Re: Local Repo

* Victor Padro (2009-03-12): > I have seen many How to's regarding Local Repositories, but I don't know if > it covers all architectures including ARM. They do. [...] > Is there any documentation you guys can point me to? I found this very useful: See the instructions at t

Local Repo

I have seen many How to's regarding Local Repositories, but I don't know if it covers all architectures including ARM. What I'm trying to do is to setup a Server on my network which will have a local repo for my two NSLU2 and maybe if it's not too big(40GBs the actual size of the HHD) will hold al

Re: Ext3 for flash drive

On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 12:38:35PM +0100, Jens Van Broeckhoven wrote: > Masatran / Deepak, R. wrote: > >Recently, I re-partitioned my flash drive. I made one FAT32 partition, and > >one Ext3 partition. The problem is that when I transfer files from my > Why so many difficult answers? > If you nor

why sid cannot install openoffice?

here is the error message: StarLiu:~# i openoffice.org-writer Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution th

Question about HighPoint RocketRAID 4320

Hi I was wondering if any one is using this or any other high point controller. I am looking at buying one of these, wondering about other peoples experiences Alex -- NOTICE: Anyone seen smoking will be assumed to be on fire and will be summarily put out. signature.asc Descrip

Re: Top posting vs Bottom posting

On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 10:04:29PM -0700, Ken Teague wrote: > There's nothing more painful when reading e-mail than to start from the > very bottom, read the message, then begin to read each reply upwards. It > becomes really bad when some replies are more than a page long because > you now hav

Re: Top posting vs Bottom posting

Sander Marechal wrote: Actually, top posting makes some sense in a corporate environment. There is no mailinglist or archive to see the entire discussion there. Suppose you are discussing something with a coworker over e-mail. With top posting every reply carries the entire thread. Want to involv

Re: Old versions of Debian

Robert Hodgins!! Thanks a lot Ata LISolutions.org On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 4:35 PM, Robert Hodgins wrote: > On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 15:36 +0500, Ata ur Rehman wrote: > > Dear All > > > > I'm new to this list. I'm looking for CD/DVD images for Debian 4.0 r7 > > but I could not find. Can someone h

setting up firefox to use usbdisk java?

I need to access my VPS's VNC over the web but when I try to connect it says I need a plugin and prompts me to manually install a Java Runtime Environment (JRE). I only have like 10MB of space on the ramdisk I run (I use LiveCD since my hard disk controller died and my BIOS is not USB-aware) so I d

why pop out this window "the platform you are running is not supported by this tool"?

My box is debian sid amd64 with desktop gnome, when i performance some admin on the system by click on a item in System-Administration, it pops out a window to let me choose my platform, then i choose the debian gnu/linux, unstable/testing. why it always makes me to choose, can't it detect it autom

Re: how to get past apt-get errors? is there a manual workaround?

On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 03:26:39PM -0600, will trillich was heard to say: > Hi debianites -- a question for DPKG and APT experts: > > We're stuck with apt-get and haven't found a way past it yet -- any > ideas would be welcome: > > Our postgresql-client-7.4 is missing its libpq.so.3 file, which

Re: Ext3 for flash drive

Sam Leon wrote: Mark Allums wrote: Benjamin M. A'Lee wrote: On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 08:23:43PM +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote: Masatran / Deepak, R.: Recently, I re-partitioned my flash drive. I made one FAT32 partition, and one Ext3 partition. Is ext3 on a flash medium really a good idea? At l

Re: Lenny won't install on an old Pentium that used to run Etch.

> Yup, I did a reinstall of Etch. I just did a minimal install this time > (unchecked all the options in tasksel). I was able to get througt the > base install and right up to the installation of GRUB and the reboot and > could log in. In other words, no surprises. Etch is installable. > I've not

Re: USB stick checkup - is heavy daily use taking its toll?

> I have been using a run-of-the-mill 8GB SanDisk Cruzer Micro for nightly > backups for c. 6 months and I am curious as to wear and tear. I wouldn't worry about it unless you intend to keep doing it for 10 years without ever getting a new stick. Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to deb

Re: Advice about ext3, please (An experiment & results)

>> So, yes, unplugging your USB key while it's still mounted is to be >> avoided, and even more so while it's being written to. > The OP asked about about a USB external HDD, not a key. I have not > tested the theory, but I have always understood that keys are > particularly vulnerable. To phy

Re: Lenny won't install on an old Pentium that used to run Etch.

On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 19:00 -0400, Chris Jones wrote: > On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 04:39:51PM EDT, Robert Hodgins wrote: > > > Any ideas to diagnose what is going on or to get the installation to > > complete would be appreciated. > > Not sure.. but have you tried (re)installing etch.. just to make

help: can no longer ssh into my vps server!

I installed some packages an hour ago and then rebooted the remote system (my VPS system) and now I can no longer ssh back into it! ssh is my *only* access to my vps server so this is really upsetting. It isn't ssh problem because I checked and my website (which I host on my vps system) is also now

Re: Top posting vs Bottom posting

> isn't that a reason for top posting, if you have already read the > previous emails, don't you want to just get to the new information with > out having to read the stuff you just read in the previous email ? Well if the bottom-poster just leaves the cited text without any sort of cleaning, i.e.

Re: IP Forward Problems

On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 01:07:06PM +, Gerard Hooton wrote: > Hello, > Fist my system: > > Linux uepc004 2.6.24-1-686 #1 SMP Thu May 8 02:16:39 UTC 2008 i686 > GNU/Linux > > Network: > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:30:48:29:e9:40 > inet addr:143.239.184.13 Bcast:143.239

Re: RAID 5 data structures

On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 07:11:11AM -0500, Sam Leon wrote: > I have a funny question. I have been playing with a 3 disk raid 5 setup > for my desktop. I guess I don't fully understand how the "stripe" is > managed or even what it is. I know the stripe is made up of a chunk > from each disk.

Re: Top posting vs Bottom posting

On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 12:18:52PM +0100, Sander Marechal wrote: > Nuno Magalhães wrote: [snip] > > For a real mailinglist (such as this) there is no such benefit when top > posting. Everyone already has all the previous messages because they are > subscribed here, and in the rare case you want

Re: Staying on topic and quoting

Steven Demetrius wrote the following on 03/11/2009 02:07 AM: Staying on topic and quoting. One of the things that causes confusion is going off topic and improper quoting. Staying on topic makes the thread easy to follow and understand. We all go off topic now and then but we need to curb this

Re: openvpn restart - bridge loses tap0 interface

On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 04:33:24PM +0100, Bernd Aufrecht wrote: > >> Can i ask why you are bridging a openvpn interface ? why not route ? > > For security reasons. My wireless access point has only WEP and so i > have it connected to my second LAN Port on my home server. I then use > openvpn t

Re: netinstall using 1 wireless usb rtl-8187L

On Wed, 11 Mar 2009 09:51:30 -0700 consultores1 wrote: ... > Is it possible installing from Slax, chrooting i mean? Debootstrap (I've never used it)? http://packages.debian.org/stable/admin/debootstrap http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/426 Celejar -- mailmin.sourceforge.net - remo

Re: samba - smb.conf

On Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:51:01 -0300 Rodrigo Hashimoto wrote: > Hello guys, > > I have two questions, the first one is how to generate a new > "smb.conf" ?? Do you just mean the smb.conf from the package or do have specific settings you want. If you want to configure your smb.conf without doing

Re: Where to find old debian versions?

On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 4:53 PM, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 04:14:59PM -0500, Jason Voorhees wrote: > >> P.D.: Does someone know what debian version included MySQL Server 3.x? > > http://archive.debian.net > http://archive.debian.net/mysql-server > Maybe I'm getting blind but

Re: Lenny won't install on an old Pentium that used to run Etch. Try 2

On Wed, 11 Mar 2009 16:22:57 -0600 Robert Hodgins wrote: > I sent this email in two parts. It seems that only the second part got > through. So, here are both parts combined into one email. > > I have a (old) Pentium 75 that used to run Etch. I have been trying to > install Lenny on it without s

samba - smb.conf

Hello guys, I have two questions, the first one is how to generate a new "smb.conf" ?? And the second question is regarding the aptitude on Debian Lenny. I tried to removed the samba with "dpkg -r samba" and reinstall it with "aptitude install samba" to check if I get a new "smb.conf". However I

USB stick checkup - is heavy daily use taking its toll?

I have been using a run-of-the-mill 8GB SanDisk Cruzer Micro for nightly backups for c. 6 months and I am curious as to wear and tear. The smartctl utility does not give me much information: "SMART Health Status: OK" + a cryptic "Read defect list: asked for grown list but didn't get it" - I don't

Re: scripts for batch treatment

Mart Frauenlob wrote: Jochen Schulz wrote: Bernard: I intend to copy a number of files chosen from a given directory. At first, I've made a mistake : instead of deleting unwanted files from a copy of said directory, I worked on deleting lines on a filelist that I had extracted using 'ls

Re: how to get past apt-get errors? is there a manual workaround?

apt-get clean (and autoclean) don't seem to help any, either. argh! On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 3:26 PM, will trillich wrote: > Hi debianites -- a question for DPKG and APT experts: > > We're stuck with apt-get and haven't found a way past it yet -- any > ideas would be welcome: > > Our postgresql-

Re: IP Forward Problems

I realy need help on this! //Ger > Hello, > Fist my system: > > Linux uepc004 2.6.24-1-686 #1 SMP Thu May 8 02:16:39 UTC 2008 i686 > GNU/Linux > > Network: > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:30:48:29:e9:40 > inet addr:143.239.184.13 Bcast:143.239.255.255 > Mask:255.255.0.0 >

Re: Lenny won't install on an old Pentium that used to run Etch. Try 2

On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 16:22 -0600, Robert Hodgins wrote: > ATA Force card so that the machine can recognize the "large" > hard drive The computer came with a 1.2 GB hard drive. The BIOS doesn't recognize the larger 4 GB hard drive. So, I use a ATA Force card (Micro Firmware ATA PRO FLASH BIOS 1.76

Re: Lenny won't install on an old Pentium that used to run Etch.

On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 04:39:51PM EDT, Robert Hodgins wrote: > Any ideas to diagnose what is going on or to get the installation to > complete would be appreciated. Not sure.. but have you tried (re)installing etch.. just to make sure lenny vs. etch is really the problem? Thanks, CJ -- To

Re: scripts for batch treatment

Jochen Schulz wrote: Bernard: I intend to copy a number of files chosen from a given directory. At first, I've made a mistake : instead of deleting unwanted files from a copy of said directory, I worked on deleting lines on a filelist that I had extracted using 'ls -l > filename.txt'.

Lenny won't install on an old Pentium that used to run Etch.

I have a (old) Pentium 75 that used to run Etch. I have been trying to install Lenny on it without success. The installation stops at the 6% point of the "Installation of Base System" step. Various packages are being retrieved at that point. At different times, the installation has stopped while it

Lenny won't install on an old Pentium that used to run Etch. Try 2

I sent this email in two parts. It seems that only the second part got through. So, here are both parts combined into one email. I have a (old) Pentium 75 that used to run Etch. I have been trying to install Lenny on it without success. The installation stops at the 6% point of the "Installation o

Re: Ext3 for flash drive

On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 12:19:09AM -0500, Mark Allums wrote: > Let's us all start a movement, an exFat on Linux movement. exFAT is written by a known patent troll who is already suing a Linux company for a patent that may or may not be valid. I'd stay away from exFAT. http://lwn.net/Articles

Re: Where to find old debian versions?

On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 04:14:59PM -0500, Jason Voorhees wrote: > P.D.: Does someone know what debian version included MySQL Server 3.x? http://archive.debian.net http://archive.debian.net/mysql-server -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il |

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Re: Where to find old debian versions?

Jason Voorhees wrote: Hi: Does anybody know where can I get the iso images of debian potato, woody and sarge maybe? I need to do some tests with old versions of some packages. Thanks P.D.: Does someone know what debian version included MySQL Server 3.x? http://www.debian.org/distrib/archi

how to get past apt-get errors? is there a manual workaround?

Hi debianites -- a question for DPKG and APT experts: We're stuck with apt-get and haven't found a way past it yet -- any ideas would be welcome: Our postgresql-client-7.4 is missing its libpq.so.3 file, which means that pg_controldata can't do its thing, so that anything related to that debian p

Re: iceweasel thinks it has java but websites disagree

On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 03:44 +, Bob Cox wrote: > On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 18:39:14 -0700, Ross Boylan (r...@biostat.ucsf.edu) > wrote: > > > I've encountered 2 different websites today that told me I need a java > > plugin installed. But iceweasel shows that it has such a plugin. > > > > Can

Re: apt-get BROKEN (postgresql-client-7.4 lost its "libpq.so.3")... ideas?

On Wednesday 11 March 2009 15:10:05 will trillich wrote: > Thanks for the reply, Boyd -- Please use interleaved quoting style. If that's too much effort, please bottom-post and trim the quoted text to only what is relevant. It makes the posts easier to read for experts that may have not been

Re: why /sys cannot be copied?

On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 1:55 AM, Sjors Gielen wrote: > Johannes Wiedersich wrote: >> Star Liu wrote: >>> , but >>> the /sys in the new system is a folder, so i tried to copy the sys >>> folder from new system to broken system, by cp /sys /root/OldRoot/sys, >>> but it says many files in the new sys

Where to find old debian versions?

Hi: Does anybody know where can I get the iso images of debian potato, woody and sarge maybe? I need to do some tests with old versions of some packages. Thanks P.D.: Does someone know what debian version included MySQL Server 3.x? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.

Re: pam_ldap, nss_ldap and rfc2307bis (using member instead of memberUid)

OK I Managed to get at least group memberships (somehow working): # getent group testers users; id john.doe testers:*:5001:cn=Dummy,uid=john.doe,ou=People,dc=marcher,dc=name users:*:5000:cn=Dummy,uid=john.doe,ou=People,dc=marcher,dc=name uid=1000(john.doe) gid=5000(users) groups=5000(users) now,

Re: Lenny won't install on an old Pentium that used to run Etch.

I use an ATA Force card so that the machine can recognize the "large" hard drive and boot from the CD reader using an SBM card. I doubt that these are the problem since Etch installed okay, but heck, who knows. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "

apt-get BROKEN (postgresql-client-7.4 lost its "libpq.so.3")... ideas?

Thanks for the reply, Boyd -- There *is* no pidfile for postgres 7.4 (check the original message -- we've got one for 8.1, none for 7.4 :). The real problem is really "main/usr/lib/postgresql/7.4/bin/pg_controldata: error while loading shared libraries: libpq.so.3: cannot open shared object file:

Re: RAID 5 data structures

Mark Allums wrote: Sam Leon wrote: I have a funny question. I have been playing with a 3 disk raid 5 setup for my desktop. I guess I don't fully understand how the "stripe" is managed or even what it is. I know the stripe is made up of a chunk from each disk. Now I always thought of the st

Re: no sound in kde 4.2 - SOLVED

I checked if phonon-backend-xine was installed. It wasn't - due to some broken dependencies. I've installed it, and now I have a functional sound system in KDE. /Svend -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas..

Re: Top posting vs Bottom posting

On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 1:48 AM, Steven Demetrius wrote: > For all you posters discussing Top posting vs Bottom posting and taking > other threads off topic here is a thread for you. On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 7:17 PM, Stephen D. Barnes wrote: > Alan B. Pearce wrote: >>> On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 5:56 AM

Re: pam_ldap, nss_ldap and rfc2307bis (using member instead of memberUid)

Hi, 2009/3/4 Dave Ewart : > You don't explicitly mention this, so I'll just drop this in here: > typically, you need to set both pam_groupdn and pam_member_attribute in > /etc/pam_ldap.conf i have set that: # egrep -v '^$|^#' /etc/pam_ldap.conf base dc=marcher,dc=name uri ldap://localhost ldap_v

Re: Top posting vs Bottom posting

Jens Van Broeckhoven wrote: Sander Marechal wrote: Nuno Magalhães wrote: I think most people top post in corporate enviroments 'cos they just click and type and don't really care about proper use of email or computers in general. It's just the thing to send messages. Actually, top post

Re: Iceape Blocking Images - Thanks

On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 10:43:55PM +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Thomas H. George wrote: > > Suddenly Iceape has started blocking images replacing them with a top > > row of black diamonds containing question marks. The images are not > > just popup ads. For example, if I click on Help/Abou

Re: Top posting vs Bottom posting

Sander Marechal wrote: Nuno Magalhães wrote: I think most people top post in corporate enviroments 'cos they just click and type and don't really care about proper use of email or computers in general. It's just the thing to send messages. Actually, top posting makes some sense in a co

Re: Ext3 for flash drive

Masatran / Deepak, R. wrote: Recently, I re-partitioned my flash drive. I made one FAT32 partition, and one Ext3 partition. The problem is that when I transfer files from my laptop to my work computer, the UIDs on the Ext3 partition are used for the permissions, so I am not able to access the dat

Re: Debian package configure options - repost

Kumar Appaiah wrote: You could use the new Debian patch tracking service and view the debian/rules part of the changes: http://patch-tracking.debian.net/patch/debianonly/view/squid3/3.0.STABLE8-3 There, I see: --enable-auth="basic,digest,ntlm" --enable-basic-auth-helpers="LDAP,MSNT,NCSA,PAM,SA

Re: add epson EPL-6200L driver

Abdelkader Belahcene wrote: > Hi, > my printer is epson EPL-6200L, I install the last Mepis 6. (debian-based > distro); > > I have just epl-6100 , epl-6100PS, epl-7100. But no one ran. In fact > when I tried to print, the pages sent spool, but no thing is printed, I > concluded that the diver is n

add epson EPL-6200L driver

Hi, my printer is epson EPL-6200L, I install the last Mepis 6. (debian-based distro); I have just epl-6100 , epl-6100PS, epl-7100. But no one ran. In fact when I tried to print, the pages sent spool, but no thing is printed, I concluded that the diver is not correct. So how to add the driver to th

Re: Advice about ext3, please (An experiment & results)

Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Wednesday 11 March 2009 17:43:33 Johannes Wiedersich wrote: >> Lisi Reisz wrote: >>> I have not tested the >>> theory, but I have always understood that keys are particularly >>> vulnerable. To physical damage if pulled out prematurely, not just damage >>> to the filesystem.

Re: Advice about ext3, please (An experiment & results)

On Wednesday 11 March 2009 17:43:33 Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Lisi Reisz wrote: > > I have not tested the > > theory, but I have always understood that keys are particularly > > vulnerable. To physical damage if pulled out prematurely, not just damage > > to the filesystem. > > Why so? As I say

Re: why /sys cannot be copied?

Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Star Liu wrote: >> , but >> the /sys in the new system is a folder, so i tried to copy the sys >> folder from new system to broken system, by cp /sys /root/OldRoot/sys, >> but it says many files in the new sys folder cannot be read! why? how >> could I resove the "mount

Re: why /sys cannot be copied?

Star Liu wrote: > and i fount that the /sys in the broken system is a shell file, but > the /sys in the new system is a folder, so i tried to copy the sys > folder from new system to broken system, by cp /sys /root/OldRoot/sys, > but it says many files in the new sys folder cannot be read! why? how

Re: Advice about ext3, please (An experiment & results)

Lisi Reisz wrote: > I have not tested the > theory, but I have always understood that keys are particularly vulnerable. > To physical damage if pulled out prematurely, not just damage to the > filesystem. Why so? Johannes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org wi

Re: Ext3 for flash drive

>> Recently, I re-partitioned my flash drive. I made one FAT32 partition, and >> one Ext3 partition. > Is ext3 on a flash medium really a good idea? At least cheap flash > drives probably don't have smart wear levelling. ext3 is not significantly different in this respect from most other FSes (inc

Re: Advice about ext3, please (An experiment & results)

On Wednesday 11 March 2009 17:15:44 Stefan Monnier wrote: > So, yes, unplugging your USB key while it's still mounted is to be > avoided, and even more so while it's being written to. The OP asked about about a USB external HDD, not a key. I have not tested the theory, but I have always understo

why /sys cannot be copied?

The matter is like this: My debian sid in /dev/sda4 was broken this morning, so I installed a new debian system in a new partition /dev/sda3, and in the new system, i run /sbin/e2fsck -C 0 -y -c -c /dev/hda4 to repair the broken system, and it works, after repair, I can view the content of /dev/sda

Re: Advice about ext3, please

> Stefan: > The original post for this thread was a user asking whether to use ext2 > or ext3 on a removable USB HD. I know. And I strongly recommend ext3 over ext2 for such a use, for the reasons explained. Feel free to disagree. But the fact is that ext3 was specifically designed to be "alway

Re: Advice about ext3, please (An experiment & results)

> The message doesn't -tell- you what to do, but what I think one should > do is plug in the USB drive again and do fsck on the device. When fsck > runs, in immediately reruns the journal and fixes metadata > inconsistencies. Mounting the device would have done the same thing (even if mounted read

Re: Why is Firefox calling gimp instead of xpdf?

On 11 Mar 2009, Bob Cox wrote: > On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 09:35:54 +, Anthony Campbell > (a...@acampbell.org.uk) wrote: > > > On my laptop I have set Preferences to use xpdf to read pdf files, but > > for some reason it keeps calling gimp instead. Is there any way to make > > it do what I wan

Re: Why is Firefox calling gimp instead of xpdf?

On 11 Mar 2009, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Wed, 11 Mar 2009 08:09:10 + > Anthony Campbell wrote: > > Hello Anthony, > > > As I said in my original post, this is what I do and it has no effect. > > A bit of a long shoot, but try looking in Tools>Add-ons>Plugins. There > might be something ther

Re: netinstall using 1 wireless usb rtl-8187L

El mié, 11-03-2009 a las 09:21 +, thveillon.debian escribió: > consultores1 wrote : > > hello > > > > does somebody know how to do an installation using a wireless usb > > rtl-8187L, which does not need any kind of firmware, it works correctly > > with lenny, sid and maybe with any other linux

Re: help! debian sid cannot boot, kerel panic - not syncing

On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 12:50 AM, Star Liu wrote: > On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 8:44 PM, Leandro Doctors wrote: >> 2009/3/11 Star Liu : >>> These days my debian sid amd64 box is not stable, the last time when I >>> shutdown, I found some error message say the filesystem is readonly, >>> some /var/run

Re: openvpn restart - bridge loses tap0 interface

Bernd Aufrecht: > >> Can i ask why you are bridging a openvpn interface ? why not route ? > > For security reasons. My wireless access point has only WEP and so i > have it connected to my second LAN Port on my home server. I then use > openvpn to connect from from my notebook and bridge int

Re: scripts for batch treatment

Bernard: > > I intend to copy a number of files chosen from a given directory. At > first, I've made a mistake : instead of deleting unwanted files from a > copy of said directory, I worked on deleting lines on a filelist that I > had extracted > using 'ls -l > filename.txt'. I am not sure

Re: openvpn restart - bridge loses tap0 interface

Can i ask why you are bridging a openvpn interface ? why not route ? For security reasons. My wireless access point has only WEP and so i have it connected to my second LAN Port on my home server. I then use openvpn to connect from from my notebook and bridge into the my local lan. This s

Re: Advice about ext3, please

Steven, As Aneurin has pointed out, you seem to have responded to the wrong thread, that doesn't relieve the confusion for those of us who use a list reader which threads correctly. And that is a part of what you are complaining about. I expect that you've reacted emotionally, and that is human and

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Re: scripts for batch treatment

Bernard wrote: > Hi to Everyone ! > > I intend to copy a number of files chosen from a given directory. At > first, I've made a mistake : instead of deleting unwanted files from a > copy of said directory, I worked on deleting lines on a filelist that I > had extracted > using 'ls -l > filename.

scripts for batch treatment

Hi to Everyone ! I intend to copy a number of files chosen from a given directory. At first, I've made a mistake : instead of deleting unwanted files from a copy of said directory, I worked on deleting lines on a filelist that I had extracted using 'ls -l > filename.txt'. This sorting job, on

Re: running X without desktop

Daniel Lannstrom wrote: On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 12:57:43PM +0100, Dirk Vervoort wrote: Hi All, How far can I go on a remote pc with only 96 Mb, - Can I run X on a remote pc 192.168.1.2 without a desktop and export a display like DISPLAY=192.168.1.5 to my client pc were I run xhost + 1

Re: running X without desktop

On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 12:57:43PM +0100, Dirk Vervoort wrote: > Hi All, > > How far can I go on a remote pc with only 96 Mb, > > - Can I run X on a remote pc 192.168.1.2 without a desktop and export a > display like DISPLAY=192.168.1.5 to my client pc were I run xhost + > 192.168.1.2. > - Is

Re: Top posting vs Bottom posting

On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 10:31:39AM +, Nuno Magalhães was heard to say: > I think most people top post in corporate enviroments 'cos they just > click and type and don't really care about proper use of email or > computers in general. It's just the thing to send messages. Ever seen > IT Crew?

IP Forward Problems

Hello, Fist my system: Linux uepc004 2.6.24-1-686 #1 SMP Thu May 8 02:16:39 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux Network: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:30:48:29:e9:40 inet addr:143.239.184.13 Bcast:143.239.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0 inet6 addr: fe80::230:48ff:fe29:e940/64 Scop

Re: Aptitude tries to replace backport kernel with older version

On Wed, 11 Mar 2009 16:11:20 +1100, Robert S wrote: > I have replaced the stock etch kernel with 2.6.26-bpo.1-686 by adding > backports to my sources.list and the following to /etc/apt/preferences: > > Package: linux-image-2.6-486 > Pin relase a=etch-backports > Pin-Priority: 999 > > If I run ap

Re: Problems with compilation

On Wed, 11 Mar 2009 12:51:34 +0800 Uwe Dippel wrote: ... > Therefore, I tried > apt-get install g++ > but it gives me > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > g++: Depends: cpp (>= 4:4.3.2-2) but it is not going to be installed >Depends: gcc (>= 4:4.3.2-2) but it is not goin

Re: RAID 5 data structures

Sam Leon wrote: I have a funny question. I have been playing with a 3 disk raid 5 setup for my desktop. I guess I don't fully understand how the "stripe" is managed or even what it is. I know the stripe is made up of a chunk from each disk. Now I always thought of the stripe in raid the sam

Re: Ext3 for flash drive

Sam Leon wrote: Mark Allums wrote: Benjamin M. A'Lee wrote: On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 08:23:43PM +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote: Masatran / Deepak, R.: Recently, I re-partitioned my flash drive. I made one FAT32 partition, and one Ext3 partition. Is ext3 on a flash medium really a good idea? At l

RAID 5 data structures

I have a funny question. I have been playing with a 3 disk raid 5 setup for my desktop. I guess I don't fully understand how the "stripe" is managed or even what it is. I know the stripe is made up of a chunk from each disk. Now I always thought of the stripe in raid the same as a block in

Re: Ext3 for flash drive

Mark Allums wrote: Benjamin M. A'Lee wrote: On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 08:23:43PM +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote: Masatran / Deepak, R.: Recently, I re-partitioned my flash drive. I made one FAT32 partition, and one Ext3 partition. Is ext3 on a flash medium really a good idea? At least cheap flash

Re: Old versions of Debian

On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 15:36 +0500, Ata ur Rehman wrote: > Dear All > > I'm new to this list. I'm looking for CD/DVD images for Debian 4.0 r7 > but I could not find. Can someone help me? > > I tried my best to find the archives at debian.org but unfortunately > couldn't Try this location: http:

running X without desktop

Hi All, How far can I go on a remote pc with only 96 Mb, - Can I run X on a remote pc 192.168.1.2 without a desktop and export a display like DISPLAY=192.168.1.5 to my client pc were I run xhost + 192.168.1.2. - Is there a very small kernel available or should I compile one myself ( never

Re: Top posting vs Bottom posting

On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 12:18:52PM +0100, Sander Marechal wrote: Actually, top posting makes some sense in a corporate environment. There Not really. is no mailinglist or archive to see the entire discussion there. Suppose you are discussing something with a coworker over e-mail. With top pos

Re: Top posting vs Bottom posting

Nuno Magalhães wrote: > I think most people top post in corporate enviroments 'cos they just > click and type and don't really care about proper use of email or > computers in general. It's just the thing to send messages. Actually, top posting makes some sense in a corporate environment. There is

Re: vim

On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 12:42:50AM -0700, hr mahan wrote: > I would like to use vim as editor for my Fortran programs.  In Fedora > vim colorizes the program's text.  I would like to have this option > enabled on my Debian box as well.  What is the solution? If I recall correctly, the default vers

Re: Advice about ext3, please

On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 6:34 AM, Steven Demetrius wrote: > On Tue, 2009-03-10 at 12:27 +, Aneurin Price wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 7:18 AM, Steven Demetrius >> wrote: >> > On Mon, 2009-03-09 at 11:19 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> >> > Does anyone here power off their computer without

Re: vim

hr mahan: > > I would like to use vim as editor for my Fortran programs.  In Fedora > vim colorizes the program's text.  I would like to have this option > enabled on my Debian box as well.  What is the solution? Look into /etc/vim/vimrc to configure system-wide defaults or make the appropriate c

Old versions of Debian

Dear All I'm new to this list. I'm looking for CD/DVD images for Debian 4.0 r7 but I could not find. Can someone help me? I tried my best to find the archives at debian.org but unfortunately couldn't Regards, Ata ur Rehman, AM Library, National Centre for Physics (NCP), Quaid-i-Azam Univers

Re: Top posting vs Bottom posting

On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 07:23, randall wrote: > personally the most e-mails i receive and sent are in a "corporate" > environment and everybody uses top posting there, i clearly see it has > benefits since it is used more as a "notification" to have the latest one > (and probably most relevant) o

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