Re: mkinitramfs tool makes a weirdly small initrd file.

2011-01-23 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Turns out, the kernel directory in /lib/modules is almost empty. I do not know why On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 3:27 PM, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: > Hi, >  I just compiled 2.6.37 with all default options. After I installed > it and made initrd.img, it cannot boot up. I found that > initrd.img-2.

mkinitramfs tool makes a weirdly small initrd file.

2011-01-23 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Hi, I just compiled 2.6.37 with all default options. After I installed it and made initrd.img, it cannot boot up. I found that initrd.img-2.6.37 is way too small compared to 2.6.36.3. I then remade these files, the situation was still there. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9.8M Jan 21 09:02 initrd.img-2.

Weird server mystery: self-reset, mostly

2011-01-23 Thread will trillich
Never seen this before -- all daemons and all user processes killed. Zap. It happened around 23:17 Chicago time (that's when the log-daemons quit logging). What would cause this? I was ssh'd in to my Debian server and... disconnected. No problem, I was using screen to vim some Catalyst modules, s

Re: no popup window with kdialog

2011-01-23 Thread godo
However, A reboot fixed the problem. So, I am guessing that, during the reboot, the new KDE libraries got loaded which must have fixed the issue. thanks raju I am glad that you solve the problem. -- Bye, Goran Dobosevic Hrvatski: www.dobosevic.com English: www.dobosevic.com/en/ Registered Li

Re: Grub2 reinstall on raid1 system.

2011-01-23 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 8:24 AM, Jack Schneider wrote: > On Sat, 22 Jan 2011 04:54:32 -0500 > Tom H wrote: > >> On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 8:51 PM, Jack Schneider >> wrote: >> > >> >  I think I found a significant glitch.. I appears that mdadm is >> >  confused.  I think it happened when I created

Re: nfs client in Squeeze with 2.6.32 kernel

2011-01-23 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 8:32 PM, David Zelinsky wrote: > > After upgrading to squeeze on a Toshiba Satellite laptop, and > upgrading kernel to 2.6.32, I am unable to mount remote nfs > partitions.  When I try, it just sits, and after several minutes says > something like "mount.nfs system call fai

Re: nfs client in Squeeze with 2.6.32 kernel

2011-01-23 Thread David Zelinsky
David Zelinsky writes: > After upgrading to squeeze on a Toshiba Satellite laptop, and > upgrading kernel to 2.6.32, I am unable to mount remote nfs > partitions. When I try, it just sits, and after several minutes says > something like "mount.nfs system call failed". Nothing else of > relevanc

Re: Missing Disk Space or Partition

2011-01-23 Thread RR
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 12:07 AM, Carl Johnson wrote: > RR writes: > > > I see as more messages are pouring in, this message is getting pushed > down > > further and people won't even see it anymore. Does anyone have a personal > > doco, blog , cheatsheet for modifying the disk label (and then

Re: Missing Disk Space or Partition

2011-01-23 Thread Carl Johnson
RR writes: > I see as more messages are pouring in, this message is getting pushed down > further and people won't even see it anymore. Does anyone have a personal > doco, blog , cheatsheet for modifying the disk label (and then I'm assuming > I'll have to recreate my partition table) but not lo

Re: Why is Debian not secure by default?

2011-01-23 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 09:04:32 +0100 Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2011-01-23 07:29 +0100, Rico Secada wrote: > > > After having brushed up on some technical aspects of security I would > > like to understand why Debian isn't secure be default. > > > > As we all know a lot of security breaches occur be

Re: firewall package for laptop wi-fi client

2011-01-23 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 14:21:33 -0800 Mark wrote: > On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 9:23 PM, Celejar wrote: > > > On Fri, 7 Jan 2011 17:15:15 -0800 > > Mark wrote: ... > > > This is a great idea; I do this when traveling with a work laptop, > > booting > > > Ubuntu off a live usb stick. With the 10.10

Re: Let's talk about HTTPS Everywhere

2011-01-23 Thread Celejar
On Sat, 22 Jan 2011 21:00:12 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: ... > And WPA2 with AES encryption is considerably slow. There are also > drawbacks when you enforce to use of the best encryption method. It is? Do you have either documentation, or personal experience, to back this up, and to quantify

Re: Let's talk about HTTPS Everywhere

2011-01-23 Thread Celejar
On Sat, 22 Jan 2011 13:37:20 -0600 "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." wrote: > In , Camaleón wrote: > >On Sat, 22 Jan 2011 15:31:10 -0200, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > >> That's the same reason I was advocating that people should not leave > >> Wi-Fi (even if public) unencrypted. If traffic is unencrypted

Re: Cannot turn on bell in xterm

2011-01-23 Thread T o n g
On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 19:47:51 +, Camaleón wrote: >>> What does "amixer" show on PC Speaker? >> >> I don't see any entries for "PC Speaker": >> >> $ amixer | grep control > > (...) > > Hum... in fact, while I have a "PC speaker" entry in squeeze, I've just > checked in lenny and there is non

Re: Missing Disk Space or Partition

2011-01-23 Thread RR
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 6:37 PM, RR wrote: > On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 3:34 PM, RR wrote: > >> On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 10:55 AM, Camaleón wrote: >> >>> On Thu, 20 Jan 2011 17:49:06 -0500, RR wrote: >>> >>> (...) >>> >>> > Once the system gets to the login prompt and I login and run 'df -h', I

Re: putting "/tmp" to memory help

2011-01-23 Thread Michael Osburn
On Sun, 2011-01-23 at 05:47 -0800, kellyremo wrote: > "to memory" means: mounting a ~2 GByte filesystem [ tmpfs?, or > ramfs? ], and put the "/tmp" on it. [ e.g.: 4 GByte ram in the pc ]. > what to write in the "/etc/fstab"? > > I would like to collect the [ answers too:P ]: > > Advantages: > - M

Re: need help making shell script use two CPUs/cores

2011-01-23 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Bob Proulx put forth on 1/23/2011 8:16 PM: Apparently I've missed some of the thread since my earlier participation. > Carl Johnson wrote: >> #CPUs time theoretical time-theoreticalgain/CPU(theoretical) >> 1 66 >> 2 3666/2 = 33 36-33 = 3 (+9%) 1 -1/2 = 1/2 >

Re: Debian question

2011-01-23 Thread shawn wilson
On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 9:19 PM, Richard Lawrence < richard.lawre...@berkeley.edu> wrote: > Kimberly Harvey writes: > > > Question, after I entered python manage. py syncdb, then there's a > > error which says that I haven't set the database ENGINE settings > > yet. I opened the settings.py file

Re: need help making shell script use two CPUs/cores

2011-01-23 Thread Bob Proulx
Carl Johnson wrote: > #CPUs time theoretical time-theoreticalgain/CPU(theoretical) > 1 66 > 2 3666/2 = 33 36-33 = 3 (+9%) 1 -1/2 = 1/2 > 3 2566/3 = 22 25-22 = 3 (+14%)1/2-1/3 = 1/6 > 4 2066/4 = 16.5 20-16.5 = 3.5 (+21%)1/3-1

Re: Debian question

2011-01-23 Thread Richard Lawrence
Kimberly Harvey writes: > Question,  after I entered python manage. py syncdb, then there's a > error which says that I haven't set the database ENGINE settings > yet. I opened the settings.py file and the ENGINE says > 'django/db/backends/sqlite3'. You know why I'm facing this problem?? [This q

Re: no popup window with kdialog

2011-01-23 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
godo wrote: > >> I also think it is a conflict between Lenny and Squeeze's KDE >> configuration files. But I just do not know which files to delete. I do >> not want to delete the whole ~/.kde just for this. >> >> raju > Can you open another account and safely experiment? > Or install clean Squee

nfs client in Squeeze with 2.6.32 kernel

2011-01-23 Thread David Zelinsky
After upgrading to squeeze on a Toshiba Satellite laptop, and upgrading kernel to 2.6.32, I am unable to mount remote nfs partitions. When I try, it just sits, and after several minutes says something like "mount.nfs system call failed". Nothing else of relevance appears in any log files that I c

Re: Debian question

2011-01-23 Thread Kimberly Harvey
Question, after I entered python manage. py syncdb, then there's a error which says that I haven't set the database ENGINE settings yet. I opened the settings.py file and the ENGINE says 'django/db/backends/sqlite3'. You know why I'm facing this problem?? On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 7:25 PM, Kent Wes

Re: Debian question

2011-01-23 Thread Kent West
You probably want to direct your questions to the list instead of to individuals, because the list as a whole is generally more knowledgeable than any one individual (such as in this case; I know next to nothing about python), and because the exchange is archived and therefore available for future

Re: no popup window with kdialog

2011-01-23 Thread godo
I also think it is a conflict between Lenny and Squeeze's KDE configuration files. But I just do not know which files to delete. I do not want to delete the whole ~/.kde just for this. raju Can you open another account and safely experiment? Or install clean Squeeze in VM? I am not expert at a

Re: no popup window with kdialog

2011-01-23 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
godo wrote: > Forgot to say, I have the same version. > Maybe some conflict with Lenny-Squeeze? > I also think it is a conflict between Lenny and Squeeze's KDE configuration files. But I just do not know which files to delete. I do not want to delete the whole ~/.kde just for this. raju -- K

Re: putting "/tmp" to memory help

2011-01-23 Thread Karl Vogel
>> Dne, 23. 01. 2011 17:19:41 je Pascal Hambourg napisal(a): P> Tmpfs is not a RAM disk (RAM-based block device), it is a filesystem in P> virtual memory. >> On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 20:39:36 +0100, >> Klistvud said: K> Didn't know that. Damn clever. I stand corrected. http://landley.net/writin

Re: Debian Squeeze Installation

2011-01-23 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Du, 23 ian 11, 23:54:14, Joe wrote: > On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 00:26:05 +0200 > Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > On Du, 23 ian 11, 13:06:15, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > > > > > I wholeheartedly agree. Except that the current mc for squeeze and > > > sid is 4.0.7 which is very unfriendly in that it has m

Re: Debian Squeeze Installation

2011-01-23 Thread Joe
On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 00:26:05 +0200 Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Du, 23 ian 11, 13:06:15, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > > > I wholeheartedly agree. Except that the current mc for squeeze and > > sid is 4.0.7 which is very unfriendly in that it has moved to skin > > support of which there are none. Bet

Re: firewall package for laptop wi-fi client

2011-01-23 Thread Eero Volotinen
> Open wifi hot-spots (or open networks) are dangerous because all your > "neighbors" can represent a potential security risk (they have "physical" > access to your machine), meaning that you should enforce your computer > firewall rules to treat all of the LAN computers as "untrusted" hosts > whic

Re: firewall package for laptop wi-fi client

2011-01-23 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Du, 23 ian 11, 14:21:33, Mark wrote: > > For me, when it's a work computer that has a Windows-only installation on > it, running Ubuntu from a Live CD is the only allowable way to use Linux on > the computer. Debian installs just fine on USB sticks ;) Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions

Re: Debian Squeeze Installation

2011-01-23 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Du, 23 ian 11, 13:06:15, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > I wholeheartedly agree. Except that the current mc for squeeze and > sid is 4.0.7 which is very unfriendly in that it has moved to skin > support of which there are none. Better stick with lenny which is > 4.6.2 which is much friendlier. I su

Re: firewall package for laptop wi-fi client

2011-01-23 Thread Mark
On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 9:23 PM, Celejar wrote: > On Fri, 7 Jan 2011 17:15:15 -0800 > Mark wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Klistvud > wrote: > > > > > > > > For people really concerned with their security in public wifi spots, > > > perhaps the best I can recommend is: just run off

Re: Where are "xrandr" settings stored?

2011-01-23 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2011-01-22, Camaleón wrote: > Hello, > > Yesterday I faced a "chicken-egg" problem :-) > > I have a virtual machine (virtualbox) in a notebook with Squeeze > installed and wanted to add an external 17" LCD display (native > resolution is 1280x1024). > > The problem came when I mistyped the co

Re: Cannot turn on bell in xterm

2011-01-23 Thread Joe Riel
On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 21:48:29 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 13:04:15 -0800, Joe Riel wrote: > > > On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 19:47:51 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > > >> > I don't see any entries for "PC Speaker": > >> > > >> > $ amixer | grep control > >> > >> (...) > >> > >> Hum

Re: Where are "xrandr" settings stored?

2011-01-23 Thread shawn wilson
i too don't have any sound suggestions, just troubleshooting thoughts so, it's a virtual. good, copy it, register it as a new name, take a snapshot (what you should have done before doing this in the first place) and boot it up (the copy - we're not doing anything to your primary - in fact, ta

Re: Where are "xrandr" settings stored?

2011-01-23 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20110123_174918, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 05:24:54 -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > > > On 20110123_115724, Camaleón wrote: > > (...) > > >> I can do more testing but if someone can confirm the problem (do not > >> try on production machines), I can open a bug report on this. > >>

Re: Problem with Realtek's driver r8168

2011-01-23 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Mario Trangoni put forth on 1/23/2011 9:28 AM: > I've a industrial motherboard with 2 network's board. > > 03:00.0 *Ethernet controller*: *Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd*. > *RTL8111/8168B > PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller* (*rev 01*) > 04:00.0 *Ethernet controller*: *Realtek Semiconduct

Re: Cannot turn on bell in xterm

2011-01-23 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 13:04:15 -0800, Joe Riel wrote: > On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 19:47:51 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: >> > I don't see any entries for "PC Speaker": >> > >> > $ amixer | grep control >> >> (...) >> >> Hum... in fact, while I have a "PC speaker" entry in squeeze, I've just >> checked i

Re: Cannot turn on bell in xterm

2011-01-23 Thread Joe Riel
On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 13:04:15 -0800 Joe Riel wrote: > On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 19:47:51 + (UTC) > Camaleón wrote: > > > On Sat, 22 Jan 2011 09:39:00 -0800, Joe Riel wrote: > > > > > On Sat, 22 Jan 2011 16:56:44 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > > > > > >> What does "amixer" show on PC Speaker? > >

Re: Did I find a bug? If so, where to file?

2011-01-23 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <20110123160647.4924a94f.cele...@gmail.com>, Celejar wrote: >On Sat, 22 Jan 2011 01:39:02 -0600 >"Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." wrote: >> Most of the time Debian bugs should be filed using the reportbug binary >> from the reportbug package. > >Nitpick - reportbug is a python script, not a binary. I

Re: a problem on crontab time format

2011-01-23 Thread Kejia柯嘉
Thanks a lot. I just think it's at least a `weak' bug: Any crontab item specifying the minute slot as `*' may be a potential disaster. On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 00:32, elbbit wrote: > On 23/01/11 05:14, Kejia柯嘉 wrote: >> On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 12:11 AM, Kejia柯嘉 wrote: >>> How does the following

Re: Did I find a bug? If so, where to file?

2011-01-23 Thread Celejar
On Sat, 22 Jan 2011 01:39:02 -0600 "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." wrote: ... > Most of the time Debian bugs should be filed using the reportbug binary from > the reportbug package. Stuff like this really should have been caught by the Nitpick - reportbug is a python script, not a binary. Celejar

Re: Cannot turn on bell in xterm

2011-01-23 Thread Joe Riel
On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 19:47:51 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 22 Jan 2011 09:39:00 -0800, Joe Riel wrote: > > > On Sat, 22 Jan 2011 16:56:44 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > > > >> What does "amixer" show on PC Speaker? > > > > I don't see any entries for "PC Speaker": > > > > $ amixer | gr

Re: Let's talk about HTTPS Everywhere

2011-01-23 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 13:20:47 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: ... > Let me put a simple and illustrative example with the Googe search > engine. To avoid using their "instant" search facility, you can: > > - Accept a cookie > - Use this URI: http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=0&hl=en Or, of cour

Re: Missing files in home-directory

2011-01-23 Thread Matthias Andersson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/23/2011 07:03 PM, Slicky Johnson wrote: > > > Have him email you the output of 'find /home > email-to-son.txt' > Look for where he hid them. He is the only user on that computer. He tried the search function to look for *.pdf but it gave no r

Re: Cannot turn on bell in xterm

2011-01-23 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 22 Jan 2011 09:39:00 -0800, Joe Riel wrote: > On Sat, 22 Jan 2011 16:56:44 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > >> What does "amixer" show on PC Speaker? > > I don't see any entries for "PC Speaker": > > $ amixer | grep control (...) Hum... in fact, while I have a "PC speaker" entry in squee

Re: putting "/tmp" to memory help

2011-01-23 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 23. 01. 2011 17:19:41 je Pascal Hambourg napisal(a): Tmpfs is not a RAM disk (RAM-based block device), it is a filesystem in virtual memory. Didn't know that. Damn clever. I stand corrected. -- Cheerio, Klistvud http://bufferoverflow.tiddlyspot.com Cert

[OT] AV engines (was: NOD32 on Linux)

2011-01-23 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 02:57:07 -0800, kellyremo wrote: > Anyone using it? Not in linux, but from time to time I run online tests on windows machines and use Eset's scanning service. I find it reasonably good. > http://beta.eset.com/linux > > What are the experiences? Does it slows down the pc?

Re: Missing files in home-directory

2011-01-23 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 23. 01. 2011 17:25:34 je Tshepang Lekhonkhobe napisal(a): Ummm... he deleted them? On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 18:22, Matthias Andersson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi! > > My dad called me yesterday regarding a problem on his machine running > Debian Lenny.

Re: Debian Squeeze Installation

2011-01-23 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Joe wrote: On Sat, 22 Jan 2011 23:56:45 -0500 Roman Gelfand wrote: When installing Squeeze, I chose standard system install and desktop environment. However, it boots in line mode. How can I check if desktop, in fact was installed? how to enable it? what is the name of the of the gnome or

Re: Where are "xrandr" settings stored?

2011-01-23 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 16:05:25 -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sun, 23 Jan 2011, Camaleón wrote: >> On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 12:02:31 -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: >> >> Yes, they do... and so I asked :-) >> > >> > So, something is trying to be too smart in your desktop enviro

Re: Where are "xrandr" settings stored?

2011-01-23 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 23 Jan 2011, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 12:02:31 -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > >> Yes, they do... and so I asked :-) > > > > So, something is trying to be too smart in your desktop environment > > (KDE/gnome most likely). Find it, Nuke it, and file a bug report :)

Re: Where are "xrandr" settings stored?

2011-01-23 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 05:24:54 -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > On 20110123_115724, Camaleón wrote: (...) >> I can do more testing but if someone can confirm the problem (do not >> try on production machines), I can open a bug report on this. >> > > I have no special knowledge. Just a suggestion on

Re: sequence of screenshots?

2011-01-23 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sun, 2011-01-23 at 08:20 -0800, Jimmy Johnson wrote: > Kenward Vaughan wrote: > > I want to capture a rotating figure in a window and make a movie of it. > > I've Googled several ways to take screenshots with programs (gimp, > > shutter, imagemagick, etc.) but have seen no way to do this consist

Re: Where are "xrandr" settings stored?

2011-01-23 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20110123_115724, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 08:40:18 -0200, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > > > From: Chris Jones > >> I ran the above test and after grepping out the /sys & /proc's, I came > >> up with just one file... Xorg.0.log..! > >> > >> So it looks like this setting is remembere

Re: Missing files in home-directory

2011-01-23 Thread Slicky Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 18:22:27 +0200 Matthias Andersson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi! > > My dad called me yesterday regarding a problem on his machine running > Debian Lenny. He said he had installed the updates so

Re: Problem with Realtek's driver r8168

2011-01-23 Thread shawn wilson
On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 10:28 AM, Mario Trangoni wrote: > Hi List, I'm new here and want to ask about a problem with my network > driver "r8168". I've compiled the offical one from Realtek, I can see that > the driver recognize the card but it doesnt work. I've no connection. It's a > pity because

Re: Problem with Realtek's driver r8168

2011-01-23 Thread Wayne Topa
On 01/23/2011 10:28 AM, Mario Trangoni wrote: Hi List, I'm new here and want to ask about a problem with my network driver "r8168". I've compiled the offical one from Realtek, I can see that the driver recognize the card but it doesnt work. I've no connection. It's a pity because I've only proble

Re: Missing files in home-directory

2011-01-23 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Ummm... he deleted them? On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 18:22, Matthias Andersson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi! > > My dad called me yesterday regarding a problem on his machine running > Debian Lenny. He said he had installed the updates sometime last week > and notic

Missing files in home-directory

2011-01-23 Thread Matthias Andersson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi! My dad called me yesterday regarding a problem on his machine running Debian Lenny. He said he had installed the updates sometime last week and noticed that all of his files (.pdf, music and photos) went missing from his home-directory. I had him

Re: sequence of screenshots?

2011-01-23 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Kenward Vaughan wrote: I want to capture a rotating figure in a window and make a movie of it. I've Googled several ways to take screenshots with programs (gimp, shutter, imagemagick, etc.) but have seen no way to do this consistently every 0.X seconds... fbcat looked hopeful until I realized

Re: putting "/tmp" to memory help

2011-01-23 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Hello, Klistvud a écrit : > > Isn't messing with volatile /tmp somewhat a moot point, given that the > Linux memory manager manages virtual memory anyway? I mean, if /tmp is > heavily used by your system, it will be cached in memory anyway. With 4 > GB of RAM (as mentioned by kellyremo), yo

Re: putting "/tmp" to memory help

2011-01-23 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Du, 23 ian 11, 15:46:20, Klistvud wrote: > > Any opinions? No, just facts ;) $ free total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem: 20596521847748 211904 0 153008 885512 -/+ buffers/cache: 8092281250424 Swap: 975204

Re: a problem on crontab time format

2011-01-23 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 16:23:55 +0100, Gilles Mocellin wrote: > Le dimanche 23 janvier, Camaleón écrivit : > >> On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 00:14:01 -0500, Kejia柯嘉 wrote: >> >> > On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 12:11 AM, Kejia柯嘉 wrote: >> >> Hi people, >> >> >> >> How does the following crontab line run: * 1 * * *

Re: NOD32 on Linux

2011-01-23 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
On 01/23/2011 05:57 AM, kellyremo wrote: Anyone using it? http://beta.eset.com/linux What are the experiences? Does it slows down the pc? Do we need it? Disclaimer: My experience with NOD32 is all on the Windows side, and it ended around two years ago. The sad story below is only my own sto

Problem with Realtek's driver r8168

2011-01-23 Thread Mario Trangoni
Hi List, I'm new here and want to ask about a problem with my network driver "r8168". I've compiled the offical one from Realtek, I can see that the driver recognize the card but it doesnt work. I've no connection. It's a pity because I've only problems with thats, the other things are working prop

Re: a problem on crontab time format

2011-01-23 Thread Gilles Mocellin
Le dimanche 23 janvier, Camaleón écrivit : > On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 00:14:01 -0500, Kejia柯嘉 wrote: > > > On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 12:11 AM, Kejia柯嘉 wrote: > >> Hi people, > >> > >> How does the following crontab line run: * 1 * * * * my_command > >> Every minute of every 1 o'clock? Or only once of ev

NOD32 on Linux

2011-01-23 Thread kellyremo
Anyone using it? http://beta.eset.com/linux What are the experiences? Does it slows down the pc? Do we need it?

Re: putting "/tmp" to memory help

2011-01-23 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 23. 01. 2011 15:08:27 je Henrique de Moraes Holschuh napisal(a): On Sun, 23 Jan 2011, kellyremo wrote: > "to memory" means: mounting a ~2 GByte filesystem [ tmpfs?, or ramfs? ], > and put the "/tmp" on it. [ e.g.: 4 GByte ram in the pc ]. what to write > in the "/etc/fstab"? tmpfs

Re: Where are "xrandr" settings stored?

2011-01-23 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 12:02:31 -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: >> Yes, they do... and so I asked :-) > > So, something is trying to be too smart in your desktop environment > (KDE/gnome most likely). Find it, Nuke it, and file a bug report :) That's what I wanted to do but... any clue o

Re: a problem on crontab time format

2011-01-23 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 00:14:01 -0500, Kejia柯嘉 wrote: > On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 12:11 AM, Kejia柯嘉 wrote: >> Hi people, >> >> How does the following crontab line run: * 1 * * * * my_command >> Every minute of every 1 o'clock? Or only once of every 1 o'clock? > Sorry, the crontab line is: > * 1 * * *

Re: putting "/tmp" to memory help

2011-01-23 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 23 Jan 2011, kellyremo wrote: > "to memory" means: mounting a ~2 GByte filesystem [ tmpfs?, or ramfs? ], > and put the "/tmp" on it. [ e.g.: 4 GByte ram in the pc ]. what to write > in the "/etc/fstab"? tmpfs /tmptmpfs defaults,nosuid,nodev,mode=1777,size=1G In squ

Re: Where are "xrandr" settings stored?

2011-01-23 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 23 Jan 2011, Camaleón wrote: > > At least in my experience, xrandr modes are *not* remembered. I have to The X server certainly isn't supposed to store it anywhere. > Yes, they do... and so I asked :-) So, something is trying to be too smart in your desktop environment (KDE/gnome most li

Re: putting "/tmp" to memory help

2011-01-23 Thread Informatik.hu
hey, i am also intertested... :) On 2011.01.23. 14:47, kellyremo wrote: "to memory" means: mounting a ~2 GByte filesystem [ tmpfs?, or ramfs? ], and put the "/tmp" on it. [ e.g.: 4 GByte ram in the pc ]. what to write in the "/etc/fstab"? I would like to collect the [ answers too:P ]: Advant

putting "/tmp" to memory help

2011-01-23 Thread kellyremo
"to memory" means: mounting a ~2 GByte filesystem [ tmpfs?, or ramfs? ], and put the "/tmp" on it. [ e.g.: 4 GByte ram in the pc ]. what to write in the "/etc/fstab"? I would like to collect the [ answers too:P ]: Advantages: - Memory is way faster then HDD/SSD, so it could speed things up - "S

Re: stange error

2011-01-23 Thread Informatik.hu
On 2011.01.23. 13:49, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 13:30:12 +0100, Informatik.hu wrote: On 2011.01.23. 13:13, Camaleón wrote: I read it as rsyslog daemon received a "hup" signal in the mode "lightweight" (kinda soft-restart, maybe it was re-engaded on demand by a script in logrotate :-?

Re: stange error

2011-01-23 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 13:30:12 +0100, Informatik.hu wrote: > On 2011.01.23. 13:13, Camaleón wrote: >> I read it as rsyslog daemon received a "hup" signal in the mode >> "lightweight" (kinda soft-restart, maybe it was re-engaded on demand by >> a script in logrotate :-?) >> >> Are you getting new e

Re: sequence of screenshots?

2011-01-23 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 02:05:20 -0800, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > I want to capture a rotating figure in a window and make a movie of it. (...) What is the source of the animation? Animated gif, streaming video...? You can use a video screen capture program. You have many choices, starting from ffm

Re: stange error

2011-01-23 Thread Informatik.hu
Hi! Yes, there is some new events in my syslog, so it means this message is by design? My old ETCH box, does not getting this message, thats why i asked You. (also using logrotate, logcheck, logwatch) On 2011.01.23. 13:13, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 10:04:06 +0100, Informatik.hu wro

Re: Debian Squeeze Installation

2011-01-23 Thread Joe
On Sat, 22 Jan 2011 23:56:45 -0500 Roman Gelfand wrote: > When installing Squeeze, I chose standard system install and desktop > environment. However, it boots in line mode. How can I check if > desktop, in fact was installed? how to enable it? what is the name > of the of the gnome or kde pa

Re: stange error

2011-01-23 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 10:04:06 +0100, Informatik.hu wrote: > I am getting the following line in my /var/log/messages, but no any > other: > > Jan 23 06:25:23 algol rsyslogd: [origin software="rsyslogd" > swVersion="4.6.4" x-pid="1500" x-info="http://www.rsyslog.com";] rsyslogd > was HUPed, type 'li

Re: latest ppp does not connect

2011-01-23 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Hello, Hans-J. Ullrich a écrit : > > I am getting problems with the latest version of running ppp from squeeze. As > the version before was running well, I get no success in a connectio with the > latest version. I am using umtsmon which is calling ppp with some switches, > but it is the same,

Re: Where are "xrandr" settings stored?

2011-01-23 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 08:40:18 -0200, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > From: Chris Jones >> I ran the above test and after grepping out the /sys & /proc's, I came >> up with just one file... Xorg.0.log..! >> >> So it looks like this setting is remembered somewhere outside the file >> system. That was

Re: sequence of screenshots?

2011-01-23 Thread Roman Khomasuridze
You can achieve this by installing scrot and executing simple bash script with infite loop scrot_script.sh #!/bin/bash while : do scrot sleep 2 # the interval between screenshots you need done Regards Roman

Re: Let's talk about compression rates

2011-01-23 Thread Jochen Schulz
S Mathias: > > [7z] > > real 6m43.608s > user 10m1.092s > sys 0m3.957s > > [xz] > real 10m40.788s > user 10m33.363s > sys 0m2.106s Apparently, 7z uses multiple cores, while xz doesn't. Otherwise, performance is mostly the same. J. -- I wish I could do more to put the sparkle back into

Re: Where are "xrandr" settings stored?

2011-01-23 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
From: Chris Jones I ran the above test and after grepping out the /sys & /proc's, I came up with just one file... Xorg.0.log..! So it looks like this setting is remembered somewhere outside the file system. At least in my experience, xrandr modes are *not* remembered. I have to rerun it ever

Re: sequence of screenshots?

2011-01-23 Thread Javier Barroso
On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 11:05 AM, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > I want to capture a rotating figure in a window and make a movie of it. > I've Googled several ways to take screenshots with programs (gimp, > shutter, imagemagick, etc.) but have seen no way to do this consistently > every 0.X seconds...

Re: stange error

2011-01-23 Thread Informatik.hu
I have read the thread, BUT. It says to change the ownership of log files to syslog, and set the $FileOwner variable to syslog in /etc/rsyslogd.conf. I do not have syslog user in my system. Shall i create one for this purpose? This bug is ratger old (2009. septembe), has not been fixed yet? On

Re: sequence of screenshots?

2011-01-23 Thread Charlie
On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 02:05:20 -0800 Kenward Vaughan shared this with us all: >I want to capture a rotating figure in a window and make a movie of it. >I've Googled several ways to take screenshots with programs (gimp, >shutter, imagemagick, etc.) but have seen no way to do this >consistently every

sequence of screenshots?

2011-01-23 Thread Kenward Vaughan
I want to capture a rotating figure in a window and make a movie of it. I've Googled several ways to take screenshots with programs (gimp, shutter, imagemagick, etc.) but have seen no way to do this consistently every 0.X seconds... fbcat looked hopeful until I realized that nvidia doesn't seem t

Re: stange error

2011-01-23 Thread Mihira Fernando
On 01/23/2011 02:39 PM, Informatik.hu wrote: Sorry: my system is squeeze amd64 On 2011.01.23. 10:04, Informatik.hu wrote: Hi! I am getting the following line in my /var/log/messages, but no any other: Jan 23 06:25:23 algol rsyslogd: [origin software="rsyslogd" swVersion="4.6.4" x-pid="1500

Re: Debian Squeeze Installation

2011-01-23 Thread Greg Madden
On Saturday 22 January 2011 08:10:16 pm godo wrote: > On 01/23/2011 05:56 AM, Roman Gelfand wrote: > > When installing Squeeze, I chose standard system install and desktop > > environment. However, it boots in line mode. How can I check if > > desktop, in fact was installed? how to enable it?

Re: stange error

2011-01-23 Thread Mihira Fernando
On 01/23/2011 02:39 PM, Informatik.hu wrote: Sorry: my system is squeeze amd64 On 2011.01.23. 10:04, Informatik.hu wrote: Hi! I am getting the following line in my /var/log/messages, but no any other: Jan 23 06:25:23 algol rsyslogd: [origin software="rsyslogd" swVersion="4.6.4" x-pid="1500

Re: stange error

2011-01-23 Thread Informatik.hu
Sorry: my system is squeeze amd64 On 2011.01.23. 10:04, Informatik.hu wrote: Hi! I am getting the following line in my /var/log/messages, but no any other: Jan 23 06:25:23 algol rsyslogd: [origin software="rsyslogd" swVersion="4.6.4" x-pid="1500" x-info="http://www.rsyslog.com";] rsyslogd

stange error

2011-01-23 Thread Informatik.hu
Hi! I am getting the following line in my /var/log/messages, but no any other: Jan 23 06:25:23 algol rsyslogd: [origin software="rsyslogd" swVersion="4.6.4" x-pid="1500" x-info="http://www.rsyslog.com";] rsyslogd was HUPed, type 'lightweight'. What does it mean? Vuki -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: no popup window with kdialog

2011-01-23 Thread godo
Forgot to say, I have the same version. Maybe some conflict with Lenny-Squeeze? -- Bye, Goran Dobosevic Hrvatski: www.dobosevic.com English: www.dobosevic.com/en/ Registered Linux User #503414 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

Re: no popup window with kdialog

2011-01-23 Thread godo
On 01/23/2011 08:52 AM, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: kdialog --yesno 'raju' On Squeeze kdialog --yesno 'raju' work. -- Bye, Goran Dobosevic Hrvatski: www.dobosevic.com English: www.dobosevic.com/en/ Registered Linux User #503414 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.o

Re: Why is Debian not secure by default?

2011-01-23 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-01-23 07:29 +0100, Rico Secada wrote: > After having brushed up on some technical aspects of security I would > like to understand why Debian isn't secure be default. > > As we all know a lot of security breaches occur because of overflow > errors. Difference protective measurements has be