Re: What Version To Install On iMac?

2012-09-07 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 9/7/2012 1:28 AM, T Elcor wrote: > amd64 or i386 both should work, I would go with amd64 (see > http://www.debian.org/ports/amd64/ ). I'd stay away from the PAE kernel with a 4GB machine unless you have an app known to not work on the AMD64 kernel. > I would also install Debian 7 (wheezy) as

Re: Changing email password storage format

2012-09-07 Thread Sebastian Schinzel
On 6. Sep 2012, at 17:22 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> Anyway: >> In order to convert the hashes, I need the cleartext passwords. So one >> idea would be to tell Dovecot to spit out the cleartext password when a >> user authenticates via POP or IMAP. Do you know of any such >> functionality? > > (...) >

Re: What Version To Install On iMac?

2012-09-07 Thread Jon Dowland
On Fri, Sep 07, 2012 at 02:04:04AM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Interesting statement. Squeeze (6) is still STABLE. After Wheezy (7) > is moved from TESTING to STABLE, Squeeze will be fully supported for at > least 1 year. Thus "deprecated soon" is not accurate, unless your > definition of "soo

Re: systemd

2012-09-07 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, Sep 06, 2012 at 12:09:52PM -0300, francis picabia wrote: > On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 12:47 PM, Ralf Mardorf > wrote: > > In cases of doubt, I'm against using anythin coming from Lennart > > Poettering. Odd, I can't find Ralph's mail in my d-u archive, was it a private one? Anyway, replying

Re: boot freeze when wifi is not in the same state than before hibernation

2012-09-07 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 06 Sep 2012 19:38:07 +0200, berenger.morel wrote: > Le 06.09.2012 16:18, Camaleón a écrit : >> On Thu, 06 Sep 2012 12:13:55 +0200, berenger.morel wrote: >> >>> When I change the state of wifi between a #pm-hibernate and a power >>> on, >>> my computer freeze. >>> >>> Is there is a way to a

Re: What Version To Install On iMac?

2012-09-07 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 06 Sep 2012 23:28:25 -0700, T Elcor wrote: > - Original Message - >> Hello, I would like to know which version of Debian 6 I would download >> for installing on iMac with specifications shown below. >> >> Model Name:    iMac >> Model Identifier:    iMac8,1 >> Processor Name:    In

Re: What Version To Install On iMac?

2012-09-07 Thread Jerome BENOIT
On 07/09/12 16:34, Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 06 Sep 2012 23:28:25 -0700, T Elcor wrote: - Original Message - Hello, I would like to know which version of Debian 6 I would download for installing on iMac with specifications shown below. Model Name:iMac Model Identifier:iMac8,1

Re: What Version To Install On iMac?

2012-09-07 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 07 Sep 2012 16:45:27 +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > On 07/09/12 16:34, Camaleón wrote: >> OTOH, Debian 6 has (more or less) one year and a half of support (when >> Wheezy is out -and that should happen around February, 2013- > > > in 6 months !? When "it's ready" ;-) Now seriuosly: yes

Re: What Version To Install On iMac?

2012-09-07 Thread Gary Dale
On 07/09/12 08:21 AM, Jon Dowland wrote: On Fri, Sep 07, 2012 at 02:04:04AM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Interesting statement. Squeeze (6) is still STABLE. After Wheezy (7) is moved from TESTING to STABLE, Squeeze will be fully supported for at least 1 year. Thus "deprecated soon" is not accu

Re: What Version To Install On iMac?

2012-09-07 Thread The Wanderer
On 09/07/2012 10:56 AM, Gary Dale wrote: On 07/09/12 08:21 AM, Jon Dowland wrote: On Fri, Sep 07, 2012 at 02:04:04AM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Interesting statement. Squeeze (6) is still STABLE. After Wheezy (7) is moved from TESTING to STABLE, Squeeze will be fully supported for at least

Storage server

2012-09-07 Thread Veljko
Hi! I'm in the process of making new backup server, so I'm thinking of best way of doing it. I have 4 3TB disks and I'm thinking of puting them in software RAID10. I created 2 500MB partitions for /boot (RAID1) and the rest it RAID10. Next step is LVM, so I can expand storage if necessary. What

Recover broken SDHC card

2012-09-07 Thread Klaus Pieper
Hello debian gurus, is it possible to recover anything from this flash card? Klaus [ 1008.061896] scsi 6:0:0:0: Direct-Access SanDisk SDDR-113 9412 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 [ 1008.063822] sd 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0 [ 1008.196914] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] 7744512 512-byte logical blocks: (

Re: systemd

2012-09-07 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 06 sep 12, 12:09:52, francis picabia wrote: > > Like many projects, there is no pressing need to make this change, > so rather than think like the Gentoo ricer, think, what problem does this > solve? If very little, proceed with caution and grace. Ironically, OpenRC is developed by Gentoo

Xsane error with Workforce 645 printer

2012-09-07 Thread Gary Roach
Hi everyone Our old epson printer just threw a rod so we replace it with a new Epson Workforce 645 printer. Nice printer. I am trying to get the scanner to work with Xsane and keep getting the error " Failed to start scanner:Error during device I/O" The printer is setup as a stand alone netwo

Re: Recover broken SDHC card

2012-09-07 Thread Frank McCormick
On 07/09/12 12:27 PM, Klaus Pieper wrote: Hello debian gurus, is it possible to recover anything from this flash card? Klaus [ 1008.061896] scsi 6:0:0:0: Direct-Access SanDisk SDDR-113 9412 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 [ 1008.063822] sd 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0 [ 1008.196914] sd 6:0:0:0:

Re: Xsane error with Workforce 645 printer

2012-09-07 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 07 Sep 2012 10:12:20 -0700, Gary Roach wrote: > Our old epson printer just threw a rod so we replace it with a new Epson > Workforce 645 printer. Nice printer. It would be better should they provide any kind of support to the OSS/ linux drivers >:-) > I am trying to get the scanner to w

Re: Recover broken SDHC card

2012-09-07 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 07 Sep 2012 18:27:31 +0200, Klaus Pieper wrote: > Hello debian gurus, > is it possible to recover anything from this flash card? (...) Is it really broken? Have you mounted the SD card on another computer or on a Windows system (just in case...)? You can try with the usual recovery to

Re: Recover broken SDHC card

2012-09-07 Thread Klaus Pieper
Did you mount the card as /dev/sdb...if so...mount the partition /dev/sdb1 YMMV # mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/ mount: special device /dev/sdb1 does not exist -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.o

Re: Storage server

2012-09-07 Thread Dan Ritter
On Fri, Sep 07, 2012 at 06:29:35PM +0200, Veljko wrote: > > Hi! > > I'm in the process of making new backup server, so I'm thinking of best > way of doing it. I have 4 3TB disks and I'm thinking of puting them in > software RAID10. > > I created 2 500MB partitions for /boot (RAID1) and the rest

Re: Storage server

2012-09-07 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 9/7/2012 11:29 AM, Veljko wrote: > I'm in the process of making new backup server, so I'm thinking of best > way of doing it. I have 4 3TB disks and I'm thinking of puting them in > software RAID10. ["what if" stream of consciousness rambling snipped for brevity] > What do you think of this s

Re: Storage server

2012-09-07 Thread Veljko
On Fri, Sep 07, 2012 at 01:42:32PM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: > On Fri, Sep 07, 2012 at 06:29:35PM +0200, Veljko wrote: > > > > Hi! > > > > I'm in the process of making new backup server, so I'm thinking of best > > way of doing it. I have 4 3TB disks and I'm thinking of puting them in > > software

new version of "less" pager

2012-09-07 Thread Austyg
Anyone know whether new version of "less" file-pager made it into Wheezy? "4 Sep 2012 less-451 has been released for general use. " http://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/less/ Sorry for newbness . . . =/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsu

Re: Storage server

2012-09-07 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 9/7/2012 12:42 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: > You can put cheap SATA disks in, instead of expensive SAS disks. > The performance may not be as good, but I suspect you are > looking at sheer capacity rather than IOPS. Stick with enterprise quality SATA disks. Throwing "drive of the week" consumer mod

Re: Recover broken SDHC card

2012-09-07 Thread Klaus Pieper
Is it really broken? Have you mounted the SD card on another computer or on a Windows system (just in case...)? Tried the camera and three computers with linux, xp and win7. Linux seems to recognize the device (/dev/sdb on this machine), so does xp (there is a drive e:), but it can't be accessed

Re: systemd

2012-09-07 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 07 Sep 2012, Jon Dowland wrote: > If you are determined to avoid Lennart's code, you're going to have to > stop running the Linux kernel: ... Kernel patches from Lennart were properly reviewed, and accepted only after the maintainers and subsystem maintainers approved them as an acceptabl

Re: Storage server

2012-09-07 Thread Bob Proulx
Veljko wrote: > Dan Ritter wrote: > > > OS I would use is Wheezy. Guess he will be stable soon enough and I > > > don't want to reinstall everything again in one year, when support for > > > old stable is dropped. > > > > This is Debian. Since 1997 or so, you have had the ability to > > upgrade fr

Re: Storage server

2012-09-07 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 9/7/2012 2:43 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > I have systems > that started out as Woody that are currently running Squeeze. The Postfix box which relayed this email started at Potato and is running Squeeze. Only a couple of minor hiccups during dist-upgrades, mostly due to my failure to read the rele

Re: Storage server

2012-09-07 Thread Bob Proulx
Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Dan Ritter wrote: > > You can put cheap SATA disks in, instead of expensive SAS disks. > > The performance may not be as good, but I suspect you are > > looking at sheer capacity rather than IOPS. > > Stick with enterprise quality SATA disks. Throwing "drive of the week" >

Re: new version of "less" pager

2012-09-07 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 07 sep 12, 11:45:55, Austyg wrote: > Anyone know whether new version of "less" file-pager made it into Wheezy? > > "4 Sep 2012 less-451 has been released for general use. " > http://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/less/ > > Sorry for newbness . . . =/ Let's ask APT (assuming one has the rel

Re: new version of "less" pager

2012-09-07 Thread Bob Proulx
Austyg wrote: > Anyone know whether new version of "less" file-pager made it into Wheezy? > > "4 Sep 2012 less-451 has been released for general use. " > http://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/less/ > > Sorry for newbness . . . =/ $ apt-cache policy less less: Installed: 444-4 Candidat

Installation

2012-09-07 Thread Weaver
Hello, I know how hard it can be to see the forest when you are too close to the trees, so I thought I would re-post something I put up in another forum where Miguel de Icaza's recent communication was being discussed and in answer to Vaughan-Nicholl's recent article of semi-acceptance. ~~

Re: Recover broken SDHC card

2012-09-07 Thread José Silva
On 07-09-2012 19:49, Klaus Pieper wrote: Is it really broken? Have you mounted the SD card on another computer or on a Windows system (just in case...)? Tried the camera and three computers with linux, xp and win7. Linux seems to recognize the device (/dev/sdb on this machine), so does xp (there

Custom SSH Authentication

2012-09-07 Thread Alex Robbins
I am looking to set up a custom SSH authentication system. I have a several RSA key pairs for my user, and I want to restrict ssh access based on which key pair is being used (not based on user name). On top of that, I want to restrict keys based on time of day. In short, a certain key can only

Re: Custom SSH Authentication

2012-09-07 Thread Glenn English
On Sep 7, 2012, at 3:04 PM, Alex Robbins wrote: > I am looking to set up a custom SSH authentication system. I have a several > RSA key pairs for my user, and I want to restrict ssh access based on which > key pair is being used (not based on user name). On top of that, I want > to restrict key

new installation preserving /home partition

2012-09-07 Thread Mauricio Calvao
Hi I currrently have a desktop running old Debian 5 (lenny). I myself installed some programs outside apt management, both because there were no deb packages for them and because I need some more recent versions. Thus, I have finally decided to move on to Debian 6 (squeeze) and then possibly even

Looking for an emacs replacement

2012-09-07 Thread T o n g
Hi, > Subject: My app-defaults won't work for emacs any more > Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2012 01:25:20 + (UTC) > > I haven't updated my emacs for quite a while and today when I update it, > I notice that the new emacs is not following my app-defaults settings, > which has been working for quite a lon

Re: Storage server

2012-09-07 Thread tdowg1 news
>> I'm in the process of making new backup server, so I'm thinking of best >> way of doing it. I have 4 3TB disks and I'm thinking of puting them in >> software RAID10. >> >> I created 2 500MB partitions for /boot (RAID1) and the rest it RAID10. > > So far, so good. > >> LVM will provide me a way t

Re: new installation preserving /home partition

2012-09-07 Thread T o n g
On Fri, 07 Sep 2012 21:33:15 -0300, Mauricio Calvao wrote: > I would like however to preserve my /home partition. Is that > **advisable** or should I delete this partition as well? Depending on how much version dependant stuff you put there. I personally never put any version dependant tools in

Preseed for Wheezy - Example Help

2012-09-07 Thread ray
I am trying to build a preseed file from my minimum initial install of wheezy beta 1. I have executed: TARGET="/inventory" debconf-get-selections --installer > $TARGET/list_packages_installer debconf-get-selections > $TARGET/list_packages list_packages_installer is about 1200 lines. lineslist_pack

Re: new installation preserving /home partition

2012-09-07 Thread Weaver
On Fri, September 7, 2012 5:33 pm, Mauricio Calvao wrote: > Hi > > I currrently have a desktop running old Debian 5 (lenny). I myself > installed some programs outside apt management, both > because there were no deb packages for them and because I need some > more recent versions. Thus, I have fin

Re: [ask] google translate client or similar method

2012-09-07 Thread Morning Star
On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 10:26 PM, Camaleón wrote: > Google also suggest "apertium", take a look at their site, maybe the > provide a command line option: > > http://www.apertium.org thanks. i'll look into it. Greetings, Marco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org wit

Re: [ask] google translate client or similar method

2012-09-07 Thread Morning Star
On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 1:54 AM, Brian wrote: > StarDict is dictionary software, It translates words only. Full-text > translation (what you refer to as paragraph translation) is done using > the translation engines available on some web sites. They do machine > translatiom (MT). > > StartDict cla