On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 01:42:25AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2007-08-06 15:13:10 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > > because breakage due to python occurs too frequently), it is important
> >
> > I still don't have any evidence that python breaks frequently.
>
> This is based on personal exp
uld keep
it out of stable.
Would you care to comment or shed light on this issue?
Please reply to the debian-user mailing list if possible.
Thanks,
Doug Tutty.
On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 05:32:11PM -0400, Justin Piszcz wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, 6 Aug 2007, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
>
On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 05:32:11PM -0400, Justin Piszcz wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Aug 2007, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> >What exactly do you mean that JFS has no maintainer.
>
> It has a maintainer, but he cannot work on it full-time:
>
> Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 15:11:06 -0500
On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 04:29:43PM -0400, Justin Piszcz wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Aug 2007, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> >On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 09:55:28AM -0700, David Brodbeck wrote:
> >>On Aug 4, 2007, at 2:42 AM, Ron Johnson wrote:
> >>>I'd have to modify that
On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 01:49:08PM -0700, David Brodbeck wrote:
> On Aug 6, 2007, at 1:22 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> >On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 08:45:21AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> >
> >>no. to use a desktop machine as a router, you need two network
> >>connections: one for the local net
On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 07:14:25PM +0100, graham wrote:
> Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> >On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 05:02:07PM +0100, graham wrote:
> >>Yet another cups problem (the one program which makes me feel like I do
> >>when running windows - like putting
On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 05:02:07PM +0100, graham wrote:
> Yet another cups problem (the one program which makes me feel like I do
> when running windows - like putting a foot through the computer).
So why run cups? Use LPRng and Apsfilter or foomatic print filters.
Doug.
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On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 06:50:21PM +0100, Adam Hardy wrote:
> Douglas Allan Tutty on 06/08/07 14:27, wrote:
> >On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 12:39:56PM +0100, Adam Hardy wrote:
> >>I installed dnsmasq to run DNS and DHCP servers on my little home network
> >>of 4 PCs a
On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 10:59:13AM -0700, Sam wrote:
> Justin,
> Should I unmount the drive before doing the tests?
>
No need. The tests happen at the drive level, below the level of the
filesystem. When you run the test, it should tell you how long to wait
before you query the drive to get th
On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 09:55:28AM -0700, David Brodbeck wrote:
>
> On Aug 4, 2007, at 2:42 AM, Ron Johnson wrote:
> >I'd have to modify that. Instead of NIH, my worry is that since XFS
> >was designed for a different kernel, it's been "shimmed" into Linux
> >and so doesn't integrate as well as e
On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 07:30:22PM +0200, Samuel B??chler wrote:
> >>> I want to improve my home network. I have got a Laptop and an old
> >>> desktop machine. I want to use the old desktop for server services such
> >>> as web- and mail-sever.
> >>> I am connected to the ISP using a cable modem.
On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 04:07:00PM +0200, Samuel B?chler wrote:
> Hi Everyone
>
> I want to improve my home network. I have got a Laptop and an old
> desktop machine. I want to use the old desktop for server services such
> as web- and mail-sever.
> I am connected to the ISP using a cable modem.
On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 12:55:46PM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote:
> >On 8/4/07, Alan Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>I have a Core2 Duo on which I am running a 686 kernel (from Debian
> >>unstable). It has 1GB of memory
> >>
> >>I am wondering two things
> >>
> >>a) What are the pros and co
On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 12:39:56PM +0100, Adam Hardy wrote:
> I installed dnsmasq to run DNS and DHCP servers on my little home network
> of 4 PCs and a couple of laptops, and everything was going fine, internet
> browsing, ssh, ftp by IP address etc.
>
> Now I am trying to get DNS to work for l
On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 12:27:44PM +0200, Jogito nit wrote:
> First of all, sorry about my english.
No problem.
>
> I have a problem with my Debian, it hangs randomly. I have tried to
> change the driver of my ati, I, ve tried without 3D acceleration. I
> thougth that was the memory, so i change
On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 07:39:05PM +1000, Robert S wrote:
> I'd like to install xorg, but only with the video drivers that I need.
> I'm doing a net install.
Here's how I do it:
First, I use aptitude interactively. If you haven't used aptitude
before, then that's a separate project to do first.
On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 09:42:29PM +0100, Adam Gray wrote:
>
> By the magic of aptitude, I installed a package that wanted udev, and
> as a result got rid of hotplug by accident. So I removed this package
> (can't remember what it was, nothing terribly important), reinstalled
> hotplug and thought
On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 03:06:10PM -0500, Dave Walker wrote:
> I hope to place a PC running Etch in our small (tiny, actually)
> airport building for use by pilots. The PC will be used to access
> perhaps 10 web sites (plus or minus) over a DSL connection and to run
> a few utilities to show GMT an
On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 09:03:42AM +1200, Jeff wrote:
> >So, on to why the nvidia driver isn't working for you. Are you running
> >Etch with stock kernel and have the matching nvidia kernel package,
> >nvidia-xconfig, and nvidia-glx? How did you try to set it up before?
> >
> >
> I am using ker
On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 09:26:28AM -0400, Frank McCormick wrote:
>
> I left my machine on overnight ( I usually don't ) and got these
> messages in my mail this morning:
You mean that you don't run anacron when you don't leave the compuer on
overnight? There are _lots_ of default scripts in /et
On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 08:54:52AM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> On 8/4/2007 6:06 PM, Tong Sun wrote:
> > Package: less
> > Version: 394-4
> > Severity: wishlist
> >
> > I remember that I used to be able to exit 'less' by command key 'x'
On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 12:28:14AM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
> But even so there was huge resistance because it was not a perfect
> solution and did not support 32-bit applications out of the box.
I run Etch amd64 on may Athlon64 3800+ and its great. Then again, this box
was an upgrade from my 4
Keep the reply on the list please.
On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 02:44:45PM +1200, Jeff wrote:
> Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> >Another way to get into the box is to boot the install CD in rescue
> >mode. From the menus, you can get a shell that is chrooted into the
> >box. From
On 8/4/2007 6:06 PM, Tong Sun wrote:
> Package: less
> Version: 394-4
> Severity: wishlist
>
> I remember that I used to be able to exit 'less' by command key 'x' or
> something so that the content just viewed is left on screen, instead of
> being cleared and restored to the screen before invoking
On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 08:42:15PM -0500, Kent West wrote:
> Kent West wrote:
> >... that's fairly indicative that the either the video system or the
> >system as a whole is locked up.
> >
> If your CAPS lock or Numlock indicator toggles when you press on the
> corresponding key, that's indicativ
On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 02:14:28PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> magic sysrq key... Alt-SysRq-S to sync the filesystems followed by
> Alt-SysRq-U tu remount readonly. then reboot.
>
> http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/457
>
>
> doesn't *always* work, but I've gotten to work
On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 09:35:50AM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote:
> percy tiglao([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said:
> > Hello, I've recently purchased a Dell Inspiron 530 and wanted to get
> > Debian onto it. I've installed Lenny mostly without any issues, but it
> > did not autodetect my ether
On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 12:19:09PM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote:
> On Saturday 04 Aug 2007, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > On 08/04/07 03:25, Alan Chandler wrote:
>
> > > b) Is there a simple transition path?
> >
> > Reinstall from scratch, and pray that your /home is on a seperate
> > partition.
>
> Well
On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 07:42:57AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 08:23:17PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
>
> > This is a great reason to be using LVM with separate LVs. Need to
> > convert? Create a new LV, make the new filesystem, tar the d
On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 09:43:46AM +0200, J?rg-Volker Peetz wrote:
> Debian Administration :: Filesystems (ext3, reiser, xfs, jfs) comparison
> on Debian Etch
> http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/388
>
Great article. As Ron points out, a UPS answers many of the
power-failure questio
On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 07:44:03PM -0700, David Brodbeck wrote:
> I have a MythTV system where there are lots of large (2+ gigabyte)
> video recordings. With ext3, deletes would block all writes to the
> filesystem until they completed, causing skips if there was an
> ongoing recording. W
On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 08:37:31PM -0400, Jose Luis Rivas Contreras wrote:
> I love XFS!!
>
> The only thing I cannot do with XFS is boot from that disk so I need to
> make a `/boot' partition to get it to boot but the rest is works great!!
> Smoothly :)
Why can't you boot from it? Doesn't GRU
On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 07:04:44PM -0500, Sam Leon wrote:
> Sergio Belkin wrote:
> >Hi I was reading http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/index.html and was amazed
> >because XFS powerful features. But I'd like opinions if xfs should be a
> >good alternative to ext3 in typical cases, or if it should b
On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 05:15:42PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> from the RM bug report:
>
> - The final step in converting a filesystem, reordering the blocks of
> the target filesystem, is apparently programmed in a very inefficient
> way, and it can take weeks for large filesystem
On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 06:44:39PM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> Is there a way to convert from ext2 to anything?
>
I think its the tried-and-true method of tar by way of spare space on
some device.
This is a great reason to be using LVM with separate LVs. Need to
convert? Create a new LV,
On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 08:44:31PM +, Tyler Smith wrote:
>
> I am aware that the problem lies entirely in the inconsistent and
> undocumented .doc format. And I know that rtf suffers from many of the
> same deficiencies. And I know that pdf is far preferable for most
> purposes. For reasons th
On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 03:26:11PM -0400, Francois Duranleau wrote:
> On 2.4.27, I get the CRC errors (not at boot time, later, and all the
> time thereafter), and I've been having them for many years. I
> mentionned just in case there might be a link with my problem.
> Otherwise, I am not trying
On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 03:41:52PM -0300, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 02:35:09PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> > So I doubt it. How you proceed depends on what mount point we're
> > talking about. Hopefully, its not /. Anything else you can
On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 02:28:58PM -0400, Brad Sawatzky wrote:
> On Fri, 03 Aug 2007, Francois Duranleau wrote:
>
> [ . . . ]
> > Now, when I boot my computer using the new kernel, I get an error
> > message during filesystem check saying it contains errors (sorry, I
> > don't have a more precise
On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 11:23:06PM +0530, Bhasker C V wrote:
>
> Is there a method to convert an ext3 file system created with -T
> largefile4 to a normal ext3 file system with normal block sizes ?
> (without losing data).
I don't think that -t largefile changes the size of block sizes but
chang
On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 05:54:57PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 08:34:00PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
>
> > However, don't all those modules in the initrd end up staying in the
> > kernel anyway, or do they get unloaded during boot? If t
On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 08:15:38AM -0500, Rodney Richison wrote:
> Art Edwards wrote:
> >
> >I've been running debian @ home and @ work, for years, had no indication
> >of attacks. Over the last few days, my iptables firewall seemed simply
> >to stop. I checked my auth log file to find many, many a
On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 12:29:38PM +0200, Fabrizio Pedersoli wrote:
> 2007/8/3, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 06:54:51PM +0200, Fabrizio Pedersoli wrote:
> > > i have a big problem with an Adaptec 2100s scsi controller, which
> &g
On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 02:47:14PM +0200, Stephane Durieux wrote:
> I have noticed that my clients are not declared in
> /etc/hosts if I put them in /etc/hosts (and in nis
> table to be useful) everything is find.
>
> Nevertheless I don t understand how the nfs can make a
> resolution via dns of
On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 05:42:22PM +0530, Masatran, R. Deepak wrote:
> I am unable to boot from my hard drive due to some problem. As a temporary
> solution, I want to make a CD, and use it to start booting the hard drive.
> How can I make such a CD? Thanks!
The answer will depend on why you can't
On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 10:45:43PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote:
> Douglas Allan Tutty([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said:
> > On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 09:47:58PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote:
> > > Douglas Allan Tutty([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said:
> > > &
On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 09:47:58PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote:
> Douglas Allan Tutty([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said:
> > On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 03:09:48PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote:
> > >
> > > I have been using an old laptop as an Access Point for our lapt
On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 11:41:54PM +, Tyler Smith wrote:
> Which brings me to my question: do any of you have any experience
> using wine or crossover office with MSWord? Does it work? If it is
> possible to produce true, well-formatted .doc files this way then it
> will definitely be an impr
On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 03:04:03PM -0500, Rodney Richison wrote:
> I've about 20 of old netserver lpr machines that have the old megaraid
> raid card. The kernal has dropped support for these cards. I'm tired of
> dealing with it.
>
> Can someone recomend a card that will work well with a stock
On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 03:09:48PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote:
>
> I have been using an old laptop as an Access Point for our laptops to
> connect to the internet through the main box -> modem connection.
> The Lan (eth0) is bridged with a Netgear WG511U PCMCIA card (ath0) to
> connect to the gatway
On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 06:54:51PM +0200, Fabrizio Pedersoli wrote:
> i have a big problem with an Adaptec 2100s scsi controller, which manages 2
> disks in RAID-0. the Debian installer found correctly that raid and the
> installation process terminates fine. But when i reboot, after linux loads
>
On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 12:19:36AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 10:35:01AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> > So what is the significance of initrd size? (other than the obvious
> > filling up /boot issue). Is it really a problem to have "most" modules
> > in there?
On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 06:02:34PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 11:03:50PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 09:49:41PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> >
> > > It certainly can do what you want, if you lea
On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 01:46:40PM +0200, Stephane Durieux wrote:
> --- Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a ?crit
> > > > > > I encounter a problem whith my nfs stations.
> > If the server has
> > > > > > not access to internet, they cann
On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 01:25:47AM -0600, Telly Williams wrote:
>
>Most of my files/folders are owned by root. It's starting to seem like
>that's not such a great idea because a few of the programs that I use
>don't like you to be root when you run them.
>
>So I'm thinking that I should start rec
On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 07:01:57AM +, Steven wrote:
> Also, if I `dd if=/dev/hda of=test bs=512 count=16384 && strings -a test
> | less` I see several explicit module paths, a reference to an old kernel
> which isn't on the system anymore (that I know of), and what looks like
> an irc prox
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 07:47:46PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Have you considered using the AMD64 port?, or perhaps you have some
> custom 32 bit stuff that can only run on x86?
Even if he does, it would probably run better in an i386 chroot. Unless
he's developing the i386 kernel.
Doug
On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 08:50:08AM +0900, Miles Bader wrote:
> I seems like it may be related to udev because if I look in /dev, the disk
> device nodes which should be there _aren't there_, even though the disk
> hardware is recognized fine by the kernel.
>
Udev isn't running yet. The boot de
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 09:12:26PM +0200, Salve H?kedal wrote:
> I run Etch on 3 machines, and have trouble with Caps Lock in the linux
> console. (In X it's ok.)
>
> machine[1a] Installed Woody in 2004, upgraded to Sarge and then Etch.
> Caps Lock works.
>
> machine[2] Installed Sarge, la
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 09:49:41PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> It certainly can do what you want, if you leave it running and use it as a
> shell and not as a single-command download tool. lftp can carry as many
> transfers in parallel as needed, to as many sites as needed, and bo
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 03:33:14PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Wed, 01 Aug 2007, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 01:41:56PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > > Try lftp. I know of no better ftp client. But it is command-lin
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 12:14:01PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 08/01/07 08:05, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
>
> > For a shorter fstab entry, can you label a digital camera and then use
> > LABEL="camera" instead?
>
> You can do it with fixed disks that have
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 11:00:19AM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Stephane Durieux wrote:
> > Of course the network connexion is good !
> > I can ping the server
>
> But you said that the server cannot access the network:
> > > > I encounter a problem whith my nfs stations. If the server has
> > > >
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 12:54:23PM -0400, Tony Heal wrote:
> I am trying to move my postgresql (v7.4) logging out of the syslog and
> into a postgres.log. I want to do this so I can turn on logging full
> bore and have logrotate keep the logs to a reasonable size.
>
>
>
> Here is my problem. Po
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 01:41:56PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> Try lftp. I know of no better ftp client. But it is command-line, which is
> just as well: the transfer engine is well cared for, and not a secondary
> thing to the GUI.
>
I've got lftp installed but haven't tried
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 01:03:52PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Wed, 01 Aug 2007, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> > But not rsync, which I use whenever I can for large downloads due to
> > errors creeping in for some reason over my noisy phone line and freqent
>
On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 10:16:32PM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote:
> I just started to use screen and it has 'control-a ?' which given you
> the 'cheatsheet'. But you dont need all the commands to start using it.
>
> I use:
> 'screen MYCOMMAND' to start a new screen session
> control-a " for menu-based s
On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 08:18:09PM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I am installing two servers, each with 16GB of RAM, two quad-core Xeon
> processors, and a SATA hard drive. The machines will be compute
> servers, meaning lots of concurrently logged in users, each running
> an assortment of job
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 04:49:04AM +0200, pinniped wrote:
>
> (quote)
> I still have the problem. ie. The windoze partition is
> mounted automatically fine, but I can only cd to it if I am root.
> (end quote)
>
> Do:
> man mount
>
> Look at the 'Mount options for ntfs'. All your mysteries are ex
On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 11:21:27PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> This flip-flopping is, AFAIK, more the fault of the newer kernel then
> the fault of udev. If the kernel would always load the modules in the
> same order then udev would probably assign the device nodes in a
> consistent manner.
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 11:08:06AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Jul 2007, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> > What we need is a multi-protocol proxy server that does proper
> > throttling of download requests.
>
> Squid delay pools? Will work for http an
On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 02:31:07PM +0530, Masatran, R. Deepak wrote:
> I have two Linux installations in my hard drive, and I want to modify
> Linux-2 from Linux-1, using Chroot. Basically "dpkg-reconfigure" and similar
> stuff. How do I tell DPKG of Linux-2 to not disturb the daemons that are
> ru
On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 01:07:32PM +0530, Masatran, R. Deepak wrote:
> ALSO: I want to try the 486 linux-image, but dpkg refuses to install it,
> saying that that package is only for I386. How can I install the 486
> linux-image on my AMD64 computer?
You can't since the 486 kernel is 32-bit and
On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 02:03:54AM -0500, Brad B wrote:
> Thanks for helping me. I installed both of those, and it got past requesting
> libc!
> Now, it's requesting the kernel source, which i can't seem to find the
> appropriate version of.
Would you care to change the subject line to something m
On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 11:37:52PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 07/30/07 20:13, Carl Fink wrote:
> > USB detection has been broken on Debian for years, literally. It works fine
> > for me with removable drives, but my Testing system will detect my Palm
> > device once -- and never again, until I
On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 10:19:09PM -0400, Steve Kleene wrote:
> [I wrote that my fresh Etch install calls grub and then stops.]
>
Here's a fresh start, just to verify that your machine will actually
boot properly.
1. Connect your drives to /dev/hda and /dev/hdc, set the jumpers on
b
On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 07:46:29PM -0500, Ashivni Shekhawat wrote:
>I am new to Debian. I have trying to install qwtplot3d on my
> machine; however I get the following error:
>
> # apt-get install qwtplot3d
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> E: Couldn't find p
On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 09:13:03PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote:
> USB detection has been broken on Debian for years, literally. It works fine
> for me with removable drives, but my Testing system will detect my Palm
> device once -- and never again, until I reboot. Then I can sync once more.
Care to
On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 01:15:19AM +0300, Sasho Angelov wrote:
> When I try to purge old linux image:
>
> sudo dpkg --purge --force-all linux-image-2.6.14-2-k7
Why do you need to force things? This may be a clue.
What package manager do you use and why don't you use it to remove this?
[snip]
On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 12:35:08PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> The closest to that which I have seen is that the larger a directory
> gets, the longer it takes to open a GTK File dialog. And it just
> burns up the CPU. If there's more than 12000 files, the File dialog
> will "never" open.
>
W
On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 08:24:08AM -0400, Steve Kleene wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 11:00:30PM -0400, Steve Kleene wrote:
> > [I wrote that my fresh Etch install calls grub and then stops.]
>
> On Sun, 29 Jul 2007 23:19:40 -0400, From: Douglas Allan Tutty replied:
> >
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 10:28:04PM -0500, Mumia W.. wrote:
> If you can, try to get the boot files placed before the 1024th cylinder
> boundary. Sometimes this is at 0.5GB, 2.1GB or 8GB. Try a partition
> layout like so:
>
> /boot (primary #1, 2.1GB)
> / (primary #2, 37.8GB)
> swap (logical #5
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 11:00:30PM -0400, Steve Kleene wrote:
> [I wrote that my fresh Etch install calls grub and then stops.]
What happens if you reboot the installer in rescue mode and tell it to
install grub again?
Does the box have a floppy and do you have a grub-disk (I've never made
a grub
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 11:04:23PM -0400, Rick wrote:
> On Sunday 29 July 2007 10:56:41 pm Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> > On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 10:27:27PM -0400, Rick wrote:
> > > Wonder, if there are any good mono-fonts for debian,
> > > that I can install extra.
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 10:27:27PM -0400, Rick wrote:
> Wonder, if there are any good mono-fonts for debian,
> that I can install extra.
What is a mono-font?
Doug.
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On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 10:42:29PM -0400, Celejar wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Jul 2007 20:11:43 -0400
> Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 03:32:44PM -0400, Celejar wrote:
> >
> > > I have issues similar to Doug's, and
On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 04:04:29AM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> The disk simply was not mounted! I've now mounted it, and I'm backing
> it up. Reading up on rsync, as well. Sorry for the false alarm...
>
df is your friend.
Once you have it backed up, compare it with your previous backup. It is
p
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 03:32:44PM -0400, Celejar wrote:
> I have issues similar to Doug's, and I have also wondered whether
> kernel based traffic shaping is what I need. Since we both use
> shorewall, which has an interface to the kernel's shaping capabilities,
> I suppose we ought to read sho
On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 02:34:55AM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> On 30/07/07, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 02:05:38AM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > > In a Debian-based distro (Ubuntu) I have had a corruption of my /home
> >
On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 02:05:38AM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> In a Debian-based distro (Ubuntu) I have had a corruption of my /home
> partition, which resides on sda4 of my Dell Inspiron laptop. Not
> knowing what to do, and with no way to boot and google the situation,
> I played Y, Y, Y to all f
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 03:56:26PM -0500, Brad B wrote:
> I recently did the network installation of Debian to a spare HD, and tried
> running it by itself in my PC, which usually runs windows. It boots into
> grub, but I get serveral different error messages at different times. I'm
> never able to
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 01:54:36PM -0700, Mike Bird wrote:
> Traffic "shaping" usually applies to output. "Policing"[0] usually applies
> to input. Since we often can't shape on the router transmitting data to
> us, in such cases we instead have to police on the receiving end and rely
> on the
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 10:54:34PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 11:30:05PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
>
> > and leave this VC 1 open. VC 2 is ssh'd to the box and either mutt or
> > $watch -n 20 "from -c"
> >
&
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 10:51:14PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 09:44:28PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> > I'm on dialup and often access the internet via a slow computer by
> > sshing into my fast computer (which has the modem).
> >
&
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 12:44:56PM -0700, Jeff D wrote:
> On that note, one thing that you might want to consider as part of the
> hardening process is to install aide or some other file integrity checker.
> Using something like that greatly helps in detecting and identifying issues
> such as thi
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 12:32:18PM -0700, Alan Ianson wrote:
>
> > The next version of Evince, due this fall, will also support form filling.
>
> That is such good news.. exactly what I have been hoping to read.. I've
> been looking for a way to fill in pdf forms for an amd64 box I have
> here.
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 03:32:44PM -0400, Celejar wrote:
> I have issues similar to Doug's, and I have also wondered whether
> kernel based traffic shaping is what I need. Since we both use
> shorewall, which has an interface to the kernel's shaping capabilities,
> I suppose we ought to read sho
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 06:14:46PM -, Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Jul 29, 11:10 am, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I'm on slow dialup. Downloads of iso's take days. Yet, I still want to
> > be able to browse the internet.
> >
> > I
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 05:52:12PM +, Tyler Smith wrote:
> Now that I have nothing listening to the outside world, do I still
> need a firewall? I have been using firestarter, but not consistently.
>
I look at a firewall as icing on the cake. If you reject and log local
to net, anything t
I'm on slow dialup. Downloads of iso's take days. Yet, I still want to
be able to browse the internet.
I would like to set up something like trickle that will run something
but limit its bandwidth so that it lower's its priority.
For example, wget and rsync allow one to limit the bandwidth to a
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