Re: Alternative to dhcp?

2019-12-15 Thread Carl Johnson
ready done that. I tried either one and both. I had also already > done the wicd gui edit. As I said above, my chosen dns doesn't stick, as > resolv.conf keeps reverting to the router's. Has the dhclient been restarted since you edited the configuration file, either manuall

Re: How to disable certain keys

2015-08-15 Thread Carl Johnson
clude that file on start. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org

Re: How to disable certain keys

2015-08-14 Thread Carl Johnson
a control key, but there is also the ctrl:swapcaps option. Most of X11 configuration is still a mystery to me. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org

Re: jessie: unable to run remote graphical program with sudo [SOLVED]

2015-05-26 Thread Carl Johnson
> Anyway, after some more experimenting, I discovered that this works: > > sudo XAUTHORITY=/home/n7dr/.Xauthority xterm I just have my /root/.Xauthority be a symbolic link to my user ~/.Xauthority, and that seems to work without specifying XAUTHORITY. -- Carl Johnsonca...

Re: mixer.app ; how do i use it after installing it with aptitude?

2015-05-25 Thread Carl Johnson
nd with dockapps outside of > WindowMaker. > ... > > There used to be some docks that provided support for dockapps, but > I'm not finding that info at the moment. There is the xfce4-wmdock-plugin which creates a dock position in a panel to hold all dockapps. I use it and it works

Re: SCIM - terminal spreadsheet - sc fork

2015-02-23 Thread Carl Johnson
so look at it for ideas. ¹ http://www.syntax-k.de/projekte/teapot -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/87r3tgzh6l.fsf@elk.localnet

Re: bc menu files? (Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...)

2014-10-31 Thread Carl Johnson
d you should have a debian menu. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/8761ez8tt3.fsf@elk.localnet

Re: brasero requires gvfs

2014-09-07 Thread Carl Johnson
SD port listed for sigil. If you don't want to run FreeBSD, you could at least look at what their port does to get it to compile. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/87d2b7h191.fsf@elk.localnet

Re: lost file ownerships in etc?

2014-06-17 Thread Carl Johnson
Zenaan Harkness writes: > On 6/18/14, Carl Johnson wrote: >> Zenaan Harkness writes: >> >>> Unfortunately I have so many packages installed, it would be a rather >>> large chroot once done, just to get ownerships back. Theoretically >>> do-able though.

Re: lost file ownerships in etc?

2014-06-17 Thread Carl Johnson
e this much easier. I'll do some more research. Had you looked at the /etc/.etckeeper file? It contains chmod, chown, and chgrp lines for the files in /etc. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "un

Re: Filespace exhaustion on '/' partition

2014-05-11 Thread Carl Johnson
original filesystem. The only way that I know of to check that would be to check one filesystem at a time in single user mode, or from a live CD. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubs

Re: Fuse module won't install in stable (Wheezy) - Solved

2014-05-05 Thread Carl Johnson
Carl Johnson writes: > I was just trying to load the fuse module to run sshfs, but the module > wouldn't load. The 'modprobe fuse' command gives the error: > > ERROR: could not insert 'fuse': Unknown symbol in module, or unknown > parameter > >

Fuse module won't install in stable (Wheezy)

2014-05-04 Thread Carl Johnson
about 3.10. I also tried the same thing with the zfs modules unloaded, so I don't think that it is a module conflict. Has anybody else seen this problem before, or know how to fix it? Thanks for any suggestions. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debi

Re: Security updates are untrusted

2014-05-04 Thread Carl Johnson
Carl Johnson writes: > Carl Johnson writes: > >>> On Thu 24 Apr 2014 at 14:58:52 -0700, Carl Johnson wrote: >>> >>>> I was just noticing that aptitude warns that a number of packages are >>>> listed as untrusted. I checked using 'apt-cache

Re: Security updates are untrusted

2014-04-27 Thread Carl Johnson
Andrei POPESCU writes: > On Sb, 26 apr 14, 10:02:39, Carl Johnson wrote: >> >> I was just checking again and the problem had returned. This time, I >> immediately told aptitude to do an update and the untrusted warnings >> went away again. I suspect they will come

Re: Security updates are untrusted

2014-04-26 Thread Carl Johnson
Carl Johnson writes: > Brian writes: > >> On Thu 24 Apr 2014 at 14:58:52 -0700, Carl Johnson wrote: >> >>> I was just noticing that aptitude warns that a number of packages are >>> listed as untrusted. I checked using 'apt-cache policy' and those &

Re: Security updates are untrusted

2014-04-24 Thread Carl Johnson
Brian writes: > On Thu 24 Apr 2014 at 14:58:52 -0700, Carl Johnson wrote: > >> I was just noticing that aptitude warns that a number of packages are >> listed as untrusted. I checked using 'apt-cache policy' and those > > May we see the output that aptitude

Security updates are untrusted

2014-04-24 Thread Carl Johnson
r security updates, but obviously not. I also tried manually picking up and installing the key recommended at security.debian.org, but that didn't change anything. Can anybody suggest what I need to do to get the security updates properly recognized? Thanks for any suggestions. -- Carl Johnso

Re: DynDNS no longer free.

2014-04-08 Thread Carl Johnson
ore current. > > It certainly seems that free dynamic dns is becoming an endangered > species. I think I'll end up either using dnsdynamic or dnspark. I also see the inadyn package also lists several providers. One that I have looked at is freedns.afraid.org, and that is still free.

Re: X key bindings don't work on new system

2014-03-06 Thread Carl Johnson
handle the control with this command: setxkbmap -option ctrl:nocaps You should be able to combine it with your other as: setxkbmap -option ctrl:nocaps,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.o

Re: New to Debian (Gentoo user) - package management

2014-01-03 Thread Carl Johnson
ge. It is also available on the web at http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive

Re: Does any OS (e.g. Debian) support ZFS on MIPS?

2013-12-06 Thread Carl Johnson
27;t require FUSE. There also might be more information at http://www.open-zfs.org/. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org -- 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/87fvq5lh5w.fsf@oak.localnet

Re: Problem getting compose-key to work with .XCompose

2013-09-28 Thread Carl Johnson
the above just a typo? If that is not it, then I don't have any other ideas. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org -- 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/87fvso1uhu.fsf@oak.localnet

Re: Typing in bar characters (accented characters?)

2013-08-21 Thread Carl Johnson
by using the underscore as: ā = Compose _ a ē = Compose _ e ī = Compose _ i ō = Compose _ o ū = Compose _ u You can look up those compose combinations in the file /usr/local/lib/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@l

Re: Grub 2.00 in testing?

2013-07-23 Thread Carl Johnson
Carl Johnson writes: > Does anybody know what is going on with grub in testing? I have been > waiting for 2.00, but it seems to be stuck at 1.99. Grub-common at > http://packages.debian.org/jessie/grub-common shows that it is at > 1.99-27+deb7u1, but the source files show 2.00-14.

Re: Grub 2.00 in testing?

2013-07-22 Thread Carl Johnson
Sharon Kimble writes: > On 22 July 2013 04:45, Carl Johnson wrote: > >> William Hopkins writes: >> >> > On 07/20/13 at 08:43pm, Carl Johnson wrote: >> >> Does anybody know what is going on with grub in testing? I have been >> >> waiting for 2

Re: Grub 2.00 in testing?

2013-07-21 Thread Carl Johnson
William Hopkins writes: > On 07/20/13 at 08:43pm, Carl Johnson wrote: >> Does anybody know what is going on with grub in testing? I have been >> waiting for 2.00, but it seems to be stuck at 1.99. Grub-common at >> http://packages.debian.org/jessie/grub-common shows tha

Grub 2.00 in testing?

2013-07-20 Thread Carl Johnson
://packages.qa.debian.org/g/grub2.html shows that 2.00-14 was migrated to testing on 2013-06-14, so there appear to be some inconsistancies. Thanks. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Re: Trying to reinstall exim4 [Solved]

2011-05-09 Thread Carl Johnson
Carl Johnson writes: > I was trying out postfix but I was unable to get it working the way I > wanted, so I tried to purge postfix and reinstall exim4. I used > aptitude to select postfix to purge and to install exim4, exim4-base, > exim4-config, and exim4-daemon-light. It see

Re: Trying to reinstall exim4

2011-05-09 Thread Carl Johnson
Freeman writes: > On Sun, May 08, 2011 at 05:55:27PM -0700, Carl Johnson wrote: >> I was trying out postfix but I was unable to get it working the way I >> wanted, so I tried to purge postfix and reinstall exim4. I used >> aptitude to select postfix to purge and to inst

Re: Trying to reinstall exim4

2011-05-09 Thread Carl Johnson
Camaleón writes: > On Sun, 08 May 2011 20:45:00 -0700, Carl Johnson wrote: > >> Ron Johnson writes: >> >>> What *exact* command did you run? >> >> I used the curses interface to aptitude, so I just told it to install >> exim4 and remove postfi

Re: Trying to reinstall exim4

2011-05-08 Thread Carl Johnson
Ron Johnson writes: > On 05/08/2011 07:55 PM, Carl Johnson wrote: >>I was trying out postfix but I was unable to get it working the way I >> wanted, so I tried to purge postfix and reinstall exim4. I used >> aptitude to select postfix to purge and to install exim4,

Trying to reinstall exim4

2011-05-08 Thread Carl Johnson
apt.conf.d, but it still won't install exim4. Does anybody have any idea what I am doing wrong, and what I can do to install exim? I am running this on a squeeze system. Thanks for any ideas. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@

Re: KDE4 taskbar: Is there a way to show apps only from the current workspace?

2011-03-04 Thread Carl Johnson
ot;Task Manager Settings". There is a selection box near the bottom under "Filters". -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org -- 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/87y64u8991.fsf@oak.localnet

Re: shopt -s checkwinsize gone?

2011-02-24 Thread Carl Johnson
Thilo Six writes: > Wayne Topa wrote the following on 24.02.2011 01:56 > > -- -- > >> I haven't uses this in ages but IIRC shopt -s checkwinsize used to show >> the display size. > > $ echo $COLUMNS $LINES > 90 42 $ stty size 57 118 -- Carl John

Re: SSH pauses

2011-02-22 Thread Carl Johnson
see if they would help the response. I don't have any ideas about debugging though. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org -- 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/87mxlnz7f7.fsf@oak.localnet

Re: checking for changes in file size/permissions since installation?

2011-02-13 Thread Carl Johnson
d-line piped together a week or so ago that does > this, but I can't for the life of me find it again. You might have been thinking of debsums. That will check the MD5 sums of installed packages, but I don't know whether it covers all installed files. The checksums are stored

Re: Change KDE menu Debian 6

2011-02-12 Thread Carl Johnson
Mark Panen writes: > Hi > > Is it possible to change the KDE 4.4.5 menu at the bottom left to the > old KDE 3.5.10 look? Yes, just go right click on the menu button, and select 'Switch to Classic Menu Style'. You can switch back the same way, if you ever want

Re: XFCE and debian menu?

2011-02-11 Thread Carl Johnson
Brian writes: > On Fri 11 Feb 2011 at 09:31:44 -0800, Carl Johnson wrote: > >> I am experimenting with a squeeze install of XFCE in VirtualBox, and I >> just noticed that XFCE doesn't implement the debian menu. Does anybody >> know how to add that menu into t

Re: XFCE and debian menu?

2011-02-11 Thread Carl Johnson
Tom Ashley writes: > On Fri, 11 Feb 2011 09:31:44 -0800 > Carl Johnson wrote: > >> I am experimenting with a squeeze install of XFCE in VirtualBox, and I >> just noticed that XFCE doesn't implement the debian menu. Does >> anybody know how to add that menu int

XFCE and debian menu?

2011-02-11 Thread Carl Johnson
hanks for any ideas. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org -- 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/877hd6fpfj.fsf@oak.localnet

Re: need help making shell script use two CPUs/cores

2011-01-24 Thread Carl Johnson
copy some of the data below, but basically it showed that total time almost cut in half when it went from 1 to 2 processors, and again when it went from 2 to 4 processors. Processors Time (seconds) P1 66 P2 36 P4 20 -- Carl Johnsonca...@p

Re: Missing Disk Space or Partition

2011-01-24 Thread Carl Johnson
RR writes: > On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 12:07 AM, Carl Johnson wrote: > >> RR writes: >> >> > I see as more messages are pouring in, this message is getting pushed >> down >> > further and people won't even see it anymore. Does anyone have a personal

Re: Missing Disk Space or Partition

2011-01-23 Thread Carl Johnson
he lvm commands, but you will probably need to read the individual man pages for more detail on the commands. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lis

Re: KDE4 and other WM: user-specific avoiding of plasma-autostart?

2011-01-18 Thread Carl Johnson
f the section at: Advanced User Settings -> Autostart Just try unchecking it and see if it does what you want. I think you will have to restart KDE for it to take effect. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subj

Re: need help making shell script use two CPUs/cores

2011-01-15 Thread Carl Johnson
Stan Hoeppner writes: > Carl Johnson put forth on 1/13/2011 11:34 AM: > >> Processors Time (seconds) >> P1 66 >> P2 36 >> P3 25 >> P4 20 >> P5 20 >> P6 20 >

Re: need help making shell script use two CPUs/cores

2011-01-13 Thread Carl Johnson
system had run out of memory and had to start swapping. The system is not completely idle since I am running a KDE 4.4.5 desktop and VirtualBox with two guest OSs (Debian and NetBSD). I suspect it would have closer to linear scaling if the system had been completely idle. -- Carl Johnson

Re: File systems' timestamps apparently formatted in a wrong way ...

2011-01-02 Thread Carl Johnson
s but > a pain for automated parsing. With GNU ls, you can pass --full-time or > --time-style= (see the ls man page for details); > alternatively stat can be useful. Other locales may vary. You can also use the same options in the environment variable TIME_STYLE. -- Carl Johnson

Re: Оффшоpы, оншopы и eвpoп ейские кoмпaнии

2010-12-16 Thread Carl Johnson
d to debian-russian and yet they still show up in debian-user, so it looks like it might be pretty well configured to get by the filters. I am suprised that it has not been flagged as spam by debian yet, since they always have the same structure. I see a header marked as X-Spam-Status always has the ident

Re: weired issues of debian squeeze (base system)

2010-12-13 Thread Carl Johnson
Geronimo writes: > Hi, > >> While I'm not familiar with Kalk > Sorry, was my typo - I meant KCalc > > The gnome calculator is years away to be that usable. I agree, but you might want to look into qalculate as a substitute. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org

Re: Wondering about the print out function of PS

2010-11-23 Thread Carl Johnson
;> (Don't know whether that's terminal/shell-specific.) > > $COLUMNS and $LINES are not in `env`, I cannot get it within my program. > I think I had similar problems but I got around it by exporting them in my .bash_profile, so I just have: export LINES COLUMNS -- Carl Johns

Re: Wondering about the print out function of PS

2010-11-23 Thread Carl Johnson
e that LINES and COLUMNS are automatically set when a SIGWINCH is received. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org -- 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/87lj4kufr4@oak.localnet

Re: Unicode Character key-in problem

2010-09-08 Thread Carl Johnson
John Jason Jordan writes: > On Tue, 07 Sep 2010 21:47:44 -0700 > Carl Johnson dijo: > >>That is why we were talking about the Compose and AltGr keys. I have a >>US keyboard and I just press the Compose key followed by "s" and "s" to >>get ß. Simi

Re: Unicode Character key-in problem

2010-09-07 Thread Carl Johnson
Doug writes: > On 9/7/2010 9:34 PM, Celejar wrote: >> On Tue, 07 Sep 2010 09:01:11 -0700 >> Carl Johnson wrote: >> >> ... >> >>> Sorry, I was referring to the link to compose keys. I haven't figured >>> out how to use hex input for L

Re: Unicode Character key-in problem

2010-09-07 Thread Carl Johnson
David Jardine writes: > On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 02:51:29PM -0700, Carl Johnson wrote: >> David Jardine writes: >> >> > On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 09:01:11AM -0700, Carl Johnson wrote: >> >> >> >> Sorry, I was referring to the link to compose k

Re: Unicode Character key-in problem

2010-09-07 Thread Carl Johnson
David Jardine writes: > On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 09:01:11AM -0700, Carl Johnson wrote: >> >> Sorry, I was referring to the link to compose keys. I haven't figured >> out how to use hex input for Linux (or FreeBSD). > > AltGr and the keypad. For a-f work roun

Re: dhclient.conf: prepend domain-name-servers doesn't influence resolv.conf

2010-09-07 Thread Carl Johnson
system's behavior. > > Can anyone comment on why dhclient.conf doesn't influence > the resolv.conf after a networking restart? I have used the prepend statement to use dnsmasq and it works without any problems. The one difference is that I have always killed dhclient and restarted it

Re: Unicode Character key-in problem

2010-09-07 Thread Carl Johnson
Celejar writes: > On Mon, 06 Sep 2010 20:43:13 -0700 > Carl Johnson wrote: > >> Celejar writes: >> >> > On Mon, 6 Sep 2010 06:45:06 + (UTC) >> > Camaleón wrote: >> > >> > ... >> > >> >> In GNOME, you ca

Re: Unicode Character key-in problem

2010-09-06 Thread Carl Johnson
>> sequence, i.e., for currency sign type "00a4" and press "enter": >> >> http://www.hermit.org/Linux/ComposeKeys.html > > General GTK thing; I do it on my XFCE system. General X11 thing; they can all be done at the command line. A full list for UTF-8 i

Re: Now lost boot dir

2010-08-30 Thread Carl Johnson
Jordan Metzmeier writes: > David, > > Your reply seems to have removed all newline characters making it > unreadable. That is only the text version. The message also has an html version which is readable. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Software to handle bits and pieces of information.

2010-08-04 Thread Carl Johnson
ches, a calendar, and todo items. It doesn't have any type of appointments or automated reminders. Kjots seems more limited, but that might be my lack of experience with it. Both have debian packages. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@

Re: how can a non-root user mount .iso file?

2010-08-01 Thread Carl Johnson
fo package contains isoinfo and isodump which give you some access. You will have to decide if they give you enough access for what you need. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: Debian virus/spy-ware detection and detection technique.

2010-07-26 Thread Carl Johnson
Timeline_of_binary_prefixes > http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html > http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/prefixes.html Its also now (at least Lenny) a part of standard linux man pages as units(7). -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-

Re: Recovering deleted items once Kmail trash is emptied

2010-07-12 Thread Carl Johnson
wikipedia.org/wiki/PhotoRec > ² http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SystemRescueCD PhotoRec is also available from debian as part of the testdisk package. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscri

Re: console: turning to the primary state.

2010-07-09 Thread Carl Johnson
Tom writes: > Hey, > > > >>> How I can turn such a terminal to its primary state? >> >> "Ctrl+C" and sometimes "Ctrl+Z". > > Or "reset"? Sometimes it won't recognize CR either, but I have found that ^J (Control-J) al

Re: QEMU on Debian issues

2010-06-20 Thread Carl Johnson
e what your current configuration is. You can also put the alias in /etc/network/interfaces for automatic configuration. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troub

Re: Running a program when computer enters/exits idle state

2010-06-03 Thread Carl Johnson
Klistvud writes: > Dne, 02. 06. 2010 18:56:48 je Carl Johnson napisal(a): > >> used. You also might want to look at the 'conservative' governor. It >> will decrease speed slower, but it also increases speed slower. > > I tried it out and on my system it

Re: Running a program when computer enters/exits idle state

2010-06-02 Thread Carl Johnson
Klistvud writes: > Dne, 02. 06. 2010 18:33:21 je Carl Johnson napisal(a): >> >> I suspect any manual selection you figure out will be slower than >> that. On my Athlon II computer the default latency is 8 (80msec) >> which is faster than I really need, s

Re: Running a program when computer enters/exits idle state

2010-06-02 Thread Carl Johnson
u also might want to look at the 'conservative' governor. It will decrease speed slower, but it also increases speed slower. I have been testing FreeBSD and its driver seems to increase speed quickly, but drops it back down slowly. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org -- To UNS

Re: Running a program when computer enters/exits idle state

2010-06-02 Thread Carl Johnson
etween 'sampling_rate_min' and 'sampling_rate_max' (in the same directory). I suspect any manual selection you figure out will be slower than that. On my Athlon II computer the default latency is 8 (80msec) which is faster than I really need, so I actually slow it down a little.

Re: IPv4-capable XDMCP server in Debian squeeze?

2010-05-29 Thread Carl Johnson
s XP machine, using Xming. I wasn't aware that > this has suddenly become an awful lot of work, since the introduction > of the wonderful new toy called IPv6... :-) > > (Please, Cc any replies to my email address since I don't subscribe to > the mailing list. Thanks) Do

Re: daemonizing a command

2010-05-27 Thread Carl Johnson
it. Have you looked at the libdaemons-ruby package to see if it helps? -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org -- 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/87sk5dq7gy@cjlinux.localnet

Re: adding 192.x with static IP

2010-05-04 Thread Carl Johnson
nal nameserver. I let the router use DHCP to automatically assign an address in the its normal range, but then I assign static addresses in another subnet using aliases. I configure the alias in /etc/network/interfaces, but the dhclient.conf file provides another way to define aliases. --

Re: Cyrus 2.2 imapd in AMD64

2010-04-26 Thread Carl Johnson
called db4.6-upgrade which might do what you want. There are other version of db-util, so get whichever one matches your current library and try it on a *copy* to see if it does what you want. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.o

Re: acroread not seeing printers

2010-04-15 Thread Carl Johnson
e in > the path but it didn't help :( I don't know if you noticed, but I think that should be LD_LIBRARY_PATH, without the extra 'I'. I don't know enough to help otherwise. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: Alternative to dhcp?

2010-04-15 Thread Carl Johnson
7;t stick, as > resolv.conf keeps reverting to the router's. Has the dhclient been restarted since you edited the configuration file, either manually or through a reboot? I use the prepend- option, but I assume that it isn't reread automatically so I kill and restart the client

Re: Scaling governor via sysctl?

2010-01-30 Thread Carl Johnson
"Tilo Schwarz" writes: > On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 23:26:40 +0100, Carl Johnson wrote: > >> "Tilo Schwarz" writes: >> >>> On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 05:42:13 +0100, Todd A. Jacobs >>> wrote: >>> >>>> I'd like to s

Re: Scaling governor via sysctl?

2010-01-29 Thread Carl Johnson
ow am I supposed to do this >> at boot without sysctl.conf? >> > > I use sysfs.conf: > > #grep demand /etc/sysfs.conf > devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor = ondemand If you have the cpufrequtils package installed, then just edit /etc/defaults/cpufr

Re: VGA cards

2009-12-16 Thread Carl Johnson
Johannes Wiedersich writes: > Carl Johnson wrote: >> I agree entirely with you. It is obvious by now that the original >> poster has an irrational grudge against ATI and is not interested in >> any real discussions. > > Ups OP was Rogério Brito, not Camaleón.

Re: VGA cards

2009-12-16 Thread Carl Johnson
onal grudge against ATI and is not interested in any real discussions. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: debian support and laptops

2009-12-09 Thread Carl Johnson
stems. Unfortunately, I have an early model Athlon-64 that doesn't have the HW support, so I am limited to running 32 bit operating sytems. My understanding is that all mainline AMD 64-bit processors now have HW support, but many low and medium cost models of Intel processors do not have the

Re: moving lv from local VG to a remote VG

2009-10-30 Thread Carl Johnson
ld just use pvmove to move the data. I haven't tried this, so you will have to look at the other lvm commands to see if any other steps are required. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of &quo

Re: Merge Extra free space into current linux partition

2009-10-26 Thread Carl Johnson
Koolwal wrote: >> >> > Does anybody else know if >> > there is a way to reread the partion table an a running system? Thanks, I hadn't know about that. I had seen some other way, but this is better since it is just for that purpose. The program is in the pa

Re: Merge Extra free space into current linux partition

2009-10-22 Thread Carl Johnson
ed partition? If not, then you can use a live > cd of gparted. You can resize it on the disk while the system is running, but the kernel won't recognize the changes. I think there is a way (using sysfs?) to tell the kernel to reread the partition table, but I haven't been able to find

Re: keeping the two latest files on a folder

2009-10-14 Thread Carl Johnson
nd can't locate my awk & sed book (may >> have left it at last job.) > > ls -1 |sed '1,2d' > > gives me a single column. Right, but when I did echo $(ls -1 | sed '1,2d') as others suggested for testing I got the same result as he did. I

Re: Printing from last page to the first

2009-10-12 Thread Carl Johnson
Merciadri Luca writes: > Carl Johnson writes: > >> Merciadri Luca writes: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> When printing a document, it is always easier for the person who needs >>> to reassemble the printed document if it was printed from the last

Re: Printing from last page to the first

2009-10-12 Thread Carl Johnson
dering using psselect. I see it in cups configuration and in the options for individual print jobs, so you just need to look deeper into the configuration options. It is available in the KDE versions of the print manager, but I don't know that is available elsewhere. -- Carl Johnsonc

Re: vim linebreaks in Mutt

2009-08-01 Thread Carl Johnson
n, and that makes my lines > get much longer. > > Sorry if this is off-topic, but I've noticed there are at least a couple > Mutt users on the list. I am not a Mutt user, but I am a vim user. You would just use textwidth=72 instead of the wrapmargin=5 (or use tw for textw

Re: should I get SATA drives for old PC?

2009-07-29 Thread Carl Johnson
ome older BIOSs may not boot properly from SATA drives, so you may need to keep the older drives for booting. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: How do you read mail with gnus?

2009-07-19 Thread Carl Johnson
e problem by abandoning the idea of > organizing mail altogether. Maybe I could use it, but it doesn't run > stable enough to try it out. I don't want a GUI MUA, and it must > support maildir. I want to continue using emacs or xemacs as an editor > for mails. It takes a while t

Re: Uptimes - any guidance? [moving OT]

2009-06-27 Thread Carl Johnson
or Slackware and enjoyed > using it from 8.1 to 11.0 However, I confess to having become quite > spoiled by the package management system of Debian (and I suspect that > FreeBSD and Gentoo are similar with ports and portage respectively). Ports are source, but they have a binary package

Re: Debian Linux

2009-05-27 Thread Carl Johnson
help allow display of all of the man pages as well as info pages and debian documentation. I don't know about dhelp, but dwww also shows information in /usr/share/doc, and then allows access to package information. Both of these (and probably others) output in html, so they can be used w

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-24 Thread Carl Johnson
ww.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ It is also available as a pdf which is >1000 pages! It doesn't cover everything, but it does cover a lot. They also have other books and articles at http://www.freebsd.org/docs/books.html. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Strange timeout and DPMS behaviour in Lenny

2009-04-13 Thread Carl Johnson
ecking for bug reports on this, but I haven't found any. Thanks. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Problems with some web sites (tuning?)

2009-03-31 Thread Carl Johnson
"Barclay, Daniel" writes: > Carl Johnson wrote: >> ow...@netptc.net writes: >> >>> ... The >>> timeout or "lockup" can indicate that the packets cannot be >>> reassembled at the destination (your computer) and the TCP protocol >

Re: Problems with some web sites (tuning?)

2009-03-29 Thread Carl Johnson
bout a couple things(ECN and SACK?) that can >>>cause problems with some sites, but I think I already have disabled >>>them in the sysctl.conf settings I included in my original message. >>> >>>Any idea how I could trace something like dropped packets? Looking >

Re: Problems with some web sites (tuning?)

2009-03-28 Thread Carl Johnson
ttings I included in my original message. Any idea how I could trace something like dropped packets? Looking for the absence of something can be very difficult if I don't know what I should be looking for. Thanks for your suggestions. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org

Re: Problems with some web sites (tuning?)

2009-03-28 Thread Carl Johnson
Carl Johnson writes: > Jochen Schulz writes: > >> Carl Johnson: >>> >>> I have been having access problems with some web sites for quite a >>> while now, with wikipedia being one of the worst. I can access the >>> web site, but articl

Re: Can't ping to other ip addesss

2009-03-26 Thread Carl Johnson
Florian Kulzer writes: > On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 11:51:12 -0700, Carl Johnson wrote: >> Florian Kulzer writes: > > [...] > >> > If you want to search for utilities with generic names then it helps to >> > use apt-file like this: >> > >> &g

Re: Problems with some web sites (tuning?)

2009-03-26 Thread Carl Johnson
Jochen Schulz writes: > Carl Johnson: >> >> I have been having access problems with some web sites for quite a >> while now, with wikipedia being one of the worst. I can access the >> web site, but articles often freeze, especially large ones. It will >> somet

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