Re: how stable is lenny

On Saturday 24 September 2011 00:01:52 Bob Proulx wrote: > Lisi wrote: > > Bob Proulx wrote: > > > Long Wind wrote: > > > > Subject: how stable is lenny > > > > > > Lenny is extremely stable. But just the same you should upgrade to > > > Squeeze. That is the current "best" release to use. > > > >

How to stop services from running in different init levels?

i want to stop privoxy and tor to starting automatically in runlevel 2. please tell me the script location from where we can make modifications to respective files? i dont want to type /etc/init.d/privoxy stop each time i log into gnome desktop. is there any GUI tool for starting stopping these s

Re: How to lock packages to protect

On Sat, 2011-09-24 at 05:19 +, debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: > email message attachment > > Forwarded Message > > Subject: No Subject > > Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2011 07:46:37 +0200 > > > > debian-user-digest Digest Volume 2011 : Issue

Out the box permissions for /home/*

Hi, What is the out the box permissions for /home/* on Squeeze? Mark -- 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/cabwh29kufd_rff84rd0rnt+qxoezqmwkxesmnrkauf+vv3

Re: regards the /

On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 2:02 AM, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 22. September 2011 schrieb Camaleón: > > > Here is the > > > > > > > > > > > > :/lib/modules/3.0.0-mbp82-lina$ ls > > > > (...) > > > > But that's not the same as the other folders. > > > > This one contains the modules fo

Re: regards the /

On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 2:01 AM, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 22. September 2011 schrieb Camaleón: > > On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 11:50:54 +0800, lina wrote: > > > On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 1:34 AM, Camaleón wrote: > > >> Hmm... you "/lib" seems a bit bloated (mine is 94 MiB), I would look >

Re: a quick Q: iceweasle add on

On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 5:42 AM, Bob Proulx wrote: > lina wrote: > > Gilbert Sullivan wrote: > > > You could just use apt-get or aptitude to install the youtube-dl > package. > > > To use it you can just issue a command like > > > > > > $ youtube-dl > > > > > > That will put the video in your ho

Re: Partitions recovering on empty HDD.

On 24/09/11 14:21, Sthu Deus wrote: > Good time of the day. > > I've got my partitions lost on a disk that works through SATA-USB > controller - and think it is the culprit. > > # fdisk /dev/sdb > Device contains neither a valid DOS partition table, nor Sun, SGI or > OSF disklabel Building a new

Partitions recovering on empty HDD.

Good time of the day. I've got my partitions lost on a disk that works through SATA-USB controller - and think it is the culprit. # fdisk /dev/sdb Device contains neither a valid DOS partition table, nor Sun, SGI or OSF disklabel Building a new DOS disklabel with disk identifier 0x4759c362. Chang

Re: kppp dialing process hang up on 'starting pppd'.

On 24/09/11 02:52, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > I think, it is a bug in package "ppp". Almost a year ago I sent a bugreport > to > ppp, but no one tried to figure out, what was the problem. > > Anyway, i reverted to the package of debian/stable and set it to hold, to > avoid an update. > > Hans >

Re: spam on list this (was: Re: Walter Overeager)

On Sat, 24 Sep 2011 00:26:17 +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Am Freitag, 23. September 2011 schrieb Walter Hurry: >> On Fri, 23 Sep 2011 22:29:38 +0100, Terence wrote: >> > On 23 September 2011 18:13, Tony van der Hoff >> > >> > wrote: >> >> On 23/09/11 18:54, Walter Hurry wrote: >> >>> And b

Re: how stable is lenny

Lisi wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > Long Wind wrote: > > > Subject: how stable is lenny > > > > Lenny is extremely stable. But just the same you should upgrade to > > Squeeze. That is the current "best" release to use. > > Depends, surely, on his reason for using Lenny? The beauty of Linux > is

Re: a quick Q: iceweasle add on

On 09/23/2011 05:42 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: lina wrote: Gilbert Sullivan wrote: You could just use apt-get or aptitude to install the youtube-dl package. To use it you can just issue a command like $ youtube-dl That will put the video in your home directory. I use youtube-dl all of the time.

spam on list this (was: Re: Walter Overeager)

Am Freitag, 23. September 2011 schrieb Walter Hurry: > On Fri, 23 Sep 2011 22:29:38 +0100, Terence wrote: > > On 23 September 2011 18:13, Tony van der Hoff > > > > wrote: > >> On 23/09/11 18:54, Walter Hurry wrote: > >>> And by the way, I am not impressed with the SpamAssassin setup at > >>> lisz

Re: how stable is lenny

On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 10:17 AM, Camaleón wrote: > > Then you can run "smartclt" (long test mode) to find out any problem with > your hard disks. > > > If you can connect and manage the server from a remote machine that may > indicate an isolated problem not a system wide one: > > 1/ If you are r

Re: how much time do I need to run badblocks

Long Wind (longwind2...@gmail.com on 2011-09-23 20:07 +0800): > I bought a 60G disk and test it with badblocks > > badblocks -vws /dev/hdb > > 6 hours has passed and it's still running That can happen. My last disk was a 2TB low-rpm disk. It took badblocks over 50 hours to complete the check. >

Re: how much time do I need to run badblocks

On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 6:04 PM, Lisi wrote: > You didn't let Badblocks finish!  The longest it has taken when I have used it > was 13 hours - and this was a while ago, so probably a 40G HDD. > > Let Badblocks finish, however long it takes, and if it still gives no error > message, ten all is well

Re: Still trying to reduce the size of /, now that I have the bit between my teeth....

On Friday 23 September 2011 19:32:52 Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Hi Lisi! > > Am Freitag, 23. September 2011 schrieb Lisi: > > I still have two of the already suggested things to try, but meanwhile > > my /usr is 3.7G, and my /, of which it forms part, is 4.7G. This > > seems slightly disproportio

Re: how much time do I need to run badblocks

On Friday 23 September 2011 13:07:54 Long Wind wrote: > I bought a 60G disk and test it with badblocks > > badblocks -vws /dev/hdb > > 6 hours has passed and it's still running > I can no longer wait and press Ctrl+c > It have finished with 3 test patterns > It says nothing about whether bad blocks

Re: how stable is lenny

On Friday 23 September 2011 22:37:17 Bob Proulx wrote: > Long Wind wrote: > > Subject: how stable is lenny > > Lenny is extremely stable. But just the same you should upgrade to > Squeeze. That is the current "best" release to use. Depends, surely, on his reason for using Lenny? The beauty of L

Re: How to lock packages to protect them of being removed during upgrades?

Ouch!! Whatever happened Ralf? You don't usually post things for 20/20 vision only!! Sadly, I'm not joking. You have stumbled on one of my hobby-horses. I can't read screeds of asphyxiated text like that, no matter how much I enlarge it! I - and others like me - need spaces and breathing ho

Re: Walter Overeager

On Fri, 23 Sep 2011 22:29:38 +0100, Terence wrote: > On 23 September 2011 18:13, Tony van der Hoff > wrote: >> On 23/09/11 18:54, Walter Hurry wrote: >>> >>> And by the way, I am not impressed with the SpamAssassin setup at >>> liszt.debian.org >> >> I am. Apart from the fact that it lets through

Re: a quick Q: iceweasle add on

lina wrote: > Gilbert Sullivan wrote: > > You could just use apt-get or aptitude to install the youtube-dl package. > > To use it you can just issue a command like > > > > $ youtube-dl > > > > That will put the video in your home directory. I use youtube-dl all of the time. Works great. But as

Re: Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) firmware

On Fri, 23 Sep 2011 20:49:01 +0200 Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Am Freitag, 23. September 2011 schrieb Alex: > > Any comments on the "Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) > > firmware" and its ability to preclude booting from alternative > > operating systems such as Linux, BSD etc., would

Re: how stable is lenny

Long Wind wrote: > Subject: how stable is lenny Lenny is extremely stable. But just the same you should upgrade to Squeeze. That is the current "best" release to use. > sometime I can't shutdown lenny after using it for some time > (I mean lenny doesn't respond to my key strokes) > has anyone h

Re: Walter Overeager

On 23 September 2011 18:13, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > On 23/09/11 18:54, Walter Hurry wrote: >> >> And by the way, I am not impressed with the SpamAssassin setup at >> liszt.debian.org > > I am. Apart from the fact that it lets through HTML formatted emails (i.e. > sent by fuckwits), it lets thro

Re: No iceweasel support for google+

francis picabia wrote: > Dejan Ribič wrote: > > go to http://mozilla.debian.net/ and follow instructions. > > Thanks, this helped. Bob mentioned it also. Very simple > instructions and easy. Now have 3.6 iceweasel and google+ > is accessed. If it is trouble again, maybe I will install > curren

Re: 100% used / file system. Help!

Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > >My desktop has 388M of files in /var/log from just random noise > >from using it as a desktop. That amount doesn't seem unusual to me > >nor does it stand out. > > Interesting. As I've stated in the past I don't use GUI/desktop > Linux, only headless s

Re: 100% used / file system. Help!

Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > Recent versions of the sort-command understand the switch "-h" > which, I assume, was introduced just for the usage with du. On my > "testing" system the version number is 8.5 ("sort --version"). Not just for 'du' but for all of the commands such as 'ls' that accept the

What to do with a DVD-RW +VR disk? UDF file system

On my Toshiba D-VR7KC2 DVD recorder I have recorded some video on a DVD- RW, using the +VR recording format. But I'm unable to play it on my wheezy system in either VLC or the Gnome Mplayer. Now according to online documentation I have a strong suspicion that this is recorded in some form of th

nvidia binary drivers to get glx and xorg 1.11.0 on sid

Hi I have been using the nvidia binary drivers NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-173.14.25-pkg2.run NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-173.14.30-pkg2.run NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-173.14.31-pkg2.run on my desktop running sid. Recently with the upgrade to linux kernel linux-image-3.0.0-1-amd64 I found that I had difficulty com

Re: spam on this list (was: Re: Business Proposal, Reply)

On Fri, 23 Sep 2011 21:11:57 +0200 Martin Steigerwald wrote: Hello Martin, > I usually only see list spam when someone replies to it. Same here. > So please don´t. *I* didn't, that was Walter. I replied to him. I should, of course, have changed the subject at least. -- Regards _

Re: Getting a large file onto DVD

On 23/09/11 12:05 PM, Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 14:08:54 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: I am having trouble getting a large (2.7 gigs) file onto a DVD. Brasero warns me that such a large file is only supported by the 3rd standard for iso9660...but then won't burn it even after I say OK

Re: Getting a large file onto DVD

On 23/09/11 02:49 PM, francis picabia wrote: On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 3:08 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: I am having trouble getting a large (2.7 gigs) file onto a DVD. Brasero warns me that such a large file is only supported by the 3rd standard for iso9660...but then won't burn it even after

Re: 100% used / file system. Help!

On Friday 23 September 2011 20:06:15 Martin Steigerwald wrote: > I am pretty sure that browsers put the web cache into the home directory > of the user that uses it or /var/tmp. I.e.: Mine were in /var/cache. At least, getting rid of the caches in all 3 of the browsers that I use with any regula

spam on this list (was: Re: Business Proposal, Reply)

Am Freitag, 23. September 2011 schrieb Brad Rogers: > On Fri, 23 Sep 2011 16:54:02 + (UTC) > Walter Hurry wrote: > > Hello Walter, > > > And by the way, I am not impressed with the SpamAssassin setup at > > liszt.debian.org > > It got turned off once, accidentally. Spam came through at a r

spam on this list (was: Re: Business Proposal, Reply)

Am Freitag, 23. September 2011 schrieb Brad Rogers: > On Fri, 23 Sep 2011 16:54:02 + (UTC) > Walter Hurry wrote: > > Hello Walter, > > > And by the way, I am not impressed with the SpamAssassin setup at > > liszt.debian.org > > It got turned off once, accidentally. Spam came through at a r

Re: 100% used / file system. Help!

Am Donnerstag, 22. September 2011 schrieb Stan Hoeppner: > > Tux:/home/lisi# du -s -h /var/cache > > 2.3G/var/cache > > This is probably where your web browser is storing its cached > files. Go into browser options and clear the cache. May take a > while. Tell us how much space this frees

Re: kernel param : why acpi=off breaks screen resolution ?

On my laptop Acer (model 4750) I have to pass kernel parameter acpi=off to be able to setup screen brightness via the Fn key. However the screen resolution is then downgrade (to 1024/640 from 1366/768). I'd suggest first try interupting the boot at the grub screen, and editing the boot com

Re: Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) firmware

Am Freitag, 23. September 2011 schrieb Weaver: > On Fri, 23 Sep 2011 11:04:51 +1000 > > Scott Ferguson wrote: > > On 23/09/11 09:01, Alex wrote: [...] > > Check out Coreboot - and research before buying a device/motherboard. > > That's one way, but new tech is getting to the stage where it won't

Re: Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) firmware

Hi Chris! Please avoid TUFO. Am Freitag, 23. September 2011 schrieb chris: > On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 9:04 PM, Scott Ferguson > > > > Check out Coreboot - and research before buying a device/motherboard. > > > but does coreboot support uefi? Sometimes I think: Better not. ;) I twice tried hal

Re: Getting a large file onto DVD

On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 3:08 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: > >  I am having trouble getting a large (2.7 gigs) file onto a DVD. Brasero > warns me that such a large file is only supported by the 3rd standard for > iso9660...but then won't burn it even after I say OK. > It ejects the DVD saying an err

Re: Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) firmware

Am Freitag, 23. September 2011 schrieb Alex: > Any comments on the "Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) > firmware" and its ability to preclude booting from alternative > operating systems such as Linux, BSD etc., would be greatly > appreciated, as per article entitled "Windows 8 secure bo

Re: Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) firmware

Am Freitag, 23. September 2011 schrieb Alex: > Any comments on the "Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) > firmware" and its ability to preclude booting from alternative > operating systems such as Linux, BSD etc., would be greatly > appreciated, as per article entitled "Windows 8 secure bo

Re: Still trying to reduce the size of /, now that I have the bit between my teeth....

Hi Lisi! Am Freitag, 23. September 2011 schrieb Lisi: > I still have two of the already suggested things to try, but meanwhile > my /usr is 3.7G, and my /, of which it forms part, is 4.7G. This > seems slightly disproportionate. How can I find out what is actually > needed - or even, used - in /

Re: regards the /

Am Freitag, 23. September 2011 schrieb Lisi: > On Friday 23 September 2011 17:54:04 Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > (now isn´t --sort=h cool? Just found out about it a moment ago as I > > searched a solution to sort the G and the M´s as well.) > > sort -h does the same thing - and I only just found

Re: regards the /

Am Donnerstag, 22. September 2011 schrieb Camaleón: > > Here is the > > > > > > > > :/lib/modules/3.0.0-mbp82-lina$ ls > > (...) > > But that's not the same as the other folders. > > This one contains the modules for that kernel (3.0.0-mbp82-lina) but > the folders you "cleaned" were pointing

Re: a quick Q: iceweasle add on

On Sep 24, 2011, at 1:25, Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 24 Sep 2011 01:15:15 +0800, lina wrote: > >> On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 1:10 AM, Camaleón wrote: > >>> It's plenty of similar extensions: >>> >>> >>> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search/?cat=all&q=YouTube+&y=6&x=22&lver=5.* >>> >>

Re: regards the /

Am Donnerstag, 22. September 2011 schrieb Camaleón: > On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 11:50:54 +0800, lina wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 1:34 AM, Camaleón wrote: > >> Hmm... you "/lib" seems a bit bloated (mine is 94 MiB), I would look > >> inside it: > >> > >> du -h /lib | grep "[0-9]M" | sort -n -r |

Re: a quick Q: iceweasle add on

On 09/23/2011 01:00 PM, lina wrote: On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 12:46 AM, Gilbert Sullivanwrote: On 09/23/2011 12:23 PM, lina wrote: Hi, My iceweasle version is 5. while for this add-on, it has not updated to 5 yet. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-**US/firefox/addon/1-click-** youtube-video-down

Re: regards the /

Hi Lina, Am Donnerstag, 22. September 2011 schrieb lina: > > > Thanks very much for explanation. > > > > > > Tell you one secret, I didn't know LANG means language environment. > > > When I test each directory. > > > I avoid using the up arrow to get history. I tried to type each > > > time to en

Walter Overeager

On 23/09/11 18:54, Walter Hurry wrote: And by the way, I am not impressed with the SpamAssassin setup at liszt.debian.org I am. Apart from the fact that it lets through HTML formatted emails (i.e. sent by fuckwits), it lets through very little spam. -- Tony van der Hoff | mailto:t...@vanderh

Re: regards the /

Am Freitag, 23. September 2011 schrieb Lisi: > On Friday 23 September 2011 17:59:13 Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > For KDE there is: > You mean, I take it KDE 4? KDE 3 appears not to do so - tho' it may > just be that the system didn't get a chance. Yes, freespacenotifier is for KDE. It has been d

Re: regards the /

Am Freitag, 23. September 2011 schrieb Stan Hoeppner: > > Partitions are great if you need then. Today, I think they are one of > > those things that, unless you can point to the use case you have, > > you don't need them. > > My hiking analogy sums it up pretty well: > "Better to have it and not

Re: regards the /

Am Freitag, 23. September 2011 schrieb shawn wilson: > Either way, its been a while since I've seen a unix box fall over > because of a full disc. So, if something fills up, go in, take your > time and figure it out. You might not be able to run some GUI programs > (and some services might act weir

Re: regards the /

Am Donnerstag, 22. September 2011 schrieb lina: > > Even low end SSD can do 2500 IOPS, 15x that of a 7.2k drive. And > > most SSDs are small. So if you have an SSD in this runaway logging > > scenario you could potentially fill the log filesystem in a matter > > of minutes. > > > > Moral of the

Re: a quick Q: iceweasle add on

On Sat, 24 Sep 2011 01:15:15 +0800, lina wrote: > On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 1:10 AM, Camaleón wrote: >> It's plenty of similar extensions: >> >> >> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search/?cat=all&q=YouTube+&y=6&x=22&lver=5.* >> >> > >> Try with another? :-) >> >> > Thanks, > > so what's

Re: regards the /

Am Donnerstag, 22. September 2011 schrieb Camaleón: > The above experience I posted it happened on a VM I have to run > testing for well... "testing" purposes. I wanted to try something > (don't remember exactly what, either "hibernation" or "suspension") > and something went wrong so one of the l

Re: Business Proposal, Reply

On Fri, 23 Sep 2011 16:54:02 + (UTC) Walter Hurry wrote: Hello Walter, > And by the way, I am not impressed with the SpamAssassin setup at > liszt.debian.org It got turned off once, accidentally. Spam came through at a rate of hundreds per day. Frankly, I'm surprised we don't see more sp

Re: a quick Q: iceweasle add on

On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 1:15 AM, lina wrote: > > > On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 1:10 AM, Camaleón wrote: > >> On Sat, 24 Sep 2011 00:23:15 +0800, lina wrote: >> >> > My iceweasle version is 5. >> > >> > while for this add-on, it has not updated to 5 yet. >> > >> > >> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/

Re: How to lock packages to protect them of being removed during upgrades?

On Fri, 2011-09-23 at 10:15 -0500, John Foster wrote: > On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 7:12 AM, Ralf Mardorf > wrote: > Hi :) > > how can I find out which packages I need to lock against > upgrading, to > avoid that Synaptic will remove other packages I need? Isn'

Re: Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) firmware

On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 9:31 AM, chris wrote: > On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 8:45 AM, Tom H wrote: >> On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 7:10 AM, Camaleón wrote: >>> On Fri, 23 Sep 2011 08:18:07 +1000, Alex wrote: >>> Any comments on the "Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) firmware" and its

Re: a quick Q: iceweasle add on

On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 1:10 AM, Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 24 Sep 2011 00:23:15 +0800, lina wrote: > > > My iceweasle version is 5. > > > > while for this add-on, it has not updated to 5 yet. > > > > > https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1-click-youtube-video-download/ > > > > any sugg

Re: a quick Q: iceweasle add on

On Sat, 24 Sep 2011 00:23:15 +0800, lina wrote: > My iceweasle version is 5. > > while for this add-on, it has not updated to 5 yet. > > https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1-click-youtube-video-download/ > > any suggestion? (...) It's plenty of similar extensions: https://addons.

Re: regards the /

On Friday 23 September 2011 17:59:13 Martin Steigerwald wrote: > For KDE there is: You mean, I take it KDE 4? KDE 3 appears not to do so - tho' it may just be that the system didn't get a chance. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubs

Re: regards the /

On Friday 23 September 2011 17:54:04 Martin Steigerwald wrote: > (now isn´t --sort=h cool? Just found out about it a moment ago as I > searched a solution to sort the G and the M´s as well.) sort -h does the same thing - and I only just found that out!! (So long as you are running Squeeze or lat

Re: a quick Q: iceweasle add on

On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 12:46 AM, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: > On 09/23/2011 12:23 PM, lina wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> My iceweasle version is 5. >> >> while for this add-on, it has not updated to 5 yet. >> >> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-**US/firefox/addon/1-click-** >> youtube-video-download/

Re: regards the /

Hi Camaleón, Am Mittwoch, 21. September 2011 schrieb Camaleón: > On Wed, 21 Sep 2011 16:24:49 +0100, Lisi wrote: > > On Wednesday 21 September 2011 16:10:53 Camaleón wrote: > >> When you are out of space you will notice (you get a nice warning > >> message), don't worry >:-) > > > > > > > > I got

Re: Business Proposal, Reply

On Sat, 24 Sep 2011 00:07:12 +0800, GOH KUAN BENG wrote: LOL at sending 419s here. And by the way, I am not impressed with the SpamAssassin setup at liszt.debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas.

Re: 100% used / file system. Help!

On Friday 23 September 2011 13:18:00 Darac Marjal wrote: > Oh, I'd actually missed the fact that "sort -h" exists and does exactly > what I'd been advocating. I assume this is a new feature that's (at > least) in sid. What a pip! Other way round, I'm afraid. I have just checked on my (testbed) Sq

Re: regards the /

Am Mittwoch, 21. September 2011 schrieb lina: > Hi, Hi Lina! > To avoid messing up Lisi's post, I started a new one. > > What's the acceptable saturation for the / partition, > > now my one reached 61% (377M of 658, wheezy), > another reached 87% (483M of 657M, sid) > > only saw it increases,

Re: kppp dialing process hang up on 'starting pppd'.

I think, it is a bug in package "ppp". Almost a year ago I sent a bugreport to ppp, but no one tried to figure out, what was the problem. Anyway, i reverted to the package of debian/stable and set it to hold, to avoid an update. Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debi

Re: konqueror (or KDE???) is randomly starting libreoffice

Am Mittwoch, 21. September 2011 schrieb Thierry Chatelet: > On Wednesday 21 September 2011 22:30:54 Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > > Hello list, > > Hi! > Can you give us some of those addresses giving you problem,so we can > validate them? > Thierry Yes, sure. Most addresses with pictures on it cause

Re: a quick Q: iceweasle add on

On 09/23/2011 12:23 PM, lina wrote: Hi, My iceweasle version is 5. while for this add-on, it has not updated to 5 yet. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1-click-youtube-video-download/ any suggestion? I used to have a good faith about this plugins, but for half a year I did not

Re: how stable is lenny

On 09/23/2011 08:21 AM, Long Wind wrote: sometime I can't shutdown lenny after using it for some time (I mean lenny doesn't respond to my key strokes) has anyone have similar experience? I install and run some no open source software as a no-root user it shouldn't cause problem I've had the sam

Re: xorg - MatchIsTouchpad not working properly

Am Mittwoch, 21. September 2011 schrieb David Roguin: > Hi! Hi David! > I have an InputClass section in my xorg.conf that catches whenever a > touchpad is detected (MatchIsTouchpad "on"), but the driver on that > section never loads. If I change the MatchIsTouchpad for other Match > like the Matc

Re: fcron as cron

On Fri, 23 Sep 2011, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Henrique de Moraes Holschuh: > > If you don't need SELinux integration, I think upstream fcron will be able > > to handle a large number of jobs just fine. However, fcron is in deep > > maintenance mode upstream, > > Just like the default cron (and u

a quick Q: iceweasle add on

Hi, My iceweasle version is 5. while for this add-on, it has not updated to 5 yet. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1-click-youtube-video-download/ any suggestion? I used to have a good faith about this plugins, but for half a year I did not meet any song wanted me to download f

RE: Error restarting apache2

> -Mensaje original- > De: Camaleón [mailto:noela...@gmail.com] > Enviado el: viernes, 23 de septiembre de 2011 13:46 > Para: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Asunto: Re: Error restarting apache2 > > On Fri, 23 Sep 2011 10:25:12 +0200, Gorka wrote: > > > By the time I restart apache2 ther

Re: Getting a large file onto DVD

On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 14:08:54 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > I am having trouble getting a large (2.7 gigs) file onto a DVD. Brasero > warns me that such a large file is only supported by the 3rd standard > for iso9660...but then won't burn it even after I say OK. It ejects the > DVD saying an err

Re: fcron as cron

* Henrique de Moraes Holschuh: > If you don't need SELinux integration, I think upstream fcron will be able > to handle a large number of jobs just fine. However, fcron is in deep > maintenance mode upstream, Just like the default cron (and upstream even asked everyone to retire that code base l

Re: fcron as cron

On Fri, 23 Sep 2011, Florian Weimer wrote: > Has anybody try to use fcron instead of Vixie cron? How well does it > work in practice, especially if you've got tons of existing cron jobs > written for Vixie cron? It would work reasonably well, if I had the time to port SELinux to the latest upstre

Re: How to lock packages to protect them of being removed during upgrades?

On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 7:12 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Hi :) > > how can I find out which packages I need to lock against upgrading, to > avoid that Synaptic will remove other packages I need? Isn't there a way > to lock packages against removing? > > Usually there only will be some packages that

Re: Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) firmware

On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 8:31 AM, chris wrote: > We can all see where this is going... MS has OEM's lockout UEFI, some new > "team" will pop up and start the PC jailbreak/unlock scene, MS will cry that > its illegal, court wont even understand wtf is going on, etc, etc ... > > :) > > On Fri, Sep 2

Re: rebuild and install php 5.2.6-5

On 09/23/2011 05:08 PM, Camaleón wrote: Debian source packages for older versions can be fetched from here: http://snapshot.debian.org/package/php5/ MMM,... I love Debian! Thank Camaleon. -- RMA. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubsc

Re: Iceweasel and the gpu acceleration

On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 23:22:07 +0200, AlbMilla wrote: > I am using Iceweasel 6 in Debian Testing, and I think I have a problem > with the gpu acceleration due to Iceweasel has not activate me that > option. > > If I check about:support, Iceweasel detects my card NVIDIA Corporation > -- GeForce 9300

Re: how stable is lenny

On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 3:06 PM, Long Wind wrote: > On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 9:56 PM, Camaleón wrote: > > I am impressed with the username Long Wind.. I think it is an imaginative one. Cheers Michael Fothergill > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with

Re: how stable is lenny

On Fri, 23 Sep 2011 22:06:53 +0800, Long Wind wrote: > On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 9:56 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> >> I'm running several boxes with lenny (gui and non-gui based >> installations) and lenny is rock solid as the first day :-) >> >> I would investigate why your system stops responding, mayb

Re: rebuild and install php 5.2.6-5

On Fri, 23 Sep 2011 16:35:37 +0300, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: > On my squeeze system, I would like to get a PHP 5.2 release. This is for > development, my dev team needs it. This is the changelog about 5.2.6 > http://goo.gl/Ndvxu > > If I get the source package and just build it, I'll get th

Re: how stable is lenny

On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 9:56 PM, Camaleón wrote: > > I'm running several boxes with lenny (gui and non-gui based > installations) and lenny is rock solid as the first day :-) > > I would investigate why your system stops responding, maybe you can start > to find out by stablishing a session via ss

Re: how stable is lenny

On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 9:17 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > Does the mouse still work?  If so you may simply have a KB going south.  If > neither work it may by a problem coming out of hybernation.  If this happens > *while* you are actively typing it could be a number of issues. > > When this happe

rebuild and install php 5.2.6-5

Hi all, On my squeeze system, I would like to get a PHP 5.2 release. This is for development, my dev team needs it. This is the changelog about 5.2.6 http://goo.gl/Ndvxu If I get the source package and just build it, I'll get the latest version, which I dont want. Where, in what archive repos

Re: how stable is lenny

On Fri, 23 Sep 2011 20:21:06 +0800, Long Wind wrote: > sometime I can't shutdown lenny after using it for some time (I mean > lenny doesn't respond to my key strokes) has anyone have similar > experience? > I install and run some no open source software as a no-root user it > shouldn't cause probl

Re: About alien command

Your mail is not clear, but if you need to install an rpm package in a debian box, which I've done, this are the steps to follow 1.- install alien: aptitude install alien 2.- Convert alien package to debian package alien -d drivers-8.28.8-1.x86_64.rpm alien -d fglrx64_4_3

Re: how much time do I need to run badblocks

Long Wind: > > I bought a 60G disk and test it with badblocks > > badblocks -vws /dev/hdb > > 6 hours has passed and it's still running > I can no longer wait and press Ctrl+c > It have finished with 3 test patterns > It says nothing about whether bad blocks are found or not It would have told y

Re: how much time do I need to run badblocks

> I bought a 60G disk and test it with badblocks > > badblocks -vws /dev/hdb > > 6 hours has passed and it's still running > I can no longer wait and press Ctrl+c > It have finished with 3 test patterns > It says nothing about whether bad blocks are found or not > I have read its manual and get no

Re: Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) firmware

We can all see where this is going... MS has OEM's lockout UEFI, some new "team" will pop up and start the PC jailbreak/unlock scene, MS will cry that its illegal, court wont even understand wtf is going on, etc, etc ... :) On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 8:45 AM, Tom H wrote: > On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at

Re: how stable is lenny

On 9/23/2011 7:21 AM, Long Wind wrote: sometime I can't shutdown lenny after using it for some time (I mean lenny doesn't respond to my key strokes) has anyone have similar experience? I install and run some no open source software as a no-root user it shouldn't cause problem Does the mouse sti

Re: 100% used / file system. Help!

Darac Marjal wrote, on 09/23/11 11:53: > On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 04:12:17PM +0100, Lisi wrote: >> On Wednesday 21 September 2011 22:54:54 Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: >> [snip] >> > [cut] > >> Tux:/home/lisi# du -hx --max-depth=1 / | sort -h >> sort: invalid option -- h >> Try `sort --help' for more

Re: 3D.rendering became slow since moved to wheezy.

Thank You for Your time and answer, Arnt: >..which is why I asked you to use the correct options, >rather than my hazy memories of them. fgfs -v -h |less And so I did right at the first try. :) >> I have tried w/ openarena - to benchmark FPS and this what I' ve got: >> >> 840 frames 18.8 seco

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