Re: sshd daemon failed to start

[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > i have sarge 3.1 kernel 2.6 ,the start-stop-daemon in the init.d script > cannot start the ssh daemon , no error is printed to stdout , error logged > in /var/log/auth.log : > sshd[4008]: fatal: daemon() failed: Success Run 'invoke-rc.d ssh restart' and post the terminal outpu

Re: sshd daemon failed to start

Please don't top post. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > unfortunately the invoke-rc.d didn't succeeded to force sshd init, the > output to stdout is the echo sentence of start init script : > Restarting OpenBSD Secure Shell server: sshd. Strange. Looks perfect. > despite set of log level debug3 in the

Re: sshd daemon failed to start

[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > did you have any idea about what can change /dev/null to regular file. No idea. > perhaps i installed a package that did this big mistake , i don't know. If it really was an official Debian package, probably a lot of other people would have been affected (and it would be a

Re: have to learn python

abdelkader belahcene: > > have I need to learn python, I know several interpreters (fro example > bash scripting, ) and laguages (php, C++,C..). > I administrate servers on linux > end developpe application at know using depending of course of type > of application so from bash, to C, C++ ( graph

Re: URGENT: my gnome desktop is dead

Dot Deb: > > This morning I switched my laptop on, as usual, but after logging > in (using gdm), gnome only shows me the tomboy window. No > panels, no background, no icons ... I guess your session information is broken. You could try to move all your ~/.gnome2* files and directories out of the wa

Re: dir command

William Pursell: > > To get sizes, du is the obvious choice, but you > could do the ridiculous: > $ find . -type f -exec cat {} \; | wc -c Note that this is different from du in that it counts characters, not bytes. In some encodings a character may be larger than one byte, so your result would b

Re: bash vs. python scripts - which one is better?

Nelson Castillo: > > I make trailing spaces and TABS visible in vim. > I know it's hard to keep conventions when you work with a team. > > http://wiki.freaks-unidos.net/weblogs/arhuaco/visible-spaces-in-vim I am using set listchars=tab:»·,trail:· in my ~/.vimrc. That makes tabs and taling spac

Re: Font Smoothing in Xterm

Amit Uttamchandani: > > Anyways, font smoothing has been working quite well on this laptop screen > except > for xterm. I finally figured out how to change the font in xterm to bitstream > vera sans mono but the fonts in xterm look jagged and terrible in this screen. Put Xft.antialias: 1 Xft.dp

Re: Font Smoothing in Xterm

Amit Uttamchandani: >> Xft.antialias: 1 >> Xft.dpi: 93 >> Xft.hinting: 1 >> Xft.hintstyle: hintfull >> Xft.rgba: rgb >> > Thank you for your suggestions. I will try this out. I am by the way using DWM > for my window manager and I have an .Xdefaults file with some xterm font > settings. Should I p

Re: All linux-image-2.6-* packages in Etch/4.0 vulnurable?

Marcus Blumhagen: > > Packages I found depending on the wrong kernel version: > > linux-image-2.6-xen-686, linux-image-2.6-xen-vserver-686, > linux-image-2.6-486, linux-image-2.6-686, > linux-image-2.6-686-bigmem, linux-image-2.6-amd64, > linux-image-2.6-k7, linux-image-2.

Re: Changing the look of GTK apps from the commandline

Amit Uttamchandani: > > Since I don't run GNOME Environment, is there anyway I can change the look of > the GTK apps from the commandline. Specifically, can i just download a theme > and > change a config file? Yes. Download theme, unpack it somewhere (IIRC, ~/.themes is a good place) and edit y

Re: new drive = new install?

David A.: > > What is common practice when migrating a system from one drive to > another. Should I reinstall from scratch or partition the new drive > and "copy everything" from the old one? Reinstallation is not necessary. There are plenty of HOWTOs available, one being

Re: Migrate debian services to a new debian system

[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > Okay, so I want to make the asrock my server...it is quieter and uses > less power. I don't have a lot of time for trouble shooting etc. so I > want to plan this out so it mostly works on the first shot. My > strategy is to setup each services one at a time...then transfer

Re: Cannot access terminals ( ctrl+alt+Fx ) in fluxbox

Richard Lyons: > On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 10:19:45PM -0300, piter wrote: > > > I'm using Etch with fluxbox, everything was OK before doing "apt-get > > dist-upgrade" a few days ago. After that, i can't access the terminals > > from tty1 to tty6 (i mean that nothing happens when i press ctrl+alt+Fx

Re: Some error messages from Cron Deamon

Yuriy Padlyak: > > Could you please help me with those error messages? > Or I have to submit backup-manager bug? > /usr/sbin/backup-manager: line 188: [: 5907376643783245169990: integer > expression expected If you didn't edit /usr/sbin/backup-manager yourself, a bug report would be appropriate.

Re: mini-itx server

Martinez Perez Alberto: > > I'm planning to install a home server. I would like to install apache, > mysql, a firewall and oracle. I'm considering to use a mini-itx > mainboard. Does anyone has tried it? I don't know if it will be able > to support the installation. I am running a mini-itx board

Re: Reporting brute force ssh login attempts

Shri Shrikumar: > > 1. Report each ip address that does this. However, a lot of them seems > to be from asia with no proper abuse@ address to contact. Additionally, > this can be very time consuming. I do not think you achieve much by doing this. Doing this automatically, as you suggested below

Re: apt-get update error..

Ishwar Rattan: > > Just saw this: > W: GPG error: http://ftp.us.debian.org testing Release: The following > signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: > NO_PUBKEY A70DAF536070D3A1 > W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems > # > > How do I fi

Re: orientation with respect to tex, auctex, tetex, texlive, etc.

Russell L. Harris: > > I have been using LaTeX for five years, but with Debian I always have > taken the system for granted -- it always has been there, and it "Just > Works". > > Is this going to change in the near future? Where can I go for a > basic orientation and for more information on t

Re: ripping several hundred cds?

Matt Price: > > as part of this project I want to rip all of our cds to mp3 or ogg (if > someone has a suggestion ofr an ogg-friendly ipod-replacement?). See . Every player supported by Rockbox can play Ogg Vorbis and many other formats. I have an iriver H120 myself (not avai

Re: pseudo network interface

Kostas Robotis: > > >From googling I found the tun program in NetBSD > http://www.daemon-systems.org/man/tun.4.html. > Is there something similar for linux, or an obvious solution that I > miss, with ifconfig or another command? Linux includes a tun module which I assume is the same as NetBSD'ѕ. I

Re: Preferred Mirrors for Apt

David Baron: > > ALL the alternatives available are in /etc/apt/sources.list. I do not want to > delete access to ftp.us.debiian.org. I want the local mirrors to be tried > first. There is absolutely no reason to keep several official mirrors in your sources.list. They all contain the same softw

Re: Preferred Mirrors for Apt

David Baron: > > However, with the scheme I propose, all Debian packages would be taken care > of. Other stuff like qmail, systemimage, stuff that one needs a repository > other than Debian's own mirrors, would need be explicitely listed. This is the current situation. IIRC, the installer even

Re: opening ports

Bruce: > > 1) How would I open ftp ports after doing an apt-get install proftpd? On Debian, all ports are "open" by default (but there are not many services listening, so it doesn't matter). If a service is being installed, it can be assumed that it should actually be available. FTP uses ports 20

Re: opening ports

Andrei Popescu: > On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 08:28:16AM +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote: > > > > On Debian, all ports are "open" by default (but there are not many > > services listening, so it doesn't matter). If a service is being > > installed, it can be as

Re: opening ports

Mike McCarty: > Andrei Popescu wrote: > >> firewall are sometimes called "filtered" (by nmap) or "stealth" (by >> some Windows firewalls). > > A stealthed port appears not to exist to the external world, > but that does not mean that there is no service "listening" > on it. "Stealthed" almost al

Re: icewm & nautilus

csanyipal: > > The windowmanager is icewm and I want to use the nautilus with it. > > I try to edit the ~/.xinitrc : > exec /usr/X11R6/bin/icewm > exec /usr/X11R6/bin/nautilus This will icewm and then, when icewm exits, run nautilus. You need to run nautilus first, with an appended ampersand (&)

Re: cli for iso files

Mark Grieveson: > > Hello. I'm looking for a command line iso cd-burner application to > use instead of nautilus-cd-burner. I tried the package burn, but it > does not work. What does not work? Maybe I can help. I am using it, too, and have looked at the (quite ugly) source a few times. > I'm

Re: mounting the minimum

gustavo halperin: > > I have some kernel-modules questions: > After the linux SO was started, can I check which modules of > "/etc/modules" was successfully mounted and aren't in use? First: you do not mount modules, you just load them. Then: yes, lsmod may help you with that. But there is no w

Re: SSH doesn't work with RSA keys

Alejandro: > > People, I have generated the key pair RSA from my root linux's user and > then I copy my RSA public key to /root/.ssh/authorized_keys from the > linux ssh server. Good. > After that I edit the sshd_config file and put permit > rootlogin no Erm, "to permit" means "to allow". You ju

Re: conky and enlightenment on etch

Jakub Narojczyk: > > 1) Does conky has some sort of maximum length of .conkyrc that it can > parse? I have as much as 10 - 15 partitions but I cant display file > system usage of all of them. Currently i display only 5 of them. When I > try to add more image of displayed by conky get scrambled.

Re: Encrypted file systems

Francis Healy: > > I currently use a Windows XP/Linux dual boot laptop. My company will > likely begin to require encryption on laptop systems. I have built a > few etch systems and noticed that it offers encryption as an option in > the setup. My company uses PGP for encryption on Windows lapto

Re: preventing apt from upgrading postfix

Justin Hartman: > > Package: postfix > Pin: version 2.3.4-3 > Pin-Priority: -1 I would try it the other way round and pin your currently installed Postfix's version to a value > 1000. This should do what you want and additionally you will never have to touch this pinning entry again (for example,

Re: why sarge is so noisy

Julian De Marchi: > Serena Cantor wrote: >> Thanks! Could you give me a list of programs that start automatically? Do >> you mean that there's >> nothing I can do about it? > > > > Silly question. No, it's not a silly question. Serena, of course you can do something about it. It's linux, afte

Re: After Installing ISO Image I cant access GUI and Nedd "sources.list" file

Mostafijur Rahman: > > I tried to install GUI after installing my ISO CD.But I think problem in > file /etc/apt/sources.list . You are messing up a few things. It is always better to describe your original problem than to ask how to accomplish what you think *might* solve your problem. S

Re: After Installing ISO Image I cant access GUI and Nedd "sources.list" file

Andrei Popescu: > On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 09:46:50AM +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: > >> If you wanted to install pure Debian stable, this is most probably not >> what you want. The installer should have asked you about that anyway. >> But well, here's what I guess is w

Re: After Installing ISO Image I cant access GUI and Nedd "sources.list" file

Andrei Popescu: > On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 08:12:55PM +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: >> Andrei Popescu: >>> On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 09:46:50AM +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: >>> >>>> deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ etch main contrib non-free >>>

Re: Tool for document management

Steve Lamb: > I am looking for a tool to help me maintain a backup of a writing project. I kept all my documents (PDF, PPT, DOC, OOo, Latex etc.) from university in SVN while studying. Before I tried SVN, I had used unison but that didn't scale well to more than two computers and I couldn't u

Re: Tool for document management

Steve Lamb: > > However the decision came down to one factor which I did not list. When I > was reviewing SVN one thing popped into my head over and over, "Why Perl!?" What does Subversion have to do with Perl? (Not that I think your decision is wrong, I just don't know what you're referrin

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX (Was: Tool for document management)

Steve Lamb: > > To be fair I am operating out a large measure of ignorance. :) > One of my > main concerns is that the typesetting languages are languages. I'm sure > they're robust but I have always seen their use tied to another editor. Since > an outside editor is required it is my

Re: It's 3am and I have no caffeine

Chuck Payne: > > Now I am trying to get count to work with zgrep. When I do zgrep -c, I get > a what I am looking for and not a count. Anyway try to play with it to > figure before I crash. You may have to resort to this: gunzip -c foo_file.gz | grep -c bar_pattern J. -- When I get home from

Re: Debian Mail through Exchange Server

Joel Roberts: > > Does anyone know of a walkthrough or how to configure the Debian server to > route mail messages through the Exchange server? Exchange should be able to speak plain SMTP so it isn't any different than other MTAs. You may use 'dpkg-reconfigure exim4' (or whatever MTA you already

Re: Dovecot duplicating emails

Alexander: > > Almost all (not quite all) emails that arrive and sit in the Inbox get > copied and appear 2x, 3x . . the longer I leave it the more copies I get. > This happens only to emails received during a Thunderbird session. If I > shut TBird down and restart, only the emails received aft

Re: why not compiled eagle adsl

abdelkader belahcene: > > I want to install the eagle for usb adsl, but it requires the source of > kernel, > Why there is no compiled package as other softwares? I don't know the software, but my guess would be the reason is a problem with the license. Debian adheres to the DFSG (Debian Free Sof

Re: online sourcecode viewer

Hugo Vanwoerkom: > > On this list some time ago there was named a web sourcecode viewer: a > server to which you could register and on which you could put chunks of > code so that other people could look at it. Even though your description reminds me of Sourceforge, you are probably looking for

Re: apt-get not working

muthuraman.s: > > I use Ubuntu 7.04 and when I try to install K7(thinking to increase > the speed) kernel for the PC with apt-get, I get the following > error.not only for K7 it says the same message except for the package > name( last word in the message). I do not know what is wrong . > > Readi

Re: Debian server software setup question

David Labens: > I'm interested in the Debian Linux software for use in > building a home file server. I'll need it to provide > print server function CUPS. > as well as file backup Several options, depending on your needs. > and UPS shutdown support. Depends on UPS in use. Many are supported

Re: How to get those nice console fonts?

Ismael Valladolid Torres: > Daniel Haude escribe: > >> I'd like to have my console (non-X) fonts small and neat like Knoppix's. >> I tried the various vga=xxx kernel options but all of them produced >> bigger and uglier fonts. > > I use vga=791 however it depends on your video card to support it.

Re: What's using up bandwidth?

Bill Moseley: > > How would you go about tracking down the process that is eating up all > the bandwidth? Take a look at netstat-nat on the NATting machine iftop for the machine using the bandwidth. J. -- If I could have anything in the world it would have to be more money. [Agree] [Disagree]

Re: What should I use?

[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > I have never used Linux before, but I've always wanted to learn. That's the right attitude for starting with Debian. When I started to experiment with linux, I was told to start with Debian, not because it's easier but because in the long run I would end up using it anyway.

Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!

Piotr Dziubinski: > > Oki, I can install my favorite Firefox from other packages, but do you > realize, that I would like to be asked if I want to use this f..u...k...ng > %^*( *&##$$ ^&^%& Iceweasle instead of Firefox? Nice flamebait. Good luck! :) J. -- In the west we kill people like chicken

Re: Debian dedicated server (provider)?

Steffan Davies: > Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > >> Why not make an Etch netinst.iso and take it to the server and try it? > > Sadly, they won't do that for me (though I suggested it myself -all our > other boxes are upgraded immediately to Etch as soon as we get them) and > Servermatrix live seve

Re: Very Basic Help Needed

Jan Sneep: > > I managed to download and successfully run the latest stable NetInstall > version last week-end, but now I'm having a very frustrating time finding > documentation on how to some pretty basic stuff. Hm, ok. First things first: it is better not to reply to a message on this list if

Re: Using graphical environment

Kelly: > > I am having trouble getting a new install of Debian 3.1 r4 and it boots > to the command line prompt. I want it to have a graphical interface. > As is it is useless to me. Could someone point me in a direction of a > tutorial on how to install with GUI or how to get a new install

Re: Very Basic Help Needed

Celejar: > On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 21:16:17 +0100 > Jochen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [snip] > >>> I can't find "Samba" under the "Application" button as a program to run or >>> under the "Action" button as a k

Re: OT: LaTeX with monospace material

Kent West: > > What I'm concerned about is the chord names (A, D, etc) need to line up > with the word where the chords change, which means exact placement will > be necessary. I currently do this in OO.o with a monospace font and > manually spacing over to where the chord name goes. I am sure th

Re: OT: LaTeX with monospace material

Kent West: > > Looks promising, but the learning curve appears to be a right-angle. > From page 2 of the manual: >> If you are not familiar with TEX at all >> I would recommend to find another software >> package to do musical typesetting. >> Setting up TEX and MusiXTEX >> on your machine and mast

Re: Prism54 Wlan (lenny)

Klaus Kreuzpaintner: > > i installed Debian Sid 2 days and i cann't not get my wireless (Netgear > WG 511) card to work. If I plug it in the PCMCIA slot the prism54 module > gets loaded properly but it seems that the firmware is not uploaded to > the card. I've put it in all possible direcotrie

Re: Memory Stick is sg1?

Thomas H. George: > > No, just to use it to store data. As it is I can only mount it as root > and to just store data I would prefer to mount it as a normal user. I still don't understand your problem, but what a user is able to mount is determined by the contents of /etc/fstab. If you want ord

Re: Memory Stick is sg1?

Chris Henry: > > It's a little bit puzzling why there is no number, it might be because > you meant you mounted /dev/sda1, in which case I'm totally wrong and > you can ignore this post entirely. ): It is possible to create a filesystem on the plain device without any partition table. In that cas

Re: m-a a-i madwifi-source (linux-image-2.6.24-1-amd64)

Curt Howland: >> Maybe have a look at ath5k, aparently, it should replace madwifi >> Thierry > > Is that only in the AMD64 repository? I don't see in i386 Sid. No, it has been patched into Debian's version of linux 2.4.24. Didn't try it yet, though. J. -- At night I go to the kitchen; specifica

Re: What am I missing without mutt?

Dotan Cohen: > > As a thunderbird user, what am I missing by not using mutt? Teach me, > if it's a better client than I'd love to learn it. I'm not afraid of > the CLI, and I'm not afraid of VI[M]. - Ability to use your favourite editor for mail editing - Complete and fast control via keyboard on

Re: Buying debian compatible laptop.

Joona Kiiski: > > 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. First, look for reviews and tips on

Re: What am I missing without mutt?

Celejar: > 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:remote_host:110'? Huh? When using that

Re: What am I missing without mutt?

Alex Samad: > On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 06:27:23PM +0100, Александър Л. Димитров wrote: >> >> * Enhanced regular expressions for organizing your mail (delete all unread >> mails >> between date x and y with foo in their Sender: field). > > can you give an example of this I have been limited to doi

Re: What am I missing without mutt?

Jochen Schulz: > > But of course you are right in that you can tunnel almost everything > over SSH. Getting graphical mail clients over VNC using X11-forwarding ...over VNC *or* X11 forwarding, obviously. Wrong time of the day to write e-mails... J. -- I think the environment wil

Re: Brother laserprinter refuses to print pdfs

Chris Bannister: > On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 07:56:47PM +0100, Jonas Meurer wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I've a brother laserprinter (setup as network printer), which works >> quite well in general, except that it refuses to print most pdfs. > > apt-cache show cups-pdf No, this package installs a virtua

Re: USB HD permissions query

Brad Rogers: > > I'm curious as to why, when I change the filesystem type to ext3 on a > USB hard drive, I cannot write to the drive from normal user space, > only root access is allowed. When mounting a filesystem on a directory, say, /mnt/test, the filesystem's root directory "covers" the old d

Re: GTK+ E-mail App on par with Mutt?

Dan H.: > On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 03:42:48AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> Move all your email into an IMAP store. Then you can use whatever >> MUA you want, whenever you want, and not have to worry about MUA >> storage incompatibility. > > You mean, locally? I guess he does. I am running an I

Re: What am I missing without mutt?

Dotan Cohen: > > I see what you are saying. Tell me, in mutt can I have several (5-6) > compose messages open and switch between them and the main window that > I'm copying / pasting from? Not really. When editing messages, mutt invokes your editor and stays in the background. There's no way to s

Re: What package does my bug report belong to?

Jose M Gomez Llorente: > > I have an ACER TM7720 (ATI Mobility Radeon 2400 XT card) > laptop under Debian 4.0 (default install). > When I press Alt-Ctrl-F1 from the gdm login window or from the gnome > desktop to switch session and then come back with Alt-Ctrl-F7, the > screen is screwed up with a

Re: security keys

tom arnall: > > W: GPG error: http://www.debian-multimedia.org etch Release: The following > signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: > NO_PUBKEY 07DC563D1F41B907 > W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems These messages are not very helpfu

Re: hitachi hd

Giancarlo Bruno: > > I am trying to install debian Etch on a new PC (with no other OS > installed) > > I get a message saying that "no disk drive was detected" > > The BIOS screen says HD is a SATA drive HITACHI HDP 725040GLA with > 400GB. Any hint to help me with this issue? Probably your SAT

Re: Motherboard suggestions?

Michael S. Peek: > > Can anyone suggest a motherboard w/ support for quad-core CPUs and > gigabit ethernet? Video and sound don't matter (they'll be headless). > Multiple CPUs and multiple ethernet welcome. I am running Debian AMD64 on a Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3P. It supports the latest 45nm Cor

Re: What am I missing without mutt?

Steve Lamb: > > Not to mention mutt's IMAP implementation is less than stellar. > [...] I have read statements to that effect several times now but I don't really know where the problem lies. I know that mutt is mainly unmaintained now and that there are unfixed bugs (like the wrong reporting

mutt's IMAP support (was: What am I missing without mutt?)

Steve Lamb: > Jochen Schulz wrote: > > The main problem that I saw is that on delete operations it does > something that is insanely slower than TBird. For example, on TBird I > can mark 25 messages as deleted, hit delete, and within about a second > they are in the trash

Re: maturedebs: sightly stable unstable

Paul Dwerryhouse: > On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 01:48:14PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Gentlemen, why not let the others get cut on the cutting edge of >> Debian sid whilst we relax and wait oh, say 72 hours for the packages >> we want to stabilize? Slightly stable unstable, but not too stable a

Re: mutt's IMAP support

Steve Lamb: > Jochen Schulz wrote: >> I am now seeing that mutt has a "trash" option which moves mail to a >> designated trash folder instead of deleting from the server. I don't use >> that, though. (Coincidentally, it appears to be buggy: #448241.) > >

Re: maturedebs: sightly stable unstable

Mike Bird: > > I can understand not updating Stable but the lack of migrations to Testing > means that we have to run bleeding edge Sid 2.6.24 kernels on nine-month > old production laptops (Thinkpad T61) which have been supported by the > kernel since 2.6.23 was released four months ago. (We had

Re: Dbus, Hald Groups?

David Baron: > Dbus is running in the 111 "crontab" group! > Hal is running in the 127 "boinc" group! > > Are these number reserved for these? Debian uses the UID range from (I think) 500-999 for system users (users which don't belong to a person, but are used by daemons provided by specific pack

Re: Iceweasel problems - 2 of 3

Steve Kleene: > > 4. Keyboard shortcuts die if I pass the cursor over certain ads (especially >at nytimes.com); I think they're javascript. To get the shortcuts back, I >can move the cursor out of the iceweasel window and the bring it back, >taking care not to pass over the offending a

Re: texlive vs. tetex

Rick Dooling: > > Anybody with recent experience moving from tetex to texlive on Etch? I don't do much Latex anymore, but the migration should be painless. You just may have to hunt down some packages you are using with 'apt-cache search'es. Texlive appears to be the future, so I wouldn't instal

Re: Help me out to install Debian

Anupam Jamatia: > > Dear Sir , There are ladies present as well. :) > i have an PC with P-4 , 256MB RAM, with 1.60 GHz , now i want to > install Debian and XP with dual mode , i have already installed XP in my > system with 3 partitins C,D, and E with 20,9, and 9 GB respectively...now > how to in

Re: Question about flack

Andrius: > > there is new CD box on the table that should get inside PC. > On the box is mark "24bits/96khz recording". Is this a (more or less regular) audio CD or does it contain FLAC files? I'm not sure what you are trying to achieve. Do you want to rip an audio CD with Rhythmbox? > In Rhytmb

Re: Question about flac

Hugo Vanwoerkom: > > But it gave me a chance to find out about FLAC, sounds neat. It is! It looks as if it may become the de-facto standard for lossless audio (well, there's Apple's lossless format, too...). I use it to archive my CD collection and encode to other (lossy) formats only when I need

Re: Icewm lost! Can't reinstall

Anthony Campbell: > > Icewm has been deleted automatically in an upgrade of Sid yesterday. No, it did not happen automatically. You should read what aptitude is about to do before confirming that this is what you want it to do. :) Using 'safe-upgrade' instead of 'full-upgrade' by default is a goo

Re: Question about flack

Andrius: > Jochen Schulz wrote: >> Andrius: >>> there is new CD box on the table that should get inside PC. >>> >>> On the box is mark "24bits/96khz recording". >> >> Is this a (more or less regular) audio CD or does it contain FLAC >

Re: Question about flack

Andrius: > Jochen Schulz wrote: >> >> I can only say how I would do it: 'abcde -o "flac:--bps 24 --sample-rate >> 96000". You only need to have abcde and flac installed. > > syntaxis is not correct. Would you define, please? Quoting from the flac man pa

Re: Question about flack

Andrius: > Jochen Schulz wrote: >> >> I can only say how I would do it: 'abcde -o "flac:--bps 24 --sample-rate >> 96000". You only need to have abcde and flac installed. > > Can you give more info, please, how to use abcde? How to set default &g

Re: Question about flac

Александър Л. Димитров: > Quoth Jochen Schulz: >> >> It is! It looks as if it may become the de-facto standard for lossless >> audio (well, there's Apple's lossless format, too...). I use it to >> archive my CD collection and encode to other (lossy) for

Re: Measuring & optimizing broadband speed

Zach: > > I am looking for accurate methods of measuring broadband speed, > particularly for a 728 kbps / 128 kbps DSL line. To monitor interface throughput, I often use nload. It shows an ASCII graph and cur/max/avg bandwith usage. > I want to see how close my real world throughput gets to the >

Re: Linux network security poll

Zach: > > I need to get serious about security since I will be soon connected to > the net almost 24x7 (barring a power outage etc.) so I was wondering > if list members could explain their security setup (network > configuration, DMZ, firewalls, IDS, logging, etc.). I just have a router between t

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

Dawn Light: > > Some incoming messages are "adressed" to the office and some are > "addressed" to the various architects ( There is only one E-mail > address). Thus anyone who wishes to read his incoming messages and > send messages needs to physically go and use the workstation with the > mail cli

Re: How do I upgrade to sid?

Dennis G. Wicks: > > IIRC somebody said they were running sid and had no > problems with Iceweasel so I'm thinking that upgrading > might be the answer to my problems. It may be the answer, but upgrading to sid will pose a whole lot of new questions. If you don't know how to upgrade, you probably

Re: Java Plugin for Iceweasel for AMD 64 bit Debian?

Amogh Hooshdar: > > I have Debian installed on AMD 64 bit laptop. How can I install the > java plugin for iceweasel? You can't, since there is none. > I have heard that Sun has not released a Java plugin for AMD 64-bit. > Is this true? Yes. Your only option is to install a 32bit chroot with Fir

Re: How do I upgrade to sid?

Martin Mewes: > Javier Vasquez schrieb: > >> Then the rest is kind of recipy for upgrading: >> -- aptitude clean >> -- aptitude update >> -- aptitude safe-upgrade >> -- aptitude full-upgrade > > If _I_ do this nearly the complete system would be erased when

Re: Strange /usr/bin file

Ron Johnson: > On 02/11/08 09:33, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote: >> >> /me wonders just how much more he has to learn before he thinks that he >> knows a reasonable amount about Linux... > > Very few people are true, complete *ix gurus anymore... According to this mail2phpBB gateway, at least

Re: reliable editting of any PDF file

Micaela Gallerini: > On 12-Feb-08, at 8:49 AM, michael wrote: > > > I'm struggling to find software to edit a PDF file. [...] > > Lyx it's another substitute also it's not very easy. Lyx can only be used to create PDF files. To my knowledge, you cannot use it to edit existing files. J. -- I

Re: Problem changing display color in 'ls'

John Salmon: > > The real problem is my 72 year old eyes. I have a lot of trouble reading > some of the pre-selected list colors in 'ls'. If you are using some terminal emulator in X, the easiest solution is to change the colors for this terminal. gnome-terminal, xfce4-terminal (which is what I u

Re: consoliate mail archives with duplicate messages

Russell L. Harris: > > Over the years, every time I have reinstalled Debian, I have saved the > mail files. Now I have a dozen or more files, with many duplicate > messages. Mbox files? > Is there an archiving utility or other reasonably simple approach > whereby I can process these mail file

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