Re: Why "Midori" web browser is not there in Debian 8 jessie?

2015-09-16 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On 09/16/2015 09:29 AM, muntasimulha...@tutamail.com wrote: Hi, I couldn't find the package "midori" in Debian 8 jessie. I searched in Debian Packages archive, and found that Midori web browser was there in Squeeze, Wheezy, and it's here in Sid; but not in jessie. Why midori is not available

Re: Light web browser for old PC

2015-07-02 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On 07/02/2015 03:52 AM, Wilko Fokken wrote: In the past times, depending on a serial modem for internet access, I preferred Opera, because it allows to switch ANY graphics OFF // ON through simple menu buttons: [View]-- [Images]-- { [Show images] || [Cached Images] || [No Images] } (Any of the

Re: Light web browser for old PC

2015-07-02 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On 07/02/2015 02:25 PM, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Displaying images or not has very few things related to the browser heavyness and celerity/velocity. What the OP asked for is a lightweitght browser (memory footprint) and potentially velocity in rendering pages (CPU cycle usage). I thought

Re: Light web browser for old PC

2015-07-01 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On 07/01/2015 09:21 AM, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Hi ... As web browser, Midori was claimed to be light, but I see almost no difference with Firefox. Please any advice for a *really* light one, suitable for that old machine? Most browsers rely on the redering engine. On that field you mostly have

Re: CLI download interface/tool for Google Images?

2015-05-23 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On 05/23/2015 09:55 PM, Emanuel Berg wrote: Sven Arvidsson s...@whiz.se writes: I have seen a couple of different scripts that scrape the image search, for example: https://github.com/tytek2012/givemepics That didn't work, and the style of the program including the documentation tells me it

Re: Remove subject

2015-05-15 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On 05/12/2015 10:34 AM, Mis Ntmurth wrote: Ok thanks I will contact debian regards You're also good to contact GMAne http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user/385152/match=problem+installing+gplflash Marc Info: http://marc.info/?l=debian-userm=127780632904466 Google:

Re: README.mirrors.txt small bugs

2015-05-11 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On 05/11/2015 11:20 AM, Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: On Mon, 11 May 2015 11:42:10 +0530 viswanath basu vis...@gmail.com wrote: How to unsubscribe from the mailing list? I want to remove my email address from the mailing list. Read the headers of any list message, and you will see a line:

Re: Best way for Red Hat guy to learn Debian?

2015-04-27 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On 04/26/2015 10:30 PM, Ian Pilcher wrote: Does anyone know of any good resources (books, web sites, etc.) to help an experienced Red Hat guy make the transition? This really depends on the complexity of your setup. Network is configured from different files, for example. Apache has

Re: /etc/network/interfaces in jessie and systemd?

2015-04-21 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On 04/21/2015 04:42 PM, Christian Seiler wrote: Hi, Am 2015-04-21 14:08, schrieb Mihamina Rakotomandimby: I used to manage network through /etc/network/interfaces. Most of my use case are vlans (ie: eth0.1) an aliases (ie: eth1:3) My context in headless VMs (no DE, no Xorg, no GUI

/etc/network/interfaces in jessie and systemd?

2015-04-21 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
Hi all, I used to manage network through /etc/network/interfaces. Most of my use case are vlans (ie: eth0.1) an aliases (ie: eth1:3) My context in headless VMs (no DE, no Xorg, no GUI) With Jessie and systemd: is it still managed with /etc/network/interfaces? For the mount component, I found

Debian and FQDN lookup

2015-04-02 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
Hi al, WHen issuing 'hostname --fqdn', I'm supposed to get the FQDN. Anyway when trying some different combinations, involving /etc/hostname, /etc/domainname, /etc/hosts, /etc/resolv.conf, I cannot figure out where the FQDN is looked up AND with what precedence. Would you know the mechanism

Re: xfce with gtk3 applications?

2015-03-27 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On 03/27/2015 12:41 PM, mad wrote: Hi! I use XFCE and when using gtk3 applications (evince, meld, ...) the theme is broken and I can't seem to fix it. I installed gtk3-engines-xfce, made sure that the configuration is correct but nothing seems to work. Any ideas or suggestions? You need to

Re: Jessie sufficiently stable for general use?

2015-03-10 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On 03/10/2015 08:52 AM, Ken Heard wrote: I just want a tidy ship and all I want is the One True Directive(TM). Is such a thing possible it IT? This is not, but there no one true. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

apt-get / aptitude [g]libc update not to prompt for restart and not restart

2015-01-29 Thread Mihamina RAKOTOMANDIMBY
Hi all I'm going to massively upgrade some ghost-vulnerable machines. Digging into the apt-get or aptitude documentation, I miss the right option in order to make it upgrade libc libc-bin without restarting the services and without asking what to do. Would you know the right option? Thank

Re: apt-get / aptitude [g]libc update not to prompt for restart and not restart

2015-01-29 Thread Mihamina RAKOTOMANDIMBY
On 01/29/2015 04:14 PM, Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: On Thu, 29 Jan 2015 15:50:12 +0300 Mihamina RAKOTOMANDIMBY mihamina.rakotomandi...@rktmb.org wrote: I'm going to massively upgrade some ghost-vulnerable machines. Digging into the apt-get or aptitude documentation, I miss the right option

Re: Minimal configuration for a laptop

2015-01-22 Thread Mihamina RAKOTOMANDIMBY
On 01/22/2015 09:22 PM, Alex PADOLY wrote: - OpenOffice At least 1GB RAM and medium speed HDD (not 5400rpm but ) - Navigation(browsing) intenet, files transfert ftp, Depends on the website you browse: some have heavy Javascripts... - Use of vlc for listen mp3 files and to watch

Develop ineo 25e printer and CUPS

2014-12-29 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
Hi all, I have a Develop ineo 25e printer, and want to set it up with CUPS. I connect to http://localhost:631/ and add the printer, with uploading the PPD available here: http://www.develop.eu/en/products/office-products/colour/ineo-25/downloads.html (English, Linux, version 1.1 dated 2012)

Re: How to guess how to add the key of a repo (GPG, apt-key add,...)

2014-12-10 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On 12/10/2014 02:19 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Mi, 10 dec 14, 10:22:28, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: Hi all I have to use a repo: http://open.iabsis.com/debian/ When adding it in my sources, apt complains about not having GPG key about it. Would you know how to guess the gpg invocation

How to guess how to add the key of a repo (GPG, apt-key add,...)

2014-12-09 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
Hi all I have to use a repo: http://open.iabsis.com/debian/ When adding it in my sources, apt complains about not having GPG key about it. Would you know how to guess the gpg invocation (server, key,...) in order to import it to apt? Thank you.

Re: Newbie friendly security and firewall docs (cookbook?)

2014-10-06 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On 10/06/2014 02:11 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: I'm looking for a reference document that wouldn't scare my friend off Debian and also give me the required information to: 1. close the maximum number of ports. I see him using browser, email, ftp file downloading. I don't see him being

Re: upgrade? broke exim4

2014-06-03 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On 06/03/2014 08:00 AM, Mike McClain wrote: I'm open to suggestions as I don't know where to go from here, but please keep the suggestions focused on what the problem with exim4 is. It's way too early to change MTAs which will have a whole other batch of problems. Does your Exim listen

Re: repeatable dpkg-buildpackage

2014-05-27 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On 05/27/2014 11:15 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 05:06:01PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Mon, 2014-05-26 at 18:58 +0400, Reco wrote: fakeroot ... regarding to some claims on this list is a PITA, at least when building a kernel. I run my scripts to build kernel-rts as

Default supported service manager in Wheezy

2014-05-09 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
Hi all, A long time ago, when I was young ;-), services used to be managed with invoke-rc.d update-rc.d on Debian. Know playing with several distributions, some use service, sysctl, systemctl, and some of them are mentionned for managing services in Debian. Typically, on a Debian when I

providing a static IP/Netmas/Gateway + location of a preseed file at boot prompt.

2014-03-17 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
Hi guys, I would like to install my Debian machines with the Pressed D-I feature. At this moment, I dont have a decent DHCP/BootP server yet, and waiting for this to be achieved, I want to manually provide the IP address at the boot prompt. I already use it on others distributions install,

Re: providing a static IP/Netmas/Gateway + location of a preseed file at boot prompt.

2014-03-17 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On 03/17/2014 11:39 AM, Sandeep Raman wrote: # Static network configuration. #d-i netcfg/get_nameservers string 192.168.124.1 #d-i netcfg/get_ipaddress string 192.168.1.6 #d-i netcfg/get_netmask string 255.255.255.0 #d-i netcfg/get_gateway string 192.168.124.1 #d-i netcfg/confirm_static boolean

Re: providing a static IP/Netmas/Gateway + location of a preseed file at boot prompt.

2014-03-17 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On 03/17/2014 11:55 AM, Sandeep Raman wrote: Not sure though. Buw when it can be preseeded what is the purpose or intent of having it to set from boot prompt? Because when you boot from a bootable install media and you have no DHCP nor BootP server and you want to pressed from a network

ftpsync usage help: stable only

2013-09-23 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
Hi all, I want to setup a local mirror, only for wheezy / amd64 / main,contrib,non-free. Reading http://www.debian.org/mirror/ftpmirror ftpsync would do the job. I set it up correctly in order to have amd64, by excluding any other arch. When checking what's downloaded, I notice it downloads

Re: oh no something is definitly wrong adieu debian.

2013-08-27 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On 2013-08-27 11:07, Zenaan Harkness wrote: Hi All, I use debian and gnome since well the begining... I have it on many nodes, but specially on some server, where many guests run. I was on squeeze sine the begining of squeeze, and decided to try wheezy. Ubuntu is Debian snapshot, so much of

Re: any utility to change ip

2013-07-16 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On 2013-07-17 07:48, David Guntner wrote: Doug grabbed a keyboard and wrote: On 07/17/2013 12:26 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: is there any utility to change IP via command line, actually i am looking for a utility same as the one which we using during installation of debian. it actually

Re: Unidentified subject!

2013-06-22 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On 2013-06-23 08:48, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sat, 2013-06-22 at 23:36 -0400, Gary Dale wrote: If you have important data on the laptop, you should plug in an external drive and dd the entire laptop drive to an image file on the external drive (which must have at least as much free space as the

Re: apt-get can not find debian package in cdrom

2013-04-03 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On 2013-04-03 13:00, Ravi Roy wrote: I verfied it and it is available in cdrom; I'm using apt and apt-utils versions 0.8.10.3. It would be helpful if somebody can point to a direction which may help to resolve this issue. What is in your /etc/apt/sources.list? -- RMA. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: choosing a web browser

2013-03-11 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On 2013-03-10 04:03, Zenaan Harkness wrote: Sorry, sorry, I'm ranting again! I promise I'll keep it to browsers. There are plenty of other threads we_could_ create. I use Firefox. Why? Because I use Thunderbird and I'd rather not load WebKit for another purpse. What I mean is I want to keep

Re: Logging ISP Download Speed.

2012-08-15 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On 08/15/2012 06:52 AM, Weaver wrote: What's the best programme to employ with regard to logging traffic speed from my ISP? To achieve this, you will have to load continuously your connection in order to get the max reached. - If you do this (load test) on your gateway, your poor LAN users

Re: DNS Lookups

2012-08-03 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On 08/03/2012 08:05 AM, Roman Gelfand wrote: I have configured 2 vlan interfaces on debian lenny box. The 2 interface ip's are 192.168.6.5 and 192..168.8.5. I would like making dns queries from this ip 192.168.6.5. What can be done to ensure that a dns query is made using specific response

Re: Alternative to tar?

2012-07-25 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On 07/25/2012 11:53 AM, Gaël DONVAL wrote: Do you know of any lighter/simpler alternative to the tar program? [...] Any idea? cpio? -- RMA. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: [OT] google.com

2012-06-14 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
P.S I checked my IP, it's not in Malaysia. and ever reboot, clear cache, still not work. What's your IP? Geolocation is not always up to date... -- RMA. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: correct English usage

2012-04-03 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On 04/03/2012 05:38 PM, Lisi wrote: Then, for people whose native language is not English, in some cases the only way to find the right word seems to be try and error. Or accept the word of educated native speakers. [I'm non native english] It's hard to convince someone with

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-03-31 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On Mar 30, 2012 6:36 PM, Mika Suomalainen mika.henrik.mai...@hotmail.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thanks :). But some people like top posting, like me. I think that with top posting the new message is easier to read than, when it's below the quote Selfish. What

Re: Debian and OSS vs vSphere

2012-02-29 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On 02/29/2012 12:33 PM, Jon Dowland wrote: That rules in KVM but rules out OpenVZ. Agreed. But I would add: depending on the needs, hve a look at LXC. -- RMA. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Can I help?

2011-11-28 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On 11/29/2011 08:36 AM, Bob Proulx wrote: The Debian community is a very large and diverse one. 1°) Also note that is was a very good experience for me to also subscribe to Ubuntu, Fedora, Gentoo and other distributions mailing list, althoug you dont use them. You could then have - a

Re: Please kill the noise

2011-10-07 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On 10/07/2011 05:44 PM, Martin Steigerwald wrote: I do not like filtering out off topic mails, since as you wrote, some off topic threads can contain interesting stuff. The ubuntu-users list is suffering the same... Some people wanted Linux (via the distros) to be popular, now we suffer the

Re: Ill advised blundering = nasty mess

2011-09-28 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On 09/28/2011 01:39 PM, Carl Fink wrote: However my preferred method: sudo aptitude install postfix Best: sudo apt-get install exim4 ;-) -- RMA. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

rebuild and install php 5.2.6-5

2011-09-23 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
Hi all, On my squeeze system, I would like to get a PHP 5.2 release. This is for development, my dev team needs it. This is the changelog about 5.2.6 http://goo.gl/Ndvxu If I get the source package and just build it, I'll get the latest version, which I dont want. Where, in what archive

Re: rebuild and install php 5.2.6-5

2011-09-23 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On 09/23/2011 05:08 PM, Camaleón wrote: Debian source packages for older versions can be fetched from here: http://snapshot.debian.org/package/php5/ MMM,... I love Debian! Thank Camaleon. -- RMA. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: python 3.2 on squeeze

2011-09-21 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On 09/21/2011 09:35 PM, olivier.scalb...@algosyn.com wrote: I have imagine to install a Debian testing on a VirtualBox but it seems a bit overkill !!! Thanks for helping me ! My ideas: 2°) Build a Python-only virtualenv

Re: Debian Testing Xfce4.8 startx problems

2011-09-21 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On 09/21/2011 04:40 PM, rypervenche wrote: I am having trouble getting Xfce to work with startx. Did you try startxfce4 instead of startx? That's how I launch XFCE when not via the display manager... -- RMA. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: Worst Admin Mistake? was -- Re: /usr broken, will the machine reboot ?

2011-09-14 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On 09/14/2011 01:15 AM, Bryan Irvine wrote: Which brings me to another fun question. What's your worst administration mistake and how did you recover? On ext4 resizing - I did not put a swap partition on my laptop, just / and /home - I decided to shrink /home to put a swap at the end - fdisk

Re: Worst Admin Mistake? was -- Re: /usr broken, will the machine reboot ?

2011-09-14 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On 09/14/2011 02:25 AM, Andrew Reid wrote: These days, I almost always use verbose options of commands, if they exist, so I can verify that they're operating in the expected scope. You will neeed graphic acceleration, then for displaying all the verbose stuff ;-) -- RMA. -- To

netbook, close, suspend: ACPI?

2011-09-13 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
Hi all, I have a small netbook that I broke the screen. I use it as a headless gateway now (the VGA port is still OK when needed, I just have to plug a screen). I just noticed that if I close (or fold) it, after a while it goes to suspend state (or hibernate I dont know exactly). I have to

Re: nano and color

2011-09-09 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On 09/08/2011 10:22 PM, Bonno Bloksma wrote: 1) Where is this behaviour defined on my Squeeze system? I think it's in nano core 2) Can I enable it on my Lenny systems? It it's up to you nano version. The one in Squeeze supports colors. -- RMA. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: nano and color

2011-09-09 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On 09/08/2011 10:22 PM, Bonno Bloksma wrote: 1) Where is this behaviour defined on my Squeeze system? 2) Can I enable it on my Lenny systems? Google with ano color syntax: http://is.gd/eMmvu8 -- RMA. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: lists.debian.org has received bounces from you

2011-09-08 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On 09/07/2011 11:54 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: We've encountered some problems while sending listmail to your emailaddress debianl...@videotron.ca. Does anyone know what this is all about ? Never seen anything like this before. I find it clear... -- RMA. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: how to keep the internet awak

2011-09-07 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On 09/07/2011 03:17 PM, lina wrote: and the connection (ssh) to some other places used to choke there, so I just close the terminal. and re-ssh again. How can I keep the connection (ssh) awake when I left the desk. http://www.google.com/search?q=ssh+keepalive -- RMA. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Running Squeeze on a 2 GB usb stick?

2011-06-28 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On Tue, 28 Jun 2011 12:47:39 -0400 Stephen Allen marathon.duran...@gmail.com wrote: Hi - I have a work laptop with Windows and since it tracks basically everything I do, I'd like to install Squeeze to a 2 GB usb stick I have laying around so I can boot to that instead of the internal

imapsync

2011-06-20 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
Hi all, Would you know the reasons why imapsync has been in Lenny but no more in squeeze nor sid? -- RMA. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

chmviewkit: .chm viewer

2011-06-19 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
Hi, http://git.ojuba.org/cgit/chmviewkit/ If some want to package it... -- RMA. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Cisco MIBs packages

2011-06-18 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
Hi, Would you know if there is any official (or not) package of those: ftp://ftp.cisco.com/pub/mibs/ -- RMA. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

circular link schroot 1.4.19-1

2011-06-06 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
Hi all, This morning, I upgraded my system and: apt-get upgrade [...] Setting up schroot (1.4.19-1+squeeze1) ... dpkg: warning: schroot: config file '/etc/schroot/default/nssdatabases' is a circular link (= '/etc/schroot/default/nssdatabases') dpkg: warning: schroot: config file

Re: circular link schroot 1.4.19-1

2011-06-06 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On Mon, 6 Jun 2011 10:15:01 +0100 Roger Leigh rle...@codelibre.net wrote: On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 09:45:59AM +0300, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: This morning, I upgraded my system and: apt-get upgrade [...] Setting up schroot (1.4.19-1+squeeze1) ... dpkg: warning

Re: Avoid POP3

2011-05-17 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On Tue, 17 May 2011 08:21:36 -0500 John Hasler jhas...@debian.org wrote: There is no way to read anything without downloading it. Obvious :-) -- RMA. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

bluetooh usb

2011-03-30 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
Hi all, I would like to add bluetooh to my bluetooth-less laptop. I thought about these: http://www.google.com/search?q=bluetooth+usb+dongle Is there someone using such a thing? Which brand/model to avoid or advise? -- RMA. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Android Debian - Lets start Debian for Android hw phones

2011-03-24 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On Mon, 21 Mar 2011 22:45:33 +0100 Mirco Piccin pic...@gmail.com wrote: What are the first steps we can easily take, to get started on this? it seems there's already something like that: http://www.androidfanatic.com/community-forums.html?func=viewcatid=9id=251 How about the telephone

tc user mailing list?

2011-03-01 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
Hi all, I am looking for a mailing list to discuss about tc, to manage priority and bandwidth. Would you the the best choice? -- RMA. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: What no Quanta in Squeeze!?

2011-01-24 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
coolz...@it.dk : Anyone who knows the status of quanta in squeeze? http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=22t=19662 -- RMA. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

being up to date (Was: insserv + apache2 + bind9 = pain)

2011-01-05 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
mgb-deb...@yosemite.net : The issue is that insserv throws away years of work by Debian Developers, That is not always bad. Computers have improved during the last years, why not their OSes? compiz, upstart, lxc,... are modern tools for modern use :-) --

Re: being up to date (Was: insserv + apache2 + bind9 = pain)

2011-01-05 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
mgb-deb...@yosemite.net : Undoing the damage done by insserv is possible but non-trivial. So... let's just work for some years and it will be better. -- RMA. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

[howto] connect using several USB Modem and phones

2011-01-03 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
Hi all, Happy new year. I just want to share how I connect to internet using: - ZTE G X760 (2G via USB and the Blueline ISP) phone http://www.rktmb.org/post/2010/12/25/zte-g-x760-blueline-debian-ubuntu - Huawei e1552 (3G via USB and the Orange ISP) modem

debian lxc init script

2010-12-29 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
Hi all, To start my LXC on my Lenny (+backports kernel and lxc), I am looking for an init script. I found this one: http://git.nigel.mcnie.name/?p=lxc-debian.git;a=blob;f=init Is it a good enough one? Do you know another one? Thanks. --

latest kernel packaged for lenny

2010-10-06 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
Manao ahoana, Hello, Bonjour, I would like to run a heavy KVM + LXC on Debian *Lenny*. Therefore, I am looking for the latest kernel for that. I know I could use backports kernel [1], but would you know another repository? [1] http://packages.debian.org/lenny-backports/linux-image-2.6-amd64

Re: VPN Linux client

2010-08-30 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
lu...@linuxconfig.org : Another step by step guide for OpenVPN: http://www.linuxconfig.org/VPN_-_Virtual_Private_Network_and_OpenVPN I find it a bit more complicated than the VPN howto ont the openVPN website. -- Architecte Informatique chez Blueline/Gulfsat: Administration

Re: Mailing list protocol

2010-08-26 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
noela...@gmail.com : In Kmail, and probably some other MUAs, you can select the text first and then hit reply, and only the selected section will be quoted. Yep. Pan (a nntp newsreader) has such option. So does Claws-mail. -- Architecte Informatique chez Blueline/Gulfsat:

standard output suddenly uppercase

2010-08-23 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
Manao ahoana, Hello, Bonjour, While upgrading a Lenny, I suddenly got the standard outpu uppercase: http://pastebin.com/ngn3djX5 It's a virtual openvz container upgraded from the physical host with $ sudo vzctl exec $VID apt-get upgrade After the upgrade finished, issuing basic commands like

what backportes packages to get KSM on KVM

2010-07-22 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
Manao ahoana, Hello, Bonjour, I want to setup a Lenny system and take advantage of KVM's KSM. I plan to use backport's kernel (2.6.32) but I guess I will need some dependeing stuff: - qemu-kvm? - libvirt stuff - what else? If someone has ever tried. Misaotra, Thanks, Merci. --

debian based network appliance

2010-07-22 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
Manao ahoana, Hello, Bonjour, I know untangle to be a network apliance based on Debian. What else do you know to be? I need a debian based system (the closest to debian is the best) that will be optilized for tc, iptbles/l7,... Misaotra, Thanks, Merci. -- Architecte Informatique chez

Re: AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core and Debian install

2010-07-02 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
Merciadri Luca luca.mercia...@student.ulg.ac.be : I've never used AMD-based computers, and I've therefore always chosen i386 as I habitually deal with Intel stuff. I have ever choosen AMD when possible and they run all Linux flavours like a charm. Just for the record, - I like challengers, and

Packages not found

2010-06-28 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
Manao ahoana, Hello, Bonjour, On a fresh Lenny install, when running apt-get update, I get: W: Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/dists/lenny/updates /main /binary-i386/Packages 404 Not Found [IP: 149.20.20.6 80] when verifying by browsing

Re: Web browsers, Adobe Flash Debian

2010-06-10 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
Alexander Batischev eual...@gmail.com : After a few bumps in the road, I'm finding Debian Stable as easy to use as Ubuntu. Thanks for all that helped, it is really cool of you. Excuse me for rudeness, but: that's because you don't do much by yourself. Have you ever read How to Ask

Re: overcoming the 32k objects limit is ext3 - which file system to use?

2010-06-04 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
Siju George sgeorge...@gmail.com : since ext4 also has a limit No, ext4 has not this limit. The wikipedia article [1] is wrong. Read [2]: Right now the maximum possible number of sub directories contained in a single directory in Ext3 is 32000. Ext4 breaks that limit and allows a unlimited

Re: Requesting Backports

2010-06-03 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
James Stuckey jhstuc...@gmail.com : Or, what is the easiest way to make packages for lenny when using squeeze? Using apt pinning -- Architecte Informatique chez Blueline/Gulfsat: Administration Systeme, Recherche Developpement +261 3456 000

[solved] Re: apt-pinning... and force old version.

2010-06-03 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
Andrei Popescu andreimpope...@gmail.com : On Mi, 02 iun 10, 12:29:14, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: I expect the 2.5.5-0.blueline.0 postfix to be candidate, but $ apt-cache policy postfix Installé : (aucun) Candidat : 2.5.5-1.1 Table de version : 2.5.5-1.1 0 100

apt-pinning... and force old version.

2010-06-02 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
Manao ahoana, Hello, Bonjour, I have a personnal repository where I have - postfix-*-2.5.5-0.blueline.0 packages The personnal repository hostname is ppa.blueline.mg That postfix is a patched and (re-)packaged postfix. I have also a mirror (for the rest of the packages), where there are -

apt-get

2010-05-31 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
Manao ahoana, Hello, Bonjour, I have some collegues (including my direct boss) insisting me to use aptitude. I dont want to. When I ask them why, they just tell aptitude is better than apt-get. May be... but I'm used with apt-get and dont want to switch, and I also Googled a bit and found a

Re: Page remove please

2010-05-31 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
elfie...@aol.com : Hi! The following 2 posts (pages) contain my name. Can you please remove them or make them unsearchable? I was involved in this over 12 years ago when I didn't know better. I am now a business woman and it's embarrassing.

Re: How to manage multiple Internet connections?

2010-05-25 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
Merciadri Luca luca.mercia...@student.ulg.ac.be : This is not a so-rare situation, is it? I think it is. And as an ISP employee, I can tell you it's not that easy :-) -- Architecte Informatique chez Blueline/Gulfsat: Administration Systeme, Recherche Developpement

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, please test grub2)

2010-05-25 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
William Pitcock neno...@dereferenced.org : This bug *can* be fixed, but not without a significant rewrite of the way that lilo's stage2 loader code works. Given that there is no active upstream and that the Debian lilo package carries many patches for bug fixes that are alleviated by

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, please test grub2)

2010-05-25 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
consul tores consultor...@gmail.com : Again, and again; Debian depends of Linus Torvals; maybe it is time to seriously think about Debian kernels! http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/ -- Architecte Informatique chez Blueline/Gulfsat: Administration Systeme, Recherche Developpement

Re: Exim4 Administration

2010-05-18 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
David Baron d_ba...@012.net.il : Is there any other way? Yes. -- Architecte Informatique chez Blueline/Gulfsat: Administration Systeme, Recherche Developpement +261 3456 000 19 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Is acroread blind, or ps2pdf dangerous?

2010-05-14 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
Merciadri Luca luca.mercia...@student.ulg.ac.be : Andrei Popescu wrote: I thought that was a limitation of the OS (Windows). I don't know. Maybe. It *_IS*_ -- Architecte Informatique chez Blueline/Gulfsat: Administration Systeme, Recherche Developpement

just fetch .debs without installing

2010-05-13 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
Manao ahoana, Hello, Bonjour, What is the optoin to pass to apt-get in order to make it just fetch the .debs without installing them? Misaotra, Thanks, Merci. -- Architecte Informatique chez Blueline/Gulfsat: Administration Systeme, Recherche Developpement

Re: just fetch .debs without installing

2010-05-13 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
Wolodja Wentland wentl...@cl.uni-heidelberg.de : What is the optoin to pass to apt-get in order to make it just fetch the .debs without installing them? It has already been pointed out that -d/--download-only is the correct option to pass to apt-get in order to keep apt-get from installing

Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-10 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com : I do not have to give him reasons for my dislike. Your mind really suites proprietary softwares. -- Architecte Informatique chez Blueline/Gulfsat: Administration Systeme, Recherche Developpement +261 34 29 155 34 / +261 33 11 207 36

Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-10 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com : I expect you to dislike KDE 4, as it does not suit your needs! That is quite why I ask what your problems are, so that I might fix them. If that is your task, I tink you'd better skip those non-contructive comments. There is a lot of constructive ones, that

Re: Epiphany browser continues to get worse and worse

2010-05-09 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com : Why did they switch from gecko to webkit anyway? It was working so well. I use Epiphany because they switched to Webkit. On Ubuntu Lucid, it's working very well, I even use it to play youtube HTML5 videos. -- Architecte Informatique chez

Re: list not upgraded packages

2010-05-06 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
T o n g mlist4sunt...@yahoo.com : % aptitude upgrade Resolving dependencies... No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed. 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 9 not upgraded. How can I know which packages are not upgraded? apt-get upgrade tells and prompt you.

Re: Memory footprint of a mail server

2010-05-05 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
Thomas Goirand tho...@goirand.fr : Today, running Lenny, top shows us some crazy results: clamav: 156 MB amavisd-new: 80 MB per process (running 3 processes is the minimum) spamd: 105 MB per process (same remark) That makes the total amount of RAM needed to run these 3 up to something like 700

Re: HotSpot Server

2010-04-29 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
Sokvantha YOUK sokvan...@gmail.com : Dear All, I am looking for hotspot server for Debian Lenny, could you please advice me which software is good enough to manage my hotspot setup for 6 locations access point? We use CoovaChilli. -- Architecte Informatique chez Blueline/Gulfsat:

Re: Creating a debian local mirror from 5 debian DVDs

2010-04-29 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
L.Guruprasad lgp171...@gmail.com : I want to do mass network installation using pxe boot and using a local debian mirror. Also care about the security download during the install. You should cache them. -- Architecte Informatique chez Blueline/Gulfsat: Administration Systeme,

Re: how to redirect a domain in virtualmin

2010-04-29 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
Jozsi Vadkan jozsi.avad...@gmail.com : The big question: How can I redirect AAA.com to: BBB.com/index.php?lang=en ? With Apache. RedirectPermanent, or RewriteRule. A few lines in apache configuration file. A dont understand why you use such bloatware for that... But it's your choice. --

Re: Please don't feed the troll and don't reply...

2010-04-28 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
Sebastian Weisgerber sebast...@dystopianfuture.de : and block him/her/it from the mailing-list. His IP is 96.51.30.151 $ whois 96.51.30.151 And you get his ISP and then send abuse. I sent one. -- Architecte Informatique chez Blueline/Gulfsat: Administration Systeme, Recherche

Re: VM software for personal use?

2010-04-23 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
Richard Lawrence richard.lawre...@berkeley.edu : I don't really know how to assess whether Xen, VirtualBox, QEMU, KVM, or something else would be the best software for me to start learning. KVM. Ubuntu has good documentation about it. -- Architecte Informatique chez Blueline/Gulfsat:

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