Re: Help - /usr not mounting!

2008/4/23 Peter Tynan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I'm currently operating from a live CD as my /usr partition is > refusing to mount at boot. more info # fsck.jfs -v /dev/hda5 fsck.jfs version 1.1.10, 19-Oct-2005 processing started: 4/23/2008 6.39.46 Using default parameter: -p The current device is:

Re: /dev/null > /dev/sdb1 !

On Tuesday 22 April 2008 16:33:28 paragasu wrote: > >Your installer should normally handle disk partitioning and partition > >formatting, but if you want to do it by hand you'll need mke2fs (or > >similar) after creating the partitition table and then some partitions > >in fdisk. > > i am happy if

Help - /usr not mounting!

I'm currently operating from a live CD as my /usr partition is refusing to mount at boot. fsck is not working - output below. # fsck -r /dev/hda5 fsck 1.38 (30-Jun-2005) fsck.jfs version 1.1.10, 19-Oct-2005 processing started: 4/23/2008 6.10.34 The current device is: /dev/hda5 Block size in byte

[Solved!]Re: Getting debian to ignore hdb on bootup

NN_il_Confusionario wrote: > On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 07:07:35PM +0200, Jonathan Kaye wrote: >> sudo update-initramfs -u > > I cannot directly confirm that step since I do not use initramfs-tools > (I build my initrd, when it is needed, with yaird to avoid like a plague > putting udev in the initr

Problem to turn DMA on

Hi all. I got a very old notebook running debian 4.0 with kernel 2.6.25 and 2.6.21. It has a 4GB IDE harddisk. I'm trying to enable DMA with hdparm, but it is not working. The command I run and its output are: # hdparm -qc3 -qm16 -qd1 -qX66 -qS120 /dev/hda HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not per

Re: External IP

2008/4/23, Rich Healey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Rafael asked for source.. > > So my stroke of genius follows... > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/public_html]$ cat ip.php > print ($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']) > ?> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/public_html]$ > >

hearse package broken

I have a few bones files from playing nethack by now and installed the hearse package. I played those games as a system user not as root. Whenever I run hearse as a user I get told that user token file /etc/nethack/hearse.user-token file exists but cannot be read permission denied. However wh

Re: External IP

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rafael asked for source.. So my stroke of genius follows... [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/public_html]$ cat ip.php [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/public_html]$ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://e

Re: External IP

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lee Glidewell wrote: > On Tuesday 22 April 2008 10:12:41 pm Rafael Fontenelle wrote: >> I can see that you're running behind a router or something similar. If you >> want to use a shell script to return the IP to the stdout, you could >> probably use '

Re: External IP

On Tuesday 22 April 2008 10:12:41 pm Rafael Fontenelle wrote: > I can see that you're running behind a router or something similar. If you > want to use a shell script to return the IP to the stdout, you could > probably use 'curl'. I have this feeling that my last response to this thread never mad

Re: /dev/null > /dev/sdb1 !

Bob McGowan wrote: I have Maxtor IDE drives and Maxtor makes (or made, I got this some time ago) a DOS based utility to do low level formats. Your disk vendor probably has something similar available. The Maxtor utilities will prep a drive, for those who can't be bothered to use the native

Re: Getting debian to ignore hdb on bootup

NN_il_Confusionario wrote: > > I hope that in the process you really learned something useful, since > from a pratical point of view simply disconnecting the ide cable from > hdb (when the pc is off) would have been the same as hdb=none, only much > faster ... > You are quite right. Physical di

Re: External IP

2008/4/23, Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 20:23:40 -0400 > Andrew Reid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tuesday 22 April 2008 19:39, Daniel Ngu wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > How do I find out what's the dynamic IP I get when connected > > > to my ISP? I'm not broadband BTW.

re: emacspeak with erc on debian

I'm surprised anyone is able to use emacs let alone emacspeak on anything later than the sarge distribution of debian given my own experiences. I'm happy for whoever can manage to do this though. Things to try. First install ircII on your system and get out and connected to a known irc address

Re: External IP

On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 20:23:40 -0400 Andrew Reid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 22 April 2008 19:39, Daniel Ngu wrote: > > Hi, > > > > How do I find out what's the dynamic IP I get when connected > > to my ISP? I'm not broadband BTW. > > I use "www.whatsmyip.org", I have NAT at home, an

Re: Gnome workspaces?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/22/08 18:35, Depo Catcher wrote: > > How do you get more then 8 Gnome workspaces? Workspace Switcher 2.20.3 allows me to have up to36 spaces. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA We want... a Shrubbery!! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Versi

Re: NC problem

Martin S skrev: I'm trying to install Debian on an oldish Fujitsu Lifebook laptop. Apparently the installation doesn't recognize the network connection (no DHcP lease) while I know that it works at least with Windows (I have another disk I swap with on assignments). Anything I should try to ge

Laptop Power Management and 2.6.24+

My apologies for the saga appearing below, but I'm starting to get confused about where Debian is going vis a vis power management for laptops, and hoped to beg some advice. I currently have 'laptop-mode-tools', 'acpi-support', and 'hibernate' installed, which have served me well i

Re: External IP

On 2008-04-23, Andrew Reid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 22 April 2008 19:39, Daniel Ngu wrote: > > I use "www.whatsmyip.org", Thanks, tried the URL and it worked. ifconfig on the other hand showed my internal IP rather. Regards, Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Strange window problem

Frank McCormick wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 19:06:04 -0400 "Damon L. Chesser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Frank wrote: For the past week or so I noticed an empty window which pops up seemingly at random on my screen. It looks like a terminal

Re: Strange window problem

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 19:06:04 -0400 "Damon L. Chesser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Frank wrote: > > For the past week or so I noticed an empty window which pops up > > seemingly at random on my screen. It looks like a terminalbut with > > no curso

Re: External IP

On Tuesday 22 April 2008 19:39, Daniel Ngu wrote: > Hi, > > How do I find out what's the dynamic IP I get when connected > to my ISP? I'm not broadband BTW. I use "www.whatsmyip.org", I have NAT at home, and the "far side" of my DSL modem is a private class-A address (10.0.something.something),

Re: External IP

On Tue, 22 Apr 2008, Daniel Ngu wrote: Hi, How do I find out what's the dynamic IP I get when connected to my ISP? I'm not broadband BTW. How do you connect? Is your computer connected directly to your ISP connection? Assuming it is Linux box then: /sbin/ifconfig will show the IP addre

External IP

Hi, How do I find out what's the dynamic IP I get when connected to my ISP? I'm not broadband BTW. Thanks. Regards, Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: /dev/null > /dev/sdb1 !

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 02:45:11PM +0100, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote: > On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 21:35:31 +0800 > paragasu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > now i am wondering. whether it is because the command i just executed > > or my hard disk is really dying? > > It could be either. The comma

Re: Gnome workspaces?

Also, how do you make it 'reload' your windows and placement on login? In KDE, if you logout and then log back in; it automatically brings up your windows and in the order and placements in which you had them. Thanks! Depo Catcher wrote: How do you get more then 8 Gnome workspaces? --

Gnome workspaces?

How do you get more then 8 Gnome workspaces? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: /dev/null > /dev/sdb1 !

>Your installer should normally handle disk partitioning and partition >formatting, but if you want to do it by hand you'll need mke2fs (or >similar) after creating the partitition table and then some partitions >in fdisk. i am happy if i could just that. i did fdisk about 10 times for now. everyti

Re: Strange window problem

Frank wrote: For the past week or so I noticed an empty window which pops up seemingly at random on my screen. It looks like a terminalbut with no cursor inside. The only way it can be closed is by using xkill. I use IceWm and unless I kill it before logging out I can't log out! I'd apprecia

Re: Strange window problem

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 20:35:45 +0200 NN_il_Confusionario <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 11:38:06AM -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > > On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:57:08 +0200 > > NN_il_Confusionario <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >

Re: Burning Audio CD

On 2008-04-22, David Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 6:07 AM, Daniel Ngu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> To burn wav to cd: >> >> wodim dev=/dev/hdd speed=1 -v -dao -useinfo -text *.wav > > I've always added -audio -pad when I burn CD's from wav files. Or, I > just burn the

Re: removed root directory files

Abraham Chaffin wrote: I didn't do "rm -r" just "rm /*" I was root when I executed this command. Ended up reinstalling the os, luckily there wasn't much on the machine and was really just a backup so nothing was lost. Not sure what it deleted but it rendered the os useless. Thanks for your he

Re: xscreensaver

On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 06:36:02AM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > Hi > > I use xscreensaver 5.05-1, and I am using ldap users (nss-ldapd & > pam-ldap). Just recently I have noticed that when I unlock xscreensaver > I get > > permissions on the password database maybe too restrictive > > not sure w

Re: removed root directory files

I didn't do "rm -r" just "rm /*" I was root when I executed this command. Ended up reinstalling the os, luckily there wasn't much on the machine and was really just a backup so nothing was lost. Not sure what it deleted but it rendered the os useless. Thanks for your help and I'll be using "rm *"

Re: /dev/null > /dev/sdb1 !

On Tuesday 22 April 2008 10:17:08 paragasu wrote: > After browsing through that hard disk. i know there is nothing i want there > and i want to format > it. And trying to experiment with command (i did mention it) i > type %cat /dev/null > /dev/sdb1 (all local hard disk shown as /sda*, sdb* > in my

Calling a script after USB scanner is plugged

Hello, I want to call a script after I plugged my USB scanner. I use udev for this by adding a rule [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/udev/rules.d$ cat z_local.rules SYSFS{idVendor}=="1606", SYSFS{idProduct}=="0010", MODE="0664", GROUP="scanner", NAME="umax%n", RUN+="/usr/local/bin/umax1220u start", [EMA

Re: Problems with SATA and Mondo

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 06:33:48PM +0200, Joan Carles Pineda wrote: > installed the official debian package mondo 2.20-1.1 from > ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ stable > I have the same problem with the 2 SATA disks (/dev/sda & /dev/sdb) and > I can't to access to them. > I don't have any proble

Re: Which backup package?

On 22-apr-2008, at 1:17, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: Greetings; It is time that I started getting serious about backing up my systems. I have nine systems on my network, one will be used just for backup & restore (Debian/lenny) I know of amanda and bacula. Are there others I should look at? An

xscreensaver

Hi I use xscreensaver 5.05-1, and I am using ldap users (nss-ldapd & pam-ldap). Just recently I have noticed that when I unlock xscreensaver I get permissions on the password database maybe too restrictive not sure where to look for this, xscreensaver seems to be the only app having problems

Re: pdf plugin

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 10:03:31PM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 07:31:46PM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > > when I click download it is meant to open a new tab and display in > > there. it opens the new tab but then starts a new window for xpdf > > > > this is the relevant

Problems with SATA and Mondo

Hello, sorry for this post but I don't find any valid information to solve my problem. I have installed a Debian Etch on an AMD64 computer. The system has three hard disc: 1 PATA and 2 SATA. With the 2 SATA disc I have build RAID 1 with "mdadm" and mounted LVM partitions on RAID 1 arrays. The

Re: Problem: ldconfig: /usr/lib/xxx... is not a symbolic

> * From: "Dennis G. Wicks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > ldconfig: /usr/lib/libgnutls-openssl.so.11 is not a symbolic link > I was installing a bunch of packages and it seemed to repeat, but not with > every program. only the packages which execute ldconfig in they installation scripts (so packages

Re: Getting debian to ignore hdb on bootup

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 07:07:35PM +0200, Jonathan Kaye wrote: > sudo update-initramfs -u I cannot directly confirm that step since I do not use initramfs-tools (I build my initrd, when it is needed, with yaird to avoid like a plague putting udev in the initrd. Well, I also do not use sudo but one

Re: NC problem

Martin S wrote: I'm trying to install Debian on an oldish Fujitsu Lifebook laptop. Apparently the installation doesn't recognize the network connection (no DHcP lease) while I know that it works at least with Windows (I have another disk I swap with on assignments). Anything I should try to ge

NC problem

I'm trying to install Debian on an oldish Fujitsu Lifebook laptop. Apparently the installation doesn't recognize the network connection (no DHcP lease) while I know that it works at least with Windows (I have another disk I swap with on assignments). Anything I should try to get the install wor

Re: Strange window problem

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 11:38:06AM -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:57:08 +0200 > NN_il_Confusionario <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > * From: Frank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >For the past week or so I noticed an empty window which pops up > > try htop or pstree or many othe

Re: /dev/null > /dev/sdb1 !

On 2008-04-22 18:13 +0200, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: > On 22/04/2008, Sven Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> No, you would only zero out the disk if you cat /dev/zero to it. >> Catting /dev/null immediately returns and does nothing. > > Hm at least catting /dev/null to a full file makes

Re: preseed.cfg surprise

Jude DaShiell wrote: > For one thing the preseed.cfg file is so large (128k) in my case and has > lots of error messages in it I never encountered during installation. > Can the preseed.cfg file safely be cleaned up to reflect actual > installation choices made? The instructions I followed a

Re: Sound Problems

I made the suggested changes to the /etc/modprobe.d/sound And every thing now works. Thanks... //Ger On Tue, April 22, 2008 2:39 pm, Jasper wrote: > Gerard Hooton ucc.ie> writes: > > >> >> Right now I don't have physical access to the machine so >> I can't unplug the USB camera >> The /etc/mo

Re: Getting debian to ignore hdb on bootup

NN_il_Confusionario wrote: > On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 11:16:35AM +0200, Jonathan Kaye wrote: >> > On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 06:55:30PM +0200, Jonathan Kaye wrote: >> >> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-1-686 root=/dev/hda1 ro >> >> hdb=noprobe >> I tried both hdb=noprobe and hdb=none but the boot

Re: Installing Madwifi (atheros drivers) into Debian Etch.

Hi, I'm trying to install the atheros drivers onto a desktop machine, and I've been told the version in stable has a bug in it. On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 12:32 +0100, James Allsopp wrote: > Hi, > I'm trying to build the following packages: > madwifi-source_1%3a0.9.2+r1842.20061207-2etc

Re: Aptitude Abnormality

Thanks, for the reply. On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 03:34:05 +0200 (CEST) "s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jack Schneider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > Minor problem... I thinks 8-) > > Just noted an error/warning during an install, as follows: > >"database /var/lib/apt/listchanges.db fail

Re: /dev/null > /dev/sdb1 !

On Tuesday 22 April 2008 09:32:38 paragasu wrote: > i don't know what technical explanation behind this but i just found out, > my hard disk die after i run this command. the hard disk cannot be > recognized > by udev (i am using sysresccd) and the hard disk produce error media error, > IO error,

Re: Howto for ADempiere ERP under Debian Etch released

I would be very interested in an English translation. henryg --- CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE! This email message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recicient's and may contain confidential or propr

Re: /dev/null > /dev/sdb1 !

Hm at least catting /dev/null to a full file makes the file now be 0 > bytes long. I'm not going to test what it does to my hard drive, of > course. ;-) > i don't know what technical explanation behind this but i just found out, my hard disk die after i run this command. the hard disk cannot be

Re: /dev/null > /dev/sdb1 !

Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: On 22/04/2008, Sven Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: No, you would only zero out the disk if you cat /dev/zero to it. Catting /dev/null immediately returns and does nothing. Hm at least catting /dev/null to a full file makes the file now be 0 bytes long. I'm n

Re: 1024 cylinder limit.

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 12:14 PM, paragasu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i have an old motherboard. Pentium R acer motherboard. > during my days working with windows. the bios can only detect 2GB of > diskspace > regardless of disk size (eg: 20GB) i attach to the motherboard. > It this limit also tr

Re: /dev/null > /dev/sdb1 !

On 22/04/2008, Sven Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No, you would only zero out the disk if you cat /dev/zero to it. > Catting /dev/null immediately returns and does nothing. Hm at least catting /dev/null to a full file makes the file now be 0 bytes long. I'm not going to test what it does t

Problem: ldconfig: /usr/lib/xxx... is not a symbolic link

Greetings; Well, locales is installed and working, I guess. Now I am getting screens full of messages like > ldconfig: /usr/lib/libgnutls-openssl.so.11 is not a symbolic link I was installing a bunch of packages and it seemed to repeat, but not with every program. Anybody know how to fi

Re: Strange window problem

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:57:08 +0200 NN_il_Confusionario <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * From: Frank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >For the past week or so I noticed an empty window which pops up > > try htop or pstree or many other similar tools As f

1024 cylinder limit.

i have an old motherboard. Pentium R acer motherboard. during my days working with windows. the bios can only detect 2GB of diskspace regardless of disk size (eg: 20GB) i attach to the motherboard. It this limit also true in debian?

Re: Strange window problem

> * From: Frank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >For the past week or so I noticed an empty window which pops up try htop or pstree or many other similar tools -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

emacspeak with erc on debian

I am trying to get emacspeak work together with erc. I want all the incoming messages to be spoken out, but can't get it working. Google shows me that this is a debian specific thing, but the solutions I found for it did not work so far. I am trying this on a Debian sid system, but do use lenny an

Re: Which backup package?

On 21-Apr-08, at 7:17 PM, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: It is time that I started getting serious about backing up my systems. I have nine systems on my network, one will be used just for backup & restore (Debian/lenny) I know of amanda and bacula. Are there others I should look at? Any sugges

Re: badblock can not be detected

On 22-Apr-08, at 6:06 AM, Adrian Levi wrote: On 22/04/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Oh dear, that's quite a bad news. that's what I have encountered. when I heard the noise of hard drive reset, and checked the dmesg to make sure about it, I reformatted the hard drive

Strange window problem

For the past week or so I noticed an empty window which pops up seemingly at random on my screen. It looks like a terminalbut with no cursor inside. The only way it can be closed is by using xkill. I use IceWm and unless I kill it before logging out I can't log out! I'd appreciate any tips o

Re: mutt + mailings list ( + vim)

On 21-Apr-08, at 7:04 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am 21.04.2008 um 23:45 schrieb Alex Samad: so whilst viewing an email, I press shift-l, this starts vim with the emails, I then use up and down arrows and v to highlight some text, I would then like to press and have the text replaced by [

Re: is it possible to have clamd go to 90% of cpu ???

Michael Habashy wrote: how do you switch to the volatile version / 1 - Add to /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile etch/volatile main contrib non-free 2 - Import the archive signing key: http://www.debian.org/volatile/etch-volatile.asc 3 - edit the /et

Re: /dev/null > /dev/sdb1 !

On 2008-04-22 16:05 +0200, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 10:49 AM, paragasu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> thiscommanddoesnotexist > /tmp/test >> >> > ls -lha /tmp/test >> > >> > Perhaps an EOF was written >> >> opps.. a correction. >> what i did was $cat /dev/null >

Re: /dev/null > /dev/sdb1 !

On 2008-04-22 15:45 +0200, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote: > On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 21:35:31 +0800 > paragasu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> now i am wondering. whether it is because the command i just executed >> or my hard disk is really dying? > > It could be either. The command you typed effec

Re: /dev/null > /dev/sdb1 !

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 10:49 AM, paragasu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > thiscommanddoesnotexist > /tmp/test > > > ls -lha /tmp/test > > > > Perhaps an EOF was written > > opps.. a correction. > what i did was $cat /dev/null > /dev/sdb1 > i forgot to include the cat command :( Then you zeroe

Re: /dev/null > /dev/sdb1 !

paragasu wrote: opps.. a correction. what i did was $cat /dev/null > /dev/sdb1 i forgot to include the cat command :( I think that would also result in an EOF being written to the target file. George. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: /dev/null > /dev/sdb1 !

paragasu wrote: well, i am sorry if this question look so stupid. but yes, i mean it. but i don't mind if you laugh or think it is a joke anyway Sorry but I assumed that if you knew about /dev/null and the use of ">" that you would also expect to break something if you redirected stuff direct

Re: /dev/null > /dev/sdb1 !

thiscommanddoesnotexist > /tmp/test > ls -lha /tmp/test > > Perhaps an EOF was written opps.. a correction. what i did was $cat /dev/null > /dev/sdb1 i forgot to include the cat command :(

Re: /dev/null > /dev/sdb1 !

> It could be either. The command you typed effectively formatted the > disk. > > /dev/null contains no data. It is the Linux equivalent of a black > hole. If you send the output of /dev/null to a file (which is exactly > what you have done) with a single chevron (>), it will overwrite > anything

Re: /dev/null > /dev/sdb1 !

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 8:43 AM, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 10:35 AM, paragasu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > well, i just did an experiments on my old pentum III computer. > > one of the slave hardisk listed as /dev/sdb1 (EXT2) and /dev/sdb2(SWAP)

Re: /dev/null > /dev/sdb1 !

On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 21:35:31 +0800 paragasu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > now i am wondering. whether it is because the command i just executed > or my hard disk is really dying? It could be either. The command you typed effectively formatted the disk. /dev/null contains no data. It is the Linux

Re: /dev/null > /dev/sdb1 !

Is this a serious question? > George. well, i am sorry if this question look so stupid. but yes, i mean it. but i don't mind if you laugh or think it is a joke anyway

Re: /dev/null > /dev/sdb1 !

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 10:35 AM, paragasu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > well, i just did an experiments on my old pentum III computer. > one of the slave hardisk listed as /dev/sdb1 (EXT2) and /dev/sdb2(SWAP) > i run the command /dev/null > /dev/sdb1 and suddently, > i cannot cannot read or mount

Re: Burning Audio CD

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 6:07 AM, Daniel Ngu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To burn wav to cd: > > wodim dev=/dev/hdd speed=1 -v -dao -useinfo -text *.wav I've always added -audio -pad when I burn CD's from wav files. Or, I just burn them in k3b, which works. But of course you wanted a command line

Re: bits/news from the users of Debian?

"Alexandru Popa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > It would be nice to write a simple text/gui based front-end for > debconf configure-debian Cybe R. Wizard -- Nice computers don't go down. Larry Niven, Steven Barnes "The Barsoom Project" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Sound Problems

Gerard Hooton ucc.ie> writes: > > Right now I don't have physical access to the machine so > I can't unplug the USB camera > The /etc/modprobe.d/sound look like this: > > ed:~# more /etc/modprobe.d/sound > alias snd-card-0 snd-via82xx > options snd-via82xx index=0 > > alias snd-card-0 snd-v

Re: /dev/null > /dev/sdb1 !

paragasu wrote: well, i just did an experiments on my old pentum III computer. one of the slave hardisk listed as /dev/sdb1 (EXT2) and /dev/sdb2(SWAP) i run the command /dev/null > /dev/sdb1 and suddently, i cannot cannot read or mount my /dev/sdb1 anymore even after i restart my computer few ti

/dev/null > /dev/sdb1 !

well, i just did an experiments on my old pentum III computer. one of the slave hardisk listed as /dev/sdb1 (EXT2) and /dev/sdb2(SWAP) i run the command /dev/null > /dev/sdb1 and suddently, i cannot cannot read or mount my /dev/sdb1 anymore even after i restart my computer few times. i have messag

Re: locale problems

s. keeling wrote the following on 04/21/2008 08:29 PM: Dennis G. Wicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I keep getting these message while running aptitude. Any idea what I need to do to get rid of them? I can't find anything. perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that you

Burning Audio CD

Hi, I need advice on burning audio cd using command line. Here's what I use: To rip cd to wav: icedax dev=/dev/hdd -vall cddb=0 -B -Owav To burn wav to cd: wodim dev=/dev/hdd speed=1 -v -dao -useinfo -text *.wav However, the issue I'm having is that for the burned audio CD, I always noticed t

Re: Sound Problems

Right now I don't have physical access to the machine so I can't unplug the USB camera The /etc/modprobe.d/sound look like this: ed:~# more /etc/modprobe.d/sound alias snd-card-0 snd-via82xx options snd-via82xx index=0 ed:~# On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 13:03 +, Jasper wrote: > Gerard Hooton ucc.

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Re: Sound Problems

On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 11:13 +0100, Gerard Hooton wrote: > Why do I have to run alsaconf each time I boot? > After booting the system I have no sound, I the run alsaconf > and everything works. > > //Ger > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2008/03/msg02378.html -- Marcelo Chiapparini [EMAIL

Re: Sound Problems

Gerard Hooton ucc.ie> writes: > > before running alsaconf: > == > ed:~# cat /proc/asound/cards > 0 [Camera ]: USB-Audio - Logitech EyeToy USB Camera > Sony Corporation Logitech EyeToy USB Camera at > usb-:00:10.1-2, full speed >

Re: Sound Problems

before running alsaconf: == ed:~# fuser -v $( find /dev -group audio ) ed:~# cat /proc/asound/cards 0 [Camera ]: USB-Audio - Logitech EyeToy USB Camera Sony Corporation Logitech EyeToy USB Camera at usb-:00:10.1-2, full speed ed:~# lsmod |

Re: Sound Problems

Gerard Hooton ucc.ie> writes: > > fuser -v $( find /dev -group audio ) > This returns nothing. > > //Ger > reasoning backwards, I would try ( before running alsaconf ): $( find /dev -group audio ) to see if the sounddevices are created cat /proc/asound/cards to see if your card is recogn

Re: bits/news from the users of Debian?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > It would be nice to write a simple text/gui based front-end for debconf > that scans all installed and configurable pachages (taking track on the > debconf severity selected) and lists them, eventually with some tips > about what this pachage is abo

Re: Getting debian to ignore hdb on bootup

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 11:16:35AM +0200, Jonathan Kaye wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 06:55:30PM +0200, Jonathan Kaye wrote: > >> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-1-686 root=/dev/hda1 ro hdb=noprobe > I tried both hdb=noprobe and hdb=none but the boot up > routine paid absolutely no attent

Re: is it possible to have clamd go to 90% of cpu ???

how do you switch to the volatile version / thanks mjh On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 2:26 PM, Gilles Mocellin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Le Monday 21 April 2008 19:54:16 Hose, vous avez écrit : > > > > On Apr 21, 2008, at 12:34 PM, Michael Habashy wrote: > > > I am running clamd for the first tim

RE: bits/news from the users of Debian?

Hello, After I read this post I decided to share one idea with you. It seems to be related to *debconf*. The Debian operating system is known for lack of nice-looking all-in-one configuration tool. Instead, it has the best existing packag

Re: Sound Problems

fuser -v $( find /dev -group audio ) This returns nothing. //Ger On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 11:20 +, Jasper wrote: > fuser -v $( find /dev -group audio ) -- Gerard Hooton. Department of Microelectronic Engineering U.C.C. Butler Building, Enterprise Centre, North Mall. Cork. Tel: +353 21 490

Re: Sound Problems

Gerard Hooton ucc.ie> writes: > > Why do I have to run alsaconf each time I boot? > After booting the system I have no sound, I the run alsaconf > and everything works. > > > > fuser -v $( find /dev -group audio ) > run this command in a terminal before you run alsaconf and post its output.

Re: Getting debian to ignore hdb on bootup

Jonathan Kaye: > > Thanks for the link. Just to be sure I understand, in my /boot/grub/menu.lst > file I have this: > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-1-686 root=/dev/hda1 ro > I should change this line to > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-1-686 root=/dev/hda1 ro hdb=noprobe > > Is this

Re: preseed.cfg surprise

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/22/08 05:25, Jude DaShiell wrote: > For one thing the preseed.cfg file is so large (128k) in my case and has > lots of error messages in it I never encountered during installation. > Can the preseed.cfg file safely be cleaned up to reflect actual

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