re: risk assessment for old toolbox

2007-06-14 Thread Mike McClain
On 13 Jun 2007 Douglas Allan Tutty asked: >So the question is: how much risk does a woody box take on dialup >internet for simple mail and browsing? I installed Woody in Feb. 2001 and ran without a firewall or update 'til this past Dec. when I saw something to make me think I'd been hacked. It too

Re: ata2 problems on boot

2007-06-14 Thread Miguel J. Jiménez
remigio escribió: Hi, I've installed Debian Etch and there is this problem: system starts and during boot it pauses for at least one minute trying to setting an "ata2" device. Dmesg shows: ata2.00: qc timeout (cmd 0xa1) ata2.00: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x4) ata2.00: revalidation

problem: nvidia module not loading after updating Xorg (solved)

2007-06-14 Thread Eeltje
I had the same problem, see a different thread. There you can also find how it can be solved! -- Eeltje de Vries -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] change user when executing some script

2007-06-14 Thread Galevsky
Thank you guys. Unfortunately, I cannot do that since I am not root and can neither add group nor modify any /etc/*. That is the reason why I was looking for a solution to change the user when executing the script. setuid and setgid are nice to apply the script owner permissions to the users, but

Re: Inet security

2007-06-14 Thread Magnus Therning
On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 23:08:39 -0700, Mike McClain wrote: >I saw this on usenet and wonder about the validity of this statement. > >'Seriously any system is as secure as the services you export, if you >have nothing listening that can do you harm you are secure...' > >Disregarding email exploits

gnome default browser

2007-06-14 Thread liviu
hello sorry for getting your time but i have a small problem i have debian 4.0 installed and using the iceweasel as default browser but when im using for example kopete or gaim and i use go to imbox or clik on a link always start the epiphany insted of iceweasel i do the sudo update-alternatives

Re: Iceweasel Display Problem

2007-06-14 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Ron Johnson wrote: On 06/13/07 11:25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. I have been using Debian and Iceweasel for a few months now, and so far I haven't had any major problem. However, recently, Iceweasel began having this strange problem where fonts on a page would change color. For example, on

qpopper in syslog

2007-06-14 Thread michael
I've noticed the following in my syslog but can't work out what it is exactly (something to do with POP but why?) and whether it's a problem or not. All hints welcome! Michael Jun 14 10:09:58 ratty in.qpopper[19291]: connect from 81.242.5.102 (81.242.5.102) Jun 14 10:09:58 ratty in.qpopper[19291]:

Re: gnome default browser

2007-06-14 Thread Magnus Therning
On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 02:12:42 -0700, liviu wrote: >hello > sorry for getting your time but i have a small >problem >i have debian 4.0 installed and using the iceweasel as default browser >but when im using for example kopete or gaim and i use go to imbox or >clik on a link always start the epip

/lib/init/rw

2007-06-14 Thread Hans du Plooy
Hi guys, What does this do? jduplooy:~# df -lh FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda2 52G 42G 7.7G 85% / tmpfs 503M 0 503M 0% /lib/init/rw<--- ?? jduplooy:~# ls -lha /lib/init/rw/ total 4.0K drwxr-xr-x 2 root root

Re: how to get a symbol of laplace in latex

2007-06-14 Thread li sh
Thanks a lot, i get the symbol. -- lish -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Anyone have success with bootsplash package?

2007-06-14 Thread Stephen Patterson
On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 20:00:18 +0200, Nyizsnyik Ferenc wrote: > I'm using vga=791. The splash image displays at the grub screen, and the > boot messages are "nice". (No graphics, but small and nice characters - > haven't counted rows nor columns, but framebuffer must be working.) > I have an nVidia G

Re: problem: nvidia module not loading after updating Xorg (solved)

2007-06-14 Thread benjaminn bregg
Can you post the link of that thread? On 6/14/07, Eeltje <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I had the same problem, see a different thread. There you can also find how it can be solved! -- Eeltje de Vries -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

mdadm.conf and mkconf inconsistencies

2007-06-14 Thread Erik Bataller
Good morning- I'm having boot problems with my ubuntu box and I believe it is because of both the "race" condition associated with booting an md ( ubuntu bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mdadm/+bug/ 75681 ) and (perhaps or) that my mdadm.conf and mkconf are inconsistent, i.e.

Re: [OT] change user when executing some script

2007-06-14 Thread Galevsky
Hereafter is one of the solutions: the files handled by the script must reside into a user1 directory with setgid flag turned on, and 775 permissions mode. All the files created into this dir will belongs to user1' group. So, user2 will launch the script and generate a user2,user1group permission

Network card found but not configured with Etch / 2.6 kernel

2007-06-14 Thread Ken McCord
Hope someone out there can help me with this one, cause I'm stumped. Have an IBM NetVista 6341-64U system (1.0 GHz Celeron, 512 MB RAM, onboard Intel Ethernet adapter) that when Etch boots on it, will detect an installed network card, but when networking is configured to start, will not start

SPBrasil.TV - Seu amigo(a) lhe-envio um convite para participar do SPBrasil.TV

2007-06-14 Thread SPBrasil.TV
: Seu amigo(a) lhe-envio um convite para participar do SPBrasil.TV Para se cadastrar clique no link abaixo. Obrigado. SPBrasil.TV.

Re: Comparing files in two directories

2007-06-14 Thread Ilias Paraponiaris
UNISON I use unison (ssh / static IP) to synchronize my laptop with my desktop (i.e. two not-local directories). The only issues are i) that the "modified date" is not preserved and ii) that it is too slow (I had unison installed in winxp and it was much faster --I have not figured out why...) KRUS

evolution and LDAP

2007-06-14 Thread michael
Having gone in circles with the Evolution 'help', I was wondering if anybody here could give me a pointer as to how to set up an LDAP address book such that I can access it from Evo on different Debian boxes? Thanks, Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/SMOKE/2.1/subsys/ioapi$ dpkg -l | grep -i -e evolutio

unison vs krusader WAS Re: Comparing files in two directories

2007-06-14 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ilias Paraponiaris wrote: > UNISON > I use unison (ssh / static IP) to synchronize my laptop with my desktop > (i.e. two not-local directories). The only issues are i) that the > "modified date" is not preserved and ii) that it is too slow (I had > uni

Re: evolution and LDAP

2007-06-14 Thread Roberto D'Oliveira
2007/6/14, michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Having gone in circles with the Evolution 'help', I was wondering if anybody here could give me a pointer as to how to set up an LDAP address book such that I can access it from Evo on different Debian boxes? Thanks, Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/SMOKE/2.1/s

Re: evolution and LDAP

2007-06-14 Thread michael
On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 09:21 -0400, Roberto D'Oliveira wrote: > 2007/6/14, michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Having gone in circles with the Evolution 'help', I was wondering if > > anybody here could give me a pointer as to how to set up an LDAP address > > book such that I can access it from Evo on

Re: acroread

2007-06-14 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 19:20 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 02:08:43PM -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > > > Thank you very much for the answer. However, I just realized that > > debian-multimedia is devoted to the i386 arch. Mine is amd64... snif > > Mine is amd64

Re: Aptitude remembers CD-ROMs under Etch

2007-06-14 Thread Mumia W..
On 06/13/2007 10:37 AM, Daniel Burrows wrote: On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 09:04:56PM -0500, Mumia W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: [...] aptitude just won't forget about the original CD-ROMs. [...] Delete the cdrom lines from /etc/apt/sources.list. If you want to loop-mount the CDs, you

resizing pictures and EXIF

2007-06-14 Thread Lubos Vrbka
hi guys, does anyone know good way how to resize jpg pictures and preserve EXIF at the same time, preferably using graphics/imagemagick? it seems that graphicsmagick removes the EXIF information, but maybe there is some option i missed :( thanks in advance for any hints. regards, -- Lubos

Re: problem: nvidia module not loading after updating Xorg

2007-06-14 Thread H.S.
arijit wrote: Hi all, I've just updated Xorg packages though synaptic. But after system restart, i am unable to start X-server. Error shown : unable to load module: nvidia Exact same problem in my Etch box too. The work around for now is to run dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg and to select "nv"

Re: /usr/lib/python2.3 in lenny

2007-06-14 Thread Cousin Stanley
> Hi, recentley my dist-upgrade told me that > the directory /usr/lib/python2.3 could not > be removed because it was not empty... > > I actually only have pyhton2.4 and python2.5 packages installed. > > My question is: is it safe to remove that directory manually? > Miguel I man

Re: Anyone have success with bootsplash package?

2007-06-14 Thread Stephen Patterson
On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 13:10:08 +0200, Stephen Patterson wrote: > On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 20:00:18 +0200, Nyizsnyik Ferenc wrote: >> I'm using vga=791. The splash image displays at the grub screen, and >> the boot messages are "nice". (No graphics, but small and nice >> characters - haven't counted rows

Help needed with fglrx on Testing

2007-06-14 Thread Ananda Samaddar
Hello all, The latest updates to testing upgraded by fglrx drivers to 8.37 which do not work. I need to know how I can downgrade back to 8.35 which did work. Unfortunately one of the xorg packages depends on fglrx => 8.37. Alternatively if anyone knows how to fix Xvideo problems with 8.37 o

Re: resizing pictures and EXIF

2007-06-14 Thread csanyipal
Hi! On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 04:07:39PM +0200, Lubos Vrbka wrote: > hi guys, > > does anyone know good way how to resize jpg pictures and preserve EXIF > at the same time, preferably using graphics/imagemagick? it seems that > graphicsmagick removes the EXIF information, but maybe there is some

Re: Printing with lprng; no CUPS! :-)

2007-06-14 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 14 Jun 2007, CaT wrote: > [snip] > Then don't use it. > I gave up on CUPS a long time ago. I did have it working but the results using plain lpr and magicfilter are better, at least for me, and a lot easier to maintain, including remote printing. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - [EMAIL PROT

[OT] Perl package for CLASS.pm

2007-06-14 Thread Ismael Valladolid Torres
Using dh-make-perl, I am trying to build Palm::Progect. While building it tries to load CLASS.pm. As apt-file doesn't find this file, dh-make-perl suggest you to search for it at CPAN. However all searches I try are case insensitive, so I can't find CLASS.pm anywhere. What CPAN Perl module do I ne

Re: resizing pictures and EXIF

2007-06-14 Thread KS
Lubos Vrbka wrote: hi guys, does anyone know good way how to resize jpg pictures and preserve EXIF at the same time, preferably using graphics/imagemagick? it seems that graphicsmagick removes the EXIF information, but maybe there is some option i missed :( thanks in advance for any hints.

Re: resizing pictures and EXIF

2007-06-14 Thread Lubos Vrbka
hi, $> convert -resize 800x800 image.jpg small-image.jpg To resize multiple images you can always cook up a script. Other applications which I use for exif manipulations are jhead and exiv2. well, it seems that imagemagick indeed preserves exif information, whereas graphicsmagick doesn't! i t

Installation process and optional predefined collections of package

2007-06-14 Thread Bruno Costacurta
Hello to all, during the installation process, there is the opportunity to select predefined collections of software to set up ie. 'Desktop environment' .. etc .. Is it possible to re-run this application after installation ? And how ? Many thanks. Bye, Bruno -- PGP key ID: 0x2e604d51 Key : h

Re: evolution and LDAP

2007-06-14 Thread Roberto D'Oliveira
2007/6/14, michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 09:21 -0400, Roberto D'Oliveira wrote: > 2007/6/14, michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Having gone in circles with the Evolution 'help', I was wondering if > > anybody here could give me a pointer as to how to set up an LDAP address > >

Re: some problem in scripting

2007-06-14 Thread L . V . Gandhi
On 6/13/07, Mike McClain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 13 Jun 2007, L.V.Gandhi wrote: >I added one more field and found that ^M in the LO_52_WK field before comma. >I tried sed -e 's/M$//'. this didn't help. >Any solutions? What you see as ^M is the carriage return, CR = \015 = \0x0d = "\r". Loo

problem: nvidia module not loading after updating Xorg (solved)

2007-06-14 Thread Eeltje
The link is: [url]http://www.debianhelp.org/node/8092[/url] To repeat the story written there: I send a bug report (see: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=428731) and within minutes I got a work around! What one has to do (as 'root') is: # cd /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers #

Re: Printing with lprng; no CUPS! :-)

2007-06-14 Thread JWS
S. Keeling wrote: > So, perhaps ca. two thousand, six hundred, and ninety five files > which have nothing to do with my printer? At least they're all > gzipped ... Astonishing. I've never understood the reason for having CUPS at all (being a happy lprng user) but I had no idea it was *this* bad.

Re: evolution and LDAP

2007-06-14 Thread michael
On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 11:10 -0400, Roberto D'Oliveira wrote: > 2007/6/14, michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 09:21 -0400, Roberto D'Oliveira wrote: > > > 2007/6/14, michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > Having gone in circles with the Evolution 'help', I was wondering if > > > >

Re: Installation process and optional predefined collections of package

2007-06-14 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 17:09:27 +0200, Bruno Costacurta wrote: > Hello to all, > > during the installation process, there is the opportunity to select > predefined > collections of software to set up ie. 'Desktop environment' .. etc .. > > Is it possible to re-run this application after instal

Re: Comparing files in two directories

2007-06-14 Thread L . V . Gandhi
On 6/13/07, Cameron Hutchison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: L.V.Gandhi wrote: >On 6/13/07, Keith Christian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> L.V.Gandhi wrote: >> > I have two directories A and B. In each directory, I have nearly 1000 >> > files with same names. I would like to compare both director

Re: Comparing files in two directories

2007-06-14 Thread L . V . Gandhi
On 6/14/07, Ilias Paraponiaris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: UNISON I use unison (ssh / static IP) to synchronize my laptop with my desktop (i.e. two not-local directories). The only issues are i) that the "modified date" is not preserved and ii) that it is too slow (I had unison installed in winxp

Re: switch from xserver-xorg-video-i810 to -intel and unsupported modes

2007-06-14 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 06:34:51PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 07:31:16PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 09:32:40AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > I'm trying to configure a monitor my wife purchased for her machine > > > >

Re: Iceweasel Display Problem

2007-06-14 Thread Sean Zimmermann
Hugo Vanwoerkom care2.com> writes: > > I just went to http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/news.html and it looks > > fine to me. A blackish background with light grey-brown letters. > > > > Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070310 > > Iceweasel/2.0.0.3 (Debian-2.0.0.3-2)

Re: resizing pictures and EXIF

2007-06-14 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 04:07:39PM +0200, Lubos Vrbka wrote: > > does anyone know good way how to resize jpg pictures and preserve EXIF > at the same time, preferably using graphics/imagemagick? it seems that > graphicsmagick removes the EXIF information, but maybe there is some > option i miss

Re: Installation process and optional predefined collections of package

2007-06-14 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 05:09:27PM +0200, Bruno Costacurta wrote: > > during the installation process, there is the opportunity to select > predefined > collections of software to set up ie. 'Desktop environment' .. etc .. > > Is it possible to re-run this application after installation ? > And

Re: [OT] change user when executing some script

2007-06-14 Thread Bob Proulx
Galevsky wrote: > When user3 will launch the script later, he will get the user1 > permissions thanks to the setguid flag on the script, and will be able Setuid scripts are a security hole! It is almost impossible to prevent anyone from becoming the owner of the script in those cases. Better wou

Re: /lib/init/rw

2007-06-14 Thread Bob McGowan
Hans du Plooy wrote: Hi guys, What does this do? jduplooy:~# df -lh FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda2 52G 42G 7.7G 85% / tmpfs 503M 0 503M 0% /lib/init/rw<--- ?? jduplooy:~# ls -lha /lib/init/rw/ total 4.0K drw

Re: /lib/init/rw

2007-06-14 Thread Bob Proulx
Hans du Plooy wrote: > What does this do? It is used by the initscripts. Among other things see this bug and read the message from Henrique de Moraes Holschuh on Mon, 1 Jan 2007. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=%23403863 Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: Printing with lprng; no CUPS! :-)

2007-06-14 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 05:08:35PM +0200, JWS wrote: > S. Keeling wrote: > > > So, perhaps ca. two thousand, six hundred, and ninety five files > > which have nothing to do with my printer? At least they're all > > gzipped ... > > Astonishing. I've never understood the reason for having CUPS at

Re: resizing pictures and EXIF

2007-06-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/14/07 11:20, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 04:07:39PM +0200, Lubos Vrbka wrote: does anyone know good way how to resize jpg pictures and preserve EXIF at the same time, preferably using graphics/imagemagick? it seems that graphicsmagick removes the EXIF information, b

Re: Iceweasel Display Problem

2007-06-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/14/07 11:21, Sean Zimmermann wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom care2.com> writes: I just went to http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/news.html and it looks fine to me. A blackish background with light grey-brown letters. Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070310 Iceweasel/2.

Re: [OT] change user when executing some script

2007-06-14 Thread Galevsky
Many thanks for your comment and piece of code ;) In fact, I need my team to run a ruby tool, but $RUBYLIB and the main routine call is done into a setgid shell script. The script belongs to special user and group: myTeam:myTeam, and all the members of the team have the ability to log as myTeam s

Re: Printing with lprng; no CUPS! :-)

2007-06-14 Thread s. keeling
CaT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 01:29:49AM +, s. keeling wrote: > > > > Good for you, I'm glad for you; and irrelevant. Yes, CUPS works. > > What if you don't want to use CUPS? Have you not seen all the posts > > Then don't use it. Sigh. My point is, that's far easier

Re: Printing with lprng; no CUPS! :-)

2007-06-14 Thread s. keeling
Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 14 Jun 2007, CaT wrote: > > > > Then don't use it. > > I gave up on CUPS a long time ago. I did have it working but the results Previous to this non-DE install, I did a full Etch install just to see what it was like. I had CUPS working. It printed o

Re: Printing with lprng; no CUPS! :-)

2007-06-14 Thread s. keeling
JWS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > S. Keeling wrote: > > > So, perhaps ca. two thousand, six hundred, and ninety five files > > which have nothing to do with my printer? At least they're all > > Astonishing. I've never understood the reason for having CUPS at I've never liked it from the first time I

missing ghostscript fonts

2007-06-14 Thread Steve Kleene
References: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 17:16:08 -0400, I wrote: > In my recently installed Etch system, ghostscript seems unable to find some > common fonts. On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 20:15:37 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty asked: > Are you running gs and do you have the gs

Re: Inet security

2007-06-14 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 11:08:39PM -0700, Mike McClain wrote: > I saw this on usenet and wonder about the validity of this statement. > > 'Seriously any system is as secure as the services you export, if you > have nothing listening that can do you harm you are secure...' > > Disregarding email e

Re: Printing with lprng; no CUPS! :-)

2007-06-14 Thread Larry Irwin
I've got about 300 servers out there using lprng. My 1st run-in with cups gave me some surprises. 1) Removing cups generally removes X, desktop, etc... 2) lpstat no longer works (at least in the same manner, depending on the flavor of Linux)... 3) Manual intervention into cups setup tends to get

Update -- maybe troubles in advance...

2007-06-14 Thread Altamir Dias
Hi, I got in troubles when I tried to update debian this week. I use dselect to do that. When I used "dselect install", it uninstall several gnome packages. If you use apt to that some gnome packages are uninstalled, too. Identification: uname -a --> Linux sala15 2.6.18-4-486 #1 Mon Mar 26

undsub

2007-06-14 Thread Al Grimstad
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Re: undsub

2007-06-14 Thread Gerard Robin
On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 02:30:18PM -0400, Al Grimstad wrote: From: Al Grimstad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: undsub X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.4 (2006-07-26) on murphy.debian.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-7.9 required=4.0 tests=BAYES_00

Identical Install

2007-06-14 Thread Chaim Keren Tzion
Hi, I have two machines that are the same hardware but were installed in different procedures. I would like to make the two systems the same, to the extent possible. Is there a way to export a list of installed packages from one machine in a format that can be easily applied to an apt-install o

Re: udev rule writing help needed

2007-06-14 Thread Don Hayward
Hi Graham, On Mon, 11 Jun 2007, Graham Evans wrote: On Sun, 10 Jun 2007 19:30:16 +0200, Don Hayward wrote: ---snip So my questions are: 1) what string substitution do I use to get the needed bit into my command? 2) do I need quoting in the rule? 3) can this work anyway? Thanks for any hel

Re: etch - iptables question

2007-06-14 Thread Manon Metten
Hi Ann, On 6/13/07, ann kok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote I just install new debian. but it seems nothing iptable in the default installation how can I install? I have used Guarddog to config my iptables. It's very easy to use and it will take only about 15 - 30 mins reading the manual and setti

Re: Identical Install

2007-06-14 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 21:50:56 +0300 Chaim Keren Tzion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have two machines that are the same hardware but were installed in > different > procedures. I would like to make the two systems the same, to the extent > possible. Is there a way to export a list of i

Aptitude warning msg

2007-06-14 Thread Manon Metten
Hi, When I run aptitude update, I keep getting this error message: W: Duplicate sources.list entry http://ftp.nl.debian.org etch/main Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.nl.debian.org_debian_dists_etch_main_binary-i386_Packages) W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems When

Re: Aptitude warning msg

2007-06-14 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hi Manon. Manon Metten, 14.06.2007 21:08: > When I run aptitude update, I keep getting this error message: > > […] > Here's my etc/apt/sources.list: > > # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r0 _Etch_ - Official i386 kde-CD Binary-1 > 20070407-12:10] etch contrib main > deb http://ftp.nl.debian.org/

Re: Aptitude warning msg

2007-06-14 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 07:08:56PM +, Manon Metten wrote: > > When I run aptitude update, I keep getting this error message: > > W: Duplicate sources.list entry http://ftp.nl.debian.org etch/main Packages > (/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.nl.debian.org_debian_dists_etch_main_binary-i386_Packages) >

Re: Comparing files in two directories

2007-06-14 Thread William Pursell
L.V.Gandhi wrote: I have two directories A and B. In each directory, I have nearly 1000 files with same names. I would like to compare both directories and find out which files differ more than say 5 lines. I use kompare and see manually. How to do it in command line easily? Here's a scriptle

Re: Aptitude warning msg

2007-06-14 Thread Manon Metten
Hi Matthias, Douglas, On 6/14/07, Mathias Brodala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: deb http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/ etch main > deb-src http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/ etch main > […] > deb http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/ etch main contrib non-free > deb-src http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/ etc

Re: some problem in scripting.

2007-06-14 Thread William Pursell
L.V.Gandhi wrote: I created a .csv file in this format from a original file from the net. The last field here is the last field in original file also. I made this file as original file has empty lines and single field lines also. SYMBOL,HIGH_PRICE,LOW_PRICE,HI_52_WK,LO_52_WK BHARTIARTL,809.00,7

Got a boot error when starting up

2007-06-14 Thread yong lee
Hi, I am not a Linux expert. I hope someone would kindly help me or give me some suggestions to fix the problem. I just installed a pre-made/customized Linux 2.6.x kernel. I converted its installation package from the .rpm format to a .deb format using alien command. After the installation and a

Re: Aptitude warning msg

2007-06-14 Thread Kushal Kumaran
On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 07:26:45PM +, Manon Metten wrote: > Hi Matthias, Douglas, > > On 6/14/07, Mathias Brodala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >deb http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/ etch main > >> deb-src http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/ etch main > >> […] > >> deb http://ftp.nl.debian.org/d

install the driver in etch but couldn't find the directory /lib/modules/2.6.18-4-686/build

2007-06-14 Thread chloe K
Hi all I try to install the driver but got the message make: *** /lib/modules/2.6.18-4-686/build: No such file or directory. Stop. I install the linux-source but what I lack of? Setting up linux-source-2.6.18 (2.6.18.dfsg.1-12etch2) Thank you - All ne

Re: Got a boot error when starting up

2007-06-14 Thread Orestes leal
On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 13:00:03 -0700 (PDT) yong lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am not a Linux expert. I hope someone would kindly > help me or give me some suggestions to fix the > problem. > > I just installed a pre-made/customized Linux 2.6.x > kernel. I converted its installation pa

Re: Printing with lprng; no CUPS! :-)

2007-06-14 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 17:21:50 +, s. keeling wrote: [...] > Damned near > everything drags in CUPS. I already had lprng installed, and > foomatic-* wanted to remove it and install CUPS. Should I just > complain to linuxprinting.org that they're flat out lying when they > say I can use pre

Re: install the driver in etch but couldn't find the directory /lib/modules/2.6.18-4-686/build

2007-06-14 Thread Orestes leal
On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 16:04:49 -0400 (EDT) chloe K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all > > I try to install the driver > > but got the message > > make: *** /lib/modules/2.6.18-4-686/build: No such file or directory. Stop. > > I install the linux-source but what I lack of? > Setting up linux-so

Re: install the driver in etch but couldn't find the directory /lib/modules/2.6.18-4-686/build

2007-06-14 Thread Kushal Kumaran
On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 04:04:49PM -0400, chloe K wrote: > Hi all > > I try to install the driver > > but got the message > > make: *** /lib/modules/2.6.18-4-686/build: No such file or directory. Stop. > > I install the linux-source but what I lack of? > Setting up linux-source-2.6.18 (2.6.18.

Re: Network card found but not configured with Etch / 2.6 kernel

2007-06-14 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 08:20:08 -0400, Ken McCord wrote: > Hope someone out there can help me with this one, cause I'm stumped. > > Have an IBM NetVista 6341-64U system (1.0 GHz Celeron, 512 MB RAM, onboard > Intel Ethernet adapter) that when Etch boots on it, will detect an > installed network

error while loading shared libraries

2007-06-14 Thread Gilles Sadowski
Hello. After upgrading, I have the following problem when trying to execute some programs, e.g. "ls": $ ls ls: error while loading shared libraries: librt.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory [Same problem with many other programs ("locate", "find", "su", ...).] I not

Re: error while loading shared libraries

2007-06-14 Thread Orestes leal
On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 22:54:51 +0200 Gilles Sadowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello. > > After upgrading, I have the following problem when trying to execute some > programs, e.g. "ls": > > $ ls > ls: error while loading shared libraries: librt.so.1: cannot open shared > object file: No such f

Basic SELinux Question

2007-06-14 Thread Telly Williams
Hi, I was going to use an SE Linux mailing list for this, but, figured I'd ask on this list first, figuring that I may have a better chance of not getting a biased answer. I've heard all of this "talk" about how secure SE Linux is. However, how secure can this thing be if it has been

Re: error while loading shared libraries

2007-06-14 Thread Gilles Sadowski
> > > > After upgrading, I have the following problem when trying to execute some > > programs, e.g. "ls": > > > > $ ls > > ls: error while loading shared libraries: librt.so.1: cannot open shared > > object file: No such file or directory > > > > [Same problem with many other programs ("locate"

Re: Printing with lprng; no CUPS! :-)

2007-06-14 Thread s. keeling
Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 17:21:50 +, s. keeling wrote: > > Damned near > > everything drags in CUPS. I already had lprng installed, and > > foomatic-* wanted to remove it and install CUPS. Should I just > > Is it really that bad as far as CUPS is concer

Re: error while loading shared libraries

2007-06-14 Thread Orestes leal
On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 23:25:08 +0200 Gilles Sadowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > After upgrading, I have the following problem when trying to execute some > > > programs, e.g. "ls": > > > > > > $ ls > > > ls: error while loading shared libraries: librt.so.1: cannot open shared > > > obj

Re: Basic SELinux Question

2007-06-14 Thread andy
Telly Williams wrote: Hi, I was going to use an SE Linux mailing list for this, but, figured I'd ask on this list first, figuring that I may have a better chance of not getting a biased answer. I've heard all of this "talk" about how secure SE Linux is. However, how secure can this t

Re: error while loading shared libraries

2007-06-14 Thread Jeff Goodman
Gilles Sadowski wrote: Hello. After upgrading, I have the following problem when trying to execute some programs, e.g. "ls": $ ls ls: error while loading shared libraries: librt.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory [Same problem with many other programs ("locate", "f

Re: error while loading shared libraries

2007-06-14 Thread Gilles Sadowski
> > > > I did a major upgrade (including "libc6"), had to rerun "apt-get upgrade" > > several times. When I first noticed the problem, all users seemed to be > > affected, then, when all packages were upgraded, some accounts behaved > > correctly again, but not all! Weird indeed... > > > > And

Re: error while loading shared libraries

2007-06-14 Thread Orestes leal
On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 23:50:28 +0200 Gilles Sadowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > I did a major upgrade (including "libc6"), had to rerun "apt-get upgrade" > > > several times. When I first noticed the problem, all users seemed to be > > > affected, then, when all packages were upgrade

Re: Printing with lprng; no CUPS! :-)

2007-06-14 Thread s. keeling
Larry Irwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I've got about 300 servers out there using lprng. > My 1st run-in with cups gave me some surprises. > 1) Removing cups generally removes X, desktop, etc... That's one of the best reasons I can think of for not installing it in the first place. > So! If you w

Re: Printing with lprng; no CUPS! :-)

2007-06-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/14/07 16:19, s. keeling wrote: Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 17:21:50 +, s. keeling wrote: Damned near everything drags in CUPS. I already had lprng installed, and foomatic-* wanted to remove it and install CUPS. Should I just Is it really that bad a

Re: Basic SELinux Question

2007-06-14 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 03:22:11PM -0600, Telly Williams wrote: > >I've heard all of this "talk" about how secure SE Linux is. > However, how secure can this thing be if it has been developed by the > NSA? I mean, wouldn't THEY know how to get into your computer? And, > it's the NSA! If

Re: Basic SELinux Question

2007-06-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/14/07 16:38, andy wrote: Telly Williams wrote: Hi, I was going to use an SE Linux mailing list for this, but, figured I'd ask on this list first, figuring that I may have a better chance of not getting a biased answer. I've heard all of this "talk" about how secure SE Linux is.

Re: Printing with lprng; no CUPS! :-)

2007-06-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/14/07 16:53, s. keeling wrote: [snip] So, in other words, Debian sans CUPS isn't possible. You may not have to actually run it, but you have to have it installed. That's ridiculous. This is viral software. Start filing bugs against the deep-level dependers. apt-rdepends is your frie

Re: error while loading shared libraries

2007-06-14 Thread Gilles Sadowski
> > > >After upgrading, I have the following problem when trying to execute some > >programs, e.g. "ls": > > > >$ ls > >ls: error while loading shared libraries: librt.so.1: cannot open shared > >object file: No such file or directory > > > >[Same problem with many other programs ("locate", "find",

Re: error while loading shared libraries

2007-06-14 Thread Gilles Sadowski
> > > > $ ldd $(which ls) > > /bin/sh: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open > > shared object file: No such file or directory > > /bin/bash: error while loading shared libraries: libdl.so.2: cannot open > > shared object file: No such file or directory > > > There!!, l

Re: Basic SELinux Question

2007-06-14 Thread Telly Williams
Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 03:22:11PM -0600, Telly Williams wrote: I've heard all of this "talk" about how secure SE Linux is. However, how secure can this thing be if it has been developed by the NSA? I mean, wouldn't THEY know how to get into your computer? And

Re: Printing with lprng; no CUPS! :-)

2007-06-14 Thread s. keeling
Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > OK, I see, libgtk2.0-0 might be difficult to avoid on a desktop system > and it depends on libcupsys2 in Lenny and Sid. However, the foomatic-* > packages do not seem to depend on any CUPS packages. foomatic-filters > and foomatic-filters-ppds both recom

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