Re: books on debian of a beginner nature?

2012-06-14 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 07:22:25PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Ponyland? On Wed, 2012-06-13 at 18:02 +0100, keith wrote: Midnight Commander (MC) is your friend for file management editing. Are you serious? Why not? MC is awesome. .mp3 For musicians MP3 crap? Indeed. .flac or

Re: Linux Path

2012-06-11 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 05:23:56PM +0300, Jari Fredriksson wrote: On Mon, June 11, 2012 17:15, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: Dear List - I have a deficiency in my knowledge of paths. Will you please help. My working directory is /var/www/Webpages2 In that directory I have a file b.mp4.

Re: Linux Path

2012-06-11 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 11:53:38AM -0400, Tony Baldwin wrote: On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 05:23:56PM +0300, Jari Fredriksson wrote: On Mon, June 11, 2012 17:15, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: Dear List - I have a deficiency in my knowledge of paths. Will you please help. My working

Re: [OT] How to extract certain column

2012-06-10 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Sat, Jun 09, 2012 at 12:30:36AM +0800, lina wrote: Hi, Sorry for off-topic, but I do need some suggestions now, Here it's # RAAADUE AA STBBCCCRE BP1 BP2 ACC N-H--OO--H-N N-H--OO--H-NTCO KAPPA DDPHA PAI PZIX-CA Y-CA Z-CA 1 174 V 0

Re: Is there a way to use a custom background in terminal mode?

2012-06-10 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Sat, Jun 09, 2012 at 08:21:59PM +, Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 09 Jun 2012 08:52:56 -0700, 斟酌鵬兄 wrote: Like a bitmap or jpeg? I remember openSUSE had (still has?) a cute background image when jumping to a tty console so this has to be possible... Google suggests fbterm and

Re: Problem setting up a subdomain

2012-06-08 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Fri, Jun 08, 2012 at 02:58:57PM +0100, Keir Snow wrote: Not sure I follow sorry, where would I create this section? I thought by putting something in sites-available I was leaving the main config alone? I believe what Jochen is suggesting (and what I would recommend, b/c it's what I do),

Re: xml editor ?

2012-06-07 Thread Tony Baldwin
), but the default WM is Openbox. [1] the package openbox is only recommended by lxsession. openbox also comes highly recommended by tony baldwin. ./tony -- http://www.tonybaldwin.me all tony, all the time! 3F330C6E signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Apache, mod_rewrite and directory context

2012-06-06 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 06:40:10PM +0200, Claudius Hubig wrote: Hello Jimmy, Jimmy Thrasibule thrasibule.ji...@gmail.com wrote: VirtualHost *:80 Directory /var/www/test IfModule mod_rewrite.c RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond

Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

2012-06-06 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 06:04:12PM +0200, Slavko wrote: Hi Andrei, Dňa Wed, 6 Jun 2012 11:44:27 +0300 Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com napísal: in our country is more and more difficult to buy computer (specially notebook) without Windows included. In one shop they are telling

Re: something about rm

2012-05-16 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 02:48:56PM -0400, Gary Dale wrote: On 16/05/12 12:49 PM, lina wrote: Hi, Today I made some mistake, I mount the remote server my home directory into local laptop. when I tried to umount it, I justed type the rm -r remote_mount_dir after I realize it, seems

Re: Debian Administrator's Handbook

2012-05-11 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 08:07:51PM +0300, Lars Noodén wrote: On 5/10/12 7:41 PM, John A. Sullivan III wrote: [snip] Hello, Alberto, and thank you again, Lars; I've been forwarding the link to all I think would be interested. [snip] Again, the sum of my contribution was to stumble across

Re: cron job not executing

2012-05-06 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Sun, May 06, 2012 at 02:07:08AM +0300, Adrian Fita wrote: On 06/05/12 01:26, Tony Baldwin wrote: I've got a little cron job, just trying to fire off a script (see http://tonyb.us/mattbot ) and it's not firing. [...] Probably something really obvious I'm overlooking, but the more

Re: cron job not executing

2012-05-06 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Sun, May 06, 2012 at 11:24:44AM +, Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 05 May 2012 18:26:30 -0400, Tony Baldwin wrote: I've got a little cron job, just trying to fire off a script (see http://tonyb.us/mattbot ) and it's not firing. I have other jobs on the same crontab that do. When I run

cron job not executing

2012-05-05 Thread Tony Baldwin
I've got a little cron job, just trying to fire off a script (see http://tonyb.us/mattbot ) and it's not firing. I have other jobs on the same crontab that do. When I run the script manually, it runs. I've tried, in my user crontab 0 * * * * /path/to/script or @hourly /path/to/script or 0 * * *

Re: Squeeze updates; One has a problem.

2012-05-03 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Thu, May 03, 2012 at 03:12:17PM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: I've never seen this type of error which has suddenly popped up. When I run aptitude update, it starts out normal enough and then blows up. Here is the full output. Err http://volatile.debian.org

Re: Random system freezes - need your input

2012-04-25 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 10:10:02PM +0200, Matthias Guentert wrote: Hello everyone Lately I changed from Fedora to Debian squeeze on amd64. A few days later my system started to freeze randomly. I first noticed this behaviour while I was copying files from my system disk to my USB disk, but

Re: 2 users on desktop, should be one right?

2012-04-25 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 04:29:09PM +, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 25 Apr 2012 11:58:44 -0400, Stephen Allen wrote: Just noticed this when glancing at htop it mentioned 2 users on my laptop, when I should be the only one logged in. who stephen tty7 2012-04-25 11:49 (:0)

Re: Free as in speech hardware ebook reader

2012-04-06 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 12:12:45AM +0300, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: Hiya, Having a bad track record of not taking care of dead tree books, I am looking to buy an electronic book reader. The Amazon's Kindle does look good and it boasts a Linux kernel, but I am very disappointed at the

Re: existe une version de debian destinée aux serveurs

2012-03-31 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 03:38:40PM +0200, JF Straeten wrote: Re, On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 03:12:17PM +0200, marius kontchou wrote: [...] Ou bien les systèmes d'exploitation que vous proposez s'utilisent indifféremment sur les serveurs et les postes client. Oui, c'est ça. Hih,

Re: Opinião sobre uso de ambiente gráfico em servidores [RESOLVIDO]

2012-03-30 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 09:10:34AM -0300, davi vidal wrote: 2012/3/30 Cleber Ianes cleberia...@yahoo.com.br: Obrigado a todos que participaram de mais uma discussão sobre sexo dos anjos e galinha ou ovo. rsrsrsrsrsr Pelo que pude entender lendo todas as resposta ninguém sabe exatamente o

Re: Opinião sobre uso de ambiente gráfico em servidores

2012-03-29 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 09:03:20PM -0300, Helio Loureiro wrote: deixa eu fazer uma outra pergunta em cima do mesmo tema. E se instalar o gnome e deixar o X não-iniciado? e quando precisar da interface gráfica rodar um /etc/init.c/gdm start? isto minimizaria o problema da segurança?

Re: aptitude failure to fetch

2012-03-29 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 11:14:00AM +0100, Yuriy Kuznetsov wrote: Hi Jochen, Can you advice what repository I can use instead for systems with lenny, please? Change references to lenny in /etc/apt/sources.list to Stable or Squeeze, and follow the instructions here:

Re: aptitude failure to fetch

2012-03-26 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 07:53:17PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Du, 25 mar 12, 05:44:13, Tony Baldwin wrote: On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 05:00:45AM -0400, Tony Baldwin wrote: On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 04:44:16PM +0800, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: Pada 25 Mac 2012 4:35 PTG, Tony Baldwin t

aptitude failure to fetch

2012-03-25 Thread Tony Baldwin
Aptitude is not fetching updates. (neither is apt-get). I see W: Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/dists/squeeze/updates/Release Unable to find expected entry experimental/binary-amd64/Packages in Meta-index file (malformed Release file?) W: Failed to fetch

Re: aptitude failure to fetch

2012-03-25 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 04:44:16PM +0800, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: Pada 25 Mac 2012 4:35 PTG, Tony Baldwin t...@tonybaldwin.org menulis: Aptitude is not fetching updates. (neither is apt-get). I see W: Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/dists/squeeze/updates/Release  Unable

Re: aptitude failure to fetch

2012-03-25 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 05:00:45AM -0400, Tony Baldwin wrote: On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 04:44:16PM +0800, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: Pada 25 Mac 2012 4:35 PTG, Tony Baldwin t...@tonybaldwin.org menulis: Aptitude is not fetching updates. (neither is apt-get). I see W: Failed to fetch

Re: HTML vertical gap

2012-03-12 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 09:47:09AM +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 13/03/12 08:10, teddi...@tmo.blackberry.net wrote: Sian Mountbatten said: I have a description list which has a number of items which document values in a program. I want to group the items such that the groups are

Re: rsync episode

2012-02-27 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 09:14:13PM +0800, lina wrote: On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 9:00 PM, Shaun deb...@gmsl.co.uk wrote: On 27/02/2012 12:49, lina wrote: Hi, When I tried the rsync -rvz source destination It re-copied part of already-copied, any idea to prevent it. Thanks with best

Re: is there no sane, minimal, graphical RSS feed reader in existance?

2012-02-24 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 04:12:26PM +0100, Johannes Schauer wrote: Hi again, about half a year ago, I complained about the lack of a good, minimal RSS reader: aptitude isntall newbeuter http://www.newsbeuter.org/ ./tony -- http://www.tonybaldwin.me all tony, all the time! -- To

Re: Simultaneous desktop environments (Gnome and xfce) in two X server sessions.

2012-02-22 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 07:00:28PM +1000, yudi v wrote: I just realized that I have been launching X session as root, how to launch a new X session without using elevated privileges. Don't login to your shell as root, just as $user, then it's the same: startx ./tony --

Re: OT: physical dimensions of male DVI connector

2012-02-21 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 02:24:12AM -0200, Kleber Fortaleza wrote: On Tuesday 21 February 2012 00:35:27 Ken Heard wrote: I need to know the outside physical dimensions of the male DVI connector to know the diameter of the hole it will pass through. Unfortunately I do not have one handy;

Re: Simultaneous desktop environments (Gnome and xfce) in two X server sessions.

2012-02-21 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 07:28:44AM -0600, hvw59601 wrote: yudi v wrote: Hi all, I am trying to get gnome (default in tty7) and xfce (in tty1) to run at the sametime. I got as far as launching another x server session and xfce4 with the following command: startx startxfce4 -- :1 There

Re: Windows screws up Linux's clock

2012-02-21 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 04:55:14AM +, Hendrik Boom wrote: I run my machine on UCT, or something like it (timezone +0). Every time I boot to Windows XP (which I need to do once in a blue moon) Windows takes it on itself to set my clock as if the UCT time were actually local time. I

Re: window does not fit on screen

2012-02-19 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 03:41:03PM +0200, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: On Du, 19 feb 12, 14:02:43, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: Hello! I am facing a very strange problem. On my netbook, when I open up Eclipse's install new software wizard, the window does not fit on screen and I cannot

Re: Convert mp3 enbulk

2012-02-19 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 08:44:52PM -0600, Chris wrote: Hey there all. I have taken my audio cd collection and ripped to 192 bit mp3 files. Is there something out there that will 1. Convert to ogg enbulk I have a script for that (although, likely someone with better fu could make a

webalizer config?

2012-02-18 Thread Tony Baldwin
I have webalizer installed on my Deb/Squeeze server at linode (serving site in signature, plus others). All the time it's missing data. In the config, I have it using /var/log/apache2/my.log and in crontab I have 0 1 * * * mergelog access.log other_vhosts_access.log my.log MY.log 2 1 * * * mv

Re: Firefox and PDF incompatibility

2012-02-17 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 07:59:49AM -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote: On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 03:22, Merciadri Luca luca.mercia...@student.ulg.ac.be wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, When opening PDFs documents in Firefox (e.g. by clicking on a PDF link in a

Re: Programming in debian..HELP

2012-02-15 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 12:14:15AM +0530, Bijoy Lobo wrote: The SDKs which i have header (.h) files which ask me to compile my app using them That didn't answer the question. The question was which programming language are you using. ./tony On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 10:20 PM, Camaleón

can't mount samsung phone, lsusb hangs

2012-02-12 Thread Tony Baldwin
I just upgraded from a motorola droid 2 to a samsung stratosphere. It doesn't automount, as the droid did. When I try to lsusb to find it, I get no output, but lsusb hangs, even with -v option. I'm using squeeze, with openbox (no gnome or kde bloat). With my former phone, a dialog box would pop

Re: can't mount samsung phone, lsusb hangs

2012-02-12 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 04:32:46PM -0500, Marc D Ronell wrote: Tony == Tony Baldwin t...@tonybaldwin.org writes: Tony I just upgraded from a motorola droid 2 to a samsung Tony stratosphere. It doesn't automount, as the droid did. When Tony I try to lsusb to find it, I get

Re: cron job mergelog failure

2012-02-09 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 01:59:27PM -0500, Tony Baldwin wrote: On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 08:35:44AM -0800, Noah Meyerhans wrote: On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 10:57:54AM -0500, Tony Baldwin wrote: 0 1 * * * mergelog /var/log/apache2/access.log [...] Every day I get an e-mail telling me

Re: GNU/Debian Linux vs. facebook, Twitter and other proprietary social media

2012-02-09 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 09:00:54PM -0500, Nick Lidakis wrote: On Sun, Feb 05, 2012 at 12:59:09AM -0300, Carlo Borelli wrote: 2012/2/4 Nuno Magalhães nunomagalh...@eu.ipp.pt Hi, It is kinda off-topic (i'd OT it), and being picky it's GNU/Linux Debian, not GNU/Debian Linux. Being

Re: cron job mergelog failure

2012-02-08 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 09:18:32AM +, Chris Davies wrote: Tony Baldwin t...@tonybaldwin.org wrote: 0 1 * * * mergelog /var/log/apache2/access.log [...] Every day I get an e-mail telling me this failed. Now, I can go in and to this manually, Why can't cron do it without my

Re: cron job mergelog failure

2012-02-08 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 08:35:44AM -0800, Noah Meyerhans wrote: On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 10:57:54AM -0500, Tony Baldwin wrote: 0 1 * * * mergelog /var/log/apache2/access.log [...] Every day I get an e-mail telling me this failed. Now, I can go in and to this manually, Why

Re: COMO COLOCAR WALLPAPER'S DIFERENTES EM CADA AREA DE TRABALHO

2012-02-07 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Tue, Feb 07, 2012 at 10:09:18PM -0200, Antonio Neto wrote: Salve, galera do Linux! Pessoal, sou novo no Linux e estou apredendo a fazer configuracoes simples e configuracoes mais complicadas... Entao preciso da ajuda de voces para conseguir configurar o meu sistema para ficar com

cron job mergelog failure

2012-02-07 Thread Tony Baldwin
I have the following in my root crontab on my webserver: 0 1 * * * mergelog /var/log/apache2/access.log /var/log/apache2/other_vhosts_access.log /var/log/apache2/my.log MY.log 4 2 1 * * * mv /var/log/apache2/MY.log /var/log/apache2/my.log 5 5 1 * * * webalizer Every day I get an e-mail

Re: Debian gnome printing to pdf

2012-02-06 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 07:40:15AM -0800, tony mollica wrote: On 02/05/2012 10:54 PM, Charlie wrote: On Sun, 5 Feb 2012 21:13:32 -0500 Tony Baldwin t...@tonybaldwin.org suggested this: I have now started to use google-chrome. After disabling the chrome print viewer, the same print

Re: transmission

2012-02-05 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Sun, Feb 05, 2012 at 02:52:20PM +0100, Tomas Volka wrote: On So 04-02-12 | 17:02, cletusjenkins wrote: Is there any problems in general with bittorrent lately? I tried to launch transmission yesterday and this evening and had issues. I see no traffic up or down, and when it starts up

Re: GNU/Debian Linux vs. facebook, Twitter and other proprietary social media

2012-02-05 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Sun, Feb 05, 2012 at 12:25:58PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sb, 04 feb 12, 18:26:25, Nick Lidakis wrote: [big snip] Hi Nick, Some issues to be aware of (in no particular order) that I encountered while trying to help my brother with his business: FLOSS is not cost free. You

Re: Debian gnome printing to pdf

2012-02-05 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Sun, Feb 05, 2012 at 05:20:23PM -0800, tony mollica wrote: To begin, I have exhausted my searching ability to not find this cryptic information. When printing from Firefox, the printing dialog gives choices of printers and 'print to file', with 'print to file' having options of .pdf or

Re: Upgrading to Iceweasel 10 in Squeeze

2012-02-05 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 11:18:32AM +1000, Ashton Fagg wrote: On 3 February 2012 12:32, Tony Baldwin t...@tonybaldwin.org wrote: I have backports enabled, and my iceweasel was updated to 10.0 yesterday when I did a standard safe-upgrade. Perhaps this is a function of adding deb http

Re: GNU/Debian Linux vs. facebook, Twitter and other proprietary social media

2012-02-04 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Sun, Feb 05, 2012 at 12:30:05PM +1000, Robert Brockway wrote: On Sat, 4 Feb 2012, Nick Lidakis wrote: In a nutshell, my wife and I starting a small business in a family oriented neighborhood. We're serving coffee, espresso and baking fresh bread and pastry on premises. The shop will be

Re: Openbox window manager

2012-02-03 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Fri, Feb 03, 2012 at 10:07:06PM +, Sian Mountbatten wrote: I use the openbox window manager on the siduction distribution. What I want to know is how to stop openbox from killing a window when Alt-F4 is pressed. I've tried deleting A-F4 from the default key bindings in the openbox

Re: Backup System

2012-02-03 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Fri, Feb 03, 2012 at 09:08:03PM -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: I have 3 computer running on Debian Squeeze. One has an unused hard drive that I wish to use as a backup disk for all 3 computers. Is there a simple way to do this that can be completely automated. I've got rdiff-backup set up

Re: Upgrading to Iceweasel 10 in Squeeze

2012-02-02 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Fri, Feb 03, 2012 at 11:41:45AM +1100, Rob Hurle wrote: Thanks for this: On 2 February 2012 19:17, Scott Ferguson prettyfly.producti...@gmail.com wrote: In case people don't subscribe to pkg-mozilla-maintainers (and for those the do search this list before posting) # dpkg -i

Re: Upgrading to Iceweasel 10 in Squeeze

2012-02-02 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Fri, Feb 03, 2012 at 02:18:31PM +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 03/02/12 13:32, Tony Baldwin wrote: On Fri, Feb 03, 2012 at 11:41:45AM +1100, Rob Hurle wrote: Thanks for this: On 2 February 2012 19:17, Scott Ferguson prettyfly.producti...@gmail.com wrote: In case people don't

Re: Capslock mystery - Recent phenomena concerning keyboard

2012-01-30 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 09:21:34AM -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: Running Wheezy - kde plasma Running Debian / windows7 on a KVM switch (IOGEAR miniview 4 port DVI) I've been using the keyboard for a couple of years. All equipment has been in use a good while. I've recently started having

Re: Sudo

2012-01-28 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 07:15:14PM +0100, antispammbox-debian wrote: Hi all I tried to use with Squeeze, small utility program, as Gmountiso, but with Squeeze, do not work, why authenticate using, sudo. Do you know a way to use a program using sudo, in Debian Squeeze? Try this:

Re: Accented Characters - How to type from standard keyboard?

2012-01-28 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 03:40:51PM -0500, doug wrote: On 01/28/2012 02:40 PM, Michael Lange wrote: Hi, Thus spoketh Thomas H. Georgeli...@tomgeorge.info unto us on Sat, 28 Jan 2012 11:19:09 -0500: /snip/ You can set up a compose key; here I have added Option XkbOptions

Re: Trabalhe em casa

2012-01-26 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 09:53:40AM -0200, Bruno Ayub wrote: Na minha terra isso chama pirâmide. E no meu pais (EUA) se chama de scam (mentira). Mas, eu trabalho em casa, sim. (Sou tradutor e webmaster, pois traduzo documentos e gerencio websites desde esse compu). Pois, trabalhar em casa, sim,

Re: Run in terminal from XFCE file browser?

2012-01-26 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 08:46:00AM +1000, Ashton Fagg wrote: On 27 January 2012 07:05, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: In XFCE's Thunar file browser you can right click on a script and execute it.  Fine.  Is there a way to run the script in a terminal from the file browser? Of course

Re: Run in terminal from XFCE file browser?

2012-01-26 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 05:53:07PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: Tony Baldwin wrote: Why don't you just right click in thunar and choose Open Terminal Here, and then execute the script in the terminal? Don't right click the script/file itself, but just inside the file manager empty space

Re: simple-scan, xsane, skanlite

2012-01-22 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 02:44:25PM -0300, ramao martins wrote: senhores da lista, boa tarde! peço ajuda para resolver um problema: os programas de scanner que tenho não estão abrindo. Uso Debian testing! ramao.mart...@gmail.com Terá que prover-nos mais informações, amigo. Tente de rodar estes

Re: simple-scan, xsane, skanlite]

2012-01-22 Thread Tony Baldwin
- ramao martins ramao.mart...@gmail.com wrote - Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2012 16:04:54 -0300 From: ramao martins ramao.mart...@gmail.com To: Tony Baldwin t...@tonybaldwin.org Cc: debian-user-portuguese@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: simple-scan, xsane, skanlite Posto a seguir o que me foi pedido

Re: squeeze on a Dell Latitude D620

2012-01-22 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 12:29:48PM -0700, Glenn English wrote: The squeeze netinstall doesn't have the driver software for this laptop's Broadcom 4311 Ethernet card. And it can't find the WiFi card. So I'm trying to install a netinstall with no net. I'm installing from a USB stick. I can't

Re: gdm3 - how to put a picture on the login screen?

2012-01-22 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 07:55:42PM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: In an effort to make my life with wheezy more beautiful/serene and less silly-looking, I've been exploring ways to personalize the various screen parts. The gdm3 login screen by default provides a list of possible users and their

Re: wget --post-data issue

2012-01-21 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 01:03:06PM +, Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 21 Jan 2012 18:10:12 +0530, J. Bakshi wrote: Dear list, I have a form which have 2 input field Roll number and comments ; using formfind command I get the following ``` --- FORM report. Uses POST

Re: wget --post-data issue

2012-01-21 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 03:08:51PM +0200, Volkan YAZICI wrote: On Sat, 21 Jan 2012 18:10:12 +0530, J. Bakshi writes: I have a form which have 2 input field Roll number and comments ; using formfind command I get the following ``` --- FORM report. Uses POST to URL

Re: wget and captcha puzzle !!!

2012-01-21 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 10:59:21AM -0600, John Hasler wrote: Bob writes: This should enable the separate wget invocations to appear as a single session client to the remote web site. But he'll still have to solve the captcha to establish the session. Indeed. Isn't the whole point of using

Re: OT: `...` v. $(...) (was: wget and captcha puzzle !!!)

2012-01-21 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 10:43:20AM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: Tony Baldwin wrote: John Hasler wrote: Bob writes: Sort of OT, but mentioned in this thread, Why use $(command) instead of `command`? Generally, I've always used $(command), but see scripts all over using `command

terminator using wrong browser

2012-01-18 Thread Tony Baldwin
This is a minor annoyance, and not high priority, but: Why is it that when reading mail in mutt in terminator (gnome terminator, tiling terminal thingy), and I click on a link and choose to open it, it uses chromium-browser? I have iceweasel set as my default x-www-browser with

Re: Setting up horde3 on Debian Squeeze

2012-01-17 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 08:47:15PM +0100, Csanyi Pal wrote: Knut Esztermann k...@esztermann.de writes: Csanyi Pal schrieb am 16.01.2012 um 21:58: I'm trying to setup horde3 on my home server, that running Debian GNU/Linux Squeeze. I'm following instructions from

Re: Root: none

2012-01-16 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 07:01:00PM +, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 19:48:44 +0100, antispammbox-debian wrote: My console does not have a username: root @ none: /home/user Mine neither... sm01@stt008:~$ whoami sm01 stt008:~# whoami root It possible solve this problem?

Re: Duvida sobre fFTP

2012-01-15 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 12:52:52PM -0300, Rodrigo Lira wrote: Pessoel nunca configurei um server ftp, então a minha duvida é a seguinte, pelo que eu vi para as pessoas terem acesso ao servidor tenho que criar seus usuários também no sistema, não tem algum meio de criar apenas no ftp e setar

Re: Keyboard layout detection

2012-01-14 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 12:45:19PM +0200, Panayiotis wrote: Thanks to all again! You've solved this for me, it's a GB layout indeed. Tony, can't you put it in /etc/rc.local or ~/.profile? You mean set my keyboard there? Oddly, I have some intl layout set there, but not the us intl 104keys

Re: Setting keyboard layout (and variant?) [was: Re: Keyboard layout detection]

2012-01-14 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 02:16:27PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Vi, 13 ian 12, 12:45:19, Panayiotis wrote: Thanks to all again! You've solved this for me, it's a GB layout indeed. Tony, can't you put it in /etc/rc.local or ~/.profile? /etc/rc.local wouldn't work because X has to

Re: search for specific pattern

2012-01-14 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 07:59:21PM +0100, roberto wrote: Hello, i am looking for a file whose name i don't remember. I only know it has the extension .cmap and is inside my home folder. Which is the correct search pattern to be passed to find program ? You have all kinds of options. locate

Re: sasl authentication failed

2012-01-14 Thread tony baldwin
On Sat, January 14, 2012 12:41 pm, Camale�n wrote: On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:09:21 -0500, Tony Baldwin wrote: On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 08:01:17PM -0500, Tony Baldwin wrote: On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 05:21:24PM -0500, Tony Baldwin wrote: On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 09:35:58PM +, Camaleón wrote

Re: Stripping down Debian Squeeze

2012-01-14 Thread tony baldwin
On Sat, January 14, 2012 3:33 am, Osamu Aoki wrote: HI, On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 04:56:09PM +0530, Bijoy Lobo wrote: Hello Everyone, I am currently Debian Squeeze for a UTM ( Squid3+Snort+OpenVPN+iptables). I would like to strip down the OS for better performance of the UTM. It would be

Re: editing pdf files

2012-01-14 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 01:00:35PM -0800, Weaver wrote: John A. Sullivan III wrote: This is a real hole in the Linux desktop environment. I disagree. PDFs are not _meant_ to be edited. Even Adobe Acrobat has very limited options to edit a PDF. There are third party plugins for

Re: Como escrever textos limitados a 80 caracteres por linha?

2012-01-12 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 01:13:22AM -0200, John DeRose wrote: Olá, Em alguns momentos me deparo com uma convenção, de escrever textos de até 80 caracteres por linha. Um exemplo disso são as listas de discussões :) Mas fica difícil eu monitorar isso ao escrever mensagens via webmail. Então

Re: Keyboard layout detection

2012-01-12 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 10:38:29AM +0200, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: Thanks to all. Yes I've followed the Debian Eee Pc pages. The repository is not needed for Wheezy, from what I understand. I guess I have a non standard layout, for example when I press the key that has '#' typed on it

Re: smtp/postfix/sasl/openssh headaches

2012-01-12 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 10:06:56AM +0100, Markus Schönhaber wrote: 11.01.2012 22:41, Tony Baldwin: On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 08:13:53PM +0100, Markus Schönhaber wrote: Stop and/or uninstall sendmail (or whatever this process might belong to). I do not have sendmail installed. Then stop

Re: Keyboard layout detection

2012-01-12 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 11:55:04AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Jo, 12 ian 12, 10:38:29, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: I guess I have a non standard layout, for example when I press the key that has '#' typed on it I get '|'. Funny thing is that I actually have no trouble using the

smtp/postfix/sasl/openssh headaches

2012-01-11 Thread Tony Baldwin
Okay, I'd written the list before but the mess has evolved. I installed postfix+dovcot on my server at linode, per instructions here: http://library.linode.com/email/postfix/dovecot-mysql-debian-6-squeeze and I'm having several issues. when I telnet localhost 25 ehlo localhost I do not see

Re: smtp/postfix/sasl/openssh headaches

2012-01-11 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 11:30:10PM +0530, The_Ace wrote: On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 11:21 PM, Tony Baldwin tonybald...@gmx.com wrote: Okay, I'd written the list before but the mess has evolved. I installed postfix+dovcot on my server at linode, per instructions here: http

Re: smtp/postfix/sasl/openssh headaches

2012-01-11 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 08:13:53PM +0100, Markus Schönhaber wrote: 11.01.2012 18:51, Tony Baldwin: when I telnet localhost 25 ehlo localhost I do not see 250-STARTTL connections to the smtp server are refused (perhaps because of this?). I see the following from tail /var/log

Re: Keyboard layout detection

2012-01-11 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 09:22:15PM +0200, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: Hi, I installed Debian on my new Asus Eee PC and even though it works almost flawlessly, I am having trouble finding the correct keyboard layout. The obvious ones (Generic and Asus laptop) have some characters wrong.

Re: smtp/postfix/sasl/openssh headaches

2012-01-11 Thread tony baldwin
- Original Message - From: Andrei Popescu Sent: 01/11/12 05:01 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: smtp/postfix/sasl/openssh headaches On Mi, 11 ian 12, 16:41:33, Tony Baldwin wrote: but according to lsof and netstat, as far as I can tell, the only thing using

RESOLVED Re: smtp/postfix/sasl/openssh headaches]]

2012-01-11 Thread Tony Baldwin
- Forwarded message from Tony Baldwin tonybald...@gmx.com - Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 21:04:43 -0500 From: Tony Baldwin tonybald...@gmx.com To: t...@tonybaldwin.org Subject: [tonybald...@gmx.com: Re: smtp/postfix/sasl/openssh headaches] User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) - Forwarded

Re: sasl authentication failed

2012-01-10 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 04:58:06PM +, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 09 Jan 2012 17:51:13 -0500, Tony Baldwin wrote: I followed directions here: http://library.linode.com/email/postfix/dovecot-mysql-debian-6-squeeze#sph_configure-saslauthd-to-use-mysql to set up postfix/dovecot to mail from

Re: sasl authentication failed

2012-01-10 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 01:05:16PM -0500, Tony Baldwin wrote: On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 04:58:06PM +, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 09 Jan 2012 17:51:13 -0500, Tony Baldwin wrote: I followed directions here: http://library.linode.com/email/postfix/dovecot-mysql-debian-6-squeeze

Re: Automount

2012-01-10 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 07:34:28PM +0100, Csanyi Pal wrote: Christian Dysthe cdys...@gmail.com writes: On 01/10/12 at 06:36pm, Csanyi Pal wrote: Christian Dysthe cdys...@gmail.com writes: I've been running a relatively minimal desktop for years (Pekwm/hint2). I haven't had many

Re: sasl authentication failed

2012-01-10 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 09:35:58PM +, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 13:12:25 -0500, Tony Baldwin wrote: On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 01:05:16PM -0500, Tony Baldwin wrote: On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 04:58:06PM +, Camaleón wrote: (...) Okay, at this point, I am getting different

Re: sasl authentication failed

2012-01-10 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 05:21:24PM -0500, Tony Baldwin wrote: On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 09:35:58PM +, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 13:12:25 -0500, Tony Baldwin wrote: On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 01:05:16PM -0500, Tony Baldwin wrote: On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 04:58:06PM +

Re: sasl authentication failed

2012-01-10 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 08:01:17PM -0500, Tony Baldwin wrote: On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 05:21:24PM -0500, Tony Baldwin wrote: On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 09:35:58PM +, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 13:12:25 -0500, Tony Baldwin wrote: On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 01:05:16PM -0500, Tony

sasl authentication failed

2012-01-09 Thread Tony Baldwin
Hi, I followed directions here: http://library.linode.com/email/postfix/dovecot-mysql-debian-6-squeeze#sph_configure-saslauthd-to-use-mysql to set up postfix/dovecot to mail from my linode running squeeze. I can now, either on that server or from home, collect mail from my domain with mutt, but

Re: sasl authentication failed

2012-01-09 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Mon, Jan 09, 2012 at 05:51:13PM -0500, Tony Baldwin wrote: Hi, I followed directions here: http://library.linode.com/email/postfix/dovecot-mysql-debian-6-squeeze#sph_configure-saslauthd-to-use-mysql to set up postfix/dovecot to mail from my linode running squeeze. I can now, either

Re: sobre iceweasel

2012-01-08 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Sun, Jan 08, 2012 at 09:28:44PM -0300, López Denazis Santiago wrote: El día 8 de enero de 2012 23:00, linux liuberperez@infomed.sld.cu escribió: saludos lista, estaba usando mi iceweasel en debian 6 de forma correcta, pero sin darme cuenta parece que instale alguna aplicacion que de

Re: sobre iceweasel

2012-01-08 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Sun, Jan 08, 2012 at 08:59:49PM -0500, Juan Pablo Jaramillo Pineda wrote: El día 8 de enero de 2012 19:28, López Denazis Santiago vampireofsen...@gmail.com escribió: El día 8 de enero de 2012 23:00, linux liuberperez@infomed.sld.cu escribió: saludos lista, estaba usando mi iceweasel

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