Re: rtorrent on low_disk_space.

2012-10-05 Thread Sthu Deus
Good time of the day, Chris. Thank You for Your time and answer. You wrote: > > > I have: > > > schedule = low_diskspace,5,60,close_low_diskspace=10M > > > > Does it work for You - meaning if You have 11 MB free space - does > > it down load still? > I was tight on space at one stage, and the

Re: rtorrent on low_disk_space.

2012-10-05 Thread Sthu Deus
Good time of the day, Artifex. Thank You for Your time and answer. You wrote: > I think you need registration there. I can not find the list! May, You know one? > > I have really low space but: > > > > 1. rtorrent prelocates torrents - therefore, torrents can be and > > really are downloaded e

dynamic IP assignment on servers = brain damage

2012-10-05 Thread Stan Hoeppner
This thread reinforces what experienced server admins round the world have known forever: DO NOT USE dynamic network address assignment on servers. The problem in this thread is but one of many that can/will result from using dynamic IP assignment with servers. If the OP had mentioned his use of

Re: Current user friendly documentation of Debian repository structure and use???

2012-10-05 Thread Richard Owlett
songbird wrote: Richard Owlett wrote: ... ages ago i used a straight copy from the DVDs for lenny to set up what sounds like what you want to do. get a copy of the DVDs onto a faster hard drive. wish i had perfect memory, but i think i just used a simple recursive copy cp -ra [src] [targ

Re: Current user friendly documentation of Debian repository structure and use???

2012-10-05 Thread songbird
Richard Owlett wrote: ... ages ago i used a straight copy from the DVDs for lenny to set up what sounds like what you want to do. get a copy of the DVDs onto a faster hard drive. wish i had perfect memory, but i think i just used a simple recursive copy cp -ra [src] [target] if you have U

Re: retrieving a multi-media file

2012-10-05 Thread Jude DaShiell
Right, because those are actually directories. Same thing happens with lynx. After the click though in order to download anything you first have to log in. On Sat, 6 Oct 2012, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Thu, Oct 04, 2012 at 07:58:06AM -0800, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > > Any ideas of how to r

Re: Hash for netinst.iso file

2012-10-05 Thread Wally Lepore
>> On Friday 05 October 2012 20:58:01 Wally Lepore wrote: >> >> May I kindly suggest that Debian provide the "hash code" at the >> location same where the user downloads the netinst.iso file? >> > On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 5:21 PM, Lisi wrote: > > It usually is. In fact, when I downloaded that very

Debian Small CD install "netinst.iso"

2012-10-05 Thread Wally Lepore
Hi Members, I just downloaded the Debian netinst.iso file called debian-6.0.6-i386-netinst.iso. The file is only 191 MB because it installs the most basic Debian system. I then acquire the rest via the internet. I was reading the install instructions here: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i3

Re: Hash for netinst.iso file

2012-10-05 Thread Wally Lepore
On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 4:43 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: >> >> Go to http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0.6/multi-arch/iso-cd/ . >> Chose your preferred flavor. >> Hi Richard, I believe that link was for a different file than what I downloaded. My iso file is for i386 32bit not AMD_64. Thank you k

Re: Hash for netinst.iso file

2012-10-05 Thread Wally Lepore
> On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 4:41 PM, Johan Grönqvist wrote: >> >> I do not find them there either, so I can not help you with that CD. >> > Hi Johan.. to kindly clarify, I was searching for the hash for the "downloaded iso file". Not the install CD. Thank you for helping Johan. I found it here: http

Re: Hash for netinst.iso file

2012-10-05 Thread Lisi
On Friday 05 October 2012 20:58:01 Wally Lepore wrote: > May I kindly suggest that Debian provide the "hash code" at the > location same where the user downloads the netinst.iso file? or > perhaps there is a reason for not doing so that I am not aware. It usually is. In fact, when I downloaded th

Re: Trying to install a package on a Lenny system : what url do I need on my sources.list ?

2012-10-05 Thread Bernard
Brian wrote: On Wed 03 Oct 2012 at 19:23:52 +0200, Bernard wrote: I still have an old Lenny system on which I wish to install the 'testdisk' package. 'apt-get install' says that it cannot get the necessary files. I know that Lenny is no longer maintained, but I suppose that there is a repo

Re: Hash for netinst.iso file

2012-10-05 Thread Richard Owlett
Wally Lepore wrote: Hi I've downloaded debian-6.0.6-i386-netinst.iso and would like to verify the download. Can anyone please point the way to the "hash" code to verify? I read the FAQ located at: Start at Home Page: Getting Debian --> Download a small installation image --> Installing Debian

Re: Hash for netinst.iso file

2012-10-05 Thread Johan Grönqvist
2012-10-05 21:58, Wally Lepore skrev: I've downloaded debian-6.0.6-i386-netinst.iso and would like to verify the download. Can anyone please point the way to the "hash" code to verify? I do not find them there either, so I can not help you with that CD. When I looked at the links for the stan

Re: Re (2): retrieving a multi-media file

2012-10-05 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Oct 05, 2012 at 10:36:42AM -0800, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > From: Chris Bannister > Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2012 05:55:41 +1300 > > ... but something still seems amiss. If you, or anybody else for that mattter, solves the rtmpdump incantation - could you post the correct incantation as a follow

Re: rtorrent on low_disk_space.

2012-10-05 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Oct 06, 2012 at 12:39:05AM +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: > Good time of the day, Chris. > > > Thank You for Your time and answer. > You wrote: > > > I have: > > schedule = low_diskspace,5,60,close_low_diskspace=10M > > Does it work for You - meaning if You have 11 MB free space - does it > do

Hash for netinst.iso file

2012-10-05 Thread Wally Lepore
Hi I've downloaded debian-6.0.6-i386-netinst.iso and would like to verify the download. Can anyone please point the way to the "hash" code to verify? I read the FAQ located at: Start at Home Page: Getting Debian --> Download a small installation image --> Installing Debian via the Internet --> t

Re: Current user friendly documentation of Debian repository structure and use???

2012-10-05 Thread Richard Owlett
Rob Owens wrote: On Wed, Oct 03, 2012 at 01:22:21PM +, Russell L. Harris wrote: * Richard Owlett [121003 12:42]: My end goal is to search out a script that will place the contents of the 8 DVD set of Debian 6.0.5 on a hard drive in such a way that the hard disk can be accessed by apt-get.

Re: does iceweasel have java plugin?

2012-10-05 Thread Steve Kleene
On Thu, 4 Oct 2012, I wrote: >> Using iceweasel, I am failing to connect to my university's VPN website. >> This was working a few years ago. There's a point when the site tries to >> install Jupiter Network Connect. All I get at that point now is an error: >> "JRE not installed/Java is disable

Persistent MySQL Process

2012-10-05 Thread Daniel Latter
Hi All, System: cat /etc/issue Debian GNU/Linux 6.0 I have a long running MySQL process that runs for days and eventually crashes the server. I googled about and discovered that Debian has it's own MySQL start up script that runs a  "check tables" command, so I commented this out and restarted

Re: rtorrent on low_disk_space.

2012-10-05 Thread Artifex Maximus
On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 12:20 PM, Sthu Deus wrote: >> Better to ask similar question on rtorrent list I think. How much free > > OK. I will try unless registration is needed. Otherwise we will wait, > may somebody knows the trick. I think you need registration there. >> space do you have when rto

Re: rtorrent on low_disk_space.

2012-10-05 Thread Sthu Deus
Good time of the day, Chris. Thank You for Your time and answer. You wrote: > I have: > schedule = low_diskspace,5,60,close_low_diskspace=10M Does it work for You - meaning if You have 11 MB free space - does it down load still? > Examples on google. Which examples?! Sthu. -- To UNSUBSCR

Re (2): retrieving a multi-media file

2012-10-05 Thread peasthope
From: Chris Bannister Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2012 05:55:41 +1300 > ... but something still seems amiss. Thanks Darac & Chris.... Peter E. -- 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 12 Tel +13606390202 Bcc: peasthope at shaw.ca http://carnot.yi.org/

Re: rtorrent on low_disk_space.

2012-10-05 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Oct 04, 2012 at 11:05:02PM +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: > Good time of the day. > > > I can not configure rtorrent to close on low disk space - it just > closes on start after several seconds. In > > ~/.rtorrent.rc > > I have: > > schedule = watch_low_diskspace,300,1200,close_low_diskspace

Re: retrieving a multi-media file

2012-10-05 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Oct 04, 2012 at 07:58:06AM -0800, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > Any ideas of how to retrieve a multi-media file from here? > http://www.tlcentre.sfu.ca/archive/convocation/2012/ > A click on the first link makes Iceweasel show the directory, > http://www.tlcentre.sfu.ca/archive/convocation/20

Re: apache2's handling of IP version 6

2012-10-05 Thread Satoru Otsubo
Hi, I'm initiator of this thread. > On Thu, Oct 04, 2012 at 04:53:23AM +0900, Satoru Otsubo wrote: > > Syntax error on line 2 of /etc/apache2/ports.conf > > What about this syntax error? Syntax error on line 2 is the following: Listen [:::]:80 By the way, I

Re: Squeeze point release broke keyboard and mouse

2012-10-05 Thread Dimitris Papageorgiou
Στις 25/04/2007 06:29 μμ, ο/η geoff έγραψε: Hoping someone can steer me in the right direction. The most recent point release went into my system on Sunday. Upon rebooting the keyboard and mouse are inactive. The mouse is usb, and can be activated by unplugging and plugging it back in. The key

Re: rdiff-backup code quality

2012-10-05 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 05 Oct 2012 09:43:24 +0200 Alberto Luaces wrote: > Celejar writes: > > > A long-time, reasonably happy rsnapshot user, I decided to give > > rdiff-backup a whirl, in part due to its recent endorsements on this > > list, and promptly ran into this: > > > > http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/

Re: Core dump problem

2012-10-05 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
Hi On Fri, Oct 05, 2012 at 03:18:54PM +0100, Julien Groselle wrote: > Hello Debian users, > > I want enable core dump on a debian squeeze server. > So I have downloaded the source code of kernel (2.6.32) and i have activate > this options : > > CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE=y > > CONFIG_KEXEC=y > > CONFI

Core dump problem

2012-10-05 Thread Julien Groselle
Hello Debian users, I want enable core dump on a debian squeeze server. So I have downloaded the source code of kernel (2.6.32) and i have activate this options : CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE=y CONFIG_KEXEC=y CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP=y CONFIG_KEXEC_JUMP=y Compilation was successful, but i can't u

Re: rdiff-backup code quality

2012-10-05 Thread Miles Fidelman
Alberto Luaces wrote: Celejar writes: A long-time, reasonably happy rsnapshot user, I decided to give rdiff-backup a whirl, in part due to its recent endorsements on this list, and promptly ran into this: http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?29808 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=6

Re: Exim4 behaviour when long term failure of outgoing address

2012-10-05 Thread lee
Alan Chandler writes: > Anyone any idea what is happening - and how I can change the > configuration of exim to tell me when mail, like the above, is being > refused. It's rather difficult to figure out what's going on without knowing how your exim is configured. Set up a DNS server first, then

Re: can multiarch break my system?

2012-10-05 Thread lee
Brad Rogers writes: > On Wed, 03 Oct 2012 20:14:51 +0200 > lee wrote: > > Hello lee, > >>Wine? I tried that a few years ago and it couldn't even run notepad > > And, of course, since then, they've not done *any* development of it. > It's stuck in a bubble, untouched, unloved, unchanged. So, yo

Re: Re (5): names for sound devices

2012-10-05 Thread lee
peasth...@shaw.ca writes: > From: lee >> Alsa sucks. It's ridiculously difficult and more or less impossible to >> configure and to figure out why things don't work. > > Compared to Shorewall for example, which is superbly documented > and works as the documents describe. On the other hand, al

ROops? was Squeeze point release broke keyboard and mouse

2012-10-05 Thread Karen Lewellen
y sorry! too many list, too much email, and too little coffee! Karen On Fri, 5 Oct 2012, Karen Lewellen wrote: hi, was that a typo below, as in 2 tb? Indeed Dr dos does have an approximately 2 gb limit for the primary dos partition. this dell laptop has a disk size of about 8 gig, so we parti

Re: Squeeze point release broke keyboard and mouse

2012-10-05 Thread Karen Lewellen
hi, was that a typo below, as in 2 tb? Indeed Dr dos does have an approximately 2 gb limit for the primary dos partition. this dell laptop has a disk size of about 8 gig, so we partitioned the rest into amounts smaller than 3 gig, since my best understanding is that it can swing 4 gig. Howe

Re: apache2's handling of IP version 6

2012-10-05 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 10/4/2012 12:06 PM, Tom H wrote: > On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 7:23 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> On 10/4/2012 3:46 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: >>> On Oct 3, 2012, at 8:40 PM, Satoru Otsubo wrote: But the phenomena are same, that is, When booting my PC, apache2 failed to start. And when

Re: rtorrent on low_disk_space.

2012-10-05 Thread Sthu Deus
Good time of the day, Artifex. Thank You for Your time and answer. You wrote: > Better to ask similar question on rtorrent list I think. How much free OK. I will try unless registration is needed. Otherwise we will wait, may somebody knows the trick. > space do you have when rtorrent stops? I

Re: apache2's handling of IP version 6

2012-10-05 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Oct 04, 2012 at 04:53:23AM +0900, Satoru Otsubo wrote: > Syntax error on line 2 of /etc/apache2/ports.conf What about this syntax error? -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.

Gnome problem on Wheezy

2012-10-05 Thread Artifex Maximus
Hello! I have a problem with my Gnome 3 on Wheezy latest at system start. Sometimes my Gnome does not come up just stops in middle of loading. Seeing no Activities menu, not my name and network icon is red crossed. System does not react to my mouse clicks. If I switch to a terminal with Ctrl-Alt-F

Re: rtorrent on low_disk_space.

2012-10-05 Thread Artifex Maximus
On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 6:05 PM, Sthu Deus wrote: > I can not configure rtorrent to close on low disk space - it just > closes on start after several seconds. In > > schedule = watch_low_diskspace,300,1200,close_low_diskspace=1 Better to ask similar question on rtorrent list I think. How much free

Exim4 behaviour when long term failure of outgoing address

2012-10-05 Thread Alan Chandler
I am using Debian Squeeze on a virtual machine that I lease. It has exim4 (light) version as its mail server. - its name is avalon.hartley-consultants.com I have been trying to send mail to a mail address where the server is refusing connections (incorrectly - but that is another story). E

Re: rdiff-backup code quality

2012-10-05 Thread Alberto Luaces
Celejar writes: > A long-time, reasonably happy rsnapshot user, I decided to give > rdiff-backup a whirl, in part due to its recent endorsements on this > list, and promptly ran into this: > > http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?29808 > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=623336 > > > >