What?]

2014-11-18 Thread iain
kage uses the init script from upstream, with some modifications (naturally). Cheers Iain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/fadafb58a04c262ef88414af24d4c...@thargoid.co.uk

Re: apt-get update GPG error: Internal error: Good signature, but could not determine key fingerprint?!

2014-11-17 Thread iain
further into the logs, it seems that gnupg was segfaulting: Thanks for your help. Reboot (of the VM) has solved this issue. Cheers Iain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archi

Re: apt-get update GPG error: Internal error: Good signature, but could not determine key fingerprint?!

2014-11-17 Thread iain
signature, but could not determine key fingerprint?! Cheers Iain Ansgar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/d9ca7d8142b56be78ed

apt-get update GPG error: Internal error: Good signature, but could not determine key fingerprint?!

2014-11-17 Thread iain
seen this before, or perhaps knows more about GPG than me to help me in the right direction? Other VM's update no questions asked Cheers Iain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@l

Re: umask has no man page?

2014-11-02 Thread Iain M Conochie
k is a shell builtin then I guess the man system can let you down. Hence apropos, as this, at least, will search for appropriate man pages. One more command to learn perhaps? Cheers Iain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe&q

Re: umask has no man page?

2014-11-02 Thread Iain M Conochie
On 02/11/14 05:58, Carl Fink wrote: On Sun, 2014-11-02 at 14:17 +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: Succinct! man pam_umask? That is not a solution to the original question I asked, unless you alias it to man umask. You don't _type_ pam_umask. Carl Perhaps apropos is your friend here? :$ apropos

Re: dpkg "no space left on device" errors (lots of room left)

2014-10-22 Thread Iain M Conochie
s with /tmp too outside of upgrades. I've got arseloads of space available on all my mount points: Try a df -i You may have run out of inodes Cheers Iain And now, of course, there are dependency issues all over the place. Any suggestions on how how to sort this out? I can provide a g

Re: preseed from CD different to network booting

2014-09-26 Thread Iain M Conochie
Hey Brian, On 26/09/14 19:24, Brian wrote: On Fri 26 Sep 2014 at 19:02:57 +0100, Iain M Conochie wrote: I am trying to compose a real basic preseed file, that will answer all the d-i questions so that the install is completely automated. This works on a PXE boot (with dhcp) but not with a

preseed from CD different to network booting

2014-09-26 Thread Iain M Conochie
want to install grub on the MBR with the CD install, but not the PXE install. What gives? Cheers Iain ### Preseed config ## Created by cpc ## Inspired by https://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/example-preseed.txt ### Locale config d-i console-setup/ask_detect boolean false d-i debian-installer

Re: Bash Code Injection Vulnerability via Specially Crafted Environment Variables (CVE-2014-6271)

2014-09-24 Thread Iain M Conochie
are; you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Did you try apt-get update && apt-get upgrade yet? That should fix you right up as long as your mirror is up to date Cheers Iain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists

bad bash bug

2014-09-24 Thread Iain M Conochie
Evening, In case people may have missed this: http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2014-6271 Upgrade available for wheezy. Cheers Iain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Re: Jessie and Systemd integration

2014-09-18 Thread Iain M Conochie
ive bomb trolls have seemed to abated and we can looks forward to more useful discussions about systemd and it's relation to debian today, tomorrow and in the future. Cheers Iain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscri

Re: preseeding: disable systemd

2014-09-13 Thread Iain M Conochie
On 13/09/14 07:40, Jonathan Dowland wrote: On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 07:02:06PM +0100, Iain M Conochie wrote: Not at all. This is a basic preseed file I was using for wheezy installs. I am testing it again on a new VM - gimmie an hour or so and I will post the results The one you posted was

Re: preseeding: disable systemd

2014-09-12 Thread Iain M Conochie
On 12/09/14 18:54, Michael Biebl wrote: Am 12.09.2014 19:37, schrieb Michael Biebl: Am 12.09.2014 18:55, schrieb Iain M Conochie: If you want the preseed file that built this VM I can email it to you. I will, of course, take out any sensitive info with suggestions for replacements I

Re: preseeding: disable systemd

2014-09-12 Thread Iain M Conochie
On 12/09/14 18:37, Michael Biebl wrote: Am 12.09.2014 18:55, schrieb Iain M Conochie: If you want the preseed file that built this VM I can email it to you. I will, of course, take out any sensitive info with suggestions for replacements I assume you used a post-install hook to uninstall

Re: preseeding: disable systemd

2014-09-12 Thread Iain M Conochie
? This virtual machine must be imaginary as well as virtual then: uname -a Linux aitjes01 3.14-2-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 3.14.15-2 (2014-08-09) i686 GNU/Linux iain@aitjes01:~$ dpkg -l | grep systemd ii libsystemd-journal0:i386 208-8 i386 systemd journal utility library ii

Re: Nmap of Debian 7.6 KDE machine

2014-09-10 Thread Iain M Conochie
following command: rpcinfo -p Cheers Iain What is rpcbind used for in a default installation? Thanks, John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Arch

Re: systemd killing sshd

2014-08-29 Thread Iain M Conochie
) in a short time frame. yup. I have updated to "reload" instead of "restart" - will see what happens when I reboot Cheers Iain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@li

systemd killing sshd

2014-08-29 Thread Iain M Conochie
show anything interesting as the logs stop on 21st august. Ta Iain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/54006d2d.1040...@thargoid.co.uk

Re: Choose your side on the Linux divide

2014-08-28 Thread Iain M Conochie
those wishing systemd away have at least /looked/ a little at the documentation and configuration of systemd. --Andrew And perhaps wishing those that don't like it just give up and learn it, cos, hey - it's really cool probably is not going to address the concerns that are being raised. Iain

Re: Choose your side on the Linux divide

2014-08-27 Thread Iain M Conochie
ogies is this was posted before and I missed it. Gotta laugh at the " irrelevant political stances" statement. Yeah, like whatever Iain

Re: how to make gnome SHUT DOWN when I say SHUT DOWN

2014-08-15 Thread Iain M Conochie
nd to being shouted at. (If you were hoping for a technical answer to a question devoid of technical detail I am sorry to diappoint you). I've found threatening to reformat and install Windoze does wonders :) Also muttereing xface and kde can work too :) Iain Jerry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: systemd fails to poweroff - "A stop job is running for Session 2 of user $USER"

2014-08-14 Thread Iain M Conochie
op it: halt it. You do not power off, i.e. turn the engine off. (Unless you accidentally stall it!) Yet this is exactly what my 2 year old car does now. I halt at the lights and the engine powers off. Is this a bug? Given enough usage, a bug can become a feature. Iain Lisi

[OT] [politics] Re: Skype access cancelled for Debian versions before 7

2014-08-09 Thread Iain M Conochie
are in no way in our control. Iain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/53e687b8.1030...@thargoid.co.uk

Netbooting jessie installer gives kernel mismatch

2014-07-09 Thread Iain M Conochie
kernel version it runs 2. Where I can locate a better kernel / initrd combination for network booting Any more info I can provide please ask Cheers Iain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Re: Preseeded setting on openssh-server ignored

2014-06-15 Thread Iain M Conochie
On 14/06/14 13:57, Brian wrote: On Sat 14 Jun 2014 at 11:50:57 +0100, Iain M Conochie wrote: Can you categorically state what _are_ the preseed options for the openssh-server package? I can find 4: The ones you listed below are for a fresh install of Wheezy. Jessie is different. This output

Re: Preseeded setting on openssh-server ignored

2014-06-14 Thread Iain M Conochie
ny others? Where are these documented? And while we are at it, are preseed options for each package documented in the package? Cheers Iain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Arc

Re: LVM preseed install fails with partition error

2014-03-17 Thread Iain M Conochie
Hi Iain, I removed all the partman related lines and created a new preseed file. It works now on vm but has issue with baremetal for which i'll start a new thread. This is my complete preseed file for reference - http://paste.debian.net/88147/ Cheers, Sandeep. I think it was ge

Re: LVM preseed install fails with partition error

2014-03-13 Thread Iain M Conochie
want. You may also want to add this to the disk partition definition: d-i partman/choose_partition select Finish partitioning and write changes to disk Good luck! Iain On 13/03/14 19:55, Sandeep Raman wrote: I am using a preseed file on a physical server with the following requirement

Re: How to setup a simple email server?

2014-01-25 Thread Iain M Conochie
faces = 123.45.67.89 Do you already have an email provider? You could ask them to be a secondary MX for you, for when your DSL line goes down. While not strictly necessary, it is helpful. Good Luck Iain I'm running (would like to keep running) Debian 6 32bit. I've followed all t

Re: sad but true, Linux sucks, a bit

2014-01-16 Thread Iain M Conochie
gh at us for using a mouse / keyboard. Iain -- 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/52d81889.2050...@thargoid.co.uk

Re: sudo security Was: Reporting missing package during install

2013-12-12 Thread Iain M Conochie
On 12/12/13 11:43, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: Iain M Conochie writes: > > I got it about 20 years ago. Is it enough? > Mayeb - just maybe ;) Indeed, never be sure! :) > > You say it. It is not bullet proof. The bullet has already pierced the > > target once. Th

Re: sudo security Was: Reporting missing package during install

2013-12-12 Thread Iain M Conochie
On 12/12/13 08:20, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: Iain M Conochie writes: > On 11/12/13 08:01, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: > > > Encrypt your hard disk. > > > > Hoping that the encryption you use has no backdoor. > You do understand what the peer review process i

Re: sudo security Was: Reporting missing package during install

2013-12-11 Thread Iain M Conochie
obscurity is worse than no security as it gives you the nice warm glow that you are secure without being so. I see this alot in the commercial world and it really sucks :( Iain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troub

Re: sudo security Was: Reporting missing package during install

2013-12-10 Thread Iain M Conochie
a senior developer, the Italian part of my signature says "Software farmer and sysadmin in others' wasted time [**]". And unguarded machines are a real boon for "wrongdoers". Unless they are a honey trap - and then you can see what is actually trying to break into your net

Re: dhcpd runs as root

2013-08-29 Thread Iain M. Conochie
Does the daemon allow dropping privileges? If not, then it will bot be able to bind to a port below 1024. This option does not seem to be available in dhcpd Cheers Iain Andrew Wood wrote: >On 28/08/13 01:13, Jerry Stuckle wrote: >> >> Reading through the bug report, it look

Re: PXE, automatic installation and reboot

2013-07-29 Thread Iain M Conochie
> > You also have a default file in your pxelinux.cfg file with the > following in it: This should read pxelinux.cfg Directory not file. And the default file is called default Ta Iain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubsc

Re: PXE, automatic installation and reboot

2013-07-29 Thread Iain M Conochie
On Thu, 2013-07-25 at 17:30 +0200, Jimmy Thrasibule wrote: > Hi, > > I've setup and environment to automatically install some Debian boxes > via the network using PXE, TFTP and Preseed. If this part is working > fine, I'm facing a little issue when the installation is done. > > I'm trying to make

Re: preseed LVM with no /boot partition on wheezy

2013-06-21 Thread Iain M Conochie
On Friday 21 Jun 2013 11:45:04 Tom H wrote: > On Thu, 20 Jun 2013 21:58:36, Iain M Conochie wrote: > > I am trying to create a preseed file using LVM but with no boot > > partition. > > > When partman runs, it creates recognises the partitons but stops to >

Re: preseed LVM with no /boot partition on wheezy

2013-06-21 Thread Iain M. Conochie
Thanks Brian. I will check this out and report back. Cheers Iain Brian wrote: >On Thu 20 Jun 2013 at 21:58:36 +0100, Iain M Conochie wrote: > >> I am trying to create a preseed file using LVM but with no boot >partition. >> When partman runs, it creates recognises th

preseed LVM with no /boot partition on wheezy

2013-06-21 Thread Iain M Conochie
installed system Does anyone know an option to give in the preseed file to partman to skip this question? Cheers Iain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Arc

Re: SCIOFFLAGS: Resource Temporarily Unavailable

2007-03-02 Thread iain murray
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Re: Emacs - Undefined color

2005-10-25 Thread Iain Stephen
ry comp.emacs if you don't get your answer here. > I'll go and try that, thanks for your help. -- Iain. Registered Linux user #394675 Registered machine #296028 () ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML e-mail. /\ Please use plain text when replying; HTML wastes bandwidth. --

Re: Emacs - Undefined color

2005-10-25 Thread Iain Stephen
On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 11:20 +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: > Please start a new thread for a new topic: otherwise your message might > be passed over by anyone who isn't interested in the original thread. > > -- > Jon Dowland > http://jon.dowland.name/ > > Oops, sorry

Emacs - Undefined color

2005-10-24 Thread Iain Stephen
checked and its a link to /etc/X11/rgb.txt (which exists and seems to be OK with the correct permissions) If this is the problem how do I tell Emacs how to find this file? I've tried adding it to PATH which didn't work. -- Iain. Registered Linux user #394675 Registered machine #296028

Re: Firefox - No Scrollbars

2005-10-21 Thread Iain Stephen
g works fine. She's using mozilla under KDE in both > systems. Hi Hendrik, You can get/install themes from the Firefox Tools->Themes menu; then click the 'Get More Themes' link. Affraid I can't help with the missing controls. -- Iain. Registered Linux user #39467

Re: Firefox - No Scrollbars

2005-10-21 Thread Iain Stephen
least I've got my scrollbars back now :) Thanks for your help. -- Iain. Registered Linux user #394675 Registered machine #296028 () ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML e-mail. /\ Please use plain text when replying; HTML wastes bandwidth. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Firefox - No Scrollbars

2005-10-20 Thread Iain Stephen
Hi all, After an update a few weeks ago (which if I remember, updated Firefox) all the scrollbars in Firefox have dissapeared. Nothing I have tried has restored them and no aother programs are affected. Any ideas how I can get them back? -- Iain. Registered Linux user #394675 Registered

Re: ATI radeon 8500 no dri

2004-05-29 Thread Iain Mac Donald
ge. Loads of info and drivers for ATI cards. Regards, Iain. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: cdrom does not un-mounts

2004-05-28 Thread Iain Mac Donald
ts of applications but in particular Nautilus (also Gnome Commander - but can be turned off). If a file is changed, deleted or created the application is alerted, otherwise the user would have to refresh the window constantly. Certainly a useful function. There was a long running thread on the FAM/u

Re: cdrom does not un-mounts

2004-05-28 Thread Iain Mac Donald
umounting the CDROM here. If you are running Gnome you could try something like gksu "/etc/init.d/fam stop" umount the cd followed by gksu "/etc/init.d/fam start" Regards, Iain. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: books on debian

2004-05-28 Thread Iain Mac Donald
by Dale Scheetz, which is good and the Debian Reference by Osamu Aoki at http://qref.sourceforge.net Non-debian specific but also good is the Linux Network Administrator Guide and The Linux System Administrators Guide both of which I (think) came from www.tldp.org Enjoy. Iain. -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: Xvideo not working with ATI drivers under Debian

2004-05-28 Thread Iain Mac Donald
but maybe my memory is deceiving me. Regards, Iain. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ppp setup problem

2004-05-19 Thread Iain Mac Donald
modem manual your settings may be different. Also your country settings may be different from mine. I have found wvdial pretty good at establishing a connection and negotiating authentication. It has saved me a lot of bother in the past. Hope this helps, Iain. Regards, Iain. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: ppp setup problem

2004-05-19 Thread Iain Mac Donald
I said in my previous post X3 is probably the one. Though the AT Command Set is not applied in a universal way by modem manufacturers. Regards, Iain. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ppp setup problem

2004-05-19 Thread Iain Mac Donald
t for your modem may be different. Check the documents for your modem. Regards, Iain. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: "blocking" hosts

2004-05-18 Thread Iain Mac Donald
h I find very useful for configuring my firewall. Furthermore, it creates scripts to start all the firewall stuff automatically on boot. Regards, Iain. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: aptitude: loading ChangeLog

2004-04-06 Thread iain d broadfoot
is this a bug in aptitude or am I doing something wrong? Hit ``v'' to see the list of versions, aim at the new version, and hit ``C''. cheers, iain -- "If sharing a thing in no way diminishes it, it is not rightly owned if it is not share

Sid and Root on Compact Flash ?

2004-04-05 Thread Iain Young
s who like to have the leading edge software) Iain. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mailto protocol in firefox (OT?)

2004-03-25 Thread iain d broadfoot
to: handler, as well as a few other nifty things. cheers, iain [1] http://mozex.mozdev.org/ -- "If sharing a thing in no way diminishes it, it is not rightly owned if it is not shared." -- St. Augustine #rm -rf / http://www.geeksoc.org/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

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2003-11-24 Thread iain d broadfoot
Hmm, is lists.d.o up again? iain -- "If sharing a thing in no way diminishes it, it is not rightly owned if it is not shared." -- St. Augustine #rm -rf / http://www.geeksoc.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: pasting into vi inserts many indents

2003-11-21 Thread iain d broadfoot
vi gives > you info in which mode you are. (you can press F9 in insert mode too) sweet! thank you for this gem of wisdom. iain -- "If sharing a thing in no way diminishes it, it is not rightly owned if it is not shared." -- St. Augustine #rm -rf / http://www.geeksoc.org/ -- To

Re: mutt - saving message to disk (not mail folder)

2003-11-19 Thread iain d broadfoot
gt; filename' that's what i did earlier today, when I couldn't figure it out either. :D iain -- "If sharing a thing in no way diminishes it, it is not rightly owned if it is not shared." -- St. Augustine #rm -rf / http://www.geeksoc.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

Re: pasting into vi inserts many indents

2003-11-18 Thread iain d broadfoot
* Brian ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > Lately, if I open a file with vi from inside a gnome-terminal and then > select a large chunk of text, (it doesn't matter where, e.g., Mozilla or > the same vi session, both do it), it corrupts the formatting with many > indents. The pasted output inserts

[FIXED]Don't use gsfonts-other Was: Re: big troubles in little libc

2003-10-21 Thread iain d broadfoot
* iain d broadfoot ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > thoughts/flames welcome... From http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=216605 "For those who encounter this bug: you should either remove gsfonts-other, or keep the previous version of fontconfig, until this bug is fixed."

Re: big troubles in little libc

2003-10-21 Thread iain d broadfoot
* iain d broadfoot ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Has anyone else had similar problems? OK, more debugging finds the following: (gdb) backtrace #0 0x407196c9 in free () from /lib/libc.so.6 #1 0x4096e34f in ?? () from /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6 #2 0x0001 in ?? () #3 0x409c98e8 in ?? () f

Re: big troubles in little libc

2003-10-21 Thread iain d broadfoot
* iain d broadfoot ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > * David Z Maze ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > and you'll generally get a segfault where the program actually messes > > up, rather than when the symptoms are seen later. There's a cost in > > both memory and runtime,

Re: big troubles in little libc

2003-10-20 Thread iain d broadfoot
(C) 1987-1998 Bruce Perens. ElectricFence Aborting: free(1): address not from malloc(). Program received signal SIGILL, Illegal instruction. [Switching to Thread 16384 (LWP 27561)] 0x406cd641 in kill () from /lib/libc.so.6 (gdb) iain -- "If sharing a thing in no way diminishes it, it is not r

big troubles in little libc

2003-10-20 Thread iain d broadfoot
ing anything in particular wrong... Any brilliant flashes of insight? cheers, iain -- "If sharing a thing in no way diminishes it, it is not rightly owned if it is not shared." -- St. Augustine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Problems accessing /. with straw

2003-10-13 Thread iain d broadfoot
tirely. cheers, iain -- "If sharing a thing in no way diminishes it, it is not rightly owned if it is not shared." -- St. Augustine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Hot-plugging USB storage devices.

2003-08-31 Thread Iain Georgeson
;ll capitulate in time). > dpkg -p I didn't know about that one. ;) > apt-get install -t testing scsitools Stable, in this case. Iain. -- Iain Georgeson | Keirsey: INTJ | Belbin: Plant | Debian Woody People who love sausages, respect the law, and work with IT stand

Re: Hot-plugging USB storage devices.

2003-08-31 Thread Iain Georgeson
Roberto Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > --- Iain Georgeson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > > I would prefer it > > each device was always mounted in the same place - /camera for the > > camera and /keychain for the keychain, for example. Is there any way

Hot-plugging USB storage devices.

2003-08-30 Thread Iain Georgeson
thing else like hotplug? I don't mind if the scripts auto-mount the devices, as long as Mere Mortal Users can umount them. Iain Georgeson -- Iain Georgeson | Keirsey: INTJ | Belbin: Plant | Liverpool Are you pondering what I'm pondering? -- Brain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: SCO identifies code?

2003-08-19 Thread iain d broadfoot
> > If they didn't care about closed version they wouldn't use the GPL. This is broken logic. The FSF would have nothing to lose from a closed version of a GPL piece of software being developed. If GPL'd(GPLed? which is less stoopid?) _code_ was used, that'd be a differe

Obnoxious autoresponders was:Re: Out of Office AutoReply: how NOT to work with debian

2003-08-14 Thread iain d broadfoot
take themselves off the list for the time they are away. iain (and yes, i know i'm likely to get another response from this message as well.) -- wh33, y1p33 3tc. "If sharing a thing in no way diminishes it, it is not rightly owned if it is not shared." -St. Augustine --

Re: Obnoxious autoresponders was:Re: Out of Office AutoReply: how NOT to work with debian

2003-08-14 Thread iain d broadfoot
d them by mistake. Nope, guess it looks like someone is > just being an idiot. If we're lucky, the system'll be smart enough to only send one message to each address it receives from - if not, the poor bastard's server must be melting under the strain. iain (saves us doing it for

Re: how NOT to work with debian

2003-08-10 Thread iain d broadfoot
aperclip icon and two arrow > corners. This widget can be moved around. Three more suare widgets top > right may be part of the bitmap or may be just not active. sounds like twm or similar nasty WM... try running 'kdm' or similar rather than startx, that should let you

Re: Doesn't MY_ENV=abc printf "${MY_ENV}\n" suppose to print abc?

2003-08-02 Thread iain d broadfoot
* Shaul Karl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 10:22:19PM +0100, iain d broadfoot wrote: > > * Shaul Karl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Package: bash > > > Version: 2.05b-8.1 > > > > > > According to my understanding of the manu

Re: Doesn't MY_ENV=abc printf "${MY_ENV}\n" suppose to print abc?

2003-08-02 Thread iain d broadfoot
{MY_ENV}\n" > > $ > > What am I missing? an 'export' and a ';', like so: $ export MY_ENV=abc ; printf "${MY_ENV}\n" abc iain -- wh33, y1p33 3tc. "If sharing a thing in no way diminishes it, it is not rightly owned if it is not shared.

Re: batch renaming for filenames with space

2003-07-28 Thread iain d broadfoot
;== replaces 'Copy of ' with nothing the -v outputs a line telling you what each file has been renamed to. if you've got lots of directories, try find -name '*\ *' -exec rename -v 'y/\ /_/' \{\} \; which i _think_ will work ok, but test it on non-critical files firs

Re: mouse wheel scrolling in mutt ???

2003-07-22 Thread iain d broadfoot
, I do not see how this can help me. no, imwheel won't help. > What do you think? you could always pipe long messages through a CLI-www-browser (elinks/wm3/whatever) since they tend to know about mouses. iain -- wh33, y1p33 3tc. "If sharing a thing in no way diminishes it, it is n

Re: does make-kpkg work for kernel 2.5/2.6?

2003-07-18 Thread iain d broadfoot
x27;t notice having to do anything different... daniel, what's going wrong? iain -- wh33, y1p33 3tc. "If sharing a thing in no way diminishes it, it is not rightly owned if it is not shared." -St. Augustine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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