Re: [OT] Re: How do you make your life secure (software based)?

(Since were completely OT, you may want to reply to me privately.) Ron Johnson: > On 11/28/07 03:48, Jochen Schulz wrote: > [snip] >> >> To end my my rant: the German minister of Interior Politics recently >> said to critics that he agrees with them in that there

Re: Font problem with GTK in KDE

ispmarin: > > I'm using KDE from debian lenny, and some GTK apps, like icedove. When > I log on my session, the fonts from the GTK apps have the wrong size - > they are all much bigger than I configured. I have to manually start > gnome-control-center and use the Font Manager - as soon I click the

Re: [OT] Re: How do you make your life secure (software based)?

s. keeling: > Jochen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >> I am not sure whether I understand you correctly, but if you are saying > > Sorry, I was merely commenting on that article. I've seen and read > quite a bit of recent German police intentions, as you'

Re: Font problem with GTK in KDE

ispmarin: > On Nov 29, 11:10 am, Jochen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> You need to either run gnome-settings-daemon on every login or configure >> gtk appearance in your ~/.gtkrc-2.0. > > I tried to run gnome-settings-daemon: > > gnome-settings-

Re: server login with SSH

phillinux: > > I set-up a plain vanilla, samba (intranet) server for a computer lab in my > school. I've done this before with SuSE and have switched to Debian Net > install. If you have started with a minimal installation, you probably don't have openssh-server installed. > I have the kids SSH

Re: about tar backup

Nevruz Mesut Sahin: > > so I want to get all backup under /www then I tried > > tar cvf /www/ (but does not work gives error) > tar: Cowardly refusing to create an empty archive > Try `tar --help' or `tar --usage' for more information. The 'f' option has to be followed directly by the na

Re: permissions in /sbin

andy: > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root ... > > Is this really an okay arrangement for the contents of /sbin? Sure it is. Only root may modify the files and everyone may read and execute them. What did you expect? J. -- I use a Playstation to block out the existence of my partner. [Agree] [Disagr

Re: Kernel (Enable PAE)

Márcio Luciano Donada: > > We have an HP server with 8Gb of memory, but the system is recognizing > just 4Gb. Baixei the sources of kernel to the compilation of the PAE > module, but when I install the new kernel I have the following message > system: What part of the message don't you understand?

Re: Kernel (Enable PAE)

Márcio Luciano Donada: > Jochen Schulz escreveu: >> >> What part of the message don't you understand? You are trying to >> install a kernel image in a version which you already have >> installed. Overwriting the /lib/modules/ directory >> might be a bad i

Re: Trying to understand how checksums and signatures work

Gilles Pelletier: > > I found out the MD5SUMs are in the package itself but where are the > signatures? I suppose they're in the file that is updated when you do an > update. But where is this file? It's the Release file which is signed (detached signature in Release.gpg). Release contains md5su

Re: Tuning access to the internet

Pol: > > How to tune access to the internet, to allow only certain users, or to limit > access to certain hours of the day? If by "the internet" you mean the world wide web (the part of the net that requires a mouse and a flash plugin), you can use an HTTP proxy for that. I think Squid can do wha

Re: log reading while updating

roberto: > > a runnig program logs its output to a file and i'd like to read this > log file "while" it is being written and updated by the program, and > > possibly searching in it for patterns and so on When you want to search for specific patterns, you can either $ tail -f /var/log/syslog | g

Re: concatenating pdf files

ISHWAR RATTAN: > > I have scanned related pages of a document as jpeg > (limitation of software), converted to pdf using > imagemagick::convert. Now is there a way to concatenate > the pdf files (or jpeg files and then conver to pdf) > to collect the complete document. You can use pdfjoin from th

Re: Converting 3gp to avi

Rico Secada: > > Does anyone know if there is a tool to convert 3gp format to avi? Canonical answer: ffmpeg. Or mencoder, but I prefer ffmpeg because its command line interface is easier. Try 'ffmpeg -i input.3gp output.avi'. Then look at the manpage for tweaking the output (size, bitrate, code

Re: What is going on in debian-user?

Hans Vogelsberger: > > [...] Well, in the meantime it seems that every spam is let through > by the debian-user filters. No: . The amount of spam that has passed the listserver's filter mechanisms in the last few days might be large, b

Re: OT: dying disk - data recovery recommendations

KS: > > I have a friend's G4(PPC) which seems to have a dying disk. He had run > the Apple disk utility and it reported and error with the IDE disk. I am in exactly the same situation, currently. My approach is to use dd_rescue (package name: ddrescue) to dump the disk's content and now I am abou

Re: Burn CD

hce: > > Ok, I am going to install wodim (I've never used it, may take me days > to learn it). Years ago, seems everyone used cdrecord for burning CD. > Is it in now days that the wodim is more popular than the cdrecord? That depends on your definition of popularity. :) Wodim is nothing but a f

Re: Burn CD

s. keeling: > > What's stopping cdrecord from being in Debian alongside wodim? Its license (mix). Many people see various problems: http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/gerv/archives/006193.html http://lwn.net/Articles/195167/ http://lwn.net/Articles/199061/ He is mixing CDDL with GPL code and even

Re: Burn CD

Florian Kulzer: > > I get the impression that you have a problem with the "cdrkit" package > from Ubuntu. (No package with this name exists in Debian.) cdrkit is the source package for wodim and related tools. So yes, there is a Debian package with that name. > I hope this helps you with your is

Re: [OT] Re: Burn CD

Ron Johnson: > > Am I the only one who's noticed that Schilling's mail/news reader doesn't > thread? No, and that's the way he prefers to take part in mailing lists. Earlier attempts to discuss this matter have been, erm, just another waste of time. J. -- Watching television is more hip than a

Re: [OT] Re: Burn CD

(I was unsure whether to reply privately or on the list. But since there is apparently more than one reader who is objecting to my posting style in this thread, I am going to explain it once publicly and would prefer to take the discussion off-list soon.) Sjoerd Hiemstra: > Jochen Sch

Re: Movies, household network and 54g limits... (maybe...)

johnny: > > I can assure you that I can't get more than max 10Mbps (standard 8/9). > Maybe depends upon a range extender I have in my location: I read that > this kind of thing takes the global throughput to half, is it true? Yes. There is a (more or less) fixed throughput available for both send

Re: Question regarding mailgraph.

Justin Piszcz: > http://packages.qa.debian.org/m/mailgraph/news/20071027T223920Z.html > > Why exactly was this removed? The reason is in the bug report referenced by the link you posted. This bug is a serious policy violation. Mailgraph will enter testing again as soon as this bug has been fixed.

Re: How to link name to IP address in DHCP request

hce: > > I have several computers which all use DHCP (udhcpc) to get IP > addresses. They have simple web server on it so I can connect it to > use a brower such as http://192.168.0.6. The problem is I don't know > the IP address it is assigned to. How can I send DHCP request to link > computer's

Re: Debian intallation

Yassine Ehssan: > > I have tried to I install the Debian operating system on a hard disk > partitioned using windows vista hard disk partition manager and I have > specified a primary partition of a capacity of 100 GB You most probably don't need that much space for Debian, but of course it doesn'

Re: sum two disks using RAID or LVM?

Γιώργος Πάλλας: > > A short question: I have two 500GB HDDs and I want to use their space as > one. Should I aggregate them with software RAID, or using LVM in regard > to data safety? If one of them malfunctions, is one of the two > approaches better? If your goal is to use the disks as a single

Re: sum two disks using RAID or LVM?

Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.: > > Buy another 500GB disk and do software RAID 5 if you really need 1TB of > space. > It won't be great, but it'll be a LOT safer than what you are proposing. mdadm can even do RAID10 on three drives (IBM calls it RAID 1E). You'll get 750GB of space with three 500GB dr

Re: What happened to debian - does "stable" keep having any meaning?

Geronimo: > > the last update of debian broke my system completely! I am very sorry for your wasted time and loss of data. I see why you need to let off steam. Nevertheless I think this threads leads nowhere unless you are more specific about the hardware in use and what kind of upgrade you actua

Re: What happened to debian - does "stable" keep having any meaning?

Geronimo: > Jochen Schulz wrote: >> Geronimo: >>> >>> the last update of debian broke my system completely! >> >> I am very sorry for your wasted time and loss of data. I see why you >> need to let off steam. > > Thank you very much! - usually

Re: Automatically restart OpenVPN session

Kaushal Shriyan: > > is there a way to automatically restart the OpenVPN session while i switch > to and fro from Wireless to Wired Network on Debian Squeeze ? Do you use network-manager? If not: you can add lines for OpenVPN to your entries for wired and wireless networks in /etc/network/interf

Re: Automatically restart OpenVPN session

Kaushal Shriyan: > > I have multiple VPN Configs. is the below setting correct ? > > iface eth0 inet dhcp >openvpn > > iface wlan0 inet dhcp >openvpn I guess that should work, but I haven't tested it and I don't find an example for this in /usr/share/doc/openvpn/README.De

Re: What happened to debian - does "stable" keep having any meaning?

Geronimo: > Jochen Schulz wrote: >> >> - Which disks are connected to which controller? > > As told above, the "system disks" are attached to the main board. The system > disks are the three SSDs and a WD VelociRaptor (sdb) Ok, so to sum up: You have troub

Re: What happened to debian - does "stable" keep having any meaning?

Geronimo: > Jochen Schulz wrote: >> >> AFAICS, we can rule out the kernel as the cuplrit completely, as grub >> doesn't even get that far. > > VETO - after reboot, you might be right, but what happens during update-grub? update-grub only creates the configuratio

Re: What happened to debian - does "stable" keep having any meaning?

Geronimo: > Jochen Schulz wrote: >> Geronimo: >> >>> As every of my drives had an installed grub in mbr, >> >> Ok, I forgot that. (BTW, I find this setup really strange, but if it >> worked in the past with grub2 it should of course continue to work.)

Re: What happened to debian - does "stable" keep having any meaning?

Geronimo: > > From a closer look to dpkg.log - there has been updates of python and grub > uses python. Could this lead the different behaviour? Looking at your dpkg.log again, I notice that grub-pc has been purged and replaced by grub-legacy. Which version of grub are we talking about again? :)

Re: What happened to debian - does "stable" keep having any meaning?

is *might* actually be a graphics problem. See this bug report: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=594967 It looks like the fix didn't make into stable, but you can try setting GRUB_TERMINAL=console. > Jochen Schulz wrote: >> Can you still make the system bootable ag

Bug in grub-pc results in unbootable system after installation (was: What happened to debian - does "stable" keep having any meaning?)

Geronimo: > Jochen Schulz wrote: > >> a hint that this *might* actually be a graphics problem. See this bug >> report: >> >> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=594967 >> >> It looks like the fix didn't make into stable, but you can try

Re: What happened to debian - does "stable" keep having any meaning?

Geronimo: > Tom H wrote: > >> It looks like you've found a gem, especially given the external card >> and this post by Colin Watson (#54): I don't think that's related. The issue cannot be resolved by removing the external card. >> You can also verify this at a lower level by trying 'lspci' at a

Re: SSD's under Debian Linux

bars0 bars0: > > I recently bought an OCZ VERTEX 2 SSD. What precautions should I take > when installing Debian on it? You don't strictly need to do anything special. You may want to read the advice here anyway: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC/TipsAndTricks?highlight=%28ssd%29#Extending_flash

Re: Debian was hacked: The Canterbury Distribution

tv.deb...@googlemail.com: > > On Sid: > > aptitude show cant > > Paquet : cant > État: non installé > Version : 0.8.15-1 > Priorité : supplémentaire > Section : admin > Responsable : Alexander Reichle-Schmehl This installs the following shell script as /usr/bin/cant: |#!/bin/bash | |args=(${@

Re: ssh between computers on my home network

Lisi: > > The Debian computers can be neither pinged nor ssh'd to. This is presumably > because of some setting that Debian puts in place by default, but I can't > find where or what. Debian doesn't install a firewall/packet filter by default. You just need to install openssh-server in the mac

Re: iceweasel 4 process not closing on exit

L V Gandhi: > > When ever I close iceweasel 4 in squeeze, process is not closing. How did you install Iceweasel 4? It isn't part of squeeze. J. -- I no longer believe in father christmas but have no trouble comprehending a nuclear apocalypse. [Agree] [Disagree]

Re: mua and mail service provider statistics

Slicky Johnson: > > I simply mark threads ignored and I don't seen anymore mails regarding > that topic. I currently use claws-mail, and I see you're using mutt. > If I remember correctly you should easily be able to mark a thread as > ignored. Unfortunately, this isn't the case. You can mark (su

Re: Cannot umount: device is busy

T o n g: > > Is there any way that I can kill all those kernel processes associated > with the mount? For NFS run: /etc/init.d/nfs-kernel-server stop J. -- All participation is a myth. [Agree] [Disagree] signature.asc

Re: sata hotplug

tux: > > I'm using squeeze, and I want to hutplug an sata device. > Someone said to me that sata and scsi is the same in linux. That's true to some extent, yes. Device naming is (and always was) the same, for example. > I searched the web, the way of hot plug for scsi is echo an string to > /pr

Re: Bugreport: "Netinstall DVD"? debian-testing-amd64-DVD-1.iso 18-Apr-2011

Тира Шюпаст: > > I am new at sending bug reports to Debian, so please bear with me, and my > English too. No problem. You just need to know that this list is not the right place to report bugs to Debian Developers, that's what the BTS is for (bugs.debian.org). But anyway, you mail's content suits

Re: Troubleshooting boot

Michaël Grünewald: > > But anyway I try it again: is there a kernel command line option > that disables parallelization of initialization and fixes the order > of it? Not a kernel option, but you can edit /etc/default/rcS and set CONCURRENCY=none. That should prevent init scripts from being run i

Re: [OT] Purchasing a wired switch; advice needed

Klistvud: > And here's what I need advice for: > > I'm planning to purchase a wired (consumer grade) switch since I've > heard they're inherently more robust than (consumer grade) routers, > and I'm planning to connect it *directly* to our cable broadband > modem. Then, the two families would conn

Re: [OT] Purchasing a wired switch; advice needed

Klistvud: > Dne, 20. 04. 2011 11:25:27 je Jochen Schulz napisal(a): >> Klistvud: >>> >>> I'm planning to purchase a wired (consumer grade) switch since I've >>> heard they're inherently more robust than (consumer grade) routers, >>> and

Re: Why doesn't debian remove the proprietary software from it's servers?

sdc: > > My beginner question is, why doesn't Debian remove the proprietary software > hosted on it's servers? Because Debian currently thinks keeping proprietary packages serves their users better than removing the "offending" packages. Officially, proprietary packages aren't part of Debian anywa

Re: Why doesn't debian remove the proprietary software from it's servers?

Andrei Popescu: > On Mi, 27 apr 11, 12:03:41, Jochen Schulz wrote: >> >> In short: no. Debian follows the DFSG, the FSF follows its own rules. > ^^^ > You probably meant the Social Contract here ;) I actually even wrote that but later

Re: bash prompt \W (working dir) garbled

Jimmy Wu: > > $ PS1='\W ' > ~ cd /home > hmee cd /media > meiia cd /boot Same here, on squeeze and sid (both amd64, just as yours). It's already reported as #589084. A link to a patch is included, in case you want to rebuild bash yourself. J. -- I worry about people thinking I have lost directio

Re: Debian Lenny archives location ?

Ravi Roy: > > This might be a stupid question becuase of my ignorance, in case it is, > please excuse me. :) > Debian 6.0 Squeeze is stabe and Lenny (last point rel. 5.0.8) is old stable. > As per the posts I have come through so far, says that oldstable are moved > to http://archive.debian.org

Re: Need help setting up a home LAN

Paul E Condon: > > […] I can see good reasons for DHCP, but I have never > understood how I could get my four Debian hosts to talk to each other > under DHCP. I see some things that can be configured to have DHCP > assign fixed IPs to certain devices based on their MAC address, but is > that what n

Re: OT: Safe to access SSH server from work?

George: > > I have a computer at home that I'm doing some research on and I set up > an SSH server on it so I can access it from other computers at home. I > haven't opened up the network to the internet yet though, as I'm not > confident enough that it is safe. If you only allowing key-based auth

Re: OT: Safe to access SSH server from work?

George: > On 5/6/11, Jochen Schulz wrote: > >> If you only allowing key-based authentication and install security >> patches in a timely manner, the risk from running a public OpenSSH >> server is low. Expect brute-force attempts to login using weak >> passwords,

Re: OT: Safe to access SSH server from work?

George: > On 5/6/11, Jochen Schulz wrote: > >> You can authenticate to an OpenSSH server using a password, or using a >> keyfile. On the client side, simply run 'ssh-keygen' to create a >> keypair. > > So the attacker needs to guess my private key inste

Re: Re: Does "apt-get dist-upgrade" upgrade the kernel?

KS: > > Surprisingly, dpkg does not show 2.6.38 whereas apt says that it exists! Dpkg doesn't know packages that were never installed. Apt does. J. -- I wish I had been aware enough to enjoy my time as a toddler. [Agree] [Disagree]

Re: Kernpunkte, ein Wechselspiel

Thomas Steinbach: > > ich habe mir ein neues Board reinsetzen muessen, wobei > sich auch viel anders geaendert hat. Alos neue CPU, Ram, > Grafikkarte, etc. > > Nun startet mein debian nicht mehr. Klar, war ja > auch vorher Athlon64 und nun Phenom, sowie anderer > Chipsatz... Das sollte alles ega

Re: [mutt] label mails with colored tags

Nate Bargmann: > > Since a couple of you are recommending maildir, is there an easy way to > transisition from mox format to maildir? $ apt-cache search convert mbox maildir mb2md - Converting Mbox mailboxes to Maildir format > I also have my procmail working well sort each mailing list into its

Re: floppy mounting

dr.hugo.z.hackenbush: > > Hi, I am having trouble mounting the floppy in lenny .Can mount as root > but wont let me mount as user? Tried #adduser (name) floppy in > terminal but still wont let me in? any clues please? You need to login again after adding your user to the floppy group. Did yo

Re: Help needed in getting WiFi working with Debian

Foss User: > > I have a question to the experts though. In step 5 and 6, I had to > manually configure wlan0. However, I never had to do such > configuration for eth1 when I was using Ethernet. Why so? Because these settings (SSID, encryption) just don't apply to Ethernet. With wifi, you have a s

Re: Does everything depend on everything?

Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.: > On Monday 02 November 2009 13:47:05 Celejar wrote: >> >> I'm not sure that I understand what you mean by 'fighting >> dependencies'. I run Sid, and while I occasionally have to hold back >> a few packages, and can't always do a complete, full upgrade, it's >> simply a ma

Re: configure xorg

abdelkader belahcene: > > my debian What version? > doesn't detect the video card but ubuntu live ( and other live > like linuxMint Mepis..) , I want to copy the file xorg.conf from ubuntu > live to the installed debian, problem ther is no xorg.conf or it is empty, > it seems that new versi

Re: Lost my window manager

John Jason Jordan: > > [snip bluetooth mouse problems] Sorry, cannot comment on that. > Unfortunately, the entire Gnome panel is gone. Clicking on where things > are supposed to be in the panel does nothing. Is the panel gone or is it empty? > Windows have no title bar > or icons in the corner

Re: Lost my window manager

John Jason Jordan: > > I do like Debian testing so far, in spite of the issues I am having. Oh, you are using testing? I must have missed that. You shouldn't do that as a desktop user with no intention to dig into internals and write bug reports. J. -- I wish I had been aware enough to enjoy m

Re: Two Questions

Merciadri Luca: > > I am a fervent user of your `F.lux' program. I am running Debian Lenny > with kernel 2.6.26-2-686 on various computers, and here are two > questions whose answers could enhance the next version of F.lux: Since F.lux isn't distributed by Debian, you are probably better off aski

Re: grahical md5 checksum?

Liviu Andronic: > > Does Debian have any graphical utility that can compute md5 checksums? > I am looking for something non-KDE-based similar to wxChecksums [1]. What's the problem with wxChecksums? It isn't KDE/Qt-based, it uses wxWidgets as the name suggests. But no, I cannot find anything like

Re: problem with kernel 2.6.26-smp

Scott Berry: > > I am using the kernel in my subject. It seems as though this kernel > likes to lock up quite a bit when the CPu fan is at a higher rate of > speed due to other tasks being done in the background. I am using Lenny > and I never can remember before Debian being this unstable. Sou

Re: Broken keyboard layout after lenny/squeeze upgrade.

Harry Putnam: > > understanding that document right, the idea is to move away from > setting up X with an xorg.conf. So how would settings like that one > be handled in that case. I don't think the X.org people intend to ignore existing configuration files in the future. It's just that many or ev

Re: Broken keyboard layout after lenny/squeeze upgrade.

Harry Putnam: > Jochen Schulz writes: >> Harry Putnam: >>> >>> understanding that document right, the idea is to move away from >>> setting up X with an xorg.conf. So how would settings like that one >>> be handled in that case. >> >>

Re: CD ISO images for the "testing" release

Willie: > > Where can I get them? I don't mind what file transfer method I use. > > Why is the entire directory structure: > > ftp://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/i386/ > > empty? I have no idea, but why don't you go to the d-i page at http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-instal

Re: Inquiry:How to add a command to Debian server ?

hadi motamedi: > > Can you please do me favor and let me know how can I add a command to my > Debian server ? Please be informed that I found on the web that if I can > find the new command rpm package , then I can try to add it as the > followings : > #rpm -i ./package.i386.rpm This advice applie

Re: Installing Postfix instead Exim4

Camaleón: > > 1/ Should I install the default "mail server" template and once the system > is fully installed then go and install Postfix? Yes. > 2/ Or is there any available parameter I can pass the installer to select a > specific mail server for installation, instead using the default one?

Re: Inquiry:How to set the Debian server to be automatically rebooted at pre-specified times ?

Please don't top-post. hadi motamedi: > > Thank you very much for your reply . Can you please do me favor and let me > know what is the equivalent of Linux "/etc/rc.local" bootup script in Debian > ? Debian uses /etc/rc.local as well. It's a Linux system, after all. ;-) J. -- I use a Playstatio

Re: Inquiry:How to set the Debian server to be automatically rebooted at pre-specified times ?

Please don't top-post. hadi motamedi: > > Sorry . Why my Debian server does not contain /etc/rc.local bootup file ? I don't know, but nothing keeps you from creating it. The default file looks like this: #!/bin/sh -e # # rc.local # # This script is executed at the end of each multiuser runlevel.

Re: Inquiry:How to set the Debian server to be automatically rebooted at pre-specified times ?

hadi motamedi: > > Sorry . According to you , I created my own /etc/rc.local and put my own > bootup script in it . But when I reboot my Debian server I don't see my > intended startup scripts being effective on my Debian server . Can you > please let me know why ? Did you read the comments in the

Re: Why aptitude wants to remove zenity and xserver-xephyr?

Sven Joachim: > On 2009-11-20 11:17 +0100, Javier Barroso wrote: > >> I would like to guess why aptitude removed my zenity and >> xserver-xephyr when I only want to remove hplip-gui. In its output >> appear "{u}" , I think it means "because of a upgrade" > > No, it means "unused", i.e. these pack

Re: Iceape update in Squeeze has erased (?) bookmarks

AG: > > Today I accepted the update in Squeeze for Iceape. However, this > appears to have erased my old/ previous bookmark and password files that > I used in Iceape before the upgrade. I have searched through all of the > relevant dot files and I can't see anything. Is this standard proc

Re: Iceape update in Squeeze has erased (?) bookmarks

AG: > > I have now located the bookmark.html file and cp'd that over to the > seamonkey directory. And it works? > Now I need to recover the passwords - does anyone know what those might > be called under Iceape? Firefox/Iceweasel uses, IIRC, the files secmod.db and signons*. But that is do

Re: running "apt-get update" locally

Albretch Mueller: > ~ > How do you make "apt-get update" save all files downloaded for an > update in a certain directory You don't. The 'update' operation is not designed to do that. > and then what changes do you make in > your source.list in order to get those files from your local > director

Re: migrate to new system disk

Stan Hoeppner: > > I would like to add a new IDE disk between say 160GB and 250GB, on > another IDE channel, and copy/mirror/etc the exact contents of the > current system disk to the new disk; make the new disk the system (boot) > disk, and remove the original disk from the machine. I've never d

Re: The purchase of a new laptop on debian

Daniel Dalton: > > I'm looking to buy a knew laptop. I have been recommended by a few > people to look at the Lenovo thinkpad X 200 and t 400/500. What are your > thoughts on these systems? What is positive, what is negative? My Thinkpad X200 is approaching its first birthday and I really love i

Re: Does email server OS needs clamav?

Camaleón: > On Wed, 02 Dec 2009 22:38:43 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: > >> PS I want to remove it because I suppose that in case clamav blesses >> users' life and not server's - by removing clamav I can close one >> potential security whole. > > In what way removing clamav you are closing a "potencial

Re: Does email server OS needs clamav?

Camaleón: > On Wed, 02 Dec 2009 17:51:18 +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote: > > Camaleón: > >> On Wed, 02 Dec 2009 22:38:43 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: > >> > >>> PS I want to remove it because I suppose that in case clamav blesses > >>> users' li

Re: The purchase of a new laptop on debian

Daniel Dalton: > On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 03:24:31PM +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote: >> >> The only drawback is that you probably won't have that much fun running >> stable on it, because I don't think stable supports the graphics chip > > I run squeeze Then

Re: CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED

gham...@sv-phoenix.com: > I was fixing a problem with my root login and Orbit/Gnome. One of the > things that was recommended was to do > > apt-get upgrade && apt-get update > > Somehow in the process of doing that, there were some changes to the > kernel. Check apt's log files to get a clue

Re: Udev ATTR instead of SYSFS

Dave Witbrodt: > > The error message is a warning: it only affects the 'hplip' package, > and a bug report has already been filed I had a few rules using the old syntax as well, so it pays off to look closely what files udev complains about. I still have to test whether my rules still work, th

Re: How to move an OS install from one primary partition to another?

Dotan Cohen: > > A fellow student has Debian and Windows 7 on his laptop. I installed > Windows first so that the Debian installer could configure grub > properly, but after installing and setting up the system (which > required a trip to the faculty technical support to set up printing > and MatLa

Re: How does a novice do this

[I am CCing you since I suppose you are not subscribed to the list. Sorry if that bothers you.] A. Kane: > > […] I am an artist and therefore very visual. If I can see it I know > if I want it. What can you suggest; is there a simple solution. I > currently use Firefox and Thunderbird and Open

Re: ssk-key password: necessary to update?

Sthu Deus: > > If I want to change ssh-key for a remote machine, for security reason > - do I have to change its password too (that protects the key use) - > or I can live it the same - as it remains on local machine and > therefore, not known/transmitted to the remote one? If you create a new ke

Re: How does a novice do this

Joe: > Jochen Schulz wrote: >> >> And, by the way: I don't know about any "desktop firewall" like Trend >> Micro's for Linux. Firewall applications for Linux take a different >> approach than those for Windows and this is generally a good thing.

Re: Why does "man exit" talk about "rc" and "Plan 9"?

Anthony Campbell: > > On this machine, "man exit" brings up a page about "rc" and "Plan 9". On > another machine it just brings up "exit". I think this may be why I am > getting error messages about "exit: too many args" from postfix on this > machine. I'd try to find out the name of the manpage o

Re: aptitude forces full-upgrade

Mumia W..: > > I just upgraded Squeeze, but I had to use apt-get rather than aptitude > because aptitude wanted to force me to install a lot of new programs (do > a full-upgrade). The difference between "safe-upgrade" and "full-upgrade" is that the latter may *remove* packages in order to upgr

Re: Postgresql wont restart. Can I clear shared memmory segments without rebooting?

Kun Niu: > > Before you execute "echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches", you'd better run > "sync" first.:D Why? Do you want to suggest dropping the caches throws away the write cache, too, without flushing to disk first? I would be very surprised to hear that! J. -- I have been manipulated and pe

Re: Disallow other users from reading my $HOME

Ken Teague: > > In his original e-mail, Mr. Cohen is looking for permissions so that other > users can not read or access his data. Correct me if I'm wrong, but that > pretty much leaves us with mode 700, umask 077. Correct me if I am wrong, but for files created inside $HOME, the umask doesn't

Re: Back to Debian after 10 years

Vasco Costa: > > I'm planning to stay forever this time. :) I never switched during the whole time I have used Linux and never regretted when I touched another distribution. :) > By the way, in case I want to go back to a rolling release scheme, how > does Debian testing/unstable behave in this r

Re: How to use Sun Java instead of gcj

Please don't top-post. Kun Niu: > > How about trying to use update-alternatives to set java? Java alternatives are more easily changed by running update-java-alternatives. This way you don't have to change all of the numerous Java-related alternatives manually. J. -- I'm being paid to act weird

Re: Recovering data from NTFS disk

KS: > > r...@sysresccd /root % mount -o loop -t iso9660 Why do you mount the dump file from ddrescue as ISO image? Doesn't the subject say it should actually contain an NTFS filesystem? I am surprised that this actually works. > /mnt/windows/rescueData.iso /mnt/cdrom > r...@sysresccd /root % ls

Re: Recovering data from NTFS disk

KS: > > > I have already started testdisk and it is analysing the disk since the > last hour or so. Should be finished soon. Good luck! > It might give me an hint as to what is the status of the disk. Install smartmontools and try to run smartctl -a /dev/sdb on it. Then post the output. It mig

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