Re: best practice for lvm?

2009-06-03 Thread Bhasker C V
On Wed, 3 Jun 2009, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 08:23:05AM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 01:46:27PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: In <20090603174408.ga25...@m364d1.ece.northwestern.edu>, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: Can I say the best practice for lvm is

Re: best practice for lvm?

2009-06-03 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 01:41:47PM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 10:08:57PM -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 08:23:05AM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > > > On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 01:46:27PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > > > In <20090603174408.ga2

starting lxde with xdm

2009-06-03 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
i installed lxde with aptitude install --without-recommends lxde then i ran update-alternatives --config x-session-manager no startx, weird. Ran startlxde but nothing happened then i installed xdm, make .xsession with exec xdm in it, rebooted but nothing happened which step that i missed --

Re: best practice for lvm?

2009-06-03 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 10:08:57PM -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: > On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 08:23:05AM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 01:46:27PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > > In <20090603174408.ga25...@m364d1.ece.northwestern.edu>, Zhengquan Zhang > > > wrote: > >

Re: best practice for lvm?

2009-06-03 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 08:23:05AM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 01:46:27PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > In <20090603174408.ga25...@m364d1.ece.northwestern.edu>, Zhengquan Zhang > > wrote: > > >Can I say the best practice for lvm is to create a single partition for

Re: lvm on a single big partition or just a single big partition?

2009-06-03 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 06:48:03PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 11:44:00AM -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: > > Though I have used lvm for some time, I have one question that I don't > > > > understand.

Re: apt pinning and getting linux-image-686 from unstable

2009-06-03 Thread H.S.
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In , emikaadeo wrote: >> H.S. wrote: >>> Can somebody tell me if the following is possible using apt pinning? I >>> want to install the newer version of kernel (linux-image-2.6-686, ver >>> now is, I think, 2.6.29-3) from Untable to my Testing machine. >>> >>> I am t

Fwd: Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' in mysql

2009-06-03 Thread Bernard Fay
False alarm!!! I forgot to remove the skip-grant-tables and restart mysql. When I try to login with mysql -u "r...@beryllium -p", I receive the following: ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user 'r...@beryllium'@'localhost' (using password: YES) I guess I should add r...@localhost in mysql.us

Fwd: Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' in mysql

2009-06-03 Thread Bernard Fay
` As fas as I understand it, there is no need to say "update mysql.user set ..." because we have to say "use mysql" first. So the update command should know the table user is part of mysql. Right? I really believe the problem comes from the fact there is know r...@localhost in mysql.user. I ha

Fwd: Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' in mysql

2009-06-03 Thread Bernard Fay
-- Forwarded message -- From: Bernard Fay Date: Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 5:00 PM Subject: Re: Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' in mysql To: paul.le...@quadensemble.co.uk Thanks for your reply, Paul. Yes, I tried without the -p switch and it didn't work. Also, I just found t

Re: why must emacs depend on sound packages?

2009-06-03 Thread Chris Jones
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 06:45:47PM EDT, Tony Baldwin wrote: > Chris Jones wrote: > >On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 09:38:36AM EDT, Daniel Burrows wrote: > >>On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 10:08:59PM -0400, Chris Jones > >> was heard to say: > >I didn't say anything.. > > > >>>There appear to be keyboards where

how to retrieve bug reports for all installed packages ?

2009-06-03 Thread flomine
Hi list, I am using SID and I ask myself if there is a script or something to list all critical bugs from all installed packages. Maybe a script using apt-listbugs which retrieves bug reports on all packages present in /var/cache/apt/arhives ? Or using the script smxi? The purpose is to be noti

Re: why must emacs depend on sound packages?

2009-06-03 Thread Chris Jones
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 11:02:03AM EDT, Barclay, Daniel wrote: > Chris Jones wrote: > > On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 11:49:34AM EDT, Barclay, Daniel wrote: > >> Chris Jones wrote: > >>> [..] > >>> > >>> ... homo sapiens ... opposable thumb. > ... > > The indirect relationship is that thumbs are both v

Re: lvm on a single big partition or just a single big partition?

2009-06-03 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 11:44:00AM -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: > Though I have used lvm for some time, I have one question that I don't > > understand. > >

Re: best practice for lvm?

2009-06-03 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 01:46:27PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In <20090603174408.ga25...@m364d1.ece.northwestern.edu>, Zhengquan Zhang > wrote: > >Can I say the best practice for lvm is to create a single partition for > >the harddrive and single PV on it [snip] > You definitely want

Re: update issue when /tmp is noexec

2009-06-03 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 09:55:57PM +0100, Russell Gadd wrote: > I had to look up the meaning of idempotent, a most apt word if I may say so > (pun not really intended but serendipitous anyway!). Your answers are very > full and much appreciated. > > >You can find preinst/postinst and other package

Re: why must emacs depend on sound packages?

2009-06-03 Thread Chris Jones
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 09:38:36AM EDT, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 10:08:59PM -0400, Chris Jones > was heard to say: I didn't say anything.. > > There appear to be keyboards where some keys are physically located > > in a spot that's easily accessible with the thumbs. > >

Re: LVM how to

2009-06-03 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:31:19 -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In , Hendrik Boom wrote: >>On Wed, 20 May 2009 00:34:24 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: >>> You don't need a rescue CD, and you can even do it while the >>> filesystem is mounted! >> >>So the warnings about unmounting the file system b

Re: apt pinning and getting linux-image-686 from unstable

2009-06-03 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In , emikaadeo wrote: >H.S. wrote: >> Can somebody tell me if the following is possible using apt pinning? I >> want to install the newer version of kernel (linux-image-2.6-686, ver >> now is, I think, 2.6.29-3) from Untable to my Testing machine. >> >> I am thinking of using apt pinning. Something

Re: LVM how to

2009-06-03 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In , Hendrik Boom wrote: >On Wed, 20 May 2009 00:34:24 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: >> On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 07:17:48AM +1000, gianni wrote: >>> HI lists >>> how can I resize the LVM default partition layout of debian? the root >>> is to small around 400mb... I looked around the web but it look like

RE: Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' in mysql

2009-06-03 Thread Stackpole, Chris
>From: Bernard Fay [mailto:bernard@gmail.com] >Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2009 2:59 PM >Subject: Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' in mysql > >Hi, > >I installed MySQL in Lenny. >When I try to login in with mysql -u root -p, I receive : > >ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user '

Re: Audio/Video on amd64 Lenny - FIXED

2009-06-03 Thread Larry Irwin
On Thu, May 21st, 2009 - Florian Kulzer said: It looks good initially, /dev/video0 is mentioned, but the driver cannot set the video mode. AFAIK, external USB 2.0 hubs can cause trouble with webcams. Can you try the camera again with the TetraHub disconnected? Removing the TetraHub and plugging

Re: LVM how to

2009-06-03 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, 20 May 2009 00:34:24 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 07:17:48AM +1000, gianni wrote: >> HI lists >> how can I resize the LVM default partition layout of debian? the root >> is to small around 400mb... I looked around the web but it look like I >> need to do that from a

Re: Can't boot into Lenny from Etch partition

2009-06-03 Thread Rodolfo Medina
On Mon,01.Jun.09, 22:19:55, Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> [...] I can't boot into my Lenny partition >> from my Etch partition, whose Grub boot loader is installed to the mbr. Andrei Popescu writes: > Did you add an entry for Lenny in the menu.lst of Etch? If you have grub > installed on the Le

Re: update issue when /tmp is noexec

2009-06-03 Thread Russell Gadd
I had to look up the meaning of idempotent, a most apt word if I may say so (pun not really intended but serendipitous anyway!). Your answers are very full and much appreciated. >You can find preinst/postinst and other package tracking stuff under > /var/lib/dpkg/info. I had one look at this dire

Re: Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' in mysql

2009-06-03 Thread Paul Lewis
On 03/06/09 21:45:15, Paul Lewis wrote: Hi, I installed MySQL in Lenny. When I try to login in with mysql -u root -p, I receive : ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: YES) I wonder if there is a password defined before you set the root password in

Re: package locally compiled gets "upgraded"

2009-06-03 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed,03.Jun.09, 14:58:12, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > While it looks a bit funny, using the suffix "a~local1" will probably always > work, as long as Debian release code names continue to be strictly > alphabetic. Ok, I'm going to keep using '+' as I'm only recompiling sid packages ;)

Re: apt pinning and getting linux-image-686 from unstable

2009-06-03 Thread emikaadeo
H.S. wrote: > Hello, > > Can somebody tell me if the following is possible using apt pinning? I > want to install the newer version of kernel (linux-image-2.6-686, ver > now is, I think, 2.6.29-3) from Untable to my Testing machine. > > I am thinking of using apt pinning. I know that I need to s

Re: keyboard evdev

2009-06-03 Thread Florian Kulzer
Note: You sent your last message to me directly with a CC to the list. It seems that the copy to the list has been blocked, therefore I reply to the private message. Please fix your email program so that it replies to the list only and that it does not send an HTML part. (Th

Re: Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' in mysql

2009-06-03 Thread Paul Lewis
On 03/06/09 20:58:45, Bernard Fay wrote: Hi, I installed MySQL in Lenny. When I try to login in with mysql -u root -p, I receive : ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: YES) I wonder if there is a password defined before you set the root password in

apt pinning and getting linux-image-686 from unstable

2009-06-03 Thread H.S.
Hello, Can somebody tell me if the following is possible using apt pinning? I want to install the newer version of kernel (linux-image-2.6-686, ver now is, I think, 2.6.29-3) from Untable to my Testing machine. I am thinking of using apt pinning. I know that I need to set the default release to "

Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' in mysql

2009-06-03 Thread Bernard Fay
Hi, I installed MySQL in Lenny. When I try to login in with mysql -u root -p, I receive : ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: YES) I tried to reset the password of root by adding skip-grant-tables in my.cnf then restart mysql. I could login in with mysq

Re: best practice for lvm?

2009-06-03 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 02:23:27PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In <20090603185138.ga25...@m364d1.ece.northwestern.edu>, Zhengquan Zhang > wrote: > >On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 01:46:27PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > >> In <20090603174408.ga25...@m364d1.ece.northwestern.edu>, Zheng

Re: update issue when /tmp is noexec

2009-06-03 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <779b039a0906031226j31ddf7dbsd20d45924bdc2...@mail.gmail.com>, Russell Gadd wrote: >Is there anywhere I can >inspect the messages that are generated during an update? I don't think so. I'm not sure they are saved anywhere. >Can you answer the other question I asked: is my system likely to ne

Re: Configuring Tor and Privoxy in Squeeze [SOLVED]

2009-06-03 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 19:46:54 +0100, AG wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote: >> On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 18:31:43 +0100, AG wrote: AG wrote: > > I am attempting to get Tor and Privoxy working with Iceweasel, > but it keeps throwing up errors. [...] > The following is my /etc/pri

Re: package locally compiled gets "upgraded"

2009-06-03 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <20090603192216.ge6...@think.homelan>, Andrei Popescu wrote: >On Wed,03.Jun.09, 10:34:36, Sven Joachim wrote: >> > I think the correct way is to *append* to the version, not munge it: >> > >> > 1.2.3lenny1+local1 (I like to use + as separator) >> >> This will not work if the original version is

Re: package locally compiled gets "upgraded"

2009-06-03 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-06-03 21:22 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Wed,03.Jun.09, 10:34:36, Sven Joachim wrote: >> >> > I think the correct way is to *append* to the version, not munge it: >> > >> > 1.2.3lenny1+local1 (I like to use + as separator) >> >> This will not work if the original version is 1.2.3, b

Re: best practice for lvm?

2009-06-03 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <4a26c7d5.40...@rctoolz.com>, George Randall wrote: >Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> In <4a26ba9d.9060...@rctoolz.com>, George Randall wrote: >>> You will need the separate /boot partition and then your lvm partition. >> Not if you are willing to use grub2 (aka grub-pc). Version 1.96 or >> abo

Re: svn doesnt connect to server

2009-06-03 Thread Peter Robinson
Brad King wrote: OK, I got it to work. THANKS! In case anyone else is reading this 1) I added a stable debian repository in /etc/apt/sources.list 2) aptitude update 3) Checked versions of libneon27-gnutls using "v" key, removed bad one and installed libneon27-gnutls (0.28.2-6.1) cheers Pete

Re: update issue when /tmp is noexec

2009-06-03 Thread Russell Gadd
Thanks Boyd. I've created a file as you suggest. Is there anywhere I can inspect the messages that are generated during an update? I've looked in /var/log and couldn't find anything there, although I may have missed it. It would be nice to see this now working. Can you answer the other question I

Re: package locally compiled gets "upgraded"

2009-06-03 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed,03.Jun.09, 10:34:36, Sven Joachim wrote: > > > I think the correct way is to *append* to the version, not munge it: > > > > 1.2.3lenny1+local1 (I like to use + as separator) > > This will not work if the original version is 1.2.3, because > 1.2.3+local1 > 1.2.3lenny1 (the version for poten

Re: best practice for lvm?

2009-06-03 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <20090603185138.ga25...@m364d1.ece.northwestern.edu>, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: >On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 01:46:27PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> In <20090603174408.ga25...@m364d1.ece.northwestern.edu>, Zhengquan Zhang >> >> wrote: >> >Can I say the best practice for lvm is to create a s

Re: [OT] Hosting a DNS

2009-06-03 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2009-06-03 23:41:11, schrieb Alex Samad: > for example setup the primary ns on your own server and use somebody > like dyndns.com for sec + ter NS Better: Look for some other small ISP or ORGs arround the world with own IP range and then exchange VSever's with BIND. This wil

Re: Can't boot into Lenny from Etch partition

2009-06-03 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed,03.Jun.09, 13:29:15, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > > Ok, next I'd try booting "by hand". That is, instead of letting grub > > (try to) do it's magic get a grub command line (I think you need to > > press 'c') and run those commands by hand. grub's tab-completion can > > help too. > > What co

Re: best practice for lvm?

2009-06-03 Thread George Randall
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: In <4a26ba9d.9060...@rctoolz.com>, George Randall wrote: Zhengquan Zhang wrote: Can I say the best practice for lvm is to create a single partition for the harddrive and single PV on it and separate LVs for /tmp /var /home etc? and leave enough unassigned PE for la

Re: best practice for lvm?

2009-06-03 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 01:51:03PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In <4a26ba9d.9060...@rctoolz.com>, George Randall wrote: > >Zhengquan Zhang wrote: > >> Can I say the best practice for lvm is to create a single partition for > >> the harddrive and single PV on it and separate LVs for /tmp

Re: best practice for lvm?

2009-06-03 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 01:46:27PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In <20090603174408.ga25...@m364d1.ece.northwestern.edu>, Zhengquan Zhang > wrote: > >Can I say the best practice for lvm is to create a single partition for > >the harddrive and single PV on it > > I prefer not to use a par

logitech quickcam chat on lenny

2009-06-03 Thread Tony Baldwin
I've asked about this on several forums, #debian at freenode, and, I believe, on this list, but have still not found a successful resolution. I have a Logitech Quickcam Chat. It worked out of the box in PCLinuxOS, but I can't get it to work with Debian (had issues with a previous Ubuntu install

Re: best practice for lvm?

2009-06-03 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <4a26ba9d.9060...@rctoolz.com>, George Randall wrote: >Zhengquan Zhang wrote: >> Can I say the best practice for lvm is to create a single partition for >> the harddrive and single PV on it and separate LVs for /tmp /var /home >> etc? and leave enough unassigned PE for later enlargement of certa

Re: Configuring Tor and Privoxy in Squeeze [SOLVED]

2009-06-03 Thread AG
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 18:31:43 +0100, AG wrote: AG wrote: Hello I am attempting to get Tor and Privoxy working with Iceweasel, but it keeps throwing up errors. [...] The following is my /etc/privoxy/config file (without the commented sections

Re: best practice for lvm?

2009-06-03 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <20090603174408.ga25...@m364d1.ece.northwestern.edu>, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: >Can I say the best practice for lvm is to create a single partition for >the harddrive and single PV on it I prefer not to use a partition table at all if I'm using the whole disk for LVM. >and separate LVs for /tm

Strange printing problem(s)

2009-06-03 Thread Wayne Topa
I am having a problem with cups, again, and hope that someone here may be able to save my sanity. I had my AMD64 box die about 3 months ago and have just recently revived it. It is a 3 dist box with squeeze and sid up to date so far but having different printing problems. Printing was wo

Re: Configuring Tor and Privoxy in Squeeze [SOLVED]

2009-06-03 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 18:31:43 +0100, AG wrote: >> AG wrote: >>> Hello >>> >>> I am attempting to get Tor and Privoxy working with Iceweasel, but it >>> keeps throwing up errors. [...] >>> The following is my /etc/privoxy/config file (without the commented >>> sections): [...] >>> listen-a

Re: Replacing a Debian package with the original source package

2009-06-03 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <87fxehb2t2@gmail.com>, Rodolfo Medina wrote: >In my Debian system I have Mplayer that came with Debian and want to > replace with its svn version, recommended by Mplayer developers. > >What shall I do in order to remove the old one? aptitude remove mplayer. >Will an `apt-get purge' > be e

Re: best practice for lvm?

2009-06-03 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 02:15:15PM -0400, George Randall wrote: > Zhengquan Zhang wrote: >> On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 02:02:05PM -0400, George Randall wrote: >>> Zhengquan Zhang wrote: Hi debian users, Can I say the best practice for lvm is to create a single partition for the har

Re: best practice for lvm?

2009-06-03 Thread George Randall
Zhengquan Zhang wrote: On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 02:02:05PM -0400, George Randall wrote: Zhengquan Zhang wrote: Hi debian users, Can I say the best practice for lvm is to create a single partition for the harddrive and single PV on it and separate LVs for /tmp /var /home etc? and leave enough un

Re: best practice for lvm?

2009-06-03 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 02:02:05PM -0400, George Randall wrote: > Zhengquan Zhang wrote: >> Hi debian users, >> >> Can I say the best practice for lvm is to create a single partition for >> the harddrive and single PV on it and separate LVs for /tmp /var /home >> etc? and leave enough unassigned PE

Re: best practice for lvm?

2009-06-03 Thread George Randall
Zhengquan Zhang wrote: Hi debian users, Can I say the best practice for lvm is to create a single partition for the harddrive and single PV on it and separate LVs for /tmp /var /home etc? and leave enough unassigned PE for later enlargement of certain LV? Thanks for enlightenment and I am thin

best practice for lvm?

2009-06-03 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
Hi debian users, Can I say the best practice for lvm is to create a single partition for the harddrive and single PV on it and separate LVs for /tmp /var /home etc? and leave enough unassigned PE for later enlargement of certain LV? Thanks for enlightenment and I am thinking of how to best utili

Re: update issue when /tmp is noexec

2009-06-03 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <779b039a0906030932kd76aed9n8692ec6aaef88...@mail.gmail.com>, Russell Gadd wrote: >For some time now, in order to add a bit of security I have made /tmp >noexec. However I noticed recently looking at the messages scrolling up > the screen that some update configuration scripts were failing as t

Re: lvm on a single big partition or just a single big partition?

2009-06-03 Thread George Randall
Zhengquan Zhang wrote: Hello debian users, Though I have used lvm for some time, I have one qu

Re: lvm on a single big partition or just a single big partition?

2009-06-03 Thread George Randall
Zhengquan Zhang wrote: On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 01:03:32PM -0400, George Randall wrote: Well for one if you used one big partition you would loose the versatility of having a seperate /home partition or other partitions that could stay intact during a reinstall. This is a good point. Thanks G

Re: Configuring Tor and Privoxy in Squeeze [SOLVED]

2009-06-03 Thread AG
AG wrote: AG wrote: Hello I am attempting to get Tor and Privoxy working with Iceweasel, but it keeps throwing up errors. The logfile has been enabled to record debugging info (1024 "Log the destination for requests Privoxy didn't let through, and the reason why", 4096 "start up banner and w

Re: What happened to network devices?

2009-06-03 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <20090603155614.gv1...@cat.rubenette.is-a-geek.com>, lee wrote: >It always turned eth0 into eth1 for me, extremely annoying. This is a result of an attempt to make interface names persistent by tying them to MAC addresses. It falls on its face often. There really needs to be some sort of s

Strange printing problem(s)

2009-06-03 Thread Wayne Topa
I am having a problem with cups, again, and hope that someone here may be able to save my sanity. I had my AMD64 box die about 3 months ago and have just recently revived it. It is a 3 dist box with squeeze and sid up to date so far but having different printing problems. Printing was work

Replacing a Debian package with the original source package

2009-06-03 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Hi. In my Debian system I have Mplayer that came with Debian and want to replace with its svn version, recommended by Mplayer developers. What shall I do in order to remove the old one? Will an `apt-get purge' be enough? Or just remove the binary file? Thanks for any help Rodolfo -- To UNSU

Re: lvm on a single big partition or just a single big partition?

2009-06-03 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 01:03:32PM -0400, George Randall wrote: > > Well for one if you used one big > partition you would loose the versatility of having a seperate /home > partition or other partitions that could stay intact during a > reinstall. This is a good point. Thanks George, Zhengquan

Re: 64Bit installation on a 500 GB Sata DRIVE

2009-06-03 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <4a261dba.8040...@t-online.de>, Klaus Jantzen wrote: > > Please pay attention to the Code of Conduct for the list: http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct Particularly, "Never send your messages in HTML; use plain text instead." -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-.

Re: crond.daily: paralellel or sequential?

2009-06-03 Thread Frank Miles
Hi Joost, You may be able to work around the sequential nature of cron jobs by the simple ruse of making a small script which "backgrounds" each job that you want to run contemporaneously. Something like: #!/bin/sh nohup jobToRun & This script will return immediately while the j

Re: package locally compiled gets "upgraded"

2009-06-03 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <6a8fced30906022015h5b85545due6a185c06153a...@mail.gmail.com>, 明覺 wrote: >On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 2:30 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. > wrote: >> In <20090602162813.ga24...@fantomas.sk>, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: >>>I tried to locally recompile package "wwwoffle" because of some bugs in >>> it. I

lvm on a single big partition or just a single big partition?

2009-06-03 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
Hello debian users, Though I have used lvm for some time, I have one question that I don't

update issue when /tmp is noexec

2009-06-03 Thread Russell Gadd
For some time now, in order to add a bit of security I have made /tmp noexec. However I noticed recently looking at the messages scrolling up the screen that some update configuration scripts were failing as they were trying to be executed in /tmp. After googling I found this article: http://www.d

Re: mysql server to remote client

2009-06-03 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
2009/6/4 Umarzuki Mochlis > > > 2009/6/3 abdelkader belahcene > > Hi, >> I installed mysql, locally on the same machine, i use it, via teminal or >> thru apache/php. >> The problem is when I try to access from a remote machine, the following >> command fails: >> mysql -h 192.168.10.10 -u root -

Re: mysql server to remote client

2009-06-03 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
2009/6/3 abdelkader belahcene > Hi, > I installed mysql, locally on the same machine, i use it, via teminal or > thru apache/php. > The problem is when I try to access from a remote machine, the following > command fails: > mysql -h 192.168.10.10 -u root -p > > Where 192.168.10.10 is the address

Re: best ext3 reader/writer software?

2009-06-03 Thread Kelly Clowers
2009/6/3 András Péter : > What's the "best" EXT3, or "any" Linux FileSystem "Reader"-"Writer" > software? :P What are people using most often for e.g.: LVM2 (or dm_crypted > LVM2?) writing? under windows? > thanks :) For windows, there are a couple options for reading and a couple for for r/w Exp

Re: What happened to network devices?

2009-06-03 Thread lee
On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 09:22:29PM -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: > James Youngman wrote: >> On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 5:30 PM, lee wrote: >> >>> On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 06:40:00PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >>> In <20090529225111.gf1...@cat.rubenette.is-a-geek.com>, lee wrote:

mysql server to remote client

2009-06-03 Thread abdelkader belahcene
Hi, I installed mysql, locally on the same machine, i use it, via teminal or thru apache/php. The problem is when I try to access from a remote machine, the following command fails: mysql -h 192.168.10.10 -u root -p Where 192.168.10.10 is the address of the server running mysql. thanks for help b

Re: What happened to network devices?

2009-06-03 Thread lee
On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 11:55:11PM +0100, James Youngman wrote: > > So what did you use instead? I have never had trouble with using > > "eth0" or "/dev/eth0" before, so I didn't check if such a file > > existed. A network interface is a device which I expect to be > > represented under /dev. > >

Re: 64Bit installation on a 500 GB Sata DRIVE

2009-06-03 Thread Peter Hillier-Brook
Johannes Wiedersich wrote: [cut] I'm glad it works for you. I maintain that there are some sites and some plugins that won't work correctly on amd64, while they work fine on x86. Last time I tried virtualbox, would not start that proprietary OS on amd64, either. VirtualBox (from Sun) works j

Re: Can I preserve the case of folder name after a vfat partition is mounted?

2009-06-03 Thread Barclay, Daniel
ronggui wong wrote: > Thanks for your hints, and I find "shortname=mixed" is more close to > what I want. I think there's also shortname=winnt. (I forget exactly what it does differently, but it's what I use to preserve case.) Daniel -- (Plain text sometimes corrupted to HTML "courtesy" of Micr

[going OT] Re: 64Bit installation on a 500 GB Sata DRIVE

2009-06-03 Thread thveillon.debian
Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > thveillon.debian wrote: >> Johannes Wiedersich wrote: >>> Frank Lin PIAT wrote: But unless you have a specific need to use stick to 32bit kernel (driver, old application [in]compatibility), it is wise to move to 64bits. >>> Why? >>> >>> I know that 64bit

Re: why must emacs depend on sound packages?

2009-06-03 Thread Barclay, Daniel
Daniel Burrows wrote: > ...: one of my colleagues bought a keyboard with pedals a > few years ago. As I understand it, the pedals are used for shift > states and control characters -- I haven't used it myself, but it seems > like an interesting idea, and it continues the pianistic angle here. :-)

Re: gspca driver on debian sid (amd64)

2009-06-03 Thread H.S.
Raven wrote: > Hi all. > I am trying to install the 'gspca' driver for a Logitech webcam but > compiling from source fails and I could not find any debian package > containing that module. > Any ideas? I am having similar problem on amd64 machine but on Ubuntu Jaunty. It has 2.6.28 kernel. The com

Re: why must emacs depend on sound packages?

2009-06-03 Thread Barclay, Daniel
Chris Jones wrote: > On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 11:49:34AM EDT, Barclay, Daniel wrote: >> Chris Jones wrote: >>> On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 12:04:44PM EDT, Barclay, Daniel wrote: Chris Jones wrote: >>> [..] >>> >>> ... homo sapiens ... opposable thumb. ... > The indirect relationship is that thumbs

Re: gspca driver on debian sid (amd64)

2009-06-03 Thread Brad Sawatzky
On Tue, 02 Jun 2009, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 22:00:47 -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > > On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 06:25:49PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 08:30:50 +0200, Raven wrote: > > > > Hi all. > > > > I am trying to install the 'gspca' driver for

Re: 64Bit installation on a 500 GB Sata DRIVE

2009-06-03 Thread thveillon.debian
Klaus Jantzen wrote: > On 06/03/2009 09:05 AM, Rod James Bio wrote: >> Its a Seagate HD. I dont have the exact model number. Now I am >> checking if this is a hardware problem. One thing that bothers me is >> why does 32bit works? >> >> Klaus Jantzen wrote: >>> On 06/03/2009 07:46 AM, Rod James Bio

Re: 64Bit installation on a 500 GB Sata DRIVE

2009-06-03 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
thveillon.debian wrote: > Johannes Wiedersich wrote: >> Frank Lin PIAT wrote: >>> But unless you have a specific need to use stick to 32bit kernel >>> (driver, old application [in]compatibility), it is wise to move to >>> 64bits. >> Why? >> >> I know that 64bit is the future. I have the feeling, ho

Re: best ext3 reader/writer software?

2009-06-03 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
András Péter wrote: > What's the "best" EXT3, or "any" Linux FileSystem "Reader"-"Writer" > software? The kernel reads/writes directly to ext3, so you'd have it that this is the linux kernel. I use 'mke2fs' for creating and 'tune2fs' for tuning my ext2/ext3 file systems :P What are people using

Re: 64Bit installation on a 500 GB Sata DRIVE

2009-06-03 Thread thveillon.debian
Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Frank Lin PIAT wrote: >> But unless you have a specific need to use stick to 32bit kernel >> (driver, old application [in]compatibility), it is wise to move to >> 64bits. > > Why? > > I know that 64bit is the future. I have the feeling, however, that many > applicatio

X11/Intrinsic.h (?)

2009-06-03 Thread alexe100
Hi all, When trying to build jdk6 source its sources I run in this error on debian: ../../../src/solaris/native/sun/awt/awt.h:20:27: error: X11/Intrinsic.h: No such file or directory My system is : Linux debian 2.6.26-2-686 #1 SMP Mon May 11 19:00:59 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux Anu help would be

Re: package locally compiled gets "upgraded"

2009-06-03 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 03.06.09 10:34, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2009-06-03 09:23 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > On Wed,03.Jun.09, 01:25:19, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > >> On 02.06.09 14:29, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > >> > In <20090602185609.ga26...@fantomas.sk>, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > >> > >is 1

best ext3 reader/writer software?

2009-06-03 Thread András Péter
What's the "best" EXT3, or "any" Linux FileSystem "Reader"-"Writer" software? :P What are people using most often for e.g.: LVM2 (or dm_crypted LVM2?) writing? under windows? thanks :)

Re: [OT] Hosting a DNS

2009-06-03 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 03:27:43PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > > What do you think is the main reason or the importance of hosting your > > own DNS when your ISP and/or Domain Registrar can host it for you for > > FREE? > > You remain reachable when your DNS provider is under a DoS attack. > Su

Re: [OT] Hosting a DNS

2009-06-03 Thread Florian Weimer
> What do you think is the main reason or the importance of hosting your > own DNS when your ISP and/or Domain Registrar can host it for you for > FREE? You remain reachable when your DNS provider is under a DoS attack. Such attacks happen from time to time to large providers (check the news). If

[OT] Hosting a DNS

2009-06-03 Thread GNUbie
Hello all, What do you think is the main reason or the importance of hosting your own DNS when your ISP and/or Domain Registrar can host it for you for FREE? Normally if you are going to host your own DNS for your organization, ideally you need to run it at least on two (2) different machines con

Re: svn doesnt connect to server

2009-06-03 Thread Brad King
Peter Robinson wrote: For what ever reason I was not able to downgrade as above. If your /etc/apt/sources.list does not refer to 'stable' then the method I posted may not work. > I then uninstalled the 0.28.4-1 version and installed the previous one from /var/cache/apt/archives# dpkg -i lib

Re: 64Bit installation on a 500 GB Sata DRIVE

2009-06-03 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > But unless you have a specific need to use stick to 32bit kernel > (driver, old application [in]compatibility), it is wise to move to > 64bits. Why? I know that 64bit is the future. I have the feeling, however, that many applications are still better supported on 32bit tha

Re: crond.daily: paralellel or sequential?

2009-06-03 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Joost Kraaijeveld wrote: Hi, Are cron jobs that are scheduled by including them in the /etc/cron.daily run parallel or sequentially? If they are run sequentially, is it possible to get them running parallel? /etc/cron.daily is run by run-parts. Looking in the man-page yields Files are run in t

Re: Activating swap... failed. [SOLVED]

2009-06-03 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Turns out it was Bastille leftovers (most likely). A few programs in /sbin had 000 permissions, including swap* and hwclock (hence my time issues)... Swap mounts now. There was supposed to be an undo file in /var/log/Bastille/backup but i couldn't find none, and purging said package didn't revert

Activating swap... failed.

2009-06-03 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Greetings, Sometime during boot, i get the message "Activating swap... failed." ('failed' is in red) The only place in /var/log (that i thought would make sense to search in) i can find a reference to swap is: $ cat /var/log/kern.log.0 |grep swap Mar 21 12:28:37 deb64 kernel: [ 12.194854] Addin

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