Re: A recommendation from a friend

2010-04-07 Thread Stef Daniels VK5HSX
Well, I never realised someone could get interested in a Mailing Lists personal data !! ;-) It takes all types!! :-) rita ukazi wrote: ritab...@live.fr hello my names is ms. Rita Ukazi. i saw your personal data and became interested in you. i wait for your mail so that i can send my pi

Spam

2010-04-07 Thread Freeman
Has there been an increase of spam on the list over the past few weeks? I started filtering the list, which I don't like doing. But no avail. I assume it passes my filters for the same reason it gets by list filters. -- Kind Regards, Freeman http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/ -- To U

Re: A recommendation from a friend

2010-04-07 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 16:21 +0930, Stef Daniels VK5HSX wrote: > Well, I never realised someone could get interested in a Mailing > Lists personal data !! ;-) Please do not reply to spam and even if you do *don't* quote it. thank you -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland : :' : `. `'`

Good Use for ClamAV

2010-04-07 Thread Freeman
I'll always be slowly catching up on comp tech. I was using Knoppix and ClamAV to remove a virus for a friend when the futility of it all hit me. The free anti-virus hopscotch game that windows users play to feel safe. What wasted energy--over an OS I boot into maybe 7% of the time. They screw

Re: Good Use for ClamAV

2010-04-07 Thread Jari Fredriksson
On 7.4.2010 10:51, Freeman wrote: > I'll always be slowly catching up on comp tech. > > I was using Knoppix and ClamAV to remove a virus for a friend when the > futility of it all hit me. The free anti-virus hopscotch game that windows > users play to feel safe. What wasted energy--over an OS I

Re: Display Problems with several Web Browsers

2010-04-07 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 06 Apr 2010 23:43:48 +0200, Robin Krahl wrote: > I’m having strange display problems with several web browsers. Certain > layout parts (as borders or backgrounds) aren’t at the appropriate > place; and they’re moving if I hover them. I encountered this problem > with the following browsers

Re: Display Problems with several Web Browsers

2010-04-07 Thread Robin Krahl
On 07.04.2010 10:01, Camaleón wrote: > Try by starting the browser with a new (empty) profile. I already tried; it didn’t work either. I’m just trying to upgrade from lenny to squeeze as someone told me backports may (!) cause a problem. I hope it will work then ... Regards, Robin -- Robin Kra

Re: nvidia legacy driver//kernel 2.6.32 issues

2010-04-07 Thread Francesco Pietra
Solved through LinuxQuestions forum. Forget about this thread. fp On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Francesco Pietra wrote: > Following "apt-get dist-upgrade" with debian squeeze i386, upgrading > from kernel 2.6.30 to 2.6.32, the xserver was broken at "startx" > because kernel compiled with gcc 4.

Re: Re: A recommendation from a friend

2010-04-07 Thread Stef & Sue Daniels
Firstly, I did not reply to message.. look at the fields. Secondly, talking about something isn't going or quoting in an email shouldn't cause problems surely. Regards, Stef Daniels On Wed 07/04/10 17:18 , Wolodja Wentland wentl...@cl.uni-heidelberg.de sent: On Wed, Apr 07, 201

Re: Debian And Advanced Layer3 9924T

2010-04-07 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Andreas Weber put forth on 4/6/2010 4:12 PM: > Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> Please forgive me if my choice of words offended you. That wasn't my >> intention at all. I was speaking figuratively, not literally. > > No problem, thanks for your feedback. Your point is clear and I can very > well underst

Re: Display Problems with several Web Browsers

2010-04-07 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 07 Apr 2010 10:06:38 +0200, Robin Krahl wrote: > On 07.04.2010 10:01, Camaleón wrote: >> Try by starting the browser with a new (empty) profile. > > I already tried; it didn’t work either. Ouch! :-( What I find strange is you are getting the same problem with the direct downloaded Mozi

Re: Retrieve hardware and modules info..

2010-04-07 Thread Lubos Rendek
thanks Stephen this is exactly what I was looking for. :-) On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 8:53 AM, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Sun, 4 Apr 2010 17:36:03 -0400 (EDT), Lubos Rendek wrote: >> >> thanks guys for this.. Now what is the best way to link modules to a >> specific hardware. for example my lsmod sho

recompiling the kernel with a different version name

2010-04-07 Thread Lorenzo Bettini
Hi I've just recompiled the kernel from sources with the command fakeroot make-kpkg --initrd --append-to-version=-recompiled kernel-image kernel-headers and installed it successfully. However, the kernel name is 2.6.32.10+drm33.1-recompiled and that "+drm33.1" seems to cause problems to Ec

Re: Spam

2010-04-07 Thread John Hasler
Freeman writes: > Has there been an increase of spam on the list over the past few > weeks? I have observed a general increase in spam. > I started filtering the list, which I don't like doing. I've been filtering the lists for years. The listmasters do a good job, but their filters can't know

Re: Display Problems with several Web Browsers

2010-04-07 Thread Robin Krahl
On 07.04.2010 13:06, Camaleón wrote: > Anyway, updating the whole OS to testing just for the browser is having a > problem to display some CSS stuff is a bit... adventurous? :-) Furthermore, it did not help. :-/ -- Robin Krahl ro...@rkrahl.de http://rkrahl.de signature.asc Description: OpenP

Re: Good Use for ClamAV

2010-04-07 Thread Monsieur Louk
2010/4/7 Jari Fredriksson > On 7.4.2010 10:51, Freeman wrote: > > I'll always be slowly catching up on comp tech. > > > > I was using Knoppix and ClamAV to remove a virus for a friend when the > > futility of it all hit me. The free anti-virus hopscotch game that > windows > > users play to feel

Re: Good Use for ClamAV

2010-04-07 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-04-07 02:51, Freeman wrote: I'll always be slowly catching up on comp tech. I was using Knoppix and ClamAV to remove a virus for a friend when the futility of it all hit me. The free anti-virus hopscotch game that windows users play to feel safe. http://xkcd.com/463/

Re: nvidia legacy driver//kernel 2.6.32 issues

2010-04-07 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-04-07 04:38, Francesco Pietra wrote: Solved through LinuxQuestions forum. Forget about this thread. It would have been helpful to post the relevant link... -- "History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid." Dwight Eisenhower -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: how to control tty to external monitor or local lcd

2010-04-07 Thread Stephen Powell
On Wed, 7 Apr 2010 02:31:48 -0400 (EDT), Alexander Samad wrote: > On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Stephen Powell wrote: >> On Tue, 6 Apr 2010 18:53:46 -0400 (EDT), Alex Samad wrote: >>> >>> Okay a couple of things, I thing we are talking similiar and dissimiliar >>> things. >>> >>> >>> turn on lap

Re: Retrieve hardware and modules info..

2010-04-07 Thread Stephen Powell
On Wed, 7 Apr 2010 07:45:25 -0400 (EDT), Lubos Rendek wrote: > On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 8:53 AM, Stephen Powell wrote: >> On Sun, 4 Apr 2010 17:36:03 -0400 (EDT), Lubos Rendek wrote: >>> >>> thanks guys for this.. Now what is the best way to link modules to a >>> specific hardware. for example my lsm

Re: Spam

2010-04-07 Thread Glenn English
On Apr 7, 2010, at 6:24 AM, John Hasler wrote: > The latter is mostly a matter of sheer bulk: almost every message that > hits the Debian servers is spam. The Debian listmoms might want to pass on their blocking techniques to openBSD -- lotsa spam over there... -- Glenn English g...@slsware

Re: recompiling the kernel with a different version name

2010-04-07 Thread Stephen Powell
On Wed, 7 Apr 2010 07:56:46 -0400 (EDT), Lorenzo Bettini wrote: > > I've just recompiled the kernel from sources with the command > > fakeroot make-kpkg --initrd --append-to-version=-recompiled kernel-image > kernel-headers > > and installed it successfully. > > However, the kernel name is >

Re: Good Use for ClamAV

2010-04-07 Thread godo
Freeman wrote: I'll always be slowly catching up on comp tech. I was using Knoppix and ClamAV to remove a virus for a friend when the futility of it all hit me. The free anti-virus hopscotch game that windows users play to feel safe. What wasted energy--over an OS I boot into maybe 7% of the

Re: Umont ownership?

2010-04-07 Thread jeremy jozwik
On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 7:51 AM, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > For a regular user, you need to be in the plugdev group to mount and > unmount. # adduser po plugdev The user `po' is already a member of `plugdev'. On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 9:36 AM, Stephen Powell wrote: > Oh, wait, did you say that the gr

silverlight

2010-04-07 Thread steef
hi folks! somebody out there knows of an linux_equivalent for MS's siverlight?? regards, steef -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4bbc9620.8060...@hom

Re: Umont ownership?

2010-04-07 Thread jeremy jozwik
looking around some more... /dev/ ownerships. # ls -l [snip] brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 1 2010-04-07 07:06 sda1 brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 2 2010-04-07 07:06 sda2 brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 5 2010-04-07 07:06 sda5 brw-rw 1 root floppy8, 16 2010-04-07 07:40 sdb brw-rw

Re: Umont ownership?

2010-04-07 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 07 Apr 2010 07:30:42 -0700, jeremy jozwik wrote: > On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 10:51 AM, Camaleón wrote: >> We still don't know if "umount" works when logged with another user in >> a GNOME session :-? > > made a new user, made sure that the user is part of the plugdev group. First, check the

Re: silverlight

2010-04-07 Thread Robin Krahl
On 07.04.2010 16:26, steef wrote: > somebody out there knows of an linux_equivalent for MS's siverlight?? Moonlight [1] is a Open Source version of Silverlight, working on Linux. Regards, Robin [1] http://www.mono-project.com/Moonlight -- Robin Krahl http://rkrahl.de signature.asc Descript

Re: nvidia legacy driver//kernel 2.6.32 issues

2010-04-07 Thread Stephen Powell
On Wed, 7 Apr 2010 09:03:37 -0400 (EDT), Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2010-04-07 04:38, Francesco Pietra wrote: >> Solved through LinuxQuestions forum. Forget about this thread. > > It would have been helpful to post the relevant link... I doubt that the following link is the one which the OP of this t

Re: silverlight

2010-04-07 Thread jeremy jozwik
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 7:47 AM, Robin Krahl wrote: > On 07.04.2010 16:26, steef wrote: >> somebody out there knows of an linux_equivalent for MS's siverlight?? > > Moonlight [1] is a Open Source version of Silverlight, working on Linux. dont bother trying to use netflix with it! -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: Umont ownership?

2010-04-07 Thread Stephen Powell
On Wed, 7 Apr 2010 10:30:42 -0400 (EDT), jeremy jozwik wrote: > # adduser po plugdev > The user `po' is already a member of `plugdev'. > > On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 9:36 AM, Stephen Powell wrote: >> Oh, wait, did you say that the group file is *empty*! (i.e., a file >> with zero byte size)! > > so g

RE: silverlight

2010-04-07 Thread Mike Viau
Wed, 7 Apr 2010 08:11:21 -0700 On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 7:47 AM, Robin Krahl wrote: > > On 07.04.2010 16:26, steef wrote: > >> somebody out there knows of an linux_equivalent for MS's siverlight?? > > > > Moonlight [1] is a Open Source version of Silverlight, working on Linux. > > dont bother try

Re: Umont ownership?

2010-04-07 Thread jeremy jozwik
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 7:46 AM, Camaleón wrote: > First, check the device perms with "mount" command and put here the > results. > Mmmm, no error message in linux uses to mean the operation was performed > "ok". Only "errors" are displayed to the user. So after clicking "umount" > on device icon,

Re: Umont ownership?

2010-04-07 Thread jeremy jozwik
pot...@mobildebian:~$ nano /etc/group plugdev:x:46:po,potest but! video:x:44:po since the device is mounted under "video" is this an issue? and how would i get my dev/sdb1 to display in /etc/fstab? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscrib

Re: silverlight

2010-04-07 Thread steef
Michal schreef: On 07/04/2010 15:26, steef wrote: hi folks! somebody out there knows of an linux_equivalent for MS's siverlight?? regards, steef http://lmgtfy.com/?q=linux+silverlight&l=1 thanx to both of you. and, michal, the hammer on the head of the nail.. regards,

Re: Umont ownership?

2010-04-07 Thread jeremy jozwik
getting more interesting at every attempt... step 1. # mount /dev/sda1 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro) tmpfs on /lib/init/rw type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755) proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) procbususb on /proc/bus/usb type us

Re: Good Use for ClamAV

2010-04-07 Thread Freeman
On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 02:53:01PM +0200, Monsieur Louk wrote: > 2010/4/7 Jari Fredriksson > ,,, > > > > And my Linux is a server for my Windows workstation. Without Windows, I > > would not bother scanning viruses. > > > > -- > > http://www.iki.fi/jarif/ > > > > You learn to write as if to so

Re: Spam

2010-04-07 Thread Freeman
On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 07:24:58AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Freeman writes: > > Has there been an increase of spam on the list over the past few > > weeks? > > I have observed a general increase in spam. > > > I started filtering the list, which I don't like doing. > > I've been filtering the

How do I get the mbr package to do its job quietly?

2010-04-07 Thread Stephen Powell
I have been experimenting with the mbr package. (mbr is a dependency for the lilo package; so if you have lilo installed you have mbr package installed too.) I usually install lilo to the master boot record (boot=/dev/hda specified in /etc/lilo.conf). But in certain situations it is advantageous

Re: Umont ownership?

2010-04-07 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 07 Apr 2010 08:41:06 -0700, jeremy jozwik wrote: > getting more interesting at every attempt... > > step 1. > # mount (...) /dev/sdb1 on /media/video type vfat > (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal,shortname=lower,uid=1000) O.k. That seems now reasonable :-) > step 2. > GNOME right click >

Re: silverlight

2010-04-07 Thread Mark Allums
On 4/7/2010 9:26 AM, steef wrote: hi folks! somebody out there knows of an linux_equivalent for MS's siverlight?? regards, steef moonlight (part of mono) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.

Re: recompiling the kernel with a different version name

2010-04-07 Thread Lorenzo Bettini
On 04/07/2010 04:26 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: On Wed, 7 Apr 2010 07:56:46 -0400 (EDT), Lorenzo Bettini wrote: I've just recompiled the kernel from sources with the command fakeroot make-kpkg --initrd --append-to-version=-recompiled kernel-image kernel-headers and installed it successfully. H

Re: How do I get the mbr package to do its job quietly?

2010-04-07 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-04-07 18:21 +0200, Stephen Powell wrote: > I read the man page for install-mbr, and I can see how to eliminate > the boot prompt, which I have done, but I couldn't find a way to > suppress the MBR advertisement. The DOS/Windows mbr program is > totally silent, a trick that I would like to

Re: recompiling the kernel with a different version name

2010-04-07 Thread Stephen Powell
On Wed, 7 Apr 2010 13:17:30 -0400 (EDT), Lorenzo Bettini wrote: > I tried also with --revision, e.g., > > fakeroot make-kpkg --revision=lore01 --initrd > --append-to-version=-recompiled kernel-image kernel-headers > > but I cannot seem to get rid of that +drm33.1 string: > > linux-headers-2.6.32

Re: How do I get the mbr package to do its job quietly?

2010-04-07 Thread Stephen Powell
On Wed, 7 Apr 2010 13:25:37 -0400 (EDT), Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2010-04-07 18:21 +0200, Stephen Powell wrote: >> I read the man page for install-mbr, and I can see how to eliminate >> the boot prompt, which I have done, but I couldn't find a way to >> suppress the MBR advertisement. The DOS/Wind

automate updates in Lenny

2010-04-07 Thread Jozsi Vadkan
how do you automate the updates in Lenny? [if you're using it as a "desktop os", and you don't want to give: apt-get update; apt-get upgrade -y every week..]? i'm using this: #!/bin/bash RANDOMTIME=$(echo $[ ($RANDOM % 60 ) ] ) if ! grep -q "root dpkg --configure -a" /etc/crontab; then echo $R

Re: recompiling the kernel with a different version name

2010-04-07 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 7 Apr 2010 13:48:18 -0400 (EDT) Stephen Powell wrote: ... > Note: you must always issue "make-kpkg clean" after running "make menuconfig" > or after running "make-kpkg" with any target other than "clean". Otherwise, > version and revision numbers will not work as expected. Assuming tha

Re: passwordless ssh root logins stopped working after testing dist-upgrade

2010-04-07 Thread Tony Nelson
On 10-04-06 16:06:14, d.sastre.med...@gmail.com wrote: > On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 03:24:04PM -0400, Tony Nelson wrote: > > On 10-04-06 14:12:19, Russell L. Carter wrote: > > > r...@feyerabend> diff -u ssh_config ssh_config.dpkg-dist > > > --- ssh_config 2010-04-05 21:14:26.172871668 -0700 > > > +++

Keyboard gets stuck when closing PPP (was: Problems when logging out Gnome)

2010-04-07 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina writes: > Lenny installed on my old Pentium III often gets stuck when logging out > Gnome, either via the panel menu or with `Ctrl-Alt-Backspace'. > > Does anyone have any direct experience of the same problem or can suggest > what the cause may ever be and how to work it out? Th

Re: recompiling the kernel with a different version name

2010-04-07 Thread Stephen Powell
On Wed, 7 Apr 2010 14:54:53 -0400 (EDT), Celejar wrote: > On Wed, 7 Apr 2010 13:48:18 -0400 (EDT), Stephen Powell wrote: >> >> ... >> >> Note: you must always issue "make-kpkg clean" after running "make menuconfig" >> or after running "make-kpkg" with any target other than "clean". Otherwise, >> v

using wodim

2010-04-07 Thread Germana Oliveira
Hi! Recently i start to use wodim by console to writte a CD-RW, my CD-ROM (internal, writter) persented problems so im using an externar cd-writter (hp cd.writer 2800 series), but still im having problemas. i try this: (root user) wodim -v -eject -tao speed=0 dev=/dev/scd0 -data /home/user/image

Re: automate updates in Lenny

2010-04-07 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-04-07 13:52, Jozsi Vadkan wrote: how do you automate the updates in Lenny? [if you're using it as a "desktop os", and you don't want to give: apt-get update; apt-get upgrade -y every week..]? That's a foolish thing to do, since blind acceptance can lead to a broken system. Anyway, th

Re: using wodim

2010-04-07 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-04-07 14:21, Germana Oliveira wrote: Hi! Recently i start to use wodim by console to writte a CD-RW, my CD-ROM (internal, writter) persented problems so im using an externar cd-writter (hp cd.writer 2800 series), but still im having problemas. i try this: (root user) wodim -v -eject

Re: automate updates in Lenny

2010-04-07 Thread Constantine
On Wednesday 07 April 2010 22:52:34 Jozsi Vadkan wrote: > how do you automate the updates in Lenny? [if you're using it as a > "desktop os", and you don't want to give: apt-get update; apt-get > upgrade -y every week..]? > > i'm using this: > > > > #!/bin/bash > > RANDOMTIME=$(echo $[ ($RANDOM

Re: using wodim

2010-04-07 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 07/04/10 20:21, Germana Oliveira wrote: Hi! Recently i start to use wodim by console to writte a CD-RW, my CD-ROM (internal, writter) persented problems so im using an externar cd-writter (hp cd.writer 2800 series), but still im having problemas. i try this: (root user) wodim -v -eject -tao

OT: Script to add line to file if it doesn't exist

2010-04-07 Thread Kent West
I'm asking you folks, 'cause y'all know this stuff (I've been wrestling with this simple task all day). I've got a text file; I just want a script (a one-liner sed or awk command, etc, would be awesome) to check to see if the file contains a certain line of text, and if not, to add that line a

Re: OT: Script to add line to file if it doesn't exist

2010-04-07 Thread Mart Frauenlob
On 07.04.2010 22:10, Kent West wrote: > I'm asking you folks, 'cause y'all know this stuff (I've been wrestling > with this simple task all day). > > I've got a text file; I just want a script (a one-liner sed or awk > command, etc, would be awesome) to check to see if the file contains a > certai

Re: recompiling the kernel with a different version name

2010-04-07 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Wed, Apr 07 2010, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Wed, 7 Apr 2010 14:54:53 -0400 (EDT), Celejar wrote: >> On Wed, 7 Apr 2010 13:48:18 -0400 (EDT), Stephen Powell wrote: >>> >>> ... >>> >>> Note: you must always issue "make-kpkg clean" after running "make >>> menuconfig" >>> or after running "make-k

RE: Script to add line to file if it doesn't exist

2010-04-07 Thread James Wu
> I want a script that will read the file and look for the name > "fred", and if it's found, leave the file alone, but if it's > not found, to add the name "fred" to the bottom of the file. No need for awk/sed. Something like this should work. #!/bin/bash i=`grep fred FILENAME.TXT | wc -l` if [

Re: OT: Script to add line to file if it doesn't exist

2010-04-07 Thread Kent West
Mart Frauenlob wrote: On 07.04.2010 22:10, Kent West wrote: I'm asking you folks, 'cause y'all know this stuff (I've been wrestling with this simple task all day). I've got a text file; I just want a script (a one-liner sed or awk command, etc, would be awesome) to check to see if the file c

Re: OT: Script to add line to file if it doesn't exist

2010-04-07 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-04-07 15:45, Mart Frauenlob wrote: On 07.04.2010 22:10, Kent West wrote: I'm asking you folks, 'cause y'all know this stuff (I've been wrestling with this simple task all day). I've got a text file; I just want a script (a one-liner sed or awk command, etc, would be awesome) to check to

Re: Keyboard gets stuck when closing PPP (was: Problems when logging out Gnome)

2010-04-07 Thread A. F. Cano
On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 09:07:14PM +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Rodolfo Medina writes: > > > Lenny installed on my old Pentium III often gets stuck when logging out > > Gnome, either via the panel menu or with `Ctrl-Alt-Backspace'. > > > > Does anyone have any direct experience of the same prob

Re: automate updates in Lenny

2010-04-07 Thread thib
Yet another solution: http://packages.debian.org/lenny/unattended-upgrades -thib -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4bbcf698.5080...@stammed.net

Re: OT: Script to add line to file if it doesn't exist

2010-04-07 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On 04/07/2010 05:45 PM, Mart Frauenlob wrote: #!/bin/sh grep -w "fred" file || printf "%s\n" "fred">>file Why not simply use echo "fred" >> file for the second command? -- All men have the right to wait in line. Eduardo M KALINOWSKI edua...@kalinowski.com.br -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

RE: [Samba] how to mount shares as a user without mount.cifs setuid

2010-04-07 Thread James Zuelow
> -Original Message- > From: samba-boun...@lists.samba.org > [mailto:samba-boun...@lists.samba.org] On Behalf Of Udo Müller > Sent: Wednesday, 07 April, 2010 13:48 > To: sa...@lists.samba.org > Subject: Re: [Samba] how to mount shares as a user without > mount.cifs setuid > > Am 07.04

RE: [Samba] how to mount shares as a user without mount.cifs setuid

2010-04-07 Thread James Zuelow
> -Original Message- > From: James Zuelow [mailto:james_zue...@ci.juneau.ak.us] > Sent: Wednesday, 07 April, 2010 14:05 > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: RE: [Samba] how to mount shares as a user without > mount.cifs setuid > > > > > -Original Message- > > From:

Re: OT: Script to add line to file if it doesn't exist

2010-04-07 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-04-07 16:12, Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] Mart's method is the shell way. The 3GL Way is: grep -w "$NAME" "$FILE" TMP=$? if [ "$TMP" = "1" ]; That should be: if [ "$TMP" = "0" ]; then echo -e "$NAME\n" >> "$FILE" fi -- "History does not long entrust the care of freedom to th

OT:Script idea/problem

2010-04-07 Thread Thierry Chatelet
Hi, Here is my idea: First, in my village, I 'convert' quiet a few people (about 15 boxes) to use Debian. They are rather happy about it, but I have a problem with update/ upgrade: they never know when they should do one. Most of them don't read English, so subscribing them to debian security m

Making make-kpkg quieter

2010-04-07 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Is there any way to make make-kpkg (kernel-package 12.033) quieter? When I run a "make-kpkg clean" it spits out lots of lines about unlinking files in debian/... On a slow link, this is very annoying (if I forget to run screen) I have RTFM but I cannot see anything about making make-kpkg less verb

Re: Spam

2010-04-07 Thread Jari Fredriksson
On 7.4.2010 19:07, Freeman wrote: > On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 07:24:58AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: >> Freeman writes: >>> Has there been an increase of spam on the list over the past few >>> weeks? >> >> I have observed a general increase in spam. >> >>> I started filtering the list, which I don't li

Re: OT:Script idea/problem

2010-04-07 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-04-07 18:59, Thierry Chatelet wrote: Hi, Here is my idea: First, in my village, I 'convert' quiet a few people (about 15 boxes) to use Debian. They are rather happy about it, but I have a problem with update/ Stable or Testing/Unstable? upgrade: they never know when they should do o

Re: OT:Script idea/problem

2010-04-07 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Thursday 08 April 2010 02:43:22 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2010-04-07 18:59, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > > Hi, > > Here is my idea: > > First, in my village, I 'convert' quiet a few people (about 15 boxes) to > > use Debian. They are rather happy about it, but I have a problem with > > update/ > >

Re: OT:Script idea/problem

2010-04-07 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-04-07 20:03, Thierry Chatelet wrote: [snip] They all but one have a Lenny install. The squeeze one is no problem for me, the owner is quiet active in learning gnu-linux, and he is taking care of his machine. Yes, Ron, I told them to do it on a regular time, every other week, but they

Re: OT:Script idea/problem

2010-04-07 Thread John Hasler
Thierry writes: > Yes, Ron, I told them to do it on a regular time, every other week, > but they don't do it. So a mail telling them it' s time could > help. Well, if it is too complicated I will have to still go around > every now and then to upgrade their box, but it's a pain in . You might

[OT] Ipod nano5g Debian support

2010-04-07 Thread Julian DeMarchi
Hey Guys, Slightly off topic... Has anyone got an ipod nano5g working in Debian? --julian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4bbd4c64.5040...@jdcompute

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2010-04-07 Thread tom arnall
-- tom arnall arcata "Revive industrial democracy and ditch the oligarchs." -- Jim Hightower -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201004072056.01542.klo

regexp a package with apt?

2010-04-07 Thread Jozsi Vadkan
Is there a regexp for the: gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad package? I mean like: apt-get install gstreamer*-plugins-bad so that later, when it will get a new version number, it would still be downloadable by a "script" written e.g.: now. Thank you! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...

question concerning dmesg entry

2010-04-07 Thread Robert Cates
Hi all, I've got Lenny running, quite fine actually, and I keep up with the updates, but I just noticed the following at the very end of my dmesg which I've never seen before and I'm hoping somebody can explain to me what this means and if I some kind of real problem that I need to fix someho

Re: Making make-kpkg quieter

2010-04-07 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Wed, Apr 07 2010, Cameron Hutchison wrote: > Is there any way to make make-kpkg (kernel-package 12.033) quieter? When > I run a "make-kpkg clean" it spits out lots of lines about unlinking > files in debian/... On a slow link, this is very annoying (if I forget > to run screen) > > I have RTFM