Re: How to enlarge LUKS partition ?

2012-08-22 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
On 23/08/2012 06:31, Kushal Kumaran wrote: On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 1:49 AM, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: On 21/08/2012 19:22, J. B wrote: [trim] The free space is 10 GB, where the luks partition is 200 GB. I'm eagerly waiting to know the output of your experiment. Ok, I was under the

Re: Logging ISP Download Speed.

2012-08-22 Thread Weaver
> On Mi, 22 aug 12, 13:29:52, Weaver wrote: >> >> Ping: 69 ms >> Download: 27.71 Mb/s >> Upload: 2.28 Mb/s > > Ok, still far away from the advertised 100 Mb/s, but not that bad. Did > you do the test with the recommended server or did you try also other > ones? I tried two and the cross-compariso

Re: [OT] Re: New Mainboard.

2012-08-22 Thread Weaver
> On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 4:25 AM, Weaver wrote: > >> This last I have been trying to do, but the large manufacturers seem to >> be >> somewhat shy about listing what BIOS is available on each board these >> days. > > Once I have short listed the boards I am interested in and are > available in t

Re: Changing to digest form

2012-08-22 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 22 aug 12, 15:16:01, Bob Proulx wrote: > > For me it means that I need to verify that I got the message by the > mailing list too (which always comes later so I usually ignore it for > a while first) and that it wasn't a reply only to me. So I can't just > ignore them. I have to spend eff

Re: Changing to digest form

2012-08-22 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 23 aug 12, 00:46:41, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > I would like to use digest too, if digest isn't broken anymore, please > inform me. If I should reply using a digest and something is technical > broken (not regarding to the content of my idiotic messages ;), then > inform me too. You can alway

Re: Logging ISP Download Speed.

2012-08-22 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 22 aug 12, 13:29:52, Weaver wrote: > > Ping: 69 ms > Download: 27.71 Mb/s > Upload: 2.28 Mb/s Ok, still far away from the advertised 100 Mb/s, but not that bad. Did you do the test with the recommended server or did you try also other ones? Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions

Re: Xen vs KVM

2012-08-22 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
i am using proxmox KVM.. on 3 base servers for more then 2 years. i do migrate, backup and all the process intensive task and every thing. till today i havent found any issue related to stabitliy. once i remeber i havent started my virtual machines for 4 monts,and my base, i never found a reason to

Re: alsa-base breaks linux-sound-base

2012-08-22 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 22:00:03 +0200 Joe wrote: > Has a mixer volume level been reset, the wrong sound card selected, No, the mixer hasn't been changed and I only have the one sound card thanks for your suggestion. -- CK -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: alsa-base breaks linux-sound-base

2012-08-22 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 22:20:01 +0200 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Did you also upgrade from GNOME2 to GNOME3? Perhaps you didn't run > pulseaudio and now you do run pulseaudio? I don't use Gnome or pulseaudio, removed pulseaudio last year. It's a damn mystery. -- CK -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debi

Re: [OT] Re: New Mainboard.

2012-08-22 Thread Andreas Weber
On 2012-08-22 17:03, Camaleón wrote: > Asus used to be in my list but since my good P2B-S and CUV4X (both for > Pentium III) I've only read but problems and issues with their new boards > and Linux. You know, all that fancy "turbo-mega-hyper-silent-green-dual- > bios-fast-recovery" stuff that can

Re: [OT] Re: New Mainboard.

2012-08-22 Thread Arun Khan
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 4:25 AM, Weaver wrote: > This last I have been trying to do, but the large manufacturers seem to be > somewhat shy about listing what BIOS is available on each board these > days. Once I have short listed the boards I am interested in and are available in the market, I do

Re: How to enlarge LUKS partition ?

2012-08-22 Thread Kushal Kumaran
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 1:49 AM, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: >>On 21/08/2012 19:22, J. B wrote: > [trim] > >> The free space is 10 GB, where the luks partition is 200 GB. >> I'm eagerly waiting to know the output of your experiment. >> > > Ok, I was under the impression from your first post th

Re: [SOLVED] Is my processor 32-bit or 64-bit?

2012-08-22 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 22 Aug 2012, Stephen Powell wrote: > Hmm. Well, it appears that CPUIDs are not unique. I've done some more No, indeed they're not. But there is no 64-bit processor with CPUID 0F27h. Fortunately, there are precious few cpuids that are shared by 32 and 64-bit processors. > The CPUID of

Re: [SOLVED] Is my processor 32-bit or 64-bit?

2012-08-22 Thread Stephen Powell
On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 04:41:26 -0400 (EDT), Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 8/21/2012 9:04 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: >> >> Stan, Stan, the hardware man! I knew you'd know! Where did you find >> the information that correlates CPUIDs with processor characteristics? > > Simplicity. Google "CPUID 0F27".

Re: New Mainboard.

2012-08-22 Thread Weaver
> > > > > - Original Message - >> From: Weaver >> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >> Cc: "debian-user@lists.debian.org" >> Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2012 4:08 PM >> Subject: Re: New Mainboard. >> >>> Whether IDE or SATA, you'll get at least two.  I myself prefer, for >> future >>> exp

Re: Hacked .htaccess redirect to htttp://reltime2012.ru/frunleh?9

2012-08-22 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 22 Aug 2012, Dr Beco wrote: > For this system I don't have root access. It is managed abroad by a > "host farm". I already wrote to them to report the (second) problem. I suggest you take your business elsewhere. You don't want to risk your name/site/domain being associated with criminals

Re: New Mainboard.

2012-08-22 Thread Patrick Bartek
- Original Message - > From: Weaver > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Cc: "debian-user@lists.debian.org" > Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2012 4:08 PM > Subject: Re: New Mainboard. > >> Whether IDE or SATA, you'll get at least two.  I myself prefer, for > future >> expansion purposes

Re: Virtualbox 64 bit guest option is missing

2012-08-22 Thread Greg Madden
On Wednesday 22 August 2012 10:21:50 am Artifex Maximus wrote: > Hello! > > Virtualbox on my Wheezy x86_64 is not showing 64 bit for guest and > guest x86_64 OS installer displays CPU mismatch error. My CPU is a > E5200 which does not have VT support. Virtualbox page says "On 64-bit > hosts (whic

Re: Changing to digest form

2012-08-22 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2012-08-22 at 15:16 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > > I hope that this is the correct way to reply. I don't want to > > clutter up Ralf's normal in box with debian messages. > > It looks okay to me. I see no fault with it. Absolutely ok for me! No fault for me either. Some list members take c

Re: Changing to digest form

2012-08-22 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2012-08-22 at 15:04 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Mike McClain wrote: > > Since the digest is broken and the maintainer wouldn't even answer my > > messages I no longer subscribe but will go back to it when I hear it's > > fixed. > > Even though I campaign against digests I think it is la

Re: compressor

2012-08-22 Thread Bob Proulx
Jon Dowland wrote: > Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > Jerome BENOIT wrote: > > > xz: tar Jcf > > > > I'm using a distro that packages with xz. > > > > I'm sure that there never was a big difference between > > "gz: tar zcf" and "bzip2: tar jcf" for the length of the files, but the > > time for packing and

Re: Dual-Monitor help

2012-08-22 Thread Bob Proulx
Nelson Green wrote: > I have a Dell Precision T5500 with dual video cards, and I would > like to have one large screen spread across the two monitors. I usually do this with a single graphics card. So my suggestion might not be useful to you. But... > I am not sure where to start. One thing I h

Re: Hacked .htaccess redirect to htttp://reltime2012.ru/frunleh?9

2012-08-22 Thread Dr Beco
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh, Wed, 22 Aug 2012 16:41:59 -0300: > > If you have root access, try to use chattr to mark that file as > immutable (chattr +i). > > But really, if they keep changing your .htaccess, it means they have > compromised the box, and will remain compromising it until you clean

Dual-Monitor help

2012-08-22 Thread Nelson Green
Good evening all, I have been trying to get a dual monitor set-up working, and am getting no where with this, so it is time to request help. I have a Dell Precision T5500 with dual video cards, and I would like to have one large screen spread across the two monitors. The graphics cards are nVidi

Problems with wlan connection via dhclient in Squeeze

2012-08-22 Thread Astrid Jürgensen
Hi, I recently upgraaded the operating system of my laptop from Debian Lenny to Debian Squeeze. Since then, I have some problems connecting to the internet using dhclient. 1. When I try to set up a wlan connection (wlan0) manually by typing dhclient at a command line, I get no connection and t

Re: Changing to digest form

2012-08-22 Thread Bob Proulx
Gary Roach wrote: > OK, OK > I'm convinced. I'll stay with the normal list. :-) > I just needed to get used to the difference. I am so very used to seeing threaded message discussions that not having those would drive me crazy. > I quit the digest because it broke for me. > This form takes a li

Re: Changing to digest form

2012-08-22 Thread Bob Proulx
Mike McClain wrote: > Since the digest is broken and the maintainer wouldn't even answer my > messages I no longer subscribe but will go back to it when I hear it's > fixed. Even though I campaign against digests I think it is lamentable that it is broken. I know there have been attempts to r

Re: help with packaging (preinst scripts)

2012-08-22 Thread Bob Proulx
David Cho-Lerat wrote: > I've done some RTFM, but can't yet find where the helper > scripts to use in maintainer scripts (preinst/postrm/..) are > described. > > How does one automate the following in the preinst scripts, > for instance : It sounds like you are trying to use a package installatio

etc/cups directory should be owned by group lpadmin, not group lp

2012-08-22 Thread Brian
severity 613142 wishlist thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120822203648.GG5764@desktop

Re: hardware monitoring at the most basic level …

2012-08-22 Thread Brian
On Wed 22 Aug 2012 at 15:18:31 -0400, Albretch Mueller wrote: > How do you get periodic snapshots of your running hardware? I don't usually bother, but a reboot and a glance at dmesg can be enough. > My box started to shutdown by itself and I doubt it is related to > overheating (in a random a

Re: [OT] Re: New Mainboard.

2012-08-22 Thread Weaver
> On Tue, 21 Aug 2012 15:55:01 -0700, Weaver wrote: > >>> On Tue, 21 Aug 2012 04:56:58 -0700, Weaver wrote: > (...) I need recommendations on Micro-ATX boards that will work in with that context. >>> >>> (...) >>> >>> I'd look for either MSI or Gigabyte boards as both brands do high >>>

Re: Logging ISP Download Speed.

2012-08-22 Thread Weaver
> On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 04:39:46 -0700, Weaver wrote: > >>> On Aug 21, 2012, at 6:53 AM, Camaleón wrote: >>> On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 13:37:43 -0700, Weaver wrote: > I regularly log 40-47Kb/s on updates.. Cheers, > >>> And so do we all... > > Rick, careful when quoting... > >> Yes, I u

Re: alsa-base breaks linux-sound-base

2012-08-22 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2012-08-22 at 20:57 +0100, Joe wrote: > On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 00:24:46 -0500 > Charles Kroeger wrote: > > > linux-sound-base gets removed on the upgrade and replaced with > > alsa-base > > > > but no sound. > > > > If linux-sound-base is reinstalled then alsa-base is removed > > > > but

Re: alsa-base breaks linux-sound-base

2012-08-22 Thread Joe
On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 00:24:46 -0500 Charles Kroeger wrote: > linux-sound-base gets removed on the upgrade and replaced with > alsa-base > > but no sound. > > If linux-sound-base is reinstalled then alsa-base is removed > > but still no sound > I don't have an answer to this, but I let it go a

Re: Hacked .htaccess redirect to htttp://reltime2012.ru/frunleh?9

2012-08-22 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 22 Aug 2012, Dr Beco wrote: > Does anyone knows how to protect against unauthorized change of .htaccess? If you have root access, try to use chattr to mark that file as immutable (chattr +i). But really, if they keep changing your .htaccess, it means they have compromised the box, and wil

RE: Display Resolution (SOLVED)

2012-08-22 Thread Nelson Green
Pardon the top-post, but there doesn't seem to a really relevant place to put this. In the end I downloaded the 3.5.1 kernel source code, and used make-kpkg to create a new kernel package. That has completely resolved my display issues, other than the dual monitor. I will pursue that issue sepa

Hacked .htaccess redirect to htttp://reltime2012.ru/frunleh?9

2012-08-22 Thread Dr Beco
Dear debianusers, Does anyone knows how to protect against unauthorized change of .htaccess? I googled the "htttp://reltime2012.ru/frunleh?9 redirect problem" and found out that a lot of sites (mainly using wordpress) got hacked and is redirected to a russian site. One of my sites, that has joom

hardware monitoring at the most basic level …

2012-08-22 Thread Albretch Mueller
How do you get periodic snapshots of your running hardware? ~ My box started to shutdown by itself and I doubt it is related to overheating (in a random and plain physical way) so I changed it for another one because I didn’t have time for troubleshooting/fixing at this moment but then the same t

Re: alsa-base breaks linux-sound-base

2012-08-22 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 17:20:02 +0200 Camaleón wrote: >> On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 00:24:46 -0500, Charles Kroeger wrote: >> linux-sound-base gets removed on the upgrade and replaced with alsa-base > What "upgrade" are you referring to? Sid? Yes, sid, AKA unstable: alsa-base 1.0.25+2+nmu1 > Mmmm, it

Virtualbox 64 bit guest option is missing

2012-08-22 Thread Artifex Maximus
Hello! Virtualbox on my Wheezy x86_64 is not showing 64 bit for guest and guest x86_64 OS installer displays CPU mismatch error. My CPU is a E5200 which does not have VT support. Virtualbox page says "On 64-bit hosts (which typically come with hardware virtualization support), 64-bit guest operati

Re: Changing to digest form

2012-08-22 Thread Mike McClain
On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 04:59:58PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Mike McClain wrote: > > Bob Proulx wrote: > > > People using digests usually don't know how to reply using them and > > > cause a lot of problems. Please don't be the source of problems. > > > Using a digested mailing list is hard! You

Re: compressor

2012-08-22 Thread Gary Dale
On 22/08/12 12:12 PM, lina wrote: On Wednesday 22,August,2012 11:43 PM, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 21:40:36 +0800, lina wrote: Basically which compressor is the most efficient one. Ha, that's like asking "what do clouds smell like"?>:-) I got 2T data, basically won't get a chance t

Re: Re(2): No Sound Card found on Testing Install

2012-08-22 Thread peasthope
* From: peasth...@shaw.ca * Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 12:19:05 -0800 > ... After updating the system and rebooting, Iceweasel produced no sound. ... On further testing, some videos yield sound, others do not. This report appears to be pertinent. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.

Re: compressor

2012-08-22 Thread lina
On Wednesday 22,August,2012 11:43 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 21:40:36 +0800, lina wrote: > >> Basically which compressor is the most efficient one. > > Ha, that's like asking "what do clouds smell like"? >:-) > >> I got 2T data, basically won't get a chance to use in future, but s

Re: compressor

2012-08-22 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 21:40:36 +0800, lina wrote: > Basically which compressor is the most efficient one. Ha, that's like asking "what do clouds smell like"? >:-) > I got 2T data, basically won't get a chance to use in future, but still > need to keep there at least for the next two years just in

Re: Changing to digest form

2012-08-22 Thread Gary Roach
On 08/21/2012 11:26 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Tue, 2012-08-21 at 13:51 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: Camaleón wrote: Gary Roach wrote: I'm presently using the standard form of this mailing list and wish to change to the digest form. If you want to post replies, I woul

Re: alsa-base breaks linux-sound-base

2012-08-22 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 00:24:46 -0500, Charles Kroeger wrote: > linux-sound-base gets removed on the upgrade and replaced with alsa-base What "upgrade" are you referring to? Sid? > but no sound. > > If linux-sound-base is reinstalled then alsa-base is removed > > but still no sound Mmmm, it has

Re: [OT] Re: New Mainboard.

2012-08-22 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 21 Aug 2012 15:55:01 -0700, Weaver wrote: >> On Tue, 21 Aug 2012 04:56:58 -0700, Weaver wrote: (...) >>> I need recommendations on Micro-ATX boards that will work in with that >>> context. >> >> (...) >> >> I'd look for either MSI or Gigabyte boards as both brands do high >> quality produc

Re: compressor

2012-08-22 Thread lina
On Wednesday 22,August,2012 10:50 PM, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 04:24:19PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> On Wed, 2012-08-22 at 16:15 +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote: >>> xz: tar Jcf $ tar --version tar (GNU tar) 1.14 no -J options. On desktop it's tar (GNU tar) 1.26 can support the .

Re: compressor

2012-08-22 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 04:24:19PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Wed, 2012-08-22 at 16:15 +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > > xz: tar Jcf > > I'm using a distro that packages with xz. > > I'm sure that there never was a big difference between > "gz: tar zcf" and "bzip2: tar jcf" for the length of t

Re: problem on 64 bit Debian Squeeze

2012-08-22 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 21 Aug 2012 15:27:50 -0700, Charles Cattell wrote: (...) > Now when I try to install the drivers this is what appears in the > terminal: > > root@debian:/home/barbara# ./lexmark-inkjet-legacy-1.0-1.amd64.deb.sh > Verifying archive integrity... All good. Uncompressing > nixstaller

Re: Icedove 10.0.6-1 or higher not in Wheezy

2012-08-22 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 21 Aug 2012 15:12:15 -0500, Alex Robbins wrote: > A recent Debian Security Advisory [1] warned that the package icedove > had several security issues. These issues were resolved in version > 10.0.6-1 (and a > different version for Squeeze). I notice, however, that while 10.0.6-2 > is ava

Re: compressor

2012-08-22 Thread Jerome BENOIT
On 22/08/12 16:24, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Wed, 2012-08-22 at 16:15 +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote: xz: tar Jcf I'm using a distro that packages with xz. I'm sure that there never was a big difference between "gz: tar zcf" and "bzip2: tar jcf" for the length of the files, that higly depends o

Re: Logging ISP Download Speed.

2012-08-22 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 04:39:46 -0700, Weaver wrote: >> On Aug 21, 2012, at 6:53 AM, Camaleón wrote: >> >>> On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 13:37:43 -0700, Weaver wrote: >>> >>> I regularly log 40-47Kb/s on updates.. Cheers, >> And so do we all... Rick, careful when quoting... > Yes, I understand this,

Re: Redhat marketing campaign going after free Linuxes

2012-08-22 Thread Wilko Fokken
On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 11:17:56AM -0400, shawn wilson wrote: > first, i love statistics - it allows people to say pretty much > whatever they want and sound honest and scientific about it. Statistics are like bikinis: What they unveil is revealing, but what they conceal is pivotal. wwf -- .

Re: compressor

2012-08-22 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2012-08-22 at 16:15 +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > xz: tar Jcf I'm using a distro that packages with xz. I'm sure that there never was a big difference between "gz: tar zcf" and "bzip2: tar jcf" for the length of the files, but the time for packing and unpacking does differ very much. Spea

Re: compressor

2012-08-22 Thread lina
On Wednesday 22,August,2012 10:15 PM, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > gz: tar zcf > bzip2: tar jcf > xz: tar Jcf > So the most efficient one is the .tar.xz one? > > On 22/08/12 16:07, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> PPS: For my needs "tar czf" aka ".tar.gz" is the best way to go. More >> compression doesn't lead t

Re: compressor

2012-08-22 Thread lina
On Wednesday 22,August,2012 09:54 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Wed, 2012-08-22 at 21:40 +0800, lina wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Basically which compressor is the most efficient one. >> >> I got 2T data, basically won't get a chance to use in future, but still >> need to keep there at least for the next two

Re: compressor

2012-08-22 Thread Jerome BENOIT
gz: tar zcf bzip2: tar jcf xz: tar Jcf On 22/08/12 16:07, Ralf Mardorf wrote: PPS: For my needs "tar czf" aka ".tar.gz" is the best way to go. More compression doesn't lead to smaller files, but it takes much more time. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: help with packaging (preinst scripts)

2012-08-22 Thread David Cho-Lerat
Le 22/08/2012 15:42, Roger Leigh a écrit : On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 02:54:44PM +0200, David Cho-Lerat wrote: 3. add/edit some MySQL tables without knowing the MySQL root password I've fooled around with Expect for 1. and 2., and tried mysqld_safe --skip-grant-tables for 3., but I feel lame (

Re: compressor

2012-08-22 Thread Ralf Mardorf
PPS: For my needs "tar czf" aka ".tar.gz" is the best way to go. More compression doesn't lead to smaller files, but it takes much more time. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: h

Re: help with packaging (preinst scripts)

2012-08-22 Thread David Cho-Lerat
Hi David, Hi Denis you can create the user as shown in the exim example. The Admins can login with their normal users (or as root) and can "su" to the user: su - yourusername --shell=/bin/bash see, that's the thing : the Admins of the application set up by this package don't have an accoun

Re: compressor

2012-08-22 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2012-08-22 at 15:54 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Wed, 2012-08-22 at 21:40 +0800, lina wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Basically which compressor is the most efficient one. > > > > I got 2T data, basically won't get a chance to use in future, but still > > need to keep there at least for the nex

Re: compressor

2012-08-22 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2012-08-22 at 21:40 +0800, lina wrote: > Hi, > > Basically which compressor is the most efficient one. > > I got 2T data, basically won't get a chance to use in future, but still > need to keep there at least for the next two years just in case. > > so I tried the xz, but xz not support

Re: help with packaging (preinst scripts)

2012-08-22 Thread David Cho-Lerat
Hi Karl, thanks for your answers Pre-inst? It is quite uncommon do need to do much in the PRE-installation script. Most things end up in the post-installation scripts - e.g. many of the existing packages which create users do so in their post-installation scripts. yes I suppose what is done

Re: help with packaging (preinst scripts)

2012-08-22 Thread Roger Leigh
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 02:54:44PM +0200, David Cho-Lerat wrote: > > 3. add/edit some MySQL tables without knowing the MySQL root password > > I've fooled around with Expect for 1. and 2., and tried > mysqld_safe --skip-grant-tables for 3., but I feel > lame (and I have to have my preinst script

Re: help with packaging (preinst scripts)

2012-08-22 Thread Denis Witt
On 22.08.2012 15:20, David Cho-Lerat wrote: well actually the package will install some software that has to be run by a specific user, and this user has to have a password so that some admins can log into the account for specific tasks, but not every user of the system. Hi David, you can cre

compressor

2012-08-22 Thread lina
Hi, Basically which compressor is the most efficient one. I got 2T data, basically won't get a chance to use in future, but still need to keep there at least for the next two years just in case. so I tried the xz, but xz not support the directory? or maybe I don't know how to compress the direct

Re: help with packaging (preinst scripts)

2012-08-22 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 02:20:35PM +0100, David Cho-Lerat wrote: > Thanks a lot for your answers. > > I know this looks ugly, but don't worry it's not really meant for Debian, > I'm working on our of our company's packages ;) > > > that doesn't > > sound like a great idea. What are you doing? > >

Re: help with packaging (preinst scripts)

2012-08-22 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
Hi On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 01:54:44PM +0100, David Cho-Lerat wrote: > Hi all, > > I've done some RTFM, but can't yet find where the helper > scripts to use in maintainer scripts (preinst/postrm/..) are > described. > > How does one automate the following in the preinst scripts, > for instance :

Re: help with packaging (preinst scripts)

2012-08-22 Thread David Cho-Lerat
Thanks a lot for your answers. I know this looks ugly, but don't worry it's not really meant for Debian, I'm working on our of our company's packages ;) that doesn't sound like a great idea. What are you doing? well actually the package will install some software that has to be run by a s

Re: Joe's autoresponder finally turned off? [was: Re: Fwd: OT: man in the middle attack ?]

2012-08-22 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2012-08-22 at 10:02 -0300, Dr Beco wrote: > From: Andrei POPESCU > Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 08:26:54 +0300 > > > Supposedly the autoresponder is turned off now. Please reply to this if > > you see more of those mails. > > > > Kind regards, > > Andrei > > > Hi Andrei, I share Bob Proulx's

Re: help with packaging (preinst scripts)

2012-08-22 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 02:54:44PM +0200, David Cho-Lerat wrote: > Hi all, > > I've done some RTFM, but can't yet find where the helper > scripts to use in maintainer scripts (preinst/postrm/..) are > described. > > How does one automate the following in the preinst scripts, > for instance : > >

Re: Joe's autoresponder finally turned off? [was: Re: Fwd: OT: man in the middle attack ?]

2012-08-22 Thread Dr Beco
From: Andrei POPESCU Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 08:26:54 +0300 > Supposedly the autoresponder is turned off now. Please reply to this if > you see more of those mails. > > Kind regards, > Andrei Hi Andrei, I share Bob Proulx's comment: " Thank you for pursuing this further." [2] Now this message

help with packaging (preinst scripts)

2012-08-22 Thread David Cho-Lerat
Hi all, I've done some RTFM, but can't yet find where the helper scripts to use in maintainer scripts (preinst/postrm/..) are described. How does one automate the following in the preinst scripts, for instance : 1. create a user *and* set their password 2. ssh-keygen with no user input ("Enter

Re: OT: man in the middle attack ?

2012-08-22 Thread Stephen Allen
On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 10:08:33AM -0300, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > On Ter, 21 Ago 2012, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > >I used sarcasm, but using sarcasm is bad behavior. And I'm not proud > >when I misbehave. > > The problem is that it is not the first time you "misbehave". Nor > the second, or even

Re: Mic. and softphones [was Voice redirection: from mic. to speakers on wheezy laptop].

2012-08-22 Thread Sthu Deus
Good time of the day, Camaleón. You wrote: > > Then, Ekiga - diver versions + other versions of sound software? > > Just ideas. > > Yes, it can be a mix of all them. > > Whatever, I find it very close to a regression but of course to prove > that point I would have to do the same testing in

Re: Logging ISP Download Speed.

2012-08-22 Thread Weaver
> > On Aug 21, 2012, at 6:53 AM, Camaleón wrote: > >> On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 13:37:43 -0700, Weaver wrote: >> >> >>> I regularly log 40-47Kb/s on updates.. Cheers, > > > And so do we all... The problem here is not the network bandwidth, > it's that some parts of the update process have to download a

Re: Nagios shows only one Host (Services)

2012-08-22 Thread Denis Witt
On 21.08.2012 19:27, Camaleón wrote: I can't. I just can say that if I use the file with a name that isn't the last to render it breaks things, but I have no idea why. And I can say that the same config works fine with Squeeze. And the same config also works fine in a second wheezy instance,

Re: sometimes space does not work in knode

2012-08-22 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Am Montag, 13. August 2012 schrieb Kamaraju S Kusumanchi: >> I am using a mixture of stable + testing (Squeeze + Lenny), knode >> version 4.4.11, KDE 4.8.4, > > I hope you aren´t serious or there is a typo in above. In a way that means > that there is no Lenny involve

Re: problem on 64 bit Debian Squeeze

2012-08-22 Thread Lisi
On Tuesday 21 August 2012 23:27:50 Charles Cattell wrote: > I am running Debian Squeeze on several computers. > One is a 64 bit machine. > After changing from Debian Lenny to Squeeze I have a problem > with installing drivers and software for a Lexmark printer. > This printer worked fine with Lenny

Re: trying to umount a chroot /dev

2012-08-22 Thread Roger Leigh
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 03:41:50AM -0400, Tom H wrote: > On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 10:21 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > > Ross Boylan wrote: > >> > >> I setup a chroot on a snapshot. Part of the setup was > >> mount --rbind /dev /mnt/chrtest/dev > > > > Why did you choose "rbind" over "bind". Just curiou

[SOLVED] df and du don't seem to agree ?

2012-08-22 Thread David Cho-Lerat
a restart of the ProFTPD daemon reduced the amount of used space on /var from 90% to 34%. Phew ! Thanks all for your help, this is one command I'll definitely use again : lsof | grep "deleted" Le 22/08/2012 10:13, David Cho-Lerat a écrit : Google returns: http://superuser.com/questions/289

Re: trying to umount a chroot /dev

2012-08-22 Thread Roger Leigh
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 01:00:22AM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > On Wed, 2012-08-22 at 08:40 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 06:46:35PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > > > I setup a chroot on a snapshot. Part of the setup was > > > mount --rbind /dev /mnt/chrtest/dev > > > > > > I

Re: [SOLVED] Is my processor 32-bit or 64-bit?

2012-08-22 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 8/21/2012 9:04 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Tue, 21 Aug 2012 04:18:52 -0400 (EDT), Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> >> Yep. CPUID 0F27 makes this CPU a Prestonia Xeon, 130nm, in essence a >> Northwood P4, the only difference being the model#, CPUID, and branding. >> Intel introduced EM64T (x86-64) wit

Re: df and du don't seem to agree ?

2012-08-22 Thread David Cho-Lerat
I will also mention the GNU faq entry for it. Perhaps then it will rank higher in the search engine space. :-) http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/#df-and-du-report-different-information thanks, I will send this link to the sysadmin. When I want to free up disk space used in

Re: df and du don't seem to agree ?

2012-08-22 Thread Bob Proulx
David Cho-Lerat wrote: > >Google returns: > >http://superuser.com/questions/289678/du-vs-df-output I will also mention the GNU faq entry for it. Perhaps then it will rank higher in the search engine space. :-) http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/#df-and-du-report-different-information

Re: df and du don't seem to agree ?

2012-08-22 Thread David Cho-Lerat
tune2fs -l /dev/md0 | grep "Reserved block count" Sorry, I forgot to mention that the result will be in Blocks. You can get the block size (in Bytes) with: tune2fs -l /dev/md0 | grep "Block size" Bye. cool. So : server:~# tune2fs -l /dev/mapper/vg00-var | grep "Reserved block count" Res

Re: df and du don't seem to agree ?

2012-08-22 Thread David Cho-Lerat
Google returns: http://superuser.com/questions/289678/du-vs-df-output oops, should have had a look :P this pointed me to : server:~# lsof | grep "/var" | grep "deleted" smbd 2926 root2w REG 254,1 2665 65406 /var/log/samba/log.smbd.1 (deleted) smbd

Re: trying to umount a chroot /dev

2012-08-22 Thread Ross Boylan
On Wed, 2012-08-22 at 08:40 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 06:46:35PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > > I setup a chroot on a snapshot. Part of the setup was > > mount --rbind /dev /mnt/chrtest/dev > > > > I have exited the chroot and, I believe, ended the processes I started. >

Re: trying to umount a chroot /dev

2012-08-22 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 10:21 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > Ross Boylan wrote: >> >> I setup a chroot on a snapshot. Part of the setup was >> mount --rbind /dev /mnt/chrtest/dev > > Why did you choose "rbind" over "bind". Just curious. The advantage of using "rbind" is that you don't have to mount "/

Re: trying to umount a chroot /dev

2012-08-22 Thread Roger Leigh
On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 06:46:35PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > I setup a chroot on a snapshot. Part of the setup was > mount --rbind /dev /mnt/chrtest/dev > > I have exited the chroot and, I believe, ended the processes I started. > umount /mnt/chrtest/dev > gives umount: /mnt/chrtest/dev: device

Re: Problems with printing/scanning on Squeeze on a Lexmark aio

2012-08-22 Thread Lisi
On Wednesday 22 August 2012 03:01:31 Chris Bannister wrote: > On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 08:42:16AM +0100, Lisi wrote: > > This is a cross-post.  I posted to the Trinity list several days ago.  It > > In that case its more correctly referred as a multipost. A crosspost is > when you cc/to more than on

Re: trying to umount a chroot /dev

2012-08-22 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 9:46 PM, Ross Boylan wrote: > > I setup a chroot on a snapshot. Part of the setup was > mount --rbind /dev /mnt/chrtest/dev > > I have exited the chroot and, I believe, ended the processes I started. > umount /mnt/chrtest/dev > gives umount: /mnt/chrtest/dev: device is bus

Re: trying to umount a chroot /dev

2012-08-22 Thread Ross Boylan
On Tue, 2012-08-21 at 23:20 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > > Try using the umount -l option for a lazy unmount. Might work. Might > not work. If it doesn't then I think you need to reboot. Kind of works. umount -l /mnt/chrtest/dev no error messages. And it's no longer listed in /proc/mounts Despite