Re: Anti virus and Firewall

On 8/4/2010 12:43 PM, Brian wrote: On Wed 04 Aug 2010 at 10:09:17 -0500, Jordon Bedwell wrote: Correct. It wouldn't be there in the first place and I don't plan on having my root acoount compromised. Besides, I know my system. Naive but cute you think that though. You obviously don't to the lat

Re: Anti virus and Firewall

2010/8/4 Tingez Unknown : > Hi all Debian people, > > Firstly i am very new to Debian so please excuse me for my lack of > understanding. I have recently got a Dedicated server box for my gaming Clan > and have had Debian 5 64bit installed on it. Now as we will eventually be > using the server for

What to put on SSD

I have this: FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1 37G 14G 22G 39% / tmpfs 3.9G 8.0K 3.9G 1% /lib/init/rw udev 10M 640K 9.4M 7% /dev tmpfs 3.9G 0 3.9G 0% /dev/shm /dev/hda2 328

Re: What to put on SSD

Pasi Oja-Nisula: > > So basically I have root and home partitions and another disk > for backups of the whole thing. > > Now I got a SSD disk, about which I don't really know much. > It's a 160 GB Intel, so it should be quite ok. "Quite ok" is "quite an understatement". :) Intel SSDs are still o

Re: Software to handle bits and pieces of information.

> On 08/04/2010 02:13 PM, Gary Roach wrote: > > Hi; > > I could use some suggestions. I seem to collect a lot of snippets of > > information scribbled on pieces of paper, old napkins, etc. > > Examples are notes on harware, sources for stuff, notes on possible > > projects, book that I might want

Re: Trinity KDE 3.5.11 was Re: How to use two displaies

On Wed, 2010-08-04 at 18:23 -0700, Jimmy Johnson wrote: > John A. Sullivan III wrote: > > On Wed, 2010-08-04 at 14:41 +0100, Lisi wrote: > >> On Wednesday 04 August 2010 14:34:00 Lisi wrote: > >>> On Wednesday 04 August 2010 11:02:52 Jimmy Johnson wrote: > Trinity KDE 3.5.11 [snip] User > >>>

Re: failing to mount usb flash drives

* On 2010 02 Aug 10:23 -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > Hi, > > I'm running Lenny, and I have no problem mounting my WD external harddrive, > and using my ASUS USB-N13 wireless NIC. > > Still, when I put a couple of my flash drives into a usb slot, very little > happens. I've been seeing some

Re: Argument to start_daemon, use of --

Am 01.08.2010 16:03, schrieb Malte Forkel: > > The example init script init.d.lsb.ex provided by dh-make 0.46 contains > this call to start_daemon: > >start_daemon -p $PIDFILE $DAEMON -- $DAEMON_OPTS > > This always passes "--" as first argument to my daemon. Wouldn't > >start_daemon -p

Re: Can only access Debian website through proxy

On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 11:23 PM, Jochen Schulz wrote: > pierre poulos: > > On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 7:48 PM, Jochen Schulz > wrote: > >> pierre poulos: > >>> > >>> Using Iceweasel, Google Chrome and Lynx I cannot access http;// > >>> www.debian.org or any of the mirrors without using an external w

Re: Can only access Debian website through proxy

> > And additionally the following might show something interesting too. > > # find /etc/apt -type f -exec grep -i proxy {} + > OK /home/pierre# find /etc/apt -type f -exec grep -i proxy {} + nothing > > >

Re: Can only access Debian website through proxy

On Thu, 2010-08-05 at 21:56 +1000, pierre poulos wrote: > Cannot initiate the connection to security.debian.org:21 > (2001:388:1034:2900::26). - connect (101 Network is unreachable) [IP: > 2001:388:1034:2900::26 21] Try, as root: sysctl -w net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6=1 You seem to have a defau

Разрешения экрана

У меня возникла проблема, в debian максимальное разрешения экрана 1400х1050 а у меня 1920х1080 из за этого сильно искажается картинка, что делать? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Arc

Re: Can only access Debian website through proxy

George-Cristian Bîrzan: > On Thu, 2010-08-05 at 21:56 +1000, pierre poulos wrote: >> Cannot initiate the connection to security.debian.org:21 >> (2001:388:1034:2900::26). - connect (101 Network is unreachable) [IP: >> 2001:388:1034:2900::26 21] > > Try, as root: > sysctl -w net.ipv6.conf.all.disab

Re: Разрешения экрана

On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 04:16:30PM +0400, муромцев антон wrote: > У меня возникла проблема, в debian максимальное разрешения экрана 1400х1050 а > у меня 1920х1080 из за этого сильно искажается картинка, что делать? It's English-only mailing list. You better ask your questions in debian-russ...@lis

Re: Tiny Console Fonts - Almost Fixed

On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 04:36:49PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2010-08-04 15:57 +0200, Thomas H. George wrote: > > > After installing linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64 the console fonts are so > > small I must use reading glasses to make them out. I have experimented > > with the consolechars -H 16

Re: Tiny Console Fonts - Almost Fixed

On 2010-08-05 15:59 +0200, Thomas H. George wrote: > About half way through the boot up the scripts changed back to the tiny > fonts. There was a line saying consolechars can only load fonts with a > height of 16, try installing setfont. Apt-get search found setfont in > kbd-compat but apt-get in

repair partition: wrong size

Hi, I just noticed that the partition sizes on my usb disk are wrong. debian:/# fsck -f /dev/sdb2 fsck 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008) e2fsck 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008) The filesystem size (according to the superblock) is 1953905 blocks The physical size of the device is 487974 blocks Either the superblock or t

Re: Tiny Console Fonts - Almost Fixed

On 8/5/2010 8:59 AM, Thomas H. George wrote: I followed these instructions chosing the Terminus font and a character height of 32 and then rebooted. The boot screen and initial scripts were easy to read, actually larger than I need BUT About half way through the boot up the scripts changed back

Re: Software to handle bits and pieces of information.

> I find Gnote useful for keeping notes and use Orage for > scheduling tasks/events. An (unusual) solution is to have a private wiki. You can store it on your own machine (I do so on my laptop) with a local server, or on a public server with correct management of access. This solution can have

Re: repair partition: wrong size

On Thu, 2010-08-05 at 09:07 -0500, hugo vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi, > > I just noticed that the partition sizes on my usb disk are wrong. > [snip] > sdb2 an sdb3 are wrong, they both ought to be 7815591. > > How does one repair that? Try gpart: http://www.brzitwa.de/mb/gpart/index.html -- George-C

Django Live, a live LAMP-Django CD based on Debian stable Lenny

This is a debian (live) Django-OS - Live CD running on hardened kernel and LAMP stack - http://sourceforge.net/projects/djangolive/ #opensource #python #LAMP #india

Re: repair partition: wrong size

George-Cristian Bîrzan wrote: On Thu, 2010-08-05 at 09:07 -0500, hugo vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, I just noticed that the partition sizes on my usb disk are wrong. [snip] sdb2 an sdb3 are wrong, they both ought to be 7815591. How does one repair that? Try gpart: http://www.brzitwa.de/mb/gpart/inde

Re: repair partition: wrong size

On Thu, 2010-08-05 at 09:59 -0500, hugo vanwoerkom wrote: > Gpart finds the partitions allright, but they aren't lost, just the > wrong size. How do I set the correct size? >From its page: Now if after the check-phase it says Ok, you should check the proposed partition table very carefully. Afte

Re: repair partition: wrong size

George-Cristian Bîrzan wrote: On Thu, 2010-08-05 at 09:59 -0500, hugo vanwoerkom wrote: Gpart finds the partitions allright, but they aren't lost, just the wrong size. How do I set the correct size? From its page: Now if after the check-phase it says Ok, you should check the proposed partit

Re: Monitoring tools to use on an account

Klistvud wrote: Dne, 30. 07. 2010 18:47:15 je hugo vanwoerkom napisal(a): But is there such a tool to trace what is being done in IW? IW? For starters, I would check history (ctrl-h), so you can track what sites the person has been to. In my humble experience though, it's thermal shutdown.

Popcon usage (online tool)

Hello, I would like to compare the numbers for some packages within the Popcon¹ online tool to get a quick feedback, but it seems to be limited to just one query at a time (I mean, I would like to get something like "http:// qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=package_one&package=package_two" and

Re: Tiny Console Fonts - Almost Fixed

On 05 Aug 2010, Thomas H. George wrote: > > > I followed these instructions chosing the Terminus font and a character > height of 32 and then rebooted. The boot screen and initial scripts > were easy to read, actually larger than I need BUT > > About half way through the boot up the scripts chan

Re: Tiny Console Fonts - Almost Fixed

On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 09:12:20AM -0500, Jordon Bedwell wrote: > On 8/5/2010 8:59 AM, Thomas H. George wrote: > >I followed these instructions chosing the Terminus font and a character > >height of 32 and then rebooted. The boot screen and initial scripts > >were easy to read, actually larger tha

Re: Tiny Console Fonts - Almost Fixed

On 2010-08-05 19:26 +0200, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 05 Aug 2010, Thomas H. George wrote: >> > >> I followed these instructions chosing the Terminus font and a character >> height of 32 and then rebooted. The boot screen and initial scripts >> were easy to read, actually larger than I need BU

Re: Tiny Console Fonts - Almost Fixed

On 8/5/2010 12:54 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: > The solution is to use a bigger font, as I had tried to explain. Yes, that was your solution, until he explained (which you merrily missed apparently) that even though he used your "fix" the font resets back to a small size a little ways into the boot.

Re: repair partition: wrong size

On 08/05/2010 07:07 AM, hugo vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi, > > I just noticed that the partition sizes on my usb disk are wrong. > > debian:/# fsck -f /dev/sdb2 > fsck 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008) > e2fsck 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008) > The filesystem size (according to the superblock) is 1953905 blocks > The physica

Re: Tiny Console Fonts - Almost Fixed

On 8/5/10, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2010-08-05 19:26 +0200, Anthony Campbell wrote: > >> On 05 Aug 2010, Thomas H. George wrote: >>> > >>> I followed these instructions chosing the Terminus font and a character >>> height of 32 and then rebooted. The boot screen and initial scripts >>> were easy

Re: Tiny Console Fonts - Almost Fixed

On 8/5/10, Jordon Bedwell wrote: > On 8/5/2010 12:54 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: >> The solution is to use a bigger font, as I had tried to explain. > > Yes, that was your solution, until he explained (which you merrily > missed apparently) that even though he used your "fix" the font resets > back to

Re: Software to handle bits and pieces of information.

Thanks for all of the responses. I thought that since they were so wide ranging that a condensed list might be helpful to others. Obviously I'm not the only one with the problem. In no particular order: Run own (private, locked-down) Mediawiki installation - this allows access where ever

Re: Tiny Console Fonts - Almost Fixed

On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 1:49 PM, Thomas H. George wrote: > > I don't understand grub's menu.lst.  It begins with several entries > and the beginning of the AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST and within this the > start of the default options list.  Within this list is > > #kopt=root=UUID= where is the

Re: Software to handle bits and pieces of information.

On Wed, 04 Aug 2010 11:13:35 -0700 Gary Roach wrote: > Hi; > I could use some suggestions. I seem to collect a lot of snippets of > information scribbled on pieces of paper, old napkins, etc. There is a nice comparison table of "outliners" in [1]. I like keepnote [2]. [1] http://marktaw.com/re

Re: Tiny Console Fonts - Almost Fixed

On 2010-08-05 20:08 +0200, Javier Vasquez wrote: > That's right. Actually I always look for full resolution on console. > Before KMS, for some cards I had to load the corresponding module > through /etc/modules and for some of those, I also had to provide the > resolution parameters through /etc/

maintainer not responding

debian-user list, Debian is a great distribution thanks to the countless hours volunteers have contributed. But what can be done when a maintainer is not responding to the bug reports they are responsible for? Specifically I am interested in these bugs: [http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.c

cciss module problem with smart array 642 in lenny

i cannot install lenny in a compaq server with smart array 642. the array and the disks are detected, but there is no entry for cciss in /dev. in /proc/modules i can see cciss module is "loading" and ps shows modprobe and /lib/udev/vol_id --export /dev/.tmp-104-0 in D < status

Re: Trinity KDE 3.5.11 was Re: How to use two displaies

John A. Sullivan III wrote: Sure - here is a note from Tim Pearson: Trinity is already compiled for Debian Lenny, so why not give it a shot? ;-) Here is the package list with buildlogs/status/etc.: https://quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/~trinity/+archive/trinity If you want to use the reposi

Re: maintainer not responding

On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 12:10:49PM -0700, Jeremiah Mahler wrote: > debian-user list, > > Debian is a great distribution thanks to the countless hours > volunteers have contributed. > But what can be done when a maintainer is not responding to the bug > reports they are responsible for? > > Specif

Re: maintainer not responding

* 2010-08-05 12:10 (-0700), Jeremiah Mahler wrote: > But what can be done when a maintainer is not responding to the bug > reports they are responsible for? > Some have patches, some need to be forwarded upstream, and lots just > need a response like "I don't have time to fix these bugs, could >

Re: Trinity KDE 3.5.11 was Re: How to use two displaies

On Thu, 2010-08-05 at 12:43 -0700, Jimmy Johnson wrote: > John A. Sullivan III wrote: > > > Sure - here is a note from Tim Pearson: > > > > Trinity is already compiled for Debian Lenny, so why not give it a > > shot? ;-) Here is the package list with buildlogs/status/etc.: > > https://quickbuild

Re: Software to handle bits and pieces of information.

On 04/08/10 19:13, Gary Roach wrote: Hi; I could use some suggestions. I seem to collect a lot of snippets of information scribbled on pieces of paper, old napkins, etc. Examples are notes on harware, sources for stuff, notes on possible projects, book that I might want to buy in the future and o

Re: Tiny Console Fonts - Almost Fixed

On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 02:49:48PM -0400, Tom H wrote: > On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 1:49 PM, Thomas H. George wrote: > > > > I don't understand grub's menu.lst.  It begins with several entries > > and the beginning of the AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST and within this the > > start of the default options list

Re: maintainer not responding

I will look in to the bugs in more detail and see what exactly needs to be done. On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 12:37 PM, Teemu Likonen wrote: > * 2010-08-05 12:10 (-0700), Jeremiah Mahler wrote: > >> But what can be done when a maintainer is not responding to the bug >> reports they are responsible for?

Re: Trinity KDE 3.5.11 was Re: How to use two displaies

On Thu August 5 2010, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > Trinity is already compiled for Debian Lenny, so why not give it a > shot? ;-)  Here is the package list with buildlogs/status/etc.: > https://quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/~trinity/+archive/trinity > > If you want to use the repository, just ad

Re: Trinity KDE 3.5.11 was Re: How to use two displaies

John A. Sullivan III wrote: On Thu, 2010-08-05 at 12:43 -0700, Jimmy Johnson wrote: Except for http://www.x2go.org I'm getting 404 on all the trinity links. :-( Yes, that's because he has the systems down until he can rebuild the fried power conditioning system. Hopefully, they will be bac

Re: Trinity KDE 3.5.11 was Re: How to use two displaies

Paul Cartwright wrote: On Thu August 5 2010, John A. Sullivan III wrote: Trinity is already compiled for Debian Lenny, so why not give it a shot? ;-) Â Here is the package list with buildlogs/status/etc.: https://quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/~trinity/+archive/trinity If you want to use the r

Re: maintainer not responding

I reviewed the outstanding bugs shown in [https://mail.google.com/mail/?shva=1#label/debian-lists/12a43a9b406864ec] and below is a short summary of what I think needs to be done next. The 'TODO' sections indicate something that needs to be done by a Debian maintainer (packaging, forwarding, etc). T

Re: Trinity KDE 3.5.11 was Re: How to use two displaies

On Thursday 05 August 2010 22:32:13 Jimmy Johnson wrote: > Paul Cartwright wrote: > > On Thu August 5 2010, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > >> Trinity is already compiled for Debian Lenny, so why not give it a > >> shot? ;-) Â Here is the package list with buildlogs/status/etc.: > >> https://quickbui

Re: Trinity KDE 3.5.11 was Re: How to use two displaies

On Thu, 2010-08-05 at 16:34 -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote: > On Thu August 5 2010, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > > Trinity is already compiled for Debian Lenny, so why not give it a > > shot? ;-) Here is the package list with buildlogs/status/etc.: > > https://quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/~trini

Re: Trinity KDE 3.5.11 was Re: How to use two displaies

On Thu, 2010-08-05 at 18:28 -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > On Thu, 2010-08-05 at 16:34 -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote: > > On Thu August 5 2010, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > > > Trinity is already compiled for Debian Lenny, so why not give it a > > > shot? ;-) Here is the package list with bu

Re: Popcon usage (online tool)

On 08/05/2010 12:18 PM, Camaleón wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to compare the numbers for some packages within the Popcon¹ > online tool to get a quick feedback, but it seems to be limited to just > one query at a time (I mean, I would like to get something like "http:// > qa.debian.org/popco

Lenny Skype - suddenly garbled mic sounds

Posted on skype board with no replies to date. Perhaps one of you can shed some insight. Skype worked fine for about 6 weeks since I first installed it. But from this last weekend, I get this darth vader mic sound problem. My voice is garbled and s-l-o-w-e-d down on playback from skype test cal

Re: failing to mount usb flash drives

On 05/08/10 Nate Bargmann said: > I've been seeing something similar over the past couple of months on my > Sid box. I also found that issuing the `lsusb' command seems to "wake > up" the system in some way and KDE's Device Notifier will become active > and I can mount the flash drive. I've also

Re: failing to mount usb flash drives

* On 2010 05 Aug 20:12 -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > On 05/08/10 Nate Bargmann said: > > > I've been seeing something similar over the past couple of months on my > > Sid box. I also found that issuing the `lsusb' command seems to "wake > > up" the system in some way and KDE's Device Notifie

Re: match across line using grep

On 2010年08月04日 04:55, Bob McGowan wrote: > In fact, the LC_ names all seem to be specific to things > that would not necessarily impact the regex operation. > It is not totally true. The encoding part might. If it is UTF-8, in theory, [:digit:] should match more than 0-9. It might, for example,

Re: match across line using grep

On 2010年08月04日 00:57, Bob McGowan wrote: > I would suspect > the regex engine is still honoring '. (dot) does not match newline' > convention but is OK with literals, if present. > It can be a bug in grep implementation. If your theory holds true, the following should match, but it doesn't. $

Re: failing to mount usb flash drives

* On 2010 05 Aug 20:35 -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote: > It may well be my problem as well. I have enough live CDs and a couple > of bootable flash drives to get an idea one way or the other. I booted this machine, an IBM Thinkcentre M51, into Xubuntu 10.04 from CD-ROM and had the same behavior--I ha

no desktop directory for newly created user and some other issues.

no desktop directory for newly created user and some other issues. OS : Debian Lenny 5.0.4 Desktop Environment : LXDE I have the following issues and provide some suggestions for the below numbered list : issue 1 : no Desktop directory for newly created user : I have this issue earlier also whi

OTT: OpenFiler vs Thecus N4200?

Hi There, Sorry if this is a bit 'Off The Topic' discussion. I am planning to get fileserver dedicated for iSCSI. My option is to grab Thecus N4200 or to build OpenFiler with any Duo-Core CPU, >1G RAM, RocketRAID 644 controller, and other basic PC stuff. I have been googling to compare OpenFil