Re: Debian crash randomly

Hi, On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 08:45:40AM -0700, mond wrote: > On Apr 30, 8:50 am, "Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > On 30/04/2008, Micha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > "Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On 30/04/2008, Chris Bannister <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: can't send a bugreport in emacs

On 2008-05-01 06:34 +0200, Alexandru Cardaniuc wrote: > I am trying to send a bugreport in emacs through debian-bug. After > 'sending' the bug report, I receive the following message in my mailbox. > > From: Mail Delivery System <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Mail delivery failed: returning messa

Re: VIM question

On Wednesday 30 April 2008 06:18:27 pm Alex Samad wrote: > but I can't change windows with . My first thought You can also use gt and gT. > and I am not sure what syntax to use for control-page up is it > (and i_ or i_CTRL-). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

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Re: libpam_umask setup

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 10:36:01AM -0700, Bug wrote: > I've never seen a Debian > package name with > an underscore in the name, so if that's the constraint, yes Linkname: Chapter 3. Debian package management URL: http://people.debian.org/~osamu/pub/getwiki/html/ch03.en.html#thedebia

maxima 5.13 in lenny requires gnuplot-x11 to plot?

Hi All! I installed maxima. It depends on gnuplot-nox, which is installed too. When I try to plot something in maxima, I get: (%i1) plot2d (exp(-u)*sin(u),[u,0,2*%pi]); (%o1) (%i2) Expected X11 driver: /usr/lib/gnuplot/gnuplot_x11 Exec failed: No such file or directory See 'help x11' for mo

can't send a bugreport in emacs

Hi All! I am trying to send a bugreport in emacs through debian-bug. After 'sending' the bug report, I receive the following message in my mailbox. From: Mail Delivery System <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 30 Apr 20

closing the Debian user survey soon

Hi all, I'll soon be closing the Debian-user survey. The deadline for submissions is now 1am UTC time on the 1st of June 2008, after this the survey will be closed and mails to the survey address will be rejected. So if you would like to participate, please reply to this mail: http://lists.debi

Re: VIM question

On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 11:18:27AM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > Hi > > I have just started using tab windows in gvim, thought I would try it > out in vim. > > but I can't change windows with . My first thought was > to use map to map c-pgup to tabn and c-pgdn to tabp. The next thought > was to f

Re: aptitude question

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VIM question

Hi I have just started using tab windows in gvim, thought I would try it out in vim. but I can't change windows with . My first thought was to use map to map c-pgup to tabn and c-pgdn to tabp. The next thought was to find out the differences in the setup of gvim and vim why it worked in one an

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

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 06:22:16PM -0500, Mark Allums wrote: > > CF cards are sold everywhere. You want the long-life versions. Finding > adapters may be a little harder, but mail-order is probably suitable. > The internet is your friend here. This was a good idea, I wish I ahd > thought o

Re: wine: Problem running some programs

Paul Johnson wrote the following on 04/29/2008 02:33 PM: On Tuesday 29 April 2008 11:31:23 am Dennis G. Wicks wrote: Still don't find wine really usable. So far can't adjust the resolution and for some reason some programs just won't install. Well, they install, but won't run afterward. Whic

Re: Backup requirement

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 10:55:04PM +0530, Masatran, R. Deepak wrote: > Old laptop, for personal use, running Debian Etch. I intend to backup every > month to DVD via my external DVD writer, and to leave copies with friends. > > I want encryption. I use LUKS, but only for my home partition. Then yo

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

paragasu wrote: On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 10:35 AM, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 08:41:45PM +0800, paragasu wrote: > Or simply because the hard disk it quite old. I buy it second hand because > my bios only

Re: installing scanner canon

On Wednesday 30 April 2008 20:44:53 Brad Rogers wrote: > On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:27:56 +0200 > Shams Fantar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello Shams, > > > Which scanner group ? On my pc ? There is no group "scanner". > > Yes, "scanner" group on your computer. If you've got a scanner, > there's a

Re: Replace Ubuntu with Debian

Damon L. Chesser wrote: Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: On 30/04/2008, Damon L. Chesser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Do you ever hear your fans blow? Yep, just tried to find the L2 condition number of a 10,000x10,000 random matrix, and I heard the fan go on when I did that. The CPU tempe

Re: Replace Ubuntu with Debian

Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: On 30/04/2008, Damon L. Chesser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Sometime today I will turn off i8k and let you know of the behavior. Thanks, I'd like to know. I sorta trust the BIOS to shut off the computer should it ever get too hot, and I don't know if a CP

OT: Good binary diff?

Hi. I'd like to know what binary diff program you've been using in a production environment. I've been searching the WEB and I've found a few popular alternatives: * http://jojodiff.sourceforge.net/ * http://www.daemonology.net/bsdiff/ * xdelta3 (In Debian) The second one seems to need a lot of

Re: intel network adapter on debian 4.0

Robert Robert wrote: Dear All, I have an intel gigabit ethernet card. When I install it on windows with the coming windows drivers, I can click on network connections select the card and change stuff like jumbo frames, "Receive descriptors" and "Interupt Moderate Rate". Now I have also a linux

Re: troubles with custom repository

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 11:46:41AM -0500, Matt Zagrabelny wrote: > Greetings, > > I am working on creating a custom debian repository at the University > for whom I work. > > I have successfully created a "simple" repository, one which has all the > relevant files in a single hierarchy. > > I am

intel network adapter on debian 4.0

Dear All, I have an intel gigabit ethernet card. When I install it on windows with the coming windows drivers, I can click on network connections select the card and change stuff like jumbo frames, "Receive descriptors" and "Interupt Moderate Rate". Now I have also a linux machine with debian 4

Re: installing scanner canon

On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:27:56 +0200 Shams Fantar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Shams, > Which scanner group ? On my pc ? There is no group "scanner". Yes, "scanner" group on your computer. If you've got a scanner, there's almost certainly a group called scanner. Use whatever user/group manag

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

Michelle Konzack wrote: Am 2008-04-25 01:21:39, schrieb Rafael Fontenelle: Strange. I set a virtual machine with an extra harddisk and I just ran 'cat /dev/null > /dev/hdd' as root with /dev/hdd3 umounted in the first attempt and then mounted in the second, but nothing happened with my partition

Re: libpam_umask setup

On Apr 30, 12:30 pm, NN_il_Confusionario <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * From: Bug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >But when I login in, I still get umask 022. What step am I missing? > > I do not use pam_umask , but: > > (1) /usr/share/doc/libpam-umask/README says: > > If a user has a .pam_umask > in

Backup requirement

My backup requirement is as follows: Old laptop, for personal use, running Debian Etch. I intend to backup every month to DVD via my external DVD writer, and to leave copies with friends. I want encryption. I use LUKS, but only for my home partition. My hard drive is 80 giga-bytes big. My partit

Re: How can i run shell script after mail arrive ?

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 06:48:43PM +0300, Jabka Atu wrote: > Hello ,... > > how can i run a script when mail arrive ? (kmail and icedove). Let fetchmail read mail from ISP to local MTU (exim4) Use procmail to run script on incoming mail. Read mail from local MTU by kmail and icedove. Good luack.

Re: How can i run shell script after mail arrive ?

Jabka Atu wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello ,... how can i run a script when mail arrive ? (kmail and icedove). create a .forward file in your home directory, and put a line in it of the form: |"|$HOME/bin/your.program -and some arguments" look at http://linuxgaze

troubles with custom repository

Greetings, I am working on creating a custom debian repository at the University for whom I work. I have successfully created a "simple" repository, one which has all the relevant files in a single hierarchy. I am now trying to split things off and use "pools", so that I can serve various distri

Re: CLAIM---with/Ticket Number-(106012),

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Re: Replace Ubuntu with Debian

Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: On 30/04/2008, Damon L. Chesser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Do you ever hear your fans blow? Yep, just tried to find the L2 condition number of a 10,000x10,000 random matrix, and I heard the fan go on when I did that. The CPU temperature went up to 70C, a

Re: Replace Ubuntu with Debian

Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: On 30/04/2008, Damon L. Chesser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Don't forget about the fans! There is no i8kutils for amd64. I don't know if your xps boxes needs the i8kutils to make the fans go around, but my Vostro sure does. Hm, my Inspiron's fans seem t

Re: installing scanner canon

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thierry Chatelet wrote: > On Wednesday 30 April 2008 17:09:19 Shams Fantar wrote: >> Shams Fantar wrote: >>> Hi, > > Hi; > Are you in scanner group? > T > > Which scanner group ? On my pc ? There is no group "scanner". - -- Shams Fantar (Website :

Re: libpam_umask setup

> * From: Bug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >But when I login in, I still get umask 022. What step am I missing? I do not use pam_umask , but: (1) /usr/share/doc/libpam-umask/README says: If a user has a .pam_umask in his home directory, the contents will be used to set the umask. (2)Linkname: p

Re: Debian crash randomly

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/30/08 10:45, mond wrote: [snip] > > Anyway, sid is stable enough, I think, if you don't dist-upgrade > everyday. Yup... Desire to be able to read my email from the console (occasional X bugs in Sid was one impetus for this) are why I originall

Re: Replace Ubuntu with Debian

Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: On 30/04/2008, Damon L. Chesser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Don't forget about the fans! There is no i8kutils for amd64. I don't know if your xps boxes needs the i8kutils to make the fans go around, but my Vostro sure does. Hm, my Inspiron's fans seem t

Re: Debian crash randomly

On Apr 30, 8:50 am, "Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 30/04/2008, Micha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 07:56:49 -0500 > > > "Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On 30/04/2008, Chris Bannister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > U

How can i run shell script after mail arrive ?

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Re: Grub2 menu font-size

Hi, Am 30.04.2008 schrieb Miguel J. Jiménez : Hi, I am a newbie to Grub2 (v1.96) and I am wondering if there is any way to increase and/or decrease font-size in the menu. I use 1024x768 mode and the letter is, I think, too small. I have tried the project page at gnu.org but it seems the document

Re: Replace Ubuntu with Debian

On 30/04/2008, Damon L. Chesser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Don't forget about the fans! There is no i8kutils for amd64. I don't know > if your xps boxes needs the i8kutils to make the fans go around, but my > Vostro sure does. Hm, my Inspiron's fans seem to working fine. I can see the CPU tem

Re: unison on testing and stable

Hello, On 30-04-2008, Magnus Pedersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm using unison to keep my Docs, my music and my pics in sync between > my laptop, my desktop and my server. The laptop and the desktop are > running testing and the server is running stable. With the latest > upgrade of unison

unison on testing and stable

I'm using unison to keep my Docs, my music and my pics in sync between my laptop, my desktop and my server. The laptop and the desktop are running testing and the server is running stable. With the latest upgrade of unison in testing the version in stable and testing no longer want to speak to

libpam_umask setup

Hi, I've installed libpam-umask 0.04, made sure all umask statements were either already commented out, or did so for the following files: 1. /etc/login.defs 2. /etc/profile 3. ~/.bash_profile My /etc/pam.d/common-session file has the following two lines: session requiredpam_unix.so ses

Re: OT (slightly) swap limits

Damon L. Chesser wrote: Being in an interview loop looking for employment, I find I am asked questions I never considered, for example: How much is enough swap? Simple, right? Try answering it. Used to be the limit was 2G files/partitions with up to 8 partitions total. This does not apply

Re: encrypted swap causing me troubles on boot

On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:31:59 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 04:01:22PM +, Zoho Vignochi wrote: >> Hello: >> >> I have one of the famous Eeepc's and I performed a hardware hack in >> order to expand internal drive storage space. So I have the internal >> ssd card

Re: installing scanner canon

On Wednesday 30 April 2008 17:09:19 Shams Fantar wrote: > Shams Fantar wrote: > > Hi, Hi; Are you in scanner group? T -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: installing scanner canon

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Shams Fantar wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to install my scanner canon canoscan 3000F. Few years ago, I > wasn't able because there was no driver for this scanner, now, it > exists. And I've found this[1], and the scanner is in this page, so, > that con

Re: Force process to swap?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/30/08 09:40, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 10:28:53PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 04/29/08 22:04, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: >>> On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 11:06:25AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 04/24/08 10:09, Hugo Vanwoe

Re: Replace Ubuntu with Debian

Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: On 29/04/2008, Igor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Howdy, Jordi! Igor, is that you? If so, you changed your Gmail address. The laptop is XPS M1330. Ah, nice. If I had waited a while, a couple of months, I could have bought one of the same ones. Oh

Re: Force process to swap?

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 10:28:53PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 04/29/08 22:04, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 11:06:25AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> On 04/24/08 10:09, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > >>> Ron Johnson wrote: > On 04/24/08 01:34, Rich Healey wrote: > >>> http:

Re: "Nokia 6120 classic" and Internet connection with laptop

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 02:42:35PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: > I have had Etch on my IBM ThinkPad 570 and use my "Nokia 6120 classic" > for the Internet connection via O2 (Germany). Now after an upgrade it > is not more working and my config was wiped out... (I even do not know, > what h

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

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 04:22:16PM +0800, paragasu wrote: > On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 10:35 AM, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 08:41:45PM +0800, paragasu wrote: > > > Or simply because the hard disk it quite old. I buy it second hand > > because > > > my bio

Re: [OT] Need old Packages.gz and Release Files

On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 08:00:58PM +0100, peter green wrote: > For potato I doubt you have much hope except for the last point release > (which is availible on archive.debian.org). I have one CD (CD1?) of potato (IIRC 2.2r2) that came with my Debian GNU/Linux Bible. If that is of any help, I c

Re: OT (slightly) swap limits

On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 05:13:28PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > For an enterprise quality server where reliability matters I fully > agree. Yes. You want twice your ram. But you also want to set > vm.overcommit_memory=2 for reliability. > By default Linux will overcommit memory allocation. Th

Re: Notebook Latitude D630 don't shutdown properly after update

> He has said twice that the .22 kernel does not solve the problem. Yes! .22 does not solve the problem. > More likely, check your /etc/fstab to make sure it's not thinking that > there is something to umount there. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /etc/fstab # /etc/fstab: static file system informati

Re: OT (slightly) swap limits

On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 05:00:51PM -0400, Patrick Ouellette wrote: > On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 04:45:05PM -0400, Damon L. Chesser wrote: > > > > Being in an interview loop looking for employment, I find I am asked > > questions I never considered, for example: How much is enough swap? > > > > Re

Re: Debian crash randomly

On 30/04/2008, Micha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 07:56:49 -0500 > > "Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On 30/04/2008, Chris Bannister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Unstable means that it's changing frequently *NOT* that it's more likely > > > to

Re: Debian crash randomly

On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 07:56:49 -0500 "Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 30/04/2008, Chris Bannister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Unstable means that it's changing frequently *NOT* that it's more likely > > to crash. > > Then why does it crash more in my anecdotal and unsci

Re: Network FUBAR

On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:05:41 -0400, Andrew Reid wrote: > One: Device name. Maybe the interface isn't "eth0" anymore, > because of the hardware change. This seems improbable to me, > because you said the interface was up and in the routing table. > I *have* seen a system come up with only one n

Re: Notebook Latitude D630 don't shutdown properly after update

Kevin Mark verizon.net> writes: > Just to be clear: > a) booting with the old kernel fixes the problem No! > b) both the old and new kernel do not work Both kernels work. My system go ahead. But, anyone of kernels shutdown correct. Marcelo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: Debian crash randomly

On 30/04/2008, Chris Bannister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Unstable means that it's changing frequently *NOT* that it's more likely > to crash. Then why does it crash more in my anecdotal and unscientific experience? - Jordi G. H. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Replace Ubuntu with Debian

On 29/04/2008, Igor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Howdy, Jordi! Igor, is that you? If so, you changed your Gmail address. > The laptop is XPS M1330. Ah, nice. If I had waited a while, a couple of months, I could have bought one of the same ones. Oh, well. I'm happy enough with the one I have. >

Re: problem setting user and group on mounting a cifs share

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 07:41:28AM +0200, Chris wrote: > I did not know that Windows can access NSF, might have a look at that. however, I would be surprised if the NFS implementation in windows works better than the cifs implementation. > simply pulling a file > or directory over in Konquerer

Re: AM2+ motherboard with support for ECC RAM for media player / server

Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/28/08 21:41, Bob wrote: Unbuffered / Registered obviously. I'm building a couple of Debian / MythTV based home media players / servers and want low power consumption and noise, at the moment I'm leaning towards CPU

Re: *****SPAM***** Re: Re: cupsys does not print: update

Am 2008-04-26 11:02:28, schrieb Francois Bottin: > You may subscribe his address to any mailing list that asks confirmation > through mail: the responder doesn't change the subject... I have a list of over 800 where I was subscribed the last 8 years... Some of them ask not for confirmation! Thi

Re: *****SPAM***** Re: Re: cupsys does not print: update

Am 2008-04-26 16:53:06, schrieb Mark Maas: > Actually... That may be exactly how he got on the debian mailing list Not realy, since the subscription must be confirmed. Thanks, Greetings and nice Day Michelle Konzack Systemadministrator 24V Electronic Engineer Tamay Dogan Network

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

Am 2008-04-25 01:21:39, schrieb Rafael Fontenelle: > Strange. I set a virtual machine with an extra harddisk and I just ran 'cat > /dev/null > /dev/hdd' as root with /dev/hdd3 umounted in the first attempt > and then mounted in the second, but nothing happened with my partition or > the whole virtu

"Nokia 6120 classic" and Internet connection with laptop

Hello, I have had Etch on my IBM ThinkPad 570 and use my "Nokia 6120 classic" for the Internet connection via O2 (Germany). Now after an upgrade it is not more working and my config was wiped out... (I even do not know, what has wiped out the config since the whole thing is strange) Ond of

Re: Replace Ubuntu with Debian

Igor wrote: > However, I'm a little paranoid that this is not entirely > safe and that it may leave my system in a broken state. Does anyone > Hi Igor! A piece of general advice: Before attempting such grand experimental operations which may destroy your system, you can do a full backup using

smartctl /dev/hda

dear list, what to say about the quality of this hd? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo smartctl -A /dev/hda smartctl version 5.36 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce Allen Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART Attributes Data Struct

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

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 10:35 AM, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 08:41:45PM +0800, paragasu wrote: > > > Or simply because the hard disk it quite old. I buy it second hand > because > > my bios only > > support 2GB. That hard disk is quite rare nowadays. And

Re: Replace Ubuntu with Debian

> The obvious thing to do is to change the apt sources and run a > dist-upgrade. However, I'm a little paranoid that this is not entirely > safe and that it may leave my system in a broken state. Does anyone > have experience with this course of action or have better suggestions? > i did try this

Grub2 menu font-size

Hi, I am a newbie to Grub2 (v1.96) and I am wondering if there is any way to increase and/or decrease font-size in the menu. I use 1024x768 mode and the letter is, I think, too small. I have tried the project page at gnu.org but it seems the documentation page is "under development" so there is non

Re: Debian crash randomly

On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 04:30:52PM -0500, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: > On 28/04/2008, Micha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Actually i recommend sid to everyone except for servers where stable is more > > suitable. > > You must enjoy debugging a lot, then. Sid really *is* unstable, like > its