Re: OT: laptop recomendations

2008-12-11 Thread Erik Sundin
On Friday 12 December 2008 03:24:35 Celejar wrote: > On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 23:39:26 -0200 > "Ismael Scalcon" wrote: > > ... > > > Also, my girlfriend has bought herself an Acer Aspire (not the One), > > and, so far, we had no problems with it. > > I've been using an Acer (Aspire 3690) for about two

Re: cannot execute grub

2008-12-11 Thread lee
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 07:59:35AM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2008-12-12 03:38 +0100, lee wrote: > > > Shouldn't there be an amd64 version of grub? > > There should be, but there isn't. Poking around in the source I found a > pointer to a binutils bug, http://bugs.debian.org/244498. Appare

Re: SA-Exim and acls

2008-12-11 Thread David Purton
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 12:34:57AM -0600, lee wrote: > On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 12:26:10AM +1030, David Purton wrote: > > > acl_check_rcpt: > > warn hosts = : > >set acl_m0 = do-not-scan > > > > then in sa-exim.conf I have > > > > SAEximRunCond: ${if !eq {$acl_m0}{do-not-scan} {1}{0}}

Re: cannot execute grub

2008-12-11 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-12-12 03:38 +0100, lee wrote: > Shouldn't there be an amd64 version of grub? There should be, but there isn't. Poking around in the source I found a pointer to a binutils bug, http://bugs.debian.org/244498. Apparently nobody is really interested in resolving that issue, so you're on you

Re: server upgrade question

2008-12-11 Thread lee
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 11:33:09PM -0500, Mag Gam wrote: > At my university we have 10 servers. Each server has 8 cores with 32 > GIG of memory running Debian 4.0. We have to give these servers to a > different department, and our Dean would like to consiladate 10 > servers into 5 servers. The new

Re: SA-Exim and acls

2008-12-11 Thread lee
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 12:26:10AM +1030, David Purton wrote: > acl_check_rcpt: > warn hosts = : >set acl_m0 = do-not-scan > > then in sa-exim.conf I have > > SAEximRunCond: ${if !eq {$acl_m0}{do-not-scan} {1}{0}} > > But it's not working :( The message gets scanned anyway. > > The

Re: problem with SATA disk, difference between standard kernel and Debian kernel

2008-12-11 Thread lee
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 02:58:55PM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: > On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 08:06:12PM -0600, lee wrote: > > One option I haven't tried yet is to plug both SATA disks into the > > same channel (i. e. use adjacent plugs). I didn't do that because they > > might be blocking each other ---

Re: OT: laptop recomendations

2008-12-11 Thread steve
Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > Micha Feigin wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Sorry for being a bit off topic but it's time for a new laptop that >> will run >> linux solely and I'm looking for recomendation on what has a good build >> quallity (will travel), descent battery life, although more important >> is good

Re: Xen kernel and make-kpkg

2008-12-11 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Tue, Dec 09 2008, Stefan Goebel wrote: > Manoj, should I file a bug report for this or is there something else I > can try first? Thankd for the bug-report and patch; it is always appropriate to file a bug on kernel-package when you are experiencing difficulties. At worst, you'll be

Re: POWER FAILURE(SOLVED)

2008-12-11 Thread rjubio
I found a file in the /etc partition called nologin. I just removed it. Voila! I got connected. Thanks for the help Jeff D wrote: On Fri, 12 Dec 2008, rjubio wrote: I am experiencing some kind of error regarding a recent power failure in our campus. When I try sshing to on of our server

Re: POWER FAILURE

2008-12-11 Thread Rod James Bio
Well that's a problem. I am using a Mac X server that doesnt have a VGA behind it. What I tried though was to unmount the harddisk manually and mount it on another X server that I have. I know that a lock file of some sort has to be deleted to fix the problem. On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 12:35 PM, Jef

Re: POWER FAILURE

2008-12-11 Thread Jeff D
On Fri, 12 Dec 2008, rjubio wrote: > I am experiencing some kind of error regarding a recent power failure in our > campus. > > When I try sshing to on of our server I get an error message: > > POWER FAILURE > then I get thrown back to the login prompt. > > Any suggestions how to go on this. > Tha

server upgrade question

2008-12-11 Thread Mag Gam
At my university we have 10 servers. Each server has 8 cores with 32 GIG of memory running Debian 4.0. We have to give these servers to a different department, and our Dean would like to consiladate 10 servers into 5 servers. The new server will have 16 cores with 64 GIG of memory. Basically a 2:1

POWER FAILURE

2008-12-11 Thread rjubio
I am experiencing some kind of error regarding a recent power failure in our campus. When I try sshing to on of our server I get an error message: POWER FAILURE then I get thrown back to the login prompt. Any suggestions how to go on this. Thanks! ROD -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

Re: problem with SATA disk, difference between standard kernel and Debian kernel

2008-12-11 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 08:06:12PM -0600, lee wrote: > On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 07:54:58AM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: > > > > well it seems atleast the drives are okay, maybe a faulty cable ? Just > > seems strange that the debian patches would make a difference (but I > > could be wrong), especiall

Re: expand /var, decrease /home space

2008-12-11 Thread steve
subscriptions wrote: > On Fri, 2008-12-12 at 00:39 +0100, steve wrote: >> fairly successful attempt at running a webserver it made /var only 2.8 >> gig and made /home 280 something gig. >> >> now I want /var to be say 200 gig, and /home alot smaller. for >> obvious reasons. > > If the reason

Re: expand /var, decrease /home space

2008-12-11 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
steve wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, attempted to do this before, but never found a way, google is no use. is there no fairly straightforward way to expand /var and decrease /home? for some reason when I installed etch quite a while ago in my fairly successful attemp

Re: expand /var, decrease /home space

2008-12-11 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
subscriptions wrote: On Fri, 2008-12-12 at 00:39 +0100, steve wrote: fairly successful attempt at running a webserver it made /var only 2.8 gig and made /home 280 something gig. now I want /var to be say 200 gig, and /home alot smaller. for obvious reasons. If the reason is using www, wh

Re: Installing 64-bit nvidia driver under 32-bit userland

2008-12-11 Thread lee
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 08:23:09AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Most places on the web say it doesn't work, but by following the > instruction on this nvnews thread, I got driver v177.82 running on > kernel 2.6.27-1~experimental.1~snapshot.12406. > > http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.

Re: cannot execute grub

2008-12-11 Thread lee
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 09:14:57AM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2008-12-11 08:49 +0100, lee wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > is grub executable on i386 only, or does it requre 32bit support in > > the kernel? > > It does require 32-bit emulation on amd64, yes. > > > cat:/boot# file /usr/sbin/grub > >

Re: problem with SATA disk, difference between standard kernel and Debian kernel

2008-12-11 Thread lee
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 10:40:50PM +0100, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > > do you have custom kernel or debian stock kernel. Until today, I was using a standard kernel from kernel.org. Today I downloaded the package with the Debian kernel sources (2.6.24, blah etchnhalf or something like that ...), conf

Re: OT: laptop recomendations

2008-12-11 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 23:39:26 -0200 "Ismael Scalcon" wrote: ... > Also, my girlfriend has bought herself an Acer Aspire (not the One), > and, so far, we had no problems with it. I've been using an Acer (Aspire 3690) for about two years with no problems yet, but I baby it; I've never dropped it,

Re: problem with SATA disk, difference between standard kernel and Debian kernel

2008-12-11 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:35:06 -0800 "Kelly Clowers" wrote: ... > For more than you want to know about binary firmware blobs see the > thread "Bug reports of DFSG violations are tagged 'lenny-ignore'?" > and related threads on debian devel: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/10/msg0036

Re: problem with SATA disk, difference between standard kernel and Debian kernel

2008-12-11 Thread lee
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 07:54:58AM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: > > well it seems atleast the drives are okay, maybe a faulty cable ? Just > seems strange that the debian patches would make a difference (but I > could be wrong), especially with stock standard stuff Unfortunately, that the selftests

Re: OT: laptop recomendations

2008-12-11 Thread Ismael Scalcon
I don't know about your fancy laptops that you have in the first world, but here in Brazil I use an HP Pavillion dv1000 at work, and the thing survived everything bad that could happen to an electronic device (including being plugged in 380 Volt). Also, my girlfriend has bought herself an Acer Aspi

Re: problem with SATA disk, difference between standard kernel and Debian kernel

2008-12-11 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 14:53, Celejar wrote: > On Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:21:26 -0600 > Ron Johnson wrote: > >> On 12/10/08 16:10, Celejar wrote: >> > On Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:05:26 -0600 >> > "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." wrote: >> > >> >> On Wednesday 2008 December 10 15:15:56 lee wrote: >> >>> what's t

Re: expand /var, decrease /home space

2008-12-11 Thread subscriptions
On Fri, 2008-12-12 at 00:39 +0100, steve wrote: > fairly successful attempt at running a webserver it made /var only 2.8 > gig and made /home 280 something gig. > > now I want /var to be say 200 gig, and /home alot smaller. for > obvious reasons. If the reason is using www, why not configure

Re: expand /var, decrease /home space

2008-12-11 Thread steve
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Iatrou wrote: > When the date was Friday 12 December 2008, steve wrote: > >> is there no fairly straightforward way to expand /var and decrease >> /home? for some reason when I installed etch quite a while ago in my >> fairly successful attem

Re: expand /var, decrease /home space

2008-12-11 Thread Michael Iatrou
When the date was Friday 12 December 2008, steve wrote: > is there no fairly straightforward way to expand /var and decrease > /home? for some reason when I installed etch quite a while ago in my > fairly successful attempt at running a webserver it made /var only 2.8 > gig and made /home 280 som

expand /var, decrease /home space

2008-12-11 Thread steve
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, attempted to do this before, but never found a way, google is no use. is there no fairly straightforward way to expand /var and decrease /home? for some reason when I installed etch quite a while ago in my fairly successful attempt at running a

Re: Searching for non-gui (text based) VOIP program

2008-12-11 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 07:20:48AM +0900, J.H.Kim wrote: > Hi, everyone > > I'm searching for non-gui (text-based) open source voip program. > If you know it, please let me know what it is. Hmm... well, I figure asterisk and yate could also be used as console soft phones. Though probably for roo

Re: Searching for non-gui (text based) VOIP program

2008-12-11 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 07:20:48AM +0900, J.H.Kim wrote: > Hi, everyone > > I'm searching for non-gui (text-based) open source voip program. > If you know it, please let me know what it is. The first thing to look at is probably linphone-nox . -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM

Re: [OT] FLOSS xls-oracle converter?

2008-12-11 Thread Jochen Schulz
Nuno Magalhães: > > Does anyone know a reliable converter to export a bunch of tables in > an M$ excel file to regular SQL92/2003 or, preferable, Oracle? No GUI > required, just an easy way to convert them... Oracle's sqlldr can import CSV-like files. J. -- I am on the payroll of a company to w

Searching for non-gui (text based) VOIP program

2008-12-11 Thread J.H.Kim
Hi, everyone I'm searching for non-gui (text-based) open source voip program. If you know it, please let me know what it is. Thanks in advance. J.H.Kim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.or

Re: problem with SATA disk, difference between standard kernel and Debian kernel

2008-12-11 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
lee wrote: > On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 12:58:30AM -0600, lee wrote: > >> I've started a long test, but it says it'll take about two hours. I'll >> let you know the result. > > cat:/home/lee# smartctl -l selftest /dev/sdb > smartctl version 5.38 [x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-8 > Bru

RE: OT: laptop recomendations

2008-12-11 Thread Juan Carlos Avila
> -Mensaje original- > De: Damon L. Chesser [mailto:da...@damtek.com] > Enviado el: Jueves, 11 de Diciembre de 2008 09:07 a.m. > Para: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Asunto: Re: OT: laptop recomendations > > Micha Feigin wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Sorry for being a bit off topic but it's t

Re: problem with SATA disk, difference between standard kernel and Debian kernel

2008-12-11 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 12:39:01PM -0600, lee wrote: > On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 12:58:30AM -0600, lee wrote: > > > I've started a long test, but it says it'll take about two hours. I'll > > let you know the result. > > cat:/home/lee# smartctl -l selftest /dev/sdb > smartctl version 5.38 [x86_64-un

Re: running evolution in KDE and the wallet/keypass integration

2008-12-11 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Thursday 2008 December 11 12:18:25 Emanoil Kotsev wrote: >>Emanoil Kotsev wrote: >>> How can I make evolution use the kwallet when started in KDE. >> >>Somebody be kind and tell me how to do it. > > I didn't ignore your post, I just don't know how to do it. Bas

Re: [OT] FLOSS xls-oracle converter?

2008-12-11 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 2008 December 11 13:45:19 Nuno Magalhães wrote: >Does anyone know a reliable converter to export a bunch of tables in >an M$ excel file to regular SQL92/2003 or, preferable, Oracle? No GUI >required, just an easy way to convert them... Export to CSV (just the data, no headers), create

Re: [OT] FLOSS xls-oracle converter?

2008-12-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On 12/11/08 13:45, Nuno Magalhães wrote: Greetings, Does anyone know a reliable converter to export a bunch of tables in an M$ excel file to regular SQL92/2003 or, preferable, Oracle? No GUI required, just an easy way to convert them... I'd look for two Python or Perl modules: (1) read XLS fil

Re: running evolution in KDE and the wallet/keypass integration

2008-12-11 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 2008 December 11 12:18:25 Emanoil Kotsev wrote: >Emanoil Kotsev wrote: >> How can I make evolution use the kwallet when started in KDE. > >Somebody be kind and tell me how to do it. I didn't ignore your post, I just don't know how to do it. Based on my understanding of the kwallet su

[OT] FLOSS xls-oracle converter?

2008-12-11 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Greetings, Does anyone know a reliable converter to export a bunch of tables in an M$ excel file to regular SQL92/2003 or, preferable, Oracle? No GUI required, just an easy way to convert them... TIA, sorry for the OT Nuno Magalhães

Re: NFS boot with a dhcpless network

2008-12-11 Thread Anoop Aryal
On Tue, 2008-12-09 at 23:38 +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > On Tue, 09 Dec 2008 14:14:23 -0600 > Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] > I can't use a dhcp server on this network. These machines are exposed to the > general network which already has a dhcp server and if I add another one I'm > going to cause

Re: Confusion about legality of Linux

2008-12-11 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 12:48:49PM -0500, Napoleon wrote: > Rob Starling wrote: >> the blog post seems too troll-y to me. maybe we should wait >> for Ken to reply to all the "did this really happen" comments >> before getting too worked up. lines like "no software is free", >> and "I along with

Re: Etch: iceweasel crashing with EAGAIN error

2008-12-11 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-12-11 18:10 +0100, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > I'm running the lastest version of iceweasel on Etch, and am finding > that the browser crashes regularly with a segmentation fault. When I run > strace, I get "EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable)" as part of the > trace just before it dies

Re: OT: laptop recomendations

2008-12-11 Thread Daryl Styrk
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dotan Cohen wrote: > 2008/12/11 Daryl Styrk : >> I hated the pointing stick or whatever you call it at first but now I >> don't know if I could live without it. >> >> > > http://xkcd.com/243/ > Perfect! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: Gnu

Re: OT: laptop recomendations

2008-12-11 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/12/11 Daryl Styrk : > I hated the pointing stick or whatever you call it at first but now I > don't know if I could live without it. > > http://xkcd.com/243/ -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת ا-ب-ت-ث-ج-ح-خ-د

Etch: iceweasel crashing with EAGAIN error

2008-12-11 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
I'm running the lastest version of iceweasel on Etch, and am finding that the browser crashes regularly with a segmentation fault. When I run strace, I get "EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable)" as part of the trace just before it dies altogether. I googled around and didn't really find any o

Re: problem with SATA disk, difference between standard kernel and Debian kernel

2008-12-11 Thread lee
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 12:58:30AM -0600, lee wrote: > I've started a long test, but it says it'll take about two hours. I'll > let you know the result. cat:/home/lee# smartctl -l selftest /dev/sdb smartctl version 5.38 [x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-8 Bruce Allen Home page is htt

Re: OT: laptop recomendations

2008-12-11 Thread Daryl Styrk
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Anoop Aryal wrote: > I used to swear by toshiba until 3-4 satallite pros (all bought at > around the same time) died. right after the warrenty expired. all of 'em > kinda died at around the same time too - within 1-2 months. I hear > someone has a howt

Re: OT: laptop recomendations

2008-12-11 Thread Jack Schneider
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:51:47 + Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 08:54:41AM -0600, Jack Schneider wrote: > > > -- > > > > Hi, I concur with the "DELL" idea. I have an "Precision M60" > > 3-years > > Is that an answer or a signature? > > '-- ' on a line of its own is a signa

Re: running evolution in KDE and the wallet/keypass integration

2008-12-11 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > Hello to everybody, > > How can I make evolution use the kwallet when started in KDE. It was > working perfectly in SuSE and Kubuntu, but under Debian it looks for > password in the gnome keypass manager. > > Thanks in advance ping Somebody be kind and tell me how to do

Re: Confusion about legality of Linux

2008-12-11 Thread Napoleon
Rob Starling wrote: On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 07:08:48AM -0600, Bryan Bishop wrote: On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 5:35 AM, Tom Ashley wrote: http://linuxlock.blogspot.com/2008/12/linux-stop-holding-our-kids-back.html ... All joking aside, this does strike me as peculiar. Not because it's yet another

Re: OT: laptop recomendations

2008-12-11 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Micha Feigin wrote: Hello, Sorry for being a bit off topic but it's time for a new laptop that will run linux solely and I'm looking for recomendation on what has a good build quallity (will travel), descent battery life, although more important is good computing power and a good screen at 15.4"

Re: Video editing

2008-12-11 Thread Pedro Insua
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 08:50:19PM +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Rodolfo Medina wrote: > > >> > Another thing I want to do is adding a simple text presentation at the > >> > beginning of the file > > > > [...] > > > >> It would be very nice to manage to do such a thing, i.e. transform an image >

Re: Cannot get Etch installer to accept partitions -- success

2008-12-11 Thread Ken Heard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Summary of what I have snipped from my original post which Douglas answered. I had created *six* RAID1 arrays, with only one partition in each array, and listed the details in my post. > I've never considered having so many r

Re: OT: laptop recomendations

2008-12-11 Thread Anoop Aryal
I used to swear by toshiba until 3-4 satallite pros (all bought at around the same time) died. right after the warrenty expired. all of 'em kinda died at around the same time too - within 1-2 months. I hear someone has a howto on how to wave the soldering iron on it to nurse it back to health if yo

Re: mirroir debian sarge

2008-12-11 Thread subscriptions
On Thu, 2008-12-11 at 15:59 +0100, Anthony wrote: > > bonjour, > > je ne parviens plus a trouver le mirroir officiel sarge. > A t-il été supprimé, ou deplacé ? > Nous avons encore des machines en sarge... > > merci Bonjour, Je ne connais pas la réponse, mais si vous poser la question en anglai

Re: libmusicbrainz3 compiled with debug output enabled

2008-12-11 Thread Andy Hawkins
Hi, In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Eugene V. Lyubimkin<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, please report using reportbug utility. Maintainer may provide you al= > l > other relevant info. Done. Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troub

Re: mirroir debian sarge

2008-12-11 Thread François Cerbelle
Le Jeu 11 décembre 2008 15:59, Anthony a écrit : > je ne parviens plus a trouver le mirroir officiel sarge. > A t-il été supprimé, ou deplacé ? > Nous avons encore des machines en sarge... Salut Anthony, Voici la question à poser à Google : http://www.google.fr/search?q=debian+archives&ie=utf-8&o

Re: [OT] Server for Debian + MySQL

2008-12-11 Thread kj
Ron Johnson wrote: The grumpy geezer in me says you make a dedicated DB server only if your hardware and/or OS isn't up to snuff, or your RDBMS is a horrible pig, and that any modern desktop PC should have enough juice to support an RDBMS, dozens applications and 10,000 OLTP users. Like I sai

Re: libmusicbrainz3 compiled with debug output enabled

2008-12-11 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Andy Hawkins wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm building some software that uses libmusizbrainz3. > > The version of this package in testing compiles up with debug output enabled > (every query to the service is displayed on standard out or standard error). > There is a 'Release' build target in the makefi

mirroir debian sarge

2008-12-11 Thread Anthony
bonjour, je ne parviens plus a trouver le mirroir officiel sarge. A t-il été supprimé, ou deplacé ? Nous avons encore des machines en sarge... merci -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

libmusicbrainz3 compiled with debug output enabled

2008-12-11 Thread Andy Hawkins
Hi all, I'm building some software that uses libmusizbrainz3. The version of this package in testing compiles up with debug output enabled (every query to the service is displayed on standard out or standard error). There is a 'Release' build target in the makefile. Would this be considered a bu

Re: Tying debsecan & Zabbix (or RT) together?

2008-12-11 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Richard Hartmann wrote: On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 09:13, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: No, it's just polite to provide some context when referring to generally-unfamiliar software. I was under the impression that it's quite well-known. But we both know what the other means, so yah :)

Re: OT: laptop recomendations

2008-12-11 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 08:54:41AM -0600, Jack Schneider wrote: > -- > > Hi, I concur with the "DELL" idea. I have an "Precision M60" 3-years Is that an answer or a signature? '-- ' on a line of its own is a signature separator. If you really like '--' as a separator line, just don't put the

Re: [OT] Server for Debian + MySQL

2008-12-11 Thread Adrian Chapela
Ron Johnson escribió: On 12/11/08 02:02, Adrian Chapela wrote: Ron Johnson escribió: On 12/10/08 20:09, kj wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: "Large systems" (meaning mainframes and "traditional" minicomputers running legacy OSs) are never dedicated. They run application software as well as RDBMSs.

Re: kernel panic

2008-12-11 Thread Olivier Deckers
I installed 2.6.24 (etchnhalf), but the problem still remains. When tranferring large files over the network, the kernel still panics after a while. Emanoil Kotsev schreef: Olivier Deckers wrote: Is it possible to update the kernel with default options? Because I have no idea wha

Re: OT: laptop recomendations

2008-12-11 Thread Jack Schneider
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 12:08:14 +0100 Sjoerd Hardeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Micha Feigin wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Sorry for being a bit off topic but it's time for a new laptop that > > will run linux solely and I'm looking for recomendation on what has > > a good build quallity (will travel

Re: building entire Lenny from source

2008-12-11 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 8:19 AM, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> You'll also need to keep a repository of the packages you built. reprepro >> is nice for a small repo, but if you go for the whole Debian archive, >> the standard Debian one (dak) will probably serve you better. > >

Re: OT: laptop recomendations

2008-12-11 Thread Arc Roca
I am running sid in a toshiba satellite a205-S5831, circuit city for $400 usd (scratches, etc). Sound card crappy, wifi had to be activated with madwifi (see wiki.debian.org). Otherwise, good laptop. --- On Wed, 12/10/08, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Boyd Stephen Smith

Re: unbootable system after fresh 4.0r5 installation

2008-12-11 Thread Jukka Salmi
Sven Joachim --> debian-user (2008-12-11 13:02:54 +0100): > Have you rebuilt your initramfs? Udev and the whole /etc/udev directory > are copied into it, so you need to run "update-initramfs -u" to have > these rules available at boot time. Thanks a lot, that was exactly what I was missing (hmm,

SA-Exim and acls

2008-12-11 Thread David Purton
Hi, I'm trying to control whether emails are scanned for spam or not. So for example when mail is locally generated, I'm setting acl_m0 to do-not-scan in Exim's acl_check_rcpt. e.g., acl_check_rcpt: warn hosts = : set acl_m0 = do-not-scan then in sa-exim.conf I have SAEximRunCond:

Installing 64-bit nvidia driver under 32-bit userland

2008-12-11 Thread Ron Johnson
Most places on the web say it doesn't work, but by following the instruction on this nvnews thread, I got driver v177.82 running on kernel 2.6.27-1~experimental.1~snapshot.12406. http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=112900 -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA How does being phy

Re: [OT] Server for Debian + MySQL

2008-12-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On 12/11/08 02:02, Adrian Chapela wrote: Ron Johnson escribió: On 12/10/08 20:09, kj wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: "Large systems" (meaning mainframes and "traditional" minicomputers running legacy OSs) are never dedicated. They run application software as well as RDBMSs. OK, we're talking abo

Re: discover ip

2008-12-11 Thread David Schmidt
You could use nmap nmap -sP 192.168.0.* performs a ping scan on all hosts in the network range provided. On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 1:23 PM, Jesus arteche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hey, > someone knows about some tool in debian to discover what ip's are up in my > net...ccause i lost a router an

Re: discover ip

2008-12-11 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Jesus arteche wrote: hey, someone knows about some tool in debian to discover what ip's are up in my net...ccause i lost a router and i cant reset it...and i dont know what ip it has. thanks Jesus, I got the script below from this marvelous list in the past: #!/bin/sh lynx -dump http://c

Re: maximum number of print pages

2008-12-11 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Ron Johnson wrote: On 12/10/08 15:23, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: Hello! does exists a way to set the maximum number of pages a given user can print per week or month? I am using cups + etch. Thanks in advance for the help! Google is your friend. http://www.google.com/search?q=cups+print+q

Re: trouble with my repo?

2008-12-11 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 2:10 PM, Sven Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2008-12-11 12:42 +0100, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > >> Hi >> >> I ran the following command, "debootstrap sid temp >> http://localhost/sid"; which aborts on the following problem: >> >> >> I: Unpacking wget... >> I: Un

discover ip

2008-12-11 Thread Jesus arteche
hey, someone knows about some tool in debian to discover what ip's are up in my net...ccause i lost a router and i cant reset it...and i dont know what ip it has. thanks

Re: trouble with my repo?

2008-12-11 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-12-11 12:42 +0100, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > Hi > > I ran the following command, "debootstrap sid temp > http://localhost/sid"; which aborts on the following problem: > > > I: Unpacking wget... > I: Unpacking whiptail... > W: Failure while installing base packages. This will be re-at

Re: unbootable system after fresh 4.0r5 installation

2008-12-11 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-12-11 12:50 +0100, Jukka Salmi wrote: > Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. --> debian-user (2008-12-08 16:46:46 -0600): >> http://reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html > > Thanks, udev(7) is probably what I was looking for. > > I tried two approaches: > > 1) Using built-in persistent symlinks (/de

Re: unbootable system after fresh 4.0r5 installation

2008-12-11 Thread Jukka Salmi
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. --> debian-user (2008-12-08 16:46:46 -0600): > http://reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html Thanks, udev(7) is probably what I was looking for. I tried two approaches: 1) Using built-in persistent symlinks (/dev/disk/...). 2) Writing custom rules to create symlinks t

trouble with my repo?

2008-12-11 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Hi I ran the following command, "debootstrap sid temp http://localhost/sid"; which aborts on the following problem: I: Unpacking wget... I: Unpacking whiptail... W: Failure while installing base packages. This will be re-attempted up to five times. when chrooting into environment, and issuein

Re: OT: laptop recomendations

2008-12-11 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Micha Feigin wrote: Hello, Sorry for being a bit off topic but it's time for a new laptop that will run linux solely and I'm looking for recomendation on what has a good build quallity (will travel), descent battery life, although more important is good computing power and a good screen at 15.4"

Re: OT: laptop recomendations

2008-12-11 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/12/11 Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello, > > Sorry for being a bit off topic but it's time for a new laptop that will run > linux solely and I'm looking for recomendation on what has a good build > quallity (will travel), descent battery life, although more important is good > computin

Re: Freeze SO Linux, it's possible?

2008-12-11 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 12:47:39AM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > Tux on ice www.tuxonice.org http://www.tuxonice.net/ ? > has a keep image mode, swsusp has been supported in mainline kernel as of 2.6.17 . I used to use the tuxonice patch but later on moved to uswsusp (s2disk). > although you

Re: cannot execute grub

2008-12-11 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-12-11 08:49 +0100, lee wrote: > Hi, > > is grub executable on i386 only, or does it requre 32bit support in > the kernel? It does require 32-bit emulation on amd64, yes. > cat:/boot# file /usr/sbin/grub > /usr/sbin/grub: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), > static

Re: Freeze SO Linux, it's possible?

2008-12-11 Thread Bob Cox
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 15:59:41 -0700, Nate Duehr ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Micha Feigin wrote: >> Tux on ice www.tuxonice.org has a keep image mode, although you need to be > > Second reply, to my own comment... > > http://www.tuxonice.net/ is the correct URL. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ host www.

Re: [OT] Server for Debian + MySQL

2008-12-11 Thread Adrian Chapela
Ron Johnson escribió: On 12/10/08 20:09, kj wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: "Large systems" (meaning mainframes and "traditional" minicomputers running legacy OSs) are never dedicated. They run application software as well as RDBMSs. OK, we're talking about two different things. Translating that