Re: /etc/cron.daily/man-db: /var/cache/man: Permission denied

2007-03-03 Thread Micha
I think it's a problem with the way exim is configured. Exim is mailing the report locally. So that's why we couldn't find anything about cron-daily, man-db, or file permissions ! I can see the same error on two freshly installed Debian unstable boxes, with completely different archs and settin

Re: Firestarter VS Shorewall

2007-03-03 Thread David Hart
On Thu 2007-03-01 16:05:32 -0500 Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 09:45:41PM +0100, Franck Joncourt wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 11:56:41AM -0800, Jordi wrote: > > > > > > John, that seems to complicated for me, but seems good as it is a > > > hardware firewall. > > > Rove

Re: A very simple documentation framework

2007-03-03 Thread cga2000
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 10:37:52PM EST, ][ wrote: > Sorry for responding late... No problem. I'm still working on it. :-) > On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 11:05:07 -0500, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 06:11:58AM -0500, cga2000 wrote: > >> So far my personal doc system amounts t

Re: Firestarter VS Shorewall

2007-03-03 Thread Franck Joncourt
On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 08:08:36AM +, David Hart wrote: > On Thu 2007-03-01 16:05:32 -0500 Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 09:45:41PM +0100, Franck Joncourt wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 11:56:41AM -0800, Jordi wrote: > > > > > > > > John, that seems to complicated

Wired and wireless PCMCIA LAN cards: configuration problems

2007-03-03 Thread Ken Heard
I have a Toshiba Tecra 8000 P2 laptop first with Sarge and now with Etgh installed, plus KDE. Normally, I am in Toronto, where for some time I have been using a D-Link 10/100 mb LAN + 56k FAX/modem PCMCIA for a wired RJ-45 connection from the laptop to my home LAN and beyond. However, I am now

samba complains about reading permitons

2007-03-03 Thread Jabka Atu
Good day,.. Im expriancing some strange behavior with samba : some files (didn't anything common to them) bring me the next error : cp: cannot open `/mnt/test/securty.txt' for reading: Permission denied i made tail /var/log/messges : Mar 3 11:20:41 localhost -- MARK -- Mar 3 11:40:41 localh

Re: Icedove does not save unsent messages to the Unsent Messages folder

2007-03-03 Thread Ken Heard
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Is your account a POP account or IMAP? POP Regards, Ken -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debian in combination with

2007-03-03 Thread impek
Hello I have the same problem with debian and pdsmi This is very annoying. Etch appears to makes problems during installion too. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: HOWTO: multi-seat Debian Sid using the stock kernels.

2007-03-03 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/02/07 14:50, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, When you use multiple videocards/monitors/keyboards/mice and Debian stock kernels, the starting of gpm/gdm will fail because of the absence of mice. Have no idea why so with the Debi

Re: X.org: manual fonts installation

2007-03-03 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
On Fri, 2 Mar 2007 17:30:35 +0100 Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1) mkdir ~/.font > 2) cp *.ttf ~/.font/ > 3) cd ~/.font > 4) mkfontscale ./ > 5) mkfontdir ./ > > and under X: > > 6) xset +fp ~/.font > > which can be put into your ~/.xesssion or similar files >

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-03 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Greg Folkert wrote: On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 16:33 -0800, Freddy Freeloader wrote: Greg Folkert wrote: On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 10:16 -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 03/01/07 19:25, Paul Johnson wrote: Steve Lamb wrote:

Re: What's the best way to backup to dvd?

2007-03-03 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael M. wrote: > On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 22:24 +0100, Joe Hart wrote: >> Michael M. wrote: >>> On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 16:02 +0100, Joe Hart wrote: >>> >> According to Automatix (the easy installer that is used by many ubuntu >> users ( http://www.getau

Re: Cannot ping localhost

2007-03-03 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bruno Delalleau wrote: > Hello debianers! > > For some reason I can no longer ping localhost: > > ping -c 3 localhost > PING localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data. > > --- localhost.localdomain ping statistics --- > 3 packets transm

Re: CMS for server

2007-03-03 Thread Jordi
Thanks friends I though my message was not going to be published. If someone thinks it is offtopic sorry, just don't answer me. But as sometimes I see messages talking about winning money sending emails or enlarging their penis, I thought that 'cos many of you run servers and thus maybe you know g

Re: etch installer hanging on packages

2007-03-03 Thread Marco De Vitis
On 02/03/2007 18:00, Kevin Scott Sumner wrote: comes at "Select and install software" progress bar -- it halts at 5%. I'm not sure it's the exact same problem I encountered, but just a few days ago I worked around it using a "standard" Etch netinst CD (no daily, no weekly) and this suggesti

Two identical usb networking cards problem

2007-03-03 Thread David Fokkema
Hi group, I googled / searched the list around a lot but couldn't find what the cause of my problem might be... I installed debian etch on an NSLU2. It has an internal network card which is brought up automatically at boot time. I have two additional usb network cards attached to a hub which are

Re: Firestarter VS Shorewall

2007-03-03 Thread Jordi
Thanks for the links I asked in the Ubuntu forum too and they say me that it may be unnecessary to combine hardware firewall and software firewall (iptables or any other that uses it). But they said I can do, if I am paranoid. And as you said, the correct place to stop an intruder is BEFORE they c

Re: Icedove does not save unsent messages to the Unsent Messages folder

2007-03-03 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/02/07 20:10, Ken Heard wrote: > When working off line in Icedove messages to be sent later are not saved > in the Unsent Messages folder of the e-mail account where the messages > are created, for later sending when back on line. > > Instead the

a few things ...

2007-03-03 Thread pinniped
You probably did not need ndiswrapper in either case. The 'rt2500' driver has been made open source over a year ago: apt-cache search rt2500 A small group is currently rewriting the code for a mode generic and friendlier driver but I don't believe the work is done yet - but the drivers and too

Re: Firestarter VS Shorewall

2007-03-03 Thread Andreas Duffner
Jordi wrote: I saw two good firewalls: - Firestarter wich is easy - Shorewall wich seems versatile Wich is best for a single server pc? Does the complexity of shorewall worth the effort or is firestarter as good as shorewall? I can only tell about firestarter. Perhaps it helps a bit. First,

Re: Two identical usb networking cards problem

2007-03-03 Thread Franck Joncourt
On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 02:19:20PM +0100, David Fokkema wrote: > Hi group, Hi, > I installed debian etch on an NSLU2. It has an internal network card > which is brought up automatically at boot time. I have two additional > usb network cards attached to a hub which are identical. Only one of > t

Re: Firestarter VS Shorewall

2007-03-03 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 08:08:36AM +, David Hart wrote: > > If you need to manage a half-dozen zones the chances are that you'll > be doing packet filtering on specialized hardware so shorewall will > be of no use. > Well, chances are you don't know what you are talking about. Please go look

Re: Firestarter VS Shorewall

2007-03-03 Thread John Hasler
Jordi writes: > To have a good hardware firewall buy a good router-switch or a specific > hardware device. To have a good hardware firewall buy a cheap used pc, install Linux on it, and configure it as a router and firewall. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: XP Blocking CD Boot

2007-03-03 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thomas H. George wrote: > I built a new computer with two hard drives and installed XP Home > Edition on the first drive. The second drive contains my Debian system > - kernel 2.6.17 and Testing. I intended to use disc 1 of a Sarge > installation set

XP Blocking CD Boot

2007-03-03 Thread Thomas H. George
I built a new computer with two hard drives and installed XP Home Edition on the first drive. The second drive contains my Debian system - kernel 2.6.17 and Testing. I intended to use disc 1 of a Sarge installation set as a rescue disk to access hdb and run lilo to convert this box to a dual

Re: Firestarter VS Shorewall

2007-03-03 Thread Peter Teunissen
On 3-mrt-2007, at 14:52, John Hasler wrote: Jordi writes: To have a good hardware firewall buy a good router-switch or a specific hardware device. To have a good hardware firewall buy a cheap used pc, install Linux on it, and configure it as a router and firewall. -- Or, if you like eas

Re: XP Blocking CD Boot

2007-03-03 Thread Håkon Alstadheim
Joe Hart wrote: > Thomas H. George wrote: > > I built a new computer with two hard drives and installed XP Home > > Edition on the first drive. The second drive contains my Debian system > > - kernel 2.6.17 and Testing. I intended to use disc 1 of a Sarge > > installation set as a rescue disk to

Re: Two identical usb networking cards problem

2007-03-03 Thread David Fokkema
On Sat, 2007-03-03 at 14:54 +0100, Franck Joncourt wrote: > On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 02:19:20PM +0100, David Fokkema wrote: > > Hi group, > > Hi, > > > Take a look here : > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=403706 Thanks! That was insightful. > The following commands are you

Re: Two identical usb networking cards problem

2007-03-03 Thread Wackojacko
David Fokkema wrote: Still leaves me with one question: how do I figure out which daemon/script brings up my interfaces at what time? Thanks, David /etc/init.d/networking is the script. The order of the scripts is controlled by the order in which they appear in the relevant run level dir

Re: Two identical usb networking cards problem

2007-03-03 Thread David Fokkema
On Sat, 2007-03-03 at 15:37 +, Wackojacko wrote: > David Fokkema wrote: > > > > > Still leaves me with one question: how do I figure out which > > daemon/script brings up my interfaces at what time? > > > > Thanks, > > > > David > > > > > /etc/init.d/networking is the script. The order o

Re: Configurable files and functions

2007-03-03 Thread Michael M.
On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 12:33 -0600, Dave Walker wrote: > I am looking for an explanatory list of configuration files used in > sarge 3.1. The information I am looking for would give the location > (path), function (what the system uses it for), and whether the file > can be successfully changed by e

Re: Firestarter VS Shorewall

2007-03-03 Thread John Hasler
Peter writes: > Or, if you like ease of use (great web based GUI)... I do not want a Web server running on my router. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Two identical usb networking cards problem

2007-03-03 Thread Wackojacko
David Fokkema wrote: On Sat, 2007-03-03 at 15:37 +, Wackojacko wrote: David Fokkema wrote: Still leaves me with one question: how do I figure out which daemon/script brings up my interfaces at what time? Thanks, David /etc/init.d/networking is the script. The order of the scripts is

Re: A very simple documentation framework

2007-03-03 Thread ][
On Sat, 03 Mar 2007 03:36:01 -0500, cga2000 wrote: >> Check out AsciiDoc. >> If you don't believe that everything behind it was just plain text, check >> out the >> >> AsciiDoc Markup Syntax Quick Summary >> http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/nix/asciidoc-syn/ascs01-AsciiDocMarkupSyntaxQuickS

Re: Two identical usb networking cards problem

2007-03-03 Thread David Fokkema
On Sat, 2007-03-03 at 16:13 +, Wackojacko wrote: > David Fokkema wrote: > > On Sat, 2007-03-03 at 15:37 +, Wackojacko wrote: > >> David Fokkema wrote: > >> > >>> Still leaves me with one question: how do I figure out which > >>> daemon/script brings up my interfaces at what time? > >>> > >>

Re: Two identical usb networking cards problem

2007-03-03 Thread Wackojacko
David Fokkema wrote: It is irritating to discover that linux does not log everything (as I always tell windows users who're tracking down fathomable problems). David Just had a quick look at /etc/udev/ and it may be worth uncommenting the log lines in some or all of the files here. e.g. the

Re: What's the best way to backup to dvd?

2007-03-03 Thread Michael M.
On Sat, 2007-03-03 at 13:56 +0100, Joe Hart wrote: > After spending some time searching, I have to agree with you. It seems > that it is legal to install deCSS, it is not illegal to distribute it, > which means that whichever website you get it from is breaking the law, > but you are not by downl

Re: Two identical usb networking cards problem

2007-03-03 Thread Franck Joncourt
On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 04:34:37PM +, Wackojacko wrote: > David Fokkema wrote: > >It is irritating > >to discover that linux does not log everything (as I always tell windows > >users who're tracking down fathomable problems). > > > >David > > > > > Just had a quick look at /etc/udev/ and it ma

Grub: menu character sizes

2007-03-03 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, Grub's menu uses 80x25 character sizes on its menu. I would like to change that to something smaller. Trying 'terminal --lines=50' does nothing. Anybody gotten grub to put smaller characters on its menu? Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: Two identical usb networking cards problem

2007-03-03 Thread David Fokkema
On Sat, 2007-03-03 at 18:02 +0100, Franck Joncourt wrote: > On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 04:34:37PM +, Wackojacko wrote: > > David Fokkema wrote: > > >It is irritating > > >to discover that linux does not log everything (as I always tell windows > > >users who're tracking down fathomable problems).

Re: where does kmail keep its mail files?

2007-03-03 Thread Jan Schledermann
andy wrote: >> The only other suggestion I had from the KDE list when I wanted to move >> mail, was to look in /home/user.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail . That's a bit >> hit and miss, but you might find it there. >> >> Nigel. >> >> >> > Thanks Nigel - you hit the nail on the head. > > Much

Re: OT: Here we go again.

2007-03-03 Thread s. keeling
Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 07:57:26PM -0500, Curt Howland wrote: > > > > Mr. Sanchez, it is now very clear one of the reasons these off-topic > > postings have been going on so long: You are utterly ignorant of the > > reality of politics. > > > > Just b

Re: [SOLVED] linux-image-2.6-486 vs. linux-image -2.6-

2007-03-03 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 06:18:13AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 10:44:33AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, Is there a place where the di

Re: Firestarter VS Shorewall

2007-03-03 Thread Jordi
Thanks Andreas. I agree with most that you said, as I am very pragmatic on my needs. I think I will buy the router I said, wich looks a very strong router from security point of view, and plus install firestarter and some other utility if I need. And things sometimes are not so complex. For exam

Re: OT: Here we go again.

2007-03-03 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 05:22:21PM +, s. keeling wrote: > > > > Right, and the section that you quoted included this phrase: "under > > any circumstances, to initiate force against another human being" > > > > To me, that disallows self-defense. If I get punched in the face and I > > As

Re: Wired and wireless PCMCIA LAN cards: configuration problems

2007-03-03 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 10:04:26AM +, Ken Heard wrote: > Consequently, for the duration I wanted to replace the aforementioned > D-Link card with a wireless PCMCIA card (SMC model 2853W 802.11g, 2.4 > gH, 54 mbps). Unfortunately, I have so far been unable to connect my > laptop to the wireless

trouble connecting to some wifi access points

2007-03-03 Thread tom arnall
I am having trouble connecting to one of the wifi APs in my neighborhood. Following is my connection script. sudo iwconfig ath0 essid "linksys" sudo iwconfig ath0 ap 00:18:39:20:29:CA sudo dhclient ath0 sudo iwlist ath0 scan sudo ping xspace.com Foll

Re: Two identical usb networking cards problem

2007-03-03 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 05:27:04PM +0100, David Fokkema wrote: > On Sat, 2007-03-03 at 16:13 +, Wackojacko wrote: > > David Fokkema wrote: > > > On Sat, 2007-03-03 at 15:37 +, Wackojacko wrote: > > >> David Fokkema wrote: > > >> > > >>> Still leaves me with one question: how do I figure out

Re: trouble connecting to some wifi access points

2007-03-03 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 10:45:49AM -0800, tom arnall wrote: > I am having trouble connecting to one of the wifi APs in my neighborhood. > Following is my connection script. > > sudo iwconfig ath0 essid "linksys" > sudo iwconfig ath0 ap 00:18:39:20:29:CA > sudo dhclient ath0 I

Re: CMS for server

2007-03-03 Thread hendrik
On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 04:47:00AM -0800, Jordi wrote: > Thanks friends > > I though my message was not going to be published. > If someone thinks it is offtopic sorry, just don't answer me. > But as sometimes I see messages talking about winning money sending > emails or enlarging their penis, I

Where is debian-non-US

2007-03-03 Thread Andras Lorincz
Hi, I'm using testing and since a few days I get errors like /debian-non-US/dists/testing/non-US/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz: No such file or directory. Has something changed recently? Where is debian-non-US? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tro

Re: [OT]

2007-03-03 Thread hendrik
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 03:24:46PM -0500, Celejar wrote: > On Fri, 2 Mar 2007 10:37:55 -0800 > Raquel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [snip] > > > -- > > Raquel > > > > The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, i

Re: How to install Debian on a diskless NFS client?

2007-03-03 Thread Urs Thuermann
Sorry for my late reply. I have been busy with other things so continued my diskless install a couple of weeks after your answer. "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I think what you want to do now is something like this: > mount -t proc none /tftpboot/client-dir > chroot /tftpboo

Re: Where is debian-non-US

2007-03-03 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sat, 2007-03-03 at 21:02 +0200, Andras Lorincz wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using testing and since a few days I get errors like > > /debian-non-US/dists/testing/non-US/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz: No > such file or directory. > > Has something changed recently? Where is debian-non-US? It has been

Re: Where is debian-non-US

2007-03-03 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 02:36:14PM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: > > It has been deprecated since Woody became oldstable, or exactly the same > time Sarge became stable. > I don't think it was deprecated. I think it just went away. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.

Re: Where is debian-non-US

2007-03-03 Thread John Hasler
Andras Lorincz writes: > Has something changed recently? Where is debian-non-US? Due to changes in US law it was eliminated some time ago. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Icedove does not save unsent messages to the Unsent Messages folder

2007-03-03 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/03/07 07:39, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 03/02/07 20:10, Ken Heard wrote: >> When working off line in Icedove messages to be sent later are not saved >> in the Unsent Messages folder of the e-mail account where the messages >> are created, for later

Re: Where is debian-non-US

2007-03-03 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sat, 2007-03-03 at 14:39 -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 02:36:14PM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: > > > > It has been deprecated since Woody became oldstable, or exactly the same > > time Sarge became stable. > > > I don't think it was deprecated. I think it just went

Re: Where is debian-non-US

2007-03-03 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/03/07 13:28, John Hasler wrote: > Andras Lorincz writes: >> Has something changed recently? Where is debian-non-US? > > Due to changes in US law it was eliminated some time ago. Specifically, liberalizations made it not necessary. -BEGI

Re: Where is debian-non-US

2007-03-03 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/03/07 13:47, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Sat, 2007-03-03 at 14:39 -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: >> On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 02:36:14PM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: >>> It has been deprecated since Woody became oldstable, or exactly the same >>> time

Re: A Republican!!!!!! (was Re: OT: sponge burning!)

2007-03-03 Thread Paul Johnson
Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 03/02/07 12:05, Paul Johnson wrote: >> Ron Johnson wrote: >>> >>> On 03/01/07 19:16, Paul Johnson wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: > On 03/01/07 15:51, Joe Hart wrote: >> Steve Lamb wrote: >>> Joe Hart wrot

Re: A Republican!!!!!! (was Re: OT: sponge burning!)

2007-03-03 Thread Paul Johnson
Steve Lamb wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: >> You won't know until you go to the transit planning meetings and ask. > > I don't have to go to the transit planning meetings to know what is and > is not possible based simply on the distance invovled and how public > transportation operates. Rather bi

Re: XP Blocking CD Boot - Not So

2007-03-03 Thread Thomas H. George
On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 09:26:04AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > I built a new computer with two hard drives and installed XP Home > Edition on the first drive. The second drive contains my Debian system > - kernel 2.6.17 and Testing. I intended to use disc 1 of a Sarge > installation set a

Re: Where is debian-non-US

2007-03-03 Thread Max Hyre
John Hasler wrote: > Due to changes in US law it was eliminated some time ago. The changes removed restrictions preventing citizens of the land of the free from sending strong crypto out of the country. Given the status of software patents, though, it might be time to revive it. --

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-03 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri, 02 Mar 2007 16:14:59 -0800 Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > On Fri, 02 Mar 2007 10:22:16 -0800 > > Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Andrei Popescu wrote: > >> > >> > On Thu, 01 Mar 2007 23:44:52 -0800 > >> > Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Firestarter VS Shorewall

2007-03-03 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat, 03 Mar 2007 14:25:12 +0100 Andreas Duffner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So I just want a working firewall. > And firestarter does this job. > I do not know about complex setups with multiple servers. > I am just using one server, client etc at the time. > The firewall shall protect one com

Hard Drive hdb becomes hdf !!!

2007-03-03 Thread Thomas H. George
I built a new computer with two hard drives and installed XP Home Edition on the first drive. The second drive contains my Debian system - kernel 2.6.17 and Testing. I intended to use disc 1 of a Sarge installation set as a rescue disk to access hdb and run lilo to convert this box to a dual

Re: Where is debian-non-US

2007-03-03 Thread John Hasler
Max Hyre writes: > Given the status of software patents, though, it might be time to revive > [non-US]. Then for similar reasons we'll need non-JP, non-DE, non-AU... -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Where is debian-non-US

2007-03-03 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 03:55:56PM -0500, Max Hyre wrote: > John Hasler wrote: > > > Due to changes in US law it was eliminated some time ago. > >The changes removed restrictions preventing citizens of the land of > the free from sending strong crypto out of the country. > Actually, the spec

Growing an HFS file system

2007-03-03 Thread Stefan Monnier
I have an HFS+ filesystem (on a powerpc-mac style partition) that I need to grow. parted/gparted seem only able to shrink it. Is there some other tool that's able to grow an HFS+ filesystem. I looked at tools under macosx as well, but macosx is only able to resize an HFS+ partition if it's on a

Re: XP Blocking CD Boot [SOLVED]

2007-03-03 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thomas H. George wrote: >> After XP was installed the system will no longer boot from a CD. Even >> after I entered BIOS setup and changed the first, second and third boot >> choices to CDROM the system still persists in booting from the hard drive

Re: Hard Drive hdb becomes hdf !!!

2007-03-03 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thomas H. George wrote: > I built a new computer with two hard drives and installed XP Home > Edition on the first drive. The second drive contains my Debian system > - kernel 2.6.17 and Testing. I intended to use disc 1 of a Sarge > installation set

Re: static IP

2007-03-03 Thread Michael Pobega
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 08:27:23AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 04:44:41AM -0800, Jordi wrote: > > And Andrei: > > > If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. > > > (Albert Einstein) > > > > That is a very good point. > > When I had time (whe

Re: CMS for server

2007-03-03 Thread Michael Pobega
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 04:58:13AM -0800, Jordi wrote: > Hello > [...] > I am considering to change to another CMS. The best for me are these: > - Xoops > - Joomla > - e107 > > What do you use in your servers? Have you been using these in your > servers? > > Jordi > I've been working on coding

Re: Configurable files and functions

2007-03-03 Thread Michael Pobega
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 12:33:11PM -0600, Dave Walker wrote: > [...] > Does such a list exist? > > I have in mind such files as .bashrc and .bash_profile and I am sure > there are many others that I will encounter. > > Is it time for me to buy a reference book containing this info? If so, > which

Re: Woody on 486 problem

2007-03-03 Thread pobox
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 05:29:08PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Am 2007-02-22 09:25:14, schrieb Mike McCarty: > The Z80 was the sales name but intern it was Z8000. >From my mind (maybe wrong): Z88 was computer made by Sir Clive Sinclair with Z8000 CPU. I do sometimes find it hard to distinguis

Re: Where is debian-non-US

2007-03-03 Thread idsvp-helga
On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 01:28:15PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > > Andras Lorincz writes: > > Has something changed recently? Where is debian-non-US? > > Due to changes in US law it was eliminated some time ago. Yet another exaple of enforcing US law to the rest of the world! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Cannot ping localhost

2007-03-03 Thread jeffd
Bruno Delalleau wrote: Hello debianers! For some reason I can no longer ping localhost: ping -c 3 localhost PING localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data. --- localhost.localdomain ping statistics --- 3 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 2000ms I saw that wh

Re: Where is debian-non-US

2007-03-03 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 10:24:31PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 01:28:15PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > > > > Andras Lorincz writes: > > > Has something changed recently? Where is debian-non-US? > > > > Due to changes in US law it was eliminated some time ago. > > Yet

Help w/failed Sarge install - Dell 8400+SATA

2007-03-03 Thread Peter Farley
Hi all, Trying to install Sarge to Dell 8400 w/internal SATA from jigdo'd i386 DVD. Kernel 2.4 fails to see SATA internal HDD entirely (CD access OK). With kernel 2.6 using expert26 I can wait to load ata_piix driver until after CD is accessed, but STILL does not see SATA drive, only external USB

Re: Help w/failed Sarge install - Dell 8400+SATA

2007-03-03 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 03:21:24PM -0800, Peter Farley wrote: > Hi all, > > Trying to install Sarge to Dell 8400 w/internal SATA > from jigdo'd i386 DVD. Kernel 2.4 fails to see SATA > internal HDD entirely (CD access OK). With kernel 2.6 > using expert26 I can wait to load ata_piix driver > unti

Re: installation problem with initramfs-tools

2007-03-03 Thread Charles Blair
[This is a follow-up to previous post, attempting to supply more details.] I am trying to install debian on a recently purchased HP machine, with Windows XP pre-installed. An unsucessful attempt to install the "stable" distribution leads me to believe this has a SATA hard-disk. I downlo

Re: Woody on 486 problem

2007-03-03 Thread Peter Teunissen
On 3-mrt-2007, at 22:16, pobox wrote: On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 05:29:08PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: Am 2007-02-22 09:25:14, schrieb Mike McCarty: The Z80 was the sales name but intern it was Z8000. From my mind (maybe wrong): Z88 was computer made by Sir Clive Sinclair with Z8000 CPU.

Re: Woody on 486 problem

2007-03-03 Thread John Hasler
Juraj writes: > Z88 was computer made by Sir Clive Sinclair with Z8000 CPU. The Z88 was a portable Z80 based computer designed by Sinclair and marketed as the Cambridge Z88. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL P

Re: Where is debian-non-US

2007-03-03 Thread John Hasler
Andras Lorincz writes: > Has something changed recently? Where is debian-non-US? I wrote: > Due to changes in US law it was eliminated some time ago. idsvp-helga writes: > Yet another exaple of enforcing US law to the rest of the world! ROFL. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

Re: Where is debian-non-US

2007-03-03 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/03/07 17:10, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 10:24:31PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 01:28:15PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: >>> Andras Lorincz writes: Has something changed recently? Where is d

Re: thunderbird: how to backup mailbox and restore quickly

2007-03-03 Thread Cameron L. Spitzer
[This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > Yuwen Dai wrote: >> I'd like to backup part of my Inbox, e.g., the emails of last year as my >> Inbox becomes larger and larger. I also want to restore and read the >> backup quick i

Re: Where is debian-non-US

2007-03-03 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sat, 2007-03-03 at 13:58 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 03/03/07 13:47, Greg Folkert wrote: > > On Sat, 2007-03-03 at 14:39 -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > >> On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 02:36:14PM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: > >>> It has been deprecated since Woody became oldstable, or exactly th

Re: Help w/failed Sarge install - Dell 8400+SATA

2007-03-03 Thread Peter Farley
--- "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You really should be using Etch. Well, some of us prefer not to live at the bleeding edge. Regards, Peter Any questions? Get answers on any topic at www

what is installed so far?

2007-03-03 Thread pinniped
If there are already tools like 'apt-get' installed, then you can invoke an install yourself and maybe get better information on what's failing: apt-get install console-tools console-common From your log there is no evidence that initramfs-tools failed; that seems to be OK. Just a bit of b

Re: Firestarter VS Shorewall

2007-03-03 Thread Andreas Duffner
Jordi wrote: Anyway, please give me opinions about the router by SMC Networks: 7904WBRA2 http://www.smc.com/index.cfm?event=viewProduct&localeCode=EN_USA&pid=1588 First I have no wide knowledge of routers. I only know some. But I can tell you what I think while reading the data sheet. Perhaps i

Re: Firestarter VS Shorewall

2007-03-03 Thread Andreas Duffner
I use ssh with X11 forwarding to manage the firewall. With firestarter? How? On my side in /etc/ssh/ssh_config (that is for the client) ForwardX11 yes that way you dont have to say ssh -X bla bla on the other side in /etc/ssh/sshd_config (that is for the server) X11Forwarding yes Then I allo

Sign emails with ssh-dsa-key ?

2007-03-03 Thread Andreas Duffner
Hi, I created my ssh-dsa keys with the ssh utilities. Can I use these keys for things like mail signing, mail and/or file crypting or anything else ? Or is it a special format which I can use only for ssh ? At least my Thunderbird does not like these keys. Or I did not find the option. Thanks, A

Re: Where is debian-non-US

2007-03-03 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/03/07 18:28, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Sat, 2007-03-03 at 13:58 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 03/03/07 13:47, Greg Folkert wrote: >>> On Sat, 2007-03-03 at 14:39 -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 02:36:14PM -0500, Gre

Re: Firestarter VS Shorewall

2007-03-03 Thread John Hasler
Andreas Duffner writes: > WebInterface... So you have a Web server running on your firewall. Not good. > ...so you do not *have* to install some software. You wouldn't have to install software to use ssh. > [QOS] would be really cool. I'd like to have it. Linux already has it. -- John Hasler

Re: Where is debian-non-US

2007-03-03 Thread Max Hyre
John Hasler wrote: > Max Hyre writes: >> Given the status of software patents, though, it might be time to revive >> [non-US]. > > Then for similar reasons we'll need non-JP, non-DE, non-AU... Good point. Let me amend that to suggest the [non-patent] distribution. (Aside: ``non-DE''? I

Re: Help w/failed Sarge install - Dell 8400+SATA

2007-03-03 Thread Steve Lamb
Peter Farley wrote: > --- "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> You really should be using Etch. > Well, some of us prefer not to live at the bleeding > edge. Sometimes when you have bleeding edge technology you need bleeding edge on your distro to make it work. Hell, recently

Howto delete DVD-RW files

2007-03-03 Thread Benjamí Villoslada
Hi, I'm looking for a method to delete individual files in one DVD-RW, without success :)Any suggestion? KDE or command line, I not use GNOME. Thanks! Regards, -- Benjamí http://blog.bitassa.cat .

Re: Where is debian-non-US

2007-03-03 Thread John Hasler
I wrote: > Then for similar reasons we'll need non-JP, non-DE, non-AU... Max Hyre writes: > Good point. Let me amend that to suggest the [non-patent] distribution. > (Aside: ``non-DE''? I thought the EU has so far staved off the > software-patent idiocy.) _Similar_ reasons. Germany, for examp

Re: Emailing the system messages to me

2007-03-03 Thread Guillermo Garron
On 3/2/07, Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 01 Mar 2007 15:51:12 + Joe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 12:49:52AM -0400, Guillermo Garron wrote: > >> On 3/1/07, Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> On Thu, 2007-03-01 at

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