nfs.statd bind to internal interface only

2004-12-28 Thread Adrian Levi
I'm trying to remove all of the servers listening on my external interface after upgrading my firewall from woody to sarge. The last one is rpc.statd AFAIK it is started and stopped from /etc/init.d/nfs-common. There is an environment variable called $STATDOPTS and I can't find where it is defi

Re: nfs.statd bind to internal interface only

2004-12-28 Thread Adrian Levi
Poor form to reply to my own post but have figured out what was causing the error message, (the settings need to be in quotes) and that $STATDOPTS is defined in /etc/defaults/nfs-common. The daemon still seems to be ignoring the setting, it dosen't fail with an error but using a combination of

Re: NFS

2005-01-01 Thread Adrian Levi
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, When I mount an NFS share I can't seem to write to it as any user... Both the systems authenticate against the same ldap server so uid's and gid's are all the same. My /etc/exports file looks like : /mnt/sda1/home/ (rw,no_root_squash) I mount the share from the cli

Re: (solved) Re: how to (dis)allow some users from using wireless router?

2007-08-12 Thread Adrian Levi
On 8/13/07, Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 11 Aug 2007 11:02:05 +0100 > Liam O'Toole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sat, 11 Aug 2007 09:06:15 + (UTC) > > Simon Brandmair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Please notice, that filtering by mac address doesn't really add any >

Re: (solved) Re: how to (dis)allow some users from using wireless router?

2007-08-12 Thread Adrian Levi
On 8/13/07, Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 08:18:19 +1000 > I don't quite follow you. Can you explain in more detail? > > Celejar Ok, Assuming your wireless router can use an open Linux distribution or your wireless router connects directly to a linux firewall, you ca

Re: (solved) Re: how to (dis)allow some users from using wireless router?

2007-08-14 Thread Adrian Levi
On 8/15/07, Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 08:57:45 +1000 > "Adrian Levi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 8/13/07, Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 08:18:19 +1000 > > > > >

Re: LVM

2007-09-04 Thread Adrian Levi
On 9/5/07, Roland M. Kruggel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Dienstag, 4. September 2007 21:55 schrieb Mike Bird: > > On Tuesday 04 September 2007 10:44, Roland M. Kruggel wrote: > > > Am Dienstag, 4. September 2007 17:10 schrieb Yuriy Padlyak: > > > > ok, but I don't know how to move ext3 file sys

Re: why sarge is so noisy

2007-09-07 Thread Adrian Levi
On 9/7/07, Serena Cantor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have sarge, I use it all the time (it's server) > The machine is my bedroom and scsi disk make noise from time to time (it's > read/writing) > > which script cause reading/writing? Let's assume it's default installation. I > don't start any

Re: postgresql help

2007-09-11 Thread Adrian Levi
On 9/12/07, Jude DaShiell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When you do an uninstall with purge, your original packages are still in > /var/cache/apt/archives. I had a situation with timidity that was similar > though I had lost one of timidity's configuration files and reinstalling > using packages al

scsi-spin + samba

2007-09-22 Thread Adrian Levi
I have a raid 1 array used solely through samba. I'd like to spin down the discs when not being used to save power. Googling has provided information about Could anyone provide instances where doing the following would be a bad idea?:- preexec = /bin/mount /mnt/raid postexec = /bin/sync

Fwd: SAMBA ground-up tutorial?

2007-09-22 Thread Adrian Levi
forgot to cc the list > On 9/23/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] > I've got a Debian bastion host at a small nonprofit. > Mix of Windoze and Macs on the LAN behind it. > Some of the Windoze boxes have those low-end > pr

Re: How can I acces unformatted cd/dvd with data on

2007-09-22 Thread Adrian Levi
On 23/09/2007, Jude DaShiell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That's the reason for the iso9660 format among others. Came in late to the conversation but can you mount the unwritten cd using the udf filesystem? Adrian -- 24x7x365 != 24x7x52 Stupid or bad maths? hm. I've lost a machine.. literally

Re: Help with RAID and Formating Disks

2007-10-05 Thread Adrian Levi
On 05/10/2007, Michael Acklin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all. I am very new at what I am attempting to do. I have run > Debian in the past and just recently installed it on a new built system > that I am setting up. So please take it easy on the Newbie. > > First I built the system with the

Re: password protect file befor emailing

2007-10-12 Thread Adrian Levi
On 13/10/2007, Giorgos Pallas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Juha Tuuna wrote: > > On Friday, 12. October 2007 15:48, BartlebyScrivener wrote: > > This way you must of course deliver the password in a secure way. > > > > Not necessarily. The password could be delivered using the telephone > accord

Re: Mysql Database installation problem

2007-10-13 Thread Adrian Levi
On 14/10/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I tried to install mysql-server-5.0 using apt-get and I got the following > error- Comments inline. > The following NEW packages will be installed: > mysql-server-5.0 Your installing one package here. > 0 upgraded, 1 newly instal

Re: Proxy settings not released

2007-10-14 Thread Adrian Levi
On 14/10/2007, jekillen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello: > I had set up a web proxy for my Debian installation and have > tried to undo the setup. But the proxy, a Mac OSX machine, > is still used by the Debian installation, in this manner: > I have Apache2 installed and have set up a localhost

Re: Best way to install a few testing pkgs on stable system

2007-10-18 Thread Adrian Levi
On 19/10/2007, Gordon Pedersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Running an etch system I nonetheless may want to install a testing > package or two. > > If I use pinning, I have a clue about how to go about it, and have > seen a debian wiki page about that. > > But I really could use a more general edu

Re: Apache2 Dying

2007-11-07 Thread Adrian Levi
On 07/11/2007, Raquel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I give up. I've spent all day, and part of yesterday, googling and > haven't been able to fix a thing. Are you able to run memtest86+ on the box, every time I have had weird problems with daemons dying it has been due to flaky ram. Might be wort

Re: USB pendrive mobility (fat32)?

2008-02-09 Thread Adrian Levi
For the list, On 09/02/2008, s. keeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yeah, I think this stuff (talking to Win*) sucks too. And this is a > Win* problem (sorry) but I'm a Debian user, not a Win* user, so I'm > ignorant wrt this stuff. 4 Gb pendrive from Staples: > > (0) phreaque [root] /etc_ fdis

Re: USB pendrive mobility (fat32)?

2008-02-09 Thread Adrian Levi
On 09/02/2008, s. keeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Incoming from Adrian Levi: > > On 09/02/2008, s. keeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Yeah, I think this stuff (talking to Win*) sucks too. And this is a > > > Win* problem (sorry) but I&#

Re: vim + LaTeX (Was: What am I missing without mutt?)

2008-02-09 Thread Adrian Levi
On 07/02/2008, s. keeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > s. keeling wrote: > > > Just curious, but what's wrong with breaking it up by chapters and > > > figuring out how to merge it all together later? "lpr chap*" too much > > > to remember? > > > > Now ema

Re: Aptitude stuck on sun-java5-bin

2008-02-09 Thread Adrian Levi
On 10/02/2008, cothrige <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have managed to get myself in a bit of a bind regarding packages. > Aptitude is reporting an error regarding an apparent half-finished > upgrade to sun-java5-bin, and this has caused all things to stop. > Unfortunately I have not found a way

Re: ipchains -> iptables?

2008-02-12 Thread Adrian Levi
On 13/02/2008, Zach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyone know a way (or even better have a script) to convert a file of > ipchains rules into iptables rules? The topology of chains to tables is fundamentally different, In chains a packet that is to be forwarded must also go though the input and out

Re: ipchains -> iptables?

2008-02-13 Thread Adrian Levi
On 13/02/2008, Zach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Feb 12, 2008 7:20 PM, Adrian Levi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > The topology of chains to tables is fundamentally different, In chains > > a packet that is to be forwarded must also go though the input an

Re: OMG! Think I did something stupid with dmcrypt

2008-02-15 Thread Adrian Levi
On 15/02/2008, Andrew Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > help. > > I have debian lenny on a server with full disk encryption (the guided > partitioning option) and an external usb WD Mybook that is also > encrypted with dmcrypt/LUKS. > > I just formatted the server to install and try out CentOS

Re: iceweasel

2008-02-18 Thread Adrian Levi
On 19/02/2008, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One IMPORTANT item to note: I have installed the /Adblock Plus/ and > /Flashblock/ addons. On the Independent home page, this means that > 7 (yes, I said SEVEN) Flash movies just have a placeholder box. > > Install those two addons and I'm ve

Re: df reporting incorrect available space

2008-02-23 Thread Adrian Levi
On 24/02/2008, Chris Purves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I am having problems with the reported available disk space on my root > partition with df. The Used and Available amounts do not add up to the > total amount. > > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounte

Re: Installing Debian from USB pen drive

2008-02-29 Thread Adrian Levi
On 29/02/2008, Santanu Chatterjee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Everybody, > > I was trying to install a very basic debian system from my 2GB > USB Pen Drive. For that, I did the following: > > o Formatted my pen drive as a single 2GB FAT16 partition (/dev/sdb) > o Did a "# syslinux -sf /d

Re: Installing Debian from USB pen drive

2008-02-29 Thread Adrian Levi
On 29/02/2008, Santanu Chatterjee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now, you said "pointing the installer to the local repository". How exactly > is this done? When the cdrom detection failed, at a console, I found > a directory named '/cdrom' already created (empty). I linked this directory > so

Re: Debian FTP server setup questions

2008-03-01 Thread Adrian Levi
Grrr Gmail - For the list... On 01/03/2008, Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there any special reason you use wu-ftpd, BTW? > > A quick apt-cache search brings out 11 ftpd-s or so. But amon them I > think that proftpd and vsftpd are the most commonly deployed and hence > well-docum

dircmp in debian

2008-03-01 Thread Adrian Levi
I have searched high and low but can't find this utility or something that provides it's functionality, I want to know the differences in 2 directory structures but not change them - yet. rsync I'm fairly confident will fix the 2 directories to make them the same but for the moment I want to know j

Re: 8139cp 0000:03:08.0: This (id 10ec:8139 rev 10) is not an 8139C+ compatible chip

2008-03-01 Thread Adrian Levi
On 01/03/2008, stephane lepain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have had this error message coming up every time I start my PC where > it seems to be searching for the right driver. The problem is that it > takes a while at start time for my box to switch from "8139cp" to "8139too" > Is t

Re: Install Debian 4.0 to watch DVD video

2008-03-01 Thread Adrian Levi
On 02/03/2008, hce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, I expected the "use as" can be selected as a root partition, but > that page only display following menu: > use as: > > EXT 3 > EXT2 > Reiser FS > JFS > XFS > FAT16 > FAT32 > Swap area > Physical volume for encryption > Physical volu

Re: dircmp in debian

2008-03-01 Thread Adrian Levi
On 01/03/2008, Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 08:52:58PM +1000, Adrian Levi wrote: > > I have searched high and low but can't find this utility or something > > that provides it's functionality, I want to know the differences in

Re: Install Debian 4.0 to watch DVD video

2008-03-02 Thread Adrian Levi
On 02/03/2008, hce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I changed to "audo", it sitll does not work. But, if I start dhclient > manually, it works fine. I checked ps, there was a dhclient3 running. > Could that cause the problem? How can I config /etc/init.d to make the > dhclient running? dh-client is

Re: Install Debian 4.0 to watch DVD video

2008-03-02 Thread Adrian Levi
On 02/03/2008, hce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, my interfaces looks exactly like this. And, it works if I run > the dhclient manually. Ok what happens if you try /etc/init.d/networking restart Please post the exact output. > Thanks Adrian, it works now after installing the openssh-server.

Re: Install mplayer

2008-03-02 Thread Adrian Levi
On 02/03/2008, hce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 3/2/08, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 09:15:16PM +1100, hce wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I want to install mplayer RC2 and I added "deb > > > http://www.debian-multimedia.org stable main" to the > >

Re: Install mplayer

2008-03-02 Thread Adrian Levi
On 02/03/2008, hce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, it shows the version 1.0 RC1, not RC2. How can I installed the RC2? Install from sources or find a precompiled .deb on the internet somewhere, what version did debian-multimedia have? to download and install from source download mplayers tarball

Re: Using Lenny on production server?

2008-07-05 Thread Adrian Levi
2008/7/6 Bob Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 16:49:39 +0100, Joe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> possibly 18 months going by previous releases. Remember that Etch is >> only a few months old as Stable. > > Etch has been stable for 15 months, released in April 2007. > http://www.uk

Re: Firefox not showing in Applications menus

2008-07-12 Thread Adrian Levi
2008/7/12 Bret Busby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hello. > > I have Firefox installed on my system (Debian 4.0), and today an update for > firefox showed, and was installed using the system update system. > > With the recent problems with Iceape, I thought that I would try Firefox. > > Synaptic shows t

Re: Debian Sid first time user

2008-08-04 Thread Adrian Levi
2008/8/5 Rodolfo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi to all the Debian users community. > > I've been using Debian for a couple of years now (coming from Mandrakelinux) > and have been happy with stable versions, Sarge and then Etch. Now for > particular needs I want to try to use Sid with a > = 2.6.

Re: Configure error

2008-08-12 Thread Adrian Levi
2008/8/13 Oscar Corte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hi all > > I'm receiving the next error message upon executing configure on a MySQL > source distribution. > > checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... /lib/cpp > configure: error: C++ preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check > See `config.log' f

Re: Help...I hosed my system trying to apt-get dist-upgrade

2008-08-12 Thread Adrian Levi
2008/8/13 Mark Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I have a Debian testing system and I ran apt-get update and apt-get > > dist-upgrade. I now have this problem with python and all packages that > > depend on python - they cannot be installed (see rhytmbox example > > below). > > > > Setting up python

Re: chroot ?

2008-08-18 Thread Adrian Levi
2008/8/17 Paul Cartwright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > in the process of looking at what i do have mounted, I noticed a bunch of > chroot stuff.. > > paulandcilla:/var/log# mount > (skip the normal mounted stuff) > > devpts-live on /home/live/chroot/dev/pts type devpts (rw) > proc-live on /home/live/chro

Re: Reg Blind

2008-04-14 Thread Adrian Levi
On 14/04/2008, Jude DaShiell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > grml has xwindows components too provided you can figure out how to get them > installed and talking. Since I have grml on a laptop and myself am totally > blind that's the next project I have in mind. The orca package may or may > not be

Re: Source code editor

2008-04-16 Thread Adrian Levi
On 16/04/2008, Dave Thayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Debian has a package for damn near anything! > > dt Yup, your right... #apt-cache show kitchensync :-) Adrian -- 24x7x365 != 24x7x52 Stupid or bad maths? hm. I've lost a machine.. literally _lost_. it responds to ping, it works complet

Re: [OT] Naming Schemes (was: Laptop with Linux preinstalled)

2008-04-18 Thread Adrian Levi
On 19/04/2008, Vikki Roemer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Whereas my main computer has had the same name since I set it up-- > neuromancer. My naming scheme is AI computers/robots (I have to throw > in robots to include my fiance's computer, Canti). That system has > been in several cases, with

Re: badblock can not be detected

2008-04-19 Thread Adrian Levi
On 20/04/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have an hard drive that connects to my laptop through the USB 2.0 > interface.it was bought at 2006. some months before, it started to report > error on read. I reformatted it use the > > mkfs.ext3 -c /dev/sda1 > > But it

Re: badblock can not be detected

2008-04-22 Thread Adrian Levi
On 22/04/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oh dear, that's quite a bad news. > that's what I have encountered. when I heard the noise of hard drive reset, > and checked the dmesg to make sure about it, I reformatted the hard drive, > then copy my data in again, it worked. but

Re: emacs sarge surprise!

2008-04-23 Thread Adrian Levi
On 23/04/2008, Jude DaShiell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Check this out, I downgrade to sarge which was the highest form of sarge > before everything moved along into etch and later lenny. The aptitude > package was uninstalled and so I try repeating that operation where bsdgames > and emacs21 ge

Re: iptables "whitelist" rule

2008-05-04 Thread Adrian Levi
2008/5/5 Raven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I am not really sure how to tell iptables to whitelist the traffic that > is not being forwarded. > In other words, the ipp2p module should not drop the packets originating > from/destinated to the router itself. > > Here is my current script: As Kevin ha

Re: Hplip

2008-05-05 Thread Adrian Levi
2008/5/6 David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I have been unable to get this to recognize my HP printer, either looking > directly to the parallel port or using CUPS. I set the driver to the one > which includes hplip, manually changed the URI to hp://..., nothing helps. No > one on their forum co

Re: where did www.debian.org/security/key-rollover/ go?

2008-05-13 Thread Adrian Levi
2008/5/14 Rody <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > In response to the latest security issue with ssl / ssh, i updated my > packages > with the new fixed versions of ssl. However the steps to regenerate the keys > are not available on: > www.debian.org/security/key-rollover/ > as the security advisory te

Another security fix to openssh-server/ssh

2008-05-17 Thread Adrian Levi
Is anyone able to shed some light on what was fixed this time round? Are our newly generated keys safe? I am unable to dig up any info on these new packages. http://packages.debian.org is timing out for me. Adrian -- 24x7x365 != 24x7x52 Stupid or bad maths? hm. I've lost a machine.. literally

Re: text file from Linux to windows.

2008-05-30 Thread Adrian Levi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 2008/5/30 Russell L. Harris : > I speak of the days of Fortran-II running on an IBM 1620. Back then, > it often was necessary to load the compiler (another deck of punched > cards) before loading the application. It must have been fun to watch someon

2.6.18-4-686 broke 8139too

2007-05-12 Thread Adrian Levi
After an upgrade from Sarge networking no linger works. I can see no reason for it. I have attached lspci -vvv, dmesg, and ifconfig eth0 and /proc/interrupts for both kernels 2.6.8-2-686 works perfectly. Error message is: May 13 13:12:39 earth kernel: eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x4

Re: 2.6.18-4-686 broke 8139too

2007-05-13 Thread Adrian Levi
On 5/14/07, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: With 2.6.8 you have: > ACPI disabled because your bios is from 95 and too old > You can enable it with acpi=force > IRQ9: eth0 With 2.6.18, on the other hand: > ACPI: Core revision 20060707 > ACPI: setting ELCR to 0800 (from 0200) > ACP

(picture) image manipulation program

2009-08-09 Thread Adrian Levi
I'd like to hear some responses for what people use as a quick and dirty image manipulation program. Main features I'm looking for are:- re-size(smaller), rotate, convert to ... I realise there is the gimp but it's probably overkill for what I want and it's features are more along the lines of pho

Re: Installation: How do I bypass partitioning?

2009-08-30 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/8/30 Jason Hsu : > I have a laptop with Windows XP already installed one one partition and Puppy > Linux already installed on another partition. > > I have additional partitions.  How do I install Debian on another partition?   > The installer insists that I write the partitions before I inst

Re: Firefox 3.5 wine

2009-09-05 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/9/6 Eugene Apolinary : > fixme:system:SetProcessDPIAware stub! > fixme:dwmapi:DwmIsCompositionEnabled 0x32fcd4 I have no answers to your direct problems but it seems to me that Firefox is trying to use functions in libraries that haven't been implemented yet in wine. You might like to look

Re: configuring xserver

2009-09-24 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/9/24 Paul E Condon : > I just purchased a small LCD monitor. It is 16:9 format and 1366x768. > I ran dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg > and that program set up the driver for 1024x768, so naturely the letters > and graphics were stretched out horizontally. 1366x768 is not an option > offered by G

Re: Clone a bootable USB key

2009-09-25 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/9/26 Dieder Vervoort : > Hi All, > > I am trying to clone a bootable USB key B ( FAT32) > > I format USB key C and  set the boot flag. > Copied all files from USB-B to USB-C in Windows. > Copied the MBR:  dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/sdc bs=446  count =1 > > When I boot from USB-B I get only the wor

Re: Clone a bootable USB key

2009-09-26 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/9/27 Dieder Vervoort : > What I am trying to do: I would like to make a copy of my USB-key to one or > more  files, > send the files to a friend and he has to dd / copy this file to his USB-Key, > and I was hoping this should work. Then what you have done previously will work on the proviso

Re: "On battery power, so skipping file system check" when in AC power

2009-02-13 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/2/14 Virgo Pärna : >Does anyone else also receives "On battery power, so skipping file system > check" > warning, when starting up a laptop with AC power connected? Especially in > Lenny. No, fine here on acer aspire. Adrian -- 24x7x365 != 24x7x52 Stupid or bad maths? hm. I've lost

Re: Wlan and IBM Thinkpad T41

2009-02-16 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/2/17 Alokat MacMoneysack : > Hey everbody, > > I installed Debian Lenny two days ago. > > All works fine but I can't use my Wlan card. > > Does anyone have an idea or can give me documentation? > > I found a couple of installation guides, but there are for Debian 4.0 > only. > > Thanks for hel

Re: Problems with Lenny Installer

2009-02-16 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/2/17 Khristian : > I'm trying to install lenny amd64 here, but the installer doesn't > recognize my hard disk as already partitioned when I choose the manual > partitioning (it simply shows an unpartitioned 250GB disk). I tried > going through the graphical and text installers (both normal and

Re: Wlan and IBM Thinkpad T41 - 2nd

2009-02-16 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/2/17 Alokat MacMoneysack : > I have the: > > Intel PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 3B Mini PCI Adapter You need to install the firmware-ipw2x00 package from non-free. http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=firmware-ipw2x00 Adrian -- 24x7x365 != 24x7x52 Stupid or bad maths? hm. I've lost a machi

Re: Problems with Lenny Installer

2009-02-16 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/2/17 Khristian : > (re-sending the e-mail to the list as well, I always forget to hit the > 'reply to all' button :/ ) Standard practice on this list is to reply only to the list unless explicetly requested to cc someone. > Yes, I've installed linux some times before, and what I'm trying to

Re: DVD install question

2009-02-17 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/2/17 Ron Johnson : > On 02/16/2009 11:03 PM, M. Lewis wrote: >> >> Prior to the release of Lenny, I downloaded one of the Lenny release >> candidate DVD's and installed via a network install from DVD #1. > > Congrats. None of the Lenny DVDs I downloaded ever succeeded in doing a > proper inst

Re: Problems with Lenny Installer

2009-02-17 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/2/18 Khristian Alexander Schönrock : > Adrian Levi escreveu: >> This will let you reuse your existing partitions. >> > That's the problem. I'm selecting the manual partitioning, but it > doesn't list the existing partitions. The installer simply defau

Re: etch/EVMS upgrade to lenny

2009-02-17 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/2/18 Oliver Dr. Muth : > Hi > > Since lenny dropped support for EVMS I guess it would be fatal to just > dist-upgrade an etch system that is based on EVMS volumes. > However, I could not find anything on this issue in the release notes. > > Should I file this as a bug against the release note

Re: dvips update

2009-02-17 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/2/17 Rodolfo Medina : > Does anyone know how I can update, in Etch, my old dvips(k) 5.95a with the > newest lenny dvips(k) 5.96.1? Otherwise I'll have to full-upgrade to lenny... > > Thanks for any help > Rodolfo Add lenny sources to your sources.list aptitude update aptitude install dvips(k

Re: label swap partition

2009-02-17 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/2/18 : > I'm trying to prepare my etch system for upgrade, and am converting to > labels in fstab. > > I tried to label my swap partition (which is swap type in part table) by doing > mkswap -L rootswap /dev/hda1 (the current dev name of my swap partition) > > but swapon -L rootswap says it

Re: etch/EVMS upgrade to lenny

2009-02-17 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/2/18 Oliver Dr. Muth : > Hi Adrian > > thanks for the quick reply. > >> Are the partitions Native EVMS or are they normal partitions accessed >> through the /dev/evms/ mount points? > Most of them are native EVMS, because I occasionally used the snapshot > function. They are EVMS on LVM2 on a

Re: debian ftp server that works with windows

2009-02-18 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/2/18 Micha Feigin : > I tried installing ftpd and ftpd-ssl but when serving local directory through > ftp to windows machine the see not only the file name but also the time, that > is instead of seeing directory "Music" I'm seeing the directory "22:31 Music". > Is there a better ftp daemon or

Re: Using Stable Dist modify repos to install/update xen from testing

2009-02-18 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/2/18 Roberto Mason : > Ooops, wanted to post to the community instead of directly to Mr. Cohen, > sorry Mr. Cohen, I'll be careful next time :). Here's the repost > > Original Message > Subject: Re: Using Stable Dist modify repos to ins

Re: label swap partition

2009-02-18 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/2/18 : > Adrian Levi writes: > >> 2009/2/18 : >> > I'm trying to prepare my etch system for upgrade, and am converting to >> > labels in fstab. >> > >> > I tried to label my swap partition (which is swap type in part table) by >>

Re: label swap partition

2009-02-19 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/2/19 Marc Auslander : > Adrian Levi writes: > It follows. /dev/hda1 looks funny, doesn't it? Like no UUID. How do > I fix? > > > fdisk -l /dev/hda > > Disk /dev/hda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders > Units =

Re: [OT]: Label printer Dont worry

2009-02-19 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/2/19 Thierry Chatelet : > On 18 February 2009 06:32:11 Thierry Chatelet wrote: >> Hi, >> I need a label printer. I was looking at this one: >> BROTHER Label Printer N&B P-Touch QL-500A >> Has anyone used it ? >> Or can you give me information on a label printer that you use under >> debian? Th

Re: Repeated Raid1 Failures after upgrade to Lenny

2009-02-19 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/2/19 Ryan Wetterich : > So I upgraded to Lenny over the weekend, and now I'm having issues with my > RAID1 were there weren't any before. Every few hours one of the devices > making up any /dev/md will fail. It's usually on /dev/sdb but it's happening > on /dev/sda as well. I can set the devic

Re: Upgrade procedure: etch -> lenny

2009-02-19 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/2/19 Chris Jones : > I plan to upgrade to lenny over the weekend: > > 1. duplicate current etch system on a new partition > 2. apt-get update > 2. replace "etch" by "lenny" in /etc/sources.list > 3. apt-get dist-upgrade > > Am I missing anything? > > Note: I do not want apt to mess with my lin

Re: Lenny kernel (2.6.26) hangs

2009-02-20 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/2/21 Dennis Busboom : > I just upgraded an older machine, PII 400mhz, 256mb RAM, from Etch to > Lenny. The upgrade went smoothly, but the new Lenny kernel hangs upon > booting. The old Etch kernel (2.6.18) is still present and boots up fine > into the Lenny upgrade. When booting from the 2.

Re: Lenny kernel (2.6.26) hangs

2009-02-20 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/2/21 Dennis Busboom : > I just upgraded an older machine, PII 400mhz, 256mb RAM, from Etch to > Lenny. The upgrade went smoothly, but the new Lenny kernel hangs upon > booting. The old Etch kernel (2.6.18) is still present and boots up fine > into the Lenny upgrade. When booting from the 2.

Re: Lenny kernel (2.6.26) hangs

2009-02-20 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/2/21 Dennis Busboom : > I tried linux-image-2.6-686 and linux-image-686 (for PentiumX machines). > Both behave the same way. I see the kernel and initrd load, then nothing. > The old 2.6.18 still boots right up. I also tried going into the grub > command-mode and doing a 'testload' on the ke

Re: Java in Debian 5

2009-02-20 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/2/21 Bret Busby : > On Fri, 20 Feb 2009, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 11:31:27AM -0500, Michael Pobega wrote: >> If you install the desktop task you also get OpenOffice.org that depends >> on a Java JRE. > So, to use Open Office, Java is needed? > > I understood that Open O

Re: Java in Debian 5

2009-02-21 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/2/22 Bret Busby : > On Sat, 21 Feb 2009, Adrian Levi wrote: > >> >> 2009/2/21 Bret Busby : >>> >>> On Fri, 20 Feb 2009, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: >>>> >>>> On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 11:31:27AM -0500, Michael Pobega wrote: >>>>

Re: Re: Lenny kernel (2.6.26) hangs

2009-02-21 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/2/22 Dennis Busboom : >> Could you try running memtest86+ on it and see if its a memory issue. > > I fired up memtest before leaving last night. It ran 10 hours, 12 passes > with no errors. Only thing I can think of now is to grab some source and > and roll my own where I can cherry-pick and

Re: Java in Debian 5

2009-02-21 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/2/22 Celejar : > I was actually surprised by the fact that I apparently had a bunch of > java stuff marked as manually installed. I run aptitude without > automatic installation of recommends, and I have no idea when I would > have marked stuff like 'libxom-java' or 'bsh' (BeanShell) as manu

Re: Newly obsolete package?

2009-02-21 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/2/22 Umarzuki Mochlis : > There are 35 newly obsolete packages: bomber, gtk-qt-engine-kde4, kapman, > kdeedu-kvtml-data, kdepim-groupware, killbots, kmymoney2-common, > kpartloader, The 4 packages I checked from that list are in experimental only, My guess is that if you add an apt pinning

Re: Lenny kernel (2.6.26) hangs

2009-02-23 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/2/23 Dennis Busboom : > I think I've discovered what's causing the hang, but haven't had time to > dig into it. It seems that the video card (huh?!) is the problem. > > lspci -v shows this with the 2.6.28 kernel booted up > > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV4 [RIV

Re: which machine will be affected if virus attacks?

2009-02-23 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/2/23 ██╔►Engr LEO◄╗██ : > Hi all, > > I am running Windows Xp on two systems.. system#1 is connected > directly to inetrenet.. system#2 uses the shared connection from the > I have no firewall, no antivirus, nothing on system#1.. system#2 has updated > antiviruses.. are my virtual m

Re: Java in Debian 5

2009-02-23 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/2/24 Bret Busby : > On Mon, 23 Feb 2009, Paul Johnson wrote: > I thought that using package management to do system updates, like apt-get > update followed by apt-get dist-upgrade, removed packages that became > obsolete, and thence associated files, other than data files created by the > pac

Re: Old PHP on new Debian

2009-03-07 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/3/8 Florian Weimer : > * Pet: > >> /etc/apt/sources.list > > This looks fine.  How did you figure out that you had installed PHP > 5.1.6? He doesn't have it installed, he wants it installed. Adrian -- 24x7x365 != 24x7x52 Stupid or bad maths? hm. I've lost a machine.. literally _lost_. it

Re: smart

2009-03-08 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/3/8 randall : > hi all, G'Day. > smartctl --all /dev/sde > gives me the following, i've been trying to google this but some sources say > replace the disk at once or don't wory, its harmless. Anybody can shed some > light? >  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   100   100   036    Pre-fail  A

Re: Ext3 for flash drive

2009-03-12 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/3/12 Bob Cox : > On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 22:14:59 -0700, Mike McClain (mike.j...@nethere.com) > wrote: > >> On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 12:38:35PM +0100, Jens Van Broeckhoven wrote: >> > Masatran / Deepak, R. wrote: >> > >Recently, I re-partitioned my flash drive. I made one FAT32 partition, and

Re: SMART -d ata or -d sat

2009-03-12 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/3/13 Norbert Zeh : > Hi Debianites, > > I have just installed smartmontools on my Lenny box and am using smartd > to monitor two SATA IDE drives.  I've read on the web that the right > option to use for such a drive is "-d ata" to force smartd to treat it > as an ATA drive.  On the other hand,

Re: pppd curiosity

2009-03-15 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/3/15 Umarzuki Mochlis : > --> Sending: > ATZ > ATZ > OK > --> Sending: > AT+CGDCONT? > AT+CGDCONT? > +CGDCONT: > 1,"IP","my3g","0.0.0.0",0,0 > OK > --> Modem > initialized. > --> Sending: > ATDT*99# > --> Waiting for > carrier. > ATDT*99# > CONNECT > --> Carrier detected.  Starting PPP > immed

Re: pppd curiosity

2009-03-16 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/3/16 Umarzuki Mochlis : > Frankly, I don't really know how to answer that other than giving you the > full dialing message What was the command you typed to get that message? PS I am subscrubed, you don't need to email me, just the list is fine. Adrian -- 24x7x365 != 24x7x52 Stupid or bad

Re: Stock kernel - it works everywhere because?

2009-03-20 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/3/20 Matthew Smith : > Hi Folks > > Nearing the end of my journey now (Gentoo to Debian migration.)  Setting up > VMware Workstation from the official distribution (this is the commercial > one that I use) requires me to re-build the kernel so that it and the VMware > modules are compiled with

Re: Top posting vs Bottom posting

2009-03-22 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/3/23 Christofer C. Bell : > This isn't true.  Come enter the 21st Century, it started nearly a decade > ago. ;-)  Top posting works well in a modern threaded mail reader (all of > which, incidentally, support HTML email).  Because *you* are a curmudgeon > doesn't mean everyone else has to be.

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