Re: how do I create a kdm login for non-desktop user

2011-07-23 Thread Mark Charles
On 22/07/11 22:22, Jari Fredriksson wrote: 22.7.2011 14:35, Mark Charles kirjoitti: For remote maintenance I want to add a default user called fixme with no password to the system. If the remote user has problems with their computer they should be able to press Enter and fixme will login

Re: Postfix and virtual_transport = maildrop

2011-07-23 Thread Andrea Ganduglia
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 5:05 PM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, 22 Jul 2011 11:03:25 +0200, Andrea Ganduglia wrote: I have a Debian-box well configured with Postfix+saslauthd+dovecot+spamassassin. Mail accounts are virtual, with password stored into MySQL and messages store into

why didn't /etc/nethack/nethackrc.console install?

2011-07-23 Thread Jude DaShiell
Script started on Sat 23 Jul 2011 07:11:38 AM EDT jude@md:~$ ls /etc/net-al /etc/nethack/ total 9 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Jul 23 07:09 . drwxr-xr-x 120 root root 7168 Jul 23 07:09 .. -rw--- 1 root root 33 Jul 23 07:09

Re: Unison hangs on copy

2011-07-23 Thread Johannes Fichtinger
Hi Victor Am Samstag, 23. Juli 2011 schrieb Victor Munoz: Today, I lost the ability to synchronize between two machines, one had lenny until today morning, and the other was sid. I was using apt-pinning to keep both unison versions compatible. Yesterday night I was able to sync both

Re: IDT High Definition Audio Codec soundcard

2011-07-23 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 22 Jul 2011 23:10:58 +0200, Andreas Berglund wrote: On 2011-07-22 17:35, Camaleón wrote: IDT is a very generic Sigma chipset. You will have to dig a bit into your system to find out more information about the codec it uses. For instance, give us the output of: cat

Re: Unison hangs on copy

2011-07-23 Thread Roger Leigh
On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 01:36:33PM +0200, Johannes Fichtinger wrote: Am Samstag, 23. Juli 2011 schrieb Victor Munoz: Today, I lost the ability to synchronize between two machines, one had lenny until today morning, and the other was sid. I was using apt-pinning to keep both unison

Re: problem with ISA SB 16

2011-07-23 Thread Long Wind
To Ivan:        What's in /dev/sndstat? Use the ls command? It shows it's linked to a file in /proc To Camaleón: Thanks! You always offer help when I seek help. The card is correctly installed, so MS Windows and etch can use it. The problem is with lenny. I will install a PCI sound card,

Re: Download Debian live CD testing?

2011-07-23 Thread news
opts! , sorry, pardon me, please apologise myself ,excuse me, disculpe yo for the non bis in idem of last day , maybe found something maybe useful (some said interesting) : http://live.debian.net/ with my best mr thuillier-charmet 23-07-2011 Hi, a colleague just asked where they can

Re: Backup Software

2011-07-23 Thread Tixy
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

Re: Unison hangs on copy

2011-07-23 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
On 07/23/2011 07:36 AM, Johannes Fichtinger wrote: Hi Victor Am Samstag, 23. Juli 2011 schrieb Victor Munoz: Today, I lost the ability to synchronize between two machines, one had lenny until today morning, and the other was sid. I was using apt-pinning to keep both unison versions

Re: rsync backup question

2011-07-23 Thread lee
Thomas H. George li...@tomgeorge.info writes: I partitioned a 1 TG usbdrive as ext3, mounted it as /usbmem [...] My object had been to backup everything before moving from Squeeze to Wheezy Any Suggestions? There isn't much point in using rsync since you're neither copying to a remote

limiting email sizes when sending files

2011-07-23 Thread lee
Hi, what's there in Debian to mail files in parts with each part limited to a given maximum size? I need a commandline tool to do this --- metamail doesn't seem to exist anymore. -- http://www.asciiribbon.org/ http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1855 http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html -- To

Re: Unison hangs on copy

2011-07-23 Thread Randy Kramer
On Saturday 23 July 2011 08:25:10 am Roger Leigh wrote: I use unison several times a day to sync over 100GiB of data. I see it stall quite frequently. I think it's a bug in unison, possibly timing related. I see it only when syncing over the internet on a DSL connection, not over a LAN.

Re: 6rd vs. interfaces(5)

2011-07-23 Thread Johan Kullstam
Ivan Shmakov i...@gray.siamics.net writes: Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com writes: On Jul 21, 2011, at 3:29 AM, Ivan Shmakov wrote: […] And in the case of NAT'ed IPv4, it's still possible to register for a free-of-charge tunnel service at http://sixxs.net/ and use AICCU (# apt-get

Re: limiting email sizes when sending files

2011-07-23 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 23 Jul 2011 15:09:20 +0200, lee wrote: what's there in Debian to mail files in parts with each part limited to a given maximum size? I need a commandline tool to do this --- metamail doesn't seem to exist anymore. I use a custom script for that task that basically uses split (to cut

Re: problem with ISA SB 16

2011-07-23 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 23 Jul 2011 20:49:51 +0800, Long Wind wrote: To Camaleón: Thanks! You always offer help when I seek help. The card is correctly installed, so MS Windows and etch can use it. The problem is with lenny. I will install a PCI sound card, it's easy Thanks anyway! ISA cards need to be

Re: Backup Software

2011-07-23 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 23 Jul 2011 14:10:34 +0100, Tixy wrote: 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 +

[OT] BIOS Power On by PS/2 Keyboard

2011-07-23 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, Since about 6 months I have an Asus M4N98TD EVO mobo. Very satisfied with it. It has a feature on its BIOS that got me stumped. BIOS has a Power Menu that has a submenu of APM configuration. APM configuration has an item Power On by PS/2 Keyboard that I had set to space bar. But I was

Re: Daisy/MP3 player

2011-07-23 Thread lee
Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com writes: I am wanting to mount a Daisy/MP3** player as a block device to get access to the files on it. dmesg* lists it, but I am not succeeding in finding its device name. fdisk -luc -- http://www.asciiribbon.org/ http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1855

Re: problem that ext3 not recognized on 4G usb external drive freshly formated. only ext2

2011-07-23 Thread lee
Mitchell Laks ml...@post.harvard.edu writes: Rashi:/home/mlaks# fdisk /dev/sdd Better use fdisk -luc as suggested in the warning. Rashi:/home/mlaks# mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdd1 mkfs -t ext3 ... Rashi:/home/mlaks# mount -t ext2 /dev/sdd1 /mnt What do you expect when you explicitly mount the FS as

Re: GPU hang EQ overflowing. The server is probably stuck in an infinite loop

2011-07-23 Thread lee
José Silva jsantossi...@hotmail.com writes: On 22/07/11 10:41, lee wrote: there. Furthermore, I looked at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Troubleshooting/Freeze which says that a backtrace on Xorg.0.log is a non-symptom because this isn't an X crash. So, I guess the debugging xserver won't give

Re: IDT High Definition Audio Codec soundcard

2011-07-23 Thread lee
Andreas Berglund andreas.bergl...@home.se writes: result of aplay -L Did you turn up the volume with alsamixer? -- http://www.asciiribbon.org/ http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1855 http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: why didn't /etc/nethack/nethackrc.console install?

2011-07-23 Thread lee
Jude DaShiell jdash...@shellworld.net writes: Script started on Sat 23 Jul 2011 07:11:38 AM EDT [...] see http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html -- http://www.asciiribbon.org/ http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1855 http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: [OT] BIOS Power On by PS/2 Keyboard

2011-07-23 Thread lee
Hugo Vanwoerkom hvw59...@care2.com writes: Now what has me stumped is that even though Power on by PS/2 Keyboard is disabled, I can still power on the system by hitting the space bar twice. And it seems that the keyboard errors have disappeared. Well, I consider a mainboard that does this as

Re: Backup Software

2011-07-23 Thread lee
Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: Encryption at software level adds an extra layer of incompatiblity I prefer to avoid for backups. What is incompatible about creating an archive with tar and then encrypting it with gpg? -- http://www.asciiribbon.org/ http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1855

Re: limiting email sizes when sending files

2011-07-23 Thread lee
Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: On Sat, 23 Jul 2011 15:09:20 +0200, lee wrote: what's there in Debian to mail files in parts with each part limited to a given maximum size? I need a commandline tool to do this --- metamail doesn't seem to exist anymore. I use a custom script for that

Re: [OT] BIOS Power On by PS/2 Keyboard

2011-07-23 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 23 Jul 2011 09:20:22 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: (...) APM configuration has an item Power On by PS/2 Keyboard that I had set to space bar. But I was getting errors on my keyboard. So I bought a new keyboard, which had exactly the same errors, so the problem was not the keyboard.

Re: Unison hangs on copy

2011-07-23 Thread Victor Munoz
On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 01:36:33PM +0200, Johannes Fichtinger wrote: Hi Victor Am Samstag, 23. Juli 2011 schrieb Victor Munoz: Today, I lost the ability to synchronize between two machines, one had lenny until today morning, and the other was sid. I was using apt-pinning to keep both

Re: /run pointing to /var/run instead of the opposite

2011-07-23 Thread Alejandro Exojo
El Viernes, 22 de Julio de 2011, Sven Joachim escribió: On 2011-07-22 16:44 +0200, Alejandro Exojo wrote: I'm running Debian unstable, and I have a chroot environment where I have another Debian unstable installation. Today I've updated the chroot environment because it was very dated, and

Re: Unison hangs on copy

2011-07-23 Thread Victor Munoz
On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 01:25:10PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: I use unison several times a day to sync over 100GiB of data. I see it stall quite frequently. I think it's a bug in unison, possibly timing related. I see it only when syncing over the internet on a DSL connection, not over a

Re: limiting email sizes when sending files

2011-07-23 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 23 Jul 2011 17:18:35 +0200, lee wrote: Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: On Sat, 23 Jul 2011 15:09:20 +0200, lee wrote: what's there in Debian to mail files in parts with each part limited to a given maximum size? I need a commandline tool to do this --- metamail doesn't seem

Re: Unison hangs on copy

2011-07-23 Thread Victor Munoz
On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 09:21:22AM -0400, Randy Kramer wrote: On Saturday 23 July 2011 08:25:10 am Roger Leigh wrote: I use unison several times a day to sync over 100GiB of data. I see it stall quite frequently. I think it's a bug in unison, possibly timing related. I see it only when

Re: Backup Software

2011-07-23 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 23 Jul 2011 17:08:48 +0200, lee wrote: Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: Encryption at software level adds an extra layer of incompatiblity I prefer to avoid for backups. What is incompatible about creating an archive with tar and then encrypting it with gpg? Nothing... unless

Re: Unison hangs on copy

2011-07-23 Thread Victor Munoz
On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 09:10:12AM -0400, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: In reviewing /var/log/aptitude I notice that the only dependency of unison-gtk that was upgraded in the past couple of days was libc6 (2.13-7 - 2.13-10), and that was during yesterday's upgrade session -- just before the

Re: Unison hangs on copy

2011-07-23 Thread Victor Munoz
Just noticed that my replies today to this thread went with copy to the individual posters and the list... Sorry for the duplicate emails. Victor -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: LaTeX to HTML converters and comments.

2011-07-23 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 22 Jul 2011 09:19:47 -0800, peasthope wrote: tth converts LaTeX to HTML nicely but strips the comments. The manual remarks % Comments. Simply removed. Can anyone suggest a converter which encloses each comment in !-- --? Just out of curiosity, I have been looking for this and could

Re: Unison hangs on copy

2011-07-23 Thread Randy Kramer
On Saturday 23 July 2011 11:51:26 am Victor Munoz wrote: On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 09:21:22AM -0400, Randy Kramer wrote: With very large files, it is not surprising to see the link quiet for periods of time while calculations are being done at each end. In this case, there are no big files or

Re: [OT] BIOS Power On by PS/2 Keyboard

2011-07-23 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 23 Jul 2011 09:20:22 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: (...) APM configuration has an item Power On by PS/2 Keyboard that I had set to space bar. But I was getting errors on my keyboard. So I bought a new keyboard, which had exactly the same errors, so the problem was not

Re: [OT] BIOS Power On by PS/2 Keyboard

2011-07-23 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
lee wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom hvw59...@care2.com writes: Now what has me stumped is that even though Power on by PS/2 Keyboard is disabled, I can still power on the system by hitting the space bar twice. And it seems that the keyboard errors have disappeared. Well, I consider a mainboard that

Re: OT: Software that will populate a database from csv data?

2011-07-23 Thread George
On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 1:11 PM, Liam O'Toole otoo...@otoole.dyndns.org wrote: In gmane.linux.debian.user, you wrote: I'm looking for software that will accept as input a csv file and a database schema and will populate the database with the data in the csv. I'm not talking about something

Re: OT: Software that will populate a database from csv data?

2011-07-23 Thread George
011/7/22 Stanisław Findeisen s...@eisenbits.com: I don't know of any such software but I could write something like this for you as a paid assignment. Are you interested? I've already started working on it, using sqlalchemy to provide an ORM solution along with it. Thanks for the offer though.

Re: limiting email sizes when sending files

2011-07-23 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, lee wrote: what's there in Debian to mail files in parts with each part limited to a given maximum size? I need a commandline tool to do this --- metamail doesn't seem to exist anymore. It would be far better to host files somewhere and send a link or links to the hosted files. Today

Re: [OT] BIOS Power On by PS/2 Keyboard

2011-07-23 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 23 Jul 2011 11:18:41 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Camaleón wrote: (...) Anyone venture an explanation? You mean that although you have that option turned off in the BIOS you can still start your computer -from a cold state, not from suspension nor hibernation- when you hit the

Re: [OT] BIOS Power On by PS/2 Keyboard

2011-07-23 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 23 Jul 2011 11:18:41 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Camaleón wrote: (...) Anyone venture an explanation? You mean that although you have that option turned off in the BIOS you can still start your computer -from a cold state, not from suspension nor hibernation-

Re: GPU hang EQ overflowing. The server is probably stuck in an infinite loop

2011-07-23 Thread José Silva
On 23/07/11 15:12, lee wrote: Hm, I can imagine that intel_gpu_dump tries to load (i. e. mmap() )some file which isn't there because the X server didn't crash and thus gives you the error message that it cannot mmap() a file that doesn't exist. Thank you for helping. You're saying in [1]

Re: pppoeconf can't find new Verizon DSL modem

2011-07-23 Thread Thomas H. George
On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 04:28:25PM +0530, Mahesh T Pai wrote: Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: Maybe you only need to set the new modem with the same parameters (local IP address -or dhcp- settings, username/pass, etc...) of the old one. Also, review pppoeconf logs. That

no recent Squeeze updates

2011-07-23 Thread Marty
I have not gotten any package updates, including security upgrades, in any of my Squeeze systems for at least two weeks. In my experience this is unprecedented. I have not changed my apt config or sources.list. Is there a change in the update policy? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: limiting email sizes when sending files

2011-07-23 Thread lee
Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: On Sat, 23 Jul 2011 17:18:35 +0200, lee wrote: Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: Yeah, that's what I thought of doing if there isn't a better option. How do you handle the mime stuff in your script so that the recipient can extract the file from the

Re: [OT] BIOS Power On by PS/2 Keyboard

2011-07-23 Thread lee
Hugo Vanwoerkom hvw59...@care2.com writes: lee wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom hvw59...@care2.com writes: Now what has me stumped is that even though Power on by PS/2 Keyboard is disabled, I can still power on the system by hitting the space bar twice. And it seems that the keyboard errors have

Re: limiting email sizes when sending files

2011-07-23 Thread lee
Andrew McGlashan andrew.mcglas...@affinityvision.com.au writes: Hi, lee wrote: what's there in Debian to mail files in parts with each part limited to a given maximum size? I need a commandline tool to do this --- metamail doesn't seem to exist anymore. It would be far better to host

Re: Backup Software

2011-07-23 Thread lee
Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: On Sat, 23 Jul 2011 17:08:48 +0200, lee wrote: Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: Encryption at software level adds an extra layer of incompatiblity I prefer to avoid for backups. What is incompatible about creating an archive with tar and then

Re: GPU hang EQ overflowing. The server is probably stuck in an infinite loop

2011-07-23 Thread lee
José Silva jsantossi...@hotmail.com writes: On 23/07/11 15:12, lee wrote: You're saying in [1] that you have disabled GPUs to save power. Is the problem still there when don't disable the GPUs? Obviously I only disabled the nvidia GPU, [...] Ok, so I remove the module, even renamed the

Re: [OT] BIOS Power On by PS/2 Keyboard

2011-07-23 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 23 Jul 2011 11:18:41 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Camaleón wrote: (...) Anyone venture an explanation? You mean that although you have that option turned off in the BIOS you can still start your computer -from a cold state, not from

Re: [OT] BIOS Power On by PS/2 Keyboard

2011-07-23 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
lee wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom hvw59...@care2.com writes: lee wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom hvw59...@care2.com writes: Now what has me stumped is that even though Power on by PS/2 Keyboard is disabled, I can still power on the system by hitting the space bar twice. And it seems that the keyboard

Re: Backup Software

2011-07-23 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
mark wrote: On Wednesday 20 July 2011 11:52:45 pm Ethan Rosenberg wrote: Dear List - What software would you recommend to backup a Debian system on a stand-alone computer? I've used mondoarchive for years. It works and is well supported by the author and community. It is NOT GUI based.

Re: no recent Squeeze updates

2011-07-23 Thread Graham
On Sat, 23 Jul 2011 15:40:34 -0400 Marty mar...@ix.netcom.com wrote: I have not gotten any package updates, including security upgrades, in any of my Squeeze systems for at least two weeks. In my experience this is unprecedented. I have not changed my apt config or sources.list. Is there a

Re: ssh: no route to host

2011-07-23 Thread François TOURDE
Le 15177ième jour après Epoch, Camaleón écrivait: No route to host usually means I cannot see the machine at all and I cannot see the machine at all usually involves: a) SSH service is not running on the client b) IP of the client is unreachable I don't agree with that. No route to host

Re: no recent Squeeze updates

2011-07-23 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2011-07-23, Marty mar...@ix.netcom.com wrote: I have not gotten any package updates, including security upgrades, in any of my Squeeze systems for at least two weeks. In my experience this is unprecedented. I have not changed my apt config or sources.list. Is there a change in the

Re: vbox sid invalid mcookie

2011-07-23 Thread Cousin Stanley
Liam O'Toole wrote: I think something is broken in the terminal emulator. You are able to launch gnome-terminal itself (presumably from the menu or the Alt-F2 dialog), Yes gnome-terminal menu // Alt-F2 lxterminal desktop icon // Alt-F2 xterm

Re: pppoeconf can't find new Verizon DSL modem

2011-07-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Forwarded Message From: Thomas H. George li...@tomgeorge.info To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: pppoeconf can't find new Verizon DSL modem Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2011 14:53:46 -0400 I'm a PPPoE user too, we are dinos :(. No issues for my ADSL modem when using

urlsnarf (dsniff) segfaulting

2011-07-23 Thread Celejar
urlsnarf (from the dsniff package) always segfaults on startup on my system (uptodate Sid). I reported a bug, but haven't gotten any response. Anyone else either seeing this, or having a working urlsnarf? Any suggestions? http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=633926 Celejar --

Re: limiting email sizes when sending files

2011-07-23 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, lee wrote: Andrew McGlashan andrew.mcglas...@affinityvision.com.au writes: What's the point of having good internet connections when you can't use them? Making your files publicly available by uploading them somewhere or by setting up your own web server may not be what you want. What,

Re: limiting email sizes when sending files

2011-07-23 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, lee wrote: what's there in Debian to mail files in parts with each part limited to a given maximum size? I need a commandline tool to do this --- metamail doesn't seem to exist anymore. This problem _should_ _not_ exist. How horrible to need to piece together parts again later. Think

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