Re: Internet facing Firewalls mDNS UPnP SMB

On Sun, Aug 4, 2024 at 3:12 AM George at Clug wrote: > > > On Sunday, 04-08-2024 at 16:15 john doe wrote: > > On 8/4/24 06:48, jeremy ardley wrote: > > > > > > On 4/08/2024 12:26 pm, George at Clug wrote: > > >> > > >> If I go to the local coffee shop and connect my laptop to their WiFi, > > >> w

Re: Persistent MySQL Process

On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 5:11 AM, Daniel Latter wrote: > On Tuesday, 9 October 2012 02:00:02 UTC+1, Christofer C. Bell wrote: >> >> Do you by any chance use KDE? >> > > I do not use KDE myself but my colleague does, but its just to browse to a > web address, can

Re: Persistent MySQL Process

On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 2:48 PM, Daniel Latter wrote: > Hi, Thanks for the reply. > > I did as you suggested and found evidence in the second command, but the only > that stood out was the Debian start up script that I have already commented > out and restarted MySQL, I'm going to try a server re

Re: IA64 or AMD64?

On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 6:13 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 9/23/2012 3:20 AM, Christofer C. Bell wrote: > >> While one could hope you're wanting this off the list because you've >> finally realized how much you've embarrassed yourself, I know that, >> sadly,

Re: IA64 or AMD64?

On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 2:23 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 9/22/2012 7:14 AM, Camaleón wrote: >> On Fri, 21 Sep 2012 15:53:21 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> >>> On 9/21/2012 10:06 AM, Camaleón wrote: >>> Stan, just my personal opinion but I think there's no need (and no gain) to say this

Re: IA64 or AMD64?

On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 7:42 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 9/21/2012 7:05 PM, T Elcor wrote: >> - Original Message - >> >> You are either: 1. Horribly lazy 2. Incompetent >> >>> Stan, just my personal opinion but I think there's no need (and no gain) >>> to say this o

Re: IA64 or AMD64?

On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 9:49 PM, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > T Elcor writes: > >> - Original Message - >> >> From: Stan Hoeppner >> >>> This list, as with most others, is not to be used as a >>> primary technical support resource. People should be making at least a >>> cursory effort to searc

Re: Installation

On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 8:55 PM, lee wrote: > "Christofer C. Bell" writes: > >> On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 4:28 PM, lee wrote: >>> >>> What you call "desert situation" is the most likely one to have. If you >>> didn't have it, you we

Re: Installation

On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 4:28 PM, lee wrote: > "Christofer C. Bell" writes: > >> an operating system isn't for you. The "bare metal computer on a >> desert island with nothing but a CD" situation you're imagining simply >> doesn't h

Re: Installation

On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 10:21 AM, The Wanderer wrote: > I'm probably going to regret this... > > > On 09/17/2012 09:31 AM, Camaleón wrote: > >> On Sun, 16 Sep 2012 22:42:03 +0200, lee wrote: >> >>> Camaleón writes: > > That's absurd. You are not going to install an OS in the middle of n

Re: [ask] awk - passing for loop bash variables to awk

On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 3:44 AM, Morning Star wrote: > Hi guys, > I get a difficulty to produce the desired output using awk. i want to > use for loop bash variable as the input to the awk variable > here is the illustrated input: > > line_1 > line_2 > line_3 > line_4 > line_5 > line_6 > line_7 >

Re: Problematic install - cannot find mirror

On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 5:28 PM, Lisi wrote: > > I am doing a net install. I cannot find a usable mirror. I have tried at > least 4 in the UK and 2 in Holland. So I can progress no further. Even if I > were to download CD1 and install from it, the first thing I would want to do > would be to u

Re: pulseaudio configuration question

On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 9:07 AM, Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 27 Aug 2012 18:13:36 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > >> On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 07:18:04PM +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: >>> Good time of the day, Jude. >>> >>> >>> > The Holy Father is neither jude >>> >>> Could You please stop This Name in va

Re: No swap for Debian preseed automated installation

On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 8:47 AM, Bob Proulx wrote: > Christofer C. Bell wrote: > > That depends upon the Linux kernel setting of vm.overcommit_memory. I > have ranted about this on a number of occasions. But the Linux kernel > default is to overcommit. In which case swap is

Re: No swap for Debian preseed automated installation

On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 7:55 AM, ML mail wrote: > That's good news, I didn't see that option in the Debian sample preseed > config files. So as you recommended I checked the partman-basicfilesystems > package from Ubuntu and found the template which does that. Now added the > following to my de

Re: Wheezy and Sun-Java

On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 9:25 AM, Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 15 Aug 2012 12:48:51 -0500, Christofer C. Bell wrote: > >> On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 9:40 AM, Camaleón wrote: > >> So, if your bank doesn't work with OpenJDK 7, then your bank is wrong. >> I see you'

Re: Wheezy and Sun-Java

On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 9:40 AM, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 14 Aug 2012 20:29:41 -0300, Dr Beco wrote: > >> Dear linuxers, >> >> According to this blog ( >> http://sylvestre.ledru.info/blog/sylvestre/2011/08/26/sun_java6_packages_removed_from_debian_u >> ) >> from Sylvestre, responsible for maintai

Re: what graphic card to buy?

On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 8:16 AM, Gary Dale wrote: > > A company is not a person and cannot have rights. All it should have is the > obligation to obey laws and regulations affecting its operations - just as > an automobile, another construct, must conform to all regulatory standards. > The notion

Re: Debian stable chromium does not open Facebook

On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 8:05 PM, John Hasler wrote: > Stephen Allen writes: >> That was what I thought the purpose of volatile was. > > It isn't. See . You want backports: > No, while that meets the need, I don't think that

Re: getting gnome 3

On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 6:19 AM, Camaleón wrote: > > You'll be forced to upgrade to GNOME3. Yes, and and that forced upgrade comes from more than just Debian. > I see no gnome2/gnome3 packaging differentiation as it happened with kde3/ > kde4 in its early stage, most sure because gnome3 is now st

Re: OT: /var on another distro, was: Re: 100% [Waiting for headers]

On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 1:33 AM, Chris Knadle wrote: > > Fedora is interesting in that they use SELinux by default, but I don't > personally like their plans for mandating reboots for certain updates for > Fedora 18.  That's "too much like Windows" for my liking.  I prefer Debian's > restart of se

Re: Up-gradation problem with gnome 2.14

On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 7:20 AM, Brian wrote: > > You could also post the contents of your /etc/apt/sources.list. >From reading the errors, his sources.list points to sarge, etch, *and* lenny, none of which are provided on the main servers these days. >From parsing the output he's pointing to the

Re: Intermittent installation related problems

On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 7:29 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > > What's even more annoying (ascetically) is that I can not see a way for > multiple simultaneous installs to use the same swap space. After all, only > only one install will be in use at a time. This stood out to me reading this thread. W

Re: books on debian of a beginner nature?

On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 4:19 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > >> > I doubt a blind person would be asking for printed books on Debian. > >> Blind person could ask books for Debian if they are written with >> Braille, but they might be more rare than normal books about Debian. > > My English is broken, bu

Re: resize pictures received by mailserver

On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 1:18 AM, Tixy wrote: > On Wed, 2012-06-13 at 15:08 -0500, Christofer C. Bell wrote: >> The ImageMagick "identify" command could be used on the image to >> gather statistics (such as pixel size) do some math on it, and feed >> that b

Re: KVM virtual machines and storage.

On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 4:13 PM, Shane Johnson wrote: > > Does Samba require you to  back of the security of Win7 down to the > point where it doesn't require Kerebos?  If I remember correctly all > that will be resolved once Samba 4 gets released. That I don't know. If it answers the question,

Re: KVM virtual machines and storage.

On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Alan Chandler wrote: > I currently run a necessary Windows 7 (Home Premium) installation in a > VirtualBox virtual machine on my Debian Unstable desktop.  Its OK, but I > have had the occasional glitch when Debian tries to upgrade by kernel > version and for one re

Re: resize pictures received by mailserver

On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 12:47 PM, Rob Owens wrote: > On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 12:45:13PM +0200, Randall wrote: >> >> is it possible to have all messages received by the mailinglists MTA >> scanned for pictures and have these automatically scaled to a >> default size before its being redistributed t

Re: mdadm error - superfluous RAID member

On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 3:47 AM, Steve Dowe wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to re-use an older server, installing squeeze (6.0.5).  I'm using > software RAID and LVM on the machine (details below).  But I must be doing > something wrong with the disk set up stage in the installer, as when it > boots I

Re: about installing lxde (which xserver)

On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 3:45 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > > But unless squeeze is free of the horrible and fast march of updates > one experiences on wheezy it may not be a goal after all. While squeeze has updates, they are generally few and far between. This is the intent of the stable release. S

Re: about installing lxde (which xserver)

On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > "Christofer C. Bell" writes: > >> On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 11:53 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: >>> >>> However, I think that happenstance might mean that even a fairly >>> incompetent klutz mig

Re: about installing lxde (which xserver)

On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 11:53 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > > However, I think that happenstance might mean that even a fairly > incompetent klutz might be able to blunder thru a huge bout of ripping > out kde and most of X then moving from testing to stable, and finally > installing lxde and enough of

Re: what did hwinfo do to my machine?

On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 10:32 AM, Lisi wrote: > On Tuesday 05 June 2012 01:10:26 ow...@netptc.net wrote: >> I have seen such a behavior before when the BIOS boot sequence was >> erroneously configured to boot from floppy before the HDD > > I *always* configure my BIOS boot sequence to try floppy fi

Re: postfix and hostname

On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 12:33 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Vi, 08 iun 12, 14:52:06, Tony van der Hoff wrote: >> >> So some misconfiguration somewhere, but I'm blowed if I can find it. Has >> anyone any hints, please? > > /etc/mailname > > and the variables options 'myhostname' and 'mydestionation

Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 11:05 PM, Miles Bader wrote: > "Christofer C. Bell" writes: >>> Would that mean anybody who wants to build their own kernel would need >>> to buy a signing key? >> >> Not at all.  You can generate your own key and load it into y

Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 10:43 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Thu, 2012-06-07 at 21:36 -0500, Christofer C. Bell wrote: >> This "new world" doesn't tie you to Microsoft or any other company. > > You're mistaken, it does and it does it in a way I don't like

Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 10:26 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Thu, 2012-06-07 at 23:34 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: >> Let's be clear what this is.  I have to get *permission* from someone >> else, to run a program on my own computer.  To actually use my >> computer to do my stuff, I have to take extraor

Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 5:34 PM, Roger Leigh wrote: > > Let's be clear what this is.  I have to get *permission* from someone > else, to run a program on my own computer.  To actually use my > computer to do my stuff, I have to take extraordinary steps to get > someone else to grant me access.  Tha

Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 1:46 AM, Miles Bader wrote: > Scott Ferguson writes: You can't disable the code signing requirement on ARM. >>> >>> ... which is a great deal more worrying. >> >> Yes. And no. >> I'd hate to see a situation where it was impossible to buy an ARM (or >> other CPU based b

Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 2:46 PM, Roger Leigh wrote: > On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 01:07:23PM -0400, Tom H wrote: >> >> What's non-free about signing the "boot-chain"? > > Do I have the freedom to build and install and boot my own kernel? > > No?  Looks like I lost the freedom to have any semblance of c

Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 10:35 PM, Nate Bargmann wrote: > * On 2012 05 Jun 21:45 -0500, Christofer C. Bell wrote: >> On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Nate Bargmann wrote: >> > >> > Again, let MS rot in its malware hell.  I don't care!  Perhaps if MS had >> &

Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > Again, let MS rot in its malware hell.  I don't care!  Perhaps if MS had > been a bit more proactive a couple of decades ago we would not be having > this discussion.  MSFT issues are not for us in the Debian or wider > Linux community to re

Re: [OT] Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 12:45 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 05 Jun 2012 19:26:55 +0200, Claudius Hubig wrote: > >> Hello Camaleón, >> >> Camaleón wrote: >>> Microsoft (I can't tell for the rest of the hardware manufacturers >>> because their position is not mentioned in detail in the blog post) is

Re: [OT] Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 12:22 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 05 Jun 2012 19:03:54 +0200, Claudius Hubig wrote: > >> Hello Camaleón, >> >> Camaleón wrote: >>> For years, we've (the FLOSS community) been avoinding to be always >>> Windows dependant and now it seems we are going back to the darkest >>

Re: Programs for direct friend-to-friend file transfer?

On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 5:39 PM, Brian wrote: > On Sat 02 Jun 2012 at 22:48:57 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > >> On Sb, 02 iun 12, 18:12:03, Brian wrote: >> > >> > There appears to be no advantage in using sshd in this situation. The >> > idea of having to guide her through configuring a router and

Re: The permissions of the apache2 log dir

On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 2:17 PM, Titanus Eramius wrote: > Hi list > > Last week i ran into the very restrictive folder permissions of the > apache2 log dir. They where "drwxr-x--- root adm" but I changed them > to "rwxr-xr-x root adm" so a unprivileged user may opdate webalizer[1] > at night. > > T

Re: Configure sudo

On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 5:54 AM, Denis Witt wrote: > Hi again, > > I came up with this now: > > cat /usr/local/bin/adm.sh Having access to chown and chmod is not secure: cbell@circe:~$ cp /bin/dash . cbell@circe:~$ sudo ./adm.sh chown root:root ./dash Change ownership root:root ./dash cbell@circ

Re: Debian Administrator's Handbook

On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 9:27 AM, Phil Dobbin wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 10/05/12 14:21, Lars Noodén wrote: > >> The Debian Administrator's Handbook is available for sale and download: >> >>       http://debian-handbook.info/ > > > Excellent. I've been looking f

Re: debian 6.0.4 grub installation failed.

On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 5:20 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > yes i got that , but first i thought. it is related to something LVM > over RAID. which means more complexity thats why i didn't read > thoroughly , There isn't really much complexity to LVM over RAID. The RAID device looks like any o

Re: is it safe to remove those things.

On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 2:15 AM, lina wrote: > :/var/cache/apt# du -sh * > 4.0K    apt-file > 9.3M    archives > 21M     pkgcache.bin > 21M     pkgcache.bin.InpgdZ > 22M     pkgcache.bin.K9JUn6 > 22M     pkgcache.bin.nChibf > 21M     srcpkgcache.bin > > > is it safe to remove srcpkgcache.bin pkgcac

Re: How do I remove a bad file??

On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 12:04 AM, Jochen Spieker wrote: > Dennis Wicks: >> Greetings; >> >> I have a file that looks like the following in an ls list; >> >> -? ? ?    ?             ?                ? Inbox.msf >> >> I can't do anything with it. Can't mv, rm, cp, or anything else I >> have t

Re: Solved: Re: Can't install flashplugin.nonfree. ERROR: wget failed to download

On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 6:30 AM, Indulekha wrote: > > I don't think it's a bug... > If you add your user to the sudo group and use the line: > > yourusername   ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL > > in /etc/sudoers, everything should work and you'll > get no password prompt. Of course, replace "youusername" >

Re: command history via Web-console.

On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 3:21 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > Hello everyone, > > > I am using few web front end tools in debian and other destros and for > learning purpose i would like to know the command history that has > been ran via Web console. does linux provide any option by which i can >

Re: eglibc fails to build from source

On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 9:01 PM, bibop554 - wrote: > Hi all, > > I try to build eglibc from source but it fails. I'm on Debian squeeze 6.0.3 > I downloaded [eglibc_2.11.3.orig.tar.gz] and [eglibc_2.11.3-2.diff.gz] > from http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/libc6 Did you install the build dependenc

Re: [OT] Posting styles

On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 3:30 AM, Mika Suomalainen wrote: > > I only press the "sign" button and message is signed correctly and I > can verify it. Then perhaps you could be so kind as to stop pressing the "sign" button, then. :-) -- Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.

Re: upgrade to Wheezy fails with aptitude

On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 6:30 AM, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > On Mon, 2 Apr 2012, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > >> I don't understand what you mean here, could you please elaborate? > > >  Yes I can... > >  All the discussion started about the following sentence in section 4.4.6 >  of the Squeeze Release Not

Re: sharing desktop on debian - freenx?

On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 10:14 PM, John A. Sullivan III wrote: >> > Yes but doesn't xrdp rely upon VNC and thus have the same performance > issues as VNC? I would be delighted to be wrong.  RDP on Windows has > show remarkable improvement with versions 6 and 7 to the point that it > is almost as re

Re: sharing desktop on debian - freenx?

On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 4:49 AM, Alberto Fuentes wrote: > Ive seen that the most optimal sharing desktop is freenx but i "aptsearched" > (new verb guys! if i can google something i can certanly aptsearch as well > :) freenx does not give any result back on repositories. Searching freenx > and debi

Re: Bug#666010: ITP: nvidia-texture-tools -- image processing and texture manipulation tools

On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 11:02 PM, Christofer C. Bell wrote: > On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 6:46 PM, Lennart Weller wrote: >> Am 28.03.2012 01:01, schrieb Ben Hutchings: >>> >>> Since you've accepted as fact that this software infringes those >>> patents, it

Re: Bug#666010: ITP: nvidia-texture-tools -- image processing and texture manipulation tools

On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 6:46 PM, Lennart Weller wrote: > Am 28.03.2012 01:01, schrieb Ben Hutchings: >> >> Since you've accepted as fact that this software infringes those >> patents, it looks like you're about to violate item 1 of the Debian >> patent policy. >> >> Ben. >> > S3TC is not actively

Re: apt aptitude inconsistent search results (regex)

On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 11:40 PM, Ano Nymous wrote: > > I've read man 7 regex and I'm fairly sure those regexes are fine but many > instances give wrong results. > An application that gives expected results is grep, in particular grep -E. > Is this a known issue, or where am I going wrong? The cl

Re: Installing Debian as VirtualBox guest - which videodriver to install?

On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 12:58 PM, Csanyi Pal wrote: > Hi, > > I just installed on my Debian GNU/Linux wheezy/sid host on VirtualBox > the Debian GNU/Linux wheezy/sid as guset using the > http://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/amd64/daily/netboot/mini.iso > > so I get virtual consoles but not a desktop

Re: any GUI for LVM2 ?

On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 4:37 AM, J. Bakshi wrote: > > Dear list, > > Is there any GUI available in debian/ubuntu for LVM2 ? Yes, you can install the system-config-lvm package. Here are the details: Package: system-config-lvm Status: install ok installed Priority: extra Section: admin Installed-

Re: OT Apache Open Office

On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 2:17 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote: > On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 16:45, Jon Dowland wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 01:36:58PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: >>> Thanks, I will start enumerating the differences between OpenOffice and >>> LibreOffice here: >>> http://dotancohen.com/eng/d

Re: Cups init.d file missing

On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 10:16 AM, Ralph Bacolod wrote: > I do have debian its just the output of "lsb_release " command. ;-) > > Don't be to harsh on me kind sir. > > -Original Message----- > From: "Christofer C. Bell" > Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 09

Re: Cups init.d file missing

On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 9:29 AM, Ralph Bacolod wrote: > Ubuntu > Ralph Bacolod ,MT > http://blog.devsphoto.com > twitter: @rafiks > > -Original Message- > From: Brian > Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 13:39:52 > To: > Subject: Re: Cups init.d file missing > > On Wed 14 Mar 2012 at 13:11:37 +,

Re: Cron, > 1 month but < 2 months

On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 12:35 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 09 Mar 2012 05:09:23 +, T o n g wrote: > >> Is there any easy way to schedule a job for a duration that is greater >> than one month but shorter than 2 months? Any duration will do, as long >> as it is easy to schedule. > > Mmm... I wo

Re: Persisting a one-off hostname change

On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 12:08 AM, Jason Heeris wrote: > On 28 February 2012 13:40, Tom H wrote: >> Everywhere that I've worked the hostnames have had something to >> indicate its purpose and its location. > > I don't think this reasoning can be applied here though. There will be > dozens of ident

Re: Free movies on the Internet -- download scams

On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 4:53 PM, Sian Mountbatten wrote: > Hi All! > > It occurred to me that there might be free movies to download. So I did a > web search with Google and got lots of sites; but there's a catch! You have > to register (for free). So I give my email address and a password and > d

Re: unsuscribe

On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 4:28 PM, pastor alexander wrote: > endless crap, too much. is there a chat room for one-on-one > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.orgwith a subject > of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: > http://lists.d

Re: Help needed to repair a damaged dual boot Debian System

On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 6:08 PM, Bernard wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: >> >> Hopefully you would be able to boot a rescue cdrom.  The debian >> installer disk has a rescue mode.  That can be very useful to repair a >> system such as yours.  If the above grub selection of a newer kernel >> does not wo

Re: Windows screws up Linux's clock

On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 10:03 PM, Don deJuan wrote: > > I only continue this banter because I find your assumptions and responses to > be hilarious, already been forwarded around work. Please keep your witty, > brilliant responses coming as to why I was such the "dick" with this major > "tude" as

Question about APT's config on Debian (not an actual issue)

I'm wondering how the following Ubuntu-isms made it into Debian's APT configuration: cbell@circe:~$ apt-config dump | egrep 'verse|ubuntu' APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-ubuntu-modules-.*"; APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections:: "universe/metapackages"; APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections:: "multiverse/metapacka

Re: How to keep track of files installed from sources?

On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 2:53 PM, Csanyi Pal wrote: > Hi, > > I want to install GNUstep from sources on my Debian GNU/Linux SID > sytem. > > How can I know where come installed files after I did run: > ./configure && make && sudo -E make install > > commands? You may want to look into the checkins

Re: Question about HotPlug and cciss hp storage

On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 10:59 AM, Julien Groselle wrote: > I'm sure my kernel is not so old :) > > # uname -r ; cat /etc/debian_version > 2.6.32-5-amd64 > 6.0.4 Oh, not you, Julien. I was addressing Frank who is running Lenny's kernel. That said, he seems to have sorted things out on his end, a

Re: Question about HotPlug and cciss hp storage

On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 10:34 AM, frank wrote: > On Fri, 2012-02-17 at 10:26 -0600, Christofer C. Bell wrote: > >> echo "- - -" > /sys/class/scsi_host/host0/scan > > Have you tried it? Or just copied and pasted? > > echo "- - -" > /sys/class/sc

Re: Question about HotPlug and cciss hp storage

On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 8:04 AM, Julien Groselle wrote: > > So no, I didn't rescan anything... It's just what I need (a command line to > recan all HDD device) Apparently it's as easy as this: echo "- - -" > /sys/class/scsi_host/host0/scan Where 0 is the the controller number. This information

Re: Re: rm -rf is too slow on large files and directory structure(Around 30000)

On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 4:51 PM, Clive Standbridge wrote: >> But may provide some benefit when removing a large number (3) of >> files (at least empty ones). >> >> cbell@circe:~/test$ time find rm -type f -exec rm {} \; >> >> real              0m48.127s >> user              1m32.926s >> sys  

Re: How to configure two NIC's in Debian 6.0.4 box?

On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 11:57 AM, Miroslav Skoric wrote: > > I wonder what is the best way to reconfigure the NIC's so the old card (now > eth0) boots as eth1, and the new card (now eth1) boots as eth0? This is done using the file /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules Just open that in your

Re: rm -rf is too slow on large files and directory structure(Around 30000)

On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 1:38 AM, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Anyone heard of the unlink command? unlink is slower than rm removing a 1.5GB file (at least on ext3): cbell@circe:~$ time rm test1 real0m0.278s user0m0.000s sys 0m0.264s cbell@circe:~$ time unlink test2 real0m0.375s user

Re: free software mini pc

On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 4:47 PM, green wrote: > Christofer C. Bell wrote at 2012-02-13 15:33 -0600: >> On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 10:11 AM, green wrote: >> > >> > So they just try booting Ubuntu and if it works, then claim Linux support? >> >> Their testing

Re: display to remote machine

On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 2:04 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Du, 12 feb 12, 21:34:20, T o n g wrote: >> Hi, >> >> With the ssh/x-forwarding, I seems to have lost the ability to sent my >> local xdisplay to remote machine. How can I do it? >> >> Details: I'm sitting in front of machineA (my desktop)

Re: Conflict resolution?

On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 7:14 PM, Brad Alexander wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 6:25 AM, Andrei Popescu > wrote: > > There are several frontends to APT (apt-get, aptitude, synaptic, etc.), > > which one do you use? > > aptitude. AFAIR, it was the recommended one for Debian. (A while back, > I

Re: Resolved as far as possible, I think: was: Re: "Invisible" files on /tmp from Flash or Iceweasel?

On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 3:08 PM, Randy Kramer wrote: >> >> Yes, lsof is helpful. > > lsof sounded like a good idea, but doesn't actually find the files.  I guess > it would find the files before the unlink occurred. >From lsof(1): +|-L [l] This option enables (`+') or disables (`-') th

Re: [1/2OT]how to optimize below one

On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 6:27 AM, lina wrote: > > #!/bin/bash > > for i in {0..110} > do > > cat_g_f -f m001\_$i\_sot.xtc  m002\_$i\_sot.xtc  m003\_$i\_sot.xtc > m004\_$i\_sot.xtc   m005\_$i\_sot.xtc m006\_$i\_sot.xtc > m007\_$i\_sot.xtc  m008\_$i\_sot.xtc  m009\_$i\_sot.xtc > m010\_$i\_sot.xtc   m

Re: [OT] Re: GNU/Debian Linux vs. facebook, Twitter and other proprietary social media

On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 9:09 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Nick Lidakis wrote: > >> Are there other tool I can use to avoid using facebook? I did find out >> about and someone else mentioned about Diaspora. It's considered >> decentralized social networking. But can I use some other software to let >

Re: [OT] gmail archive button missing from label

On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 4:18 AM, J. Bakshi wrote: > Hello list, > > I get the gmail archive button in inbox view , but not in the label view. > Is it not possible to archive messages from label view ? > Click the small [x] next to the Inbox label. This will remove the "Inbox" label and, by way o

Re: Python

On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 1:49 PM, Sylvain wrote: > On 01. 02. 12 07:42, Johann Spies wrote: > >> On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 11:24:17PM +0200, cletusjenkins wrote: >> >>> Hello, I am interested to learn how to program in Python. What debian >>> packages >>> would I need to start coding some basic cgi i

Re: No locks available.

On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 11:13 AM, lina wrote: > > $ fuser > -bash: fuser: command not found > > uname -a > Linux 2.6.9-42.0.10.ELlargesmp #1 SMP Tue Feb 27 09:59:08 EST 2007 > x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux > > >From the looks of this uname(1) output, you're on a RHEL 4 (or clone) system and not

Re: Wheezy. Weekly build 23-Jan-2012. "No kernel modules were found" during install.

On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 12:55 AM, Leonid Korostyshevski < korostyshevski@gmail.com> wrote: > > If somebody knows, is that bug fixed in upcoming DVD 30-01-2012 weekly > build? ~3.7Gb is a way big for 3G uplink, so should it be marked for > download when *.iso will be ready for? > Leonid, If b

Re: Using wheezy or testing in sources.list f ... sorry for the noise

On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 1:38 PM, Paul E Condon wrote: > On 20120129_090739, Christofer C. Bell wrote: > > > > Colin, > > > > Perhaps this will explain it better. This is taken from > ftp.us.debian.org: > > > > lrwxrwxrwx1 21285 212856 Feb

Re: Using wheezy or testing in ,,, OT question.

On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 6:02 PM, Christofer C. Bell < christofer.c.b...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Paul E Condon > wrote: > >> On 20120129_090739, Christofer C. Bell wrote: >> >> > they're actuall

Re: Using wheezy or testing in ,,, OT question.

On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Paul E Condon wrote: > On 20120129_090739, Christofer C. Bell wrote: > > > they're actually being put into a directory named Wheezy. > ^^ > > > > Unfortunately, Debian li

Re: Using wheezy or testing in sources.list for security updates

On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 8:27 AM, Colin wrote: > On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 11:28 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: > > On 2012-01-29 11:51 +0100, Colin wrote: > > This depends on what you intend to do when wheezy becomes stable. Do > > you want to continue to use testing forever, or do you want to have a >

Re: System doesn't start X on first boot

On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 10:24 AM, Alberto Luaces wrote: > George writes: > >> On 1/5/12, Alberto Luaces wrote: >>> George writes: >>> When I boot my computer, most of the time I get a command line without X starting. I have to "sudo reboot", wait for the system to reboot and then I

Re: linux-source-3.2.0-rc7

On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 12:38 AM, lina wrote: > Hi, > > a quick question, > > Which header I should choose? > > $ uname -a > Linux debian 3.2.0-rc6-3.2-mj-lina #1 SMP Sat Dec 17 13:14:26 SGT 2011 > x86_64 GNU/Linux > > the one I built from kernel.org a bit heavy, took so much space. I am not > sure

Re: PHP5 scripts not served by apache2 on Squeeze

On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 9:16 AM, Avi Greenbury wrote: > Kristian Lampen wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I have a fresh install of apache2 and php on my server and I can not >> get php to work, php-scripts are not executed by apache, just the >> plain script is served to the browser. >> > > By default, in

Re: How to do this, fold + split

On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 10:12 PM, Christofer C. Bell wrote: > On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Kleber Fortaleza > wrote: >> On Friday 30 December 2011 13:09:13 T o n g wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I want to split a file every ### of chars. Is it possibl

Re: How to do this, fold + split

On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Kleber Fortaleza wrote: > On Friday 30 December 2011 13:09:13 T o n g wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I want to split a file every ### of chars. Is it possible not to split on >> the word but word boundaries? >> >> Thanks > this shoud be what you want > > split -b I can't

Re: lenny hosting wheezy chroot

On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 1:15 AM, Ross Boylan wrote: > I am looking for advice on how to run a wheezy chroot from a lenny host, > in particular how to handle dev, udev, and X. > While it's not an answer to the questions you've asked, I just want to make sure you're aware of a project called OpenV

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