Re: Digital signing of printed documents
On Monday 04 Jul 2005 14:10, Shaun Lipscombe wrote: On the gpg mailing list they basically came to the conclusion that SHA-1 is *weaker* than previously thought based on the fact that collisions can be found in SHA-1 in 2**69 hash operations, much less than the brute-force attack of 2**80 operations based on the hash length. but.. 2**69 however, is still quite strong [1] ;-) My worry with SHA-1 is that, beyond being weaker than first thought, it has a flaw that wasn't originally known. Makes me wonder what else might be wrong with it that they inventors missed... -- Lee Braiden http://www.DigitalUnleashed.com pgplJ0EO4z0ZF.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Digital signing of printed documents
On Monday 04 Jul 2005 13:42, Alphonse Ogulla wrote: The objective is to set up a robust electronic document validation system that can authenticate electronically produced documents using Debian GNU/Linux and other open-source tools. My search for an existing open-source solution did not yield any fruit. Do you think this is a reasonable way of going about this project? Is Samba-CUPS and bash/perl scripting the best tools to use or are there others? What is your recommendation and advise? Your comments, remarks or criticism are welcome. I'd be worried about why you need to validate an invoice or receipt in the first place. In a paperless, digital office, all you should need from a customer is their customer number or some other unique ID. Then, you'll be able to pull up all their records digitally, from a secure system, and you'll know if the receipt they're presenting is correct. In other words, the paper is just something for the records of pre-digital folk, and not something you really care about. -- Lee Braiden http://www.DigitalUnleashed.com pgp8HBSGHA2l8.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: encrypting the users' folders
On Sunday 03 Jul 2005 08:16, Dominik Margraf wrote: Currently, the default setting is that root can see and modify anything, including the contents of the users' folders, moreover, users can also see the contents of other users' folders by default. These pose a significant confidentiality and security risk. Therefore is there any way to encrypt all users' folders and making the computer to set this up by default when a new user is generated? So that even the root can't see the contents of the users' folders. root needs to be responsible, trustworthy, and trusted. Since root can do virtually anything, it makes no sense to *try* to hide things from him/her. The best you can do is to obscure things, so that root won't accidentally find them out without trying to. If you don't trust root, your security is *gone*, anyway. You can set user's folders to be NOT world-readable. One of the debconf packages actually asks this during install. I forget which one, though; possibly PAM. If you install gdebconf, it'll give you a visual way of configuring those packages, and you'll be able to find it. -- Lee Braiden http://www.DigitalUnleashed.com pgpeyOwaaEfSu.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: encrypting the users' folders
On Sunday 03 Jul 2005 09:29, Steve Lamb wrote: Lee Braiden wrote: root needs to be responsible, trustworthy, and trusted. Since root can do virtually anything, it makes no sense to *try* to hide things from him/her. The best you can do is to obscure things, so that root won't accidentally find them out without trying to. If you don't trust root, your security is *gone*, anyway. The alternative is much worse. I learned that on NT when I accidentally droped admin privledges from all accounts. :/ I'm not sure what you're getting at. The alternative of not having anyone who is trusted? -- Lee Braiden http://www.DigitalUnleashed.com pgpondYNWVeDV.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: uninstall PHP5.
On Sunday 03 Jul 2005 20:11, Prabu Subroto wrote: I am debian newbie. I installed PHP5. I download it from www.php.net and installed it with this way: ./configure make make install. Sorry, I've never install php5 manually, so I'm not sure how to undo it. One way might be the folllowing. Either way, this will help a lot if you're ever forced to do something similar in future: Install the checkinstall package, and use it along with non-debian software like so: ./configure make checkinstall make install Checkinstall overrides the normal install procedure, and builds and installs debian package instead. When you decide you no longer want to have the package installed, you can just remove it like any other debian package. If you try it with php5, it might give you errors about the files it wants to install already existing. But it may create the debian package anyway, and it may even install it. If it installs, then uninstalling (actually, purging; check the dpkg options) it will hopefully clean your system. If not, you'll still be closer to fixing it, since the debian package will contain a list of files that php5 installed earlier. Hope it helps. Good luck :) -- Lee Braiden http://www.DigitalUnleashed.com pgpwUPXwMkfew.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: ntfs access on debian
On Sunday 03 Jul 2005 22:49, Leonardo Sá wrote: I want to have a partition to access both on winxp and debian, however, i want it to be easy to use on both OSes. What I did was to format a NTFS partition, which i successfully mounted on winxp on the my documents folder, and I was planning to mount the same partition under /home/user. However, is it safe to enable write access to ntfs partitions on linux? If not, is there any other better alternatives? vfat would be simpler. There used to be a filesystem for Windows that let you use ext2 partitions, but I don't know if that has been kept up to date (either with linux's ext2 drivers and tools, or with new versions of windows). You might want to consider just running windows in a virtual machine inside Linux. That way it could access your Linux filesystem in a limited way that you specify, or network via Samba. Samba would also be an option if you had a second machine to run the windows instance on, but I'm guessing you don't. There are probably a number of other options that I can't think of right now :) -- Lee Braiden http://www.DigitalUnleashed.com pgpJKRThf9h79.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Moving Cyrus email from one folder to another
On Friday 01 Jul 2005 00:12, Caleb Walker wrote: Hello all, I am wondering if anyone out there has created a script that runs from cron that will move email from one folder to another. What I would like to do is this: I have publicly accessible folders that all imap users use called isSpam and notSpam which I use with the sa-learn program to learn about spam and ham emails. What I want my script to do now is once it reads the messages to move them to a folder underneath or elsewhere called processed or something like that. I could just move the dot files into that folder but I think that will mess up the indexes in Cyrus. There is a package called imapsync (I think; maybe it's mailutils), which can synchronise mails between imap folders, or move them. Not sure if you're planning to keep the isSpam folder in IMAP though, or outside of it. If you're having learnspam scan IMAP folders over the IMAP protocol, I'd love to know how (it would make DBMail much more viable for me). -- Lee Braiden http://www.DigitalUnleashed.com pgprEn0Y1HLqS.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: mouse wheel
On Friday 01 Jul 2005 10:47, Paolo Pantaleo wrote: I can i get working my mouse wheel? I'm running gnome. I tried to cheat with the XF86Config options, as explained in the XF86 documentation, but nothing dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 -- Lee Braiden http://www.DigitalUnleashed.com pgpX1YAVCMS1I.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: content filtering
On Friday 01 Jul 2005 17:05, Juan Manuel Tato wrote: hi, i'm looking for information about content filtering using squid. i'd like to filter porno site for my network. DansGuardian is by far the best solution for this :) -- Lee Braiden http://www.DigitalUnleashed.com pgpp5423LSIyZ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: apache behind nat
On Thursday 30 Jun 2005 09:18, Brent Clark wrote: the dns is fine because all resolves etc, but in the web browser it says fetching 192.168.111.11 I looked in the host file. If anyone has any tips or advice, it would be most apprciated. I think you need to set the servername or hostname option in your apache config file. I'm using just virtual hosts with apache2 these days, though, so I forget the exact details. -- Lee. Please do not CC replies directly to me. I'll read them on the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to get my computers IP address
On Thursday 30 Jun 2005 11:01, Mitja Podreka wrote: But now the IP I get from myip.com or from syslog file is the IP of the router. Is it still possible to share files as I used to and how can I do it? Which is my computer's IP now? Your computer most likely uses a private IP address behind the router, which is not valid on the Internet -- only the router has an actual Internet IP, and so that's all you can give to others who might want to contact you. You need to setup your router's NAT to forward ports from the router to your machine. So, with http for example, other people will try to access a file at the router's IP on port 80, but the router will actually pass that communication on to your own PC, behind the router, at a private IP address, using the same port. You can use a different port, if you choose, of course. It's also worth noting here that most routers support dynamic IP, so you can register for an account with somewhere like dyndns.org, and then people will be able to contact your router via a name that always works, rather than just a temporary IP address. ADSL IPs can be *very* temporary, so that might be wise :) Good luck :) -- Lee. Please do not CC replies directly to me. I'll read them on the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
/proc hard link count wrong.. bug?
Just got the following warning: find: WARNING: Hard link count is wrong for /proc: this may be a bug in your filesystem driver. Automatically turning on find's -noleaf option. Earlier results may have failed to include directories that should have been searched. Is find just spreading panic here, or should I report this somewhere? # cat /proc/version Linux version 2.6.8-powerpc ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-12)) #1 Fri May 20 10:37:45 JST 2005 -- Lee. Please do not CC replies directly to me. I'll read them on the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: /proc hard link count wrong.. bug?
On Thursday 30 Jun 2005 19:43, Martin Dickopp wrote: However, a mismatch does *not* necessarily indicate a bug in the filesystem driver. It can also occur if directories are created or deleted between the time the hard link count is obtained and the time the number of subdirectories is obtained. Hmm. Which is probably very likely to happen, with a dynamic FS like /proc. Now I feel bad for submitting that kernel bug :D -- Lee. Please do not CC replies directly to me. I'll read them on the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Setting defaults for ulimit
On Thursday 30 Jun 2005 20:41, Paulo M C Aragão wrote: Does anybody know where the defaults for ulimit are set ? I couldn't find anything in /etc. /etc/security/limits.conf -- Lee. Please do not CC replies directly to me. I'll read them on the list.
Re: Accessing a program started in another term
On Thursday 30 Jun 2005 22:29, Colin Ingram wrote: Lets say, I'm at work and I start a remote session for an interactive program, like octave. Then I go home with and my remote terminal session and the octave program are still running at work. Is there a way for me to take control of that terminal and interact with the running octave program? I use octave as an example but I'm looking for solution (if it exists) that would be generally applicable. screen can do this sort of thing for textual apps. For X, you might try (tight)VNC (which is in Debian in various packages), or FreeNX (which sounds much better, but is not in Debian yet, afaik). -- Lee Braiden http://www.DigitalUnleashed.com pgpTUFrlZbEwL.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Setting defaults for ulimit
On Thursday 30 Jun 2005 23:37, Paulo M C Aragão wrote: Lee Braiden wrote on Jun, 30: Just looked at the file again and noticed that all entries are commented out (start with #). So the defaults must be coming from somewhere else. Any ideas ? I think the defaults are just from the same pam module that includes that file as an example of what you can change :) -- Lee Braiden http://www.DigitalUnleashed.com pgpT6M2NUxdRP.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Setting defaults for ulimit
On Thursday 30 Jun 2005 23:55, Paulo M C Aragão wrote: I'm not sure if I understood you. Forgive my ignorance and please correct me: 1. There's a pam module that sets limits for a shell environment 2. These limits are hardcoded but can be changed via /etc/security/limits.conf Yep :) At least, that's how I understand it too :) -- Lee Braiden http://www.DigitalUnleashed.com pgpGEwJJMsAka.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: video playback: horrible!
On Tuesday 28 Jun 2005 11:33, Jeff Elkins wrote: I recently reformatted/reinstalled sid via the new sarge installer. Now video playback via xine/mplayer sucks, where previously it was great. What settings do I need to tweak? Sounds like you chose (or had automatically chosen for you) the wrong video driver when setting up X. If you're sure it's correct, check the driver's docs for acceleration options you may need, or reasons that acceleration might have been disabled on your card. -- Lee. Please do not CC replies directly to me. I'll read them on the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: debian vs. kernel.org kernels: what to choose?
On Tuesday 28 Jun 2005 22:37, Andreas Goesele wrote: What is recommended in a case lake that? Using unpatched kernel.org sources or taking the patched sources from unstable or testing? What are the advantages and disadvantages? Are there other alternatives? If it ain't broke, don't fix it. The most tested kernels with debian software are debian kernels, so if they work, stick with them. -- Lee. Please do not CC replies directly to me. I'll read them on the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xd3d debian
On Monday 27 Jun 2005 14:28, roberto wrote: Hello, i need to use xd3d graphic program under sarge, but i did not find it using aptitude - anyone who is using this program? Not me, sorry. - can i download/install the rpm under debian? Yes, download it, then do: apt-get install alien alien filename.rpm and then install the .deb it created - how can i check if i have installed in my system the xlib11.a package which is required to manage this? I think alien should take care of the dependencies for you. But if it only needs xlib, you should be OK. You *might* need the xlib-dev packages in debian, but I'm not sure. If you do, just install them as normal with apt-get. The apt-file tool can help you find packages which contain a file, even if you haven't installed that package on your system. If you just want to find a file on your own system, locate or find, or the package dlocate are all useful. -- Lee. Please do not CC replies directly to me. I'll read them on the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: outlook calendaring/contacts - to replace MS Exchange
On Monday 27 Jun 2005 16:40, Mark D. Hansen wrote: Can anybody recommend a good backend server for calendaring/contacts that works well with Debian? I need to use Outlook as front end and support group calendaring and contacts. Kolab 2 seems to be decent, as they're using it for linking up all the developers on major KDE sites now. Together with Kontact, it should be a great combination. -- Lee. Please do not CC replies directly to me. I'll read them on the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: outlook calendaring/contacts - to replace MS Exchange
On Monday 27 Jun 2005 16:42, Lee Braiden wrote: On Monday 27 Jun 2005 16:40, Mark D. Hansen wrote: Can anybody recommend a good backend server for calendaring/contacts that works well with Debian? I need to use Outlook as front end and support group calendaring and contacts. Kolab 2 seems to be decent, as they're using it for linking up all the developers on major KDE sites now. Together with Kontact, it should be a great combination. Ahh, nevermind; I misread that :) -- Lee. Please do not CC replies directly to me. I'll read them on the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Question
On Monday 27 Jun 2005 17:43, M N wrote: I am an inexperienced(somewhat) Linux user and would like to know how I may be able to run .exe files as Windows does. EXE files are windows or DOS files. It can be done for certain reasons, but the question, in the way you're asking it, makes no sense. If that's what you want to do, use windows. However, if you want to to a certain task on Linux, or play a certain kind of game, then step back a little and tell us what you actually want to *achieve*, and we'll probably have a Linux-based solution for you that has nothing to do with EXE files :) -- Lee. Please do not CC replies directly to me. I'll read them on the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Random Crashing KMail
On Monday 27 Jun 2005 18:50, Olle Eriksson wrote: On Friday 06 May 2005 11.33, Mr Mike wrote: Is there any documentated problems with KMail random crashes? Yes, there are. But it's much better in KDE 3.4's kmail. -- Lee. Please do not CC replies directly to me. I'll read them on the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: possibility of debian cannabilizing other Linux distributions in 5-10 years time
On Sunday 26 Jun 2005 08:42, Andy Streich wrote: One might hope so, but many things will have to change. Today, Debian as a desktop is only practical where there is strong, nearby, technical support. Clearly you don't like MS Windows (I don't like MS in general) but it works out of the box for nearly every user and there is a ton of software that That's funny, I would say the exact opposite. Debian can be setup to run flawlessly, so that users cannot tamper with it. Windows, on the other hand, needs constant attention to prevent it falling over due to spyware, viruses, spam, manual software installs and upgrades of using different packaging and distribution systems, users getting into things they shouldn't, and all sorts of other issues. -- Lee. Please do not CC replies directly to me. I'll read them on the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: possibility of debian cannabilizing other Linux distributions in 5-10 years time
On Sunday 26 Jun 2005 09:02, Marty wrote: That's funny, I would say the exact opposite. Debian can be setup to run flawlessly, so that users cannot tamper with it. Doesn't this presume a business environment with a support staff? Not necessarily. It could be setup for any purpose; you only need to talk to the customer, find out what they need, and configure correctly so that their needs are met. If their needs are met, they have no need to alter anything. If their needs change, they still have the choice of seeking out an expert to adjust things for them (just as they would seek out an expert to adjust their car, or anything else they have an incomplete personal knowledge of), or they can choose to try it themselves and risk screwing up. -- Lee. Please do not CC replies directly to me. I'll read them on the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Linux Driver For PostgreSQL .......
On Friday 24 Jun 2005 11:56, Gregory Seidman wrote: In addition, the Qt database API seems to be pretty popular. It looks like you're planning on a GNOME app, but you might try KDE instead. Yes, especially in combination with KDevelop and QT-Designer, which will automatically generate forms etc. for you. Of course, if it's a basic DB app, something like KNoda or Kexi might be more appropriate. -- Lee. Please do not CC replies directly to me. I'll read them on the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: video slower than sound
On Thursday 23 Jun 2005 19:08, Michal Simovic wrote: hi, recently as i was watching video in Xine on my Sarge system i found out the video is slightly slower(or more accurately - it's shown a bit later) than the accompanying sound(the singer opens her mouth a bit later then you can hear her sing:)). don't you know what could be the problem? it seems i've got no problem with sound (i'm using ALSA), while configuration i got no errors and sound applications do not crash.. -- miso Video player apps usually discuss such things in their FAQs. Have a read. -- Lee. Please do not CC replies directly to me. I'll read them on the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Linux Driver For PostgreSQL .......
On Thursday 23 Jun 2005 22:33, Redefined Horizons wrote: With a Java client application you can use JDBC. With a Microsoft Application you can use ODBC. These are database abstraction layers. I would like to write a client application in GNOME witha GTK GUI. What driver would I use in this case? GNOME's DB abstraction layer is called GNOMEDB. Your preferred programming language may also have various options available. Python includes a DB abstraction layer called DB-API, for instance, while for C++ there are options like libsqlxx, and Perl has Perl-DBI. -- Lee. Please do not CC replies directly to me. I'll read them on the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: BitTorrent Clients and X
On Wednesday 22 Jun 2005 17:02, Martin McCormick wrote: Does BitTorrent require X to run under Linux? I was going to download a file that appears to exist only in .torrent form and was shunted to the BitTorrent web site to download a .deb package. Next time, try apt-cache search to find packages already in debian first. This system does not run X Do: apt-get install bittorrent Then, download the .torrent file, and do: btdownloadcurses file.torrent -- Lee. Please do not CC replies directly to me. I'll read them on the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Remote connect to MySQL db with woody - Help please?
On Tuesday 21 Jun 2005 06:54, s. keeling wrote: I'm having a bit of trouble here. My employer's op. is based on a vpn running on Ensim (Pt!), within which is running a MySQL database. I've looked at several things (mysql-navigator 1.2.4-1, OpenOffice 1.1.4, ...) in order to connect remotely, to no effect. mysqladmin doesn't appear to exist for woody, msql-administrator (tarball from mysql) crashes complaining about a lack of libxrandr, ..., I've installed libmyodbc (which also pulled in odbc-postgresql, odbcinst1, and unixodbc), to no effect. I've looked at backports.org, and nothing's obvious from there. Might want to try knoda. It's more of an access-like thing, but it's perfectly capable of basic table editing etc. too. Anyone know what happened to mysqlcc? I thought it had just appeared in debian, but maybe I accidentally picked it up from ubuntu. Anyway, it seems quite capable, too. I've never built a VPN, since I usually just go with SSH, but I don't think a proxy should be necessary for one isn't the whole point that it acts like a normal network? -- Lee. Please do not CC replies directly to me. I'll read them on the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Remote connect to MySQL db with woody - Help please?
On Tuesday 21 Jun 2005 06:54, s. keeling wrote: installed libmyodbc (which also pulled in odbc-postgresql, odbcinst1, and unixodbc), to no effect. Seems like ODBC has defaulted to installing just the odbc-postgresql driver. Install the equivalent odbc-mysql package, if it's not already there. Other than upgrading to stable/Sarge (that's coming, when I can), what do you do? What would you do? Yeah, I probably ought to talk to the boss, but I'd rather perform a miracle on my own if I can. Personally, I would upgrade to sarge (testing, actually, rather than sarge) and take it from there. -- Lee. Please do not CC replies directly to me. I'll read them on the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: where is zlib?
On Tuesday 21 Jun 2005 10:04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| checking for deflate in -lz... no
| configure: error: *** Unable to locate zlib library.
zlib has to be there, as I am using GRASS 6.0 Beta version on my
existing installation.
Please help me to find out zlib library's location.
This should tell you what zlib libraries are installed, and also tell you what
related packages *aren't* installed. You'll need the -dev package to build
software that uses zlib.
dpkg -l zlib* | awk '{print $2}' | grep ^z | xargs dpkg -L | grep libz
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Re: APT can't recognize Packages.gz?
On Tuesday 21 Jun 2005 14:51, Redefined Horizons wrote: I added the debs file:///home debs/ line to my sources.list file. However, I am getting this error when I start Synaptic, which has me puzzled: W: Couldn't stat source packages list file: debs/ Packages (/var/apt/lists/__home_debs_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) This error just means that it hasn't got a package list yet. Run apt-get update, or just choose to update from synaptic. -- Lee. Please do not CC replies directly to me. I'll read them on the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Kde-KNotify Problem
On Tuesday 21 Jun 2005 18:20, Debian User Leonard Chatagnier wrote: I can login to kde with 18-20 KNotify messages popping up and if I select and click OK on the notification popup or try to close out ktips, the system freezes up or at best operates in super slow motion There also are 8 blue gear shaped icons in the panel which wont do anything when selected or clicked. Sounds like your session has got messed up, so that it's infinitely filling up with new programs to run. First thing I would do it log in at the console, and look at your Xsession logs. You might find some error messages that point out the problem in there. Otherwise, you could try running a simple script like: while true; do pkill knotify; sleep 5s; done at the console, and then logging, with that command looping at the console to keep things under control. If you can figure out what the name of the program is that displays blue gear icons, you could also add a pkill command for that to the loop. Another option is simply to delete that user's .kde folder, or the session files within that folder (if you can find them). Be careful if you have ANY important data in KDE, though. -- Lee. Please do not CC replies directly to me. I'll read them on the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Good backup software for Linux
On Monday 20 Jun 2005 07:45, Siju George wrote: If in a Directory dir1 I have file1, file2, file3 and I take a full backup backup1 on Day1 the I delete file2 from dir1 and take a differential backup backup2. Now I should be able to restore dir1 from backup2 with only fle1 and file2 Faubackup will do this for you very easily. Just install, edit the config file for the number of backups you want to keep and where you want the backup to be stored. Then, edit the cron file for which directories you want to include in the backups. And you're done. -- Lee. Please do not CC replies directly to me. I'll read them on the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Firewall
On Saturday 18 Jun 2005 06:50, Christer wrote: How to reach the firewall and manage the same as well in sarge?? default installed on a desktop connected to a router I looked around and found no way to get in touch with the firewallsettings You need to install and configure a firewall of your choice. There are many to choose from, even within debian itself. I'd recommend shorewall. Unfortunately the shorewall package is more awkward to configure than it used to be, but read the docs in /usr/share/doc/shorewall, after you install. -- Lee. Please do not CC replies directly to me. I'll read them on the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem to use external h-d
On Saturday 18 Jun 2005 06:06, Christer wrote: There seems to be no chance to get my external h-d (Maxtor) with usb2 interface to get recognized by the system p4 and sarge 2.6 kernel on my Fedorainstallation there is no problem to mount/automount the same,,any suggestions about how to do?? You may need to install hotplug and/or the usb storage module, and/or the correct filesystem module for it. -- Lee. Please do not CC replies directly to me. I'll read them on the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apache 1.3 to 2.0 migration
On Saturday 18 Jun 2005 11:42, Kevin Coyner wrote:
I now have a need to switch to apache 2.0 (have started using python
and cherrypy in my sites, the latter of which does have more
functionality under apache 2.0).
Are they any special gotcha's that I need to watch for in the
migration process? I plan to apt-get install apache 2.0 using port
8080 alongside the existing 1.3, which uses port 80. Once I get the
httpd.conf settings tweaked and all works o.k. on port 8080, I'll
uninstall apache 1.3 and set 2.0 to listen on port 80 and be done.
Will this work?
I think that'll work fine, yes. Apache 2 splits its config into separate
files, in /etc/apache2/modules-{enabled,available}
and /etc/apache2/sites-{enabled,available}. That aspect might take a bit of
getting used to, but overall, I think it's a much better approach.
Otherwise, Apache 2 was painless for me :)
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Re: editors on which CDs
On Saturday 18 Jun 2005 15:10, Hendrik Boom wrote: Does anyone know which sarge CD contains emacs? pico or nano? microemacs? -- hendrik Emacs would presumably be on the first CD. Nano certainly is; it's part of the base packages. However... why do you care? To install, you at most need one CD. After that, you can use apt to download individual packages, rather than whole CDs. -- Lee. Please do not CC replies directly to me. I'll read them on the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xmms skips all files
On Friday 17 Jun 2005 15:07, Francisco Borges wrote: I know that xmms behaves like this when the files don't exist but the files all exist and they are all MP3s I used to play with xmms so I don't think the problem lies with my mp3s. I don't even have to hit play for this to happen just to load the files in the play list. It just seems to skip anything it can't play for whatever reason. If the files are really there (not just there, on the path that xmms is looking for them), check your audio settings, and the presence/non-presence of audio daemons, as Aurlien suggested. -- Lee. Please do not CC replies directly to me. I'll read them on the list.
Re: Request for window manager recommendations
On Monday 13 Jun 2005 17:35, Thomas Adam wrote: So in that way, WMs are much faster, and most WMs are damn good at managing the windows mapped to them. That's debatable, actually. It could be argued that, since desktop environments *do* share libraries etc, they reduce redundancy and therefore memory and load times. One could even argue that, since the code in question is shared by different projects, it's more likely to have many eyes scanning it for opportunities to optimise code. -- Lee. Please do not CC replies directly to me. I'll read them on the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Gwebdec
On Sunday 12 Jun 2005 05:04, David R. Litwin wrote: Hello you Useful Persons: I'm trying to install gwebdec, a programme that mimics webshots (designed for windows). I'm guessing you're running GNOME, but just so you know your options, it's worth pointing out that KDE's desktop background system can easily display a slideshow of any backgrounds in a folder. To add more, you can just type ggi:topic into konqueror, and download the google images results you like into that folder. I added extra buttons to my panel that will skip to the next background, or delete a background, if I decide I don't like it after seeing it on my desktop. -- Lee. Please do not CC replies directly to me. I'll read them on the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Live Radar Image as KDE Screensaver
On Sunday 12 Jun 2005 13:33, Kent West wrote: Does anyone know of a way to grab a live weather radar image from a public source (like NOAA or weather.com) and use it as a screensaver in KDE? I don't know of any exactly, but there are scripts available for xplanet (or one of those similar tools) that will download cloud maps, earthquake maps, satellite orbits, etc. You can then run the program with various args to generate a background image containing all that, for KDE. I had it setup a while back to randomly show different parts of the globe, but with an ability to toggle a lock onto my own country from a panel icon. You'd need to do a bit of scripting for that though, and I didn't keep it. In summary, it was fun to try just for the geek factor, but ultimately quite useless ;) -- Lee. Please do not CC replies directly to me. I'll read them on the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CD's won't play
On Saturday 11 Jun 2005 13:37, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: New Sarge install 3.1r0. My mp3 CD's seem to play just fine, but CD's that I have purchased won't play at all. I get the following msg: Unable to mount the selected volume. The volume is probably in a format that cannot be mounted. How do I get my CD's to play? Mounting is for filesystems, but AudioCDs don't have a filesystem; they just have tracks on the CD. Instead of inserting and then mounting the CD, just insert it, and choose to play the CD in software that supports doing that. -- Lee. Please do not CC replies directly to me. I'll read them on the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Setting default desktop environment
On Saturday 11 Jun 2005 22:58, Strake wrote: I recently installed Debian but gnome is my default desktop environment. How do I change it to KDE? apt-get install kde kdm :) If you're happy with that, you can then purge gnome stuff with apt-get --purge remove (or use a package management frontend). -- Lee. Please do not CC replies directly to me. I'll read them on the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Screen Resolution (DeLL)
On Friday 10 Jun 2005 12:21, M. Maas wrote: Change all the 800x600 640x480 lines into: 1024x768 800x600 640x480 lines. Yep :) SubSection Display Depth x # and x beeing - 1, 4, 8, 15, 16 or 24. (I'd go for 16, just as pretty, but a faster system.) On this, 16 is good enough for general work, but bear in mind that it can be inadequate for graphical work. Also, I hear that some cards are actually faster at 24/32 bit (due to their 32-bit+ architecture, I suppose). -- Lee. Please do not CC replies directly to me. I'll read them on the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Pre-Port Usability Question
On Friday 10 Jun 2005 16:17, Dave Babb wrote: I used jigdo to download all 14 CD images for Sarge. You didn't need to do that. A single CD would be more than enough for a basic install, after which apt will download any packages you ask it for. Just quicker. Default Kernel still in the 2.4 series? You can choose to install with a different kernel, at the boot prompt. In fact, most of the packages are behind the times, some by a little, some by a lot. I didn't expect this in a release hot off of the presses. The package system on the Debian website still shows KDE 3.3.2 as the version of choice. I didn't see an option to upgrade to a newer version either in testing, unstable, or stable. Yes, KDE has been slow. Even Debian Sid (unstable) still only has KDE 3.3. I'm not sure what the problem is, but yeah... not good. I have NO INTENTION of flame-baiting, or other immature behavior. I do have genuine puzzlement as to why the old stuff instead of fresh stuff. Essentially, lots of testing and process. Debian Stable is well-known for being *very* stable and tested, almost in a military sense. That's pretty great for servers most of the time, but not so great for desktops. I think sid (and testing) could benefit from more frequent updates, though :( -- Lee. Please do not CC replies directly to me. I'll read them on the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sudden constant spoofing of my address
On Friday 10 Jun 2005 21:57, David Jardine wrote: I had this problem a week or two ago (I think I reported it in panic on this list). It went away as suddenly as it appeared, but I'd be interested to know how GPG solves the problem - and what the best source of documentation is for GPG. GnuPG does two things: encryption, and authentication.. The authentication provides a digital signature, which serves the same purpose as a traditional signature: proving who someone is. Actually, they're MUCH better than traditional signatures, when used correctly. GnuPG does both of those things by using keypairs: public and private keys. Everyone has a secret key, and then one which they publish. If you have the public key of someone else, you can check everything signed by that person against their public key, and so you know that the person who wrote it is who they say they are. I'm not sure how you would use this for preventing spam, though. Presumably, you would only accept email from people whose public keys you have. To me, that's like mining your garden: it might keep people away, but it'll keep everyone away, and it makes it tough to enjoy your garden, too. Maybe I don't fully understand though. -- Lee. Please do not CC replies directly to me. I'll read them on the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sudden constant spoofing of my address
On Friday 10 Jun 2005 22:03, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: 3. Tell people that you *always* GPG sign your messages or encrypt to them and that if they receive a message from your email address that is neither signed nor encrypted, they can safely discard it without even looking. It is by no means perfect, but it makes sense. I would like to always sign my emails, but I always worry that people will dislike the extra overhead, and maybe find it hard to read. Do most clients display GPG signatures nicely now? -- Lee. Please do not CC replies directly to me. I'll read them on the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Once Sarge becomes stable...
On Thursday 09 Jun 2005 23:25, Angelina Carlton wrote: How was the installer a bottleneck? AFAIK it was ready to go weeks before sarge was released. Just curious. Not sure myself, but I'm guessing the installer held things back for a long time, and while that was happening, people decided to keep updating sarge. So once the installer was ready, the updates were still spilling over, and needing bugs fixed etc. Again, just a guess, though. -- Lee. Please do not CC replies directly to me. I'll read them on the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Strange KDE Problem
On Wednesday 08 Jun 2005 15:33, Graham Smith wrote: I have recently started experiencing a strange problem with KDE whereby for some unknown reason it switches to Gnome (while I'm logged in - I didn't think that was possible). The most obvious sign that this has happened is the background picture set under KDE disappears and the right click on the desktop is ignored (no menu pops up). I get no messages in /var/log/syslog when it happens. I'm not sure, but you may have GNOME session stuff that's being run in the background at certain times, like when any GNOME session-aware apps start. That would probably include OpenOffice. Try Ctrl-Escape (if you have KSysGuard installed), to see what's running. -- Lee. Please do not CC replies directly to me. I'll read them on the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Strange KDE Problem
On Wednesday 08 Jun 2005 15:33, Graham Smith wrote: [snip] If you don't have KSysGuard, you can use top or ps or something else in a console, of course. -- Lee. Please do not CC replies directly to me. I'll read them on the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Clarify Sarge Release
On Wednesday 08 Jun 2005 20:17, Jim Hall wrote: Now that Sarge is released, do I need to point 'update' 'upgrade' to stable, or leave Sarge as the target? No, you can do nothing, if you like. Pointing it to stable would only do something once the next release happens. Then, the new stable would be uhh... whatever that new name is, and then you'd see lots of upgradable packages. For now, it'll make no difference. Basically, if you intend to specifically use sarge and nothing else, put sarge in there. You might do that if sarge does what you need and you're following the if it ain't broke don't fix it philosophy. On the other hand, if you intend to keep upgrading to the most modern stable system available, and you don't want to manually do the switch (although it'll essentially be manual anyway) use stable. -- Lee. Please do not CC replies directly to me. I'll read them on the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: updated sarge today and kde breaks, error log info
On Tuesday 07 Jun 2005 03:41, Pollywog wrote: On 06/07/2005 02:22 am, Pollywog wrote: I got this from the .xsession-errors file: Can not create file /home/pollywog/.DCOPserver_slider__0: Input/output Try deleting that file, if it exists. Otherwise, try creating a new file with the same path and filename (echo /home/pollywog/.DCOPserver_slider__0 should do it). Also, look for *DCOP*.lock files in /tmp, and delete those. Then try /etc/init.d/kdm restart as root at the console (assuming you're using kdm, that is). On the console messages, I don't know why you're getting messages on all consoles, but dmesg -n1 should stop it. -- Lee. Please do not CC replies directly to me. I'll read them on the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What happened to non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US/dists/testing
On Tuesday 07 Jun 2005 14:58, Florian Ernst wrote: non-US obsoleted, see http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch-whats-new.en.h tml#s-non-us Hmm. What happened? Did they automatically include non-us stuff on international servers, or something? -- Lee. Please do not CC replies directly to me. I'll read them on the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
page allocation failure. order:3, mode:0x20
Just noticed nasty looking errors in my log files, which I'll include a small sample of below. I'm guessing this is almost certainly related to my encrypted swap (aes-loop), but free gives: total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem:385776 360192 25584 0 9192 117384 -/+ buffers/cache: 233616 152160 Swap: 820396 152556 667840 which seems to suggest that swap is working fine at least part of the time. Anyone seen this before (or know it, for whatever reason)? If not, any ideas? Maybe I'm completely off-track with blaming encrypted swap for this? Thanks. Jun 7 22:11:33 tundra kernel: squid: page allocation failure. order:3, mode:0x2 0 Jun 7 22:11:33 tundra kernel: Call trace: Jun 7 22:11:33 tundra kernel: [c000ba5c] dump_stack+0x18/0x28 Jun 7 22:11:33 tundra kernel: [c003f018] __alloc_pages+0x324/0x388 Jun 7 22:11:33 tundra kernel: [c003f0a8] __get_free_pages+0x2c/0x5c Jun 7 22:11:33 tundra kernel: [c0042d30] kmem_getpages+0x2c/0x130 Jun 7 22:11:33 tundra kernel: [c0043ad0] cache_grow+0x9c/0x16c Jun 7 22:11:33 tundra kernel: [c0043d60] cache_alloc_refill+0x1c0/0x25c Jun 7 22:11:33 tundra kernel: [c00442d8] __kmalloc+0xa8/0xb4 Jun 7 22:11:33 tundra kernel: [c0147ee8] alloc_skb+0x4c/0xe0 Jun 7 22:11:33 tundra kernel: [c0148694] skb_copy+0x40/0x104 Jun 7 22:11:33 tundra kernel: [c014e59c] skb_checksum_help+0x60/0x188 Jun 7 22:11:33 tundra kernel: [d9e97228] ip_nat_fn+0x228/0x23c [iptable_nat] Jun 7 22:11:33 tundra kernel: [d9e97348] ip_nat_local_fn+0x5c/0xc4 [iptable_na t] Jun 7 22:11:33 tundra kernel: [c0159ae8] nf_iterate+0xb4/0x10c Jun 7 22:11:33 tundra kernel: [c0159f4c] nf_hook_slow+0x7c/0x124 Jun 7 22:11:33 tundra kernel: [c016f6a0] ip_queue_xmit+0x408/0x52c Jun 7 22:11:33 tundra kernel: kdeinit: page allocation failure. order:3, mode:0 x20 Jun 7 22:11:33 tundra kernel: Call trace: Jun 7 22:11:33 tundra kernel: [c000ba5c] dump_stack+0x18/0x28 [etc] -- Lee. Please do not CC replies directly to me. I'll read them on the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
bash completion and local file: urls
Anyone have a script that'll make bash complete file://localhost/* urls? Subversion annoyingly requires them... -- Lee. Please do not CC replies directly to me. I'll read them on the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: bash completion and local file: urls
On Monday 06 Jun 2005 16:28, Alban Browaeys wrote: Le Mon, 06 Jun 2005 14:25:43 +0100, Lee Braiden a écrit : Anyone have a script that'll make bash complete file://localhost/* urls? Subversion annoyingly requires them... You might be looking after : http://worksintheory.org/archives/2004/december/bashcompletion it is not in debian yet though i kind of remind seeing a request for its inclusion in the BTS. IMHO i feel it needs refactoring before it happens (maybe grabbing stufff from the arch completion script ...). Though for personal use it is worst a shot. That should do fine, thanks :) -- Lee. Please do not CC replies directly to me. I'll read them on the list.
Re: kernel 2.7?
On Sunday 05 Jun 2005 15:14, klkl lklk wrote: Hi all, I would like to ask if anybody knows something about the 2.7 kenrel. I mean, i haven't found it anywhere and i'd like to ask if development upon this tree has begun. If not, when is it going to start??? Thank you Last I heard, the kernel development model has changed, so that 2.6 is going to be actively developed, until there is a need for major changes that require a new branch. Or something like that... ;/ -- Lee. Please do not CC replies directly to me. I'll read them on the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Driver Authoring????
On Sunday 05 Jun 2005 19:07, klkl lklk wrote: Hi all, Just wondering of where to start because i want to give a try making my own drivers for conexant winmodems (open-source, of course :-) ) I have good knowledge of C, Java and now learning C++. The probelm is that I now nothing about driver authoring! Please help! (Any advices, links would be appreciated!) http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxdrive/ Might want to lookup the Linux Kernel Hacker's Guide, too. Alternatively, you could just make it for HURD, instead ;) -- Lee. Please do not CC replies directly to me. I'll read them on the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Hurd drivers (was Re: Driver Authoring????)
On Sunday 05 Jun 2005 22:21, Marty wrote: Funny you should mention it. I've been seriously considering writing or porting a driver for Hurd, just to get an idea of what microkernels are all about, and hopefully even help get the Hurd microkernel into wider usage. Does anyone have any advice or comments? I'm not exactly knowledgeable with HURD, but I tried it out once. it seems like an interesting project, which I'm hoping to get more into soon. The reason I suggested HURD is that driver development for it is much less like developing drivers, and more like regular programming. If the driver crashes, you might have a chance to just kill it, fix the bug, and restart a new driver process. It would probably speed development. Also, since the code would probably be cleaner, and more developers do work on Linux etc., people would probably port your work to Linux anyway. I'd suggest asking more on one of the HURD lists. Debian has a HURD list, and I think there are a number of other lists just for HURD development. The L4 HURD list probably isn't ready for modem drivers yet, but I expect the other lists would welcome your efforts. There's also a #hurd IRC channel on freenode, if I recall correctly. -- Lee. Please do not CC replies directly to me. I'll read them on the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mutt + dovecot/squirrelmail + mbox ?
On Sunday 05 Jun 2005 05:51, Monique Y. Mudama wrote: So I finally bit the bullet and installed IMAP so that I could use one of the non-openwebmail webmails. Squirrelmail's docs make a big point of how if you're running mbox and don't make sure the locking mechanisms are well-coordinated, you run a risk of turning your mailboxes into hamburger. I'm not entirely sure of what you're trying to do here. But if you just need IMAP functionality for some web interface, and want it to be fast and lock-safe, then there's another option: dbmail. It'll store mails in a mysql database for you (postgresql too, but it seems to be optimised for mysql). Shouldn't be any access issues, since dbmail's IMAP interface and its own client utilities do all the access. Chances are, if you're running web stuff, you'll be using mysql anyway. The only downside is that you lose direct access to the files, so running spamassassin on your spam folder becomes a lot harder, *if* you want to keep your spam folder in IMAP too, that is. Anyone have a script for processing remote IMAP folders with spamassassin, by the way? ;) -- Lee. Please do not CC replies directly to me. I'll read them on the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to move debian from one drive to another and keep it working?
On Friday 03 Jun 2005 15:56, David Witbrodt wrote: David Witbrodt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: tar cvf - / | (cd /mnt/; tar xvf -) I'm a dummy. I had just spend the past several days reading docs, including the 'man' page for 'tar', and failed to notice that the cvf and xvf switches for 'tar' do not have the '-' character, but the man page for 'tar' _does_ use it. - specifies stdin, or stdout as files, where the | pipe character sends data. You only need to use it if you use the f flag, which requires a filename. Combos along the lines of tar cv srcdir | (cd dest; tar xv) will work, too. -- Lee. Please do not CC replies directly to me. I'll read them on the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PPPD exit code 2
On Friday 03 Jun 2005 13:26, xxx xxx wrote: Pon isn't working!!! I mean it dials, but Mozilla isn't connecting. Still surfing as root... Please Help! Did you add yourself to the dialout and dip groups, and then logout and in again, as instructed? It should work, if so. But if not, you can login as a normal user, and use su to become root, run pon, and still run other programs to browse as a normal user. With sudo, you could automate the permission change, so that a button on your panel could become root and dialup or disconnect. There are many ways to do it, but it works for everyone else, so try the steps above first. _ Don't just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! No. -- Lee. Please do not CC replies directly to me. I'll read them on the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Will Sid go nuts?
On Thursday 02 Jun 2005 01:34, Patrick Wiseman wrote: I _had_ planned on just staying with 'testing' in my sources.list. Is that a bad idea? I think Patrick might be referring to switching from sid to testing for a while, until things settle again. Is that right, Patrick? -- Lee. Please do not CC replies directly to me. I'll read them on the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Unable to properly install 2 packages
On Wednesday 01 Jun 2005 04:22, Rogério Brito wrote: On May 31 2005, J.F.Gratton wrote: I never took any time to delve into the innards of the install system on Debian since I never had any problems. Well, tonite is the nite ! :) I would suggest that you run fsck on the involved filesystems. It may find other corruptions. I would stop using the system *now*, if I were you. Use something like (as root): shutdown -F -r now Yes, that's a good point. -- Lee. Please do not CC replies directly to me. I'll read them on the list.
Re: coder front end
On Tuesday 31 May 2005 03:57, Dale Anderson wrote: I want to write some code. Can you make an apt package, debian style which makes one's own workstation come alive with modern development utilities? Thus far. I have yet to right click on my neat KDE twinview kdesktop situation and see an option to edit the code. Food for thought gentlemen; which I am at work at. KDevelop3 is really good, actually. It's not modern to be trying to use your file manager as a project manager for the IDE -- instead, load up KDevelop, and use *its* tools. If you just want to be able to edit code by right-clicking on that code, that's a simple matter of learning to use your file manager, and to choose your preferred application for that file type. However, if you *really* want more konqueror integration, you could write shell/dcop scripts that call KDevelop from the konqueror context menu. -- Lee. Please do not CC replies directly to me. I'll read them on the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Possibility of personalizing OpenOffice documents automatically?
On Tuesday 31 May 2005 08:15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to know if somebody know a way ... (batch, tool etc.) to take a classical OpenOffice text document and a small database and then make a personalisation of the document in an automatic way ... The idea is to permit simple users of a system to produce easily same document from their database without using OpenOffice directly and not offer them the ability to modify the document ... If you make a template for each user's blank document, then replace the original blank document with that, you should be off to a good start. A macro to apply that template to the current document could then be combined with a script to load and save files, to do the conversion. Or, you might even get away with just using the File menu's (IIRC) batch conversion options, which are normally used to convert into another file format. -- Lee. Please do not CC replies directly to me. I'll read them on the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Possibility of personalizing OpenOffice documents automatically?
On Tuesday 31 May 2005 10:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok for this ... but I have may be not well explained my need ... I want to make this merge from a server and not from the user's computer ... It'll be an automatic process done by this server after the user as defined the good document to send (mail, or print) to the final customer ... I'm more clear ? Ahh. Yes, I understand what you want now. I'm not sure *why* you want that, though. Wouldn't it be simplest just to have a network printer on the server, to which all the users can print? Are you trying to keep recipient information away from those who write the documents, or something? -- Lee. Please do not CC replies directly to me. I'll read them on the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fortune bug ?
On Tuesday 31 May 2005 10:42, Aurélien Campéas wrote: I realize that since a few days, fortune does not work any more. Like this: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ fortune fortune: bad juju in is_existant: Permission denied Are you getting that continuously, every time you run it? Because fortune does throw out funny error messages sometimes... -- Lee. Please do not CC replies directly to me. I'll read them on the list.
Re: Possibility of personalizing OpenOffice documents automatically?
On Tuesday 31 May 2005 11:06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No I want the operators to not be able to modify the original document ... And to have only a main administrator of the documents ... It's a kind of contact center, where people manage phone calls and for each call they will attribute to the customer a status ... and this status will produce a postal mail ... to be generated immediatly or by batch at the end of the day ... all the mail will be printed and put in wrap to be posted ! It's clearer ? ;o) The usual way to do this sort of thing would be with a webserver running on your intranet, which is linked to a database, and keeps a list of your customers. Staff can then pull up a webpage, click a button, and have the server generate reports. -- Lee. Please do not CC replies directly to me. I'll read them on the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Possibility of personalizing OpenOffice documents automatically?
On Tuesday 31 May 2005 11:36, Hervé Piedvache wrote: Yes ... marvelous ... but with what kind of tool do you manage the production of the mail ? Yes It'll be a web application .. no problem for this ... but I want to manage about 100 mail style sheet ... and be able to do the redaction of thoses mail easily ... and then have a system to produce them in file and print them ... So how to do that ? Shouldn't be too complex. You can probably just make the template file in OpenOffice, and run openoffice from your website to generate the output. Have a read at the openoffice docs, ask on the openoffice mailing lists if you're stuck, and if you're really stuck, look for a pre-existing solution on freshmeat, or hire a web developer to do it for you. You might also want to look at the batch facilities of other Free word processors. KWord is probably very capable of this, for instance. -- Lee. Please do not CC replies directly to me. I'll read them on the list.
Re: fortune bug ?
On Tuesday 31 May 2005 11:50, Aurélien Campéas wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ fortune fortune: bad juju in is_existant: Permission denied It's a real error. It is not corrected even by purging/reinstalling the package. Ahh. Are you in the games group? If not, that's probably why. If so, check the permissions of fortune's data files (dpkg -L fortunes-data, or something like that should help). If installing an older fortunes-data file from debian's pool helps, the current package probably installs files with incorrect permissions. Can't think of much else, sorry. -- Lee. Please do not CC replies directly to me. I'll read them on the list.
Re: system.map files
On Tuesday 31 May 2005 11:52, LeVA wrote: Would someone please tell me what are those /boot/System.map* files for? I gather that it supplies the debugging info (ie, symbols names; names of functions etc) for the kernel image it applies to. -- Lee. Please do not CC replies directly to me. I'll read them on the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fortune bug ?
On Tuesday 31 May 2005 14:41, Aurélien Campéas wrote: if (stat(file, staat) == 0) default: perror(fortune: bad juju in is_existant); exit(1); Do someone knows a tool to expose the call graph of a C program ? The easiest way might be to run it through strace (strace 2log fortune), find (near the end of the log) where it writes that error message, then look for the first stat() call before that in the same log. Hopefully it'll show what it's trying to access. -- Lee. Please do not CC replies directly to me. I'll read them on the list.
Re: Installing a program from source
On Tuesday 31 May 2005 18:33, Rhys Hardwick wrote: Is it ok to compile and install, and then, if another version is released under apt that I want to install, just install it over the top, like upgrading any other package. Is there something specific I should do? Use dh_make, if you can, or else checkinstall, to make and install an appropriate debian package. Then, it can be uninstalled (often automatically) when a newer package is available. -- Lee. Please do not CC replies directly to me. I'll read them on the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: knowing my IP address behind NAT firewall
On Tuesday 31 May 2005 22:22, dexter2 wrote:
Each time i connect to internet, i have diferent IP, that my ISP assign
to me. If i want to know my IP, that i use on internet, I have to
connect to DSL modem via HTTP and read it there.
Is there a unix command, that will get my internet IP? How does this
command get this IP?
It must be posible, becouse Valknut is able to get my actual internet
IP.
I don't want to encourage anyone to ask questions that can be found in other
ways, *but*... :)
Since you asked, and I had wondered about this myself previously, I just
worked it out (or, rather, stumbled across it). The following works for me:
ping -c 1 hop www.google.com | grep 'bytes from' | cut -d ' ' -f 5 | cut -d
'(' -f 2 | cut -d ')' -f 1
Since the ping manpage doesn't actually seem to explain what the hop keyword
does, I'd love to know... :)
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Re: knowing my IP address behind NAT firewall
On Tuesday 31 May 2005 23:48, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 11:25:10PM +0100, Lee Braiden wrote:
ping -c 1 hop www.google.com | grep 'bytes from' | cut -d ' ' -f 5 | cut
-d '(' -f 2 | cut -d ')' -f 1
Try this:
lynx -dump http://checkip.dyndns.org |sed -n '/Current/s/.*: \(.*\)/\1/p'
It doesn't rely on ICMP packaets, which are blocked by many ISPs and/or
network admins.
I guess the hop thing is unreliable, then?
p.s.: Dexter, you might be able to use Roberto's example to parse the output
of the webserver built into your router. That would be awkward on my router,
but I've heard of other people doing that. Not sure if it was easy on
theirs, or if they just liked hard work ;)
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Re: KSnapshot
On Tuesday 31 May 2005 14:48, hja123 wrote: I am using KSnapshot 0.7. There is a 'Capture Mode' which has a selection of 'Region'. It is supposed to be for selecting a resion of the screen mapped out by clicking and dragging the mouse. After selecting region, the mouse does not go into 'click-and-drag' mode. Is there a bug or the feature has not been implemented? Works for me, with 0.7. You need to choose region, then choose new snapshot, *then* draw the region after the ksnapshot window is hidden. Is that not working for you? -- Lee. Please do not CC replies directly to me. I'll read them on the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: VPN server recommendation
On Monday 30 May 2005 16:06, Chavdar Videff wrote: At our site we have to establish a secure VPN to a partner site in order to interconnect our subnetworks. On both sides we have Linux routers. A fellow administrator suggested that we used OpenVPN. The only VPN I have heard about is Poptop. Is OpenVPN a good choice? Are there better alternatives? I've never done it myself, but shorewall includes support for VPNs, along with making a lot of the firewall NAT, and TOS stuff much easier. If you want a solution that will (or could) cover all those things without getting confusing, it might be worth a look. -- Lee. Please do not CC replies directly to me. I'll read them on the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Disk encryption questions
In an effort to secure my system without degrading performance too much, I've created an encrypted disk, then moved various directories onto that disk, with softlinks from the original disk to there. So, for example, I have stuff like this: /home - /crypted/home /var/mail - /crypted/var/mail My question is... is that safe to do? Does the link compromise inode information about the encrypted disk, for instance? I've never seen anyone mentioning this, but I don't think I've heard anything against it either, and it's a nice solution to implement. Also, currently, this encrypted disk asks for a password at boot time (I'm using loop-aes), and simply doesn't mount if the password is wrong. Is there some way to make the system fail to boot if aes-loop's password validation fails? Or, at least, how do I stop files being written under the mount point, if it's not actually mounted? Can I just fully write-protect the mount point, and then have that overridden when a disk is mounted on top? Finally, I'm using aes-loop because I read that dm-crypt has vulnerabilities over loop, and aes-loop is superior. Is that still the case? Thanks -- Lee. Please do not CC replies directly to me. I'll read them on the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Disk encryption questions
On Monday 30 May 2005 23:47, Gregory Seidman wrote: Symbolic links only contain the path. There is no inode information involved. This is not, however, the best way to deal with an encrypted disk. I much prefer to put LVM on top of an encrypted loop device to provide whatever partitions I need, and mount them in place rather than having symlinks lying around. Hmmm, that's interesting. It would certainly be a more technically interesting solution, but does it have any real advantages, for someone like me who doesn't bother with seperate home partitions etc. usually? What you probably want to do is to write a script around it to create the loop (which requests the password) and attempt to mount; if the mount fails, the loop should be taken down and the process should be attempted again. Yes, I was thinking of something like that. Thanks :) -- Lee. Please do not CC replies directly to me. I'll read them on the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Slow Firefox performance on P4 1.7 GHz 1 GB system
On Sunday 29 May 2005 12:30, Ionut Georgescu wrote: Well, I don't think it is the X only. Take Opera. On Linux it is much faster than Firefox. Except that it lacks freedom, the main feature many of us are using Linux for in the first place. Konqueror is real fast, if you want a Firefox alternative. -- Lee. Please do not CC replies directly to me. I'll read them on the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: please help a poor student
On Sunday 29 May 2005 15:40, ratikanta rath wrote: Note- I began liking debian after i heard of it. Please help this poor student by mailing me the CDs if you have If you search, you may find a LUG (Linux User Group) in your area. If you attend a meeting, or contact them through their mailing lists, you should be able to find someone in your area who will help you get a CD, and to get you started. Good luck :) -- Lee. Please do not CC replies directly to me. I'll read them on the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Slow Firefox performance on P4 1.7 GHz 1 GB system
On Saturday 28 May 2005 21:15, Ionut Georgescu wrote: On the other hand, the windows versions of Firefox and Thunderbird are amazingly fast. This is really said ... Some of the windows ports seem to leave linux versions in the dust due to the higher number of users and developers on windows, unfortunately. A few emulators have had this problem. E-UAE recently started to try to re-port all of WinUAE features back into UAE for unix, but it's going to take some time, and WinUAE will probably still keep progressing in the meantime. It's a pity we don't have a license that encourages portable code. But I can't imagine how that would work. -- Lee. Please do not CC replies directly to me. I'll read them on the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: foreign fonts for X11 ?
On Friday 20 May 2005 09:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have one SuSE (8.2 ?) machine here, where I can see all kinds of foreign fonts in X11 (e.g. chinese, japanese, greek and so on). I didn't manage to teach this to the new debian machines that I set up. We need this urgently, because our software is very international. Until now, we can test this only on this one SuSE machine, which I wantet to turn into a debian machine soon... Could you help me find out why my debian machines cant display foreign fonts ? Have you installed the fonts? Try: apt-cache search ttf font | cut -d ' ' -f 1 | xargs apt-cache show | less Then install whatever looks useful. Alternatively, just use synaptic to search for font or ttf :) -- Lee. Please send replies to the list, not to my email address. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to change hostname
On Friday 20 May 2005 08:49, Urs Thuermann wrote: What is the debain way to change to hostname of a system. Only editing /etc/hostname is not sufficient, because there are other places where the hostname is stored, e.g. /etc/hosts, /etc/mailname, etc. I *think* the hostname command will set /etc/hostname for you, as well as forcing the running system to update its own idea of what the hostname is. For /etc/mailname, dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config should do it. As for /etc/hosts, I think your options are either to edit it manually, or use some dynamic system like DNS. However, base-config *might* help. -- Lee. Please send replies to the list, not to my email address. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help with Zip drive
On Friday 20 May 2005 15:39, Jerry Turba wrote: I just got a parallel port Zip 100 drive [snip] I have problems when I try to write to it. After the cp command the system hangs for a while. When it comes back I have lost the use of the keyboard but not the mouse, and I have to reboot. Wild guess, but... are you sure the write protect tab on the actual ZIP disk is disabled? I think the option to detect write protected drives isn't enabled by default in Linux. That might be only with with USB devices, or something, though :) -- Lee. Please send replies to the list, not to my email address. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Burning Cd's
On Friday 20 May 2005 17:28, João Gabriel Sapucahy Chiste wrote: How to burn a CD using command line? There are many kinds of CDs, and many things to make them from, so there's no simple answer to that. At this point, you might want to install synaptic, and learn to use it's searching and browsing features to find software for whatever you need. -- Lee. Please send replies to the list, not to my email address.
Re: firefox
On Saturday 21 May 2005 01:56, Brian Martin wrote: I have after a great deal of sweat installed Firefox on Woody can i now apt-get remove mozilla WITHOUT wiping firefox ? Depends. If you installed firefox with apt-get install, then apt-get remove should warn you about related packages that command will affect. Otherwise, if you installed firefox manually, you'll have to manually check for conflicts I guess. -- Lee. Please send replies to the list, not to my email address. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Firefox cannot render amazon website correctly. Epiphany can.
On Thursday 19 May 2005 06:50, Glenn English wrote: That happened to me recently. I found that I had Mozills'a Don't accept graphics from sites other than the one you're talking to option set, and that allowing graphics from the universe fixed the problem. I tried a little to tell them about it, but [EMAIL PROTECTED] doesn't accept email. Understandable, I guess. The web is designed to allow distributed media to come together on a single page, so this option seemed very practical to me: throwing the baby out with the bathwater, as they say. Many sites have specific servers just for their images, so they can tune those servers for that purpose alone. I wouldn't go complaining to Amazon about this. Hehh, I might be more tempted to complain that their webmaster@ address doesn't work ;) -- Lee. Please send replies to the list, not to my email address. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [debian] Re: Virii on linux
On Thursday 19 May 2005 04:56, Keith Bates wrote: Not to be pedantic, but the generally accepted plural of virus is viruses: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plural_of_virus By definition, you are being pedantic :-) Or at least prescriptive in the terms of the article. Not to be pedantic, but... ;D Is that what not to be pedantic means? I don't think it means I'm not being pedantic. If it did, there would be no point in using the infinitive form of to be. It seems to me that not to be pedantic means I'm not saying this with the purpose of being pedantic, even though, without a higher reason for saying it, it would be. For instance, you can say a pendantic thing with the purpose of educating someone, rather than with the sole purpose of being pendantic. -- Lee. Please send replies to the list, not to my email address. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: project accounting application in Debian?
On Thursday 19 May 2005 10:12, Nacho wrote: What I want is to insert into a database data such as the time an employee was working in such machine, the amount of pieces which he made during that time, the cost of each part he used to make the piece... and in this way with every procedure we make, so at last we can easily know how much time and money really costed a piece we produce, how can we improve the costs... Quanta or SQL-Ledger can probably keep track of 'pieces' used to construct saleable products. You can also enter the costs of producing those pieces, afaik, but only totals. Project management tools would probably do the other part pretty well for you. The simplest might be something like everyone sharing a To-Do list/Calendar via KOrganizer, with KArm tracking how much work time has gone into each to-do item. With KArm, you can manually edit those times, or, if the work is computer-based, you can have it automatically time anything that happens on a certain desktop. Pretty handy. Alternatively, one of the web-based project management tools like phpgroupware etc. might help. PHPGroupware isn't necessarily the best, I just can't remember the names of the other options right now :) There are a few of them in debian itself, though :) -- Lee. Please send replies to the list, not to my email address. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: project accounting application in Debian?
On Thursday 19 May 2005 10:30, Lee Braiden wrote: On Thursday 19 May 2005 10:12, Nacho wrote: What I want is to insert into a database data such as the time an employee was working in such machine, the amount of pieces which he made during that time, the cost of each part he used to make the piece... and in this way with every procedure we make, so at last we can easily know how much time and money really costed a piece we produce, how can we improve the costs... Oh, and if you still want something a bit more complex (tracking each manufacturing instance etc.), then I'd recommend having a look at KNoda. It's deceptively powerful, pretty quick for building database apps, and very lightweight :) -- Lee. Please send replies to the list, not to my email address. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How can I tag Ogg/FLAC files from their discid?
On Thursday 19 May 2005 20:04, Jonathan Melhuish wrote: For various reasons, I need to be able to rip a CD whilst not connected to the Internet, then tag the files with the correct metadata (from FreeDB) at a later stage. Is there any linux software that can tag FLACs and Oggs from their disc-id? Probably not ideal due to diskspace issues, but one option would be to copy an image of the whole CD, then rip the tracks from the image when you do have net access. -- Lee. Please send replies to the list, not to my email address. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How To Install Missing Libraries for Cinelerra?
On Thursday 19 May 2005 22:09, Scarletdown wrote: cinelerra: Depends: libavcodec1 (= 1:0.4.8) but it is not installable Depends: libguicast (= 1:1.2.2) but it is not installable Depends: liblame0 (= 3.96.1-1) but it is not installable Depends: libmpeg3hv (= 1:1.2.2) but it is not installable Depends: libquicktimehv (= 1:1.2.2) but it is not installable Depends: libsndfilehv (= 1:1.2.2) but it is not installable Where can I get these (preferably as .deb packages) so I can get this app up and running? At least a few of them are available along with mplayer from the unofficial sources. Have a look on apt-get.org -- Lee. Please send replies to the list, not to my email address. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gaining net access after sarge install
On Thursday 19 May 2005 21:05, João Gabriel Sapucahy Chiste wrote: I installed the basic version of sarge in my machine and the system did not recognized mi intel ethernet card. but the module it's running. Just to keep you right, mi is my in English ;) When i give ifconfig nothing appears, even loopback. What could be happened and what can i do? If an interface doesn't show *at all* in ifconfig, it means that there is no driver loaded for it. If you're using hotplug, and the driver hasn't loaded, it may mean that your kernel doesn't support that hardware. In that case, you can try installing a newer kernel and rebooting. If you're not using hotplug, or you have the driver available, but it just hasn't loaded, you can manually load the driver module with modconf. I have a cd with a full version of woody, that don`t boot and I can't get the packages with apt-cdrom add because the system says that don`t have any packages in there, but i installed soome debs with dpkg. Ahh. There is a command, apt-cdrom, I think, which configures your debian cdrom sources for you. I don't use it though, so I'm not sure on the name. Anyway, as you've discovered, you can manually install packages by just mounting the CD, finding the appropriate package .deb file, and installing it with dpkg -i filename.deb Good luck :) -- Lee. Please send replies to the list, not to my email address.
Re: PASSWORD FOR DEBIAN CD TO INSTALL APLYCATIONS
On Wednesday 18 May 2005 10:08, M.Schweizer wrote: how i get Passwort to Install a Linux Aplication In KDE, go to the menu. Then choose System-More Applications-Terminal Program (super user mode). That will ask you for a password, then give you a root shell, which has permission to install software. for wine its not Install after Realplayer for Windows in Wine, him only Play him song if you start him. There is a realplayer version for Linux. Do not use the WINE version if there is already a Linux version. It won't be as good. In Reality not Play my a ram file directly from Internet . In Suse 9.0 its Works ,not problem. I install allredy with Yast or KDE Once you install RealPlayer, you can choose what program to open files with from your control panel. Note: Xine (and Kaffeine, and mplayer, and some other players too) can play realplayer files, if you install the Linux realplayer codec files from the internet. -- Lee. Please send replies to the list, not to my email address. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PASSWORD FOR DEBIAN CD TO INSTALL APLYCATIONS
On Wednesday 18 May 2005 11:28, Lee Braiden wrote: On Wednesday 18 May 2005 10:08, M.Schweizer wrote: how i get Passwort to Install a Linux Aplication In KDE, go to the menu. Then choose System-More Applications-Terminal Program (super user mode). That will ask you for a password, then give you a root shell, which has permission to install software. Oh, I meant to say: If you're using GNOME, there should be a similar root terminal option. If not, open a terminal and then type su -, followed by return. It will ask you for a password, then you'll have permission to install software. If you want to install things that need a GUI, you'll have to do this next: export DISPLAY=:0 XAUTHORITY=~username/.Xauthority -- Lee. Please send replies to the list, not to my email address. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
