Re: is it rational to close the 139 port

2012-07-22 Thread Richard Hector
On 22/07/12 21:31, Stan Hoeppner wrote: ~$ netstat -ant|grep LISTEN ... or ~$ netstat -lnt :-) Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: Debian 5 - was Re: Query abouut root account

2012-07-30 Thread Richard Hector
On 31/07/12 13:35, Joel Rees wrote: Looking at Samsung's pages, they say the scanner is compatible with twain, so you should be able to take a scan from it okay. Um, my understanding of TWAIN may be rusty and incomplete, but my understanding is that it's an interface between their (Windows)

Re: CIFS and data integrity ; Sorry for the noise

2012-07-30 Thread Richard Hector
On 31/07/12 13:15, Mark Fletcher wrote: Paul -- The NAS is a Buffalo LinkStation 4TB NAS configured to do RAID giving me 2TB of storage. I bought myself it for Christmas from Amazon.co.jp (I live in Japan) at Christmas 2010. I don't know what OS it will be running but doubt it will be Linux

Re: Debian 6.0 , not named as GNU/Linux ?

2012-08-12 Thread Richard Hector
On 13/08/12 13:36, Guy Gold wrote: This may be an OT, but, just in case : Source link : http://www.debian.org/releases/ I've noticed that, up to squeeze, the Debian versions are called Debian GNU/Linux , but, squeeze is called simply Debian , can anyone shed some light on this matter ?

Re: Debian 6.0 , not named as GNU/Linux ?

2012-08-13 Thread Richard Hector
On 13/08/12 16:54, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 8/12/2012 8:46 PM, Richard Hector wrote: Well, a Debian system doesn't have to use Linux any more. On 8/12/2012 9:02 PM, John Hasler wrote: There are now Hurd and FreeBSD ports, so Linux is not the only kernel. No, a Debian install doesn't

Re: IA64 or AMD64?

2012-09-20 Thread Richard Hector
On 21/09/12 09:04, Stan Hoeppner wrote: You are either: 1. Horribly lazy 2. Incompetent Or having a bad day, or been dropped in the deep end by the employer, or any one of a number of things we don't know about. Suggesting google or debian.org or whatever is fine, but this is way over

Re: IA64 or AMD64?

2012-09-22 Thread Richard Hector
On 22/09/12 21:18, Stan Hoeppner wrote: The clue bat is uncivilized by design. If you're going to hit someone in the gut to get their full attention, and make sure what you're telling them sticks, wrapping the blunt instrument in a big pillow of cotton candy defeats the purpose, doesn't it,

Re: Virtualkeyboard like to one from Android Tablets or the iPad?

2012-09-22 Thread Richard Hector
On 22/09/12 00:05, Tom Rausner wrote: Hi. fre, 21 09 2012 kl. 13:10 +0200, skrev Michelle Konzack: and the design is for the ass. Just curious.. How do a keyboard look, when it's designed for the ass and exactly HOW do one operate it ? I assume it has large keys, suitable for hooves. :-)

Re: Configure sudo

2012-05-25 Thread Richard Hector
On 26/05/12 01:43, Tom H wrote: * apt-get install but not remove IMO this is possible by setting whole command apt-get options * in sudoers, but i never tried this. I have on one my server this: User_AliasEJABBER = snmp, www-data ... EJABBER ALL=(ejabberd) NOPASSWD:

dovecot imap: folder location problems

2012-05-26 Thread Richard Hector
Hi all, I decided to investigate my Maildir layout a bit more closely, because I thought it was causing problems for K9 Mail on my Android phone. Turns out it wasn't, really, but never mind. I discovered that perhaps I should have migrated my Maildir from courier to dovecot, rather than

[solved] Re: dovecot imap: folder location problems

2012-05-27 Thread Richard Hector
On 27/05/12 17:36, Richard Hector wrote: ... As a result, I decided to rename all my folders to not have the .INBOX prefix on them. That, I think, was a mistake. I was looking here: http://wiki.dovecot.org/Migration/Courier Specifically, under the 'Manual Conversion' section, which has

Re: how are you kids compiling kernels these days?

2012-05-30 Thread Richard Hector
On 31/05/12 17:37, Paul Johnson wrote: On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 11:04 PM, a0z n...@a0z.eu wrote: On 31/05/12 04:43, Paul Johnson wrote: I've tried every variation I can think of. Have you tried apt-cache search? a0z@kit:~$ apt-cache search linux 3.2 amd64 linux-headers-3.2.0-2-all-amd64 -

Re: linux-vserver (or equvalent) in wheezy

2012-06-08 Thread Richard Hector
On 08/06/12 08:58, Darren Baginski wrote: 07.06.2012, 23:45, Adrian Fitaadrian.f...@gmail.com: I think that would be Linux Containers (LXC): http://wiki.debian.org/LXC. Looks promising. Is there any infrastructure around yet? I mean init scripts for auto start , /etc/ files like the same

Re: CPU usage measurement

2012-06-12 Thread Richard Hector
On 13/06/12 02:19, hvw59601 wrote: J.Hwan Kim wrote: Hi, everyone Is there any method for mesuring CPU usage without specific applications like top and so on? http://paste.debian.net/174115/ That is a snippet of code, I calculate it myself. But I have to review it because at full

Re: resize pictures received by mailserver

2012-06-14 Thread Richard Hector
On 13/06/12 22:45, Randall wrote: is it possible to have all messages received by the mailinglists MTA scanned for pictures and have these automatically scaled to a default size before its being redistributed to the receivers on the mailinglist and subsequently the forum. You'll break any

Re: Sid Synaptic authenticates with sudo

2012-06-15 Thread Richard Hector
On 16/06/12 10:08, Mark Allums wrote: Synaptic has begun asking for my user password rather than the root password. Why is this happening, and how do I make it stop? I want only users with root privileges to use apt/aptitude/synaptic/gdebi/etc. and I want the original behavior restored. I

Re: email tail output

2012-06-18 Thread Richard Hector
On 18/06/12 14:40, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: hi, a newbie question: from what i heard that mail command does not need to have mail service running, right? so i tried below command from my laptop just to check if i can put similar command in crontab later then i wouldn't have to log in to

Re: round-robin mx and nginx proxy

2012-06-21 Thread Richard Hector
On 21/06/12 22:30, Darac Marjal wrote: On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 03:54:28PM +0800, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: I need general help on a multi-server setup with 2 MTAs (each also a nginx reverse-proxy) 2 mailbox servers (round-robin) when i check nginx.log on both MTA, only the second MTA got

Re: 100% [Waiting for headers]

2012-06-23 Thread Richard Hector
On 24/06/12 17:28, lina wrote: On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 12:49 PM, Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us wrote: On Saturday, June 23, 2012 23:49:54, lina wrote: Kinda of funny, Dselect reported me that my /var has saturated. Indeed, 100%. My question is that how to set to let me know

Re: Wheezy: Virtualization package recommendations

2012-06-24 Thread Richard Hector
On 24/06/12 20:21, Bartek Krawczyk wrote: On Saturday, 23 June 2012, green greenfreedo...@gmail.com mailto:greenfreedo...@gmail.com wrote: virtualbox for a full GUI or kvm for full functionality via CLI VirtualBox can also be run in CLI. ... And you can also get a GUI (via a VNC viewer)

Re: java alternatives

2012-06-27 Thread Richard Hector
On 28/06/12 09:53, ChadDavis wrote: I want to see the script that installs the alternatives when the sun-java6-jdk is installed. I'm not that familiar with the .deb structure, etc. I guess it's in some lifecycle script, but I don't know where those end up. The update-alternatives man page

Re: Filezilla a security risk

2012-06-28 Thread Richard Hector
On 29/06/12 11:26, Denis Witt wrote: If your account is hosed, well, go to their second argument: 2. don't get the malware in the first place ;-) Great Argument, btw. Oh, I got an Airbag on my car, get rid of the brakes please. I don't need them anymore. That's the wrong way round. I have

Re: Filezilla a security risk

2012-06-29 Thread Richard Hector
On 30/06/12 02:02, Lisi wrote: On Friday 29 June 2012 10:28:11 Denis Witt wrote: I have brakes and drive safely, so an airbag isn't essential. And do all the speed louts see you coming and say: We mustn't overtake on this blind corner. The driver coming towards me on what is now the same

Re: Filezilla a security risk

2012-06-29 Thread Richard Hector
On 29/06/12 21:28, Denis Witt wrote: On 29.06.2012 03:16, Richard Hector wrote: If your account is hosed, well, go to their second argument: 2. don't get the malware in the first place ;-) Great Argument, btw. Oh, I got an Airbag on my car, get rid of the brakes please. I don't need them

dotdeb.org?

2012-07-05 Thread Richard Hector
How reliable/trustworthy is this site? I want to install packages that aren't in squeeze or squeeze-backports. (php5-fpm in particular, atm) Should I be pretty safe with dotdeb? Thanks, Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: Google Chrome is installed but won't run

2012-07-07 Thread Richard Hector
On 07/07/12 18:21, Lisi wrote: I have just installed Google Chrome on a vanilla almost default Squeeze/LXDE installation. It is there, but won't run. I have tried: click on icon in menu - nothing happens launch from launcher - command is accepted, but launcher then hangs run from terminal -

Re: Mobile devices ... any of them still use Linux?

2012-12-01 Thread Richard Hector
On 26/11/12 06:53, Carl Fink wrote: I don't mean Android, a proprietary OS build on the Linux kernel just as MacOS is built on the BSD kernel. Are there any phones or tablets people are aware of that use actual, FOSS, Linux as their OS? Linux _is_ the kernel. Perhaps what you're after is a

Re: iptables; some IPs are getting through netmasks

2012-12-24 Thread Richard Hector
On 24/12/12 05:41, Mark Ford wrote: My iptables is correct? - if so, how come the email comes through? I have the same problem with other /24 netmasks, for example when trying to block mail from Yell. I can't see anything wrong either. I'd start debugging by adding otherwise identical

Re: Local copy of ALL man pages

2013-01-06 Thread Richard Hector
On 06/01/13 06:19, Richard Owlett wrote: When I've wanted to look at a man page for an uninstalled package I've used http://manpages.debian.net . It would more convenient to have *ALL* pages available locally. Are they available to download as a set somewhere on the web? [I use squeeze.] I

Re: File descriptor 9 and VLC.

2013-01-17 Thread Richard Hector
Replying from archive since I'd deleted the original ... peter@dalton:~$ lsof /home/peter/*.WAV COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFFNODE NAME vlc 10888 peter9u REG8,620470 3612711 /home/peter/M1357873276.WAV man lsof explains, The mode character is

Re: sshfp records

2013-01-22 Thread Richard Hector
On 23/01/13 16:59, Bob Proulx wrote: Brad Alexander wrote: Rookie mistake from messing with this too late at night. Apparently it only works with fully qualified domain names (therefore working more like dig than host): I wouldn't call that a rookie mistake. It seems like a missing

Re: OT - Convert output of byte count to GB count?

2013-02-12 Thread Richard Hector
On 12/02/13 22:43, Ralf Mardorf wrote: My machine has got 4GB RAM too, but only 1,000,000,000 hex-bytes ;p. Serious, there is no other correct sum than 4,294,967,296 bytes. For an old former Assembler programmer it's disgusting to distinguish between GB and GiB. OTOH kilos etc. are 10^x, but

Re: OT - Convert output of byte count to GB count?

2013-02-12 Thread Richard Hector
On 13/02/13 14:32, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 2/12/2013 4:43 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Assumed you'll build a fence, 10m long and every 1m there should be 1 fence post, how many fence posts do you need? 11 :) Depends how you interpret the instructions. If it's you can leave up to 1m hanging

Re: FW: OT - Convert output of byte count to GB count?

2013-02-14 Thread Richard Hector
On 14/02/13 20:18, Bonno Bloksma wrote: Hello Ralf, Totaly ignoring the other part of your mail but I could not skip over the this part where I have an ever better solution to all the answers given. ;-) Assumed you'll build a fence, 10m long and every 1m there should be 1 fence post,

Re: OT - Convert output of byte count to GB count?

2013-02-15 Thread Richard Hector
On 16/02/13 17:45, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Powers of 10 make completely no sense. Why not simply dropping the powers of 10 and using the prefixes *B and *iB both for the powers of 2? Powers of 2 make sense when you're talking about RAM, where the modules have a certain number of binary address

Re: Removing commited versions from git history

2013-03-01 Thread Richard Hector
On 28/02/13 21:29, Morel Bérenger wrote: Le Jeu 28 février 2013 3:53, T o n g a écrit : Hi, I want to permanently delete an old revision (or revisions) of single file from Git. Specifically, I want to delete from my public git server repo my initial published version of one single file, but

Re: ESC[4m does not produce underline OOPS

2013-03-01 Thread Richard Hector
On 02/03/13 08:46, Thomas D. Dean wrote: On 03/01/13 11:35, Thomas D. Dean wrote: The ANSI standard lists ESC[4m as the code to produce an underline export TERM=ansi80x25 printf \033[4masdfasdfasdf produces green text, not underline text as stated in the standard. If I put the same in

Re: Installation failed

2013-03-01 Thread Richard Hector
On 02/03/13 14:11, Mark Filipak wrote: Miles. will you kindly stop responding to me. Pretty much nobody knows everything. We have a _community_, each member of which knows some stuff. People can help by mentioning the bits that they know, and putting it together with the bits that other people

Re: ESC[4m does not produce underline OOPS

2013-03-01 Thread Richard Hector
On 02/03/13 13:34, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Richard Hector wrote: On 02/03/13 08:46, Thomas D. Dean wrote: On 03/01/13 11:35, Thomas D. Dean wrote: The ANSI standard lists ESC[4m as the code to produce an underline export TERM=ansi80x25 printf \033[4masdfasdfasdf produces green text

Re: Install failed - let's start again, without bogus assumptions, please.

2013-03-01 Thread Richard Hector
On 02/03/13 17:33, Mark Filipak wrote: I'm back. When the GRUB install failed I pressed Alt+F4. The Debian Installer disappeared and I was immediately back to the LWDE desktop. I tried Alt+F4 there and nothing happened. Linux has the concept of virtual terminals (VTs). Alt-Fn switches between

Re: Install failed - let's start again, without bogus assumptions, please.

2013-03-01 Thread Richard Hector
On 02/03/13 18:08, Mark Filipak wrote: On 2013/3/1 11:54 PM, Richard Hector wrote: Linux has the concept of virtual terminals (VTs). Ah, yes. Windows had such a switcher addin about 20 years ago. Linux has had them about that long, too :-) In the case of LWDE, I could see there were

Re: Install failed - USB flash to USB drive [SOLVED]

2013-03-01 Thread Richard Hector
On 02/03/13 19:25, Mark Filipak wrote: I successfully installed this: debian-live-6.0.6-amd64-lxde-desktop.iso to a USB flash in Windows with this: dd bs=1M if=debian-live-6.0.6-amd64-lxde-desktop.iso od=e: (where 'e:' is the USB flash's Windows device letter - note that the 'od='

Re: Installation failed

2013-03-02 Thread Richard Hector
On 02/03/13 22:08, Joe wrote: Actually, the most Windows help you can get is from former newsgroups, now web forums, which are rather like this, though sponsored by Microsoft. Occasionally MS people look in and often give technically correct answers, but also often betray limited real-world

Re: Two copies of E-Mail (Re: I wish to advocate linux)

2013-03-02 Thread Richard Hector
On 03/03/13 10:30, David Guntner wrote: Actually, I am seeking no such thing. What I *am* saying, however, is that if you (again, in the general sense, not necessarily specifically you) are going to come at someone with a that solution is no good for reason X, then it's only polite to

Re: Not for me.

2013-03-04 Thread Richard Hector
On 05/03/13 09:53, Mark Filipak wrote: You snake. I replied to you privately and you published my reply in public. Agreed on this. Replying to a private email on a public list is bad form. Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: ESC[4m does not produce underline

2013-03-04 Thread Richard Hector
On 05/03/13 12:02, Chris Davies wrote: Ah. So your X Windows based emulator understands ESC [4m but your console window (without X Windows) doesn't. It appears that my console (TERM=linux) represents underline with cyan text. Yep, likewise. I think it's because it has to be compatible with

Re: Raid 5

2013-03-06 Thread Richard Hector
On 07/03/13 07:37, Dick Thomas wrote: What is the best way to setup a raid 5 array (4* 2TB drives) I'd avoid it, if possible. If you lose a disk from a 2-disk raid1, you're back to the reliability of a single disk. If you lose a disk from your 4-disk raid 5, then you've got the reliability of

Re: How often to reboot a production Web server?

2013-03-06 Thread Richard Hector
On 07/03/13 13:25, Victor Porton wrote: I've setup a VPS based on Debian 6 yesterday. Today I've run `apt-get update` and `apt-get upgrade` to get security fixes. It updated libc6 and some other essential packages. Should I reboot my production Web server? If yes, how often? If you

bsd-mailx incompatibility?

2011-12-29 Thread Richard Hector
Hi all, Some time between lenny and squeeze (and before lucid, but I haven't searched further), mail changed its arguments. lenny: -e Don't send empty mails. If the body is empty skip the mail. squeeze/lucid: -E Don't send messages with an empty body. .. and -e is gone. I looked

Fwd: Re: bsd-mailx incompatibility?

2011-12-30 Thread Richard Hector
Oops. This was supposed to go to the list, sorry. On 30/12/11 15:33, Bob Proulx wrote: Richard Hector wrote: Some time between lenny and squeeze (and before lucid, but I haven't searched further), mail changed its arguments. Apparently -e was a Debian specific addition. Ah, that explains

Re: Fwd: Re: bsd-mailx incompatibility?

2011-12-30 Thread Richard Hector
On 31/12/11 16:12, Richard Hector wrote: Oops. This was supposed to go to the list, sorry. And that should have been a reply. I'll learn to drive my MUA one day ... Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: radeonhd removed from Testing ... in February, still gone?

2011-12-31 Thread Richard Hector
On 01/01/12 10:29, Carl Fink wrote: I hope everyone has a great new year. According to this page: http://packages.qa.debian.org/x/xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd.html the xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd package was removed from Testing on February 8, 2011 ... and never put back. Um, why? It's

Re: X Window: Setting up mouse scroll for OOo Calc to one raw

2012-01-01 Thread Richard Hector
On 02/01/12 05:02, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 01 Jan 2012 14:01:26 +, Camaleón wrote: (...) Anyway, I still think this is the job for Xorg, not LO or other application. P.S. I'm still looking for a solution on how to get the wheel srolls more that a few of lines... seems grotesque that

Re: sbin

2012-01-01 Thread Richard Hector
On 02/01/12 07:19, Chris Brennan wrote: Typically /bin is reserved for binaries executable by everyone on the system, whereas /sbin is *typically* reserved for binaries that are executable by root only, most of these would typically have the SETUID bit set for root as well, to further

Re: radeonhd removed from Testing ... in February, still gone?

2012-01-01 Thread Richard Hector
On 02/01/12 07:59, Carl Fink wrote: On Sun, Jan 01, 2012 at 06:36:30PM +, Camale?n wrote: What firmware package? Some ATI cards need firmware-linux-nonfree package to enable 3D acceleration: I figured that out, but installing it had no effect. And if it's required WHY AM I SUPPOSED

Re: ~/.profile

2012-01-01 Thread Richard Hector
On 02/01/12 10:30, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: ... executed with /bin/sh which is not bash by default. Understood; but why does the installer put these and no .dashrc? The shell you run interactively (specified per-user in /etc/passwd) is usually bash, because it's more friendly for

Re: incrontab usage

2012-01-02 Thread Richard Hector
On 02/01/12 12:45, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: Moving on to more constructive efforts ... peter@joule:~$ incrontab -l /home/peter/test IN_MODIFY touch ~/indicator 21 Then according to my thinking, sending a fresh copy of test to Joule using FTP, should trigger touch ~/indicator. If there

Re: X Window: Setting up mouse scroll for OOo Calc to one raw

2012-01-02 Thread Richard Hector
On 03/01/12 04:55, Camaleón wrote: But the best thing is that there is a patch already done for having the feature implemented at Xorg. I haven't re-read the bug report, but my impression was that someone has written a patch, but it hasn't been accepted, and there was dispute about it, so

Re: Re (2): incrontab usage

2012-01-03 Thread Richard Hector
On 03/01/12 11:12, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: The 2nd problem is more subtle. peter@joule:~$ incrontab -l /home/peter/test IN_MODIFY touch /home/peter/indicator 21 gives root@joule:/etc# /usr/sbin/incrond -nf /etc/incron.conf touch: cannot touch `21': Permission denied touch: cannot touch

Re: Order of cron.daily jobs

2012-01-05 Thread Richard Hector
On 06/01/12 03:31, Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2012-01-04 16:59:27 +, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 04 Jan 2012 01:18:35 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: The point is that the behavior can depend on the locales. To avoid that, users should use only lowercase letters for the name of these scripts and

Re: problems with having two DHCP servers...

2012-01-05 Thread Richard Hector
On 06/01/12 06:57, Rick Thomas wrote: A limited amount of redundancy is good. If one goes down, the network can still limp along. Anyway, that's the theory. My understanding is that you need to have some sort of failover setup - so the secondary dhcp server only starts working

Re: packaging and archive management

2012-01-07 Thread Richard Hector
On 08/01/12 06:26, andy baxter wrote: On 27/12/11 15:34, andy baxter wrote: Hello, I have volunteered to do a bit of work for a small free software project (https://buddycloud.org), packaging the different parts of their system. This will initially be for debian but possibly for other

Re: rt kernel and nouveau

2012-03-22 Thread Richard Hector
On 22/03/12 23:20, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 3/22/2012 3:27 AM, daniel jimenez wrote: I'm using my computer as a guitar effects processor for real time audio, It's meant to be used in group performance so delays are kind of a big deal. I changed the 'Driver' entry in /etc/X11/xorg.conf from

Re: When will Debian 7.0 with Linux Kernel 3.x be Released?

2012-03-28 Thread Richard Hector
On 27/03/12 19:38, Johan Grönqvist wrote: Debian 7 is expected to be frozen this summer, And here was me thinking it would be this winter. Hint: This is an international list. Seasons aren't good for international representation of dates :-) Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: OT: change of mail provider

2012-04-01 Thread Richard Hector
On 02/04/12 02:24, Camaleón wrote: What I want to avoid is Google getting too deep into my life. Agreed. The most significant step for me (for getting off my ISP address; I've never used gmail) was getting my own domain. And I currently lease a VM to run my MTA (postfix/dovecot) - shared with a

Re: ibm server black screen console

2012-04-05 Thread Richard Hector
On 06/04/12 16:59, Joey L wrote: hi - just tried the setting video=radeon:off -- did not work You haven't got it set to use a (virtual?) serial port for the console, instead of the video card? Perhaps after installing via the IMM? Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: ibm server black screen console

2012-04-09 Thread Richard Hector
On 06/04/12 23:25, Joey L wrote: You - know I think you might be on to something, because I do not get any major errors. And when I start the gdm3 - it starts up perfect. I think there is the IBM RSA board --- do you think the output is going there ? I did not do anything strange to the

Re: ibm server black screen console

2012-04-13 Thread Richard Hector
On 14/04/12 00:20, Joey L wrote: None of these revealed anything of use to me. Have you or anyone else used debian on the IBM x3650 ? With the RSA board ?? I really feel that the console is being sent to that board and not to the regular vga port. Just have no way of confirming this. Can you

Re: How do Install debian kernel without updating to latest kernel image

2012-04-18 Thread Richard Hector
On 19/04/12 15:27, sarveshwar.ba...@emulex.com wrote: I am trying to install different versions of Debian from Debian install CDs. For example Debian 6.0.0, 6.0.3 and 6.0.4. After installing any of CDs I see the debian_version is showing as 6.0.4. The uname –a shows the same after any of the

Re: Is 1600x1200 screen better than 1440x900?

2012-04-24 Thread Richard Hector
On 25/04/12 08:02, Gary Dale wrote: 1440 x 900 is a standard 16:9 ratio Sorry, that just jumps out at me, and I can't ignore it :-) 1600 x 900 is 16:9; 1440 x 900 is clearly 14.4:9, or 16:10. Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: how to get pid when I start the process

2010-12-23 Thread Richard Hector
On Thu, 2010-12-23 at 16:29 +, Bill Dennen wrote: On Thu, 23 Dec 2010 08:30:02 +0100, Zhang Weiwu scribbled: Hello. I usually start amuled and kill it after a few hours, I do such thing once a day. Usually I do it like this: In one console: $ amuled In another:

Evolution - copy link location

2011-02-02 Thread Richard Hector
Hi all, I've seen this problem in squeeze (and ubuntu maverick). I used to be able to right click - copy link location in Evolution, then middle click in iceweasel/ff, but this no longer works. It seems that now it only goes to the clipboard, not the primary selection. Anyone know how to fix

Maths (was Re: Change the subject when the subject changes)

2011-02-03 Thread Richard Hector
On Thu, 2011-02-03 at 16:15 +, Camaleón wrote: You can subtract me -5 points and downgrade to magician level 0, no problem ;-) Clever trick that, getting people to subtract negative numbers, thereby increasing your level ;-) Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: kill process by name

2004-01-22 Thread Richard Hector
On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 08:01:24PM +, M. Kirchhoff wrote: Rick Weinbender rwein at central-ph.k12.mo.us writes: to kill a process by name? man killall But be careful if you also work with Solaris ... all means _all_, and never mind the arguments :-( Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Has anyone ever thought of getting the reply-to changed?

2004-02-06 Thread Richard Hector
On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 08:49:06AM -0800, Dale Welch wrote: and if you want to claim you can use rules to re-write the headers to do what you want... then fine lets have it default to the standard of reply to the list and you set your favorite program to rewrite the headers to let you

Re: Has anyone ever thought of getting the reply-to changed?

2004-02-08 Thread Richard Hector
On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 03:35:41PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: Paul Johnson wrote: That's what procmail is for, though. No, procmail is what the tech demo mutt needs to act like a real mail client. That's a deficiency in mutt. If I relied on the filtering in my MUA (if it had any), it

Re: Has anyone ever thought of getting the reply-to changed?

2004-02-08 Thread Richard Hector
On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 03:12:09PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: Richard Hector wrote: The trouble is, you can't. If the list has changed the Reply-to header, it's thrown away what was there before. You could fall back to the From or Sender header, but that might not be where the sender reads

Re: Has anyone ever thought of getting the reply-to changed?

2004-02-08 Thread Richard Hector
On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 01:58:09AM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: Richard Hector wrote: Sure you _could_ set the From: header to your work one, but that's arguably wrong, and I entirely sympathise with ISPs who don't allow it. How is i wrong? Well, it's not where you're sending from

Re: Has anyone ever thought of getting the reply-to changed?

2004-02-08 Thread Richard Hector
On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 01:48:13AM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: Richard Hector wrote: If I relied on the filtering in my MUA (if it had any), it would get seriously screwed if I wanted to use more than one MUA against the same IMAP server or Maildir. I'd have to implement all the same filters

Re: Old x486 as thin client

2004-02-11 Thread Richard Hector
On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 05:00:27PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: The biggest problem I see is that 486s had really minimal video support. 640x480, *maybe* 800x600 if you're lucky. A small color pallet, probably 256 max (8-bit). I think you're selling the VLB hardware a bit short there - I

Re: Command touch and irregular file names

2007-08-15 Thread Richard Hector
On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 20:54 -0400, - Tong - wrote: Hi, How to let command touch to work with irregular file names? In my script I have touch -r $file1 $file2 the file1/2 can be anything file, ../path/file, /root/file, etc. The problem is when file1/2 are irregular file names.

Re: man for linux programmer's Manual

2007-08-18 Thread Richard Hector
On Sat, 2007-08-18 at 20:48 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, When I used RH 9.1 before, I can call man to display linux programmer's C / C++ manual. But, I am not be able to do it in my new installation of Debian 4.0. How can I install it? I think there's a separate package with those

Re: LVM partition full (was:what is /command directory?)

2007-08-27 Thread Richard Hector
On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 09:02 -0700, David Brodbeck wrote: Shrinking a logical volume, though...that's full of pitfalls. I've gotten bitten repeatedly by the fact that resize2fs and LVM's tools apparently don't do math the same way when calculating sizes, especially if you use

Re: graphical file browser from command line

2008-03-11 Thread Richard Hector
On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 18:23 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: On 10/03/2008, Ivan Glushkov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: to see the right part of the text in less -S you should use the right arrow. If you really insist on scrollbar, then any graphic text editing program would do.For example kate in

Re: question for the listmasters - bounce threshold?

2008-04-09 Thread Richard Hector
On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 14:04 -0600, Nate Duehr wrote: I get a warning from the Debian listservers once in a while that my server is bouncing messages and that: If those bounces pass a certain threshold, our bounce-detection will forcibly remove your subscription. They also nicely (unlike

Re: [OT] MiniPCI GPS and GSM card for router

2008-04-14 Thread Richard Hector
On Fri, 2008-04-11 at 01:23 +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: The MobilOffices can be deplaced with a standard Truck and if someone try to steal one, I am fscked since the value of a MobilOffice is NOT under 60.000 Euro. You at least seem to have all the hardware required to track where

Re: fetchmail problem

2003-11-10 Thread Richard Hector
On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 11:27:59AM +0100, David Jardine wrote: On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 03:01:45PM +1300, Paul William wrote: Hi I am running fetchmail on woody. I want fetchmail to get mail from a pop3 account and deliver to mail to two local accounts. I want both to

Re: Please, no GUI boot.

2003-11-17 Thread Richard Hector
On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 12:31:43PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: There's a short FAQ on GNU/Linux X display manager disabling you may find useful, at: http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/xdm-disable.html My preferred method - which leaves them all installed and configured - is

Re: Which package has Perl:XML::Simple?

2003-11-27 Thread Richard Hector
On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 11:44:55AM -0800, Charlie Zender wrote: Hi, I'm running sid and my perl scripts have use XML::Simple Which package is this in? Try libxml-simple-perl Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: restricting wireless access

2003-01-13 Thread Richard Hector
On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 01:49, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Richard Hector [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003.01.13.1127 +0100]: An idea that springs to mind (well, it sprung some time ago, but I had no-one to tell it to) is pppoe to your firewall. Then you block all IP traffic on the interface

Re: email-fax gateway - need suggestions

2003-01-15 Thread Richard Hector
Apologies for not responding to the start of the thread - it had gone before I realised I wanted to contribute ... On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 09:36:05PM -0500, Neal Lippman wrote: My project is basically to provide a mechanism so someone can email to a an address in my office (eg [EMAIL

Re: Compiling Kernel - ncurses and wish

2003-01-16 Thread Richard Hector
On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 07:41, Doug MacFarlane wrote: make menuconfig tells me I don't have ncurses installed, but I've installed every package in the Debian Package archive with ncurses in the name . . . Including libncurses5-dev? I think that's the one you want. It is listed as

VIA bug?

2003-01-17 Thread Richard Hector
Hi all, After a fresh install on a newish PC, I get an error like this: probable hardware bug: clock timer configuration lost - probably a VIA686a probable hardware bug: restoring chip configuration This machine also had problems such as the mouse freezing, and sound playback (and recording)

Re: VIA bug?

2003-01-17 Thread Richard Hector
On Sat, 2003-01-18 at 08:33, Ron Johnson wrote: On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 06:20, Richard Hector wrote: Hi all, After a fresh install on a newish PC, I get an error like this: probable hardware bug: clock timer configuration lost - probably a VIA686a probable hardware bug: restoring

Kdevelop htdig

2003-01-27 Thread Richard Hector
Hi all, I have problems right at the end (I think) of Kdevelop Setup - it wants to use htdig to index all the docs (and I think that's a good idea), but complains about the lack of a htdig.conf file. From googling, I've discovered that at least at one stage, a README file on this topic existed

Re: Lag test.

2003-01-27 Thread Richard Hector
On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 16:57, Mike Dresser wrote: On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, Mike Dresser wrote: The current time here is 8:58, January 27th, and if it gets bad enough, 2003. Just curious what the current lag is. two hours, for those who care :D My last post got back to me in about 42 min.

Re: /var still counts /var/cache

2003-01-28 Thread Richard Hector
On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 20:37, will trillich wrote: On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 05:00:58PM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 10:23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm _not_ suggesting you just do # umount /var/cache # rm /var/cache Not quite - rm won't remove a directory

Re: what's fstype 83? Linux?

2003-01-28 Thread Richard Hector
On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 20:20, will trillich wrote: On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 12:00:18AM -0500, Shaun ONeil wrote: # dd if=/dev/hda6 bs=1k count=50 | file - 50+0 records in 50+0 records out 51200 bytes transferred in 0.116208 seconds (440589 bytes/sec) standard input: Linux

Re: what's wrong with rsync?

2003-01-28 Thread Richard Hector
On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 22:39, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote: Be sure and use it only behind a good firewall, in a trusted LAN. The whole r* (rsync, rsh, etc.) series is wildly insecure. Well, (according to the manpage) it uses rsh by default, but it can use ssh as an alternative. Richard -- To

Re: Bash terminal beep - how to shut it up?

2003-01-29 Thread Richard Hector
On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 22:26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm running Debian 3.0r1 on my laptop. Whenever I'm working in a bash terminal or the console certain actions cause the terminal to BEEP through the PC Speaker. This is annoying the hell out of my missus when she's trying to watch

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