Re: Suppress Line Wrap?

2011-06-01 Thread William Hopkins
On 06/02/11 at 12:37am, lrhorer wrote: > He has submitted a request to update the man page, making it clear the > checkwinsize utility does not work in a non-interactive shell. (Why, by > the way, doesn't it? I don't understand why a `kill SIGWINCH ` > doesn't work.) As previously stated, bec

Re: Suppress Line Wrap?

2011-06-01 Thread lrhorer
Ivan Jager wrote: > On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 01:08:19PM -0500, lrhorer scribbled: >> In bash, the default when outputting to stdout is to wrap any lines >> wider than the console display. Is there a way to suppress this? > > Bash isn't doing the line wrapping. That's your terminal > emulator. For

Re: Keeping stable stable.

2011-06-01 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 6/1/2011 6:07 PM, R. Clayton wrote: > I'm running squeeze on a system, and I'd like to keep the system on the stable > release independent of what the release is called. I changed all > non-commented > appearances of "squeeze" with "stable" in sources.list; do I need to do > anything else? Is

Re: tar --remove-files chokes on symlinks

2011-06-01 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-06-02 04:13 +0200, lrhorer wrote: > I have a cron script that runs tar on a directory in order to clean it > up and minimize its size. I run the command: > > tar cf Backup_Server.tar.gz --remove-files * > > but during the tar process I get the errors: > > tar: /RAID/System/Backup/bin: Ca

Re: Backup script

2011-06-01 Thread shawn wilson
On Jun 2, 2011 12:30 AM, "Nico Kadel-Garcia" wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 4:27 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > Hi :) > > > > I'm writing a script to backup the 4 Linux installs and the MBRs on my > > machine. > > > > Is there a way to copy all 4 Linux by running one of those installs? > > > > Wi

Re: Backup script

2011-06-01 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 4:27 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Hi :) > > I'm writing a script to backup the 4 Linux installs and the MBRs on my > machine. > > Is there a way to copy all 4 Linux by running one of those installs? > > With a lack of knowledge I would backup the 3 Linux that aren't running, >

Re: wget & certificates

2011-06-01 Thread Kamil Jońca
David Sastre writes: > On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 07:27:34AM +0200, Kamil Jońca wrote: >> >> I have strange problem with wget: >> $wget -e "background = off" -v -x >> 'https://www.centrum24.pl/bzwbkonline/eSmart.html?typ=90&lang=pl' >> >> --8<---cut here---start---

tar --remove-files chokes on symlinks

2011-06-01 Thread lrhorer
I have a cron script that runs tar on a directory in order to clean it up and minimize its size. I run the command: tar cf Backup_Server.tar.gz --remove-files * but during the tar process I get the errors: tar: /RAID/System/Backup/bin: Cannot rmdir: Directory not empty tar: Exiting with failur

Re: Backup script

2011-06-01 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2011-06-02 at 02:26 +0100, Tom Furie wrote: > On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 03:03:18AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > It's also very time consuming to compile all the apps again, that need > > to be compiled, the kernel, jack2 from svn etc.. Just saving the data > > isn't an option. > > So, back

Re: (hopefully perl) API to /etc/network/interfaces?

2011-06-01 Thread Karl Vogel
>> On Tue, 31 May 2011 23:23:19 -0500, >> Mike Mestnik said: M> I'm quite certain this is a some-what usable solution. However it M> doesn't appear to have any means to preserve order. Have a look at the Config::Std module by Damian Conway. It handles a similar problem (reading/writing

Re: Backup script

2011-06-01 Thread Tom Furie
On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 03:03:18AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > It's also very time consuming to compile all the apps again, that need > to be compiled, the kernel, jack2 from svn etc.. Just saving the data > isn't an option. So, backup your configs, data, and prebuilt source trees ready for a "su

Re: Can't install jackd from the Debian repositories

2011-06-01 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2011-06-02 at 03:28 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Thu, 2011-06-02 at 03:26 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > Hm? > > > > "An error occurred while loading or saving configuration information for > > dpkg-preconfigure. Some of your configuration settings may not work > > properly. > > > > >

Re: Can't install jackd from the Debian repositories

2011-06-01 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2011-06-02 at 03:26 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Hm? > > "An error occurred while loading or saving configuration information for > dpkg-preconfigure. Some of your configuration settings may not work > properly. > > > Failed to contact configuration server; the most common cause is a > m

Can't install jackd from the Debian repositories

2011-06-01 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hm? "An error occurred while loading or saving configuration information for dpkg-preconfigure. Some of your configuration settings may not work properly. Failed to contact configuration server; the most common cause is a missing or misconfigured D-Bus session bus daemon. See http://projects.gno

Re: There was a problem with your email to debianHELP

2011-06-01 Thread Chris Brennan
On Wednesday, June 1, 2011, William Hopkins wrote: > On 06/01/11 at 06:46pm, Chris Brennan wrote: >> While I suspect the answer to this is no, does gmail have a feature such as >> this? All I see now is reply/forward/reply-all, but no group reply... > > Not that I know of. But of course, you can u

Re: There was a problem with your email to debianHELP

2011-06-01 Thread William Hopkins
On 06/01/11 at 06:46pm, Chris Brennan wrote: > While I suspect the answer to this is no, does gmail have a feature such as > this? All I see now is reply/forward/reply-all, but no group reply... Not that I know of. But of course, you can use gmail with any number of clients which do support it.

Re: Backup script

2011-06-01 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 20:54 -0400, shawn wilson wrote: > > On Jun 1, 2011 8:29 PM, "mark" wrote: > > > > On Wednesday 01 June 2011 10:23:48 am Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > > Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > > Hi :) > > > > > > > > I'm writing a script to backup the 4 Linux installs and the MBRs > > > > on

Re: pidofproc missing

2011-06-01 Thread lrhorer
Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Mi, 01 iun 11, 07:56:58, lrhorer wrote: >> >> Oh! I see. It's not a binary, at all. The init scripts just source >> the function. Thanks! (I'd still like to know how `pidof` got >> mangled.) > > Please post the output of 'dpkg -l sysvinit-utils' Um, OK. Why? RAI

Re: Backup script

2011-06-01 Thread shawn wilson
On Jun 1, 2011 8:29 PM, "mark" wrote: > > On Wednesday 01 June 2011 10:23:48 am Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > Hi :) > > > > > > I'm writing a script to backup the 4 Linux installs and the MBRs > > > on my machine. > > > > > > Is there a way to copy all 4 Linux by running one

Re: Backup script

2011-06-01 Thread mark
On Wednesday 01 June 2011 10:23:48 am Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > Hi :) > > > > I'm writing a script to backup the 4 Linux installs and the MBRs > > on my machine. > > > > Is there a way to copy all 4 Linux by running one of those > > installs? > > > > With a lack of knowledge

Re: Keeping stable stable.

2011-06-01 Thread John Hasler
R. Clayton writes: > Is this the right approach to take for a perpetually stable system? Probably not (though I don't know exactly what you are trying to achieve). When the next release occurs the "stable" link will be abruptly changed to point to Wheezy (which is now "testing"). Squeeze will th

Re: There was a problem with your email to debianHELP

2011-06-01 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2011-06-02 at 01:14 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 18:46 -0400, Chris Brennan wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 5:04 PM, Ralf Mardorf > > wrote: > > On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 20:46 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > > > On Mi, 01 iun 11, 15:53:24,

Re: Keeping stable stable.

2011-06-01 Thread shawn wilson
Yes that's all. On Jun 1, 2011 7:15 PM, "R. Clayton" wrote: > I'm running squeeze on a system, and I'd like to keep the system on the stable > release independent of what the release is called. I changed all non-commented > appearances of "squeeze" with "stable" in sources.list; do I need to do >

Keeping stable stable.

2011-06-01 Thread R. Clayton
I'm running squeeze on a system, and I'd like to keep the system on the stable release independent of what the release is called. I changed all non-commented appearances of "squeeze" with "stable" in sources.list; do I need to do anything else? Is this the right approach to take for a perpetually

Re: There was a problem with your email to debianHELP

2011-06-01 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 18:46 -0400, Chris Brennan wrote: > On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 5:04 PM, Ralf Mardorf > wrote: > On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 20:46 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > On Mi, 01 iun 11, 15:53:24, Juan R. de Silva wrote: > > > On Wed, 01 Jun 2011 01:57:14

Re: Convert .doc to Open editable format

2011-06-01 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 02:14:16PM +, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 29 May 2011 17:58:05 -0300, Daniel Bareiro wrote: > > > Currently I'm making the Final University Project and I've found that > > the templates provided by teachers for the reports are in Microsoft Word > > format. It is sad to no

Re: There was a problem with your email to debianHELP

2011-06-01 Thread Chris Brennan
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 5:04 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 20:46 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Mi, 01 iun 11, 15:53:24, Juan R. de Silva wrote: > > > On Wed, 01 Jun 2011 01:57:14 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > > > > > I think that all mails came through the list, but there

Re (2): Convert .doc to Open editable format

2011-06-01 Thread peasthope
From: Florian Snow Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2011 21:29:47 +0200 > As much as I don't like using proprietary software, going > to a computer lab at the university here and using MS Word to convert a > file ... If someone can give you a paper copy, scan it, apply tesseract-ocr and format with your fa

Re: help on debian on Thinkpad R31

2011-06-01 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mi, 01 iun 11, 20:13:16, Mao Xiaoan wrote: > Hi All, > > I am new to Linux. Yesterday, I installed Debian 6.0.1a on my Thinkpad > R31 (2656 J2C). It was installed successfully, but in the end when it > rebooted, the laptop monitor doesn't show anything (it is grey), Please tell us what is the

Re: There was a problem with your email to debianHELP

2011-06-01 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 20:46 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Mi, 01 iun 11, 15:53:24, Juan R. de Silva wrote: > > On Wed, 01 Jun 2011 01:57:14 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > > > I think that all mails came through the list, but there were tons of: > > > > > > From: webmas...@debianhelp.org > >

Re: There was a problem with your email to debianHELP

2011-06-01 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 20:46 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > It seems to me like Ralf is just using reply-to-all instead of reply-to-list. Correct! I missed that there are options. There are three icons for Evolution "Reply", "Group reply", "Forward". I won't use short cuts and I missed that for "G

Re: About MBR in usb

2011-06-01 Thread Brian
On Wed 01 Jun 2011 at 09:18:42 -0400, co...@esid.gecgr.co.cu wrote: > Following the steps to make a memory USB booteble > > Using syslinux /dev/sdx5 and install-mbr / dev / sdx > > I copy the portfolios boot and gparted > > adding ISO of they Owed squeezy, when I restart for bootear for this >

GBG?

2011-06-01 Thread Fred Raley
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Re: Suppress Line Wrap?

2011-06-01 Thread Ivan Jager
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 01:08:19PM -0500, lrhorer scribbled: > In bash, the default when outputting to stdout is to wrap any lines > wider than the console display. Is there a way to suppress this? Bash isn't doing the line wrapping. That's your terminal emulator. For example, if you're using

Re: help on debian on Thinkpad R31

2011-06-01 Thread William Hopkins
On 06/01/11 at 08:13pm, Mao Xiaoan wrote: > Hi All, > > I am new to Linux. Yesterday, I installed Debian 6.0.1a on my Thinkpad > R31 (2656 J2C). It was installed successfully, but in the end when it > rebooted, the laptop monitor doesn't show anything (it is grey), [snip] > I don't know what coul

Re: Convert .doc to Open editable format

2011-06-01 Thread Florian Snow
Camaleón: > Find a computer with MS Word on it and save/export the document from > there to another file format. I second that. As much as I don't like using proprietary software, going to a computer lab at the university here and using MS Word to convert a file to a more suitable format was ofte

help on debian on Thinkpad R31

2011-06-01 Thread Mao Xiaoan
Hi All, I am new to Linux. Yesterday, I installed Debian 6.0.1a on my Thinkpad R31 (2656 J2C). It was installed successfully, but in the end when it rebooted, the laptop monitor doesn't show anything (it is grey), although it is still working fine if I boot it to windows. I connected a stand-alone

Re: install squeeze con core i5 2500 motherboard 1155

2011-06-01 Thread Pablo Sánchez
Camaleón, thanks . I'll just go check the chipset stepping just to be sure it's not the defective ones and order it. Regards. Pablo Sánchez. On Wed, 01 Jun 2011 14:32:26 -0300, Pablo Sánchez wrote: I'm looking for a core i5 2500/1155 for a server install . Will i face any problem installi

Re: There was a problem with your email to debianHELP

2011-06-01 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mi, 01 iun 11, 15:53:24, Juan R. de Silva wrote: > On Wed, 01 Jun 2011 01:57:14 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > I think that all mails came through the list, but there were tons of: > > > > From: webmas...@debianhelp.org > > The email you sent to ... was rejected because there was a validatio

Re: Install puppet 2.6.8 from squeeze-backports to lenny

2011-06-01 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 01 Jun 2011 14:11:16 +0200, Felix Dorner wrote: > I have puppet from http://packages.debian.org/lenny-backports/puppet > (2.6.2-4~bpo50+1) in a lenny install. Is it also possible to go one step > further and get it from squeeze-backports instead > (http://packages.debian.org/squeeze-backpo

Re: install squeeze con core i5 2500 motherboard 1155

2011-06-01 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 01 Jun 2011 14:32:26 -0300, Pablo Sánchez wrote: > I'm looking for a core i5 2500/1155 for a server install . > > Will i face any problem installing squeeze there ? An Intel Core i5 is a very generic processor, it should not give you any problem but we cannot tell if you will face any i

install squeeze con core i5 2500 motherboard 1155

2011-06-01 Thread Pablo Sánchez
Hi list. I'm looking for a core i5 2500/1155 for a server install . Will i face any problem installing squeeze there ? Should i install debian stock kernel or go to bpo 2.6.38 ? Thanks . Pablo Sánchez -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsub

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Re: aptitude/apt-get hangs during update (plus) on IPv6

2011-06-01 Thread Jeffrey B. Green
On Wed, 1 Jun 2011 10:00:17 -0400 "Jeffrey B. Green" wrote: > > Doing the update from the firewall works, a conversation of 29 packets > in the captured pcap file. There are still 404s but none of the out of > sequence/lost sequence messages. Hmmm, now to see which of the packets > are being dro

Re: There was a problem with your email to debianHELP

2011-06-01 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Wed, 01 Jun 2011 01:57:14 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > I think that all mails came through the list, but there were tons of: > > From: webmas...@debianhelp.org > The email you sent to ... was rejected because there was a validation > error. I've gotten it too. And BTW, Ralf, every single of

Re: u3-tool for usb flash drive fails with errors

2011-06-01 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 01 Jun 2011 10:42:51 -0400, Nick Lidakis wrote: > On Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 11:07:16AM +, Camaleón wrote: >> On Tue, 31 May 2011 17:52:50 -0400, Nick Lidakis wrote: >> >> > I have a San Disk micro-cruzer 2GB flash USB drive. I'm trying to use >> > the u3-tool to remove the u3 software b

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Re: pidofproc missing

2011-06-01 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mi, 01 iun 11, 07:56:58, lrhorer wrote: > > Oh! I see. It's not a binary, at all. The init scripts just source > the function. Thanks! (I'd still like to know how `pidof` got > mangled.) Please post the output of 'dpkg -l sysvinit-utils' Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among D

Re: Issues posting to this list, my apologies.

2011-06-01 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mi, 01 iun 11, 15:48:31, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > On Wed, 1 Jun 2011, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > >>The email you sent to debian-user@lists.debian.org was rejected because > >>there > >>was a validation error. > >> > >>In order for emails to be accepted by debianHELP: > >>- They must be sent in re

Re: Backup script

2011-06-01 Thread David Christensen
On 06/01/2011 01:27 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: I'm writing a script to backup the 4 Linux installs and the MBRs on my machine. Is there a way to copy all 4 Linux by running one of those installs? With a lack of knowledge I would backup the 3 Linux that aren't running, by the running Linux and than b

Re: u3-tool for usb flash drive fails with errors

2011-06-01 Thread Nick Lidakis
On Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 11:07:16AM +, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 31 May 2011 17:52:50 -0400, Nick Lidakis wrote: > > > I have a San Disk micro-cruzer 2GB flash USB drive. I'm trying to use > > the u3-tool to remove the u3 software but I'm having no luck. > > (...) > > I've found a bug for Ubu

Re: Backup script

2011-06-01 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Ralf Mardorf wrote: Hi :) I'm writing a script to backup the 4 Linux installs and the MBRs on my machine. Is there a way to copy all 4 Linux by running one of those installs? With a lack of knowledge I would backup the 3 Linux that aren't running, by the running Linux and than boot another Lin

Re: About MBR in usb

2011-06-01 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 09:18:42AM -0400, co...@esid.gecgr.co.cu wrote: > Following the steps to make a memory USB booteble > > Using syslinux /dev/sdx5 and install-mbr / dev / sdx > > I copy the portfolios boot and gparted > > adding ISO of they Owed squeezy, when I restart for bootear for this

Re: aptitude/apt-get hangs during update (plus) on IPv6

2011-06-01 Thread Jeffrey B. Green
On Wed, 01 Jun 2011 09:18:17 -0400 "Jeffrey B. Green" wrote: > Chris Brennan writes: > > > > The 404's you were getting, I got them as well on my Debian 6 VPS. > > No firewall in place on he VPS > > (yet, as I am still setting it up) but every time I run an update, > > I see the 404's against s

Re: Temperature Fun and Games

2011-06-01 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 31 May 2011 22:56:12 +0300, David Baron wrote: > Been getting these more than sporadically: > > [56765.480042] CPU1: Core temperature above threshold, cpu clock > throttled (total events = 426314) > [56765.480069] CPU0: Core temperature above threshold, cpu clock > throttled (total events

Re: Issues posting to this list, my apologies.

2011-06-01 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Wed, 1 Jun 2011, Ralf Mardorf wrote: The email you sent to debian-user@lists.debian.org was rejected because there was a validation error. In order for emails to be accepted by debianHELP: - They must be sent in reply to a valid notification email. - The reply must be done from the same emai

Re: aptitude/apt-get hangs during update (plus) on IPv6

2011-06-01 Thread Jeffrey B. Green
Chris Brennan writes: On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Ma, 31 mai 11, 09:50:48, Jeffrey B. Green wrote: So, if anyone knows what going on here or whether this looks like an official bug, then let me know. This sounds like you might want to contact debian-admin

About MBR in usb

2011-06-01 Thread cosme
Following the steps to make a memory USB booteble Using syslinux /dev/sdx5 and install-mbr / dev / sdx I copy the portfolios boot and gparted adding ISO of they Owed squeezy, when I restart for bootear for this device it puts me the following thing. MBR FA: and later MBR 1234F: Me inmagino tha

Re: which is approprite tikz or asymptote

2011-06-01 Thread Simon Hoerder
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA224 On 30/05/11 19:25, abdelkader belahcene wrote: > Hi, everybody > > I want to insert graphics into latex file, for logn time I used xfig to > create graphs, but it is limited, specially for math formulas, dia i > find not easy to use. > Finally I w

Re: pidofproc missing

2011-06-01 Thread lrhorer
William Hopkins wrote: > On 05/31/11 at 09:30pm, lrhorer wrote: >> I rebooted one of my servers a few minutes ago, and while watching >> the init text, I noticed a couple of failures related to the script's >> not >> finding `pidof`. Sure enough, pidof was missing from my server, >> somehow. The

Install puppet 2.6.8 from squeeze-backports to lenny

2011-06-01 Thread Felix Dorner
Hi, I have puppet from http://packages.debian.org/lenny-backports/puppet (2.6.2-4~bpo50+1) in a lenny install. Is it also possible to go one step further and get it from squeeze-backports instead (http://packages.debian.org/squeeze-backports/puppet (2.6.8-1~bpo60+1))? Thanks, Felix -- To UNSUB

Re: Number of systems running user Debian? ; gre

2011-06-01 Thread Memnon Anon
Andrei Popescu writes: [...] > Also popcon needs a working MTA setup to submit the data, which is not > really common these days and was known to rely on 'atime'[2], while it > is not uncommon to mount file systems with 'noatime'. [...] > [2] not sure if this is still the case ,[ /usr/shar

Re: Configuring WIFI

2011-06-01 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 31 May 2011 22:38:46 +0300, David Baron wrote: > My android can use WIFI. But this is a Debian list :-) > Works fine with who knows whose WIFI it happens > to find and connect-to. The one on my wireless router, however, connects > but cannot access and web pages or other data through it

Re: Backup script

2011-06-01 Thread James Robertson
> > > > > > # cd /mount_point_linux_root_directory > > # tar czf /path_for_backups/backup_name.tar.gz * > > > > > Backup up your running machine using tar is fine but you should probably exclude some directories. Something like this would do (you may want to remove some of the excludes like logs f

Re: Backup script

2011-06-01 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 01 Jun 2011 10:27:38 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > I'm writing a script to backup the 4 Linux installs and the MBRs on my > machine. > > Is there a way to copy all 4 Linux by running one of those installs? > > With a lack of knowledge I would backup the 3 Linux that aren't running, > by t

Re: u3-tool for usb flash drive fails with errors

2011-06-01 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 31 May 2011 17:52:50 -0400, Nick Lidakis wrote: > I have a San Disk micro-cruzer 2GB flash USB drive. I'm trying to use > the u3-tool to remove the u3 software but I'm having no luck. (...) I've found a bug for Ubuntu with many similarities to yours: u3-tool 0.3 fails on cruzer 2GB stic

Re: udev bug in Wheezy

2011-06-01 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 01 Jun 2011 11:27:24 +0200, maderios wrote: > On 05/30/2011 10:01 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> On Mon, 30 May 2011 21:37:14 +0200, maderios wrote: >> >>> I first sent this message in french language, sorry for my mistake >>> I tried for the umpteenth time to return to Wheezy but I still have

Re: Backup script

2011-06-01 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 12:26 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 20:12 +1000, James Robertson wrote: > > > > Hi :) > > > > I'm writing a script to backup the 4 Linux installs and the > > MBRs on my > > machine. > > > > Is ther

Re: Backup script

2011-06-01 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 20:12 +1000, James Robertson wrote: > > Hi :) > > I'm writing a script to backup the 4 Linux installs and the > MBRs on my > machine. > > Is there a way to copy all 4 Linux by running one of those > installs? >

Re: Backup script

2011-06-01 Thread James Robertson
> Hi :) > > I'm writing a script to backup the 4 Linux installs and the MBRs on my > machine. > > Is there a way to copy all 4 Linux by running one of those installs? > > With a lack of knowledge I would backup the 3 Linux that aren't running, > by the running Linux and than boot another Linux inst

Re: Until now Debian seems to be the right decision :), better performance than Ubuntu

2011-06-01 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2011/6/1 Ralf Mardorf > On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 10:50 +0200, Raffaele Morelli wrote: > > > > > > 2011/5/31 Steven Rosenberg > > On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 10:14 AM, Ralf Mardorf > > wrote: > > Hi all :) > > > > until now switching to Debian is worth th

Re: udev bug in Wheezy

2011-06-01 Thread maderios
On 05/30/2011 10:01 PM, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 30 May 2011 21:37:14 +0200, maderios wrote: I first sent this message in french language, sorry for my mistake I tried for the umpteenth time to return to Wheezy but I still have this problem with udev, which slows down the machine. The boot l

Re: Until now Debian seems to be the right decision :), better performance than Ubuntu

2011-06-01 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 10:50 +0200, Raffaele Morelli wrote: > > > 2011/5/31 Steven Rosenberg > On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 10:14 AM, Ralf Mardorf > wrote: > Hi all :) > > until now switching to Debian is worth the effort. The >

Re: converting apple quicktime to mpeg

2011-06-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/01/2011 01:25 AM, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: On Tue, 31 May 2011, Ron Johnson wrote: The mplayer.log file displayed as a couple of dozen garbled bytes. The log has 66 text lines, followed by the "garbled bytes" written while mplayer is reading the input file, but you can display the whole f

Re: Until now Debian seems to be the right decision :), better performance than Ubuntu

2011-06-01 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2011/5/31 Steven Rosenberg > On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 10:14 AM, Ralf Mardorf > wrote: > >> Hi all :) >> >> until now switching to Debian is worth the effort. The >> GNOME2 performance of Debian stable is much better than of Ubuntu. >> >> Pulse Audio is not installed by default :). >> >> What repo

Backup script

2011-06-01 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi :) I'm writing a script to backup the 4 Linux installs and the MBRs on my machine. Is there a way to copy all 4 Linux by running one of those installs? With a lack of knowledge I would backup the 3 Linux that aren't running, by the running Linux and than boot another Linux install, to backup

Your gateway to debian malinglists has issues [was: There was a problem with your email to debianHELP]

2011-06-01 Thread Andrei Popescu
Dear Webmaster, Your mailinglist-to-forum gateway is causing troubles for (some?) debian-user posters. See attached messages I got. Somehow I get the feeling your gateway doesn't like setups where one receives messages one way and posts using another (which is not uncommon on debian-user). Pl

Re: [solved but annoying] XORG.CONF or a solution without xorg.conf needed

2011-06-01 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Ma, 31 mai 11, 23:17:37, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > The rough (first trial :), working xorg.conf is attached. The "Module" section is useless, you can get rid of it. Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-comm

Re: Until now Debian seems to be the right decision :), better performance than Ubuntu

2011-06-01 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 06:06 +, Juan R. de Silva wrote: > On Wed, 01 Jun 2011 01:15:29 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > > Yes, thank you very much, your howto needed a little upgrade. > > > > Restore e-mail account settings. > > > > > > - Run Evolution for th

Re: Issues posting to this list, my apologies.

2011-06-01 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2011-05-31 at 21:07 -0500, Mike Mestnik wrote: > So sorry for posting the same thing more then once, I kept getting a > DSN like this: > > Whomever runs this should include a message ID or something more then > the subject in the response because I can't discover what email didn't > make i