Anyone tried Java Desktop System? tuned out to be Suse 8.2

2003-09-24 Thread Dom
wierd, just a Suse with Gnome desktop, I though they wanted Redhat All I want is Sarge DVD -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: xdm 'login incorrect'

1997-06-21 Thread Dom
, and type shadowconfig off shadowconfig on And restart xdm. Dom -- It was Penguin lust... at its ugliest. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: I get too many emails

2008-10-28 Thread Dom
little bit of filtering and everything is very tidy even in this inbox. -- Dom Delimar http://domdelimar.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to get rid of an entry in grub?

2013-08-31 Thread Dom
possibly be mounted as "/" and examines the contents to see if there are certain files and directories that look like they are part of a bootable system. It found etc/debian_version on sdb1 and therefore assumed that /dev/sdb1 could be a bootable Debian system. --

Re: file system analogue of blkid.

2013-09-03 Thread Dom
er" for an extant filesystem. Try file -s /dev/sdXn dom@oz:~$ file -s /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdb1: sticky x86 boot sector, code offset 0x3e, OEM-ID "MSWIN4.1", Bytes/sector 2048, sectors/cluster 16, root entries 1024, Media descriptor 0xf8, sectors/FAT 242, heads 236, hidden sectors 32,

Re: Headers for Debian 3.0.4 on ARM

2013-09-05 Thread Dom
asking this question in the Debian ARM list. debian-...@lists.debian.org The people there will probably be more familiar with what you need to do, and all the different varieties of ARM kernels. -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubs

Re: end of resume sequence (to run my USB network fixup script)

2013-09-05 Thread Dom
tus file will be /var/run/netstatus. auto eth9 iface eth9 inet dhcp pre-up ( grep -q "on" /var/run/netstatus) If the grep fails to find "on" in the file it will return 1 and the interface won't be started. If it does find "on", it will return 0 and the i

Re: Reg: gcc option for printing large number (large double)

2013-09-09 Thread Dom
On 09/09/13 07:21, Joel Rees wrote: Not sure why neither man -k nor whereis can find float.h, but it compiles okay. dom@oz:~$ locate float.h /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.6/include/float.h /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.7/include/float.h /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/numpy/core/include/numpy

Re: Daily downloads with apt / aptitude?

2013-09-15 Thread Dom
ile and want to take our laptops with us, I can shut down Debian in a few seconds, but sometimes her Windows will take up to an hour with updates, making us late for our bus/train/plane/spaceship :( I normally run updates when I start up in the morning, but can skip it if I am in a hurry.

Re: Daily downloads with apt / aptitude?

2013-09-15 Thread Dom
On 15/09/13 20:26, Tom H wrote: On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 4:45 AM, Dom wrote: On 15/09/13 08:58, thunders...@loop.de wrote: Related to this thing another question: Is there already a debian way, to force those new downloaded packages to install, when the system is being shutdown by the user

Re: Can't install any packages, "APT_HOOK_INFO_FD is not correctly defined"

2013-11-27 Thread Dom
pkg -r apt-listbugs then try the "apt-get -f install" again. If successful, reinstall apt-listbugs using apt-get after doing all upgrades required. -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? C

Re: alsa-base breaks linux-sound-base

2012-09-01 Thread Dom
ened in sid. Hm ok, I'm running testing, so things might be much different. I'm running testing/wheezy too. This is what I get: dom@oz:~$ aptitude show alsa-base Package: alsa-base State: installed Automatically installed: no Version: 1.0.25+2+nmu2 Priority: optional Section: sound

Re: [OT] How to redirect input/output to another console?

2012-09-08 Thread Dom
(use full terminal capabilities) are optional. It's low bandwidth and you'll be sharing the same shell session. Screen also has the advantage that if you get disconnected, you can reconnect to the same session again. -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.deb

Re: why would fdisk -l take so long?

2012-09-28 Thread Dom
ves a slightly better idea of where the time is being spent that just using date before and after. -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/50659554.5060...@rpdom.net

Re: why would fdisk -l take so long?

2012-09-28 Thread Dom
of your disk, but given your slow fdisk command I suspect not. Time to backup, backup, backup, buy a new disk and transfer the data over asap. -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: why would fdisk -l take so long?

2012-09-28 Thread Dom
On 28/09/12 13:52, Jon Dowland wrote: On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 01:23:59PM +0100, Dom wrote: It *is* possible that smartctl is mis-interpretting the status of your disk, but given your slow fdisk command I suspect not. Time to backup, backup, backup, buy a new disk and transfer the data over

Re: Is it possible to monitor VTs via ssh?

2012-09-28 Thread Dom
file is renamed and a new one opened, rather than following the old file which -f does. Also the "-F" option will do similar, but won't fail if the file is inaccessible for a while. -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subje

Re: GRUB location on Dual-Boot with TWO hard drives

2012-10-14 Thread Dom
irst. Grub2 uses that to identify other OSes on your system. -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/507a8c85.3060...@rpdom.net

Re: DVD-RAM, Raspberry Pi and other toys - Was: can't create an UDF file system on a CD-RW

2012-10-18 Thread Dom
7;t have ethernet. Also, current model Bs now have 512MB of RAM, instead of the original 256MB (I suspect the model A will have 256MB). -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/507fbe4a.7070...@rpdom.net

Re: OT: A question about bash scripting

2012-10-29 Thread Dom
$d_y_t" echo (The first "printf" is a long line that will probably get spilt by email. It should all be on one line). Also the SECONDS shell counter variable is useful for this sort of thing. For example: ### Killall and Restore session SECONDS=0 ... done=$SECONDS -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/508ef5cd.8070...@rpdom.net

Re: how to prevent dvd drives from being polled

2012-10-31 Thread Dom
E_POLLING}="1" Of course you'll have to make changes to match your CD-rom and where to put the rule is a mystery (to me)...but it should get you started. I believe the line should go in a new file called something like /etc/udev/rules.d/99-local-rules I haven't had a chanc

Re: how to prevent dvd drives from being polled

2012-10-31 Thread Dom
On 31/10/12 16:13, Dom wrote: On 31/10/12 15:48, Frank McCormick wrote: On 31/10/12 10:42 AM, lee wrote: Darac Marjal writes: On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 03:25:18AM +0100, lee wrote: Hi, how do I prevent the dvd drives from being polled by udisks-daemon? I can kill the process and it becomes

Re: samsung or android device causing crash?

2012-11-08 Thread Dom
sc in and installs them (and, optionally, any additional software). Then it sees the device properly. This is usually for Windows users. -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.deb

Re: Write protect access on USB port

2012-11-26 Thread Dom
o change those permissions, but I don't believe any command (other than chmod) would override read-only for the device file. dom@oz:~$ cat /etc/udev/rules.d/99-usb-ro.rules: #Make USB storage devices read only KERNEL=="sd*",ACTION=="add",ENV{ID_BUS}=="usb",MODE=&quo

Re: [OT] End of the world

2012-12-03 Thread Dom
ach December 21, in any year :-) urs but you can using at(1). # echo "halt" | at end of world -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/50bd2e63.2040...@rpdom.net

Re: Copy 2 partitions to .img file

2012-12-06 Thread Dom
] count=[End of last partition] dd if=/dev/sdd of=8GB.img bs=512 count=13314047 That should be count=13314048 as the sector number starts at 0, so from sector 0 to sector 13314047 is 13314048 sectors. It will only be an issue if the last sector is used though. -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: behavior of sudo -E

2014-07-08 Thread Dom
hing to stop you running your program using a full or relative filename though. -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/53bc135a.1050...@rpdom.net

Re: Strange issue with `find' command

2014-08-02 Thread Dom
ll of them and you get too many parameters. Say we have test1.pdf and test2.pdf. find . -name *.pdf will expand out to find . -name test1.pdf test2.pdf and there you get your error. But find . -name "test1.pdf" will remain unchanged as the shell won't try and expand the

Re: Strange issue with `find' command

2014-08-02 Thread Dom
On 02/08/14 09:20, Tixy wrote: On Sat, 2014-08-02 at 08:56 +0100, Dom wrote: [...] find . -name *.pdf will expand out to find . -name test1.pdf test2.pdf and there you get your error. But find . -name "test1.pdf" will remain unchanged as the shell won't try

Re: Debian php5 (Can't get download when doing apt-update)

2014-08-05 Thread Dom
ning. It should be /var/log/apache2/error.log As mentioned by someone else, it's possibly a permissions issue on the file (it needs Read permissions for the Apache User "www-data" at least), or something wrong in the code. -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@

Re: dd

2014-08-10 Thread Dom
/’: Is a directory root@meow:/var# dd if=/var/www/ of=/media/lin50/ bs=2048 dd: failed to open ‘/media/lin50/’: Is a directory dd is the wrong tool for that job. You need something to copy the contents of the directory, like rsync or just simply cp cp -a /var/www/* /media/lin50 -- Dom -- To

Re: where is libgtk2 (for Raspbian)?

2014-04-09 Thread Dom
best place to ask for Raspbian advice/support is on the Raspberry Pi forums in the Raspbian sub-forum http://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewforum.php?f=66 -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: Why still heartbleed on Wheezy

2014-04-19 Thread Dom
ng the revision of the release, rather than just the internal version number. dom@ozzy:~$ dpkg-query -W openssl openssl 1.0.1e-2+deb7u6 The "deb7u6" is the important bit. The "heartbleed" bug only exists in deb7u4 and earlier. -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-us

Re: Is it a bug -- mount does not work on 127.0.0.1/127.0.1.1 interfaces?

2014-04-24 Thread Dom
ts: /export/home 192.168.0.0/24(rw,sync,no_subtree_check) 127.0.0.0/24(rw,sync,nosubtree_check) (all on one line, that probably got wrapped) No bug. Just wrong configuration. -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tro

Re: boot in console mode from grub2

2014-05-05 Thread Dom
d any tuto for grub2 installed on my system. This is a function of initramfs-tools and not of grub. Add "text" to the kernel cmdline. Which you can do by editing the /etc/default/grub file and changing GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="" to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="text" and run

Re: [SOLVED] Can't get Apache to display a directory

2014-05-13 Thread Dom
! Glad you got it fixed :) -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/5372eb58.6000...@rpdom.net

Re: Weird hw/system time issue..

2014-06-13 Thread Dom
riable... Thanks for the reboot of my brain, everybody!! Sorry to disappoint, but $TZ is empty here, yet everything works as expected. If $TZ is empty the timezone setting is supposed to be automatically taken from /etc/timezone. -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@list

Re: A lot of problems with debian sid on a Notebook

2012-12-23 Thread Dom
if you are going to install the 64 bit version from scratch. -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/50d6f3e1.5050...@rpdom.net

Re: What happens when you upgrade a package with modified config files?

2013-01-08 Thread Dom
le it will save the new version with a ".dpkg-new" extension (iirc), and if you choose to replace your config it'll save your version with ".dpkg-old" on the end. (I think I got those the right way around) -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@

Re: Execution of local PHP modules

2013-01-17 Thread Dom
00/yourfile.php -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/50f7f8b3.8060...@rpdom.net

Re: How to purge removed package?

2013-02-01 Thread Dom
ing purged?) Do I need to remove/purge all my dovecot packages and reinstall after getting -common out? (I'd prefer to NOT do that if it can be avoided.) dpkg --purge dovecot-common Should do the job. -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/510bf8b8.3080...@rpdom.net

Re: Debian is a translation.

2013-02-03 Thread Dom
ystem's locale is anything else. I guess change "none" to the local language? I also use a custom "locales" package which has a pre-built en_GB.UTF-8 only. It saves a *lot* of time when updating my slower systems. -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-req

Re: Running pae kernel on non-pae system

2013-02-23 Thread Dom
quot;really old" CPUs (like some others I do run) won't be supported. My laptop shows: dom@oz:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 9 model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1600MHz stepping: 5 mic

Re: Moving Chromebook from Ubuntu Precise to Debian Squeeze (and eventually Wheezy)

2013-02-23 Thread Dom
hardware. You can replace the ChromeOS, set it up for dual-boot, or boot from USB (SD card);the last is also trivial. Any advice? You'd probably get more help on the Debian ARM specific user list: debian-...@lists.debian.org -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

Re: Debian-goodies package error

2013-03-10 Thread Dom
n /dev/mapper/linbobo-root 2064208 2064208 0 100% / Is not that line a dead giveaway? Your / partition is full. -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.o

Re: Package maintenance on Debian

2013-03-29 Thread Dom
some steps that have to be done in the right order (upgrading udev and kernel, for a start), or you will end up with an unusable system. It is certainly worth moving to Wheezy, as it will replace Squeeze as Stable in the very near future. -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: Debian 7 Wheezy Stable Relelased

2013-05-07 Thread Dom
n the BIOS doesn't support them. I used it to boot the Wheezy installer from a USB stick on a Pentium MMX 166MHz sub-notebook with 32MB of memory and 2GB hard drive. I only just managed to get it to install by allocating a swap partition in the early stages of the install. But it did work :)

Re: Debian 7 Wheezy Stable Relelased

2013-05-08 Thread Dom
rching and experimenting, but mostly used it for command line stuff. :) -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/518a99ee.5050...@rpdom.net

Re: New distro

2013-05-08 Thread Dom
nt arch and --dvd= (or -d) defaults to 1. There could be a --noburn option to create the .iso without burning, and possibly a menu of available images if noting is specified on the command line. Just pondering out loud here, that's all. -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@li

Re: cheap hw raid or raid software?

2013-05-24 Thread Dom
without having to worry about raid compatibility. -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/51a043ff.3060...@rpdom.net

Re: Checking for installed package

2013-05-24 Thread Dom
d not available anywhere. Any help appreciated. LANGUAGE="C" dpkg -l $packagename | grep -q "^ii " will return 0 if the package is installed and 1 for any other state. -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "uns

Re: Cannot run a program from an optical drive

2013-06-15 Thread Dom
xec option? That will prevent programs from running. I think mount defaults to noexec for optical and removable drives, unless you specify the exec option the mount command or fstab. Try mount -o remount,exec $mountpoint (Apologies, I hit Reply instead of Reply to List) -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: mksh vs. pdksh

2013-06-22 Thread Dom
j when vi is selected as your editor with mksh? I've never used mksh or pdksh, but when I used to use ksh on unix systems I recall I used to have to "set -o vi" to enable that facility. -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: trouble formatting 3TB Seagate external HDrives. need help

2013-06-24 Thread Dom
at it sometimes doesn't report 100% complete if the reporting interval isn't an exact fraction of the total size. It does still write the whole file though. -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou

Re: Debian Testing/Jessie

2013-06-24 Thread Dom
only support Pentium II and later now, unless you use the _486 versions. -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/51c8ab3c.9060...@rpdom.net

Re: Debian 7.1 root password issue.

2013-06-25 Thread Dom
stall updates to the OS. How did you try to log in as root? Was it from the Desktop login, text console or by ssh? The desktop doesn't allow root logins, so you need to do it from a terminal. The command to change a password is "passwd" it should be in /usr/bin. -- Dom --

Re: *Another* Backup software question...

2013-07-13 Thread Dom
tape and stationary read/write head. The tapes are also much bigger and wider. I've found them to be very reliable over the years. -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists

Re: *Another* Backup software question...

2013-07-13 Thread Dom
On 13/07/13 21:17, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sat, 2013-07-13 at 20:58 +0100, Dom wrote: DLT has a single spool in the cart (the other being in the drive), a fast moving tape and stationary read/write head. The tapes are also much bigger and wider. I've found them to be very reliable over the

Re: trying to copy audio files from a CD without a file system ...

2013-07-18 Thread Dom
On 18/07/13 15:29, Martin Kraus wrote: On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 02:11:48PM +, Albretch Mueller wrote: How do you copy files from a CD with no apparent file system (so you can't mount it and browse to it)? if it's an audio cd then you may use cdparanoia or ripit -- D

Re: Where is menuconfig?

2013-07-22 Thread Dom
debian.org for it and found nothing. What's going on? Am I missing something? TIA, Isn't menuconfig just an option in the kernel source makefile? You do "make menuconfig". It's not a package. -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.

Re: Continuous brute force attempt from own server !!!

2013-07-26 Thread Dom
hese connections, it could be that your login on your local box has been compromised. Check the auth log on that to see when 'username' has been accessed. -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: fsck on boot...revisited

2013-07-26 Thread Dom
just as they stopped spinning, resulting in major damage to the entire unit. Later a small button was fitted which disconnected the coil and we had to hold that down until the disk had stopped spinning. -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: fsck on boot...revisited

2013-07-26 Thread Dom
On 26/07/13 20:06, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Fri, 2013-07-26 at 19:01 +0100, Dom wrote: On 26/07/13 17:53, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Fri, 2013-07-26 at 11:54 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: The system in question is running from an SSD, which I assume changes your assumptions quite a bit. With a

Re: Mysql

2013-07-30 Thread Dom
mand from ps aux | grep mysql. It looks like mysql is not running. Next step is to look in /var/log/mysql.log for error messages indicating why it didn't start. -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

Re: Mysql

2013-07-31 Thread Dom
how us your /etc/apt/sources.list and the contents of any files under /etc/apt/sources.list.d? Also the output of apt-get update -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Ar

Re: Removing x11-common

2013-08-06 Thread Dom
end on x11-common, remove those which will take out any packages that depend on them too and see what autoremove will show as left. -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.or

Re: How to recover after unintentional 'dpkg --unpack' ? (was ... Re: Dpkg SNAFU was Re: Oops!)

2013-08-10 Thread Dom
natively you can get a list of the files contained in the .deb file using "dpkg -c debfile". With a little bit of wrangling that will give you a list of files and directories to delete - although you should only delete directories if they are empty. -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: icedove configuration problem

2013-08-11 Thread Dom
ange the port numbers to anything you like. Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/52078585.9000...@rpdom.net

Re: Fake fulfilled dependency without dummy package

2013-08-17 Thread Dom
thing that can directly bypass dependencies. But the equivs package can be used to build a dummy package to satisfy them. -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: htt

Re: mount.cifs: bad UNC ...

2013-08-19 Thread Dom
May 22 06:21:01 CEST 2012 i686 GNU/Linux Hmm, not Debian then. The /etc/mtab links or permissions may be different. -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: deb-multimedia repository

2013-08-23 Thread Dom
nsing, but because it may potentially be illegal to use in some areas due to the fact the it cracks copyright protection on media. -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.or

Re: [OT] Documenting new stuff

2012-06-10 Thread Dom
ad changed a line in /etc/php5/cli/php.ini, and when I said to keep my version it put the new version in php.ini.ucf-dist. (I have since moved my changes to another file and moved php.ini.ucf-dist to php5.ini) -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: aptitude full-upgrade installs unnecessary packages

2012-06-15 Thread Dom
texlive-fonts-extra say? -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4fdb6e5c.7030...@rpdom.net

Re: Samba Backup Tool Preserving File Owner/Group/Permissions

2012-06-18 Thread Dom
n? I suppose it could be possible to create a large file on the samba share, format it as ext2/3/4 and mount it using the loop option. Then you end up with samba just seeing a single file, but your box seeing an extX filesystem with all the attributes. -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to de

Re: Up-gradation problem with gnome 2.14

2012-06-22 Thread Dom
it seems the version of dpkg that is currently installed doesn't support the "Breaks:" option. It must be a very old one. I suggest that you first upgrade dpkg: apt-get install dpkg which should pull in the new version, then you can continue with an upgrade and dist-upgrade. -

Re: E: Couldn't rebuild package cache

2012-06-23 Thread Dom
question of why did /var fill up? Have you got a lot of old deb files under /var/cache/apt/archives? These can be safely got rid of with apt-get clean (unless you are keeping them for a reason). Also, apt-get autoclean will prevent them being left in there after an upgrade/install. -- Dom -- T

Re: Re (2): Apparent disagreement between df and cp.

2012-06-28 Thread Dom
none will show). I created a filesystem the same size as yours with mkfs.vfat, then did a simple: for i in $(seq 1 255);do touch Longfilename$i;done After 173 files had been written, I got: touch: cannot touch `Longfilename174': No space left on device and dom@oz:/mnt$ df -k . Fi

Re: Debian GNU/Linux wheezy/sid - Howto setup bootlogd?

2012-06-28 Thread Dom
o you have the bootlogd package installed? I ask, because around that time bootlogd was split off from sysvinit-utils into a seperate package, which isn't installed by default. dom@oz:~$ zcat /usr/share/doc/sysvinit-utils/NEWS.Debian.gz bootlogd has moved from sysvinit-utils to a se

Re: custom kernel without initrd and with udev

2012-07-06 Thread Dom
ile those into your kernel In fact, if you are building a kernel specifically for one box (or a set of similar boxen), it is a good idea to have all/most hardware drivers built-in. I only have external peripherals (USB/cardbus devices) built as modules. -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: getting gnome 3

2012-07-06 Thread Dom
ike for me, once I'd tweaked a few things. -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4ff7b547.3020...@rpdom.net

Re: custom kernel without initrd and with udev

2012-07-07 Thread Dom
is working just fine with UUIDs and no initrd ;-) I agree there are issues with labels though, which is a pity. -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://

Re: custom kernel without initrd and with udev

2012-07-07 Thread Dom
On 07/07/12 18:49, Stephen Powell wrote: On Sat, 07 Jul 2012 12:53:27 -0400 (EDT), Dom wrote: On 07/07/12 16:53, Stephen Powell wrote: It's getting harder and harder to get along without an initrd these days. Why is it so important to you not to use one? As others have pointed out, us

Re: custom kernel without initrd and with udev

2012-07-07 Thread Dom
On 07/07/12 16:46, Mike McClain wrote: Hi Dom, Thanks for your suggestions and letting me know this is still possible. On Sat, Jul 07, 2012 at 04:56:10AM +0100, Dom wrote: On 07/07/12 00:08, Mike McClain wrote: Is anyone running a custom kernel without an initrd with udev? Yes

Re: Squeeze, MySQL and hosts.allow and hosts.deny ignored

2012-07-10 Thread Dom
ction: 127.0.0.1 via TCP/IP ... TCP port: 3306 ... -- Hope that clears it up a bit. It might be possible to disable the socket connection in the MySQL config, but I haven't looked into that. -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ..

Re: Why compiling.

2012-07-10 Thread Dom
s quite different to the average user with their 256GB/6GHz/128 bit systems ;-) -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4ffd1f7b.8070...@rpdom.net

Re: OT: Web based newsreader suggestion?

2012-07-13 Thread Dom
oogle Groups would be fine but they now require the use of Javascript and that's a no-go feature for me. Thanks Before I subscribed to this list, I used to read it using Icedove as a newsreader (I still do for some other groups). -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.

Re: Loadlin and Squeeze kernel 2.6.32

2012-07-16 Thread Dom
e the partition containing /boot, or backup/delete/restore /boot), then that block list won't match the actual location of the files *unless* you run update-grub. In practice this won't happen very often, if at all. -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists

Re: Bug query: USB Keyboard random repeats

2012-07-16 Thread Dom
27;s still some work that needs doing to get hardware accelerated graphics working, but that is in progress I believe. -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/500451d4.2030...@rpdom.net

Re: Error while try to get tcp socket options with lsof

2012-07-19 Thread Dom
d TCP flags and values are not available via the /proc file system." -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/50084a9e.90...@rpdom.net

Re: dump - restore

2012-07-20 Thread Dom
u all ... You should enter volume number 1. But you should probably read the manpage more carefully. "extract /tmp/1.bak" will try and restore the file "/tmp/1.bak" from the dump, ie. the file you dumped to, not the contents. -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-use

Re: Epson Perfection 1240U USB scanner device not found

2012-07-20 Thread Dom
ection1240 flatbed scanner Is it a permission problem with udev or SANE or ??? BTW, the scanner doesn't look like a regular /dev entry. Just a thought... is your user in the "scanner" group? -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Printers using free software only

2012-08-02 Thread Dom
gedit has failed to print properly, just prints a line of gobbldegook followed by several blank pages. -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/501ad4e0@rpdom.net

Re: Something about netiquette Re: systemd

2012-08-05 Thread Dom
t is the showstopper. I have understood that the problem with most basic users is that most of (commercial) computer games are made for Windows. How many games made for Linux have you seen at some store? Maybe that will change now that Valve are starting to port all their games to Linux pl

Re: tsclient

2012-08-13 Thread Dom
ined and much better than tsclient, it can be removed." Mentioned as another alternative later in that bug report is remmina. (grdc is now a dummy package in squeeze that depends on remmina) -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "uns

Re: apt-get fails due to "system" message bus problem

2012-08-14 Thread Dom
rror and/or how to avoid it? I suspect that fakeroot is interpreting the -s option. Can you try: $ fakeroot -- apt-getfrom -s "deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian stable \ main" download debian-archive-keyring The "--" should make fakeroot pass the -s through to your apt-getf

Re: ttytter can't tweet

2014-01-23 Thread Dom
://dev.twitter.com/discussions/24239 Thank you. I had been wondering why ttytter hadn't been working for a few days and was going to investigate when I got time. Now I don't need to :-) -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: Bombono DVD

2014-02-17 Thread Dom
gi?bug=690032 I know the repo is frowned upon by many, bombono-dvd is available for wheezy on the deb-multimedia site. I haven't tried dvdstyler. -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/53024780.4030...@rpdom.net

Re: need help on using crontab

2014-02-19 Thread Dom
vi mycronfile (to edit) crontab mycronfile crontab -e is much easier and safer to use. -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/53046962.4030...@rpdom.net

Re: apt-cache regex question

2011-03-12 Thread Dom
it ambiguous. It looks like --names-only searches on things other than package name, but not the long description. Possibly matching on "Provides: apm-sleep" -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: apt-cache regex question

2011-03-13 Thread Dom
nk you, I should have thought about looking at the buglists when I spotted the "Provides" entry. -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://

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