Re: debmirror: saving old release before clean-up

2012-04-14 Thread Bob Proulx
Andrei POPESCU wrote: > Andre Majorel wrote: > > Sneaky. I'll look if I can hack debmirror to avoid the copy. > > Thanks. > > hardlinks? (assuming it's the same filesystem) On my system with local disks I think it took less than an hour to copy the Lenny 48G of source and binaries for i386 and am

Re: Question to aptitude

2012-04-14 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
The according aptitude command is, e.g., aptitude purge '~i3\.0\.1-.*' if I'm not mistaken. '~i' searches only through installed packages. -- Best regards, Jörg-Volker. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listm

Re: PAE support in Debian6

2012-04-14 Thread Greg Madden
On Saturday 14 April 2012 12:20:18 pm Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 13 Apr 2012 18:34:03 -0430, German Eduardo Jaber De Lima wrote: > > What was the first stable Debian release that enabled PAE support > > (bigmem kernel option)? > > The first? > > If we take we time-machine and according to the snap

Re: [OT] Posting styles (was: printer Kyocera FSC-5100DN)

2012-04-14 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 15 Apr 2012 02:59:02 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 05:03:41PM +, Camaleón wrote: >> «In the interleaved reply style (also called "inline reply", "point-by- >> point rebuttal", or, sometimes, "bottom posting")...» >^^

Re: OT: favorite free-software email-subscription / feeds.

2012-04-14 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 15 Apr 2012 01:06:02 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Wed, Apr 04, 2012 at 03:55:24PM +, Camaleón wrote: >> I also followed "Linux Devices¹" (linux hardware related news) but has >> been recently adquired by a big magazine and the feeds are now gone :-( >> >> ¹http://www.linuxfordev

Re: samba VFS Quota or Quota tool

2012-04-14 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 14 Apr 2012 12:36:20 +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: Sir, please, turn off html, I hardly can read your messages :-( (correcting the quotes and trimming) >> Then how about repartition the whole volume in small chunks? That way >> you will limiting the available space by the partition

Re: Mozilla Firefox installed without package-management

2012-04-14 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 14 Apr 2012 06:49:07 +0200, Andreas Glaeser wrote: > Everyone who wants or needs improved HTML5-support can download Mozilla > Firefox webbrowser here: > http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all.html You get improved > rendering-speed, the optional 'do not track' feature and more for free.

Re: PAE support in Debian6

2012-04-14 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 13 Apr 2012 18:34:03 -0430, German Eduardo Jaber De Lima wrote: > What was the first stable Debian release that enabled PAE support > (bigmem kernel option)? The first? If we take we time-machine and according to the snapshot archive¹, there was a "-bigmem" kernel since 2.6.17 (dated o

Re: problems with wifi bc43

2012-04-14 Thread Roman V.Leon.
> 2012/4/14 Roman V.Leon. : >> Hello Gents, >> Could you help me with my wifi card in laptop, please? I have broadcom >> BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY controller, and I installed >> "firmware-b43-lpphy-installer". Unfortunately when i'm trying turn my card >> on, i'm getting a message: >> "$ sudo ifconf

Question to aptitude

2012-04-14 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi list! I have just a little question to aptitude, and I think, it can be easily answered. The Problem: With the command "apt-get --purge remove 3.0.1-*" I can uninstall all packages containing 3.0.1-something. I use this for installing older kernels and headers as well as selfbuild kernel m

Re: problems with wifi bc43

2012-04-14 Thread Mat Enders
2012/4/14 Roman V.Leon. : > Hello Gents, > Could you help me with my wifi card in laptop, please? I have broadcom > BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY controller, and I installed > "firmware-b43-lpphy-installer". Unfortunately when i'm trying turn my card > on, i'm getting a message: > "$ sudo ifconfig wlan0

problems with wifi bc43

2012-04-14 Thread Roman V.Leon.
Hello Gents, Could you help me with my wifi card in laptop, please? I have broadcom BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY controller, and I installed "firmware-b43-lpphy-installer". Unfortunately when i'm trying turn my card on, i'm getting a message: "$ sudo ifconfig wlan0 up" > "SIOCSIFFLAGS: Operation no

Re: [OT] Manually verifying PGP/MIME signature with GPG

2012-04-14 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 03:53:19PM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 02:43:51PM +, Camaleón wrote: > > > If you don't know, please refrain from guessing! > > > > Refrain yourself from reading :-/ > > I'm not at significant risk of being (unintentionally) misled by you: newbi

Re: [OT] Posting styles (was: printer Kyocera FSC-5100DN)

2012-04-14 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 05:03:41PM +, Camaleón wrote: > «In the interleaved reply style (also called "inline reply", "point-by- > point rebuttal", or, sometimes, "bottom posting")...» ^^^ > «In the "bottom-posting" style, the reply is appended to

Re: [OT] Posting styles (was: printer Kyocera FSC-5100DN)

2012-04-14 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Apr 09, 2012 at 01:38:59PM -0700, Al Eridani wrote: > On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Chris Bannister > wrote: > > > But you said above, and I quote: > > > > 'A bottom posting style does not mean "all the stuff goes to the bottom" > > > > and now you are saying in response to > > > > "So

Re: Disk clicking and in increasing Load_Cycle_Count in laptop with debian/testing

2012-04-14 Thread wzab
green wrote at Fri, 13 Apr 2012 22:22:32 -0500 > wzab wrote at 2012-04-13 18:42 -0500: >> A few weeks ago I've noticed, that my half year old laptop started >> to behave strange. >> When left unused, after the screen gets black to save power, the disks >> starts to click every few minutes, and afte

Re: OT: favorite free-software email-subscription / feeds.

2012-04-14 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Apr 04, 2012 at 03:55:24PM +, Camaleón wrote: > I also followed "Linux Devices¹" (linux hardware related news) but > has been recently adquired by a big magazine and the feeds are now > gone :-( > > ¹http://www.linuxfordevices.com/ It seems to be back: http://www.linuxfordevices.com

Re: Squid as default gateway in proxy mode.

2012-04-14 Thread Joe
On Sat, 14 Apr 2012 12:40:26 +0200 Pascal Hambourg wrote: > > Joe wrote : > > only TCP and UDP have 'ports' > > No. ICMP does not have ports, but other protocols such as SCTP and > DCCP have ports too. > > Yes, I do realise there are others, but they are not among the half-dozen or so which

Re: Trouble with Nvidia driver

2012-04-14 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 14 Apr 2012 03:27:06 -0400 (EDT), Eduardo Bearzoti wrote: > > I'd like to thank the kind replies of Bob and Daniel. > With regard to their suggestions, they might like to know that: > > - changing 'nvidia' for 'vesa' unfortunately didn't help; > > - I had memtest86+ run for a long time,

Re: Mozilla Firefox installed without package-management

2012-04-14 Thread Mika Suomalainen
14.04.2012 07:49, Andreas Glaeser kirjoitti: > Everyone who wants or needs improved HTML5-support can download Mozilla > Firefox > webbrowser here: > http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all.html > You get improved rendering-speed, the optional 'do not track' feature and > more for > free. > Inst

Re: Disk clicking and in increasing Load_Cycle_Count in laptop with debian/testing

2012-04-14 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 14 apr 12, 12:29:57, wzab wrote: > > So the problem is why there is a difference between work on local keyboard > (no unloading/loading due to entering the idle state) and remote work? > I'd like to prevent the disk from entering the idle state, when working > remotely... Probably the ke

Re: Finding upgradable packages by priority

2012-04-14 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 14 apr 12, 10:54:54, Johan Grönqvist wrote: > 2012-04-14 10:52, Johan Grönqvist skrev: > > >I assume this kind of search would require downloading the changelog for > >each upgradable package, and looking at all entries that are more recent > >than the installed version, then returning a ma

Computer freeze right after login [was: Re: Trouble with Nvidia driver]

2012-04-14 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 14 apr 12, 00:27:06, Eduardo Bearzoti wrote: > Hi! > > I'd like to thank the kind replies of Bob and Daniel. With regard to > their suggestions, they might like to know that: > > - changing 'nvidia' for 'vesa' unfortunately didn't help; > > - I had memtest86+ run for a long time, and no

Re: Disk clicking and in increasing Load_Cycle_Count in laptop with debian/testing

2012-04-14 Thread wzab
>> to find how often the head get unloaded, I have completely prevented >> this effect to occur. >Notice that you have 2 problems: >1- Unloading. >2- Reloading. >From where I stand, the unloading is normal, harmless, and even >desirable so the real problem is: why is it re-loaded every 3 minutes?

Re: ICMP handling in Linux

2012-04-14 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 14 Apr 2012, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Henrique de Moraes Holschuh a écrit : > > Easy depriorizing is possible by outright dropping incoming ICMP packets > > in the iptables layer, before it is processed by the IP stack. > > iptables is not before the IP stack, it is a part of it. I suppos

Re: Squid as default gateway in proxy mode.

2012-04-14 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Hello, > Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > >> now the problem part is i want to ping outside host to verify the >> connectivity of internet for that all the time i have to open the SSH >> the console and ping. but what i want is, i should also ping it from >> host computers as well. however i don't

Re: ICMP handling in Linux

2012-04-14 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Hello, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh a écrit : > > Easy depriorizing is possible by outright dropping incoming ICMP packets > in the iptables layer, before it is processed by the IP stack. iptables is not before the IP stack, it is a part of it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@l

Re: Finding upgradable packages by priority

2012-04-14 Thread Johan Grönqvist
2012-04-14 10:52, Johan Grönqvist skrev: I assume this kind of search would require downloading the changelog for each upgradable package, and looking at all entries that are more recent than the installed version, then returning a match to the search if any of those versions are marked priority

Finding upgradable packages by priority

2012-04-14 Thread Johan Grönqvist
Hi, I run testing and after 5 days without upgrading, I have around 100 upgradable packages. Normally, I upgrade when reaching the (arbitrarily chosen) number 100, but I would like to have a better way of deciding when I want to upgrade something. What I would like to have is a way of findin

Re: Squid as default gateway in proxy mode.

2012-04-14 Thread Joe
On Sat, 14 Apr 2012 13:04:08 +0500 Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > i have lately installed SQUID proxy and to avail all the facilities > i am using it as Proxy mod not as Transparent mode neither i wanted > to. > > now the problem part is i want to ping outside host to verify the > connectivity o

Squid as default gateway in proxy mode.

2012-04-14 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
i have lately installed SQUID proxy and to avail all the facilities i am using it as Proxy mod not as Transparent mode neither i wanted to. now the problem part is i want to ping outside host to verify the connectivity of internet for that all the time i have to open the SSH the console and ping.

Re: samba VFS Quota or Quota tool

2012-04-14 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
Then how about repartition the whole volume in small chunks? That way you > will limiting the available space by the partition size, and this cannot > be avoided, can be easily monitored, you will have more control over the > resources permission... but i am using RAID 1, and if i divide the parti

Re: Trouble with Nvidia driver

2012-04-14 Thread Eduardo Bearzoti
Hi! I'd like to thank the kind replies of Bob and Daniel. With regard to their suggestions, they might like to know that: - changing 'nvidia' for 'vesa' unfortunately didn't help; - I had memtest86+ run for a long time, and no ram errors were reported. But Bob's guess that perhaps it is not a