Re: Cannot run iceweasel on remote host

2007-10-03 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Thu, 04 Oct 2007 07:51:42 +0530 Raj Kiran Grandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Liam O'Toole wrote: > > On Wed, 03 Oct 2007 18:08:29 +0530 > > Raj Kiran Grandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> I am facing a weird problem when trying to run iceweasel on a > >> remote host throu

Re: Random System Crashes

2007-10-03 Thread Jeff D
On Wed, 3 Oct 2007, Michael Pobega wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lately (For the past month or so) I've been experiencing random system crashes. My system would just completely lock up and not respond to anything but a power-down (I've tried switching to TTY1, among other

Re: How to access RS-232 console from terminal?

2007-10-03 Thread Rob Sims
On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 09:29:40PM -0700, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > I know this may seem so obvious but I have no experience with this at > all. Basically I want to access the console interface of a network > interface device using RS-232. ... > And I usually need to transfer files via the 1K

Re: How to access RS-232 console from terminal?

2007-10-03 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 09:29:40PM -0700, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > Hey guys, > > I know this may seem so obvious but I have no experience with this at > all. Basically I want to access the console interface of a network > interface device using RS-232. > > I am pretty sure linux/unix has built

Re: P-II ASUS box won't boot another drive

2007-10-03 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 12:34:51AM -0400, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 04:38:38PM -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote: > > I have running here a PII with Asus P2B-F motherboard and a 40Gbyte > > IDE drive. The manual for the P2B-F is rather poor, and fails to > > provide a number of

Re: VNC install--possible dependency error?

2007-10-03 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 10:37:19PM -0400, Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Here's a transcript: > > NewPicking:/home/carlf# apt-get install vnc4server xvnc4viewer vnc-java > xtightvncviewer > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state inform

Sarge php4-cli no mysql support?

2007-10-03 Thread Simon
Hi There, We have a sarge box that we have just installed php4-cli on, but there seems to be no mysql support? Can anyone confirm this? I have php4-mysql installed. What can i do here? Here is the Configure Command from phpinfo() with the command line client. Configure Command => '../configure

How to access RS-232 console from terminal?

2007-10-03 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
Hey guys, I know this may seem so obvious but I have no experience with this at all. Basically I want to access the console interface of a network interface device using RS-232. I am pretty sure linux/unix has built in support for this but how does it work? Do I just plug it in? Where do I se

Re: Recommended MPLAYER config for old computers

2007-10-03 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
> What happens if you run cdck to check the quality of the DVD? I installed cdck from the deb repo and ran it. A lot of errors. There are a lot: ! unable to read sector 195007, reason: Input/output error ! unable to read sector 195008, reason: Input/output error ! unable to read sector 195009,

Re: trying to record sound with 'arecord' A SOLUTION - POSTSCRIPT

2007-10-03 Thread tom arnall
On Wednesday 03 October 2007 16:49, David Fox wrote: > On 10/3/07, tom arnall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > yes to both. i used alsa mixer to set the mic level. i'm using a headset > > and when i do input to the mic i can hear it in the headphones. > > having never tried arecord I tried it out - o

Re: Recommended MPLAYER config for old computers

2007-10-03 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
> Hi, > > It looks weird - CRC errors? Is the DVD scratched badly? I'm afraid I > cannot help you; maybe you should try asking on some mplayer forums/groups? > > BTW, have you tried the kaffeine already? It worked better than mplayer > with DVDs for me. > > Kind regards, > Michal R. Hoffmann

Re: Random System Crashes

2007-10-03 Thread Michael Pobega
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 10:33:27PM -0700, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On 10/2/07, Michael Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Lately (For the past month or so) I've been experiencing random system

Re: trying to record sound with 'arecord' A SOLUTION

2007-10-03 Thread tom arnall
On Wednesday 03 October 2007 16:49, David Fox wrote: > On 10/3/07, tom arnall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > yes to both. i used alsa mixer to set the mic level. i'm using a headset > > and when i do input to the mic i can hear it in the headphones. > > having never tried arecord I tried it out - o

Re: Random System Crashes

2007-10-03 Thread Michael Pobega
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 02:13:49AM -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote: > odds are your power supply is on its way to the power supply cemetery. > > I doubt that, because this laptop is only one year old. I'm kind of hoping that the power supply doesn't have t

Re: Any way to dist-downgrade?

2007-10-03 Thread Michael Yang
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 11:04:05PM +0800, Michael Yang wrote: Hi All: Due to one hang issues of apitude, I upgraded my linux-images, but didn't resolve the issues. Then I did "apt-get dist-upgrade", after which the aptitude issue is resolved, also after which m

VNC install--possible dependency error?

2007-10-03 Thread Carl Fink
Here's a transcript: NewPicking:/home/carlf# apt-get install vnc4server xvnc4viewer vnc-java xtightvncviewer Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following extra packages will be installed: vnc4-common Suggested packages: vncserv

Re: Re: Problems with mdadm and a usb harddrive.

2007-10-03 Thread William Lynch
> > up after the raid5 is brought up. Is there any way to delay the startup of > > the raid5 until after usb drives are seen? > > grep rootdelay /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/init-premount/ udev -A6 > > linux rootdelay=10 at the boot prompt will wait for 10 seconds That did it perfectly.

Re: Etch updates contain new version of Vim?

2007-10-03 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 10:09:12PM -, BartlebyScrivener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > So I'm curious. I thought with Stable (Etch at the moment) the only > updates automatically installed are security updates. And when I > search the changelog, it does not mention Vim: > > http://ft

Re: Debian packages without md5sums

2007-10-03 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 09:02:41PM -0700, Carl Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > dpkg performs no key checking, at least on packages in the Debian > > archive. There was some experimental code to stick embedded signatures > > into .de

Re: Cannot run iceweasel on remote host

2007-10-03 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Liam O'Toole wrote: On Wed, 03 Oct 2007 18:08:29 +0530 Raj Kiran Grandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I am facing a weird problem when trying to run iceweasel on a remote host through an ssh session. I have logged into the remote host using "ssh -Y " and at the prompt of the remote host, I

Re: Major application resource leaks in Etch

2007-10-03 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 09:36:54PM -0400, "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > If you can't pull the data with ftp or somethin, what about using lynx? > Text browsers don't have to render. Download the text and save it to a > file. Or if its already being viewed, 'Print' it

Re: Spring clean

2007-10-03 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 07:39:05PM +0100, andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > I have used apt-get since installation and am comfortable with that. I will > have to familiarise myself with aptitude. What GUI are you referring to? I > enter sudo aptitude at a term. So far, after a quick s

Re: rescue bootable cd ???

2007-10-03 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 07:37:10PM -0500, helices <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > The problem with knoppix cd, and the debian installation/rescue cd, is > that they do NOT understand the specifics of my lvm over software raid > 5. The specifics required probably all reside under /etc -- o

Re: Major application resource leaks in Etch

2007-10-03 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 10:44:48PM -0500, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Doug is absolutely correct. Putting a 30MB file into the clipboard > is going to is a lot of resources. It'll use a lot of resources -- but if I understood the OP correctly, the resources weren't bein

Re: i am looking to turn on some security monitoring on debian..can anyone help!

2007-10-03 Thread Ralph Katz
On 10/03/2007 05:04 PM, Michael Habashy wrote: > I am looking to turn on some security monitoring in debian. > Something to alert me that the someone is trying a ton of different > passwords. I use fail2ban for this for ssh. fail2ban can also help with your apache attacks. > Or too many tcpip r

Re: efficiency of windows managers

2007-10-03 Thread cga2000
On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 06:36:46PM EDT, Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 09/28/07 17:21, Manu Hack wrote: > [snip] > > > > Yeah, will do if I have the time. But at the moment I'm very happy > > with xfce4.4 (fast and with the real transparency stuff). :

Re: trying to record sound with 'arecord'

2007-10-03 Thread tom arnall
On Wednesday 03 October 2007 17:45, tom arnall wrote: > On Wednesday 03 October 2007 16:49, David Fox wrote: > > On 10/3/07, tom arnall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > yes to both. i used alsa mixer to set the mic level. i'm using a > > > headset and when i do input to the mic i can hear it in the

Re: trying to record sound with 'arecord'

2007-10-03 Thread tom arnall
On Wednesday 03 October 2007 16:49, David Fox wrote: > On 10/3/07, tom arnall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > yes to both. i used alsa mixer to set the mic level. i'm using a headset > > and when i do input to the mic i can hear it in the headphones. > > having never tried arecord I tried it out - o

Re: good tool to recover scratched CD's/DVD's?

2007-10-03 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Tyler MacDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've completed recovery now and have ended up with maybe a few gigs of files > (out of hundreds of DVD's) that can't be covered. I think that's a pretty > good recovery rate... and the files that were lost aren't exactly rare, so I > should be able to fi

Re: Motherboard Recommendation

2007-10-03 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 06:46:47PM -0400, Eric Estes wrote: > Can anyone recommend a good AMD (socket A2 - Athlon 64 X2) motherboard that > has good Linux support? I'm sending back my Shuttle to newegg and need a > replacement asap. > Hi Eric, I am disappointed no one has replied to this as it

Re: P-II ASUS box won't boot another drive

2007-10-03 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 04:38:38PM -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote: > I have running here a PII with Asus P2B-F motherboard and a 40Gbyte > IDE drive. The manual for the P2B-F is rather poor, and fails to > provide a number of vital details. > > I have been running a dual-boot Debian/W2000 scheme,

Re: cdrecord vs. wodim again

2007-10-03 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 03:46:51PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > steef([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > > > hi all and *especially j?rg s., long-term initiator of cdrecord and > > cdrtools*. > > > > two weeks ago i asked on this list 'what is better': cdrecord or wodim. on > > one of

Re: good tool to recover scratched CD's/DVD's?

2007-10-03 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The only thing I see in the repository is dvdisaster that you use > > > _before_ the cd/dvd gets damaged that can recreate it later. > > > > The docs claim you need the ECC file, but I am running it right now > > without an ECC file, and it is st

Re: Basic Tomcatt5.5 Admin question

2007-10-03 Thread Dancing Fingers
On Sep 30, 1:40 am, Dancing Fingers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sep 21, 2:00 pm, Dancing Fingers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Thanks. This helps a lot. I also tried > > chown -R www-data /usr/share/tomcat5.5-webapps > > without much luck. > > > Cchris > > On Sep 21, 1:10 pm, Nyizs

Re: good tool to recover scratched CD's/DVD's?

2007-10-03 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 12:31:39PM -0700, Tyler MacDonald wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 11:49:15AM -0700, Tyler MacDonald wrote: > > > Is there a tool available that does stuff like that? > > The only thing I see in the repository is dvdisaster tha

Re: Recommended MPLAYER config for old computers

2007-10-03 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 09:27:51PM +0100, MRH wrote: > Dnia 02/10/07 08:13,Amit Uttamchandani napisa??: > > > >I tried out the settings but it still doesn't seem to help. I get a bunch > >of these errors repeatedly. > > > >a52: CRC check failed! > >a52: error at resampling > >a52: CRC check failed

Re: P-II ASUS box won't boot another drive

2007-10-03 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 02:21:20PM -0500, Mumia W.. wrote: > On 10/03/2007 08:39 AM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >[...] Surely a P-II that came > >with an 8GB drive (with no extra jumpers) should be able to use a 1 GB > >drive. The BIOS does show the correct size for each drive, detecting > >the

Re: trying to record sound with 'arecord'

2007-10-03 Thread David Fox
On 10/3/07, tom arnall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > yes to both. i used alsa mixer to set the mic level. i'm using a headset and > when i do input to the mic i can hear it in the headphones. having never tried arecord I tried it out - on lenny there seems to be a problem in that it can't open t

Re: Etch updates contain new version of Vim?

2007-10-03 Thread BartlebyScrivener
On Oct 3, 6:00 pm, Jeff D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There was a recent security update to vim, > see:http://www.us.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1364 Thanks, Jeff. And now I know where to look :) rd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Con

PCI: Failed to allocate mem resource #6:[EMAIL PROTECTED] for 000:02:05:0

2007-10-03 Thread Eric Estes
Any suggestions on how to fix this? I've tried: pci=nommconf --- resulted in my normal problem, really slow internet/network speeds pci=conf1 -- resulted in my normal problem, really slow internet/network speeds pci=conf2 -- resulted in a kernel panic Running either e100 or eepro100 di

Re: i am looking to turn on some security monitoring on debian..can anyone help!

2007-10-03 Thread Michael Habashy
On 10/3/07, Daniel Mahoney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How about snort, or zabbix, or zenoss? > > Michael Habashy wrote: > > I am looking to turn on some security monitoring in debian. > > Something to alert me that the someone is trying a ton of different > > passwords. > > Or too many tcpip r

Re: Etch updates contain new version of Vim?

2007-10-03 Thread Jeff D
On Wed, 3 Oct 2007, BartlebyScrivener wrote: Hello all, I'm still fairly new to Debian (<1yr). I'm using Etch. I update only through the little asterisk alert that pops up on Gnome. I use fluxbox, so only log into Gnome occasionally. Last time, there were many updates, including updates to Vim

Re: Cannot run iceweasel on remote host

2007-10-03 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Wed, 03 Oct 2007 18:08:29 +0530 Raj Kiran Grandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am facing a weird problem when trying to run iceweasel on a remote > host through an ssh session. I have logged into the remote host using > "ssh -Y " and at the prompt of the remote host, I ran > icewea

Etch updates contain new version of Vim?

2007-10-03 Thread BartlebyScrivener
Hello all, I'm still fairly new to Debian (<1yr). I'm using Etch. I update only through the little asterisk alert that pops up on Gnome. I use fluxbox, so only log into Gnome occasionally. Last time, there were many updates, including updates to Vim which I work in a lot. So I'm curious. I thoug

Re: NFS and quotas

2007-10-03 Thread David Brodbeck
On Oct 3, 2007, at 12:42 PM, Daniel Mahoney wrote: I've got a Debian Sarge machine that is mounting it's user directories via NFS from a NAS appliance. Id' really like to get quotas running but I'm not having a lot of luck. I've tried adding "quota" and "usrquota" to the fstab flags for th

Re: Debian in the Enterprise?

2007-10-03 Thread Glen Pfeiffer
On 10/03/2007 02:00 PM, mack stout wrote: > or if other users might be willing to testify that their > company uses debian. Not my company, but: http://www.dreamhost.com/ runs mainly on Debian. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreamhost -- Glen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian in the Enterprise?

2007-10-03 Thread Maarten Verwijs
Hi Ben, On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 03:57:59PM -0500, mack stout wrote: >As silly as these questions are... I'm trying to convince upper-management >at my company to use Debian in our retail environment on thin-clients, >registers, and servers. I was wondering if there's a list of compani

Re: trying to record sound with 'arecord'

2007-10-03 Thread tom arnall
On Wednesday 03 October 2007 14:07, you wrote: > On 10/3/07, tom arnall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > i am trying to record sound with 'arecord': > > > > arecord -d 5 file.wav > > Have you checked the mixer settings - specially is the microphone > plugged in to the right input and is the s

Re: HELP! can't become root

2007-10-03 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 01:13:15PM -0700, tom arnall wrote: > > thanks all for being here. downloading the netinst CD now. > > tom, the profoundly embarrassed loose cannon its okay. I once did rm -rf /etc /cups and didn't notice for a while. A signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: trying to record sound with 'arecord'

2007-10-03 Thread Simon Jolle "sjolle"
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/03/2007 11:00 PM, tom arnall wrote: > i am trying to record sound with 'arecord': > > arecord -d 5 file.wav > this gives me a file with a size of about 100k. but when i try to play it > with: > aplay file.wav > i get no sound. but

Re: i am looking to turn on some security monitoring on debian..can anyone help!

2007-10-03 Thread Daniel Mahoney
How about snort, or zabbix, or zenoss? Michael Habashy wrote: I am looking to turn on some security monitoring in debian. Something to alert me that the someone is trying a ton of different passwords. Or too many tcpip requests. Our too much disk activity. Or if my apache webserver is being

Re: Debian in the Enterprise?

2007-10-03 Thread Daniel Mahoney
mack stout wrote: As silly as these questions are... I'm trying to convince upper-management at my company to use Debian in our retail environment on thin-clients, registers, and servers. I was wondering if there's a list of companies (if not, maybe I could set one up) that use debian, or if o

Re: Debian in the Enterprise?

2007-10-03 Thread Tyler MacDonald
There's a big list here: http://www.debian.org/users/ iWeb.com, my hosting provider, fully supports debian on their dedicated servers, and even runs a local mirror (http://debian.iweb.ca/). :-) - Tyler mack stout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As silly as these questions are... I'm tryin

i am looking to turn on some security monitoring on debian..can anyone help!

2007-10-03 Thread Michael Habashy
I am looking to turn on some security monitoring in debian. Something to alert me that the someone is trying a ton of different passwords. Or too many tcpip requests. Our too much disk activity. Or if my apache webserver is being hit alot -like a denial of service attack. Can anyone direct me to

Re: Installing Debian from a Lan

2007-10-03 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 3 Oct 2007 13:48:29 -0700 (PDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am hoping to install Debian over a lan. I know this is possible but I > haven't found much information on it. Suggestions? Please be a bit more specific about what exactly you want to do. > Could I set up the server to be 64b

trying to record sound with 'arecord'

2007-10-03 Thread tom arnall
i am trying to record sound with 'arecord': arecord -d 5 file.wav this gives me a file with a size of about 100k. but when i try to play it with: aplay file.wav i get no sound. but aplay works fine with the files in /usr/share/sounds. is there a problem with

Debian in the Enterprise?

2007-10-03 Thread mack stout
As silly as these questions are... I'm trying to convince upper-management at my company to use Debian in our retail environment on thin-clients, registers, and servers. I was wondering if there's a list of companies (if not, maybe I could set one up) that use debian, or if other users might be wil

Re: NFS and quotas

2007-10-03 Thread Daniel Mahoney
MRH wrote: Dnia 03/10/07 20:42,Daniel Mahoney napisał: I've got a Debian Sarge machine that is mounting it's user directories via NFS from a NAS appliance. Id' really like to get quotas running but I'm not having a lot of luck. I've tried adding "quota" and "usrquota" to the fstab flags for th

Installing Debian from a Lan

2007-10-03 Thread dondavis
I am hoping to install Debian over a lan. I know this is possible but I haven't found much information on it. Suggestions? Could I set up the server to be 64bit but provide the packages for the 386 install? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou

Debian Sid AMD64, lazarus / FreePascal and GTK2

2007-10-03 Thread MRH
Hi, anyone succeeded in building lazarus to use GTK2 widgets on Debian Sid AMD64? I followed the guide: http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/GTK2_Interface but when I try to build I get an error: make[2]: *** [../../units/x86_64-linux/gtk2] Error 1 Not very helpful. I have libgtk2.0-dev install

Re: NFS and quotas

2007-10-03 Thread MRH
Dnia 03/10/07 20:42,Daniel Mahoney napisał: I've got a Debian Sarge machine that is mounting it's user directories via NFS from a NAS appliance. Id' really like to get quotas running but I'm not having a lot of luck. I've tried adding "quota" and "usrquota" to the fstab flags for the NFS-mounted

Re: Motherboard Recommendation

2007-10-03 Thread MRH
Dnia 03/10/07 14:54,Douglas A. Tutty napisał: On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 06:46:47PM -0400, Eric Estes wrote: Can anyone recommend a good AMD (socket A2 - Athlon 64 X2) motherboard that has good Linux support? I'm sending back my Shuttle to newegg and need a replacement asap. I'm running an Asus M

Re: Recommended MPLAYER config for old computers

2007-10-03 Thread MRH
Dnia 02/10/07 08:13,Amit Uttamchandani napisał: [] I tried out the settings but it still doesn't seem to help. I get a bunch of these errors repeatedly. a52: CRC check failed! a52: error at resampling a52: CRC check failed! 5.666 ct: 0.295 138/135 13% 5% 100.0% 127 0 1% a52: error at resamp

Re: Problems with mdadm and a usb harddrive.

2007-10-03 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach William Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007.10.03.1707 +0100]: > up after the raid5 is brought up. Is there any way to delay the startup of > the raid5 until after usb drives are seen? grep rootdelay /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/init-premount/udev -A6 linux rootdelay=10 at the boot

Re: Debian packages without md5sums

2007-10-03 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 21:02:41 -0700, Carl Johnson wrote: > Daniel Burrows writes: [...] > > It shouldn't matter which frontend you use. All the major frontends > > check the signature of the Release file when you download package lists > > from the archive. The Release file contains a cryp

Re: HELP! can't become root

2007-10-03 Thread tom arnall
On Wednesday 03 October 2007 12:38, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 12:12:52PM -0700, tom arnall wrote: > > I got impatient with an aumix error and did 'chmod -R /dev' (and ctl-C'ed > > out of it after ~3 min's.) now I can't become root. Some examples: > > wow, that's ugly. A

Re: P-II ASUS box won't boot another drive

2007-10-03 Thread Mumia W..
On 10/03/2007 08:39 AM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: [...] Surely a P-II that came with an 8GB drive (with no extra jumpers) should be able to use a 1 GB drive. The BIOS does show the correct size for each drive, detecting the same geometry as printed on the drive. Thanks, Doug. Sorry about

Re: problem with postfix and libsasl2

2007-10-03 Thread Florian Kulzer
[ Please stop top-posting. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_posting) ] On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 09:04:14 +0200, Daniele Salatti wrote: > Hi! > Here is the output of the commands you suggested: > > dpkg -S libsasl2.so.2: > > libsasl2-2: /usr/lib/libsasl2.so.2 > cyrus-sasl2-dbg: /usr/lib/debug/us

NFS and quotas

2007-10-03 Thread Daniel Mahoney
I've got a Debian Sarge machine that is mounting it's user directories via NFS from a NAS appliance. Id' really like to get quotas running but I'm not having a lot of luck. I've tried adding "quota" and "usrquota" to the fstab flags for the NFS-mounted directory, but "mount" complains about those

Re: Problems with mdadm and a usb harddrive.

2007-10-03 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 01:18:33PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 12:07:53PM -0400, William Lynch wrote: > > > > I have a question that I was hoping someone could help with. I'm > > using a RAID5 for storage. 3 disks. However, 2 of the discs are > > internal, and 1 is

Re: HELP! can't become root

2007-10-03 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 12:12:52PM -0700, tom arnall wrote: > I got impatient with an aumix error and did 'chmod -R /dev' (and ctl-C'ed out > of it after ~3 min's.) now I can't become root. Some examples: wow, that's ugly. And since it went for ~3mins that's a lot of chown'ed files. I agree with

Re: good tool to recover scratched CD's/DVD's?

2007-10-03 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Tyler MacDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [071003 13:56]: > I'm currently using dd_rescue to attempt to recover as much as I can from > some scratched DVD's. Thankfully, everything is burned with SHA1 sums, so > i'll know exactly what i managed to recover and what is definately lost. > > dd_rescue wor

Re: good tool to recover scratched CD's/DVD's?

2007-10-03 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 11:49:15AM -0700, Tyler MacDonald wrote: > > Is there a tool available that does stuff like that? > The only thing I see in the repository is dvdisaster that you use > _before_ the cd/dvd gets damaged that can recreate it later.

Re: HELP! can't become root

2007-10-03 Thread Thilo Six
tom arnall wrote the following on 03.10.2007 21:12 > I got impatient with an aumix error and did 'chmod -R /dev' (and ctl-C'ed out > of it after ~3 min's.) now I can't become root. Some examples: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/bin$ sudo /usr/src/modules/alsa-driver/snddevices > sudo: /etc/sud

HELP! can't become root POSTSCRIPT

2007-10-03 Thread tom arnall
I got impatient with an aumix error and did 'chmod -R /dev' (and ctl-C'ed out of it after ~3 min's.) now I can't become root. Some examples: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/bin$ sudo /usr/src/modules/alsa-driver/snddevices sudo: /etc/sudoers is mode 0777, should be 0440 [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: HELP! can't become root

2007-10-03 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 12:12:52PM -0700, tom arnall wrote: > I got impatient with an aumix error and did 'chmod -R /dev' (and ctl-C'ed out > of it after ~3 min's.) now I can't become root. Some examples: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/bin$ sudo /usr/src/modules/alsa-driver/snddevices > sudo:

Re: good tool to recover scratched CD's/DVD's?

2007-10-03 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Michael Biebl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm currently using dd_rescue to attempt to recover as much as I can from > > some scratched DVD's. Thankfully, everything is burned with SHA1 sums, so > > Is there a tool available that does stuff like that? > Have you tried dvdisaster already? No, I

Re: good tool to recover scratched CD's/DVD's?

2007-10-03 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 11:49:15AM -0700, Tyler MacDonald wrote: > I'm currently using dd_rescue to attempt to recover as much as I can from > some scratched DVD's. Thankfully, everything is burned with SHA1 sums, so > i'll know exactly what i managed to recover and what is definately lost. > > dd

Re: good tool to recover scratched CD's/DVD's?

2007-10-03 Thread Michael Biebl
Tyler MacDonald schrieb: > I'm currently using dd_rescue to attempt to recover as much as I can from > some scratched DVD's. Thankfully, everything is burned with SHA1 sums, so > > Is there a tool available that does stuff like that? Have you tried dvdisaster already? Michael -- Why is it tha

HELP! can't become root

2007-10-03 Thread tom arnall
I got impatient with an aumix error and did 'chmod -R /dev' (and ctl-C'ed out of it after ~3 min's.) now I can't become root. Some examples: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/bin$ sudo /usr/src/modules/alsa-driver/snddevices sudo: /etc/sudoers is mode 0777, should be 0440 [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: cdrecord vs. wodim again

2007-10-03 Thread steef
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 04:05:38PM +, steef wrote: Wayne already apologised for this, BTW, and I was not flaming with the above comment. you are right. i did not see that message up till now. i withdraw my remark. regards, steef A -- To UNSUBS

good tool to recover scratched CD's/DVD's?

2007-10-03 Thread Tyler MacDonald
I'm currently using dd_rescue to attempt to recover as much as I can from some scratched DVD's. Thankfully, everything is burned with SHA1 sums, so i'll know exactly what i managed to recover and what is definately lost. dd_rescue works okay, but is there something that tries "harder" to recover a

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Re: Random System Crashes

2007-10-03 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 10:33:27PM -0700, Kelly Clowers wrote: > > Lately (For the past month or so) I've been experiencing random system > > crashes. My system would just completely lock up and not respond to > > anything but a power-down (I've tried switching to TTY1, among other > > things, but

Re: Problems with mdadm and a usb harddrive.

2007-10-03 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 12:07:53PM -0400, William Lynch wrote: > > I have a question that I was hoping someone could help with. I'm > using a RAID5 for storage. 3 disks. However, 2 of the discs are > internal, and 1 is an external usb drive. When I restart the > machine, /dev/sda1 (the usb d

Re: P-II ASUS box won't boot another drive

2007-10-03 Thread Mumia W..
On 10/03/2007 08:39 AM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: [...] Surely a P-II that came with an 8GB drive (with no extra jumpers) should be able to use a 1 GB drive. The BIOS does show the correct size for each drive, detecting the same geometry as printed on the drive. Thanks, Doug. If you haven't

Re: OT: Amazon DRM-free MP3 Downloads

2007-10-03 Thread cothrige
Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 09:12:14AM -0500, cothrige wrote: > > http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/25/1951219 > http://slashdot.org/articles/07/09/26/1748213.shtml > http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/30/0148246&from=rss > > I

Re: OT: Amazon DRM-free MP3 Downloads

2007-10-03 Thread Simon Jolle "sjolle"
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/03/2007 04:12 PM, cothrige wrote: > Has anyone used this yet? I bought a few tunes, just to try it out, and > it went quite smoothly. Just being able to use it with Iceweasel (no > user-agent spoofing either) on Debian without any complaint or

network traffic and cpu usage

2007-10-03 Thread Rody
I'm trying to figure out why moving large files over nfs generates so much cpu activity every few seconds. The progress dialog reaches speeds my nic can't possibly support (over 20 MB/s) as my nic's are 100 Mbit, then dropping back to zero and a few seconds later climbing up to the same insane

Re: bash expansion crap...

2007-10-03 Thread Joey Hess
Miles Bader wrote: > You could also use the "seq" program instead (which comes with > coreutils): > > for i in `seq 1 $TEST`; do ... > > I'm not sure if that's more or less portable than using all these > various bash features... Much, much more portable, and readable. -- see shy jo signat

Re: Primary And Extended Partition

2007-10-03 Thread Rody
Take a look at: http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/file/structPartitions-c.html There are lots of other places to find on the net. This is just one of them. Rody Op woensdag 3 oktober 2007 16:49, schreef Simbarashe Mhondiwa: > I am having a difficult on the following issue. I am having a difficult

Re: Primary And Extended Partition

2007-10-03 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 07:49:28AM -0700, Simbarashe Mhondiwa wrote: > I am having a difficult on the following issue. I am having a > difficult in fully explaining thwe difference between primary > partition and extended partition would you please add more light to it > for me please. Hope to hea

Re: KDE Adept updater, Synaptic apt-get, Xserver issue

2007-10-03 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 11:05:05AM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > Don't do an update from within Etch. Go to a VC, login, and do it from s/Etch/X It sort-of rhymes :) Sorry. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROT

Problems with mdadm and a usb harddrive.

2007-10-03 Thread William Lynch
Hi everybody, I have a question that I was hoping someone could help with. I'm using a RAID5 for storage. 3 disks. However, 2 of the discs are internal, and 1 is an external usb drive. When I restart the machine, /dev/sda1 (the usb drive) is never brought back up with the rest of the driv

Re: Primary And Extended Partition

2007-10-03 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 07:49:28AM -0700, Simbarashe Mhondiwa wrote: > I am having a difficult on the following issue. I am having a difficult in > fully explaining thwe difference between primary partition and extended > partition would you please add more light to it for me please. > Hope to he

Re: cdrecord vs. wodim again

2007-10-03 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 04:05:38PM +, steef wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >> I was merely speaking up in your defence since he was >> getting all sarcastic because he couldn't read... > > thanks. yes: that stupid sarcasm sometimes is really is a problem. Wayne already apologised f

Re: Any way to dist-downgrade?

2007-10-03 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 11:04:05PM +0800, Michael Yang wrote: > Hi All: > > Due to one hang issues of apitude, I upgraded my linux-images, but didn't > resolve the issues. > Then I did "apt-get dist-upgrade", after which the aptitude issue is > resolved, also after which more packages are upgrade

Re: cdrecord vs. wodim again

2007-10-03 Thread steef
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: hdc: ST3120026A, ATA DISK drive Right! Neither cdrecord or wodim can burn to a _Hard Disk_. where do you get this? He provided no info on what command he used and if you look, hdb is clearly an optical drive... are you drinking too m

Re:Primary And Extended Partition

2007-10-03 Thread Simbarashe Mhondiwa
I am having a difficult on the following issue. I am having a difficult in fully explaining thwe difference between primary partition and extended partition would you please add more light to it for me please. Hope to hear from you so soon! __

Re: webcam html and ftp servers: restricting access

2007-10-03 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 05:31:54AM -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote: > * Russell L. Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [071002 03:42]: > > Motion looks good; it has been a long time since I last looked at it. > > I now am printing out and reading the manual/wiki and the FAQ. > > > > To get started with moti

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