Exim4 configurations

2012-01-13 Thread TCP
This question I'd posted to the forum before but they asked me to "join the group". I think what it mean is to post it here. I've tried to make debian can send message via gmail but couldn't know how to set it correctly. Which I followed the instructions from the web. (http://www.manu-j.com/blog/

Re: Squeeze64: LD_LIBRARY_PATH / ignored or overwritten under X *SOLVED*

2012-01-13 Thread Denny Schierz
hi, Am 12.01.2012 um 23:11 schrieb Andrei Popescu: > On Jo, 12 ian 12, 12:58:42, Denny Schierz wrote: >> >> What could be the problem? > > Your display manager doesn't source the system shell configuration > files. If you need a solution per user put that stuff in ~/.xsessionrc > otherwise mo

Re: what happened in sarge to lose 500 dd?

2012-01-13 Thread afuentes
It makes sense... thank you Greets! aL On Thu, 2012-01-12 at 16:23 +0100, Florian Ernst wrote: > Hello, > > On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 03:21:05PM +0100, afuentes wrote: > > http://claudiocomputing.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/infographic_debian_history-en-v08.png > > > > what happened in sarge to l

Re: boot from raid1 mdadm version 1.2 partition

2012-01-13 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
12/01/2012 22:26, Marc Auslander wrote: Earlier posts seem to say this should/might work. I made an mdadm v 1.2 partions, and put a copy of my root file system on it. update-grub doesn't see it at all. if I try to boot by hand, I can get grub to boot the kernel but then I get mysterious error

Re: boot from raid1 mdadm version 1.2 partition

2012-01-13 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Marc Auslander wrote: > > Earlier posts seem to say this should/might work. > > I made an mdadm v 1.2 partions, and put a copy of my root file system > on it. > > update-grub doesn't see it at all. > > if I try to boot by hand, I can get grub to boot the kernel but

Re: Gnome Shell battery indicator missing

2012-01-13 Thread Panayiotis
Thanks! On Παρ, 2012-01-13 at 07:22 +0100, Johan Grönqvist wrote: > 2012-01-12 09:40, Panayiotis Karabassis skrev: > > On 01/11/2012 10:41 PM, Johan Grönqvist wrote: > > Thanks, I'll wait for 3.2. Meanwhile I read the battery status with the > > "acpi" command. Linux as opposed to GNU Hurd, you me

Re: Keyboard layout detection

2012-01-13 Thread Panayiotis
Thanks to all again! You've solved this for me, it's a GB layout indeed. Tony, can't you put it in /etc/rc.local or ~/.profile? Again thanks, Panayiotis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.deb

booting Debian-6 in run level 3

2012-01-13 Thread Bijoy Lobo
Hi Everyone, I have read online that Debian Squeeze has no differentiation in runlevels from 2-5, although I would like to boot my debian box in CLI mode. Any way I can achieve this? -- Thanks and Regards Bijoy Lobo

Re: Renamiing a USB external h/d

2012-01-13 Thread Sharon Kimble
On 12 January 2012 18:39, hvw59601 wrote: > Sharon Kimble wrote: >> >> On 12 January 2012 14:28, hvw59601 wrote: >>> >>> Sharon Kimble wrote: I have a USB external hard drive for my backups which is formatted ext 3. It is currently named as '/media/8eef3b99-c17b-4913-ae61-d34c

OT: Impossible to scale document to fit on paper in loCalc.

2012-01-13 Thread Sthu Deus
Good time of the day. I can not scale (reduce) a page in preview in .ods file in localc in order to fit it on paper when printing. When I move the 'Scale Factor' slider, the preview just blinks but not resizes the page. I think there is a kind of protection in the file that prevents scaling of t

Re: virtual interfaces not routing properly.

2012-01-13 Thread Darac Marjal
On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 03:48:56PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > Pascal Hambourg wrote: > > Bob Proulx a écrit : > [cut] > Eventually when ifupdown has migrated it will be doing vitually the > same thing as the above. It will simply be doing it internally. > Previous versions of 'ifupdown' called if

Stripping down Debian Squeeze

2012-01-13 Thread Bijoy Lobo
Hello Everyone, I am currently Debian Squeeze for a UTM ( Squid3+Snort+OpenVPN+iptables). I would like to strip down the OS for better performance of the UTM. It would be acting as a gateway to my network so if there is any software within the OS which i can uninstall for better performance would

Re: virtual interfaces not routing properly.

2012-01-13 Thread Roger Leigh
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 11:23:30AM +, Darac Marjal wrote: > There are a number of long-standing bugs raised against ifupdown > (#168776, #464562 and #496591) which relate to this. ifupdown now has an active maintainer, and I'm sure patches would be welcome. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roge

Re: booting Debian-6 in run level 3

2012-01-13 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 5:51 AM, Bijoy Lobo wrote: > > I have read online that Debian Squeeze has no differentiation in runlevels > from 2-5, although I would like to boot my debian box in CLI mode. You can add "text" to the "linux" grub line. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@li

Re: booting Debian-6 in run level 3

2012-01-13 Thread Darac Marjal
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 04:21:11PM +0530, Bijoy Lobo wrote: >Hi Everyone, > >I have read online that Debian Squeeze has no differentiation in runlevels >from 2-5, although I would like to boot my debian box in CLI mode. Any way >I can achieve this? Out of the box, this is true, bu

Setting keyboard layout (and variant?) [was: Re: Keyboard layout detection]

2012-01-13 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Vi, 13 ian 12, 12:45:19, Panayiotis wrote: > Thanks to all again! > > You've solved this for me, it's a GB layout indeed. > > Tony, can't you put it in /etc/rc.local or ~/.profile? /etc/rc.local wouldn't work because X has to be started and ~/.profile is not sourced by all display managers.

Re: Renamiing a USB external h/d

2012-01-13 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Vi, 13 ian 12, 11:06:26, Sharon Kimble wrote: > > OKay, this is what I did;- > sudo umount /dev/sdb1 > > sudo e2label /dev/sdb1 backup > > sudo mkdir /media/backup > > sudo emacs /etc/fstab > The fstab line now looks like this;- > #/dev/sdb1 /media/8eef3b99-c17b-4913-ae61-d34c7fd5d459_

Re: Stripping down Debian Squeeze

2012-01-13 Thread Brian
On Fri 13 Jan 2012 at 16:56:09 +0530, Bijoy Lobo wrote: > I am currently Debian Squeeze for a UTM ( Squid3+Snort+OpenVPN+iptables). I > would like to strip down the OS for better performance of the UTM. It would > be acting as a gateway to my network so if there is any software within the > OS whi

Re: booting Debian-6 in run level 3

2012-01-13 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Vi, 13 ian 12, 07:06:12, Tom H wrote: > On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 5:51 AM, Bijoy Lobo wrote: > > > > I have read online that Debian Squeeze has no differentiation in runlevels > > from 2-5, although I would like to boot my debian box in CLI mode. > > You can add "text" to the "linux" grub line.

Re: booting Debian-6 in run level 3

2012-01-13 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Vi, 13 ian 12, 12:13:52, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 04:21:11PM +0530, Bijoy Lobo wrote: > >Hi Everyone, > > > >I have read online that Debian Squeeze has no differentiation in > > runlevels > >from 2-5, although I would like to boot my debian box in CLI mode. Any

Re: Stripping down Debian Squeeze

2012-01-13 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Vi, 13 ian 12, 16:56:09, Bijoy Lobo wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > I am currently Debian Squeeze for a UTM ( Squid3+Snort+OpenVPN+iptables). I > would like to strip down the OS for better performance of the UTM. It would > be acting as a gateway to my network so if there is any software within th

Re: Stripping down Debian Squeeze

2012-01-13 Thread Don Juan
On 01/13/2012 05:34 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Vi, 13 ian 12, 16:56:09, Bijoy Lobo wrote: Hello Everyone, I am currently Debian Squeeze for a UTM ( Squid3+Snort+OpenVPN+iptables). I would like to strip down the OS for better performance of the UTM. It would be acting as a gateway to my networ

Re: booting Debian-6 in run level 3

2012-01-13 Thread Brian
On Fri 13 Jan 2012 at 16:21:11 +0530, Bijoy Lobo wrote: > I have read online that Debian Squeeze has no differentiation in runlevels > from 2-5, although I would like to boot my debian box in CLI mode. Any way > I can achieve this? Your box already boots in CLI mode, it's just that you don't imme

Re: booting Debian-6 in run level 3

2012-01-13 Thread Brian
On Fri 13 Jan 2012 at 15:23:33 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Vi, 13 ian 12, 07:06:12, Tom H wrote: > > > > You can add "text" to the "linux" grub line. > > Do you have a reference on this? It is the first time I hear about it in > 5+ years of Debian. /etc/init.d/gdm3 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: booting Debian-6 in run level 3

2012-01-13 Thread Don Juan
On 01/13/2012 05:27 AM, Brian wrote: On Fri 13 Jan 2012 at 15:23:33 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Vi, 13 ian 12, 07:06:12, Tom H wrote: You can add "text" to the "linux" grub line. Do you have a reference on this? It is the first time I hear about it in 5+ years of Debian. /etc/init.d/gdm3

Re: booting Debian-6 in run level 3

2012-01-13 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Vi, 13 ian 12, 05:47:10, Don Juan wrote: > > > Or you could just set it in inittab. You can also hit edit on grub > and just type 3 after your boot options and will over ride the > switch to run level 5 and go to 3 There is no switch to runlevel 5 in stock Debian ;) (because runlevels 2-5 are i

Re: booting Debian-6 in run level 3

2012-01-13 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Vi, 13 ian 12, 13:27:56, Brian wrote: > On Fri 13 Jan 2012 at 15:23:33 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Vi, 13 ian 12, 07:06:12, Tom H wrote: > > > > > > You can add "text" to the "linux" grub line. > > > > Do you have a reference on this? It is the first time I hear about it in > > 5+ yea

Re: booting Debian-6 in run level 3

2012-01-13 Thread Don Juan
On 01/13/2012 06:02 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Vi, 13 ian 12, 05:47:10, Don Juan wrote: Or you could just set it in inittab. You can also hit edit on grub and just type 3 after your boot options and will over ride the switch to run level 5 and go to 3 There is no switch to runlevel 5 in stock

Re: Stripping down Debian Squeeze

2012-01-13 Thread David Goodenough
On Friday 13 Jan 2012, Bijoy Lobo wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > I am currently Debian Squeeze for a UTM ( Squid3+Snort+OpenVPN+iptables). I > would like to strip down the OS for better performance of the UTM. It would > be acting as a gateway to my network so if there is any software within the > O

Re: webcamera not working

2012-01-13 Thread Andreas Berglund
On 2012-01-10 23:04, Scott Ferguson wrote: Sorry for the long delay, haven't had a chance to respond until now. Is paste.debian.org the correct address? dns wouldn't resolv for me. My apologies. That should have been paste.debian.*net* not paste.debian.*org*. No worries. I put

Re: booting Debian-6 in run level 3

2012-01-13 Thread Darac Marjal
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 03:28:24PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Vi, 13 ian 12, 12:13:52, Darac Marjal wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 04:21:11PM +0530, Bijoy Lobo wrote: > > >Hi Everyone, > > > > > >I have read online that Debian Squeeze has no differentiation in > > > runlevels >

Re: booting Debian-6 in run level 3

2012-01-13 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Vi, 13 ian 12, 06:16:15, Don Juan wrote: > On 01/13/2012 06:02 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote: > >On Vi, 13 ian 12, 05:47:10, Don Juan wrote: > >>Or you could just set it in inittab. You can also hit edit on grub > >>and just type 3 after your boot options and will over ride the > >>switch to run leve

Re: booting Debian-6 in run level 3

2012-01-13 Thread Dom
On 13/01/12 15:21, Darac Marjal wrote: On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 03:28:24PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Vi, 13 ian 12, 12:13:52, Darac Marjal wrote: On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 04:21:11PM +0530, Bijoy Lobo wrote: Hi Everyone, I have read online that Debian Squeeze has no differentiation

Re: booting Debian-6 in run level 3

2012-01-13 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Vi, 13 ian 12, 15:21:27, Darac Marjal wrote: > > I agree that switching S to K is better than simply removing the link > (it allows you to switch to that runlevel from any other, for example), > but I don't agree that there's no need to edit the init script. Next > time insserv is run, won't th

Re: Stripping down Debian Squeeze

2012-01-13 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Vi, 13 ian 12, 14:17:54, David Goodenough wrote: > On Friday 13 Jan 2012, Bijoy Lobo wrote: > > Hello Everyone, > > > > I am currently Debian Squeeze for a UTM ( Squid3+Snort+OpenVPN+iptables). I > > would like to strip down the OS for better performance of the UTM. It would > > be acting as a

Re: booting Debian-6 in run level 3

2012-01-13 Thread Curt
On 2012-01-13, Bijoy Lobo wrote: > > Hi Everyone, > > I have read online that Debian Squeeze has no differentiation in runlevels > from 2-5, although I would like to boot my debian box in CLI mode. Any way > I can achieve this? > For me the easiest way to boot into the cli is to either disable or

Re: Squeeze64: LD_LIBRARY_PATH / ignored or overwritten under X *SOLVED*

2012-01-13 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 09:05:48AM +0100, Denny Schierz wrote: > hi, > > Am 12.01.2012 um 23:11 schrieb Andrei Popescu: > > > On Jo, 12 ian 12, 12:58:42, Denny Schierz wrote: > >> > >> What could be the problem? > > > > Your display manager doesn't source the system shell configuration > > fil

Re: booting Debian-6 in run level 3

2012-01-13 Thread Frank McCormick
On 13/01/12 11:40 AM, Curt wrote: On 2012-01-13, Bijoy Lobo wrote: Hi Everyone, I have read online that Debian Squeeze has no differentiation in runlevels from 2-5, although I would like to boot my debian box in CLI mode. Any way I can achieve this? For me the easiest way to boot into the

Re: Renamiing a USB external h/d

2012-01-13 Thread Sharon Kimble
Thanks Andrei, its now all working perfectly. Sharon. On 13 January 2012 12:28, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Vi, 13 ian 12, 11:06:26, Sharon Kimble wrote: >> >> OKay, this is what I did;- >> sudo umount /dev/sdb1 >> >> sudo e2label /dev/sdb1 backup >> >> sudo mkdir /media/backup >> >> sudo emacs /

Re: booting Debian-6 in run level 3

2012-01-13 Thread hvw59601
Brian wrote: On Fri 13 Jan 2012 at 15:23:33 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Vi, 13 ian 12, 07:06:12, Tom H wrote: You can add "text" to the "linux" grub line. Do you have a reference on this? It is the first time I hear about it in 5+ years of Debian. /etc/init.d/gdm3 Well I'll be darne

Re: virtual interfaces not routing properly.

2012-01-13 Thread Jon Dowland
If you set the netmask for all the aliases (eth0:0 etc.) to 255.255.255.255, do you get the result you want? -- 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/4f106590

Re: booting Debian-6 in run level 3

2012-01-13 Thread hvw59601
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Vi, 13 ian 12, 13:27:56, Brian wrote: On Fri 13 Jan 2012 at 15:23:33 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Vi, 13 ian 12, 07:06:12, Tom H wrote: You can add "text" to the "linux" grub line. Do you have a reference on this? It is the first time I hear about it in 5+ years of

Re: booting Debian-6 in run level 3

2012-01-13 Thread Bob Proulx
hvw59601 wrote: > Brian wrote: > >Andrei Popescu wrote: > >>Tom H wrote: > >>>You can add "text" to the "linux" grub line. > >>Do you have a reference on this? It is the first time I hear > >>about it in 5+ years of Debian. > > > >/etc/init.d/gdm3 > > But I don't find 'text' in kernel-parameters.t

Re: booting Debian-6 in run level 3

2012-01-13 Thread hvw59601
Curt wrote: On 2012-01-13, Bijoy Lobo wrote: Hi Everyone, I have read online that Debian Squeeze has no differentiation in runlevels from 2-5, although I would like to boot my debian box in CLI mode. Any way I can achieve this? For me the easiest way to boot into the cli is to either disabl

Re: booting Debian-6 in run level 3

2012-01-13 Thread hvw59601
Bob Proulx wrote: hvw59601 wrote: Brian wrote: Andrei Popescu wrote: Tom H wrote: You can add "text" to the "linux" grub line. Do you have a reference on this? It is the first time I hear about it in 5+ years of Debian. /etc/init.d/gdm3 But I don't find 'text' in kernel-parameters.txt of t

Re: booting Debian-6 in run level 3

2012-01-13 Thread Curt
On 2012-01-13, Frank McCormick wrote: >>> >> >> For me the easiest way to boot into the cli is to either disable or >> remove your display manager. >> >> For gdm3, for instance, you could disable that puppy: > >Isn't booting into maintenance mode basically the same as going to > the cli? > W

Re: Exim4 configurations

2012-01-13 Thread hvw59601
TCP wrote: This question I'd posted to the forum before but they asked me to "join the group". I think what it mean is to post it here. I've tried to make debian can send message via gmail but couldn't know how to set it correctly. Which I followed the instructions from the web. (http://www.

Re: booting Debian-6 in run level 3

2012-01-13 Thread Brian
On Fri 13 Jan 2012 at 11:49:38 -0600, hvw59601 wrote: > True. But then is there a synopsis of *all* possible parameters of the > cmdline? If you look at what /etc/init.d/gdm3 does to get the 'text' parameter the answer must be 'no'. The possible number is infinite. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

malware infesting windows part of dual-boot

2012-01-13 Thread Charles Blair
I have the lenny release of debian and windows XP as a dual- boot using grub 0.97. The debian system (of course) seems to be working fine, but I've gotten some malware (of course) on the windows side. Can somebody recommend software (preferably free) that will deal with the bad windows stu

Re: Dvorak Keyboards.

2012-01-13 Thread Weaver
> On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 07:40, Weaver wrote: >> Yes, it raises the point that some manufacturers achieve their hardware >> height and profile, not from the keyboard base, but from the different >> heights of keys on the different rows of a Qwerty. >> > > My current keyboard is built like that,

Re: malware infesting windows part of dual-boot

2012-01-13 Thread Brian
On Fri 13 Jan 2012 at 13:04:16 -0600, Charles Blair wrote: >I have the lenny release of debian and windows XP as a dual- > boot using grub 0.97. The debian system (of course) seems to > be working fine, but I've gotten some malware (of course) on > the windows side. > > Can somebody reco

Re: gnu screen - 40 windows limit?

2012-01-13 Thread Evuraan
thanks! that worked. #ifndef MAXWIN # define MAXWIN 409 #endif :) I will never run out of sessions! I threw in the vertical split as well, http://torrez.us/archives/2009/02/24/579/ On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 8:38 PM, toor wrote: > I run across this issue as well. > > I usually recompile screen to

Re: Network not working on Shuttle XS35GTV2

2012-01-13 Thread Selim T. Erdogan
It probably isn't this simple but have you tried running the following? ifup eth0 -- 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/20120113200748.ga5...@cs.utexas.edu

ptrace suid?

2012-01-13 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
I've got a very strange virtualbox problem: I have two hosts sharing /home with NFS. The two machines are very close to identical: same CPU, same motherboard, same amount of memory. Same kernel version, same virtualbox version, same versions of all the libraries virtualbox depends on. If I run

Setup a firewall/gateway/server

2012-01-13 Thread Csanyi Pal
Hi, I want to setup my headless pc box on which run a Debian Squeeze system for firewall/gateway/server for my home LAN. What I want is to protect my LAN and to get a web server that is reachable from the Internet and from LAN too. I want to use Shorewall as firewall manager and apache2 as a web

Re: grub-pc mdadm root

2012-01-13 Thread Marc Auslander
I'm still having no luck booting an mdadm 1.2 root. grub2 works - I get into the boot kernel and initram. But when it comes to mount the real kernel, I fall into initramfs shell with a message that the kernel can't be found. And it can't, because the raid root device hasn't been assembled. (No

editing pdf files

2012-01-13 Thread richard
Greetings, Is there any free app which can edit pdf files. Evince looks like it does it, you can edit, send it as an attachment and read it with another copy of evince and you can see the alterations. Open it on a poxy winblos machine with acrobat or acroread, and the edited sections are as the o

Re: pure debian testing or a distro based on debian testing

2012-01-13 Thread Andrej Kacian
On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:11:58 +0530 Amrish Purohit wrote: >Hi Osamu, >Thanks for your reply. I will definitely try installing testing over >stable version. I make my system dual boot so I have a backup. Here is >the way I install the debian, please correct me if I am wrong. >I install the core sys

Re: Laptop fan doesn't stop

2012-01-13 Thread Selim T. Erdogan
amt, 10.01.2012: > Hello, running Debian Squeeze 6.0.3 amd64 on a DELL laptop and I have > a problem with the fan. When it boots up, the fan is really silent but > after a few of minutes it starts working and doesn't stop at all. I > didn't had this problem when I was running a debian based distro.

problem mounting iso9660 dvds

2012-01-13 Thread Lars Callenbach
Hello, last December I have burned some backup DVDs on my box with growisofs. It was possible to read the content (also under windows, other Linux installations, ...). This week I tried to make another backup. Growisofs complains with some error messages (with the hint to an unformatted medium)

Re: editing pdf files

2012-01-13 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Fri, 2012-01-13 at 21:50 +, richard wrote: > Greetings, > > > Is there any free app which can edit pdf files. > Evince looks like it does it, you can edit, send it as an attachment and read > it with another copy of evince and you can see the alterations. > Open it on a poxy winblos machin

Re: editing pdf files

2012-01-13 Thread Claudius Hubig
"John A. Sullivan III" wrote: >1) OpenOffice PDF plugin - probably the best potential but it still >sometimes chokes on some PDFs or mangles the formatting badly. > >2) Xournal - good and simple if you only want to add text but nothing >beyond that. > >3) GIMP - extremely powerful and consequently

Re: editing pdf files

2012-01-13 Thread richard
On Fri, 13 Jan 2012 23:20:05 +0100 Claudius Hubig wrote: > "John A. Sullivan III" wrote: > >1) OpenOffice PDF plugin - probably the best potential but it still > >sometimes chokes on some PDFs or mangles the formatting badly. > > > >2) Xournal - good and simple if you only want to add text but n

Re: booting Debian-6 in run level 3

2012-01-13 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Vi, 13 ian 12, 17:55:57, Curt wrote: > > Well, it's going to the cli, but as root, with only a subset of the > regular system running (I think). I can't seem to find the exact > definition of 'single user mode,' but I do not think it should be > considered the equivalent of simply running your

Re: malware infesting windows part of dual-boot

2012-01-13 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Vi, 13 ian 12, 13:04:16, Charles Blair wrote: > > Can somebody recommend software (preferably free) that > will deal with the bad windows stuff without trashing the > linux system? I'm concerned that running standard-issue > diagnostic and treatment stuff will tamper with the boot > sector

Re: Setup a firewall/gateway/server

2012-01-13 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Vi, 13 ian 12, 22:04:02, Csanyi Pal wrote: > > I want to use Shorewall as firewall manager and apache2 as a webserver. ... > IP Forwarding: > cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward > 1 > > but this setup doesn't work yet. Why? No idea, never got it to work either, but I just used Shorewall to setu

Re: booting Debian-6 in run level 3

2012-01-13 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 8:23 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Vi, 13 ian 12, 07:06:12, Tom H wrote: >> On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 5:51 AM, Bijoy Lobo wrote: >> > >> > I have read online that Debian Squeeze has no differentiation in runlevels >> > from 2-5, although I would like to boot my debian box i

Re: booting Debian-6 in run level 3

2012-01-13 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 8:28 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Vi, 13 ian 12, 12:13:52, Darac Marjal wrote: >> On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 04:21:11PM +0530, Bijoy Lobo wrote: >> >    Hi Everyone, >> > >> >    I have read online that Debian Squeeze has no differentiation in >> > runlevels >> >    from 2-

Re: booting Debian-6 in run level 3

2012-01-13 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 8:47 AM, Don Juan wrote: > On 01/13/2012 05:27 AM, Brian wrote: >> On Fri 13 Jan 2012 at 15:23:33 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: >>> On Vi, 13 ian 12, 07:06:12, Tom H wrote: You can add "text" to the "linux" grub line. >>> >>> Do you have a reference on this? It is

Re: Stripping down Debian Squeeze

2012-01-13 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 13/01/12 23:33, Brian wrote: > On Fri 13 Jan 2012 at 16:56:09 +0530, Bijoy Lobo wrote: > >> I am currently Debian Squeeze for a UTM ( Squid3+Snort+OpenVPN+iptables). I >> would like to strip down the OS for better performance of the UTM. It would >> be acting as a gateway to my network so if th

Re: Setup a firewall/gateway/server

2012-01-13 Thread Bob Proulx
Csanyi Pal wrote: > I want to setup my headless pc box on which run a Debian Squeeze system > for firewall/gateway/server for my home LAN. Sounds good. > What I want is to protect my LAN and to get a web server that is > reachable from the Internet and from LAN too. Sure. > I want to use Shorew

Re: webcamera not working

2012-01-13 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 14/01/12 01:38, Andreas Berglund wrote: > On 2012-01-10 23:04, Scott Ferguson wrote: > > Sorry for the long delay, haven't had a chance to respond until now. No worries. >> It appears as if there isn't enough USB bandwidth for your device - try >> it in other USB ports. Use:- >> $ dmesg | ta

Re: Setup a firewall/gateway/server

2012-01-13 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Hello, Csanyi Pal a écrit : > > iface eth1 inet static > address 192.168.10.1 > netmask 255.255.255.0 > network 192.168.10.0 > broadcast 192.168.10.255 This line is wrong : > gateway 192.168.10.1 A host cannot be its own gateway. Also there can be only one default gateway, a

Re: editing pdf files

2012-01-13 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
"John A. Sullivan III" writes: > On Fri, 2012-01-13 at 21:50 +, richard wrote: >> Greetings, >> >> >> Is there any free app which can edit pdf files. >> Evince looks like it does it, you can edit, send it as an attachment and read >> it with another copy of evince and you can see the altera

Re: malware infesting windows part of dual-boot

2012-01-13 Thread John W. Foster
On Sat, 2012-01-14 at 00:45 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Vi, 13 ian 12, 13:04:16, Charles Blair wrote: > > > > Can somebody recommend software (preferably free) that > > will deal with the bad windows stuff without trashing the > > linux system? I'm concerned that running standard-issue

Re: pure debian testing or a distro based on debian testing

2012-01-13 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 10:53:35PM +0100, Andrej Kacian wrote: > On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:11:58 +0530 > Amrish Purohit wrote: > > >Hi Osamu, > >Thanks for your reply. I will definitely try installing testing over > >stable version. I make my system dual boot so I have a backup. Here is > >the way I

Re: Upcoming stable point release

2012-01-13 Thread Alexey Eromenko
Please, if possible, exclude "konqueror-nsplugins" from the default KDE install in 6.0.4. It crashes as soon as user enters any flash-enabled website. (www.amd.com) Very ugly user experience. Especially for Debian-stable. (tried Debian 6.0.3 on AMD64 and i386) http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugre

Debian-Stable and KDE crashes

2012-01-13 Thread Alexey Eromenko
It turns out, that Debian-stable (6.0.3, both i386 and AMD64) has constant KDE crashes, by default. Due to bug in konqueror-nsplugins: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=549309 What to do? I would like to up priority to critical for this package, so that it either gets fixed or dro