Re: Recommendations for ripping problem discs and organizing mp3's by genre?

2011-09-28 Thread Sharon Kimble
On 29 September 2011 07:28, Chris wrote: > Try apt-get install sound-juicer Thanks for this, i'm downloading it now. Sharon > > Sent from my HTC. > > - Reply message - > From: "Sharon Kimble" > Date: Thu, Sep 29, 2011 12:24 am > Subject: Recommendations for ripping problem discs and org

Re: Debian installer dhcp problems

2011-09-28 Thread Niklas Jakobsson
On ons, 2011-09-28 at 16:23 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 28 Sep 2011 10:04:22 +0200, Niklas Jakobsson wrote: > > (...) > > > I have tried setting the keyword duplicates to both allow and deny > > without any success. > > I think it should be "deny duplicates;" in this case. > > > From what

SOLVED was Re: Wireshark detritus

2011-09-28 Thread Lisi
Thank you very much, Greg and Mike. I have followed both your suggestions and run the less risky script. I now appear to be finally free of wireshark. So now to deal with that tarball. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

Re: Recommendations for ripping problem discs and organizing mp3's by genre?

2011-09-28 Thread Chris
Try apt-get install sound-juicer Sent from my HTC. - Reply message - From: "Sharon Kimble" Date: Thu, Sep 29, 2011 12:24 am Subject: Recommendations for ripping problem discs and organizing mp3's by genre? To: Cc: On 29 September 2011 04:12, Chris wrote: > I did much the same but w

Re: iceweasel based on firefox 6.0 for squeeze

2011-09-28 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 28/09/11 21:25, � wrote: > On Wed, 28 Sep 2011 10:45:22 +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: > >> On 28/09/11 00:49, � wrote: > > (...) > What changes in the internet render the default Squeeze Iceweasel unusable other than the latest extensions? We're a long way from HTML5 yet. >

Re: Recommendations for ripping problem discs and organizing mp3's by genre?

2011-09-28 Thread Sharon Kimble
On 29 September 2011 04:12, Chris wrote: > I did much the same but with my CD collection. > I used Sound Juicer to rip (you can rip to many formats including custom > bitrates also). > As to the hierarchy you mentioned, again using Sound Juicer, you can set the > destination, the sort order, the s

RE: Recommendations for ripping problem discs and organizing mp3's by genre?

2011-09-28 Thread Chris
I did much the same but with my CD collection. I used Sound Juicer to rip (you can rip to many formats including custom bitrates also). As to the hierarchy you mentioned, again using Sound Juicer, you can set the destination, the sort order, the sort parms (IE artist, album, etc). This would create

Re: help

2011-09-28 Thread Weaver
On Wed, 28 Sep 2011 20:46:24 -0400 neo haux wrote: > Well, I won't deny you need it, but we'll need a little more to work with than that. Regards, Weaver. -- "In a world without walls and fences, what need have we for Windows or Gates?" -Anon. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Recommendations for ripping problem discs and organizing mp3's by genre?

2011-09-28 Thread keitho
A few years ago I digitized my LP collection onto cdroms, and only now am I getting around to converting them to mp3's. I'm talking hundreds of homemade discs, many with two different albums on each disc. I thought I would ask for some advice on ripping and organizing. I am running Wheezy with Gno

Re: google & iceweasel does not function

2011-09-28 Thread Mark Panen
On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 27 Sep 2011 23:44:43 +0200, Mark Panen wrote: > >> I am having intermittent problems where the google search bar does not >> work in iceweasel. > > (...) > > You mean Google search bar or search addon (toolbox)? What is what is not > worki

Re: help

2011-09-28 Thread Chris Brennan
On Wednesday, September 28, 2011, neo haux wrote: > > Blank emails don't go far. How about you start off by giving us an idea of what it is you want help with. If it's hardware related, a basic profile of your system would be in order as well. -- > -- > Chris Brennan > A: Yes. > >Q: Are you s

help

2011-09-28 Thread neo haux

Re: Question propmted by response to [Re: More USB install-images please!]

2011-09-28 Thread Brian
On Wed 28 Sep 2011 at 16:14:55 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > Started a reply which got longer and longer as I realized not only what I > had left out but some unspecified (even to myself) assumptions. I also > came across some links that caused me to rethink some issues. I'll post a > better form

Re: Debian testing my ftp server problem

2011-09-28 Thread Johnny
Bob Proulx wrote: Johnny wrote: inet 192.168.1.102/24 brd 192.168.1.255 scope global eth0 default via 192.168.1.1 dev eth0 192.168.1.0/24 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.1.102 Looks okay. Those were the lines from the output with the information I cared about. I

Re: Wireshark detritus

2011-09-28 Thread Greg Madden
On Wednesday 28 September 2011 11:52:21 am Lisi wrote: > On Wednesday 28 September 2011 20:45:33 Lisi wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I am wanting to install the Wireshark tarball, preparatory to which I > > ran aptitude purge to clear the deb out, together with its config files. > > I then ran locate t

Re: Wireshark detritus

2011-09-28 Thread Mike McClain
On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 08:45:33PM +0100, Lisi wrote: > Hi! > > I am wanting to install the Wireshark tarball, preparatory to which I ran > aptitude purge to clear the deb out, together with its config files. I then > ran locate to find any files left so that I could remove them manually. I

Re: Debian testing my ftp server problem

2011-09-28 Thread Bob Proulx
Johnny wrote: > inet 192.168.1.102/24 brd 192.168.1.255 scope global eth0 > default via 192.168.1.1 dev eth0 > 192.168.1.0/24 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.1.102 Looks okay. Those were the lines from the output with the information I cared about. It has 192.168.1.102 addres

Re: Debian testing my ftp server problem

2011-09-28 Thread Johnny
Bob Proulx wrote: ip addr show johnny@xx:~$ ip addr show 1: lo: mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00 inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo inet6 ::1/128 scope host valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever 2: eth0: mtu 15

Re: Wireshark detritus

2011-09-28 Thread Greg Madden
On Wednesday 28 September 2011 11:52:21 am Lisi wrote: > On Wednesday 28 September 2011 20:45:33 Lisi wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I am wanting to install the Wireshark tarball, preparatory to which I > > ran aptitude purge to clear the deb out, together with its config files. > > I then ran locate t

Re: Debian testing my ftp server problem

2011-09-28 Thread Bob Proulx
Johnny wrote: > johnny@xx:~$ ftp 192.168.1.101 > ftp: connect: No route to host > > I do have squeeze installed on another computer I can connect to one > of my computers with no problem. But I can not connect with Debian > Testing. > > What do I need to do to fix this. No route to host is a

OT: laptop choice

2011-09-28 Thread Thierry Chatelet
For a friend of mine, I am going to by a laptop/ In my country (france), it is impossible to get computer without $W exccept if you get acer.So she want to buy this one: eMachines G443-E352G32Mn - Ordinateur Portable 17,3'' - AMD E-350 (1,6 GHz) - 320 Go - RAM 2048 Mo - AMD Radeon HD 6310 - L

Re (3): CUPS & network printing

2011-09-28 Thread peasthope
From: Steven Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 22:24:43 +0200 > Check your /etc/cupsd.conf file, there should be a line somewhere near > the top that reads "BrowseRemoteProtocols CUPS" or similar, this is a > list of 'protocols' cups offers to its clients, perhaps you need to add > the option lpd and/or

Re: Alternative archiving measures

2011-09-28 Thread Bob Proulx
RiverWind wrote: > Might any of you know of any utilities that will decompress or > convert archived files in "rar" format? The "unrar" utility that is > pretty ubiquitous on Unix systems is not supported by Linux, or at > least not the Debian distro. Consequently, to the best of my > knowledge, th

Re: Net scan

2011-09-28 Thread Kirtis Bakalarczyk
On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 10:20 AM, wrote: > hi > > > Turns out I have a LAN with Windows and Linux PCs (my PC) >  how I can through my PC with Debian squeeze, review a Windows PC and know > that IP ports or connect to the PC??? either short or long > > I tried Zenmap but what I want to see what I

Re: cron on a system without a hardware persistant clock

2011-09-28 Thread Bob Proulx
David Goodenough wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > Then I would create a new script that would set the clock to as > > reasonable of a value as possible. You don't have a real time value > > yet but most importantly you don't want to set it to a time that is > > before the system was stopped. So I w

Re: Alternative archiving measures

2011-09-28 Thread Lorenzo Beretta
On 09/28/11 13:40, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 28 Sep 2011 04:37:52 -0400, RiverWind wrote: Might any of you know of any utilities that will decompress or convert archived files in "rar" format? The "unrar" utility that is pretty ubiquitous on Unix systems is not supported by Linux, or at least not

Re: Question propmted by response to [Re: More USB install-images please!]

2011-09-28 Thread Richard Owlett
Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 26 Sep 2011 12:33:29 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: [OWLETT SNIPS MUCH] I'm considering moving from Windows to Linux. I've downloaded the iso's of about a dozen distro's chosen on disparate desires. Most, but not all, are Debian based/inspired/... I have fully equipped des

Re: Ill advised blundering = nasty mess

2011-09-28 Thread Harry
Joe writes: > 1) If you need a mail server but have no previous experience, have heard > of sendmail and are unaware of anything else, then yes, I'll join in the > recommendations that you pick a different one. It is notoriously the > most difficult to configure. The thread has taken a turn away

Re: Ill advised blundering = nasty mess

2011-09-28 Thread Harry
Darac Marjal writes: >> Do you know of a case where postfix was made to use Smarthost >> smtp.comcast.net? I'd probably drop sendmail after years of use in >> favor of postfix, but the several times I tried to configure it for >> comcasts authentication, I failed miserably. >> >> I am probably

Re: Re(2): CUPS & network printing

2011-09-28 Thread Steven
On Wed, 2011-09-28 at 12:01 -0800, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: [...] > > Now your printer is accessible using the IPP protocol ... > > lpr is needed here. > cups-bsd is installed and should provide a functional lpr. To be honest I never used lpr, although it is known to work with cups. Personally I

Re(2): CUPS & network printing

2011-09-28 Thread peasthope
# From: Steven # Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 23:34:22 +0200 > On the cups webinterface click administration, and make sure to check > the box "Share printers connected to this system", save these settings. > Then go to printers, select your printer and use the dropdownbox to > select "edit printer", cl

Re: Wireshark detritus

2011-09-28 Thread Lisi
On Wednesday 28 September 2011 20:45:33 Lisi wrote: > Hi! > > I am wanting to install the Wireshark tarball, preparatory to which I ran > aptitude purge to clear the deb out, together with its config files. I > then ran locate to find any files left so that I could remove them > manually. I got

Wireshark detritus

2011-09-28 Thread Lisi
Hi! I am wanting to install the Wireshark tarball, preparatory to which I ran aptitude purge to clear the deb out, together with its config files. I then ran locate to find any files left so that I could remove them manually. I got this: Tux:/home/lisi# locate wireshark /etc/wireshark /etc

Re: Ill advised blundering = nasty mess

2011-09-28 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 28 Sep 2011 00:24:22 -0500, Harry wrote in message <87bou51bp5@newsguy.com>: > NOTE: Already posted on unbuntu list... but due to it being something > of an urgent matter... and not seeing responses there... I'm posting > here too since the tools are all debian tools. > - ---

Re(2): CUPS & network printing

2011-09-28 Thread peasthope
# From: Steven # Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 23:34:22 +0200 > On the cups webinterface click administration, and make sure to check > the box "Share printers connected to this system", save these settings. > Then go to printers, select your printer and use the dropdownbox to > select "edit printer", cl

Re: Debian testing my ftp server problem

2011-09-28 Thread Johnny
Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 28 Sep 2011 12:01:37 -0500, Johnny wrote: I have 2 computers that have Debian testing installed on them and using vsftpd as my ftp server just to transfer files some from computer to computer. > From linux to linux? Have you considered in using "sftp" instead

Re: Debian testing my ftp server problem

2011-09-28 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 28 Sep 2011 12:01:37 -0500, Johnny wrote: > I have 2 computers that have Debian testing installed on them and using > vsftpd as my ftp server just to transfer files some from computer to > computer. >From linux to linux? Have you considered in using "sftp" instead for that task? :-? >

Re: Re (2): Device node for external camera

2011-09-28 Thread Panayiotis Karabassis
On 09/28/2011 08:06 PM, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > Hello Panayiotis, > > Ideally udev should detect each camera and assign it a device name which > will then appear in a file in /etc/udev/rules.d/. Unfortunately only a few > of > the scripts to make the devices are working. Network adapters,

Debian testing my ftp server problem

2011-09-28 Thread Johnny
I have 2 computers that have Debian testing installed on them and using vsftpd as my ftp server just to transfer files some from computer to computer. They were working at one point now I am having problem connecting to my ftp server. This is what I get when trying to connect johnny@xx:~$

Kompozer plugins

2011-09-28 Thread John W. Foster
Any advice on getting plugins into Kompozer from stable. I tried to follow the basic process from within Kompozer but it defaulted to firefox plugins which would not install on it. Said pages did not exist then tried to install them in iceweasel. -- John W. Foster -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to de

Re: New SATA drive installation question (SOLVED)

2011-09-28 Thread Lisi
On Wednesday 28 September 2011 12:10:05 Camaleón wrote: > Sorry, Lisi but on a mailing list there are some rules you should try to > follow, and I don't want to sound rude but you insisted too much in > remarking something I was not talking about, dunno why. Camaleón - this is absurd. You do soun

Re: Evolution Crashing OFTEN

2011-09-28 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 28 Sep 2011 11:48:33 -0500, John W. Foster wrote: > Anyone else having this issue. Evolution from Stable is crashing a lot, > when I add something to the databases, contacts, calender, etc. & when I > submit a message to be sent. > Any ideas & other having this issue?? Some ideas: 1/ Lau

cssed plugins

2011-09-28 Thread John W. Foster
Anyone know a debian way to get cssed plugins. I can get it done using the tarballs, but I don't want that on my system. -- John W. Foster -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: htt

Evolution Crashing OFTEN

2011-09-28 Thread John W. Foster
Anyone else having this issue. Evolution from Stable is crashing a lot, when I add something to the databases, contacts, calender, etc. & when I submit a message to be sent. Any ideas & other having this issue?? -- John W. Foster -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Net scan

2011-09-28 Thread Wayne Topa
On 09/28/2011 10:20 AM, co...@esid.gecgr.co.cu wrote: hi Turns out I have a LAN with Windows and Linux PCs (my PC) how I can through my PC with Debian squeeze, review a Windows PC and know that IP ports or connect to the PC??? either short or long I tried Zenmap but what I want to see what I

Re: New SATA drive installation question (SOLVED)

2011-09-28 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 28 Sep 2011 18:34:23 +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 28. September 2011 schrieb Camaleón: >> On Tue, 27 Sep 2011 18:50:05 +0100, Lisi wrote: >> > On Tuesday 27 September 2011 12:53:34 Camaleón wrote: >> >> Then, you have to start reading the "whole thing" (aka, the whole >>

Re: New SATA drive installation question (SOLVED)

2011-09-28 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 28. September 2011 schrieb Camaleón: > On Tue, 27 Sep 2011 18:50:05 +0100, Lisi wrote: > > On Tuesday 27 September 2011 12:53:34 Camaleón wrote: > >> Then, you have to start reading the "whole thing" (aka, the whole > >> thread) before making such statements on what you find "qualified

Re: Partitioning my new 1TB drive

2011-09-28 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 28. September 2011 schrieb Marc Shapiro: > On 09/25/11 23:35, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > > I would emphatically recommend to use a more advanced file system > > like ext4 for this size of drive. > > E.g., fsck runs much much faster with ext4. > > Other than fsck running faster, what a

Re: Ill advised blundering = nasty mess

2011-09-28 Thread Alan Chandler
On 28/09/11 11:39, Carl Fink wrote: On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 12:24:22AM -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: I inadvertantly deleted /etc/init.d/sendmail. Well I thought I'd just reinstall sendmail to re-acquire that file. ... Any attempt to uninstall it tells me it is not installed, any attempt to i

Re: Partitioning my new 1TB drive

2011-09-28 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 28. September 2011 schrieb Marc Shapiro: > On 09/26/11 12:24, Nicolas wrote: > > I have a disk with the same space and i use lvm dividing it in > > several partitions and a 300 gb free space block if any of the > > partitions need more space. It's very practical and dependable. And > >

Re: alien or another???

2011-09-28 Thread John W. Foster
On Tue, 2011-09-27 at 19:30 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > co...@esid.gecgr.co.cu wrote: > > I use Debian squeeze > > With other programs could change packages. Rpm. Deb?? > > Alien seems like it should be a reasonable thing to do. I personally > really wanted it to work at one time. But in practic

Re: Ill advised blundering = nasty mess

2011-09-28 Thread Darac Marjal
On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 09:28:29AM -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > Carl Fink writes: > > > However my preferred method: > > > > "sudo aptitude install postfix" > > > > Postfix is a drop-in replacement for sendmail that can be configured by mere > > mortals. > > Do you know of a case where postfix w

Re: Debian installer dhcp problems

2011-09-28 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 28 Sep 2011 10:04:22 +0200, Niklas Jakobsson wrote: (...) > I have tried setting the keyword duplicates to both allow and deny > without any success. I think it should be "deny duplicates;" in this case. > From what I can tell duplicates makes the > dhcp-server ignore the UID, which is

Re: Ill advised blundering = nasty mess

2011-09-28 Thread Joe
On Wed, 28 Sep 2011 00:24:22 -0500 Harry Putnam wrote: > Due to unbridled personal bungling, I've created a nasty mess while > installing sendmail. > I've never been near sendmail, so I can't help directly with the problem. I've seen the other replies, and: 1) If you need a mail server but ha

Re: Ill advised blundering = nasty mess

2011-09-28 Thread Harry Putnam
Darac Marjal writes: >> So, can anyone recommend some method to get past this, and get the >> pkgs fully installed and configured? >> > > I imagine that, while configuring sendmail, dpkg tries to stop the > sendmail process by invoking the init script. The init script isn't > there, so it thinks

Re: Ill advised blundering = nasty mess

2011-09-28 Thread Harry Putnam
Carl Fink writes: > However my preferred method: > > "sudo aptitude install postfix" > > Postfix is a drop-in replacement for sendmail that can be configured by mere > mortals. Do you know of a case where postfix was made to use Smarthost smtp.comcast.net? I'd probably drop sendmail after year

Net scan

2011-09-28 Thread cosme
hi Turns out I have a LAN with Windows and Linux PCs (my PC) how I can through my PC with Debian squeeze, review a Windows PC and know that IP ports or connect to the PC??? either short or long I tried Zenmap but what I want to see what I can. Regards Cosme -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to deb

Re: Reducing kernel compilation time

2011-09-28 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 26 Sep 2011 01:41:10 - Cam Hutchison wrote: > David Witbrodt writes: > > >(My goal was to > >produce a kernel that boots without an initrd; most people will not > >share that goal.) > > I would have thought that most people would share that goal, since > building an initrd is usefu

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

2011-09-28 Thread Walter Hurry
On Wed, 28 Sep 2011 15:38:07 +1000, Andrew McGlashan wrote: (about recovering an Oracle database) > Archive logging needs to be in place and the archived log files need to > be available together with a hot backup of the effected database file > for recovery. That's what I meant by "properly org

Re: Ill advised blundering = nasty mess

2011-09-28 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On 09/28/2011 01:39 PM, Carl Fink wrote: However my preferred method: "sudo aptitude install postfix" Best: "sudo apt-get install exim4" ;-) -- RMA. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Ill advised blundering = nasty mess

2011-09-28 Thread mark
> NOTE: Already posted on unbuntu list... but due to it being something > of an urgent matter... and not seeing responses there... I'm posting > here too since the tools are all debian tools. > - - --=-- - --- - > > Due to unbridled personal b

Re: [JOB] Back-End Developer, Pasadena, CA | 80-130k

2011-09-28 Thread Dylan Swartz
That's amazing. I'm suprised they didn't want a non-relational DBMS experience too. (Like Hadoop) On Sep 28, 2011, at 7:50 AM, vr wrote: > Just forwarding so you get some exposure of what companies are looking for. > > > Original Message > Subject: [JOB] Back-End Developer

Re: cron on a system without a hardware persistant clock

2011-09-28 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 28 Sep 2011 10:08:27 +0100, David Goodenough wrote: > On Tuesday 27 Sep 2011, Camaleón wrote: >> On Tue, 27 Sep 2011 10:11:33 +0100, David Goodenough wrote: >> > I have some small single board systems on which I run Debian. They >> > have clocks, but they are not battery backed and so rese

Re: Alternative archiving measures

2011-09-28 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 28 Sep 2011 04:37:52 -0400, RiverWind wrote: > Might any of you know of any utilities that will decompress or convert > archived files in "rar" format? The "unrar" utility that is pretty > ubiquitous on Unix systems is not supported by Linux, or at least not > the Debian distro. Consequent

Re: iceweasel based on firefox 6.0 for squeeze

2011-09-28 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 28 Sep 2011 10:45:22 +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 28/09/11 00:49, � wrote: (...) >>> What changes in the internet render the default Squeeze Iceweasel >>> unusable other than the latest extensions? We're a long way from HTML5 >>> yet. >>> >>> NOTE: warning from webservers based on

Re: google & iceweasel does not function

2011-09-28 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 27 Sep 2011 23:44:43 +0200, Mark Panen wrote: > I am having intermittent problems where the google search bar does not > work in iceweasel. (...) You mean Google search bar or search addon (toolbox)? What is what is not working exactly? You get no connection to Google search or time ou

Re: New SATA drive installation question (SOLVED)

2011-09-28 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 27 Sep 2011 18:50:05 +0100, Lisi wrote: > On Tuesday 27 September 2011 12:53:34 Camaleón wrote: >> Then, you have to start reading the "whole thing" (aka, the whole >> thread) before making such statements on what you find "qualified" or >> not because something can look unqualified only t

Re: Ill advised blundering = nasty mess

2011-09-28 Thread Carl Fink
On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 12:24:22AM -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > I inadvertantly deleted /etc/init.d/sendmail. Well I thought I'd just > reinstall sendmail to re-acquire that file. ... > Any attempt to uninstall it tells me it is not installed, any attempt > to install it ends with an error tha

Re: Ill advised blundering = nasty mess

2011-09-28 Thread Darac Marjal
On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 12:24:22AM -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > NOTE: Already posted on unbuntu list... but due to it being something > of an urgent matter... and not seeing responses there... I'm posting > here too since the tools are all debian tools. > - - --=--

Ill advised blundering = nasty mess

2011-09-28 Thread Harry Putnam
NOTE: Already posted on unbuntu list... but due to it being something of an urgent matter... and not seeing responses there... I'm posting here too since the tools are all debian tools. - - --=-- - --- - Due to unbridled personal bungling, I

Re: cron on a system without a hardware persistant clock

2011-09-28 Thread David Goodenough
On Wednesday 28 Sep 2011, Bob Proulx wrote: > David Goodenough wrote: > > I have some small single board systems on which I run Debian. > > They have clocks, but they are not battery backed and so reset > > to zero for each run. > > And by reset to zero you mean the date loaded at boot time from t

Re: cron on a system without a hardware persistant clock

2011-09-28 Thread David Goodenough
On Tuesday 27 Sep 2011, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 27 Sep 2011 10:11:33 +0100, David Goodenough wrote: > > I have some small single board systems on which I run Debian. They have > > clocks, but they are not battery backed and so reset to zero for each > > run. > > You mean that system always start

Re: Alternative archiving measures

2011-09-28 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 28/09/11 18:37, RiverWind wrote: > > Hey There, > > Might any of you know of any utilities that will decompress or > convert archived files in "rar" format? The "unrar" utility that is > pretty ubiquitous on Unix systems is not supported by Linux, or at > least not the Debian distro. Huh? # a

Re: Partitioning my new 1TB drive

2011-09-28 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Marc Shapiro wrote, on 09/28/11 03:27: > Other than fsck running faster, what are the advantages of ext4 over ext3? > > Marc > See, e.g., http://kernelnewbies.org/Ext4 and https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Ext4 . For me it was especially its support for the discard/TRIM command for

Debian installer dhcp problems

2011-09-28 Thread Niklas Jakobsson
Hello, I have some problems when doing a network install with the kernel and initrd in the netboot.tar.gz package in 20110106+squeeze3. I have a local dhcp-server with an address pool configured. After I have booted into the installer and selected configure with dhcp the lease file on the server