what is ri in dpkg -l about?

2015-11-28 Thread alberto fuentes
desired = remove, status = install I dont remember marking this packages in anyway, nor are they removed on a full-upgrade or autoremove. So what are these packages about? $ dpkg -l |grep -vE ^ii Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold |

Re: Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-22 Thread alberto fuentes
Pretty damn inconvenient and un-discoverable if you ask me. So I think this deserves a bug report. Don't get carried away and start typing. #758902 Yeah, This bug is bound to bite everybody at least one... probably more Severity of this regresion bug is wishlist and maintainer doesn't

we want you ☞ (debconf subtitles effort)

2014-08-25 Thread alberto fuentes
Did you ever wanted to help but werent sure what to do? we want you! We are trying to create subtitles for the debconf talks. Theres no technical requirement at all and you might learn a couple of technical things after you are done if you want! As a perk, you will have early access to debconf

Re: the importance of defaults ( was: Debian default desktop environment )

2014-04-13 Thread alberto fuentes
On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 6:51 AM, Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 12:17:47PM +0200, alberto fuentes wrote: tl;dr http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/tldr In this case I used it like, my mail is just my own opinion and if you dont want to read the mail of yet

the importance of defaults ( was: Debian default desktop environment )

2014-04-12 Thread alberto fuentes
tl;dr go to [0] On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 1:06 PM, Ghislain Vaillant ghisv...@gmail.com wrote: My vote would be on GNOME 3 classic for now, but XFCE with sensible and visually appealing defaults would do it for me too. You are all facing different experiences with end-users because end-users are

Re: Failed dist-upgrade of 7.1/wheezy and can't reboot/halt (sysvinit related)

2014-03-13 Thread alberto fuentes
On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 10:28 PM, Russell Warren r...@perspexis.com wrote: Ow. Uninstalling the running init is likely to cause problems. If possible, install upstart and sysvinit alongside each other... No, wait. upstart conflicts with sysvinit. I would suggest that, unless you meant to

iceweasel default applications

2014-03-10 Thread alberto fuentes
I run jessie version of iceweasel. These are the default applications on a new profile http://i.imgur.com/bwdD6J6.png It does not recognize most of my applications nor it save after i select one manually after clicking a link bug or feature? Thanks aL -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: How get login history on NIS server during all months?

2013-07-04 Thread alberto fuentes
On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 3:37 PM, Markos mar...@c2o.pro.br wrote: But I have another doubt. This log only the login at this machine. But how to log the autentication of other machines at the NIS server? How keep the login history of NIS clients at only one file at NIS server? Is there any

ec2 image not starting after dist-upgrade

2013-07-03 Thread alberto fuentes
Hi! Im running testing/sid. After last dist-upgrade image refuses to start. I pasted the output from aws at the end of the mail I think this is the key --ERROR Invalid kernel: xc_dom_probe_bzimage_kernel: unknown compression format. I read somewhere about grub having problems with xz images, but

Re: Evolution error message

2013-07-03 Thread alberto fuentes
Does /home/myuser/.local/share/evolution/mail/local exist? what permissions does the folder have? do you have free space in your partition? I dont use evolution, but there must be in the configuration of your account somewhere that tells you the path where your mails is trying to get saved. check

Re: Updating remote system (testing) through aptitude - non-bootable ... was it intel-microcode?

2013-07-03 Thread alberto fuentes
On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 12:35 PM, Johannes Graumann johannes_graum...@web.de wrote: Hi, I administer a remote server running testing and updated it yesterday (apt history and dpkg log below). After that the system wouldn't reboot. I have access through the hosting companies rescue system and

Fwd: simulating a large Windows domain with Samba

2013-07-03 Thread alberto fuentes
On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 9:26 PM, Rob Owens row...@ptd.net wrote: The Domain controller will be an actual Windows machine, but for my test I need to have a very large number of computers added to that domain. I was thinking perhaps a single Linux system running Samba could masquerade itself

Re: How get login history on NIS server during all months?

2013-07-03 Thread alberto fuentes
On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 4:02 PM, Markos mar...@c2o.pro.br wrote: The command last -f /var/log/wtmp.1 shows only the month before. Is there any way to get this information? Im afraid that info is lost. Unless you have more of those /var/log/wtmp* logs around... The retention period of that log

Re: virtual host

2013-07-03 Thread alberto fuentes
On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 7:12 PM, Pol Hallen de...@fuckaround.org wrote: 1) what should be better: have two only log files (access and error) merged from each virtual host, or a separate virtual host file of each virtual host? This is a matter of taste more than anything else. Even more if you

Re: apache (debian 7) missed chroot module

2013-07-03 Thread alberto fuentes
Ive looked a little at this recently and the best i could come up with is, you either run apache in lxc or you run apache with different users. I run it with different users. There is a helper in /usr/share/doc/apach2/mutiuser.sh or something like that. You have to create the users yourself. It

Re: virtual host

2013-07-03 Thread alberto fuentes
On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 8:49 PM, Pol Hallen de...@fuckaround.org wrote: I mean users owner of own virtual host can see own logs. But if there're any security problem by log I prefer deny access to error.log (and permit only access.log [also for purpose statitics]) How are you going to allow

Re: calling in gnome active window via process number

2013-07-03 Thread alberto fuentes
wmctrl -a something in tittle of the window wmctrl -l #list windows There are several more command to play with this, but wmctrl can probably do what you want Hope it helps On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 1:36 PM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan sir...@gmail.com wrote: for example there is a GUI application XYZ

Re: debtorrent - how to limit the used space

2013-07-03 Thread alberto fuentes
On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 9:03 PM, Jean-Marc jean-m...@6jf.be wrote: Hi everybody, I use debtorrent but it uses a lot of space (1.8G / 2.7G) from my /var FS. Any idea how to limit this to max. 1G ? I dont know specifics about debotrrent, maybe there is some parameter, but you could just put

Re: ec2 image not starting after dist-upgrade

2013-07-03 Thread alberto fuentes
On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 7:52 PM, alberto fuentes paj...@gmail.com wrote: I think this is the key --ERROR Invalid kernel: xc_dom_probe_bzimage_kernel: unknown compression format. I read somewhere about grub having problems with xz images, but not sure how to fix it. So far I tried to change

Re: connect directly to another computer bypassing firewalls using a third server

2013-04-19 Thread alberto fuentes
On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 1:24 PM, Pascal Hambourg pas...@plouf.fr.eu.orgwrote: I guess the OP means packets instead of packages. Some languages have the same word for packet and package. However I cannot figure out clearly what he is asking for either. Yes. I never noticed packages and

Re: connect directly to another computer bypassing firewalls using a third server

2013-04-19 Thread alberto fuentes
On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 5:00 PM, alberto fuentes paj...@gmail.com wrote: A (me) - Server (overseas) - B (arbitrary computer in my city) To make it a little more clear. Both computer A and B know about Server. Right now I use openvpn to bring all the computers together into the same network

Re: connect directly to another computer bypassing firewalls using a third server

2013-04-19 Thread alberto fuentes
On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 6:32 PM, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: alberto fuentes wrote: A (me) - Server (overseas) - B (arbitrary computer in my city) To make it a little more clear. Both computer A and B know about Server. Right now I use openvpn to bring all the computers together

Re: connect directly to another computer bypassing firewalls using a third server

2013-04-19 Thread alberto fuentes
On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 6:56 PM, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: Since alberto said that both A and B know about Server then NAT traversal shouldn't be needed. Actually I want to connect from A to B directly, so nat traversal seems nice, but I cant try it right now... when I have the

Re: connect directly to another computer bypassing firewalls using a third server

2013-04-19 Thread alberto fuentes
On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 10:29 PM, alberto fuentes paj...@gmail.com wrote: Actually I got the idea from filetea [0] I just checked it out. Its less magical than I thought. It *does* use the server to route all packets :(

connect directly to another computer bypassing firewalls using a third server

2013-04-18 Thread alberto fuentes
Its a long shot because i can really picture how could it work I know I can connect using the third server, but I just want to use the server to establish the connection Any ideas :)

Re: connect directly to another computer bypassing firewalls using a third server

2013-04-18 Thread alberto fuentes
On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 11:27 PM, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: alberto fuentes wrote: Subject: connect directly to another computer bypassing firewalls using a third server Its a long shot because i can really picture how could it work I know I can connect using the third server

Re: bind alt + . in bash vi mode

2012-11-23 Thread alberto fuentes
This took me too long to figure it out but in case anybody else was wondering how to do this. This is the correct line... bind -m vi-insert '\e.: yank-last-arg' On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 8:36 PM, alberto fuentes paj...@gmail.com wrote: I set it to emacs set -o emacs then i saw

switching ESC and CAP LOCK in xcfe

2012-08-03 Thread Alberto Fuentes
i have this ~/.Xmodmap [0] to switch CAP LOCK and ESC but its not executed when login into xfce :S Also, I execute manually with xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap but it switch back to orinal conf within a random period of time and im not sure why... Im running latest wheezy Thank you! [0] $ cat .Xmodmap

Re: What to do when testing come to stable on a Debian wheezy/sid?

2012-06-22 Thread Alberto Fuentes
On 06/22/2012 04:15 AM, Greg Madden wrote: 1. 'APT::Default Release' in '/etc/apt/apt.conf I think apt.conf is no longer there... At least its long since last time i saw it... I just created a file in apt.conf.d/00default with such directive greets! aL -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: journaling on EXT3

2012-06-19 Thread Alberto Fuentes
On 06/19/2012 07:43 AM, Jim Pazarena wrote: I have an EXT3 which is not journaled. I would like to enable it. So I can modify the entry in fstab to read data=journal, but I am unsure what command is required on the live system to 'convert' the EXT3 to journaling. Suggestions would be

Re: Antivirus for CLI

2012-06-19 Thread Alberto Fuentes
On 06/19/2012 08:50 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: a newbie question. i am using Debian for providing server level services (non desktop) and i am using only CLI for managing the services further more i am using SAMBA, SQUID, Virtualization KVM and Planning for MTA. do you guys think i need an

Re: Syslogd message...............

2012-06-18 Thread Alberto Fuentes
On 06/16/2012 02:31 PM, Charlie wrote: It changes the device from /dev/sdb1 to /dev/sdd1 and back again. I am now mounting it as /dev/sdb1. That's what it has always been, and then it started to drop out while I was looking through the files and wouldn't mount and came up as /dev/sdd1 etc.. It

Re: Syslogd message...............

2012-06-18 Thread Alberto Fuentes
On 06/18/2012 11:57 AM, Charlie wrote: [...] does it shift between remounts or does it shift names live? It used to shift live. [...] Maybe with raid the problem is different? Well, its a hardware raid and its presented to the system as a single disk. I have to pass a few parameters

Re: Up-gradation problem with gnome 2.14

2012-06-15 Thread Alberto Fuentes
On 06/14/2012 09:33 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: Alberto Fuentes wrote: Joy Sankar Sengupta wrote: After executing the command I got the following output:- # generated by NetworkManager, do not edit! I dont know if you suffer from other problems/bugs as others said, but your main problem

Re: Syslogd message...............

2012-06-15 Thread Alberto Fuentes
On 06/16/2012 12:14 AM, Charlie wrote: This happens with both powered and powered only through a USB connection, external hard drives. Both with ext3 file systems: Message from syslogd@nomad at Jun 16 08:04:30 ... kernel:[ 3187.986721] journal commit I/O error This seems regular error in

Re: books on debian of a beginner nature?

2012-06-14 Thread Alberto Fuentes
On 06/13/2012 05:01 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote: Hi folks, Yes I know about the Linux Documentation project, and that there are howtos that are a part of the system itself, and on line. these are not the sort of books I mean however. I am thinking of external ones, I have a scanner, books with

Re: Up-gradation problem with gnome 2.14

2012-06-14 Thread Alberto Fuentes
! Best Regards, Joysankar Sengupta On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 6:36 PM, Alberto Fuentes alberto.fuen...@qindel.com mailto:alberto.fuen...@qindel.com wrote: cat /etc/resolv.conf ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Up-gradation problem with gnome 2.14

2012-06-13 Thread Alberto Fuentes
cat /etc/resolv.conf ? -- 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/4fd8904d.6050...@qindel.com

bind alt + . in bash vi mode

2012-06-09 Thread alberto fuentes
I set it to emacs set -o emacs then i saw the function i was looking for was yank-last-arg \e.: yank-last-arg \e_: yank-last-arg I tried to create it for vi mode with set -o vi bind -m vi-insert \e.: yank-last-arg but it does not work... as a side effect 'a' key stopped

modify the upload throttle of an app in real time

2012-06-09 Thread alberto fuentes
i tried trickle but it does not allow to modify without restarting the app I tried wondershepard as well, but it affects whole interfaces only does anybody knows how to attack this problem? Thanks PS: Im trying to save some bits for ssh in a machine that uses the net heavily

Re: Password salt

2012-06-08 Thread Alberto Fuentes
On 06/08/2012 10:57 AM, Lars Noodén wrote: The hashed password + salt is stored in /etc/shadow. Where is the actual password salt for Debian stored? Regards, /Lars From what i see, the password salt is different for each password... so i guess its different each time a password is

Re: Password salt

2012-06-08 Thread Alberto Fuentes
On 06/08/2012 11:05 AM, Lars Noodén wrote: On 6/8/12 12:02 PM, Alberto Fuentes wrote: On 06/08/2012 10:57 AM, Lars Noodén wrote: The hashed password + salt is stored in /etc/shadow. Where is the actual password salt for Debian stored? Regards, /Lars From what i see, the password salt

Re: update-alternatives

2012-05-16 Thread Alberto Fuentes
On 05/16/2012 09:28 AM, Johann Spies wrote: Even though technically correct, it did not help me on the first (and second read) to understand it correctly although I am an experienced Debian user and was system administrator for 10 years. patch for the man page? :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Debian Administrator's Handbook

2012-05-10 Thread Alberto Fuentes
On 10/05/12 15:21, Lars Noodén wrote: The Debian Administrator's Handbook is available for sale and FREE download: FTFY :) btw, awesome piece of work. Thanks to everyone that made thit possible! greets! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: Debian Administrator's Handbook

2012-05-10 Thread Alberto Fuentes
On 10/05/12 15:47, John A. Sullivan III wrote: On Thu, 2012-05-10 at 16:21 +0300, Lars Noodén wrote: The Debian Administrator's Handbook is available for sale and download: http://debian-handbook.info/ Regards, /Lars What a great contribution. Thank you. I went to the

Re: 2TB USB hard drive for backing up

2012-04-24 Thread Alberto Fuentes
On 21/04/12 19:34, Camaleón wrote: I'm against big partitions (500 GiB is the limit I have auto-imposed to my systems) so I would make 4 slices and spread the data over them. Anyway, I don't think you are going to have any problem to manage a single partition of 2 TiB, even more if you plain to

Re: Working with ssh's escape character

2012-04-20 Thread Alberto Fuentes
I change often keyboard layouts between en and es... the original keyboard layout of this machine is ES. If i try to press the escape character while in EN, no matter if i press the original ES positions or the new positions of ~ in EN, it does not work... If I change to layout to the

Re: Working with ssh's escape character

2012-04-20 Thread Alberto Fuentes
On 20/04/12 12:17, Alberto Fuentes wrote: I change often keyboard layouts between en and es... the original keyboard layout of this machine is ES. If i try to press the escape character while in EN, no matter if i press the original ES positions or the new positions of ~ in EN, it does not work

Re: help about wine

2012-04-10 Thread Alberto Fuentes
On 10/04/12 16:57, Yaritza Gomez Villa wrote: Hi, I'm having problem installing Office 2007 under Wine on Debian (64 bits) when I click the install button I get an endless list of errors in the terminal, *7-Zip 9.04 beta Copyright (c) 1999-2009 Igor Pavlov 2009-05-30 p7zip Version 9.04

Re: Booting Debian from Windows

2012-04-04 Thread Alberto Fuentes
On 04/04/12 16:10, Patrick Kongawi wrote: To whom this may concern I have been having great difficulty creating a CD ISO for Debain. I went to getting debian and Downloading large Image and Download CD/DVD with Jiggo and select one of the official image. Is this the proper way to select and

Re: Booting Debian from Windows

2012-04-04 Thread Alberto Fuentes
On 04/04/12 16:44, Alberto Fuentes wrote: But for livecd i usually use ubuntu ones, latest packages conveniently packaged for live image oh, i just saw that unetbootin allows you download debian testing as well... has anybody tested how stable are those for a live? I heard about debian CUT

Re: backup: automount and launch an script

2012-04-03 Thread Alberto Fuentes
On 02/04/12 19:31, Camaleón wrote: That's what usually happens when syncing or mirroring, each of the copies are keep the same but I think this can be customized, at least in Unison. Or maybe you need a backup/archive utility more than just a mere syncing approach. Im still building my

backup: automount and launch an script

2012-04-02 Thread Alberto Fuentes
Im planning to have an external usb disk that i can plug to all my computers, and without interaction, sync all data i want with the disks. Also, umount at the end and send me and email with the details of the backup attempt. The only part im not sure is how to automount the disk and launch

Re: backup: automount and launch an script

2012-04-02 Thread Alberto Fuentes
On 02/04/12 17:04, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 02 Apr 2012 13:14:11 +0200, Alberto Fuentes wrote: Im planning to have an external usb disk that i can plug to all my computers, and without interaction, sync all data i want with the disks. Also, umount at the end and send me and email

sharing desktop on debian - freenx?

2012-03-30 Thread Alberto Fuentes
Ive seen that the most optimal sharing desktop is freenx but i aptsearched (new verb guys! if i can google something i can certanly aptsearch as well :) freenx does not give any result back on repositories. Searching freenx and debian in the internet give guides ranging from 3 to 6 years old.

Re: apt-get will upgrade aptitude will not

2012-03-23 Thread Alberto Fuentes
look at this, is interesting http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=401835 On 22/03/12 17:49, Jochen Spieker wrote: Pierre Frenkiel: On Thu, 22 Mar 2012, Jochen Spieker wrote: I didn't have that problem. Is it reproducible? yes. I tried apt-get several times before

Re: upgrade to Wheezy fails with aptitude

2012-03-22 Thread Alberto Fuentes
On 21/03/12 22:22, Lisi wrote: On Wednesday 21 March 2012 13:42:24 Pierre Frenkiel wrote: I've managed to mislay your follow up after having read it. It would have helped if you had not copied me in. But no, I do not agree that that is what the manual means. It says - and means - that

Re: any GUI for LVM2 ?

2012-03-22 Thread Alberto Fuentes
On 22/03/12 10:37, J. Bakshi wrote: Dear list, Is there any GUI available in debian/ubuntu for LVM2 ? Thanks thanks to redhat guys! system-config-lvm -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: LSPCI shows network card, but the card refuses to come up

2012-03-21 Thread Alberto Fuentes
On 21/03/12 01:37, Bob Proulx wrote: Ahem... 'lspci | grep -i eth' is good but 'lspci -v' is paragraph formatted and so finding that with grep is more trouble. You need a paragraph grep of which there are many different programs and techniques. Perl is always available these days so perhaps

Re: LSPCI shows network card, but the card refuses to come up

2012-03-21 Thread Alberto Fuentes
On 21/03/12 11:49, Bob Proulx wrote: But why did you stop at five lines? Aren't most network devices going to print more lines than that? And it misses the kernel driver in use line which is useful information. I see, in my case, 5 was enough to show everything :) Can't leave off the '-A'

Re: upgrade to Wheezy fails with aptitude

2012-03-21 Thread Alberto Fuentes
On 21/03/12 11:01, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: I then issued: apt-get dist-upgrade, and all worked perfectly, in less than 30 minutes. Awesome! I had a vm machine that i was trying to upgrade and it failed every time. I blamed the vm... then i noticed i was trying to upgrade it with aptitude

Re: apt-get will upgrade aptitude will not

2012-03-21 Thread Alberto Fuentes
On 21/03/12 07:08, Chris Bannister wrote: Remember, Aptitude's resolver system is different to apt-get's I think the problem is not the the resolver (apt-get and aptitude should get dependences about the same if not problem found, and therefore aptitude full-upgrade should do the same as

irq 19: nobody cared - Disabling IRQ #19

2012-03-21 Thread alberto fuentes
I get this at my testing box. Can anybody help me debug/fix this? Mar 21 20:29:05 box kernel: [ 4787.555028] irq 19: nobody cared (try booting with the irqpoll option) Mar 21 20:29:05 box kernel: [ 4787.555035] Pid: 0, comm: swapper/0 Tainted: P O 3.2.0-1-amd64 #1 Mar 21 20:29:05 box

Re: OT Apache Open Office

2012-03-13 Thread Alberto Fuentes
On 11/03/12 22:09, Greg Madden wrote: I have been using dev builds, now rc's, of AOO for a while now. For my work, archived documents templates this is working out better, for my use scenario, than LO ver 3.4.x and later. There are differences between AOO LO, significant enough to

Re: ntp package. Client by default?

2012-03-13 Thread Alberto Fuentes
On 06/03/12 17:50, Camaleón wrote: In brief, I think the default is a very limited setup. Let's not be paranoids :-) I dont think im being paranoid. I thought debian was about doing things right, no matter the time it takes... :) This is my follow-up to this topic:

why MaxRequestsPerChild is defaulted to 0 in apache2 prefork default conf?

2012-03-09 Thread Alberto Fuentes
I didnt have time to checkout the ntp thing of one my latest questions to answer that mail... but let me ask another unrelated question ;) in the prefork module, the MaxRequestsPerChild defaults to 0. I wonder why such thing is done. The only reason to do so is to increase performance with

Re: OT: Newbie questions on security

2012-03-08 Thread Alberto Fuentes
On 08/03/12 16:40, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Jo, 08 mar 12, 12:52:01, Andrei POPESCU wrote: You can post them here as long as they are Debian related[2]. If there is a better list for any specific question you will get hints. Sorry list, I didn't expect what was about to come... nobody did

Re: ntp package. Client by default?

2012-03-06 Thread Alberto Fuentes
On 05/03/12 22:35, Jon Dowland wrote: On Mon, Mar 05, 2012 at 12:38:52PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: The entire purpose of ntp is to interact on the network. Not doing this would be similar to installing sshd and then wanting it not to listen to the network. That would severely reduce its

Re: ntp package. Client by default?

2012-03-06 Thread Alberto Fuentes
On 06/03/12 15:34, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 05 Mar 2012 15:20:05 +0100, Alberto Fuentes wrote: I think /usr/share/doc/ntp/README.Debian.gz is bad worded. Correct me if im wrong but it says [...]The default ntp.conf file is set up for an NTP client that [...] [...]Extra configuration work

ntp package. Client by default?

2012-03-05 Thread Alberto Fuentes
I think /usr/share/doc/ntp/README.Debian.gz is bad worded. Correct me if im wrong but it says [...]The default ntp.conf file is set up for an NTP client that [...] [...]Extra configuration work will be necessary to offer time service to other hosts. [...] By default, it works as a server not

Re: ntp package. Client by default?

2012-03-05 Thread Alberto Fuentes
On 05/03/12 18:26, John Hasler wrote: Jon Dowland writes: Wow, good point. Indeed it *does* appear to be listening as a server for other clients, by default, and I'd agree this is perhaps not the best default. As long as it listens only on the LAN I don't agree. well, it does not. It

Re: Gnome-terminal focus

2012-03-02 Thread Alberto Fuentes
When I double click on the tab I get that rectange and then the focus remains in the tab rather than the command prompt. To remove it and recover the normal behaviour I have to click over the terminal window itself. Yes. That is the behaviour I want to change. double click seems to change the

Re: Gnome-terminal focus

2012-03-01 Thread Alberto Fuentes
On 01/03/12 08:35, Johann Spies wrote: When I left-click on a tab in gnome-terminal the focus is on the tab and not in the terminal at the prompt. How can I change that behaviour to take the focus to where the prompt is? Regards Johann what version are you running? im running testing and it

Re: Gnome-terminal focus

2012-03-01 Thread Alberto Fuentes
On 01/03/12 14:30, Johann Spies wrote: what version are you running? im running testing and it seems the latest version in debian $ aptpolicy gnome-terminal Where do you get aptpolicy? apt-cache policy also, i have all the versions of debian in my sources.list, so it reveals all versions

Re: when an xterm starts, it always starts in ~/Documents

2012-02-27 Thread Alberto Fuentes
On 25/02/12 02:59, Sian Mountbatten wrote: Whenever I start an xterm, I notice that it starts in ~/Documents rather than in the home directory. Why is that? Where is it set? And can it be set to the HOME directory? -- Sian Mountbatten Algol 68 specialist well, its something of kde. Im using

Re: Any good all-in-one GUI tool for net analysis ?

2012-02-09 Thread Alberto Fuentes
On 09/02/12 10:02, J. Bakshi wrote: Hello list, There are already good tools in linux for network analysis like digg, nslookup, host, mtr, traceroute, prads, nmap, netdiscover etc.. etc... Is there any GUI client available which is based on all these collectively as a one place net

apache defaulting to openssl instead of gnutls

2012-02-07 Thread Alberto Fuentes
I just found out that openssl does not implement tls 1.1 or 1.2 and gnutls do implement them. I was wondering why for example apache2 defaults to openssl instead of libapache2-mod-gnutls. Just out of curiosity Thanks! greets! aL -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: icedove 8.0-2 not opening http links in browser

2012-02-07 Thread Alberto Fuentes
On 05/02/12 08:20, Michael Biebl wrote: Hi everyone, On 20.01.2012 00:09, MRH wrote: Hi, After my recent update (Debian sid on amd64, icedove 8.0-2, iceweasel 9.0.1-1) everytime I click a link in email it asks me to choose an aplication to open the link with (Launch Application). I'm aware I

Re: apache defaulting to openssl instead of gnutls

2012-02-07 Thread Alberto Fuentes
On 07/02/12 16:49, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:52:31 +0100, Alberto Fuentes wrote: I just found out that openssl does not implement tls 1.1 or 1.2 and gnutls do implement them. I was wondering why for example apache2 defaults to openssl instead of libapache2-mod-gnutls. Just out

Re: second display

2012-02-01 Thread Alberto Fuentes
On 31/01/12 14:48, Florian Pougheon wrote: Hi, to customise dual screen resolution issue, you can try this utility : arandr It's the easiest way for me to customize a dual screen. A shame it does not work with propietary drivers (at least it does not work with nvidia) greets! aL -- To

Re: icedove 8.0-2 not opening http links in browser

2012-01-25 Thread Alberto Fuentes
On 24/01/12 22:01, MRH wrote: And I just checked that in Thunderbird 9 at work - the same (attachment tab is empty), but the links work there. So its not related... good to know :) ill keep looking for a solution and post it when find it greets! aL -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: ext4 extends implementation question

2012-01-24 Thread Alberto Fuentes
That's not how extents work. What you are describing is a large block granularity, not extents-based allocation. There is no reason why the next allocation can't happen like this: [X][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ] [X][X][X][X][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ] [X][X][X][X][X][X][X][X][A][A][A][A]

Re: ext4 extends implementation question

2012-01-23 Thread Alberto Fuentes
On 01/10/2012 11:31 PM, Arno Schuring wrote: afuentes (alberto.fuen...@qindel.com on 2012-01-10 10:33 +0100): What happens when you run out of space to allocate new extends in ext4? is not allowed to write anymore even tho there are tons of blocks available? I'm unsure what you mean. Extents

Re: icedove 8.0-2 not opening http links in browser

2012-01-23 Thread Alberto Fuentes
On 01/20/2012 08:46 PM, MRH wrote: On 20/01/12 10:19, Alberto Fuentes wrote: On 01/20/2012 10:10 AM, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: Did you check Preferences - Attachments for ftp, http, and https? i am having the same issue, and the attachment tab is empty greets! aL The same. The worst thing

Re: icedove 8.0-2 not opening http links in browser

2012-01-20 Thread Alberto Fuentes
On 01/20/2012 10:10 AM, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: Did you check Preferences - Attachments for ftp, http, and https? i am having the same issue, and the attachment tab is empty greets! aL **AVISO LEGAL** Este mensaje se dirige exclusivamente a su destinatario y puede contener informacion

Re: vlc form testing in stable

2012-01-20 Thread Alberto Fuentes
On 01/20/2012 01:08 PM, Maroš Žilka wrote: Hi, I am running Debian stable and I want to install vlc from testing. So I added testing to sources.list then I updated with aptitude update and finally I wanted to install vlc with # aptitude install -t testing vlc/testing but there was hundreds of

Re: kvm

2011-07-06 Thread alberto fuentes
On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 12:16 AM, William Hopkins we.hopk...@gmail.comwrote: Oh no, I can't learn how it works, let me install software to run my software. Then I'll install some software to run that software too. Nonsense. Learn KVM concepts or make some suggestions how the UI could be

diff original .conf files in packages with the ones installed

2011-07-01 Thread alberto fuentes
This would be handy to checkout messed up systems to be able to tell apart easily whats has been touched. Is there already something that makes this? The easier way it comes to mind is to dpkg --get-selections, debootstrap, chroot and install the selection and then make the diff. although it

Re: diff original .conf files in packages with the ones installed

2011-07-01 Thread alberto fuentes
On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 3:04 PM, Peter Wiersig fri...@london087.server4you.de wrote: On Fri, 1 Jul 2011 09:44:41 +0200, alberto fuentes paj...@gmail.com wrote: The easier way it comes to mind is to dpkg --get-selections, debootstrap, chroot and install the selection and then make the diff

Re: diff original .conf files in packages with the ones installed

2011-07-01 Thread alberto fuentes
On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 8:03 PM, William Hopkins we.hopk...@gmail.comwrote: On 07/01/11 at 09:44am, alberto fuentes wrote: This would be handy to checkout messed up systems to be able to tell apart easily whats has been touched. Is there already something that makes this? comparing

Re: Scripts to break the system (aka, troubleshooting)

2011-06-07 Thread alberto fuentes
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 3:31 PM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: Do you remember where did you get that information? From what source (it was from a mailing list, rss news, online magazine, a blog...)? No. The computer I was in has been formatted at least twice... Neither it was a computer

Re: Scripts to break the system (aka, troubleshooting)

2011-06-07 Thread alberto fuentes
] http://trouble-maker.sourceforge.net/ [2] http://linuxfanboy.com/index.php/Practice_Breaks On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 8:04 PM, alberto fuentes paj...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 3:31 PM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: Do you remember where did you get that information? From what

Re: Scripts to break the system (aka, troubleshooting)

2011-06-07 Thread alberto fuentes
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 8:50 PM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.netwrote: I would prefer a script to prevent my system against issues. Well, they are intended for training purposes but I guess I also prefer the script that prevents issues instead one that causes them ;D greets aL

Re: Scripts to break the system (aka, troubleshooting)

2011-06-07 Thread alberto fuentes
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 9:02 PM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 07 Jun 2011 20:04:45 +0200, alberto fuentes wrote: On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 3:31 PM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: Do you remember where did you get that information? From what source (it was from

Scripts to break the system (aka, troubleshooting)

2011-06-06 Thread alberto fuentes
I few months ago I saw some scripts with a list of 50 or so common problems in a debian box. The scripts were suppose to randomly break something on the system so you had to find the problem and fix it. The fix was saved into some file so you could know what was failing afterward. These scripts

Re: google to pull support for firefox 3,5

2011-06-03 Thread alberto fuentes
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 9:49 PM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.netwrote: E.g. http://www.ixquick.com/ and http://www.scroogle.org/cgi-bin/scraper.htm can't replace Google for my needs. Have you tried http://duckduckgo.com/ They say they do not track and results are pretty nice. I

Samba or NFS

2011-06-03 Thread alberto fuentes
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 8:27 PM, Dan ganc...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks a lot for your answers, I will use NFS. Both computers and the users are trusted. To improve the security I could set rules in the iptables to allow NFS access only to my computers. The problem is not that the users are