Chris Bannister writes:
> On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 10:40:24AM +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> on my Debian GNU/Linux SID when I install the
>> linux-image-3.10-2-amd64 package
>>
>> it complains for kernel headers, it can not find.
>
> kernel headers? or do you mean linux-headers?
>
> Ther
On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 11:54 AM, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> On 9/1/13, Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
>>> I'm just going to revert to squeeze, that desktop actually worked.
>>
>> Another vote for xfce. I switched to it quite a while ago, and have
>> been happy since.
>
> I find it adequate; ~8months now; I a
There are a lot of other good (and also lots of bad) DEs, but Xfce4 is
the DE that is most similar to GNOME2 + stable + in official
repositories of Debian and many other distros. I suspect the OP wants
GNOME2, so recommending KDE (a good DE) or recommending Fluxbox and LXDE
(good DEs too) isn't goo
On Sun, 2013-09-01 at 12:54 +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> But gnome apps aren't configuring properly; in particular, in the menu
> bar of gedit (and I've seen it elsewhere I think), all the menus are
> jammed up against each other - no nice spacing between them. Anyone
> know what I ought to inst
On Sat, August 31, 2013 8:14 pm, taz man wrote:
>> - Original Message -
>> From: Joe Pfeiffer
>> Sent: 09/01/13 02:21 AM
>> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>> Subject: Re: Thanks
>>
>> "Thod Motte" writes:
>>
>> > Thanks to debian and Gnome 3 for making my desktop as buggy and
>> unstabl
> - Original Message -
> From: Joe Pfeiffer
> Sent: 09/01/13 02:21 AM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Thanks
>
> "Thod Motte" writes:
>
> > Thanks to debian and Gnome 3 for making my desktop as buggy and unstable as
> > Windows 95 was in 1997 and less
> > customizable.
On 9/1/13, Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
>> I'm just going to revert to squeeze, that desktop actually worked.
>
> Another vote for xfce. I switched to it quite a while ago, and have
> been happy since.
I find it adequate; ~8months now; I am however reasonable with the command line.
I don't like mousepad
"Thod Motte" writes:
> Thanks to debian and Gnome 3 for making my desktop as buggy and unstable as
> Windows 95 was in 1997 and less
> customizable.
>
> I'm just going to revert to squeeze, that desktop actually worked.
Another vote for xfce. I switched to it quite a while ago, and have
been h
On 9/1/13, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> On 9/1/13, Craig L. wrote:
> find /var/lib/postgresql/9.1/backup -mmin -60 -a -iname '*.sql' -printf
> "blah" \
> | xargs cp '{}' /var/data.backup/
That second line should perhaps be
| xargs -n 1 cp '{}' /var/data.backup/
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On 9/1/13, Claudius Hubig wrote:
> Dear Zenaan,
>
> Zenaan Harkness wrote:
>> >From an existing plain xterm, I want this command:
>> uxterm -e /bin/bash -c /usr/bin/screen
>>
>> or eg:
>> uxterm -e /bin/bash -c /bin/sh
>>
>> To result in a nested shell. Basically I want my xterms to open by
>> def
On 9/1/13, Craig L. wrote:
> Thanks Zenaan (and apologies to all for the poor formatting of my original
> post. I forgot this bloody web interface defaults to that. fmt to the
> rescue)
>
> On Saturday, August 31, 2013 11:16, "Zenaan Harkness"
> said:
>
>> On 9/1/13, cr...@gtek.biz wrote:
>>> fi
Brian grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> On Sat 31 Aug 2013 at 14:39:09 -0700, David Guntner wrote:
>
>> So knowing how to get it to avoid that particular partition when probing
>> would be useful. I don't know if there's a better way of doing that
>> than the way suggested by Siard, but it works so
On Sat 31 Aug 2013 at 14:39:09 -0700, David Guntner wrote:
> So knowing how to get it to avoid that particular partition when probing
> would be useful. I don't know if there's a better way of doing that
> than the way suggested by Siard, but it works some I'm happy for now. :-)
There is nothing
Dom grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> On 31/08/13 19:46, David Guntner wrote:
>>
>> I suppose it exists on the partition in a sense, but within the
>> filesystem, it lives as /backup/etc/debian_version. /backup is the only
>> mounted filesystem on /dev/sdb1.
>>
>> There's an actual /etc/debian_versi
Brian grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> On Sat 31 Aug 2013 at 11:28:53 -0700, David Guntner wrote:
>
>> Well, I guess that's the default configuration. *I* didn't tell it
>> anything. :-) Remember, I started this with, "I've used lilo all my
>
> Of course you did! Did someone else issue the comma
Siard grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> David Guntner wrote:
>> I suppose it exists on the partition in a sense, but within the
>> filesystem, it lives as /backup/etc/debian_version. /backup is the
>> only mounted filesystem on /dev/sdb1.
>
> To have os-prober find an OS, that OS does not have to b
Thanks you Gregory and Brian!.
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David Guntner wrote:
> I suppose it exists on the partition in a sense, but within the
> filesystem, it lives as /backup/etc/debian_version. /backup is the
> only mounted filesystem on /dev/sdb1.
To have os-prober find an OS, that OS does not have to be mounted.
If an OS is found in sdb1, it coul
On 2013-08-31 21:15 +0200, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> since 3 weeks I got two new directories, which is looking strange for me.
> These are /lib64 and /libx32. The second one was created by package
> "libc6-x32", but I cannot see the necessary of this libs.
>
> Can someone enlighten m
On 31/08/13 19:46, David Guntner wrote:
Brian grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
On Sat 31 Aug 2013 at 10:59:34 -0700, David Guntner wrote:
Because it makes no sense to me, whatsoever, as to why it would be
pulling in information from areas that are traditionally not booted
from. Like, for example
Hi folks,
since 3 weeks I got two new directories, which is looking strange for me.
These are /lib64 and /libx32. The second one was created by package
"libc6-x32", but I cannot see the necessary of this libs.
Can someone enlighten me, when and why this was installed? Must have been
during an u
On Sat 31 Aug 2013 at 11:28:53 -0700, David Guntner wrote:
> Well, I guess that's the default configuration. *I* didn't tell it
> anything. :-) Remember, I started this with, "I've used lilo all my
Of course you did! Did someone else issue the command 'update-grub'?
What you may mean is that yo
Brian grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> On Sat 31 Aug 2013 at 10:59:34 -0700, David Guntner wrote:
>
>> Because it makes no sense to me, whatsoever, as to why it would be
>> pulling in information from areas that are traditionally not booted
>> from. Like, for example, under /backup. So for me, it
On Sat 31 Aug 2013 at 10:59:34 -0700, David Guntner wrote:
> Because it makes no sense to me, whatsoever, as to why it would be
> pulling in information from areas that are traditionally not booted
> from. Like, for example, under /backup. So for me, it's a mystery.
> There's probably a reason f
Brian grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> On Sat 31 Aug 2013 at 10:08:17 -0700, David Guntner wrote:
>
>> Well, what the heck!
>>
>> I hadn't run the backup since before the upgrade to Wheezy. So after
>> removing the partition and restoring it, then running it (which now
>> backed up my Wheezy syste
Still trying to solve this problem I ran two straces.
strace -f -e trace=open,read /etc/init.d/xdm restart
This trace ends "xdm is not the default manager" after reading
/usr/sbin/xdm from the file /etc/X11/default-display-manager. There is
no file xdm in /usr/sbin/ although xdm is installed.
s
On Sat 31 Aug 2013 at 10:08:17 -0700, David Guntner wrote:
> Well, what the heck!
>
> I hadn't run the backup since before the upgrade to Wheezy. So after
> removing the partition and restoring it, then running it (which now
> backed up my Wheezy system), I got the following when running grub up
Dear Zenaan,
Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> >From an existing plain xterm, I want this command:
> uxterm -e /bin/bash -c /usr/bin/screen
>
> or eg:
> uxterm -e /bin/bash -c /bin/sh
>
> To result in a nested shell. Basically I want my xterms to open by
> default with a screen session (which works fine)
Brian grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> On Sat 31 Aug 2013 at 09:23:40 -0700, David Guntner wrote:
>
>> Well, too late on "before you try that," but I had looked at the
>> partition. None of those files existed on that drive (or partition).
>>
>> I've been using it as a sort of backup type of parti
Thanks Zenaan (and apologies to all for the poor formatting of my original
post. I forgot this bloody web interface defaults to that. fmt to the rescue)
On Saturday, August 31, 2013 11:16, "Zenaan Harkness" said:
> On 9/1/13, cr...@gtek.biz wrote:
>> find the recent file and copy only it. I hav
On Sat 31 Aug 2013 at 09:23:40 -0700, David Guntner wrote:
> Well, too late on "before you try that," but I had looked at the
> partition. None of those files existed on that drive (or partition).
>
> I've been using it as a sort of backup type of partition, mounted as
> /backup (until I have ti
Jeff Bauer grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> On 08/31/2013 12:23 PM, David Guntner wrote:
>> I've been using it as a sort of backup type of partition, mounted as
>> /backup (until I have time to install backuppc and get it all
>> configured; I've just been doing an rsync to the drive). Since I was
>>
Brian grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> On Fri 30 Aug 2013 at 18:10:00 -0700, David Guntner wrote:
>> Grub still seems to think there's Linux on /dev/sdb1. That's
>> aggravating.. I guess I'll just try moving the stuff off of the one
>> and only partition on that drive to somewhere else tempora
On 08/31/2013 12:23 PM, David Guntner wrote:
I've been using it as a sort of backup type of partition, mounted as
/backup (until I have time to install backuppc and get it all
configured; I've just been doing an rsync to the drive). Since I was
backing up *everything*, I suppose there's a possi
On Sat 31 Aug 2013 at 09:57:35 -0500, Mario Castelán Castro wrote:
> >On Fri 30 Aug 2013 at 17:35:04 -0500, Mario Castelán Castro wrote:
> >
> >>The manual page
> >>http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch05s01.html.en#boot-initrd
> >>says that I should download a couple of files depending
Brian grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> On Fri 30 Aug 2013 at 18:10:00 -0700, David Guntner wrote:
>> Grub still seems to think there's Linux on /dev/sdb1. That's
>> aggravating.. I guess I'll just try moving the stuff off of the one
>> and only partition on that drive to somewhere else tempora
>From an existing plain xterm, I want this command:
uxterm -e /bin/bash -c /usr/bin/screen
or eg:
uxterm -e /bin/bash -c /bin/sh
To result in a nested shell. Basically I want my xterms to open by
default with a screen session (which works fine), but I want to be
able to log out of screen with CTR
David Guntner grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
>
> I'm really starting to think it's just something that got stuck in the
> partition table. Now that I think about it, I think when I re-purposed
> that drive, I deleted all partitions except for sdb1 and then just
> resized it to fill the whole drive
On 9/1/13, cr...@gtek.biz wrote:
> find the recent file and copy only it. I have no problem developing that
> find command,
but evidently not quite ...
> but I want to rename the copy in the process by pre-pending
> the file name with the hostname so I can differentiate between dumps from
> diff
Chris Bannister grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 07:58:39PM -0700, David Guntner wrote:
>>
>>> # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb1 bs=512 count=1
>>> 1+0 records in
>>> 1+0 records out
>>> 512 bytes (512 B) copied, 0.000983331 s, 521 kB/s
>>> # update-grub
>>> Generating grub.cfg
On 08/31/2013 04:40 AM, Csanyi Pal wrote:
> Hi,
>
> on my Debian GNU/Linux SID when I install the
> linux-image-3.10-2-amd64 package
>
> it complains for kernel headers, it can not find.
>
> What to do: to install, or not to install linux-image-3.10-2-amd64
> package?
>
> I'm currently running
On 8/31/13, pch0317 wrote:
> Hi List,
>
> I must allow user to access part of filesystem tree of my server
> (/opt/someaplication) - read,write,execute. Remaining part of filesystem
> tree musn't be accessible.
> How I can do this? With ACL?
Just use groups. No need for fancy. Make the user's gro
Richard Owlett wrote:
I'll be installing Debian 7.1 on two unrelated sets of machines.
I have no record of the cpu in any of the machines. Is there a
utility to identify the processors, particularly bus width. All
machines originally ran various 32 bit MS Windows incarnations.
[snip]
The best a
On 2013-08-31, Franco wrote:
>
> So I ask you:
> - Is there a way to 'rebuild' the index file from a .dict.dz one? How?
> - is DICT compatible with Stardict? Is there a quick way of converting
>between them?
>
curty@einstein:~$ apt-cache show dictconv
Description: convert a d
On Fri 30 Aug 2013 at 17:35:04 -0500, Mario Castelán Castro wrote:
The manual page
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch05s01.html.en#boot-initrd
says that I should download a couple of files depending on whether I
want to do a netinstall or use a ISO image on an existing partition.
I
Hello all,
I have a script that runs on different servers that does a daily dump of each
database. I would like to also copy each system's file to the same NFS mounted
system so that I have a local and a remote copy from each system. Obviously I
don't need to copy yesterday's dump again, so I a
Le 29/08/2013 22:37, Kent West a écrit :
On 08/29/2013 09:20 AM, Wayne Topa wrote:
On 08/24/2013 08:51 PM, Michael S. Cox wrote:
On Sat, 2013-08-24 at 07:04 -0400, Jeff Bauer wrote:
Just out of curiosity, any Debian amateur radio operators care to ID?
73,
Jeff, WN1MB
Serge, F6BHK ex-G5BHT
On Sat, 2013-08-31 at 15:45 +0530, Anubhav Yadav wrote:
A little update
When I run java -version I get this output
java version "1.6.0_27"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea6 1.12.6) (6b27-1.12.6-1~deb7u1)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 20.0-b12, mixed mode)
And I just installed a new debian
Franco wrote at 2013-08-31 08:24 -0500:
> I was searching the Internet to find an Italian vocabulary to use with
> `dict`
> - Is there a way to 'rebuild' the index file from a .dict.dz one? How?
> - is DICT compatible with Stardict? Is there a quick way of converting
>between
Hello everybody,
I was searching the Internet to find an Italian vocabulary to use with
`dict` [1]. Aso you might know, `dict` needs two files, a '.dict.dz' one and
an '.index' file.
After a bit of searching, I found a page with an Italian Stardict vocabulary
[2].
Problem is that, once I unz
On Sat, 31 Aug 2013 07:01:42 -0400
"Thod Motte" wrote:
> Thanks to debian and Gnome 3 for making my desktop as buggy and
> unstable as Windows 95 was in 1997 and less customizable.
>
> I'm just going to revert to squeeze, that desktop actually worked.
Instead of shooting the upgrade, how about
On Tuesday 27 August 2013 17:44:56 Harry Putnam wrote:
> But in X using xterm (XTerm(295)), pressing Alt+f inserts a character
> I don't recognize... I hope I can reproduce it here by copy/paste:
>
> `æ'
The ae diphthong.
Lisi
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> Xfce isn't GNOME 2, but it's ok.
Yeah! XFCE is great. Tried it, too, on my netbook. It is fast and well usable.
I also was very pleased with LXDE, which is also very lightweight and highly
usable. In fact, I still could not find a decision, which one is better or
faster. So I did the bst thin
Hi List,
I must allow user to access part of filesystem tree of my server
(/opt/someaplication) - read,write,execute. Remaining part of filesystem
tree musn't be accessible.
How I can do this? With ACL?
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On Fri, 30 Aug 2013 10:08:36 -0400 (EDT), co...@esid.gecgr.co.cu wrote:
>
> I have problem with my serial port
>
> With dmseg | grep tty
>
> [0.004000] console [tty0] enabled
> [1.769854] serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
> [1.770070] serial8250: ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8
On Fri 30 Aug 2013 at 17:35:04 -0500, Mario Castelán Castro wrote:
> The manual page
> http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch05s01.html.en#boot-initrd
> says that I should download a couple of files depending on whether I
> want to do a netinstall or use a ISO image on an existing partiti
On Fri 30 Aug 2013 at 18:10:00 -0700, David Guntner wrote:
> Joe Pfeiffer grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> >
> > The command to do it was
> >
> > $sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdx bs=446 count=1
>
> Seems like a good idea. I tried it, but it doesn't look like it worked:
Doomed to failure. os-p
> On Mon, 26 Aug 2013 05:32:36 -0400 (EDT), antispammbox-debian wrote:
>> Kernel 486 is very old 1999?,
The version of the -486 flavour of the kernel is the same as the other
flavours. It is just built with different options, so that it does not
require features available only on more recent proce
On Sat, 2013-08-31 at 07:01 -0400, Thod Motte wrote:
> Thanks to debian and Gnome 3 for making my desktop as buggy and
> unstable as Windows 95 was in 1997 and less customizable.
>
> I'm just going to revert to squeeze, that desktop actually worked.
Don't! Install Xfce, IMO the best DE that can b
Thanks to debian and Gnome 3 for making my desktop as buggy and unstable as
Windows 95 was in 1997 and less customizable.
I'm just going to revert to squeeze, that desktop actually worked.
Ahoj,
Dňa Fri, 30 Aug 2013 16:47:25 -0500 Hugo Vanwoerkom
napísal:
> To get rid of the clutter and *NEVER* edit grub.cfg, I make
> 30_os-prober in /etc/grub.d non-executable.
Hmm, why this? I do not use the os-prober too, then i uninstall it:
aptitude purge os-prober
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On 30/08/13 19:18, lati...@vcn.bc.ca wrote:
Hello
i hope you can point me to a trusted doc to read, or tell me what to do.
I read a very rude message coming from the exim4's manteiner; mailman does
not have a man page, and the debian.README is not clear enough to catch
the procedure to make mailm
> Can't you just treat it as a normal USB stick?
> e.g.
> Plug it in
> select connect to PC on phone.
> then
> # mount /dev/sdb /mnt
> (get some error msgs)
It gives me this no medium found on /dev/sdb
> then
> # mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt
and this gives me special device /dev/sdb1 does not exist
-
On 29/08/13 13:22, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
On Thu, 2013-08-29 at 12:09 +, Curt wrote:
On 2013-08-29, Chris Bannister wrote:
On another note, would you go to your local beerfest and ramble on about
the dangers of alcohol? or go round to peoples' houses and ramble on
about some dead guy ... oops
Richard Owlett wrote, on 08/29/2013 15:25:
> I'll be installing Debian 7.1 on two unrelated sets of machines. I have no
> record of the cpu in any of the machines. Is there a utility to identify the
> processors, particularly bus width. All machines originally ran various 32 bit
> MS Windows incarn
On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 10:40:24AM +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote:
> Hi,
>
> on my Debian GNU/Linux SID when I install the
> linux-image-3.10-2-amd64 package
>
> it complains for kernel headers, it can not find.
kernel headers? or do you mean linux-headers?
There is:
http://packages.debian.org/sid/lin
On Sat, 2013-08-31 at 19:30 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 07:58:39PM -0700, David Guntner wrote:
> >
> > > # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb1 bs=512 count=1
> > > 1+0 records in
> > > 1+0 records out
> > > 512 bytes (512 B) copied, 0.000983331 s, 521 kB/s
> > > # update-grub
Hi,
on my Debian GNU/Linux SID when I install the
linux-image-3.10-2-amd64 package
it complains for kernel headers, it can not find.
What to do: to install, or not to install linux-image-3.10-2-amd64
package?
I'm currently running linux-image-3.2.0-4-amd64.
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On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 07:58:39PM -0700, David Guntner wrote:
>
> > # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb1 bs=512 count=1
> > 1+0 records in
> > 1+0 records out
> > 512 bytes (512 B) copied, 0.000983331 s, 521 kB/s
> > # update-grub
> > Generating grub.cfg ...
> > Found background image: /usr/share/image
On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 09:40:46PM +0530, Anubhav Yadav wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> I am using an android phone running 4.0.4 ICS and when I connect my
> phone with USB( and select MTP as transfer protocol), it gets mounted on
> linux, but I am able to view very few folders. There are many folders i
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