Re: mplayer screensaver

2009-06-08 Thread steef
JoeHill wrote: steef wrote: Tony Asnicar wrote: how can I disable gnome-screensaver when using mplayer? mplayer -stop-xscreensaver doesn't work :S thanks do: $xscreensaver-demo & and shut the screensaver off on the appearing panel. Are gnome-screensaver and xscreensav

Re: mplayer screensaver

2009-06-08 Thread steef
JoeHill wrote: steef wrote: Tony Asnicar wrote: how can I disable gnome-screensaver when using mplayer? mplayer -stop-xscreensaver doesn't work :S thanks do: $xscreensaver-demo & and shut the screensaver off on the appearing panel. Are gnome-screensaver and xscreensav

connecting cable modem through usb port

2009-06-08 Thread Sandip Sandip
Hello all, I have an old debian 2.4x kernel machine. I want to connect a cable modem through the usb port. CDCEther support is on. When the machine is up and running cable modem LEDs show PC connection. But I am not able to access internet. What is missing? Do I need to set-up/ configure anyt

Nmap shows port 21 is open with no ftp daemon installed.

2009-06-08 Thread Rod James Bio
Hi, I've been wondering about my friends case. Seems that when he nmapped his machine port 21 is open, but there is no ftp daemon installed. He tried "lsof -i :21" but it did not return anything. He also tried "netstat -an | grep 21" also nothing. So he asked other people and they told him that

Re: Nmap shows port 21 is open with no ftp daemon installed.

2009-06-08 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Rod James Bio wrote: Hi, I've been wondering about my friends case. Seems that when he nmapped his machine port 21 is open, but there is no ftp daemon installed. He tried "lsof -i :21" but it did not return anything. He also tried "netstat -an | grep 21" also nothing. So he asked other people a

Re: Nmap shows port 21 is open with no ftp daemon installed.

2009-06-08 Thread Richard Hector
On Mon, 2009-06-08 at 16:23 +0800, Rod James Bio wrote: > Hi, I've been wondering about my friends case. Seems that when he > nmapped his machine port 21 is open, but there is no ftp daemon > installed. He tried > "lsof -i :21" > but it did not return anything. He also tried > "netstat -an | grep

Iptable Rules?

2009-06-08 Thread Rod James Bio
Sorry about bothering this list about this kind of question, but does this rules do something? or is just another for of IPTABLES -P INPUT ACCEPT. I saw this rules from some machine we visited and I just had to know if this rule has something special. So here it go: Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT

Re: connecting cable modem through usb port

2009-06-08 Thread Sudev Barar
2009/6/8 Sandip Sandip : > I have an old debian 2.4x kernel machine. I want to connect a cable modem > through the usb port. > CDCEther support is on. When the machine is up and running cable modem LEDs > show PC connection. > But I am not able to access internet. What is missing? Do I need to set-

Re: Nmap shows port 21 is open with no ftp daemon installed.

2009-06-08 Thread Rod James Bio
Well I did some test on my own port tcp 443 does show on my machine by nmapping(is this a valid verb?hehe) from other network but when I do this in the same network it doesnt show at all. netstat does not show anything. Anyway thanks for the suggestion. --Rod James Richard Hector wrote: On

Re: Problem using alsa and ladspa

2009-06-08 Thread Parantapa Bhattacharya
Hi Seems the solution was simple all you had to do was define another pcm of type plug which uses dmix as its slave and use this as the slave in the ladspa pcm. Wonder why i didn't get any replies -- Parantapa Bhattacharya On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Parantapa Bhattacharya wrote: > Hi > >

Re: mp4 video file to mp3 audio file

2009-06-08 Thread ronggui wong
Thank you. It works. Ronggui On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 8:26 PM, JoeHill wrote: > That means your ffmpeg was compiled without libmp3lame. You need to get your > ffmpeg from the Debian Multimedia repository here: > > http://debian-multimedia.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@list

Re: connecting cable modem through usb port

2009-06-08 Thread John Hasler
Sudev Barar writes: > AFAIK you will have to do something like pppconfig to make a ppp > connection for this to work. Not pppconfig. For a DSL modem configured as a bridge (most default to router these days) he would need to run pppoeconf but I don't think that any cable providers use PPPoE. -- J

Re: Nmap shows port 21 is open with no ftp daemon installed.

2009-06-08 Thread John Hasler
Does nmap claim there is actually something listening on port 21 or is it that the port is simply not "stealthed"? Post the actual nmap output. Some security sites (such as www.grc.com) make the (IMHO bogus) claim that not having all ports "stealthed" is a security risk. Your friend may have seen

openssl, same issuer and target

2009-06-08 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
The problem is I generated the request from a different client with different data and password. What could cause this? -- Regards, Umarzuki Mochlis http://gameornot.net

Re: Nmap shows port 21 is open with no ftp daemon installed.

2009-06-08 Thread Rod James Bio
John Hasler wrote: Does nmap claim there is actually something listening on port 21 or is it that the port is simply not "stealthed"? Post the actual nmap output. Some security sites (such as www.grc.com) make the (IMHO bogus) claim that not having all ports "stealthed" is a security risk. You

Re: 30 Minutes (system time/ntpdate/dovecot)

2009-06-08 Thread David Baron
>Has been happening quite a bit lately: >Problem with ntpdate. If and when it finally works, get a change of 10,800 >seconds ... that is 30 minutes. >The dovecot IMAPd server is unreadable. Restarting it yields a complaint >about 10,800 seconds of time, killing itself now! Restarting it again >w

Program for quoting text like in email?

2009-06-08 Thread Thomas Anderson
Can anyone recommend a program/shell script/editor plugin etc, that can take arbitrary text as input and quote it like email programs quote emails with a preceding "> " character? I'm about to reply to a very long facebook message and want to quote it and make inline replies. But facebook only sup

Re: Nmap shows port 21 is open with no ftp daemon installed.

2009-06-08 Thread John Hasler
Rod writes: > Anyway I just got another lead on his situation. I learned from my > seniors from there past experience this may had been a bug in the Cisco > IOS version that was between the user and the server. You need to run nmap from the same LAN as the subject machine. -- John Hasler -- To

Re: Program for quoting text like in email?

2009-06-08 Thread Jeff Soules
While it's not terribly good code, the attached perl script should do what you want. It will expect file names as the input, and will output to stdout; you will need to redirect to a file if you want to save it. So do something like: $ perl quoter.pl Guy_On_The_Internet.txt >quoted-GOTI.txt wh

Program for quoting text like in email?

2009-06-08 Thread Thomas Anderson
>> Can anyone recommend a program/shell script/editor plugin etc, that >> can take arbitrary text as input and quote it like email programs >> quote emails with a preceding "> " character? >> >> I'm about to reply to a very long facebook message and want to quote >> it and make inline replies. But

Re: Program for quoting text like in email?

2009-06-08 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 9:55 AM, Thomas Anderson wrote: > Can anyone recommend a program/shell script/editor plugin etc, that > can take arbitrary text as input and quote it like email programs > quote emails with a preceding "> " character? > > I'm about to reply to a very long facebook message and

[Solved] Program for quoting text like in email?

2009-06-08 Thread Thomas Anderson
> While it's not terribly good code, the attached perl script should do > what you want. I chmodded it u+x and I think I can live with putting an extra ">" redirection char on the command line ;). > It will expect file names as the input, and will output to stdout; you > will need to redirect to

Re: Program for quoting text like in email?

2009-06-08 Thread Thomas Anderson
>> Can anyone recommend a program/shell script/editor plugin etc, that >> can take arbitrary text as input and quote it like email programs >> quote emails with a preceding "> " character? >> >> I'm about to reply to a very long facebook message and want to quote >> it and make inline replies. But

Re: Program for quoting text like in email?

2009-06-08 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Thomas Anderson wrote: >> How about passing the text through fmt -w 80|sed 's/^/> //'? >> (Untested). That should do what you desire, as fmt would format the >> paragraphs, and sed would substitute every beginning of line with a "> >> ". > > I got this output: > > t

Re: best practice for lvm?

2009-06-08 Thread Chris Davies
Zhengquan Zhang wrote: > Can I say the best practice for lvm is to create a single partition for > the harddrive and single PV on it and separate LVs for /tmp /var /home > etc? and leave enough unassigned PE for later enlargement of certain LV? Personally, I create a 1G partition for root and boo

Re: mdadm on lenny64, why two spares?

2009-06-08 Thread kj
whollyg...@letterboxes.org wrote: Number Major Minor RaidDevice State 0 3310 active sync /dev/hde1 1 3411 active sync /dev/hdg1 2 002 removed 3 571-

[OT] SQL Syntax Error '????????????????'

2009-06-08 Thread Harry Rickards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I know this is off-topic, but I don't really want to have to subscribe to or constantly read the MySQL mailing lists, and the IRC channel's no help. I've written some sample code in Java that connects to localhost using the MySQL JDBC. I've tried mult

rsync and Windows backups on a Debian box and permissions

2009-06-08 Thread H.S.
Hello, I have a Debian box (running Testing) which rsyncs some directories from a Windows laptop (running XP on an ntfs partition) to a partition on a local disk on the Debian box. The Debian box uses rsync via ssh connection made with the XP box which has cygwin and ssh server installed. The use

Re: mdadm on lenny64, why two spares?

2009-06-08 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <1244343455.32414.1319142...@webmail.messagingengine.com>, whollyg...@letterboxes.org wrote: >Can anyone tell me why the following command >creates 2 spares instead of just one? > ># mdadm -C /dev/md0 -v -e1 -l5 -b internal \ > -n3 /dev/hde1 /dev/hdg1 /dev/hdi1 \ > -x1 /dev/hdk1 --name FileSe

Re: rsync and Windows backups on a Debian box and permissions

2009-06-08 Thread George Randall
H.S. wrote: Hello, I have a Debian box (running Testing) which rsyncs some directories from a Windows laptop (running XP on an ntfs partition) to a partition on a local disk on the Debian box. The Debian box uses rsync via ssh connection made with the XP box which has cygwin and ssh server inst

Re: rsync and Windows backups on a Debian box and permissions

2009-06-08 Thread H.S.
George Randall wrote: > H.S. wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I have a Debian box (running Testing) which rsyncs some directories from >> a Windows laptop (running XP on an ntfs partition) to a partition on a >> local disk on the Debian box. >> >> The Debian box uses rsync via ssh connection made with the XP

Re: mplayer screensaver

2009-06-08 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Tony Asnicar: > how can I disable gnome-screensaver when using mplayer? 1. Use option -fs (= full-screen) with mplayer? 2. In the manpage of gnome-screensaver-command I see this option: -d, --deactivate If the screensaver is active then deactivate it (un-blank the screen)

Re: rsync and Windows backups on a Debian box and permissions

2009-06-08 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 06/08/2009 11:26:01 AM, H.S. wrote: Hello, I have a Debian box (running Testing) which rsyncs some directories from a Windows laptop (running XP on an ntfs partition) to a partition on a local disk on the Debian box. The Debian box uses rsync via ssh connection made with the XP box which ha

Re: AltGr broken in GTK apps (?) since yesterday's upgrade

2009-06-08 Thread Carl Fürstenberg
On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 20:51, MRH wrote: > Davide Mancusi wrote: >> >>        Running Sid. I upgraded some 400 packages yesterday and since >> then the AltGr key has stopped working in some applications, notably >> Iceweasel and Claws Mail (i.e. the applications I use 90% of the >> time, of course)

Listing held packages for which there are upgrades

2009-06-08 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Hi, On etch when I did an 'aptitude upgrade' it would show the packages on hold that would have been upgraded but were held back. On lenny this no longer happens. How do I get a list of those packages, and only those packages, that would be upgraded if they were not on hold? FYI I want this mo

Re: Listing held packages for which there are upgrades

2009-06-08 Thread Harry Rickards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/08/09 18:13, Karl O. Pinc wrote: > Hi, > > On etch when I did an 'aptitude upgrade' it would show > the packages on hold that would have been upgraded > but were held back. On lenny this no longer happens. 'aptitude safe-upgrade' will upgrade

Re: Listing held packages for which there are upgrades

2009-06-08 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 06/08/2009 12:40:16 PM, Harry Rickards wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/08/09 18:13, Karl O. Pinc wrote: > Hi, > > On etch when I did an 'aptitude upgrade' it would show > the packages on hold that would have been upgraded > but were held back. On lenny this no lon

Re: Re: Ctrl-Alt-Backspace disabled?

2009-06-08 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
Andrei Popescu wrote: (about getting ctl-alt-backspace back): > You need > > Option"DontZap" "false" > > in the ServerFlags section of your xorg.conf (check the manpage for > xorg.conf, I'm writing from memory). This worked for about a week -- but nannyism has crept further. In the late

Re: Listing held packages for which there are upgrades

2009-06-08 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 06/08/2009 12:44:13 PM, Karl O. Pinc wrote: On 06/08/2009 12:40:16 PM, Harry Rickards wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/08/09 18:13, Karl O. Pinc wrote: > Hi, > > On etch when I did an 'aptitude upgrade' it would show > the packages on hold that would have been upg

Re: Ctrl-Alt-Backspace disabled?

2009-06-08 Thread widux
Am Montag 08 Juni 2009 19:34:24 schrieb Jan Willem Stumpel: > Andrei Popescu wrote: (about getting ctl-alt-backspace back): > > You need > > > > Option "DontZap" "false" > > > > in the ServerFlags section of your xorg.conf (check the manpage for > > xorg.conf, I'm writing from memory). > > Thi

Re: Ctrl-Alt-Backspace disabled?

2009-06-08 Thread Harry Rickards
On 8 Jun 2009, at 18:58, widux wrote: Am Montag 08 Juni 2009 19:34:24 schrieb Jan Willem Stumpel: Andrei Popescu wrote: (about getting ctl-alt-backspace back): You need Option"DontZap" "false" in the ServerFlags section of your xorg.conf (check the manpage for xorg.conf, I'm writing fro

can't install etch on new machine

2009-06-08 Thread shadesofgray
I have the CD set. It was installed fine on my old machine. I'm trying to install on a new pc. It is a Dell with a dvd/cd drive (TSST corp). On the first cd it asks for the cd, but it is already reading the cd! And I can't get past this, even when it asks for a list of cd's and I select none. mea

Re: rsync and Windows backups on a Debian box and permissions

2009-06-08 Thread H.S.
Karl O. Pinc wrote: > > On 06/08/2009 11:26:01 AM, H.S. wrote: >> >> Any ideas how I get around this problem? Nice tips, and it appears they make sense. However, please pardon my ignorance, I am not sure I fully understand: > a) Don't do that. Have the uid/gids be the same on the MS > and Debia

Re: Configuring preferred web browser with Icedove

2009-06-08 Thread AG
?? wrote: On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 4:21 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sun,07.Jun.09, 21:03:26, AG wrote: Hello List How does one configure Icedove (Thunderbird) to use the system's default browser. My system's default browser is Opera, but Icedove will always call up Konqueror and I cann

Re: Listing held packages for which there are upgrades

2009-06-08 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-06-08 19:13 +0200, Karl O. Pinc wrote: > On etch when I did an 'aptitude upgrade' it would show > the packages on hold that would have been upgraded > but were held back. On lenny this no longer happens. > > How do I get a list of those packages, and only those > packages, that would be u

Re: rsync and Windows backups on a Debian box and permissions

2009-06-08 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 06/08/2009 01:28:53 PM, H.S. wrote: Karl O. Pinc wrote: > > On 06/08/2009 11:26:01 AM, H.S. wrote: >> >> Any ideas how I get around this problem? Nice tips, and it appears they make sense. However, please pardon my ignorance, I am not sure I fully understand: These are sort of "this or tha

Does anyone else consider this a bug?

2009-06-08 Thread JW
There's a new "feature" of Lenny that keeps catching me off guard. I might be wrong but I don't remember Etch ever doing this to me. It goes like this: 1. Perform a new Lenny install of the "standard package set" (no Xorg) (I always use net installs but I assume it's the same no matter what) 2

Re: Ctrl-Alt-Backspace disabled?

2009-06-08 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
widux wrote: > Hi, > > for me > right-Alt + Print + k > does the trick! > > Greetings How on earth did you find this out? Also, do you know where this is set, so I could change it? Or is it hard-coded somehow? Anyway, thanks for the information. Regards, Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

split root logical volume to var tmp home etc

2009-06-08 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
Hi, debian list, I had a lenny installation that has the lvm setup done by the lenny installer, I knew nothing about lvm then so it ended up with a single root lv. Now I would like to follow other list member's advice to have separate LVs for var, tmp, home etc. But I don't know how to perform the

Re: Listing held packages for which there are upgrades

2009-06-08 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 12:57:46 -0500, Karl O. Pinc wrote: > On 06/08/2009 12:44:13 PM, Karl O. Pinc wrote: >> On 06/08/2009 12:40:16 PM, Harry Rickards wrote: >>> On 06/08/09 18:13, Karl O. Pinc wrote: >>> > Hi, >>> > >>> > On etch when I did an 'aptitude upgrade' it would show >>> > the packages

Re: Ctrl-Alt-Backspace disabled?

2009-06-08 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-06-08 21:29 +0200, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > widux wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> for me >> right-Alt + Print + k >> does the trick! >> >> Greetings > > How on earth did you find this out? Don't know about everyone else, but I've heard about it first from Michael Prokop when I discovered

Re: best practice for lvm?

2009-06-08 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 03:58:56PM +0100, Chris Davies wrote: > Zhengquan Zhang wrote: > > Can I say the best practice for lvm is to create a single partition for > > the harddrive and single PV on it and separate LVs for /tmp /var /home > > etc? and leave enough unassigned PE for later enlargemen

network-connected camera with motion-detection e-mail configurable in Linux?

2009-06-08 Thread Barclay, Daniel
Does anyone know if there any wireless network-connected video cameras with in-camera motion-detection-triggered e-mail notification that are configurable via Linux? The cameras I've seen need to have the wireless network configuration set up while connected via a cable, and come with a Windows-o

Re: Listing held packages for which there are upgrades

2009-06-08 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 06/08/2009 02:55:42 PM, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 12:57:46 -0500, Karl O. Pinc wrote: > On 06/08/2009 12:44:13 PM, Karl O. Pinc wrote: >> On 06/08/2009 12:40:16 PM, Harry Rickards wrote: >>> On 06/08/09 18:13, Karl O. Pinc wrote: >>> > Hi, >>> > >>> > On etch when I did an

Re: Does anyone else consider this a bug?

2009-06-08 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Hello, Last-point first, you can instruct Debian-Installer to prompt for fixed IP (rather than using DHCP). You need to pass this argument at boot prompt: netcfg/disable_dhcp=true (read http://www.debian.org/releases/lenny/i386/ch05s03 ) On Mon, 2009-06-08 at 13:51 -0500, JW wrote: > There's

Re: network-connected camera with motion-detection e-mail configurable in Linux?

2009-06-08 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 06/08/2009 03:19:37 PM, Barclay, Daniel wrote: Does anyone know if there any wireless network-connected video cameras with in-camera motion-detection-triggered e-mail notification that are configurable via Linux? Typically you'd do motion detection with the zoneminder package in Linux. (I'

Re: Does anyone else consider this a bug?

2009-06-08 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 06/08/2009 03:29:06 PM, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: Hello, Last-point first, you can instruct Debian-Installer to prompt for fixed IP (rather than using DHCP). Isn't there a choice when in expert mode as well? Karl Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward." -- Rob

Re: Ctrl-Alt-Backspace disabled?

2009-06-08 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jun 8, 2009, at 3:29 PM, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: widux wrote: Am Montag 08 Juni 2009 19:34:24 schrieb Jan Willem Stumpel: Andrei Popescu wrote: (about getting ctl-alt-backspace back): You need Option"DontZap" "false" in the ServerFlags section of your xorg.conf (check the manpage

Re: network-connected camera with motion-detection e-mail configurable in Linux?

2009-06-08 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 06/08/2009 03:30:21 PM, Karl O. Pinc wrote: On 06/08/2009 03:19:37 PM, Barclay, Daniel wrote: Does anyone know if there any wireless network-connected video cameras with in-camera motion-detection-triggered e-mail notification that are configurable via Linux? If you want cool cameras

Re: network-connected camera with motion-detection e-mail configurable in Linux?

2009-06-08 Thread Barclay, Daniel
Karl O. Pinc wrote: > > On 06/08/2009 03:30:21 PM, Karl O. Pinc wrote: >> >> On 06/08/2009 03:19:37 PM, Barclay, Daniel wrote: >>> Does anyone know if there any wireless network-connected video cameras >>> with in-camera motion-detection-triggered e-mail notification that are >>> configurable via

Re: split root logical volume to var tmp home etc

2009-06-08 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <20090608200757.ga26...@m364d1.ece.northwestern.edu>, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: >Now I would like to follow other list member's advice to have separate >LVs for var, tmp, home etc. But I don't know how to perform the >operation to make it happen, I have skimmed lvm howto but I don't see a >chapter

Re: best practice for lvm?

2009-06-08 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <20090608201522.ga26...@m364d1.ece.northwestern.edu>, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: >On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 03:58:56PM +0100, Chris Davies wrote: >> Zhengquan Zhang wrote: >> > Can I say the best practice for lvm is to create a single partition >> > for the harddrive and single PV on it and separate

Re: network-connected camera with motion-detection e-mail configurable in Linux?

2009-06-08 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 06/08/2009 03:45:08 PM, Barclay, Daniel wrote: Karl O. Pinc wrote: > > On 06/08/2009 03:30:21 PM, Karl O. Pinc wrote: >> >> On 06/08/2009 03:19:37 PM, Barclay, Daniel wrote: >>> Does anyone know if there any wireless network-connected video cameras >>> with in-camera motion-detection-triggere

Re: best practice for lvm?

2009-06-08 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 04:05:48PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In <20090608201522.ga26...@m364d1.ece.northwestern.edu>, Zhengquan Zhang > wrote: > >On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 03:58:56PM +0100, Chris Davies wrote: > >> Zhengquan Zhang wrote: > >> > Can I say the best practice for lvm is to

Re: network-connected camera with motion-detection e-mail configurable in Linux?

2009-06-08 Thread Barclay, Daniel
Karl O. Pinc wrote: > > On 06/08/2009 03:45:08 PM, Barclay, Daniel wrote: >> Karl O. Pinc wrote: >> > >> > On 06/08/2009 03:30:21 PM, Karl O. Pinc wrote: >> >> >> >> On 06/08/2009 03:19:37 PM, Barclay, Daniel wrote: >> >>> Does anyone know if there any wireless network-connected video >> cameras >

Re: Listing held packages for which there are upgrades

2009-06-08 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <1244492789l.15690l...@mofo>, Karl O. Pinc wrote: >On 06/08/2009 02:55:42 PM, Florian Kulzer wrote: >> Packages that could be upgraded and have been placed on hold: >> aptitude search '~U~ahold' >> >> Pakchages that could be upgraded: >> aptitude search '~U' >Thanks very much. I swear I read th

Re: network-connected camera with motion-detection e-mail configurable in Linux?

2009-06-08 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 06/08/2009 04:12:40 PM, Barclay, Daniel wrote: Actually, I wrote in that in reply to your other message about USB attachment (intending, of course, to have been viewing that other message when I started my message ). Anyway, the camera itself runs Linux, and yes, has a web page via which y

Re: Does anyone else consider this a bug?

2009-06-08 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Mon, 2009-06-08 at 15:33 -0500, Karl O. Pinc wrote: > On 06/08/2009 03:29:06 PM, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Last-point first, you can instruct Debian-Installer to prompt for > > fixed > > IP (rather than using DHCP). > > Isn't there a choice when in expert mode as well? Sure, yo

Re: Aptitude fails with broken package

2009-06-08 Thread booiiing
>> Removing wx2.8-headers ... >> __main__.PyCentralError: package has no field Python-Version >> dpkg: error processing wx2.8-headers (--remove): >>  subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 >> Errors were encountered while processing: >>  wx2.8-headers >> E: Sub-process /usr/bin

Re: rsync and Windows backups on a Debian box and permissions

2009-06-08 Thread H.S.
Karl O. Pinc wrote: > > On 06/08/2009 01:28:53 PM, H.S. wrote: >> Karl O. Pinc wrote: >> > >> > On 06/08/2009 11:26:01 AM, H.S. wrote: >> >> >> >> Any ideas how I get around this problem? >> >> Nice tips, and it appears they make sense. However, please pardon my >> ignorance, I am not sure I fully

Re: svn doesnt connect to server

2009-06-08 Thread henk löke
On dinsdag 2 juni 2009 16:31:03 Brad King wrote: > Hi Peter, > > I had the same problem this morning and then saw your message. > I used 'ldd' to see what libraries the svn client uses, and > then looked at which ones changed when I updated yesterday. > Then I backed off one package at a time until

upgrade Sarge -> Etch -> Lenny

2009-06-08 Thread Lisi Reisz
Is Etch still available in the standard repositories? I.e. can I just change Sarge to etch, then etch to lenny in etc. in sources.list? TIA Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: mdadm on lenny64, why two spares?

2009-06-08 Thread whollygoat
On Mon, 08 Jun 2009 17:07 +0100, "kj" wrote: > whollyg...@letterboxes.org wrote: > > Number Major Minor RaidDevice State > >0 3310 active sync /dev/hde1 > >1 3411 active sync /dev/hdg1 > >2 00

Re: Does anyone else consider this a bug?

2009-06-08 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Regardless of mode it should always ask for dhcp/static. Didn't it do this before? -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ ascii-rubanda kampajno - kontraŭ html-a retpoŝto -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? C

Re: Program for quoting text like in email?

2009-06-08 Thread Richard Hector
On Mon, 2009-06-08 at 15:55 +0200, Thomas Anderson wrote: > Can anyone recommend a program/shell script/editor plugin etc, that > can take arbitrary text as input and quote it like email programs > quote emails with a preceding "> " character? > > I'm about to reply to a very long facebook message

Re: mdadm on lenny64, why two spares?

2009-06-08 Thread whollygoat
On Mon, 08 Jun 2009 11:38 -0500, "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." wrote: > In <1244343455.32414.1319142...@webmail.messagingengine.com>, > whollyg...@letterboxes.org wrote: > >Can anyone tell me why the following command > >creates 2 spares instead of just one? > > > ># mdadm -C /dev/md0 -v -e1 -l5 -b in

Re: network-connected camera with motion-detection e-mail configurable in Linux?

2009-06-08 Thread Bob Weber
I have a Intellinet 550710 (about $200) camera which is configurable via a web page. Network connection is wired and I use a Linksys Powerline (plts200) network extender since the building I use the camera in is over 200ft away and is metal (a barn). It has motion detection built in via xfer

Re: upgrade Sarge -> Etch -> Lenny

2009-06-08 Thread Graham
On Mon, 8 Jun 2009 23:43:06 +0100 Lisi Reisz wrote: > Is Etch still available in the standard repositories? I.e. can I > just change Sarge to etch, then etch to lenny in etc. in sources.list? > > TIA Yes, Etch is still available (use etch or oldstable in your sources.list). If you upgrade from

Re: upgrade Sarge -> Etch -> Lenny

2009-06-08 Thread Steve Reilly
Lisi Reisz wrote: > Is Etch still available in the standard repositories? I.e. can I just change > Sarge to etch, then etch to lenny in etc. in sources.list? > > TIA > > Lisi > > take a look here http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEtch as far as i know etch should be supported for a year after len

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Re: mdadm on lenny64, why two spares?

2009-06-08 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 03:45:22PM -0700, whollyg...@letterboxes.org wrote: > On Mon, 08 Jun 2009 17:07 +0100, "kj" > wrote: > > whollyg...@letterboxes.org wrote: > > > Number Major Minor RaidDevice State > > >0 3310 active sync /dev/hde1 > > >

Re: Program for quoting text like in email?

2009-06-08 Thread Spiro Harvey
> Can anyone recommend a program/shell script/editor plugin etc, that > can take arbitrary text as input and quote it like email programs > quote emails with a preceding "> " character? awk '{print "> " $0}' filename or just type: awk '{print "> " $0}' paste some text into the buffer, and hit

Re: lenny install through apt-proxy

2009-06-08 Thread mike
Jesús M. Navarro wrote: Hi, Mike: On Friday 05 June 2009 02:40:09 mike wrote: Has anyone installed lenny, with a netinst cd, going to a server running apt-proxy to get packages? Yes, but I think to remember that you can't completly do it "as is" since even on the expert mode you are

sed/awk/fmt question hijacked from Re: Program for quoting text like in email?

2009-06-08 Thread Tony Baldwin
Spiro Harvey wrote: Can anyone recommend a program/shell script/editor plugin etc, that can take arbitrary text as input and quote it like email programs quote emails with a preceding "> " character? awk '{print "> " $0}' filename or just type: awk '{print "> " $0}' paste some text into t

Re: sed/awk/fmt question hijacked from Re: Program for quoting text like in email?

2009-06-08 Thread Richard Hector
On Mon, 2009-06-08 at 22:14 -0400, Tony Baldwin wrote: > > I've been learning to use sed and awk and grep, etc., lately. > I have a general question (probably more appropriate elsewhere, but I'm > going to ask here anyway. Smack me later.). > > Why is it that with sed, stuff like > sed -e /sea

Re: Program for quoting text like in email?

2009-06-08 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 11:03:39AM +1200, Richard Hector was heard to say: > As an aside, I use the "It's all text" firefox plugin to let me fire up > the editor of my choice (gvim, in my case) for any web text box. > > Then I'd use the editors features to format it. I can't remember how to > do

Re: Ctrl-Alt-Backspace disabled?

2009-06-08 Thread widux
Am Montag 08 Juni 2009 22:28:33 schrieb Rick Thomas: > On Jun 8, 2009, at 3:29 PM, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > > widux wrote: > > > > Am Montag 08 Juni 2009 19:34:24 schrieb Jan Willem Stumpel: > >>> Andrei Popescu wrote: (about getting ctl-alt-backspace back): > You need > > Option

Re: Program for quoting text like in email?

2009-06-08 Thread Richard Hector
On Mon, 2009-06-08 at 20:05 -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 11:03:39AM +1200, Richard Hector > was heard to say: > > :s/^/> / > > > > should work for the quoting, as with the sed example someone else gave. > > You have to put a range in there or it'll only hit the curr

Re: sed/awk/fmt question hijacked from Re: Program for quoting text like in email?

2009-06-08 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Tony Baldwin writes: >Why is it that with sed, stuff like >sed -e /searchterm/d >I have to do >sed -e /searchterm/d infile > outfile, >and can't just do sed -e /searchterm/d file, without having to generate >another file? GNU sed (which is what you are most likely running) has the -i option to

mailto: links mutt - iceweasel

2009-06-08 Thread Tony Baldwin
Hi. I found this: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-software-2/firefox-mutt-and-mailto-links-272743/#post3567184 for getting firefox to play with mutt for handling of mailto: links. But I can't find any reference to "mailto: " in about:config in iceweasel. Can iceweasel be made to pla

Re: mailto: links mutt - iceweasel

2009-06-08 Thread Brad Rogers
On Tue, 9 Jun 2009 00:51:20 -0400 Tony Baldwin wrote: Hello Tony, > But I can't find any reference to "mailto: " in about:config in > iceweasel. Because, just like Firefox et al, it's not there by default, you have to create it. See http://howto-pages.org/mozilla.php for an excellent how to.

Bandwidth shaping

2009-06-08 Thread Francesco Mazzoli
I run a little server, and I'd like to know if it is possible to give more bandwidth"priority" to certain process. With priority I mean that the one with the higher priority won't be limited in anyway, while the one with the lower will "adapt" to the traffic of the other. Thanks a lot. -- To UN

Re: connecting cable modem through usb port

2009-06-08 Thread Sandip Sandip
Sudev Barar writes: > AFAIK you will have to do something like pppconfig to make a ppp > connection for this to work. Not pppconfig. For a DSL modem configured as a bridge (most default to router these days) he would need to run pppoeconf but I don't think that any cable providers use PPPoE. No l

Re: connecting cable modem through usb port

2009-06-08 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Mon, 2009-06-08 at 13:37 +0530, Sandip Sandip wrote: > > I have an old debian 2.4x kernel machine. I want to connect a cable > modem through the usb port. Hi, At the risk of telling the obvious, Debian releases with 2.4 kernel (Sarge?) aren't supported anymore. Connecting such machine to th

Re: Bandwidth shaping

2009-06-08 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 05:43:45AM +, Francesco Mazzoli wrote: > I run a little server, and I'd like to know if it is possible to give > more bandwidth"priority" to certain process. > With priority I mean that the one with the higher priority won't be > limited in anyway, while the one with the

Re: connecting cable modem through usb port

2009-06-08 Thread Sudev Barar
2009/6/9 Sandip Sandip : > > Is it that the modem is not 'installed'? > > Also, the same modem works without any username and password on another > windows machine after connecting it on the LAN port. > While in parlance you can call it modem technically it is a modem only if connecting through se