Re: using `myscript.sh` to change current env

2013-09-06 Thread der.hans
Am 07. Sep, 2013 schwätzte Zenaan Harkness so: moin moin Zenaan, Rather than all the convolutions of command substitution, how about just using a function that's in your profile or bashrc? $ cat /tmp/bashrc function changeps() { export PS1=': ' } $ . /tmp/bashrc $ changeps : Add a

Re: How many packages in Sid

2013-09-06 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 10:52:48PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Thu, 2013-09-05 at 22:16 +0200, sp113438 wrote: > > How do I find out the number of packages currently in Sid? > > This doesn't give any information about the quantity of software > available from upstream, Which is not what the

Re: using `myscript.sh` to change current env

2013-09-06 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 9/7/13, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > So I thought, run the script in a subshell, executing the result, like: > $ `ps1` > > The following 3-line script is meant to test exactly this: > > #!/bin/bash > PS1=': ' > echo "export PS1=$PS1" When I change the last line to this: echo "export PS1=\"${PS1}

Re: Re: tri-boot debian, debian-without-dm, and windows with newer debian using partitions from older debian?

2013-09-06 Thread Brian
On Fri 06 Sep 2013 at 13:56:01 -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote: > On Fri, Sep 06, 2013 at 10:36:12AM -0400, Tom H wrote: > > If you append "text" to the kernel commandline, you'll boot into text > > mode, similar to an RH-based runlevel 3. > > I stand corrected. I did some research, and there does in

using `myscript.sh` to change current env

2013-09-06 Thread Zenaan Harkness
I want to have a script, to change between a few prompts per the arg supplied. This is so I can quickly change from my glorious bells-and-whistles prompt to a plain prompt (eg for cut and paste to debian-user, just "$ " or "# " depending on current user) to a timestamped prompt (when I have some lo

Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Intel processor microcode security update

2013-09-06 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Henrique de Moraes Holschuh [2013-09-03 09:05 -0300]: [...] > You must also update the initramfs so that the processor microcode will be > updated after a reboot/power off. The packages will try to do it > automatically for the running kernel and that should be enough for most > users. > > Ho

Re: Ownership of pluggable devices.

2013-09-06 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 9/7/13, Gregory Nowak wrote: > On Fri, Sep 06, 2013 at 07:28:46PM +0400, recovery...@gmail.com wrote: >> Take two different hosts, make user with the same name, but different >> uids on those hosts. >> >> Take USB stick, format it as ext2 (any filesystem keeping file >> permissions will do, act

Re: Re: Reg: Error in apt-get install in libstdc++ package

2013-09-06 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 07:37:03PM +0530, Balamurugan wrote: > I tried 'apt-get update' but didn't tried 'apt-get dist-upgrade'. I > have simply installed the Debian 7.0(Wheezy), imported the debian > repositories near to india and just ran the below: > > apt-get update > apt-get install libstdc++

Re: Re: tri-boot debian, debian-without-dm, and windows with newer debian using partitions from older debian?

2013-09-06 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Fri, Sep 06, 2013 at 10:36:12AM -0400, Tom H wrote: > If you append "text" to the kernel commandline, you'll boot into text > mode, similar to an RH-based runlevel 3. I stand corrected. I did some research, and there does in fact appear to be a text mode in debian per the text boot option. Apol

Re: rename ttyS*

2013-09-06 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 06 Sep 2013 09:20:08 -0400 (EDT), Josh Stephens wrote: > > You could look at using a udev rule to do the mapping for you. (Sigh). Replying to Cosme's posts are a waste of time. He is from Cuba. And his government blocks in-coming e-mails from outside Cuba. And either the Debian mailin

Re: How many packages in Sid

2013-09-06 Thread Curt
On 2013-09-06, sp113438 wrote: > Thanks! > > Synaptics says I have 41313 packages ready to install on my Sid system > which I updated today. Of the 41,313 packages that Mrs. Synaptics (whose she, anyway?) says you have ready to install, how many are you planning on using? I must lack intellectua

Identifying CPU

2013-09-06 Thread shirish शिरीष
cpuid is the best if you are looking for any sort of detailed info. See http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=106956 for details. -- Regards, Shirish Agarwal शिरीष अग्रवाल My quotes in this email licensed under CC 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ h

Re: Identifying CPU

2013-09-06 Thread Danilo Sampaio
great tool! On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 5:47 PM, shirish शिरीष wrote: > cpuid is the best if you are looking for any sort of detailed info. > > See http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=106956 for details. > -- > Regards, > Shirish Agarwal शिरीष अग्रवाल > My quotes in

Re: Ownership of pluggable devices.

2013-09-06 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Fri, Sep 06, 2013 at 07:28:46PM +0400, recovery...@gmail.com wrote: > Take two different hosts, make user with the same name, but different > uids on those hosts. > > Take USB stick, format it as ext2 (any filesystem keeping file > permissions will do, actually). > > Now, move some files with

Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Intel processor microcode security update

2013-09-06 Thread shirish शिरीष
Dear Henrique de Moraes Holschuh and all, Sorry for being late to the party. I installed Debian about a month ago. Would installing the intel processor microcode package and the icu-tools have any benefit to me ? cpuid -1 | grep 'Intel Pentium' family = Intel Pentium Pro/II/III/C

Re: how to remove libaudit0 and install libaudit1?

2013-09-06 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-09-06 22:30 +0200, shirish शिरीष wrote: > I'm on debian-testing and recently libaudit1 entered testing and I'm > able to upgrade to it due to some issues. > > See :- > > $ sudo aptitude full-upgrade Personally I find full-upgrade unnecessary and only use safe-upgrade. > The following NEW

Re: how to remove libaudit0 and install libaudit1?

2013-09-06 Thread shirish शिरीष
addition at bottom :- On 9/7/13, shirish शिरीष wrote: > Hi all, > I'm on debian-testing and recently libaudit1 entered testing and I'm > able to upgrade to it due to some issues. > > See :- > > $ sudo aptitude full-upgrade > The following NEW packages will be installed: > libaudit-common{ab} li

how to remove libaudit0 and install libaudit1?

2013-09-06 Thread shirish शिरीष
Hi all, I'm on debian-testing and recently libaudit1 entered testing and I'm able to upgrade to it due to some issues. See :- $ sudo aptitude full-upgrade The following NEW packages will be installed: libaudit-common{ab} libaudit1{a} The following packages will be upgraded: gdm3 libpam-system

Re: Re: Re: Cannot view all my android folders in nautilus after mounting android as MTP

2013-09-06 Thread Anubhav Yadav
Have used airdroid before! I don't have a wifi connection always, and airdroid 2 update messed the app for me! Anyways thanks for the help! :) -- Regards, Anubhav Yadav, Computer Engineering Final Year Student, Imperial College of Engineering and Research, Pune. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re (2): Ownership of pluggable devices.

2013-09-06 Thread peasthope
From: recovery...@gmail.com Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2013 00:34:05 +0400 > chown -R peter /home/peter/MY ... after more cogitating. udisks-glue is interesting but, if a device is to belong to one user, ownership should be set by root immediately after formatting. Eg. mkfs.ext2 -b 4096 -L MY /d

Re: Re (2): Ownership of pluggable devices.

2013-09-06 Thread recoverym4n
On Fri, 6 Sep 2013 08:28:23 -0700 peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > I've studied this note, installed udisks-glue and modified udisks-glue.conf > as described. > http://goshawknest.wordpress.com/2013/02/21/how-to-make-usb-disks-readable-by-all-users-on-raspbmc/ > > Also noticed this. > root@dalton:/e

Re (2): Ownership of pluggable devices.

2013-09-06 Thread peasthope
From: recovery...@gmail.com Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2013 00:34:05 +0400 > > /dev/KingstonUSB /home/peter/MY ext2 defaults,noauto,user 0 0 > > This line is the reason. > ... Thanks for the detailed explanation. I've studied this note, installed udisks-glue and modified udisks-glue.conf

Re: Ownership of pluggable devices.

2013-09-06 Thread recoverym4n
On Thu, 5 Sep 2013 20:07:44 -0700 Gregory Nowak wrote: > On Fri, Sep 06, 2013 at 12:34:05AM +0400, recovery...@gmail.com wrote: > > In short, invoke (after mounting the filesystem): > > > > chown -R peter /home/peter/MY > > I do stand to be corrected, but I don't remember a situation where I >

Re: Re: Cannot view all my android folders in nautilus after mounting android as MTP

2013-09-06 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 04:04:37PM +0530, Anubhav Yadav wrote: > Tried gmtp, it wont seem to work. I think I need to do some tweaks on my > mobile side, maybe need to root it and install some files. (saying this > after reading some posts on the nexus threads on xda-developers) I've just had a pl

Re: Re: tri-boot debian, debian-without-dm, and windows with newer debian using partitions from older debian?

2013-09-06 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 10:10 PM, Gregory Nowak wrote: > On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 03:55:51PM +0530, Anubhav Yadav wrote: > > This was already mentioned. The answer is ctrl+alt+f1 through > ctrl+alt+f6 by default. Let me clarify. Unlike in some other > distributions (slackware comes to mind), there i

Re: ip tuntap del

2013-09-06 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 7:14 AM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > Anyone know why ip tuntap del requires the "mode"? > > # ifconfig tapz > tapz: error fetching interface information: Device not found > # ip tuntap add mode tap tapz > # ifconfig tapz > tapz Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 06:b8:f7:41:bf:

Re: Installing and booting Debian from large hard drives in a RAID without GPT

2013-09-06 Thread Shane Johnson
On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 6:45 AM, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Fri, Sep 06, 2013 at 02:29:55PM +0200, Robin Kipp wrote: > > Hi list, > > I just purchased an HP ProLiant Micro Server G2020T. As for the hard > drives, I installed 4 3TB Western Digital HDs. So far so good, but volumes > with a capacity gre

Re: How many packages in Sid

2013-09-06 Thread Andreas Rönnquist
On Thu, 5 Sep 2013 22:06:46 +0100, Brian wrote: >On Thu 05 Sep 2013 at 22:16:39 +0200, sp113438 wrote: > >> How do I find out the number of packages currently in Sid? >> Google did not help me. > >An example: > > wget > ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz > > gunzi

Re: rename ttyS*

2013-09-06 Thread Josh Stephens
Sent from my iPhone On Sep 6, 2013, at 7:50 AM, co...@esid.gecgr.co.cu wrote: > > > Hi > > 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] serial825

rename ttyS*

2013-09-06 Thread cosme
Hi 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 (irq = 3) is a 16550A [1.770721] 00:09: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 165

Re: Installing and booting Debian from large hard drives in a RAID without GPT

2013-09-06 Thread Darac Marjal
On Fri, Sep 06, 2013 at 02:29:55PM +0200, Robin Kipp wrote: > Hi list, > I just purchased an HP ProLiant Micro Server G2020T. As for the hard drives, > I installed 4 3TB Western Digital HDs. So far so good, but volumes with a > capacity greater than 2TB require a GPT partition table. Unfortunatel

Installing and booting Debian from large hard drives in a RAID without GPT

2013-09-06 Thread Robin Kipp
Hi list, I just purchased an HP ProLiant Micro Server G2020T. As for the hard drives, I installed 4 3TB Western Digital HDs. So far so good, but volumes with a capacity greater than 2TB require a GPT partition table. Unfortunately, the server does not support UEFI, and thus can't boot from GPT p

ip tuntap del

2013-09-06 Thread Zenaan Harkness
Anyone know why ip tuntap del requires the "mode"? # ifconfig tapz tapz: error fetching interface information: Device not found # ip tuntap add mode tap tapz # ifconfig tapz tapz Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 06:b8:f7:41:bf:08 BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packe

dell latitude D531 and suspend

2013-09-06 Thread François Patte
Bonjour, I installed debian wheezy on dell latitude D531 laptop and I can't resume from suspend (black screen) and the system seems to be froozen...: fan goes on... I have to switch off the computer.. Is there a (known) solution? There were no problme with a previous fedora installation. Thank

Re: How many packages in Sid

2013-09-06 Thread Onur Aslan
I think best way to do this install sid and run: $ apt-cache stats Total package names: 52060 (1,041 k) Total package structures: 52060 (2,915 k) Normal packages: 40012 Pure virtual packages: 406 Single virtual packages: 4720 Mixed virtual packages: 773 Missing: 6149 Total distinct versi

Re: gwenview

2013-09-06 Thread Tim Ruehsen
I use digikam at home and had similar problems with one of the childs cameras. I hardly remember but I think I needed mtp-tools to be installed installed. But newer digikam/gphoto2 should support PTP directly. If this doesn't help, try a search machine. If that still does not help, I could ask my

Re: NFS in schroot/sbuild

2013-09-06 Thread Khaled Blah
On 04.09.2013 17:16, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 02:42:44PM +0200, Khaled Blah wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I'd like to mount an NFS mount point into a schroot session. I >> understand I need to edit /etc/schroot/sbuild/fstab on the host to do so >> but all my attempts so far failed