Network Security: File sharing & remote X sessions

2005-06-16 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
ation/howto's or suggestions on how to securely serve files to Windows hosts (w/ Samba?) are welcome as well. Felix -- Felix C. Stegerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you are as clever as you

Re: ALSA under 2.6.7

2004-06-30 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
this list can shed some light on this. I'd especially like to know whether my card is faulty or whether ALSA is causing the problem. Regards, Felix -- Felix C. Stegerman the QuiX project - Open Source Software Development E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web:http://www.quix.tk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIB

New (LAN) web server: do I use stable, testing or unstable?

2004-07-06 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
unstable. Now, finally, here's my question: What version would you recommend? And, of course, why? Any tips, security-related etc. , are also welcome. Thanks in advance. Regards, Felix -- Felix C. Stegerman the QuiX project - Open Source Software Development E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web:

Using Linux on a Family PC

2004-07-06 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
agate fd0: 1.44MB 3.5" Floppy Drive Thanks in advance. Regards, Felix -- Felix C. Stegerman the QuiX project - Open Source Software Development E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web:http://www.quix.tk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tro

Re: Using Linux on a Family PC

2004-07-06 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
s. keeling wrote: Incoming from Felix C. Stegerman: Uh huh. So? I'd double the RAM and give them a CD/DVD or whatever. I accidentally hit the 'send' button instead of the 'save as draft' button, which lead to an incomplete email. The full email will follow shortly.

Re: Using Linux on a Family PC

2004-07-06 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
er-friendly as possible/nessecary? - Do you have any additional tips? Thanks in advance. Regards, Felix -- Felix C. Stegerman the QuiX project - Open Source Software Development E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web:http://www.quix.tk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Using Linux on a Family PC

2004-07-07 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
Jacob S. wrote: On Tue, 06 Jul 2004 18:32:57 -0500 Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Felix C. Stegerman wrote: I've recently acquired a 2nd hand PC I want to use as replacement for our (windows 98) family PC. That means my mother, stepfather and little sister (5 years old) will

Re: Using Linux on a Family PC

2004-07-09 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
Frozen-Bubbles and TuxRacer myself. BTW, from your 'explaining' what KDE & Gnome are, I got the impression you thought I'm new to Debian (& GNU/Linux). I'm not. I'v been happily running unstable for almost 2 years now. Regards, Felix -- Felix C. Stegerman the QuiX

Re: ALSA under 2.6.7

2004-07-14 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
Felix C. Stegerman wrote: What's worse is that as of recently I can't use my headphones any more. I've tried every alsamixer setting I could think of, but still no sound. I'd especially like to know whether my card is faulty or whether ALSA is causing the problem. Just to le

Re: Outdated package, is it possible to help?

2003-12-23 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
Toshiro wrote: I like krusader (a very nice file manager, like mc) and I'd like to have the latest version; unfortunately the Debian version is very outdated (almost a year old) Same here. I've sent a couple of e-mails to the maintainer of the package telling him that I'm willing to help if he

Re: Outdated package, is it possible to help?

2004-01-02 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
Toshiro wrote: Well, I finally built a krusader package for the latest stable version (1.3); it's running fine in my computer, if anybody want to test the package just let me know. Regards, Toshiro. Gladly. I attempted to try to compile it myself, but ran in to some dependency problems insta

Re: I can't access some site with Mozilla

2004-01-14 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
Christopher L. Everett wrote: OK, I git this problem only once in a while. Otherwise useful site that I can't access that give me "connection refused" errors when Moz or IE on a Windows box behind the same firewall as me works fine. Here are 2 sample URLS: http://www.mwave.com/ http://www.egain.

Re: Outdated package, is it possible to help?

2004-01-14 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
Toshiro wrote: I like krusader (a very nice file manager, like mc) and I'd like to have the latest version; unfortunately the Debian version is very outdated (almost a year old) I've sent a couple of e-mails to the maintainer of the package telling him that I'm willing to help if he needs help

Re: dma fuer Festplatte einschalten

2004-01-17 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
Matthias Taube wrote: Hi, meine Festplatte weigert sich standhaft, in den DMA-Modus zu gehen. nathan:/home/mati# hdparm -d1 /dev/hda /dev/hda: setting using_dma to 1 (on) HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted using_dma= 0 (off) Kernel ist 2.4.22 Habt Ihr Tips für mich? Please note

Re: chkrootkit

2004-01-22 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
Micha Feigin wrote: On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 05:09:08PM -0700, Nate Duehr wrote: On Wednesday, Jan 21, 2004, at 16:38 America/Denver, David Sanders wrote: I just ran chkrootkit for the first time on a woody machine and got: Checking `lkm'... You have 1 process hidden for ps command Warning:

Re: /dev/hda2 on / type unknown ???

2004-06-22 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
g) Debian testing/unstable (APT prefers unstable) It'd be nice if someone could shed some light on this. Felix -- Felix C. Stegerman the QuiX project - Open Source Software Development E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web:http://www.quix.tk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subj

System clock too fast after kernel upgrade

2004-06-22 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
sage240480.html -- Felix C. Stegerman the QuiX project - Open Source Software Development E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web:http://www.quix.tk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: System clock too fast after kernel upgrade

2004-06-22 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
Stefano Rivoir wrote: Felix C. Stegerman wrote: I realise this is probably not Debian-specific, but I'm hoping someone on this list can help me out anyway. [...] It's a known problem, both in early -bk and in -mm1. Either wait for -mm2 or look for the right fix, it's been around

Re: System clock too fast after kernel upgrade

2004-06-22 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
Felix C. Stegerman wrote: Stefano Rivoir wrote: Felix C. Stegerman wrote: I realise this is probably not Debian-specific, but I'm hoping someone on this list can help me out anyway. [...] It's a known problem, both in early -bk and in -mm1. Either wait for -mm2 or look for the right

Re: System clock too fast after kernel upgrade

2004-06-22 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
Anthony Campbell wrote: On 22 Jun 2004, Felix C. Stegerman wrote: I realise this is probably not Debian-specific, but I'm hoping someone on this list can help me out anyway. [...] I found the clock was fast (though not as fast as that) with kernel 2.6.6. It also was very difficult to reg

Re: libxft-dev problem

2004-03-13 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
ed properly by doing this: # dpkg --ignore-depends=libxft-dev -r libxft-dev # apt-get install -f Regards, Felix -- Felix C. Stegerman the QuiX project - Open Source Software Development E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web:http://www.quix.tk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a sub

Re: Vi problems from recent upgrade

2006-05-25 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
n invoked as vi then when invoked as vim. Therefore, you may want to use vim from now on. - Felix -- Felix C. Stegerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature." -- R. Kulawiec pgpDZzg3cLBPy.pgp Description: PGP signature

is it a bad idea to use unstable on a server ?

2006-05-26 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
o use unstable on a production server when it comes to security? * If so, would you recommend using testing, or stable? * And does anyone with experience running unstable on production servers know of any other caveats I should be aware of? Thanks, - Felix -- Felix C. Stegerman <[EMA

Re: debian kernel package for ubuntu

2006-05-26 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
and let her install the package with dpkg on her ubuntu box. So > my question is simply to know if installing a debian kernel package > on ubuntu is feasible or if it will lead to problems ? I've done exactly that once or twice without any problems. Of course YMMV. - Felix -- Fe

Re: mail delivery

2006-05-29 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
gt; > I use exim4 on my Debian system with exim4-daemon-heavy. I use exim4-deamon-light, but I had a similar problem a while ago. I solved it by adding primary_hostname = my.host.name to /etc/exim4/exim4.conf.template. - Felix -- Felix C. Stegerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: is it a bad idea to use unstable on a server ?

2006-05-31 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
oduction > > servers know of any other caveats I should be aware of? > > If you want a stable "Debian", but need something more up-to-date, > Ubuntu 2005.10 might be what you want. I definitely prefer to stick with Debian so I'll go with sarge. Thanks

Re: is it a bad idea to use unstable on a server ?

2006-05-31 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
ntly and do a lot of > reading in your free time to keep track of development and latest > bugs a lot more carefully than you otherwise would. I figured as much. I just wanted to check whether I was paranoid enough, or too paranoid ;-) - Felix -- Felix C. Stegerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: is it a bad idea to use unstable on a server ?

2006-05-31 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
nowledge of debian/server > world after years of using linux and being subscribed to this list and > hanging out on technology savy irc channels :-) > > Information does go through with osmosis sometimes :-) I figured as much. I just wanted to check whether I was paranoid enough,

[backports & security]

2006-05-31 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
uggestions & remarks are welcome. Thanks. - Felix -- Felix C. Stegerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://obfusk.net ~ "Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature." ~ -- R. Kulawiec ~ vim: set ft=mail tw=70 sw=2 sts=2 et: pgpXnwhH2DusW.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [backports & security]

2006-05-31 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
ke > install". YMMV I know ;-) I've used make-kpkg a lot. I'm not sure whether it's easy to install one of the newer kernels (even a self-compiled one) on sarge though, since it may depend on newer versions of e.g. yaird. Thanks anyway. - Felix -- Felix C. Stegerman

Re: [backports & security]

2006-05-31 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
p on an upgrade it can be a big pain to fix. I've thought about using unstable (see an earlier thread I started), and decided to go with stable instead. But it's nice to know that unstable can be used with very little problem. Next time, please reply on-list, and don't top-post.

Re: [backports & security]

2006-06-01 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
e, > but YMMV. I'm more concerned about security than reliability. I can handle occasional downtime if something breaks, but I'd rather avoid my system being compromised. - Felix -- Felix C. Stegerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://obfusk.net ~ "Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature." ~ -- R. Kulawiec ~ vim: set ft=mail tw=70 sw=2 sts=2 et: pgpHSa3d2mJbi.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [backports & security]

2006-06-01 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
* George Borisov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-01 11:39]: > Felix C. Stegerman wrote: > > > > I'm about to install sarge on a (production) server of my own, and > > would rather like to have the latest versions of: > > * mysql (5.0) > > * vim

Re: [backports & security]

2006-06-01 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
* "Roberto C. Sanchez" [2006-06-01 14:59]: > Felix C. Stegerman wrote: > > > > I've thought about using unstable (see an earlier thread I > > started), and decided to go with stable instead. But it's nice to > > know that unstable can be used with v

Re: [backports & security]

2006-06-01 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
er kernels (even a self-compiled > > one) on sarge though, since it may depend on newer versions of > > e.g. yaird. > > You could avoid yaird by compiling everything in. I think the only > problem would be udev, but I may be wrong You're probably right ;-) So the q

Re: is it a bad idea to use unstable on a server ?

2006-06-01 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
table, since the server is only meant to be used by myself and some of the people I (have to) work with. So as long as it stays secure I can handle even occasional downtime to sort things out. Do you think that security support for unstable is good enough for this? Or should I just go with stab

Re: is it a bad idea to use unstable on a server ?

2006-06-01 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
es the server provides? Or would it be enough to make sure I keep the server up-to-date and occasionally take it down to fix some debian-unstable-induced breakage to keep it secure? - Felix -- Felix C. Stegerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://obfusk.net ~ "Any sufficiently advan

Re: [backports & security]

2006-06-04 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
* Johannes Wiedersich [2006-06-01 17:53]: > Felix C. Stegerman wrote: > > > Do you know what would be the best way to make sure I don't miss any > > of those updates? If I backport e.g. mysql from unstable/testing, > > will I be able to rely on security announcemen

Re: [backports & security]

2006-06-04 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
* "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-01 16:33]: > Felix C. Stegerman wrote: > > > > I'm running unstable on my desktop (well, actually a laptop), so I'm > > accustomed to the occasional breakage and could probably live with it. &

Re: is it a bad idea to use unstable on a server ?

2006-06-04 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
Perl/shell scripts etc.). > I'd just go with stable, keep an eye on the debian-security list and > backport anything that you really need (which should be very > little). As I replied to Johannes Wiedersich (in another thread), I've decided to go with stable and do some bac

Re: [backports & security]

2006-06-04 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
* John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-04 18:34]: > Felix C. Stegerman writes: > > I'll stick with stable and backport mysql, vim and the kernel > > myself. > > First check backports.org. Someone probably has already done it > (and there are 2.6 kernels i

Re: is it a bad idea to use unstable on a server ?

2006-06-09 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
* "s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-09 04:25]: > Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Am 2006-05-26 19:08:47, schrieb Felix C. Stegerman: > > > > > So it comes down to: > > > * Is it a bad idea to use unstable on

Re: x11 and unplugging / plugging usb mouse w/o restarting X11 ?

2006-06-09 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
* Johannes Zellner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-09 23:14]: > is it possible to unplug / plug an usb mouse w/o restarting the > x server (and the mouse recognized again by X11 if it's plugged > in)? Yes. I just did so to verify it ;-) (using Xorg 7.0) - Felix -- Felix

Re: CUPS (1.2) is screwed up totally--I have no printers

2006-06-11 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
o try, I'd love to hear from you. > > I need my printers... :( > <...> Have you tried purging all CUPS packages and reconfiguring all printers? That worked for me. - Felix -- Felix C. Stegerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://obfusk.net ~ "Any suffici

Re: CUPS (1.2) is screwed up totally--I have no printers

2006-06-11 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
* Eike Lantzsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-12 00:08]: > On Sunday 11 June 2006 17:42, Felix C. Stegerman wrote: > > * Kenward Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-11 13:16]: > > > Just to pass this titillating piece of info along if the earlier > > > pos

Re: CUPS (1.2) is screwed up totally--I have no printers

2006-06-11 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
* Kenward Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-11 18:34]: > On Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 11:42:19PM +0200, Felix C. Stegerman wrote: > > * Kenward Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-11 13:16]: > > > Just to pass this titillating piece of info along if the earlier > &

Re: secure-testing.debian.net down?

2006-06-11 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
hangs on this update. Can anyone tell me what's up, or down? On May 12th, the testing security archive moved: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2006/05/msg6.html It is odd, however, that http://secure-testing-master.debian.net is unreachable as well. - Felix -- Feli

Re: Mixed dual-monitor setup: too weird?

2006-06-11 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
-- especially using Xinerama, which is important. I need to > be able to move windows from screen to screen. I'm not sure if it's of much help, but I have a dual-monitor setup w/ my laptop having a CRT connected through a KVM as a second screen. I'm just mirroring the laptop&#x

Re: CUPS (1.2) is screwed up totally--I have no printers

2006-06-11 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
* Kenward Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-12 04:22]: > On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 02:07:46AM +0200, Felix C. Stegerman wrote: > > * Eike Lantzsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-12 00:08]: > > > On Sunday 11 June 2006 17:42, Felix C. Stegerman wrote: > > >

Re: Moo! (WAS Re: upgrade only if installed)

2006-06-14 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
* Kelly Clowers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-15 00:49]: > try "apt-get moo" > then "aptitude moo" > then "aptitude moo -v" > then "aptitude moo -vv" > and so on Now that was funny! - Felix -- Felix C. Stegerman <[EMAIL PR

Re: python upgrade failing on Sid

2006-06-15 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
ing python2.4-minimal (--configure): > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 [...] > ------- > > Any idea what could be the problem? No. But I do get the same error. - Felix -- Felix C. Stegerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://obfusk

Re: python upgrade failing on Sid

2006-06-16 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
* loos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-16 05:51]: > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=373856 Thanks. I really don't know why I didn't check for existing bugreports. - Felix -- Felix C. Stegerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://obfusk.net ~ &

Re: Installation Python 2.3 with Debian Testing

2006-06-16 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
* Kumar Appaiah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-16 10:11]: > Here's the bugzilla report: > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=373856 Debian BTS != bugzilla. ;-) - Felix -- Felix C. Stegerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://obfusk.net ~ "Any

Re: How to use sudo not root

2006-06-16 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
:-) > > %admin ALL=(ALL) ALL > > should do ... as they have in ubuntu What about group `wheel' ? > > > And then delete the password from root from your /etc/passwd and > > > /etc/shadow files =second field > > > > I'd suggest using the -l argume

Re: How to use sudo not root

2006-06-17 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
* Magnus Therning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-17 01:24]: > On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 21:50:39 +0200, Felix C. Stegerman wrote: > [..] > >> %admin ALL=(ALL) ALL > >> > >> should do ... as they have in ubuntu > > > >What about group `wheel' ?

Re: Installation Python 2.3 with Debian Testing

2006-06-17 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
* Kumar Appaiah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-17 06:11]: > On 17/06/06, Felix C. Stegerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Debian BTS != bugzilla. ;-) > > Acknowledged. Realized that the difference is more than subtle! > Actually, it is *very* wrong to call Debian BTS

Re: mount pendrive fstab entry ?

2006-06-17 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
n your e-mail? > but it still doesn't work (obviously or would not post). This works for me: /dev/sda2 /media/usbkey ext2 ro,user,noauto 0 0 Of course, my usb key is partitioned, so you may need to use /dev/sda if yours is not. - Felix -- Felix C. Stegerman <[EMAIL PROT

Re: How to use sudo not root

2006-06-17 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
roup wheel and made sure PAM only allows su (and console logins) for members of group wheel. Also, SSH only allows members of group wheel to log in remotely. I think I got the idea from the "Securing Debian Manual". - Felix -- Felix C. Stegerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Windows-toolbar behavior in gnome

2006-06-21 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
d openbox. Now I just use openbox + perlpanel (no GNOME). Of course, openbox may not be what you want either, but you might be able to find another window manager that is. - Felix -- Felix C. Stegerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://obfusk.net ~ "Any sufficiently advanced

Re: stable mix testing

2014-01-07 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 2014-01-07 20:16, Pol Hallen wrote: > Hi all! I've a strange problem: debian stable with mate desktop: > with only stable sources list I don't have any upgrade to do, I > added testing repository like it: > > /etc/apt/sources.list > > # STABLE d

Re: since last upgrade unable to upgrade, install whatever...

2014-01-07 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 2014-01-06 12:30, François Patte wrote: > Le 06/01/2014 12:21, Selim T. Erdogan a écrit : >> Erwan David, 6.01.2014: >>> On Mon, Jan 06, 2014 at 11:56:35AM CET, François Patte >>> said: Le 06/01/2014 11:30, Erwan David a écrit : > On Mo

Re: Problems while using Tor Browser on Debian 7

2014-01-07 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 2014-01-06 20:17, André Nunes Batista wrote: > On Sat, 2014-01-04 at 01:21 +0600, Muntasim-Ul-Haque wrote: >> Hi, I have installed Tor on Debian 7 but couldn't use it. >> Viladia is showing the following errors: /*[Warning] Could not >> bind to 12

Re: New to Debian (Gentoo user) - package management

2014-01-07 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 2014-01-05 01:43, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Fri, Jan 03, 2014 at 10:31:35PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: >> On Friday 03 January 2014 14:16:34 Brian wrote: >>> The '-s' can be omitted if more than one package is to >>> installed. >> >> i.e., if you

Re: Automatically activate xscreensaver-command -deactivate after un-hibernate ?

2014-01-07 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 2014-01-04 23:26, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > sid, xfce > > Because I just have a blank screen as my lock screen, > un-hibernating just continues to show my blank screen. > > It would be nice if the "unlock" password dialog appeared > automatical

Re: packages status

2014-01-07 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 2014-01-07 05:08, Diogene Laerce wrote: > [...] I would like to automate the installation process from > scratch to a django development platform. But forgot to note every > modification from the very beginning. ^^ :) I'm not sure what you mean b

Re: since last upgrade unable to upgrade, install whatever...

2014-01-07 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 2014-01-07 01:22, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2014-01-06 05:28:54 -0600, Selim T. Erdogan wrote: >> Actually, after looking at >> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=734256, what you >> could do is to remove apt-listbugs, install ruby

vagrant [Was: Re: packages status]

2014-01-08 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 2014-01-08 04:44, Diogene Laerce wrote: > Hi, > >>> [...] I would like to automate the installation process from >>> scratch to a django development platform. But forgot to note >>> every modification from the very beginning. ^^ :) >> I'm not su

Re: Iceweasel weird behavior

2014-01-08 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 2014-01-08 20:50, Alex S. wrote: > On Wed, 08 Jan 2014 18:41:30 +0100 Ralf Mardorf > wrote: > >> On Wed, 2014-01-08 at 17:34 +0200, Alex S. wrote: >> >> Perhaps you like a Qt based web browser >> http://packages.debian.org/jessie/qupzilla >>

Re: Iceweasel weird behavior

2014-01-08 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 2014-01-08 23:09, Alex S. wrote: > On Wed, 08 Jan 2014 22:24:38 +0100 "Felix C. Stegerman" > wrote: > >> >> It sounds like you're using a 32-bit firefox. If you download >> the .tar from the mozilla w

Re: How to unbind MacBook mouse buttons from Fn-F10 and Fn-F11

2014-01-20 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 2014-01-20 15:03, Julian Gilbey wrote: > I've just installed Debian jessie (testing) on a MacBook Pro and > it's doing my head in :-( I wonder if anyone has any ideas that > might help me > > I'm using XFCE4 as my window manager, if that mak

Re: Help with command - cp

2014-01-26 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 2014-01-26 15:26, Lisi Reisz wrote: > I am wanting to use the CLI to copy some files from dirA to dirB. > I want to exclude all hidden files. Will this command achieve it? > :-- > > cp -Rp /path/to/sourcedir/A/* /path/to/destinationdir/B Not qu

Re: Help with command - cp

2014-01-26 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 2014-01-26 21:48, Mathias Bauer wrote: > * Felix C. Stegerman wrote on 2014-01-26 at 15:49 (+0100): > >> On 2014-01-26 15:26, Lisi Reisz wrote: >>> I am wanting to use the CLI to copy some files from dirA to >>>

Re: Help with command - cp

2014-01-26 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 2014-01-26 23:24, Mathias Bauer wrote: > * Mr Smiley wrote on 2014-01-26 at 20:56 (+): > >>> cp -Rp /path/to/sourcedir/A/* /path/to/destinationdir/B >> >> If you don't put a / after B it will copy all files to a file >> called B > > No, ob

Re: Help with command - cp

2014-01-26 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 2014-01-27 02:04, Mathias Bauer wrote: > * Felix C. Stegerman wrote on 2014-01-26 at 23:58 (+0100): > >> On 2014-01-26 23:24, Mathias Bauer wrote: > >>> * Mr Smiley wrote on 2014-01-26 at 20:56 (+): >>>

Re: Help with command - cp

2014-01-29 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 2014-01-29 10:43, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > > > Le 26.01.2014 15:26, Lisi Reisz a écrit : >> I am wanting to use the CLI to copy some files from dirA to dirB. >> I want to exclude all hidden files. Will this command achieve >> it?

Re: Help with command - cp

2014-01-30 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 2014-01-30 01:51, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > On 1/30/14, Felix C. Stegerman wrote: >> On 2014-01-29 10:43, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > >>> And then: $ cd ~/bar && rm `find -name '.*'` >&g

Re: Where are the local GVFS mounts?

2014-02-23 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 2014-02-23 05:15, Mike Toews wrote: > Hi, > > I have mounted a smb share through the convenience clicking through > of Gnome's Nautilus browser. Great! However, I cannot seem to do > anything with it from a terminal. The properties (again, from >

Re: vagrant [Was: Re: packages status]

2014-02-23 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 2014-01-08 17:12, Felix C. Stegerman wrote: > On 2014-01-08 04:44, Diogene Laerce wrote: >> Hi, > >>>> [...] I would like to automate the installation process from >>>> scratch to a django development pla

Re: NFS and Firewall on 2.6

2005-12-24 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
On 2005-12-22 15:07:50, Gerwin Bruner wrote: > The only thing which is not working is to get nlockmgr onto port 4001. > Is there any way to change the port? What did I miss out? I think I successfully used sysctl for this once. Felix -- Felix C. Stegerman <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: /etc/interfaces for logical interfaces

2005-12-27 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
can automagically detect whether you're at home or at work and adjust the network settings accordingly. With my setup, it looks for ip 192.168.1.1 (my router at home) and if it is found uses ip 192.168.1.104. Otherwise it uses DHCP (at university). Felix -- Felix C. Stegerma

Re: package broken?

2005-12-27 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
00.0-4 0 900 http://ftp.nl.debian.org sid/main Packages 890 http://ftp.nl.debian.org etch/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status Felix -- Felix C. Stegerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature." -

Re: [OT] printf format specifier

2005-12-27 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
length 4, not 2. I must admit I overlooked that at first too ;-) Felix -- Felix C. Stegerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature." -- R. Kulawiec -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mailing list "reader"?

2006-01-21 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
On 2006-01-21 12:12:29, G-Point wrote: > Hello, > i have gmail, and i would like to know from you which would be the best > programs under linux to read mailing lists. > thanks I prefer (and use) mutt. Felix -- Felix C. Stegerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Any suffi

Re: How to track what packages apt-get installs and removes?

2006-01-22 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
t know about apt-get, but aptitude has a log file in /var/log/aptitude. Felix -- Felix C. Stegerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature." -- R. Kulawiec -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of &q

Re: include ~/bin in $PATH under kde on debian (sarge)

2006-04-26 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
on.d and the chosen desktop environment / session runs its own stuff. (like ~/.gnomrc or ~/.kde/env/*) Felix -- Felix C. Stegerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature." -- R. Kulawiec -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: etch mirrors, ppc, cannot find release file

2006-04-26 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
://lists.debian.org/debian-mirrors-announce/2006/02/msg0.html Felix -- Felix C. Stegerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature." -- R. Kulawiec -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: include ~/bin in $PATH under kde on debian (sarge)

2006-04-26 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
On 2006-04-26 16:06:20, John Stumbles wrote: > Felix C. Stegerman wrote: > > >I personally use .xsession / .xinitrc to start a custom X session and > >add ~/bin to my $PATH in there. > >To do the same with GNOME, you can edit ~/.gnomerc. > >To do the same with KDE, y

Re: include ~/bin in $PATH under kde on debian (sarge)

2006-04-26 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
lly easier to start KDE/GNOME/whatever from a customised .xsession / .xinitrc, especially since KDE and GNOME don't seem to document this. Since I use openbox + perlpanel + my_own_session_manager, I just source my .bashrc in my .xinitrc. Felix -- Felix C. Stegerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: setting up an encrypted filesystem..

2006-04-27 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
ly load a module at bootup, add it to /etc/modules. Felix -- Felix C. Stegerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature." -- R. Kulawiec -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: include ~/bin in $PATH under kde on debian (sarge)

2006-04-27 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
On 2006-04-26 16:41:47, Michael M. wrote: > Felix C. Stegerman wrote: > > > >Since I use openbox + perlpanel + my_own_session_manager, > >I just source my .bashrc in my .xinitrc. > > Sorry, Felix, could you explain what you mean my "my own session > manager&

Re: Screen resolution

2006-04-29 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
* Rodolfo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-04-29 23:05]: > I strongly suspect that my screen resolution is lower than it should > be: everything appears very big. > Is there a way to check up the real performed resolution? Try $ xrandr - Felix -- Felix C. Stegerman <[EMAIL

Re: DPI setting

2006-04-30 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
may be starting it with the -dpi option. (my gdm.conf uses: `X -dpi 96') AFAIK, this will override any DisplaySize settings in xorg.conf. - Felix -- Felix C. Stegerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature." -- R. Kula

Re: ppp SIGHUP problem

2005-10-20 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
you haven't got some weird hardware problem like I had. I really thought it was a software issue at first. I only discovered the real cause by accident ... Felix -- Felix C. Stegerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>"Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistiguishable from a feature." -- R. Kulawiec

Re: just show which packages have updates available?

2005-10-25 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
> questions. But -n doesn't exist from what I can see. :) > > -Matt Hi, You could use -P to force a prompt and use # echo n | aptitude -P -s to simulate and say no, e.g. # echo n | aptitude -P -s upgrade Felix -- Felix C. Stegerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Any s

Re: gdm theme

2005-11-02 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
On 2005-11-02 21:37:58, salahuddin pasha wrote: > i want that my gdm would use theme clearlooks (always) > how i can do that. In /etc/gdm/gdm.conf, find the [gui] section and add (or modify) GtkTheme= Felix -- Felix C. Stegerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Any sufficientl

Re: getting java to compile and run

2005-11-02 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
ava.lang.ClassLoader$1.loadClass (ClassLoader.java:1285) >at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass (ClassLoader.java:304) >at java.lang.VirtualMachine.main (VirtualMachine.java:99) > ---cut--- > > Can someone help me to get this working? > > Regards Neil. It should wor

aptitude: untrusted packages

2005-11-05 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
consider this a bug and file a report? Felix -- Felix C. Stegerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature." -- R. Kulawiec -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: New kernel does not install

2005-11-05 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
pkg -i kernel-image...deb > > The new kernel cannot boot. The kernel installed can still boot. > > What is the problem? Probably the initrd. Try # make-kpkg --rootcmd fakeroot --append-to-version -jp --revision 01 --initrd kernel_image Felix -- Felix C. Stegerman <[EMAIL PR

Re: Speedstepping on MacMini

2005-11-05 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
much in need of this, but it'd be nice to get it working. OT: You would not happen to know how to suspend-to-disk on a mac mini, would you ? Felix -- Felix C. Stegerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature." -- R.

Re: New kernel does not install

2005-11-05 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
I accidentally hit "Reply" instead of "List-Reply" Sorry about that. Felix -- Felix C. Stegerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature." -- R. Kulawiec -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

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