Re: A question for the list:

2010-11-05 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello, On 05/11/10 19:43, ZephyrQ wrote: Stan Hoeppner wrote: ZephyrQ put forth on 11/4/2010 9:50 PM: If you could not/did not use Debian (either Lenny, Squeeze, or Sid), which other distribution would you use and why? What situation are you in that motivates this question? Not a specific

Re: how to generate pi in c

2010-11-05 Thread Jerome BENOIT
www.gnulib.org On 06/11/10 01:10, Volkan YAZICI wrote: On Fri, 5 Nov 2010, Arthur Belajozsi.avad...@gmail.com writes: Does anyone has a generate-pi.c source code? Answer to your homework is here[1]. Also you can find a couple million digits of pi as a text file on the web. Regards. [1]

Re: how to generate pi in c

2010-11-05 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, On 06/11/10 12:31, Jerome BENOIT wrote: www.gnulib.org I made a mistake here: http://gmplib.org Computing billions of π digits using GMP: http://gmplib.org/pi-with-gmp.html hth, Jerome On 06/11/10 01:10, Volkan YAZICI wrote: On Fri, 5 Nov 2010, Arthur Belajozsi.avad

Re: Debian (2.6.35) on Mac Mini (late-2010)

2010-11-23 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, late macmini works only with kernel 2.6.35 and older: with previous version of the kernel, there are issues with the hard drive. What is the kernel version of `the -mac-mini kernel' ? Jerome On 23/11/10 21:35, w f wrote: Previously, with a modicum of difficulty (but eventual

Re: Debian (2.6.35) on Mac Mini (late-2010)

2010-11-23 Thread Jerome BENOIT
On 23/11/10 22:11, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello List, late macmini works only with kernel 2.6.35 and older: older - later my mistake :-) Jerome with previous version of the kernel, there are issues with the hard drive. What is the kernel version of `the -mac-mini kernel' ? Jerome On 23

Re: Debian (2.6.35) on Mac Mini (late-2010)

2010-11-23 Thread Jerome BENOIT
On 23/11/10 22:11, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello List, late macmini works only with kernel 2.6.35 and older: older - later my mistake with previous version of the kernel, there are issues with the hard drive. What is the kernel version of `the -mac-mini kernel' ? Jerome On 23/11/10 21:35

ssh and OpenGL

2010-11-24 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, is it possible to have OpenGL through a ssh connection ? I googled, but I found no clear answer, hence my question. Thanks in advance, Jerome -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: ssh and OpenGL

2010-11-25 Thread Jerome BENOIT
On 25/11/10 17:37, Klistvud wrote: Dne, 25. 11. 2010 07:39:24 je Jerome BENOIT napisal(a): Hello List, is it possible to have OpenGL through a ssh connection ? I googled, but I found no clear answer, hence my question. Would this be X forwarding? Because AFAIK X forwarding (as in client

Re: ssh and OpenGL

2010-11-25 Thread Jerome BENOIT
On 25/11/10 17:49, Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 25 Nov 2010 14:39:24 +0800, Jerome BENOIT wrote: is it possible to have OpenGL through a ssh connection ? I googled, but I found no clear answer, hence my question. Try it :-) ssh -X u...@host glxgears Greetings, Indeed I can run glxgears via

Re: ssh and OpenGL

2010-11-25 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello, On 25/11/10 18:52, Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 25 Nov 2010 18:08:51 +0800, Jerome BENOIT wrote: On 25/11/10 17:49, Camaleón wrote: is it possible to have OpenGL through a ssh connection ? I googled, but I found no clear answer, hence my question. Try it :-) ssh -X u...@host glxgears

acroread trouble on Sqeeze

2010-11-30 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List ! since a couple of days, I have some trouble with acroread on my Squeeze amd64 box which is daily updated: fro example, when I deal two PDF files and that I play tabs, acroread gets confused and I get on shell the message: (acroread-en:12304): Gtk-CRITICAL **:

Re: acroread trouble on Sqeeze

2010-11-30 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, thanks for your quick reply. On 30/11/10 22:54, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 30 Nov 2010 20:48:33 +0800, Jerome BENOIT wrote: since a couple of days, I have some trouble with acroread on my Squeeze amd64 box which is daily updated: fro example, when I deal two PDF files and that I

Re: acroread trouble on Sqeeze

2010-11-30 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, thanks for the hint. On 01/12/10 02:52, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 01 Dec 2010 00:30:38 +0800, Jerome BENOIT wrote: On 30/11/10 22:54, Camaleón wrote: What do you mean by acroread gets confused? It freezes when loading a second PDF within the same instance (tabbed)? Are you

Re: acroread trouble on Sqeeze

2010-12-01 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hell List, On 01/12/10 19:12, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 01 Dec 2010 12:00:55 +0100, Horvath Krisztian wrote: An error in Acrobat Reader package then? There is a similar bug report for OOo: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=521775 But Acrobat Reader is closed source so bugs can

Fwd: Re: acroread trouble on Sqeeze

2010-12-01 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hi Again, On 01/12/10 19:50, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 01 Dec 2010 19:36:16 +0800, Jerome BENOIT wrote: On 01/12/10 19:12, Camaleón wrote: Error log is pretty self-explanatory about which app is causing the problem. Besides, Acrobat Reader can be running fine in your system but crashing

Re: acroread trouble on Sqeeze

2010-12-01 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Thanks a lot for your time. On 01/12/10 20:13, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 01 Dec 2010 11:50:36 +, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 01 Dec 2010 19:36:16 +0800, Jerome BENOIT wrote: let say that I can reproduced the bug on an other Squeeze (amd64) computer: Wow... and both are 64-bit installations

Fwd: Re: acroread trouble on Sqeeze

2010-12-01 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Original Message Subject: Re: acroread trouble on Sqeeze Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2010 20:30:38 +0800 From: Jerome BENOIT g62993...@rezozer.net Reply-To: g62993...@rezozer.net To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Thanks a lot for your time. On 01/12/10 20:13, Camaleón wrote: On Wed

Re: acroread trouble on Sqeeze

2010-12-01 Thread Jerome BENOIT
On 01/12/10 21:00, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 01 Dec 2010 20:30:38 +0800, Jerome BENOIT wrote: On 01/12/10 20:13, Camaleón wrote: (...) Error log is very verbose, though: http://pastebin.com/kXpMvC5J Jerome, I am also getting all that stuff so that entries have to be normal. I will try

Re: acroread trouble on Sqeeze

2010-12-01 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello, On 01/12/10 22:35, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 01 Dec 2010 21:44:39 +0800, Jerome BENOIT wrote: On 01/12/10 21:00, Camaleón wrote: I will try to fix the errors as: /usr/lib/gio/modules/libgvfsdbus.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64 Failed to load module: /usr/lib/gio/modules

Re: acroread trouble on Sqeeze

2010-12-01 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello, On 02/12/10 03:14, Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 02 Dec 2010 00:52:11 +0800, Jerome BENOIT wrote: On 01/12/10 22:35, Camaleón wrote: s...@stt008:~$ ls -l /usr | grep lib drwxr-xr-x 147 root root 43528 nov 28 15:34 lib lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 nov 14 2009 lib32 - /emul/ia32

Re: acroread trouble on Sqeeze

2010-12-02 Thread Jerome BENOIT
On 02/12/10 16:33, Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 02 Dec 2010 12:50:04 +0800, Jerome BENOIT wrote: On 02/12/10 03:14, Camaleón wrote: (...) Anyway, besides all these esoteric messages and warnings, are you facing any other problem with the program? I do not really care about the messages: my

Re: Files in the /tmp dir.

2010-12-05 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, have you checked which software uses it (`lsof',`ps',... ? Jerome On 06/12/10 13:21, Sthu Deus wrote: Good day. I have a bunch of such files: -rw--- 1 rootroot 0 2010-10-26 12:14 /tmp/tmp.VpjBPrFKtT What can these be? From whence they come? It seems they are

gnome darkllook theme: missing icon on upperleft

2010-12-06 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, on my Squeeeze box (amd64), I use the Gnome Darklook theme: unfortunatelly, for some application (ex. xterm), the upper left icon is missing (in fact replaced by an ugly one): how can I fix this rather minor issue ? Thanks in advance, Jerome -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: gnome darkllook theme: missing icon on upperleft

2010-12-07 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, On 07/12/10 01:35, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 07 Dec 2010 00:28:01 +0800, Jerome BENOIT wrote: on my Squeeeze box (amd64), I use the Gnome Darklook theme: unfortunatelly, for some application (ex. xterm), the upper left icon is missing (in fact replaced by an ugly one): how can I fix

Re: Can't find latex

2010-12-07 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, On 07/12/10 18:04, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 07 Dec 2010 07:19:48 +0100, Andreas wrote: Am 06.12.2010 20:28, schrieb Camaleón: Then you should ask yourself why kpackage is failing in searching those packages while other tools just work fine:-) Okay, asking myself...

Re: gnome darkllook theme: missing icon on upperleft

2010-12-07 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello Again, On 07/12/10 19:23, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 07 Dec 2010 18:06:17 +0800, Jerome BENOIT wrote: On 07/12/10 01:35, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 07 Dec 2010 00:28:01 +0800, Jerome BENOIT wrote: on my Squeeeze box (amd64), I use the Gnome Darklook theme: unfortunatelly, for some

Re: TeX: Corrupted NFSS tables

2010-12-13 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, On 13/12/10 17:25, Stanisław Findeisen wrote: Hi I am getting mysterious errors with pdflatex: LaTeX Font Warning: Font shape `OT4/cmr/m/n' undefined (Font) using `OT4/cmr/m/n' instead on input line 100. ! Corrupted NFSS tables. wr...@fontshape ...message {Corrupted

Re: TeX: Corrupted NFSS tables

2010-12-13 Thread Jerome BENOIT
On 13/12/10 18:01, Stanisław Findeisen wrote: On 2010-12-13 10:58, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello List, On 13/12/10 17:25, Stanisław Findeisen wrote: Hi I am getting mysterious errors with pdflatex: LaTeX Font Warning: Font shape `OT4/cmr/m/n' undefined (Font) using `OT4/cmr/m/n

Re: Can not set execute permission to file in usb storage media with fat32 format

2010-12-15 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hi GulfStream, On 16/12/10 12:45, gulfstream wrote: Oh, I'm sorry. It's a clerical error. I used is chmod +x, it does not work. it does not work because the fat32 format does not support privileges. Jerome 2010/12/16 David Jardine da...@jardine.de mailto:da...@jardine.de On Thu,

Re: How to change security option for usb stick automatic mounting?

2010-12-15 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hi, you can configure it as root in /etc/fstab see fstab(5) and mount(8) Jerome On 16/12/10 13:16, gulfstream wrote: Hello everyone, I think that some extra security options were defined with automatic mounting. But I don't find where to change them. How to change security option for usb

Re: How to change security option for usb stick automatic mounting?

2010-12-15 Thread Jerome BENOIT
gulfstream 2010/12/16 Jerome BENOIT g62993...@rezozer.net mailto:g62993...@rezozer.net Hi, you can configure it as root in /etc/fstab see fstab(5) and mount(8) Jerome On 16/12/10 13:16, gulfstream wrote: Hello everyone, I think that some extra

Re: How to change security option for usb stick automatic mounting?

2010-12-15 Thread Jerome BENOIT
2010/12/16 Jerome BENOIT g62993...@rezozer.net mailto:g62993...@rezozer.net On 16/12/10 13:28, gulfstream wrote: If I mount the usb stick manual, the fstab will take effect. But automatic mounting need not this file. System find usb stick and mount

Re: Layout of /etc/services

2011-03-12 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello Lisi, I am not sure about your question. But I guess that part of the answer holds in what is meant by space: ' ' or '\t' In `/etc/services', '\t' is used but not ' ': try cat -A /etc/services to see that. Given that, cat /etc/services gives an aligned port/protocol column. Jerome

evince reload: weird behaviour ?

2011-03-13 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, I have just notice the following (weird ?) behaviour. When I view a pdf file with evince, if I move (`mv') a new pdflatexed version of this file, I have to reload it manually in evince. But if I touch (`touch') the new pdflatexed version, evince reloads it as expected. Is there

Re: evince reload: weird behaviour ?

2011-03-14 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hi ! Thanks for the reply. On 14/03/11 13:50, Darac Marjal wrote: On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 01:55:56AM +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello List, I have just notice the following (weird ?) behaviour. When I view a pdf file with evince, if I move (`mv') a new pdflatexed version of this file, I

Re: OT: servers vs. lightning and power outages

2011-03-14 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hi ! On 15/03/11 01:31, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Jason Hsu put forth on 3/14/2011 1:31 PM: How do you protect servers from lightning? During facility construction: www.erico.com/public/library/fep/LT1421.pdf What backup power sources do you use to keep them running during power outages?

Re: OT: servers vs. lightning and power outages

2011-03-15 Thread Jerome BENOIT
On 15/03/11 03:40, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Jerome BENOIT put forth on 3/14/2011 7:58 PM: Just curious: why the UPS must be at the bottom ? Your attempt at being a smart ass aside, I do not think so: I was really curious. I plan to play with UPS soon. I'll answer your question. Thanks

Re: What happened to debian - does stable keep having any meaning?

2011-03-21 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello, On 21/03/11 16:15, Reinhard Mantey wrote: Hello, Perhaps proprietary firmware is the cause of your software problem - strangely you failed to provide any information about the most likely cause. Well, thought about that, but that hardware is working fine for over one year with daily

ssh-agent and TMPDIR

2011-03-24 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, I have just built and installed openssh 1:5.8p1-3 from sid on my squeeze box in order to getssh-agent to honour $TMPDIR. In /usr/share/doc/openssh-server/changelog.Debian.gz I read: - ssh(1)/ssh-agent(1): honour $TMPDIR for client xauth and ssh-agent temporary directories

Debian was hacked: The Canterbury Distribution

2011-03-31 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, right now, the Official Debian site seems hacked by The Canterbury Distribution. I guess it is a joke. hth, Jerome -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: Debian was hacked: The Canterbury Distribution

2011-03-31 Thread Jerome BENOIT
On 01/04/11 05:24, Freeman wrote: On Fri, Apr 01, 2011 at 05:16:37AM +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello List, right now, the Official Debian site seems hacked by The Canterbury Distribution. I guess it is a joke. 04/01/11 ! Indeed :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: Debian was hacked: The Canterbury Distribution

2011-04-01 Thread Jerome BENOIT
On 01/04/11 15:09, Klistvud wrote: Dne, 01. 04. 2011 14:48:48 je Jörg-Volker Peetz napisal(a): The community distributions have already worked close together and coordinated the solution of common issues, e.g., the top-level /run directory, see

Re: no bootable device

2011-04-05 Thread Jerome BENOIT
On 05/04/11 16:22, ZHAO Lina wrote: due to failed to detect ethernet card and I only used a small CD, so I failed to install above package. after installation, I met something like, no bootable device --insert boot disk and press any key. is your computer a Mac Intel computer ? How can

Re: Ubuntu Versions

2011-04-06 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello, On 07/04/11 01:58, Ron Johnson wrote: On 04/06/2011 06:39 PM, Tom H wrote: On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 7:17 PM, Rob Owensrow...@ptd.net wrote: With Ubuntu (I believe) you get 5 years for a server and 3 years for a desktop if you go with an LTS release. What packages are server packages and

Re: Cannot umount: device is busy

2011-04-14 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, On 14/04/11 15:22, T o n g wrote: Hi, I can't umount a device even I've killed all related processes: % umount /mnt/mpoint umount: /mnt/mpoint: device is busy. (In some cases useful info about processes that use the device is found by lsof(8) or

Re: powerdown harddisk

2011-04-22 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, On 22/04/11 16:25, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 20 Apr 2011 12:06:33 -0700, geertsky wrote: I want to powerdown my ide harddisk completly. I'm booting from a usb stick so the IDE disk is CONSUMING... I have an old laptop so I'd like to preserver as much as possible. I tried hdparm -Y

sshd_config and OpenPermit

2011-05-03 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, I am trying to restrict ssh port forwarding to one port on my Squeeze box: my current understanding is that I may play with the OpenPermit option in sshd_config. By default OpenPermit is set to `any': if I set it to 127.0.0.1:12345 , I observed not restriction at all: all port can

Re: sshd_config and OpenPermit

2011-05-04 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, On 04/05/11 16:52, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 04 May 2011 04:41:32 +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote: I am trying to restrict ssh port forwarding to one port on my Squeeze box: my current understanding is that I may play with the OpenPermit option in sshd_config. You meant PermitOpen

Re: sshd_config and OpenPermit

2011-05-05 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List ! On 04/05/11 17:24, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello List, On 04/05/11 16:52, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 04 May 2011 04:41:32 +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote: I am trying to restrict ssh port forwarding to one port on my Squeeze box: my current understanding is that I may play

Re: OT: Safe to access SSH server from work?

2011-05-05 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, On 05/05/11 23:14, George wrote: I have a computer at home that I'm doing some research on and I set up an SSH server on it so I can access it from other computers at home. I haven't opened up the network to the internet yet though, as I'm not confident enough that it is safe. What

Re: OT: Safe to access SSH server from work?

2011-05-05 Thread Jerome BENOIT
come with your own machine, presumably a laptop ? On 06/05/11 00:46, cac...@quantum-sci.com wrote: On Thursday 5 May, 2011 15:09:02 Brian wrote: Use a strong password or ssh keys for access to the server. The question is whether you trust the machine you use at work. OK, say you -don't-

Re: OT: Safe to access SSH server from work?

2011-05-05 Thread Jerome BENOIT
an untrusted host is a bad idea. If you don't trust your employer, don't put your private key file one of his systems and don't enter your passphrase either. J. -- Jerome BENOIT jgmbenoit-at+rezozer*dot_net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: OT: Safe to access SSH server from work?

2011-05-05 Thread Jerome BENOIT
http://wiki.debian.org/ssh#ssh_without_password On 06/05/11 00:24, cac...@quantum-sci.com wrote: On Thursday 5 May, 2011 14:43:13 Jochen Schulz wrote: Expect brute-force attempts to login using weak passwords, though. If you only allow key logins, you can ignore that. And how is that done?

Re: OT: Safe to access SSH server from work?

2011-05-05 Thread Jerome BENOIT
On 06/05/11 02:54, Rob Owens wrote: On Thu, May 05, 2011 at 03:46:27PM -0700, cac...@quantum-sci.com wrote: On Thursday 5 May, 2011 15:09:02 Brian wrote: Use a strong password or ssh keys for access to the server. The question is whether you trust the machine you use at work. OK, say you

Re: OT: Safe to access SSH server from work?

2011-05-06 Thread Jerome BENOIT
On 06/05/11 15:11, Wolfgang Karall wrote: On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 01:08:52PM +0100, Brian wrote: Keyloggers would get the key passphrase too. And the USB stick would have its contents pilfered. So, keys don't appear to give any advantage over passwords on an untrusted machine. combined with

Re: OT: Safe to access SSH server from work?

2011-05-06 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List ! For the connect from untrusted computers there are one-time-passwords. I've used libpam-opie in the past with great success for the occasional connection from internet cafe's for example. By googling, I found this web page:

Re: OT: Safe to access SSH server from work?

2011-05-06 Thread Jerome BENOIT
On 06/05/11 22:37, Wolfgang Karall wrote: Hello, On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 05:00:18PM +0100, Dom wrote: However, libpam-opie seems to have been dropped by Debian after squeeze, due to lack of support, some security issues, and no updates for quite a few years. I run Wheezy, is there a

Re: wireless driver

2011-05-16 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, On 16/05/11 12:17, lina wrote: bcm43xx matches BCM57765? The same? Thanks On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 5:03 PM, Atıf CEYLANmeh...@atifceylan.com wrote: On 05/16/2011 10:37 AM, lina wrote: Hi, Just curious, what's the wireless driver for the following card? 02:00.0 Ethernet

Xfce: multi workspace: stick windows to a workspace

2013-04-15 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, is there a way to stick windows to a given workspace with Xfce ? Thanks in advance, Jerome -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: Xfce: multi workspace: stick windows to a workspace

2013-04-15 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Thanks Brian, it rocks ! I have just bookmarked the FAQ. On 15/04/13 15:34, Brian wrote: On Mon 15 Apr 2013 at 14:13:44 +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello List, is there a way to stick windows to a given workspace with Xfce ? http://wiki.xfce.org/faq#window_manager -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: /dev/random vs /dev/urandom

2013-04-21 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, On 21/04/13 20:04, Pol Hallen wrote: Define better. better = secure (high level of security) :-) /dev/random is cryptographically more secure. do you mean /dev/urandom is [...]? /dev/random is faster. thanks! man 4 random Pol hth, Jerome -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

dcut: who does run the .commands files ?

2013-04-24 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, dcut can upload .commands files for the Debian FTP archive upload queue according its man page: how can I run them on my box ? Thanks in advance, Jerome -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: dcut: who does run the .commands files ?

2013-04-24 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hi, On 24/04/13 15:30, Jonathan Dowland wrote: On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 01:46:28PM +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote: dcut can upload .commands files for the Debian FTP archive upload queue according its man page: how can I run them on my box ? I think they're managed by dak, which is not packaged

check against and extract info from .changes

2013-04-25 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, is there any tools to check against and to extract info from .changes Debian files ? Thanks in advance, Jerome -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: check against and extract info from .changes

2013-04-26 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello Jaikumar, On 26/04/13 07:23, Jaikumar Sharma wrote: On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 2:41 AM, Jerome BENOIT g62993...@rezozer.net mailto:g62993...@rezozer.net wrote: is there any tools to check against and to extract info from .changes Debian files ? Can you mention as to what you want

Re: check against and extract info from .changes

2013-04-26 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, On 26/04/13 11:06, Jaikumar Sharma wrote: On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 1:50 PM, Jerome BENOIT g62993...@rezozer.net mailto:g62993...@rezozer.net wrote: Somehow I am looking for the opposite tool of dpkg-genchanges: given a .changes file, I would like to check whether the associated

Debian package component belonging

2013-05-03 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, given a package name, how can we know to which Debian component (man, contrib, non-free) it belongs ? Thanks in advance, Jerome -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: Debian package component belonging

2013-05-03 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hi Bob ! On 04/05/13 01:49, Bob Proulx wrote: Jerome BENOIT wrote: given a package name, how can we know to which Debian component (man, contrib, non-free) it belongs ? 1. Use apt-cache to show the package header and look to see what section it it in. $ apt-cache show emacs23

Re: Debian package component belonging

2013-05-03 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hi Again, On 04/05/13 03:18, Bob Proulx wrote: Jerome BENOIT wrote: Is there an easy way to get it from the .debian.tar.(gz|bz2|xz) ? Look at the debian/control file. I got this part. I was looking for a ready to use tool to extract the components: I guess I have to write my own stuff to do

Re: Debian package component belonging

2013-05-04 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hi Bob, On 04/05/13 05:04, Bob Proulx wrote: Hi Jerome, Jerome BENOIT wrote: I was looking for a ready to use tool to extract the components: I guess I have to write my own stuff to do so. How about: $ tar --to-stdout -xf emacs23-non-dfsg_23.4+1-1.debian.tar.gz debian/control

Re: Debian package component belonging

2013-05-05 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, On 05/05/13 07:07, Bob Proulx wrote: Jerome BENOIT wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: Jerome BENOIT wrote: Is there an easy way to get it from the .debian.tar.(gz|bz2|xz) ? $ tar xf emacs23-non-dfsg_23.4+1-1.debian.tar.gz --to-stdout debian/control | sed -n '/^Section:/{s/.* //;s

Re: Partially encrypted backup?

2013-05-06 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello, On 06/05/13 18:15, Hendrik Boom wrote: I'm currently using rdiff-backup onto removable USB drives for backup. I don not encrypt them now because I'm terrified of losing the encryption key and hence losing access to my backups. I'm planning to trade backup drives with an

Lucida fonts

2013-05-26 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List: What is the best way to deal with the (now absent) Lucida fonts on Wheezy ? Thanks in advance, Jerome -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: Lucida fonts

2013-05-26 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello Brian, On 26/05/13 20:57, Brian wrote: On Sun 26 May 2013 at 17:02:18 +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote: What is the best way to deal with the (now absent) Lucida fonts on Wheezy ? Please would you expand on 'way to deal with . . .'? Purging them from the system is an option, but it may

Re: Lucida fonts

2013-05-26 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello folks, thanks for your answers. On 26/05/13 23:33, Siard wrote: Jerome BENOIT wrote: But for now, I would like to have those Lucida TTF fonts to step forwards. You can install sun-java6-fonts from Squeeze, which provides them. I tried by installing them as in the sun-java6

how to catch the calling library

2013-05-31 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, with the help of strace, I can get that one of my executable fails because at one stage a nonexistent library is called, but unfortunately I cannot figure out which library calls the absent library: is there a simple way to do so ? Thanks in advance, Jerome -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

iceweasel: unresponsive script

2013-06-19 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, does anyone have some tricks and/or hints to trace `unresponsive script' issue with iceweasel ? Thanks in advance, Jerome -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: Backup/Restore software?

2013-07-11 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello Dave, On 12/07/13 02:42, David Guntner wrote: I've been religiously backing up my Windows machine for years with a program called Acronis True Image. It works well, lets me backup my system to a second hard drive in the computer, and will do a weekly full backup and daily incremental

Re: syslog

2013-07-16 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hi, On 17/07/13 01:20, Michael Biebl wrote: Am 17.07.2013 00:07, schrieb Glenn English: Why are there 3 logging daemons (syslogd, rsyslog, and syslog-ng) on Wheezy? (There's only syslogd on my one remaining Lenny box, looks like two (no ng) on Squeeze.) All three are enabled, and at least

Re: Wheezy/Xfce Gnome keyring problem

2014-01-01 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello, On 02/01/14 04:31, Bob Proulx wrote: Paul E Condon wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: The path of least resistance then would seem to be to install gnome-keyring to include that file. If it existed then you wouldn't get the error any longer. YMMV. I installed gnome-keyring and it pulled in

Re: Replacing systemd

2014-03-03 Thread Jerome BENOIT
On 04/03/14 02:50, Steve Litt wrote: Hi everyone, I just checked with my local Linux group (GoLUG), and the opinions there are that systemd is not a particularly good thing. I also heard from our LUG's most vociferous proponent of Daemontools that Daemontools wouldn't be a good

Re: unable to renew ip

2014-03-07 Thread Jerome BENOIT
changed to another cable, tried the `# dhcline -r` and `# dhclient`, but all not works. the dh server is windows, so do not expect full support from it. Are there some suggestions about how to change the IP address? Thanks, -- Jerome BENOIT, Ph.D. | jgmbenoit-at+rezozer*dot_net

Re: unable to renew ip

2014-03-07 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hi, On 07/03/14 13:31, Dan Purgert wrote: On 07/03/2014 06:35, lina wrote: Hi, I use dhclient and just switch to google dns server. For months, I have bees stuck with the eth0 ip address 172.21.100.159 Uh, that's part of the private class-B range (172.16.0.0/12). You're getting it from

FileLink server

2014-05-12 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, how to set up its own Filelink ( https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/filelink-large-attachments ) server ? Best wishes, Jerome -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

ip6tables: unexpected behaviour ?

2014-07-24 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, I am building an IPv6 firewall: I get the message ip6tables v1.4.14: host/network `172.20.0.1' not found Is it expected ? Thanks in advance, Jerome -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: ip6tables: unexpected behaviour ?

2014-07-24 Thread Jerome BENOIT
On 24/07/14 21:48, Erwan David wrote: Le 24/07/2014 21:43, Jerome BENOIT a écrit : Hello List, I am building an IPv6 firewall: I get the message ip6tables v1.4.14: host/network `172.20.0.1' not found Is it expected ? Thanks in advance, Jerome It seems quite natural to me

Re: ip6tables: unexpected behaviour ?

2014-07-24 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello Again, On 24/07/14 22:17, Jochen Spieker wrote: Jerome BENOIT: On 24/07/14 21:48, Erwan David wrote: Le 24/07/2014 21:43, Jerome BENOIT a écrit : Hello List, I am building an IPv6 firewall: I get the message ip6tables v1.4.14: host/network `172.20.0.1' not found Is it expected

dev/log in jail

2014-07-31 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, I have a very naive question: how can we create a dev/log socket, similar to `/dev/log', in a chroot jail ? Thanks in advance, Jerome -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: dev/log in jail

2014-07-31 Thread Jerome BENOIT
On 31/07/14 17:54, B wrote: On Thu, 31 Jul 2014 17:46:08 +0200 Jerome BENOIT g62993...@rezozer.net wrote: how can we create a dev/log socket, similar to `/dev/log', in a chroot jail ? The least Linux deserves from its users is them making at least a minimum of self researches about

Re: dev/log in jail

2014-07-31 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hi, On 31/07/14 18:52, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Thu, 31 Jul 2014, Jerome BENOIT wrote: I have a very naive question: how can we create a dev/log socket, similar to `/dev/log', in a chroot jail ? It can be done through bind mounts (refer to the mount(8) manpage

Re: dev/log in jail

2014-07-31 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, On 31/07/14 19:33, Sven Hartge wrote: Jerome BENOIT g62993...@rezozer.net wrote: On 31/07/14 18:52, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Thu, 31 Jul 2014, Jerome BENOIT wrote: I have a very naive question: how can we create a dev/log socket, similar to `/dev/log', in a chroot

Re: /dev/random

2014-08-01 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hi, On 01/08/14 18:06, Darac Marjal wrote: On Fri, Aug 01, 2014 at 01:50:44AM +0200, B wrote: On Thu, 31 Jul 2014 16:41:01 -0700 pecon...@mesanetworks.net wrote: whatever experience you want to share. use haveged, it feeds /dev/random with a reservoir. I'd like to chime in that I

Re: ip6tables: unexpected behaviour ?

2014-08-06 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello list, On 24/07/14 22:17, Jochen Spieker wrote: Jerome BENOIT: On 24/07/14 21:48, Erwan David wrote: Le 24/07/2014 21:43, Jerome BENOIT a écrit : Hello List, I am building an IPv6 firewall: I get the message ip6tables v1.4.14: host/network `172.20.0.1' not found Is it expected

word clouds

2014-09-17 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, is there any tools to generate `Word clouds' withing Debian ? Thanks in advance, Jerome -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

wpa_supplicant: automatically sign in via coova hot spot interface

2014-11-23 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello Forum, is there any simple way to allow wpa_supplicant to automatically sign in via coova hot spot interface ? Any hint is welcome, thanks in advance, Jerome -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: wpa_supplicant: automatically sign in via coova hot spot interface

2014-11-23 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello Brian, On 23/11/14 22:02, Brian wrote: On Sun 23 Nov 2014 at 19:38:37 +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: is there any simple way to allow wpa_supplicant to automatically sign in via coova hot spot interface ? Any hint is welcome, thanks in advance, If you are using ifupdown you

Re: Installing Linux on a Mac Mini without OSX

2014-12-04 Thread Jerome BENOIT
partition table, you must have a `bios grub' partition. I'm also looking into PureDarwin as a possible solution. Debian is definitely better, do not trust the folks on the PureDarwin forums. Best wishes, Jerome -- Jerome BENOIT, Ph.D. | jgmbenoit-at+rezozer*dot_net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Installing Linux on a Mac Mini without OSX

2014-12-04 Thread Jerome BENOIT
On 04/12/14 21:30, Brian Sammon wrote: On Thu, 04 Dec 2014 19:46:22 +0100 Jerome BENOIT g62993...@rezozer.net wrote: Two particular subtasks that I may need to do that seem to require OSX: 1) Blessing a partition 2) Checking what version of firmware it has (some versions have BIOS

Re: Transición a Debian

2014-12-13 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hola, this is an English Forum. Cheers, Jerome On 13/12/14 18:15, JAWV WV wrote: Hola disculpas ante todo x la pregunta es muy sencilla espero no quitarles mucho tiempo, mi inquietud es sobre actualizaciones en cada versión estable de Debian, es decir cada que sale una nueva versión anual

Re: Transición a Debian

2014-12-13 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Bonjour, On 13/12/14 19:21, Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: On Sat, 13 Dec 2014 18:47:02 +0100 Jerome BENOIT g62993...@rezozer.net wrote: Hola, this is an English Forum. Cheers, Jerome It pains me, especially at this Xmas time, to see this kind of un-helpful rebuke given without any sort

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