Re: configure firewall in etch

2009-03-25 Thread Tapani Tarvainen
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 11:10:01PM -0600, Dan Schaper (dscha...@ganymeade.com) wrote: > #!/bin/bash > ip=`ifconfig $1 | grep "inet addr" | awk '{print $2}' | tr -d addr:` > echo Your ip on $1 is $ip Not that it really matters, but you don't need grep and tr: ip=`ifconfig $1 | awk '/inet addr/{s

Re: Can't ping to other ip addesss

2009-03-25 Thread Kousik Maiti
Both are connected with Net. On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: > Kousik Maiti wrote: > >> In my system there are two ethernet card. I can't ping to other machine >> via eth0 but eth1 is working fine. My ethernat controller is >> Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtr

My confusion about lenny and sid

2009-03-25 Thread Kousik Maiti
It may be silly question. I suddenly noticed my /etc/debian_version. It contains sid/lenny. As I know that lenny is stable and sid is unstable . So my distributiion is stable or testing??? -- Wishing you the very best of everything, always!!! Kousik Maiti Registered Linux User #474025

Re: Can't ping to other ip addesss

2009-03-25 Thread Marc Shapiro
Kousik Maiti wrote: In my system there are two ethernet card. I can't ping to other machine via eth0 but eth1 is working fine. My ethernat controller is Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM5708 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 12) It is the output from lspci . Can anybody help??? Th

Re: Can't ping to other ip addesss

2009-03-25 Thread Kousik Maiti
In my system there are two ethernet card. I can't ping to other machine via eth0 but eth1 is working fine. My ethernat controller is Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM5708 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 12) It is the output from lspci . Can anybody help??? On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 12:

Re: Suspending and resuming compile process

2009-03-25 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:06:33 +0100 Jochen Schulz wrote: > Amit Uttamchandani: > > > > Now, I am thinking of applying this to kernel compilation, etc. Is this > > common practice? Do others do this as well? > > I suspended while compiling kernels a few times already. I didn't even > bother to su

Re: Suspending and resuming compile process

2009-03-25 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:24:17 +0100 Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2009-03-25 19:58 +0100, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > > > I have a fairly old laptop (500MHz G4) and I tend to compile a lot of > > applications from source. Most of time it doesn't take too long but > > when I compile large libraries or

smtpd segfaults?

2009-03-25 Thread i'll teach you to turn away.
hi! i'm seeing lots of these & it's no fun: Mar 24 07:07:44 compunction kernel: smtpd[24903]: segfault at b7fd3ff4 ip b7c2658e sp bfffdee4 error 7 in libresolv-2.9.so[b7c1e000+11000] Mar 24 10:55:07 compunction kernel: smtpd[26451]: segfault at b7fd3ff4 ip b7c2658e sp bfffdee4 error 7 in

Re: configure firewall in etch

2009-03-25 Thread Dan Schaper
Alex wrote: > It's no need to send one e-mail multiple times, and please set your > system date and time acordingly > You can find out your ip address using a script like this > > #!/bin/bash > ip=`ifconfig ethX | grep "inet addr" | awk '{print $2}' | tr -d addr:` > echo Your ip on ethX is $ip > >

Re: Mouse Jumping around??

2009-03-25 Thread Daryl Styrk
Mine doesn't like the marble table/desk.. Keep a blank sheet of paper around or this really old mouse fabric mouse pad.. Speaking of which and moving slightly off topic.. Anyone know of a pad that has reference material on it? Maybe Debian commands or perhaps bash? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Mouse Jumping around??

2009-03-25 Thread Cybe R. Wizard
John W Foster said: [mouse skipping due to grey pad] > Now that is what I call a very interesting coincidenceGrey huh!!! > > I will do some experiments using different shades of gray :-) The same thing happened to a friend using a new optical mouse on a glass desktop. Cybe R. Wizard --

Re: Mouse Jumping around??

2009-03-25 Thread John W Foster
On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 19:41 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2009-03-25 17:31, John W Foster wrote: > > On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 22:05 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > >> On Wed,25.Mar.09, 14:54:35, John W Foster wrote: > >>> I have a solid, well established Lenny Stable server system. Recently > >>> the

Re: Delete 4 million files

2009-03-25 Thread Tapani Tarvainen
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 03:10:42PM +, Tzafrir Cohen (tzaf...@cohens.org.il) wrote: > $ for i in `seq 400`; do echo something quite longer; done | xargs > /bin/echo | wc > 756 1200 9200 [...] > So it's indeed not 4M processes, but still quite a few. Even 756 is much less than

Re: time server

2009-03-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 25 March 2009 19:42:44 Ron Johnson wrote: >Besides installing ntp, I also installed ntpdate and have it run at >boot for an initial "fix" in case the mobo clock has drifted too far. I use openntpd, and add "-s" to its command-line. (-s = sync, which cause the daemon to set the clock

Re: time server

2009-03-25 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-04-25 15:37, leo wrote: hey! I need to configure automatically my date on boot time where I can find ntp servers Besides installing ntp, I also installed ntpdate and have it run at boot for an initial "fix" in case the mobo clock has drifted too far. -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson L

Re: Mouse Jumping around??

2009-03-25 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-03-25 17:31, John W Foster wrote: On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 22:05 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Wed,25.Mar.09, 14:54:35, John W Foster wrote: I have a solid, well established Lenny Stable server system. Recently the mouse is taking unexpected "leaps" around on the screen. By that I mean i

Re: about ntp

2009-03-25 Thread Chris
On Sat, 25 Apr 2009 16:01:48 -0700 leo wrote: > when I exec ntpdate -u pool.ntp.org for example, the out is: > > "no server suitable for synchronization found" > so it's posible a misconfiguration or no access > what could be the problem here? > > > > Try using the man page man ntpdat

Re: Suspending and resuming compile process

2009-03-25 Thread Mark McCorkell
Celejar wrote: On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:06:33 +0100 Jochen Schulz wrote: Amit Uttamchandani: Now, I am thinking of applying this to kernel compilation, etc. Is this common practice? Do others do this as well? I suspended while compiling kernels a few times already. I didn't even

Re: Delete 4 million files

2009-03-25 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-03-25 18:50, Paul E Condon wrote: Top post because it is OT, but related. Yesterday I had occasion to remove some old data from my system. I had a backup copy, and the data was all on a single partition. I could have simply rewritten the file system with mke2fs, but I decided, instead, to

Re: Delete 4 million files

2009-03-25 Thread Paul E Condon
Top post because it is OT, but related. Yesterday I had occasion to remove some old data from my system. I had a backup copy, and the data was all on a single partition. I could have simply rewritten the file system with mke2fs, but I decided, instead, to use rm -rf * at the top level of the file s

Re: Suspending and resuming compile process

2009-03-25 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:06:33 +0100 Jochen Schulz wrote: > Amit Uttamchandani: > > > > Now, I am thinking of applying this to kernel compilation, etc. Is this > > common practice? Do others do this as well? > > I suspended while compiling kernels a few times already. I didn't even > bother to su

Re: Mouse Jumping around??

2009-03-25 Thread Matthew Smith
Quoth green at 2009-03-26 09:48... > I was disappointed by one optical mouse; for me there are 2 reasons to have > an > optical mouse: no cleaning, and no mouse pad. But this one would not work on > one of those white 8ft folding plastic tables. It seems to me that an > optical > mouse shoul

Re: Mouse Jumping around??

2009-03-25 Thread John W Foster
On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 17:18 -0600, green wrote: > John W Foster wrote at 2009-03-25 16:31 -0600: > > All of the responses were possible candidates, however it seems the real > > culprit was far simpler. My wife had swiped my very old, very highly > > decorated, very large, very soft, MOUSE PAD... T

Re: Mouse Jumping around??

2009-03-25 Thread green
John W Foster wrote at 2009-03-25 16:31 -0600: > All of the responses were possible candidates, however it seems the real > culprit was far simpler. My wife had swiped my very old, very highly > decorated, very large, very soft, MOUSE PAD... The optical mouse was > trying to work on a plain gray fe

Re: Delete 4 million files

2009-03-25 Thread Mike Castle
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > Just curious - why would you use sort before deleting something? You wouldn't, that was the point. Someone was trying to turn that OFF for find; but find doesn't do that, so there was nothing to turn off. On the other hand, ls and the sh

Re: Mouse Jumping around??

2009-03-25 Thread John W Foster
On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 22:05 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Wed,25.Mar.09, 14:54:35, John W Foster wrote: > > I have a solid, well established Lenny Stable server system. Recently > > the mouse is taking unexpected "leaps" around on the screen. By that I > > mean it jumps from say the bottom righ

My Netbook Project

2009-03-25 Thread Matthew Smith
Hi Folks I have decided that I need (or would like) a netbook. My ThinkPad is a desktop replacement, very heavy, gets very hot, has short battery life, and spends its time connected to many cables including an external monitor (xinerama with the laptop panel,) keyboard and trackball. In short, i

Re: hostname, dyndns and home network

2009-03-25 Thread T o n g
On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:04:06 +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote: >> - Only one host can have a dyndns.org domain name, how do you set >> domain name for the rest of the boxes? > > I have wasteland.homelinux.net as a publicly visible hostname and all my > hosts have hostnames below that, e.g. manowar.wast

Konqueror: select all doesn't work in the location bar

2009-03-25 Thread Randy Kramer
(On my recently installed Debian 5.0 with Konqueror 3.5.9) Two questions: Select all doesn't work in the konqueror location bar. Is anyone else experiencing the same problem? I reported this as a bug, and got back a "works for me" response from someone using 3.5.9 on Debian Squeeze. They said

Re: Delete 4 million files

2009-03-25 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Chris Davies wrote: > Tzafrir Cohen wrote: >> At this point I wanted to write "well, one thing you you can optimize >> away is the sorting of the 4M files that find does. To disable it, use >> -". But I could not find such an option. > > That's because find doesn't sort. It generates the files i

Re: Debian unter Windows 2000

2009-03-25 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
UST wrote: > Ich habe einen Dell-Laptop Latitude CPI-A mit Win 2000, auf den ich Debian > installieren möchte. Leider ist das Bios-Passwort nicht auffindbar, so > dass ich die Boot-Reihenfolge nicht auf DVD-einstellen kann. Die > Festplatte (3GB) hat 2 Partitionen. Kann ich unter Windows Debian au

bind9+lenny+subdominio

2009-03-25 Thread Yuniesky
Hola Colegas ¿Como puedo delegar un subdominio a traves de mi dns? el caso es que estoy haciendo un test al bind9 sobre lenny en una maquina de mi lan con un dominio diferente es decir un subdominio, en el server agregue el subdominio al resolv.conf y trabaja perfecto pero las demas maquina con w

Re: External USB HD showing up late in /dev

2009-03-25 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Mark McCorkell wrote: > I switched back to the standard set of Debian modules for the time > being, as I don't have the time or experience (yet!) to resolve the > issue but I did find this rather long discussion > (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=401916) indicating > that it's bee

Re: Mouse Jumping around??

2009-03-25 Thread T o n g
On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:54:35 -0500, John W Foster wrote: > I have a solid, well established Lenny Stable server system. Recently > the mouse is taking unexpected "leaps" around on the screen. By that I > mean it jumps from say the bottom right to the top left or elsewhere. It > is irregular. Has a

Re: hostname, dyndns and home network

2009-03-25 Thread Chris Davies
T o n g wrote: > Anyone who has a home network and a dyndns account can share you > arrangement with your box's hostnames? E.g., > - Do you use FQDN for all hosts? -- I found using a single name as > hostname will cause problem for many application, sendmail, squid, etc. Use your dyndns domain

Re: Delete 4 million files

2009-03-25 Thread Chris Davies
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > At this point I wanted to write "well, one thing you you can optimize > away is the sorting of the 4M files that find does. To disable it, use -". > But I could not find such an option. That's because find doesn't sort. It generates the files in directory entry order. Proof

Re: Kernel issues: booting from USB storage (Repost)

2009-03-25 Thread Matthew Smith
Quoth green at 2009-03-26 06:55... > Try: > echo none > "/sys/class/leds/iwl-phy0:RX/trigger" > echo none > "/sys/class/leds/iwl-phy0:TX/trigger" > > Give at a minute or so... > and if it works, then make it permanent with 2 lines in /etc/sysfs.conf: > class/leds/iwl-phy0:RX/trigger = none > class

ok problem solve thank you all for your help

2009-03-25 Thread leo
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Re: Kernel issues: booting from USB storage (Repost)

2009-03-25 Thread green
Matthew Smith wrote at 2009-03-24 23:31 -0600: > I am indeed using iwl3945 as I'm using kernel 2.6.26 for day-to-day > operations. The main annoyance is that it makes the wireless light > blink (before it was either on or off) which is going to require either > tracking down how it does it and dis

Re: about ntp

2009-03-25 Thread Tapani Tarvainen
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 10:08:20PM +0200, Andrei Popescu (andreimpope...@gmail.com) wrote: > On Sat,25.Apr.09, 16:01:48, leo wrote: > > when I exec ntpdate -u pool.ntp.org for example, the out is: > > > > "no server suitable for synchronization found" > > so it's posible a misconfiguration or no

Re: pipeline in dpkg -I

2009-03-25 Thread cesarino vinh
I've figured it out the keywords were: get the packagename from the deb's [gdm_XXX.deb etc], with dpkg -I, result: "gdm", and then eg.: apt-rdepends gdm -s --show=DEPENDS > list and then download the dependencies with "aptitude download list line1" etc, and it will not download the eg.: x-termin

Re: about ntp

2009-03-25 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat,25.Apr.09, 16:01:48, leo wrote: > when I exec ntpdate -u pool.ntp.org for example, the out is: > > "no server suitable for synchronization found" > so it's posible a misconfiguration or no access > what could be the problem here? Sorry I have to ask, but is that box connected to the inter

you are right nigel

2009-03-25 Thread leo
my 123 port was close can you tell me how to open this port -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Mouse Jumping around??

2009-03-25 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed,25.Mar.09, 14:54:35, John W Foster wrote: > I have a solid, well established Lenny Stable server system. Recently > the mouse is taking unexpected "leaps" around on the screen. By that I > mean it jumps from say the bottom right to the top left or elsewhere. It > is irregular. Has anyone not

Re: pipeline in dpkg -I

2009-03-25 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed,25.Mar.09, 20:21:55, cesarino vinh wrote: > hi! > > I want to get the dependencies for a deb file: What are you trying to achieve? I'm asking because there might be a much easier way to get there. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (A

about ntp

2009-03-25 Thread leo
when I exec ntpdate -u pool.ntp.org for example, the out is: "no server suitable for synchronization found" so it's posible a misconfiguration or no access what could be the problem here? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troub

Re: thanks

2009-03-25 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 25 April 2009 23:09:39 leo wrote: > thanks for the info but I can't access internet ntp servers from my LAN So why did you ask for ntp servers? Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.

Mouse Jumping around??

2009-03-25 Thread John W Foster
I have a solid, well established Lenny Stable server system. Recently the mouse is taking unexpected "leaps" around on the screen. By that I mean it jumps from say the bottom right to the top left or elsewhere. It is irregular. Has anyone noticed this behavior? I upgraded stable about 2 days after

Re: thanks (ntp problems)

2009-03-25 Thread Nigel Henry
On Sunday 26 April 2009 00:09, leo wrote: > thanks for the info but I can't access internet ntp servers from my LAN Well you havn't quoted what info you were given. That aside, ntp uses port 123 UDP, so make sure it's open, outgoing to the Internet. Alternatively, if you have ntpdate installed,

Re: thanks

2009-03-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <1240697379.20034.11.ca...@leonardo.softel.cu>, leo wrote: >thanks for the info but I can't access internet ntp servers from my LAN Then you will have to ask your LAN administrator(s) for what time servers you need to use. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasui

Re: setuid script

2009-03-25 Thread cesarino vinh
This is how I start my browser under GNOME: Alt+F2 then: gksu then I choose another user, and run iceweasel, I just want to make that "more comfortable" by just clicking "on something".

Re: Suspending and resuming compile process

2009-03-25 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-03-25 19:58 +0100, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > I have a fairly old laptop (500MHz G4) and I tend to compile a lot of > applications from source. Most of time it doesn't take too long but > when I compile large libraries or applications this sometimes takes 4-5 > hours. > > An example is we

pipeline in dpkg -I

2009-03-25 Thread cesarino vinh
hi! I want to get the dependencies for a deb file: eg.: aptitude download gdm dpkg -I gdm_*.deb|grep Depends then it looks like this: Depends: libart-2.0-2 (>= 2.3.18), libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.20.0), libattr1 (>= 2.4.41-1), libc6 (>= 2.7-1), libcairo2 (>= 1.2.4), libdbus-1-3 (>= 1.0.2), libdbus-gli

Re: Conserving permissions on samba share

2009-03-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <1237998396.3497.29.ca...@kepler>, Alain JUPIN wrote: >How can I duplicate a folder (and his subfolders) without resetting the > permissions (from windows client of course) ? Is it possible ? This isn't a MS Windows support list. If you need help using a MS Windows program, I suggest you go f

Re: aspell gets remove on OOo removal, why?

2009-03-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <20090325104415.go19...@serveme.schnalke.local>, markus schnalke wrote: >[W]hen I issue: > > # apt-get purge ^openoffice.org.* > >it shows: > > The following packages will be REMOVED: > aspell* aspell-en* dictionaries-common* openoffice.org* > openoffice.org-base* openoffice.

thanks

2009-03-25 Thread leo
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Re: Suspending and resuming compile process

2009-03-25 Thread Jochen Schulz
Amit Uttamchandani: > > Now, I am thinking of applying this to kernel compilation, etc. Is this > common practice? Do others do this as well? I suspended while compiling kernels a few times already. I didn't even bother to suspend the process. No problems so far. But I agree it takes a while to g

Re: testing microphone - how?

2009-03-25 Thread Rob Starling
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 06:21:43PM +, T o n g wrote: > On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 13:17:53 -0400, H.S. wrote: > > > . . . Mic Boost. If not set, the microphone will "not work" > >> under Linux. Anyone knows how to easily set it up? > > > > I just do: > > $> alsamixer > > thanks. > > Any command l

Re: Lowest ram system with X. Presario 5166.

2009-03-25 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Tue, 3 Mar 2009 19:36:06 + Nuno Magalh__es wrote: > On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 7:00 PM, Daniel Lannstrom wrote: > > [...] Also, > > don't expect that firefox will be very fast. You might want to install > > another browser. I have heard that Opera has a smaller memory footprint > > (don't knw

Re: hostname, dyndns and home network

2009-03-25 Thread Jochen Schulz
T o n g: > > Anyone who has a home network and a dyndns account can share you > arrangement with your box's hostnames? E.g., > > - Do you use FQDN for all hosts? -- I found using a single name as > hostname will cause problem for many application, sendmail, squid, etc. > > - Only one host can

Suspending and resuming compile process

2009-03-25 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
Hi, I have a fairly old laptop (500MHz G4) and I tend to compile a lot of applications from source. Most of time it doesn't take too long but when I compile large libraries or applications this sometimes takes 4-5 hours. An example is webkitgtk+ 1.1.3. I needed this to compile the latest version

Re: time server

2009-03-25 Thread John Hasler
leo writes: > I need to configure automatically my date on boot time where I can find > ntp servers Just install the Chrony or Ntp package. Either will automatically configure itself to use the Debian ntp servers, which are: 0.debian.pool.ntp.org 1.debian.pool.ntp.org 2.debian.pool.ntp.org 3.deb

[Solved] Re: No sound on HP dv4

2009-03-25 Thread s. keeling
I just plugged a pair of external speakers into this thing this morning, and found it all appears to work. YouTube videos and wmv files play fine. s. keeling : > Nigel Henry : > > Repost of info posted on the /dev/sndstat thread by s. keeling. > > > > s. keeling : > > > > > >I'm just adding my

Re: testing microphone - how?

2009-03-25 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 25 March 2009 18:21:43 T o n g wrote: > On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 13:17:53 -0400, H.S. wrote: > > . . . Mic Boost. If not set, the microphone will "not work" > > > >> under Linux. Anyone knows how to easily set it up? > > > > I just do: > > $> alsamixer > > thanks. > > Any command line tool

Re: testing microphone - how?

2009-03-25 Thread T o n g
On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 13:17:53 -0400, H.S. wrote: > . . . Mic Boost. If not set, the microphone will "not work" >> under Linux. Anyone knows how to easily set it up? > > I just do: > $> alsamixer thanks. Any command line tool so that I can automate it without manual tweaking? -- Tong (remove

Re: Delete 4 million files

2009-03-25 Thread Rob Starling
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 03:10:42PM +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 07:53:06AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 2009-03-25 05:16, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > >>> Tapani Tarvainen schrieb: > > kj wrote: > >> Now, I've been running the usual find . -type f -exec rm {} \; > >>>

Re: time server

2009-03-25 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 01:37:51PM -0700, leo wrote: > hey! > > I need to configure automatically my date on boot time > where I can find ntp servers The default settings of the ntp package is to use pool.ntp.org . See http://www.pool.ntp.org/ -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VI

hostname, dyndns and home network

2009-03-25 Thread T o n g
Hi, Anyone who has a home network and a dyndns account can share you arrangement with your box's hostnames? E.g., - Do you use FQDN for all hosts? -- I found using a single name as hostname will cause problem for many application, sendmail, squid, etc. - Only one host can have a dyndns.org dom

time server

2009-03-25 Thread leo
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Re: testing microphone - how?

2009-03-25 Thread H.S.
T o n g wrote: > On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:52:06 -0400, H.S. wrote: > >> Wonderful explanation of the magic that alsa does! Thanks a ton. > > Yes, very impressive. Thanks Emanoil. > > One very important issue for people to use the microphone is the input > gain setting, ie. Mic Boost. If not set,

Re: [OT] Cron and day of the week

2009-03-25 Thread Tapani Tarvainen
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 04:25:45PM +, T o n g (mlist4sunt...@yahoo.com) wrote: > I know we can put day of the week info as cron schedules, but how can I > define: Cron syntax can't handle these, but with an extra test in crontab they can be done. Assuming you want to run "myprog" at noon:

Re: Debian unter Windows 2000

2009-03-25 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed,25.Mar.09, 16:20:35, UST wrote: > Ich habe einen Dell-Laptop Latitude CPI-A mit Win 2000, auf den ich > Debian installieren möchte. Leider ist das Bios-Passwort nicht > auffindbar, so dass ich die Boot-Reihenfolge nicht auf DVD-einstellen > kann. Die Festplatte (3GB) hat 2 Partitionen. Ka

Re: External USB HD showing up late in /dev

2009-03-25 Thread Mark McCorkell
Davide Mancusi wrote: Hi .*, I have an external USB hard disk that I use for automated backups. I have written the following udev rules: SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ATTRS{serial}=="574341535530323537353839", KERNEL=="sd?", SYMLINK+="exthd", GROUP="plugdev" SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ATTRS{serial}=="

Re: weird error while trying to run apt-get ? has anyone seen this...google has not

2009-03-25 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Tue,24.Mar.09, 18:54:27, Joey L wrote: > On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Andrei Popescu > wrote: > > > The relevant part is this: > > > > > dpkg: error processing > > > /var/cache/apt/archives/libtagcoll-dev_1.6.3-2_amd64.deb (--unpack): > > > trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/man1/tagcoll

Conserving permissions on samba share

2009-03-25 Thread Alain JUPIN
Hi all, I have a shared folder (shared by samba on debian lenny), accessible from windows clients in which I have a folder example and his subfolders with the following : example drwxr-x--- proprio:users |-dossier1 drwxrwx--- proprio:group1 |-dossier2 drwxrwx

Re: testing microphone - how?

2009-03-25 Thread T o n g
On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:52:06 -0400, H.S. wrote: > Wonderful explanation of the magic that alsa does! Thanks a ton. Yes, very impressive. Thanks Emanoil. One very important issue for people to use the microphone is the input gain setting, ie. Mic Boost. If not set, the microphone will "not work"

Why the maintainer bother to use set -e instead of #!/bin/sh -e for all maintainer scripts?

2009-03-25 Thread e2xbegqsdyt21hfc
krb5 (1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-10) ... * Use set -e instead of #!/bin/sh -e for all maintainer scripts. Why bother? What difference does it make? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: [OT] Cron and day of the week

2009-03-25 Thread Daryl Styrk
T o n g wrote: Hi, I know we can put day of the week info as cron schedules, but how can I define: - first Monday of the month - second Monday of the month - last Monday of the month Thanks! This has some nice examples. http://www.adminschoice.com/docs/crontab.htm -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: [OT] Cron and day of the week

2009-03-25 Thread Dave Ewart
On Wednesday, 25.03.2009 at 16:34 +, Avi Greenbury wrote: > T o n g wrote: >> I know we can put day of the week info as cron schedules, but how can I >> define: >> >> - first Monday of the month >> - second Monday of the month >> - last Monday of the month > > The first Monday of the month wi

Re: [OT] Cron and day of the week

2009-03-25 Thread Dave Ewart
On Wednesday, 25.03.2009 at 16:25 +, T o n g wrote: > I know we can put day of the week info as cron schedules, but how can I > define: None of these are simple cron entries. I work with similar rules as follows: > - first Monday of the month Run the cron job on the 1st to 7th of the mont

Re: [OT] Cron and day of the week

2009-03-25 Thread Avi Greenbury
T o n g wrote: I know we can put day of the week info as cron schedules, but how can I define: - first Monday of the month - second Monday of the month - last Monday of the month The first Monday of the month will be the only Monday within the first seven days of the month. 0 0 1-7 * 1 com

[OT] Cron and day of the week

2009-03-25 Thread T o n g
Hi, I know we can put day of the week info as cron schedules, but how can I define: - first Monday of the month - second Monday of the month - last Monday of the month Thanks! -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/

Unable to boot into encrypted file system after upgrade etch --> lenny

2009-03-25 Thread klappnase
Hello, after I upgraded to lenny I am not able to boot the new kernel (2.6.26-1-686), however it still works using the old etch kernel (2.6.22-2-k7 from backports.org). About my system: There is an encrypted root partition on /dev/hda1 and a separate /boot partition on /dev/hda4. When booting the n

Re: Which timezone does the cron use in Debian?

2009-03-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <807655.15935...@web76701.mail.sg1.yahoo.com>, Patrik Hasibuan wrote: >debby:/var/spool/cron/crontabs# cat ./root >25 17 * * 1-6 /sbin/halt >55 14 * * 0 /sbin/halt >But my cron still work with the 'CST'. I've never done this myself, so I'm

Mrs. Joanna Parthimos. Bequeatte of fortunes to charity

2009-03-25 Thread Mrs . Joanna Parthimos .
Dear Beloved, I am Mrs. Joanna Parthimos, a widow with am amputated spirit, resulting from my severe cancer disease. Based on the Doctor's diagnosis, I have just little time to live. Now I remember the words of wise King Solomon in Ecclesiastes 1:2, 8:13b. True to this, I have decided t

Debian unter Windows 2000

2009-03-25 Thread UST
Ich habe einen Dell-Laptop Latitude CPI-A mit Win 2000, auf den ich Debian installieren möchte. Leider ist das Bios-Passwort nicht auffindbar, so dass ich die Boot-Reihenfolge nicht auf DVD-einstellen kann. Die Festplatte (3GB) hat 2 Partitionen. Kann ich unter Windows Debian auf der 2. Partitio

Re: configure firewall in etch

2009-03-25 Thread Alex
leo wrote: > On Mon, 2001-12-31 at 10:52 -0700, leo wrote: > >> On Mon, 2001-12-31 at 10:33 -0700, leo wrote: >> >>> hello, >>> >>> is there any problem configuring a firewall in an dhcp client machine >>> when an IP address change every time I reboot. In the firewall rules I >>> denied (DR

Re: Delete 4 million files

2009-03-25 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 07:53:06AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2009-03-25 05:16, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 10:19:37AM +0100, Rainer Kluge wrote: >>> Tapani Tarvainen schrieb: > kj wrote: >> Now, I've been running the usual find . -type f -exec rm {} \; >> but th

configure firewall in etch

2009-03-25 Thread leo
On Mon, 2001-12-31 at 10:52 -0700, leo wrote: > On Mon, 2001-12-31 at 10:33 -0700, leo wrote: > > hello, > > > > is there any problem configuring a firewall in an dhcp client machine > > when an IP address change every time I reboot. In the firewall rules I > > denied (DROP) all incoming and OUTCO

onfigure firewall in etch

2009-03-25 Thread leo
On Mon, 2001-12-31 at 10:33 -0700, leo wrote: > hello, > > is there any problem configuring a firewall in an dhcp client machine > when an IP address change every time I reboot. In the firewall rules I > denied (DROP) all incoming and OUTCOMING packet messages and after that > this line: > > ipta

configure firewall in etch

2009-03-25 Thread leo
hello, is there any problem configuring a firewall in an dhcp client machine when an IP address change every time I reboot. In the firewall rules I denied (DROP) all incoming and OUTCOMING packet messages and after that this line: iptables -A INPUT -s 192.168.16.118 -j ACCEPT iptables -A OUTPUT -

Affiliate link offer from guardyourself.net

2009-03-25 Thread Jake
Dear Naturesgrasp, Hello my name is Jake Buhrman and I'm the webmaster for a self defense poducts web site called guardyourself.net. I noticed your web site naturesgrasp.com has some content that is related to my own web site and I’m wondering if you would be interested in bec

Re: libmetacity0

2009-03-25 Thread Jochen Schulz
Dan-Simon Myrland: > > I'm trying to install compiz-fusion-all on my debian sid, but for some > reason libmetacity0 will not install. If you had told us how you tried to do that and what exactly happened instead, we might have been able to help you. But hey, it's never too late! :) > When i try t

Re: Delete 4 million files

2009-03-25 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-03-25 05:16, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 10:19:37AM +0100, Rainer Kluge wrote: Tapani Tarvainen schrieb: kj wrote: Now, I've been running the usual find . -type f -exec rm {} \; but this is going at about 700,000 per day. Would simply doing an rm -rf on the Maildir

Re: Delete 4 million files

2009-03-25 Thread Sam Leon
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: In <49c93fd1.7040...@net153.net>, Sam Leon wrote: Most everyone here is recommending just plain old rm -rf I might add that once you start the rm process that you find the pid of it and then lower its priority with renice so that away your whole system won't be slo

libmetacity0

2009-03-25 Thread Dan-Simon Myrland
I'm trying to install compiz-fusion-all on my debian sid, but for some reason libmetacity0 will not install. When i try to manually install the deb package i get this error message: dpkg: error processing libmetacity0_2.22.0-2_i386 (--install): cannot access archive: No such file or directory Er

Re: libglib1.2ldbl

2009-03-25 Thread André Moreira
Done! After 50 upgrades I installed lazarus! Thanks for the help Daryl. I appreciate it! Cheers 2009/3/24 Daryl Styrk > André Moreira wrote: > >> Hey, >> >> been there already, got the source >> [glib1.2_1.2.10.orig.tar.gz]< >> http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/g

aspell gets remove on OOo removal, why?

2009-03-25 Thread markus schnalke
Hoi, my system is Debian unstable. I have no switched from openoffice.org to abiword/gnumeric, thus I want to remove openoffice.org. Strangely, when I issue: # apt-get purge ^openoffice.org.* it shows: The following packages will be REMOVED: aspell* aspell-en* diction

Re: Best slim laptop on debian

2009-03-25 Thread Jochen Schulz
gusti: > > I want to by a slim laptop, but the last time that was buy a laptop was > a Toshiba Portege R100 and still I have not 3D support. > I don't want to make a wrong decision, so can you please recommend the > best slim laptop today supported fully support on linux? I own a Thinkpad X

cadaver vs davfs2 while access to alfresco webdav share

2009-03-25 Thread Javier Barroso
Hi list, Do you know where is the diff between davfs2 and cadaver ? (Yes, I know, one mount and the other doesn't it ;) ) I can use cadaver to upload files in webdav alfresco interface, but I can't write in dav2fs mount point. $ mount.dav2fs http://alfresco/webdav alfresco $ ls alfresco/ # is ok

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