Re: Testing amd64 netinst LUKS+LVM install broken

2024-04-09 Thread Craig Hesling
sue. All the best, Craig On Tue, Apr 9, 2024 at 5:51 PM Craig Hesling wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm having an issue with the guided partitioner in the Debian testing > amd64 installer. > Specifically, the "Guided - use entire disk and set up encrypted LVM" > error

Testing amd64 netinst LUKS+LVM install broken

2024-04-09 Thread Craig Hesling
io.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Is this a known issue? *Reproduction:* md5sum ~/Downloads/debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso > d80f2f073cdb2db52d9d1dd8e625b04b /home/craig/Downloads/debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso dd if=/dev/zero of=~/Downloads/test-hda.img

Re: Package priority puzzlement

2021-09-14 Thread craig duncan
I hope the pointer to the matching priorities on the two different repositories was a helpful hint. -- The Wanderer Yes... i suppose that explains the behavior.  Except this seems to mean that setting APT::Default-Release "stable" in apt.conf has no effect. Before my previous installation

Package priority puzzlement

2021-09-14 Thread craig duncan
I just installed Bullseye after -- as a long-time Debian user -- having had my hard drive corrupted by USB devices. I used to run testing, so i thought i would get there, but first i wanted to install the apps i wanted, get things working, and then migrate to testing. During the install, i also

I'd like help reporting an anomaly/bug with wifi and NetworkManager under Buster

2018-12-03 Thread craig macdonald
fine, but how should I now proceed at this point? I'd like to help the community correct what seems to be a problem somewhere in the linux networking system, possibly specific to wifi, but I have NO IDEA what package to mention when filing a new bug report if it wouldn't be firmware-misc-nonfree. Thanks for any advice! -- Craig

Re: "Lennart Poettering Linux" -- some real eye openers here ... don't be blindsided!

2014-11-10 Thread David L. Craig
On 14Nov10:1657+1100, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-May/019657.html Debian's own Michael Biebl posted the comment to which Poettering publicly announced this udev roadmap back at the end of May. How could the assurances udev would be stay init

Re: Joey Hess is out?

2014-11-08 Thread David L. Craig
On 14Nov08:1603+0100, Mart van de Wege wrote: > Quite frankly, I'm disgusted. A developer with a lot of contributions is > chased away by the noise made by a bunch of whiners who can't even be > bothered to set up a test server. > > And because some devs want to placate those whiners, we get inte

Re: How To Prove Systemd Can|Cannot Be Jessie Default

2014-10-23 Thread David L. Craig
On 14Oct23:2035+0300, Dimitrios Chr. Ioannidis wrote: > That's not the point. From the technical point of > view, IMO, you are correct but that's not the only > view that exists in Debian Project, me thinks. [snip] > My choices reg. my use of technology isn't based > only on technical grounds, y

Re: How To Prove Systemd Can|Cannot Be Jessie Default

2014-10-23 Thread David L. Craig
On 14Oct23:0004-0400, Charles Kroeger wrote: > Is that your idea of letting the code speak for itself? The code speaks when its execution reveals a need to run reportbug (or not). When we fail to run reportbug, we muzzle the code and possibly allow that bug to be part of the Jessie release. Hop

How To Prove Systemd Can|Cannot Be Jessie Default

2014-10-22 Thread David L. Craig
There is only one way the default init for Jessie can be changed at this point in time--the Release Team must conclude systemd will have turned out to be a release critical nightmare likely well into the feature freeze. There is only one way for that to happen--lots of open RC bugs having systemd

Re: Would discussion of improving sysv-init be on topic?

2014-10-16 Thread David L. Craig
On 14Oct16:1151-0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: > It strikes me that there's actually very little that needs to be done. In > the short term, the world, including Debian, will continue to support > sysvinit scripts - if only because the BSDs aren't going anywhere, I expect > autotools will continue t

Re: debian-advocacy?

2014-10-13 Thread David L. Craig
On 14Oct14:0837+1100, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > On 14/10/2014 8:32 AM, John Hasler wrote: > > Andrei POPESCU writes: > >> Without an accurate count I'd say only about 1% (or less) of the > >> subscribers are actually participating in these discussion. > > > > 1% participation in any discussion

Re: Systemd, systemd, and more systemd ...

2014-09-21 Thread David L. Craig
On 14Sep21:2227+0100, Brian wrote: > On Sun 21 Sep 2014 at 16:29:53 -0400, David L. Craig wrote: > > > On 14Sep21:1827+0100, Brian wrote: > > > > > Apart from using a Beta 1 D-I i386 netinst and installing to a real > > > machine I did the same as y

Re: Systemd, systemd, and more systemd ...

2014-09-21 Thread David L. Craig
On 14Sep21:1827+0100, Brian wrote: > Apart from using a Beta 1 D-I i386 netinst and installing to a real > machine I did the same as you a couple of days ago. No problems > upgrading to unstable. Far be it for me to suggest any bugs in qemu > or kvm, but we do have quite a difference in our experi

Re: Systemd, systemd, and more systemd ...

2014-09-21 Thread David L. Craig
On 14Sep21:1618+0100, Brian wrote: > On Sun 21 Sep 2014 at 09:47:32 -0400, David L. Craig wrote: > > You didn't accept an upgrade to the new default init system. But you > accepted the new sysvinit package. Yes, after systemd broke the system as described in https://bugs.d

Re: Systemd, systemd, and more systemd ...

2014-09-21 Thread David L. Craig
On 14Sep21:1544+0100, Martin Read wrote: > Shorter, but incorrect and unsafe. On Debian jessie and later (and thus, by > extension, the current state of Debian sid), /sbin/init means "the currently > installed default init system". As such, it is not the correct way to set up > a fallback configur

Re: Systemd, systemd, and more systemd ...

2014-09-21 Thread David L. Craig
On 14Sep21:1604+0300, David Baron wrote: > > And if a > boot command "init=/lib/sysvinit/init" will definitely yield a fallback (have > it in my lilo.conf but have not actually needed to tried it), then maybe this > can be laid to rest. Well, do your due dilligence. On my primary Sid system,

Re: There is no choice

2014-09-21 Thread David L. Craig
On 14Sep21:0851-0500, Nate Bargmann wrote: > * On 2014 21 Sep 08:00 -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: > > > Maybe systemd will give gnu/hurd, or minix, or plan 9 a boost. > > I've been looking at Guix this past week after discovering it almost by > accident: I've been looking at Plan 9 for almost ha

Re: Creating a forum for systemd debate

2014-09-18 Thread David L. Craig
On 14Sep18:1301-0400, David L. Craig wrote: > Ironically, I have been recovering > from some strange Sid upgrade issues involving systemd for > past half day--I'm still uncertain what went south, but I > seem to be back with /sbin/init for now. Unfortunately, > Sid seems to

Re: Creating a forum for systemd debate

2014-09-18 Thread David L. Craig
On 14Sep18:1449+0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 08:06:21AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > > David L. Craig writes: > > > Is this viewpoint typical of DDs? > > > > No, but the attitude is, unfortunately, quite common. > > The grandparent

Re: Creating a forum for systemd debate

2014-09-18 Thread David L. Craig
On 14Sep18:0636+0200, Raffaele Morelli wrote: > Delete key works perfectly and fast here BTW, none of the posters (spammers) > is a debian developer and AFAIK it's not going to be. > > That given, can someone explain what's the use in those debates in which your > decision > making power it's l

Re: Let's have a vote!

2014-09-16 Thread David L. Craig
On 14Sep17:0355+1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 10:20:04AM -0400, David L. Craig wrote: > > > > The obvious question this leads to is, "Would some registration > > facility to enable non-developing users to support/inform > > decision-making

Re: Let's have a vote!

2014-09-16 Thread David L. Craig
On 14Sep16:1203+0100, Martin Read wrote: > Debian users, on the other hand, are very much *not* a strongly-identifiable > group; there is no formal mechanism whatsoever for being endorsed as an > Official Debian User. As such, a vote "by the users" can, *at best*, be a > vaguely indicative straw p

Announcing The Virtual Plan 9 Server Cookbook

2014-08-27 Thread David L. Craig
This is the publication I wished I had had several months ago, so I decided to write it. With hundreds of screen shots and a few choice scripts (the main one based on maht's make_cpuauth contribution to Plan 9), it walks a UNIX sysadmin of modest experience through installing Debian Sid onto an x8

Re: Debian on a Dell Latitude E7440

2014-07-01 Thread Craig L.
On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 11:16:25PM +0200, Stanislav Bocinec wrote: > Hello Craig, > > i'm using Ubuntu 14.04LTS on E7440 (i7, 16GB Ram, SSD disk, intel GPU) > without any major issues. Only thing i experienced problem with was that > external monitor was sometimes losing sign

Re: Debian on a Dell Latitude E7440

2014-07-01 Thread Craig L.
On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 12:25:21PM -0400, ken wrote: > On 03/22/2014 01:29 PM Craig L. wrote: > > I found folks > >running other distros on the E7440, so we're going with it. If I have any > >problems I will pass them along for anyone else that is interested in

Re: Iceweasel and DRM

2014-05-15 Thread David L. Craig
On 14May15:1830+0200, Francesco Ariis wrote: > I guess this is going to be a debated topic. Having seen this [1], I do not > think there is any way to implement meaningful (for the companies) CDMs > without > having them in non-free. > > [1] > https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/html-media/raw-file/tip/encr

Re: New Icedove feature?

2014-04-30 Thread Craig Libscomb
On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 10:53 PM, KS wrote: > On 29/04/14 08:45 PM, Craig Libscomb wrote: >> Hello, >> >> With the latest icedove update, I've noticed that when an email arrives, the >> account name, and the incoming folder destination in the folder pane are now &

New Icedove feature?

2014-04-29 Thread Craig Libscomb
tting that seems to apply, nor anything on the mozilla site that seems to point me in the right direction. Can anyone shed light on this for me? Thanks, Craig -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@l

Re: Users Not Receiving List Mail

2014-04-02 Thread Craig L.
On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 10:47:20AM -0500, Mr Queue wrote: > Unfortunately this mailing list has been listed with senderscore and it would > appear the affected users IPS's are > utilizing this service. The listmaster has requested to be delisted but it > may take some time for them to process the

Re: Not receiving list mail

2014-04-02 Thread Craig L.
On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 04:32:33PM +0200, Alexander Wirt wrote: > On Wed, 02 Apr 2014, Mr Queue wrote: > > > On Wed, 2 Apr 2014 08:54:54 -0500 > > "Craig L." wrote: > > > > > I have not received any list mailings since 30 March. I see there are at &

Not receiving list mail

2014-04-02 Thread Craig L.
ay to troubleshoot this issue? I created a gmail account and subscribed to the list there, and that is working fine. I sent an email from it to this account, and it came through. I can always stick with gmail if I need to, but I would rather stick with this account if possible. Thanks, Craig -

Re: Another apt-get update: "Hash Sum mismatch"

2014-03-29 Thread Craig L.
On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 01:02:55PM -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 12:18 PM, Craig L. wrote: > > > > On another system, I have a VM running stable, and another running > > testing. The stable VM has been around for over a year and makes use of > &g

Another apt-get update: "Hash Sum mismatch"

2014-03-29 Thread Craig L.
cal mirror, and I am clueless as to even begin to know how to troubleshoot the problem because I don't know how to get any additional information beyond the error message on screen. Can anyone shed some light on how I can go about resolving the problem? Thanks, Craig /etc/apt/sources.list: de

Re: Debian on a Dell Latitude E7440

2014-03-22 Thread Craig L.
r monitor > is needed. I've also used old laptops to monitor power to initiate shutdowns on systems connected to “dumb” ups's. I've gotten no negative responses to my original question, and I found folks running other distros on the E7440, so we're going with it. If I have any

Re: Debian on a Dell Latitude E7440

2014-03-20 Thread Craig L.
On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 04:03:36PM -0400, Mike McGinn wrote: > > On Thursday, March 20, 2014 15:28:32 Craig L. wrote: > > Hello list, > > > > Sadly, my 11 year-old Toshiba laptop has become physically unusable*, and > > I will be receiving a new laptop at work. We

Debian on a Dell Latitude E7440

2014-03-20 Thread Craig L.
ros or cons to offer? Thanks, Craig *Hinges broken beyond repair. 11 years old with just 512MB of RAM, but still running Wheezy with an XFCE desktop just fine! Case is cracked, battery lasts about ten minutes, touchpad is dead, and the screen has several scuffs. Still, it is a shame to see it go. -- T

Re: ssh login problem from one particular client

2014-02-19 Thread Craig L.
On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 12:27:30PM -0200, André Nunes Batista wrote: > On Wed, 2014-01-29 at 13:47 -0600, Craig L. wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 02:07:08PM -0600, Craig L. wrote: > > > > This appears to be a problem with an ASA firewall appliance and is being > &g

Re: ssh login problem from one particular client

2014-01-29 Thread Craig L.
On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 02:07:08PM -0600, Craig L. wrote: > I have a couple of VMs running on a remote server: one with an older version > of > Ubuntu, and one running wheezy. I have an ssh tunnel with X forwarding set up > so that I can access the machines from my system as localho

Re: how to remove ? directory

2014-01-28 Thread Craig L.
On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 04:23:04PM +0100, Sven Hartge wrote: > Craig L. wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 10:00:05PM +0800, lina wrote: > > >> It is so strange, as a user (before I didn't try as user ): > >> > >> dr-x-- 2 lina lina 0 Jan

Re: how to remove ? directory

2014-01-28 Thread Craig L.
On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 10:00:05PM +0800, lina wrote: > On Tuesday 28,January,2014 09:46 PM, Craig L. wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 09:34:00PM +0800, lina wrote: > >> On Tuesday 28,January,2014 09:24 PM, Sven Hartge wrote: > >>> lina wrote: > >>>

Re: how to remove ? directory

2014-01-28 Thread Craig L.
On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 09:34:00PM +0800, lina wrote: > On Tuesday 28,January,2014 09:24 PM, Sven Hartge wrote: > > lina wrote: > > > >> ls: cannot access .gvfs: Permission denied > > > >> d? ? ?? ?? .gvfs > > > >> a# rm -rf .gvfs > >> rm: cannot remove `.gvfs

Re: ssh login problem from one particular client

2014-01-24 Thread Craig L.
On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 09:20:09PM -0200, André Nunes Batista wrote: > On Thu, 2014-01-23 at 14:07 -0600, Craig L. wrote: > > > > When I tried to reconnect, it took almost 60 seconds for the password > > prompt to > > show up. Ever since then this problem occurs f

ssh login problem from one particular client

2014-01-23 Thread Craig L.
rmal to me. The only thing I have not tried is rebooting my machine, but that's so windows and probably not necessary. So I've turned to y'all for a clue as to how to troubleshoot this issue. Thanks, Craig -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Hearing Sound When Running Debian Live

2013-12-05 Thread David L. Craig
I am amazed to discover how difficult it is to figure out why programmatically causing a sound to be heard when running a Debian Live XFCE distribution doesn't produce actual sound. I can invoke VLC via Application -> Multimedia and hear a .wav as expected but trying to cause that to happen using

Re: MIT discovered issue with gcc

2013-11-27 Thread David L. Craig
On 13Nov27:2356+1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 27/11/13 23:37, David L. Craig wrote: > > On 13Nov27:1423+1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: > > > >> On 27/11/13 13:49, David L. Craig wrote: > > > >>> On 13Nov26:1545-0500, David L. Craig wrote: > >

Re: MIT discovered issue with gcc

2013-11-27 Thread David L. Craig
On 13Nov27:1423+1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 27/11/13 13:49, David L. Craig wrote: > > On 13Nov26:1545-0500, David L. Craig wrote: > > > >> On 13Nov26:1437-0500, Mark Haase wrote: > >> > >>> Therefore, a Linux distribution has 2 choices:

Re: MIT discovered issue with gcc

2013-11-26 Thread David L. Craig
On 13Nov26:1545-0500, David L. Craig wrote: > On 13Nov26:1437-0500, Mark Haase wrote: > > > Therefore, a Linux distribution has 2 choices: (1) wait for upstream > > patches for bugs/vulnerabilities as they are found, or (2) recompile all > > packages with optimizations

Re: MIT discovered issue with gcc

2013-11-26 Thread David L. Craig
On 13Nov26:1437-0500, Mark Haase wrote: > Therefore, a Linux distribution has 2 choices: (1) wait for upstream > patches for bugs/vulnerabilities as they are found, or (2) recompile all > packages with optimizations disabled. I don't think proposal #2 would get > very far... Well, there's always

Re: Fwd: Questions about SIGHUP behavior

2013-11-13 Thread David L. Craig
On 13Nov13:1240+0100, Steffen Dettmer wrote: > thanks for your detailed answer. Indeed, this is very good material to understand. As a minor point in the interest of complete treatment, I add the nohup nohup construct; e.g., ( while : ; do sleep 60 ; echo awake `date` ; done &>/dev/null & ) wh

Re: Hosting advice

2013-11-01 Thread Craig L.
hat for the sake of expediency. That takes the pressure off for the next few days at least. Again, thanks to you and everyone. I received some excellent advice. Now, off to grow the business! Craig Sent - Gtek Web Mail -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: Hosting advice

2013-11-01 Thread Craig L.
On Friday, November 1, 2013 05:56, "Jeff Bauer" said: > On 10/31/2013 06:53 PM, Craig L. wrote: >> I have a good friend ... > > Consider https://www.linode.com/ > > Friends don't run a friend's server on Microsoft; nor do friends set up > friend'

Re: Hosting advice

2013-11-01 Thread Craig L.
On Thursday, October 31, 2013 22:36, "Scott Ferguson" said: > On 01/11/13 09:53, Craig L. wrote: >> May I trouble you good people for suggestions that meet these needs? >> We would like to have at least one working email address by close of >> business tomorrow

Re: Hosting advice

2013-11-01 Thread Craig L.
On Thursday, October 31, 2013 22:06, "David Christensen" said: > On 10/31/2013 03:53 PM, Craig L. wrote: >> May I trouble you good people for suggestions that meet these needs? We would >> like to have at least one working email address by close of business tomorrow &g

Re: Hosting advice

2013-11-01 Thread Craig L.
Monday at the latest. >> >> Thanks, >> Craig >> >> >> Sent - Gtek Web Mail >> >> >> > > First of all, most hosting is done on shared servers. With shared > servers, you will have only user privileges, and not much of that. > Email will be

Re: Hosting advice

2013-11-01 Thread Craig L.
On Thursday, October 31, 2013 18:46, "John Hasler" said: > Craig L. writes: >> May I trouble you good people for suggestions that meet these needs? >> We would like to have at least one working email address by close of >> business tomorrow (Friday, 1 November), o

Re: Hosting advice

2013-11-01 Thread Craig L.
On Thursday, October 31, 2013 20:38, "staticsafe" said: > On 10/31/2013 20:00, John Hasler wrote: >> nearlyfreespeech.net looks interesting but if he goes with that why >> would he bother with the Google thing? >> > NearlyFreeSpeech only provides an e-mail forwarding service, no actual > hosted e

Hosting advice

2013-10-31 Thread Craig L.
1 November), or Monday at the latest. Thanks, Craig Sent - Gtek Web Mail -- 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/1383259990.09978...@webmail.gtek.biz

Re: apt-get vs. aptitude

2013-10-10 Thread David L. Craig
On 13Oct09:2153+0100, Joe wrote: > On Wed, 09 Oct 2013 13:24:57 -0500 > Richard Owlett wrote: > > > > > Being retired, I've no aspirations of being a sysadmin. > > > > > > > If you run Linux, you already are. You don't get to choose. Probably. There have been reports of parents set up on L

Re: Re: Re: Building computer

2013-09-27 Thread David L. Craig
On 13Sep27:2054+0530, Balamurugan wrote: > On 09/27/2013 04:08 PM, David L. Craig wrote: > >Your fact is not. I installed Debian Sid on a G500 a few > >months ago and it dual-boots with Win8. The trick is to > >use the smaller alternative power button to the right of >

Re: Re: Building computer

2013-09-27 Thread David L. Craig
On 13Sep26:2109-0400, Tom H wrote: > On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 10:30 PM, Balamurugan wrote: > > On 09/25/2013 04:59 AM, Bob Proulx wrote: > >> Catherine Gramze wrote: > >>> > >>> I intend to build a computer for the specific purpose of running > >>> Debian. I have had a bad experience with a store-b

Re: Re: Building computer

2013-09-25 Thread David L. Craig
On 13Sep25:0800+0530, Balamurugan wrote: > Recently one of my friend's brother bought a Lenova > laptop. My friend asked me to install Ubuntu in that > laptop but that machine was not detecting Ubuntu > and directly booting into Windows 8. Then after bit > of struggle, we went into the bios and ch

Re: Mutt / addressbook

2013-09-20 Thread drew craig
On Thursday, September 19, 2013 3:10:02 PM UTC-4, Josef Bailey wrote: > Hello > > > > I'm trying to use the abook app to add an anddressbook into mut (If im > correct it uses alias) > > > > Here is what i have done so far > > > > wajing install abook > > > > (wajing, apt-get, aptitude)

Re: Sound problems on Wheezy upgrade

2013-09-20 Thread drew craig
On Friday, September 13, 2013 10:00:03 AM UTC-4, Lisi Reisz wrote: > The problem has arisen since I upgraded. Sound was fine in Squeeze. > > > > Now, when I run alsamixergui: > > > > lisi@Tux-II:~$ alsamixergui > > > > I get an error box saying: > > > > alsamixer: function snd_mixer_lo

Re: does wheezy's default kernel support wireless mouse?

2013-09-19 Thread Craig L.
nux Craig > > Thanks! > > > -- > 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/CAB-gxZDHisgjgvF+fWECZExAKhAEhaPz9mFR-

Re: Monitor text colour on boot is magenta instead of white

2013-09-18 Thread Craig L.
;d be highly suspicious of the VGA connection. I've done it to myself many times. Look carefully for bent pins or the connector not screwed down all the way. I wouldn't think a BIOS setting got changed unless it was done intentionally. Craig > Regards, Ken Heard > -BEGIN PGP SIGNAT

Re: find and copy [Solved]

2013-09-16 Thread Craig L.
es are backwards in the cp statement. I want to copy from /tmp/var/ to /tmp/data.backup. But you get the kudos, and my appreciation for putting the time into this. I've been stuck taking care of some broken databases, but then that is my job and I do actually enjoy it. :) Zenaan, thanks f

Re: find and copy

2013-09-05 Thread Craig L.
ql find /tmp/var -mmin -60 -a -iname '*.sql' 2>/dev/null | \ xargs echo cp -t /tmp/data.backup which outputs this: cp -t /tmp/data.backup /tmp/var/test.sql and then this (without the echo this time) find /tmp/var -mmin -60 -a -iname '*.sql' 2>/dev/null | \

Re: find and coy

2013-08-31 Thread Craig L.
mmin -60 -a-iname '*.sql'` do cp $dumpfile /var/data.backup/`hostname`.`basename $dumpfile` done I would still like to know how to do it as a find action if anyone has suggestions. Regards, Craig Sent - Gtek Web Mail -- 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/1377971948.555816...@webmail.gtek.biz

find and coy

2013-08-31 Thread craig
kup/prod1.dump_08-31-13.sql My final command will be a copy command similar to: find /var/lib/postgresql/9.1/backup -mmin -60 -a -iname '*.sql' -execdir cp '{}' /var/data.backup/`hostname`.'{}' ';' but I need to understand how to strip the leading ./ from the

Re: Setting up simple VNC Server?

2013-07-01 Thread David L. Craig
On 13Jul01:1518-0400, Art Huston wrote: > I'm looking for the simplest, quickest way to setup VNC Server so I can > access my Debian machine from Windows. There are a number of ways found on > the web -- is there a best practice? I use "ss vs" in one terminal, then "ss vv" in a second to establi

nvi question

2013-05-15 Thread craig
i, \n is not an option. Thanks, Craig Sent - Gtek Web Mail -- 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/1368651019.939711...@webmail.gtek.biz

Re: Calculating optimal disk partitions

2013-05-10 Thread craig
I did as you suggested, and it was helpful. Rather than repeat the conversation, I'll provide the link: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-parted/2013-05/msg0.html Thanks for your help, Craig Sent - Gtek Web Mail -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org w

Re: Calculating optimal disk partitions

2013-05-08 Thread craig
On Wednesday, May 8, 2013 11:26, "Bob Proulx" said: > cr...@gtek.biz wrote: >> I just find it frustrating that the partitioner would issue >> a warning that has so little supporting documentation. > > It might be fruitful to open a question about parted on their upstream > mailing list. > > h

Re: Calculating optimal disk partitions

2013-05-08 Thread craig
rtifying on many years ago. FWIW, I did find an interesting article by a Roderick Smith (http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-4kb-sector-disks/) that talks about advanced format disks, but still doesn't explain the process for calculating optimal start and end points for creati

RE: Calculating optimal disk partitions

2013-05-07 Thread craig
711s 781441024s logical (parted) q > FWIW, at this point I don't care about the fact that partition 7 is not > properly > aligned, and I don't care if I have to leave some space unused. I just want to > understand how to avoid the error while using as much o

Calculating optimal disk partitions

2013-05-06 Thread craig
avoid the error while using as much of the available space as I can in an optimal manner. Any light is appreciated. Craig Sent - Gtek Web Mail -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.deb

Re: iptables and kvm

2013-01-28 Thread craig
t as far as where the rules came from, but I don't think they are going to be grepable. The source contains iptables.c, and a few other similarly named files. I haven't done C in a while, but I'll try to make sure that is where my rules came from. There are also changelog entries that

Re: lightdm login screen minor issue [SOLVED]

2013-01-27 Thread craig
cykit-1 and it's dependencies, and I now have the power options available on the login screen. Thanks, and all the best to you as well! Craig Sent - Gtek Web Mail -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou

Re: iptables and kvm

2013-01-25 Thread craig
And good time of day to you, Sthu. On Thursday, January 24, 2013 23:55, "Sthu Deus" said: > Good time of the day, Craig. > > If You want to set Your own rules, You can write it to a file where You > want to hold it, then You can put a script w/ execution bit set in &g

iptables and kvm

2013-01-24 Thread craig
be permanent. Would anyone mind enlightening me as where I can find the source of those rules? grep -RIil iptables /etc/* returns nothing. Thanks, Craig Sent - Gtek Web Mail -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

Re: [1/2OT] how to delete ??? file

2013-01-19 Thread craig
On Saturday, January 19, 2013 14:33, cr...@gtek.biz said: > On Saturday, January 19, 2013 10:33, "lina" said: > > Yes, in my home directory. The path is /home/lina/try > >>> -? ? ? ? ?? XX.tar >> >>> But it looks more to me as if this files are somehow >>> cor

Re: 32-bit Kernel on 64-bit CPU?

2013-01-19 Thread craig
On Saturday, January 19, 2013 07:44, "Pascal Hambourg" said: > Hello, > > Andrei POPESCU a écrit : >> >> The 686-pae kernel is 32-bit, nothing strange here. >> >> However, in your OP you mentioned not being able to allocate more than 2 >> GB with qemu. Unless this is some limitation of qemu it

Re: [1/2OT] how to delete ??? file

2013-01-19 Thread craig
e it thusly: $ cd /tmp $ mkdir test $ export looptest=0 $ while [ $looptest -le 10 ] do touch test/test$looptest loop=`expr $looptest + 1` done $ ls -l test total 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 craig craig 0 Jan 19 13:50 test0 -rw-r--r-- 1 craig craig 0 Jan 19 13:50 test1 -rw-r--r-- 1 craig craig 0

Re: 32-bit Kernel on 64-bit CPU?

2013-01-18 Thread craig
On Friday, January 18, 2013 11:13, "Andrei POPESCU" said: > On Vi, 18 ian 13, 10:26:10, cr...@gtek.biz wrote: >> >> I used the i386 net install image, and selected the (if I remember correctly) >> i686-3.2.0-4-pae kernel. Are you saying that should have installed the 64-bit >> kernel or that I g

Re: 32-bit Kernel on 64-bit CPU? [SOLVED]

2013-01-18 Thread craig
On Thursday, January 17, 2013 16:08, "Hugo Vanwoerkom" said: understand how to get a 64-bit kernel? Do I just need to select the correct > > AFAIK you have to reinstall with > http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/wheezy_di_beta4/amd64/iso-cd/debian-wheezy-DI-b4-amd64-netinst.iso > > Because

Re: 32-bit Kernel on 64-bit CPU?

2013-01-18 Thread craig
On Friday, January 18, 2013 11:13, "Andrei POPESCU" said: > On Vi, 18 ian 13, 10:26:10, cr...@gtek.biz wrote: >> >> I used the i386 net install image, and selected the (if I remember correctly) >> i686-3.2.0-4-pae kernel. Are you saying that should have installed the 64-bit >> kernel or that I g

Re: 32-bit Kernel on 64-bit CPU?

2013-01-18 Thread craig
On Thursday, January 17, 2013 17:08, "Andrei POPESCU" said: > On Jo, 17 ian 13, 13:09:46, cr...@gtek.biz wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> I have a fairly modern Desktop PC with two Intel Xeon X5690 Processors. It >> appears the default install of Wheezy installed a 32-bit kernel, because qemu >> will

Re: 32-bit Kernel on 64-bit CPU?

2013-01-18 Thread craig
On Thursday, January 17, 2013 16:44, "Lisi Reisz" said: > On Thursday 17 January 2013 20:44:07 cr...@gtek.biz wrote: >> > Hum... this might be an option, but the easier is to install from the >> > amd64 iso, since with only the kernel using amd64, you will not have >> > benefits from your x86_64

Re: 32-bit Kernel on 64-bit CPU?

2013-01-18 Thread craig
On Thursday, January 17, 2013 16:08, "Hugo Vanwoerkom" said: >>> What's the output of >>> >>> dpkg --print-architecture >>> dpkg --print-foreign-architectures >> >> [my-desktop:~]$ dpkg --print-architecture >> i386 >> [my-desktop:~]$ dpkg --print-foreign-architectures >> [my-desktop:~]$ >> >> I

Re: 32-bit Kernel on 64-bit CPU?

2013-01-17 Thread craig
On Thursday, January 17, 2013 15:30, "Hugo Vanwoerkom" said: >> I have a fairly modern Desktop PC with two Intel Xeon X5690 Processors. It >> appears the default install of Wheezy installed a 32-bit kernel, because qemu >> will not allow me to allocate more than 2047MB of RAM. How can I verify t

Re: 32-bit Kernel on 64-bit CPU?

2013-01-17 Thread craig
t;>>> understand how to get a 64-bit kernel? >>>> >>>> Regards, Craig >>> >>> SImply download the correct arch, which is named amd64 (it is ok for >>> intel proc too) >> >> Didn't know that (ok for intel)! So you're

Re: 32-bit Kernel on 64-bit CPU?

2013-01-17 Thread craig
On Thursday, January 17, 2013 13:13, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org said: >> can anyone point me to anything that might help me >> understand how to get a 64-bit kernel? >> >> Regards, Craig > > SImply download the correct arch, which is named amd64 (it is ok for

32-bit Kernel on 64-bit CPU?

2013-01-17 Thread craig
that might help me understand how to get a 64-bit kernel? Do I just need to select the correct ARCH (which I'm getting ready to try in the meantime)? Regards, Craig Sent - Gtek Web Mail -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: lightdm login screen minor issue

2013-01-01 Thread craig
On Tuesday, January 1, 2013 05:39, "Claudius Hubig" said: > Hello cr...@gtek.biz, > > what a wonderful name :) > > cr...@gtek.biz wrote: >> At the login screen, there are two buttons in the top right-hand corner, >> one for switching hi-contrast and large fonts on or off, and the other >> for

lightdm login screen minor issue

2012-12-30 Thread craig
the system down. That power "button" has no functionality to it. When I click on it, a blank panel opens and there is nothing to click on. I am at a loss trying to figure out what drives that missing functionality. Can anyone give me a nudge in the right direction? Thanks, Craig Sent

Re: xen on wheezy

2012-12-28 Thread craig
On Thursday, December 27, 2012 19:55, "Patrick Bartek" said: >>> I would restart at the beginning: >>> >>>    http://www.xen.org/support/documentation.html >>> >>>    http://wiki.debian.org/Xen> >> >> Well I've been through those, and several other pages. The only real >> difference is I'm us

Re: xen on wheezy

2012-12-27 Thread craig
On Thursday, December 27, 2012 17:14, "Patrick Bartek" said: >> Any pointers would be appreciated. > > > I would restart at the beginning: > >    http://www.xen.org/support/documentation.html > >    http://wiki.debian.org/Xen> Well I've been through those, and several other pages. The only

xen on wheezy

2012-12-27 Thread craig
lo: "Setup length exceeds 63 maximum; kernel setup will overwrite boot loader" Any pointers would be appreciated. Thanks, Craig Sent - Gtek Web Mail -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@

Re: Countdown To Black Friday 2012 Deals Week - Early Amazon Black Friday 2012 Deals

2012-11-08 Thread craig
Oops, that was rather thoughtless. Apologies to all. On Thursday, November 8, 2012 03:20, "Brad Rogers" said: > On Wed, 7 Nov 2012 12:45:43 -0600 (CST) > cr...@gtek.biz wrote: > > Hello cr...@gtek.biz, > >>I love people that are dumb enough to spam mailing lists with their real >>domain. Just

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