/var/mail permission change from squeeze to wheezy

2013-03-21 Thread Juha Heinanen
i noticed that permissions of /var/mail dir have changed from squeeze to wheezy. in squeeze i have $ ls -lsa total 60 4 drwxrwsrwt 2 root mail 4096 Mar 21 09:00 . and in wheezy $ ls -lsa total 60 4 drwxrwsr-x 2 root mail 4096 Mar 21 09:00 . the changes causes my emacs vm not being able

Re: elfsh for PPC

2013-03-21 Thread Aubrey Raech
On Wed, 20 Mar 2013 14:32:27 +0100 mk nithilan wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to know if elfsh tool is available for ppc elf files, I > am working on windows environment and I want to instrument powerpc > elf files. Best Regards, > Nithilan MK From what I can find, the answer is no. http://www.

Re: First bugg with Debian

2013-03-21 Thread Darac Marjal
On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 07:15:49AM +0100, Alex Padoly wrote: >Hello, > >I always use DEBIAN GNU LINUX and I have never had a kernel panic. >With Wheezy on FUJITSU-SIEMENS SCENIC E300, several times, the system is >frozen, I must turn off my computer. >Now, I don't turn on my co

Re: EU Regulation and gvfs

2013-03-21 Thread Selim T. Erdogan
Ralf Mardorf, 19.03.2013: > Hi, > > there's an issue with gvfs. > > Regarding to an EU Regulation external drives must spin down after a > while, but gvfs make external drives spin up and down again and again so > they don't stay asleep. > > I own a new WD Elements and within one week it aged by

Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-03-21 Thread Brian
I don't really know where you are coming from and what you want to achieve because I tend to delete list mails in HTML only on sight. Nothing personal, you understand - just pure laziness on my part :) However, believe it or not, you are nearly there! On Thu 21 Mar 2013 at 00:20:39 -0400, Ethan R

Re: Fwd: Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-03-21 Thread Brian
On Thu 21 Mar 2013 at 07:36:09 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > - it might be that you have overwritten the MBR of your USB stick, if > so, the partition table now is destroyed and you first might need to > format it before you can continue ... Overwriting the MBR is the whole point of getting a

Re: EU Regulation and gvfs

2013-03-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2013-03-21 at 06:01 -0500, Selim T. Erdogan wrote: > Another workaround, perhaps: I remember noticing something for this on > the hdparm man page. Checking again now, I see that the -J option is > for setting WD Green drives' "idle3" timeout value. It mentions that > you can even disa

Re: Fwd: Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-03-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2013-03-21 at 11:28 +, Brian wrote: > You have the opportunity to learn how to from posts in this thread. :) What's wrong with my posting style? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debi

Re: EU Regulation and gvfs

2013-03-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Oops, I forgot the link to a German Linux forum: https://bbs.archlinux.de/viewtopic.php?pid=301320#p301320 -- 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/1363867530.

Re: Fwd: Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-03-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2013-03-21 at 13:03 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Thu, 2013-03-21 at 11:28 +, Brian wrote: > > You have the opportunity to learn how to from posts in this thread. :) > > What's wrong with my posting style? PS: On Sun, 2013-03-17 at 21:53 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > I can't help yo

Re: /var/mail permission change from squeeze to wheezy

2013-03-21 Thread Brian
On Thu 21 Mar 2013 at 09:59:15 +0200, Juha Heinanen wrote: > i noticed that permissions of /var/mail dir have changed from squeeze to > wheezy. > > in squeeze i have > > $ ls -lsa > total 60 > 4 drwxrwsrwt 2 root mail 4096 Mar 21 09:00 . On a new 6.0.7-i386 installation with only the base s

Re: Fwd: Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-03-21 Thread Brian
On Thu 21 Mar 2013 at 13:03:30 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Thu, 2013-03-21 at 11:28 +, Brian wrote: > > You have the opportunity to learn how to from posts in this thread. :) > > What's wrong with my posting style? You are misunderstanding me. Style is not something I'm generally given t

Re: Fwd: Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-03-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2013-03-21 at 12:28 +, Brian wrote: > On Thu 21 Mar 2013 at 13:03:30 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > On Thu, 2013-03-21 at 11:28 +, Brian wrote: > > > You have the opportunity to learn how to from posts in this thread. :) > > > > What's wrong with my posting style? > > You are m

Re: Console showing control characters for input on console keyboard

2013-03-21 Thread francis picabia
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 7:30 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > francis picabia wrote: >> reset won't work as I cannot login to the tty. >> >> If there is a way to direct the reset to another tty >> or tset has a way to do that it could help because only >> ssh logins are working. > > You said you can log in

Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-03-21 Thread Cybe R. Wizard
On Thu, 21 Mar 2013 13:17:14 +0100 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Others and I asked Ethan several times not to post HTML and send mails > to the list only. Sending email after being requested not to is spamming. Report it to his ISP. That /might/ work. Cybe R. Wizard -- Nice computers don't go down.

Re: Fwd: Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-03-21 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
On 03/21/2013 08:17 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Thu, 2013-03-21 at 13:03 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Thu, 2013-03-21 at 11:28 +, Brian wrote: You have the opportunity to learn how to from posts in this thread. :) What'

Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-03-21 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
Ethan Rosenberg, PhD Pres/CEO Hygeia Biomedical Research, Inc 2 Cameo Ridge Road Monsey, NY 10952 T: 845 352-3908 F: 845 352-7566 erosenb...@hygeiabiomedical.com On 03/21/2013 07:19

Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-03-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2013-03-21 at 08:34 -0500, Cybe R. Wizard wrote: > On Thu, 21 Mar 2013 13:17:14 +0100 > Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > Others and I asked Ethan several times not to post HTML and send mails > > to the list only. > > Sending email after being requested not to is spamming. Report it to > his I

Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-03-21 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
On 03/21/2013 07:19 AM, Brian wrote: I don't really know where you are coming from and what you want to achieve because I tend to delete list mails in HTML only on sight. Nothing personal, you understand - just pure laziness on my part :) However, believe it or not, you are n

Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-03-21 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
On 03/21/2013 09:54 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Thu, 2013-03-21 at 08:34 -0500, Cybe R. Wizard wrote: On Thu, 21 Mar 2013 13:17:14 +0100 Ralf Mardorf wrote: Others and I asked Ethan several times not to post HTML and send mails to the list

Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-03-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2013-03-21 at 09:51 -0400, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: > PS Again, my apologies for the HTML posts. It was not intentional. But you still continue ;). Unexperienced people are allowed to continue for a while and intellectually disabled users should be allowed to do it always. "PhD" IMO i

pppoe-server

2013-03-21 Thread Pietro Paolini
Hello all, I installed successfully the roar-penguin pppoe-server and I try to use it without success, what I don't understand is that I put in my /etc/ppp/pppoe-server-options debug logfile /var/log/pppoe-server-log But that file is not created then I don't understand what happen and is really

Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-03-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2013-03-21 at 15:15 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > lmgtfy.com/?q=wiki+mua http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=wiki+mua -- 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/136

Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-03-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2013-03-21 at 10:05 -0400, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: > 1] What is a MUA? > > 2] Other than the HTML, am I posting "good questions"? > > Ethan Oops, I don't get duplicates, but the mails are sorted to a wrong folder here. Please only reply to the list. MUA is for Mail User Agent, in ot

Re: SSDT - Any More Ideas

2013-03-21 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
Dear List - Copied the executable to the usb stick and can't find it - rosenberg:/home/ethan/DOSutil# cp ../Downloads/D630_A18.exe /dev/sdf1 rosenberg:/home/ethan/DOSutil# ls -la /dev/sdf1 rosenberg:/home/ethan/DOSutil# ls -la /dev/sdf1 brw-rw---T 1 root floppy 8, 81 Mar 21 10:29 /dev/sdf1 rosen

Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-03-21 Thread Gary Dale
On 21/03/13 10:00 AM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: On 03/21/2013 07:19 AM, Brian wrote: I don't really know where you are coming from and what you want to achieve because I tend to delete list mails in HTML only on sight. Nothing personal, you understand - just pure laziness on my part :) Howeve

Re: SSDT - Any More Ideas

2013-03-21 Thread Gary Dale
On 21/03/13 10:44 AM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: Dear List - Copied the executable to the usb stick and can't find it - rosenberg:/home/ethan/DOSutil# cp ../Downloads/D630_A18.exe /dev/sdf1 rosenberg:/home/ethan/DOSutil# ls -la /dev/sdf1 rosenberg:/home/ethan/DOSutil# ls -la /dev/sdf1 brw-rw--

Re: SSDT - Any More Ideas

2013-03-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2013-03-21 at 10:44 -0400, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: > Dear List - > > Copied the executable to the usb stick and can't find it - > > rosenberg:/home/ethan/DOSutil# cp ../Downloads/D630_A18.exe /dev/sdf1 > rosenberg:/home/ethan/DOSutil# ls -la /dev/sdf1 > rosenberg:/home/ethan/DOSutil#

problem

2013-03-21 Thread s...@mdselectronics.com
I have installed Debian on my computer, but there is no "add/remove applications" like on a different computer with Debian on it that I have. How do I install it? (I have tried synaptic and I can't find it) Sam F. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subje

Re: problem

2013-03-21 Thread lina
On Thursday 21,March,2013 10:54 PM, s...@mdselectronics.com wrote: > I have installed Debian on my computer, but there is no "add/remove > applications" like on a different computer with Debian on it that I have. > How do I install it? (I have tried synaptic and I can't find it) > > Sam F. > >

xserver problem: what should populate /dev/dri ?

2013-03-21 Thread C G Montgomery
I recently upgraded a Debian box from oldstable (Lenny) to stable (squeeze) and then to testing (wheezy). The various APT utilities are satisfied that dependencies are satisfied. But the xserver got broken in the process -- not a big surprise. When I ty running xinit (as root) with no xorg.co

PPPoE Server Problem

2013-03-21 Thread Pietro Paolini
Hello all, I really don't understand what is wrong in my PPP setup. These are my configuration file: pppoe-server-config : # PPP options for the PPPoE server # LIC: GPL require-pap debug logfile /var/log/pppoe-server.log #auth #require-chap lcp-echo-interval 10 lcp-echo-failure 4 ms-dns 8.8.8

Re: problem

2013-03-21 Thread Gábor Hársfalvi
su-to-root -X -c /usr/sbin/synaptic -> In Terminal Good Luck 2013/3/21 lina > On Thursday 21,March,2013 10:54 PM, s...@mdselectronics.com wrote: > > I have installed Debian on my computer, but there is no "add/remove > > applications" like on a different computer with Debian on it that I have.

Re: problem

2013-03-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2013-03-21 at 16:54 +0100, Gábor Hársfalvi wrote: > su-to-root -X -c /usr/sbin/synaptic -> In Terminal # su - # apt-get update # apt-get install synaptic # synaptic -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listm

Re: problem

2013-03-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2013-03-21 at 16:57 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Thu, 2013-03-21 at 16:54 +0100, Gábor Hársfalvi wrote: > > su-to-root -X -c /usr/sbin/synaptic -> In Terminal > > # su - $ su - :D > # apt-get update > # apt-get install synaptic > # synaptic > > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: problem

2013-03-21 Thread Chris Angelakis
On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 04:59:44PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Thu, 2013-03-21 at 16:57 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Thu, 2013-03-21 at 16:54 +0100, Gábor Hársfalvi wrote: > > > su-to-root -X -c /usr/sbin/synaptic -> In Terminal > > > > # su - > $ su - > > :D > > # apt-get update > >

Re: problem

2013-03-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2013-03-21 at 18:10 +0200, Chris Angelakis wrote: > packagekit There are several GUIs, at least in the past there were tons of GUIs, but AFAIK Synaptic is the best maintained GUI. On Debian/Debian like distros I'm using synaptic myself + for some tasks apt and dpkg. I avoid using aptitude

Re: SSDT - Any More Ideas

2013-03-21 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
Dear List - I am going to be on vacation until 3 April. We'll continue this thread then. Ethan -- 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/514b3475.5080...@hyg

Xorg lose mouse middle button emulation.

2013-03-21 Thread giorgio_mldeb
Hello, Recently I installed debian testing (7.0 Wheezy) to substitute debian 6.0 (stable). With new installation, Xorg lose touchpad 3 button (central) emulation (on MSI U100 touchpad sentelic). It happens everytime I suspend/resume or if I switch to virtual terminal (Ctrl+alt+Fn) and return to

Re: problem

2013-03-21 Thread Chris Angelakis
On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 05:15:10PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Thu, 2013-03-21 at 18:10 +0200, Chris Angelakis wrote: > > packagekit > > There are several GUIs, at least in the past there were tons of GUIs, > but AFAIK Synaptic is the best maintained GUI. On Debian/Debian like > distros I'm us

Re: wheezy updates

2013-03-21 Thread Verde Denim
On 03/20/2013 06:22 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > Verde Denim wrote: >> I have a long list of updates today for Wheezy. I was wondering - since >> I am using Oracle Java on this particular machine, would it interfere >> with this config to install the updates to OpenJDK and IcedTea? (I'm >> wondering if

pkg-config not returning correct version number - help please

2013-03-21 Thread Chris Fisichella
Hi, I did something to cause pkg-config to not return the correct version number. I issue: $ pkg-config --exists --print-errors 'fontconfig >= 2.10.91' Requested 'fontconfig >= 2.10.91' but version of Fontconfig is 2.10.2 This is after I (believe I) successfully installed from sources fontcon

Re: wheezy updates

2013-03-21 Thread Bob Proulx
Verde Denim wrote: > Thanks, Bob. Oracle Java is currently installed in > /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-oracle (runtime). How did you install it? Was it installed as a 'deb' file? Or was it simply copied into place? The reason to know if it were installed as a 'deb' file or not is because the files are i

Re: First bugg with Debian

2013-03-21 Thread Alex Padoly
Hi, You are understand! Thanks! 2013/3/21 Darac Marjal > On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 07:15:49AM +0100, Alex Padoly wrote: > >Hello, > > > >I always use DEBIAN GNU LINUX and I have never had a kernel panic. > >With Wheezy on FUJITSU-SIEMENS SCENIC E300, several times, the system > is > >

Re: Console showing control characters for input on console keyboard

2013-03-21 Thread Bob Proulx
francis picabia wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > reset >/dev/console > > > > Although I can't remember if tset or reset operate on stdin like stty > > does. You might need to redirect stdin instead. > > > > reset >/dev/console &1 | od -tx1 -c 000 72 65 73 65 74 3a 20 73 74 61 6e

Re: Console showing control characters for input on console keyboard

2013-03-21 Thread Shane Johnson
> I think we'll just have to live with a reset via reboot whenever the > > option becomes available, while not removing the PS/2 connections again. > Would a PS2 to USB adapter get you through till reboot? -- Shane D. Johnson IT Administrator Rasmussen Equipment

Re: /var/mail permission change from squeeze to wheezy

2013-03-21 Thread Bob Proulx
Juha Heinanen wrote: > i noticed that permissions of /var/mail dir have changed from squeeze to > wheezy. There has been no change there that I can see. > in squeeze i have > > $ ls -lsa > total 60 > 4 drwxrwsrwt 2 root mail 4096 Mar 21 09:00 . That is not a stock Squeeze 6 installation. N

Re: Console showing control characters for input on console keyboard

2013-03-21 Thread Bob Proulx
Shane Johnson wrote: > > I think we'll just have to live with a reset via reboot whenever the > > > option becomes available, while not removing the PS/2 connections again. > > Would a PS2 to USB adapter get you through till reboot? Uhm... You misunderstand. The problem trying to be solved is th

Re: wheezy updates

2013-03-21 Thread Verde Denim
On 03/21/2013 04:39 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > Verde Denim wrote: >> Thanks, Bob. Oracle Java is currently installed in >> /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-oracle (runtime). > > How did you install it? Was it installed as a 'deb' file? Or was it > simply copied into place? > > The reason to know if it were install

Re: Fwd: Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-03-21 Thread Dave Thayer
On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 09:41:26AM -0400, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: > > I set the parameters for this list to text only. > > When part of the email is HTML, Icedove defaults to HTML. > > I now see my error... > > I have to set the format to "preformat" and everything works. You're almost the