dwww can't read some files

2012-04-26 Thread prad
once in a while i get dwww will not allow you to read the file for instance, when i look for clusterdb by searching for postgresql and choosing the clusterdb link the error message is Access denied dwww will not allow you to read the file /usr/share/postgresql/8.4/man/man1/clusterdb.1.gz the pe

Re: debian 6.0.4 DVD #2

2012-04-26 Thread Dom
On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 2:57 PM, Joe Zien wrote: I installed debian 6.0.4 DVD #1 and it is working fine. Later I downloaded iso's #2 and 3. Tried to boot up #2 iso, won't boot up. How do I install 2 and 3? On 26/04/12 23:28, Dan Hitt wrote: I think that isos #2 and #3 are for getting packages

Logging question

2012-04-26 Thread cletusjenkins
I have a machine that is locking up every few days. It doesn't seem to be doing much when it happens, nor do I see anything in the syslog or messages files. Is there any way to enable extra logging to try to catch what is going wrong? Thanks. -- clet debian is my main squeeze -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: 2 users on desktop, should be one right?

2012-04-26 Thread Joe
On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 14:42:17 -0600 Bob Proulx wrote: > Stephen Allen wrote: > > Joe wrote: > > > Doesn't do it for me, I'm just seeing the pts entry. > > > > Joe, are you on SID? Yes. > > Joe is probably on Sid where this bug is still active: > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cg

Re: debian 6.0.4 DVD #2

2012-04-26 Thread Dan Hitt
I think that isos #2 and #3 are for getting packages from, not booting. So if your /etc/apt/sources.list does not point to a repository on the net, and you try to install a package, the system will prompt you to insert one of those dvds. That is my guess only, because i was really floundering aro

[Solved ?] Re: fsck forced when using /sbin/shutdown

2012-04-26 Thread Steven Post
On Mon, 2012-04-23 at 20:43 +, Camaleón wrote: [...] > > Mmm... what worries me is why an fsck is even needed just because a non- > vital application is not being closed gracefully on shutdown, that's not > something I would consider worth for a fsck >:-? > > Steven, have you considered a ha

debian 6.0.4 DVD #2

2012-04-26 Thread Joe Zien
I installed debian 6.0.4 DVD #1 and it is working fine. Later I downloaded iso's #2 and 3. Tried to boot up #2 iso, won't boot up. How do I install 2 and 3? jozien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@list

Re: iptables service with debian

2012-04-26 Thread Joe
On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 14:13:28 +0500 Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > i run this command > > iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth1 -d 8.8.4.4 -j MASQUERADE > > my client computers able to ping 8.8.4.4 > > but when i "iptables --flush -t nat" it clrear the table but my > client can still ping the

Re: Anyway of keeping gnome2 while upgrading from Squeeze to Wheezy

2012-04-26 Thread Jeremy Allard
Le 26 avril 2012 17:15, James Allsopp a écrit : > Hello, > I want to update from Squeeze to Wheezy but want to avoid Gnome 3 at all > costs, is there a way of doing this successfully? > > Thanks > James > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to > debian-user-REQUEST@lists.**debian.orgwith > a subject

Re: 2 users on desktop, should be one right?

2012-04-26 Thread Bob Proulx
Stephen Allen wrote: > Joe wrote: > > Doesn't do it for me, I'm just seeing the pts entry. > > Joe, are you on SID? Joe is probably on Sid where this bug is still active: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=659957 It should be logging this information to the utmp but doesn't. Th

Re: ..solved: two video cards on Squeeze

2012-04-26 Thread Bob Proulx
Rob Owens wrote: > Actually, I now need to figure out how to make the two screens act as > one. Currently, I can open applications on either screen but I can't, > for instance, drag an application from one screen to the other. I'm not > sure if I can do that with separate video cards, though. In

Anyway of keeping gnome2 while upgrading from Squeeze to Wheezy

2012-04-26 Thread James Allsopp
Hello, I want to update from Squeeze to Wheezy but want to avoid Gnome 3 at all costs, is there a way of doing this successfully? Thanks James -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archi

Re: What kind of digital video camera

2012-04-26 Thread Allan Wind
On 2012-04-27 02:44:19, Augustin wrote: > I am about to purchase my very first digital video camera. I have never > bought > this kind of hardware before, and as a KDE user, I'd like to enquire what the > linux community would recommend. I want a low-to-mid range camera (up to > $500, > more o

Re: Installing the MBR on a new Hard Drive

2012-04-26 Thread Martin McCormick
Gary Dale writes: > Personally, I'd just dd the entire old disk to the new one. Then use > gparted (from a live distro) to resize your partitions. Actually, that is probably the best solution. I did that on a previous disk several months ago and it worked fine > However, since you have already do

Re: Is 1600x1200 screen better than 1440x900? YES

2012-04-26 Thread Sian Mountbatten
On 25/04/12 15:30, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 24 Apr 2012 18:39:54 +0100, Sian Mountbatten wrote: When I replaced my desktop with a new computer, I kept my TFT screen. It has the non-standard size of 1440x900. Recently, I have been wondering if it would be better for me to have 1600x1200 screen.

Re: Backup backup backup -- sound problem SOLVED using a backup

2012-04-26 Thread Sian Mountbatten
On 26/04/12 16:10, Indulekha wrote: Sian Mountbatten wrote: Without knowing the cause of the original problem one cannot really call it "solved" though... Or am I missing something? I was doing something with xbmc (just trying things out), but why it muted sound is beyond me. Because I'm will

Re: What kind of digital video camera

2012-04-26 Thread keith
Augustin wrote: Hello, I am about to purchase my very first digital video camera. I have never bought this kind of hardware before, and as a KDE user, I'd like to enquire what the linux community would recommend. I want a low-to-mid range camera (up to $500, more only if specific features are

What kind of digital video camera

2012-04-26 Thread Augustin
Hello, I am about to purchase my very first digital video camera. I have never bought this kind of hardware before, and as a KDE user, I'd like to enquire what the linux community would recommend. I want a low-to-mid range camera (up to $500, more only if specific features are worth the price

Re: Problem with resolution on Radeon HD 7459 card (Squeeze)

2012-04-26 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 12:32:51 +0900, Han wrote in message : > > ..what happens if you try the radeon driver from backports? > > Or dist-upgrade to wheezy? > > Well, if I change the word fglrx in my xorg.conf to radeon or > radeonhd, it gives me a > black console. > > Actually, I was running whee

Re: Partman-Auto - Multi-Disk OR Use Existing Layout via Preseed

2012-04-26 Thread Matthew Drobnak
Well, that's at least comforting to know that I'm not crazy. :) I wish there was an easy way to get the partitioner code from FAI into d-i. They use parted on the backend as well, but their syntax is a lot simpler, and supports multiple disks. I just can't bring myself to go the whole FAI rout

May Classes and Workshops by Women in Tech and Startup Saturdays

2012-04-26 Thread Sarah Jones
Here is a list of upcoming classes by Startup Saturdays and Women in Tech: Apache Tomcat Class What: 2 day Tomcat training When: Monday and Tuesday April 30th and May 1st - 2012 Time: 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM (each day) Where: Executive Hotel Vintage Court - San Francisco Link: http://eventbrite.us4

Re: Backup backup backup -- sound problem SOLVED using a backup

2012-04-26 Thread keith
Indulekha wrote: Without knowing the cause of the original problem one cannot really call it "solved" though... Or am I missing something? I think I remember him saying he had 'been messing around' before losing his sound; so for him the problem is solved, i.e. he has his system back where it w

Re: Backup backup backup -- sound problem SOLVED using a backup

2012-04-26 Thread Indulekha
Sian Mountbatten wrote: > I was playing a music track while using XBMC when suddenly the sound > stopped. I tried everything I could to restore sound. None of my > multimedia programs produced sound. Even speaker-test produced nothing. > > I tried rebooting, purge xbmc from the system: nothing.

Re: Installing the MBR on a new Hard Drive

2012-04-26 Thread Gary Dale
On 26/04/12 10:02 AM, Martin McCormick wrote: I have made a copy of the / file system from the boot drive on a Debian Squeeze system to a new flash drive as the original drive is about 13 years old, works fine, but I don't want to push my luck too far. I used fdisk to format the new drive

Re: Installing the MBR on a new Hard Drive

2012-04-26 Thread Martin McCormick
Very sorry for the duplicate posting. It looked like the first attempt bounced so I re-sent it and both worked. Martin -- 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

Installing the MBR on a new Hard Drive

2012-04-26 Thread Martin McCormick
I have made a copy of the / file system from the boot drive on a Debian Squeeze system to a new flash drive as the original drive is about 13 years old, works fine, but I don't want to push my luck too far. I used fdisk to format the new drive, made Partition 1 bootable and then used rsync

Installing the MBR on a new Hard Drive

2012-04-26 Thread Martin McCormick
I have made a copy of the / file system from the boot drive on a Debian Squeeze system to a new flash drive as the original drive is about 13 years old, works fine, but I don't want to push my luck too far. I used fdisk to format the new drive, made Partition 1 bootable and then used rsync

Re: Re: How /etc/hosts.allow /etc/hosts.deny and smb.conf play along

2012-04-26 Thread Lou
Hello Clive Thanks for pointing me to to ipcalc, I noticed smb.conf has a commented entry for 127.0.0.0/8 This would cover the whole local subnet: HostMin: 127.0.0.1 HostMax: 127.255.255.254 Does it make sense to cover more than 127.0.0.1 and 127.0.1.1 in /etc/hosts.allow ? I don't kn

Re: Re: How /etc/hosts.allow /etc/hosts.deny and smb.conf play along

2012-04-26 Thread Lou
Thanks for clearing this up Juan and Shawn. I noticed I could change smbd to run in inetd mode if I flip the switch in /etc/default/samba, but I don't known how this would improve things, eventually create new drawback in cifs performance ... so I'll keep it as it is with additional smb.conf e

En Junio XII Congreso Ciencia y Espiritu en Madrid

2012-04-26 Thread Ciencia y Espiritu
XII Congreso Ciencia y Espíritu - Madrid 9 y 10 de Junio de 2012 - El conocimiento y la conciencia, claves para trascender el fin de

Re: Partman-Auto - Multi-Disk OR Use Existing Layout via Preseed

2012-04-26 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 10:15 PM, Matthew Drobnak wrote: > > First, I have to say I love Debian. But I've been struggling with the > preseeding lately. First it was the keyboard layout, as the name has changed > a few times. > But that's been rectified. So, now I am trying to get partitioning righ

Re: Partman-Auto - Multi-Disk OR Use Existing Layout via Preseed

2012-04-26 Thread Matthew Drobnak
Also, if there's a better list to ask this on, please point me to it. Thanks! -Matt On 4/25/12 10:15 PM, Matthew Drobnak wrote: First, I have to say I love Debian. But I've been struggling with the preseeding lately. First it was the keyboard layout, as the name has changed a few times. But

Re: How /etc/hosts.allow /etc/hosts.deny and smb.conf play along

2012-04-26 Thread Clive Standbridge
Hi Tuxoholic, [...] > With this smb.conf tweaking it works fine, but why could smbd/nmbd run past > /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny without those lines in smb.conf? Already answered by Juan Sierra Pons. > To my limited CIDR understandig a /32 mask should restrict access to > 192.168.2.0.

Re: about DSA-2452-1 apache2 -- insecure default configuration

2012-04-26 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2012-04-24 16:57:52 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 24 Apr 2012 18:19:11 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > This is just a workaround. The real problem hasn't been fixed. And this > > means that it is no longer possible to read arbitrary documentation from > > doc directories easily. > > I'm st

Re: Is 1600x1200 screen better than 1440x900?

2012-04-26 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2012-04-25 09:13:35 -0400, Gary Dale wrote: > I replaced my old 21" CRT (I had been running it at 1792x1344x32@75hz) in > favour of a 24" LED monitor running at 1920x1080. That's a drop of .4M > pixels but the really high resolution LCD screens cost a lot more. Unfortunately the loss in vertica

Re: How /etc/hosts.allow /etc/hosts.deny and smb.conf play along

2012-04-26 Thread shawn wilson
Juan is correct. However my two cents - don't rely on hosts.allow and hosts.deny for anything. Just use iptables rules to do this type of thing. Also, most don't consider samba to be a very secure service (last CVE was only a few weeks ago) so be very careful with this service. On Apr 26, 2012 5:3

Backup backup backup -- sound problem SOLVED using a backup

2012-04-26 Thread Sian Mountbatten
I was playing a music track while using XBMC when suddenly the sound stopped. I tried everything I could to restore sound. None of my multimedia programs produced sound. Even speaker-test produced nothing. I tried rebooting, purge xbmc from the system: nothing. Well, this morning, I unpacked m

Re: Single boot EFI Mac install

2012-04-26 Thread Carsten Mattner
On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 10:03 PM, Dan wrote: > On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 2:33 PM, Carsten Mattner > wrote: >> Has anyone successfully installed Debian as a single boot system >> on an EFI Mac? > > What is the advantage of booting Linux directly with EFI instead of > using rEfit? The performance is i

Re: How /etc/hosts.allow /etc/hosts.deny and smb.conf play along

2012-04-26 Thread Juan Sierra Pons
2012/4/26 Tuxoholic : > hi list > > Can somebody explain why smbd and nmbd are not affected by the following > strict ruleset in /etc/hosts* ? > > /etc/hosts > 127.0.0.1       MYHOSTNAME localhost.localdomain localhost > 127.0.1.1       MYHOSTNAME > 192.168.2.10    MYSERVER > > cat /etc/hosts.allow

How /etc/hosts.allow /etc/hosts.deny and smb.conf play along

2012-04-26 Thread Tuxoholic
hi list Can somebody explain why smbd and nmbd are not affected by the following strict ruleset in /etc/hosts* ? /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 MYHOSTNAME localhost.localdomain localhost 127.0.1.1 MYHOSTNAME 192.168.2.10MYSERVER cat /etc/hosts.allow #ALL: localhost 127.0.1.1 192.168.2.0/2

iptables service with debian

2012-04-26 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
i run this command iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth1 -d 8.8.4.4 -j MASQUERADE my client computers able to ping 8.8.4.4 but when i "iptables --flush -t nat" it clrear the table but my client can still ping the destination. i check "iptables-save" is shows that tables are empty. i thought

Re: Single boot EFI Mac install

2012-04-26 Thread Andreas Weber
On 2012-04-25 22:03, Dan wrote: > What is the advantage of booting Linux directly with EFI instead of > using rEfit? The performance is improved if the system is booted with > EFI? No, once running the performance is the same. > Or it is just that it will boot up faster. I do not have a mac, > bu