Re: remount removeable drive in Lenny - how? [solved]

2009-07-20 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 01:11:47PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > On 2009-07-19_18:57:40, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Sun,19.Jul.09, 08:11:21, Paul E Condon wrote: > > > I have no objection to the status of hal as a required part of a > > > standard desktop installation, but I do have a question as

Re: problems during installation

2009-07-17 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 03:33:37PM +1000, w0102926 wrote: > Hi > I attempted to install debian GNU/Linux 5.0 several times > today, but every time the process gets to select and install > software, nothing appears to happen, I have left it for up > to an hour with please wait 1% complete on the scr

Re: DVD download

2009-07-08 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 04:42:46PM -0400, Mark Neidorff wrote: > This concerns the 5.02 amd64 DVD #1 > > Yesterday I downloaded the debian-502-amd64-DVD-1.iso file from debian.org's > site. It was 4.4 Gb, but it failed sha1sum verification, so today I again > downloaded it, but it is now 2.0 Gb

chown question

2009-07-02 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
Hello all, I have a really basic question; I really messed up my box. I was doing a reinstall on an old box after a drive failure. I restored /home but one of the UIDs were created differently so I needed to chown their directory, including all the hidden files in their ~/. Without thinking, as

Re: OT: launching jobs in a combined serial parallel way

2009-06-25 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 10:05:20PM -0400, Scott Gifford wrote: > "Douglas A. Tutty" writes: > > On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 08:17:44PM -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > > While you may think its terribly inefficient, it isn't really. A fancy > > "wait

Re: OT: launching jobs in a combined serial parallel way

2009-06-24 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 08:17:44PM -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > Currently I have a shell script that works as below. > 1) launch proga, progb in the background using nohup. > 2) Ask proga, progb to write a file when they finish. > 3) Every five minutes check if these files are present. I

Re: is it possible to install a desktop-manager without python and perl?

2009-06-24 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 09:49:26PM -0500, Cybe R. Wizard wrote: > Although there have been attempts to design one "universal" > computer language that serves all purposes, all of them have failed to > be generally accepted as filling this role. Ada does a good job. Except that since no OS is wr

Re: any substitute for x window system?

2009-06-22 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 11:58:22AM +0800, 明覺 wrote: > I'm looking for a pure c/c++ programmed desktop manager, while the > xorg is depandent on perl, so i do not like it, is there any graphics > system which depands only on c/c++ to replace x window system? thanks I think that you'll find that you

Re: Backup config files in home directory

2009-06-22 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 01:01:52AM +0800, ronggui wong wrote: > > I have other files and directories in the home directory, and I just > want to backup all the config files, most of them are hidden files and > directories. Now I use tar and manually exclude my other files and > directories with --

Re: Filesystem UncorrectableError for IDE disk on 2.6.26?

2009-06-19 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 09:11:07AM +, Glyn Astill wrote: > > Just upgraded an etch machine to lenny, and with it I've gone from the > 2.6.18-6 kernel up to 2.6.26-1 kernel. > > I'm seeing the following errors under heavy disk activity: > > Jun 18 18:08:05 xglyn2 kernel: [14214.048193] ide: f

Re: exim4 query

2009-06-17 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 10:52:18AM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In <3df35b760906170818re166e28x8be9006d7...@mail.gmail.com>, Yuriy > Kuznetsov wrote: > >Could you give some commands as examples of sending emails with exim4, > >please? > > Install bsd-mailx. > echo 'Body of the messa

Re: Automatically creating user accounts from exim

2009-06-17 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 03:26:41PM +0200, David wrote: > Okay, this is kind of a weird question, but it came up at work. > > I'm a complete exim newbie (I've never configured it before, beyond > 'dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config'), but a project came up where the > manager wants to use exim in a weir

Re: exim4 query

2009-06-17 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 12:10:17PM +0100, Yuriy Kuznetsov wrote: > > I'm trying to figure out how to use exim4 for sending/receiving mails in > console mode. > Any recommendation for good instructions/how-tos ? I think that the only way to dirctly tell exim4 to send mail is to speak SMTP to it,

Re: [OT] The perfect system ...

2009-06-13 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 08:52:05PM +0100, AG wrote: > If I was to plan to build the "perfect" system from scratch, using a > motherboard bundle (with up to 8GB DDR RAM), top line graphics card, > ditto sound card that would allow connection with an external amp to > jive up the sound quality

Re: flash drive encryption between different OS's

2009-06-07 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 10:30:14AM -0700, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 07:35, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 03:58:33PM -0400, Daryl Styrk wrote: > >> I'm looking for a solution to encrypt a flash drive formated in FAT32 so > >

Re: flash drive encryption between different OS's

2009-06-06 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 03:58:33PM -0400, Daryl Styrk wrote: > I'm looking for a solution to encrypt a flash drive formated in FAT32 so > it can easily be decrypted across multiple OS's with the least amount of > software needed. I don't do windows. Does it have OpenSSL? I encrypt stuff with t

Re: Best way of restoring /etc from backups after fresh install?

2009-06-06 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 05:57:26PM +, Laurentiu Pancescu wrote: > I guess the automatically generated uids during the new installation > were different from the ones in my backed up passwd/group files. > > What would be the best way to restore the full system in such a case? > BTW, can a

Re: lvm on a single big partition or just a single big partition?

2009-06-05 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 07:23:19PM -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: > On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 09:39:42AM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 10:04:36PM -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: > > > On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 06:48:03PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: >

Re: lvm on a single big partition or just a single big partition?

2009-06-04 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 10:04:36PM -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: > On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 06:48:03PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 11:44:00AM -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: > > With one big partition, you lose the ability to: > > > > -

Re: lvm on a single big partition or just a single big partition?

2009-06-03 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 11:44:00AM -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: > Though I have used lvm for some time, I have one question that I don't > > understand. > >

Re: ed 1.33 install errors

2009-06-02 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 09:13:47PM -0400, Rob Bochan wrote: > On Monday 01 June 2009 08:53:19 pm Jude DaShiell wrote: > > Script started on Mon Jun 1 20:50:14 2009 > > localhost:~# aptitude install ed > > ... > > update-alternatives: error: alternative path /bin/ed doesn't exist. > > dpkg: error

Re: replacing hard disk

2009-06-02 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 04:43:12PM -0300, Claudio wrote: > I think this tool *dd*, resolve your problem. > > http://www.linuxweblog.com/dd-image > > http://www.mckeay.net/2004/10/18/using-dd-to-clone-a-hd/ Or, you can use tar to create to stdout, pipe the output to another tar process to extract

Re: replacing hard disk

2009-06-01 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 07:39:08PM +0200, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > So tomorrow it's off to the computer shop to get a new hard disk. > > Are there any tips on moving the whole system from the old disk to > the new one? Or do I just have to re-install ubuntu, re-install > any updates and extra

Re: Realtek Device ffff (rev 10) is not recognized with 8139too

2009-06-01 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 03:43:21PM +, Marcelo Luiz de Laia wrote: > Here are the outputs of some commands. What does dmesg show? Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: konqueror, fish, stalled

2009-05-30 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 09:19:13PM +0800, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > Whenever I tried to copy file(s) bigger than 900 MB using fish protocol, it > stalled. Any way to prevent this? Try a different protocol. Use rsync or scp (or mc with shell link) from a command line. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: What hardware to use for Debian Firewall/Gateway or server?

2009-05-30 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 10:18:56PM +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: > Jan Willem Stumpel writes: > > Csanyi Pal wrote: > >> So: can one install on it say a Debian GNU/Linux Lenny? > > > > Mind that it is a "headless" device. Everything has to be done > > through ssh (or local telnet). It has no cd-rom dr

Lenny kpdf much slower than on etch

2009-05-29 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
Hello all, I'm finding that kpdf is much slower on Lenny than on Etch. When I load a new doc, it takes forever to generate the first page (and the thumbnails). Is there some setting I can change somewhere? This is on my dual-P-II-450. It takes 100% of a CPU for about 10 seconds before I can

Re: hylafax

2009-05-29 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 10:08:37PM -0400, Tom Low-Shang wrote: > Is Hylafax still the only open source fax server available? Last time I did fax, I used mgetty+sendfax. It worked just fine. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: KDE is now broken (Fwd: Heads-up: KDE4 hitting testing tonight (UTC) )

2009-05-28 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 10:08:00AM -0500, lee wrote: > On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 09:42:57AM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > As far as I know, the only digital media that is designed to last that > > long on the shelf without data loss is tape. Since tape technology > > mo

Re: KDE is now broken (Fwd: Heads-up: KDE4 hitting testing tonight (UTC) )

2009-05-28 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 01:51:25PM -0500, lee wrote: > On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 09:21:15PM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > If the issue is saving $20 on a case, then you are just $20 short of > > having a working solution. Sounds good to me. > > Where do you get a good case for $20? Shop around a bit

Re: KDE is now broken (Fwd: Heads-up: KDE4 hitting testing tonight (UTC) )

2009-05-28 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 11:18:54AM -0500, lee wrote: > On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 10:46:47AM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > In <20090526142918.gc5...@cat.rubenette.is-a-geek.com>, lee wrote: > > >On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 01:17:16PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > >> Use the old softw

Re: Operating system-level virtualization: how to make it?

2009-05-28 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 09:39:38AM -0500, Victor Padro wrote: > On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 8:40 AM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 08:46:49PM +0200, Laurent Guignard wrote: > > > On Fri, 22 May 2009 18:02:27 +, Sylvain Le Gall wrote: > > > > O

Re: Luks encrypted partition gets identified as ntfs

2009-05-27 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 06:52:20AM +0100, Aron wrote: > About 4 years of research I have in there so far got that gut feeling > it's going up in smokes. I surely hope you have backups, either not encrypted or encrypted with something else (I use openssl). Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to d

Re: Operating system-level virtualization: how to make it?

2009-05-27 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 08:46:49PM +0200, Laurent Guignard wrote: > On Fri, 22 May 2009 18:02:27 +, Sylvain Le Gall wrote: > > On 22-05-2009, Sthu Deus wrote: > > > How I can organize a Operating system-level virtualization on a server > > > for every service I would isolate? > > > > Use a ch

Re: Lenny. Do I need to check the system after improper shutdown?

2009-05-25 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 11:33:31PM +0400, Mark Goldshtein wrote: > Hello, list! > > Do I need to clean up something or check hard drive consistency after > system's hang up during recovering from Suspend-to-RAM state? An > improper system shutdown by 'power' key was forcibly applied and > during a

Re: sudo vs. su (was Re: new to list, new to debian, new to linux)

2009-05-22 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 05:50:28PM -0500, dwain wrote: > On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 2:16 PM, George wrote: > > > I was a little disappointed being called out on my suggestions in my > > original post. Obviously the person isn’t a sys admin and from my > > understanding the whole purpose of sudo is s

how capture segfault trace for bug report; lenny megaraid driver?

2009-05-22 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
Hello all, I use an HP NetRaid 1si raid card in my HP NetServer LPr. It worked fine on Etch and was able to retreive status info from /proc/megaraid, e.g. # cat /proc/megaraid/hba0/raiddrives-0-9 With Lenny, there are a couple of problems: 1. Rescue mode doesn't see the drives even thoug

Re: What hardware to use for Debian Firewall/Gateway or server?

2009-05-22 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 09:31:14PM +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: > I have at my home a small network: > firewall/gateway: Pentium II Class PC box with 64 MB RAM, 5,1 GB HDD > server : Pentium IV Class PC box with 2 GB RAM, 60 GB HDD > desktop : Pentium IV Class PC box with 2 GB RAM, 2

Re: Hardware diagnostics

2009-05-20 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 11:37:51PM -0400, Scott Gifford wrote: > > I have a Debian Etch installation that's beoming increasingly > unstable. It periodically freezes up, with nothing in the logs until > it is rebooted. I suspect a hardware problem, and would like to > identify it or rule it out b

Re: LVM how to

2009-05-20 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 07:17:48AM +1000, gianni wrote: > how can I resize the LVM default partition layout of debian? > the root is to small around 400mb... I looked around the web but it look > like I need to do that from a rescue cd, which one should I use? > any good link for a easy how to :)

Re: Convert HTML to PDF from CLI?

2009-05-20 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 01:15:25PM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: > 2009/5/19 Dotan Cohen : > >> I don't know if can handle UTF-8, but I see nobody mention htmldoc, which > >> is > >> in debian etch, I suppose must be in lenny, so another option to try. > >> > > > > I did not know about htmldoc, that i

Re: failed to upgrade to next kernel package

2009-05-17 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 07:04:11PM -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > [Replying to debian-user, including OP's reply to me, which was > presumably intended for debian-user.] > > On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 6:32 PM, gianni wrote: > > Hi Patrick > > this is the result from df -h > > Filesystem            

Re: Convert HTML to PDF from CLI?

2009-05-17 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 06:37:45PM +, Andrew Malcolmson wrote: > On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > I need to convert an HTML document to PDF from the CLI. Currently, I > ... > > > Any other ideas? Is there a konqueror- or KDE way to do this? Am I > > missing something o

Re: Safe change of uid

2009-05-12 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 05:27:14PM -0500, Elmer E. Dow wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: >> On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 08:54:47AM -0500, Elmer E. Dow wrote: >>> Please cc me as I am not currently subscribing to the list. >> >> Since you only just created the user, I

Re: Safe change of uid

2009-05-11 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 08:54:47AM -0500, Elmer E. Dow wrote: > Just finished a fresh Lenny install and added an account for my daughter > -- and kuser assigned it uid 500 instead of 1001, which I must correct. > After looking at man pages and archives, I see that kuser in the past > has done

Re: filter utility to send cron e-mail only if unexpected output

2009-05-06 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 11:27:55AM -0400, Barclay, Daniel wrote: > Does Debian have any utility to address the following situation? > > I have some scripts that I run both manually and as cron jobs. The scripts > generate stdout/stderr output reporting what they're doing. > > I want to see the o

Re: tar up a symbolic linked directory

2009-05-04 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, May 03, 2009 at 11:23:33PM -, Cameron Hutchison wrote: > "Douglas A. Tutty" writes: > >On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 09:04:38PM +, T o n g wrote: > >> I want to tar up a symbolic linked directory as if it is a real > >> directory. Is there any

Re: debian and ubuntu - answer from user not pretending to be guru

2009-05-03 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, May 03, 2009 at 07:29:07AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Bret Busby wrote: > > Before I try it, please advise whether, in removing the sudo facility for > > users, the package management (both adding/removing packages, and, > > downloading and installing updates, and using synaptic) will work

Re: tar up a symbolic linked directory

2009-05-03 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 09:04:38PM +, T o n g wrote: > Hi, > > I want to tar up a symbolic linked directory as if it is a real > directory. Is there any easy way to do it? > > Let me explain with an example (that you can try): > > mkdir d1 > touch d1/{a,b,c} > ln -s c d1/d > ln -s d1 d2

Re: Backing Up CMOS Settings Under Linux

2009-05-03 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, May 03, 2009 at 05:32:28PM -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: > On Sun, May 03, 2009 at 03:19:50PM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > > I first thought it was my imagination, but I have had > > two Dell Dimension computers change their boot drive order. I > > don't know when it happens because they

Re: BSD handbook - was Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-05-03 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, May 03, 2009 at 07:01:39AM -0500, Neal Hogan wrote: > On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Bret Busby wrote: > > On Sat, 2 May 2009, Neal Hogan wrote: > >> On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 9:30 AM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >>> On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 06:27:44AM -0500, Nea

Re: BSD handbook - was Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-05-02 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 06:27:44AM -0500, Neal Hogan wrote: > FYI - While many of the fBSD folks will tout there ports/package > system, I found it to be a pain (especially the upgrade), as did many > others. There has recently been some chatter on their general mailing > list to overhaul how the

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-27 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 10:10:13AM -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: > H.S. wrote: > >Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >>On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 11:27:24AM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: > >Now a days google is a *huge* help in this. > > > There's still something

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-27 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 09:57:40AM -0400, H.S. wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > I'm one to read the 1000 page book cover-to-cover. That way, I'll > > rememeber a significant amount and know exactly where to look when I > > need something I don't reme

Re: HP proliant ML115 G5 on debian lenny

2009-04-27 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 03:09:28PM -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: > On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 10:03:21AM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > I don't keep a backup server in the safety deposit box :), I keep the > > backup media. In this case, big USB stick (hard drives don'

Re: Installing on Compaq Armada 1500c - boot

2009-04-27 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 07:51:06PM +0100, Nuno Magalh??es wrote: > I have this old laptop laying around. Currently is has no CD drive and > i'd hate to rely on floppies. It does have a working PCMCIA eth card > and a minimal OpenBSD that sees my LAN. > > I can't access its BIOS and i doubt it has

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-27 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 11:27:24AM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: > Document it all you want. But don't expect Joe Toothbrush to read it > all. If one _wants_ go through pages upon pages of docs to create > something new, that's great and the more the merrier. But if one > _must_ go through the docs t

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-27 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 01:10:15PM -0400, JoeHill wrote: > Dotan Cohen wrote: > > Maybe you forgot how great of an OS Win98 was at the time. > > This has to be a joke. Win 98 wasn't even an operating system. It was an > application that ran on top of DOS for pete's sake. > > > That was a differ

Re: USB PCI card to buy: [SOLVED] Startech PCI625USB2I

2009-04-27 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 10:01:40AM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 10:52:41PM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > It's been a _long_ time since I've had a problem with a PCI USB card. > > If nobody pipes up with a negative, then I'd suggest that yo

Re: HP proliant ML115 G5 on debian lenny

2009-04-25 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 02:54:38PM -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: > On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 03:19:01PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > > Well, debian has different requirements re licensing of modules. Your > > > > guess may be wrong if HP has provided a

Re: HP proliant ML115 G5 on debian lenny

2009-04-24 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 01:41:45PM -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: > On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 02:10:41PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > Thank you very much for your reply! > > > Well, debian has different requirements re licensing of modules. Your > > guess may be wr

Re: Boot Debian to a command line and prevent X from starting on boot

2009-04-24 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 02:05:00PM -0400, debian debian wrote: > On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 11:25 AM, Robert Menes > wrote: > > Hi folks, I have a Debian lenny-stable install that I need a little > > memory refresher with. > > > > I need to boot and go straight to a terminal, and not start X on > >

Re: HP proliant ML115 G5 on debian lenny

2009-04-24 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 09:41:12AM -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: > On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 10:34:21AM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > The only __definitive__ way to know would be to take the netinst CD to > > the box, boot it up and check dmesg (and the installer screens) and see

Re: HP proliant ML115 G5 on debian lenny

2009-04-24 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 10:18:23AM -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: > Dear debian community, > > We plan to buy an HP proliant ML115 G5 for server backup. The CPUs > would be amd opteron 64bit. And there is embedded sata raid controller. > I will use raid1 on two 1T harddrives. > > I would like to

Re: File won't be printed, all others will!

2009-04-21 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 03:15:30PM +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > In my sister's home directory there is a pdf file that won't respond to the > `lp' command. All others pdf files in the same directory behave all right, > and > the permissions are the same. The only difference is the creation dat

Re: debian with raid1+cryptsetup+lvm on notebook?

2009-04-21 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 12:39:38PM +0200, Peter Jordan wrote: > Hello, > > since my ThinkPad T400 has two 250GB HD, i considered to install debian > testing with raid1+cryptsetup+lvm on it. > > Has anyone experience with that kind of setup? > > Any significant reasons against my plan? Sounds l

Re: Software raid OK?

2009-04-20 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 03:29:00PM +0300, Michael Iatrou wrote: > When the date was Monday 20 April 2009, BAGI Akos wrote: > > > Hi List! > > > > I installed a software raid, level1 with 3 disks, one of them is a spare. > > > > I have 2 partitions: > > md0 is for / and is made of sda1,sdb1, sdc1 >

Re: clean up the laptop body/keyboard

2009-04-18 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 01:33:38AM -0300, Hashimoto wrote: > > What kind of product do you suggest to use to clean up my laptop body > and keyboard ? To be explicit: other than the screen. I've always started with air, then a damp cloth. The owner's manuals for plastic electronic things general

Re: how can i turn /dev/null into an MTA?

2009-04-15 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 03:08:41PM +0200, Dirk wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 10:26:17AM +0200, Dirk wrote: > nah.. instead of configuring a package i don't want to install in the > first place i just run a cronjob that de-installs the MTA every

Re: how can i turn /dev/null into an MTA?

2009-04-14 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 10:26:17AM +0200, Dirk wrote: > (see subject) > > i don't want an MTA running on a system... but many programs require it > as dependency to spam me with their stuff (which should belong into just > a log file (IMO))... Unix without an MTA??? Why not install exim, then

Re: related to mail servers, mta and mda

2009-04-13 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 08:53:11PM -0400, H.S. wrote: > This is a beginner's (no experience with setting up mail servers) query > about MTA's and MUA's. I am trying to see if I can setup an mta or a > related application on my Debian machine which is being run as a router > for my home lan such tha

Re: SD-NECU2-5E1I - Re: Linux (Debian) support of USB card

2009-04-13 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
is compatible > with Linux. > Please let me know whether the answer is helpful for you. > > Best Regards, > > Michael, > mich...@us.syba.com > Syba Support Team > > > > - Original Message - > From: "Douglas A. Tutty" > To

Re: Lenny overheating, preventing installation

2009-04-11 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 03:46:31PM +0200, Klistvud wrote: > Dne sobota 11 april 2009 ob 15:22:38 je Douglas A. Tutty napisal(a): > > On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 02:26:30PM +0200, Aleksa ??u??uli?? wrote: > I agree ... to a point. Namely, I've never managed to overheat the unit by &

Re: Lenny overheating, preventing installation

2009-04-11 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 02:26:30PM +0200, Aleksa ??u??uli?? wrote: > The laptop is less than a year old and still in warranty. It has never been > used in dusty or dirty places. And this overheating only happens with Debian > (installing OpenSuSE or Mandriva or Ubuntu or Fedora works a breeze). T

Re: USB PCI card to buy

2009-04-10 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 05:37:28PM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > Here's the reply I received from Startech. > > > > Hi Doug, > > > > Both chipsets (Nvidia and NEC) are natively supported in the Linux = > > kernel since 2.4.x, but we do not directly support these cards in Linux, = > > nor have we te

Re: Advice on raid/lvm

2009-04-09 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 04:43:17PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Douglas A. Tutty [2009.04.09.1532 +0200]: > > > On the other hand, having / in LVM means: > > > * you can enlarge / when necessary; > > > > You should never have to enlarge a 500 MB /

Re: USB PCI card to buy

2009-04-09 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 10:52:41PM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > I need to add USB to my HP NetServer LPr. > > > > Do they all "just work" now? > > > > It's been a _long_ time since I've had a problem with a PCI USB card. > If nobody pipes up with a negative, then I'd suggest that you give it > a

Re: USB PCI card to buy

2009-04-09 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 10:52:41PM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > I need to add USB to my HP NetServer LPr. > > > > Do they all "just work" now? > > > > It's been a _long_ time since I've had a problem with a PCI USB card. > If nobody pipes up with a negative, then I'd suggest that you give it > a

Re: dialing phone numbers

2009-04-09 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 10:05:37AM +0200, Pol wrote: > Any hints about dialing numbers by your laptop keyboard to a phone connected > through modem? minicom? echo? Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listm

Re: Trouble burning netinstall CD : SOLVED -- it's trouble with k3b's check.

2009-04-09 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 10:49:56PM +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > Anyone know what I should do with three Lenny install disks? :-) Put one somewhere safe, with your off-site backup. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

Re: Advice on raid/lvm

2009-04-09 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 06:34:09PM -0500, Mark Allums wrote: > Not really answering your question directly, but may I suggest, if cost > is not *absolutely* critical, that you consider RAID 10? If it is a > server, then certainly you will want to get away from a three-drive RAID > 5. A RAID 1

Re: Advice on raid/lvm

2009-04-09 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 10:00:40AM +0300, Tapani Tarvainen wrote: > On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 06:02:26PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh > (h...@debian.org) wrote: > > On Wed, 08 Apr 2009, Miles Fidelman wrote: > > I suggest that a small (1GB-4GB) partition for simple md-raid1 be used for > > /

Re: Decrypt, Edit and Encrypt a File

2009-04-08 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 11:26:20AM -0400, H.S. wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 06:17:56PM -0400, H.S. wrote: > >> Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >>> On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 05:46:31PM -0400, H.S. wrote: > >>>> Douglas A. Tutty

Re: creating a compact binary

2009-04-08 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 11:13:53PM -0400, Mag Gam wrote: > On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 2009-04-06 18:59, Mag Gam wrote: > >> > >> I was wondering if its possible to compile src code (for example > >> rsync) to create 1 large binary. I want to do this to easily > >>

Re: 2.6 kernel issues

2009-04-08 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
Steven, Please don't top post. I've tried to reorganize this in the correct order, but the quoting wasn't consistant. > -Original Message- From: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. > [mailto:b...@iguanasuicide.net] Sent: Wednesday, 8 April 2009 2:17 p.m. > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re

Re: Decrypt, Edit and Encrypt a File

2009-04-08 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 06:17:56PM -0400, H.S. wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 05:46:31PM -0400, H.S. wrote: > >> Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >>> Where does it hold the decrypted data? Does it stay in RAM, does it get > >>

Re: Decrypt, Edit and Encrypt a File

2009-04-07 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 05:46:31PM -0400, H.S. wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > > Where does it hold the decrypted data? Does it stay in RAM, does it get > > swapped, does it go to a scratch file? > > This might help: > http://www.easypg.org/ yea, it look

Re: Decrypt, Edit and Encrypt a File

2009-04-07 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 11:16:37PM +0200, Samuel B?chler wrote: > Thanks a lot to everyone! > > Just as a short description: > I installed easypg. In the console environment I type `emacs keys.pgp'. > This starts emacs and prompts for passphrase of `keys.pgp'. After entering > the passphrase you c

Re: USB PCI card to buy

2009-04-07 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 11:00:57PM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Dotan Cohen wrote: > > By the way, you may want to write to Belkin and ask them if the card > > will work with Linux. > > > > They will never write "works with > > Linux" on t

Re: USB PCI card to buy

2009-04-07 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 10:52:41PM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > I need to add USB to my HP NetServer LPr. > > > > Do they all "just work" now? > > It's been a _long_ time since I've had a problem with a PCI USB card. > If nobody pipes up with a negative, then I'd suggest that you give it > a shot

USB PCI card to buy

2009-04-07 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
I need to add USB to my HP NetServer LPr. Do they all "just work" now? I'm looking at either the Belkin F5U220v1 5-port (4+1) which I think has an NEC chipset, or one of the Startech's: PCI625USB21 6-port (4+2) with nvidia chipset PCI330USB2 4-port (3+1) with NEC D7201026c chips

Re: Debian's glacial movement--a rant

2009-04-07 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 01:06:00PM -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote: > Michael Biebl wrote: > >Freddy Freeloader wrote: > > > >>I'm experiencing a bug in Gnucash that appeared a couple of days ago on > >>my system that makes Gnucash completely unusable for me. I turned in a > >>bug report on Fri

Re: Decrypt, Edit and Encrypt a File

2009-04-06 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Apr 05, 2009 at 05:36:08PM +0200, Samuel B?chler wrote: > I store logins and passwords of some dozen of Web-Services in > an encrypted file. I used to use kgpg to read and update this file. > > Some weeks ago I found on debian-security [1] the following script: > > #!/bin/sh > gpg keys.gp

Re: Debian won't boot

2009-04-06 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 06:59:43PM -0700, Vwaju wrote: > For months, I have been booting Debian 3.1 every day and experimenting > with networking tools. Today I didn't do much except read man pages, > and I'm not aware of doing anything to change any configuration, but > when I rebooted my compute

Re: Several users need to work in the same directory

2009-03-28 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 05:37:07PM +0100, Rico Secada wrote: > I know that the user can chmod the files he just created manually and > then set the execution bit, but in our case the developers sometimes > upload several new files using sftp, and I am wondering if they really > have to logon agai

Re: Question about get-selections

2009-03-26 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 04:26:12PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > But I think I would like to have a record of what packages were > actually installed. So I'm thinking of writing a script, to be run > nightly, that puts a fresh copy of my selections in /etc/apt, e.g. > > # dpkg --get-selections >

Re: lenny reinstall

2009-03-24 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 09:38:23AM -0600, postid wrote: > I need to reinstall lenny using netinstall. (I had some problems > with the network, etc. during the first attempt.) I want to keep > the partitioning I currently have set up. I especially don't want > to risk messing up hda1 since I prom

Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 1751-1] New xulrunner packages fix several vulnerabilities

2009-03-24 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 07:57:11PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sun,22.Mar.09, 18:35:21, wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > I'm running Etch, and use Iceweasel. I'm concerned about this security > > advisory. It says that the Etch release notes said that the Mozilla > > products would have to b

Re: setuid script

2009-03-22 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 09:06:01PM +, Chris Davies wrote: > cesarino vinh wrote: > > I just wanted to run my browser with a different user, because it's > > safer :S > > Safer than what...? If javascript breaks out of the iceweasel sandbox, I'd like it to be in a separate user's sandbox.

accessing www.mls.ca map search from linux

2009-03-22 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
Hi all, We're looking for a new house and here in Canada, the way to do this (other than getting a realestate agent to do it), is to go to www.mls.ca and do a search. MLS has recently changed how you choose the geographic area: it used to be by clicking on a simple map to choose the realestate bo

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