restoring the correct permissions for /var

2008-02-10 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Can some one please tell me how to restore the correct permissions for directories and files in /var? Basically I copied the /var partition of my computer to a spare hard drive, repartitioned the disk and copied the /var partition back. However, during the process, the file permissions were not pre

Re: Measuring & optimizing broadband speed

2008-02-10 Thread Jochen Schulz
Zach: > > I am looking for accurate methods of measuring broadband speed, > particularly for a 728 kbps / 128 kbps DSL line. To monitor interface throughput, I often use nload. It shows an ASCII graph and cur/max/avg bandwith usage. > I want to see how close my real world throughput gets to the >

Re: Linux network security poll

2008-02-10 Thread Jochen Schulz
Zach: > > I need to get serious about security since I will be soon connected to > the net almost 24x7 (barring a power outage etc.) so I was wondering > if list members could explain their security setup (network > configuration, DMZ, firewalls, IDS, logging, etc.). I just have a router between t

flashplugin-nonfree for Debian stable

2008-02-10 Thread Bart Martens
Hello, The package flashplugin-nonfree for Debian stable is now hosted at backports.org. I have updated http://wiki.debian.org/FlashPlayer accordingly. Future updates of flashplugin-nonfree for Debian stable will only be published at backports.org. The old package in Debian stable itself will b

Re: domain wide spam email address

2008-02-10 Thread Peter Teunissen
On 10-feb-2008, at 3:08, Alex Samad wrote: Hi I want to set up an email address where for my domain, were users can send spam emails to and they will be added to the spam DB. I use exim and spamassassin. All my spam processing gets done as user spamassassin, so I thought I could just proce

Re: restoring the correct permissions for /var

2008-02-10 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 03:13:51AM -0500, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > Can some one please tell me how to restore the correct permissions for > directories and files in /var? Basically I copied the /var partition of my > computer to a spare hard drive, repartitioned the disk and copied the /var >

Re: Linux network security poll

2008-02-10 Thread Rick Dooling
> re security http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/455 http://www.linuxsecurity.com/resource_files/host_security/securing-debian-howto/apA.en.htm Play with firestarter. It will help you learn about iptables. For more info google on securing debian; or if you want to really get serious,

Re: restoring the correct permissions for /var

2008-02-10 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 03:13:51AM -0500, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > Can some one please tell me how to restore the correct permissions for > directories and files in /var? Basically I copied the /var partition of my > computer to a spare hard drive, repartitioned the disk and copied the /var >

Re: restoring the correct permissions for /var

2008-02-10 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var$ ls -Rl| wc > > and got > >550244187 305254 > > Which means there are 5502 files to which I have access (line count), > and if I email it to you, it will be 305254 bytes. But I do not think permissions on all the files is a crucial th

Re: Non-understood advice - was Re: dist-upgrade from sarge to etch - package

2008-02-10 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 20:03:37 +, Felix Karpfen wrote: > On Fri, 08 Feb 2008 18:40:09 -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 08:54:02PM +, Felix Karpfen wrote: > > > >> I recollect running a command that identified non-Debian packages > >> as part of the upgrade to Etch

Re: restoring the correct permissions for /var

2008-02-10 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 09:13:49AM -0500, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var$ ls -Rl| wc > > > > and got > > > >550244187 305254 > > > > Which means there are 5502 files to which I have access (line count), > > and if I email it to you, it

Re: alsaconf works, startup doesn't

2008-02-10 Thread Florian Kulzer
[ Please try to turn off the HTML part for messages to debian-user. ] On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 21:36:45 -0500, Richard Izua wrote: > Hi! I'm not exactly sure what I've done, since I've been instructed in > #debian. But I've been advised to file a report. Anyway. > My problem is that I can configure

Re: Ethernet card does not work after Mother Board Change

2008-02-10 Thread Butch Kemper
At 09:25 PM 2/8/2008, you wrote: Butch Kemper([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > I built a system using 4.0r2 net-install and have kernel 2.6.18-5-k7 installed. > > The motherboard failed and the replacement board has a different type > ethernet card. > > In the kern.log file, I c

Is this mingw bug?

2008-02-10 Thread Misko
I am trying to compile some program with mingw but I get some strange behavior. The problem is with long long int numbers and/or shift operator. When I compile simple program (included bellow) with linux gcc I get result that I expect: $ ./big_num sizoef(tick): 8 Big number: 4611686018427387904

Bad E-mail setup in office. I need advice

2008-02-10 Thread Dawn Light
An inefficient E-mail setup in a small office needs to be replaced with a better solution. I ask for your wise advice. In a landscape architecture office, there are several Windows XP workstations for the architects to do their design work with. One of those workstations has a common E-mail cli

Can print from KPDF but not Acrobat

2008-02-10 Thread Peter Robinson
Hi all, I don't seem to have set up printing correctly...I am running a testing system and can print fine from KPDF but attempting to print from Acrobat returns the error message: "The print process returns an error. Please check if the printer is connected to the machine" (it is!). I have see

Re: Gigabyte M61P-S3 and wild MAC address of ethernet interface

2008-02-10 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 11:58:38 +0200, Tero Mäntyvaara wrote: > Hi, > > I have got Debian 4.0r2 and Gigabyte M61P-S3 motherboard and I noticed > it has "dynamic" MAC address :-/ > > I tried to fix the problem with the help of document > http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/501 but wit

Re: Bad E-mail setup in office. I need advice

2008-02-10 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 05:35:21PM +0200, Dawn Light wrote: ... > > In a landscape architecture office, there are several Windows XP > workstations for the architects to do their design work with. One of > those workstations has a common E-mail client installed which works > with one E-mail ac

Re: What am I missing without mutt?

2008-02-10 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2008-02-06 15:26:55, schrieb Steve Lamb: > Joe wrote: > > So why are you doing it differently in Mutt than in TBird? Jut hit 't' > > on each message you want deleted then use tag-prefix to delete them all > > ';' applies the next command to all tagged messages so you hit ';' > > then 'd'. Sim

Re: mailfilter (was Re: missing /var/mail)

2008-02-10 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2008-02-09 12:41:09, schrieb Chris Bannister: > On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 03:34:01AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > This is how it has to look when you drop email into Maildir: > > Has to? > > > if ( /^Subject: \-\- Spam \-\-/ ) > ^[1] > > { > > to "Maildir/.Spa

Re: What am I missing without mutt?

2008-02-10 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2008-02-07 19:40:49, schrieb Dotan Cohen: > Could be. I'd like to hear from Arabic users how console scripts are > handled? On my machine Hebrew is reversed in the console. If someone > could enlighten me as to how to install new locales (I've googled and > cannot figure it out) then I'll try it

Re: wrapper script issue

2008-02-10 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2008-02-08 13:58:57, schrieb Ken Irving: > It sounds bizarre to me. I think you mentioned following some directions > somwehere, so maybe you missed something? I don't have > /etc/alternatives/ruby1.8 > on my system; what does it point to? It's probably a symlink, or maybe a > chain > of se

Re: What am I missing without mutt?

2008-02-10 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2008-02-06 12:28:57, schrieb Steve Lamb: > The main problem that I saw is that on delete operations it does > something that is insanely slower than TBird. For example, on TBird I > can mark 25 messages as deleted, hit delete, and within about a second > they are in the trash folder. This

(no subject)

2008-02-10 Thread Paul Dransfield
This installation cuts out my CPU fan, therefore the installation cannot complete /Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Ethernet card does not work after Mother Board Change

2008-02-10 Thread Wayne Topa
Butch Kemper([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > At 09:25 PM 2/8/2008, you wrote: >> Butch Kemper([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: <> >> > >> > I need some assistance on how to proceed to get the system to properly >> > setup the ethernet card. >> > >> >> check the file

Re: Is this mingw bug?

2008-02-10 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-02-10 15:57 +0100, Misko wrote: > I am trying to compile some program with mingw but I get some > strange behavior. The problem is with long long int numbers > and/or shift operator. > > When I compile simple program (included bellow) with linux gcc > I get result that I expect: > > $ ./bi

GNOME faint printing problem.

2008-02-10 Thread Matt Gracie
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm running Debian sid on an ia32 computer, with everything up to date, and printing via CUPS to an HP Laserjet 4m. When I print from GNOME applications, like evince or epiphany, the output is too faint to read. But if I print the same document or web

Re: What am I missing without mutt?

2008-02-10 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2008-02-08 15:13:38, schrieb Dotan Cohen: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales > Generating locales... > en_AU.UTF-8... done > en_BW.UTF-8... done > en_CA.UTF-8... done > en_DK.UTF-8... done > en_GB.UTF-8... done > en_HK.UTF-8... done > en_IE.UTF-8... done > en_IN

Re: What am I missing without mutt?

2008-02-10 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2008-02-07 08:20:53, schrieb Ron Johnson: > On 02/07/08 07:29, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > There are still the same amount > > of letters, in fact, when typing Arabic one does not pay attention to > > the way the letters flow into one another. The OS does that

Re: USB pendrive mobility (fat32)?

2008-02-10 Thread Marc Shapiro
s. keeling wrote: David S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: s. keeling wrote: Plugging that into the corporate WinXP laptop only displays the first ca. 300 Mb ptn. Why doesn't it see the 2nd? How have I borked the ptn table? I have this same issue with Windows XP too. I think its not you

Re: Will using kernel 2.6.24 make my laptop faster?

2008-02-10 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2008-02-08 10:08:53, schrieb Bastian Blank: > On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 03:22:54PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: > > Am 2008-01-31 23:35:31, schrieb Gaudenz Steinlin: > > > Do you have any numbers that kernel with unneeded hardware options not > > > compiled in actually run faster? I would be ver

Getting USB audio to work (Lenny)

2008-02-10 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
I have an up to date Lenny system, and sound works pretty much fine but i cant get USB audio to play. I have a pair of altec USB speakers that work on a Mac. When i plug them in, they show up in the system: if i go to System -> Preferences -> Sound, the "Devices" tab gives me the option for USB au

Re: What am I missing without mutt?

2008-02-10 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 09/02/2008, Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If the console app is using "libfribidi" (as I use it) and the right > console font is installed then you can read farsi (my mother language) > arabic and hebrew in mutt and of cource from Right-To-Left (RTL). Thanks for the tip, Miche

Re: Gigabyte M61P-S3 and wild MAC address of ethernet interface

2008-02-10 Thread Tero Mäntyvaara
Hi, Many thanks for your answer! :-) Here is the information you requested: # lspci -nn | grep -i net 00:07.0 Bridge [0680]: nVidia Corporation MCP61 Ethernet [10de:03ef] (rev a2) # dmesg | egrep -i 'mac|eth' ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LMAC] (IRQs 5 7 9 10 *11 14 15) forcedeth.c: Reverse Enginee

Re: What am I missing without mutt?

2008-02-10 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 09/02/2008, Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do you have used "locale-purge"? Then all other locales are removed and > you have to reinstall locales with > > apt-get --reinstall locales > > But before you should assure, that > > dpkg-reconfigure debhelper > > is set at l

How do I upgrade to sid?

2008-02-10 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
IIRC somebody said they were running sid and had no problems with Iceweasel so I'm thinking that upgrading might be the answer to my problems. How do I do it? Is it as easy as aptitude dist-upgrade ?? What do I have to change to get to sid instead of etch? TIA for any help! Dennis -- To

Re: [OT] beefy steel cases

2008-02-10 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 12:24:56PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > hello, > > Me again with my project. > > Some people off-list have found me some low-MHz computers and will mail > me the boards with CPU + memory etc. One is a Tyan dual Pentium > {133|166}. > > Now I'm looking for a great ca

Re: How do I upgrade to sid?

2008-02-10 Thread Javier Vasquez
On 2/10/08, Dennis G. Wicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > IIRC somebody said they were running sid and had no > problems with Iceweasel so I'm thinking that upgrading > might be the answer to my problems. I'm not aware of your problems, but I'm not sure if you left them unresolved on testing or sta

Re: Bad E-mail setup in office. I need advice

2008-02-10 Thread Jochen Schulz
Dawn Light: > > Some incoming messages are "adressed" to the office and some are > "addressed" to the various architects ( There is only one E-mail > address). Thus anyone who wishes to read his incoming messages and > send messages needs to physically go and use the workstation with the > mail cli

Re: How do I upgrade to sid?

2008-02-10 Thread Jochen Schulz
Dennis G. Wicks: > > IIRC somebody said they were running sid and had no > problems with Iceweasel so I'm thinking that upgrading > might be the answer to my problems. It may be the answer, but upgrading to sid will pose a whole lot of new questions. If you don't know how to upgrade, you probably

Re: What am I missing without mutt?

2008-02-10 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 09:09:55PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > No. I have no need for Arabic, really, I was just checking how Arabic > is displayed on the console for Ron Johnson. I do have need for > Hebrew, however, and typing it on the console comes out LTR. I would > like to get libfribidi wor

Re: [OT] beefy steel cases

2008-02-10 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 09:56:22AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > Every *old* case I have fits your requirements more or less (I might > even have a spare, now that I think of it...). I suggest > you go to the local (is there such a thing?) computer reseller/parts > shop and scrounge for o

Re: Java Plugin for Iceweasel for AMD 64 bit Debian?

2008-02-10 Thread Jochen Schulz
Amogh Hooshdar: > > I have Debian installed on AMD 64 bit laptop. How can I install the > java plugin for iceweasel? You can't, since there is none. > I have heard that Sun has not released a Java plugin for AMD 64-bit. > Is this true? Yes. Your only option is to install a 32bit chroot with Fir

Multiple Java installed, how to switch?

2008-02-10 Thread Magnus Therning
How do I make sure that all the java-related links in /etc/alternatives are sane? I installed icedtea, then purged it and installed sun-java5 and sun-java6. Some links in /etc/alternatives are still pointing to the (now non-existing) tools that came with icedtea. How do I easily switch them to a

Re: What am I missing without mutt?

2008-02-10 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 10/02/2008, Micaela Gallerini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/2/10, Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > That seems a bit dangerous for my daily driver, so I did an > > experiment. I copied שלום from Firefox into Konsole, and it displayed > > backwards as I would should it have been pro

Java Plugin for Iceweasel for AMD 64 bit Debian?

2008-02-10 Thread Amogh Hooshdar
I have Debian installed on AMD 64 bit laptop. How can I install the java plugin for iceweasel? I have heard that Sun has not released a Java plugin for AMD 64-bit. Is this true? Is there any non-Sun plugin then? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

Re: What am I missing without mutt?

2008-02-10 Thread Micaela Gallerini
2008/2/10, Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > That seems a bit dangerous for my daily driver, so I did an > experiment. I copied שלום from Firefox into Konsole, and it displayed > backwards as I would should it have been program output. Then I copied > سلا (that should be salam, but I don't know

Re: Java Plugin for Iceweasel for AMD 64 bit Debian?

2008-02-10 Thread Magnus Therning
Amogh Hooshdar wrote: > I have Debian installed on AMD 64 bit laptop. How can I install the > java plugin for iceweasel? > > I have heard that Sun has not released a Java plugin for AMD 64-bit. > Is this true? > > Is there any non-Sun plugin then? Yes, it's true. AFAIK the only solution at the

Re: What am I missing without mutt?

2008-02-10 Thread Micaela Gallerini
2008/2/10, Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > No. I have no need for Arabic, really, I was just checking how Arabic > is displayed on the console for Ron Johnson. I do have need for > Hebrew, however, and typing it on the console comes out LTR. I would > like to get libfribidi working. > every w

Re: What am I missing without mutt?

2008-02-10 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 10/02/2008, Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 09:09:55PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > > No. I have no need for Arabic, really, I was just checking how Arabic > > is displayed on the console for Ron Johnson. I do have need for > > Hebrew, however, and typing i

gdm session chooser list

2008-02-10 Thread Angus Auld
I would like to ask whether someone could direct me to the config file that manages the gdm chooser list at login. I seem to have duplicate entries since I installed IceWM and Fluxbox. Previous I had been running Xfce as desktop on my Debian Etch. While this is no biggie, I would like to get rid

Re: (no subject)

2008-02-10 Thread Paul Johnson
On Feb 10, 2008 8:16 AM, Paul Dransfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This installation cuts out my CPU fan, therefore the installation cannot > complete You may find you receive better answers if you can ask a complete and intelligently worded question. http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.h

Re: domain wide spam email address

2008-02-10 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 12:08:16PM +0100, Peter Teunissen wrote: > > On 10-feb-2008, at 3:08, Alex Samad wrote: > >> Hi >> >> I want to set up an email address where for my domain, were users can >> send spam >> emails to and they will be added to the spam DB. >> >> I use exim and spamassassin. Al

vanishing desktop menu and background pattern.

2008-02-10 Thread peasthope
Folk, This morning I updated a Lenny system which has XFCE4. After the update the desktop background was a black & white houndstooth pattern and the desktop menu was gone. The panels remained operational. Someone please explain why this happens and what repair is recommended. Removing an

Re: Non-understood advice - was Re: dist-upgrade from sarge to etch - package

2008-02-10 Thread Felix Karpfen
On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 15:31:27 +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > What do you see when you run > apt-cache policy a2ps adduser alsa-base > ? The following: | a2ps: | Installed: 1:4.13b.dfsg.1-1 | Candidate: 1:4.13b.dfsg.1-1 | Version table: | *** 1:4.13b.dfsg.1-1 0 | 500 cdrom://[Debian

stale lockfile on fetchmail.

2008-02-10 Thread peasthope
Folk, Mostly fetchmail works with no problem. Occasionally this happens. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ fetchmail fetchmail: removing stale lockfile [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ fetchmail fetchmail: background fetchmail at 4671 awakened. Can anyone explain why a stale lockfile should come to exist? Thanks,

Re: How do I upgrade to sid?

2008-02-10 Thread Martin Mewes
Hello, Javier Vasquez schrieb: Then the rest is kind of recipy for upgrading: -- aptitude clean -- aptitude update -- aptitude safe-upgrade -- aptitude full-upgrade If _I_ do this nearly the complete system would be erased when I _would_ answer "Y" in t

Re: Is this mingw bug?

2008-02-10 Thread Misko
On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 05:57:51PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > > Is it wingw, wine, or windows? > > It is MinGW's printf implementation that is different. The first > Google hit searching for "mingw long long" shows that: > > http://www.mingw.org/MinGWiki/index.php/long%20long > > > And how do

Re: Multiple Java installed, how to switch?

2008-02-10 Thread Javier Vasquez
On 2/10/08, Magnus Therning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How do I make sure that all the java-related links in /etc/alternatives > are sane? > > I installed icedtea, then purged it and installed sun-java5 and > sun-java6. Some links in /etc/alternatives are still pointing to the > (now non-existin

Re: Gigabyte M61P-S3 and wild MAC address of ethernet interface

2008-02-10 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 19:27:23 +0200, Tero Mäntyvaara wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote: >> On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 11:58:38 +0200, Tero Mäntyvaara wrote: >>> I have got Debian 4.0r2 and Gigabyte M61P-S3 motherboard and I >>> noticed it has "dynamic" MAC address :-/ >>> >>> I tried to fix the probl

Re: [OT] beefy steel cases

2008-02-10 Thread Haines Brown
"Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Now I'm looking for a great case in which to mount it (them?). Starting > with wikipedia on EMR shielding, and surfing fro there, I've learned > that steel is much better for this than aluminum of the same thickness, > and the thicker the better (s

Re: stale lockfile on fetchmail.

2008-02-10 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/10/08 13:18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Folk, > > Mostly fetchmail works with no problem. Occasionally > this happens. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ fetchmail > fetchmail: removing stale lockfile > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ fetchmail > fetchmail: backg

Re: GNOME faint printing problem.

2008-02-10 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sun February 10 2008 08:58:15 am Matt Gracie wrote: > I'm running Debian sid on an ia32 computer, with everything up to date, > and printing via CUPS to an HP Laserjet 4m. When I print from GNOME > applications, like evince or epiphany, the output is too faint to read. > But if I print the same

Re: Multiple Java installed, how to switch?

2008-02-10 Thread Davide Mancusi
Magnus Therning ha scritto: How do I make sure that all the java-related links in /etc/alternatives are sane? I installed icedtea, then purged it and installed sun-java5 and sun-java6. Some links in /etc/alternatives are still pointing to the (now non-existing) tools that came with icedtea. Ho

Re: Can print from KPDF but not Acrobat

2008-02-10 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sun February 10 2008 08:27:11 am Peter Robinson wrote: > Hi all, > > I don't seem to have set up printing correctly...I am running a testing > system and can print fine from KPDF but attempting to print from Acrobat > returns the error message: > "The print process returns an error. Please check

Re: Getting USB audio to work (Lenny)

2008-02-10 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sun February 10 2008 09:03:41 am Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: > I have an up to date Lenny system, and sound works > pretty much fine but i cant get USB audio to play. > > I have a pair of altec USB speakers that work on a > Mac. When i plug them in, they show up in the system: > if i go to Syst

Re: How do I upgrade to sid?

2008-02-10 Thread Javier Vasquez
On 2/10/08, Martin Mewes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > Javier Vasquez schrieb: > > > Then the rest is kind of recipy for upgrading: > > -- aptitude clean > > -- aptitude update > > -- aptitude safe-upgrade > > -- aptitude full-upgrade > > If _I_ do

Re: Non-understood advice - was Re: dist-upgrade from sarge to etch - package

2008-02-10 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 20:36:04 +, Felix Karpfen wrote: > On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 15:31:27 +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: [ We are trying to figure out why "aptitude search '~i!~Odebian'", a command meant to find all installed non-Debian packages, returns so many false positives on Felix's Debi

Re: Archiving audio (high fidelity)?

2008-02-10 Thread A. F. Cano
On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 05:25:55PM -0500, Zach wrote: > I would like to transfer my collection of LPs (record albums) and > audio cassette tapes onto optical media for archival. The other poster already gave good advice on various issues. I tried to do that some time ago. It is a lot of work. I

Re: Bad E-mail setup in office. I need advice

2008-02-10 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/10/08 10:25, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: [snip] > > Looks something like this for inbound mail: > > ISP servers -> fetchmail -> exim4 -> mailboxes** -> IMAP server (I > like dovecaot). Or... ISP servers -> (on Debian mail server) fetchmail -

Re: How do I upgrade to sid?

2008-02-10 Thread Jochen Schulz
Martin Mewes: > Javier Vasquez schrieb: > >> Then the rest is kind of recipy for upgrading: >> -- aptitude clean >> -- aptitude update >> -- aptitude safe-upgrade >> -- aptitude full-upgrade > > If _I_ do this nearly the complete system would be erased when

Re: (no subject)

2008-02-10 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 11:55:12AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Feb 10, 2008 8:16 AM, Paul Dransfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This installation cuts out my CPU fan, therefore the installation cannot > > complete > > You may find you receive better answers if you can ask a complete and >

Re: stale lockfile on fetchmail.

2008-02-10 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 12:18:40PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Folk, > > Mostly fetchmail works with no problem. Occasionally > this happens. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ fetchmail > fetchmail: removing stale lockfile > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ fetchmail > fetchmail: background fetchmail at 4671

Re: Archiving audio (high fidelity)?L

2008-02-10 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 07:59:48PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 05:25:55PM -0500, Zach wrote: > > I would like to transfer my collection of LPs (record albums) and > > audio cassette tapes onto optical media for archival. > > > > I have a high end CD player and a medium

"apt-listbugs list postix" doesn't tell error ...

2008-02-10 Thread Gerard Robin
Hello, A small comment about the command "apt-listbugs list". By mistake I wrote "apt-listbugs list postix" instead "apt-listbugs list postfix" and I got: Reading package fields... Done Reading package status... Done Retrieving bug reports... Done Parsing Found/Fixed information... Done So I di

Re: Gigabyte M61P-S3 and wild MAC address of ethernet interface

2008-02-10 Thread Tero Mäntyvaara
Problem solved! :-D Thank you for your help. I am still wondering why this kind of problem is possible. Is the problem the hardware, the driver or the kernel? Or is it just the "property" that I am not aware of? Tero Mäntyvaara Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 19:27:23 +0200,

Re: vanishing desktop menu and background pattern.

2008-02-10 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 11:53:11AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Folk, > > This morning I updated a Lenny system which has > XFCE4. After the update the desktop background > was a black & white houndstooth pattern and the > desktop menu was gone. The panels remained > operational. > >

Re: Archiving audio (high fidelity)?

2008-02-10 Thread Russell L. Harris
* A. F. Cano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080210 16:21]: > On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 05:25:55PM -0500, Zach wrote: > > I would like to transfer my collection of LPs (record albums) and > > audio cassette tapes onto optical media for archival. > > The other poster already gave good advice on various issues.

Re: Video card suggestion

2008-02-10 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 06:45:31PM -0500, KS wrote: > I am planning on assembling an AMD based system. I noticed that most of > the motherboards that I am looking at (socket AM2 or AM2+) do not > onboard video card. That isn't a problem as I will put a dedicated video > card in there. But I'm a bit

Re: Java Grey Windows/Blank Windows/Sun are stupid

2008-02-10 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 04:34:37PM +0100, Александър Л. Димитров wrote: > Hi list, > > let me first say that Sun are incredibly stupid. I mean really. Astoundingly > stupid. Stultifingly stupid. > > This bug > > http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6429775 > > has been closed. Whi

Re: "apt-listbugs list postix" doesn't tell error ...

2008-02-10 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 11:38:11PM +0100, Gerard Robin wrote: > Hello, > A small comment about the command "apt-listbugs list". > By mistake I wrote "apt-listbugs list postix" instead "apt-listbugs list > postfix" > and I got: > > Reading package fields... Done > Reading package status... Done > R

Video card suggestion

2008-02-10 Thread KS
Hi all, I am planning on assembling an AMD based system. I noticed that most of the motherboards that I am looking at (socket AM2 or AM2+) do not onboard video card. That isn't a problem as I will put a dedicated video card in there. But I'm a bit confused as to which brand to go for: Nvidia or AT

Re: Video card suggestion

2008-02-10 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sun February 10 2008 03:45:31 pm KS wrote: > Hi all, > > I am planning on assembling an AMD based system. I noticed that most of > the motherboards that I am looking at (socket AM2 or AM2+) do not > onboard video card. That isn't a problem as I will put a dedicated video > card in there. But I'm

Re: Java Grey Windows/Blank Windows/Sun are stupid

2008-02-10 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Quoth Andrew Sackville-West: > On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 04:34:37PM +0100, Александър Л. Димитров wrote: > > > > AWT_TOOLKIT=MToolkit java SomeApp.class > > yeah, its annoying... A little bit... > > > > This is wrong, doesn't always work and has bad side effects. It's not > > working in > > my c

Re: [OT] beefy steel cases

2008-02-10 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 03:53:57PM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > You might try this: > > http://www.calpc.com/ > > Back in the 90s I had one of these cases. Solid, but did not have the > sophisticated feel of the cases I've used since. Perhaps because at that > point cases weren't standardized

Re: [OT] beefy steel cases

2008-02-10 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
In perusing non-propriatary (not IBM, HP, Dell, etc) high quality cases, the SuperMicro brand has come up a lot. Based on what I've been learning about EMF shielding, the case in which my Athlon64 is house is inadequate (too many grills insolated with bits of plastic from the surounding case, alum

Re: Multiple Java installed, how to switch?

2008-02-10 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Quoth Davide Mancusi: > Magnus Therning ha scritto: >> How do I make sure that all the java-related links in /etc/alternatives >> are sane? >> >> I installed icedtea, then purged it and installed sun-java5 and >> sun-java6. Some links in /etc/alternatives are still pointing to the >> (now non-exis

Re: USB pendrive mobility (fat32)?

2008-02-10 Thread David S
Marc Shapiro wrote: >> Amazing as in, XP can't. This seems a fairly insane design decision on >> the part of MS. >> > Does Vista do this, too? Yup. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

How to use minicom with Paralell Port

2008-02-10 Thread Andres Migliazzo
Hello Gang, I've recently bought a SPARC server and I have to configure it using LOM (Lights out Management)... SUN sent me a DB25 to Ethernet adapter but, due I've installed debian using the netinstall and I've installed only the piece of software that I need (I don't have Internet in my new ho

Serious local root exploit in linux kernel

2008-02-10 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Please see: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=464945 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.22/+bug/190587 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=432229 A local root exploit has been discovered in the linux kernel yesterday. Virtually all the stock kernel

Re: Serious local root exploit in linux kernel

2008-02-10 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: Please see: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=464945 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.22/+bug/190587 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=432229 A local root exploit has been discovered in the linux kernel yesterday. Virt

Re: Java Grey Windows/Blank Windows/Sun are stupid

2008-02-10 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 01:41:56AM +0100, Александър Л. Димитров wrote: > > > > I know it's three days later, but you're best bet is to go to #xmonad. > > Yeah, they know that problem, but it seems to be non-trivial to get around it. > There is an XMonad extension that fakes the WM-name and thus

Re: (no subject)

2008-02-10 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/10/08 16:24, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 11:55:12AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: >> On Feb 10, 2008 8:16 AM, Paul Dransfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> This installation cuts out my CPU fan, therefore the installation cann

Re: Serious local root exploit in linux kernel

2008-02-10 Thread Jeff D
Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: Please see: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=464945 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.22/+bug/190587 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=432229 A local root exploit has been discovered in the linux kernel yesterday. Virt

Re: Video card suggestion

2008-02-10 Thread KS
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 06:45:31PM -0500, KS wrote: >> I am planning on assembling an AMD based system. I noticed that most of >> the motherboards that I am looking at (socket AM2 or AM2+) do not >> onboard video card. That isn't a problem as I will put a dedicated video >

Re: Video card suggestion

2008-02-10 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/10/08 17:45, KS wrote: > Hi all, > > I am planning on assembling an AMD based system. I noticed that most of > the motherboards that I am looking at (socket AM2 or AM2+) do not > onboard video card. That isn't a problem as I will put a dedicated

Re: Video card suggestion

2008-02-10 Thread steve
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: | On 02/10/08 17:45, KS wrote: |> Hi all, | |> I am planning on assembling an AMD based system. I noticed that most of |> the motherboards that I am looking at (socket AM2 or AM2+) do not |> onboard video card. That isn't a problem

Re: [OT] beefy steel cases

2008-02-10 Thread Michael D. Norwick
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: In perusing non-propriatary (not IBM, HP, Dell, etc) high quality cases, the SuperMicro brand has come up a lot. Based on what I've been learning about EMF shielding, the case in which my Athlon64 is house is inadequate (too many grills insolated with bits of plastic from

Re: Gigabyte M61P-S3 and wild MAC address of ethernet interface

2008-02-10 Thread David Parker
> Problem solved! :-D > > Thank you for your help. > > I am still wondering why this kind of problem is possible. Is > the > problem the hardware, the driver or the kernel? Or is it just > the > "property" that I am not aware of? > > > Tero Mäntyvaara > Hello, I have this exact same mot

Re: Multiple Java installed, how to switch?

2008-02-10 Thread Magnus Therning
Александър Л. Димитров wrote: > Quoth Davide Mancusi: >> Magnus Therning ha scritto: >>> How do I make sure that all the java-related links in /etc/alternatives >>> are sane? >>> >>> I installed icedtea, then purged it and installed sun-java5 and >>> sun-java6. Some links in /etc/alternatives are

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