Re: bash question

2009-10-09 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <20091010042217.gd2...@samad.com.au>, Alex Samad wrote: >Hi > >i have this > >RDSCHM="--remote-schema 'ssh -i /root/.ssh/id_backup -C %s >rdiff-backup --server'" > > >and trying this > >rdiff-backup \ > $RDSCHM \ > $RDRM \ > "$DEST/" Sorry, there's no clean, portable way to

Re: When to expect a kernel commit in Debian stable's kernel?

2009-10-09 Thread Paul E Condon
On 2009-10-10_00:19:12, Felix H. Dahlke wrote: > Hi, > > I'm quite new to Debian, and wondering how long it usually takes for a > kernel patch to go through unstable and testing to stable. > > The particular commit I'm interested in is: > http://linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb/rev/5d1d221f596f > > I beli

Re: Sound - handmade how?

2009-10-09 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 02:01, Alexey Salmin wrote: > You should select some engine to work with. > You can work directly with ALSA (that will tie you to linux), or for > example use Phonon architecture - that is portable in terms of OS but > will tie you to kdelibs. Phonon has dropped down a leve

[pecon...@mesanetworks.net: Re: D-Link's Shareport USB Utility]

2009-10-09 Thread Paul E Condon
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2009 20:43:24 -0600 From: Paul E Condon To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: D-Link's Shareport USB Utility User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) On 2009-10-09_17:17:26, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Merciadri Luca put forth on 10/9/2009 4:42 PM: > > Hello, > > > > I am using a

Re: How much RAM can debian support?

2009-10-09 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
2009/10/10 Marc Shapiro > > My first computer (a TRS-80 Model III) had 16K (that kilobites) of RAM and > 16k of ROM, then I quickly upgraded to its maximum of 48K. > > The times, they are a-changin'. > 80's, 70's? You guys sure are senior citizens. No offense, I respected senior peoples, especia

bash question

2009-10-09 Thread Alex Samad
Hi i have this RDSCHM="--remote-schema 'ssh -i /root/.ssh/id_backup -C %s rdiff-backup --server'" and trying this rdiff-backup \ $RDSCHM \ $RDRM \ "$DEST/" with sh -x i get this + rdiff-backup --remote-schema ''\''ssh' -i /root/.ssh/id_backup -C %s rdiff-backup '-

Re: How much RAM can debian support?

2009-10-09 Thread Marc Shapiro
Alex Samad wrote: On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 05:14:32PM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Dean Chester put forth on 10/9/2009 3:44 PM: Hi I'm moving to a Macbook soon(staying with debian tho:p) and apple keep advertising that snow leopard can support 16 exobytes of RAM. Im just wondering how much can 64

Drupal 6.13 warning: call_user_func_array() First argument is expected to be a valid callback

2009-10-09 Thread David Christensen
debian-user: I'm trying to build a Drupal 6.13 development box using a VMware Debian 5.0 virtual machine (on Windows XP SP3): http://www.thoughtpolice.co.uk/vmware/ When I restore (backup_migrate-6.x-1.2) the database from my production site (shared account at he.net; Ubuntu 8.04.2; modifi

Re: How much RAM can debian support?

2009-10-09 Thread David Fox
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 6:34 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > A $600 full length ISA card and a cable to the 8088 socket quadrupled my > system performance in about 15 minutes.  Best upgrade I ever made. My first computer was in the early 80s and it had 16K of RAM (TRS 80). I think 64 bit debian will

How much RAM can debian support?

2009-10-09 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Alex Samad put forth on 10/9/2009 7:01 PM: > God can you remember when 16M used to be a lot ... I can recall when 1MB was a lot. I upgraded my Kaypro 8088 based PC that had 640KB, with an Intel Inboard 386/PC card with 1MB. Just having a disk caching TSR using 384KB of himem on a sy

Re: How much RAM can debian support?

2009-10-09 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 09:03:02PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > Alex Samad wrote: > >On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 05:14:32PM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > >>Dean Chester put forth on 10/9/2009 3:44 PM: > >>>Hi > >>>I'm moving to a Macbook soon(staying with debian tho:p) and apple keep > >>>advertising tha

Re: How much RAM can debian support?

2009-10-09 Thread Wayne Topa
Alex Samad wrote: On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 05:14:32PM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Dean Chester put forth on 10/9/2009 3:44 PM: Hi I'm moving to a Macbook soon(staying with debian tho:p) and apple keep advertising that snow leopard can support 16 exobytes of RAM. Im just wondering how much can 64

backupninja

2009-10-09 Thread Alex Samad
Hi I was wondering how many people where using this and how they found it. Seemed to have the things that i want backup psql and filesystem with rdiff-backup to remote site. expandable with hooks for scripts. the home site doesn't look that active though Alex signature.asc Description: Di

Re: How much RAM can debian support?

2009-10-09 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 05:14:32PM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Dean Chester put forth on 10/9/2009 3:44 PM: > > Hi > > I'm moving to a Macbook soon(staying with debian tho:p) and apple keep > > advertising that snow leopard can support 16 exobytes of RAM. Im just > > wondering how much can 64-bit

Re: segmentation fault with NVIDIA 32bit part

2009-10-09 Thread lee
On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 08:45:02AM +0200, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > >> >> My quake3 copy is running fine with the 64-bit nvidia drivers. > > > > > > Without having the 32bit compatibility libraries installed? I have > > > quake4 and don't know about quake3, but all games that aren't 64bit > > > see

Re: When to expect a kernel commit in Debian stable's kernel?

2009-10-09 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <1255126752.5713.24.ca...@ixion>, Felix H. Dahlke wrote: >I'm quite new to Debian, and wondering how long it usually takes for a >kernel patch to go through unstable and testing to stable. Between releases, stable is only updated to fix RC bugs. To do so, a patch is backported to the upstream

Re: When to expect a kernel commit in Debian stable's kernel?

2009-10-09 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Felix H. Dahlke put forth on 10/9/2009 5:19 PM: > Hi, > > I'm quite new to Debian, and wondering how long it usually takes for a > kernel patch to go through unstable and testing to stable. No better time to learn than the present. If you want "hot off the press" kernel features and patches, go

When to expect a kernel commit in Debian stable's kernel?

2009-10-09 Thread Felix H. Dahlke
Hi, I'm quite new to Debian, and wondering how long it usually takes for a kernel patch to go through unstable and testing to stable. The particular commit I'm interested in is: http://linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb/rev/5d1d221f596f I believe the respective debian package is gspca-modules (I have gspca-

D-Link's Shareport USB Utility

2009-10-09 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Merciadri Luca put forth on 10/9/2009 4:42 PM: > Hello, > > I am using a D-Link router which D-Link's SharePort utility can be > used with. Unfortunately, this utility seems not to work at all > under Debian (Lenny). Shareport aims at allowing the OS to use the > router's USB port. Shareport is bu

Re: How much RAM can debian support?

2009-10-09 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Dean Chester put forth on 10/9/2009 3:44 PM: > Hi > I'm moving to a Macbook soon(staying with debian tho:p) and apple keep > advertising that snow leopard can support 16 exobytes of RAM. Im just > wondering how much can 64-bit debian support? > Thanks in advance > Dean You've got other constraints

Re: "aptitude safe-upgrade" in sid has several broken packages

2009-10-09 Thread Tim Tebbit
JF Pirl wrote: 8< > By the way, is the graphical ugliness of some days ago in Sid solved > now? (when logging in, GTK/the gnome-panels seemed to be broken or > something, and some panel applets did not want to work, as well as no > direct shutdown possibilities in the gdm session - I swit

D-Link's Shareport USB Utility

2009-10-09 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I am using a D-Link router which D-Link's SharePort utility can be used with. Unfortunately, this utility seems not to work at all under Debian (Lenny). Shareport aims at allowing the OS to use the router's USB port. Shareport is built for Wind

Re: "aptitude safe-upgrade" in sid has several broken packages

2009-10-09 Thread JF Pirl
Hello, You might as well do a simple aptitude install epiphany-browser (if my memory doesn't fail, it will warn you about the fact that epiphany-gecko - and possibly epiphany-extensions-more - will have to be removed, which is no problem as they are now obsolete). By the way, is the graphical ugl

Re: How much RAM can debian support?

2009-10-09 Thread Oliver Schneider
Hi, > I'm moving to a Macbook soon(staying with debian tho:p) and apple keep > advertising that snow leopard can support 16 exobytes of RAM. Im just > wondering how much can 64-bit debian support? the theoretical maximum for Linux is currently 128 TiB. However, this discussion is moot because AFA

Re: How much RAM can debian support?

2009-10-09 Thread jeremy jozwik
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 1:44 PM, Dean Chester wrote: > Hi > I'm moving to a Macbook soon(staying with debian tho:p) and apple keep > advertising that snow leopard can support 16 exobytes of RAM. Im just > wondering how much can 64-bit debian support? > Thanks in advance > Dean > a lot http://linu

How much RAM can debian support?

2009-10-09 Thread Dean Chester
Hi I'm moving to a Macbook soon(staying with debian tho:p) and apple keep advertising that snow leopard can support 16 exobytes of RAM. Im just wondering how much can 64-bit debian support? Thanks in advance Dean

Re: Setting Default Group Permissions In Folders

2009-10-09 Thread Ken Teague
You may be able to get Puppet to do this for you. http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/Recipes/FilePermissionCheck - Ken -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Debian 5.0.3 Icedove attachments delete/ detach flaky

2009-10-09 Thread David Christensen
David Christensen wrote at 2009-10-09 00:52 -0500: I have been using Debian 5.0.3 as my primary desktop machine for ~2 weeks. I've noticed that detaching and/or deleting attachments from messages in Icedove sometimes works, sometimes fails, and sometimes fails spectacularly (locks up while

Re: Video Problem

2009-10-09 Thread Thomas H. George
The segmentation fault was caused by a faulty video clip. totem works from a terminal window but problem of playing youtube video clips with the browser is unsolve. I have started a new thread Iceape Video Problem to avoid the confusion caused by the defective video clip. Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Iceape video problem

2009-10-09 Thread Thomas H. George
On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 02:19:41PM -0300, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > On Sex, 09 Out 2009, "Thomas H. George" wrote: > >I have two computers with uptodate Squeeze sytems including gdm, icewm > >and the iceape suite. In one system the iceape browser can play youtube > >videos, in the other system

Re: SOLVED! was Re: Further to fast booting for a debian system - changing getty to rungetty

2009-10-09 Thread Lisi
On Friday 09 October 2009 17:45:28 Michael Wagner wrote: > * Lisi 09.10.2009 > > For the archive this is how I did it: [snip] > Hello Lisi, Hello Michael, > much work for such an easy task. 'rungetty' is in my opinion good for > autologin in the console. For the autostart of a user straight int

Re: Iceape video problem

2009-10-09 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On Sex, 09 Out 2009, "Thomas H. George" wrote: I have two computers with uptodate Squeeze sytems including gdm, icewm and the iceape suite. In one system the iceape browser can play youtube videos, in the other system cannot. The system that cannot play youtube videos has installed same plugins

Iceape video problem

2009-10-09 Thread Thomas H. George
I have two computers with uptodate Squeeze sytems including gdm, icewm and the iceape suite. In one system the iceape browser can play youtube videos, in the other system cannot. The system that cannot play youtube videos has installed same plugins for iceape as the system which can play the vide

Re: Video Problem

2009-10-09 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 16:34:16 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 07:33:22PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 09:28:26 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > > > On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 10:58:41AM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > > > G

Re: SOLVED! was Re: Further to fast booting for a debian system - changing getty to rungetty

2009-10-09 Thread Michael Wagner
* Lisi 09.10.2009 > For the archive this is how I did it: > > install rungetty > > edit inittab: > change getty to rungetty and remove baud rate > to the tty1 line, add 1 and --autologin like so: > 1:12345:respawn:/sbin/rungetty tty1 --autologin user > > edit ~/.bash_profile (if it doesn't

Re: .udevdb or .udev presence implies active udev. Aborting MAKEDEV invocation.

2009-10-09 Thread green
Marcelo Laia wrote at 2009-10-07 14:06 -0500: > A few days a go I upgraded my Latitude D630 to unstable. But, after a > lot of problems, I downgraded to testing again. But, I still with same > kernel (may be 2.6.29, I am no t sure here!). Downgrading is not recommended. > After a safe-upgrade I s

Re: Debian 5.0.3 Icedove attachments delete/ detach flaky

2009-10-09 Thread green
David Christensen wrote at 2009-10-09 00:52 -0500: > I have been using Debian 5.0.3 as my primary desktop machine for ~2 > weeks. I've noticed that detaching and/or deleting attachments from > messages in Icedove sometimes works, sometimes fails, and sometimes > fails spectacularly (locks up

Re: Important commands lose permissions after upgrades.

2009-10-09 Thread Jochen Schulz
Nuno Magalhães: > On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 11:52, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> Jochen Schulz put forth on 10/9/2009 1:57 AM: >>> >>> I hate hard disks. Never trust them, irrespective of their age. >> >> I second that. > > Thanks for the input but i can't see how hard-drive failiure would > make specif

Re: Important commands lose permissions after upgrades.

2009-10-09 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 11:52, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Jochen Schulz put forth on 10/9/2009 1:57 AM: >> >> I hate hard disks. Never trust them, irrespective of their age. > > I second that. Thanks for the input but i can't see how hard-drive failiure would make specific system commands lose permiss

Re: seek complete errors on boot up

2009-10-09 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Aioanei Rares put forth on 10/9/2009 5:37 AM: > Jude DaShiell wrote: >> I'm getting seek complete errors both on boot up and at certain times >> after login which are being sent out over the console interface to my >> user account. This happens even though I think e2fsck runs when I >> boot up. An

Important commands lose permissions after upgrades.

2009-10-09 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Jochen Schulz put forth on 10/9/2009 1:57 AM: > > I hate hard disks. Never trust them, irrespective of their age. I second that. I've got two 9GB Barracuda SCSI disks that have been running non-stop in a server since 1996--13 years. I bought a Maxtor single platter 40GB IDE drive in 2003 for a

Re: seek complete errors on boot up

2009-10-09 Thread Aioanei Rares
Jude DaShiell wrote: I'm getting seek complete errors both on boot up and at certain times after login which are being sent out over the console interface to my user account. This happens even though I think e2fsck runs when I boot up. Any ideas as to what the cause for this problem is as well

Re: Cannot load module toshiba_acpi.ko

2009-10-09 Thread Joel Roth
On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 10:12:19AM +0100, Chris Lale wrote: > Lenny 5.3 i386 > laptop: Toshiba Satellite Pro L300D > > I want to run fnfxd and toshset to access the function keys for brightness > etc. > > The programs will not run. The problem seems to be that kernel module > toshiba_acpi will n

seek complete errors on boot up

2009-10-09 Thread Jude DaShiell
I'm getting seek complete errors both on boot up and at certain times after login which are being sent out over the console interface to my user account. This happens even though I think e2fsck runs when I boot up. Any ideas as to what the cause for this problem is as well as what can be done

Cannot load module toshiba_acpi.ko

2009-10-09 Thread Chris Lale
Lenny 5.3 i386 laptop: Toshiba Satellite Pro L300D I want to run fnfxd and toshset to access the function keys for brightness etc. The programs will not run. The problem seems to be that kernel module toshiba_acpi will not load: Output from commands: = # fnfxd FnFX Daemon v0.

SOLVED! was Re: Further to fast booting for a debian system - changing getty to rungetty

2009-10-09 Thread Lisi
For the archive this is how I did it: install rungetty edit inittab: change getty to rungetty and remove baud rate to the tty1 line, add 1 and --autologin like so: 1:12345:respawn:/sbin/rungetty tty1 --autologin user edit ~/.bash_profile (if it doesn't exist, create it) add "startx" (witho

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