Re: Worst Admin Mistake? was --> Re: /usr broken, will the machine reboot ?

On 09/14/2011 02:25 AM, Andrew Reid wrote: These days, I almost always use verbose options of commands, if they exist, so I can verify that they're operating in the expected scope. You will neeed graphic acceleration, then for displaying all the verbose stuff ;-) -- RMA. -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: Worst Admin Mistake? was --> Re: /usr broken, will the machine reboot ?

On 09/14/2011 01:15 AM, Bryan Irvine wrote: Which brings me to another fun question. What's your worst administration mistake and how did you recover? On ext4 resizing - I did not put a swap partition on my laptop, just / and /home - I decided to shrink /home to put a swap at the end - fdisk

Re: Worst Admin Mistake? was --> Re: /usr broken, will the machine reboot ?

Bryan Irvine: > > Which brings me to another fun question. What's your worst > administration mistake and how did you recover? I once typed mkfs instead of fsck. Well, at least the filesystem was clean afterwards. Lesson: don't start doing dangerous things just before bedtime and after 2-3 glas

netbook, close, suspend: ACPI?

Hi all, I have a small netbook that I broke the screen. I use it as a headless gateway now (the VGA port is still OK when needed, I just have to plug a screen). I just noticed that if I "close" (or fold) it, after a while it goes to suspend state (or hibernate I dont know exactly). I have to

Re: Wiping hard drives

> > If the drive has encrypted data, then you don't need to wipe much. I > would do the following, and call it good: > >dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sdX bs=1M count=100 > > This will wipe pseudorandom data to the first 100MB of the drive, which > should wipe out any of the encrypted header in

Re: Wiping hard drives

> > I would do: dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sdX (Note there is no partition > number.) > I only use sdX# for partitions that are unencrypted. It's redundant to write over a LUKS container. -- Kind regards, Yudi

Re: Just a Quick Question

I use the gnome system; sorry I forgot to mention that. Feel free to visit my website and my blog and learn more about me and what I stand for. My Website @ http://riverwind.shellworld.net My Blog http://windraven13.livejournal.com/ On Tue, 13 Sep 2011, Kumar Appaiah wrote: On Tue, Sep 13, 20

Re: Just a Quick Question

2011/9/14 RiverWind > How does one go about turning off the screen saver on the Debian system? > Thanks so much in advance. > > Feel free to visit my website and my blog and learn more about me > and what I stand for. > My Website @ > http://riverwind.shellworld.**net

Re: Kscope is not in wheezy?

On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 08:58:54AM +0800, H Xu wrote: > I've checked this website and kscope is available in squeeze and sid: > > http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/kscope > > But I can't find it in wheezy. Why? On the package tracking system, you will get a reason why: http://packages.qa.debia

[OT] Re: Worst Admin Mistake? was --> Re: /usr broken, will the machine reboot ?

On 14/09/11 08:15, Bryan Irvine wrote: > On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: >> jacques wrote: >>> by error most of the binaries in /usr are erased (killing rm :-( >> > > Which brings me to another fun question. What's your worst > administration mistake and how did you recover? >

Re: Just a Quick Question

On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 07:53:19PM -0400, RiverWind wrote: > How does one go about turning off the screen saver on the Debian > system? Thanks so much in advance. It depends on which desktop environment you use (KDE/GNOME/XFCE/Other?). Each one has its own way. Alternately, if you run xscreensaver

Re: Rolling my own

On 14/09/11 08:04, Dave Higgins wrote: > I'm trying to figure out how to make my own Debian based distribution. > Either I'm asking the wrong question or you've got the wrong signature ;-p > on Google or there is no information. There is. And on Debian.org. > > I'm trying to take Debian an

Kscope is not in wheezy?

I've checked this website and kscope is available in squeeze and sid: http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/kscope But I can't find it in wheezy. Why? Thanks. -- Hong -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@l

Re: How to disable USB automounts

On 05/09/11 16:17, Itay wrote: > > When I stick a USB device into the socket it is automounted; KDE pops up > device notification widget, file manager window, etc. > > I tried to disable it: > KDE -> System Settings -> Removable Devices, and unchecked > "Enable automatic mounting of removable dev

Re: After upgrade to squeeze OS will not accept passphrase to unlock disk

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Further to the problem described in the first post to this thread, I have progress of a sort to report. As to inability of the computer on boot with squeeze to unlock the BDS-home_crypt partition, I discovered that the connection to the box from the k

Re: Worst Admin Mistake? was --> Re: /usr broken, will the machine reboot ?

On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 15:15:13 -0700, Bryan Irvine wrote: > Which brings me to another fun question. What's your worst > administration mistake and how did you recover? The worst admin mistake is failure to secure proper backups. Full stop. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists

Re: Worst Admin Mistake? was --> Re: /usr broken, will the machine reboot ?

> On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > > jacques wrote: > >> by error most of the binaries in /usr are erased (killing rm :-( > > > > Everyone has made that mistake at some point. I know I have! > > Not me! Though I did chmod -R /usr once. I noticed it immediately > and cancell

Worst Admin Mistake? was --> Re: /usr broken, will the machine reboot ?

On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > jacques wrote: >> by error most of the binaries in /usr are erased (killing rm :-( > > Everyone has made that mistake at some point.  I know I have! Not me! Though I did chmod -R /usr once. I noticed it immediately and cancelled. Most of the

Rolling my own

I'm trying to figure out how to make my own Debian based distribution. Either I'm asking the wrong question on Google or there is no information. I'm trying to take Debian and build a custom install for a product. I need to replace the kernel and add a few things to this installation CD. I'v

autodiscover of a samba share

hi, recently friend of mine visited me with his macbook in my home. i never used macos before to often, but i was amazed that its default file manager discovered automatically my public samba shares without mounting. they are just visible and accessible with single click, just after connecting to

Re: /usr broken, will the machine reboot ?

Am Samstag, 10. September 2011 schrieb jacques: > Le 10/09/2011 14:25, Mark Neidorff a écrit : > > On Wednesday 07 September 2011 3:33:10 pm jacques wrote: > >> Hi, > > Hi Mark, Hi Jacques, > > 1. alias "rm" to "rm -i" to add a > > rm: remove regular file `filename' ? > > to give the user a mome

Re: Wiping hard drives

2011/9/13 Aaron Toponce : > On 09/13/2011 08:04 AM, yudi v wrote: >>  I will be wiping partitions on my hard drive before sending it back to >> the manufacturer for replacement. >> >> I usually prefer dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sdX#  for the unencrypted >> partitions and just over write the first f

Re: After upgrade to squeeze OS will not accept passphrase to unlock disk

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gary Golden wrote: > Get finnix and try to mount your encrypted partition with --debug > Watch the kernel logs as well. Have downloaded finnix-102.iso and wrote it to a CD. I hope to do what you suggest later today. Thanks for the tip. Ken Heard

Re: Bug in Debian installer

spp mg wrote: > I install Debian(6.0.2.1 amd64) to a old HDD.This HDD has a lvm > partition,it's creat by Fedora installer. > I can't delete this lvm partition in intaller,it's display about "lvm > is busy..." ,even if I delete all Logical Volume and restart > installer. > > Finally, I delete lvm

Re: debian-installer: Guided partitioning breaks PERC2 Raid controllers

trouble daemon wrote: > Anyways, the problem is that when I use the guided partitioning (tried > with and without encrypted+lvm), `fdisk -l` makes mention of a bad > partition table since sda1 isn't on a boundary. The current wisdom of partitioning is changing. The debian-installer is following t

Re: User configurable backup

On 09/13/2011 01:54 PM, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 05:22:50 +0600, Gary Golden wrote: I'm looking for a backup software which can be configured for inclusion/exclusion inside the target directory. (...) Tar with "--exclude"? Greetings, Hi , have a look to backuppc -

Re: Bind does not die

Jari Fredriksson wrote: > Restarted binf and now all works. Glad to hear it is all working for you. Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bind does not die

13.9.2011 18:53, Bob Proulx kirjoitti: > Jari Fredriksson wrote: >> 13.9.2011 7:01, Bob Proulx kirjoitti: >>> Jari Fredriksson wrote: jarif@spitfire:~$ sudo rndc stop WARNING: key file (/etc/bind/rndc.key) exists, but using default configuration file (/etc/bind/rndc.conf) >>> >>> Tha

Re: Wiping hard drives

--- On Tue, 9/13/11, yudi v wrote: > I will be wiping partitions on my hard drive before sending it back to > the manufacturer for replacement. > > I usually prefer dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sdX#  for the unencrypted > partitions and just over write the first few sectors on the LUKS > partiti

Re: debian 6 mp3 not sounding

On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:29:22 +0200, Johan Scheepers wrote: > On 13/09/2011 17:00, Camaleón wrote: (...) >>> Seem to be no coomunication between debian software and pc hardware >>> >> Mmm... you need to run more tests before reaching a conclusion. >> >> Greetings, >> >> > While I did some

Re: debian 6 mp3 not sounding

On 13/09/2011 17:00, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:51:08 +0200, Johan Scheepers wrote: On 13/09/2011 16:21, Camaleón wrote: (...) It's strange, because when you experience a codec issue the file cannot be played, you get a message like "not found any suitable codec" or

Re: Bind does not die

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > Yes, it is buggy. It should wait for a while and then kill the thing > off. Agreed. And since the standard start-stop-daemon has that feature it would be very simple to do. It just needs to use the existing feature.. > Shutdown scripts that fail to exit in

Re: Bind does not die

Jari Fredriksson wrote: > 13.9.2011 7:01, Bob Proulx kirjoitti: > > Jari Fredriksson wrote: > >> jarif@spitfire:~$ sudo rndc stop > >> WARNING: key file (/etc/bind/rndc.key) exists, but using default > >> configuration file (/etc/bind/rndc.conf) > > > > That should not produce that warning. A def

Re: cheese - other application that does same job

On 13/09/2011 16:34, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:15:22 +0200, Johan Scheepers wrote: I dad the name of another application that's similar to cheese for the web cam. To take snapshots? Kindly please can someone just point me in the right direction. wxCam? Gree

Re: debian 6 mp3 not sounding

On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:51:08 +0200, Johan Scheepers wrote: > On 13/09/2011 16:21, Camaleón wrote: (...) >> It's strange, because when you experience a codec issue the file cannot >> be played, you get a message like "not found any suitable codec" or >> something similar which makes my wond

Re: debian 6 mp3 not sounding

On 13/09/2011 16:21, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:09:33 +0200, Johan Scheepers wrote: After installation of debian 6 I tried to play an mp3 file. Do other sound files work or just mp3 fails? The indicator show it is playing but no sound. I checked both speaker setting

Re: After upgrade to squeeze OS will not accept passphrase to unlock disk

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gary Golden wrote: > Get finnix and try to mount your encrypted partition with --debug > Watch the kernel logs as well. Have downloaded finnix-102.iso and wrote it to a CD. I hope to do what you suggest later today. Thanks for the tip. Ken Heard

Re: cheese - other application that does same job

On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:15:22 +0200, Johan Scheepers wrote: > I dad the name of another application that's similar to cheese for the > web cam. To take snapshots? > Kindly please can someone just point me in the right direction. wxCam? Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to deb

Re: cheese - other application that does same job (SOLVED )

On 13/09/2011 16:15, Johan Scheepers wrote: Good day, I dad the name of another application that's similar to cheese for the web cam. Kindly please can someone just point me in the right direction. Thanks Johan S found it guvcview Johan S -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ..

Re: debian 6 mp3 not sounding

On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:09:33 +0200, Johan Scheepers wrote: > After installation of debian 6 I tried to play an mp3 file. Do other sound files work or just mp3 fails? > The indicator show it is playing but no sound. I checked both speaker > settings and they are flat out. > Thats on movie player,

cheese - other application that does same job

Good day, I dad the name of another application that's similar to cheese for the web cam. Kindly please can someone just point me in the right direction. Thanks Johan S -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listma

Re: Moving EMail to another Evolution installation

On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 08:44:39 -0500, John Salmon wrote: > The message you responded to lost most of it's content for some reason. > I havn't gotten all of the parameters together to set up a wireless > account yet but at least I know what I'll need, thanks to your info. Remember that you only need

debian 6 mp3 not sounding

Good day, After installation of debian 6 I tried to play an mp3 file. The indicator show it is playing but no sound. I checked both speaker settings and they are flat out. Thats on movie player, rhymthbox and now even have vlc. Did some googling and installed some files. Still same. Kindly p

Wiping hard drives

I will be wiping partitions on my hard drive before sending it back to the manufacturer for replacement. I usually prefer dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sdX# for the unencrypted partitions and just over write the first few sectors on the LUKS partition to destroy the header file. I just want to hea

Re: Moving EMail to another Evolution installation

On Mon, 2011-09-12 at 14:18 +, Camaleón wrote: > > > debian-user@lists.debian.org The message you responded to lost most of it's content for some reason. I havn't gotten all of the parameters together to set up a wireless account yet but at least I know what I'll need, thanks to your info.

Re: Bind does not die

On Mon, 12 Sep 2011, Bob Proulx wrote: > I expected that it would fail and not stop the named. The > /etc/init.d/bind9 script calls rndc stop and then waits, possibly > forever, waiting for it to die. I was expecting the above not to stop Yes, it is buggy. It should wait for a while and then ki

Re: OT - Frequency of unsolicited emails

On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 08:23, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 11 Sep 2011 07:58:30 -0700, MR ZenWiz wrote: > >> It's a minor annoyance, but really, on an OS discussion list? >> >> Just saying > > I use a dedicated e-mail for posting in mailing lists so I keep my main > inbox off of spam messages.

Creating a debian virtual machine for Nagios

Hi, I'm trying to create a debian virtual machine to run Nagios on using the following command. virt-install --connect qemu:///system -n nagios -r 2048 --os-type=linux --disk /var/lib/libvirt/images/nagios.img,device=disk,bus=virtio,size=5,sparse=true,format=raw -w bridge=br0,model=virtio --vnc --

Re: Nvidia drivers

Hi, Found the problem, forgotten to install the nvidia-kernel-dkms package. Very happy all work great now and all of the CUDA stuff I installed also works! Thanks for your comments, Jim On 12/09/11 14:05, James Allsopp wrote: > Hi, > Having a terrible time trying to get nvidia drivers working. I

Re: Sandy bridge and kernel 3.1

On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 01:06:40 +0200, Rémi Marchal wrote: > I have bought the laptop N53SN-SZ126V from ASUS with the technology > Sandy Bridge. When I install the last stable version of Debian, I get a > black screen typical of the incompatibility of the kernel and Sandy > bridge. By "typical" you

Re: How to disable USB automounts (still failing...)

On Sun 11 Sep 2011 at 23:29:09 +0300, Itay wrote: > Any other ideas what is missing? Apart from dolphin not acting on a udisks hint, no. Looking in /lib/udev/rules.d/80-udisks.rules you will find: # Mark devices that shouldn't be automounted / autoassembled etc. # # Deny all, then punc

Re: User configurable backup

On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 05:22:50 +0600, Gary Golden wrote: > I'm looking for a backup software which can be configured for > inclusion/exclusion inside the target directory. (...) Tar with "--exclude"? Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org wit

Re: Recent Changes in CUPS and Foomatic Causing All-Black Printing from Browsers?

On 09/12/2011 06:36 PM, Whit Hansell wrote: I'm using Wheezy too and had the same problem w. getting a black page in the browser but it printing ok elsewhere. Now, after today's upgrade, I no longer get a black page. I get nothing. It won't print. I send the job and wait and nothing. I have to cl

Re: HP switch emulator

On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 11:55:53 +0100, pch0317 wrote: > Is software for Debian which emulates HP switch software? You mean ProCurve? It seems there is none :-? http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/E-Series/HP-procurve-simulator-software/td-p/4810041 Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: installation debian 6.0 cd

On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 12:39:57 +0200, roberto wrote: > Hello, i am going to install debian 6.0 on my laptop. Is this the > correct cd-image to install debian with the kde desktop environment ? > http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0.2.1/i386/bt-cd/debian-6.0.2.1-i386-kde-CD-1.iso.torrent If you w

HP switch emulator

Hi list, Is software for Debian which emulates HP switch software? Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4e6f36b9.9090...@gmail.com

Re: linux-kbuild-3.1.0 ?

On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 11:39:15 +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > I would like to give linux 3.10~rc4 a try. For this I tried > installing: > > $ sudo apt-get install linux-headers-3.1.0-rc4-amd64 -t experimental The > following packages have unmet dependencies: > linux-headers-3.1.0-rc4-amd64

Re: installation debian 6.0 cd

hi. yes it is. Regards - Roman On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 2:39 PM, roberto wrote: > Hello, i am going to install debian 6.0 on my laptop. > Is this the correct cd-image to install debian with the kde desktop > environment ? > > http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0.2.1/i386/bt-cd/d

Re: Free drivers for AMD Radeon (Vaio S)

On Mon, 12 Sep 2011 22:56:48 -0400, Dan wrote: > On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 12:28 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> On Mon, 12 Sep 2011 10:27:17 -0400, Dan wrote: >> >>> I would like to buy a Vaio S. It has the user-switchable graphics card >>> AMD Radeon 6470M. >> >> Then take a look into this Ubuntu forum th

installation debian 6.0 cd

Hello, i am going to install debian 6.0 on my laptop. Is this the correct cd-image to install debian with the kde desktop environment ? http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0.2.1/i386/bt-cd/debian-6.0.2.1-i386-kde-CD-1.iso.torrent Thank you ! -- roberto -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-use

linux-kbuild-3.1.0 ?

Dear all, I would like to give linux 3.10~rc4 a try. For this I tried installing: $ sudo apt-get install linux-headers-3.1.0-rc4-amd64 -t experimental The following packages have unmet dependencies: linux-headers-3.1.0-rc4-amd64 : Depends: linux-kbuild-3.1.0 but it is not installable E: Broken

SOLVED: udev warning

On Mon, 12 Sep 2011, Bob Proulx wrote: Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 21:56:22 -0600 From: Bob Proulx To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: udev warning [partially SOLVED] it...@nospammail.net wrote: Now I have to resolve the same warnings coming from file /etc/udev/rules.d/025_logi

Re: Free drivers for AMD Radeon (Vaio S)

The status of the free radeon driver is available here: http://wiki.x.org/wiki/RadeonFeature A very recent kernel and additional firmware (firmware-linux-nonfree) is needed for the discrete graphic adapter. A HP Pavilion DV7 with an integrated and a discrete graphic adapter (5470M) from AMD works