root on console accepting all the passwords but SSH access denied

i just uninstalled these packages libkrb53 krb5-config krb5-user samba winbind ntpdate ntp now when i try to connect via console i mean directly by the machine it accepts everything as password for root and let me in weather right password or wrong and when i ssh remotely it give me access deny e

Re: root on console accepting all the passwords but SSH access denied

On Wed, 11 Apr 2012 12:01:13 +0500 Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > i just uninstalled these packages > > libkrb53 > krb5-config > krb5-user > samba > winbind > ntpdate > ntp > > now when i try to connect via console i mean directly by the machine > it accepts everything as password for root and l

Re: How to retrieve package source from arbitrary repository

Am 06.04.2012 19:03, schrieb Andrei POPESCU: > > Not what you're asking for, but debcheckout (in package devscripts) may > be useful for you. > Thanks, Andrei. Not quite what I need, unfortenately. I'm still looking for a tool that will determine the URI of the source package's .dsc file, give

Re: root on console accepting all the passwords but SSH access denied

given are the only uncommented lines and rest of them all are comment SendEnv LANG LC_* HashKnownHosts yes GSSAPIAuthentication yes GSSAPIDelegateCredentials no secondly now i can also login via SSH i dont know how. i have just created a test user "adduser" command and followed th

Re: TV with Linux

On Tue, 10 Apr 2012 23:41:57 +0100 Sian Mountbatten wrote: > Hi All > > The subject is pretty confusing. I've ordered a Hauppauge DVD-T > Nova-T USB stick and I've downloaded a 7zip file with all the > firmware files required. I've been able to check that the firmware > for the Nova-T is now ins

[closed]Re: root on console accepting all the passwords but SSH access denied

ok reinstalling the OS. i have a deadline to meet. so can not spent time on troubleshooting. Thanks for the support may be i did some thing wrong in samba and active directory integration but next time ill hopefully be very vigilant when playing with the files. Thanks anyways. On Wed, Apr 11, 2

Re: Unstable: Gimp requires dbus and gconf2 now? fail.

Jon Dowland writes: > I grudgingly use GIMP but wish I didn't have to. Dependencies on > DBUS and gconf2 are the least of its problems (if you consider those > problems at all). "MyPaint", which has been packaged, looks like a > possibly replacement. Hmm, if having almost no functionality at al

Re: TV with Linux

On Tue, 10 Apr 2012 23:41:57 +0100 Sian Mountbatten wrote: > Hi All > > The subject is pretty confusing. I've ordered a Hauppauge DVD-T > Nova-T USB stick and I've downloaded a 7zip file with all the > firmware files required. I've been able to check that the firmware > for the Nova-T is now ins

Re: Linux TV tuner

On Tuesday 10 Apr 2012, Sian Mountbatten wrote: > I have decided to get a USB TV tuner so that I can use it with my > sid(uction) box. I am in the UK. Will I need a TV licence? It dependsa. The tuner does not need a licence, the premises does. So if there is already a TV there you are fine, but if

Re: Graphical app on startup

Sorry for delay to reply. I have been reading and testing some configurations, but not works fine. I have could not setup a kiosk on Debian that launch only a Java app on fullscreen mode. Please, anybody could help me? give me some howto that works or something to follow. Thank you very much. Be

Re: Graphical app on startup

On 11/04/12 10:46, Antonio Fernández Pérez wrote: > Please, anybody could help me? give me some howto that works or > something to follow. The article Chris Bannister linked looks to cover everything you'd need, how far did you get before you hit trouble ? > 2012/4/7 Chris Bannister

Re: /etc/aliases.db: Invalid argument

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Re: Graphical app on startup

Hi Tom, Thanks for your quick reply. I have followed it, but in some step I can't get launch a java app. Also, I don't know what window manager I should to use, I think that a minimal window manager... I'm going to try again and if I have problems, I will come back again. Best regards, Antonio

Re: TV with Linux

On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 11:41:57PM +0100, Sian Mountbatten wrote: > Hi All > > The subject is pretty confusing. I've ordered a Hauppauge DVD-T > Nova-T USB stick and I've downloaded a 7zip file with all the > firmware files required. I've been able to check that the firmware > for the Nova-T is no

Re: Linux TV tuner

On 11/04/12 10:20, David Goodenough wrote: On Tuesday 10 Apr 2012, Sian Mountbatten wrote: I have decided to get a USB TV tuner so that I can use it with my sid(uction) box. I am in the UK. Will I need a TV licence? It dependsa. The tuner does not need a licence, the premises does. So if there

Re: Graphical app on startup

On 11/04/12 11:44, Antonio Fernández Pérez wrote: > I have followed it, but in some step I can't get launch a java app. > Also, I don't know what window manager I should to use, I think that a > minimal window manager... In the article, the author mentions using FVWM as the window manager. You mi

Re: Graphical app on startup

Hi again, Ok. Now, I have clear why I didn't get launch Java app. I don't know if I have to use GNOME Desktop or whatever because, in text mode, if I try launch fvwm, appears an error about display. So, I should to install a Debian in text mode, configure LAN and after that, Debian ¿with or with

Re: upgrade to Wheezy fails with aptitude

Le 09/04/2012 11:12, Pierre Frenkiel a écrit : aptitude search ~i\!~M -F "%p" This shows manually and automatically installed packages. I get 2220 packages, (and 995 with "~i~M") No, the above command doesn't show automatically installed packages. Sorry, retry it without -F "%p" to

Re: Graphical app on startup

On 11/04/12 12:11, Antonio Fernández Pérez wrote: > Hi again, > > Ok. > > Now, I have clear why I didn't get launch Java app. I don't know if I > have to use GNOME Desktop or whatever because, in text mode, if I try > launch fvwm, appears an error about display. You will need to start X before

Re: rtl8188ce in Debian Sid

On Wed, 11 Apr 2012 09:06:29 +0800, wolf python london wrote: (...) >> Was the wifi driver working stable before and stopped from doing (e.g., >> after an update) it or have you been always getting reconnects? >> > Nope, it always behaves like this. I bought this laptop 2 months ago . > It someti

Re: [OT] Re: ATA/IDE hard drive problem (CLOSED)

On Tue, 10 Apr 2012 17:01:34 -0700, Gary Roach wrote: > On 01/-10/-28163 11:59 AM, Camaleón wrote: >>> I finally fudged things. I set the bios so that it recognized the >>> cdrom and installed Debian Linux. I then rebooted, F2ed to the bios >>> and changed it so that it could find the hard drive.

install

LS. I wanted to install Debian 6 and I am wondering if we live in 2012? Because still the Grub install gave me no Idea were Grub is going and I stoped the installation. I must have more info about de HD's to be sure. Greetings, B. Gates _ Geen virus gevonden in dit bericht. Gecontrolee

Re: debian-faq (was ... Re: upgrade to Wheezy fails with aptitude)

On Wed, 4 Apr 2012 11:28:59 +0100, Lisi wrote in message <201204041128.59935.lisi.re...@gmail.com>: > On Wednesday 04 April 2012 10:01:47 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > Note that since Lenny, apt-get *installs* recommended packages by > >     default. > > ...since Lenny, apt-get *has installed*.

Re: How to retrieve package source from arbitrary repository

On Wed, 11 Apr 2012 09:23:26 +0200, Malte Forkel wrote: > Am 06.04.2012 19:03, schrieb Andrei POPESCU: >> >> Not what you're asking for, but debcheckout (in package devscripts) may >> be useful for you. >> >> > Thanks, Andrei. Not quite what I need, unfortenately. > > I'm still looking for a t

Re: OT: favorite free-software email-subscription / feeds.

On Wed, 4 Apr 2012 16:57:34 + (UTC), Camaleón wrote in message : > I prefer keep things separate (kinda "divide and conquer" approach), ..you've had any personal experiences become, um, legends? ;o) > that's why I use: > > - Pan (as newsreader for reading/post to mailing lists) ..me, I

Re: When will Debian 7.0 with Linux Kernel 3.x be Released?

On Sat, 7 Apr 2012 10:16:46 +1200, Chris wrote in message <20120406221645.GA24134@tal>: > On Fri, Apr 06, 2012 at 05:21:01PM +0100, Lisi wrote: > > On Friday 06 April 2012 17:02:05 Chris Bannister wrote: > > > Ummm, well, obviously if you have backports in your sources list > > > you are no longe

Re: OT: favorite free-software email-subscription / feeds.

On Fri, 6 Apr 2012 12:30:13 +0700, Sthu wrote in message <4f7e7f68.119dcc0a.4d65.b...@mx.google.com>: > > >http://www.linux-magazine.com/rss/feed/lmi_full > >http://feeds.feedburner.com/LinuxMagazine > >http://feeds.feedburner.com/linuxjournalcom > >http://feeds.feedburner.com/Phoronix > >ht

Re: ibm server black screen console

On Thu, 5 Apr 2012 08:04:31 -0400, Joey wrote in message : > > Looking at the messages above, you have an ATI Radeon-based video > > card. 'lspci' should confirm that. > > > > Thanks for your quick response ...i got the following back - > > 01:06.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies In

Re: help about wine

On Tue, 10 Apr 2012 10:57:52 -0400, Yaritza wrote in message : > Hi, > I'm having problem installing Office 2007 ..Microsoft Office _2007_??? Why that old junk, when you can have _todays_ LibreOffice (OpenOffice) or K-Office or Gnome Office for free, and legally? > under Wine on Debian (64

Re: NAS box configuration

On Wed, 04 Apr 2012 22:13:38 +0300, Rares wrote in message <4f7c9d62.1070...@gmail.com>: > On 04/04/2012 05:21 PM, Camaleón wrote: > > On Wed, 04 Apr 2012 18:28:56 +0530, J. Bakshi wrote: > > If you still prefer a pre-made NAS based OS (that handles RAID, et > > al) you can consider another alter

Re: install

I did two installs yesterday and both times the installation asked if I wanted to install grub to the MBR. Mat Enders from my BlackBerry® -Original Message- From: "R.H.van Es" Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 15:16:26 To: Subject: install LS. I wanted to install Debian 6 and I am wondering i

Re: install

R.H.van Es wrote: LS. I wanted to install Debian 6 and I am wondering if we live in 2012? Because still the Grub install gave me no Idea were Grub is going and I stoped the installation. I must have more info about de HD's to be sure. Greetings, B. Gates ---

Re: install

On Wed, 11 Apr 2012 15:16:26 +0200, R.H.van Es wrote: > LS. Hi, please, avoid html formatted posts, thanks. > I wanted to install Debian 6 and I am wondering if we live in 2012? Mmm... that will depend on what universe you reside :-P > Because still the Grub install gave me no Idea were Grub

Re: [OT] Something about google search

On 07/04/12 17:47, lina wrote: Hi, For the top line in google page Search Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Documents Calendar More Is it possible to delete the Play and Calendar, and bring something hidden in More up there? Because thay are simply lists ( of links with some fancy CSS (+ sc

Re: install

On 11/04/12 14:16, R.H.van Es wrote: > Subject: Re: install Your subject is non-descriptive of the problem you are experiencing. Please try to write descriptive subjects to help ensure that as many people take a look at your mail as possible. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: TV with Linux

On Tue, 10 Apr 2012 23:41:57 +0100, Sian Mountbatten wrote: > Hi All > > The subject is pretty confusing. I've ordered a Hauppauge DVD-T Nova-T > USB stick and I've downloaded a 7zip file with all the firmware files > required. I've been able to check that the firmware for the Nova-T is > now ins

Re: install

In linux.debian.user, mat.end...@gmail.com wrote: > > --part4211-boundary-79747807-1846065080 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" > > SSBkaWQgdHdvIGluc3RhbGxzIHllc3RlcmRheSBhbmQgYm90aCB0aW1lcyB0aGUgaW5zdGFsbGF0 > aW9uIGFza2VkIGlmIEkgd2FudGVkIHRvIGl

Re: debian-faq (was ... Re: upgrade to Wheezy fails with aptitude)

On Wednesday 04 April 2012 17:07:16 Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Wed, 4 Apr 2012 11:28:59 +0100, Lisi wrote in message > > <201204041128.59935.lisi.re...@gmail.com>: > > On Wednesday 04 April 2012 10:01:47 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > Note that since Lenny, apt-get *installs* recommended packages by >

Re: [OT] Manually verifying PGP/MIME signature with GPG

On Tue, 10 Apr 2012 14:43:51 +, Camaleón wrote: (...) > Anyway, I get the posts through a nntp news server (Gmane), I don't know > - because I've not tried- if the header information provided would be > enough to be able to verify the signature manually. Mmm, I tried this yesterday and it se

Re: remote mysql is too slow

On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 07:18:18AM +0100, Bob Proulx wrote: > Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > > Jumping back in (late) in this thread... > > Bob Proulx wrote: > > > > # free -m > > > > total used free sharedbuffers > > > > cached > > > > Mem: 7986 791

Re: [OT] Posting styles (was: printer Kyocera FSC-5100DN)

On Lu, 09 apr 12, 13:34:59, Camaleón wrote: > > To me (and everybody else), both are almost the same. Could you please explain the "everybody else" part? Just because somebody chooses to stay out of this thread does not mean one automatically agrees with you ;) Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopi

[OT]: Re: skype?

Adding the [OT] label as this is rather far from 'debian'... On 11/04/12 07:27, Doug wrote: On 04/11/2012 12:15 AM, daniel jimenez wrote: It is shameful that, so many years after the digital revolution, proprietary formats such as those championed by microsoft are *mandated* by the industry, e

Samba share with multiple groups

my scenario is , i have two groups in active directory "Everyone" and "admins" and i want to give everyone READ ONLY rights and on the other hand "admins" would have FULL RIGHTS and this is going to be on one single folder not multiple. i can only assign a single group to a folder via "chown" comma

Re: [OT] Posting styles (was: printer Kyocera FSC-5100DN)

On Wed, 11 Apr 2012 18:26:12 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 09 apr 12, 13:34:59, Camaleón wrote: >> >> To me (and everybody else), both are almost the same. > > Could you please explain the "everybody else" part? As I guess you've followed the whole thread, what's exactly what you don't

Re: [OT] Posting styles

On Sb, 07 apr 12, 18:52:08, Indulekha wrote: > > No downside at all then, eh? Mutt used to have a flea (bug) that would incorrectly set disposition=inline on pgp/mime attachments, but Joey seems to be using a fixed version. Unless you went out of your way to include the signature in the reply

Re: [OT] Something about google search

On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 10:21 PM, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: > On 07/04/12 17:47, lina wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> For the top line in google page >> >> Search Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Documents Calendar More >> >> Is it possible to delete the Play and Calendar, and bring something >> hidden in M

Re: [OT] Something about google search

On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 10:21 PM, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: > On 07/04/12 17:47, lina wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> For the top line in google page >> >> Search Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Documents Calendar More >> >> Is it possible to delete the Play and Calendar, and bring something >> hidden in M

Re: [OT] Posting styles

On Du, 08 apr 12, 11:32:54, Scott Ferguson wrote: > > When you send mail that is important it be reliably attributed to you - > make sure you sign it properly, with a published key endorsed by a > well-known (easily verifiable) chain of trust. I hereby apologize to the list for not living close

Re: [OT] Posting styles

On Du, 08 apr 12, 12:15:49, PMA wrote: > > P.S. I may as well add here, that it would help me -- in opening a > Debian list email -- *not* to see blank lines at the top of the > message (like the two at top here). They're what I have to > fight, as they beckon, "Now y'all

Re: Samba share with multiple groups

On Wed, 11 Apr 2012 20:38:51 +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > my scenario is , i have two groups in active directory "Everyone" and > "admins" and i want to give everyone READ ONLY rights and on the other > hand "admins" would have FULL RIGHTS and this is going to be on one > single folder not

Re: [OT] Posting styles

On 11.04.2012 19:06, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Du, 08 apr 12, 11:32:54, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> >> When you send mail that is important it be reliably attributed to you - >> make sure you sign it properly, with a published key endorsed by a >> well-known (easily verifiable) chain of trust. > >

Re: [OT] Posting styles

In linux.debian.user, Andrei POPESCU wrote: [note: obnoxious superfluous quoting not edited out,for the sake of illustration] > > --H4SyuGOnfnj3aJqJ > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Disposition: inline > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > On Sb, 07 apr 12, 18:52:

Re: [OT] Posting styles

On Du, 08 apr 12, 12:27:56, Mika Suomalainen wrote: > > I promise to move to PGP/MIME (with clients which are compatible with > it) when you have told me how do I verify PGP/MIME signature manually. I > have been trying to do it for 45 minutes without getting anything else > than message about BAD

Re: [OT] Posting styles

In linux.debian.user, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > Unless you went out of your way to include the signature in the reply=20 > there is a bug somewhere that needs to be fixed. > Forgot to mention, I do read this list on usenet via slrn -- in case that might have something to do with it... Stuck on d

Re: [OT] Posting styles

On 11.04.2012 19:29, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Du, 08 apr 12, 12:27:56, Mika Suomalainen wrote: >> >> I promise to move to PGP/MIME (with clients which are compatible with >> it) when you have told me how do I verify PGP/MIME signature manually. I >> have been trying to do it for 45 minutes withou

Re: [OT] Posting styles

Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Du, 08 apr 12, 12:15:49, PMA wrote: P.S. I may as well add here, that it would help me -- in opening a Debian list email -- *not* to see blank lines at the top of the message (like the two at top here). They're what I have to fight, as they

Re: [OT] Posting styles

On Wednesday 11 April 2012 17:06:15 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Du, 08 apr 12, 11:32:54, Scott Ferguson wrote: > > When you send mail that is important it be reliably attributed to you - > > make sure you sign it properly, with a published key endorsed by a > > well-known (easily verifiable) chain o

Re: [OT] Posting styles

On Mi, 11 apr 12, 11:11:57, Indulekha wrote: > In linux.debian.user, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > Unless you went out of your way to include the signature in the reply=20 > > there is a bug somewhere that needs to be fixed. > > > > Forgot to mention, I do read this list on usenet via slrn -- >

Re: [OT] Posting styles (was: printer Kyocera FSC-5100DN)

On Mi, 11 apr 12, 15:44:29, Camaleón wrote: > > > Just because somebody chooses to stay out of this thread does not mean > > one automatically agrees with you ;) > > It's not *me* who says so, it's written in the Wikipedia article, you > will have to ask the author why he/she thinks so :-) That

MINImalistic MAiling LISTs manager in Debian squeeze

Hello, http://packages.debian.org/lenny/minimalist Why this package is not included into Debian 6.0 main repo? -- Svyatoslav -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.d

Re: [OT] Posting styles (was: printer Kyocera FSC-5100DN)

On Wed, 11 Apr 2012 19:51:48 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Mi, 11 apr 12, 15:44:29, Camaleón wrote: >> >> > Just because somebody chooses to stay out of this thread does not >> > mean one automatically agrees with you ;) >> >> It's not *me* who says so, it's written in the Wikipedia article,

Re: MINImalistic MAiling LISTs manager in Debian squeeze

On Thu, 12 Apr 2012 01:59:04 +0900, Svyatoslav Lempert wrote: > http://packages.debian.org/lenny/minimalist Why this package is not > included into Debian 6.0 main repo? Reasons should be enumerated in the link at the right ("Developer Information (PTS)"): http://packages.qa.debian.org/m/minima

ulimit not working for changing daemon limits

Greetings, I am trying to increase the number of open files the sendmail daemon may have. I have read that inserting a ulimit command in the init script is the way to do this. I have adjusted the init script as so: # head -n 25 /etc/init.d/sendmail #!/bin/sh ### BEGIN INIT INFO # Provides:

Re: [OT] Posting styles

In linux.debian.user, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > But you mentioned mutt in the other post, does slrn use mutt for=20 > posting? Mutt has no trouble reply'ing even to it's own bad messages. I am reading in slrn, which is configured to use mutt to reply. Unfortunately, the mailtonews gateway is stri

Flashbench

Any tips about Flashbench? Googling "site:debian.org flashbench" suggests it finds little interest in the Debian community. Thanks, ... Peter E. -- Telephone 1 360 639 0202. Bcc: peter at easthope.ca "http://carnot.yi.org/ " "http://members.shaw.ca/peasthope/index.html#Itinerary "

Re: [OT] Posting styles

On Wed, 11 Apr 2012, Mika Suomalainen wrote: > On 11.04.2012 19:29, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Du, 08 apr 12, 12:27:56, Mika Suomalainen wrote: > >> > >> I promise to move to PGP/MIME (with clients which are compatible with > >> it) when you have told me how do I verify PGP/MIME signature manuall

Re: ulimit not working for changing daemon limits

On Wed, 11 Apr 2012 11:04:19 -0500, Matt Zagrabelny wrote: > I am trying to increase the number of open files the sendmail daemon may > have. I have read that inserting a ulimit command in the init script is > the way to do this. (...) I can be wrong but I had understood ulimits (per user/daemo

Re: Re: bash: Some: command not found

I know, it's vry old, but I had the same problem and found the solution which is the comment on the line: "#Some more alias to avoid making mistakes" of the file ".bashrc" was uncommented. How the bash says: Command not found Some is not a command right? Yeh... right! So this is it twelve y

Which owner and groups /etc/resolv.conf in testing?

Hello list, although I am happy with my /etc/resolv.conf, I changed it during the years on my laptop. At the moment it is root:root and rw-r--r--, which is ok at home but this does not fit, when I am on the road. When I am on the way, resolv.conf should be able to be overwritten by the dhcp-s

learning automake, etc. and being minimalistic

in the years of tinkering on linux i've never really dug into a lot of things, much preferring to hope packages work out of the box and if they don't give up and go find something else to do (there's always something else to do :) ). so recently, trying to upgrade my understanding i've wanted

Re: Authentication issues trying to log onto a box as a standard user, and cron jobs...

On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 15:20, Bob Proulx wrote: > Good.  Can you log in as the non-root user? No, all users on this box are from NIS. > Yes.  Stop all other lines of debugging and focus on this issue.  Why > is there an error there?  Can you log in as that user? > >  laltest@lal-squeeze:~$ su -

X server crashes after update to nvidia-glx 295.33-1

Hi everybody. I have running a Debian Wheezy and i keep it up to date. A few days ago I did the usual dist-upgrade which brought in nvidia-glx 295.33-1. Since then I experienced random freezes of my KDE desktop, but I still had a working ssh connection to the affected machine. Some other detail

Re: ulimit not working for changing daemon limits

On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 12:49 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 11 Apr 2012 11:04:19 -0500, Matt Zagrabelny wrote: > >> I am trying to increase the number of open files the sendmail daemon may >> have. I have read that inserting a ulimit command in the init script is >> the way to do this. > > (...) >

Re: upgrade to Wheezy fails with aptitude

On Wed, 11 Apr 2012, Nicolas Bercher wrote: I get 2220 packages, (and 995 with "~i~M") No, the above command doesn't show automatically installed packages. sorry, but the link you gave: http://algebraicthunk.net/~dburrows/projects/aptitude/doc/en/ch02s03s05.html actually correspo

Re: remote mysql is too slow

Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > But at some point the daemon is going to need to write a file to disk. > > That data will get cached at that time. Or are you saying that mysql > > is using or should using O_DIRECT and avoid the cache explicitly? > > No - although that might help

Re: How to retrieve package source from arbitrary repository

Malte Forkel wrote: > I'm still looking for a tool that will determine the URI of the source > package's .dsc file, given a repository base URI and a package name. You could create a second sources.list with the repository listed in it. Then point to that configuration file on the command line.

Re: Which owner and groups /etc/resolv.conf in testing?

Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > although I am happy with my /etc/resolv.conf, I changed it during > the years on my laptop. At the moment it is root:root and rw-r--r--, > which is ok at home but this does not fit, when I am on the road. Those user:group ownership and permissions are fine. No problem the

Re: netinst CD image - too big, vaguely specified?

Richard Owlett wrote: > I've browsed through debian-6.0.4-i386-netinst.list. It appears to > contains files of unlikely interest to me (C compiler and header > files, firewire, traceroute, etc). Just because it is available on the cdrom does not mean that it will be installed. What is installed w

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Hello, I am looking for specific catalyst driver versions for my ATI graphics card. Each driver has it's varying performance affect on linux with some newer versions actually degrading performance for my 5970. I would like to have some options if the one I choose isn't functioning well for my task

Re: Authentication issues trying to log onto a box as a standard user, and cron jobs...

Adam Mercer wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > Good. Can you log in as the non-root user? > > No, all users on this box are from NIS. How does having a user in NIS prevent you from logging in as that user? Presumably the purpose of NIS is to enable the user to log into the account. So I don't unde

Re: [OT] Posting styles (was: printer Kyocera FSC-5100DN)

On Mi, 11 apr 12, 17:03:41, Camaleón wrote: > > «In the "bottom-posting" style, the reply is appended to a full or > partial copy of the original message. The name bottom-posting is > sometimes used for inline-style replies, and indeed the two formats are > the same when only one point is being

Re: OT: Beware of fake flash memory cards! (was Need help compiling C files)

--- On Tue, 4/10/12, T Elcor wrote: > Any ideas why I'm getting these errors while trying to > compile F3 flash memory test program? The source is at: > http://oss.digirati.com.br/f3/ That was a useful program indeed. The moral of the story: beware of fake flash memory cards regardless of w

Re: Authentication issues trying to log onto a box as a standard user, and cron jobs...

On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 16:13, Bob Proulx wrote: >> No, all users on this box are from NIS. > > How does having a user in NIS prevent you from logging in as that > user?  Presumably the purpose of NIS is to enable the user to log into > the account.  So I don't understand this comment. It doesn'

how to burn iso image over 4.7GB

Hi, everyone I'm trying burn ISO image of which size is exactly 4.7GB. When I tried to burn the image with K3b, it could not burn because the ISO is too big for my 4.7G DVD. Is there any method to burn it to my 4.7G DVD? Should I buy Double side DVD? Thanks in advance. Best Regards, J.Hwan Kim

Re: how to burn iso image over 4.7GB

2012/4/11 J.Hwan Kim : > Hi, everyone > > I'm trying burn ISO image of which size is exactly 4.7GB. > When I tried to burn the image with K3b, it could not burn > because the ISO is too big for my 4.7G DVD. > > Is there any method to burn it to my 4.7G DVD? > > Should I buy Double side DVD? > > Tha

Re: how to burn iso image over 4.7GB

2012년 04월 12일 13:30, Victor Padro 쓴 글: 2012/4/11 J.Hwan Kim: Hi, everyone I'm trying burn ISO image of which size is exactly 4.7GB. When I tried to burn the image with K3b, it could not burn because the ISO is too big for my 4.7G DVD. Is there any method to burn it to my 4.7G DVD? Should I bu

Re: how to burn iso image over 4.7GB

On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 11:50 PM, J.Hwan Kim wrote: > 2012년 04월 12일 13:30, Victor Padro 쓴 글: > >> 2012/4/11 J.Hwan Kim: >>> >>> Hi, everyone >>> >>> I'm trying burn ISO image of which size is exactly 4.7GB. >>> When I tried to burn the image with K3b, it could not burn >>> because the ISO is too b

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