Re: exim: too many connections?

2008-03-15 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 04:03:18PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: On Thursday 13 March 2008 03:03:01 pm Andrew Sackville-West wrote: also, fail2ban's later versions (sid at least) include support for exim and it will install cleanly on etch. fail2ban looks interesting. Is there any way

Re: amd 690g chipset

2008-03-13 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 06:17:50AM +0100, Holger Dörner wrote: Having discovered the gnome system monitor, I seldom run top anymore. But I have a gigabyte of RAM, about half of which is user and about half of which is cache. Iceweasel pushes processor utilization to 100 percent; I would

Re: Update breaks kernel, AMD AM2, 32 bit install, Testing

2008-03-13 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 02:28:58PM +, Tim Channon wrote: Working but recent Testing installation. Hadn't done an update for maybe a couple of weeks, Synaptic, refresh etc. and do it. Downloads and installs maybe 600 items, only message was about the kernel and a message I have seen

Re: exim: too many connections?

2008-03-13 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 10:41:59AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: On Thursday 13 March 2008 09:49:27 am will trillich wrote: hey debianistas, long time no chat! debian cruises along rock solid so nicely... :) You're always welcome to pipe up when you see a topic you know about, too. :o)

Re: amd 690g chipset

2008-03-13 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 02:04:37PM -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote: ... Should I follow the procedure which generally is recommended for a Window$ installation which displays the same symptom -- reinstall the entire system? no. okay, well, you certainly can if you want, but it is almost

Re: lvm root partition was full, deleted data -but still reports it is full.HELP!!

2008-03-12 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 04:03:47PM -0400, Michael Habashy wrote: Bless you guys. that was it... now you just need to find out how you filled up 700+G and deal with preventing it in the future... ;) A signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: /usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip failed

2008-03-12 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 09:31:23AM +0100, Gerard Robin wrote: On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 01:05:35AM +0100, s. keeling wrote: From: s. keeling [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: /usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip failed Gerard Robin [EMAIL PROTECTED]: My printer HP

Re: Which stock linux-image kernel for 32 bit debian on amd athlon64 processor?

2008-03-12 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 03:33:52PM +, Tim Channon wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: ... k7 appears to be dead. use -686 or roll your own. Dead? k7 is in etch, lenny and sid the -k7 packages in sid are transitional packages that depend on -686. hence my calling k7 dead. There have

Re: [OT] spamassassin overreach? [Was: Re: [OT] how to clean grime off old computer MB?]

2008-03-09 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 12:27:59PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/09/08 11:58, Daniel Burrows wrote: On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 11:46:01AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: Doug The mind boggles imagining a

Re: Which stock linux-image kernel for 32 bit debian on amd athlon64 processor?

2008-03-09 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 01:48:16AM +, Tim Channon wrote: Mitchell Laks wrote: Hi, Question 1: On one machine I am running a 32 bit debian install on a amd64 bit machine. I run 64 bit on another machine, and this one is an older install. I am running sid. Which of these kernels is

Re: [OT] Naming Schemes

2008-03-06 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 09:13:10PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 03/05/08 20:29, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 04:24:28PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] Disgusting Scots food. $ uname -n haggis my 7 year old named the G3 iMac reborn into a sid machine

Re: ivtv-fb not found in Debian

2008-03-06 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 01:56:18AM -0800, Towncat wrote: I'm running a Debian lenny box. I would like to set up a Hauppauge PVR-350's video out as an X server, however, I can't seem to find the ivti-fb module in Debian. (the card is otherwise working nicely with the ivtv module). Has someone

Re: lvm + dm-crypt = shutdown problem (mount: / is busy)

2008-03-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 11:17:56AM +0200, Giorgos D. Pallas wrote: Maximilian Gass wrote: On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 03:17:41PM +0200, Giorgos D. Pallas wrote: I am running debian testing, and I am experiencing lately this (hopefully) non-destructive problem: This problem is

Re: [OT] Laptop with Linux preinstalled

2008-03-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 06:25:04PM -0800, james michael wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 08:47:39PM -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: I thought it would never happen. Right from NewEgg:

Re: [OT] Naming Schemes

2008-03-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 04:24:28PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 03/05/08 06:10, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 09:51:03AM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: But a name can be a snare and a delusion: we had another quasi-classical name, atticus, so called because it was located

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-03-04 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 11:48:18PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 03/03/08 23:32, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: ... HAI CAN HAZ DOODZ? I HAZ A VAR TELLAT DOODZ aptitude search lol GIMME DOODZ IN TEH VAR IZ VAR MT? NOWAI VISIBLE ROXORZ!!!1! YARLY

Re: Basic bash question.

2008-03-04 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 08:08:47PM -0800, joseph lockhart wrote: Luis Maceira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I see all the messages generated by a bash command (configure make make install, for example) to standard output(computer screen), and at the same time make sure that all is

Re: unix and email viruses

2008-03-03 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 06:24:51PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: On 03/03/2008, David Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: True enough. The one time that happened to me I had installed some extra apache packages that were vulnerable, so some spammer basically was able to hijack my box, and send stock

Re: unix and email viruses

2008-03-03 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 09:06:43AM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: On 03/03/2008, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sql injections are 'data' trying to be executable, aren't they? I know that generally folks aren't trying to open sql attachements (whatever the hell that might

Re: hplip cannot be removed

2008-03-03 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 10:14:20PM +, Rainer Lehmann wrote: Hi, how could I possibly remove the packet hplip in Etch while getting error messages like these? # aptitude remove hplip Reading package lists... Done ... Writing extended state information... Done (Reading database ...

Re: unix and email viruses

2008-03-03 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 11:59:24PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: On 03/03/2008, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think we're in agreement that lack of root access only an impediment, not a preventative. I'd so like to take that out of context. I won't be lewd in a public

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-03-03 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 05:12:24AM +0100, s. keeling wrote: Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 07:12:48PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: I ARE STABLE CAT... THIS IS STABLE DISTRIBUSHON. I'M ON UR SERVER, RUNNING UR DEBIAN we could change

Re: unix and email viruses

2008-03-03 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 03:33:01PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 05:01:06PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: sql injections are 'data' trying to be executable, aren't they? I know that generally folks aren't trying to open sql attachements (whatever the hell

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-03-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 07:12:48PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 09:21:41 -0800, David Fox wrote: On 3/1/08, Chris Bannister wrote: http://www.rastageeks.org/~toots/debian/bisounours-debian.jpg no no care bears :) What about lolcats? I ARE STABLE

Re: unix and email viruses

2008-03-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 03:59:16PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Hello all, I think I don't need to be worried but I figured I should check. I only run 'nix (debian, OpenBSD), and I'm on dialup. I note that some people run virus scanners on their email (not just as anti-spam) and I

Re: unix and email viruses

2008-03-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 10:08:33PM +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 03:59:16PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Hello all, I think I don't need to be worried but I figured I should check. I only run 'nix (debian, OpenBSD), and I'm on dialup. I note that some people

Re: 8139cp 0000:03:08.0: This (id 10ec:8139 rev 10) is not an 8139C+ compatible chip

2008-03-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 10:00:49PM +, Jamin Davis wrote: stephane lepain wrote: For your problem you could try placing 8139too into /etc/modules That might see that your 8139too driver gets loaded first. Incidentally comment any references to 8139cp that you run across. HTH Adrian

Re: unix and email viruses

2008-03-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 04:32:26PM -0800, David Fox wrote: On 3/2/08, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The potential hole I see in mutt is not actually a hole in mutt but in various helpers used by mutt users. For example, many of us use w3m or links or some other text

Re: Unable to boot on encrypted root after upgrading testing

2008-03-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 01:20:53AM +, Kjö wrote: You're right, the problem was in mount, and was quite stupid. My XFS file system was broken. I solved the problem by : - booting on a liveCD (an Ubuntu one) - installing cryptsetup and lvm2 - modprobe dm_mod - modprobe aes - cryptsetup

Re: unix and email viruses

2008-03-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 08:16:16PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 05:01:06PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 04:32:26PM -0800, David Fox wrote: On 3/2/08, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyway, that's the whole point

Re: X restarted

2008-03-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 09:21:25AM -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote: I was sitting here reading my mail, then all of a sudden my screen went blank, the NVIDIA logo came up, and it took me to the login window, but with my wifes login populated. was she previously logged in on vt8? maybe her

Re: 8139cp 0000:03:08.0: This (id 10ec:8139 rev 10) is not an 8139C+ compatible chip

2008-03-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 02:07:17AM +, Jamin Davis wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: and the blacklisting won't work if the module is in your initrd! You at least need to run update-initramfs and you would probably be advised to unpack one to make *sure* it's not in there... Good

Re: latest on debian gnome accessibility attempt

2008-03-01 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
Hi Jude. It looks like Florian's got you going the right direction on the Xorg logs... On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 08:08:25AM -0600, Jude DaShiell wrote: What I wrote earlier turns out to have been incorrect so I've copied the error message gdm throws when the system tries to set it up. It

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2008 #452

2008-02-29 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 07:23:39AM -0500, Curt Howland wrote: On Thursday 28 February 2008, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: The Debian Swirl, as relaxing as a whirlpool. I love the cream swirling into the coffee graphic that was a bootsplash at some point

Re: Seeking Wisdom Concerning Backups

2008-02-29 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 04:48:07PM -0600, Kent West wrote: ... and almost immediately got an no drive space left error. Then looking at df -h, I see that my smallish / partition (463MB) is full, so I've got to see what's eating up that space (I think it's because a new kernel was

Re: Xorg.0.log on accessible gnome install attempt

2008-02-29 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 05:30:04PM -0600, Jude DaShiell wrote: After having done a clean install of debian and gotten it up to unstable and having done a clean install of gnome and gnome-orca then having removed execute persissions from /etc/init.d/gdm script I rebooted computer and

Re: how to get pulseaudio working?

2008-02-29 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 10:02:19AM -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote: of esd). Also, ALSA can't do mixing by itself, so if you can hear two streams at once (e.g. music and a video), something is mixing them. I was under the impression that ALSA now came with dmix on by default, so that ALSA in fact

Re: Unable to boot on encrypted root after upgrading testing

2008-02-28 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 11:20:07AM +, Kjo wrote: I booted on an install CD ins rescue mode and tried this tuto : http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Rescue/Crypto # cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/hda2 sda2_crypt works # vgchange -a y [vg] works # mount /dev/[vg]/root /target fails,

Re: No more AMD-K7 kernels?

2008-02-28 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 12:44:37PM -0800, Freddy Freeloader wrote: Curt Howland wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've looked through the debian-kernel and debian-user archives, and I don't find a discussion of this. Does anyone know why the -k7 precompiled kernel was

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-02-28 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 09:06:37PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 09:41:24PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: - Forwarded message from Sam Hocevar [EMAIL PROTECTED] - I also would like to spend some Debian money on a contest, similar to the FreeBSD logo

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-02-27 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 09:41:24PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: This message was posted by Sam Hocevar (current Debian Project Leader) ... I also would like to spend some Debian money on a contest, similar to the FreeBSD logo contest [2], to create a friendly mascot for the Debian

Re: Unable to boot on encrypted root after upgrading testing

2008-02-23 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 05:07:40PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi ! Feb 19th, I upgraded my debian testing as I do about twice a week. My computer was then turned off (but I thing the upgrade was finished) and I'm not able to boot anymore : I get these error messages : Setting up

Re: Unable to boot on encrypted root after upgrading testing

2008-02-23 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 01:20:31AM +, Kjö wrote: cryptsetup: unknown fstype, bad password or options? Command failed: Device busy Command failed: Device already exists cryptsetup: cryptsetup failed, bad password or options? Command failed: Device already exists cryptsetup:

Re: Digital Camera

2008-02-23 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 12:37:56AM -0600, Kent West wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/20/08 22:01, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 08:50:12AM -0800, canona650 wrote: http://www.canona560.com Canon A560 What are you, some kind of canon spambot

Re: Digital Camera

2008-02-23 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 12:37:56AM -0600, Kent West wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/20/08 22:01, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 08:50:12AM -0800, canona650 wrote: http://www.canona560.com Canon A560 What are you, some kind of canon spambot

Re: Software for collecting email addresses

2008-02-23 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
spam. A Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 08:02:04PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/20/08 18:26, steve wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: | On 02/20/08 16:24, Andrius wrote: | Ron Johnson wrote: | On 02/20/08

Re: typewriter function for an impact printer?

2008-02-20 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 05:50:05AM +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Hello all, I often have forms to fill out and some would be better not hand-written. However, they all differ so I can't just set-up a template. What I really need is just a typewriter. Does

Re: Software for collecting email addresses

2008-02-20 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 08:02:04PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/20/08 18:26, steve wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: | On 02/20/08 16:24, Andrius wrote: | Ron Johnson wrote: | On 02/20/08 14:25, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: | On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 08:19:24PM +, Andrius wrote: | what

Re: Digital Camera

2008-02-20 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 08:50:12AM -0800, canona650 wrote: http://www.canona560.com Canon A560 What are you, some kind of canon spambot? A Robert Thompson wrote: Hello All, I also have a digital camera that I love. It is a Sony that uses a USB to connect to the computer.

Re: Release: KNOPPIX5.1.1 for Trusted Compuintg Geeks (v1.0)

2008-02-19 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 11:37:17AM +0900, Kuniyasu Suzaki wrote: From: Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] How does the system behave when the authentication server is down? How do you deal with a compromised authentication server? Client takes vulnerability check only

Re: [OT maybe]Email Archiving

2008-02-18 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 05:56:02PM +0100, Martin Marcher wrote: Hello, I'm looking for a solution for email archiving the priorities I have for it are the following: # reliability # offline backups (that'll probably be scripted) # availability # speed as the least important I guess

Re: OMG! Think I did something stupid with dmcrypt

2008-02-17 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 09:24:24PM +0100, Dan H. wrote: On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 10:42:26AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: I'm confused. Can you not just enter the passphrase for the encrypted volume and unlock it? Or is there something I'm missing here that likely applies to my own

Re: pm-hibernate doesn't resume (Thinkpad X61 tablet)

2008-02-16 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 09:25:23AM -0500, Andrew Perrin wrote: On Sat, 16 Feb 2008, Michael Biebl wrote: Michael Biebl wrote: Andrew Perrin wrote: Greetings- I have just finished setting up my new laptop, a Lenovo Thinkpad X61 Tablet PC. I am running Debian testing with a self-compiled

Re: Etch installation media doesn't boot (neither NETINST CD, nor floppies), but other distros do... :-(

2008-02-16 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 10:24:36PM -0900, Siraaj Khandkar wrote: Hello everyone, I've been a very happy Debian user for sometime now, but yesterday ran into my second major install issue (the first being the X configuration back in 1999). I wanted to install a minimum Debian system on an

Re: How to unmute the sound?

2008-02-16 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
Hey Michael, I'm not qualified to help solve this problem and can only help you ask the right questions (which is why I didn't respond to your response to my questions...). here's a link of interest: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/122560 there is some interesting discussion of

Re: PAL to NTSC (DVD)

2008-02-16 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 01:52:31PM +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 09:34:18AM -0500, Christopher Judd wrote: Hi, A colleague just returned from a trip overseas, and he purchased some DVDs along the way. One of them is incoded in PAL, however. Is there an

Re: Apache2 config errors on previously good setup

2008-02-16 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 02:49:24AM -0600, gary turner wrote: Jeff D wrote:snip run apache2ctl -t it should tell you what it thinks is wrong with your apache config Thanks, Jeff. That yields the error message quoted in my first post. I'm trying to figure out how/why the syntax is in

Re: OMG! Think I did something stupid with dmcrypt

2008-02-15 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 09:35:18PM +0100, Andrew Henry wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: I'm confused. Can you not just enter the passphrase for the encrypted volume and unlock it? Or is there something I'm missing here that likely applies to my own encrypted system... I thought

Re: OMG! Think I did something stupid with dmcrypt

2008-02-15 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 03:57:43PM +0100, Andrew Henry wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: If you *formatted* (i.e., run mkfs on) the server (how can you format a *machine*, as opposed to just a drive partition?), then wouldn't you have lost everything anyway by wiping clean the partition? well

Re: confused about web servers

2008-02-15 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 08:48:50AM +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: Allan Wind wrote: On 2008-02-14T19:53:13-0500, Steve Kleene wrote: Can someone here explain why the choice of web server determines whether the movie plays or not? I would have thought that the web server would just copy

Re: apt-listbugs list postix doesn't tell error ...

2008-02-15 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 01:14:46PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 02:56:13PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: Also, I suppose there is a possibly faulty assumption that since apt-listbugs is designed to be run through an apt frontend then typos aren't really

Re: s2disk works, but can not resume

2008-02-14 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 05:35:51PM +0100, LÉVAI Dániel wrote: On Wednesday 13 February 2008 23.53.55 Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 09:43:00PM +0100, LÉVAI Dániel wrote: Hi! I'm trying to resume after a s2disk with the kernel boot parameter resume=/dev/sda12

Re: How to unmute the sound?

2008-02-13 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 10:05:43AM -0500, Michael Yang wrote: Yes. I tried to recompile because of missing sound suddenly for unknown reason. probably you should have tried to solve this problem instead of creating a new problem over the top. Whatever caused the first problem is still around

Re: [OT] Re: What am I missing without mutt?

2008-02-13 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 06:26:23AM +0100, s. keeling wrote: Eduardo M KALINOWSKI [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Dotan Cohen wrote: Yes, the .. are pointless (pun intended). Well, they do have a purpose, but they are not everyday essentials. Arabic speakers feel very comfortable

Re: vanishing desktop menu and background pattern.

2008-02-13 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 02:32:33PM -0500, PETER EASTHOPE wrote: Andrew, At Mon, 11 Feb 2008 19:23:37 -0800 as-w ... taskbars available with a menu on them ... Right oh. I'd overlooked that. as-w ... taskbars, you can right click ... I'd never used Add new item. This should let me

Re: s2disk works, but can not resume

2008-02-13 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 09:43:00PM +0100, LÉVAI Dániel wrote: Hi! I'm trying to resume after a s2disk with the kernel boot parameter resume=/dev/sda12 (this is my swap space). The s2disk command runs fine, no problem, but when booting the kernel, it simply ignores the resume boot

Re: Release: KNOPPIX5.1.1 for Trusted Compuintg Geeks (v1.0)

2008-02-12 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 10:11:39PM +0900, Kuniyasu Suzaki wrote: From: Tzafrir Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Release: KNOPPIX5.1.1 for Trusted Compuintg Geeks (v1.0) ... Your disk image is shipped with a kernel image that has a nice root exploit (vmpslice). Yeah, I know, bad

Re: lm_sensors does not support my board with w83627ehf

2008-02-12 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 08:21:26PM -0500, Patrick Zaloum wrote: I have a modern motherboard (Asus p5kc) running Etch-r2. I know it has the devices necessary to provide sensor data but the kernel version that etch is built on (2.6.18) is not recent enough for the required module (w83627ehf) to

Re: Check/Get all files (not) belonging to packages

2008-02-11 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 07:09:27PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2008-02-11 18:57 +0100, Tobias Nissen wrote: 1. Is there a tool that lists all files _not_ belonging to an installed package? I mean something more clever than just executing a dpkg -S for each file... (which is madness!)

Re: Opening binary data from MSVS under linux

2008-02-11 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 05:34:16PM +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 12:28:19PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 05:05:36PM +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 11:45:10AM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at

Re: Release: KNOPPIX5.1.1 for Trusted Compuintg Geeks (v1.0)

2008-02-11 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 11:32:51AM +, steef wrote: Kuniyasu Suzaki wrote: Dear, We released KNOPPIX5.1.1 for Trusted Computing Geeks (v1.0). http://unit.aist.go.jp/itri/knoppix/index-en.html It includes trusted computing software based on TPM(Trusted Platform Module). Debian packages

Re: apt-listbugs list postix doesn't tell error ...

2008-02-11 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 10:02:03AM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 03:36:53PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 11:38:11PM +0100, Gerard Robin wrote: Hello, A small comment about the command apt-listbugs list. By mistake I wrote apt

Re: vanishing desktop menu and background pattern.

2008-02-11 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 05:13:57PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew others, At Sun, 10 Feb 2008 14:28:47 -0800, a my memory is that sometimes, on upgrades, xfce *unchecks* the Allow xfce to manage desktop option in one of the preference screens. I might have caused the problem by

Re: locks and shutdown policy; was Re: stale lockfile on fetchmail.

2008-02-11 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 07:26:59PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/11/08 17:58, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew, Ron others, a probably because fetchmail died (or ... Which can happen if a power failure occurs or I happen to reboot while fetchmail is retrieving. This

Re: Bad E-mail setup in office. I need advice

2008-02-10 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 05:35:21PM +0200, Dawn Light wrote: ... In a landscape architecture office, there are several Windows XP workstations for the architects to do their design work with. One of those workstations has a common E-mail client installed which works with one E-mail

Re: [OT] beefy steel cases

2008-02-10 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 12:24:56PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: hello, Me again with my project. Some people off-list have found me some low-MHz computers and will mail me the boards with CPU + memory etc. One is a Tyan dual Pentium {133|166}. Now I'm looking for a great case in

Re: stale lockfile on fetchmail.

2008-02-10 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 12:18:40PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Folk, Mostly fetchmail works with no problem. Occasionally this happens. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ fetchmail fetchmail: removing stale lockfile [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ fetchmail fetchmail: background fetchmail at 4671

Re: Archiving audio (high fidelity)?L

2008-02-10 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 07:59:48PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 05:25:55PM -0500, Zach wrote: I would like to transfer my collection of LPs (record albums) and audio cassette tapes onto optical media for archival. I have a high end CD player and a medium end LP

Re: vanishing desktop menu and background pattern.

2008-02-10 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 11:53:11AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Folk, This morning I updated a Lenny system which has XFCE4. After the update the desktop background was a black white houndstooth pattern and the desktop menu was gone. The panels remained operational. Someone

Re: Java Grey Windows/Blank Windows/Sun are stupid

2008-02-10 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 04:34:37PM +0100, Александър Л. Димитров wrote: Hi list, let me first say that Sun are incredibly stupid. I mean really. Astoundingly stupid. Stultifingly stupid. This bug http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6429775 has been closed. Which is

Re: apt-listbugs list postix doesn't tell error ...

2008-02-10 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 11:38:11PM +0100, Gerard Robin wrote: Hello, A small comment about the command apt-listbugs list. By mistake I wrote apt-listbugs list postix instead apt-listbugs list postfix and I got: Reading package fields... Done Reading package status... Done Retrieving bug

Re: Java Grey Windows/Blank Windows/Sun are stupid

2008-02-10 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 01:41:56AM +0100, Александър Л. Димитров wrote: I know it's three days later, but you're best bet is to go to #xmonad. Yeah, they know that problem, but it seems to be non-trivial to get around it. There is an XMonad extension that fakes the WM-name and thus makes

Re: [OT] beefy steel cases

2008-02-10 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 08:49:42PM +, Michael D. Norwick wrote: ... Please forgive my boldness and ignorance, but after watching this thread for days now, I fail to get a sense of how it has anything to do with Debian. Doug is a regular contributor to this list who asked for help in an

Re: Switching from ipw3945 to iwl3945 driver]

2008-02-06 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 03:37:00PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 04 Feb 2008, Peter Jordan wrote: Anthony Campbell, 02/04/08 10:34: On 03 Feb 2008, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 09:03:03 +, Anthony Campbell wrote: [...] [...] The ipw3945 driver

Re: Per app GTK+ theme?\

2008-02-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 04:49:55PM -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: Since Audacious was upgraded to version 1.4.x it has been complaining that the GTK theme engine is broken (gtk-qt engine). While I can tell the box to never show again, if there truly is some aspect that's broken I'd like to tell

Re: security concerns for home work network

2008-02-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 01:14:37PM -0700, ChadDavis wrote: This may a bit off topic, but I am talking about a debian base network, and I sense that many of the people on this list have admin expertise. I have a small home office network. I recently set up samba and in the process realized

Re: hard drive not spinning down.

2008-02-04 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 07:22:22PM +0100, Andrew Henry wrote: I run Lenny on an Acer Aspire 5021WLMi laptop as an ssh server and I noticed that the hard drive is getting very very hot so that the touchpad is almost burning hot. I suspect that the drive is not spinning down when idle (and it's

Re: [OT] Iran to attack my Browser??

2008-02-04 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 01:24:04PM +0100, Александър Л. Димитров wrote: Seriously, this is quite odd... take a look at the following two screenshots of Iran's ministry of foreign affair's site: http://omploader.org/vYzU3 http://omploader.org/vYzU4 Sorry to link you to some

Re: Switching from ipw3945 to iwl3945 driver]

2008-02-03 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 03:56:43AM +0100, Александър Л. Димитров wrote: * Once you've brought up wpa_supplicant on your wireless interface, the driver does not know how to go back. If you kill wpa_supplicant (like when you suspend and go somewhere else and want to connect to another WEP

Re: Alsa - no sound: I need to repeatedly run alsaconf every time I reboot computer

2008-02-03 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 02:06:24PM -0500, Mitchell Laks wrote: ... then even if I simply kill kde, and then startx again - still no sound! So I dont even have to reboot, simply ending kde kills sound and then i need to reinstall via alsaconf. very upsetting! do you have artsd running?

Re: What am I missing without mutt?

2008-02-03 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 06:36:41PM +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote: Dotan Cohen: As a thunderbird user, what am I missing by not using mutt? ... - Easy fast usage via SSH I run imap on my mail server with the idea that I can get mail from anywhere and that's great. But I find, using mutt,

Re: What am I missing without mutt?

2008-02-03 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 06:25:08PM -0500, Celejar wrote: On Sun, 3 Feb 2008 11:33:55 -0800 Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So for me, the easy fast ssh access to mail is the #1 thing about mutt. Can't one just tunnel any MUA through ssh, with something like 'ssh -L 110

Re: Buying debian compatible laptop.

2008-02-03 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 09:28:17PM +0200, Joona Kiiski wrote: Hello everyone, I've been using debian a couple of years (still a newbie for most of you hackers, though), but never installed it in laptop. Soon I'm buying a new laptop and want to make sure it works smoothly with debian. I

urxvt [was Re: GTK+ E-mail App on par with Mutt?]

2008-02-03 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 07:31:29PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/03/08 11:08, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 10:05:43AM -0500, Michael Pobega wrote: I'm finally taking the plunge from full CLI to using an X server, and in place of Mutt I've been using Evolution; But

Re: Thinkpad T61 Power Management

2008-02-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 06:43:12PM -0800, Thierry San Juan wrote: I installed Debian Sid on a new Thinkpad T61, and running into some issues in regard to power management: I am running kernel 2.6.24-1-amd64. ... 2. When running on battery, the Gnome Power Manager applet is unable to read

Re: Xorg problems dpkg-reconfigure

2008-02-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 10:16:05AM -0500, Der Engel wrote: Hello, I'm running sid and didn't chose to install a desktop enviroment during install, I now want to install Xorg to run fluxbox. I install xorg using aptitude, when trying to do 'dpkg-reconfigure -plow xserver-xorg' the wizard

Re: Switching from ipw3945 to iwl3945 driver]

2008-02-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 10:13:56PM +, Jurij Smakov wrote: Hi, If you do not own any hardware with Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG wifi cards, you can stop reading now. The 2.6.24 kernel has recently hit unstable, and it contains a new shiny iwl3945 driver which should replace the old

Re: Setting up Debian on a mobile disk

2008-02-01 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 09:26:59AM +0100, Dan H. wrote: ... Yes, I figured that. But it ain't easy. There's simply no way I can think of to make grub install itself on that disk. I have no idea which (hdx,y) to use. /dev/sda is flatly refused as it is not a BIOS disk. Why can't grub simply

Re: Blu Ray LG GGW-H20L crashes Linux [Solved]

2008-01-31 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 06:37:03AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/31/08 01:38, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 20:13 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: The only solution is to take out that excess RAM and send it to me!

Re: Setting up Debian on a mobile disk

2008-01-31 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 04:47:20PM +0100, Dan H. wrote: On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 03:56:10PM +0100, Dan H. wrote: like the subject says, I want to set up a Debian system on a bootable external USB hard disk Followup: I've discovered debootstrap and have used it to set up a system on that

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