Re: Debian problem

2012-05-02 Thread Johan Mazel
Thanks for all your answers. I sent another mail to this mailing list to expose my problem. Regards. Johan 2012/5/3 Camaleón : > On Wed, 02 May 2012 19:08:52 +0900, Johan Mazel wrote: > >> I have a problem with Debian Testing on an Dell Optiplex 960. Can I ask >> for some help on this list or shou

Re: [OT] Mails coming from "joe1assis...@gmail.com"

2012-05-02 Thread Indulekha
On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 03:54:21PM +, Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 02 May 2012 10:04:36 -0500, Indulekha wrote: > > > On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 02:50:38PM +, Camaleón wrote: > > >> > So, do you run leafnode and point it at nntp://news.gmane.org then? > >> > >> I've never used Leafnode before.

Re: Macbook pro re-mapping single key

2012-05-02 Thread Indulekha
On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 09:00:12PM -0500, Mark Allums wrote: > On 5/2/2012 5:05 PM, Riccardo Romoli wrote: > >Hi to all, > > > >I'm a newbie of Debian but using the Debian-Wiky I was able to install > >Debian 6 as single boot, on my MacBookPro (v.3.1). The only problem I > >notice, till now, is

Graphic problem on Debian testing installed on Dell Optiplex 960

2012-05-02 Thread Johan Mazel
Hi I have a Debian testing 64 bits running on a Dell Optiplex 960. I have three different kernels installed: 2.6.32-5, 3.2.0-1 and 3.2.0-2. Until a recent upgrade (through apt-get update/apt-get upgrade), I could not use the Gnome login screen with kernel versions 3.2.0-1 and 3.2.0-2: the top of

Re: Macbook pro re-mapping single key

2012-05-02 Thread Mark Allums
On 5/2/2012 5:05 PM, Riccardo Romoli wrote: Hi to all, I'm a newbie of Debian but using the Debian-Wiky I was able to install Debian 6 as single boot, on my MacBookPro (v.3.1). The only problem I notice, till now, is about the Alt key. I bought the computer as used from a German guy ignoring

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2012 #674

2012-05-02 Thread Indulekha
On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 03:52:05PM -0700, tina braxton wrote: >Please take me off this list. Thanks. > __ > I'm sure most of us would be happy to do that for you if we could. Please kindly reference the notice at the bottom

Re: dist-upgrades on sid (was: X server: connection refused)

2012-05-02 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Jochen Spieker (02/05/2012): > Incidentally, apt-get dist-upgrade is less disastrous in this case. It > only suggests to remove xserver-xorg-video-all, > xserver-xorg-video-s3virge and xserver-xorg-video-tdfx while keeping > all important X related packages for my system. Background: http://blo

Re: Swap space not used

2012-05-02 Thread Stephen Powell
On Wed, 02 May 2012 07:12:31 -0400 (EDT), Sian Mountbatten wrote: > ... > As a rule, your swap partition should be the same size as your RAM. > ... It is my understanding that, assuming suspend/resume is supported, your swap partition should be AT LEAST as large as TWICE the amount of RAM. Suspend

Re: Solved: Re: Can't install flashplugin.nonfree. ERROR: wget failed to download

2012-05-02 Thread Han Soo Chang
I thank you all for your help. But there seems to be a big misunderstanding. The issue is not how to use sudo or how to set up no-password. If you could see my original report, it would be clear. But it seems to have fallen off the thread. Here is what happened. $sudo apt-get install flashplu

Re: Swap space not used

2012-05-02 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 02/05/12 17:48, Bret Busby wrote: > Hello. > > I am running Debian 6. > > When I installed it, I had a swap partition of about 40GB set up, as is > shown by gparted. > > But, for some strnge reason, Debian 6will not use the swap space, > even > though gparted shows it to be "Active". I don

Re: Flashplayer on Debian Squeeze.

2012-05-02 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 02/05/12 23:36, Lisi wrote: > Hi, all! > > I have been trying to get Flashplayer > > Thanks, > Lisi > > root@Hercules:/home/peter# update-flashplugin-nonfree --install > ERROR: wget failed to download > http://people.debian.org/~bartm/flashplugin-nonfree/fp10.sha512.i386.pgp.asc > More in

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2012 #674

2012-05-02 Thread tina braxton
Please take me off this list. Thanks. From: "debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org" To: debian-user-dig...@lists.debian.org Sent: Monday, April 30, 2012 3:54 AM Subject: debian-user-digest Digest V2012 #674 - Forwarded Message - debian-user-

Re: Themes and unreadable text

2012-05-02 Thread Sharon Kimble
On 02/05/2012, Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 02 May 2012 08:26:12 +0100, Sharon Kimble wrote: > >> i'm looking for a theme where the background in konqueror and >> tranmission is all white instead of its current >> grey/white/grey/white/etc which is difficult for me to read in the grey >> bars. The bl

Macbook pro re-mapping single key

2012-05-02 Thread Riccardo Romoli
Hi to all, I'm a newbie of Debian but using the Debian-Wiky I was able to install Debian 6 as single boot, on my MacBookPro (v.3.1). The only problem I notice, till now, is about the Alt key. I bought the computer as used from a German guy ignoring that the keyboard has the particularity to

Re: [OT] Mails coming from "joe1assis...@gmail.com"

2012-05-02 Thread Indulekha
On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 06:42:22PM +, Curt wrote: > > I like your signature, hearts and eighth notes, if music be the food of > love, play on... > Thank you kindly. :) -- ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ Indulekha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "un

Re: i would like to know how i can upgrade to the latest kernel on debian squeeze.

2012-05-02 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 02 mai 12, 15:33:41, Joey L wrote: > I thoiught it would be easy to google - how i can upgrade to the > latest kernel on debian squeeze. Latest kernel available in Debian or latest kernel released? You may be interested to know that backports has 3.2 which might be recent enough for your

Re: Debian GNU/Linux wheezy/sid: aptitude ERROR

2012-05-02 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 5:00 AM, Csanyi Pal wrote: > Andrei POPESCU writes: > >> On Mi, 02 mai 12, 08:52:26, Csanyi Pal wrote: > >>> today I run aptitude update and get errors: >>> http://paste.debian.net/166950/ >> >> Pastebin for 3 lines? >> >>> After that I run aptitude safe-upgrade and again,

Re: Flashplayer on Debian Squeeze.

2012-05-02 Thread Greg Madden
On Wednesday 02 May 2012 5:36:35 am Lisi wrote: > Hi, all! > > I have been trying to get Flashplayer going on my husband's computer. When > the advice on this list and the Debian website failed (as below), i just > deinstalled the lot and downloaded from the Adobe site. According to the > site,

Re: How do I remove a bad file??

2012-05-02 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 12:04 AM, Jochen Spieker wrote: > Dennis Wicks: >> Greetings; >> >> I have a file that looks like the following in an ls list; >> >> -? ? ?    ?             ?                ? Inbox.msf >> >> I can't do anything with it. Can't mv, rm, cp, or anything else I >> have t

Re: *URGENT* plz need help system not booting after "lvresize" command

2012-05-02 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 12:31 AM, Claudius Hubig wrote: > Hello Muhammad, > > Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: >> at least there should be a way to reach the command prompt. is there >> any way to ignore this error and reach the command prompt so i can >> just copy the necessary data. > > Probably not,

Re: Solved: Re: Can't install flashplugin.nonfree. ERROR: wget failed to download

2012-05-02 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 6:30 AM, Indulekha wrote: > > I don't think it's a bug... > If you add your user to the sudo group and use the line: > > yourusername   ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL > > in /etc/sudoers, everything should work and you'll > get no password prompt. Of course, replace "youusername" >

Re: Swap space not used

2012-05-02 Thread Rick Thomas
Another use for a large swap partition is if you want to put /tmp into tmpfs. Whether doing so is a "good thing(TM)" is a religious debate that I don't want to stir up here. But there are people who do it, and for them a large swap partition can be useful. Rick PS: We haven't heard back

Re: i would like to know how i can upgrade to the latest kernel on debian squeeze.

2012-05-02 Thread Gary Dale
On 02/05/12 03:33 PM, Joey L wrote: I thoiught it would be easy to google - how i can upgrade to the latest kernel on debian squeeze. but apparently it is not as easy as i thought. does anyone have a quick tutorial on how to do this ? thanks mjh To do an upgrade: - apt-get update - apt-get u

Re: Swap space not used

2012-05-02 Thread Shane Johnson
On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 1:33 PM, Johan Grönqvist wrote: > 2012-05-02 13:12, Sian Mountbatten skrev: > > Your swap partition is, very likely, too large. As a rule, your swap >> partition should be the same size as your RAM. Do you have 40GB RAM? >> > > Linux can handle well above 40 GB of swap. I w

Re: How do I remove a bad file??

2012-05-02 Thread Dan B.
Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Wed, 2 May 2012 07:04:55 +0200, Jochen wrote in message <20120502050455.ga25...@well-adjusted.de>: Dennis Wicks: Greetings; I have a file that looks like the following in an ls list; -? ? ?? ?? Inbox.msf I can't do anything wit

Re: Swap space not used

2012-05-02 Thread Johan Grönqvist
2012-05-02 13:12, Sian Mountbatten skrev: Your swap partition is, very likely, too large. As a rule, your swap partition should be the same size as your RAM. Do you have 40GB RAM? Linux can handle well above 40 GB of swap. I would be surprised if "swap partition too large" was the reason. My

i would like to know how i can upgrade to the latest kernel on debian squeeze.

2012-05-02 Thread Joey L
I thoiught it would be easy to google - how i can upgrade to the latest kernel on debian squeeze. but apparently it is not as easy as i thought. does anyone have a quick tutorial on how to do this ? thanks mjh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: *URGENT* plz need help system not booting after "lvresize" command

2012-05-02 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Muhammad, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > at least there should be a way to reach the command prompt. is there > any way to ignore this error and reach the command prompt so i can > just copy the necessary data. Probably not, because this error means that accessing whatever is attached to th

Re: ls sorting order change

2012-05-02 Thread Dan B.
Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 01 May 2012 15:10:23 -0400, Dan B. wrote: ... On a fresh Squeeze installation, ls seems to ignore leading "." characters (it no longer lists all "hidden" files adjacent to each other) and to ignore capitalization differences. (...) Can you post a sample of the command

Re: Flashplayer on Debian Squeeze.

2012-05-02 Thread Shane Johnson
On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 12:33 PM, Rob Owens wrote: > On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 02:36:35PM +0100, Lisi wrote: > > Hi, all! > > > > I have been trying to get Flashplayer going on my husband's computer. > When > > the advice on this list and the Debian website failed (as below), i just > > deinstalled

Re: *URGENT* plz need help system not booting after "lvresize" command

2012-05-02 Thread Shane Johnson
On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 12:28 PM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 10:49 PM, Shane Johnson > wrote: > > Muhammad, > > I think we are going to need some mere information please. You mentioned > > that this is on a raid, correct. Is your lvm on top of the raid? Which > > level

Re: ls sorting order change

2012-05-02 Thread Dan B.
Sven Joachim wrote: On 2012-05-01 21:10 +0200, Dan B. wrote: What controls the order that the ls command uses for sorting names? The locale or more specifically, the LC_COLLATE setting. See locale(7). > ... .. LC_COLLATE=C for many years. Thanks. Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to de

Re: ls sorting order change

2012-05-02 Thread Dan B.
Wayne Topa wrote: On 05/01/2012 03:10 PM, Dan B. wrote: What controls the order that the ls command uses for sorting names? ... ... Well man ls says " List information about the FILEs (the current directory by default). Sort entries alphabetically if none of -cftuvSUX nor --sort is specifi

Re: [OT] Mails coming from "joe1assis...@gmail.com"

2012-05-02 Thread Brian
On Wed 02 May 2012 at 11:21:14 -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > On 05/02/2012 10:38 AM, Camaleón wrote: >> The only pattern I have is the sender of the posts :-? and after checking > > > I received one yesterday from "Dan B" with the subject: ls sorting order > change Dab B wasn't the sender. joe1ass

Re: *URGENT* plz need help system not booting after "lvresize" command

2012-05-02 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 11:07 PM, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Wed, 2 May 2012 22:07:14 +0500, Muhammad wrote in message > : > >> i tried every single possibility regarding cables i have 3 HD i tried >> the smaller HDs cable it gives me the same error. > > ..good, means hardware failure.  Try another m

Re: [OT] Mails coming from "joe1assis...@gmail.com"

2012-05-02 Thread Brian
On Wed 02 May 2012 at 14:38:47 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 01 May 2012 19:30:09 +0100, Brian wrote: > > > joe1assistly, surely? > > Yes. This is the "from" line where the name is faked to appear to come > from the list: > > *** > From: "debian-user@lists.debian.org" > *** The software

Re: [OT] Mails coming from "joe1assis...@gmail.com"

2012-05-02 Thread Curt
On 2012-05-02, Indulekha wrote: > > -- > ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ > Indulekha I like your signature, hearts and eighth notes, if music be the food of love, play on... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists

Re: Flashplayer on Debian Squeeze.

2012-05-02 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 02:36:35PM +0100, Lisi wrote: > Hi, all! > > I have been trying to get Flashplayer going on my husband's computer. When > the advice on this list and the Debian website failed (as below), i just > deinstalled the lot and downloaded from the Adobe site. According to the

Re: cpu frequency management opteron lost?

2012-05-02 Thread Curt
On 2012-05-01, Joost Kraaijeveld wrote: > > Running "/etc/init.d/cpufreqd start" just reports: > panoramix:/home/jkr# /etc/init.d/cpufreqd start > Starting CPU Frequency daemon: cpufreqd failed! > On my machine the powernow-k8 module was not getting loaded automatically for some reason. The cpufr

Re: *URGENT* plz need help system not booting after "lvresize" command

2012-05-02 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 2 May 2012 22:07:14 +0500, Muhammad wrote in message : > i tried every single possibility regarding cables i have 3 HD i tried > the smaller HDs cable it gives me the same error. ..good, means hardware failure. Try another machine. > > actually i also installed quota module by modepro

Re: Problem with libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0

2012-05-02 Thread Riley Paxton
On 5/1/12, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2012-05-01 20:42 +0200, Riley Paxton wrote: > >> I'm not sure if I should file a bug report, but I've been reading that >> there may be an error regarding an out-of-date glibc2 or its >> associated libraries, or even some GTK+ libaraies. I'm not sure. >> >> It's

Re: Supermicro SAS controller

2012-05-02 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 02 May 2012 16:19:40 +, Ramon Hofer wrote: > On Wed, 02 May 2012 14:21:36 +, Camaleón wrote: >> Ah, okay. This one: >> >> http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Core/P67/C7P67.cfm >> >> The board has no SAS ports but it features 8 SATA ports (4 SATA2 and 4 >> SATA3), are

Re: *URGENT* plz need help system not booting after "lvresize" command

2012-05-02 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
at least there should be a way to reach the command prompt. is there any way to ignore this error and reach the command prompt so i can just copy the necessary data. Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listm

Re: *URGENT* plz need help system not booting after "lvresize" command

2012-05-02 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
i tried every single possibility regarding cables i have 3 HD i tried the smaller HDs cable it gives me the same error. actually i also installed quota module by modeprobe qutoa_v2 and echo qutoa_V2 >> /etc/moudels in fstab i added the UUID and ursquota keyword to for quota support. and the ne

Re: Exim panics

2012-05-02 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 02/05/12 17:40, Camaleón wrote: I guess you could configure Exim ("dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config") so that listens only at the desired interfaces (i.e., only to localhost ipv4 -127.0.0.1- instead adding localhost ipv6 -::1- addresses). Thanks, everybody, for your answers. Especially this one

Re: *URGENT* plz need help system not booting after "lvresize" command

2012-05-02 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
sorry, if i am miss leading with the error . actually i belive that this must have happen. by the lvresize command. actually every thing was working nice and smooth. here is the quick story. first i ran the command. 1. i resize the old partition "lvresize -L 400GB "VG-NAME with PATH" 2 then i

debian on aacraid controller. - getting lots of errors.

2012-05-02 Thread Joey L
Guys - I posted this earlier and did not get enough options to run down - does anyone have a few more ? I am getting the errors below on an IBM X3650 7979 with Debian Squeeze - with a SerRaid 8K Controller : [ 90.376722] aacraid: Host adapter abort request (0,0,0,0) [ 90.376797] aacraid: Hos

Re: [Apache] "Deny" directives silently ignored in config files [SOLVED]

2012-05-02 Thread Matthieu Moy
Matthieu Moy writes: > I have a server running Apache HTTPD 2.2.16, installed as Debian > package (Debian Squeeze). > > Some time ago, "Deny from XXX" directives were correctly taken into > account, both in .htaccess files and in system-wide configuration files > (/etc/apache2/*). I noticed recen

Re: Exim panics

2012-05-02 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 02 May 2012 10:17:59 +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > On my Squeeze box, I am getting occasional panics from Exim, due to port > 25 being in use. I imagine it's occasionally clashing with Thunderbird: With Thunderbird? :-? > exim paniclog /var/log/exim4/paniclog on tony-lx.magpieway.net

Re: Supermicro SAS controller

2012-05-02 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Tue, 01 May 2012 15:43:13 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 5/1/2012 12:37 PM, Ramon Hofer wrote: > >> I have the RPC-4220 case with 20 howswap slots. > > You should have mentioned this sooner, as there is a better solution > than buying 3 of the 9211-8i, which is $239*3= $717. And you end up

Re: Themes and unreadable text

2012-05-02 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 02 May 2012 08:26:12 +0100, Sharon Kimble wrote: > i'm looking for a theme where the background in konqueror and > tranmission is all white instead of its current > grey/white/grey/white/etc which is difficult for me to read in the grey > bars. The black text just seems to merge into the g

Re: Supermicro SAS controller

2012-05-02 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Wed, 02 May 2012 14:21:36 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 01 May 2012 17:29:17 +, Ramon Hofer wrote: > >> On Tue, 01 May 2012 16:16:07 +, Camaleón wrote: >> >>> What kind of hardware do you have (motherboard brand and model) and >>> what kind of hard disk controller do you need, what

Re: unix tool as precise counter/timer for periodic print/exec

2012-05-02 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi Karl, > Perhaps the sleepenh package will help you? > > Not a solution per se, but possibly a useful building block.. It works perfectly and was exactly what I was looking for! Thanks a lot! In case anybody ever finds this thread later on, this is what I now wrote based on sleepenh which doe

Re: Problems after installing network-manager (possibly because of hal?)

2012-05-02 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 02 May 2012 11:49:17 -0300, Guido Martínez wrote: > I'm running debian 6.0.4 for amd64, with XFCE. I recently installed > network-manager so I could use my Wi-Fi card, this installed hal as a > dependency. Wouldn't have been better to get "wicd" instead? :-? > The Wi-Fi now works prope

Re: [OT] Mails coming from "joe1assis...@gmail.com"

2012-05-02 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 02 May 2012 10:04:36 -0500, Indulekha wrote: > On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 02:50:38PM +, Camaleón wrote: >> > So, do you run leafnode and point it at nntp://news.gmane.org then? >> >> I've never used Leafnode before. Is a NNTP server, right? >> >> Let me take a look: >> >> http://leafn

Re: command history via Web-console.

2012-05-02 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 3:21 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > Hello everyone, > > > I am using few web front end tools in debian and other destros and for > learning purpose i would like to know the command history that has > been ran via Web console. does linux provide any option by which i can >

Re: *URGENT* plz need help system not booting after "lvresize" command

2012-05-02 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Muhammad, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > ata3.01 : status: { DRDY ERR } > ata3.01 : error : { UNC } > ata3.01 : exception emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0 > ata3.01 : BMDMA stat 0x64 > ata3.01 : failed command : read DMA This looks as if either the hard drive or the connection theret

Re: *URGENT* plz need help system not booting after "lvresize" command

2012-05-02 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 08:45:25PM +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > i resize the LV from 300 GB to 400 GB Exactly what command did you type, and what feedback did you get? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact l

*URGENT* plz need help system not booting after "lvresize" command

2012-05-02 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
i resize the LV from 300 GB to 400 GB then i ran the listed commands e2fsck -f /dev/mapper/vg--800-Archive400GB resize2fs -p /dev/mapper/vg--800-Archive400GB now when i reboot the system ata3.01 : status: { DRDY ERR } ata3.01 : error : { UNC } ata3.01 : exception emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0

Re: Debian problem

2012-05-02 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 02 May 2012 19:08:52 +0900, Johan Mazel wrote: > I have a problem with Debian Testing on an Dell Optiplex 960. Can I ask > for some help on this list or should I use another way ? This list is okay but for the next time it would be better if you include a more descriptive subject for th

Re: cpu frequency management opteron lost?

2012-05-02 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 01 May 2012 21:24:19 +0200, Joost Kraaijeveld wrote: > On di, 2012-05-01 at 17:29 +, Camaleón wrote: >> > lsmod: >> > panoramix:/home/jkr# lsmod | grep cpu cpufreq_userspace 12576 0 >> > cpufreq_conservative13147 0 >> > cpufreq_stats 12866 0 >> > cpufreq_powersave

Re: [OT] Mails coming from "joe1assis...@gmail.com"

2012-05-02 Thread Wayne Topa
On 05/02/2012 10:38 AM, Camaleón wrote: The only pattern I have is the sender of the posts :-? and after checking I received one yesterday from "Dan B" with the subject: ls sorting order change The mail agent is shown as "Assist Support Platform" a Winbloz program. Checked my Gmail accoun

Re: unix tool as precise counter/timer for periodic print/exec

2012-05-02 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi Paul, > Use crontab (see man crontab). But as far as I see, cron doesnt do what I want. First of all, it will run as a daemon in the background so there is no way (at least as far as I am aware) to make it output a counter/timer in my terminal. Second, as also mentioned in my initial email,

Re: [OT] Mails coming from "joe1assis...@gmail.com"

2012-05-02 Thread Indulekha
On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 02:50:38PM +, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 01 May 2012 13:01:57 -0500, Indulekha wrote: > > > On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 05:39:15PM +, Camaleón wrote: > >> > >> Blame your mail2news gateway provider then. I don't experience that > >> problem with Gmane :-) > >> > >> Gma

Re: ls sorting order change

2012-05-02 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 01 May 2012 15:10:23 -0400, Dan B. wrote: > What controls the order that the ls command uses for sorting names? >From "man ls" → info coreutils 'ls invocation' anf here it can be read: *** By default, the output is sorted alphabetically, according to the locale settings in effect.(1) If

Re: unix tool as precise counter/timer for periodic print/exec

2012-05-02 Thread Lars Noodén
On 5/2/12 5:33 PM, Paul E Condon wrote: > I think you should be careful to not set the schedule to execute you > job too frequently. This system will launch a new job on schedule, > whether or not the previously launched job has completed. For some > jobs this can cause problems. If you want to do

Re: How do I remove a bad file??

2012-05-02 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20120501_204601, John L. Cunningham wrote: > > On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 06:20:11PM -0500, Dennis Wicks wrote: > > Greetings; > > > > I have a file that looks like the following in an ls list; > > > > -? ? ?? ?? Inbox.msf > > > > I can't do anything with

Re: [OT] Mails coming from "joe1assis...@gmail.com"

2012-05-02 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 01 May 2012 13:01:57 -0500, Indulekha wrote: > On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 05:39:15PM +, Camaleón wrote: >> >> Blame your mail2news gateway provider then. I don't experience that >> problem with Gmane :-) >> >> Gmane also does a good job when it comes to block the spam it reaches >> the

Problems after installing network-manager (possibly because of hal?)

2012-05-02 Thread Guido Martínez
Hi, I'm running debian 6.0.4 for amd64, with XFCE. I recently installed network-manager so I could use my Wi-Fi card, this installed hal as a dependency. The Wi-Fi now works properly but I have two known issues: - The resolution changed from 1280x1024 to 1280x960, and I can't change it back using

Re: [OT] Mails coming from "joe1assis...@gmail.com"

2012-05-02 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 01 May 2012 19:30:09 +0100, Brian wrote: > On Tue 01 May 2012 at 17:52:50 +, Camaleón wrote: >> > I do not understand why Subject: is different from the >> > >> >Re: Install a package from testing? >> > >> > in your mail at >> > >> >http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2012/

Re: unix tool as precise counter/timer for periodic print/exec

2012-05-02 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20120502_102011, Johannes Schauer wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking for a unix tool that does nothing else than increment and > print an integer with a fixed frequency. As a bonus it should be able to > execute a command with a fixed frequency. The special requirement: it > should precise in the int

Re: Supermicro SAS controller

2012-05-02 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 01 May 2012 17:29:17 +, Ramon Hofer wrote: > On Tue, 01 May 2012 16:16:07 +, Camaleón wrote: > >> What kind of hardware do you have (motherboard brand and model) and >> what kind of hard disk controller do you need, what are your >> expectations? >> >> SuperMicro boards (I'm also

Re: W: best way to clone server data using rsync

2012-05-02 Thread Dan Ritter
On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 10:19:42PM +0200, Tuxoholic wrote: > I noticed rsh is not installed, it's linked to > /etc/alternatives/rsh, which is linked to /usr/bin/ssh. > > Calling rsh instead of ssh should avoid file encryption during > transfer, at least that was the intention. That isn't what wil

Re: unix tool as precise counter/timer for periodic print/exec

2012-05-02 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 09:20:11AM +0100, Johannes Schauer wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking for a unix tool that does nothing else than increment and > print an integer with a fixed frequency. As a bonus it should be able to > execute a command with a fixed frequency. The special requirement: it > sho

Re: [OT] Mails coming from "joe1assis...@gmail.com"

2012-05-02 Thread Lisi
On Wednesday 02 May 2012 14:52:57 Indulekha wrote: > post appropriately (not top-posting, being > on-topic, and so forth) if possible, as I'm old and feeble and easily > confused. +1 ;-) Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tro

Re: Swap space not used

2012-05-02 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Lisi, Lisi wrote: > On Wednesday 02 May 2012 12:12:31 Sian Mountbatten wrote: > > As a rule, your swap > > partition should be the same size as your RAM. > > We used to be taught it should be twice as big as your RAM - but even that > wouldn't get you to 40GB!! And, of course, that was i

Re: Flashplayer on Debian Squeeze. (shelve for now)

2012-05-02 Thread Lisi
On Wednesday 02 May 2012 14:36:35 Lisi wrote: > Hi, all! > > I have been trying to get Flashplayer going on my husband's computer. Sorry, all. As I read my own post on the list, I realised that there was at least one more thing that I can try for myself. (I gave up yesterday when I was very t

Re: [OT] Mails coming from "joe1assis...@gmail.com"

2012-05-02 Thread Indulekha
On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 06:29:45PM +0600, Arif Hossain wrote: > I received this joe1 msg once... > Ok, well, that actually has nothing to do with me personally, or with the particular email you replied to, but I'm sorry you received spam. :) Please try to post to the list and post appropriately

Re: Swap space not used

2012-05-02 Thread Lisi
On Wednesday 02 May 2012 12:12:31 Sian Mountbatten wrote: > As a rule, your swap > partition should be the same size as your RAM. We used to be taught it should be twice as big as your RAM - but even that wouldn't get you to 40GB!! And, of course, that was in the days when RAM was tiny by today

Solved, was: Debian GNU/Linux wheezy/sid: aptitude ERROR

2012-05-02 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 02 May 2012 13:00:34 +0200, Csanyi wrote in message <87zk9qetkd@gmail.com>: > Andrei POPESCU writes: > > > On Mi, 02 mai 12, 08:52:26, Csanyi Pal wrote: > > >> today I run aptitude update and get errors: > >> http://paste.debian.net/166950/ > > > > Pastebin for 3 lines? > > > >> A

Flashplayer on Debian Squeeze.

2012-05-02 Thread Lisi
Hi, all! I have been trying to get Flashplayer going on my husband's computer. When the advice on this list and the Debian website failed (as below), i just deinstalled the lot and downloaded from the Adobe site. According to the site, the latest version available for Linux is 11, but I seem

Re: How do I remove a bad file??

2012-05-02 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 2 May 2012 07:04:55 +0200, Jochen wrote in message <20120502050455.ga25...@well-adjusted.de>: > Dennis Wicks: > > Greetings; > > > > I have a file that looks like the following in an ls list; > > > > -? ? ?? ?? Inbox.msf > > > > I can't do anythi

Re: [OT] Mails coming from "joe1assis...@gmail.com"

2012-05-02 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 02 mai 12, 06:38:59, Indulekha wrote: > On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 11:49:00AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > In order to save bandwidth you may want to use IMAP + downloading > > headers only ;) > > > > That *is* what I do, as I said I'm stuck using an absurdly slow dial up > connect

Re: [OT] Mails coming from "joe1assis...@gmail.com"

2012-05-02 Thread Arif Hossain
I received once... On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 5:38 PM, Indulekha wrote: > On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 11:49:00AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: >> On Lu, 30 apr 12, 20:11:36, Indulekha wrote: >> > >> > Ok, so I subscribed the "normal" way, and I'll just periodically purge the >> > mails to avoid waiting fo

Re: networking thru C language

2012-05-02 Thread Alberto Luaces
abdelkader belahcene writes: > Hi, > I am new to  networking  via C language I want to implemente   a command of > nmap > this one ( or another , any one just to see how it works) > > nmap -O -v scanme.nmap.org This is pretty complicated for a begginer in networking; however, I'd suggest to comp

Re: [OT] Mails coming from "joe1assis...@gmail.com"

2012-05-02 Thread Indulekha
On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 11:49:00AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 30 apr 12, 20:11:36, Indulekha wrote: > > > > Ok, so I subscribed the "normal" way, and I'll just periodically purge the > > mails to avoid waiting for 857,000 emails to load over dialup. > > Not sure what you mean, but jus

Re: Swap space not used

2012-05-02 Thread Sian Mountbatten
On 02/05/12 09:00, Bret Busby wrote: Hello. I am running Debian 6. When I installed it, I had a swap partition of about 40GB set up, as is shown by gparted. But, for some strnge reason, Debian 6will not use the swap space, even though gparted shows it to be "Active". Instead of Debian 6 using

Re: Solved: Re: Can't install flashplugin.nonfree. ERROR: wget failed to download

2012-05-02 Thread Indulekha
On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 04:37:16PM +0900, Han Soo Chang wrote: > Thanks for your response. > > Yes, I installed sudo, and edited the confiugration file using visudo. > That was easy. > And I have been using sudo in all the cases where I needed to be root. > I believed that it gives me better secur

Re: Debian GNU/Linux wheezy/sid: aptitude ERROR

2012-05-02 Thread Csanyi Pal
Andrei POPESCU writes: > On Mi, 02 mai 12, 08:52:26, Csanyi Pal wrote: >> today I run aptitude update and get errors: >> http://paste.debian.net/166950/ > > Pastebin for 3 lines? > >> After that I run aptitude safe-upgrade and again, I get errors: >> http://paste.debian.net/166951/ > > I'd say

networking thru C language

2012-05-02 Thread abdelkader belahcene
Hi, I am new to networking via C language I want to implemente a command of nmap this one ( or another , any one just to see how it works) nmap -O -v scanme.nmap.org thanks a lot best regards

Re: unix tool as precise counter/timer for periodic print/exec

2012-05-02 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi Darac, > I'm not entirely sure if such a tool exists, but one thing you will > need to bear in mind is that you will need to make sure you're running > a real-time kernel (apt-cache search linux-image-rt). This will allow > you to run your look with real-time priority. If you don't have > real-

Re: Debian problem

2012-05-02 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 2 May 2012 19:08:52 +0900 Johan Mazel wrote: Hello Johan, > I have a problem with Debian Testing on an Dell Optiplex 960. > Can I ask for some help on this list or should I use another way ? You're in the right place; Ask here, there's bound to be somebody that can help. -- Regards

Re: How do I remove a bad file??

2012-05-02 Thread Tom H
On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 5:16 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 01 mai 12, 19:15:19, Indulekha wrote: >> >> It's always wise to alias "rm" to "rm -i" in your shell. >> Also learned the hard way, when the combination of a killer >> headache and time pressure caused me to delete a bunch of >> things

Re: Debian problem

2012-05-02 Thread Jon Dowland
On 02/05/12 11:08, Johan Mazel wrote: > I have a problem with Debian Testing on an Dell Optiplex 960. > Can I ask for some help on this list or should I use another way ? That's what the list is for. Please make sure use a descriptive subject for the post with your problem in it. Thanks sign

Re: Partman-Auto - Multi-Disk OR Use Existing Layout via Preseed

2012-05-02 Thread Tom H
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 5:22 PM, Matthew Drobnak wrote: > On 05/01/2012 03:06 PM, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: >> On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 01:54:40PM -0400, Tom H wrote: >>> On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 1:41 PM, Matthew Drobnak >>>  wrote: I wish there was an easy way to get the partitioner code fr

Re: [OT] Mails coming from "joe1assis...@gmail.com"

2012-05-02 Thread Tom H
I've now received such an email, in html, in reply to the partman-auto thread, addressed to mdrob...@appnexus.com (the OP) and cc'ing me and amaca...@galactic.demon.co.uk. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas.

Debian problem

2012-05-02 Thread Johan Mazel
Hi I have a problem with Debian Testing on an Dell Optiplex 960. Can I ask for some help on this list or should I use another way ? Regards. Johan Mazel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Exim panics

2012-05-02 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 11:29:19AM +0200, Jochen Spieker wrote: > You need to find out the source of the problem. Do you regularly restart > Exim? In my experience, with the Debian packaging, this is usually caused by exim conflicting with itself. I've never figured the problem out entirely, but

Re: Exim panics

2012-05-02 Thread Brian
On Wed 02 May 2012 at 10:17:59 +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > What would be the preferred way of overcoming this problem? Sorting out what the problem is, I suppose. But on the odd occasion it happens here I just delete paniclog. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.

Re: Debian GNU/Linux wheezy/sid: aptitude ERROR

2012-05-02 Thread Darac Marjal
On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 12:23:24PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Mi, 02 mai 12, 08:52:26, Csanyi Pal wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Setting up fontconfig-config (2.9.0-2) ... > rmdir: failed to remove `/var/lib/defoma/fontconfig.d/': Directory not empty > dpkg: error processing fontconfig-config (--c

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