Re: Recovering data from NTFS disk

KS: > > > I have already started testdisk and it is analysing the disk since the > last hour or so. Should be finished soon. Good luck! > It might give me an hint as to what is the status of the disk. Install smartmontools and try to run smartctl -a /dev/sdb on it. Then post the output. It mig

Re: Back to Debian after 10 years

Brent Clark writes: > I think if you run Testing, its no different if you run / use FreeBSD > ports. You just need to know, and guess if its safe to do a dist-upgrade > or upgrade only certain packages, but 99% of the time, I just > dist-upgrade, and as said .. no problems here. Even Ubuntu, Ive

Re: calling US 800 numbers from abroad via VoIP

On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 11:45:43AM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Hello, > > Am 2009-12-20 23:28:32, schrieb Chris Davies: > > jida...@jidanni.org wrote: > > > My friend uses the Skype stuff, but all I want to do is make one or two > > > calls to some 800 numbers, so don't want to subscribe to a

Re: Recovering data from NTFS disk

Rob Owens wrote: > > I think photorec is the right tool for you. It's part of the testdisk > package, which somebody mentioned already. I've used photorec several > times to recover files (all kinds, not just photos) from drives that > were unreadable by other means. > > -Rob > > I have alrea

Re: How to fix ipaddress

>> I set /etc/network/interfaces as follows : >>      auto lo >>      iface lo inet loopback >>      allow-hotplug eth0 >>      iface eth0 inet static >>            address 192.168.0.7 >>            netmask 255.255.255.0 >>            network 192.168.0.0 >>            broadcaset 192.168.0.255 >>  

subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1

Hi, When I install (or uninstall) a package, it seems to install OK, however I get the error: dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.26-2-686 (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 This seems to be a known bug associated with this kernel, but I have not s

Re: CPU fan working more than it should

On 07/01/10 21:44, George wrote: On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 1:59 AM, Olaf Reitmaier Veracierta wrote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_scaling How to configure an use it? (See the modules way for Debian) http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to_make_use_of_Dynamic_Frequency_Scaling

Re: Recovering data from NTFS disk

On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 08:12:27PM -0500, KS wrote: > Jochen Schulz wrote: > > KS: > >> r...@sysresccd /root % mount -o loop -t iso9660 > > > > Why do you mount the dump file from ddrescue as ISO image? Doesn't the > > subject say it should actually contain an NTFS filesystem? I am > > surprised t

Re: pvmove "Couldn't find device with uuid"

On 07/01/10 10:43, Noah Meyerhans wrote: pvmove -n /dev/xenvg/imprimatur_cache /dev/sdb /dev/sdc Error locking on node tig-hyperc-1: Internal lvm error, check syslog Failed to activate imprimatur_cache syslog contains: Jan 7 09:31:57 tig-hyperc-1 lvm[3028]: Couldn't find device with uui

Re: New testing install; no /boot/grub/menu.lst exists.

>> > first time.  I just installed both squeeze(?)/testing and OpenBSD 4.6. >> > How do I add the latter to testing's grub?  /boot/grub/menu.lst >> > doesn't exist, and /boot/grub contains stuff I've never seen before. >>  Testing uses grub2 by default. >>  # update-grub >>  creates a new grub.

Re: CPU fan working more than it should

On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 1:59 AM, Olaf Reitmaier Veracierta wrote: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_scaling > > How to configure an use it? (See the modules way for Debian) > > http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to_make_use_of_Dynamic_Frequency_Scaling I have an AMD Sempron, so it looks lik

Re: Handle paths with spaces

In <4b460d6c.3050...@symantec.com>, Bob McGowan wrote: >Jon Dowland wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 03:38:23PM +0530, Foss User wrote: >>> I want to do some operation on each file ending with .txt. However, >>> this script wouldn't work because in each iteration it gets one word >>> from the outp

Re: Handle paths with spaces

In <3f8297b21001070208q640b8abdudc0bda752f887...@mail.gmail.com>, Foss User wrote: >This is my directory structure: >. >| a.sh >| a.txt >+---foo bar >| b.txt >+---santa >| | c.txt >| \---humpty dumpty >| e.txt >\---test >d.txt > >I want to do some operation on eac

Re: CPU fan working more than it should

On 07/01/10 10:38, George wrote: Performance Monitor says it isn't. But what's frequency scaling? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_scaling How to configure an use it? (See the modules way for Debian) http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to_make_use_of_Dynamic_Frequency_Scaling -- -

Re: Recovering data from NTFS disk

The filesystem on the disk is clearly toast. Mounting it as the wrong type won't help. Start looking at forensics packages: magicrescue - recovers files by looking for magic bytes myrescue - rescue data from damaged harddisks scrounge-ntfs - Data recovery program for NTFS filesystems autopsy - g

Re: New testing install; no /boot/grub/menu.lst exists.

Paul E Condon : > On 20100106_033032, s. keeling wrote: > > > > first time. I just installed both squeeze(?)/testing and OpenBSD 4.6. > > > > How do I add the latter to testing's grub? /boot/grub/menu.lst > > doesn't exist, and /boot/grub contains stuff I've never seen before. > > Testing us

Re: Two computers in one: two users each with their own accounts, monitor, and keyboard?

On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 16:02, Paul Johnson wrote: > Kelly Clowers wrote: > >> On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 09:03, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >>> John Hasler put forth on 1/6/2010 10:21 AM: Stan writes: > What about sound? Two sound cards.  Sound is handled entirely seperately from video. >

Re: Disallow other users from reading my $HOME

On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 11:16:16PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > What are good permissions to use for one's home directory so that > other users on the system could not read or otherwise access my files? > Is 700 too paranoid? Should it be 755 like I see so many times? Will I > have probl

Re: How to use Sun Java instead of gcj

On 06/01/10 20:23, Ogya Chief wrote: I installed sun-java6 but "java -version" showed version 1.5. Upon further investigation I realised gcj is also installed on the machine and OpenOffice depends on it. I have two questions: 1. How can I make OpenOffice use Sun-java instead of gcj so that I

Re: Recovering data from NTFS disk

Jochen Schulz wrote: > KS: >> r...@sysresccd /root % mount -o loop -t iso9660 > > Why do you mount the dump file from ddrescue as ISO image? Doesn't the > subject say it should actually contain an NTFS filesystem? I am > surprised that this actually works. I tried with ntfs flag too and it doesn'

Problems with the install kernel on serverworks chipset.

When I install Debian 5.0 lenny and reboot, the linux never makes in past the first post but crashes/reboots at once. I can run Knoppix 5.3.1 (kernel 2.6.26) on DVD and older knoppix versions on the machine, so it's not a total havoc. I also used to run an older linux on this machine with kerne

Re: New testing install; no /boot/grub/menu.lst exists.

Wayne : > s. keeling wrote: > > I'm new to testing. I've been running stable on primary box and (eg.) > > sid on sandbox for years. This is testing is on my sandbox for the > > first time. I just installed both squeeze(?)/testing and OpenBSD 4.6. > > > > How do I add the latter to testing's g

Re: Two computers in one: two users each with their own accounts, monitor, and keyboard?

Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 09:03, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> John Hasler put forth on 1/6/2010 10:21 AM: >>> Stan writes: What about sound? >>> >>> Two sound cards.  Sound is handled entirely seperately from video. >> >> No kidding?  (sarcasm) >> >> The question is how do you

Re: Two computers in one: two users each with their own accounts, monitor, and keyboard?

Dotan Cohen wrote: > I have a desktop computer with onboard VGA and option to add a > discrete video card. It has plenty of spare USB ports for mice and > keyboards. > > Does Debian support using this computer for _two_ workstations, each > with their own user accounts, monitor, and keyboard? The

Re: Back to Debian after 10 years

On Thu, 2010-01-07 at 16:29 -0700, bosco wrote: > On 2010-01-07 14:40:02 -0700, Paul Cartwright said: > > > On Thu January 7 2010, bosco wrote: > >> You might take a look at Sidux, it is a distro compiled out of > >> unstable. I used it for a while. It is well supported and has a good > >> group

ejabberd-modules

ejabberd-modules Alguien que use ejabberd 2.0.1 y tenga implementado algunos modulos como uno para guardar las conversaciones de usuarios. Por qué razón según lo que dicen por ejemplo mod_logxml dice esto 1 Copy this file to ejabberd/src/mod_logxml.erl 2 Recompile ejabberd 3 Add to ejabberd

Re: Recovering data from NTFS disk

John Hasler wrote: > KS writes: >> I connected it in my machine (internal SATA) and just did a ddrescue >> of the disk to a 1.5TB hard disk using a Sysrescue CD. The process >> tells me that there were 37 errors totalling 151kB. > > Ok... > >> The ISO image generated is about 466GB. > > "ISO"?

Re: Back to Debian after 10 years

On 2010-01-07 14:40:02 -0700, Paul Cartwright said: On Thu January 7 2010, bosco wrote: You might take a look at Sidux, it is a distro compiled out of unstable. I used it for a while. It is well supported and has a good group at the Sidux forum. but no email list.. I installed sidux on my la

Re: Debian does not detect SATA DVD drive

Hello, Edit your /etc/fstab You must disable fsck check on cdrom. Examle: /dev/sdb/media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0 Last digit of every mouting line controls fsck. set value to 0 if want to disable fsck. > Hello, > > I installed a SATA DVD drive (Plextor PX-880SA)

Re: Recovering data from NTFS disk

KS writes: > I connected it in my machine (internal SATA) and just did a ddrescue > of the disk to a 1.5TB hard disk using a Sysrescue CD. The process > tells me that there were 37 errors totalling 151kB. Ok... > The ISO image generated is about 466GB. "ISO"? I thought you made an image of a NT

Re: Squeeze vs. Lenny update frequency?

On Thu, 2010-01-07 at 15:05 -0800, Mark wrote: > >On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 3:08 AM, Osamu Aoki wrote: > >Hi, > > > >Stable release only have security updates. > >Testing has much more updates. > > Probably a dumb question, but...if a person uses Squeeze for pretty > much nothing but web browsing wi

Re: Squeeze vs. Lenny update frequency?

>On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 3:08 AM, Osamu Aoki wrote: >Hi, > >Stable release only have security updates. >Testing has much more updates. Probably a dumb question, but...if a person uses Squeeze for pretty much nothing but web browsing with Iceweasel and whose system works just fine as of today, what

Debian does not detect SATA DVD drive

Hello, I installed a SATA DVD drive (Plextor PX-880SA) on my dual-boot system (Windows XP Pro and Debian Lenny). When I boot Linux, fsck fails. Here is the relevant portion of the log file: Thu Jan 7 16:39:14 2010: Checking file systems...fsck 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008) Thu Jan 7 16:39:14 2010: fsck.

Re: Lenny -> Squeeze Not Upgrading

chris kerr wrote: First time I've tried to upgrade my distro. Following the directions I edited /etc/apt/source.list and changed all "lenny" to "squeeze" and all "stable" to "testing". None of my servers listed in source.list seem to work. So when I next try to upgrade aptitude or dpkg, nei

Re: Recovering data from NTFS disk

KS: > > r...@sysresccd /root % mount -o loop -t iso9660 Why do you mount the dump file from ddrescue as ISO image? Doesn't the subject say it should actually contain an NTFS filesystem? I am surprised that this actually works. > /mnt/windows/rescueData.iso /mnt/cdrom > r...@sysresccd /root % ls

Re: Disallow other users from reading my $HOME

On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 04:19:14PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Roger Leigh wrote: > > % setfacl -m g:www-data:rx ~ ~/public_html > > Many web servers are configured to run user-supplied CGI scripts as > www-data, so this approach is not particularly secure. I have not much experience of running web

Recovering data from NTFS disk

Hi all, A friend of mine gave me his hard disk to try to rescue data from it. It is a 500GB SATA drive which was in an USB enclosure. His machine (Windows XP) is unable to detect it when the enclosure is connected. I connected it in my machine (internal SATA) and just did a ddrescue of the disk t

Re: Back to Debian after 10 years

On Thu January 7 2010, bosco wrote: > You might take a look at Sidux, it is a distro compiled out of > unstable. I used it for a while. It is well supported and has a good > group at the Sidux forum. but no email list.. I installed sidux on my laptop, getting rid of Ubuntu.. still have lenny on my

Re: Disallow other users from reading my $HOME

Roger Leigh wrote: > % setfacl -m g:www-data:rx ~ ~/public_html Many web servers are configured to run user-supplied CGI scripts as www-data, so this approach is not particularly secure. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Capturing keypresses during screensaver.

When using Gnome on Lenny, If the user starts typing while a screensaver is operating, the character representing the first keypress is lost. Is there a way that the screensaver can send this character to the focused application? I have a scenario where a person operates a barcode scanner whi

Re: Archos 3 vision + debian 2.6.30-2-686 +usbmount: unsuccessful

Dear all, About tests: (1) I plugged the archos device on an old windows (vista) computer and it worked, I copied some files and it plays music. This satisfies me from another aspect: I was afraid the usb plugs had evolved, but both these computers have about the sam

Re: apt-get source produces gpg error. Can't check signature: public key not found

On 2010-01-07 17:42 +0100, Stephen Powell wrote: > On 2010-01-07 at 11:04:18 -0500, Sven Joachim wrote: >> Install the debian-keyring package. > > Thank you! That solves the problem. But it requires 26M of disk space! > Wow! It's just a collection of keys, right? Why is it so big? > Are there

Re: Disallow other users from reading my $HOME

On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 06:54:12PM +, Tom Furie wrote: > On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 08:09:49AM -0800, Bob McGowan wrote: > > Ken Teague wrote: > > > [snip] > The way I have it set up is $HOME has rwxr-x--x, public_html has > rwxr-s--- chgrp'd to www-data. Most of my files are rw---, except

Re: Re: Gnome apps in KDE

On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 12:41:00PM EST, Nima Azarbayjany wrote: > Thanks Camaleon, Aioanei, Chris, and Alan. Adding > 'gnome-settings-daemon' to the autostart directory did the job! Didn't want to sound presumptuous, but that is basically what my initial post suggested as a course of actio

Re: Back to Debian after 10 years

You might take a look at Sidux, it is a distro compiled out of unstable. I used it for a while. It is well supported and has a good group at the Sidux forum. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debi

Re: Disallow other users from reading my $HOME

On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 08:09:49AM -0800, Bob McGowan wrote: > Ken Teague wrote: > > > > [501]it...@iceland:~$ ls -ld $HOME > > drwx-- 16 itsme arpa 1024 Oct 21 18:39 /arpa/nl/i/itsme > > [502]it...@iceland:~$ ls -l html > > lrwx-- 1 itsme arpa 16 Jan 26 2009 html -> /www/am/i/itsme

Re: Re: Gnome apps in KDE

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Re: Re: Gnome apps in KDE

Thanks Camaleon, Aioanei, Chris, and Alan. Adding 'gnome-settings-daemon' to the autostart directory did the job! I removed the 'gtk-qt-engine' and 'qtcurve' packages I had installed. So just having 'gnome-settings-daemon' fired up at startup seems enough. Nima -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

NOTEBOOKS DELL + NETBOOKS ASUS, REYES!

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Re: Gnome apps in KDE

> Now I have install gtk-qt-engine and the qtcurve package. I cannot > find any thing in KDE Control Center which might allow me to do the > configuration. I ran the module which is supposed to appear in KDE > Control Center manually but I was presented with only a blank window > with help, ok, ca

Re: Disallow other users from reading my $HOME

On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 08:09:49AM -0800, Bob McGowan wrote: > Ken Teague wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 4:29 PM, green wrote: > >> Okay, I was assuming recursion because I have a ~/public_html and symlinks > >> from > >> it to other files scattered in my $HOME and so a "chmod 700 $HOME" would

Re: iceweasel 3.5.6: does not recognize file extension (pdf, zip)

After much struggle I could not get iceweasel-gnome-support from testing to install properly (problem with xulrunner-1.9.1-gnome-support), so I simply reverted to iceweasel from stable. On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 4:43 PM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > Hi there, > >  I update my iceweasel package to 3.5.

Re: apt-get source produces gpg error. Can't check signature: public key not found

On 2010-01-07 at 11:04:18 -0500, Sven Joachim wrote: > Why do you run apt-get source as root? I am used to being root when I run apt-get because this is required when installing a binary package. I assumed (perhaps incorrectly) that installing a source package also required root privileges. But s

Re: Handle paths with spaces

Jon Dowland wrote: > On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 03:38:23PM +0530, Foss User wrote: >> I want to do some operation on each file ending with .txt. However, >> this script wouldn't work because in each iteration it gets one word >> from the output of find. > > Did you read my reply to your last question

Re: KVM networking

On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 11:30:46PM +, T o n g wrote: > I want all users in the kvm group can start kvm and have > network access. Does this require different setting than > your previous answer? I believe so, see below. > If I config my box with static address before, say: snip > what should

Re: Disallow other users from reading my $HOME

Ken Teague wrote: > On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 4:29 PM, green wrote: >> Okay, I was assuming recursion because I have a ~/public_html and symlinks >> from >> it to other files scattered in my $HOME and so a "chmod 700 $HOME" would just >> break stuff. Otherwise, just changing $HOME permissions is an

Re: apt-get source produces gpg error. Can't check signature: public key not found

On 2010-01-07 16:37 +0100, Stephen Powell wrote: > I am trying to get the source code for a Debian package with > > apt-get source xxx > > where xxx is the name of the package. The retrieval of the source package > appears to have been successful, but I get error messages along the way: > > gpg:

pvmove "Couldn't find device with uuid"

Hi all. I've got a small cluster of machines, still running etch, using the redhat-cluster tools and cluster-LVM to share access to a fibre-channel disk array. I'm preparing to replace the disk array with a new/better/shinier one, but am running in to trouble with the migration of data from the o

Re: Gnome apps in KDE

Nima Azarbayjany wrote: I checked for gnome-themes. It was surely already installed but even reinstalling it did not help. Is gnome-settings-daemon started? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.

iceweasel 3.5.6: does not recognize file extension (pdf, zip)

Hi there, I update my iceweasel package to 3.5.6 and now I cannot double-click on downloaded zip file or pdf file. Everytime it asked 'Launch Application' where I need to manually 'Choose an Application'. Does anyone knows what could have happened ? What should I do to get back the original beha

Re: CPU fan working more than it should

On 1/7/10, George wrote: > On 1/7/10, Arthur Machlas wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 8:50 AM, George wrote: >> >>> I just installed Debian on my laptop and I notice that the CPU fan is >>> working much more than it used to work on windows. It must be that >>> Debian changed the temperature thre

apt-get source produces gpg error. Can't check signature: public key not found

I am trying to get the source code for a Debian package with apt-get source xxx where xxx is the name of the package. The retrieval of the source package appears to have been successful, but I get error messages along the way: gpg: new configuration file `/root/.gnupg/gpg.conf' created gpg: WAR

Re: CPU fan working more than it should

On 1/7/10, Arthur Machlas wrote: > On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 8:50 AM, George wrote: > >> I just installed Debian on my laptop and I notice that the CPU fan is >> working much more than it used to work on windows. It must be that >> Debian changed the temperature threshold. How can I change it back?

Re: CPU fan working more than it should

On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 8:50 AM, George wrote: > I just installed Debian on my laptop and I notice that the CPU fan is > working much more than it used to work on windows. It must be that > Debian changed the temperature threshold. How can I change it back? My guess is that you haven't enabled f

CPU fan working more than it should

I just installed Debian on my laptop and I notice that the CPU fan is working much more than it used to work on windows. It must be that Debian changed the temperature threshold. How can I change it back? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubs

Re: building a mesh+star topology vpn

green wrote at 2010-01-06 11:18 -0600: > I am new to VPNs but it seems to be what I need for the following scenario: > > - Host A is a main system with public IP > - Host B is an extra system with a public IP > - Host C is a laptop often behind masquerading firewalls > - Host D,E,F... could be beh

Re: Re: How to use Sun Java instead of gcj

> Lenny has a package of openjdk, which is practically Sun's Java (1.6) - > openjdk-6-jdk If you use the plugin through a web proxy you'll need to use sun-java6-plugin because icedtea-gcjwebplugin doesn't respect browser proxy settings. Otherwise openjdk seems to work well. Cheers, Clive -- T

Re: Inquiry:How to install Debian from Internet?

hadi motamedi writes: > I have my Debian server installed from Debian-31 netinst & > businesscard CDs , but when trying to install Asterisk 1.4 it failed . _Exactly_ what did you do and _exactly_ what happened? > I thought that my Debian installation was incomplete. Why? > Can you please let me

Re: Re: How to use Sun Java instead of gcj

> How about trying to use update-alternatives to set java? You might want to look at update-java-alternatives which controls quite a long list of Java-related alternatives besides "java". See for example update-java-alternatives -v -l Cheers, Clive -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-req

Re: How to use Sun Java instead of gcj

Please don't top-post. Kun Niu: > > How about trying to use update-alternatives to set java? Java alternatives are more easily changed by running update-java-alternatives. This way you don't have to change all of the numerous Java-related alternatives manually. J. -- I'm being paid to act weird

SOLVED by itself! Re: Bookmarks gone, can't make new ones in iceweasel

On Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:43:45 -0200, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > On Ter, 05 Jan 2010, Hendrik Boom wrote: >> I just did a general update ( u U g g in aptitude) on my Debian lenny >> system, and now iceweasel (3.0.6) doesn't recognize my bookmarks. The >> bookmarks.html file is still there. I co

Re: How to fix ipaddress

> I set /etc/network/interfaces as follows : > auto lo > iface lo inet loopback > allow-hotplug eth0 > iface eth0 inet static >address 192.168.0.7 >netmask 255.255.255.0 >network 192.168.0.0 >broadcaset 192.168.0.255 >g

Re: Back to Debian after 10 years

On Thu, 2010-01-07 at 09:33 +0100, didier gaumet wrote: > On Wed, 6 Jan 2010 20:28:08 +, > Vasco Costa wrote : > > [...] > > By the way, in case I want to go back to a rolling release scheme, how > > does Debian testing/unstable behave in this regard for an experienced > > power user? I know

Re: semantics of dpkg-* configuration file backups

On Tuesday 05 January 2010 22:22:14 Malte Forkel wrote: > In the end, I would like to write a simple merge skript for > configuration files. This has been suggested before, e.g. > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=32877. Has anybody > already implemented this? ucf is able to perform

Re: Inquiry:How to install Debian from Internet?

Hi, On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 11:09:18AM +, hadi motamedi wrote: > Dear All > I have my Debian server installed from Debian-31 netinst & businesscard CDs > , but when trying to install Asterisk 1.4 it failed . I thought that my > Debian installation was incomplete. Can you please let me know how

Re: Squeeze vs. Lenny update frequency?

Hi, Stable release only have security updates. Testing has much more updates. On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 10:20:45AM -0800, Mark wrote: > I just installed Squeeze for the first time last week and today it indicated > 41 updates were available. I'm used to Lenny's couple of updates per week > averag

Re: Archos 3 vision + debian 2.6.30-2-686 +usbmount: unsuccessful

On Thu, 07 Jan 2010 11:00:21 +0100, Olivier Ramare wrote: > Camaleón a écrit : >> 1/ Try plug in the device into another usb port of the board. >> > Ok, I have a second usb2 port for the printing machine. So I unplugged > this one and plugged my archos machine there, to no avail. > > I plugged

Re: Masquerading problems: squeeze via lenny

Hi, You already solved this problem but ... But this explain where is the disconnect. On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 12:19:09AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Mon,04.Jan.10, 16:32:42, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 07:45:07PM +0100, Marc Schröder wrote: > > > its better t

Re: Two computers in one: two users each with their own accounts, ?monitor, and keyboard?

2010/1/7 Chris Davies : > Dotan Cohen wrote: >> I have a desktop computer with onboard VGA and option to add a >> discrete video card. It has plenty of spare USB ports for mice and >> keyboards. > >> Does Debian support using this computer for _two_ workstations, each >> with their own user accoun

Re: Handle paths with spaces

On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 03:38:23PM +0530, Foss User wrote: > I want to do some operation on each file ending with .txt. However, > this script wouldn't work because in each iteration it gets one word > from the output of find. Did you read my reply to your last question?

Re: Handle paths with spaces

On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 03:38:23PM +0530, Foss User wrote: > This is my directory structure: > . > | a.sh > | a.txt > | > +---foo bar > | b.txt > | > +---santa > | | c.txt > | | > | \---humpty dumpty > | e.txt > | > \---test > d.txt > > I want to do some operati

Re: Handle paths with spaces

On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 11:08 AM, Foss User wrote: > This is my directory structure: > . > |   a.sh > |   a.txt > | > +---foo bar > |       b.txt > | > +---santa > |   |   c.txt > |   | > |   \---humpty dumpty > |           e.txt > | > \---test >        d.txt > > I want to do some operation on each

Handle paths with spaces

This is my directory structure: . | a.sh | a.txt | +---foo bar | b.txt | +---santa | | c.txt | | | \---humpty dumpty | e.txt | \---test d.txt I want to do some operation on each file ending with .txt. However, this script wouldn't work because in each iteration

Re: Archos 3 vision + debian 2.6.30-2-686 +usbmount: unsuccessful

Camaleón a écrit : 1/ Try plug in the device into another usb port of the board. Ok, I have a second usb2 port for the printing machine. So I unplugged this one and plugged my archos machine there, to no avail. I plugged the printer to the usb-port I was using for the archos and it works (I

Re: how to get mac address

On Wednesday 06 January 2010 20:01:18 John Hasler wrote: > Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. writes: > > MAC addresses are not normally used for network identification outside > > of their segment. In addition, none of the higher level protocols in > > common use contain the MAC address in their headers. >

Re: Archos 3 vision + debian 2.6.30-2-686 +usbmount: unsuccessful

On Thu, 07 Jan 2010 10:14:49 +0100, Olivier Ramare wrote: > I tried to enter the realm of mp3/mp4-reader utensils. I bought an > archos 3 vision: > > http://www.archos.com/products/mp3_players/archos_3/specs.html? country=ng&lang=en > > since it seems to work with my debian > > Linux lib59-3-82

Re: Two computers in one: two users each with their own accounts, ?monitor, and keyboard?

Dotan Cohen wrote: > I have a desktop computer with onboard VGA and option to add a > discrete video card. It has plenty of spare USB ports for mice and > keyboards. > Does Debian support using this computer for _two_ workstations, each > with their own user accounts, monitor, and keyboard? Goog

Archos 3 vision + debian 2.6.30-2-686 +usbmount: unsuccessful

Dear friends, I tried to enter the realm of mp3/mp4-reader utensils. I bought an archos 3 vision: http://www.archos.com/products/mp3_players/archos_3/specs.html?country=ng&lang=en since it seems to work with my debian Linux lib59-3-82-233-191-86 2.6.30-2-686 #1 SMP Fri Dec 4 00:53:20 UTC 2009

Re: Back to Debian after 10 years

On Wed, 6 Jan 2010 20:28:08 +, Vasco Costa wrote : [...] > By the way, in case I want to go back to a rolling release scheme, how > does Debian testing/unstable behave in this regard for an experienced > power user? I know all the nuts and bolts of Archlinux, including > using the testing rep