Re: Question about get-selections

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 11:56:08PM -0600, Paul E Condon was heard to say: > Are you aware of the documentation package for aptitude? Yes. :-) Daniel (SCNR) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@li

Re: regarding upgrade

On 2009-04-23, Lenny Jaan wrote: > > --=-RGKxjrJfS0h2o/y5be2e > Content-Type: text/plain > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > Now I have peace mind, Thanks 2 Thierry. > How do I get rid of other 2 entries from the boot screen ? > How do I view the versio of Lenny using command line ?

Re: Cron - any advanced options?

Jeffrey Cao wrote: Is there an option in CRON, which always check if CRON has started the = process and is already running? Cron should execute the script only if = the the process isn't running already. Any hints on this? You could create a lockfile touch /var/lock/cronfiletest and the test

Re: Cron - any advanced options?

On 2009-04-23, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) > --enig96969A47323B843026EC6D74 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > Kurian Thayil wrote: >> Hi All, >> =EF=BF=BD >>

Re: X: Libgcrypt warning: missing initialization - please fix the application

On 2009-04-24 07:22 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2009-04-24 04:33 +0200, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: > >> So now all I want to know is what to do about >> X: Libgcrypt warning: missing initialization - please fix the application > > This has already been reported by yours truly: > http://bugs.de

Re: Question about get-selections

On 2009-04-23_21:27:07, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 09:13:38AM +, "J.M.Roth" > was heard to say: > > > >Oh and I guess to make things really right one would have to use > > > >--get-selections '*' > > > >during the backup, or an additional > > > >dpkg --clear-selections >

web monitoring tool?

I'm looking for a web based monitoring tool. mrtg isn't supported any longer? I tried rtg, but it seemed like it was really complex to setup. I just want a simple monitor that will graph cpu, memory, disk, etc. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject o

Re: how to resolve the dependency problem when installing k3d in debian sid?

On 2009-04-24 07:14 +0200, 明覺 wrote: > when i install k3d in debian sid, it says dependency problem > - > minjue:~# i k3d > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state informati

Re: X: Libgcrypt warning: missing initialization - please fix the application

On 2009-04-24 04:33 +0200, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: > So now all I want to know is what to do about > X: Libgcrypt warning: missing initialization - please fix the application This has already been reported by yours truly: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=524822. Unless someone

how to resolve the dependency problem when installing k3d in debian sid?

when i install k3d in debian sid, it says dependency problem - minjue:~# i k3d Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. T

Re: Which C++ STL manual package in Debian

On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 08:23:55PM +0200, Lorenzo Bettini was heard to say: > Daniel Burrows wrote: >> Manpages for STL classes are under the STL class name; e.g., try >> "man std::string". >> > > No, I meant doxygen documentation for the apis of C++ library... Sorry, I thought you meant man

Re: Question about get-selections

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 09:13:38AM +, "J.M.Roth" was heard to say: > > >Oh and I guess to make things really right one would have to use > > >--get-selections '*' > > >during the backup, or an additional > > >dpkg --clear-selections > > >before the restore. Just a thought. > > > > --clear-se

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

Michael Pobega wrote: > On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 07:43:55AM -0400, machiner wrote: >> I thought I asked you a question. >> > > There's no reason to be rude. All we're saying is that instead of > running your own site, why not contribute to a pre-existing site? I'm > personally hoping that one day I

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 07:43:55AM -0400, machiner wrote: > > I thought I asked you a question. > There's no reason to be rude. All we're saying is that instead of running your own site, why not contribute to a pre-existing site? I'm personally hoping that one day I can say that Debian's Wiki tr

Re: not an 8139C+ compatible chip, Try the "8139too" driver instead

Michael Biebl wrote: > jida...@jidanni.org wrote: >> Now in 2.6.29-1-686 it just says >> 8139cp :00:0f.0: This (id 10ec:8139 rev 10) is not an 8139C+ compatible >> chip, use 8139too >> I assume "use" here is short for "using" and means "I, the emitter of >> this message, will use", and not "yo

Re: not an 8139C+ compatible chip, Try the "8139too" driver instead

jida...@jidanni.org wrote: > Now in 2.6.29-1-686 it just says > 8139cp :00:0f.0: This (id 10ec:8139 rev 10) is not an 8139C+ compatible > chip, use 8139too > I assume "use" here is short for "using" and means "I, the emitter of > this message, will use", and not "you, the person reading this m

Re: X: Libgcrypt warning: missing initialization - please fix the application

The coincidentally appended lines > console-kit-daemon[2475]: WARNING: Couldn't read /proc/2474/environ: > Failed to open file '/proc/2474/environ': No such file or directory turned out to be http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=523372 So now all I want to know is what to do about X: L

AIGLX error: dlopen of /usr/lib/dri/swrast_dri.so failed

I wonder how to stop this error. (EE) AIGLX error: dlopen of /usr/lib/dri/swrast_dri.so failed (/usr/lib/dri/swrast_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory) (EE) GLX: could not load software renderer (II) GLX: no usable GL providers found for screen 0 I don't use my

X: Libgcrypt warning: missing initialization - please fix the application

In syslog I see X: Libgcrypt warning: missing initialization - please fix the application console-kit-daemon[2475]: WARNING: Couldn't read /proc/2474/environ: Failed to open file '/proc/2474/environ': No such file or directory What should I do? What application is it talking about? -- To UNSUB

Re: Suspending and resuming compile process

Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > 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

Admit that the typical Debian machine has tons of cruft(8)

Admit that the typical Debian machine has tons of cruft(8) $ man cruft cruft - Check the filesystem for cruft (missing and unexplained files) Mainly I'm talking about those unexplained files. Even just # cruft -d / will probably produce tons of output on any system that has been under real use f

Re: Where/What's the xorg configurator?

Felix Miata writes: > My question was quite serious, and not just about a simple way to not > start X on boot. 2 in Debian is everything. 2 in non-debian distros is > multiuser instead of single. 3 adds full networking. 5 adds X. Why is it > "good" that most debians lump all those functions togethe

Re: Partitioning Harddisk

On 2009/04/24 02:08 (GMT+0200) Ogya Chief composed: > I have a Toshiba Satellite laptop with Windows Vista preinstalled. I am > having endless problems with this OS and I decided to install Debian Linux 5 > on it and dual boot. > I started the installation and got to the disk partitioning stag

Re: Where/What's the xorg configurator?

On 2009/04/23 23:52 (GMT+0100) thveillon.debian composed: > Felix Miata a écrit : >> I really don't understand Debian including X all the way down in runlevel 2 >> either. What's the point of having a bunch of runlevels and running only on >> either of only 2? > I don't find it less rational to

Re: not an 8139C+ compatible chip, Try the "8139too" driver instead

Now in 2.6.29-1-686 it just says 8139cp :00:0f.0: This (id 10ec:8139 rev 10) is not an 8139C+ compatible chip, use 8139too I assume "use" here is short for "using" and means "I, the emitter of this message, will use", and not "you, the person reading this message, should use", and thus I needn

Partitioning Harddisk

Hi All, I have a Toshiba Satellite laptop with Windows Vista preinstalled. I am having endless problems with this OS and I decided to install Debian Linux 5 on it and dual boot. I started the installation and got to the disk partitioning stage. There were four partitions on the disk (#1 to #

livecd accessibility

Hi all: Sorry for the cross-posting, but I wasn't sure which list would be better for this question. Does the current i386 livecd have any accessibility support enabled in it? Is either orca, or brltty installed and/or running on boot? -- Oracle Donald Raikes | Accessib

Re: Acrobat reader

Jerome BENOIT writes: > Why do you not install acroread from debian multi-media ? Some of us prefer not to install closed-source software when we can avoid it. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact lis

Re: File Server

Lynn Kilroy wrote: > My goal is to use the linux machine as a rather expensive external > hard disk drive. You might want to consider OpenNAS (?), or one of the SLUGs that run a Linux distribution. But that's not Debian so maybe I shouldn't suggest it ;-) Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to deb

Re: voip that works on linux and windows

MList wrote: > Is there some program that can run on both linux and windows that > provide voip (and perhaps video) other than Skype? If you want to go with Standards and PSTN interoperability, I'd recommend anything that supports the SIP protocol. I use Twinkle; others probably use Ekiga. Window

Re: Acrobat reader

Hello * Why do you not install acroread from debian multi-media ? It works fine on my amd64 Lenny box ? hth, Jerome Frank McCormick wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 10:50:56 -0400 "H.S." wrote: Frank McCormick wrote: I have run into this problem se

Re: Where/What's the xorg configurator?

Felix Miata a écrit : > On 2009/04/23 22:41 (GMT+0100) thveillon.debian composed: > >> Felix Miata a écrit : > >>> On 2009/04/22 22:40 (GMT-0400) Felix Miata composed: > I just installed Lenny for the first time on a system with GeForce4 MX4000 AGP. X is coming up on nv driver in 800x

Re: Debian installation architecture

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tim Beauregard wrote: > Oh!! How is it that we are to use amd when the CPU is intel?!! 2 ways: 'ia' stands for Itanium (IIRC), Intel's try at a 64 bit chip. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IA-64 Debian built a distro for both the Intel and AMD 64 bi

Re: Debian installation architecture

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > The same way you knew (or didn't) to use i386 (short for: Intel 386) on 32- > bit AMD processors. Having been stuck in 32-bit userland since day nought, this has all thrown me. Is there a good reference link to explain the difference between these

Re: Debian installation architecture

In <49f0eadb.4070...@sky.com>, Tim Beauregard wrote: >> You need the "amd64" flavour of Debian. > >Oh!! How is it that we are to use amd when the CPU is intel?!! The same way you knew (or didn't) to use i386 (short for: Intel 386) on 32- bit AMD processors. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.

Re: Debian installation architecture

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 >> (4x2.83GHz)? > > You need the "amd64" flavour of Debian. Oh!! How is it that we are to use amd when the CPU is intel?!! Thank you for your advice! Tim -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAknw6tsACgkQsUUd

Re: Debian installation architecture

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 23:19 +0100, Tim Beauregard wrote: > Its late and this may be a silly question but should I use the ia64 > architecture release to install onto a PC with an Intel Core2 Q9550 CPU > (4x2.83GHz)? You need the "amd64" flavour of Debian. Wolodja signature.asc Description: Di

Debian installation architecture

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, Its late and this may be a silly question but should I use the ia64 architecture release to install onto a PC with an Intel Core2 Q9550 CPU (4x2.83GHz)? The images on http://www.uk.debian.org/distrib/netinst don't work, however an older i386 i

Re: Where/What's the xorg configurator?

On 2009/04/23 22:41 (GMT+0100) thveillon.debian composed: > Felix Miata a écrit : >> On 2009/04/22 22:40 (GMT-0400) Felix Miata composed: >>> I just installed Lenny for the first time on a system with GeForce4 MX4000 >>> AGP. X is coming up on nv driver in 800x600. KControl provides no option t

not an 8139C+ compatible chip, Try the "8139too" driver instead

At boot with Linux 2.6.26-2-686 I see 8139cp :00:0f.0: This (id 10ec:8139 rev 10) is not an 8139C+ compatible chip 8139cp :00:0f.0: Try the "8139too" driver instead. 8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.28 ACPI: PCI Interrupt :00:0f.0[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18 eth0: RealTek RTL813

Re: Where/What's the xorg configurator?

Felix Miata a écrit : > On 2009/04/22 22:40 (GMT-0400) Felix Miata composed: > >> I just installed Lenny for the first time on a system with GeForce4 MX4000 >> AGP. X is coming up on nv driver in 800x600. KControl provides no option to >> up resolution from 800x600 that I can find, nor am I able t

Re: Where/What's the xorg configurator?

On 2009/04/22 22:40 (GMT-0400) Felix Miata composed: > I just installed Lenny for the first time on a system with GeForce4 MX4000 > AGP. X is coming up on nv driver in 800x600. KControl provides no option to > up resolution from 800x600 that I can find, nor am I able to spot anything > else in the

Re: cannot startup pidgin after dist-upgrade

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 03:19, Alex Infantes wrote: > > I think the problem is with gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad, not totem > especifically, > maybe removing this package you can resolve it. > Removing it didn't imply removal of other packages, and it did solve the problem, thanks. Nuno -- () as

Re: Creating passwordless account in Lenny

On 2009/04/23 20:19 (GMT+0200) Klistvud composed: > Maybe there's a setting for making gdm allow zero-length passwords? kdmrc supports this, so I'd be surprised if gdm's config file does not as well. -- "He who works his land will have abundant food, but the one who chases fantasies will have hi

Re: X keys remapped after dist-upgrade

> The Alt keys, however, as used system-wide. My Alt won't ant+tab nor > can i access menus with it; my AltGr does still change the 6 letters i > want it to, but it ceased working as AltGr. I can't access at, pound, > umlaut and all those "3rd level" characters. Now i got Alt to work, but AltGr wi

Re: process in background

Matyas Sustik wrote at 2009-04-22 23:13 -0500: > I tried using nice -n 19 but the result is noticably slower execution of the > encoding job even when there is nothing else going on. (About 30-50& slower.) > > Is there some other process management tool that could help achieve the goal? You may

Re: where are Etch CD images?

Hello Daniel, You can find every Etch CD images here: ftp://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/archive/4.0_r8 Barclay, Daniel a écrit : > Where are Debian Etch CD images? All the Debian CD mirrors I've seen > have only Lenny images. > > (Yes, I'm in the process of upgrading to Lenny.) > > Thanks, > Da

Re: process in background

Some more data as suggested. I run without nice, with nice -n 5 and nice -n 10, each version twice: Without nice: real0m10.662s user0m9.513s sys 0m3.448s real0m10.121s user0m7.712s sys 0m2.444s CPU% according to top reached 118%. nice -n 5: real0m22.141s user0m

Re: Creating passwordless account in Lenny

Dne, 23. 04. 2009 17:53:08 je Klistvud napisal(a): > Dear Debianites, > > is there any guru out there who can instruct me how to temporarily > disable > passwords (or allow zero-length passwords), so that I can create two > passwordless accounts for my pre-school kids? Editing /etc/pam.d/ > com

Re: X.org Keyboard repeat rate through hal

> >        I have upgraded X to v1:7.4+1 and now I'm struggling with hal > > to reproduce the same configuration I had before. I managed to set > > up the keyboard layouts and the xkb options, but I can't find how > > to change the keyboard repeat rate. For the moment, I have created > > a policy f

Re: Where/What's the xorg configurator?

On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 21:06, Paul Scott wrote: > Felix Miata wrote: > >> I just installed Lenny for the first time on a system with GeForce4 MX4000 >> AGP. X is coming up on nv driver in 800x600. KControl provides no option >> to >> up resolution from 800x600 that I can find, nor am I able to sp

Re: Microsoft Virtual Earth-based apps not working

On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 12:24:51PM -0700, Rob Starling wrote: > On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 03:12:24PM -0400, Eric Gerlach wrote: > > Hey all, > > > > I'm having some trouble using Microsoft Virtual Earth-based apps like: > > > > http://www.realtor.ca/ > > http://192.237.29.245/hastinfoweb/ (my local

Re: X.org Keyboard repeat rate through hal

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 10:43, Davide Mancusi wrote: > Hi .*, > >        I have upgraded X to v1:7.4+1 and now I'm struggling with hal > to reproduce the same configuration I had before. I managed to set up > the keyboard layouts and the xkb options, but I can't find how to change > the keyboard r

X.org Keyboard repeat rate through hal

Hi .*, I have upgraded X to v1:7.4+1 and now I'm struggling with hal to reproduce the same configuration I had before. I managed to set up the keyboard layouts and the xkb options, but I can't find how to change the keyboard repeat rate. For the moment, I have created a policy file in /etc

Re: Creating passwordless account in Lenny

On Thursday 23 April 2009 09:53:08 Klistvud wrote: > is there any guru out there who can instruct me how to temporarily > disable > passwords (or allow zero-length passwords), so that I can create two > passwordless accounts for my pre-school kids? I haven't tried this, but man passwd seems to sug

where are Etch CD images?

Where are Debian Etch CD images? All the Debian CD mirrors I've seen have only Lenny images. (Yes, I'm in the process of upgrading to Lenny.) Thanks, Daniel -- (Plain text sometimes corrupted to HTML "courtesy" of Microsoft Exchange.) [F]

Re: Creating passwordless account in Lenny

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 05:53:08PM +0200, Klistvud wrote: > Dear Debianites, > > is there any guru out there who can instruct me how to temporarily > disable > passwords (or allow zero-length passwords), so that I can create two > passwordless accounts for my pre-school kids? Editing /etc/pam.d

Re: Creating passwordless account in Lenny

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 05:53:08PM +0200, Klistvud wrote: > Dear Debianites, > > is there any guru out there who can instruct me how to temporarily > disable > passwords (or allow zero-length passwords), so that I can create two > passwordless accounts for my pre-school kids? Editing /etc/pam.d

Re: regarding upgrade

Reply to: edua...@kalinowski.com.br Original Message Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:21:51 -0300 RE: Re: regarding upgrade [See Original Message Below] They do "reappear" after a grub update. Personally, I "usually" remove an unused kernel because I run a tight ship. ---

Re: regarding upgrade

machiner wrote: > Sorry, I think I'm replying to Paul instead of the OP, but I deleted that > original post from my email. > > If you don't want to remove the kernel you're not using for whatever reason, > just > edit: /boot/grub/menu.lst and comment out the 8 lines that comprise the 2 > kernel >

Re: Creating passwordless account in Lenny

Hi, To my knowledge it is impossible to create an account without password, but you can create an passwordless login with GDM (and i think kdm). eg. gnome you can find this option on: System > administration > connection windows > security > activate auto connection, but is not really what you wa

Creating passwordless account in Lenny

Dear Debianites, is there any guru out there who can instruct me how to temporarily disable passwords (or allow zero-length passwords), so that I can create two passwordless accounts for my pre-school kids? Editing /etc/pam.d/ common-passwords apparently doesn't cut it... Thanx. -- Certifiab

HP proliant ML115 G5 on debian lenny

Dear debian community, We plan to buy an HP proliant ML115 G5 for server backup. The CPUs would be amd opteron 64bit. And there is embedded sata raid controller. I will use raid1 on two 1T harddrives. I would like to consult debian community to see if anyone have some experience with installing

Re: wput file

Wow. It worked :O !!! Thank you! ps.: Thank you again :) !! If you have a percent sign in PASSWORD then it will be interpreted as an escape character that is to be followed by a two-digit hexadecimal number that encodes one character (i.e. the next two characters have to be members of the se

Re: Acrobat reader

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 10:50:56 -0400 "H.S." wrote: > Frank McCormick wrote: > > > > I have run into this problem several times lately. I am running > > Debian testing. Several web sites I have been on including the > > Quebec governments revenue quebe

Re: Acrobat reader

Frank McCormick wrote: > > I have run into this problem several times lately. I am running > Debian testing. Several web sites I have been on including the Quebec > governments revenue quebec site insist I need Adobe acrobat pdf > reader and won't display messages. > > Is there a way to satisfy t

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Acrobat reader

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have run into this problem several times lately. I am running Debian testing. Several web sites I have been on including the Quebec governments revenue quebec site insist I need Adobe acrobat pdf reader and won't display messages. Is there a way to

Re:Whatzit.

Lynn, Thank you for confirming real human beings exist. :) You might try hitting the whirly-gig with a bigger hammer. Sometimes the ka-hootin valves get stuck and basic engineering relies on said big hammer. My wife oft reminds, "you forgot a dot." :) One day I was coding and did forget a dot.

Re: Intro / Debian

Yes, so far the distribution works fine for me. One minor glitch I've noticed. It is actively or rather pro-actively developed. :) I got the five disc dvd set right after Feb. 14th, and already have a few outdated libraries and programs. It is a very pleasant surprise. Especially knowing I'm abl

Re: regarding upgrade

Reply to: csanyi...@gmail.com Original Message Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 15:09:07 +0200 RE: Re: regarding upgrade [See Original Message Below] Sorry, I think I'm replying to Paul instead of the OP, but I deleted that original post from my email. If you don't want to remove the kernel you're not u

Re: regarding upgrade

Lenny Jaan writes: > How do I get rid of other 2 entries from the boot screen ? sudo aptitude purge linux-image-2.6.26-1-686 or so. -- Regards, Paul Csanyi http://www.freewebs.com/csanyi-pal/index.htm -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsu

Helpdesk

The Helpdesk Program that periodically checks the size of your e-mail space is sending you this information. The program runs weekly to ensure your inbox does not grow too large, thus preventing you from receiving or sending new e-mail. To help us reset your space in our database prior to mainta

Re: Thunderbird annooyance

2009/4/9 Frank McCormick : > I am using T'bird 2.0.0.21 on Squeeze under Gnome - I have 4 accounts > set-up under local folders. When I switch from one account to another > when reading the account folder is highlighted, and instead of the first > message...and if I hit delete, it asks me whether I

Samba

Hi There should be a description of the directory that you will connect to in the smb.conf example: [mydir] path=/fullpathtomydir writable = yes create mode = 744 Do you have something like this? _ Show them the way! Add m

Re: mysterious pdf file won't be printed, all others will!

Rodolfo Medina writes: > >>> In my sister's home directory there is a pdf file that won't respond to > >>> the `lp' command. All others pdf files in the same directory behave > >>> all right, and the permissions are the same. The only difference is > >>> the creation date, which is today wheras

Re: Samba

[please keep your replies to the list, so that others might help as well.] Lynn Kilroy wrote: >> Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:16:27 +0200 > > > In my initial e-mail, the one asking about setting up a linux file > server, I said explicitly that I wanted the sharing to be mutual > between a Windows P

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

Reply to: a...@c2i.net Original Message Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 12:13:28 +0200 RE: Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood [See Original Message Below] I thought I asked you a question. - On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 12:13:28 +0200 a...@c2i.net wrote:

Re: Samba

Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In , Lynn Kilroy wrote: >> You need to create a space hog file in your root directory called "-rf." >> Then unlink it. > > # dd if=/dev/zero of=/-rf. bs=4k count=4m I guess you meant 4M (captial M). ;-) But "G" would be even better, to achieve the desired effect.

Re: Limit hd quota and memory usage by user at linux

In <907f512f0904230240r19c01f8chc0a9e173e12ad...@mail.gmail.com>, Pablo Augusto wrote: >i need limit hd quita and memory usage by user >whats the best way to do this? For RAM: ulimit and friends. For HD: filesystem quotas. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicid

Re: Samba

In , Lynn Kilroy wrote: >You need to create a space hog file in your root directory called "-rf." > Then unlink it. # dd if=/dev/zero of=/-rf. bs=4k count=4m ... wait ... # rm /-rf. Done. Anything else? -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net

Re: Samba

[Please don't top post and trim the reply! Thanks.] [I am cc'ing you. Sorry, if that is in error.] Lynn Kilroy wrote: [snip] > Debugging/Accounting > > # This tells Samba to use a separate log file for each machine > # that connects >log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m [snip] > Logfil

RE: Samba

# # Sample configuration file for the Samba suite for Debian GNU/Linux. # # # This is the main Samba configuration file. You should read the # smb.conf(5) manual page in order to understand the options listed # here. Samba has a huge number of configurable options most of which # are not shown in

Re: Samba

On Thu Apr 23, 2009 at 05:38:30 -0400, Lynn Kilroy wrote: >And I still can't log in from the client computers. > >Now what? Read the documentation available, and examine the errors which are logged by samba. Increase debugging levels until they show up. Samba is mostly simple to se

RE: Samba

Hi, I think you should take a look on the /var/log/samba/.log file. Are there system users corresponding to your samba users what you try to use? Maybe you should try the "security=share" to see wether samba works correctly (the connection is okay, you can browse the shares, etc.). Gabor On

Re: a good howto on postfix including its working w/ clamav

2009/4/22 Sthu Deus : > Good day. > > Can You recommend a good howto on postfix including its working w/ > clamav, etc. > > Thank You for Your time. Try this one: http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/259 -- Paulo Silva -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Samba

On Thu Apr 23, 2009 at 06:23:11 -0400, Lynn Kilroy wrote: >As far as I can tell, there are no errors. Is there like a log or >something somewhere that I can look at? And if I find it, and there are >no errors, then what? You specify the logfile to use in the samba configuration fi

RE: Samba

As far as I can tell, there are no errors. Is there like a log or something somewhere that I can look at? And if I find it, and there are no errors, then what? Lynn > Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 11:21:14 +0100 > From: st...@steve.org.uk > To: phile...@hotmail.com > CC: debian-user@lists.debia

Re: Thunderbird annooyance

On 09.04.09 15:26, Frank McCormick wrote: > I am using T'bird 2.0.0.21 on Squeeze under Gnome - I have 4 accounts > set-up under local folders. When I switch from one account to another > when reading how do you switch the account? > the account folder is highlighted, and instead of the first > m

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:40:11 -0400, machiner wrote in message <20090422174011.4719e...@lapbox>: > I'm laughing as I write thisOh my. ..once you're done, Javier Barroso has an excellent proposal. ;o) -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;o) ...with a number of polar

X keys remapped after dist-upgrade

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Hello i need limit hd quita and memory usage by user whats the best way to do this? for example: lets supose i have a server with 4gb ram and 40gb hd, i want share all resources with 4 users, so each one must have garanteed 1gb ram (can use more if are avaiable) and use max 10gb hd. how can i do

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Re: wput file

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 10:12:28 +0200, Erik Xavior wrote: > Hi > I'm trying to put a file to an ftp site: > > wput -v file.txt ftp://USER:passw...@foo.com/public_html/pub/ > > file.txt is just a normal plain text file. > > But it says: > > parse-error in escaped character: is not a hexadecima

Re: openoffice_impress troubles konqueror??

David Fox wrote: On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 8:56 AM, steef wrote: hi list, please read this explanation with some patience. for my wife i produce large files (slides) with openoffice_impress upto 140 MB. for her presentations. before hearings of scientists i have to convert these files into

Re: wput file

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 10:12:28AM +0200, Erik Xavior wrote: > Hi > I'm trying to put a file to an ftp site: > > wput -v file.txt ftp://USER:passw...@foo.com/public_html/pub/ > > file.txt is just a normal plain text file. > > But it says: > > parse-error in escaped character: is not a hexadeci

Re: Question about get-selections

Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. iguanasuicide.net> writes: > In post.gmane.org>, J.M.Roth wrote: > >Now... I've been playing a little bit with this. > > > >First, I get some > >warning: Unknown type error, skipping line > >using debconf-set-selections < ... > > Hrm, that's somewhat troubling. It won't

RE: Whatzit.

It's Samba! Samba's what's not working! Help! Lynn From: phile...@hotmail.com To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Whatzit. Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 04:46:50 -0400 The whatzit won't let me login to the computer remotely using the debian login, although the whozit on the other webs

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