On Fri 06 Apr 2012 at 14:08:25 -0500, Darren Crotchett wrote:
I had an issue with the cups-filters package on Wheezy. I found that the
bug was resolved in the unstable branch. But, I wasn't sure how to get the
unstable branch version of cups. So, I compiled cups-filters from source
and
On Fri 06 Apr 2012 at 16:29:54 -0500, Indulekha wrote:
James Brown, try this in /etc/default/console-setup
and see what happens:
CHARMAP=UTF-8
CODESET=Uni2
FONTFACE=TerminusBold
FONTSIZE=32x16
And run 'setupcon' after making the changes?
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On Thu 05 Apr 2012 at 14:13:29 +0100, Brian wrote:
You can do better than this. Install the xfonts-terminus package. I'm a
little surprised your console-setup doesn't offer them.
The alarm bells for 'xfonts' should have been louder. The Terminus fonts
are in console-terminus on stable
On Fri 06 Apr 2012 at 21:45:00 -1000, Joel Roth wrote:
On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 12:48:35AM +0100, Brian wrote:
And run 'setupcon' after making the changes?
This works for me. :-)
I never had thought about configuring the console before.
My issue had been 80-character fonts
On Sat 07 Apr 2012 at 10:44:59 +0100, Lisi wrote:
On Friday 06 April 2012 23:16:46 Chris Bannister wrote:
You seem to be confusing the meaning of stable in the distribution
sense. It doesn't mean free of bugs or unlikely to crash, it means
unchanging/not moving. So by having backports you
On Sun 08 Apr 2012 at 15:34:10 +0200, Claudius Hubig wrote:
J. Bakshi baksh...@gmail.com wrote:
I checked and the is no more /sbin/shutdown :-(
Did you remove sysvinit? This happens, for example, when you install
upstart, as it conflicts sysvinit.
Acccording to
On Sun 08 Apr 2012 at 17:53:02 +, Russell L. Harris wrote:
* Scott Ferguson scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com [120408 17:39]:
...
though we would love to find another multi-platform, easy to install
voip program, preferably open source, to replace it.
I also need such a package.
On Fri 30 Mar 2012 at 18:53:09 +0300, Mika Suomalainen wrote:
There are many kinds of people, so everyone has different opinion
about top/bottom posting :)
And where better to express these opinions but on a technically oriented
list like debian-user. Nine days and 120+ posts later the end is
On Sun 08 Apr 2012 at 16:33:42 -0500, Indulekha wrote:
In linux.debian.user, Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote:
I posted about a printer problem. Over 120 responses are on another
topic. Is that bad manners or just the way people behave on a Debian
mailing list?
So IOW you started
On Mon 09 Apr 2012 at 10:09:59 +0200, Tony van der Hoff wrote:
On 09/04/12 08:22, Scott Ferguson wrote:
SIP will currently work with the Skype network - if being able to
communicate is your only requirement.
This is interesting. Do you mean I could install SIP, and communicate
with my
On Tue 10 Apr 2012 at 09:07:56 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
That led me to assume that the business card image would just go ahead
and download the rest of the netinst image. How much control does user
have over what it downloads?
Total control. You lever the power of Free Software. Me, I'm
On Thu 12 Apr 2012 at 11:22:04 +0530, J. Bakshi wrote:
How can I prevent general ssh users not to have su or sudo power ?
Just they know the root password by any chance
In the remote box remote root login is disable and one can only
login as normal user and then need to do su to get root
On Thu 12 Apr 2012 at 00:11:03 -0700, John Magolske wrote:
I'm having difficulty printing on a Brother HL-1450 laser printer
that has in the past worked fine with my Debian Sid system. When
attempting to print a PDF, sometimes it will print the page fine,
but other times (actually most of the
On Thu 12 Apr 2012 at 22:01:33 -0700, John Magolske wrote:
I have tried several PPD files including the one from Brother. Haven't
tried the Gutenprint driver, may try that next. But I'm thinking
getting the avahi-daemon running may be the issue. Perhaps I need to
get dbus running first? Any
On Fri 13 Apr 2012 at 10:45:18 +0530, J. Bakshi wrote:
Many many thanks. Based on your clue I get this link
http://mindref.blogspot.in/2010/04/protect-su-with-pamwheel.html
This is exactly what I have been looking for long.
Your users A and B are given the root password. Users X and Y are
On Fri 13 Apr 2012 at 10:35:33 -0400, Tom H wrote:
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 6:06 AM, Andrei POPESCU
andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote:
'base' in the Debian context has a very specific meaning. Somebody
correct me if I'm wrong but it specifically includes packages with:
Essential: yes (of
On Mon 16 Apr 2012 at 16:15:08 +, Camaleón wrote:
But I'm still unclear about your problem.
The crackling noise occurs as the OS is closing down.
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On Wed 18 Apr 2012 at 12:40:42 +0300, Jason Filippou wrote:
[Tale about a Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG snipped.]
I have included wlan0 under wicd preferences and installed
firmware-ralink as suggested here:
At
http://wiki.debian.org/iwlegacy
it suggests you want the
On Thu 19 Apr 2012 at 02:41:12 -0700, Weaver wrote:
When attempting to follow previous suggestions in this thread, believing
libapt was the culprit and attempting to upgrade that, I get:
E: Internal error: APT::pkgPackageManager::MaxLoopCount reached in
SmartConfigure for
On Thu 19 Apr 2012 at 05:40:19 -0700, Weaver wrote:
Use 'dpkg -i' to install libapt from /var/cache/apt/archives.
O.K., I've checked out that directory and libapt is sitting there waiting
for install, but I'm not used to running dpkg.
What is the full command format please?
For me:
On Fri 20 Apr 2012 at 18:52:26 -0400, David Zelinsky wrote:
I recently did a large upgrade in wheezy, and now I want to downgrade a
certain package to the previous version. Is there some way to get my
hands on that previous version?
http://snapshot.debian.org/
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On Sat 28 Apr 2012 at 16:48:00 +0530, J. Bakshi wrote:
On Sat, 28 Apr 2012 22:48:56 +1200
Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote:
Have you googled? Also, Ubuntu questions should be asked on an Ubuntu
list.
It is not an ubuntu specific issue. OK, I have replaced the config
On Sat 28 Apr 2012 at 22:02:42 +0530, J. Bakshi wrote:
As I mentioned before, one of my pendrives having grub-1.95 has no problem to
boot the iso, but the one with grub-1.99 has problem with same iso.
I got that. 1.95 is pre-Lenny. GRUB will have had one or two changes
made to it in the
On Tue 17 May 2011 at 14:28:07 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
AFAIK apt calls dpkg to do the actual package installation, but other
then that they are quite disconnected. I see no reason for apt to touch
/var/lib/dpkg/available or /var/lib/dpkg/updates.
It indeed has no reason but dpkg does.
On Thu 19 May 2011 at 08:30:04 -0400, Matt Harrison wrote:
Is there a volume manager I can install outside of the DE environment
to get this working again? I have been searching for a couple of days
now but I have not found anything yet.
autofs has been mentioned. There is also
On Fri 20 May 2011 at 10:43:53 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote:
I hope I am not the only one having trouble viewing deb
files in m-c. The error messages all relate to parsing..I guess
related to a python or perl update ???
You're not.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=626171
On Fri 20 May 2011 at 11:52:45 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
I am still using 2:4.6.2~git20080311-4 and I get the same error
I've never experienced any such problem on Lenny and only came across it
yesterday on (I think) testing.
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On Tue 24 May 2011 at 08:33:07 -0700, Bill wrote:
Failed to connect to wpa_supplicant - wpa_ctrl_open: No such file or
directory
wpa_supplicant is very upset. It is telling you to purge Wickd and add
the following lines to /etc/network/interfaces:
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
wpa-ssid
Mark mamarcac at gmail.com writes:
Hi,The Intel 855GM chipset performance has unfortunately taken a step or two
backwards from Lenny to Squeeze based on my experience and what I've read in
the bug reports and various forums. Specifically, on-line video streaming
becomes choppy after 3-4
On Wed 25 May 2011 at 18:26:24 -0400, Ethan Rosenberg wrote:
Dear list -
I am trying to install squeeze from Debian-6.0.1a-i386-CD-1.iso. The
installation fails with the message The CD-ROM does not contain a
valid Release file.
Perhaps it doesn't. I'd download a netinst image from a
On Thu 26 May 2011 at 13:04:38 -0400, Mark Grieveson wrote:
Apologies for picking this out and snipping your very useful technical
response but . . . .
Others here have argued that it's not necessary to worry about viruses
and stuff when using Linux, but I still like to do it to feel a bit
On Thu 26 May 2011 at 19:10:43 +0100, thuillier-charmet wrote:
i want only received sms :
In my reality i have a phone number (but no mobil phone) for received
vocal message on a mail-box.
I wish to received a sms on this
mail-box with intermediate of this phone number,
But i don't how to
On Thu 26 May 2011 at 20:54:15 +0100, thuillier-charmet wrote:
where i can find this convert sms to voice program ?
For text to speech on Debian a starting point might be:
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-accessibility/software
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On Wed 01 Jun 2011 at 09:18:42 -0400, co...@esid.gecgr.co.cu wrote:
Following the steps to make a memory USB booteble
Using syslinux /dev/sdx5 and install-mbr / dev / sdx
I copy the portfolios boot and gparted
adding ISO of they Owed squeezy, when I restart for bootear for this
device
On Thu 02 Jun 2011 at 19:14:44 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
...I couldn't. It's a usb stick for internet connection, sold by Vodafone.
Any help appreciated. The stuff I've found googling around didn't help in my
case.
Oddly enough, knowing what failed for you would have been helpful.
You
On Mon 06 Jun 2011 at 11:10:59 +, Simon Pepping wrote:
When I have grub-pc installed on the ubuntu system, updates of that package
overwrite debian's grub on the MBR.
You could install Ubuntu's GRUB on the root partition. Or try to; it
seems it may be fraught.
When I uninstall grub-pc
On Tue 07 Jun 2011 at 01:46:49 -0400, Perry Thompson wrote:
1) shutdown my computer by pressing the power button, and
You might need xfce4-power-manager for this but I'm not sure.
2) choose Shut Down or Restart after pressing ctrl+alt+del (I made a
custom keyboard shortcut to call
On Tue 07 Jun 2011 at 00:10:48 -0400, Mitchell Laks wrote:
I have a stanza in the /etc/network/interfaces that configures the eth0.
Seeing /etc/network/interfaces wouldn't do any harm.
This is on laptops I try that I have this problem.
You're not running Network Manager on the laptop?
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On Tue 07 Jun 2011 at 12:45:15 +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
As said in my original posting, the optical drive in a new(ish) computer
was not recognised by the netinst image previously tried, so I reasoned
that the DVD iso image should contain drivers for the computer hardware,
so as to
On Tue 07 Jun 2011 at 14:14:06 -0400, William Hopkins wrote:
vigr aside, the sudo group does nothing by default. You don't need to
be in it
As I've just discovered. On my Wheezy xfce4 box I'd never got round to
enabling Shutdown and Restart for a user. It turns out installing sudo
is all I
On Tue 07 Jun 2011 at 19:57:57 +0100, Brian wrote:
So it's mystifying! All users get to shutdown the machine if sudo is on
the it.
Mystery cleared up. I could have been more thorough in what I did and
checked everything. Installing sudo ungreys the buttons in the session
closing dialogue
On Tue 07 Jun 2011 at 11:06:59 -0400, Perry Thompson wrote:
I have xfce4-power-manager and am in the sudoers list. This worked
before when I had GDM, but not when I was without a DM or when I tried
Slim or NODM. I have not been able to get this to work in any of those
three situations.
How
On Tue 07 Jun 2011 at 19:03:28 -0400, Mitchell Laks wrote:
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch05.en.html#list-of-stanzas-in-eni
refers to man 5 interfaces which doesn't seem to explain what software
is doing the work after the plugin of the ethernet cord... and only
if auto and
On Wed 08 Jun 2011 at 16:06:34 +, Camaleón wrote:
It seems it can fail, at least under some scenarios ;-)
ifupdown: /etc/init.d/networking should support allow-hotplug
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=550014
This isn't a failure of allow-hotplug but a perceived defect in
On Wed 08 Jun 2011 at 11:58:42 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote:
Am I the only one still seeing Midnight Commander parse errors when
trying to look inside deb files ? This has been going on , in my case
for two months now. Is there a solution ?
It's the time to use ar -x. Or be patient.
On Thu 09 Jun 2011 at 16:34:37 +0100, Joao Ferreira Gmail wrote:
These 2 libsensors/temp1 produce different values (about 20 degrees
Celsius appart form each other; p.ex: 74 and 95). Can anyone tell me
which is which ? CPU ? Motherboard ?
sensors-detect (the lm-sensors package) should tell
On Wed 08 Jun 2011 at 19:02:43 +, Camaleón wrote:
I can't tell for sure, but many users are experincing the same problem,
and not only from Debian but also from Ubuntu and Mint, so...
casualty? :-)
I'm always more comfortable with specifics.
Hum... I don't rebember nothing about dhcp
On Thu 09 Jun 2011 at 17:55:50 +, Camaleón wrote:
Hum... what happens when you attach a USB device to the computer? Kernel
detects it and DE mounts it based on user's settings. And what happens
when you dettach the key? Kernel (or udev, or both) remove/umount the
device.
You are
On Thu 09 Jun 2011 at 17:28:23 +0100, Brian wrote:
sensors-detect (the lm-sensors package) should tell you. On my machine
the higher figure would be the CPU.
Another way is to deduce which is which from what the bios reports.
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On Thu 09 Jun 2011 at 19:11:48 +, Camaleón wrote:
On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 19:35:48 +0100, Brian wrote:
You are talking about *devices* here.
AFAIK, network devices (NICs) are also managed by udev.
Maybe - but the cable is not a device. With a static address stanza in
/e/n/i the interface
On Thu 09 Jun 2011 at 21:07:07 +0100, Dom wrote:
On 09/06/11 19:35, Brian wrote:
The question remains - Why would plugging or unplugging the ethernet
cable be expected to bring the interface up or down?
This sounds like a job for ifplugd
It is, because manipulating a cable does
On Thu 09 Jun 2011 at 22:55:38 -0400, Mitchell Laks wrote:
#allow-hotplug eth0
auto eth1
iface eth1 inet static
The device name changed?
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On Thu 09 Jun 2011 at 21:24:40 -0400, Tom H wrote:
On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 12:48 PM, Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote:
Why would plugging or unplugging the ethernet cable be expected to
bring the interface up or down?
That's the whole point of allow-hotplug.
In which case
On Fri 10 Jun 2011 at 18:51:06 +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote:
e100: eth0 NIC Link is Down
e100: eth0 NIC Link is Up 100 Mbps Full Duplex
Shows the cable was initially unplugged and then connected. The machine
was booted/woke up before the connection was made? You're using dhcp?
And ifconfig
On Fri 10 Jun 2011 at 11:25:25 +, Camaleón wrote:
Now we have to extract some conclusions which is what I tried to do.
The premise is false: plugging in a cable does not bring up the
interface with ifconfig. This would make the conclusions suspect.
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On Fri 10 Jun 2011 at 23:40:35 +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote:
On 10/06/11 22:20, Brian wrote:
Remove cable.
root@dektop3:~# dmesg | tail -n 1
[ 158.220270] via-rhine :00:12.0: eth0: link down
snipped
eth0 is not brought down
Yes
On Sat 11 Jun 2011 at 02:46:04 +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote:
Re-inserted text (referring to an active cable being plugged and unplugged:-
What is an 'active' cable?
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On Sat 11 Jun 2011 at 18:12:04 -0400, H.S. wrote:
/usr/bin/wodim -v gracetime=2 dev=/dev/sr0 speed=48 -sao
See how you go on with burning at a much slower speed.
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On Sun 12 Jun 2011 at 17:35:02 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
- I run audio sessions by shell scripts, hence I can set the governor to
performance, while it's ok when it's set to ondemand for non-audio
usage.
Some choices:
1. File a bug report. But read bug #461470 first.
2. Install
On Sun 12 Jun 2011 at 17:19:15 +0200, owl...@gmail.com wrote:
I had seen that thread but i can't find any useful info
Does this make you any happier?
http://serverfault.com/questions/272982/adaptec-1405-or-hp-smartarray-p212-sas-controller-supported-in-the-stock-rh-5-5-k
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On Sun 12 Jun 2011 at 20:16:19 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
I don't have any issue, . . . . . .
Then I, for one, am lost as to why you sent your original mail if you do
not want technical help.
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On Sun 12 Jun 2011 at 13:27:49 -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote:
That did the trick. Thanks. BTW, where in the docs does it mention this
situation and point to dpkg? I would love to know where I missed it.
Debian Reference. Section 2.4.1.
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On Mon 13 Jun 2011 at 01:44:12 -0400, Christian Jaeger wrote:
Nope; it just needs the number (#99* or something) and some domain,
which is inet.bell.ca.
No username/password required?
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On Mon 13 Jun 2011 at 17:49:23 +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote:
Note: shouldn't need to supply your ISPs APN - the modem should have,
and supply that when it connects.
Are you sure? I thought the APN determined the type of service requested
or obtained.
ABORT BUSY ABORT 'NO CARRIER' ABORT VOICE
On Mon 13 Jun 2011 at 11:10:51 +0100, AG wrote:
The problem is now resolved. However, the Update Manager wants to
upgrade these two files to 170-1. Is there anyway to stop this from
happening, or do I manually deselect these when it is time to update?
echo package hold | dpkg
On Mon 13 Jun 2011 at 22:02:17 +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote:
On 13/06/11 20:37, Brian wrote:
I'd be inclined to have
OK ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 C1 D2 +FCLASS=0
What is that supposed to do?
Not a lot, apparently. I cut it out and there was still a connection.
OK
On Mon 13 Jun 2011 at 11:59:46 +0100, AG wrote:
Just to be clear then, this will hold back the two udev* packages from
being updated?
Yes.
At some point, I'm assuming the udev maintainer will fix the problems in
the udev_170-1 so how will I reverse this hold so that I can later
On Mon 13 Jun 2011 at 22:02:17 +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote:
On 13/06/11 20:37, Brian wrote:
On Mon 13 Jun 2011 at 17:49:23 +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote:
Note: shouldn't need to supply your ISPs APN - the modem should have,
and supply that when it connects.
Are you sure? I thought
On Mon 13 Jun 2011 at 14:24:54 +, Camaleón wrote:
For those -friends, family, skype-friendly, etc...- I just simply use
the low land-line/mobile rates my SIP provider has and place them a
standard call.
There some good deals in the SIP -- PSTN world but, depending on your
country of
On Mon 13 Jun 2011 at 18:58:40 +, Camaleón wrote:
Here (Spain) rates for mobile phone calls are still very expensive.
There are some bonuses for free calling when you sign-up for some offers
but I find that options very limited and restrictive (calls must have
place between X and Y
On Tue 14 Jun 2011 at 12:24:13 +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote:
Oh - I was hoping you knew the proprietary AT commands used by this
particular modem.
Sorry, I don't. But I thought the standard ones I gave might have
helped.
Treat the following with caution as I can't verify this:-
I believe the
On Tue 14 Jun 2011 at 11:40:49 +, Camaleón wrote:
I use VoIP with Ekiga by means of USB headset (from Plantronics) and
works like a charm. I'm so happy with it that I'm thinking in acquiring
an ATA converter so I can use any standard phone with it and make VoIP my
default calling
On Wed 15 Jun 2011 at 02:58:47 -0400, John Mollman wrote:
This has to be a group issue and I'm unsure
which group I should add myself to.
plugdev
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. /var/sbin does not exist on this system.
desktop:/home/brian# mv /etc/cups/cupsd.conf /etc/cups/cupsd.conf-orig
desktop:/home/brian#
desktop:/home/brian# /etc/init.d/cups restart
Restarting Common Unix Printing System: cupsd
Message from syslogd@desktop at Jun 15 13:55:33 ...
cupsd: Unable
On Wed 15 Jun 2011 at 05:44:17 -0700, Adrian Rocha wrote:
It doesn't works
From the iwconfig manual:
ap
Force the card to register to the Access Point given by the address,
if it is possible. When the quality of the connection goes too low,
the driver may revert back to automatic
On Wed 15 Jun 2011 at 07:46:08 -0700, Adrian Rocha wrote:
It may not be possible if the connection quality is too low. What does
'iwpriv scan' say when you are in the middle?
Hi Brian,
iwpriv scan? maybe you mean 'iwlist scan'
I do. Thanks.
I can see booth access points in the list
On Wed 15 Jun 2011 at 19:58:05 +0200, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote:
Am Mittwoch, 15. Juni 2011 schrieb John Mollman:
How would I add myself to the plugdev group?
John
Try groupadd in the commandline. In KDE you can use kusers, which does the
job
very well. Kusers is my favourite tool.
On Wed 15 Jun 2011 at 11:59:00 -0700, Adrian Rocha wrote:
I use the NetworkManager to admin the conections.
I can't see any log about the setting of the AP manually in the syslog. I
attached the syslog of NetworkManager start.
now I stoped this deamon and I'm trying to connect to the
On Thu 16 Jun 2011 at 14:25:01 +0100, AG wrote:
On 15/06/11 13:03, Camaleón wrote:
Check if the port is listening:
netstat -ant | grep 631
No feedback from the command line.
You can print, so CUPS has be listening for a connection. Please do
/etc/init.d/cups restart
and post the
On Thu 16 Jun 2011 at 17:08:04 +0100, AG wrote:
As requested after restarting /etc/init.d/cups :
$ sudo netstat -ant | grep LISTEN
tcp0 0 127.0.0.1:8118 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
tcp0 0 127.0.0.1:250.0.0.0:* LISTEN
tcp
On Thu 16 Jun 2011 at 18:01:41 +0200, Lorenzo Beretta wrote:
I can't find anything in `apt-file search`, so I guess that
dhcp3/dhclient.conf is a leftover from some old version - am I right?
can I just delete the whole directory and forget about it?
That's what I did. No ill effects.
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On Thu 16 Jun 2011 at 17:15:59 +0100, AG wrote:
LogLevel warn
MaxLogSize 0
SystemGroup lpadmin
Listen /var/run/cups/cups.sock
Listen /var/run/cups/cups.sock
Naughty!
Listen localhost:631
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On Thu 16 Jun 2011 at 17:30:09 +, Camaleón wrote:
[I meant '. . . cannot . . ' in my previous post]
As root, running lsof -i :8118 -i :9050 will also tell.
Indeed. It turns out netstat or lsof looking at unix domain sockets
would have been more fruitful. I always forget about the socket in
On Thu 16 Jun 2011 at 20:03:14 +0100, AG wrote:
Don't know why this wasn't done automagically, but there's more that I
don't know than that which I do ... so this adds to the list.
The First Law of System Configuration says: Nobody ever remembers what
they did.
I try to defeat this Law by
On Sat 18 Jun 2011 at 15:06:42 -0400, Eric d'Halibut wrote:
What can I put in my .muttrc to tell mutt to open on the very last
message regardless of whether it is new or old or read or not?
Have a play with:
folder-hook . 'exec last-entry'
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On Sun 19 Jun 2011 at 20:38:37 -0400, John Mollman wrote:
I'm going to give Debian Squeeze a try on my netbook, but when I boot
up using the netinstall CD, the installer fails to auto configure the
wired connection with DHCP. I'm thinking the network card in this
netbook (Toshiba NB505) is
On Tue 21 Jun 2011 at 10:51:34 +, Camaleón wrote:
I can understand that the package is provided with a monetary cost (but
still open source). What I fail to see is why the author does not want it
to be distributed by anyone :-?
He has never said that. Quite the opposite:
I repeat
On Tue 21 Jun 2011 at 17:10:14 +, Camaleón wrote:
Great, but I've also read this (which is the reason why the packages was
removed):
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=609845#60
The Debian maintainer ceased to maintain the package and said why.
Nobody else has stepped
On Tue 21 Jun 2011 at 13:28:11 -0400, Tom H wrote:
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 12:19 PM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote:
Yes, I've alredy read it, and...? I still don't get his point. What's the
gain in limiting its distribution? You can still charge the users for it.
I think that the
On Wed 22 Jun 2011 at 22:35:47 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote:
I'm trying to set up wireless on a Thinkpad T41. I'm using the ath5K
module and this brings up wlan0 as expected. I fiddled all day with
/etc/network/interfaces with no luck. I then tried wicd and this does
show my router, but it
On Thu 23 Jun 2011 at 09:37:43 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote:
wlan0 IEEE 802.11abg ESSID:My Router
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: 00:19:5B:3B:E7:6C
Bit Rate=1 Mb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm
Association takes place then. What do 'ifconfig -a' and
On Thu 23 Jun 2011 at 09:32:53 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote:
I was trying that line for a time but then, after reading the docs, I
found that ath5k gives wlan0.
How did substituting wlan0 for ath0 work out?
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On Thu 23 Jun 2011 at 15:42:43 +, Camaleón wrote:
Point 1/ worries me a bit, because GRUB2 was not going to be my preferred
option for wheezy... is there any chance to get GRUB legacy at install
time or that option won't be present anymore?
Doesn't look like it. But grub-legacy awaits
On Fri 24 Jun 2011 at 15:18:08 +, Camaleón wrote:
No? Then why removing it from the installer? :-?
There is no further upstream development of it. Debian will not maintain
it. It's dead. So GRUB2 became a release goal for Squeeze.
Oh, sure.
But I like Debian precisely for those things
On Fri 24 Jun 2011 at 16:16:47 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote:
02:02.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5212
802.11abg NIC [168c:1014] (rev 01)
According to the Debian wiki ath5k is the driver for an AR5212. It also
appears your kernel knew this. Not being able to load
On Fri 24 Jun 2011 at 17:47:44 +, Camaleón wrote:
That would be fine... if there was such a public statement. This is the
first time I read that a legacy piece of software is out just because of
its age because it still receives bugfixes.
Will this do (The GRUB Development section)?
On Fri 24 Jun 2011 at 19:13:27 +, Camaleón wrote:
Nope, that's a GRUB's statement not a Debian's one :-)
You'll have to make do with this:
http://wiki.debian.org/ReleaseGoals/GRUB2asDefault
There are many packages that are not being actively developed but still
maintained upstream (how
On Fri 24 Jun 2011 at 21:35:16 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
Having switched to grub2 recently, I do that as well. But I suspect
most people will be content with the simpler configuration options
offered by editing /etc/default/grub and running update-grub.
That's me! Although I do have a
On Fri 24 Jun 2011 at 15:11:13 -0700, Freeman wrote:
Grub2 didn't like my setup during upgrade.
My menu.lst of Grub 0.97 included numerous different rc levels to select
from. Just a way of selecting between different interfaces while booting.
So the following blocks in the automagic
On Sat 25 Jun 2011 at 13:16:44 +0100, AG wrote:
Any thoughts?
http://backports-master.debian.org/Packages/
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