Re: XDG Standard is not evil

2014-12-01 Thread Edward J. Shornock
* seeker5528 seeker5...@comcast.net [29-11-2014 08:52 EET]: Oh yeah, if you've done all that you might actually want your user account to belong to the shared group. ;) as root: |usermod -a -G sharedusers yourusername| :note the capital G. In Debian you can also adduser yourusername

Re: General method for copying a partition

2010-02-17 Thread Edward J. Shornock
17.02.2010 19:18, Stephen Powell kirjoitti: [...] Of course, special handling is necessary to avoid processing . (the current directory) and .. (the parent directory). Does anyone know a better way? tar cf . | tar -C /target -xpf - or find . -depth -print0 |cpio --null -pvd /target

Re: Firefox (and Iceweasel) are unable to play Youtube videos

2010-01-31 Thread Edward J. Shornock
cachesize=512 cache-percent=5 profile=plugin # ~/.mplayer/config [plugin] autosync=0 mc=0 correct-pts=yes Hope this helps, Edward J. Shornock -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: dircolors - debian etch - broken by design?

2008-12-21 Thread Edward J. Shornock
* Chris Jones cjns1...@gmail.com [20-12-2008 06:27 EET]: My .bashrc has the usual: eval `dircolors -b` [...] So I figured I just needed to issue a dircolors -p .dircolors .. edit the .dircolors file to my liking .. and then follow up with a dircolors -b .dircolors and that should do

Re: Command-line-interface (CLI) calculator to work out the difference between 2 dates

2008-08-24 Thread Edward J. Shornock
On Sunday 24 August 2008 18.07.59 j t wrote: Hi all. Does anyone have any suggestions for a command-line-interface (CLI) calculator that can work out the difference between 2 (gregorian) dates (i.e. that is calendar aware). My favourite cli calculator (bc) doesn't seem to have any knowledge

Re: debian upgrade process is dirty

2008-08-18 Thread Edward J. Shornock
On Monday 18 August 2008 05.21.09 Jude DaShiell wrote: Earlier I was having problems installing podracer; clamav, and nethack on lenny. What problem? What you wrote earlier was in Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] was: The packages could be installed using a command line like: aptitude -y

Re: starting apache at boot?

2008-08-18 Thread Edward J. Shornock
On Sunday 17 August 2008 06.24.56 Zach Uram wrote: I manually compiled apache2 since the version packaged for Debian is the threaded version which causes fatal memory errors on my VPS host *The* version? $ aptitude search '^apache2-mpm' v apache2-mpm

Re: Greetings and question

2008-07-29 Thread Edward J. Shornock
On Sunday 27 July 2008 03.15.40 Chris Bannister wrote: On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 01:57:19PM -0300, Juan Ignacio wrote: The fact is that I'm using Firefox 3.0 and Thunderbird with the binaries I downloaded at Mozilla webpage. I installed them in /opt Why? Maybe thats part of your problem. How

Re: Greetings and question

2008-07-29 Thread Edward J. Shornock
On Thursday 24 July 2008 19.57.19 Juan Ignacio wrote: If you could suggest me a good theme that goes well with kde, I'd appreciate it very much. Try http://www.tom-cat.com/mozilla/ http://konquefox.free.fr/ HTH -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: Greetings and question

2008-07-23 Thread Edward J. Shornock
On Thursday 24 July 2008 02.37.16 Juan Ignacio wrote: Well here is the question, I used apt-get install gtk-qt-engine and it says that the package couldn't be found. Why isn't the package in the repositories? I want this package because Firefox looks so awful. It's in Etch and Sid. If you're

Re: fsck fails!

2007-04-12 Thread Edward J. Shornock
Rick Pasotto wrote: I have /home on a logical volume and recently expanded it. This morning I started getting file system errors so I logged out, unmounted /home and ran e2fsk on it. All seemed to be going normally but now it has *twice* displayed the following: -- Pass 1: Checking

Re: Symlinking /etc/passwd?

2006-12-06 Thread Edward J Shornock
Tyler MacDonald wrote: I'm setting up a box that is mostly going to be chroot environments, stored in a partition in /var. I would like to move /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow to /var so that I can hardlink them into my chroot environments. Is it safe to do this, and make /etc/passwd and

Re: Debian packages dependencies problems

2006-08-10 Thread Edward J. Shornock
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 What i would like to know is how do i solve the apt-setup problem What's wrong with my source.list config for the testing distro? Try the line in sources.list as deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing main -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-

Re: new user

2006-07-16 Thread Edward J. Shornock
On Sun, Jul 16, 2006 at 11:22:39AM +0200, Thierry Chatelet wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am not sure what the architecture of my computer is, so how do I find this out if I bought the parts and put them together myself.? Try google with part number, serial n°. ..and if you're

Re: Segmentation faulty Tree - aptitude

2006-07-08 Thread Edward J. Shornock
On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 08:43:48PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Went OK until I got aptitude existing with a segmentation fault. I rebooted, but I still get a segmentation fault. I tried to reinstall aptitude with apt-get [maybe that doesn't make sense!] and I get the message:

Re: How do I use ksim?

2006-06-08 Thread Edward J. Shornock
On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 01:40:31PM -0400, Edward C. Jones wrote: I use up-to-date Debian unstable, i386 port, on a PC with an AMD Athlon64 3500+ chip. There is a package on my system called ksim. How do I use ksim? I'm not familiar with that... How do I find out which processes are

Re: No fonts in Flash Player (was: SOLVED)

2006-05-16 Thread Edward J. Shornock
On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 04:49:13PM +0200, Benjamí Villoslada wrote: I'm sorry, maybe is normal; just for comparisons with systems that works fine :) If you've not solved this problem yet, check out bug#363378. The solutions posted there worked for me. signature.asc Description: Digital

Re: The New SpamAssassin sa-update

2006-05-11 Thread Edward J. Shornock
On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 10:13:02PM +0300, David Baron wrote: 2. Fails after several time outs with: http: request failed: 500 read timeout: 500 read timeout error: no mirror data available for channel updates.spamassassin.org channel: MIRRORED.BY contents were missing, channel failed It's

Re: su/sudo cannot X

2006-01-17 Thread Edward J. Shornock
theo wrote: Hi, Lei Kong wrote: $xhost + $ sudo -s #kedit kedit: cannot connect to X server You may want to try sudo -H kedit or reconsider using X applications as root. You can also try sudo -H bash or sudo -H xterm if you want a root shell able to use X apps. Or you can

Re: lower case character when caps lock is on

2005-12-02 Thread Edward J. Shornock
On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 03:11:37PM +0530, H S Rai wrote: Today at 3:19am -0500 Edward Shornock wrote: What charset/keymap are you using? How to know that. You can find out the charset with $ locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=en_US.UTF-8 LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8

Re: web camera and printer

2005-11-30 Thread Edward J. Shornock
On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 05:19:27PM +0200, Rafi Gabzu wrote: Hi , testing release , kernel 2.6. 1. I have quickcam Logiteck camera , I do not see video (with Gnomeeting) , how should I make it work ? Found via google, might apply for you:

Re: killproc

2005-11-30 Thread Edward J. Shornock
On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 10:00:34AM +, John Talbut wrote: Tim Ruehsen wrote: I have an external programme that is calling for the function killproc. This is apparently not available in Debian Sarge. If it's a shell script, you could change it to include /lib/lsb/init-functions. What

Re: how to config tha proftpd with TLS

2005-11-30 Thread Edward J. Shornock
On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 12:08:01PM +0800, 不坏阿峰 wrote: [snip] now my question is ,have i install the module TLS when i apt-get install proftpd ?? Yes, per the source package the TLS module is compiled. The debian/rules file shows: # This is the suite of modules maintained in debian/, not

Re: debian and the malware problem

2005-11-27 Thread Edward J. Shornock
On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 08:56:58AM -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote: First, thanks for the help on ntp-server and ntpdate. I have clamav installed and running and would like to know if debian packages exist that handle spyware the way clamav handles viruses or does clamav actually do both jobs?

Re: debian and the malware problem

2005-11-27 Thread Edward J. Shornock
ports unless they're specifically opened, good your system updated with s/good/keep/ UGH signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Mutt 2 accounts

2005-11-27 Thread Edward J. Shornock
On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 12:58:30PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Then you can run 'mutt -y' to choose your mailbox. I don't know whether it is possible to bring up this menu from an already-started mutt. [snip] Just press 'y' when you're on the Index page...that works for me...

Re: Mutt 2 accounts

2005-11-27 Thread Edward J. Shornock
On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 09:54:59PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 05:50:09PM -0500, Edward J. Shornock wrote: On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 12:58:30PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Then you can run 'mutt -y' to choose your mailbox. I don't know whether

Re: apt-get update connecting to (1.0.0.0)

2005-11-18 Thread Edward J. Shornock
On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 12:38:47PM -0800, Fred J. wrote: Hello I have a problem, I can brows the web fine but my #apt-get is not downloading any thing at all. my system is testing/unstable 2.6.13 adsl router/modem to a switch to the debian box. Since you can browse the web fine, are

Re: cupsd.conf help

2005-11-17 Thread Edward J. Shornock
jpg wrote: Attempting to set up the cupsd.conf file and getting errors logged to the /var/log/cups/error_log for what is documented to be valid cupsd.conf directives, i.e.: snippet of /etc/cups/cupsd.conf file: = 239 240 Order

Re: compilation error for mplayer plugin

2005-11-17 Thread Edward J. Shornock
cqst wrote: hello everyone, I try to compile the mplayer plugin for my web browser. ./configure is OK but when I laucnh make I got that : g++ -c -o plugin-support.o -Wall -g -O2 -g -O2 -DXP_UNIX -DMOZ_X11 -I../gecko-sdk -I../gecko-sdk/include -Iinclude -fPIC -DXPCOM_GLUE

Re: Request to remove Information

2005-11-15 Thread Edward J. Shornock
Steve Lamb wrote: Let's see, corporations want to make as much money as possible. Yet every person who is bitching about exported jobs is really bitching about what ...oh yeah, how the corporation is preventing *them* from making as much money as possible. Demonizing the very

Re: Request to remove Information

2005-11-14 Thread Edward J. Shornock
Weissgerber, Tom L wrote: Debian, The following information should not have been made available to the entire public domain. Please remove the following links/files at your earliest convenience. TY Tom for reminding me why I prefer AMD processors ;) Thanks to asshat US Corporations like

Re: Kernel Panic with Sarge

2005-10-14 Thread Edward J. Shornock
michael bailey wrote: [..] kernel: CPU 0 : Machine Check Exception: 0004 kernel: Bank 4 : b2040151 kernel: Kernel panic: CPU context corrupt After the reboot both the green power light and the orange disk light on the front of the PC are steady (i.e. not flickering).

Re: apt upgrade gives error while retrieving bugs

2005-10-11 Thread Edward J. Shornock
H.S. wrote: {snip} Anybody else having this problem? Yes, that error came up here as well. I resolved it be temporarily commenting out the line in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/10apt-listbugs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: bootlog [was: control of modules?]

2005-10-03 Thread Edward J Shornock
Edward J. Shornock wrote: You could use pbuilder to build the package as well, which is what I use for my local repository. If need be, I could post the URLs to the packages I build using that patch. A moot point now... sysvinit (2.86.ds1-4) unstable; urgency=low [Petter Reinholdtsen

Re: bootlog [was: control of modules?]

2005-10-01 Thread Edward J. Shornock
Matt Price wrote: On 9/30/05, Edward J. Shornock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What version of sysvinit do you have installed? There's a bug that's been in sysvinit since 2.86.dsl1-1 which affects bootlogd. See the bug report at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=327865 for a patch

Re: bootlog [was: control of modules?]

2005-09-30 Thread Edward J. Shornock
Matt Price wrote: that helps some -- got rid of most of the messages except one about shpchp, which is not listed in my /etc/modules, so don't know the origin. Unfortunately cna't post my bootlog b/c bootlogd doesn't seem to wantto run! I have the following /et/default/bootlogd: # Run

Re: GRUB problem (long, description of BOOT)

2005-09-27 Thread Edward J. Shornock
Mike McCarty wrote: [...] So, here is a brief tutorial on disc partitioning and how boot proceeds. [...] Thanks for the explanation, it was very useful. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 4ol 4rt files:

2005-09-23 Thread Edward J. Shornock
John Hasler wrote: Please do not follow up to the parent. Doing so will create more Google hits and cause more of these lost souls to bombard us with their questions. It's amazing how they find us. From my years of doing technical support, 4OLers don't know how to use search engines. (I

Re: grub savedefault and saved does not seem to work

2005-05-05 Thread Edward J. Shornock
Alan Chandler wrote: Although I haven't tested it in about a month, it was certainly working well for me when I had several kernels that I was trying to select during some debugging (debian and home compiled). Perhaps posting your menu.lst might help. That's roughly the last time I

Re: cdrdao problem

2005-05-05 Thread Edward J. Shornock
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 stan wrote: I'm tring to use cdrdao to copy some new CD's. I'm using a scipt that I have used in the past. It looks like this: cdrdao copy --eject --speed 16 --eject --device 0,0,0 --driver generic-mmc --source-driver generic-mmc toc Using

Re: dpkg EOF mozilla error after dselect install

2004-03-11 Thread Edward J. Shornock
Thursday, March 11, 2004, 9:30:13 PM, Nick Lidakis wrote: NL Running unstable debian here, and after a dselect update, dselect install: NL marvin:/home/nick# dselect install NL Reading Package Lists... Done NL Building Dependency Tree... Done NL 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3

Re: dpkg EOF mozilla error after dselect install

2004-03-11 Thread Edward J. Shornock
Thursday, March 11, 2004, 9:30:13 PM, Nick Lidakis wrote: NL Running unstable debian here, and after a dselect update, dselect install: snip NL I have Google'd, and can't seem to find anything relevant. I also tried NL removing all of the mozilla packages using dpkg -P, and reinstalling; I

Re: [Repost] F-prot update cron script fails

2004-02-15 Thread Edward J. Shornock
Hello VSJ, Wednesday, February 11, 2004, 3:38:58 PM, you wrote: V Unfortunately, this doesn't work, I get an e-mail twice a day with the V following subject: V Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] root if [ -x /usr/lib/f-prot/tools/check-updates ]; V then /usr/lib/f-prot/tools/check-updates -cron -quiet; fi

Re[2]: [Repost] F-prot update cron script fails

2004-02-15 Thread Edward J. Shornock
Oops...I was wrong # cat /etc/cron.d/f-prot-installer # Regular cron jobs for the f-prot-installer package # # automatically update the f-prot(tm) virus signature definitions # (.DEF files) with the 'check-updates' bash script. # NOTE: Don't use this script in combination with mailscanner.

Re: Rejecting viruses the Right Way[tm]

2004-02-09 Thread Edward J. Shornock
Steve Lamb wrote: Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: If a message is either rejected (during the SMTP dialog) or bounced (after accepting and queueing the message) then the same innocent third party receives some junk mail.[1] The difference is only in which server is sending the bounce message.

Re: script to list installed packages

2004-02-01 Thread Edward J. Shornock
Nick Hastings wrote: * Dave Carrigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] [040130 00:46]: On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 07:58:36PM +0900, Nick Hastings wrote: No I don't think so, note the -w flag. It will only match if the package name _is_ install. That is correct, the -w flag makes it catch the entire word

Re: unsuscribe

2004-02-01 Thread Edward J. Shornock
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Re: script to list installed packages

2004-02-01 Thread Edward J. Shornock
Michael D Schleif wrote: dpkg -l | grep ^i hth That's what I used to use, but you'd have to specify something like COLUMNS='150' dpkg -l |grep ^i Otherwise, you'll have names like this returned: ii xtightvncviewe 1.2.7-3Virtual network computing client software fo Notice how

Re: un-suscribe

2004-01-23 Thread Edward J. Shornock
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Re: Erm, is this spam?

2004-01-23 Thread Edward J. Shornock
Nathan Stanley wrote: Is this a spammer, because I got another one from the same addresses saying I was added to the list and I now had access to many hot hot sites. It most certainly is. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Segfault in apt-spy in sid

2004-01-23 Thread Edward J. Shornock
for this problem? I'm waiting to file a bug report until I can hopefully get more information about this Thank you in advance, Edward J. Shornock -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Segfault in apt-spy in sid

2004-01-23 Thread Edward J. Shornock
Edward J. Shornock wrote: Can anyone think of some potential causes for this problem? I'm waiting to file a bug report until I can hopefully get more information about this Or...is there any additional information that I could supply that'd be useful when submitting a bug report

Re: apt-cache show (only newest package)

2004-01-21 Thread Edward J. Shornock
Bill Moseley wrote: This laptop was installed as a Woody, then it went through testing and now unstable. I've got sources for all in sources.list. So, when I do $ apt-cache show foo I see more than one foo package. Can I use apt-cache to just show the most current package -- or

Re: apt-cache show (only newest package)

2004-01-21 Thread Edward J. Shornock
Bill Moseley wrote: This laptop was installed as a Woody, then it went through testing and now unstable. I've got sources for all in sources.list. So, when I do $ apt-cache show foo I see more than one foo package. Can I use apt-cache to just show the most current package -- or

Re: Unable to update and upgrade 'sid'

2004-01-18 Thread Edward J. Shornock
Davi Leal wrote: I am unable to update and upgrade Debian unstable 'sid', after being 20 days without updating, upgrading. The error output is the same using dselect or aptitude. Any comment will be appreciated. Regards, Davi Might I possibly suggest trying to run: # dpkg --force-all

Re: Documentation and Usability was Re: EXT3 at install..no more?

2004-01-17 Thread Edward J. Shornock
Mac McCaskie wrote: I will have to ditto Monique's frustration. Frustration over Joseph Guida MD's trolling? Excellent, that's how the majority that have responded to this post feel as well! =) I am a debian noobie. However, I started working with IBM PC's in '83 and later graduated to XT's

Re: unsubscribe

2004-01-17 Thread Edward J. Shornock
Stian Skarsbø Solheim wrote: quote -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] /quote Or to simply it for you: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- click me -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: EXT3 at install..no more?

2004-01-16 Thread Edward J. Shornock
Joseph Guida MD wrote: Sometimes I think that open source geeks intentionally complicate things to keep the borderline geeks (like me) from experimenting with and learning about O/Ses like Debian. The install menus USED TO ALLOW A CHOICE BETWEEN EXT2 and EXT3...before you loaded up the HD