Re: free software & accessibility

> Scott Ferguson writes: > On 27/08/11 15:53, Ivan Shmakov wrote: > Scott Ferguson writes: > On 27/08/11 13:57, Ivan Shmakov wrote: [Cross-posting to both sfd-discuss@ and planning-ru@.] […] Our team would probably have joined the deal, but, unfortunately, we

Re: Is there a way to tell when a system was first booted?

hi, perhaps this may be a way: Evolution will create a wellcome-post after first startup. Klaus Am Samstag, den 27.08.2011, 23:23 -0700 schrieb gnubayonne-debian...@yahoo.com: > >i don't know how to say this without sounding like a smart ass, so i'm > > >going to sound like a smart ass: > >why

Re: Is there a way to tell when a system was first booted?

>i don't know how to say this without sounding like a smart ass, so i'm >going to sound like a smart ass: >why does it matter? lol, but some of us are inordinately nostalgic and sentiMENTAL. I'd look at the ctimes of some of the main directories like /var, /bin or /usr. Most system files reflec

Re: KMyMoney

2011-08-28 06:01, Sharon Kimble skrev: On 28 August 2011 03:22, Nate Bargmann wrote: Version 4.5.3 shows to be in Unstable right now. - Nate>> Thanks for this Nate. Is unstable wheezy please? and if so do i just change squeeze to wheezy in my /etc/apt/sources.list? For version info:

Re: Is seagate goflex compatible with debian

On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 12:43 AM, Chris Brennan wrote: > On 8/27/2011 8:20 AM, lina wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Today I checked this one on store, >> >> http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/products/external/external-hard-drive/portable-hard-drive >> >> the 1TB USB3.0 one, whose outside box showed the system

Re: Error; Skreener stop installing

On 28/08/11 12:46, Morning Star wrote: Hi guys, I'm having trouble installing skreener. Marco Have you tried the precompiled .deb?? http://skreener.googlecode.com/files/skreener_0.1-1_i386.deb It seems to work OK on squeeze... Cheers -- "You ever noticed how people who believe in Cre

Re: KMyMoney

On 28 August 2011 03:22, Nate Bargmann wrote: > Version 4.5.3 shows to be in Unstable right now. > > - Nate >> Thanks for this Nate. Is unstable wheezy please? and if so do i just change squeeze to wheezy in my /etc/apt/sources.list? Thanks Sharon. -- A taste of linux http://www.sharons.org.uk/

Re: Error; Skreener stop installing

On 28/08/11 12:46, Morning Star wrote: ERROR: cmake/modules/FindKDE4Internal.cmake not found I suggest you install apt-file eg.:- # apt-get install apt-file Then:- $ apt-file search FindKDE4Internal.cmake I believe you'll find you're missing kdelibs5-dev if apt-file confirms that then:-

Re: securing the system, stopping unnecessary services and closing open ports.

On 28/08/11 11:39, yudi v wrote: Just to clarify my post. This is a new install and I was a bit careless while installing. It has no data on it. I was more concerned with LUKS+LVM working at install. I did not realize I selected to install SSH, I do not use Samba or NFS not sure how those got ins

Error; Skreener stop installing

Hi guys, I'm having trouble installing skreener. Here are what I do and the output result: user@desktop: ~/Downloads/skreener/skreener-0.1.1$ mkdir b && cd b && cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=release && make -j3 Output in the screen: -- The C compiler identification is GNU -- The CXX compiler identif

Re: KMyMoney

Version 4.5.3 shows to be in Unstable right now. - Nate >> -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Ham radio, Linux, bikes, and more: http://www.n0nb.us -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Is there a way to tell when a system was first booted?

On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 21:18, yudi v wrote: > Just to clarify my original post. I want to find out when I installed and > booted Debian for the very first time. > i don't know how to say this without sounding like a smart ass, so i'm going to sound like a smart ass: why does it matter? i mean,

KMyMoney

I'm using KMyMoney 3.98.1 from the squeeze repo but would like to know if there is a more uptodate version in any other repo please? The currrent version on the KMyMoney site [http://kmymoney2.sourceforge.net/index-home.html is 4.6.0. Thanks Sharon. -- A taste of linux http://www.sharons.org.uk/t

Re: securing the system, stopping unnecessary services and closing open ports.

Just to clarify my post. This is a new install and I was a bit careless while installing. It has no data on it. I was more concerned with LUKS+LVM working at install. I did not realize I selected to install SSH, I do not use Samba or NFS not sure how those got installed. Again it might have been an

Re: Is there a way to tell when a system was first booted?

From: Scott Ferguson Subject: Re: Is there a way to tell when a system was first booted? Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2011 11:02:44 +1000 > On 28/08/11 00:36, yudi v wrote: >> Is there a way to tell when a system was first booted? >> >> -- >> Kind regards, >> Yudi >> > > Maybe...(I'm guessing) > > /var/log/

Re: Is there a way to tell when a system was first booted?

Just to clarify my original post. I want to find out when I installed and booted Debian for the very first time. -- Kind regards, Yudi

Re: Sqeeze, Bluetooth profiles A2DP, AVRCP, HFP working with ALSA - Has anyone got it working?

I have always manually switched under linux, and I miss that functionality when using my windows installation, as it sometimes gives me music over the headset profile, which sounds terrible. I will not say much about windows here but see if you have two devices under Sound, video and game control

Re: Is there a way to tell when a system was first booted?

On 28/08/11 00:36, yudi v wrote: Is there a way to tell when a system was first booted? -- Kind regards, Yudi Maybe...(I'm guessing) /var/log/installer/hardware-summary look at the first line also look at the modify time for /etc/issue Cheers -- "You ever noticed how people who believe in

Re: A Question about Journalling File Systems and Flash Drives

On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 11:25:31AM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > How hard is the ext3 file system on present-day flash > drives? I have some older Dell systems that run lenny and I put > a flash drive on as the boot drive on one of those systems and > it works great, but for how long? > I

Re: securing the system, stopping unnecessary services and closing open ports.

On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 5:05 PM, yudi v wrote: > Nmap suggests the following ports are open: > > 25/tcp open smtp > 111/tcp open rpcbind > 139/tcp open netbios-ssn > 445/tcp open microsoft-ds > 631/tcp open ipp > 901/tcp open samba-swat > 2049/tcp open nfs > > Which nmap command did

Re: securing the system, stopping unnecessary services and closing open ports.

Hi, > ipp is CUPS, the network printing server, and you know whether you need > that. Now that you mention it... I also see cups listening on all devices: $ sudo netstat -nlp Active Internet connections (only servers) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State

Re: securing the system, stopping unnecessary services and closing open ports.

On 08/27/2011 02:43 PM, Brian wrote: A natural history expedition searching for unicorns and dodos would have as much success as these two programs are likely to have. I was once on a natural history expedition. We found no unicorns, but we did find dodos. We weren't looking for them, but we

Re: securing the system, stopping unnecessary services and closing open ports.

On Sat 27 Aug 2011 at 17:16:16 +0100, Joe wrote: > On Sun, 28 Aug 2011 01:05:47 +1000 > yudi v wrote: > > > > how can I find out if this system has been compromised? > > You can try chkrootkit and rkhunter, but the latter at least works A natural history expedition searching for unicorns and d

Re: securing the system, stopping unnecessary services and closing open ports.

On Sun 28 Aug 2011 at 01:05:47 +1000, yudi v wrote: > Nmap suggests the following ports are open: > > 25/tcp open smtp > 111/tcp open rpcbind > 139/tcp open netbios-ssn > 445/tcp open microsoft-ds > 631/tcp open ipp > 901/tcp open samba-swat > 2049/tcp open nfs > > I run a desktop

Re: Is there a way to tell when a system was first booted?

> shawn wilson writes: > On Aug 27, 2011 1:26 PM, "Ivan Shmakov" wrote: > shawn wilson writes: > On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 11:43, John A. Sullivan III wrote: […] Does "uptime" do what you want or do you mean booted for the truly very first time (not counting reboots)?

Re: Is there a way to tell when a system was first booted?

On Aug 27, 2011 1:26 PM, "Ivan Shmakov" wrote: > > > shawn wilson writes: > > On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 11:43, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > > On Sun, 2011-08-28 at 00:36 +1000, yudi v wrote: > > >>> Is there a way to tell when a system was first booted? > > >> Does "uptime" do what y

Re: Is there a way to tell when a system was first booted?

> shawn wilson writes: > On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 11:43, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > On Sun, 2011-08-28 at 00:36 +1000, yudi v wrote: >>> Is there a way to tell when a system was first booted? >> Does "uptime" do what you want or do you mean booted for the truly >> very first tim

Re: Is there a way to tell when a system was first booted?

John A. Sullivan III wrote: On Sun, 2011-08-28 at 00:36 +1000, yudi v wrote: Is there a way to tell when a system was first booted? Does "uptime" do what you want or do you mean booted for the truly very first time (not counting reboots)? - John well uptime will tell most recent boot, not ex

Re: Is there a way to tell when a system was first booted?

On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 11:43, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > On Sun, 2011-08-28 at 00:36 +1000, yudi v wrote: >> Is there a way to tell when a system was first booted? > > Does "uptime" do what you want or do you mean booted for the truly very > first time (not counting reboots)? - John > cat /pr

Re: Sqeeze, Bluetooth profiles A2DP, AVRCP, HFP working with ALSA - Has anyone got it working?

2011-08-27 14:27, yudi v skrev: I am trying to get Bluetooth profiles A2DP, AVRCP, HFP, HSP working with ALSA. Not much documentation available for ALSA, there are few for Pulseaudio. If there is no possibility of these Bluetooth profiles working with ALSA, probably will go with Pulse. When I t

Re: Is seagate goflex compatible with debian

On 8/27/2011 8:20 AM, lina wrote: > Hi, > > Today I checked this one on store, > > http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/products/external/external-hard-drive/portable-hard-drive > > the 1TB USB3.0 one, whose outside box showed the system requirements is: > Windows > Mac® OS X operating system 1

Re: A Question about Journalling File Systems and Flash Drives

> Scott Ferguson writes: […] > Full backups:- > dd if=/dev/deb_usb | gzip -1 -c > ./deb_usb.img.gz > Full restores:- > zcat ./deb_usb.img.gz | dd of=/dev/deb_usb My e2dis suite, which I hopeful to release soon, will probably be a better fit for such image-level backup

Re: securing the system, stopping unnecessary services and closing open ports.

On 8/27/2011 11:38 AM, Brad Alexander wrote: > Ports 139, 445 and 901 are samba running. Port 631 is cups, your printer > driver. 111 and 2049 are for NFS. If you don't need them, you should be > able to turn them off...If you do need it, then you should be able to > firewall it, using iptables to

Re: securing the system, stopping unnecessary services and closing open ports.

On Sun, 28 Aug 2011 01:05:47 +1000 yudi v wrote: > Nmap suggests the following ports are open: > > 25/tcp open smtp > 111/tcp open rpcbind > 139/tcp open netbios-ssn > 445/tcp open microsoft-ds > 631/tcp open ipp > 901/tcp open samba-swat > 2049/tcp open nfs > > I run a desktop em

Re: Building the kernel myself

On Fri, 26 Aug 2011 11:18:10 -0400 (EDT), Ralf Jung wrote: > > I am trying to build the linux kernel myself... it's one of the things I > always wanted to do ;-) plus I submitted some bugerports against the kernel > and would like to test the patches there were written to fix them. I am in a hu

Re: Is there a way to tell when a system was first booted?

On Sun, 2011-08-28 at 00:36 +1000, yudi v wrote: > Is there a way to tell when a system was first booted? Does "uptime" do what you want or do you mean booted for the truly very first time (not counting reboots)? - John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a s

Re: Is seagate goflex compatible with debian

Thanks Andrew, On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 11:02 PM, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > Hi Lina, > > lina wrote: >> >> Today I checked this one on store, >> >> >> http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/products/external/external-hard-drive/portable-hard-drive > > I have a couple of these at a client site using Wind

Re: securing the system, stopping unnecessary services and closing open ports.

Ports 139, 445 and 901 are samba running. Port 631 is cups, your printer driver. 111 and 2049 are for NFS. If you don't need them, you should be able to turn them off...If you do need it, then you should be able to firewall it, using iptables to limit access to the hosts or subnets you need. On S

securing the system, stopping unnecessary services and closing open ports.

Nmap suggests the following ports are open: 25/tcp open smtp 111/tcp open rpcbind 139/tcp open netbios-ssn 445/tcp open microsoft-ds 631/tcp open ipp 901/tcp open samba-swat 2049/tcp open nfs I run a desktop email client that uses smtp apart from that I do not know why rest of the a

Re: Is seagate goflex compatible with debian

Hi Lina, lina wrote: Today I checked this one on store, http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/products/external/external-hard-drive/portable-hard-drive I have a couple of these at a client site using Windows 2008 Server. Sure, not Linux, but the software on the drive "Premium-grade software simp

Adding a Radeon 6950 for OpenGL and OpenCL or CUDA

Currently I'm running the latest aptosid with an Intel MB graphics chipset (which can be left live even with a PCI-E graphics board installed although that's not a requirement for me). A quick search shows that there are no definitive "howto" guides for Debian support of my target configuration wh

Is there a way to tell when a system was first booted?

Is there a way to tell when a system was first booted? -- Kind regards, Yudi

Re: [OT] Nagios question

David, Thank you for pointing me in the right direction. I ran strace on both and the telling item was shutdown(3, 1 /* send */) = -1 ENOTCONN (Transport endpoint is not connected) on akagi. As it turns out, restarting the client (again) fixed the problem. Thanks for reminding me a

Re: A Question about Journalling File Systems and Flash Drives

On 27/08/11 22:37, Brian wrote: On Sat 27 Aug 2011 at 11:19:20 +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: The one without noatime died earlier this year after approx 2 years of use - the other has been upgraded to Squeeze and still works fine. I have just put unstable with an ext4 filesystem on a USB st

Re: Is seagate goflex compatible with debian

> Today I checked this one on store, > > http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/products/external/external-hard-drive/portable-hard-drive > > the 1TB USB3.0 one, whose outside box showed the system requirements is: > Windows > Mac® OS X operating system 10.4.11 or higher; 10.5.8 or 10.6.2 (32-bit >

Re: A Question about Journalling File Systems and Flash Drives

On Sat 27 Aug 2011 at 11:19:20 +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: > Based on my experiences using ext3 as a file system for running Debian > on USB sticks. Single partition (no swap), logging redirected to vt12. > > 2 identical sticks (major brand) - identical builds - noatime enabled on > one, not

Sqeeze, Bluetooth profiles A2DP, AVRCP, HFP working with ALSA - Has anyone got it working?

Hi All, I am trying to get Bluetooth profiles A2DP, AVRCP, HFP, HSP working with ALSA. Not much documentation available for ALSA, there are few for Pulseaudio. If there is no possibility of these Bluetooth profiles working with ALSA, probably will go with Pulse. I came across some discussion but

Is seagate goflex compatible with debian

Hi, Today I checked this one on store, http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/products/external/external-hard-drive/portable-hard-drive the 1TB USB3.0 one, whose outside box showed the system requirements is: Windows Mac® OS X operating system 10.4.11 or higher; 10.5.8 or 10.6.2 (32-bit kernel on

Re: Color Webpage Printout on Black and White Printer Too Bright

On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 12:43:45PM +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > I have a black and white HP Laserjet 6P and when I print colored webpages > they > are "translated" (dithered?) into black and white printouts, which is > perfectly ok and expected. What is unexpected though is that for me most >

Re: Dropped Connections and "Failed to create cgroup nnnn: -17" Kernel Message When vsftpd Spawning a New Process

Hi, just in case anyone comes across this thread: I have filed a bug report for this issue under #639453. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=639453 Dirk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas.

Color Webpage Printout on Black and White Printer Too Bright

Hello, I have a black and white HP Laserjet 6P and when I print colored webpages they are "translated" (dithered?) into black and white printouts, which is perfectly ok and expected. What is unexpected though is that for me most pages print by far too bright and are not readable at all. I am w

Re: Why some gnome 3.0 program can't work?

Hi all. I resolve problem 1. I need install "ibus-gtk3",so problem is ibus. 2011/8/26 sppmg : > (I use debian amd64 testing.and i-bus framework running.) > > I upgrade debian (testing to testing) by apt yesterday.Some program come to > 3.0.for example ,gnome-terminal,epiphany-browser. > But they h

Re: free software & accessibility

On 27/08/11 15:53, Ivan Shmakov wrote: Scott Ferguson writes: On 27/08/11 13:57, Ivan Shmakov wrote: >> [Cross-posting to both sfd-discuss@ and planning-ru@.] […] >> Our team would probably have joined the deal, but, unfortunately, we >> don't apparently have anything to offer to th