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2008-02-24 Thread Jeff
I'd like to use my Linux (Debian Etch)-laden laptop in my frequent hot-spotting, but one thing is standing in my way. Some of the hotspots that I use have no provisions for wireless security. This is not a major problem, though, because my ISP runs a VPN server, through which I can tunnel my

RE: PRINTER ON FIRE, HELP!!

2008-02-24 Thread zomgapenguin
I\'m not sure, usually Bill Gates pays for someone to print for me but that person is out right now and I\'m lost. Linux is making my head hurt, too bad I have to use it to find \"new\" things to implement in Windows 7. : - Steve Ballmer P.S. Please don\'t tell Bill Gates about this email

Re: PRINTER ON FIRE, HELP!!

2008-02-24 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sun February 24 2008 10:06:14 pm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thx Ron, now if only I could get stupid OpenOffice to print... Hmm... OpenOffice has been printing for me for years. Have you configured your printer? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

RE: PRINTER ON FIRE, HELP!!

2008-02-24 Thread zomgapenguin
Thx Ron, now if only I could get stupid OpenOffice to print... Hmm... - Steve Ballmer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: USB stick umount locks up machine

2008-02-24 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/24/08 15:11, postid wrote: > Greetings: > > When I unmount a USB memory stick my machine becomes completely > unresponsive. I can't access a console and even the sysreq key sequences > don't work. I end up shutting it down with the power button.

USB stick umount locks up machine

2008-02-24 Thread postid
Greetings: When I unmount a USB memory stick my machine becomes completely unresponsive. I can't access a console and even the sysreq key sequences don't work. I end up shutting it down with the power button. My /etc/fstab has this line: # /dev/sda1 /media/usb auto

Re: How to install KDE 4 to lenny?

2008-02-24 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jamin Davis wrote: > Andrius wrote: > >> how to install KDE 4 to lenny from iso disc image? > > Assuming you mean the demo KDE 4 live cd you can't. KDE 4 is in > experimental, there's some doc on > http://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org/experimental.html w

Re: PRINTER ON FIRE, HELP!!

2008-02-24 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/24/08 21:05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > PLEASE HELP, when I tried printing debian told me that my printer > is on fire. Upon inspection I found no signs of fire but I fear > that if I do not find the fire soon my printer will die, PLEASE > HELP!!

Re: [OT] Goodbye Debian

2008-02-24 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Dan H. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008 Feb 24 15:57 -0600]: > WTF? Am I missing something here? Nope. You're right on the mark. Remember everything you've noted when the Microsofties remind you that Linux "is not ready for the desktop". - Nate >> P.S. Sounds like you went to work for the company I

PRINTER ON FIRE, HELP!!

2008-02-24 Thread zomgapenguin
PLEASE HELP, when I tried printing debian told me that my printer is on fire. Upon inspection I found no signs of fire but I fear that if I do not find the fire soon my printer will die, PLEASE HELP!!! URGENT AS I NEED TO PRINT A MEMO FOR BILL GATES!!! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

Re: The Debian Way-NVIDIA

2008-02-24 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Patrick Wiseman wrote: so as a NORMAL user you cd to the folder, then MAGIC, you are root to run a command.. Please forgive my naivety in not recognizing the sarcasm in that. I have never seen such magic. Changing to a directory giving you root access? Something is very odd. Inspect your PA

Re: The Debian Way-NVIDIA

2008-02-24 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 8:34 PM, Raj Kiran Grandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paul Cartwright wrote: > > On Sun February 24 2008, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > > so as a NORMAL user you cd to the folder, then MAGIC, you are root to > run a > > command.. > > > > I have never seen such magic. Changin

Re: diff files matching a pattern

2008-02-24 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: for i in `seq 1 50`; do diff dir1/file$i.txt dir2/file$i.txt > diff$i.txt ; done Ok, this works on the command line. But I am looking for something along the lines of bash_script_name dir1/pattern1 dir2/pattern2 where dir1/pattern1,

Re: [OT] Goodbye Debian

2008-02-24 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Dan H. wrote: Well, I guess the subject caught your attention after all. Of course I'm not saying goodbye to Debian, at least not voluntarily and certainly not at home. But I just changed jobs, and so moved from a self- administered Debian box to a locked-up, preinstalled all-M$ Dell thing. M$ O

Re: The Debian Way-NVIDIA

2008-02-24 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Paul Cartwright wrote: On Sun February 24 2008, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: Linux paulandcilla 2.6.18-6-686 #1 SMP Sun Feb 10 22:11:31 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux It appears you are using the stock kernel. There is a precompiled nvidia driver available for this kernel. It is in the non-free section. Y

Re: Serial driver increase maximum ports

2008-02-24 Thread Patrick Zaloum
I have been able to answer my own question. For those interested: You can add kernel boot options to /boot/grub/menu.lst such as: nr_uarts=8 8250.nr_uarts=8 then run update-grub to insert the option into the boot items. On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 3:10 PM, Patrick Zaloum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >

Re: Ice Weasel

2008-02-24 Thread Angus Auld
--- Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 06:00:05PM -0500, dick > wrote: > > What is it with Ice Weasel anyhow. I have no > problems signing onto Debian > > and using Icedove. the rest of the processing > goes well. > > > > However, when it comes to Iceweasel, it

Re: exim4 uid=debian-exmi

2008-02-24 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 10:33:36PM +, Jamin Davis wrote: > Alex Samad wrote: > >> for some reason when i do a ps -ef | grep exim I always get back that >> exim is running as uid = 102, not a name but a numerical. Whilst trying >> to investigate this I noticed there was no location to set the u

Re: Ice Weasel

2008-02-24 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 07:28:20PM -0500, dick thompson wrote: > I mean that the screen just disappears and Iceweasel disappears from the > tray. If you then bring Iceweasel back up it asks if you want to start So it crashes ... > again or restore. It will do either, then work for a couple of

Re: Ice Weasel

2008-02-24 Thread dick thompson
No problem with partition space. I am using a 20GB partition with a 4 GB swap space. Will try the other suggestions when I get back on Debian tomorrow. Kent West wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/24/08 17:00, dick wrote: However, when it com

Re: Ice Weasel

2008-02-24 Thread dick thompson
I mean that the screen just disappears and Iceweasel disappears from the tray. If you then bring Iceweasel back up it asks if you want to start again or restore. It will do either, then work for a couple of screens and then drop out again. I am using Adblock and forecastfox as the only addit

Re: Ice Weasel

2008-02-24 Thread Kent West
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/24/08 17:00, dick wrote: However, when it comes to Iceweasel, it spends more time dropping out that it does working. It will work for a couple of screens and then drops out. You can bring it back and it will work for a

Re: [OT] Goodbye Debian

2008-02-24 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 1:52 PM, Dan H. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, I guess the subject caught your attention after all. > > Of course I'm not saying goodbye to Debian, at least not voluntarily and > certainly not at home. But I just changed jobs, and so moved from a self- > administered

Re: Ice Weasel

2008-02-24 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/24/08 17:00, dick wrote: > What is it with Ice Weasel anyhow. I have no problems signing onto > Debian and using Icedove. the rest of the processing goes well. > > However, when it comes to Iceweasel, it spends more time dropping out > that it

Re: mounting error USB stick

2008-02-24 Thread Adam Hardy
Florian Kulzer on 24/02/08 23:05, wrote: On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 22:27:44 +, Adam Hardy wrote: Paul Cartwright on 24/02/08 19:19, wrote: On Sun February 24 2008, Adam Hardy wrote: Using xfce, Thunar used to pick up on the new usb storage device and put an icon in its tree pane for me with

Re: Signatures (was Re: typewriter function for an impact printer?)

2008-02-24 Thread Steve Lamb
Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/24/08 13:07, Florian Kulzer wrote: It seems to me that it is an inherent problem with inline signing: Google for "pgp dash escaping" or "pgp trailing whitespace" or something like that. [ snippage ] Interesting. I'll research that. Yup, it's the inline signing

Re: Ice Weasel

2008-02-24 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 06:00:05PM -0500, dick wrote: > What is it with Ice Weasel anyhow. I have no problems signing onto Debian > and using Icedove. the rest of the processing goes well. > > However, when it comes to Iceweasel, it spends more time dropping out that > it does working. It will

Re: libpcre3 security update on lenny not installed

2008-02-24 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 01:35:20AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 01:08:30PM +0100, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > > As far as I know there is a security update available for the package > > libpcre3 > > currently installed in lenny. But on my system the security update is not

Re: debian multimedia pgp key

2008-02-24 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 12:53:48PM -0600, Jude DaShiell wrote: > I think the location changed for the multimedia gpg key. Just install the debian-multimedia-keyring package. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) signature.asc

Re: libpcre3 security update on lenny not installed

2008-02-24 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 01:08:30PM +0100, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > As far as I know there is a security update available for the package libpcre3 > currently installed in lenny. But on my system the security update is not > installed commanding > aptitude full-upgrade > Checking with > apt-ca

Re: DSL in Linux - direct setup?

2008-02-24 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 12:10:41PM +, Richard Lyons wrote: > PS -- sorry about the delay, but the list seems to be blocking my mail > so I had to resend port forwarded through another server. Likewise, > apologies if this is duplicated. Maybe this could helps (I mean the last question, bec

Re: mounting error USB stick

2008-02-24 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 22:27:44 +, Adam Hardy wrote: > Paul Cartwright on 24/02/08 19:19, wrote: >> On Sun February 24 2008, Adam Hardy wrote: >>> Using xfce, Thunar used to pick up on the new usb storage device and put an >>> icon in its tree pane for me with the usb stick's name. Clicking on

Re: exim4 uid=debian-exmi

2008-02-24 Thread Jamin Davis
Alex Samad wrote: for some reason when i do a ps -ef | grep exim I always get back that exim is running as uid = 102, not a name but a numerical. Whilst trying to investigate this I noticed there was no location to set the uid. I just thought that this was rather strange. I read somewhere th

Ice Weasel

2008-02-24 Thread dick
What is it with Ice Weasel anyhow. I have no problems signing onto Debian and using Icedove. the rest of the processing goes well. However, when it comes to Iceweasel, it spends more time dropping out that it does working. It will work for a couple of screens and then drops out. You can br

Re: switching to DHCP in a clean manner ...

2008-02-24 Thread Glenn Becker
My quick anxiety-reliever in these situations is always grep. Something like grep -rn 12.34.56.789 /etc/* using your old IP will find orphaned mentions. Thanks :^) +-+ Glenn Becker - [EMAIL PROTECTED] SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://s

Re: switching to DHCP in a clean manner ...

2008-02-24 Thread Glenn Becker
Probably the best thing to do is edit /etc/network/interfaces to reflect your new network settings. You will probably want to have something like this: auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp where eth0 is your network device, if you have one that has static in the line, comment that out and any oth

Re: switching to DHCP in a clean manner ...

2008-02-24 Thread Jeff D
Glenn Becker wrote: Hi all - I just moved from the NY metro area to the Boston metro area, and in the process changed ISPs. My service is now significantly faster and cheaper, but my account now assigns IPs dynamically -- previously, I'd had a static IP. I have the /option/ with the new pr

Re: [OT] Goodbye Debian

2008-02-24 Thread Elf & Dmitryi
Here's a couple things... http://mcnlive.org/ - MCN Live, a live CD that can also be installed on a flash drive. There's Knoppix, too. http://www.knopper.de http://www.sysresccd.org/ - another live CD that can edit Windows NT passwords. http://portableapps.com/ has a collection of Firefox, Filez

Re: mounting error USB stick

2008-02-24 Thread Adam Hardy
Paul Cartwright on 24/02/08 19:19, wrote: On Sun February 24 2008, Adam Hardy wrote: Using xfce, Thunar used to pick up on the new usb storage device and put an icon in its tree pane for me with the usb stick's name. Clicking on that would then mount it to /media hal still creates /dev/sda an

Re: switching to DHCP in a clean manner ...

2008-02-24 Thread Richard Lyons
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 10:04:38PM +, Glenn Becker wrote: > > Hi all - > > I just moved from the NY metro area to the Boston metro area, and in the > process changed ISPs. My service is now significantly faster and cheaper, > but my account now assigns IPs dynamically -- previously, I'd ha

Re: mkinitrd and glibc version problem in etch

2008-02-24 Thread Richard Lyons
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 04:25:02PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > What warnings did you get about LVM? It is rather nice to be able to > resize partitions, but also migrate partitions of of failing drives. On > all my old boxes (that are still new enough to run Debian), drive > failures sta

Re: Signatures (was Re: typewriter function for an impact printer?)

2008-02-24 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/24/08 13:07, Florian Kulzer wrote: [snip] > > It seems to me that it is an inherent problem with inline signing: > Google for "pgp dash escaping" or "pgp trailing whitespace" or > something like that. > > When I get your messages, I also see th

switching to DHCP in a clean manner ...

2008-02-24 Thread Glenn Becker
Hi all - I just moved from the NY metro area to the Boston metro area, and in the process changed ISPs. My service is now significantly faster and cheaper, but my account now assigns IPs dynamically -- previously, I'd had a static IP. I have the /option/ with the new provider to get a stati

Re: How to install KDE 4 to lenny?

2008-02-24 Thread Jamin Davis
Andrius wrote: how to install KDE 4 to lenny from iso disc image? Assuming you mean the demo KDE 4 live cd you can't. KDE 4 is in experimental, there's some doc on http://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org/experimental.html which explains how to install it on a lenny/unstable system. I compiled my

Re: boot from cd and start ssh remotely?

2008-02-24 Thread BartlebyScrivener
On Feb 24, 11:50 am, "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't know of any LiveCD that has sshd set up and listening by default > (where you could just boot and go). However, setting up a serial > console is a simple kernel command line. Presumably you have access to > a computer w

Re: exim4 uid=debian-exmi

2008-02-24 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 04:27:40PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 06:37:53AM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 11:26:34AM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 03:39:18PM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: > > > > > > > > Where can I set th

Re: [OT] Goodbye Debian

2008-02-24 Thread Richard Lyons
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 10:52:00PM +0100, Dan H. wrote: > Well, I guess the subject caught your attention after all. > > Of course I'm not saying goodbye to Debian, at least not voluntarily and > certainly not at home. But I just changed jobs, and so moved from a self- > administered Debian box t

Re: diff files matching a pattern

2008-02-24 Thread Richard Lyons
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 03:12:34PM -0500, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > > > LC_ALL=C diff -r dir1 dir2 | grep -v ^Only > > > > The size really doesn't matter for those extra large files. > > > > This works only if the extra 950 files are in just one directory. If the

Re: proper mailname

2008-02-24 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2008-02-23, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 18:17:28 +, Tyler Smith wrote: >> On 2008-02-23, Andrei Popescu wrote: >> > On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 04:37:33PM +, Tyler Smith wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >>=20 >> >> I'm using exim/fetchmail/mutt to send and receive

[OT] Goodbye Debian

2008-02-24 Thread Dan H.
Well, I guess the subject caught your attention after all. Of course I'm not saying goodbye to Debian, at least not voluntarily and certainly not at home. But I just changed jobs, and so moved from a self- administered Debian box to a locked-up, preinstalled all-M$ Dell thing. M$ Office, M$IE, Lot

Re: missing serial script in /etc?

2008-02-24 Thread eric s
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 07:14:04PM +0100, eric s wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 02:31:52PM +0100, eric s wrote: the serial port do not get created at start up? > To what script are you referring? There is no startup script to create serial de

Re: mkinitrd and glibc version problem in etch

2008-02-24 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 07:14:02PM +, Richard Lyons wrote: > On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 12:22:59PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 12:16:34PM +, Richard Lyons wrote: > > I hope you kept backups and if not, make a full set before you do > > anything else. That is,

Re: exim4 uid=debian-exmi

2008-02-24 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 06:37:53AM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: > On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 11:26:34AM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 03:39:18PM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: > > > > > > Where can I set the uid used by exim4, I can't seem to find the a > > > location to do this. >

Re: missing serial script in /etc?

2008-02-24 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 07:14:04PM +0100, eric s wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 02:31:52PM +0100, eric s wrote: > >>the serial port do not get created at start up? > > >To what script are you referring? There is no startup script to create > >serial devices. They are

Re: How to sort files in a directory?

2008-02-24 Thread Jeff D
Rodolfo Medina wrote: Hi. I want to sort all files with, say, .txt extension that are in the directory `/path/to/dir' and all its subdirectories, and I want to perform this search starting from the directory itself: how can I do that? I didn't manage with `find'. Thanks for any suggestion Rodo

Re: diff files matching a pattern

2008-02-24 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 03:12:34PM -0500, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > > > LC_ALL=C diff -r dir1 dir2 | grep -v ^Only > > > > The size really doesn't matter for those extra large files. > > > > This works only if the extra 950 files are in just one directory. If the >

Re: diff files matching a pattern

2008-02-24 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > LC_ALL=C diff -r dir1 dir2 | grep -v ^Only > > The size really doesn't matter for those extra large files. > This works only if the extra 950 files are in just one directory. If the extra files are there in both the directories, then it does not make sense to compare al

Re: diff files matching a pattern

2008-02-24 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 02:21:56PM -0500, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > Let's say I have two directories dir1, dir2 each with 1000 files. > Of these 1000 files in each directory, there are 50 files named file1.txt, > file2.txt ... file50.txt. The rest of the files do not follow any pattern > and a

Re: diff files matching a pattern

2008-02-24 Thread Richard Lyons
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 02:21:56PM -0500, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > Let's say I have two directories dir1, dir2 each with 1000 files. > Of these 1000 files in each directory, there are 50 files named file1.txt, > file2.txt ... file50.txt. The rest of the files do not follow any pattern > and

ffmpeg compile from source

2008-02-24 Thread Alar Sing
trying to compile ffmpeg from debian source I get error make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/ffmpeg-free-0.cvs20070307/libavformat' gcc -I"/usr/src/ffmpeg-free-0.cvs20070307"/libavcodec -DHAVE_AV_CONFIG_H -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_ISOC9X_SOURCE -I"/usr/src/ffmpeg-free-0.cvs2007

Re: diff files matching a pattern

2008-02-24 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: >> >> Manually diffing the files 50 times is cumbersome. Something like >> >> diff dir1/file*.txt dir2/file*.txt >> >> is what I am after. I do not want to do >> >> diff -r dir1 dir2 >> >> since that compares the other 950 files as well besides the 50 files that >> I wa

Re: diff files matching a pattern

2008-02-24 Thread strawks
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: [...] >> Manually diffing the files 50 times is cumbersome. Something like >> >> diff dir1/file*.txt dir2/file*.txt >> >> is what I am after. I do not want to do >> >> diff -r dir1 dir2 [...] >

Re: diff files matching a pattern

2008-02-24 Thread Michael Marsh
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 2:21 PM, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Let's say I have two directories dir1, dir2 each with 1000 files. > Of these 1000 files in each directory, there are 50 files named file1.txt, > file2.txt ... file50.txt. The rest of the files do not follow any pa

Re: Contact and calendar synchronization with mobile phone (bluetooth)

2008-02-24 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 02:56:28PM +0200, Micha wrote: > I am looking for a way to synchronize my mobile phone (sony ericson k610i) > with > my linux machine over bluetooth. so that I can avoid keeping outlook around > for > that reason only. > > That requires two things: > > A synchronization

Re: diff files matching a pattern

2008-02-24 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: Let's say I have two directories dir1, dir2 each with 1000 files. Of these 1000 files in each directory, there are 50 files named file1.txt, file2.txt ... file50.txt. The rest of the files do not follow any pattern and are very large in size. Now is there any way to

Re: exim4 uid=debian-exmi

2008-02-24 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 11:26:34AM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 03:39:18PM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: > > > > Where can I set the uid used by exim4, I can't seem to find the a > > location to do this. > > The UID is set by the install script when it makes the exim4 usern

Re: debian multimedia gpg key changed location

2008-02-24 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sun February 24 2008 10:59:52 am Jude DaShiell wrote: > I just remembered to download the debian-keyring package and should have > done that earlier. It seems to have a pgp key in it for debian multimedia > too. debian-multimedia-keyring is the one you need for the debian-multimedia.org multi

Re: The Debian Way-NVIDIA

2008-02-24 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Sun February 24 2008, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > > Linux paulandcilla 2.6.18-6-686 #1 SMP Sun Feb 10 22:11:31 UTC 2008 i686 > > GNU/Linux > > It appears you are using the stock kernel. There is a precompiled nvidia > driver available for this kernel. It is in the non-free section. You > might wa

Re: Signatures (was Re: typewriter function for an impact printer?)

2008-02-24 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 12:33:14 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/24/08 09:04, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > > On 24 Feb at 14:43 Ron Johnson wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> On 02/24/08 07:03, Tony van der Hoff wrote: [...] > >>> Hey Ron, I hope I' not teaching granny to suck eggs, but th

diff files matching a pattern

2008-02-24 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Let's say I have two directories dir1, dir2 each with 1000 files. Of these 1000 files in each directory, there are 50 files named file1.txt, file2.txt ... file50.txt. The rest of the files do not follow any pattern and are very large in size. Now is there any way to compare dir1/file1.txt and dir

Re: mounting error USB stick

2008-02-24 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Sun February 24 2008, Adam Hardy wrote: > Using xfce, Thunar used to pick up on the new usb storage device and put an > icon in its tree pane for me with the usb stick's name. Clicking on that > would then mount it to /media > > hal still creates /dev/sda and /dev/sda1 but I can't see it as a m

Re: mkinitrd and glibc version problem in etch

2008-02-24 Thread Richard Lyons
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 12:22:59PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 12:16:34PM +, Richard Lyons wrote: > > Silly situation: I have been wanting to release my etch install from > > the LVM so as to be able to adjust the partitioning. The arrangement [...] > > Problem

Re: Cannot remove thttpd

2008-02-24 Thread Richard Lyons
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 05:56:57PM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote: > >On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 11:13:23 +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: > >[...] > >·· > >>Thanks, that solved the problem with thttpd...but now I get the·· > >>following error message from aptitude: > >> > >>Using mk

Re: How to sort files in a directory?

2008-02-24 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 12:13:54PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 02/24/08 11:54, Wayne Topa wrote: > > ls file*/*.txt |sort > > But that's not generic to an arbitrary directory depth. You'll have > to go to Perl or Python to do such a task. Or zsh. ls **/*.txt | rev | cut -d/ -f1 | rev |

re: debian multimedia gpg key changed location

2008-02-24 Thread Jude DaShiell
I just remembered to download the debian-keyring package and should have done that earlier. It seems to have a pgp key in it for debian multimedia too. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

How to install KDE 4 to lenny?

2008-02-24 Thread Andrius
Hi, how to install KDE 4 to lenny from iso disc image? Regards, Andrius -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

debian multimedia pgp key

2008-02-24 Thread Jude DaShiell
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Re: How to sort files in a directory?

2008-02-24 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 05:51:48PM +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Hi. > > I want to sort all files with, say, .txt extension that are in the directory > `/path/to/dir' and all its subdirectories, and I want to perform this search > starting from the directory itself: how can I do that? > > I didn

Re: Signatures (was Re: typewriter function for an impact printer?)

2008-02-24 Thread Michael Marsh
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 1:33 PM, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think it is a side-effect of signing, because when I look at Reply > emails that I have *not* signed, they do *not* have the added "^- ". > > So, I'd take one of these emails and show it to the Gemini > developers. Who

Re: Signatures (was Re: typewriter function for an impact printer?)

2008-02-24 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/24/08 09:04, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > On 24 Feb at 14:43 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> On 02/24/08 07:03, Tony van der Hoff wrote: >>> On 23 Feb at 18:10 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in me

Re: missing serial script in /etc?

2008-02-24 Thread eric s
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 02:31:52PM +0100, eric s wrote: the serial port do not get created at start up? there is no /etc/rc.serial script or /etc/rc.local or where is the serial port initiation script? I'm on a 2.6.18 etch stable anyone who has a script laying around?

Re: How to sort files in a directory?

2008-02-24 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/24/08 11:54, Wayne Topa wrote: > Rodolfo Medina([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: >> Hi. >> >> I want to sort all files with, say, .txt extension that are in the directory >> `/path/to/dir' and all its subdirectories, and I want to per

Re: How to sort files in a directory?

2008-02-24 Thread Michael Marsh
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 12:51 PM, Rodolfo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want to sort all files with, say, .txt extension that are in the directory > `/path/to/dir' and all its subdirectories, and I want to perform this search > starting from the directory itself: how can I do that? > >

Re: How to sort files in a directory?

2008-02-24 Thread Wayne Topa
Rodolfo Medina([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Hi. > > I want to sort all files with, say, .txt extension that are in the directory > `/path/to/dir' and all its subdirectories, and I want to perform this search > starting from the directory itself: how can I do that? > > I didn't m

Re: How to sort files in a directory?

2008-02-24 Thread danlayman
Rodolfo Medina wrote: Hi. I want to sort all files with, say, .txt extension that are in the directory `/path/to/dir' and all its subdirectories, and I want to perform this search starting from the directory itself: how can I do that? I didn't manage with `find'. Thanks for any suggestion Rodo

Re: Fwd: Nvidia to Intel

2008-02-24 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 5:04 AM, Frank McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 23 Feb 2008 21:49:37 -0800 > Kelly Clowers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 5:29 PM, Frank McCormick > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > I just went back to the straight

Re: firewall or securety software

2008-02-24 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 06:31:08AM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > I hope I may be allowed to expand a bit on the OP's question. > > What are the advantages of a hardware firewall over a firewall built > into a router? > > Can one use both, or should the firewall in a router be disabled if there >

Re: exim4 uid=debian-exmi

2008-02-24 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 03:39:18PM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: > > Where can I set the uid used by exim4, I can't seem to find the a > location to do this. The UID is set by the install script when it makes the exim4 username. Before you start chaning the UID (which would mean that you'd have to

Re: firewall or securety software

2008-02-24 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 06:11:17PM +1100, Daniel Dalton wrote: > Do I need any securety or firewalls on my debian box? > I am going through a router. > > If I do what command line firewall or securety software can I use? It depends. Do you have anything set to listen on outside interfaces? Watch

Re: boot from cd and start ssh remotely?

2008-02-24 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 07:33:41AM -0800, BartlebyScrivener wrote: > I think I lost a graphics card during the night. It's my main machine > and I don't have ssh running on it. Is there a way to boot from one of > the cd distros headlessly and then ssh in from the outside? > > Either that or I gue

Re: mkinitrd and glibc version problem in etch

2008-02-24 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 12:16:34PM +, Richard Lyons wrote: > Silly situation: I have been wanting to release my etch install from > the LVM so as to be able to adjust the partitioning. The arrangement > was: [snip: old LVM setup] See my note at the bottom. > /usr used also to be in the LVM

Re: missing serial script in /etc?

2008-02-24 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 02:31:52PM +0100, eric s wrote: > the serial port do not get created at start up? > > there is no /etc/rc.serial script > or /etc/rc.local > or where is the serial port initiation script? > > I'm on a 2.6.18 etch stable > anyone who has a script laying around? To what scr

Re: Cannot remove thttpd

2008-02-24 Thread Peter Robinson
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 11:13:23 +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: [...] Thanks, that solved the problem with thttpd...but now I get the following error message from aptitude: Using mkinitramfs-kpkg to build the ramdisk. [...] Running postinst hook script upd

Re: mounting error USB stick

2008-02-24 Thread Adam Hardy
If you're done with this thread, I'll take it over then for my own very similar problem (not to do with 'flush' though). Using xfce, Thunar used to pick up on the new usb storage device and put an icon in its tree pane for me with the usb stick's name. Clicking on that would then mount it to /

How to sort files in a directory?

2008-02-24 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Hi. I want to sort all files with, say, .txt extension that are in the directory `/path/to/dir' and all its subdirectories, and I want to perform this search starting from the directory itself: how can I do that? I didn't manage with `find'. Thanks for any suggestion Rodolfo e.g.: suppose that

boot from cd and start ssh remotely?

2008-02-24 Thread BartlebyScrivener
Hi all, I think I lost a graphics card during the night. It's my main machine and I don't have ssh running on it. Is there a way to boot from one of the cd distros headlessly and then ssh in from the outside? Either that or I guess I'll try to find another PCI card to test in it before I go purch

Re: Loading modules during startup

2008-02-24 Thread Andrew Reid
On Sunday 24 February 2008 09:13, L.V.Gandhi wrote: > I have put atl2 in /etc/modules and but after booting I see this in > messages. localhost:~# cat /var/log/messages |grep atl2 > Feb 21 12:16:11 localhost kernel: atl2: disagrees about version of > symbol struct_module > Feb 24 18:48:22 localhost

Re: The Debian Way-NVIDIA

2008-02-24 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Paul Cartwright wrote: On Sat February 23 2008, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: FWIW, I find the nvidia driver to be worth the little effort required. http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers I was reading that page, following along, but I got to this part and I don't understand how to FIX it:

Re: Signatures (was Re: typewriter function for an impact printer?)

2008-02-24 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 24 Feb at 14:43 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On 02/24/08 07:03, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > > On 23 Feb at 18:10 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > [snip] >> > > > -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA >>> > > > "

Re: Cannot remove thttpd

2008-02-24 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 11:13:23 +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: [...] > Thanks, that solved the problem with thttpd...but now I get the > following error message from aptitude: > > Using mkinitramfs-kpkg to build the ramdisk. [...] > Running postinst hook script update-grub. > User postinst hoo

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