Re: Alternative(s) to VirtualBox

2012-07-05 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 7:59 AM, Carl Fink wrote: > So I have at various times installed VMWare Player, VMWare Server, and > VirtualBox. Host was Debian, guest was Windows, generally but not always XP > Pro. > > VB's Guest Additions' video driver doesn't work correctly with Adobe > Premiere Elemen

Re: What is the best way to turn off the iptables

2012-07-05 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 10:06 PM, Brian wrote: > On Thu 05 Jul 2012 at 23:02:19 +0800, lina wrote: > > > Chain INPUT (policy DROP) > > target prot opt source destination > > > > Chain FORWARD (policy DROP) > > target prot opt source destination > > > > Chain OUT

Re: when an xterm starts, it always starts in ~/Documents

2012-02-27 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 00:20, Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 27 Feb 2012 18:01:31 +, Sian Mountbatten wrote: > > > On 27/02/12 17:50, Tom H wrote: > >> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 12:09 PM, Alberto Fuentes > >> wrote: > >>> On 25/02/12 02:59, Sian Mountbatten wrote: > > Whenever I start a

Re: Capslock mystery - Recent phenomena concerning keyboard

2012-01-31 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 05:45, lee wrote: > Harry Putnam writes: > > > Keyboard is from `Unicomp' and weighs about 10 lbs. > > I wish I could get some of those ... > > > I've recently started having a problem where the capslock comes on > > (seemingly randomly) but not the led that indicates its

Re: screwed up my network starting

2012-01-29 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 08:27, Bob Proulx wrote: > H.S. wrote: > > Bob Proulx wrote: > > > It is okay to have both specified, I usually do. > > > > When I dealt with this issue last (a few years ago), I was under the > > impression that only one needs to be used. Either I was mistaken then, > > o

Re: NIC transferring twice its max rate

2012-01-26 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 04:34, Chris Davies wrote: > Rob Owens wrote: > > I've got an onboard NIC, supposedly 100Mb. > > [...] > > I've got gigabit networking between the two computers > > So do you have 1Gb or 100Mb connectivity? > CHris > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@li

Re: how to check 400 files exist

2012-01-18 Thread Anand Sivaram
2012/1/19 lina > On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 1:35 AM, Wawrzek Niewodniczanski > wrote: > > On 01/18/12 16:34, lina wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > Thanks ahead for reading this email. > > > > I am choked by how to check more than 400 files exist or not, if not, > > sleep, but once it's all generated, con

Re: Re: Can't mount pendrive on testing

2011-03-10 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 16:39, Marcelo Laia wrote: > > You could try: > > > > # mount /dev/sdb1 /media/pen > > ^ > > Thank you! It worked! > > But, only root gain access to write in the mass storage. Plus, > automount continue not working. When I plug the pendrive, a popu

Re: How do you use TCPDump?

2011-03-04 Thread Anand Sivaram
t; On 4 Mar 2011, at 03:11, Chris Jones wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 09:00:43AM EST, Anand Sivaram wrote: > > > >> Tcpdump and Ethereal are very similar in terms of capture filters. > >> They both use libpcap. > > > > I believe they call it ‘wire

Re: How do you use TCPDump?

2011-03-03 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 09:43, Mike Viau wrote: > > > On Wed, 2 Mar 2011 22:00:41 -0600 wrote: > > > > I have it installed, and I can look up the parameters in the command. > > > > What I don't understand is how I use it to investigate intrusions. Can > someone shed some light on this? > > > > W

Re: Using Libvirt

2011-02-06 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 11:12, T o n g wrote: > > Hi, > > ,- > | Libvirt is a C toolkit to interact with the virtualization > | capabilities of recent versions of Linux (and other OSes). The > | library aims at providing a long term stable C API for different > | virtualization mechanisms. > |

Re: Mounting local filesystems...mount: /dev/sdc1 special device doesn't exist failed.

2011-01-30 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 12:27, Csanyi Pal wrote: > Csanyi Pal writes: > > > When I reboot I forgot to plug out my USB stick and when the system > > boot, I get error message - warning, something like stand in the subject > > of this mail. > > Because I plugged it out when the system reboot at, '

Re: VM speed benchmark

2011-01-30 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 01:45, T o n g wrote: > Hi, > > Talking about VM, some prefer virtulbox, some VMWare. Don't know how many > of you prefer kvm. I'm wondering if you could do the speed benchmark of > your preferred VM, and compare the result to that of your host. > > The reason that I'm ask

Re: iptables/routing network problem

2011-01-30 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 20:48, geertsky wrote: > Hello, > I'm having a wierd problem I cannot solve... > I have a pptp connection from my house to my server using > 192.168.2.0/24 range ip's > I ḿ trying to make mysql access able from the 192.168.2.0/24 network. > On the server I've got ufw firew

Re: Testing a network card

2011-01-29 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 10:34, logb wrote: > Hello, > > Is there anyone know how to test PPS (packet per second) of a nic? > I tried to googled it, only found how to test the bandwidth using > iperf or netperf. None found for PPS. > > Any hint are welcome. > > TIA. > > -- > -- logb - monkey.org f

Re: 7zr compress include subdirs?

2011-01-29 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 01:33, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Wayne Topa wrote: > >> On 01/27/2011 04:28 PM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Trying to use 7zr, used example 1 from the man: >>> >>> 7zr a -t7z -m0=lzma -mx=9 -mfb=64 -md=32m -ms=on archive.7z dir1 >>> >>> But my 'dir1' has subdi

Re: how to determine the interpreter

2010-11-27 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 23:11, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Fri, 26 Nov 2010 11:40:32 -0500 (EST), Joao Ferreira wrote: > > seems that $0 simply contains the program being run and not the > > interpreter that is running it... > > Hmm. You're right. > > echo $0 > > works at a shell prompt, but no

Re: how to determine the interpreter

2010-11-26 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 21:01, Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 26 Nov 2010 15:11:07 +, Joao Ferreira gmail wrote: > > > considering sh, bash and csh, can I somehow, inside a script, determine > > if I'm being run with any of these 3 shells... > > > > I need to determine wich interpreter is running

Re: VLC player doesn't playback correctly

2010-11-26 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 20:52, Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 26 Nov 2010 16:35:33 +0200, Matthias Andersson wrote: > > > I've installed vlc 1.1.3 according to the instructions at > > www.videolan.org/vlc/download-debian.html for unstable. > > > > Now the problem is that all videos play black and whit

Re: Giving svnadmin permissions to a regular user

2010-10-03 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 04:58, Tech Geek wrote: > I am running Debian Lenny with subversion installed. I have a normal user > called "svnmaster" to whom I would like to give permission to run all the > svnadmin commands. How can I do that. My repositories usually live in > /var/lib/svn/. I do not

Re: how to configure gcc

2010-09-29 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 09:12, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Wednesday 29 September 2010 15:18:46 abdelkader belahcene wrote: > > Thanks for answer > > yes but normally gcc should be configured, where is the config file, > > for example sshd_config is a config file for ssh, vsftpd.conf

Fwd: how to configure gcc

2010-09-29 Thread Anand Sivaram
-- Forwarded message -- From: abdelkader belahcene Date: Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 23:16 Subject: how to configure gcc To: debian-user@lists.debian.org hi, by default I have to add option -lm to the command gcc -lm file.c when I use math functions. Where can I configure gcc to

Re: loose access control that works for dynamic IP address

2010-09-28 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 16:29, Zhang Weiwu wrote: > On 2010年09月27日 18:25, Jochen Schulz wrote: > > It would help to know what software "runs the website". Are we talking > > about Apache2? > > No. In fact I wanted to abstract the software running on there for a > reason: there is a http server (n

Re: tar and --sparse

2010-09-23 Thread Anand Sivaram
What is the actual size of the original file/directory before tarring? On the source side, try du -ms to find out the actual size on disk. That should be less than 10GB. On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 02:29, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2010-09-22 22:40 +0200, T o n g wrote: > > > I created a Linux syste

Re: converting pcm raw output to wav or mp3 file

2010-09-20 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 17:13, Siju George wrote: > On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 5:05 PM, Kumar Appaiah > wrote: > > Dear Siju, > > > > On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 03:19:09PM +0530, Siju George wrote: > >> I followed > >> > >> > http://wiki.audacityteam.org/index.php?title=Recording_audio_playing_on_the_

Re: Kvm, how to switch to console

2010-08-02 Thread Anand Sivaram
Goto monitor mode by "ctrl-alt-2" In the monitor mode, use sendkey "sendkey ctrl-alt-f1" or "sendkey ctrl-alt-f7" or "sendkey ctrl-alt-del" go back to the guest system to activate the sendkey by "ctrl-alt-1" On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 09:41, Matthew Moore wrote: > On Sunday August 1 2010 10:06:15 pm

Re: Interactive diff rsync

2010-07-22 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 23:44, François TOURDE wrote: > Le 14812ième jour après Epoch, > Andre Majorel écrivait: > > > Anyone knows of some software that will compare two trees and, for > > each file that differs, show you a diff and ask whether you want > > to update the destination file ? > > >

Re: Interactive diff rsync

2010-07-22 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 21:33, Andre Majorel wrote: > Anyone knows of some software that will compare two trees and, for > each file that differs, show you a diff and ask whether you want > to update the destination file ? > > It must run in a terminal (no GUI) and it must be able to access > the

Re: kernel panic error

2010-07-19 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 13:39, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sb, 17 iul 10, 23:10:39, Anand Sivaram wrote: > > > > > > Could you please elaborate on that? How can UUID fail if you have > > > modules compiled in the kernel, since UUID is a property of the > >

Fwd: kernel panic error

2010-07-17 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 12:23, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sb, 17 iul 10, 09:06:02, Anand Sivaram wrote: > > > > > It is necessary to use initrd image while using UUID. So UUID method may > > not work with custom kernels where drivers are compiled in. > > Could you

Re: kernel panic error

2010-07-17 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 12:23, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sb, 17 iul 10, 09:06:02, Anand Sivaram wrote: > > > > > It is necessary to use initrd image while using UUID. So UUID method may > > not work with custom kernels where drivers are compiled in. > > Could you

Re: Loop device is read only

2010-07-16 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 02:06, Erwan David wrote: > On 16/07/10 22:26, vr wrote: > > I can't seem to write to an image I downloaded and mounted as a loop > > device? > > > > # ls -l /opt | grep floppy > > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 18 10:08 floppy > > > > # mount -o loop fdbasecd.iso /opt/fl

Re: kernel panic error

2010-07-16 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 20:54, H.S. wrote: > On 10-07-16 10:56 AM, H.S. wrote: > >> On 16/07/10 05:59 AM, Sunita Barve wrote: >> >>> I have been using debian 5.0.3. I had changed disk and had connected on >>> two >>> different machines. Now I am getting the following error >>> >> >> I am in a sim

Re: chroot problem

2010-07-09 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 05:10, Bob Proulx wrote: > Zachary Uram wrote: > > in order to get it working i tried to mount the root partition : > > # mount /dev/sda5 /tmp/mnt > > > > that is fine, but when i run chroot i get weird error: > > # chroot /tmp/mnt > > # chroot: cannot execute command '/bi

Re: installing a second hard disk?

2010-07-09 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 05:06, Zachary Uram wrote: > I just got a 500gb Hitachi hard drive (this is my second drive, my > first drive is /dev/sda). > What is the best way to install this in Linux? Is it better to run ext3 or > ext4? > > Zach > > <>< http://www.fidei.org ><> > > > -- > To UNSUBSCR

Re: What's the easiest way for a shell script to tell if grub version 1 is installed?

2010-07-02 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 08:17, Bob Proulx wrote: > Stephen Powell wrote: > > What's the easiest way for a shell script to tell if grub version 1 > > is installed? It is important to distinguish grub version 1 from > > grub version 2. For example, can I just do this? > > > > if [ -f /boot/grub/me

Re: SATA disk detected as IDE? SOLVED

2010-06-30 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 05:50, Amrit Panesar wrote: > On 6/30/2010 1:14 PM, Josep M. wrote: > >> Hello Amrit. >> >> One option of the BIOS of the motherboard was allowing use with much >> less speed, I don't understand how much how run this, because install XP >> CD don't detect any SATA disk but

Fwd: switching to console and zapping

2010-06-26 Thread Anand Sivaram
-- Forwarded message -- From: lee Date: Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 02:01 Subject: switching to console and zapping To: debian-user Hi, what could be the reason why I can't switch from X11 to consoles with Alt+Fx anymore? It's also not possible to kill the X session with Ctrl+Alt+Back

Re: switching to console and zapping

2010-06-25 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 05:44, lee wrote: > On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 05:13:46PM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > > On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 16:31:15 -0400 (EDT), lee > wrote: > > > what could be the reason why I can't switch from X11 to consoles with > > > Alt+Fx anymore? > > > > You never could. You n

Re: Understanding my recurrent network connectivity problems

2010-06-25 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 17:39, Merciadri Luca < luca.mercia...@student.ulg.ac.be> wrote: > Camaleón wrote: > > On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 11:57:40 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > > > > > > > > (...) > > > > I suppose you are using a wifi setup with at least WPA2-PSK (or AES) so > > we can discard any intr

Re: Compiling kernel took a lot of disk space.

2010-06-25 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 18:25, Magicloud Magiclouds < magicloud.magiclo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > I am using debian unstable 64. Recently I wanted to compile a 2.6.34 > kernel. > Well, the source package is 64MB. Before `make-kpkg linux-image > linux-headers --initrd` finished, the source dir

Re: viewing a pdf in Squeeze

2010-06-24 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 08:36, Steven Demetrius wrote: > > Thank you > Steven Demetrius > +855 12 810 350 > > On 2010-06-24 02:10, Greg Madden wrote: > > On Wednesday 23 June 2010 10:28:01 Camaleón wrote: > > > >> On Wed, 23 Jun 2010 11:20:25 -0700, peasthope wrote: > >> > >>> Given a Squeeze syst

Re: git rebase question

2010-06-16 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 21:46, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > Hrm, this isn't actually on-topic for Debian-user. You might have better > luck > with the Git user's mailing list. > > On Tuesday 15 June 2010 05:50:45 Anand Sivaram wrote: > > I am trying to understa

git rebase question

2010-06-15 Thread Anand Sivaram
I am trying to understand the different aspects of git rebase, especially the "--onto" option. So I was going through "git help rebase". That made me consider a few other scenarios. 1. The first example is "git rebase master" or "git rebase master topic" But if we want to use "--onto" option, th

Re: debian architecture history question

2010-06-12 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 22:39, Aaron Toponce wrote: > On 6/11/2010 11:03 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > I'm not exactly sure what the policy is for packages in the i386 archives > in > > general, but I believe they are supposed to have -586 or -686 in their > package > > name is they requir

Re: Wireless USB adapters.

2010-06-12 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 19:15, wrote: > Greetings all, > > I'm looking at getting into wireless operation on my laptop for the first > time, as I find that work requires me to travel. > > As far as USB adapters go, what's everybody using? > What's good and what needs to be avoided? > > I'm not in

Re: Which USB wireless LAN adapter really works on Debian?

2010-06-06 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 14:50, wrote: > I am going to town and wish to purchase the most compatible, least > problems USB wireless LAN adapter for Debian. > > Please don't tell me one that I go buy, only to discover half of the > ping packets get through, etc. Whilst of course on windows they work

Re: Differentiated writable permissions

2010-06-03 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 16:09, Daniel Bareiro wrote: > Hi all! > > Yesterday someone asked me the possibility to create two users for FTP > access. One that had the ability to create any type of file and other > that could create any type of files except directories to avoid changing > the structu

Re: Disk problems or worse?

2010-06-03 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 21:24, Daniel Barclay wrote: > Ralph, > > Jochen Schulz wrote: > >> Ralph Katz: >> >>> Lenny install on newly acquired used Dell hangs and throws errors to >>> syslog. Do I have two bad disks or a more serious hardware problem? >>> >> >> Another option: it might be a kerne

Re: Hot CPU!

2010-05-31 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 22:44, Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 31 May 2010 02:24:57 -0700, freeman wrote: > > > Today my CPU seemingly jumped to 85' C and remained there without one > > change during three 15 min. sessions. > > Did you check that values from BIOS or other sources? > > (...) > > > I gue

Re: A question about services

2010-05-30 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 18:53, AG wrote: > Hello list > > I have some questions about the use of some of the services that are & can > be initiated at start up. I see these listed via the Administration menu > option, using GNOME on an up-to-date testing Debian system. > > 1. The following descr

Re: microphone

2010-05-25 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 18:29, Jasper wrote: > arecord|aplay > > then play with the sliders in alsamixer. > > :) > > --Jasper. > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: ht

Re: No CORE DUMP.

2010-05-22 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 23:07, Aioanei Rares wrote: > On 05/22/2010 08:10 PM, Avinash H.M. wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> I am using DSL [ damn small linux ] which is branched from debain. >> I am trying to use GCC, GDB. Able to install both of them. >> >> I am doing following >> - run a hellowor

Re: Is this possible ?

2010-05-20 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 19:15, wrote: > Let’s suppose this configuration > >|Server1| <- |Server2| <- |Client| > >A client sends a request that starts a script on Server2.The script ( > running on server2) from this server 2 will download a webpage from Server1. > > Is it poss

Re: How to manage multiple Internet connections?

2010-05-15 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 09:53, Zoran Kolic wrote: > > Let's say that you have two internet connections at home, and > > consequently two devices which link your computer to the Internet. How > > can you manage, e.g. in Iceweasel/FF, to use one or the other? If you > > have multiple downloads all

Re: How to manage multiple Internet connections?

2010-05-15 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 20:09, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sat,15.May.10, 16:32:05, Merciadri Luca wrote: > > > > > > The second one > > > bonding > http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/networking/bonding > > > whit this one you can plus the bandwidth. > > > > > `Bonding' seems to

Re: executable won't execute

2010-05-15 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 14:45, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2010-05-15 11:04 +0200, Jan C. Nordholz wrote: > > >> [readelf output] > >> > >> ELF Header: > >> [...] > > > >> INTERP 0x000114 0x08048114 0x08048114 0x00011 0x00011 R 0x1 > >> [Requesting program interpreter: /lib/ld-lsb.so

Re: Any file details on an executable binary file?

2010-05-14 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 20:32, Mike Viau wrote: > Hello list, > > I was wondering if anyone could suggest a package or means to look at any > or all of the information from a given executable binary file: > > - What compiler compiled it > > - What (source) language was it compiled from > > - Wha

Re: executable won't execute

2010-05-13 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 06:06, Kent West wrote: > I'm trying to start a daemon for Maple v 14, but when I try to run it, > the system complains that the file doesn't exist. What's up? > > wes...@]goshen.acu.edu]:/usr/local/Maple_Network_Tools/FLEXlm/11.7:> ls > -lh > total 2.8M > lrwxrwxrwx 1 roo

Re: Disable server so it does not start on reboot (even after upgrade)?

2010-05-13 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 04:29, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Allan Wind put forth on 5/13/2010 10:13 AM: > > I use insserv to boot my laptop and used `update-rc.d apache2 > > remove` to indicate that I do not want apache2 to start on > > reboot. Indeed this works fine for while. Either an apache2 > >

Re: Switching from NV to Nouveau in Squeeze

2010-05-12 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 19:40, Snood wrote: > On 05/12/2010 08:08 AM, Mark Allums wrote: > >> On 5/12/2010 6:49 AM, Snood wrote: >> >> I'm looking forward to seeing if nouveau will be an improvement, >>> performance-wise, without causing reliability issues. >>> >>> I am, however, going to wait a

Re: What to choose for Core i5 64 bits?

2010-05-11 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 19:26, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: > On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 9:40 AM, Oscar Corte > wrote: > > Hi: > > > > I would like to test Debian on a new PC. > > > > It's a DELL XPS Inspiron 8100 with a Core i5 64 bits processor. > > > > What would it be the recommended architecture/ve

Re: Vnc server

2010-05-09 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 00:56, Andrew Lapham wrote: > Hello all. > > I'm new to debian (2 days) but have been using Linux for a while. Anyway my > problem is with Vnc4server. > > Yesterday I set up my /home/.Vnc/xstartup to include gnome session and I > commented terminal emulator. And I remoted

Re: Shutdown problem -- cron job related?

2010-05-09 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 18:42, David Baron wrote: > >> At certain times, seems Friday noontime, I am unable to shutdown the > >> system. Instead of the usual scripts to killing all processes, > unmounting > >> everything and will now halt, goodby, I get: > >> > >> process running pstree (or somet

Re: bandwidth measurement by process

2010-05-09 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 12:50, Frederik Kriewitz wrote: > On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 9:03 AM, Celejar wrote: > > Yeah, that's pretty much what I thought. Well, I think that I'm going > > to code something like this, unless someone else will point out that > > it's already been done. > > I don't know

Re: bandwidth measurement by process

2010-05-09 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 12:33, Celejar wrote: > On Sun, 9 May 2010 12:15:49 +0530 > Anand Sivaram wrote: > > > On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 11:38, Celejar wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I'm looking for a tool that will measure bandwidth us

Re: bandwidth measurement by process

2010-05-08 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 11:38, Celejar wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking for a tool that will measure bandwidth used by a specific > process. I'd like some sort of utility or wrapper that will answer > questions like "How much data did my network backup job push over the > wire?" > > There are many too

Re: Shutdown problem -- cron job related?

2010-05-08 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 01:22, David Baron wrote: > At certain times, seems Friday noontime, I am unable to shutdown the > system. > Instead of the usual scripts to killing all processes, unmounting > everything > and will now halt, goodby, I get: > > process running pstree (or something like that

Re: Simple tool to extract sound from video?

2010-05-07 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 21:49, Merciadri Luca < luca.mercia...@student.ulg.ac.be> wrote: > Rob Owens wrote: > > Avidemux can do it also. It's a GUI, but I think it's more > > straightforward to do it with ffmpeg, as suggested above > Thanks. ffmpeg does actually, exactly what I want. Thanks. (For

Re: Simple tool to extract sound from video?

2010-05-07 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 21:44, Rob Owens wrote: > On Fri, May 07, 2010 at 09:29:44PM +0530, Anand Sivaram wrote: > > On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 21:19, Merciadri Luca < > > luca.mercia...@student.ulg.ac.be> wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I have s

Re: Simple tool to extract sound from video?

2010-05-07 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 21:19, Merciadri Luca < luca.mercia...@student.ulg.ac.be> wrote: > Hi, > > I have some videos, with different encodings, whose soundtrack is > interesting for me. How can I extract the related sountracks in an easy > way? I tried with VLC, but to no avail, as VLC either crea

Re: network setup question

2010-05-06 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 13:35, Kevin Ross wrote: > On 5/6/2010 12:05 AM, Alex Samad wrote: > >> >> well think about it, if we are talking about network 192.168.11.0/24 >> (for my example I will use 24 instead of 27) >> >> the server would have an address 192.168.11.55/24 (for example) and the >> r

Re: network setup question

2010-05-06 Thread Anand Sivaram
>if I change the netmask of the server it can no longer talk to the >router because it is in a different ip network ie 192.168.11.55/22 can't >talk to 192.168.11.1/24 (you can fake it on linux with iproute - see my >other answer to this thread). That does not look correct. Just to see how it work

Re: network setup question

2010-05-05 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 06:36, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Not sure if this is the right list, sort of a general linux networking > question (pointers to a more appropriate list welcomed) > > Setup: > > - I have two servers in a datacenter, currently used for different things > > - I have one gigE

Re: Daemons

2010-05-04 Thread Anand Sivaram
normally as a part during reboot/shutdown procedure, sigterm is sent to all processes. This causes processes to terminate during which file descriptors are closed down flushing their cache. This is written to disk during filesytem sync. So these files are preserved. But when the system goes down

Re: Unable to connect to my home wireless

2010-05-02 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 10:08, Zoran Kolic wrote: > > | When I try to connect, wicd says that it is 'Putting interface up...', > 'Validating authentication...', 'Obtaining IP address...' then it times out > and says 'Connection failed: Unable to Get IP Address.' > > > > I have no clue what causes

Re: Unable to connect to my home wireless

2010-05-02 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 07:31, Marc Shapiro wrote: > From: John > > > On 01/05/10, Marc Shapiro (mshapiro...@yahoo.com) wrote: > | When I try to connect, wicd says that it is 'Putting interface up...', > 'Validating > | authentication...', 'Obtaining IP address...' then it times out and says > |

Re: LXDE session aborting immediately.

2010-05-02 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 11:54, Marc Shapiro wrote: > Well, not really, but that is what the message says.  Actually, it says that > the session lasted less than ten seconds, but who's counting. > > This started happening last Monday night after doing a full-upgrade on my > laptop, running Squeeze

Re: NVidia MCP61, no sound...

2010-05-01 Thread Anand Sivaram
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Re: Can't play 24bit/96kHz flac files

2010-05-01 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 22:03, James Stuckey wrote: > >> * Native capability of sound card can be found from >> cat /proc/asound/card0/pcm0p/sub0/hw_params >> >> * Decoding is done by the player itself, most probably the decoder >> output format in your case would be 96khz, 24 bit little endian.  I

Re: NVidia MCP61, no sound...

2010-05-01 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 20:55, Andrea Giuliano wrote: > Here aplay -l: > > card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 0: HDA Generic [HDA Generic] >  Subdevices: 1/1 >  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 > > Here is amixer info, too: > > Card default 'NVidia'/'HDA NVidia at 0xf9ef8000 irq 22' >  Mixer name    : '

Re: NVidia MCP61, no sound...

2010-05-01 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 19:38, Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 01 May 2010 15:52:46 +0200, Andrea Giuliano wrote: > >> Alsamixer doesn'i show muted input. Not does gnome-volume-settings. I >> also checked out gnome-sound-properties, and it gives no errors at all, >> as if it thinks everything is working

Re: NVidia MCP61, no sound...

2010-05-01 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 16:43, Andrea Giuliano wrote: > Hi, > > I'm running Lenny on a brand new AMD64, and just one thing is not > working at all: the sound card. > > I mean, it seems to be perfectly detected, I get no errors at all from > any sound application, but I can't get sound from any jack

Re: Can't play 24bit/96kHz flac files

2010-05-01 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 16:12, Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 01 May 2010 12:13:29 +0200, James Stuckey wrote: > >> If I try to play them in MOC I get: (0) Can't set audio parameters: >> Invalid argument >> >> With mplayer I see: > > (...) > >> Running file on the file gives: >> flac: FLAC audio bitstre

Re: Can't play 24bit/96kHz flac files

2010-05-01 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 15:43, James Stuckey wrote: > If I try to play them in MOC I get: (0) Can't set audio parameters: Invalid > argument > > With mplayer I see: > > MPlayer SVN-r30656 (C) 2000-2010 MPlayer Team > Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0: No such file or directory > Can't init

Re: Aptitude Error

2010-04-30 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 00:08, Tom H wrote: > On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 1:54 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. > wrote: >> On Friday 30 April 2010 12:10:45 James Stuckey wrote: >>> On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 5:44 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. < >>> >>> b...@iguanasuicide.net> wrote: >>> > On Friday 30 April 2010

Re: Aptitude Error

2010-04-30 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 21:14, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Friday 30 April 2010 06:16:22 James Stuckey wrote: >> The unstable/sid doesn't have to be comment out. Setting the default >>  release will keep the system tracked to, in this case, testing. > > Er, mostly. > > If there is a version

Re: Aptitude Error

2010-04-30 Thread Anand Sivaram
That looks like a problem. You have unstable version of gcc-4.4-base (4.4.3-9) installed, but now your unstable/sid is commented out. So when you try to install g++ which has dependency on gcc-4.4-base, it is trying to revert the gcc-4.4-base to that of squeeze (4.4.2-9). Install the package "apt

Re: Aptitude Error

2010-04-30 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 15:58, James Stuckey wrote: > Why am I getting this and how can I fix it? > > r...@debian:/home/stuckey# aptitude install fakeroot devscripts > build-essential > Reading package lists... Done > > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > Reading extende

Re: Creating a debian local mirror from 5 debian DVDs

2010-04-29 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 15:23, L.Guruprasad wrote: > Hi all, > I want to do mass network installation using pxe boot and using a local > debian mirror. However I don't want to download the files from a debian > mirror to create a local one? Is it possible to create a mirror using > the 5 DVDs of d

Re: Ctrl+alt+Fn not showing consoles

2010-04-28 Thread Anand Sivaram
What is your default runlevel. It should be 2 in normal mode. You could find it from the command "runlevel". Anyway, just see your /etc/inittab and make sure that the required gettys are there. For my debian squeeze system, these are the relevant lines. # Note that on most Debian systems tty7

Re: Which remote help solution?

2010-04-28 Thread Anand Sivaram
You could do the following. 1. install ssh server on your friends machine. Create port forwarding in their router Login to their machine as usual using ssh. To reduce ssh brute force attack, change the ssh port from 22 to some larger number and use the corresponding port for router port forwardin

Re: 2.6.32-3 does not recognize PATA WD disk...

2010-04-28 Thread Anand Sivaram
This is not a kernel bug, but the way debian uses drivers. There are two different drivers in the kernel now. Old ide drivers and newer pata drivers. Old ide drivers are going to get deprecated. For some reason debian stock kernel is taking only ide drivers. I have seen this with both my desktop

Re: DVD/CD Read Issues

2010-04-27 Thread Anand Sivaram
wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 2:09 PM, Anand Sivaram wrote: > >> Replying to debian-user.. >> >> 1. Take the cd (you burnt with this drive) and try to mount it using >> another cdrom to see the quality of that cd. >> 2. Take a readonly cdrom/cdr(wr

Re: DVD/CD Read Issues

2010-04-27 Thread Anand Sivaram
, James Stuckey wrote: > On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Anand Sivaram wrote: > >> It is giving a lot of input output error. Either your cd is bad or there >> could be problem with your cdrom drive. >> > > How do I go about proving either? I burnt this CD with this drive. > > Thanks, > James >

Re: DVD/CD Read Issues

2010-04-27 Thread Anand Sivaram
It is giving a lot of input output error. Either your cd is bad or there could be problem with your cdrom drive. 2010/4/27 James Stuckey > Hello, > > I posted a few days ago about not being able to read a CD/DVD. I'm still > having the same issues. > > I assumed that I could do: stuc...@debian:

Re: Ctrl+alt+Fn not showing consoles

2010-04-27 Thread Anand Sivaram
How about single user mode? Are you able to get virtual console there. Also try to disable gdm/kdm, see whether virtual consoles are working. On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 16:08, rudu wrote: > Le 27/04/2010 03:48, Hugo Vanwoerkom a écrit : > >> >> rudu wrote: >> >>> Le 26/04/2010 20:55, Hugo Vanwoerk

Re: aptitude and held packages

2010-04-27 Thread Anand Sivaram
Try "aptitude -s full-upgrade" to see the remaining packages to be upgraded. This is because safe-upgrade does not remove any installed package. Try "man aptitude" to see the difference between these two options. On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 19:59, Rick Pasotto wrote: > I just upgraded apt and aptitu

Re: mkfifo question

2010-04-26 Thread Anand Sivaram
fifo is just like pipe, but there is a name/filesystem entry for that. you could assume that fifo is splitting the standard program1 | programs into two parts using the named fifo. In this case it depends how your program is doing the processing, whether it processes one file each after downloadi