Re: how to tell what packages are unused on a debian server?

2010-10-30 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sb, 30 oct 10, 14:05:37, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > > [I created my own aptitude "front-end" which has logging] How is this different from /var/log/aptitude ? Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community

Re: sid: 'git command' works but not 'git-command'

2010-10-30 Thread Salvatore Bonaccorso
Hi Joel On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 05:53:38PM -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > Is there any configuration option for this, or > do I need to create a bunch of aliases? > > Thanks. I wonder who decided to make this change. > Is it a Debian or a git decision? Or perhaps a bug? > > 'man git-merge' is present

Re: how to tell what packages are unused on a debian server?

2010-10-30 Thread Chris Davies
Andrew McGlashan wrote: > Okay, I tried the change and let it finish the report. > I found all "in use", except for php5, but there is a bunch of php5 > stuff that is in use. Arrgghh. You're now making me /think/ about the script, rather than it being a throwaway suggestion(!) Upon further inve

Re: how to tell what packages are unused on a debian server?

2010-10-30 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sb, 30 oct 10, 14:05:37, Andrew McGlashan wrote: [I created my own aptitude "front-end" which has logging] How is this different from /var/log/aptitude ? Okay, I didn't know that was there, but the logging I do is different. Thanks -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew M

Re: how to tell what packages are unused on a debian server?

2010-10-30 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Chris Davies wrote: The find statement thus becomes find $(readlink -f "$F") -atime -180 Okay, I got the exact same result. If you're finding that everything is "in use" then at this stage it's probable that you've made a filesystem backup with tar or cpio, which obviously reads every sin

Re: how to tell what packages are unused on a debian server?

2010-10-30 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sb, 30 oct 10, 19:42:34, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > Andrei Popescu wrote: > >On Sb, 30 oct 10, 14:05:37, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > >>[I created my own aptitude "front-end" which has logging] > > > >How is this different from /var/log/aptitude ? > > Okay, I didn't know that was there, but the log

Installation Size Different - bug ?

2010-10-30 Thread Mich Mich
Install One : - Installed Debian Squeeze onto my laptop using the netinst cd. During installation, I did not have access to the internet and installed the "Standard System" during tasksel. Install Two : - Installed Debian Squeeze onto my desktop using the same netinst cd.

Re: procmail and Unicode header lines (RFC 2047)

2010-10-30 Thread Stanisław Findeisen
On 2010-10-29 21:35, Bob Proulx wrote: > Stanisław Findeisen wrote: >> Is there any support in Debian for Unicode e-mail header lines >> processing, e.g. with procmail? >> Subject: =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCNEE7eiROJTUlViU4JSclLyVIGyhC?= >> >> so they need to be decoded before doing anything useful with

Re: Installation Size Different - bug ?

2010-10-30 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 30 Oct 2010 17:28:18 +0800, Mich Mich wrote: (...) > Any idea why the extra packages (eg exim) are installed when desktop is > connected to the router? > Are they actually required? Dunno why, true is that in my laptop I lack Exim also, maybe because I installed the laptop pattern and t

Re: Recording A/V from embedded Flash player

2010-10-30 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 30. 10. 2010 03:36:31 je Bob napisal(a): I don't have squid installed @themo so can't test but does this tutorial not apply to modern versions? http://www.michaelboman.org/how-to/squid From the looks of it, I guess it does. Of special interest are the lines # TESTING: Caching eve

Re: sound not working after computer upgrade

2010-10-30 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 29 Oct 2010 18:29:57 -0400, Rodney D. Myers wrote: > On 10/29/10 6:05 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> Do you have ESD enabled? If so, try to disable. >> >> Also, recheck your sound device permissions: >> >> s...@stt008:~$ ls -l /dev/snd >> total 0 >> crw-rw 1 root audio 116, 0 oct 29 07:42

Re: how to tell what packages are unused on a debian server?

2010-10-30 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi Andrei, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sb, 30 oct 10, 19:42:34, Andrew McGlashan wrote: Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sb, 30 oct 10, 14:05:37, Andrew McGlashan wrote: [I created my own aptitude "front-end" which has logging] How is this different from /var/log/aptitude ? Okay, I didn't know that wa

Re: sound not working after computer upgrade

2010-10-30 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On 10/30/10 7:19 AM, Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 29 Oct 2010 18:29:57 -0400, Rodney D. Myers wrote: > >> > On 10/29/10 6:05 PM, Camaleón wrote: >>> >> Do you have ESD enabled? If so, try to disable. >>> >> >>> >> Also, recheck your sound device permissions: >>> >> >>> >> s...@stt008:~$ ls -l /dev/

Re: sound not working after computer upgrade

2010-10-30 Thread Rob Owens
On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 08:22:50AM -0400, Rodney D. Myers wrote: > On 10/30/10 7:19 AM, Camaleón wrote: > > On Fri, 29 Oct 2010 18:29:57 -0400, Rodney D. Myers wrote: > > > >> > On 10/29/10 6:05 PM, Camaleón wrote: > >>> >> Do you have ESD enabled? If so, try to disable. > >>> >> > >>> >> Also, r

Gnome requests password to mount NTFS drive

2010-10-30 Thread Rob Owens
On a fresh Squeeze system, Gnome is asking for the root password when mounting an NTFS drive (/dev/sda1, which houses Windows OS). ntfs-3g is installed, but is not being used for some reason. This install started as a "standard system" and then I installed gnome-desktop-environment, so perhaps

Re: sound not working after computer upgrade

2010-10-30 Thread Camaleón
El 2010-10-30 a las 08:30 -0400, Rodney D. Myers escribió: (resending to the list) > On 10/30/10 7:19 AM, Camaleón wrote: > > Hum... what happens if you stop ESD daemon? > > > > Another thing you can try is playing the file with an external app, like > > totem from command line, i.e., "totem /u

Re: Debian 6.0 'Squeeze' home server - Installation guide

2010-10-30 Thread lee
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 09:14:35PM +0200, Itay wrote: > >on physical boxes, it might be more cost effective to virtualize them. There > >are a number of options here, including > > > >* openvz > >* linux-vserver > >* kvm > >* xen > >* vmware > >* virtualbox > > qemu? That´s qemu-kvm. It´s missing

Re: Gnome requests password to mount NTFS drive

2010-10-30 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 30 Oct 2010 09:25:13 -0400, Rob Owens wrote: > On a fresh Squeeze system, Gnome is asking for the root password when > mounting an NTFS drive (/dev/sda1, which houses Windows OS). ntfs-3g is > installed, but is not being used for some reason. (...) How are you mounting the NTFS volume,

Re: Gnome requests password to mount NTFS drive

2010-10-30 Thread Rob Owens
On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 01:56:51PM +, Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 30 Oct 2010 09:25:13 -0400, Rob Owens wrote: > > > On a fresh Squeeze system, Gnome is asking for the root password when > > mounting an NTFS drive (/dev/sda1, which houses Windows OS). ntfs-3g is > > installed, but is not being

Re: kernel org: 2.6.36 is stable

2010-10-30 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, Kernel org has 2.6.36 as stable. Anybody tried that? I tried it, with success ;-) Had to install Nvidia driver 260.19.12 instead of 195.36.24 because the latter gets an error. and VMware-Player-3.1.2-301548 does not compile. Of course n

Re: Wohin logt der Networkmanager / VPN

2010-10-30 Thread Lisi
On Wednesday 20 October 2010 15:31:33 Klistvud wrote: > Dne, 20. 10. 2010 09:09:16 je Frank Lanitz napisal(a): > > Danke. Leider wirft er für die VPN-Problematik keine Einträge dort   > > rein. > > Gibt es für das VPNC-Plugin noch eine extra Logfile? > > This is an English-language list, so you wou

Re: KMail - forwarding issues

2010-10-30 Thread Lisi
On Tuesday 19 October 2010 20:55:07 Camaleón wrote: > > Is there a trick to forwarding emails in KMail so that all that happens > > is that the OP's email content is preserved along with any attachments > > but that the OP's details can be edited out? > > AFAICT, no. Copy and paste the email conte

Re: Gnome requests password to mount NTFS drive

2010-10-30 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 30 Oct 2010 10:19:43 -0400, Rob Owens wrote: > On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 01:56:51PM +, Camaleón wrote: >> On Sat, 30 Oct 2010 09:25:13 -0400, Rob Owens wrote: >> >> > On a fresh Squeeze system, Gnome is asking for the root password when >> > mounting an NTFS drive (/dev/sda1, which hous

Re: KMail - forwarding issues

2010-10-30 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Sat October 30 2010, Lisi wrote: > > > Is there a trick to forwarding emails in KMail so that all that happens > > > is that the OP's email content is preserved along with any attachments > > > but that the OP's details can be edited out? > > > > AFAICT, no. > > Copy and paste the email content

Re: KMail - forwarding issues

2010-10-30 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 30 Oct 2010 15:41:04 +0100, Lisi wrote: > On Tuesday 19 October 2010 20:55:07 Camaleón wrote: >> > Is there a trick to forwarding emails in KMail so that all that >> > happens is that the OP's email content is preserved along with any >> > attachments but that the OP's details can be edite

Re: Re (3): routing

2010-10-30 Thread lee
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 10:09:18AM -0700, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > Lee, > > Thanks for the feedback. You are the first to mention these errors. > > From: lee > Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 17:53:31 +0200 > > There's no zone "ubc" defined on dalton. > > The concept is "OpenVPN tunnel zone" and the

kill pidof question

2010-10-30 Thread Thomas H. George
I frequently have to kill iceape - it locks up on some images. Of course the command pidof iceape-bin will return the pid to standard output and I can then use this information to kill the program. Certainly it must be possible to combine these steps into a single command line but my efforts to do

Re: Wohin logt der Networkmanager / VPN

2010-10-30 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 30. 10. 2010 16:31:59 je Lisi napisal(a): On Wednesday 20 October 2010 15:31:33 Klistvud wrote: > This is an English-language list, so you would probably get more   > answers if you wrote in English. Or if he wrote in German on the German language list! I assume that there is one? Lis

Re: kill pidof question

2010-10-30 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 30. 10. 2010 16:27:17 je Thomas H. George napisal(a): I frequently have to kill iceape - it locks up on some images. Of course the command pidof iceape-bin will return the pid to standard output and I can then use this information to kill the program. Certainly it must be possible to combin

Re: KMail - forwarding issues

2010-10-30 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Sat October 30 2010, Camaleón wrote: > You can please all the people all the time by allowing the user to be > able to be free of using the best e-mail format for every situation. And > so it does Thunderbird/Icedove but not Kmail :-( yes, I didn't finish reading the OP's original request, I fo

Re: kill pidof question

2010-10-30 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 30 Oct 2010 10:27:17 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > I frequently have to kill iceape - it locks up on some images. > > Of course the command pidof iceape-bin will return the pid to standard > output and I can then use this information to kill the program. > Certainly it must be possible

Re: KMail - forwarding issues

2010-10-30 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 30 Oct 2010 11:34:18 -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote: (...) > the question is, do I want to try to go to all the trouble of converting > my years of kmail mail, to MBOX format... Yes, that's another handicap :-) I love "maildir" and Kmail has the ability to play fine with both formats (mb

Size of minimal Debian installation

2010-10-30 Thread Jason Hsu, embedded engineer, Linux user
I have a minimal Debian installation on a 2 GB VirtualBox hard drive. By minimal, I mean the 150 MB Netinstall ISO without any of the packages (not even the "base" system) I was given the option to install during the initial installation process. And I haven't even added anything yet. When I

Re: KMail - forwarding issues

2010-10-30 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Sat, 2010-10-30 at 15:48 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 30 Oct 2010 11:34:18 -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote: > > (...) > > > the question is, do I want to try to go to all the trouble of converting > > my years of kmail mail, to MBOX format... > > Yes, that's another handicap :-) > > I love

Re: kernel org: 2.6.36 is stable

2010-10-30 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, Kernel org has 2.6.36 as stable. Anybody tried that? I tried it, with success ;-) Had to install Nvidia driver 260.19.12 instead of 195.36.24 because the latter gets an error. and VMware-Player-3.1.2-301548 does

Re: kill pidof question

2010-10-30 Thread Thomas H. George
On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 03:37:01PM +, Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 30 Oct 2010 10:27:17 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > > > I frequently have to kill iceape - it locks up on some images. > > > > Of course the command pidof iceape-bin will return the pid to standard > > output and I can then use

Re: Size of minimal Debian installation

2010-10-30 Thread Morgan Gangwere
On 10/30/2010 9:49 AM, Jason Hsu, embedded engineer, Linux user wrote: > I have a minimal Debian installation on a 2 GB VirtualBox hard drive. By > minimal, I mean the 150 MB Netinstall ISO without any of the packages (not > even the "base" system) I was given the option to install during the in

Re: Size of minimal Debian installation

2010-10-30 Thread Volkan YAZICI
Hi, Before reading following lines, I want to remind you that official Debian GNU/Linux installation is not optimized for constrained space requirements, where Puppy Linux is. Consider manual pages, lots of automation related scripts all around the place, a full featured libc (consider uclibc), do

Re: procmail and Unicode header lines (RFC 2047)

2010-10-30 Thread Bob Proulx
Stanisław Findeisen wrote: > >> Is there any support in Debian for Unicode e-mail header lines > >> processing, e.g. with procmail? > >> Subject: =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCNEE7eiROJTUlViU4JSclLyVIGyhC?= > ... > Hm I wrote this little script: > > http://people.eisenbits.com/~stf/software/conv2047/ > > I

Re: kill pidof question

2010-10-30 Thread Bob Proulx
Thomas H. George wrote: > Camaleón wrote: > > kill `pidof iceape-bin` > > Thanks, this works. I had not known the use of backward single quotes. > I'll read up on them. Better is the newer $(...) way because $(...)'s can be nested. The backticks are great for single simple commands. But if you

Re: Size of minimal Debian installation

2010-10-30 Thread Bob Proulx
Jason Hsu, embedded engineer, Linux user wrote: > I have a minimal Debian installation ... You might be interested in reading through a discussion that is happening right now on debian-devel: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2010/10/threads.html#00310 http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel

Trying to use a Nokia N95 as a modem over USB

2010-10-30 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
I'm trying to use the GSM data connection of my Nokia N95-3 as a modem for my Squeeze laptop over USB. The Ubuntu wiki indicates that my Nokia is compatible with USB tethering but a patch to hal rules is required (As per a bug report filed in 2008 but still open.): The wiki page: https://wiki.ubu

Re: Trying to use a Nokia N95 as a modem over USB

2010-10-30 Thread David Sastre
On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 04:35:55PM -0400, Andrew Malcolmson wrote: > I'm trying to use the GSM data connection of my Nokia N95-3 as a modem > for my Squeeze laptop over USB. > > The Ubuntu wiki indicates that my Nokia is compatible with USB > tethering but a patch to hal rules is required (As per

Re: Trying to use a Nokia N95 as a modem over USB

2010-10-30 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 16:35:55 -0400, Andrew Malcolmson wrote: > I'm trying to use the GSM data connection of my Nokia N95-3 as a modem > for my Squeeze laptop over USB. > > The Ubuntu wiki indicates that my Nokia is compatible with USB > tethering but a patch to hal rules is required (As per a

Re: KMail - forwarding issues

2010-10-30 Thread Lisi
On Saturday 30 October 2010 16:05:43 Camaleón wrote: > Kmail only allows to forward "as an attachment" the original e-mail That is simply not correct. You can forward as attachment, in line, as a digest or redirect. I always use in line for exactly the reasons you give. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: KMail - forwarding issues

2010-10-30 Thread Lisi
On Wednesday 20 October 2010 10:05:43 Paul Cartwright wrote: > On Tue October 19 2010, Mike Bird wrote: > > I use KMail/Kontact in KDE 3.5 in Lenny. > > > > Does pressing "T" ("Edit Message") and changing the "To" address > > at the top come anywhere close to the functionality you need? > > no, it

Re: KMail - forwarding issues

2010-10-30 Thread Lisi
On Wednesday 20 October 2010 13:12:53 Mihira Fernando wrote: > On 10/20/2010 05:16 PM, Paul Cartwright wrote: > > On Wed October 20 2010, AG wrote: > >> However, bottom line: so far this is the most viable solution to the > >> forwarding issue. I'm sorry to read that it doesn't work for you in a

Re: Trying to use a Nokia N95 as a modem over USB

2010-10-30 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
Thanks guys: adding the redirection and using '-d' to point to the location of the file to be patched did it. However, through much Googling I'm learning that since HAL is now deprecated in favor of udev, the rules format in fdi files must be converted to the new udev format as explained at the bo

What packages do I need for the ROX desktop environment?

2010-10-30 Thread Jason Hsu, embedded engineer, Linux user
What packages do I need for the ROX desktop environment? This is the same DE used in Puppy Linux. The clickable icons on the Puppy Linux desktop are provided by ROX, which provides the functionality of GNOME or KDE in a MUCH lighter package. -- Jason Hsu, Linux-literate embedded engineer (95

Re: aptitude called chromium-browser "obsolete"

2010-10-30 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 08 Sep 2010 19:42:39 +0200, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote in message <4c87cb0f.9040...@googlemail.com>: > Le 08/09/2010 19:25, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: > > Kind of an odd thing showed up on three Debian testing systems this > > morning. This all use Xfce for the DE, and they use the > > /e

Re: aptitude called chromium-browser "obsolete"

2010-10-30 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
On 10/30/2010 10:57 PM, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > ..and it should be dropped and replaced with version 7.something: > http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/search/label/Stable%20updates > > ..I use Debian's "experimental" 7.0.544.0~r61416-1 on my > 2 i686 boxes, but I can't find it for amd64. >

Re: Samsung R540 Video Card (ATI Mobility Radeon HD545v)

2010-10-30 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Thu, 30 Sep 2010 00:02:43 +0300, Volkan wrote in message <87ocbg1cwc@alamut.alborz.net>: > On Wed, 29 Sep 2010, Volkan YAZICI writes: > > I'm having very disappointing moments after switching from Lenovo > > 3000 N200 to Samsung R540. It took half of my day to get wireless > > working. An

Re: X/kernel compatibiity?

2010-10-30 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Fri, 29 Oct 2010 21:41:30 -0700, Ross wrote in message <1288413690.10692.1.ca...@corn.betterworld.us>: > On Sat, 2010-10-30 at 05:23 +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > On Wed, 27 Oct 2010 11:17:00 -0700, Ross wrote in message > > <1288203420.19063.0.ca...@corn.betterworld.us>: > > > > > On Wed,

Packages for reboot and shutdown

2010-10-30 Thread Jason Hsu, embedded engineer, Linux user
What package do I need to add to a minimal Debian installation so that I can reboot or shut down from GNOME, XFCE, Fluxbox, IceWM, etc.? -- Jason Hsu, Linux-literate embedded engineer (952) 715-7661 embedded_engin...@jasonhsu.com http://www.jasonhsu.com/ee.html http://www.jasonhsu.com/swrwatt.ht

Re: Packages for reboot and shutdown

2010-10-30 Thread Mark Allums
On 10/30/2010 11:23 PM, Jason Hsu, embedded engineer, Linux user wrote: What package do I need to add to a minimal Debian installation so that I can reboot or shut down from GNOME, XFCE, Fluxbox, IceWM, etc.? initscripts? GDM and GNOME, for example, already know how to run shutdown as in: #

Re: What packages do I need for the ROX desktop environment?

2010-10-30 Thread Phil Requirements
On 2010-10-30 20:55:12 -0500, Jason Hsu, embedded engineer, Linux user wrote: > What packages do I need for the ROX desktop environment? This is > the same DE used in Puppy Linux. The clickable icons on the Puppy > Linux desktop are provided by ROX, which provides the functionality > of GNOME or

Re: Trying to use a Nokia N95 as a modem over USB

2010-10-30 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, I prefer to use a travel router solution myself -- such as the Netcomm T1 ... it allows standard connectivity via WLAN whilst offering firewall features. http://www.netcomm.com.au/netcomm-products/3g-mobile-broadband/3gt1wn Cheers -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solu

Installing systemtap in debian(lenny)

2010-10-30 Thread yamada hiroyuki
Hello, I am wondering how I can install systemtap in debian(lenny). (kernel is 2.6.26-2-amd64) I know lenny does not have kernel image with debug sysmols in apt packages, so I want to build it on my own. I did it like the following, but it didn't work. Does anyone give me a help ? = $ sudo

Re: Installation Size Different - bug ?

2010-10-30 Thread Mich Mich
On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 6:49 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 30 Oct 2010 17:28:18 +0800, Mich Mich wrote: > > (...) > > > Any idea why the extra packages (eg exim) are installed when desktop is > > connected to the router? > > Are they actually required? > > Dunno why, true is that in my laptop I l

Re: procmail and Unicode header lines (RFC 2047)

2010-10-30 Thread Stanisław Findeisen
On 2010-10-29 10:39, Camaleón wrote: > On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 21:19:30 +0200, Stanisław Findeisen wrote: > >> Is there any support in Debian for Unicode e-mail header lines >> processing, e.g. with procmail? >> >> Those header lines look like this: >> >> Subject: =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCNEE7eiROJTUlViU4J