Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-08 Thread Michael M.
On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 16:47 -0500, Randy Patterson wrote: > Thanks for taking to time to post all that information. I have installed > Gnome, just haven't figured out how to get it going yet! After reading your > post one of the things that I think I need to do first is read some good > article

Re: Replacing a HD

2007-04-08 Thread Chris Lale
Frank McCormick wrote: > > I am planning to replace my 30 gig HD with a bigger drive. At the moment > this is the way hda is setup: > > ~ ---Starting--- EndingStart Number of > ~ # Flags Head Sect Cyl ID Head Sect Cyl SectorSectors > -- - ---

Re: network problem on a dell machine

2007-04-08 Thread Thilo Six
William wrote the following on 08.04.2007 06:11: > This looks fine too. > > , > | ~$ telnet google.com 80 > | Trying 64.233.167.99... > | Connected to google.com. > | Escape character is '^]'. > | GET / HTTP/1.1\r > | GET / HTTP/1.1\r > | ^D > | > | ^Z > | > | Connection closed by foreign h

Re: Replacing a HD

2007-04-08 Thread CaT
On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 12:07:35AM +0200, Mathias Brodala wrote: > > My system boots from hda3 using grub. hda1 and hda5 are swap partitions. > > > > Whats the best way to get an exact copy of my two Linux systems onto the > > new drive? > > Put the new drive into your PC and use dd to copy the w

Re: undesirable icon on desktop

2007-04-08 Thread Stephen Chadfield
Jerome BENOIT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello List, > > I have recently update my etch box: > two new icon appear now on my desktop: > they both correspond to `unusual' partitions, > and they named according to the partition label: > why the other partitions ('/tmp','/usr',/'var',...) > do not

Re: Wireless G WPA2 PCI Card Suggestion Please

2007-04-08 Thread Andrew J. Barr
Celejar wrote: On Sat, 07 Apr 2007 17:10:05 -0400 Grok Mogger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, I'd like to get a Wireless PCI Card for my Linux system. I'd like it to support WPA2 and also be Wireless G. I am currently using Debian, but this is a new system, so I'm perfectly willin

Re: how tell Konqueror to put cash in $TMP?

2007-04-08 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 10:03:30PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > I have /tmp on tmpfs and use libpam-tmp so I have per-user $TMP, and > swap is encrypted. > > I would like Konquorer (and anything else with a cache) to put the cache > in $TMP. Is there a way to change where it puts it? > No

Re: ssh setup: what is the Debian way?

2007-04-08 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 08:26:23PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > Debian automagically starts ssh-agent somewhere along the chain of > events that bring up X and Gnome. I don't reboot often, but when I > do, I forget to run ssh-add. Where can I place an invocation of > ssh-add so that it is run on

Re: undesirable icon on desktop

2007-04-08 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello, it works fine: thanks for the hint. Jerome Stephen Chadfield wrote: Jerome BENOIT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello List, I have recently update my etch box: two new icon appear now on my desktop: they both correspond to `unusual' partitions, and they named according to the partition l

Re: Icon Idiocy in Gnome

2007-04-08 Thread Jonathan Kaye
peek wrote: > > > > > > > Of the two flavors of Debian I have used (Debian proper and it's > spin-off Ubuntu), this symptom has popped up on both.  Sometimes when > I insert removable media, either disk or USB, the icon that Gnome places > on the desktop winds up on top of an existing icon

Re: Debian User List

2007-04-08 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David E. Fox wrote: > On Mon, 02 Apr 2007 00:04:48 GMT > "s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Nah, the kids these days think MLs are old hat and frumpy compared to >> web forums. You can't point and click on anything in slrn or mutt. > > And

Re: Wireless G WPA2 PCI Card Suggestion Please

2007-04-08 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 08 Apr 2007 07:59:15 -0400 "Andrew J. Barr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Celejar wrote: > > On Sat, 07 Apr 2007 17:10:05 -0400 > > Grok Mogger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Hello, > >> > >>I'd like to get a Wireless PCI Card for my Linux system. > >> I'd like it to support WPA2

Re: Debian User List

2007-04-08 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 08 Apr 2007 15:45:31 +0200 Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > David E. Fox wrote: > > On Mon, 02 Apr 2007 00:04:48 GMT > > "s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Nah, the kids these days think MLs are old hat and frumpy com

Re: Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 released

2007-04-08 Thread Jerome BENOIT
4.0 released [EMAIL PROTECTED] April 8th, 2007 http://www.debian.org/News/2007/20070408 Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 released The Debian Project is pleased to announce the official release of

Re: Wireless G WPA2 PCI Card Suggestion Please

2007-04-08 Thread Andrew J. Barr
Celejar wrote: On Sun, 08 Apr 2007 07:59:15 -0400 "Andrew J. Barr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Celejar wrote: On Sat, 07 Apr 2007 17:10:05 -0400 Grok Mogger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, I'd like to get a Wireless PCI Card for my Linux system. I'd like it to support WPA2 and also

Re: checking if my system is compromised

2007-04-08 Thread John L Fjellstad
Kamaraju Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does anyone have suggestions on tightening up the default sshd_config > file? I read about disabling password authentication mechanism > completely and using only the key authorization mechanism. But this is > too inconvenient to stick to. For exam

Re: ssh setup: what is the Debian way?

2007-04-08 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 8 Apr 2007 08:47:03 -0400 Roberto C. Sánchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 08:26:23PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > Debian automagically starts ssh-agent somewhere along the chain of > > events that bring up X and Gnome. I don't reboot often, but when I > > do, I

Re: Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 released

2007-04-08 Thread Michael Pobega
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 09:47:36PM +0800, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Great job ! > Thanks a lot to the Debian team. > > What is the name of the name of the next release ? > > Jerome > I just read the email too, and now I'm happy :) Hopefully now we ca

Re: Etch release??

2007-04-08 Thread John L Fjellstad
Frank McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > For those who are interested : > > > http://wiki.earth.li/EtchReleaseParty > > It looks like next Saturday. Got an email from the Debian announcement list saying Etch got released today (Sunday), so congratulations to the Debian Developers. Well, don

Re: Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 released

2007-04-08 Thread Michael Pobega
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 10:11:34AM -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: > On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 09:47:36PM +0800, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > > Great job ! > > Thanks a lot to the Debian team. > > > > What is the name of the name of the next release ? > > > > J

Re: Debian User List

2007-04-08 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Celejar wrote: > On Sun, 08 Apr 2007 15:45:31 +0200 > Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> David E. Fox wrote: >>> On Mon, 02 Apr 2007 00:04:48 GMT >>> "s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: Wireless G WPA2 PCI Card Suggestion Please

2007-04-08 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Sun, 2007-04-08 at 10:06 -0400, Andrew J. Barr wrote: > >> I am suitably impressed with the bcm43xx driver--I've been using it with > >> the Airport Extreme card in my PowerBook G4. > > > > I've used it too, with the AirForce One 4318 in my Acer laptop, but I > > can't get it to do WEP, and it

aptitude cancel actions

2007-04-08 Thread Mark Grieveson
Hi. I'm wondering how, via the keyboard, I can select "Actions", and then select "Cancel pending actions", when running aptitude. I've only been able to select this using a mouse. Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROT

Re: Etch release??

2007-04-08 Thread Tom Allison
John L Fjellstad wrote: Frank McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: For those who are interested : http://wiki.earth.li/EtchReleaseParty It looks like next Saturday. Got an email from the Debian announcement list saying Etch got released today (Sunday), so congratulations to the Debian Dev

Re: Etch release??

2007-04-08 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tom Allison wrote: > John L Fjellstad wrote: >> Frank McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> For those who are interested : >>> >>> >>> http://wiki.earth.li/EtchReleaseParty >>> >>> It looks like next Saturday. >> >> Got an email from the Debian

Re: Etch release??

2007-04-08 Thread Michael Pobega
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 10:57:02AM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: > John L Fjellstad wrote: > >Frank McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >>For those who are interested : > >> > >> > >>http://wiki.earth.li/EtchReleaseParty > >> > >>It looks like next

Re: aptitude cancel actions

2007-04-08 Thread Michael Pobega
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 11:01:45AM -0400, Mark Grieveson wrote: > Hi. I'm wondering how, via the keyboard, I can select "Actions", and > then select "Cancel pending actions", when running aptitude. I've only > been able to select this using a mouse.

Re: Replacing a HD

2007-04-08 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 07.04.07 17:40, Frank McCormick wrote: > I am planning to replace my 30 gig HD with a bigger drive. At the moment > this is the way hda is setup: > > ~ ---Starting--- EndingStart Number of > ~ # Flags Head Sect Cyl ID Head Sect Cyl SectorSectors > - -- -

Settings Save Error

2007-04-08 Thread peasthope
Debian-Users, Rather than run Xfce on the console, I can use it through the tightvnc server. In this case, a dialogue box entitled "Settings Save Error" appears with this content. "The settings file failed to save. This could be because the disk is full, or you don't have permission to write

Re: ssh setup: what is the Debian way?

2007-04-08 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 07.04.07 20:26, Paul E Condon wrote: > Debian automagically starts ssh-agent somewhere along the chain of > events that bring up X and Gnome. I don't reboot often, but when I > do, I forget to run ssh-add. Where can I place an invocation of > ssh-add so that it is run once just after login? I

Re: Etch release??

2007-04-08 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Sun, 2007-04-08 at 11:25 -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: > I've run aptitude update && aptitude upgrade too many times now, and > cat /etc/debian_version still says 4.0. I was hoping to be able to come > back from breakfast and see a Debian Lenny system, but oh well. You will have to keep waiting,

Re: Replacing a HD

2007-04-08 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 08 Apr 2007 17:45:11 +0200 Matus UHLAR - fantomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 07.04.07 17:40, Frank McCormick wrote: > > I am planning to replace my 30 gig HD with a bigger drive. At the > > moment this is the way hda is setup: > > > > ~

Re: Etch release??

2007-04-08 Thread John Hasler
Michael Pobega writes: > Well keep in mind there is a lot of stuff to migrate. The Debian > developers are done, but that doesn't mean that they can't take today off > (It IS Easter Sunday, after all). > They've still got the upload everything into the directories, There is nothing to upload or m

Re: Etch release??

2007-04-08 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Sunday 08 April 2007 11:55, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Sun, 2007-04-08 at 11:25 -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: > > I've run aptitude update && aptitude upgrade too many times now, > > and cat /etc/debian_version still says 4.0. I was hoping to be able > > to come back from breakfast and see a Debi

Re: Settings Save Error

2007-04-08 Thread Michael Pobega
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 08:28:19AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Debian-Users, > > Rather than run Xfce on the console, I can use > it through the tightvnc server. In this case, > a dialogue box entitled "Settings Save Error" > appears with thi

Re: ssh setup: what is the Debian way?

2007-04-08 Thread Paul E Condon
On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 10:09:28AM -0400, Celejar wrote: > On Sun, 8 Apr 2007 08:47:03 -0400 > Roberto C. Sánchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 08:26:23PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > > Debian automagically starts ssh-agent somewhere along the chain of > > > events th

Etch released.

2007-04-08 Thread Greg Folkert
007 http://www.debian.org/News/2007/20070408 Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 released The Debian Project is pleased to announce the official release of Debian GNU/Linux version 4.0, codenamed "etch", after 21 month

Re: Etch released.

2007-04-08 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sun, 2007-04-08 at 12:38 -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > >From the Debian Announce List. Pardon my french, damn, I am blind. I couldn't see it anywhere in the messages. Once I sent it, six or so threads jumped out to humiliate me. -- greg, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Novell's Directory Services is a comp

Re: aptitude cancel actions

2007-04-08 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 11:01:45 -0400, Mark Grieveson wrote: > Hi. I'm wondering how, via the keyboard, I can select "Actions", and > then select "Cancel pending actions", when running aptitude. I've only > been able to select this using a mouse. You can access the menu by pressing CTRL + T (na

Re: ssh setup: what is the Debian way?

2007-04-08 Thread Paul E Condon
On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 05:50:36PM +0200, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > On 07.04.07 20:26, Paul E Condon wrote: > > Debian automagically starts ssh-agent somewhere along the chain of > > events that bring up X and Gnome. I don't reboot often, but when I > > do, I forget to run ssh-add. Where ca

DHCP lease and dhclient.eth0.leases.

2007-04-08 Thread Ed Jabbour
/var/lib/dhcp3/dhclient.eth0.leases has dates in it that do not seem to relate to anything. It has two entries. one stating that the DHCP lease expired two days ago, and another that states it will expire in 2038: renew 5 2007/4/6 17:38:58; rebind 5 2007/4/6 17:38:58; expire 5 2007/4/6 17:

Re: Etch released.

2007-04-08 Thread Michael Pobega
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 12:50:52PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Sun, 2007-04-08 at 12:38 -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > > >From the Debian Announce List. > > Pardon my french, damn, I am blind. I couldn't see it anywhere in the > messages. > > Once

Re: DHCP lease and dhclient.eth0.leases.

2007-04-08 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sun, 2007-04-08 at 13:06 -0400, Ed Jabbour wrote: > /var/lib/dhcp3/dhclient.eth0.leases has dates in it that do not seem to > relate to anything. It has two entries. one stating that the DHCP > lease expired two days ago, and another that states it will expire in > 2038: > > renew 5 2007/4/

Re: aptitude cancel actions

2007-04-08 Thread Mark Grieveson
> > Hi. I'm wondering how, via the keyboard, I can select "Actions", > > and then select "Cancel pending actions", when running aptitude. > > I've only been able to select this using a mouse. > > > >Mark > > > I don't understand what you mean. You want to tell Aptitude to do a > bunch of stuf

Re: aptitude cancel actions

2007-04-08 Thread Michael Pobega
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 01:12:12PM -0400, Mark Grieveson wrote: > > > I don't understand what you mean. You want to tell Aptitude to do a > > bunch of stuff, and then tell it to not do it? > > I change my mind occasionally, yes. > Then your best be

Re: Wireless G WPA2 PCI Card Suggestion Please

2007-04-08 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 08 Apr 2007 15:45:55 +0100 Hans du Plooy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2007-04-08 at 10:06 -0400, Andrew J. Barr wrote: > > >> I am suitably impressed with the bcm43xx driver--I've been using it with > > >> the Airport Extreme card in my PowerBook G4. > > > > > > I've used it too,

Re: Replacing a HD

2007-04-08 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Frank McCormick wrote: [snip] > I have had suggestions ranging from dd to pcopy and even rsync on > mounted drives. Still not sure the way to go. But thanks to all for the > suggestions. > > Cheers > > Frank > You can expect that. There are a mu

Re: aptitude cancel actions

2007-04-08 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 8 Apr 2007 18:51:25 +0200 Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 11:01:45 -0400, Mark Grieveson wrote: > > Hi. I'm wondering how, via the keyboard, I can select "Actions", and > > then select "Cancel pending actions", when running aptitude. I've only > > been

Re: aptitude cancel actions

2007-04-08 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 8 Apr 2007 11:30:15 -0400 Michael Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 11:01:45AM -0400, Mark Grieveson wrote: > > Hi. I'm wondering how, via the keyboard, I can select "Actions", and > > then select "Cancel pendi

Re: ssh setup: what is the Debian way?

2007-04-08 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 8 Apr 2007 10:14:26 -0600 Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 10:09:28AM -0400, Celejar wrote: > > On Sun, 8 Apr 2007 08:47:03 -0400 > > Roberto C. Sánchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 08:26:23PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: >

Re: aptitude cancel actions

2007-04-08 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 01:12:12PM -0400, Mark Grieveson wrote: > > > Hi. I'm wondering how, via the keyboard, I can select "Actions", > > > and then select "Cancel pending actions", when running aptitude. > > > I've only been able to select this using a mouse. > > > What happens if you hit 'q'?

Re: Replacing a HD

2007-04-08 Thread frank mccormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joe Hart wrote: > Frank McCormick wrote: > [snip] >>> I have had suggestions ranging from dd to pcopy and even rsync on >>> mounted drives. Still not sure the way to go. But thanks to all for the >>> suggestions. > > You can expect that. There are

Auditing free and non-free packages

2007-04-08 Thread andy
Hello I have, since installing Etch, been downloading packages with regard for functionality and because I wanted that program, rather than focusing on whether or not that package was non-free or free (with respect to the Debian commitment to free software). I am curious about the packages I

Re: Etch released.

2007-04-08 Thread Helmut Sennewald
[EMAIL PROTECTED] > April 8th, 2007 http://www.debian.org/News/2007/20070408 > > > Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 released > > The Debian Project is pleased to announce the official relea

Re: Etch released.

2007-04-08 Thread steef
[EMAIL PROTECTED] April 8th, 2007 http://www.debian.org/News/2007/20070408 Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 released The Debian Project is pleased to announce the official release of Debian GNU/Linux version 4

Re: Auditing free and non-free packages

2007-04-08 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 07:44:13PM +0100, andy wrote: > Hello > > I have, since installing Etch, been downloading packages with regard for > functionality and because I wanted that program, rather than focusing on > whether or not that package was non-free or free (with respect to the > Debian

Re: Etch released.

2007-04-08 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 08:29:55PM +0200, Helmut Sennewald wrote: > Hello, > > Is it necessary to download all 3 DVD-ISO-images just to install this > version? > I am wondered a little bit because other distributions have only one > ISO-DVD. > Are on DVD-2 and DVD-3 only sources? No. The full DV

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Re: Etch released.

2007-04-08 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
http://www.debian.org/ > > Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 released [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > April 8th, 2007 http://www.debian.org/News/2007/20070408 > > > > > > Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 rel

Re: Auditing free and non-free packages

2007-04-08 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 07:44:13PM +0100, andy wrote: > Hello > > I have, since installing Etch, been downloading packages with regard for > functionality and because I wanted that program, rather than focusing on > whether or not that package was non-free or free (with respect to the > Debian

Re: Auditing free and non-free packages

2007-04-08 Thread Andrew J. Barr
Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 07:44:13PM +0100, andy wrote: Hello I have, since installing Etch, been downloading packages with regard for functionality and because I wanted that program, rather than focusing on whether or not that package was non-free or free (with respect

Re: ssh setup: what is the Debian way?

2007-04-08 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 10:14:26 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 10:09:28AM -0400, Celejar wrote: > > On Sun, 8 Apr 2007 08:47:03 -0400 > > Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > > > > On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 08:26:23PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > > > Debian automagically starts s

Etch Released

2007-04-08 Thread staackjt
I just installed with the set of floppies. If you're on a broadband connection, do a net install. You dont have to wait to start having fun! And so far with Etch, all of my hardware worked from the start except the touchpad. Which a Search on this forum fixed in two seconds. -- To UNSUBS

Re: Auditing free and non-free packages

2007-04-08 Thread andy
Andrew J. Barr wrote: Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 07:44:13PM +0100, andy wrote: Hello I have, since installing Etch, been downloading packages with regard for functionality and because I wanted that program, rather than focusing on whether or not that package was non-fre

Samba Oplocks & Latency Problems

2007-04-08 Thread debian-user
I recently rebuilt my Debian file server, and went from a extremely old architecture to a slightly less (but not by much!) out of date architecture. Once all the dust settled, I noticed that I was having performance issues, and a bit of digging revealed strange kernel oplock error messages which

Re: aptitude cancel actions

2007-04-08 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 14:26:16 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 01:12:12PM -0400, Mark Grieveson wrote: > > > > Hi. I'm wondering how, via the keyboard, I can select "Actions", > > > > and then select "Cancel pending actions", when running aptitude. > > > > I've only b

Re: Auditing free and non-free packages

2007-04-08 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 03:40:31PM -0400, Andrew J. Barr wrote: > Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > >On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 07:44:13PM +0100, andy wrote: > >>Hello > >> > >>I have, since installing Etch, been downloading packages with regard for > >>functionality and because I wanted that program, rathe

Re: Etch released.

2007-04-08 Thread Helmut Sennewald
"Douglas Allan Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 08:29:55PM +0200, Helmut Sennewald wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Is it necessary to download all 3 DVD-ISO-images just to install this >> version? >> I am wondered a little bit because other

Re: Etch released.

2007-04-08 Thread Pierre THIERRY
Scribit steef dies 08/04/2007 hora 20:57: > consider a net-install if you have a fast internet-connection Please, respect the Netiquette *at least a bit*. You quoted 133 lines of an announcement just to write 1 line yourself. That's a pretty awful s/n ratio... Regards, Pierre -- [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Auditing free and non-free packages

2007-04-08 Thread Andrew J. Barr
Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > Andrew J. Barr wrote: Now if they could only figure out some way to do something similar for the Intel Centrino radios... Andrew It's been done - but you have to go to the SourceForge site to get the firmware - which requires you to sign an Intel licence agreement -

files in /var/tmp

2007-04-08 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
Hi all Can someone throw some light on as to what does /var/tmp/fast-mech.tgz and /var/tmp/raw directories do? My system (Debian Etch) has been recently compromised and I deleted most of the suspicious files. However I am not sure about these. Is it safe to delete them or do you think some pro

Re: files in /var/tmp

2007-04-08 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 03:44:33PM -0700, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > Hi all > > Can someone throw some light on as to what does /var/tmp/fast-mech.tgz and > /var/tmp/raw directories do? > > My system (Debian Etch) has been recently compromised and I deleted most of > the suspicious files. How

Re: files in /var/tmp

2007-04-08 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 03:44:33PM -0700, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > Hi all > > Can someone throw some light on as to what does /var/tmp/fast-mech.tgz > and /var/tmp/raw directories do? > > My system (Debian Etch) has been recently compromised and I deleted > most of the suspicious files. Howev

Re: Wireless G WPA2 PCI Card Suggestion Please

2007-04-08 Thread charles norwood
On Sun, 2007-04-08 at 02:11 -0400, Celejar wrote: > On Sat, 07 Apr 2007 17:10:05 -0400 > Grok Mogger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I'd like to get a Wireless PCI Card for my Linux system. > > I'd like it to support WPA2 and also be Wireless G. I am currently > > using Deb

Re: files in /var/tmp

2007-04-08 Thread John Hasler
Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > My system (Debian Etch) has been recently compromised and I deleted > most of the suspicious files. How do you know which files are suspicious? How do you know that the login binary has not been replaced with one with a backdoor? -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: aptitude cancel actions

2007-04-08 Thread Mark Grieveson
> On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 11:01:45 -0400, Mark Grieveson wrote: > > > Hi. I'm wondering how, via the keyboard, I can select "Actions", > > >and then select "Cancel pending actions", when running aptitude. > > >I've only been able to select this using a mouse. > > > > You can access the menu by

Re: youtube also crashes iceweasel

2007-04-08 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, 17 Mar 2007 18:17:16 -0500, Wu-Kung Sun wrote: > On 3/17/07, Vasil Benov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> My system is Debian Etch, Nvidia GeForce4 MX 440 (if this is of any >> relevance), I use the Gnome desktop environment. >> >> I think this might be a bug either in the mozil

Re: firefox and iceweasel

2007-04-08 Thread Paul Johnson
Michael Pobega wrote in Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to gmane.linux.debian.user: > On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 11:12:34AM +0200, Eeltje wrote: >> >> Question of copyright. You lose nothing using Iceweasel. >> > > That's subject to disagreement. Lately on the Debian forums there have > been a l

Re: youtube also crashes iceweasel

2007-04-08 Thread Jose Luis Rivas Contreras
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hendrik Boom escribió: > On Sat, 17 Mar 2007 18:17:16 -0500, Wu-Kung Sun wrote: > >> On 3/17/07, Vasil Benov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> My system is Debian Etch, Nvidia GeForce4 MX 440 (if this is of any >>> relevance), I use the G

MySQL touble going from sarge -> etch

2007-04-08 Thread barry
Hi peeps, I just updated from sage to etch, and something's going pretty damn weird with mysql's upgrade ... mysql 5.0 is seeing that my old dbs are there, but not seeing the tables within them, so my old users aren't working, and I can't get at any of my data, all the files are still there in /va

Re: firefox and iceweasel

2007-04-08 Thread Dusty Wilson
On 4/8/07, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It's important to know that so far, everything that's been pointed out as working in Firefox but not in Iceweasel boils down to exceptionally poor web design and not any sort of failing on Iceweasel's part. This seems quite true. One of the si

Re: ssh setup: what is the Debian way? [not what I asked for, but OK ]

2007-04-08 Thread Paul E Condon
On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 08:26:23PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > Debian automagically starts ssh-agent somewhere along the chain of > events that bring up X and Gnome. I don't reboot often, but when I > do, I forget to run ssh-add. Where can I place an invocation of > ssh-add so that it is run on

Re: ssh setup: what is the Debian way? [addendum]

2007-04-08 Thread Paul E Condon
On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 09:24:00PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 08:26:23PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > Debian automagically starts ssh-agent somewhere along the chain of > > events that bring up X and Gnome. I don't reboot often, but when I > > do, I forget to run ssh-

Re: ssh setup: what is the Debian way? [not what I asked for, but OK ]

2007-04-08 Thread Allan Wind
On 2007-04-08T21:24:00-0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 08:26:23PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > Debian automagically starts ssh-agent somewhere along the chain of > > events that bring up X and Gnome. I don't reboot often, but when I > > do, I forget to run ssh-add. Where c

Re: network problem on a dell machine

2007-04-08 Thread William Xu
Thilo Six <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > quote from first mail: > <--- > The problem is that i'm unable to connect to the internet > directly (execpt for google, weird..) > ---> > > so it seems t

..manuals for Compaq 163357-001 mobo and Kontron CI6BM-B1 sbc?

2007-04-08 Thread Arnt Karlsen
Hi, ..sometimes when you see people poking around dumps, you can spot them miss weird WTF-_IS_-this kinda stuff at a distance, the first time I did this, I grabbed an Intergraph 6040 while the other guys ran off with 386'es, way back in 1993. ..this time I grabbed some (I guessed correctly) s

Re: Debian User List

2007-04-08 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 01:45:13PM -0700, Tyler MacDonald wrote: > Matus UHLAR - fantomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Actually, I would prefer if [OT] messages would be kept [OOTL] > > (out of this list) > > I said this once before and got shot down, but here it is again: > > If this list is s

Re: GPG and Signing

2007-04-08 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Apr 01, 2007 at 04:11:09PM +0800, Robert Roach wrote: > I was wondering about that too. Went to local book store and found a > good book on both PGP and GPG: > > http://www.amazon.com/PGP-GPG-Email-Practical-Paranoid/dp/1593270712/ref=sr_1_1/104-6276993-4918331?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=117541