Re: Directory and file permissions

2010-12-08 Thread gun_smoke
On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 02:00:21PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: In 201012081217.41820.lisi.re...@gmail.com, Lisi wrote: My google foo seems to have deserted me completely. Could someone take pity? :-( Is it possible for a directory to have lower permissions than the files it

Re: Frustration made me do it.

2010-11-21 Thread gun_smoke
On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 11:56:49PM -0800, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: claws-mail is fantastic, I would like to encourage others to give it a try. Fast and powerful. Brian Since this thread has started I decided to give claws a go. From what I've messed with so far it seems nice. I would

Re: rkhunter report

2010-11-20 Thread gun_smoke
On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 08:46:57PM +, Brian wrote: Well, don't run applications which output spurious warnings as a matter of course. Purging rkhunter will do wonders for your blood pressure without endangering your system. I agree. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Odd network issue

2010-11-11 Thread gun_smoke
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 11:54:36AM -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: What, if any, firewall do you have installed? I had the same problem here when I (finally) got a wireless setup. I tried a bunch of firewalls and and settled on arno-iptables-firewall and privoxy. Now I can surf the web and

Re: Conversion to Ext4 in LVM

2010-11-11 Thread gun_smoke
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 07:44:36PM +0200, David Baron wrote: The system-config-lvm UI offers the option to change filesystem type, i.e. currently ext3, change to ext4. Can one/should one do this? You can convert from ext3 to ext4. I've done it.

Re: Odd network issue

2010-11-11 Thread gun_smoke
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 10:06:14AM +, CamaleĆ³n wrote: Mmm, your problem is that you cannot browse the web? Then perform the usual steps: ping -c 3 google.com dig google.com traceroute google.com I can ping google. No packet loss, but the times are in the 1000-2000ms times. -- To

Odd network issue

2010-11-10 Thread gun_smoke
I'm have some issues while connected to the network on campus only. From the moment I get connected to the wifi, bwm-ng is reporting I'm receiving nearly 50KB/s of traffic. I don't have a browsers open etc. Looking at tcpdump, I see a lot of this. tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, use -v or

Re: Size of minimal Debian installation

2010-11-01 Thread gun_smoke
On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 07:53:02PM -0400, Celejar wrote: Debian's installer installs gcc? What Base System package are you referring to? It's been a while since I did an install, but I don't remember ever having gcc installed during the install, and I see no base package that depends on

Re: Unable to mount Android phone w/ Lenny

2010-10-29 Thread gun_smoke
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 12:26:16PM -0400, gun_sm...@shellium.org wrote: When I plug my phone in with the data cable supplied it will not mount, and does not show up as a device. However, it will continue to charge the phone as expected. Looking at dmesg I see the following. On the phone it's

Re: s2ram

2010-10-29 Thread gun_smoke
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 10:54:13AM +0200, roberto wrote: hello, i usually switch to standby mode using: s2ram -f -p -m sometimes, it happens the laptop switches on correctly but the screen stays blank and the keyboard irresponsive: i could not figure out the issue but i'd like to know if

Re: how to tell what packages are unused on a debian server?

2010-10-29 Thread gun_smoke
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 06:12:55AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: just a cleanup-related question but on a debian lenny server that i've inherited, i'm curious to know which packages have no value whatever and that i can delete. i recall there's a utility that will identify unused

Unable to mount Android phone w/ Lenny

2010-10-28 Thread gun_smoke
When I plug my phone in with the data cable supplied it will not mount, and does not show up as a device. However, it will continue to charge the phone as expected. Looking at dmesg I see the following. On the phone it's self it detects the USB have been plugged in and I have the option to mount

Re: Tasksel not showing desktop enviroment

2010-10-27 Thread gun_smoke
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 02:08:32PM +0530, Raman Pandarinathan wrote: Hi, Today I download amd64 CD-1 image. The installation is smooth. However taks sel shows only -ssh-server, mail-server and standard system. The Desktop environment or other options are not show. As as result only the base

Re: How to Retain an Existing Ext4 Partition with a Debian 5.0.5 DVD Installation?

2010-08-25 Thread gun_smoke
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 07:31:13AM -0500, Tom Browder wrote: On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 07:20, Rodney D. Myers rod_my...@fastmail.fm wrote: That sounds good. So I shouldn't have any problems with 5.0.5 supporting existing ext4 partitions. Thanks, Rodney. I was not able to mount an ext4

Re: contents of a CD (lenny) and what packages are needed for the basic (minimal) set OS

2010-08-21 Thread gun_smoke
On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 07:08:41PM +0400, Vladimir wrote: contents of a CD (lenny) and what packages are needed for the basic (minimal) set OS You only need CD1 for a basic system. http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/installmanual -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to