Re: SELinux Suggestion

On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 00:00:09 -0500, Mumia W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On 09/21/2007 10:15 PM, Andrew J. Barr wrote: >> On 9/21/07, Kelly Clowers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> On 9/21/07, Mumia W.. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Why is selinux in Debian at all? Have any users asked

Re: SELinux Suggestion

On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 21:32:22 -0500, Mumia W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On 09/21/2007 09:20 PM, Patrick Wiseman wrote: >> I, for one, would specifically ask that it NOT be a standard feature, >> so please, if it's to be offered at all, make it optional. I would >> hate one day to find, after d

Re: Debian Lenny VLC from where?

On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 04:29:44AM +0530, Siju George wrote: > Could some one tell me the repository from which I can install the VLC > player for Debian Lenny? You must be missing something. Please post your /etc/apt/sources.list Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't un

Installing Debian from partition image

I need to install Debian on twenty computers, for desktop use. I intend making a partition image, and restoring the partition image on the twenty computers. And Gilles Mocellin had suggested using DSH when it is necessary to run a command on all computers. Installing the partition from the Debian

Re: Installing Debian from partition image

On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 12:57:19PM +0530, Masatran, R. Deepak wrote: > Installing the partition from the Debian 4.0r0 multi-arch DVD, without any > updates to it, will allow easy replication, since the DVD is widely > available, right? What do you mean by this? If you install from an r0 then you

Re: Printer Driver Brother on new Lenny installation

Hello Florian, On 9/22/07, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 19:26:13 +1000, Robert Parker wrote: > > I need a driver for a Brother Laser printer model HL-2040. The system > > is an AMD 64 bit box and the debs provided by Brother are for i386 and > > will not inst

Re: google bookmarks not working in iceweasel?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Yang wrote: > Hi: > > Anybody used google bookmarks in iceweasel? > > I am working on Debian etch with iceweasel installed, and I changed the > "Agent" value to "Firefox" from "about:config" url, so that it would > pass the browser version c

Asterisk and ZTDUMMY

I have a working asterisk system running on Debian Etch It mostly works fine. Recently I noticed that the Conference Room (Meetme) facility had stopped working where it had been working before I think the issue is lack of the ztdummy module and /dev/zap/* devices. Since these are hotplug/udev

Re: Debian Lenny VLC from where?

On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 18:16:16 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 09/21/07 17:59, Siju George wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Could some one tell me the repository from which I can install the VLC > > player for Debian Lenny? > > main. I cannot find a version of VLC in testing at the moment: http://package

Re: scripting question

One possible approach would be to use a few files and use paste on those files where: dfile holds date, mfile holds good messages, sfile holds spam messages tfile is temporary file paste dfile mfile >tfile paste tfile sfile >dfile rm mfile rm sfile rm tfile cat dfile hth. -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: Asterisk and ZTDUMMY

On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 10:51:23 +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: > I have a working asterisk system running on Debian Etch > > It mostly works fine. > > Recently I noticed that the Conference Room (Meetme) facility had > stopped working where it had been working before > > I think the issue is lack

Re: Asterisk and ZTDUMMY

On Saturday 22 Sep 2007, Alan Chandler wrote: > I have a working asterisk system running on Debian Etch > > It mostly works fine. > > Recently I noticed that the Conference Room (Meetme) facility had > stopped working where it had been working before > > I think the issue is lack of the ztdummy mod

scsi-spin + samba

I have a raid 1 array used solely through samba. I'd like to spin down the discs when not being used to save power. Googling has provided information about Could anyone provide instances where doing the following would be a bad idea?:- preexec = /bin/mount /mnt/raid postexec = /bin/sync

Re: google bookmarks not working in iceweasel?

On 9/22/07, Wei Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Michael Yang wrote: > > Hi: > > > > Anybody used google bookmarks in iceweasel? > > > > I am working on Debian etch with iceweasel installed, and I changed the > > "Agent" value to "Firefox" from

Re: more kernel booting woes

On Sat, 22 Sep 2007, Miles Bader wrote: > In case anybody remembers, I was previously having problems with > booting the debian standard kernel on my machine (a custom compiled > kernel works fine). In that case, the problem was intermittent: > sometimes it would dump me into the emergency shell,

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2007 #2427

2007/9/21, David Balazic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > From: Martin Marcher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > 2007/9/21, Tim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > please take me off of your email list. > > > > List-Id: > > List-Post: > > List-Help: > > > Li

Re: Password file with over 3000 users.

Thomas Goirand writes: > But the reference for Debian is sh, not bash... (at least when writing > packages). Martin Marcher wrote: > why is it then that /bin/sh is /bin/bash after a plain install of > about every stable version i had by now? When run as sh bash goes into sh compatibility mode. P

Re: Debian Lenny VLC from where?

Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 04:29:44AM +0530, Siju George wrote: > > > Could some one tell me the repository from which I can install the > > VLC player for Debian Lenny? > > You must be missing something. Please post your /etc/apt/sources.list Yet, I do not see VLC in Lenny

Re: Fwd: Compiz and window decorations

On Sat, 2007-09-22 at 09:43 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 12:07:50AM -0300, Francisco M Neto wrote: > > Just got it running by using this tip: > > http://bgoglin.livejournal.com/11253.html Thanks! I just got it working just fine. =) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EM

exim4 with gpg?

Hello, i run debian etch with exim4 (smarthost configuration) for outbound emails. Is it possible to encrypt the outbound emails with gpg? If it is possible how can i do that? thanks, Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMA

Re: How can I acces unformatted cd/dvd with data on

That's the reason for the iso9660 format among others. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: google bookmarks not working in iceweasel?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Yang wrote: > > > On 9/22/07, *Wei Chen* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > Michael Yang wrote: >> Hi: > >> Anybody used google bookmarks in iceweasel? > >> I am working on Debian etch with iceweasel installed, and I

Re: exim4 with gpg?

On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 04:42:25PM +0200, Peter Jordan wrote: > Hello, > > i run debian etch with exim4 (smarthost configuration) for outbound emails. > > Is it possible to encrypt the outbound emails with gpg? > > If it is possible how can i do that? > That is the job of your mail user agent

Re: exim4 with gpg?

On 09/22/2007 09:42 AM, Peter Jordan wrote: > i run debian etch with exim4 (smarthost configuration) for outbound emails. > > Is it possible to encrypt the outbound emails with gpg? gpg/pgp signing/encryption/decryption is all about trusting the human associated with the key pair. Using gpg rela

Penalty of SELinux?

I run a bunch of old machines. Now that SELinux is integrated (compiled in) to various pieces of Debian, is there a penalty even if its not activated? Thanks, Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: exim4 with gpg?

On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 04:42:25PM +0200, Peter Jordan wrote: > Hello, > > i run debian etch with exim4 (smarthost configuration) for outbound emails. > > Is it possible to encrypt the outbound emails with gpg? > > If it is possible how can i do that? Usually this is setup in the mail client (T

Re: exim4 with gpg?

On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 16:42:25 +0200, Peter Jordan wrote: > Hello, > > i run debian etch with exim4 (smarthost configuration) for outbound emails. > > Is it possible to encrypt the outbound emails with gpg? > > If it is possible how can i do that? Encrypting and signing of emails is normally

Re: Compiz and window decorations

On Sat, 2007-09-22 at 09:43 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > Just got it running by using this tip: > > http://bgoglin.livejournal.com/11253.html Perfect. Just got it working. With a bit more of googling I even managed to properly configure the plugins. Now I have another doubt. I want compi

Help with fstab and ntfs

Hi, I keep getting errors like this when mounting my ntfs drives. *Code:* $LogFile indicates unclean shutdown (0, 0) Failed to mount '/dev/sda6': Operation not supported Mount is denied because NTFS is marked to be in use. Choose one action: Choice 1: If you have Windows then disconnect the ex

Re: exim4 with gpg?

Douglas A. Tutty, 09/22/07 17:24: > On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 04:42:25PM +0200, Peter Jordan wrote: >> Hello, >> >> i run debian etch with exim4 (smarthost configuration) for outbound emails. >> >> Is it possible to encrypt the outbound emails with gpg? >> >> If it is possible how can i do that? >>

Re: Compiz and window decorations

On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 12:41:23PM -0300, Francisco M Neto wrote: >Now I have another doubt. I want compiz to start with GNOME. What's > the best way to do that? The 'standard' solution I found is placing a > new entry in GNOME's startup applications, but I feel it would be a > better approac

Re: Compiz and window decorations

On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 19:38:56 +0300 Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 12:41:23PM -0300, Francisco M Neto wrote: > > >Now I have another doubt. I want compiz to start with GNOME. > > What's the best way to do that? The 'standard' solution I found is > > placin

[solved] modem hung up on etch

the problem was the isdn network, installing only the package ppp or pppoe contained in the first cd-rom of etch is not configurating correctly the modem that run for a line not isdn. To resolve installing the package pppconfig and setting the option in the file: /etc/ppp/options to comment this

Re: How encrypt cron output mail [was: exim4 with gpg?]

On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 06:17:38PM +0200, Peter Jordan wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty, 09/22/07 17:24: > > On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 04:42:25PM +0200, Peter Jordan wrote: > >> > >> i run debian etch with exim4 (smarthost configuration) for outbound > >> emails. > >> > >> Is it possible to encrypt the outb

Re: Debian Lenny VLC from where?

On 9/22/07, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I cannot find a version of VLC in testing at the moment: > http://packages.qa.debian.org/v/vlc.html > http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/testing.pl?package=vlc Well, I'm on lenny and I'm running it :) of course, that means that if a version was in

Re: Help with fstab and ntfs

El sáb, 22-09-2007 a las 10:49 -0500, Sid Arth escribió: > Hi, > I keep getting errors like this when mounting my ntfs drives. > > > Code: > $LogFile indicates unclean shutdown (0, 0) > > Failed to mount '

Re: Compiz and window decorations

On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 06:01:29PM +0100, Liam O'Toole wrote: > On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 19:38:56 +0300 > Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 12:41:23PM -0300, Francisco M Neto wrote: > > > > >Now I have another doubt. I want compiz to start with GNOME. > > > W

Re: Compiz and window decorations

On Sat, 2007-09-22 at 18:01 +0100, Liam O'Toole wrote: > Both GNOME and XFCE4 have session managers. So if you get compiz > running successfully, and save your session before you log out, then it > will be there when you log in again. I am aware of that. My concerd, however, is if it is necess

dhclient: parse_option_buffer: option ... larger than buffer

Lately, I've been getting messages of the form dhclient: parse_option_buffer: option unknown-177 (65) larger than buffer. from logcheck. dhclient has not been updated, so this is likely a change in the configuration of my ISP. As the logcheck maintainer, I now wonder what I should do with th

Re: Debian Lenny VLC from where?

vlc was removed: http://packages.qa.debian.org/v/vlc/news/20070629T223919Z.html I guess b/c it had problems including a security vulnerability. No big deal. Mplayer is better anyway. -- swk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: SELinux Suggestion

On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 05:36:35PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 00:14:29 -0500, Mumia W > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > I concur. From what I've read, selinux seems complicated and > > Linux-contorting enough to be placed at Debian's periphery--if not > > outside of the

Re: Help with fstab and ntfs

El sáb, 22-09-2007 a las 14:08 -0500, Sid Arth escribió: > On 9/22/07, Gabriel Parrondo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Have you tried any of the two choices? > > If you have a windows installed you could also try running a chkdsk on > > that disk and see if it solves the problem. > > > > Ar

SAMBA ground-up tutorial?

[This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] I've got a Debian bastion host at a small nonprofit. Mix of Windoze and Macs on the LAN behind it. Some of the Windoze boxes have those low-end printers (Minolta-QMS 1100L etc) that do their imaging in the driver and will never work on anthi

Re: SAMBA ground-up tutorial?

Sorry to hear that you are having a lot of trouble. I don't have that much experience in setting up samba but when I had to set up a small samba shared drive I read this document. /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/Samba-Authenticated-Gateway-HOWTO.gz This should be installed by default in all debian

Fwd: SAMBA ground-up tutorial?

forgot to cc the list > On 9/23/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] > I've got a Debian bastion host at a small nonprofit. > Mix of Windoze and Macs on the LAN behind it. > Some of the Windoze boxes have those low-end > pr

Re: How can I acces unformatted cd/dvd with data on

On 23/09/2007, Jude DaShiell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That's the reason for the iso9660 format among others. Came in late to the conversation but can you mount the unwritten cd using the udf filesystem? Adrian -- 24x7x365 != 24x7x52 Stupid or bad maths? hm. I've lost a machine.. literally

Re: Penalty of SELinux?

On Sat, 22 Sep 2007, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > Now that SELinux is integrated (compiled in) to various pieces of > Debian, is there a penalty even if its not activated? Apart from one copy of the libs on RAM that is shared by all other stuff, and (maybe) some extra grow in the data segments, no.

ls sort order: new, bad, behaviour

Last night I installed, and then removed, the ftpd and proftpd debs, in that order. Now I cannot by hook or crook get 'ls' to behave as it did before those ftp experiments. 'ls' now sorts strictly by filename -- including directories -- so that the latter are "mixed in" with regular files in the ou

Unreadable characters in aterm and rxvt

Hi, I had this for a long time and now I finally decided to ask about it. I have a weird behavior when viewing man pages in aterm or rxvt. The title such as "Linux System Administrator's Manual", which usually appears in a man page, is missing. Some of the lines run off the page on the right and c

Re: I'm sorry

On 22 Set, 03:50, "s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Lo'oris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Belissimo? I've no idea what you're talking about, but non-native oh, lol, I just sent a message in Italian some minutes before this one, thinking I was posting to the Italian mailing list -_-' > English s

Re: Penalty of SELinux?

On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 07:39:49PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sat, 22 Sep 2007, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > Now that SELinux is integrated (compiled in) to various pieces of > > Debian, is there a penalty even if its not activated? > > Apart from one copy of the libs on RAM tha

Re: Unreadable characters in aterm and rxvt

On 9/22/07, Mike Polyakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I had this for a long time and now I finally decided to ask about it. > I have a weird behavior when viewing man pages in aterm or rxvt. The > title such as "Linux System Administrator's Manual", which usually > appears in a man page, i

Re: ls sort order: new, bad, behaviour

On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 06:53:57PM -0400, Eric d'Alibut wrote: > Last night I installed, and then removed, the ftpd and proftpd debs, > in that order. Now I cannot by hook or crook get 'ls' to behave as it > did before those ftp experiments. 'ls' now sorts strictly by filename > -- including direct

Re: How encrypt cron output mail [was: exim4 with gpg?]

Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 06:17:38PM +0200, Peter Jordan wrote: > > Douglas A. Tutty, 09/22/07 17:24: > > > On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 04:42:25PM +0200, Peter Jordan wrote: > > >> > > >> i run debian etch with exim4 (smarthost configuration) for > > >> outbound e

Re: ls sort order: new, bad, behaviour

Eric d'Alibut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Last night I installed, and then removed, the ftpd and proftpd debs, Glad I don't use 'em. > in that order. Now I cannot by hook or crook get 'ls' to behave as it > did before those ftp experiments. 'ls' now sorts strictly by filename > -- including direct

Re: Unreadable characters in aterm and rxvt

> > I have a weird behavior when viewing man pages in aterm or rxvt. ... > > Some of the lines run off the page > > on the right and continue at the beginning of the next line (lines are > > not neatly formatted in fixed width column). Also there are characters > > which look like rectangles with d

Re: Penalty of SELinux?

On Sat, 22 Sep 2007, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > Apart from one copy of the libs on RAM that is shared by all other stuff, > > and (maybe) some extra grow in the data segments, no. And if you care about > > that, you'd better be pissed off at something else than SE Linux, which is > > small... we

Re: Unreadable characters in aterm and rxvt

On 9/22/07, Mike Polyakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have a weird behavior when viewing man pages in aterm or rxvt. ... > > > Some of the lines run off the page > > > on the right and continue at the beginning of the next line (lines are > > > not neatly formatted in fixed width column). Al

Re: Penalty of SELinux?

On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 09:44:36PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > I know. my 486 won't run debian anymore. Not enough ram. Runs great > > with OBSD. My P-II runs quite slow with Etch (OK with Sarge). Also > > runs great with OBSD. > > Etch should run great on a P-II, as long

Re: I'm sorry

On 22/09/2007, Lo'oris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. > > great quote! where does it come from? Its a rewording of one of Arthur C. Clarke's three laws http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke%27s_three_laws Cheers Adam -- To

Re: Unreadable characters in aterm and rxvt

> So my advise would be to install "rxvt-unicode" or "rxvt-unicode-lite" > or "rxvt-unicode-ml" (multilingual), depending on your needs. If it > displays the man pages correctly, then encoding was the problem, > and you can use urxvt instead of aterm or rxvt. Hi, Yes this was the problem! After i

Re: Penalty of SELinux?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/22/07 20:44, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 09:44:36PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > >>> I know. my 486 won't run debian anymore. Not enough ram. Runs great >>> with OBSD. My P-II runs quite slow with Etch (

Re: ls sort order: new, bad, behaviour

On 09/22/2007 05:53 PM, Eric d'Alibut wrote: Last night I installed, and then removed, the ftpd and proftpd debs, in that order. Now I cannot by hook or crook get 'ls' to behave as it did before those ftp experiments. 'ls' now sorts strictly by filename -- including directories -- so that the lat

Re: SAMBA ground-up tutorial?

* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070922 15:28]: > [This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] > I've got a Debian bastion host at a small nonprofit. > Mix of Windoze and Macs on the LAN behind it. > Some of the Windoze boxes have those low-end > printers (Minolta-QMS 1100L etc

how to edit init script to automatically enable/disable network connection?

During sarge installation, ethernet connection is configed Now I have wireless connection, with commands below: ifconfig eth0 down modprobe rt2500 ifconfig ra0 up dhclient ra0 And I no longer use ethernet connection. How to change scripts to automate these?

Re: Penalty of SELinux?

On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 11:29:09 -0400, Douglas A Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I run a bunch of old machines. Now that SELinux is integrated > (compiled in) to various pieces of Debian, is there a penalty even if > its not activated? Not that one can discern. An active SELinux runnin

Re: how to edit init script to automatically enable/disable network connection?

On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 09:12:15PM -0700, Serena Cantor wrote: > During sarge installation, ethernet connection is configed > > Now I have wireless connection, with commands below: > > ifconfig eth0 down > modprobe rt2500 > ifconfig ra0 up > dhclient ra0 > > And I no longer use ethernet connecti

Re: SELinux Suggestion

Mike McCarty wrote: > That is naive, is it not? The apps themselves have to be SELinux- > aware. So, one can remove the policy packages, but not SELinux. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 82K Jul 10 14:11 /lib/libselinux.so.1 If you're worried by this amount of space use, you probably have much larger probl

Re: ls sort order: new, bad, behaviour

On 9/22/07, Benjamin A'Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do 'printenv | grep LC_COLLATE' or 'locale' show the right setting? I am beginning to think I am a victim of my addled pate. Have I been using midnight commander too much? Am I looking for a fig newton of my imagination, namely, an 'ls' that

ekiga

Hi all, After a dist-upgrade (I'm using sid), ekiga can't be installed anymore. Is there any way to install it in sid? Thanks! Manu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]