Re: Need suggestions on a backup issue
On Fri, 2012-07-20 at 09:50 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: I need a way to test in Bash whether, or not, there actually is a disk mounted at /media/wdp8. A bit hacky, but what I do in my backup scripts is... if mount | grep -q /media/wdp8 then ... fi -- Tixy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1342807475.2952.5.ca...@computer2.home
Re: Kernel documentation
On Sun, 2012-10-21 at 09:14 +0100, Lisi wrote: quote We advise studying the README files in this root directory of the kernel source, and Documentation/Changes or the documentation index of the kernel in Documentation/00-INDEX. /quote Presumably I have to download a kernel source to get at the README, but where can I find the Documentation/00-INDEX? You could browse Linus Torvald's Linux tree... http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git;a=summary or the stable tree... http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git;a=summary which contains the point releases made after Linus releases a version of Linux. Of course, none of these will have Debian specific modifications and backports in them, but if you want the Documentation directory, I can't image its much different. When you get to a gitweb page, under 'tags' pick the version you want (note the '...' at the end of the tags list gets you to older tags). Once you have clicked on the tag you want you'll get a rather boring page, but at the top, click on 'tree', then you'll be able to browse all the source tree at that tagged version. -- Tixy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1350810803.3124.19.ca...@computer5.home
Re: resize pictures received by mailserver
On Wed, 2012-06-13 at 15:08 -0500, Christofer C. Bell wrote: The ImageMagick identify command could be used on the image to gather statistics (such as pixel size) do some math on it, and feed that back to mogrify, giving you some consistency in output. Example: cbell@circe:~$ identify testimage.jpg testimage.jpg JPEG 4752x3168 4752x3168+0+0 8-bit DirectClass 5.706MB 0.000u 0:00.000 cbell@circe:~$ Grab field 3, do some math to determine aspect ratio, compare the current resolution against your target, figure out the new size for the image, feed that back to mogrify to resize it correctly. Want something smaller than 800x600? In the above, the image is 4752 x 3168. We want the image to be smaller than 800x600. We need to decrease the image size by the larger of 4752/800 or 3168/600. These are 5.28 and 5.94 respectively. So we need to decrease the image to 16.8% of its current size (1/5.94). cbell@circe:~$ mogrify -resize 16.8% testimage.jpg cbell@circe:~$ identify testimage.jpg testimage.jpg JPEG 798x532 798x532+0+0 8-bit DirectClass 239KB 0.000u 0:00.010 cbell@circe:~$ Goal achieved. It's much simpler to do: mogrify -resize '800x600' testimage.jpg or to limit it to 800 in any dimension mogrify -resize '800x800' testimage.jpg (These commands preserve aspect ratio and only resize if image is greater than the given dimensions.) -- Tixy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1339654726.3066.6.ca...@computer2.home
Re: resize pictures received by mailserver
On Fri, 2012-06-15 at 04:34 +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Thu, 14 Jun 2012 01:37:18 -0500, Christofer wrote in message caoevnyujsmftaqze+suzcvhjnvk48hnvjlngofzg5bxu-xv...@mail.gmail.com: It's much simpler to do: mogrify -resize '800x600' testimage.jpg or to limit it to 800 in any dimension mogrify -resize '800x800' testimage.jpg (These commands preserve aspect ratio and only resize if image is greater than the given dimensions.) Well, color me impressed! I didn't know about that notation. That certainly would have saved me a lot of pain with some shell scripts I wrote awhile back for image management! I'll keep that in my bag of tricks and thank you for the tip! ..I lost you guys here; is the new trick in the bag the use of mogrify, or is it putting the in '800x600', inside the single quotes, typo style like? It's the but as that is treated specially by shells, you need to include the argument in '' or take other precautions. imagemagic has a wealth of options, it's well worth reading them whenever you have an image manipulation task. [1] -- Tixy [1] http://www.imagemagick.org/script/command-line-options.php -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1339781168.3116.8.ca...@computer2.home
Re: drive labels
On Fri, 2012-07-06 at 10:52 -0700, cletusjenkins wrote: I have several USB external drives. I have them formatted as ext3 and have assigned them labels (via tune2fs -L). All of my labels are made up of letters no numbers, spaces or other special characters. When I connect a drive, it's label is displayed correctly in gnome (on the desktop and when browsing in nautilus), but the devices is mounted as /media/usb0. If I connect another, it will show up in the GUI correctly and it actually gets mounted using the label name (/media/filebackup). Is there a way to get my system to mount the drive with the label instead of usb0? I often see this when I install Debian on a PC using a USB stick. The installer seems to put an entry in /etc/fstab to mount /dev/sdb at /media/usb0. I just delete this line. -- Tixy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1341618219.2952.6.ca...@computer2.home
Re: [EVOLUTION] Issue with mistakenly rejected SSL certificate
On Fri, 2012-11-30 at 14:40 +0100, Abou Al Montacir wrote: Hi all; Yesterday, evolution complained about my ISP SSL certificate was not valid and asked me to accept it or to reject it. I've mistakenly rejected SSL certificate, but since could not connect anymore to the server. It keeps giving me error messages: Could not connect to imap.sfr.fr: Input/output error I've tried with [1] and also with [2] and can see that it connects using telnet -z ssl howver openssl shows that the certificate date has expired. I do not know how to cope with this as I can not find any option to recover my mistake. Can anyone help please? I think the keys are stored in your home directory in the .camel_certs directory. I just deleted these and when I restarted Evolution it asked me to confirm the keys again when I logged I downloaded mails from my server. (I run my own server and my keys aren't signed by a trusted authority). -- Tixy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1354296577.4517.4.ca...@computer5.home
Re: Is this OK in C++ and C?
On Tue, 2013-01-01 at 11:41 -0700, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: Looking into it a bit more, I can't find a place where the C99 standard requires *any* warnings. In particular: Annex I (informative) Common warnings 1 An implementation may generate warnings in many situations, none of which are specified as part of this International Standard. The following are a few of the more common situations. (a list of warnings follows) A search doesn't turn up the string warn anywhere in the standard except in this annex. But it probably has quite a few occurrences of 'diagnostic', the C++ standard does; and it states that a 'diagnostic message' shall be issued if a program breaks the rules of the language except where the standard explicitly states no diagnostic is required. With regard to the original question of assigning a negative value to an unsigned integer, this seems to be allowed and defined behaviour. The section on integral conversions has: If the destination type is unsigned, the resulting value is the least unsigned integer congruent to the source integer (modulo 2 n where n is the number of bits used to represent the unsigned type). [Note: In a two’s complement representation, this conversion is conceptual and there is no change in the bit pattern (if there is no truncation). ] -- Tixy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1357100719.3353.17.ca...@computer5.home
Re: how to get missing multimedia packages
On Sun, 2013-02-03 at 13:05 -0500, Rob Owens wrote: On Sun, Feb 03, 2013 at 02:49:22PM +0100, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: On Mon, 28 Jan 2013, Rob Owens wrote: I recommend you use the third-party deb-multimedia repository for those packages. I have them both installed from that repo and I've never had any problems. In fact, that repo has never given me any problems. Of course I'd prefer if I could get everything I want from Debian's main repo, but currently that's not possible for me. I was rather reluctant to use a repo relying on only one man, but for the moment that seems easier than trying to compile every missing program. Do you have a preference file to set the priorities of debian / deb-multimedia repos? And if yes, what is its content? I've reported bugs in packaging to Christian on the mailing list, and he's fixed them in 1 or 2 days. I guess he never goes on vacation... I don't use any pinning for deb-multimedia. I suppose if you wanted you could pin it to 200 if you wanted to prevent apt from updating packages in debian main with packages from deb-multimedia. There are a couple of packages that exist in both repos, There seems to be a lots of packages in both repos, deb-multimedia has its own version of loads of the AV libraries and it uses a higher epoch in the version number to force them to be preferred over the official libraries. Basically, without using pinning to stop apt pulling in deb-multimedia packages you will get quite a few unofficial packages. (On my fairly minimal LXDE install 19 packages would be 'upgraded' if I deleted my pinning - which is to the following in /etc/apt/preferences Package: * Pin: origin www.deb-multimedia.org Pin-Priority: 100 -- Tixy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1359918267.3456.9.ca...@computer5.home
Re: Running pae kernel on non-pae system
On Sat, 2013-02-23 at 13:36 -0500, deb...@paulscrap.com wrote: Hi Folks, Last night I updated an older laptop of mine from Squeeze to Wheezy. It went fine, but I did run into an odd particularity. This system (Dell D505) has a Pentium M processor. My understanding is that the Pentium M's are just about the only modern(ish) processor without pae, and thus kernels with pae compiled in can't run on it. (pae doesn't show up in the cpu flags) During the upgrade I did get warnings about it not supporting pae, so I did make sure to install the 486 image, but forgot to remove the 686-pae (removed 686, though). That's not a big deal, though. It just means I'd have to select the 486 kernel to boot up and fix it, right? I wasn't paying attention during reboot, and it went to 686-pae by default. Imagine my surprise when it started up with no problems. It's still running on that kernel! A couple of weeks ago I installed Wheezy on a Pentium M machine and had a similar experience choosing a kernel version. I ended up trying 686-pae because there wasn't a plain 686 like in in Squeeze and found it worked, even though though my CPU didn't have PAE. -- Tixy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1361710851.4170.5.ca...@computer5.home
Re: Running pae kernel on non-pae system
On Sun, 2013-02-24 at 13:00 +, Tixy wrote: On Sat, 2013-02-23 at 13:36 -0500, deb...@paulscrap.com wrote: Hi Folks, Last night I updated an older laptop of mine from Squeeze to Wheezy. It went fine, but I did run into an odd particularity. This system (Dell D505) has a Pentium M processor. My understanding is that the Pentium M's are just about the only modern(ish) processor without pae, and thus kernels with pae compiled in can't run on it. (pae doesn't show up in the cpu flags) During the upgrade I did get warnings about it not supporting pae, so I did make sure to install the 486 image, but forgot to remove the 686-pae (removed 686, though). That's not a big deal, though. It just means I'd have to select the 486 kernel to boot up and fix it, right? I wasn't paying attention during reboot, and it went to 686-pae by default. Imagine my surprise when it started up with no problems. It's still running on that kernel! A couple of weeks ago I installed Wheezy on a Pentium M machine and had a similar experience choosing a kernel version. I ended up trying 686-pae because there wasn't a plain 686 like in in Squeeze and found it worked, even though though my CPU didn't have PAE. Actually, I just double checked, and my CPU [1] does have PAE after all. I was confused because it only has 32-bit physical address size (and so doesn't benefit from any 'Extension' to the physical address). [1] http://ark.intel.com/products/27586 -- Tixy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1361713289.4170.22.ca...@computer5.home
Re: How can I know which deb-multimedia packages I have installed?
On Sun, 2013-02-24 at 21:51 +0100, Slavko wrote: Hi Dňa 24.02.2013 21:20:35 Csanyi Pal csanyi...@gmail.com napísal(a): So how can I know now which debian packages are installed from these deb-multimedia repositories abowe? aptitude search '~i ~OUnofficial Multimedia Packages' When I try that it shows 'vlc' as one of the packages. But in the aptitude GUI it shows the official Debian version (2.0.3-4) is installed, and the deb-multimedia version (1:2.0.5-dmo1) isn't. This is confirmed by running vlc and the 'About' page lists the version as 2.0.3. So I guess the search term finds installed packages that are available from the specified origin, not those that were actually installed from that origin. -- Tixy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1361820784.3188.10.ca...@computer5.home
Re: Running pae kernel on non-pae system
On Mon, 2013-02-25 at 22:26 -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 2/24/2013 7:41 AM, Tixy wrote: Actually, I just double checked, and my CPU [1] does have PAE after all. PAE is in every AMD/Intel chip manufactured post 1998. You'd have to be using a Pentium MMX, AMD K6-2, or older chip, to lack PAE support. The general rule here: if the chip clock is greater than 550 MHz it has PAE, PSE, PSE-36, or all three, and you're golden. Few people are using chips this old, thus this question actually should never pop up. Curious that it does, given you can find this information so easily with Google. Unfortunately, the top hits for me when searching for pentium m pae in Google is Wikipedia, which is at best misleading if not wrong. And the second hit is someone asking what processors don't support PAE and quoting Wikipedia as saying Pentium M is amongst those that don't. (I haven't linked to those sources in case in helps in some small way to boost their search rankings.) I did however not rely on these source anyway and looked at Intel's site and found the spec for my CPU said it had 32-bit Physical Address Extensions, which confused me initially because 32-bits didn't seem 'extended'. (I guess it's just that they haven't baked or wired up move address lines.) -- Tixy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1361869435.3213.13.ca...@computer5.home
Re: How can I know which deb-multimedia packages I have installed?
On Tue, 2013-02-26 at 07:16 +0100, Johan Grönqvist wrote: 2013-02-25 21:03, Slavko skrev: Dňa 25.02.2013 20:33:04 Tixyt...@yxit.co.uk napísal(a): On Sun, 2013-02-24 at 21:51 +0100, Slavko wrote: Dňa 24.02.2013 21:20:35 Csanyi Palcsanyi...@gmail.com napísal(a): So how can I know now which debian packages are installed from these deb-multimedia repositories abowe? aptitude search '~i ~OUnofficial Multimedia Packages' So I guess the search term finds installed packages that are available from the specified origin, You are right. aptitude search '~S ~i ~OUnofficial Multimedia Packages' Thanks, that gives just the two packages I expected: deb-multimedia-keyring and libdvdcss2. -- Tixy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1361892203.3083.2.ca...@computer5.home
Re: assistive annoyance
On Wed, 2011-09-07 at 21:34 -0400, Mark Grieveson wrote: On Wed, 7 Sep 2011 12:04:50 + (UTC) debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: Let's see if I remember since I just turned orca on yesterday since without it, or something similar these computers are just paperweights for me. On the menus, it's in system then admin then preferences. Universal accessibility is the next level to enter and disabling universal accessibility should make your desktop useable again. You I tried that and it didn't work. Specifically, I went to System - Preferences - Assistive Technologies, and then I unchecked the Enable assistive technologies box. I still get the same issues as I described. I didn't see anything else in System - Administration that seemed related. Try System Preferences Startup Applications and deselect 'Visual Assistance' and 'AT SPI Registry' if they are there. -- Tixy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1315467529.2314.3.camel@computer2
Re: posting
On Mon, 2011-10-17 at 21:49 +, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 18:18:44 +0200, Erwan David wrote: And I would add evolution to the blacklist (top posting) How is that? Evolution is preventing you from moving the cursor to start writing where you want? Top-posting (when not imposed) is a user setting, you will have to blacklist users, not the MUA. Evolution also has a Start typing at the bottom when replying option, admittedly not on by default. -- Tixy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1318914739.2161.14.camel@computer2
Re: ..move mail between laptops? Mail in MH folders, Claws style.
On Wed, 2011-07-20 at 07:13 +0200, lee wrote: Rob Owens row...@ptd.net writes: On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 06:02:05PM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: Hi, ..move mail between laptops? Mail in MH folders, Claws Mail default MH folders with one file for each message, from spare netbook to real laptop, howto pointers? Tried the formail -ds route and must be overlooking something. How about setting up a home IMAP server? I use dovecot and it was pretty straightforward to set up. Dovecot is described as an MTA; can the IMAP part be used without the MTA? Yes. I use Exim to deliver mail to MailDir directories and Dovecot to provide access to then via IMAP. And does the IMAP part support MH? It doesn't. There's a handy table with programs and supported mail formats at http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat (I can't vouch for the accuracy of the information). -- Tixy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1311154910.2335.69.camel@computer2
Re: ..move mail between laptops? Mail in MH folders, Claws style.
On Thu, 2011-07-21 at 07:41 +0200, lee wrote: Did they change the packaging of dovecot recently? I checked a few weeks ago, and afair there weren't separate packages for dovecot as there are now. I'm running Squeeze and have had dovecot-imapd installed for several months, and that package is also in Lenny along with dovecot-pop3d. There are some other dovecot packages which seem to be new to Wheezy [1], perhaps that's what you noticed. -- Tixy [1] http://packages.debian.org/search?suite=defaultsection=allarch=anysearchon=nameskeywords=dovecot- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1311235234.31658.10.camel@computer2
Re: Backup Software
On Fri, 2011-07-22 at 15:44 +, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 23:52:45 -0400, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: What software would you recommend to backup a Debian system on a stand-alone computer? tar + compression tar + compression + encryption :-) -- Tixy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1311426634.23139.1.camel@computer2
Re: Backup Software
On Sun, 2011-07-24 at 13:41 +, Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 23 Jul 2011 21:37:34 +0200, lee wrote: Gpg is one of the basic programs that should be installed. On what OSes? :-) If it isn't, it doesn't hurt to install it. Yes, but for backup files I prefer to do not add an extra layer of complexity that can lead to not be able to view the files. Backup files need to be reliable. They also need to be available, so I have backups in places which are not necessarily that secure, e.g. about my person and on-line. The price to pay for this convenience is some form of encryption. Using a symmetric cypher with GPG seemed like the simplest and widely available solution. -- Tixy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1311595717.2715.31.camel@computer2
Re: Debian Squeeze Cannot Paste From Epiphany Browser to Evolution or Gnome Terminal
On Thu, 2010-12-23 at 12:10 +0800, Jackie Wang wrote: Hi all, I'm using Debian Squeeze on my laptop (Upgraded from Lenny 5.0.4 to Squeeze). I cannot paste some text from epiphany to evolution or Gnome terminal. I too have had various problems like this for a while. One trick I've found which works is to paste the text into a text entry field like the To or Cc field of an email, or the address bar of a browser. I can then select and cut this text again to finally paste it to where I really want it. -- Tixy () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign (www.asciiribbon.org) /\ Against HTML e-mail and proprietary attachments -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1293133920.2051.7.ca...@computer2.home
Re: Squeeze install on HP DL380G4 with broadcom network.
On Tue, 2011-01-11 at 14:29 +1100, Andrew McGlashan wrote: Hi, With the non-free exclusions from the iso [1], installation wasn't possible without taking further steps. Not sure this non-free image thing is a good idea(tm) -- perhaps images WITH the non-free drivers need to be made easily available, if not, I can see many people abandoning Debian to use something easier to install. I saw this discussed a while ago on the debian-project mailing list [1], and there are now netinst iso images with non-free firmware available at http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/ [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2010/05/msg00117.html -- Tixy () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign (www.asciiribbon.org) /\ Against HTML e-mail and proprietary attachments -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1294731545.2291.21.ca...@computer2.home
Re: [OT] Re: Evolution 2.30 (squeeze) with exchange
On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 22:29 +0100, Erwan David wrote: I'll try the latest davmail, now I use icedove in Imap (activated on exchange) I've used davmail for several weeks and it seems to work well, but as it slurps data though the outlook web interface email formatting is different (though perfectly acceptable). So I would suggest that if your exchange server has IMAP enabled, connect direct to that for email, but use davmail for callendar and contacts. -- Tixy () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign (www.asciiribbon.org) /\ Against HTML e-mail and proprietary attachments -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1295428651.2366.39.ca...@computer2.home
[OT] Build a single binary deb from source which produces many
As per the Debian FAQ [1] I am building packages from source using: dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -b However, some source packages produce multiple binary packages, is there a way of just rebuilding the specific binary package I'm interested in? (I've tried this out in man pages and using Google.) [1] http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-pkg_basics.en.html#s-sourcebuild Marked [OT] because I was to do this on a Debian derivative; but I am also proper Debian user as well :-) -- Tixy () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign (www.asciiribbon.org) /\ Against HTML e-mail and proprietary attachments -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1295427891.2366.33.ca...@computer2.home
Re: [OT] Build a single binary deb from source which produces many
On Wed, 2011-01-19 at 12:05 +0100, Alberto Luaces wrote: Tixy writes: As per the Debian FAQ [1] I am building packages from source using: dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -b However, some source packages produce multiple binary packages, is there a way of just rebuilding the specific binary package I'm interested in? (I've tried this out in man pages and using Google.) [1] http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-pkg_basics.en.html#s-sourcebuild Marked [OT] because I was to do this on a Debian derivative; but I am also proper Debian user as well :-) Usually this in not worth the effort, since the multiple binary packages are just splitting the products of the compilation for the final users to save installation space. That is, you compile all the project, which is the slower part, and then the resulting files are splitted. I guess I asked for the wrong thing :-) What I wanted was to avoid the hours compilation time for unwanted binary packages. (I'm compiling for ARM in an emulated environment or on slow hardware - and yes, I'm looking at other options to do true cross compilation.) If you can avoid compile the parts that you are not interested in by modifying the rules file, then you can select which things get splitted by messing with the control and *install files. I'll take a look at this, I'm new to debs. I guess I was hoping that there was an existing facility to build just selected outputs, like you would get with make and a good makefile. Thanks -- Tixy () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign (www.asciiribbon.org) /\ Against HTML e-mail and proprietary attachments -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1295507767.2258.21.ca...@computer2.home
Re: approx for new netinst installation
On Tue, 2011-01-25 at 22:17 +, Russell L. Harris wrote: And even if I complete a minimal installation, then a subsequent invocation of tasksel does not offer all the options which are offered during the initial installation. It does if you use tasksel --new-install. man tasksel shows some other options as well. -- Tixy () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign (www.asciiribbon.org) /\ Against HTML e-mail and proprietary attachments -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1296077333.8278.3.ca...@computer2.home
Re: Please help me to evaluate flash/ssd life using vmstat -d
On Fri, 2011-02-04 at 12:34 -0600, R. Ramesh wrote: All, I run a debian firewall on an atom PC running of a 16G flash drive. I am trying understand the amount of disk write performed in order to understand how long my flash is likely to last. [..] Note that the kernel writes do not translate into equivalent size writes into the flash. This is because flash has to be always written in multiples of erase block units (or write allocation size or some such thing). So I like to know how to translate above writes into number of erase-block writes. Assuming you have a standard SSD drive attached via SATA or the like, then you can't make any association between writes issued by the kernel and the actual NAND device writes inside the drive. This is all abstracted by the SSD controller which will have a fancy flash translation layer to do wear levelling and bad block management. -- Tixy () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign (www.asciiribbon.org) /\ Against HTML e-mail and proprietary attachments -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1296858271.6288.38.ca...@computer2.home
Re: Re: Please help me to evaluate flash/ssd life using vmstat -d
On Fri, 2011-02-04 at 18:30 -0600, R. Ramesh wrote: I do not have SSD. I have a USB flash drive - went cheap on this :-) Regardless of the above, still every write by the kernel has to be translated in to NAND writes. I have read in more than one place that these writes will be in units of erase-block size regardless of the kernel IO size. I could be wrong, but I've always understood that you could write less than an erase-block size of data, just that the part of NAND written to can't have previously been used since the last erase. E.g. - Erase 128kB block - Write 64kB to first half of block - Later write 64kB to second half of block - Need to erase whole 128kB block before it can be written to again. I am simply trying to map the X kernel writes in to Y erase-block writes. Note that I do not map it specific erase-block, but to some erase-block. So I only worry about the block counts not the block addresses. That is why my calculations are based on total number of erase-blocks writes available (= 16G/512k*1 = 32768) before the device goes bad. So to me the life of flash is 32768 erase-block writes. Now how many hours is it? To answer this, I need to understand what vmstat -d prints. If I'm right about partial writes to a NAND erase-block, then I don't think that you need to try and factor in erase block sizes, just use the fact that for each byte written a byte must have been previously erased. Assuming that the flash controller only erases full blocks (it won't be that efficient though) then you just calculate the total amount of data that can be written to the disk. In your case, 16GB disk * 1 erases = 160TB data before the disk expires. In my previous job when we were thinking about wear on MMC cards due to demand paging, the calculations showed that if you wrote continuously to the card at it's maximum rate supported it would last several years. It was at that point I stopped worrying about flash wear :-) -- Tixy () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign (www.asciiribbon.org) /\ Against HTML e-mail and proprietary attachments -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1296900453.2339.72.ca...@computer2.home
Re: Pump, dhchp, dns and dnsmasq
On Sat, 2011-02-05 at 15:34 +, T o n g wrote: [...] - The dnsmasq can be used as both dhchp and dns server. This is ideal for a home network. My question is, my router is currently acting as both dhchp and dns server for the moment, if I dedicate a box for dnsmasq as both dhchp and dns server, how would clients on my local network know which server to use? [...] You'll have to disable DHCP on your router so only your new box responds to DHCP requests. For DNS, the DHCP response can give the IP address of the DNS for your clients to use. Add a line to /etc/dnsmasq.conf which says dhcp-option=6,0.0.0.0. (The 6 is the magic number for 'nameserver', and 0.0.0.0 means dnsmasq will use its own ip address in the response to the client.) [...] - When I said the dnsmasq is ideal for a home network, I meant that I hope to be able to give a fixed dhcp lease to a client that sends a particular name -- that way I just have to maintain dnsmasq.conf file on the gateway box for local dhchp and dns, and I don't have to fiddle around finding and recording and entering the MAC addresses for each network card on each machine, and fiddle with the router web interface. Have you done something similar? [...] Why do you need to fiddle with the router web interface? I went the MAC address route, adding a dhcp-host line in dnsmasq.conf for each NIC. E.g. the entry for the machine I'm typing on is dhcp-host=00:28:58:3A:EB:A1,192.168.2.20,computer2,infinite ^ ^^ ^ MAC IP Address hostname lease time That is the only per client config needed. The nice thing about using dnsmasq as DHCP+DNS is that DNS can resolve these hostnames, e.g. ssh tixy@computer2 will work :-) -- Tixy () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign (www.asciiribbon.org) /\ Against HTML e-mail and proprietary attachments -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1296937183.2378.33.ca...@computer2.home
Re: Re: Re: Please help me to evaluate flash/ssd life using vmstat -d
On Sat, 2011-02-05 at 19:10 -0600, R. Ramesh wrote: [...] So what does vmstat -d tell me? Is the number of IO under total column supposed to be the number of IOs issued to the controller with each IO being contiguous N sectors? man vmstat says 'total' is Total writes completed successfully. Vmstat shows the same numbers as cat /sys/block/sda/stat (presumably where it gets them from) and a copy of the linux documentation for this is at http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Documentation/block/stat.txt So yes, it looks like 'total' is the number of contiguous blocks of read or writes. (Though they may not be contiguous once they get onto NAND.) And 'sectors' the total size of all data read or written. -- Tixy () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign (www.asciiribbon.org) /\ Against HTML e-mail and proprietary attachments -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1296984419.2351.18.ca...@computer2.home
Re: Pump, dhchp, dns and dnsmasq
On Sun, 2011-02-06 at 04:07 +, T o n g wrote: In that case, I assume that the dnsmasq server need to be configured to be on a static IP, correct? Any I need to manually set up everything else, like route, etc, correct? Yes, in /etc/network/interfaces I have: allow-hotplug eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.2.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 gateway 192.168.2.1 # ip address of router And in /etc/dnsmasq.conf I tell DHCP clients the router address to use with: dhcp-option=option:router,192.168.2.1 I also added 'no-resolv' to dnsmasq.conf and set /etc/resolve.conf to domain home search home nameserver 127.0.0.1 this is because I manually set the upstream DNS servers' IP addresses in dnsmasq.conf. (I believe by default dnsmasq will use nameservers found in resolve.conf.) I also have my LANs domainname 'home' in dnsmasq.conf domain=home I believe that's my entire setup configuration explained :-) Oh, and resolve.conf can drop common unwanted domains into a black hole, e.g. address=/doubleclick.net/googlesyndication.com/127.0.0.1 -- Tixy () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign (www.asciiribbon.org) /\ Against HTML e-mail and proprietary attachments -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1296986493.2351.43.ca...@computer2.home
Re: Pump, dhchp, dns and dnsmasq
On Mon, 2011-02-07 at 04:27 +, T o n g wrote: On Sat, 05 Feb 2011 20:19:43 +, Tixy wrote: . . . adding a dhcp-host line in dnsmasq.conf for each NIC. E.g. the entry for the machine I'm typing on is dhcp-host=00:28:58:3A:EB:A1,192.168.2.20,computer2,infinite ^ ^^ ^ MAC IP Address hostname lease time That is the only per client config needed. The nice thing about using dnsmasq as DHCP+DNS is that DNS can resolve these hostnames, e.g. ssh tixy@computer2 will work :-) Hmm, why it doesn't work for me. Here is my setting: dhcp-host=00:16:3e:00:00:01,kvm1,192.168.0.1,8h dhcp-host=00:16:3e:00:00:02,kvm2,192.168.0.2,8h On DNSmasq server (maroon): % /etc/init.d/dnsmasq restart Restarting DNS forwarder and DHCP server: dnsmasq. From other boxes, $ dig kvm1 @maroon ; DiG 9.7.1-P2 kvm1 @maroon ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; -HEADER- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 41058 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0 [...] Had kvm1 got it's ip address by DHCP at this point? Dnsmasq doesn't return results for machines until after its served out an address. (It's a bit of a pain if you reboot the dnsmasq server because it doesn't resolve clients until after they've rebooted. I suppose that's the advantage of using the 'hosts' file on the dnsmasq server.) I realise I also have 'expand-hosts' in my dnsmasq.conf (don't think that is relevant to the current problem though, I believe it lets it resolve 'kvm1.your-domain' as well as plain 'kvm1'. BTW, DHCP traffic shows up in /var/log/daemon.log, which is useful for seeing what goes on. -- Tixy () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign (www.asciiribbon.org) /\ Against HTML e-mail and proprietary attachments -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1297063413.2347.10.ca...@computer2.home
Re: Pump, dhchp, dns and dnsmasq
On Mon, 2011-02-07 at 03:15 +, T o n g wrote: On second though, if I dedicate a box for dnsmasq as both dhcp and dns ow this could be arranged. server, can I use a dhcp client on the very box to obtain the fixed IP address configured in dnsmasq? I know this is kind of chicken-egg problem, so I want to make it sure before proceeding. It won't work, there are at least two generations of chicken-and-egg problem in there ;-) 1. For DHCP client on eth0 to work you need the DHCP server listening on eth0, which it can't do until the interface is brought up, which requires DHCP client to complete. 2. DNS server needs a network interface and ip address to talk to upstream which requires the interface to be brought up. This requires DHCP to work, which is the same daemon (dnsmasq) as the DNS server. -- Tixy () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign (www.asciiribbon.org) /\ Against HTML e-mail and proprietary attachments -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1297069747.1913.20.camel@ubuntu
Re: Pump, dhchp, dns and dnsmasq
On Mon, 2011-02-07 at 10:58 +, T o n g wrote: On Mon, 07 Feb 2011 07:23:33 +, Tixy wrote: Had kvm1 got it's ip address by DHCP at this point? Dnsmasq doesn't return results for machines until after its served out an address. . . Ahh... no wonder. Thanks -- what a good relieve. Will try that... I also had another thought, Is kvm1 a virtual machine? If so, does it even get to talk directly to the dnsmasq server or is the host doing NAT and it's own configuration for the guest? -- Tixy () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign (www.asciiribbon.org) /\ Against HTML e-mail and proprietary attachments -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1297077157.2104.37.camel@ubuntu
Re: Pump, dhchp, dns and dnsmasq
On Tue, 2011-02-08 at 04:44 +, T o n g wrote: On Mon, 07 Feb 2011 04:27:06 +, T o n g wrote: $ dig maroon @maroon ; DiG 9.7.1-P2 maroon @maroon ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; -HEADER- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 53975 ;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;maroon.IN A ;; ANSWER SECTION: maroon. 0 IN A 127.0.0.1 ;; Query time: 0 msec ;; SERVER: 192.168.0.100#53(192.168.0.100) ;; WHEN: Sun Feb 6 23:20:41 2011 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 40 This is the problem that I haven't been able to solve -- I was hoping that it will return 192.168.0.100 instead of 127.0.0.1. How can I fix it? My /etc/hosts file on the server has an entry for the server. E.g. 192.168.2.2 servername.home servername so that's probably the answer. (Let me know if it is so I can update my own installation notes :-) I also have a dhcp-host line in my dnsmasq.conf for the server itself, though I can't see that coming into it. (Probably a remnant of those chicken-and-egg problems.) -- Tixy () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign (www.asciiribbon.org) /\ Against HTML e-mail and proprietary attachments -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1297156329.1897.25.camel@ubuntu
Re: skip fsck when booting on battery?
On Mon, 2011-02-07 at 20:59 +0100, Steven wrote: [snipped discussion about slow fsck on large ext3 partitions] Or would in this case another file system be a better option for the large partitions? Ext4 comes to mind. The system is not backed by a UPS so power failures do happen (although not often). ext4 would certainly solve the slow fsck problem; it's prety much instant on a cleanly shut down file system. I haven't heard anything about ext4 journaling being inherently less robust that ext3, though there were lots of discussions about the 'right' mount options for robustness/performance tradeoffs. Might be worth researching. -- Tixy () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign (www.asciiribbon.org) /\ Against HTML e-mail and proprietary attachments -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1297157311.1897.33.camel@ubuntu
Re: Firware drivers?
On Tue, 2011-02-08 at 14:51 +0100, Geronimo wrote: Now its time, to become more pragmatic, which means, debian should offer installation media, that include non-free firmware ... That installation media should be marked as non-free, but I think, it is vital to have it. Many people have to install machines without internet access, so its not possible during installation follow a link or build an additional cd. This will happen mostly in comercial environments, but it happened to me at home too. Which is precisely the reasoning which lead Debian to provide a netinst iso which includes non-free firmware ;-). The press release about the Squeeze release points people to http://wiki.debian.org/Firmware -- Tixy () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign (www.asciiribbon.org) /\ Against HTML e-mail and proprietary attachments -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1297190429.1927.23.camel@ubuntu
Re: Squeeze how to use networked printer?
On Wed, 2011-02-09 at 09:10 -0800, David Christensen wrote: When I go to Swirl - System - Administration - Printing and click Add, nothing happens. If you click the down arrow next to 'Add' you get a to select 'Printer' or 'Class'. Or use the menu Server New Printer. -- Tixy () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign (www.asciiribbon.org) /\ Against HTML e-mail and proprietary attachments -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1297274437.2329.2.ca...@computer2.home
Re: Hardware needed for home network
On Fri, 2011-02-11 at 23:02 +, Chris Davies wrote: If I use a regular Ethernet cable to connect the firewall/server computer to the DSL modem, would it work to use an Ethernet cross-cable and USB-to-Ethernet adapters to provide the connection to my main computer? Are there USB-to-USB cross cables? I'd recommend you keep it simple. Ethernet throughout. Modem --- Firewall/Server --- Switch --- Other system(s) Would another option not be to just get a switch and not bother with a second Ethernet card in the server? This is the setup I run, i.e. Modem - ++ Firewall/Server --- | Switch | Other system(s) --- ++ -- Tixy () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign (www.asciiribbon.org) /\ Against HTML e-mail and proprietary attachments -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1297534704.3648.10.ca...@computer2.home
Re: system beep after upgrade to squeeze
On Sat, 2011-02-12 at 12:32 -0500, Jim Green wrote: Hello: I upgraded from lenny to squeeze, overall it was ok, but I still couldn't silence the system beep.. I had a beep problem in Squeeze recently and finally fixed it using ALSA mixer and muting the 'Beep' slider. (Had to select it a visible first in preferences.) -- Tixy () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign (www.asciiribbon.org) /\ Against HTML e-mail and proprietary attachments -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1297536553.3648.13.ca...@computer2.home
Re: Hardware needed for home network
On Sun, 2011-02-13 at 03:01 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sb, 12 feb 11, 18:18:24, Tixy wrote: Would another option not be to just get a switch and not bother with a second Ethernet card in the server? This is the setup I run, i.e. Modem - ++ Firewall/Server --- | Switch | Other system(s) --- ++ Yes, but only if the modem is also a gateway (NAT + DHCP). My Firewall/Server does the NAT and DHCP, and is the gateway for my home network. The modem just provides my server with a PPP connection to my ISP. I have ADSL, I don't know if the same architecture would work with cable modems. -- Tixy () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign (www.asciiribbon.org) /\ Against HTML e-mail and proprietary attachments -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1297588976.2340.17.ca...@computer2.home
Re: Hardware needed for home network
On Sun, 2011-02-13 at 12:55 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Du, 13 feb 11, 09:22:56, Tixy wrote: On Sun, 2011-02-13 at 03:01 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sb, 12 feb 11, 18:18:24, Tixy wrote: Would another option not be to just get a switch and not bother with a second Ethernet card in the server? This is the setup I run, i.e. Modem - ++ Firewall/Server --- | Switch | Other system(s) --- ++ Yes, but only if the modem is also a gateway (NAT + DHCP). My Firewall/Server does the NAT and DHCP, and is the gateway for my home network. The modem just provides my server with a PPP connection to my ISP. You mean your modem is connected directly to the switch (in bridge mode?), but the server is doing the NAT? Yes, the modem [1] doesn't have any other features. I deliberately chose it for that reason as I wanted everything I could under my complete control. :-) I know this can be done, but is generally not recommended, unless you have very good reasons not to put a second ethernet card in the server and do it properly. My server is a SheevaPlug [2], so no room for another NIC ;-) I couldn't see any practical reason for a second Ethernet interface anyway. There's performance issues when input and output traffic share a single interfaces, but as my ADSL speed is 2% of that of the servers Gigabit Ethernet adaptor, that doesn't really factor in. [1] http://www.draytek.co.uk/products/vigor120.html [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SheevaPlug -- Tixy () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign (www.asciiribbon.org) /\ Against HTML e-mail and proprietary attachments -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1297596912.2916.35.ca...@computer2.home
Re: Hardware needed for home network
On Sun, 2011-02-13 at 15:02 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Du, 13 feb 11, 11:35:12, Tixy wrote: I couldn't see any practical reason for a second Ethernet interface anyway. There's performance issues when input and output traffic share a single interfaces, but as my ADSL speed is 2% of that of the servers Gigabit Ethernet adaptor, that doesn't really factor in. Correct me if I'm wrong, but this means you have two IPs on the same interface, one is public and one is RFC 1918 and all your internal computers are connected directly to the big bad internet (via the switch and the modem). It's not like that, my server's Ethernet interface only has one, private, IP address. The server uses PPPoE to talk to the modem, which translates this into PPPoA to get to my IPSs equipment. So once my server has 'dialled' my ISP the ppp interface on my server ends up with my public address, which iptable rules can NAT, filter and forward to the private IP range. Unless I've fundamentally misunderstood networking, I can't see how connecting the modem to a separate NIC on the server adds any security. (I don't discount me getting something horribly wrong, this setup is only a few weeks old and my first foray into firewalls and routing.) -- Tixy () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign (www.asciiribbon.org) /\ Against HTML e-mail and proprietary attachments -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1297606152.2571.62.ca...@computer2.home
Re: Hardware needed for home network
On Sun, 2011-02-13 at 09:17 -0600, John Hasler wrote: Andrei writes: You seem to assume it is impossible for a packet to reach one of the other internal computers without taking the detour via the server (and it's firewall). Maybe I'm paranoid, but I wouldn't base the security of my internal network on this assumption. If I understand correctly he has the modem in bridge mode and is running pppd on the server (I am doing this as well though I also have two NICs on the server). Thus there is no IP traffic between the modem and the server: just PPP. That's right Even if the PPP packets were to reach one of the other computers they could do nothing with them unless they were also running pppd. I suppose an attacker could seize control of the modem (hard to do when it's in bridge mode) and then launch an attack, though. Modem firmware has a history of being buggy and full of holes. I'd rather not let it have any access at all to my network. NICs are cheap. My setup replaces a consumer wireless/modem/router and I have no reason to suspect that the new modem is more prone to compromise that the old kit. Considering it's a lot simpler, not doing routing or NAT, I would expect it to have less vulnerabilities all other things being equal. -- Tixy () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign (www.asciiribbon.org) /\ Against HTML e-mail and proprietary attachments -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1297621775.2322.17.ca...@computer2.home
Re: Hardware needed for home network
On Mon, 2011-02-14 at 11:19 +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Tixy a écrit : The server uses PPPoE to talk to the modem, which translates this into PPPoA to get to my IPSs equipment. Are you sure of this ? Isn't your modem rather working as a plain ethernet bridge, just transparently forwarding the PPPoE traffic between its ADSL and ethernet ports ? In the UK, its definitely PPPoA to the exchange, and the modem spec says it provides a PPPoE to PPPoA bridge. -- Tixy () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign (www.asciiribbon.org) /\ Against HTML e-mail and proprietary attachments -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1297711890.2333.5.ca...@computer2.home
Re: Hardware needed for home network
On Mon, 2011-02-14 at 11:19 +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Tixy a écrit : The server uses PPPoE to talk to the modem, which translates this into PPPoA to get to my IPSs equipment. Are you sure of this ? Isn't your modem rather working as a plain ethernet bridge, just transparently forwarding the PPPoE traffic between its ADSL and ethernet ports ? If so, then it is an obvious security breach : it is a plain ethernet switch connecting your LAN to the outside world. Thinking about this some more. Even with PPPoE, I can't imagine that the DSLAM in the exchange would be set up to pass and route Ethernet frames down my phone line which had MAC addresses of machines on my private network or which were broadcast packets. Seems like that leaves the telco network open to abuse. Even if the telco network did this, would a home modem just pass these frames through transparently to its Ethernet port? Also, from an efficiency point of view, why send a 48 bits destination MAC addresses down my phone line with each frame? (Or even a source address?). Could use header compression like PPP does, but why bother support it at all? I confess I know too little about any of the facts of this to understand how it all works. Time to do some research. -- Tixy () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign (www.asciiribbon.org) /\ Against HTML e-mail and proprietary attachments -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1297755103.2375.26.ca...@computer2.home
Re: Hardware needed for home network
On Tue, 2011-02-15 at 03:12 -0500, shawn wilson wrote: [... snipped instructions for setting up machine as gateway and router ...] I wasn't the OP, I already had a working setup. If the OP is still reading this branch of the thread he must surely be convinced that a second NIC is the way to go ;-) -- Tixy () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign (www.asciiribbon.org) /\ Against HTML e-mail and proprietary attachments -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1297794808.1941.7.camel@ubuntu
Re: dig knows while ping doesn't
On Thu, 2011-02-17 at 03:59 +, T o n g wrote: On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 03:20:58 +, T o n g wrote: I can't explain the following myself: . . . -- dig knows the host maroon. -- yet ping doesn't know the host maroon. - It actually happens to all of my local hosts short names, unless the domain name is appended. - My DNS server is DNSmasq, the whole setup is blogged at http://sfxpt.wordpress.com/2011/02/06/providing-dhcp-and-dns-services- with-dnsmasq/ For me... tixy@computer2:~$ ping computer1 PING computer1.home (192.168.2.11) 56(84) bytes of data. so the domain 'home' is getting automatically added. What does cat /etc/resolv.conf return? I have domain home search home nameserver 192.168.2.1 I believe the 'search' entry is what makes it work for me. This file is automatically generated by the dhcp client. -- Tixy () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign (www.asciiribbon.org) /\ Against HTML e-mail and proprietary attachments -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1297927464.2312.8.ca...@computer2.home
Re: dd or cp over network: should I use scp?
On Thu, 2011-02-24 at 13:41 +0100, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: Dotan Cohen schreef: I need to dd or cp my laptop's harddrive over the LAN. For a reason that I'd rather not get into I cannot remove the drive from the laptop. Should I just use scp to copy over the LAN? Something like this? scp -r / root@178.63.65.136:/ I would use rsync, as it allows compression rsync -aAXxPz / root@178.63.65.136:/ where -a preserves permissions, modification times etc -A preserves acls -X preserves xattrs -x keeps you in one filesystem (so you won't copy /dev etc.) -P keeps partial copied files for faster stop-and-proceed, and shows a progress bar -z compresses the data stream This should give you an identical copy. Good luck! What about hardlinks? I've always stuck to dd because I'm not confident rsync will give me an exact enough copy to completely restore the original from. -- Tixy () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign (www.asciiribbon.org) /\ Against HTML e-mail and proprietary attachments -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1298553068.2328.6.camel@ubuntu
Re: Launching Evolution when AC power cable is plugged in
On Sun, 2009-09-13 at 17:14 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: Everytime I plug in my AC power cable, Evolution is launched. I think that it is boring, and it should be avoided! Any idea? If you're running Gnome, try changing the keyboard shortcut for Launch e-mail client in System Preferences Keyboard Shortcuts. Now as to why plugging in power might generate an event would match the current shortcut key... Some mismatch between versions of things on the system, like the eeepc-acpi-scripts, or X, or the Gnome desktop version? Are you running a stock Debian distro, or have you added bits from the various Debian and Ubuntu EEEPC projects? -- Jon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Launching Evolution when AC power cable is plugged in
On Sun, 2009-09-13 at 18:32 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: Maybe. Shortcuts are weird-named (as they are in hexadecimal, which is not current, isn't it?) in the shortcut window. I'm running Squeeze and things like volume control shortcuts have human readable names prefixed with XF86. However, these don't work and when I set them by hand they end up with a hex number. Are you running a stock Debian distro, or have you added bits from the various Debian and Ubuntu EEEPC projects? I installed Debian image from http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC/. I added Laptop extensions, but my EEE works quite well. I was surprised as it works clearly better than my other laptops! I'm running a plain vanilla Squeeze on my EEEPC 1000HE and just about every works out the box, even things like Bluetooth file transfer and the WIFI toggle key. The only thing I had to change, apart from the volume shortcut keys, was to enable full Elantech touchpad functionality so I could disable tap-to-click, (see http://www.timdoug.com/log/2009/06/22#elantech_debian). -- Jon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Launching Evolution when AC power cable is plugged in
On Sun, 2009-09-13 at 23:28 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: Are you using the correct keyboard model? Try dpkg-reconfigure console-setup That had no effect on how X saw the keyboard. When I installed Squeeze I had to add a keyboard section in xorg.conf to get a UK keyboard layout rather than US. After experimenting, I've found that the presence of that section caused the other keyboard setting peculiarities, but was worth it to get the '#' an '\' symbols on the right keys. By coincidence, today, Squeeze has just go a new version of xorg and that fixes everything keyboard related :-) -- Tixy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Grub 2
On Fri, 2010-01-08 at 12:33 +, James Allsopp wrote: snip Problem is, I want to use grub2 as the first thing I'm going to do is upgrade to debian testing, which uses this. snip Is there a reason for not just installing Debian Testing rather than trying to get Lenny on there first? The testing install would add Grub2 and I believe that it (and fstab) now use UUIDs to identify drives, which helps avoid hdX/sdX drive identification mixups. I a newbie to a lot of this, so may be talking rubbish. ;-) -- Tixy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Grub 2
On Fri, 2010-01-08 at 13:24 +, James Allsopp wrote: I looked for that install but it seemed to take me back to the penny install site, i'll look again, Jim Look for the 'netinst' iso at http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ I've used that method several times to install Testing; though as the installer is built daily, it may on occasion be broken. I also note that the Changes for Squeeze in Debian Installer¹ says setting up RAID, LVM and crypto is simplified, which you may appreciate. (I've no personal experience of this though.) Cheers -- Tixy [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2010/01/msg2.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: How to connect my ipod?
On Sun, 2010-01-10 at 11:25 +0300, lego_12...@rambler.ru wrote: udev + fstab You should write an udev rule for making something like /dev/ipod when a device is connected to the computer. And then write line like next in the fstab: /dev/ipod /media/ipod vfat noauto,sync,users 0 0 If all that is required is a consistent mount point, then just give a label to the iPod USB mass storage partition. Nautilus should automount removable media to /media/volume-label-name. -- Tixy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: [SOT] Preview pane settings Icedove/ Thunderbird
On Tue, 2010-01-12 at 20:26 +, AG wrote: In Icedove (Thunderbird) v2.0.0.22 on Debian testing is there an option to automatically jump to the bottom of an email using the preview pane to read it? Anybody been able to make that happen, and if so how? I use Evolution for email, but the technique I use in that may work in Icedove. What I do is have the mouse pointer hovering over the preview pane, and use the touchpad/mouse scroll-wheel to scroll down the email to read it. The keyboard focus remains always in my email inbox list, so I can use the cursor keys and keyboard shortcuts to select emails. -- Tixy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Gnome [Nautilus] debuggers: please reopen bug 358731
On Thu, 2010-01-14 at 21:29 +, s. keeling wrote:
What does nautilus do that {mk|rm}dir, cp, rm, mv, chmod, and
chown can't do?
You can add ls, (u)mount, link. gzip and tar to that list ;-)
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Re: graphviz hidden
On Sun, 2010-01-17 at 20:38 +0100, roberto wrote: hello, i have installed graphviz via aptitude on my debian 5.0 and it appears to be in: $ whereis graphviz graphviz: /usr/lib/graphviz /usr/share/graphviz /usr/share/man/man7/graphviz.7.gz but where is the executable ? Typing 'man graphviz' says that it is a 'rich set of graph drawing tools', then goes on to list the set of tools. I guess that there is no executable called graphviz, just one for each tools - like 'dot' or 'neato'. (I have graphviz installed for use by Doxygen, in case you are using it for the same... I have an empty DOT_PATH and that seems to work.) -- Tixy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: console resolution
On Fri, 2010-01-22 at 13:08 -0500, Stephen Powell wrote: snip Jeffrey Cao wrote in another post that grub2 can support the traditional vga kernel option by means of editing /etc/default/grub and adding the line GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=vga=xxx and then running update-grub to update /boot/grub/grub.cfg. But I haven't tried it myself. I'm not going to de-install lilo and install grub2 to find out. snip? I've succesfully used that method to set the screen mode on several Debian Squeeze computers with grub2. That method is currently the only real way, as there is not a clean way to configure gfxpayload yet. (You have to manually patch the Grub scripts, because it hasn't been applied it to the version which Debian ships.) -- Tixy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: File system for linux and windows
On Fri, 2010-01-29 at 20:36 +1100, Alex Samad wrote: I have reliable used ntfs-3g (fuse based ntfs) to write to ntfs partitions with a zero defect rate I have to, but I have noticed that files get horribly fragmented and this doesn't get fixed by the Windows defrag program, or by deleting then recreating files under Windows. It seems ntfs-3g does something permanent to the file system structure. -- Tixy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Debian on EEE -- really nice, but how can I resize windows which already seem to be at their minimal size?
On Mon, 2010-02-01 at 12:21 +0100, Merciadri Luca wrote I am using Debian on this EEE pc for a long time (http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC). It is a Lenny, w. 2.6.26-2-686. Everything is pretty fine, but, as my scr. resolution has only a max. of 1024 x 600 (as I am using a 1000 HE), some of the windows are sometimes too big for my screen, and the buttons are consequently out of sight. The problem is that these windows seem to be unresizeable. snip Here's a tip I read somewhere when I started using my EEE... You can drag any (non-maximised) window around by clicking on it anywhere with the left mouse button whilst holding down the Alt key. That way, you can move it up/left until you see the things you want access to. -- Tixy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Debian on EEE -- really nice, but how can I resize windows which already seem to be at their minimal size?
On Mon, 2010-02-01 at 13:52 +0100, Merciadri Luca wrote: Tixy debianu...@tixy.myzen.co.uk writes: snip You can drag any (non-maximised) window around by clicking on it anywhere with the left mouse button whilst holding down the Alt key. That way, you can move it up/left until you see the things you want access to. For sure. I knew this, but, if the windows is too big (because of the text it contains), moving it this way (or with other shortcuts) only causes it to move horizontally, and not vertically(!) snip I can move windows vertically too - that's what I do to get to menu buttons on my EEEPC 1000HE running Debian Squeeze with the Gnome Desktop. (I'm sure it was the same when I ran Lenny.) -- Tixy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Debian on EEE -- really nice, but how can I resize windows which already seem to be at their minimal size?
On Mon, 2010-02-01 at 15:55 +0100, Merciadri Luca wrote: Tixy debianu...@tixy.myzen.co.uk writes: I can move windows vertically too - that's what I do to get to menu buttons on my EEEPC 1000HE running Debian Squeeze with the Gnome Desktop. (I'm sure it was the same when I ran Lenny.) For sure, me too, but only when they have already been resized, at least to some extent so that their overall size is alpha * beta, where alpha 1, and beta is their original size, i.e. iff they have been resized positively (i.e. augmented). But if they are already minimized, it appears to me to be impossible to reduce them further. I think we may be talking about different things, and misunderstanding each other. I was meaning to talk about moving the position of a window on the screen, not changing it's size. If the buttons in a window are below the bottom of the screen, I move the whole window up so the buttons are visible. This will cause the top part of a window to no longer be visible, as it is now off the top of the screen, but I can click on buttons I need to. -- Tixy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: setting sensor limits fails
On Mon, 2010-02-01 at 17:22 -0500, Stephen Powell wrote: I don't pretend to know anything about this, but isn't there internal circuitry present in the machine that will automatically shut the machine down if it gets too hot? I'm thinking of older operating systems, such as DOS for example, that generally didn't have any kind of sensor management software built in. Being able to manage that kind of thing in an operating system is a nice feature, but I'm not sure if it's essential for safe operation. It seems to me that if the machine were designed properly it would have some default operating characteristics that it will fall back on if it is not being managed by an operating system. You would think so wouldn't you? However, I believe it's all done in software via System Management Mode. I once worked on an OS which we ran on PC hardware for development purposes, and the CPU would regularly 'disappear' off somewhere for a millisecond or more, making it impossible for a modern PC to even keep a bog standard 115kbit/sec serial port UART from underflowing. :-( -- Tixy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Postscript: Grub2 in current Squeeze
On Mon, 2010-02-01 at 17:03 -0800, PETER EASTHOPE wrote: Sorry for the absence of thread connection. This mailer doesn't provide In-reply-to. snip I think it does, check the headers :-) -- Tixy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Unable to download files with epiphany-browser in Squeeze
On Wed, 2010-02-03 at 22:47 -0500, Stephen Powell wrote: OK, guys, I know I must be doing something stupid, but I can't seem to download files with epiphany-browser in Squeeze. [...] Anyway, let's say that I am viewing a web page that has a download link. I move the mouse pointer over it and the message line on the bottom of the screen shows a URL ending in .pdf. I single-right-click on the link, move the mouse pointer over save link as on the pop-up menu, single-left-click on that and ... nothing happens snip I just tried it myself and found the same thing happening. My google-fu must be working better than yours this today ;-) First hit for search term debian epiphany save link as not working gives http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=563056 -- Tixy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Re(2): Postscript: Grub2 in current Squeeze
On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 10:29 -0800, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: On Mon, 2010-02-01 at 17:03 -0800, PETER EASTHOPE wrote: Sorry for the absence of thread connection. This mailer doesn't provide In-reply-to. snip Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2010 10:10:16 +, Tixy debianu...@tixy.myzen.co.uk wrote, I think it does, check the headers :-) The login for the Web based mailer is here. http://webmail.shaw.ca/ The header is minimal. I couldn't find any way to specify an In-reply-to parameter. If you can tell me where it is, I'll happily use it in the future. Err, both the message I just quoted and the one I originally replied to have an In-reply-to header when I look at the message source, and they are correctly threaded by my email program (Evolution). I don't know how the headers got there, but if your mailer didn't do it, then there must be some magic going on somewhere. Or where you referring to a different message not having a thread connection? -- Tixy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: network-manager not connecting automatically anymore
On Thu, 2010-02-11 at 14:44 +0100, Felix H. Dahlke wrote: As of late, I'm not connected to my wired network after booting, and still not when logging into GNOME. eth0 exists and is up, but doesn't have an IP. I used to be connected right after booting. Sadly, I can't tell which version of network-manager I was using then. It's 0.7.999-2 now. snip This could be the problem I reported in bug 568784¹ which was fixed the next day with the release of version 0.7.999-3 to Unstable. -- Tixy [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=568784 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: network-manager not connecting automatically anymore
On Thu, 2010-02-11 at 16:16 -0500, Tom H wrote: If you are using NM, you should not have anything in /e/n/i except for: begin auto lo iface lo inet loopback end unless you change a setting in a file /etc/NetworkManager I do not have NM installed but I think that the file is nmsomething and the setting to change is managed. I am sorry that I cannot be more precise. That's right, it's explaing in http://wiki.debian.org/NetworkManager I have allow-hotplug eth0 in /etc/network/interfaces, so the wired network is still brought up if I boot into single user mode. Having managed=true in /etc/NetworkManager/nm-system-settings.conf means Network Manager will do the right thing and update the network status when plugging and unplugging my laptop. It's possible to both have your cake and eat it. :-) The new Network Manager version also seems to not drop the network connections any more when I log out or shutdown either. This means any network filesystems I have mounted don't have their connection whipped away from under them, which was causing long timeout delays during shutdown. :-) -- Tixy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Intel Atom Processor
On Tue, 2010-02-16 at 10:37 +0100, Marc Olive wrote: El Tuesday 16 February 2010 10:09:34 Warren King va escriure: Which architecture should I use for an Intel Atom Processor? If it's a 64 bits one you should use amd64, otherwise or in doubt use x86. Just for clarity, the usual Debian name for the 32bit Intel CPU architecture is 'i386', this is what your see in iso image names - not 'x86'. -- Tixy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1266315194.2726.7.ca...@computer2.home
Re: reportbug doubt, help PLEASE
On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 10:58 -0500, Tony Nelson wrote: Use reportbug. It will help you file good bug reports. It sends them by email. It also has Integration with mutt and mh/nmh mail readers. When I tried to use the Squeeze version of reportbug last week, it crashed - loosing the details I had typed in. (No, I didn;t report the reportbug bug ;-). Perhaps it didn't like the fact that I don't run an MTA. Using a plain email to report a bug seems safer to me, or at least write a description in a file first, then cut'n'paste it into reportbug so if it crashes you don't lose anything. -- Tixy () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign (www.asciiribbon.org) /\ Against HTML e-mail and proprietary attachments -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1266425670.2780.9.ca...@computer2.home
Re: Intel Atom Processor
On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 08:56 -0800, Mark wrote: snip for some reason Lenny reports dual Atom processors even though the specs for the machine only list one (??). snip I've noticed that as well. The Atom has Hyper-Threading, so it can run two threads simultaneously on one core; that could explain it. -- Tixy () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign (www.asciiribbon.org) /\ Against HTML e-mail and proprietary attachments -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1266426689.2780.15.ca...@computer2.home
Re: Two Lenny problems
On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 22:08 -0500, Stephen Powell wrote: snip As for Opera [...] Normally, a vendor which has packaged a file for installation under Debian but which is not in the Debian archive will give you installation instructions that involve adding an entry to the /etc/apt/sources.list file. See if you can find them on the vendor's web site. snip The instructions for Opera are at http://deb.opera.com/ -- Tixy () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign (www.asciiribbon.org) /\ Against HTML e-mail and proprietary attachments -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1266479359.2908.7.ca...@computer2.home
Re: Extracting Dependencies of a deb package which is not a part of DPKG system
On Tue, 2010-03-16 at 12:24 -0700, Tech Geek wrote: So I downloaded the opera browser deb file - opera_10.10.4742.gcc4.qt3_i386.deb. What I am trying to do is first find out what all packages does this deb file depends on and then install those packages first (using apt-get) and then finally install this deb file (using dpkg -i opera_10.10.4742.gcc4.qt3_i386.deb). snip You could just add Opera's Debian repository to you sources.lst, then installing (and updating) Opera will work like any Debian package. See http://deb.opera.com/ -- Tixy () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign (www.asciiribbon.org) /\ Against HTML e-mail and proprietary attachments -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1268768352.4063.3.ca...@computer2.home
Gnome 2.30 icons (was: Has Iceweasel adopted Chrome's icons?)
On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 08:44 +, Liam O'Toole wrote: You're probably seeing the new (version 2.30) GNOME icon theme. I don't particulary like the new navigation buttons, but I suppose I'll get used to them. I found the new icons don't have enough contrast to be easily distinguishable so I changed the icons theme. Unfortunately, some apps still use the new ones; I'm guessing this may be due to gnome icon symlinks named gtk-*. Once Gnome 2.30 is fully in Squeeze, I'm hoping to find some time to discover what hacks are required to get legible icons again. -- Tixy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1273141362.6253.18.ca...@computer2.home
Re: Gnome 2.30 icons (was: Has Iceweasel adopted Chrome's icons?)
On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 14:43 +, Liam O'Toole wrote: You could try downloading the 2.28 icons and placing them under ~/.icons/gnome. Hopefully they will override the system-wide 2.30 icons. Thanks for the suggestion. I found the old icons at ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gnome-icon-theme/2.28/gnome-icon-theme-2.28.0.tar.bz2 What I did was to copy /usr/share/icons/gnome to /usr/share/icons/gnome_2.28 then overwrote the icons in that with the old ones. Editing the name in the file index.theme means that the old icons now appear as option Appearance Preferences menu for all users :-) -- Tixy () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign (www.asciiribbon.org) /\ Against HTML e-mail and proprietary attachments -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1273164551.2669.11.ca...@computer2.home
Is it possible to login as root with GDM3?
I've just replaced gdm with gdm3 and find that it doesn't seem to be possible to login as root any more. Does anyone know if this can be enabled? The old login screen settings included lots of options including 'allow administrator login'. The new version has very few options. -- Tixy () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign (www.asciiribbon.org) /\ Against HTML e-mail and proprietary attachments -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1274381021.3359.7.ca...@computer2.home
Re: Sed or awk: remove a line from a file
On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 15:19 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: snip I'd like to just remove line 44 from ~/.ssh/known_hosts. Easy to do in VIM, probably even easier to do in sed or awk. snip The -i option edits files in place, so... sed -i 44d ~/.ssh/known_hosts -- Tixy () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign (www.asciiribbon.org) /\ Against HTML e-mail and proprietary attachments -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1275050284.2184.2.ca...@computer2.home
Re: can somebody list contents of linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686? [was: Re: trying to understand/purge linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686]
On Wed, 2010-06-02 at 13:46 -0400, H.S. wrote: snip If somebody has the package linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 on their system someplace (may be even in /var/cache/apt/archives/) or installed, I would like to know its contents. snip snapshot.debian.org might be useful, it archives all debian packages that have been produced. You have a choice of the five different releases of the package you mention at: http://snapshot.debian.org/package/linux-2.6/2.6.32-5/#linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686_2.6.32-5 -- Tixy () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign (www.asciiribbon.org) /\ Against HTML e-mail and proprietary attachments -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1275517535.2078.3.ca...@computer2.home
Re: can somebody list contents of linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686? [was: Re: trying to understand/purge linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686]
Correction... On Wed, 2010-06-02 at 23:25 +0100, Tixy wrote: snapshot.debian.org might be useful, it archives all debian packages that have been produced. You have a choice of the five different releases of the package you mention at: http://snapshot.debian.org/package/linux-2.6/2.6.32-5/#linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686_2.6.32-5 That URL should have been http://snapshot.debian.org/binary/linux-headers-2.6.32-trunk-686/ -- Tixy () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign (www.asciiribbon.org) /\ Against HTML e-mail and proprietary attachments -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1275517975.2078.5.ca...@computer2.home
Re: VLC no longer plays *.wmv video format
On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 20:21 +0100, AG wrote: Up until a few days ago, VLC used to play *.wmv format video files just fine. Now, for some unknown (to me) reason, it no longer does so. I had the same a couple of days ago (I'm running Squeeze). After 'downgrading' all the packages I had from debian-multimedia to the versions in the official Debian distro I found everything worked again; so I assume there is some compatability glitch between the archives. (I've had this before, and have now decided to stick with the official packages.) -- Tixy () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign (www.asciiribbon.org) /\ Against HTML e-mail and proprietary attachments -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1276806591.4959.25.ca...@computer2.home
Re: CPU default frequency is at 75%
On Sat, 2009-09-19 at 10:45 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: However, the whole problem is that it does *not* automatically adjust the CPU freq, according to its load. When doing some video transcoding a while ago, on a Lenny install, I noticed that it was using 100% CPU time with the CPU running at only 1/3rd of its maximum frequency - this was with it set to 'on demand'. Changing the process 'niceness' to less than zero made the CPU crank up to full speed and the video transcoding doubled in speed. So its possible that 'on demand' also means 'but only if you're not too nice' :-) -- Tixy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Building a 2.6.30 kernel that does NOT require initrd
On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 17:34 -0400, Justin Piszcz wrote: Anyone else with grub2 have any advice for Andrew? Is it normal for grub2 to show a blank screen when booting a kernel? When I upgraded to Grub2 last week I was getting a completely blank screen during kernel boot. Eventually I fixed things by editing the linux command line at boot to add vga=795 - this sets the console screen mode to 1280x1024. (After boot the change can be made permanent by adding vga=795 to the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX entry in /etc/default/grub, then running update-grub.) I have noticed that running vbeinfo under grub2 shows modes that I've not managed to get the kernel to handle, e.g. widescreen modes. Giving it one of these modes results in black screens during boot and for my console afterwards. -- Tixy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: How to make Debian/GNome manage network automatically
On Sun, 2009-10-18 at 11:44 +0530, Foss User wrote: I am using Squeeze. The network icon on my GNome desktop always shows a red cross on it. If the network gets disconnected for some reason and I reconnect it again, GNome does not connect to the network automatically. I have to run /etc/init.d/networking restart to reconnect to the network again. I remember that in the stable Lenny, network is managed automatically by GNome or Debian. I would want the same to happen in Squeeze. Please help me. If you comment out the lines for your network interfaces (by putting a '#' at the line start) in /etc/network/intefaces then Network Manager will manage the connections. E.g. from my 'interfaces' file, #allow-hotplug eth0 #iface eth0 inet dhcp Leave the lines for the loopback interface alone though. One drawback I've found is that when shutting the computer down, the networks are disconnected when you logged out of your Gnome session, which happens before any mounted network shares are disconnected. This means I get a hang for a minute or so whilst CIFS times-out trying to unmount. -- Tixy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Security.debian.org confused?
On Sat, 2009-10-31 at 23:02 -0400, Tim Tebbit wrote: Reading this thread made me realize I haven't seen an update for Sid in 2 full days. Perhaps something else is going on. Could be the ftp masters' meeting this week; they seem to have been working hard on developing and testing improvements, and have apologised for 'reduced archive service'. See... http://blog.ganneff.de/blog/2009/10/28/debian-ftpmaster-meeting-we-ar.html -- Tixy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: CD ISO images for the testing release
On Mon, 2009-11-09 at 22:07 -0800, John Jason Jordan wrote: I want a TORRENT that I can download with a bittorrent client like Transmission. I don't want a jigdo, whatever that is. And I want a bootable CD image that will continue the installation over the internet. That is INTERNET, not a local network. The Swedish mirror I get directed to from the UK just now, maxes out my 8Mb/s ADSL line and I downloaded the netinst CD in less than 4 minutes. Why don't you try that? http://laotzu.acc.umu.se/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/amd64/iso-cd/debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso I note that the time between your first post saying your download was too slow, and your last post about trying to get a torrent was five hours. In that time, the 148MB iso could have downloaded even if the rate was 8kB/s. -- Tixy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: results: debian-user's favourite FLOSS (2009)
On Mon, 2009-11-16 at 20:31 -0500, Tim Tebbit wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: I noticed that as well. Kinda sad. Any thoughts as to why? my .02 is that the list doesn't seem to have quite the breadth of traffic it has had before. But that's a cursory observation at best. This seem to back that up. http://lists.debian.org/stats/debian-user.png Perhaps http://forums.debian.net/ took the traffic. That seems to have started at the end of 2004 - about the same time the debian-user list trafic began to decline. -- Jon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Debian Testing query
On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 06:07 -0600, Jack Schneider wrote: Hi, All My /var/log/aptitude shows the last update was 11/12/09. Usually that is almost a daily activity for some upgrade/change. Anyone else seeing this?? I use the main repository http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ and I manually do updates with Synaptic. I have have been getting a trickle of updates each day. Looking at my log files, I had nothing on the 13th, but a small number of updates on every day since. Some common packages I've had updates for are: perl, hal, make, binutils and anacron. -- Tixy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Creating a USB key to install debian
On Sat, 2009-11-28 at 18:20 +0100, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: I am still struggling to create a USB key to install debian. I am following: http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/ch04s03.html#ftn.id318505 Steps: - Pull in the USB key : SanDisk Corp. SDCZ2 Cruzer Mini Flash Drive (thin) - Make sure it is not mounted (check status of 'df') - Check dmesg status and retrieve dev number (/dev/sdb1 in my case) - Clean partition: $ sudo mkdosfs /dev/sdb1 - Copy boot.img.gz: $ wget http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/daily/hd-media/boot.img.gz $ zcat boot.img.gz /dev/sdb1 - When command return, check status of disk: $ sudo cfdisk /dev/sdb1 You need to copy boot.img.gz to the disk /dev/sdb, not the partition /dev/sdb1. I also don't see why mkdosfs would be needed as I beleive boot.img.gz is a binary dump of a whole FAT file system. See http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/446 I've just done this less than an hour ago, and have successfully reinstalled Debian Testing on my netbook. Note, the kernel in the boot.img.gz file has to be the same version as in the iso file, otherwise you will get an error near the beginning of the install about not being able to load kernel modules. -- Tixy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: can't mount ntfs partitions in nautilus using ntfs-3g
On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 20:25 +0800, Chris wrote: Hi, I use nautilus to mount my usb ntfs hard drive, but I can't write to it. If I try to create a directory, I get the message: Error creating directory: Operation not permitted snip I think this is bug 558673 (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=558673). I took a clue from a bug linked to that (554599) and added: #link /sbin/mount.ntfs-3g /sbin/mount.ntfs -- Tixy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: can't mount ntfs partitions in nautilus using ntfs-3g
On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 18:41 +0800, Chris wrote: Thanks. I create a link to mount.ntfs-3g, and it works fine. I also think the link should be created by the package, not the user. Thats what Debian bug 554599 requests: Please create symlink /sbin/mount.ntfs pointing to ntfs-3g. I personally didn't want to wait for any fix to get into the repositories, so I applied it by hand. I guess it's possible that manually adding the link now might cause a problem when installing an fixed DEB package later...? -- Tixy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Msn protocol
On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 12:43 +0100, Roy wrote: Is anyone from you guys using Msn protocol, and unable to bring it up? It has been two/tree days now, unable to use Pidgin or Centerim, and so is a friend of my .. also Debian. Yes, I had problems for a few days using Empathy. I resorted to trying Microsoft's Messenger on Windows; it kept saying that I needed to accept the term and conditions, and it sent me to a site which was unavailable. After Googling, I found many suggestions that you need to login to live.com and accept the terms of service (TOS) when propted. However, I never got prompted when doing this, and ended up setting up a new account - which then worked OK. Funny thing, when I logged in to my old Live account the next day, in order to delete it, I was then prompted to accept the TOS. Which then made my old account work again. G. I note the the TOS say you can't use unapproved third party IM clients. ;-) -- Tixy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: GRUB2 Squeeze
On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 07:01 -0800, Tudod Ki wrote: Two questions only: :) 1 - ~When will Debian Squeeze be stable? Last I heard the plan was to freeze features in March 2010, see http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2009/10/msg2.html You would hope for a release a few months after that. The unofficial Debian motto is that they'll release when it's ready, so don't plan on any rigid dates. 2 - If it gets stable, will it contain GRUB2, so that I don't need to create a separated /boot when using dm_crypt-ed LVM? Yes, the current Testing version (i.e. Squeeze) has had Grub2 for quite a few months. -- Tixy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: GRUB2 Squeeze
On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 08:57 -0800, Mark wrote: Wasn't there an email to this list a couple months ago from an official Debian source that said Debian is adopting time-based release schedules? They announced time based _freezes_ (http://www.debian.org/News/2009/20090729). And that immediately generated a lot of 'heated discussion', prompting the release team to say they were going to revisit its decision on timing of the freeze (http://www.debian.org/News/2009/20090730). The March 2010 freeze proposal was mention by Debian Release Team in http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2009/10/msg2.html -- Tixy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Permissions on USB drive unchangeable
On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 13:28 +, AG wrote: I have a large external USB hard drive on which I store back ups and media files. When last I went to write something to this drive it worked fine. Now the permissions have been changed so that I only have access to the drive but am unable to write to it. If the file system on the drive is NTFS, and you are using Testing or SID, then you might want to look at this thread: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2009/12/msg00491.html -- Tixy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: [Update] Re: Permissions on USB drive unchangeable
On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 16:27 +, AG wrote: I have a large external USB hard drive on which I store back ups and media files. When last I went to write something to this drive it worked fine. Now the permissions have been changed so that I only have access to the drive but am unable to write to it. Therefore, I cannot do back ups nor can I create new directories, etc. snip I think that this is related to the Gnome DE somehow. Well the NTFS issue I mentioned in my previous reply happened a few days ago to those of us using Gnome on Testing/Squeeze. See http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2009/12/msg00575.html -- Tixy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: totem: thumbnails, nautilus properties, playback broken
On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 20:13 -0500, Daniel Armstrong wrote: Hi... I am currently running Debian testing upgraded with the latest Gnome and totem. snip When I open Nautilus: * totem-video-thumbnailer fails to create video thumbnails for almost all formats (only mpeg thumbnails are generated) * totem fails to play the files * Right-clicking on the file in Nautilus and choosing 'Properties' opens a Creating properties window and stops at that point... Mplayer and xine *are* able to play the files... its only totem - and by extension Nautilus - that is having problems with these videos. snip I got something similar and discovered a Debian bug report which had a reply indicating that the problem was with packages in the debian-multimedia archive. Downgrading libavcodec52 and libavformat52 to the ones in the Debian archive fixed the problems for me. -- Tixy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: rolling-back, reverting system upgrades?
On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 16:03 +, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: snip You can also use the fabulous facility of snapshot.debian.net to get specific resources from a particular time in the past. snip It doesn't look like snapshot.debian.net has been updated for a long while. When I last got pointed there, the latest version of the package I wanted was 18 months old. -- Tixy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: totem: thumbnails, nautilus properties, playback broken
On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 09:00 +, Tixy wrote: On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 20:13 -0500, Daniel Armstrong wrote: Hi... I am currently running Debian testing upgraded with the latest Gnome and totem. snip When I open Nautilus: * totem-video-thumbnailer fails to create video thumbnails for almost all formats (only mpeg thumbnails are generated) * totem fails to play the files * Right-clicking on the file in Nautilus and choosing 'Properties' opens a Creating properties window and stops at that point... Mplayer and xine *are* able to play the files... its only totem - and by extension Nautilus - that is having problems with these videos. snip I got something similar and discovered a Debian bug report which had a reply indicating that the problem was with packages in the debian-multimedia archive. Downgrading libavcodec52 and libavformat52 to the ones in the Debian archive fixed the problems for me. Thought I'd just let people know that today's Testing update to gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg makes the debian-mutimedia libavformat52 package work again. -- Tixy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Ugly VGA fonts with console-setup (Squeeze)
On Wed, 2009-12-23 at 21:26 -0500, Stephen Powell wrote: snip And the new grub doesn't support the vga option. To get vga to work I had to install a different boot loader. snip The vga option is deprecated but it works, just add it to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX in /etc/default/grub (then run 'update-grub'). I use this because whatever defaults the system uses leaves me with a completely blank console screen, and grub2 doesn't seem to have provided us with an option to replace vga= yet. -- Tixy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: DUN via bluetooth
On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 21:19 -0400, Celejar wrote: Anyone have dial-up-networking over bluetooth working on Sid? snip In Squeeze, I use the GUI option of blueman and networkmanager, which 'just works' for me. 1. Pair phone (first time only). 2. In blueman, select the phone and then the menu option Device Serial Ports Dial-up Networking Network manager sees this as a new network interface, which it adds to its menu list and connects automatically. -- Tixy () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign (www.asciiribbon.org) /\ Against HTML e-mail and proprietary attachments -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1278766037.2196.12.ca...@computer2.home
