Re: Unable to download tar.gz file with iceweasel

2010-11-23 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 15:42:00 -0800, Gary Roach wrote: > Iceweasel 3.5.15 has been running on a Debian Squeeze system for ever, > with no problems. I have been trying to download FreeFileSync_xxx_tar.gz > for Ubuntu from Sourceforge.net. Each time I try the download window > opens normally and the

Re: Bonded NIC's did not come up at boot?

2010-11-23 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 15:28:10 -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Camaleón put forth on 11/23/2010 2:38 AM: >>> It's not a bug. It's feature incomplete. It seems clear that the >>> author(s) never intended it to be used on virtual NICs. >> >> Then better than providing wrong information to the user i

Re: Monitor vertical refresh rate setting in X.

2010-11-23 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Camaleón: > Have you tried with modeline+cvt? > > cvt 1024 768 85 > Will output the Modeline stanza to add to your "xorg.conf" file > (IIRC, it goes under "Monitor" section). How to use it? Can You bring post here an example? - After reading the manual it gav

Re: Wondering about the print out function of PS

2010-11-23 Thread Carl Johnson
Magicloud Magiclouds writes: > On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 6:24 PM, Jochen Schulz wrote: >> Camaleón: >>> On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 17:29:49 +0800, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: >>> But I do not know how it gets the width of the screen. >>> >>> Well... gathering information about the running terminal i

apt-get apting uc?

2010-11-23 Thread Chris Jones
After syncing via an apt-get update and running an apt-get upgrade, I am seeing some unfamiliar messages when I try to install new packages: # apt-get install fuse-utils fusedav fuseext2 fusefat fuseiso fuseiso9660

Re: [OOT] Free Software - was Re: Toner refill

2010-11-23 Thread Chris Jones
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 01:25:20PM EST, Bob Proulx wrote: > Chris Jones wrote: > > Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > > Free Software has *never* been about cost. It is about the > > > freedoms to use, study, and modify the software. > > > > How would one ‘use, study, and modify the software’ if

Re: [OOT] Free Software - was Re: Toner refill

2010-11-23 Thread Chris Jones
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 01:25:20PM EST, Bob Proulx wrote: > Chris Jones wrote: > > Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > > Free Software has *never* been about cost. It is about the > > > freedoms to use, study, and modify the software. > > > > How would one ‘use, study, and modify the software’ if

Re: have to switch windows back and forth after firefox, gimp, etc. exit

2010-11-23 Thread jidanni
forcemerge 577459 305074 thanks > "T" == Thomas Dickey writes: T> yes... (I noticed this a while back, and it's on my to-do list - appears T> to be due to an xorg change, since it doesn't happen on my older systems). Well it isn't only an xterm problem, as e.g., I land back in emacs and can'

Re: Wondering about the print out function of PS

2010-11-23 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 6:24 PM, Jochen Schulz wrote: > Camaleón: >> On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 17:29:49 +0800, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: >> >>> But I do not know how it gets the width of the screen. >> >> Well... gathering information about the running terminal is possible: >> >> s...@stt008:~$ stty -

Problems connecting to WPA2 networks

2010-11-23 Thread Daniel Dalton
Hi, I'm having difficulty connecting to a WPA2 enterprise network. The system is fine connecting to standard WPA and open networks, but refuses to connect to my school's WPA2 network. We tried with another machine using different wireless chipset and that works fine. When connecting my syslog

Re: Lenny install freezes

2010-11-23 Thread Fred Zinsli
Hi all Update: I have managed to install Ubuntu 10 (server) and FC13 on this same machine without any issues. I then went to install Lenny and the same issue exists. Regards Fred > Hi All > > My lenny install is freezing at the point where the display reads "Select > and Install Software" > > T

Unable to download tar.gz file with iceweasel

2010-11-23 Thread Gary Roach
Iceweasel 3.5.15 has been running on a Debian Squeeze system for ever, with no problems. I have been trying to download FreeFileSync_xxx_tar.gz for Ubuntu from Sourceforge.net. Each time I try the download window opens normally and the load indicators work normally. When the loading finishes th

Re: gnome-settings-daemon error

2010-11-23 Thread Juan Ignacio Gaudio
Hello, That worked perfectly! Luckily I didn't lose too much, in a couple of minutes I had it configured again. Thanks, Juan 2010/11/23 Liam O'Toole > On 2010-11-23, Juan Ignacio Gaudio wrote: > > --001636284c1cac8f670495be0ee7 > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Content-Tra

Re: Bonded NIC's did not come up at boot?

2010-11-23 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Camaleón put forth on 11/23/2010 2:38 AM: > On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 02:15:52 -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > >> Camaleón put forth on 11/23/2010 1:34 AM: >> >>> Mmm... you're right, I also get the same output when running the above >>> command. So as Stan has already pointed out, that tool can be buggy

Re: Chromium addons (was Re: Frustration made me do it.)

2010-11-23 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2010-11-23, Klistvud wrote: > Dne, 23. 11. 2010 15:00:59 je Celejar napisal(a): > >> I use Privoxy - not as user friendly as the plugins, but it will work >> across all your browsers, is much more powerful (IIUC), and has no >> risk >> of increasing browser bloat or instability, or becoming i

Re: Does "I/O error" mean hardware problem?

2010-11-23 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Yuwen Dai put forth on 11/23/2010 3:10 AM: > Hi Stan, > Sorry for the inconvenience. I use gmail, and don't know how to disable > line wrap. I attached the output as a file. >From your smartctl output: 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count6587967 200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 15265539 I just checked a s

Re: Frustration made me do it.

2010-11-23 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 12:59:18 -0800 Kelly Clowers wrote: ... > On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 18:02, Celejar wrote: ... > > My policy, for stability and privacy, is to run two instances of FF. > > My main one has no scripting allowed (NoScript with basically no > > exceptions - perhaps I should just

Re: have to switch windows back and forth after firefox, gimp, etc. exit

2010-11-23 Thread Liam O'Toole
["Followup-To:" header set to gmane.linux.debian.user.] On 2010-11-23, Thomas Dickey wrote: > On Tue, 23 Nov 2010, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: > >> Help, whenever I close firefox, gimp, etc. (emacs is OK though.) I have >> to switch windows back and forth before I can continue typing into the >> wi

Re: gnome-settings-daemon error

2010-11-23 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2010-11-23, Juan Ignacio Gaudio wrote: > --001636284c1cac8f670495be0ee7 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > Hello, > > Thanks for the answer. > > I tried creating a new user account and the problem doen't happen. > > The same messages

Re: Chromium addons (was Re: Frustration made me do it.)

2010-11-23 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 15:22:49 +0100 Klistvud wrote: > Dne, 23. 11. 2010 15:00:59 je Celejar napisal(a): > > > I use Privoxy - not as user friendly as the plugins, but it will work > > across all your browsers, is much more powerful (IIUC), and has no > > risk > > of increasing browser bloat or

Re: Frustration made me do it.

2010-11-23 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 14:55, wrote: > > Example, Lxde doesn't have the bloat of KDE4, but is still running ontop > of the same core enviroment of the KDE system native to the OS, (e.g. > Lxde in squeeze has the same underlying and crappy menu and > configuration systems at KDE4, trying to tweek

Re: gnome-settings-daemon error

2010-11-23 Thread Juan Ignacio Gaudio
Hello, Thanks for the answer. I tried creating a new user account and the problem doen't happen. The same messages in .xsession-errors are there though, so they might not be related to it?... I guess I could just do this and change to this new account, but I'll play a little more with it before

Lenny install freezes

2010-11-23 Thread Fred Zinsli
Hi All My lenny install is freezing at the point where the display reads "Select and Install Software" This is immediately after I select the repository and it has gone away and checks it and then goes to upgrade the existing base. The display says upgrading briefly, then says please wait, and i

Re: Reg: Shared calendar application

2010-11-23 Thread Javier Barroso
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 6:57 PM, Kousik Maiti wrote: > Hi list, > Can anybody  suggest me a shared calendar application for Intranet which is > light weight and easy to configure. > Thanks in advance. Maybe calidav like server + lightning for icedove 2 (or icedove-3 which is integrated with) ? Re

Re: Chromium addons

2010-11-23 Thread Angus Hedger
On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 20:16:02 +0200 David Baron wrote: > On Tuesday 23 November 2010 19:58:25 debian-user-digest- > requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: > > >Silverlight 3.0.4x > > > > works fine > > How did you get it installed? Their site only has for firefox and > chromium does not pick it

Re: Chromium addons

2010-11-23 Thread David Baron
On Tuesday 23 November 2010 19:58:25 debian-user-digest- requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: > >Silverlight 3.0.4x > > works fine How did you get it installed? Their site only has for firefox and chromium does not pick it up. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.or

Re: Retrieve process ID from process name

2010-11-23 Thread Mike McClain
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 08:59:42AM +0100, Alberto Luaces wrote: > "T. Alex Chen" writes: > > > I am trying to retrieve the process ID from a process' name, optionally > > with its command parameters. > > I look up the man page of 'sysctl' and the use of this API seems to be > > discouraged. It p

Reg: Shared calendar application

2010-11-23 Thread Kousik Maiti
Hi list, Can anybody suggest me a shared calendar application for Intranet which is light weight and easy to configure. Thanks in advance. -- Wishing you the very best of everything, always!!! Kousik Maiti(কৌশিক মাইতি) Registered Linux User #474025 Registered Ubuntu User # 28654

update-initramfs produces unusable initrd.img

2010-11-23 Thread Peter Tenenbaum
In my recent experiments with moving my home Debian desktop to RAID-1 arrays, I discovered that update-initramfs is producing intrd.img-* files which are unusable. What I mean by that is this: When I do update-initramfs -u (or -c), it produces a new initrd.img-2.6.32-5-amd64. When I attempt to b

Re: Wondering about the print out function of PS

2010-11-23 Thread Carl Johnson
Jochen Schulz writes: > Camaleón: >> On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 17:29:49 +0800, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: >> >>> But I do not know how it gets the width of the screen. >> >> Well... gathering information about the running terminal is possible: >> >> s...@stt008:~$ stty -a | grep column >> speed 384

Re: Debian (2.6.35) on Mac Mini (late-2010)

2010-11-23 Thread Jerome BENOIT
On 23/11/10 22:11, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello List, late macmini works only with kernel 2.6.35 and older: older -> later my mistake with previous version of the kernel, there are issues with the hard drive. What is the kernel version of `the "-mac-mini" kernel' ? Jerome On 23/11/10 21:

RE: How to recreate a dmraid RAID array with mdadm

2010-11-23 Thread Mike Viau
> OnTue, 23 Nov 2010 10:11:29 +1100 wrote:> > I see the problem now. And John Robinson was nearly there. > > The problem is that after assembling the container /dev/md/imsm, > mdadm needs to assemble the RAID1, but doesn't find the > container /dev/md/imsm to assemble it from. > That is because o

Re: have to switch windows back and forth after firefox, gimp, etc. exit

2010-11-23 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, 23 Nov 2010, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: Help, whenever I close firefox, gimp, etc. (emacs is OK though.) I have to switch windows back and forth before I can continue typing into the window I am left starting at. Else my keystrokes are ignored. I use Debian sid/experimental. pstree says:

Re: Debian (2.6.35) on Mac Mini (late-2010)

2010-11-23 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 05:35:27 -0800, w f wrote: (...) > So ... I downloaded the installed from that wiki site, successfully (I > believe) installed the OS (confirmed latest firmware, reformatted MBR, > chose the "-mac-mini" kernel, installed GRUB on MBR) but on reboot, I'm > faced with the blinki

Re: Debian (2.6.35) on Mac Mini (late-2010)

2010-11-23 Thread Jerome BENOIT
On 23/11/10 22:11, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello List, late macmini works only with kernel 2.6.35 and older: older -> later my mistake :-) Jerome with previous version of the kernel, there are issues with the hard drive. What is the kernel version of `the "-mac-mini" kernel' ? Jerome On

have to switch windows back and forth after firefox, gimp, etc. exit

2010-11-23 Thread jidanni
Help, whenever I close firefox, gimp, etc. (emacs is OK though.) I have to switch windows back and forth before I can continue typing into the window I am left starting at. Else my keystrokes are ignored. I use Debian sid/experimental. pstree says: |-nodm---xinit-+-Xorg | `

Re: Chromium addons (was Re: Frustration made me do it.)

2010-11-23 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 23. 11. 2010 15:00:59 je Celejar napisal(a): I use Privoxy - not as user friendly as the plugins, but it will work across all your browsers, is much more powerful (IIUC), and has no risk of increasing browser bloat or instability, or becoming incompatible with future browser versions.

Re: Debian (2.6.35) on Mac Mini (late-2010)

2010-11-23 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, late macmini works only with kernel 2.6.35 and older: with previous version of the kernel, there are issues with the hard drive. What is the kernel version of `the "-mac-mini" kernel' ? Jerome On 23/11/10 21:35, w f wrote: Previously, with a modicum of difficulty (but eventual suc

Re: Chromium addons (was Re: Frustration made me do it.)

2010-11-23 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 19:29:31 +0800 Jason Heeris wrote: > On 23 November 2010 19:13, Ron Johnson wrote: > > So, how effective are ABP and Flashblock?  I read once that the Chrome ABP > > doesn't actually *block* ads from loading but simply prevents them from > > being displayed. > > That was the

Re: Frustration made me do it.

2010-11-23 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 04:54:49 -0600 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 11/21/2010 08:02 PM, Celejar wrote: > [snip] > > > > My policy, for stability and privacy, is to run two instances of FF. > > Using this? > $ iceweasel -no-remote -P secondprofilename Exactly (with an & at the end ;)). >From my .bashrc

Re: Frustration made me do it.

2010-11-23 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2010-11-18 21:37:32 -0800, Dan Serban wrote: > I now have chromium and claws at my beck and call. Man.. are they > ever fast. But Chromium (actually WebKit) is broken. For instance, it can't parse http://www.vinc17.net/ I ported the upstream patch to Debian at the end of August[*], but the

Debian (2.6.35) on Mac Mini (late-2010)

2010-11-23 Thread w f
Previously, with a modicum of difficulty (but eventual success), I installed Debian on a PPC-based Mac Mini. That machine has been long dead and I'm looking to get Deb off my cranky PC tower and onto my new, slim and sexy late-2010 Mac Mini. The i386 installer from the Debian web site fails on t

Re: Chromium addons (was Re: Frustration made me do it.)

2010-11-23 Thread Angus Hedger
On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 05:13:53 -0600 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 11/18/2010 11:37 PM, Dan Serban wrote: > [snip] > > > > I now have chromium and claws at my beck and call. Man.. are they > > ever fast. > > > > So, how effective are ABP and Flashblock? I read once that the > Chrome ABP doesn't actua

Re: Chromium addons (was Re: Frustration made me do it.)

2010-11-23 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 11/23/2010 06:13 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: > Also, anyone with experience with these plugins (which *I* consider > essential, though some may find heresy)? > > acroread > Java > MozPlugger > OOo > Flash 10.0r45 > Silverlight 3.0.4x > VLC are you talking about Firefox or Chromium?

Re: Chromium addons (was Re: Frustration made me do it.)

2010-11-23 Thread Jason Heeris
On 23 November 2010 19:13, Ron Johnson wrote: > So, how effective are ABP and Flashblock?  I read once that the Chrome ABP > doesn't actually *block* ads from loading but simply prevents them from > being displayed. That was the case some time ago, but according to the plugin site[1] New in

Chromium addons (was Re: Frustration made me do it.)

2010-11-23 Thread Ron Johnson
On 11/18/2010 11:37 PM, Dan Serban wrote: [snip] I now have chromium and claws at my beck and call. Man.. are they ever fast. So, how effective are ABP and Flashblock? I read once that the Chrome ABP doesn't actually *block* ads from loading but simply prevents them from being displayed.

Re: Frustration made me do it.

2010-11-23 Thread Ron Johnson
On 11/21/2010 08:02 PM, Celejar wrote: [snip] My policy, for stability and privacy, is to run two instances of FF. Using this? $ iceweasel -no-remote -P secondprofilename -- Seek truth from facts. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscri

Re: Wondering about the print out function of PS

2010-11-23 Thread Jochen Schulz
Camaleón: > On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 17:29:49 +0800, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: > >> But I do not know how it gets the width of the screen. > > Well... gathering information about the running terminal is possible: > > s...@stt008:~$ stty -a | grep column > speed 38400 baud; rows 63; columns 86; line

Re: Evolution - Old Messages Keep Coming Back

2010-11-23 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 11/23/2010 03:41 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote: > POP on Gmail has always been a bit strange, but I never had this issue. > It sounds like Evolution does not know what messages it has already > downloaded. I use IMAP with gmail & Thunderbird every day, without a problem ( at least with regards to g

Re: Wondering about the print out function of PS

2010-11-23 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 17:29:49 +0800, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: > On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 5:24 PM, Camaleón wrote: >>> I meant code-wise, just using printf would give a wrap output, right? >> >> Ah... I haven't read the source code. >> >> Do you see any call to the standard printf() function? It

Re: Wondering about the print out function of PS

2010-11-23 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 5:24 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 17:03:12 +0800, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: > >> On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 4:33 PM, Camaleón wrote: > Sorry, I meant to know how it could be "not wrapping". The source somehow confused me. >>> >>> Then "ps aux | less -S

Re: Wondering about the print out function of PS

2010-11-23 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 17:03:12 +0800, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: > On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 4:33 PM, Camaleón wrote: >>> Sorry, I meant to know how it could be "not wrapping". The source >>> somehow confused me. >> >> Then "ps aux | less -S" to get no wrapping+horizontal scroll? :-? >> > I meant co

Re: Wondering about the print out function of PS

2010-11-23 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 4:33 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 16:12:50 +0800, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: > >> On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Camaleón wrote: >>> On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 14:38:33 +0800, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: >>>   The output of `ps`, is trunked by the width of the

O Melhor leilao online!

2010-11-23 Thread marke...@pontagrande.x10.mx
Olá, desculpe a intromissão, no entando quero apresentar-lhes meu novo site de leilões!!! www . melhordolance . com . br ou www.melhordolance.com.br Vou explicar para os que acham que é virus. Este é um site de leilao online baseado em centavos, significa que: Cada lance aumenta apenas em 1 cent

Re: gnome-settings-daemon error

2010-11-23 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 22 Nov 2010 21:42:09 +0100, Juan Ignacio Gaudio wrote: > I'm getting an error message from the gnome-settings-daemon when I log > in, and the desktop takes more time than usual to appear. (...) > In the .xsession-errors there's a part where to warnings that could be > relevant are shown:

Re: Evolution - Old Messages Keep Coming Back

2010-11-23 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 10:37:45 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Lu, 22 nov 10, 21:16:21, Camaleón wrote: >> >> AFAIK, only POP3 or IMAP can be enabled at a time (I mean, you can have >> just POP3 enabled or IMAP, but not both). > > Of course you can, or at least that's what the interface shows ;)

Re: Evolution - Old Messages Keep Coming Back

2010-11-23 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Lu, 22 nov 10, 12:38:06, Scarletdown wrote: > On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 12:03 PM, Camaleón wrote: > > > > > ¿POP3 or IMAP? > > > > If the former, check your Gmail account settings for POP3. Maybe you have > > left selected "keep a copy of received messages" or something like > > that :-? > > >

Re: Bonded NIC's did not come up at boot?

2010-11-23 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 02:15:52 -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Camaleón put forth on 11/23/2010 1:34 AM: > >> Mmm... you're right, I also get the same output when running the above >> command. So as Stan has already pointed out, that tool can be buggy :-? > > It's not a bug. It's feature incomplete

Re: Evolution - Old Messages Keep Coming Back

2010-11-23 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Lu, 22 nov 10, 21:16:21, Camaleón wrote: > > AFAIK, only POP3 or IMAP can be enabled at a time (I mean, you can have > just POP3 enabled or IMAP, but not both). Of course you can, or at least that's what the interface shows ;) Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and d

Re: Wondering about the print out function of PS

2010-11-23 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 16:12:50 +0800, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: > On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 14:38:33 +0800, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: >> >>>   The output of `ps`, is trunked by the width of the terminal, >>>   without >>> wrapping like `ls`. >> >> (.

Re: How to check which package are from multimedia.org?

2010-11-23 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Du, 14 nov 10, 04:23:20, Brian Ryans wrote: > > OT: I thought that changing search terms would affect speed. I guess > not. IIRC there is a bug open about aptitude's search speed, where the maintainer and Author (Daniel Burrows) commented that most of the time is actually used to open the ca

Re: Bonded NIC's did not come up at boot?

2010-11-23 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Camaleón put forth on 11/23/2010 1:34 AM: > Mmm... you're right, I also get the same output when running the above > command. So as Stan has already pointed out, that tool can be buggy :-? It's not a bug. It's feature incomplete. It seems clear that the author(s) never intended it to be used

Re: Wondering about the print out function of PS

2010-11-23 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Sorry, I meant to know how it could be "not wrapping". The source somehow confused me. On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 14:38:33 +0800, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: > >>   The output of `ps`, is trunked by the width of the terminal, without >> wrapping like `l

Re: Does "I/O error" mean hardware problem?

2010-11-23 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Yuwen Dai put forth on 11/23/2010 12:56 AM: > On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 11:31 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > >> Yuwen Dai put forth on 11/22/2010 7:46 PM: >>> On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 2:26 PM, Stan Hoeppner >> wrote: >> The output from ~# smartctl -a /dev/sdX would be helpful. >>

Re: Retrieve process ID from process name

2010-11-23 Thread Alberto Luaces
"T. Alex Chen" writes: > I am trying to retrieve the process ID from a process' name, optionally with > its command parameters. > I look up the man page of 'sysctl' and the use of this API seems to be > discouraged. It points the /proc file system. > The /proc does contains all the running proce