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Re: No more GRUB legacy at install time since wheezy?

On 29/06/11 04:18, Brian wrote: > On Tue 28 Jun 2011 at 13:22:56 -0400, Tom H wrote: > >> The variables that can be set in "/etc/default/grub" are exported in >> "/usr/sbin/grub-mkconfig" ("/etc/default/grub" is sourced by >> "/usr/sbin/grub-mkconfig"). >> >> Why they aren't listed in "/etc/defaul

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Re: Ethernet connection weirdly not working mornings

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On 29/06/11 20:09, � wrote: > Hello, > > Am 29.06.2011 07:03, schrieb John Magolske: >> Since switching to a new machine and upgrading to the latest Sid, I've >> been having some weird problems getting a wired connection to the net. >> >> Running `ifup eth0` brings up a net connection -- but not i

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Re: Can't smoothly type in gnome-terminal

On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 09:38:25 +0800, Chris wrote: > Hi, I'm a user of gnome-terminal. Currently the version is 3.0.1-1. Wow, are we already at there? I didn't notice :-O > Now if I try to type any characters, I just get part of them typed in. > For example, if I type "ls", only "s" typed in. If

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* Chris (bbsh...@gmail.com) wrote: > Hi, I'm a user of gnome-terminal. Currently the version is 3.0.1-1. > > Now if I try to type any characters, I just get part of them typed > in. For example, if I type "ls", only "s" typed in. If I continuously > type "asdf", only "as" typed in. The result seem

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On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 00:07:23 +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: > Camaleón: >> >> I will try to keep lenny until reaches its end of life, which should >> happen when wheezy comes out. > > NACK. Security support for stable releases ends one year after stable+1: > > http://www.debian.org/security/faq#li

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On Tue, 28 Jun 2011 20:23:21 +0100, Tom Furie wrote: > On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 06:55:48PM +, Camaleón wrote: (...) >> Indeed, is not under any "/dev/disk/*" node. Udev creates a symbolic >> link /dev/sdc* which points to /dev/sr*. > > Are you sure it isn't under /dev/disk/by-path/? Let me

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Andrei POPESCU (andreimpope...@gmail.com on 2011-06-27 11:00 +0300): > On Vi, 24 iun 11, 19:16:39, Dan wrote: > > EAC is what I have used to convert my CD collection to flac. It is > > worthy to use it. Unfortunately it runs in windows :( I think you > > can run it with wine > > Sound nice, but I

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On 29/06/11 21:58, Arno Schuring wrote: > Andrei POPESCU (andreimpope...@gmail.com on 2011-06-27 11:00 +0300): >> On Vi, 24 iun 11, 19:16:39, Dan wrote: >>> EAC is what I have used to convert my CD collection to flac. It is >>> worthy to use it. Unfortunately it runs in windows :( I think you >>>

Re: clamav 0.97.1 not coming to squeeze-updates ?

Camaleón: > On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 00:07:23 +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: >> >> NACK. Security support for stable releases ends one year after stable+1: >> >> http://www.debian.org/security/faq#lifespan >> >> Lenny will reach its EOL in January 2012. > > Hey, but that was not my understanding for le

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Re: No more GRUB legacy at install time since wheezy?

On Tue, 28 Jun 2011 19:52:03 +0100, Brian wrote: > On Tue 28 Jun 2011 at 13:42:51 +, Camaleón wrote: > >> How that can be? >> >> GRUB legacy package is still available in Debian repos, is just the >> installer that does not present the option to get it by default. And >> being the expert ins

Re: No more GRUB legacy at install time since wheezy?

On Tue, 28 Jun 2011 20:30:17 +0100, Brian wrote: > On Tue 28 Jun 2011 at 18:40:15 +, Camaleón wrote: > >> But the package is still available and thus, it can be installed and >> thus, it has to be maintained (at least until wheezy becomes >> unsupported). > > Maintained? Like chimera2. Like

Re: No more GRUB legacy at install time since wheezy?

On Tue, 28 Jun 2011 15:32:31 -0400, Tom H wrote: > On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 2:40 PM, Camaleón wrote: >>> >>> If I were the grub maintainer, my first step in dropping grub1 in >>> Debian would be to make it unavailable from d-i... >> >> Ha, how nice! >:-) >> >> But the package is still available an

Re: No more GRUB legacy at install time since wheezy?

On Tue, 28 Jun 2011 23:00:00 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 28 iun 11, 18:40:15, Camaleón wrote: >> >> But the package is still available and thus, it can be installed and >> thus, it has to be maintained (at least until wheezy becomes >> unsupported). > > "*has* to be maintained" or did

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On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 15:04:28 +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: > Camaleón: (...) >>> Lenny will reach its EOL in January 2012. >> >> Hey, but that was not my understanding for lenny. I know that was how >> it used to be but now aren't we based on a 2-year of release fixed >> cycle? :-? >> >> http://

Re: No more GRUB legacy at install time since wheezy?

On Tue, 28 Jun 2011 22:02:53 +0100, Lisi wrote: > On Tuesday 28 June 2011 19:40:15 Camaleón wrote: >> > If I were the grub maintainer, my first step in dropping grub1 in >> > Debian would be to make it unavailable from d-i... > > So we'll all have to switch to Lilo, which is still maintained. (O

Re: No more GRUB legacy at install time since wheezy?

On Wednesday 29 June 2011 15:55:58 Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 28 Jun 2011 22:02:53 +0100, Lisi wrote: > > On Tuesday 28 June 2011 19:40:15 Camaleón wrote: > >> > If I were the grub maintainer, my first step in dropping grub1 in > >> > Debian would be to make it unavailable from d-i... > > > > So we'

Re: sed or awk: decode base64 string in passwd-like file

Il 29/06/2011 16:50, Denny Schierz ha scritto: hi, I have a file with strings like: tes...@domain.foo:e0NSWVBUfVUx=:500:12002::/imap/spool/domain.foo/%1n/% n:storage=50 I need to decode the second field (password field), with something like: echo e0NSWVBUfVUx= | openssl base64 -d How can I d

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Re: clamav 0.97.1 not coming to squeeze-updates ?

On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 11:52 AM, Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 15:04:28 +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: > > > Camaleón: > > (...) > > >>> Lenny will reach its EOL in January 2012. > >> > >> Hey, but that was not my understanding for lenny. I know that was how > >> it used to be but now aren'

Re: Debian safe-upgrade to 6.0.2 - don't run within X session

On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 12:30 AM, Scott Ferguson < prettyfly.producti...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Yes. > > You are the only person I'm aware of reporting an incomplete upgrade. > (I've just checked again this morning) > > Are you absolutely certain the update of the xserver package caused your > upgr

Re: netstat performance

On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 10:15:58 -0600, ChadDavis wrote: > I notice that the following two invocations of netstat have drastically > different execution times: > > netstat > > netstat -n > > > When you just use numerical addresses, it executes almost instantly, but > with the domain names and what

Re: clamav 0.97.1 not coming to squeeze-updates ?

On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 13:18:15 -0300, D G Teed wrote: (please, avoid using html formatted e-mails) > On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 11:52 AM, Camaleón wrote: (...) >> > I can only speculate about this, but I don't think this announcement >> > is relevant any more. The document is from July 2009 and >>

Re: netstat performance

On 06/29/11 at 10:15am, ChadDavis wrote: > I notice that the following two invocations of netstat have > drastically different execution times: > > netstat > > netstat -n > > > When you just use numerical addresses, it executes almost instantly, > but with the domain names and whatever you call

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Re: clamav 0.97.1 not coming to squeeze-updates ?

On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 11:59:44AM +, Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 10:51:28 -0700, Freeman wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 03:46:32PM +, Camaleón wrote: > > (...) > > >> > Note you don't need to use squeeze-updates, so we are opting into > >> > something which can be a litt

Re: clamav 0.97.1 not coming to squeeze-updates ?

On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 02:52:35PM +, Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 15:04:28 +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: > > > Camaleón: > > (...) > > >>> Lenny will reach its EOL in January 2012. > >> > >> Hey, but that was not my understanding for lenny. I know that was how > >> it used to be but

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Re: netstat performance

On Jun 29, 2011, at 11:51 AM, William Hopkins wrote: > On 06/29/11 at 10:15am, ChadDavis wrote: >> Not a big deal, but just made me think. Surely the name resolution >> isn't that costly is it? > > Depends on latency and distance to your DNS server, how long it takes the DNS > server to perform

Re: No more GRUB legacy at install time since wheezy?

On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 11:30 AM, Lisi wrote: > On Wednesday 29 June 2011 15:55:58 Camaleón wrote: >> On Tue, 28 Jun 2011 22:02:53 +0100, Lisi wrote: >> > On Tuesday 28 June 2011 19:40:15 Camaleón wrote: >> >> > >> >> > If I were the grub maintainer, my first step in dropping grub1 in >> >> > Debi

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Re: netstat performance

On Wed 29 Jun 2011 at 12:22:26 -0600, Glenn English wrote: > For a good time, 'apt-get install bind' :-) For an even better time (and to escape the monoculture) apt-get install unbound :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". T

Re: netstat performance

On 06/29/11 at 08:08pm, Brian wrote: > On Wed 29 Jun 2011 at 12:22:26 -0600, Glenn English wrote: > > > For a good time, 'apt-get install bind' :-) > > For an even better time (and to escape the monoculture) > >apt-get install unbound Monoculture is one thing, but that is not a comparable p

Re: Ethernet connection weirdly not working mornings

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OpenOffice vs LibreOffice Questions

1. Why is Debian switching to LibreOffice, per the posting I saw a few days ago? 2. Is OpenOffice still going to be supported? 3. What makes LibreOffice better than OpenOffice? These questions are not intended to start a flame war! I have never even looked at LibreOffice, as I did not need to. Now

Re: netstat performance

On Wed 29 Jun 2011 at 15:27:53 -0400, William Hopkins wrote: > Monoculture is one thing, but that is not a comparable product. Unbound is for > recursive-only, so you can't have your own zone. Within the context of the thread I thought it a good fit and worth a mention. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: netstat performance

On Jun 29, 2011, at 1:27 PM, William Hopkins wrote: > Also, the Debian package name for ISC BIND is bind9. Good point, well taken. Oops... -- Glenn English -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.d

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Re: netstat performance

On 06/29/11 at 08:44pm, Brian wrote: > On Wed 29 Jun 2011 at 15:27:53 -0400, William Hopkins wrote: > > > Monoculture is one thing, but that is not a comparable product. Unbound is > > for > > recursive-only, so you can't have your own zone. > > Within the context of the thread I thought it a go

Re: OpenOffice vs LibreOffice Questions

2011/6/29 John W Foster : > 1. Why is Debian switching to LibreOffice, per the posting I saw a few > days ago? Because the community has switched to LibreOffice. > 2. Is OpenOffice still going to be supported? Perhaps by Oracle, the Apache foundation, IBM or whomever may be interestested, not b

Re: OpenOffice vs LibreOffice Questions

On Wed, 2011-06-29 at 13:26 -0500, John W Foster wrote: > 1. Why is Debian switching to LibreOffice, per the posting I saw a few > days ago? From what I read and heard, most distributions switched, or are in the process of switching. It also appears most of the developers are behind LibreOffice,

Re: OpenOffice vs LibreOffice Questions

On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 13:26:39 -0500 John W Foster wrote: > 1. Why is Debian switching to LibreOffice, per the posting I saw a few > days ago? > 2. Is OpenOffice still going to be supported? > 3. What makes LibreOffice better than OpenOffice? > > These questions are not intended to start a flame w

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Re: No more GRUB legacy at install time since wheezy?

On Wednesday 29 June 2011 19:50:59 Tom H wrote: > On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 11:30 AM, Lisi wrote: > > On Wednesday 29 June 2011 15:55:58 Camaleón wrote: > >> On Tue, 28 Jun 2011 22:02:53 +0100, Lisi wrote: > >> > On Tuesday 28 June 2011 19:40:15 Camaleón wrote: > >> >> > If I were the grub maintaine

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Re: OpenOffice vs LibreOffice Questions

On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 01:26:39PM -0500, John W Foster wrote: > 1. Why is Debian switching to LibreOffice, per the posting I saw a few > days ago? > 2. Is OpenOffice still going to be supported? > 3. What makes LibreOffice better than OpenOffice? > > These questions are not intended to start a fl

Re: clamav 0.97.1 not coming to squeeze-updates ?

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On Wed 29 Jun 2011 at 16:36:51 -0400, William Hopkins wrote: > Agreed, I was just replying to your monoculture comment.. running a local > recursive server is still a great idea (and thread contribution). Sorry if I > implied otherwise! I didn't take it that way. You made a fair technical point a

Re: No more GRUB legacy at install time since wheezy?

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Re: Can't smoothly type in gnome-terminal

On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 09:59:55PM +1000, Ben Darby wrote: > * Chris (bbsh...@gmail.com) wrote: > > Hi, I'm a user of gnome-terminal. Currently the version is 3.0.1-1. > > > > Now if I try to type any characters, I just get part of them typed > > in. For example, if I type "ls", only "s" typed in.

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Dear all, I'm running Debian Testing and I have a problem with a python script called autojump: #dpkg --info autojump_15-1_all.deb # #new debian package, version 2.0. # size 11186 bytes: control archive= 928 bytes. # 612 bytes,17 lines control # 750 bytes,11 lin

How to get the stable iso for lenny

Hello Everybody, Good Morning !! For validation of a product we were looking for lenny version of Debian for desktop. Please could any of you help me to get the valid mirror location where I can get the lenny (iso/source) for i386 platform? Thanks and Regards -Brijesh

Re: audio through HDMI on a IDT 92HD71B sound card

On 06/30/11 at 09:58am, Yuwen Dai wrote: > Dear all, > > I have a Dell Latitude E6400 laptop, which has a Displayport. I tried to > connect the laptop with a Sony TV with a HDMI port. So I bought a > Displayport-HDMI converter from Dell. When I play a movie using mplayer, > the video is OK on TV

Re: audio through HDMI on a IDT 92HD71B sound card

On 06/30/11 at 09:58am, Yuwen Dai wrote: > Dear all, > > I have a Dell Latitude E6400 laptop, which has a Displayport. I tried to > connect the laptop with a Sony TV with a HDMI port. So I bought a > Displayport-HDMI converter from Dell. When I play a movie using mplayer, > the video is OK on TV

Re: Squeeze: How to hide certain partitions in Nautilus

On 30/06/11 14:36, Hoang Le wrote: > Dear Scott, > > > Best regards, > Hoang Le > Dear Hoang Le, please don't top-post. It limits the number of emails I can read. See:- http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote2.html#ss2.3 I don't have Nautilus to experiment with - and I'm sp

Re: How to get the stable iso for lenny

On 30/06/11 14:56, brijesh singh wrote: > Hello Everybody, > > Good Morning !! > > For validation of a product we were looking for lenny version of Debian > for desktop. > Please could any of you help me to get the valid mirror location where I > can get the lenny (iso/source) for i386 platform

Debian 6 causes my SunFire T2000 system to not boot

I'm getting the following problem: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=609466 However, if I boot with "Linux video=atyfb:off" as suggested in the link it still doesn't work. It always hangs at the boot line console [tty0] enabled, bootconsole disabled and nothing responds. My

Re: weird - rsync get removed from system. presumably after last update?

On Thu, 30 Jun 2011 14:16:02 +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: > I run rsync on headless web and mail servers as well as desktops. None > of them lost rsync (none of them run Symantec). I meant Synaptic. Sorry for a typo. I used Symantec last time probably in Windows 95 or 98. But somehow until toda

Re: Headless Install Debian Squeeze

On 30/06/11 13:04, Martin McCormick wrote: > It used to be that one got the installation program to > run through a serial port by a command like > > linux console=ttySx,9600n8p > > I downloaded the new Debian 6 iso image from Debian.org > and am trying to install it over a serial con

Re: How to get the stable iso for lenny

On 30/06/11 15:25, JD wrote: > On 06/29/2011 10:35 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> On 30/06/11 14:56, brijesh singh wrote: >>> Hello Everybody, >>> >>> Good Morning !! >>> >>> For validation of a product we were looking for lenny version of Debian >>> for desktop. >>> Please could any of you help me t

Re: weird dhclient problem

2011/6/30 wolf python london : > Hey all, > >    I recently upgrade my Wheezy and Sid box, and find a weird problem about >    dhclient(package:isc-dhcp-client ). > >    My boxes are in an intranet (my campus),so I want to access the stuff >    in the intranet (ftp and http). The intranet has its o

Re: Debian 6 causes my SunFire T2000 system to not boot

Scott Simpson writes: > I'm getting the following problem: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/ > bugreport.cgi?bug=609466 > > However, if I boot with "Linux video=atyfb:off" as suggested in the link it > still doesn't work. It always hangs at the boot line I do not have Sparc systems, but going

Re: weird - rsync get removed from system. presumably after last update?

On 30/06/11 15:54, Juan R. de Silva wrote: > On Thu, 30 Jun 2011 14:16:02 +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: > >> I run rsync on headless web and mail servers as well as desktops. None >> of them lost rsync (none of them run Symantec). > > I meant Synaptic. Sorry for a typo. > > I used Symantec last t

Re: audio through HDMI on a IDT 92HD71B sound card

Hello Liam, I got little information about HDMI on an E6400. I saw a person using HDMI and sound on an E6500 successfully, and the sound card is not IDT 92HD71B. Best regards, Yuwen

Re: weird - rsync get removed from system. presumably after last update?

On Thu, 30 Jun 2011, Juan R. de Silva wrote: . . . error code 127. I run my script manually and get the same. `which rsync` returned nothing. Then I opened Symantec and to my astonishment found that rsync is present but is not installed (?!!!). . . . What do you mean by "present but not inst

Re: weird - rsync get removed from system. presumably after last update?

On Thu, 30 Jun 2011 08:43:10 +0200, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > On Thu, 30 Jun 2011, Juan R. de Silva wrote: > >> . . . >> error code 127. I run my script manually and get the same. `which >> rsync` returned nothing. Then I opened Symantec and to my astonishment >> found that rsync is present but is