Re: What package contains the time daemon?

2015-07-25 Thread Iain M Conochie
On 26/07/15 00:08, Bob Bernstein wrote: On Sat, 25 Jul 2015, Gary Dale wrote: ntp No. This is an incorrect response. Really? apt-cache search ntp | grep ^ntp ntp - Network Time Protocol daemon and utility programs ntp-doc - Network Time Protocol documentation ntpdate - client for

Re: Query about possible impact of leap second on Debian Linux

2015-05-21 Thread Iain M Conochie
existing versions of Debian Linux in use. I have today seen the news report below, and wonder whether it needs some kind of patch for Debian Linux, and, if so, whether it has already been done, or is pending. snip https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=679882#87 Iain

Re: Query about possible impact of leap second on Debian Linux

2015-05-21 Thread Iain M Conochie
On 21/05/15 22:15, Bob Proulx wrote: Iain M Conochie wrote: Bret Busby wrote: I have today seen the news report below, and wonder whether it needs some kind of patch for Debian Linux, and, if so, whether it has already been done, or is pending. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi

Re: Bluetooth mouse problems on Jessie

2015-05-18 Thread iain
On 29/04/15 09:10, Johann Spies wrote: Since the weekend (and Jessie becoming Stable) I could not use my bluetooth mouse which I have been using for years. I get the message successfully added but failed to connect. When I delete the device in the bluetooth setup and try to set it up

Re: xfce4 user switching with kdm as the display manager

2015-05-18 Thread Iain M Conochie
On 17/05/15 18:24, Iain M Conochie wrote: Hi all, I have recently switched my desktop (environment?) from KDE to xfce on a jessie install. I am still running kdm. I have noticed that the Switch User functionality within the action buttons on the top panel (Panel 1) is grey-out

xfce4 user switching with kdm as the display manager

2015-05-17 Thread Iain M Conochie
-shortcuts xfce4 xfce4-appfinder xfce4-mixer xfce4-notifyd xfce4-panel xfce4-session xfce4-settings xfce4-volumed xfdesktop4 xfdesktop4-data Cheers Iain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Book questions

2015-04-12 Thread Iain M Conochie
On 12/04/15 17:34, David Wright wrote: Quoting Iain M Conochie (i...@thargoid.co.uk): snip IMHO, the issues with perl and python is that you will have to understand Object Orientated Programming (OOP) to get the most out of them, especially for GUI development. This was one of the reasons I

Re: Book questions

2015-04-12 Thread Iain M Conochie
On 12/04/15 09:33, Petter Adsen wrote: On Sun, 12 Apr 2015 15:51:24 +0800 Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote: On 12/04/2015, Petter Adsen pet...@synth.no wrote: Now that you mention security, that leads me to another question - are there any good books on writing secure programs? I would

/ and separate partitions (was) Re: Upgrading Kernel - Out of Disk Space

2015-02-12 Thread Iain M Conochie
merge to me is annoying. If we do not _need_ /usr, why have it in the first place? Why have this separate directory that you should no longer split off onto a separate partition? Just have everything in / Iain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: glibc bug - time to patch

2015-01-28 Thread iain
is not vulnerable due to proper sanitization out of glibc. Indeed, however you will notice that the list on the second link does not contain exim, the default SMTP server software for debian. This was used for proof-of-concept code. http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q1/274 Cheers Iain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

glibc bug - time to patch

2015-01-28 Thread iain
Cheers Iain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/28f1fa682337d21078d8c83d9c9e0...@thargoid.co.uk

Re: Have I been hacked?

2015-01-12 Thread iain
On 2015-01-12 08:24, Joel Rees wrote: On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 7:32 AM, Iain M Conochie i...@thargoid.co.uk wrote: On 10/01/15 20:31, Brian wrote: By all means advocate and use ssh keys. But at least provide some substantial reason for spurning password login for that particular situation

Fwd: Re: Have I been hacked?

2015-01-12 Thread iain
. In your opinion. Not in mine (within the context of this discussion) And the security of these three items are in DESCENDING order. In your opinion. Again, shouting does not make you right. Iain Jerry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Fwd: Re: Have I been hacked?

2015-01-12 Thread Iain M Conochie
this point of view then fair enough. Gets boring going round in circles. And the security of these three items are in DESCENDING order. In your opinion. Again, shouting does not make you right. Iain Jerry And once again, repeating ad nauseum doesn't make YOU right. You should learn from some REAL

Re: Have I been hacked?

2015-01-12 Thread Iain M Conochie
On 12/01/15 16:41, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 1/12/2015 10:10 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: snip Oh, come on! http://www.thefreedictionary.com/context It is all about *who* you are, or claim to be. https://danielmiessler.com/blog/security-identification-authentication-and-authorization/ You have

Re: Have I been hacked?

2015-01-11 Thread Iain M Conochie
On 11/01/15 23:18, Brian wrote: On Sun 11 Jan 2015 at 22:32:39 +, Iain M Conochie wrote: On 10/01/15 20:31, Brian wrote: By all means advocate and use ssh keys. But at least provide some substantial reason for spurning password login for that particular situation. A blanket don't use

Re: Have I been hacked?

2015-01-11 Thread Iain M Conochie
On 11/01/15 23:47, Bob Proulx wrote: Iain M Conochie wrote: These increase in security as you go higher up the number. So (assuming the implementation is secure) my fingerprint (being something I am) is more secure than a password. Also, an ssh-key (being something I have) is more secure than

Re: Have I been hacked?

2015-01-11 Thread Iain M Conochie
than a password. In each case we have the _implementation_ to let us down. #1 is up to the user whereas #2 and #3 are up to the programmer. Who do you trust ;) Iain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: init scripts [was: If Not Systemd, then What?]

2014-11-18 Thread iain
/tmp/* mount -t tmpfs -osize=$TMPFSSIZE,mode=755,uid=$(id -u xymon) tmpfs /var/lib/xymon/tmp fi wc -l /etc/init.d/xymon-client 109 /etc/init.d/xymon-client So the xymon-client package uses the init script from upstream, with some modifications (naturally). Cheers Iain

apt-get update GPG error: Internal error: Good signature, but could not determine key fingerprint?!

2014-11-17 Thread iain
seen this before, or perhaps knows more about GPG than me to help me in the right direction? Other VM's update no questions asked Cheers Iain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive

Re: apt-get update GPG error: Internal error: Good signature, but could not determine key fingerprint?!

2014-11-17 Thread iain
signature, but could not determine key fingerprint?! Cheers Iain Ansgar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/d9ca7d8142b56be78ed788a71612e...@thargoid.co.uk

Re: apt-get update GPG error: Internal error: Good signature, but could not determine key fingerprint?!

2014-11-17 Thread iain
Digging further into the logs, it seems that gnupg was segfaulting: Thanks for your help. Reboot (of the VM) has solved this issue. Cheers Iain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive

Re: umask has no man page?

2014-11-02 Thread Iain M Conochie
On 02/11/14 05:58, Carl Fink wrote: On Sun, 2014-11-02 at 14:17 +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: Succinct! man pam_umask? That is not a solution to the original question I asked, unless you alias it to man umask. You don't _type_ pam_umask. Carl Perhaps apropos is your friend here? :$ apropos

Re: umask has no man page?

2014-11-02 Thread Iain M Conochie
then I guess the man system can let you down. Hence apropos, as this, at least, will search for appropriate man pages. One more command to learn perhaps? Cheers Iain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: dpkg no space left on device errors (lots of room left)

2014-10-22 Thread Iain M Conochie
outside of upgrades. I've got arseloads of space available on all my mount points: snip partitions Try a df -i You may have run out of inodes Cheers Iain And now, of course, there are dependency issues all over the place. Any suggestions on how how to sort this out? I can provide a great

preseed from CD different to network booting

2014-09-26 Thread Iain M Conochie
want to install grub on the MBR with the CD install, but not the PXE install. What gives? Cheers Iain ### Preseed config ## Created by cpc ## Inspired by https://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/example-preseed.txt ### Locale config d-i console-setup/ask_detect boolean false d-i debian-installer

Re: preseed from CD different to network booting

2014-09-26 Thread Iain M Conochie
Hey Brian, On 26/09/14 19:24, Brian wrote: On Fri 26 Sep 2014 at 19:02:57 +0100, Iain M Conochie wrote: I am trying to compose a real basic preseed file, that will answer all the d-i questions so that the install is completely automated. This works on a PXE boot (with dhcp

bad bash bug

2014-09-24 Thread Iain M Conochie
Evening, In case people may have missed this: http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2014-6271 Upgrade available for wheezy. Cheers Iain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Bash Code Injection Vulnerability via Specially Crafted Environment Variables (CVE-2014-6271)

2014-09-24 Thread Iain M Conochie
it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Did you try apt-get update apt-get upgrade yet? That should fix you right up as long as your mirror is up to date Cheers Iain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Jessie and Systemd integration

2014-09-18 Thread Iain M Conochie
looks forward to more useful discussions about systemd and it's relation to debian today, tomorrow and in the future. Cheers Iain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https

Re: preseeding: disable systemd

2014-09-13 Thread Iain M Conochie
On 13/09/14 07:40, Jonathan Dowland wrote: On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 07:02:06PM +0100, Iain M Conochie wrote: Not at all. This is a basic preseed file I was using for wheezy installs. I am testing it again on a new VM - gimmie an hour or so and I will post the results The one you posted

Re: preseeding: disable systemd

2014-09-12 Thread Iain M Conochie
? This virtual machine must be imaginary as well as virtual then: uname -a Linux aitjes01 3.14-2-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 3.14.15-2 (2014-08-09) i686 GNU/Linux iain@aitjes01:~$ dpkg -l | grep systemd ii libsystemd-journal0:i386 208-8 i386 systemd journal utility library ii

Re: preseeding: disable systemd

2014-09-12 Thread Iain M Conochie
On 12/09/14 18:37, Michael Biebl wrote: Am 12.09.2014 18:55, schrieb Iain M Conochie: If you want the preseed file that built this VM I can email it to you. I will, of course, take out any sensitive info with suggestions for replacements I assume you used a post-install hook to uninstall

Re: preseeding: disable systemd

2014-09-12 Thread Iain M Conochie
On 12/09/14 18:54, Michael Biebl wrote: Am 12.09.2014 19:37, schrieb Michael Biebl: Am 12.09.2014 18:55, schrieb Iain M Conochie: If you want the preseed file that built this VM I can email it to you. I will, of course, take out any sensitive info with suggestions for replacements I

Re: Nmap of Debian 7.6 KDE machine

2014-09-10 Thread Iain M Conochie
this with the following command: rpcinfo -p ip-or-hostname-of-host Cheers Iain What is rpcbind used for in a default installation? Thanks, John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

systemd killing sshd

2014-08-29 Thread Iain M Conochie
not show anything interesting as the logs stop on 21st august. Ta Iain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/54006d2d.1040...@thargoid.co.uk

Re: systemd killing sshd

2014-08-29 Thread Iain M Conochie
interfaces) in a short time frame. yup. I have updated to reload instead of restart - will see what happens when I reboot Cheers Iain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https

Re: Choose your side on the Linux divide

2014-08-28 Thread Iain M Conochie
/ a little at the documentation and configuration of systemd. --Andrew And perhaps wishing those that don't like it just give up and learn it, cos, hey - it's really cool probably is not going to address the concerns that are being raised. Iain

Re: Choose your side on the Linux divide

2014-08-27 Thread Iain M Conochie
is this was posted before and I missed it. Gotta laugh at the irrelevant political stances statement. Yeah, like whatever Iain

Re: how to make gnome SHUT DOWN when I say SHUT DOWN

2014-08-15 Thread Iain M Conochie
to being shouted at. (If you were hoping for a technical answer to a question devoid of technical detail I am sorry to diappoint you). I've found threatening to reformat and install Windoze does wonders :) Also muttereing xface and kde can work too :) Iain Jerry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: systemd fails to poweroff - A stop job is running for Session 2 of user $USER

2014-08-14 Thread Iain M Conochie
it: halt it. You do not power off, i.e. turn the engine off. (Unless you accidentally stall it!) Yet this is exactly what my 2 year old car does now. I halt at the lights and the engine powers off. Is this a bug? Given enough usage, a bug can become a feature. Iain Lisi

[OT] [politics] Re: Skype access cancelled for Debian versions before 7

2014-08-09 Thread Iain M Conochie
control. Iain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/53e687b8.1030...@thargoid.co.uk

Netbooting jessie installer gives kernel mismatch

2014-07-09 Thread Iain M Conochie
kernel version it runs 2. Where I can locate a better kernel / initrd combination for network booting Any more info I can provide please ask Cheers Iain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Preseeded setting on openssh-server ignored

2014-06-15 Thread Iain M Conochie
On 14/06/14 13:57, Brian wrote: On Sat 14 Jun 2014 at 11:50:57 +0100, Iain M Conochie wrote: Can you categorically state what _are_ the preseed options for the openssh-server package? I can find 4: The ones you listed below are for a fresh install of Wheezy. Jessie is different. This output

Re: Preseeded setting on openssh-server ignored

2014-06-14 Thread Iain M Conochie
are these documented? And while we are at it, are preseed options for each package documented in the package? Cheers Iain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https

Re: LVM preseed install fails with partition error

2014-03-17 Thread Iain M Conochie
snip Hi Iain, I removed all the partman related lines and created a new preseed file. It works now on vm but has issue with baremetal for which i'll start a new thread. This is my complete preseed file for reference - http://paste.debian.net/88147/ Cheers, Sandeep. I think

Re: LVM preseed install fails with partition error

2014-03-13 Thread Iain M Conochie
want. You may also want to add this to the disk partition definition: d-i partman/choose_partition select Finish partitioning and write changes to disk Good luck! Iain On 13/03/14 19:55, Sandeep Raman wrote: I am using a preseed file on a physical server with the following requirement

Re: How to setup a simple email server?

2014-01-25 Thread Iain M Conochie
Do you already have an email provider? You could ask them to be a secondary MX for you, for when your DSL line goes down. While not strictly necessary, it is helpful. Good Luck Iain I'm running (would like to keep running) Debian 6 32bit. I've followed all the various guides that pull up

Re: sad but true, Linux sucks, a bit

2014-01-16 Thread Iain M Conochie
will laugh at us for using a mouse / keyboard. Iain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/52d81889.2050...@thargoid.co.uk

Re: sudo security Was: Reporting missing package during install

2013-12-12 Thread Iain M Conochie
On 12/12/13 08:20, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: Iain M Conochie writes: On 11/12/13 08:01, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: Encrypt your hard disk. Hoping that the encryption you use has no backdoor. You do understand what the peer review process is right? I got it about 20 years ago

Re: sudo security Was: Reporting missing package during install

2013-12-12 Thread Iain M Conochie
On 12/12/13 11:43, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: Iain M Conochie writes: I got it about 20 years ago. Is it enough? Mayeb - just maybe ;) Indeed, never be sure! :) You say it. It is not bullet proof. The bullet has already pierced the target once. Therefore it may happen again

Re: sudo security Was: Reporting missing package during install

2013-12-11 Thread Iain M Conochie
is worse than no security as it gives you the nice warm glow that you are secure without being so. I see this alot in the commercial world and it really sucks :( Iain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: sudo security Was: Reporting missing package during install

2013-12-10 Thread Iain M Conochie
developer, the Italian part of my signature says Software farmer and sysadmin in others' wasted time [**]. And unguarded machines are a real boon for wrongdoers. Unless they are a honey trap - and then you can see what is actually trying to break into your network Iain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: dhcpd runs as root

2013-08-29 Thread Iain M. Conochie
Does the daemon allow dropping privileges? If not, then it will bot be able to bind to a port below 1024. This option does not seem to be available in dhcpd Cheers Iain Andrew Wood and...@perpetualmotion.co.uk wrote: On 28/08/13 01:13, Jerry Stuckle wrote: Reading through the bug report

Re: PXE, automatic installation and reboot

2013-07-29 Thread Iain M Conochie
=ip2long($ip); $hex=dechex($long); $hex=strtoupper($hex); print $hex\n; $origin = /var/lib/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/$hex; $destination = /var/lib/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/$hex.disabled; passthru(mv $origin $destination); You can call this script from your preseed/late_command target Cheers Iain

Re: PXE, automatic installation and reboot

2013-07-29 Thread Iain M Conochie
You also have a default file in your pxelinux.cfg file with the following in it: This should read pxelinux.cfg Directory not file. And the default file is called default Ta Iain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

preseed LVM with no /boot partition on wheezy

2013-06-21 Thread Iain M Conochie
the installed system Does anyone know an option to give in the preseed file to partman to skip this question? Cheers Iain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org

Re: preseed LVM with no /boot partition on wheezy

2013-06-21 Thread Iain M. Conochie
Thanks Brian. I will check this out and report back. Cheers Iain Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: On Thu 20 Jun 2013 at 21:58:36 +0100, Iain M Conochie wrote: I am trying to create a preseed file using LVM but with no boot partition. When partman runs, it creates recognises

Re: preseed LVM with no /boot partition on wheezy

2013-06-21 Thread Iain M Conochie
On Friday 21 Jun 2013 11:45:04 Tom H wrote: On Thu, 20 Jun 2013 21:58:36, Iain M Conochie i...@shihad.org wrote: I am trying to create a preseed file using LVM but with no boot partition. When partman runs, it creates recognises the partitons but stops to ask if I wish

Re: SCIOFFLAGS: Resource Temporarily Unavailable

2007-03-02 Thread iain murray
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Re: Emacs - Undefined color

2005-10-25 Thread Iain Stephen
On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 11:20 +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: Please start a new thread for a new topic: otherwise your message might be passed over by anyone who isn't interested in the original thread. -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ Oops, sorry. -- Iain. Registered Linux user

Re: Emacs - Undefined color

2005-10-25 Thread Iain Stephen
get your answer here. I'll go and try that, thanks for your help. -- Iain. Registered Linux user #394675 Registered machine #296028 () ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML e-mail. /\ Please use plain text when replying; HTML wastes bandwidth. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Emacs - Undefined color

2005-10-24 Thread Iain Stephen
/X11/rgb.txt (which exists and seems to be OK with the correct permissions) If this is the problem how do I tell Emacs how to find this file? I've tried adding it to PATH which didn't work. -- Iain. Registered Linux user #394675 Registered machine #296028 () ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML e

Re: Firefox - No Scrollbars

2005-10-21 Thread Iain Stephen
I've got my scrollbars back now :) Thanks for your help. -- Iain. Registered Linux user #394675 Registered machine #296028 () ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML e-mail. /\ Please use plain text when replying; HTML wastes bandwidth. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Firefox - No Scrollbars

2005-10-21 Thread Iain Stephen
. She's using mozilla under KDE in both systems. Hi Hendrik, You can get/install themes from the Firefox Tools-Themes menu; then click the 'Get More Themes' link. Affraid I can't help with the missing controls. -- Iain. Registered Linux user #394675 Registered machine #296028 () ASCII Ribbon

Firefox - No Scrollbars

2005-10-20 Thread Iain Stephen
Hi all, After an update a few weeks ago (which if I remember, updated Firefox) all the scrollbars in Firefox have dissapeared. Nothing I have tried has restored them and no aother programs are affected. Any ideas how I can get them back? -- Iain. Registered Linux user #394675 Registered

Re: books on debian

2004-05-28 Thread Iain Mac Donald
and the Debian Reference by Osamu Aoki at http://qref.sourceforge.net Non-debian specific but also good is the Linux Network Administrator Guide and The Linux System Administrators Guide both of which I (think) came from www.tldp.org Enjoy. Iain. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: cdrom does not un-mounts

2004-05-28 Thread Iain Mac Donald
Gnome you could try something like gksu /etc/init.d/fam stop umount the cd followed by gksu /etc/init.d/fam start Regards, Iain. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: cdrom does not un-mounts

2004-05-28 Thread Iain Mac Donald
off). If a file is changed, deleted or created the application is alerted, otherwise the user would have to refresh the window constantly. Certainly a useful function. There was a long running thread on the FAM/umount bug on debian-gtk-gnome mailing list recently. Regards, Iain

Re: ppp setup problem

2004-05-19 Thread Iain Mac Donald
the documents for your modem. Regards, Iain. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ppp setup problem

2004-05-19 Thread Iain Mac Donald
is probably the one. Though the AT Command Set is not applied in a universal way by modem manufacturers. Regards, Iain. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ppp setup problem

2004-05-19 Thread Iain Mac Donald
may be different. Also your country settings may be different from mine. I have found wvdial pretty good at establishing a connection and negotiating authentication. It has saved me a lot of bother in the past. Hope this helps, Iain. Regards, Iain. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: blocking hosts

2004-05-18 Thread Iain Mac Donald
my firewall. Furthermore, it creates scripts to start all the firewall stuff automatically on boot. Regards, Iain. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: aptitude: loading ChangeLog

2004-04-06 Thread iain d broadfoot
doing something wrong? Hit ``v'' to see the list of versions, aim at the new version, and hit ``C''. cheers, iain -- If sharing a thing in no way diminishes it, it is not rightly owned if it is not shared. -- St. Augustine #rm -rf / http://www.geeksoc.org

Sid and Root on Compact Flash ?

2004-04-05 Thread Iain Young
edge software) Iain. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mailto protocol in firefox (OT?)

2004-03-25 Thread iain d broadfoot
, as well as a few other nifty things. cheers, iain [1] http://mozex.mozdev.org/ -- If sharing a thing in no way diminishes it, it is not rightly owned if it is not shared. -- St. Augustine #rm -rf / http://www.geeksoc.org/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

test

2003-11-24 Thread iain d broadfoot
Hmm, is lists.d.o up again? iain -- If sharing a thing in no way diminishes it, it is not rightly owned if it is not shared. -- St. Augustine #rm -rf / http://www.geeksoc.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: pasting into vi inserts many indents

2003-11-21 Thread iain d broadfoot
in which mode you are. (you can press F9 in insert mode too) sweet! thank you for this gem of wisdom. iain -- If sharing a thing in no way diminishes it, it is not rightly owned if it is not shared. -- St. Augustine #rm -rf / http://www.geeksoc.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: mutt - saving message to disk (not mail folder)

2003-11-19 Thread iain d broadfoot
earlier today, when I couldn't figure it out either. :D iain -- If sharing a thing in no way diminishes it, it is not rightly owned if it is not shared. -- St. Augustine #rm -rf / http://www.geeksoc.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: pasting into vi inserts many indents

2003-11-18 Thread iain d broadfoot
* Brian ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi, Lately, if I open a file with vi from inside a gnome-terminal and then select a large chunk of text, (it doesn't matter where, e.g., Mozilla or the same vi session, both do it), it corrupts the formatting with many indents. The pasted output inserts

Re: big troubles in little libc

2003-10-21 Thread iain d broadfoot
* iain d broadfoot ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: * David Z Maze ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: and you'll generally get a segfault where the program actually messes up, rather than when the symptoms are seen later. There's a cost in both memory and runtime, but using LD_PRELOAD inside gdb makes

Re: big troubles in little libc

2003-10-21 Thread iain d broadfoot
* iain d broadfoot ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Has anyone else had similar problems? OK, more debugging finds the following: (gdb) backtrace #0 0x407196c9 in free () from /lib/libc.so.6 #1 0x4096e34f in ?? () from /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6 #2 0x0001 in ?? () #3 0x409c98e8 in ?? () from

[FIXED]Don't use gsfonts-other Was: Re: big troubles in little libc

2003-10-21 Thread iain d broadfoot
* iain d broadfoot ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: thoughts/flames welcome... From http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=216605 For those who encounter this bug: you should either remove gsfonts-other, or keep the previous version of fontconfig, until this bug is fixed. sorry

big troubles in little libc

2003-10-20 Thread iain d broadfoot
in particular wrong... Any brilliant flashes of insight? cheers, iain -- If sharing a thing in no way diminishes it, it is not rightly owned if it is not shared. -- St. Augustine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: big troubles in little libc

2003-10-20 Thread iain d broadfoot
. ElectricFence Aborting: free(1): address not from malloc(). Program received signal SIGILL, Illegal instruction. [Switching to Thread 16384 (LWP 27561)] 0x406cd641 in kill () from /lib/libc.so.6 (gdb) iain -- If sharing a thing in no way diminishes it, it is not rightly owned if it is not shared. -- St

Problems accessing /. with straw

2003-10-13 Thread iain d broadfoot
, iain -- If sharing a thing in no way diminishes it, it is not rightly owned if it is not shared. -- St. Augustine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Hot-plugging USB storage devices.

2003-08-31 Thread Iain Georgeson
Roberto Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: --- Iain Georgeson [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: I would prefer it each device was always mounted in the same place - /camera for the camera and /keychain for the keychain, for example. Is there any way of doing this with usbmgr or something else

Re: Hot-plugging USB storage devices.

2003-08-31 Thread Iain Georgeson
I didn't know about that one. ;) apt-get install -t testing scsitools Stable, in this case. Iain. -- Iain Georgeson | Keirsey: INTJ | Belbin: Plant | Debian Woody People who love sausages, respect the law, and work with IT standards shouldn't watch any of them being made. -- Peter

Hot-plugging USB storage devices.

2003-08-30 Thread Iain Georgeson
hotplug? I don't mind if the scripts auto-mount the devices, as long as Mere Mortal Users can umount them. Iain Georgeson -- Iain Georgeson | Keirsey: INTJ | Belbin: Plant | Liverpool Are you pondering what I'm pondering? -- Brain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: SCO identifies code?

2003-08-19 Thread iain d broadfoot
have nothing to lose from a closed version of a GPL piece of software being developed. If GPL'd(GPLed? which is less stoopid?) _code_ was used, that'd be a different issue though. iain -- wh33, y1p33 3tc. If sharing a thing in no way diminishes it, it is not rightly owned if it is not shared

Re: Obnoxious autoresponders was:Re: Out of Office AutoReply: how NOT to work with debian

2003-08-14 Thread iain d broadfoot
, guess it looks like someone is just being an idiot. If we're lucky, the system'll be smart enough to only send one message to each address it receives from - if not, the poor bastard's server must be melting under the strain. iain (saves us doing it for him, i suppose...) -- wh33, y1p33 3tc

Obnoxious autoresponders was:Re: Out of Office AutoReply: how NOT to work with debian

2003-08-14 Thread iain d broadfoot
to take themselves off the list for the time they are away. iain (and yes, i know i'm likely to get another response from this message as well.) -- wh33, y1p33 3tc. If sharing a thing in no way diminishes it, it is not rightly owned if it is not shared. -St. Augustine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: how NOT to work with debian

2003-08-10 Thread iain d broadfoot
around. Three more suare widgets top right may be part of the bitmap or may be just not active. sounds like twm or similar nasty WM... try running 'kdm' or similar rather than startx, that should let you get into KDE. iain -- wh33, y1p33 3tc. If sharing a thing in no way diminishes

Re: Doesn't MY_ENV=abc printf ${MY_ENV}\n suppose to print abc?

2003-08-02 Thread iain d broadfoot
' and a ';', like so: $ export MY_ENV=abc ; printf ${MY_ENV}\n abc iain -- wh33, y1p33 3tc. If sharing a thing in no way diminishes it, it is not rightly owned if it is not shared. -St. Augustine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Doesn't MY_ENV=abc printf ${MY_ENV}\n suppose to print abc?

2003-08-02 Thread iain d broadfoot
* Shaul Karl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 10:22:19PM +0100, iain d broadfoot wrote: * Shaul Karl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Package: bash Version: 2.05b-8.1 According to my understanding of the manual page, $ MY_ENV=abc printf ${MY_ENV}\n

Re: batch renaming for filenames with space

2003-07-28 Thread iain d broadfoot
'*\ *' -exec rename -v 'y/\ /_/' \{\} \; which i _think_ will work ok, but test it on non-critical files first. iain -- wh33, y1p33 3tc. If sharing a thing in no way diminishes it, it is not rightly owned if it is not shared. -St. Augustine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: mouse wheel scrolling in mutt ???

2003-07-22 Thread iain d broadfoot
won't help. What do you think? you could always pipe long messages through a CLI-www-browser (elinks/wm3/whatever) since they tend to know about mouses. iain -- wh33, y1p33 3tc. If sharing a thing in no way diminishes it, it is not rightly owned if it is not shared. -St. Augustine

Re: does make-kpkg work for kernel 2.5/2.6?

2003-07-18 Thread iain d broadfoot
, what's going wrong? iain -- wh33, y1p33 3tc. If sharing a thing in no way diminishes it, it is not rightly owned if it is not shared. -St. Augustine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

re: tasksel, first time with debian

2003-07-02 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 22:36, Bret Comstock Waldow wrote: On Sat, 2003-06-28 at 22:56, Iain Buchanan wrote: Hi all, [snip] Tell me if I read this right, or what's different: You're installing Debian from scratch, no pre-existing files. yep You've completed the initial install, and can

Re: tasksel, first time with debian

2003-07-02 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 02:21, Bob Proulx wrote: Iain Buchanan wrote: Depends: package but it is not going to be installed and then finally E: Sorry, broken packages for anything I try through tasksel. That looks like a broken /etc/apt/sources.list file. Which may have happened if you

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