Re: [OT] English language

On Monday 04 April 2011 01:24:03 David Jardine wrote: > I just love the spelling of "Advertiser". ;) Do Americans spell it with a zed? Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: [OT] English language

On Monday 04 April 2011 06:08:27 Chris Brennan wrote: > Plz 2 invades ur werdz insteadz! Plz 2??? > P.S. While this meant to be funny and light-hearted, in reality, not all of > us Americans are stupid, dumb rednecks who eye their cousins and farm Where did that come from? Who, other than you n

`aptitude` is partially broken?

Debian Squeeze AMD64, aptitude 0.6.3-3.2 Keys '+', '-' don't work in the pseudo-graphical interface of `aptitude` after upgrading from lenny to squeeze. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: `aptitude` is partially broken?

Hi James It works for me in Squeeze, but I didn't upgrade from Lenny. You should perhaps do a bug report. /Daniel On 04/04/2011 10:22 AM, James Brown wrote: Debian Squeeze AMD64, aptitude 0.6.3-3.2 Keys '+', '-' don't work in the pseudo-graphical interface of `aptitude` after upgrading from

Re: `aptitude` is partially broken?

Hi James It works for me in Squeeze, but I didn't upgrade from Lenny. You should perhaps do a bug report. /Daniel On 04/04/2011 10:22 AM, James Brown wrote: Debian Squeeze AMD64, aptitude 0.6.3-3.2 Keys '+', '-' don't work in the pseudo-graphical interface of `aptitude` after upgrading from

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Weird logrotate

Hello, We are running a debian 4.0 on our cache server. Something weird happened the last week, as you can see the logs were supposed to be rotated monthly : -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.6G 2011-04-04 11:45 varnish.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 332M 2011-04-01 06:25 varnish.log.1.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 roo

Re: another favourite FLOSS poll

On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 00:06, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > Hi, > > Although I often enjoyed the process of doing the yearly polls, it was > rather time-consuming, I decided to do this on a Shapado instance > (http://favourite-floss.shapado.com/). Please head over there and cast > your vote, while

Re: 3D video player

On Sat, Apr 02, 2011 at 09:23:24PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 04/02/2011 08:49 PM, ceduard0 wrote: > >2011/4/2 r-cassim: > >>hi all, > >> > >>Is there any 3D video player for debian lenny > >> > >>or there any how to for playing 3D video > >> > >Helo, see this game, flightgear[1], this is a fl

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I have been seeing an issue accessing gmail from firefox over the past few months. This started with iceweasel/firefox3, and has continued into the firefox4 series. I have a workstation and a laptop, both running sid, both up to date. Back in the firefox3 days, I posted a thread ( http://lists.deb

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Hello, on a host with both "lenny" and "squeeze" lines in sources.list, I try to set the target release to the target release to lenny. It all seems to work with the keywords "stable" and "oldstable", but not with "lenny" and "squeeze". I'm just wondering why. # apt-get upgrade -t oldstable -duy

Re: target release: lenny or "oldstable"

On 2011-04-04 13:45 +0200, Frank Van Damme wrote: > Hello, > > on a host with both "lenny" and "squeeze" lines in sources.list, I try > to set the target release to the target release to lenny. It all seems > to work with the keywords "stable" and "oldstable", but not with > "lenny" and "squeeze".

Re: nfs proxy

В Вск, 03/04/2011 в 17:01 -0400, Mag Gam пишет: > ere is my situation, I have 3TB of data on a NFS server which has 2 > NICs (bonded). I have 50 clients which access this data -- mainly > reading. Now, I also have spare servers and I would like to use these > servers to cache the NFS traffic (if po

Re: [OT] English language

* On 2011 04 Apr 03:21 -0500, Lisi wrote: > On Monday 04 April 2011 01:24:03 David Jardine wrote: > > I just love the spelling of "Advertiser". ;) > > Do Americans spell it with a zed? Mostly, yes. - Nate >> -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pe

Re: My posts to list not echoed

On Sun, Apr 03, 2011 at 08:46 +0100, Lisi wrote: > On Sunday 03 April 2011 02:54:17 George Standish wrote: > > On 02/04/11 09:11 PM, Ken Heard wrote: > > > I have noticed that recently my posts to the list have not been echoed > > > back to me; so I have no confirmation that a given post has been >

Re: [OT] English language

On 4 April 2011 13:41, Nate Bargmann wrote: > * On 2011 04 Apr 03:21 -0500, Lisi wrote: >> On Monday 04 April 2011 01:24:03 David Jardine wrote: >> > I just love the spelling of "Advertiser". ;) >> >> Do Americans spell it with a zed? > > Mostly, yes. > I don't think so, I'm fairly sure ``adverti

question about bind9 from a clueless paranoid

I'm running Wheezy on several i386 boxes. Over the weekend I installed bind9 and dhcp3-server on one of them. While starting to set up dynDNS, I noticed a comment in /etc/bind/named.conf.options (this is a file that had just been installed by the bind9 package): // ports to talk. See http

Re: [OT] English language

On 04/04/2011 07:56 AM, Francis Southern wrote: On 4 April 2011 13:41, Nate Bargmann wrote: * On 2011 04 Apr 03:21 -0500, Lisi wrote: On Monday 04 April 2011 01:24:03 David Jardine wrote: I just love the spelling of "Advertiser". ;) Do Americans spell it with a zed? Mostly, yes. I don'

Re: [OT] English language [was:Re: OpenOffice.org - how to install additional languages?]

On Sunday 03 April 2011 16:17:55 Ron Johnson wrote: > ... > > > What populist propaganda have you been reading? How do they say > > "Disneyland" in French? > > Terre de Disney? > Terre de Souris? > Actually, the French (in France) disdain direct translations of English phrases, and w

Re: stardict dictionary packages.

Sthu Deus writes: > Can't it be moved to non-free repo then? If distributing it would infringe a copyright it Debian cannot and will not distribute it. Non-free is for packages that can legally be distributed but that do not comply with the Debian Free Software Guidelines, such as ones containing

Re: mounting multipath volumes with /etc/fstab

On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 11:40 PM, Gilles Mocellin wrote: >> Anyone could confirm or maybe recommend any solution to e.g. postpone >> mounting until multipath gets loaded? >> Or may be solution I chose ("manually" mounting via /etc/rc.local) is >> just right? > The other solution is by installing t

Re: OpenOffice.org - how to install additional languages?

On Sun, 03 Apr 2011 18:00:21 +0100, Lisi wrote: > On Sunday 03 April 2011 17:20:48 Camaleón wrote: >> But there is no "Spanish Spanish" just a Spanish that is spoken in >> "__" (put here the country) ;-) > > Quite - the English that is talked in England. And that is what I meant > and sa

ocfs2 / jbd / large filesystem

Hi, I am trying to format a 40TB filesystem with mkfs.ocfs2, but I get the following message: # mkfs.ocfs2 -N 2 -T datafiles -n /dev/sdb1 mkfs.ocfs2 1.4.4 Dry run Filesystem Type of datafiles Label: Features: sparse backup-super unwritten inline-data strict-journal-super Block size: 4096 (12 bi

Re: mouse speed too fast

Chance Platt writes: >> That looks helpful, but how do I actually make the changes? I assume >> that I should edit /etc/hal/fdi/policy/preferences.fdi, and I used the >> code provided in your link as an example. Do I have to restart X to get >> the config re-read? Your link suggest I can stop ha

Re: another favourite FLOSS poll

Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote at 2011-04-04 05:39 -0500: > I've asked for removal, due to inactivity. > > On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 00:06, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > > Depending on response, I may come back here and report how the vote > > goes before year-end. > > There wasn't enough participation

[OT] Re: OpenOffice.org - how to install additional languages?

On Sun, 03 Apr 2011 15:08:55 -0400, Doug wrote: > On 04/03/2011 12:20 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> I miss an Academy of Language for English. I know Oxford's dictionary >> is a kind of standard in this field but there should be a central >> institution that regulates and sets the language rules and of

Re: ocfs2 / jbd / large filesystem

On 04/04/2011 08:45 AM, Stephane Caminade wrote: Hi, I am trying to format a 40TB filesystem with mkfs.ocfs2, but I get the following message: # mkfs.ocfs2 -N 2 -T datafiles -n /dev/sdb1 mkfs.ocfs2 1.4.4 Dry run [snip] Writing lost+found: done mkfs.ocfs2 successful When attempting to mount,

Re: Debian was hacked: The Canterbury Distribution

On Sun, 03 Apr 2011 12:19:24 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 04/03/2011 07:18 AM, Camaleón wrote: What part of "Cultural Imperialism" don't you understand??? :) >>> A Spaniard would be vaguely familiar with the concept ;-) >> >> And I'd have to say that *sadly* (IMO, nothi

Re: mouse speed too fast [Solved, sort of]

Tyler Smith writes: > > I did have a xorg.conf, but I made a new one with Xorg -configure, and > modified the mouse section to read: > > Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "Mouse0" > Driver "mouse" > Option "Protocol" "auto" > Option "Device" "/dev/input/mi

Re: Weird logrotate

On Mon, 04 Apr 2011 12:06:27 +0200, MAROUNI Abbass wrote: > We are running a debian 4.0 on our cache server. > > Something weird happened the last week, as you can see the logs were > supposed to be rotated monthly : (...) > but the log of March was rotated on the 28 of March instead of April t

Re: [OT] English language

On 4 April 2011 22:41, Nate Bargmann wrote: > * On 2011 04 Apr 03:21 -0500, Lisi wrote: > > On Monday 04 April 2011 01:24:03 David Jardine wrote: > > > I just love the spelling of "Advertiser". ;) > > > > Do Americans spell it with a zed? > > Mostly, yes. > No, they spell it with a 'zee'. Regard

Re: question about bind9 from a clueless paranoid

On Mon, 04 Apr 2011 07:13:57 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > I'm running Wheezy on several i386 boxes. Over the weekend I installed > bind9 and dhcp3-server on one of them. While starting to set up dynDNS, > I noticed a comment in /etc/bind/named.conf.options (this is a file that > had just been ins

Re: [OT] Re: OpenOffice.org - how to install additional languages?

On 04/04/2011 09:34 AM, Camaleón wrote: [snip] here in Spain :-P. Of course the official language(s) of every country is the only one valid for legal issues and administrative tasks, that's understandable. You haven't been to the US... -- "Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws w

Re: Debian was hacked: The Canterbury Distribution

On 04/04/2011 09:42 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 03 Apr 2011 12:19:24 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 04/03/2011 07:18 AM, Camaleón wrote: What part of "Cultural Imperialism" don't you understand??? :) A Spaniard would be vaguely familiar with the concept ;-) And I'd have to say that *sadl

Server down?

Hello, After a successfull update/upgrade last night, I know get messages pertaining to: ftp.au.debian.org being 'unavailable'. Anybody got any word on this? Have received nothing from Debian-announce, seen nothing on-site. Can't access it by browser so it looks like a mirror down. Just wondering

Re: Server down?

Server is pingable, but does not reply to HTTP and FTP. debian-mirrors is CCd. Perhaps somebody can inform the admins. Am 04.04.2011 18:26, schrieb Heddle Weaver: Hello, After a successfull update/upgrade last night, I know get messages pertaining to: ftp.au.debian.org

Re: [OT] Re: OpenOffice.org - how to install additional languages?

On Mon, 04 Apr 2011 11:03:51 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 04/04/2011 09:34 AM, Camaleón wrote: [snip] >> here in Spain :-P. Of course the official language(s) of every country >> is the only one valid for legal issues and administrative tasks, that's >> understandable. >> >> > You haven't been t

Re: Debian was hacked: The Canterbury Distribution

On Mon, 04 Apr 2011 11:05:50 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 04/04/2011 09:42 AM, Camaleón wrote: > A Spaniard would be vaguely familiar with the concept ;-) And I'd have to say that *sadly* (IMO, nothing to be proud about) yes, we do are ;-( >>> Any expanding civiliza

Re: Debian was hacked: The Canterbury Distribution

Hello Lisi, Am 2011-04-01 10:17:42, hacktest Du folgendes herunter: > > > 04/01/11 ! > > What does the 4th of January have to do with it?? > Perhaps on an international list we should say the month names as Liam has > here. Otherwise one is playing guessing games to work out the upbringing o

Re: [OT] Re: OpenOffice.org - how to install additional languages?

On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Camaleón wrote: > > Hum... I've got some servers hosted on XO (San Jose, CA) and no one there > is able to speak to me in Spanish when I place a call >:-P > That's oddMost of where I have been in California always have someone who speaks fluent Spanish as mos

Re: question about bind9 from a clueless paranoid

On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Paul E Condon wrote: > I'm running Wheezy on several i386 boxes. Over the weekend I installed > bind9 and dhcp3-server on one of them. While starting to set up dynDNS, > I noticed a comment in /etc/bind/named.conf.options (this is a file > that had just been install

Re: [OT] English language

On 04/04/2011 04:19 AM, Lisi wrote: On Monday 04 April 2011 01:24:03 David Jardine wrote: I just love the spelling of "Advertiser". ;) Do Americans spell it with a zed? Lisi No. --doug -- Blessed are the peacemakers...for they shall be shot at from both sides. --A. M. Greeley -- To UNS

Re: question about bind9 from a clueless paranoid

On Mon 04 Apr 2011 at 07:13:57 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > But I can't find any information more recent than 2008 by > googling. Surely there have been some more recent developments. > What has happened? Surely something has happened, but I find nothing. The problem you might face will not li

Re: Debian was hacked: The Canterbury Distribution

On 04/03/2011 12:19 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: > Any expanding civilization engages in Cultural Imperialism. W/o it, we > wouldn't be here using using computers and (where it's hot) availing > ourselves of air conditioning. ...what's air conditioning? Yesterday, it was 42°C and windy, I just opened

Re: [OT] Re: OpenOffice.org - how to install additional languages?

On Mon, 04 Apr 2011 13:17:56 -0400, Matt Harrison wrote: (hey Matt, next time you want to going on-list again, advice ;-) > On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Camaleón wrote: > > >> Hum... I've got some servers hosted on XO (San Jose, CA) and no one >> there is able to speak to me in Spanish when

Re: [OT] Re: OpenOffice.org - how to install additional languages?

On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 04 Apr 2011 13:17:56 -0400, Matt Harrison wrote: > > (hey Matt, next time you want to going on-list again, advice ;-) > >> On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> >> >>> Hum... I've got some servers hosted on XO (San Jose, CA) an

Re: mounting multipath volumes with /etc/fstab

Le lundi 04 avril, mikie mike écrivit : > On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 11:40 PM, Gilles Mocellin > wrote: > > >> Anyone could confirm or maybe recommend any solution to e.g. postpone > >> mounting until multipath gets loaded? > >> Or may be solution I chose ("manually" mounting via /etc/rc.local) is >

Need help determining package to file bug against

I am seeing odd behavior running a Xen 4.0.1 on AMD64 (squeeze) I am running open-iscsi to connect to a lun, and then using this lun as a phy type backing store for a xen hvm guest. Disk performance works well from dom0 directly (mkfs.ext3 proceeds at a reasonable speed) but when I try do a insta

Re: Debian was hacked: The Canterbury Distribution

On 04/04/2011 01:46 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: On 04/03/2011 12:19 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: Any expanding civilization engages in Cultural Imperialism. W/o it, we wouldn't be here using using computers and (where it's hot) availing ourselves of air conditioning. ...what's air conditioning? Yeste

Re: Android / Rythymbox

On Sat, 2011-04-02 at 09:14 +0100, Michael Thompson wrote: > I hope someone here can help; I cant see my Android handset in any > media player, so cant sync to it. > > It is visible as a mounted drive in gnome, and I can access it without > issue. However Rythmbox, banshee et all will not show it.

Re: [OT] Re: OpenOffice.org - how to install additional languages?

On 04/04/2011 11:35 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 04 Apr 2011 11:03:51 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 04/04/2011 09:34 AM, Camaleón wrote: [snip] here in Spain :-P. Of course the official language(s) of every country is the only one valid for legal issues and administrative tasks, that's understan

Re: [OT] English language

On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 12:06 AM, Heddle Weaver wrote: > > > On 4 April 2011 22:41, Nate Bargmann wrote: >> >> * On 2011 04 Apr 03:21 -0500, Lisi wrote: >> > On Monday 04 April 2011 01:24:03 David Jardine wrote: >> > > I just love the spelling of "Advertiser". ;) >> > >> > Do Americans spell it wi

system-wide bogofilter, procmail, fetchmail

I'm successfully using fetchmail, procmail, and bogofilter as my user, but I'm looking to set it up system-wide and have some questions. I'm running an IMAP server with accounts for several family members. I'd like to scan for spam and file the spam in a "spam" folder for each user. My personal .

Re: Can I get some help with this? (Cleaning bad dependencies with APT)

On Mon, Apr 04, 2011 at 02:54:44AM -0700, Ken Ingram wrote: Why are you doing: > apollo:/var/cache/apt/archives# apt-get -f autoremove when you have this: > 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 23 to remove and 2186 not upgraded. > 31 not fully installed or removed. > Need to get 83.0kB of archives.

Re: Debian was hacked: The Canterbury Distribution

On 04/04/2011 05:27 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 04/04/2011 01:46 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: >> On 04/03/2011 12:19 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: >> >>> Any expanding civilization engages in Cultural Imperialism. W/o it, we >>> wouldn't be here using using computers and (where it's hot) availing >>> ourselve

Re: Debian was hacked: The Canterbury Distribution

On 04/04/2011 09:13 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: On 04/04/2011 05:27 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: On 04/04/2011 01:46 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: On 04/03/2011 12:19 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: Any expanding civilization engages in Cultural Imperialism. W/o it, we wouldn't be here using using computers and (whe

Re: system-wide bogofilter, procmail, fetchmail

On 04/04/2011 07:43 PM, Rob Owens wrote: I'm successfully using fetchmail, procmail, and bogofilter as my user, but I'm looking to set it up system-wide and have some questions. I'm running an IMAP server with accounts for several family members. I'd like to scan for spam and file the spam in a

Re: apt makes it easy to track the new package but hard to dump the old

> "SP" == Stephen Powell writes: SP> Perhaps the "--purge-unused" option of aptitude is what you are looking for. Naw, that only controls the difference between purging and just removing. OK, this helped: # aptitude markauto linux-doc-2.6.37 The following packages will be REMOVED: linux-doc-

How to run a command as root when I shutdown system automatically ?

How to run a command as root when I shutdown system automatically ? I use Debian 6 amd64.

no sound

Help, I cranked everything up but still not an ounce of sound. My ALSA information is located at http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=823f89190858a6673ec0075c004db6de86c7495b Yes I connected headphones to the green jack and ran speaker-test(1). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists

Re: Server down?

On 5 April 2011 02:35, Estelmann, Christian wrote: > Server is pingable, but does not reply to HTTP and FTP. > > debian-mirrors is CCd. Perhaps somebody can inform the admins. > > > Am 04.04.2011 18:26, schrieb Heddle Weaver: > > Hello, > > After a successfull update/upgrade last night, I know g

Re: How to run a command as root when I shutdown system automatically ?

> "w" == waterloo writes: w> How to run a command as root when I shutdown system automatically ? w> I use Debian 6 amd64. make a /root/bin/myshutdown script and run that instead perhaps. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tro

Re: How to run a command as root when I shutdown system automatically ?

On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 11:57:31AM +0800, waterloo wrote: >How to run a command as root when I shutdown system automatically ? >I use Debian 6 amd64. Searching online led me to this: http://synapse.wordpress.com/2007/03/24/run-a-script-on-startup-shutdown-in-linux/ HTH. Kumar -- The ch

Re: How to run a command as root when I shutdown system automatically ?

On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 1:41 AM, Kumar Appaiah wrote: On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 11:57:31AM +0800, waterloo wrote: > >How to run a command as root when I shutdown system automatically ? > >I use Debian 6 amd64. > > Searching online led me to this: > > > http://synapse.wordpress.com/2007/03/24

Hibernate error

Hi everybody, I get error messages every time I hibernate my debian, something look like "LNXPOWER failed to thaw". Does anyone have this error? Thank you and regards