Re: Running QEMU from a cron job

2007-02-23 Thread Joshua J. Kugler
On Friday 23 February 2007 07:00, Linas Žvirblis wrote: > And do not forget that QEMU is mostly a GUI application, so you will > probably need to run xorg. You can run qemu headless, with a virtual framebuffer. Makes for a virtual machine you connect to via VNC to view. -- Joshua Kugler

Re: How does Cron send email?

2007-02-21 Thread Joshua J. Kugler
On Wednesday 21 February 2007 15:53, Grok Mogger wrote: > I have read the cron manpage. I understand what cron mails and > under what conditions it mails it, what I don't understand is > HOW it mails it. I know that cron just sends the output of > whatever script it runs. I don't understand how

Re: [OT] Re: 1TB drives (was Re: Woody on 486 problem)

2007-02-21 Thread Joshua J. Kugler
On Wednesday 21 February 2007 12:19, Larry Irwin wrote: > > On 02/21/07 14:07, Joshua J. Kugler wrote: > >> On Wednesday 21 February 2007 10:13, Ron Johnson wrote: > >>>> Note: Last week I have ordered four of the first 1 TByte > >>>> Hit

[OT] Re: 1TB drives (was Re: Woody on 486 problem)

2007-02-21 Thread Joshua J. Kugler
On Wednesday 21 February 2007 10:13, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Note: Last week I have ordered four of the first 1 TByte > > Hitachi HardDisks for my 3w9500 as Backup-Server. > > Where from? What's the model number? http://www.hitachigst.com/portal/site/en/menuitem.8027a91c954924ae4bda9f30eac4f

Re: Getting started with Postgres or MySQL

2007-01-31 Thread Joshua J. Kugler
On Wednesday 31 January 2007 15:27, Ron Johnson wrote: > You're talking to someone who's been a DBA for 10 years; you will > not win this argument. Eh, so ya got three years on me. :) j -- Joshua Kugler Lead System Admin -- Senior Programmer http://www.eeinternet.com

Re: Getting started with Postgres or MySQL

2007-01-31 Thread Joshua J. Kugler
On Wednesday 31 January 2007 14:20, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 01/31/07 16:50, Joshua J. Kugler wrote: > > On Wednesday 31 January 2007 13:19, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > >>> How do I get started here? > >> > >> First. Please do not use MySQL, unless you don

Re: Getting started with Postgres or MySQL

2007-01-31 Thread Joshua J. Kugler
On Wednesday 31 January 2007 13:19, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > How do I get started here? > > First. Please do not use MySQL, unless you don't care about your data. Please stop this MySQL vs. PostgreSQL bashing. Each has their place. If users of MySQL don't care about their data, then I gue

Re: [OT] Dilbert cartoon featurng Linux

2007-01-26 Thread Joshua J. Kugler
On Friday 26 January 2007 04:20, Max Hyre wrote: > Sven Arvidsson wrote: > > On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 11:16 -0700, ChadDavis wrote: > >> Has anyone seen the Unix dilbert where a crusty old, Unix guy comes up > >> to dilbert, flips him a dime, and says,"Here kid, go buy yourself a > >> real computer."

Re: Sourceforge.net Code

2007-01-19 Thread Joshua J. Kugler
On Friday 19 January 2007 10:42, Martin Kenneth Lopez wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I been looking thru google and sourceforge but I didnt have luck I > was looking for an web aplication like sourceforge.net... did anyone > know a tool like this for download?... thanks in advance.. You're looki

Re: Debian Etch or Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft) LAMP Server for LTSP

2006-12-15 Thread Joshua J. Kugler
On Friday 15 December 2006 18:00, Anthony M Simonelli wrote: > My dilemma is that I am waiting for the release of Etch but now I'm > tempted to use Ubuntu 6.10 for the job. I'd recommend 6.06...it will be supported for longer. > What would be the benefit of using Debian Etch over Ubuntu 6.10 Sli

Re: Illegible PDF (KDE and Sid) (SOLVED (maybe))

2006-12-04 Thread Joshua J. Kugler
On Monday 04 December 2006 11:43, Benjamí Villoslada wrote: > El Dilluns 04 Desembre 2006 19:42, Joshua J. Kugler va escriure: > > Make sure you haven't enabled KPrinter's "Hangman" mode. > > > : > > I've changed the KPrinter confi

Re: Illegible PDF (KDE and Sid)

2006-12-04 Thread Joshua J. Kugler
On Monday 04 December 2006 04:19, Benjamí Villoslada wrote: > Hi, > > Lately KPrinter makes illegible PDF: > http://itaca.bitassa.cat/~benjami/tmp/kdepdfkaput.pdf > > I can print Postscipt files with Iceweasel and convert it to correct PDF > with ps2pdf. > > PDF printer in Control Center have this

Re: vmware on debian etch

2006-11-17 Thread Joshua J. Kugler
On Friday 17 November 2006 17:05, H.S. wrote: > Joshua J. Kugler wrote: > > On Friday 17 November 2006 16:33, H.S. wrote: > >>When I gave the 'vmware' command as normal user after the installation, > >>I got this error and no GUI: > >>{tmp}$> vmwa

Re: vmware on debian etch

2006-11-17 Thread Joshua J. Kugler
On Friday 17 November 2006 16:33, H.S. wrote: > When I gave the 'vmware' command as normal user after the installation, > I got this error and no GUI: > {tmp}$> vmware > /usr/local/lib/vmware/bin/vmware: > /usr/local/lib/vmware/lib/libpng12.so.0/libpng12.so.0: no version > information available (re

Re: vmware on debian etch

2006-11-17 Thread Joshua J. Kugler
On Friday 17 November 2006 14:59, H.S. wrote: > Joshua J. Kugler wrote: > > On Friday 17 November 2006 14:44, H.S. wrote: > >>I have read the other replied, and I just now uninstalled vmware. I am > >>going to try the rpm now and I'll see if that works. > > &

Re: vmware on debian etch

2006-11-17 Thread Joshua J. Kugler
On Friday 17 November 2006 14:44, H.S. wrote: > I have read the other replied, and I just now uninstalled vmware. I am > going to try the rpm now and I'll see if that works. You installed via the TAR.GZ before? That was what I did, and all seemed to work. > Just for completeness, here is the te

Re: vmware on debian etch

2006-11-17 Thread Joshua J. Kugler
On Friday 17 November 2006 13:44, piter wrote: > H.S. wrote: > > er ... I am not sure if I should be asking this in this forum since > > vmware is not open source. > > > > I wanted to play around with vmware server and installed it on my etch > > system in /usr/local. > > > > I also intalled vmware

Re: GPL Java

2006-11-14 Thread Joshua J. Kugler
On Tuesday 14 November 2006 04:02, Gregory Seidman wrote: > Okay, so Java's GPL'd now: http://www.sun.com/2006-1113/feature/index.jsp > (Also http://java.net/ ) > > How soon will we see packages in main at long last? Granted, a buildable > JDK isn't expected until Spring of next year... I'm going

Re: apt-proxy

2006-11-14 Thread Joshua J. Kugler
3 > 2006/11/14 09:08 BRST [Channel,1,192.168.1.11] [Request] Request: GET > /debian/dists/etch/Release.gpg backend=debian > uri=/debian/dists/etch/Release.gpg > 2006/11/14 09:08 BRST [Channel,1,192.168.1.11] [debug] backend: debian > [] > 2006/11/14 09:08 BRST [Channel,1,192.168.1.11] [d

Re: Debian on new Macs with Intel CPU?

2006-11-13 Thread Joshua J. Kugler
On Monday 13 November 2006 13:40, Micha Feigin wrote: > On Mon, 13 Nov 2006 22:54:34 +0100 > > David Moerike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What is to do when I want to run Debian 4.0 on the new Apple Macintosh > > machines with Intel processors, especially the Xserve Server machine? > > Does Debia

Re: Skype via VNC

2006-11-13 Thread Joshua J. Kugler
On Sunday 12 November 2006 11:39, Peter Easthope wrote: > Joshua & others, > > I'm back at home and can reply to the list with help > of a thunderbird. > > jk> What error messages do you get if you open a shell and start Skype > jk> that way (or look in .xsession-errors in your home dir). > > Xsess

Re: apt-proxy

2006-11-13 Thread Joshua J. Kugler
g] Opening database > /var/cache/apt-proxy/.apt-proxy/db/packages.db > > On 11/11/06, Rodrigo Castro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Didn't see that, my mistake. Thank you all. > > > > On 11/10/06, Joshua J. Kugler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > &g

Re: apt-proxy

2006-11-10 Thread Joshua J. Kugler
On Friday 10 November 2006 11:29, Rodrigo Castro wrote: > 2006/11/10 18:24 BRST [-] twisted.internet.error.CannotListenError: > Couldn't listen on 192.168.1.11: : (98, 'Address already in use'). There is your problem right there: there is already a program listening on port , so it couldn

Re: apt-proxy

2006-11-10 Thread Joshua J. Kugler
On Friday 10 November 2006 10:58, Rodrigo Castro wrote: > I'm experiencing trouble to put apt-proxy to work. In the > apt-proxy-v2.confI didn't change many things, only the server Ip (like > 192.168.1.11) and the backends. And the client's source.list would be like > deb http://192.168.1.11:/de

Re: Skype via VNC

2006-11-09 Thread Joshua J. Kugler
On Thursday 09 November 2006 08:51, Easthope wrote: > Joshua, > > > It's possible that the Xvnc server does not support an extension > > that Skype > requires. What error messages do you get if you open a shell and > start Skype > that way (or look in .xsession-errors in your home dir). > > Joshua,

Re: Skype via VNC

2006-11-08 Thread Joshua J. Kugler
On Monday 06 November 2006 13:42, Peter Easthope wrote: > Hello Debian users, > > Skype 1.3.0.53 works well under Etch and kernel > 2.6.16 here. Mostly I prefer to use the system > via VNC from another machine but Skype refuses > to start for the VNC client. (The cable of the > headset reaches ea

Re: What does apt and dpkg mean?

2006-11-01 Thread Joshua J. Kugler
On Wednesday 01 November 2006 16:46, Pollywog wrote: > On Thursday 02 November 2006 01:41, gniuxiao wrote: > > I know that rm means remove, ls means list, but what does apt and dpkg > > mean? Thanks. > > apt and dpkg are commands used to install or remove Debian packages. If > you have used RedHat

Re: Debian Weekly News?

2006-10-13 Thread Joshua J. Kugler
On Friday 13 October 2006 12:10, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 11:50:41AM -0800, Joshua J. Kugler wrote: > > From the September 26 DWN: > > > > As Debian experiments with funding, the author of DWN is going to > > experiment with spending

Re: Debian Weekly News?

2006-10-13 Thread Joshua J. Kugler
On Friday 13 October 2006 11:43, Wulfy wrote: > I haven't had the last two edition of Debian Weekly News. I thought > that I'd somehow become unsubscribed from the list, but when I went to > the site, it seems I have all of them and the October editions that I'm > missing haven't been sent. > > An

Re: Is shorewall abandoned in sid?

2006-10-05 Thread Joshua J. Kugler
On Thursday 05 October 2006 14:37, Pollywog wrote: > On Thursday 05 October 2006 18:31, Pollywog wrote: > > On Thursday 05 October 2006 17:16, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > > On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 08:00:04PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > > Hhmm, I am running stable (with a bit of testing) on

Re: OT: database to manage real estate business?

2006-09-29 Thread Joshua J. Kugler
On Friday 29 September 2006 10:24, Richard Lyons wrote: > Not a debian question, but someone here usually has done it before. > > Has anyone come across or created a system for managing real estate > agency, from first viewing to sale, with an emphasis on the > incorporation of the property descrip

Re: gcc-4.1

2006-09-11 Thread Joshua J. Kugler
On Monday 11 September 2006 19:11, Rocky Ou wrote: > On 9/12/06, Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 10:32:09PM +0800, Rocky Ou wrote: > > > Hey, > > > > > > Thanks for your reply but it still not doing the work. > > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gcc good.c > > > gcc: g

Re: pure64-bit ?

2006-09-11 Thread Joshua J. Kugler
On Monday 11 September 2006 10:10, Richard wrote: > Heard some where that debian is working on a pure64 bit linux? > fact or fiction? There are already several 64 bit architectures supported (PowerPC, IA-64, etc). Do you mean x86-64 (aka AMD64)? Yes, Testing (Etch) currently builds for x86-64.

Re: where is glxgears now ?

2006-09-03 Thread Joshua J. Kugler
On Sunday 03 September 2006 06:36, Stephen Cormier wrote: > Just to prevent the inevitable why no frames per second post since others > have told where to get it use "glxgears -printfps" without the quotes. If you feel like being verbose, you can also run: glxgears -iacknowledgethatthistoolisnota

rtc not behaving in etch?

2006-09-02 Thread Joshua J. Kugler
During boot on my Etch machine (Dell PowerEdge 830 with an Intel Pentium D CPU 2.80GHz), during boot, there is a message about select() timing out on /dev/rtc. That message displays twice, a few more messages, then there is a message about "trying to set the system clock again." I've looked th

Error installing packages in Etch

2006-08-22 Thread Joshua J. Kugler
OK, I'm at a loss here. I installed Etch, everything went fine. Now that I've booted up, when I try to install a package, I run this, for example: apt-get install openssh-server. But I get this error (for this, and any package I try to install): dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute new pre-i

Re: Bug in smartmontools?

2006-08-21 Thread Joshua J. Kugler
On Monday 21 August 2006 09:53, Wackojacko wrote: > Joshua J. Kugler wrote: > > Sorry...forgot to mention this is on Etch, all packages latest. > > > > j > > > > On Friday 18 August 2006 12:42, Joshua J. Kugler wrote: > >> I tried to use smartmontoo

Re: Bug in smartmontools?

2006-08-18 Thread Joshua J. Kugler
Sorry...forgot to mention this is on Etch, all packages latest. j On Friday 18 August 2006 12:42, Joshua J. Kugler wrote: > I tried to use smartmontools on a new Dell EM64T system we have here: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/hdtest# uname -a > Linux x 2.6.16-2-em64t-p4-smp #1 SMP Sun

Bug in smartmontools?

2006-08-18 Thread Joshua J. Kugler
I tried to use smartmontools on a new Dell EM64T system we have here: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/hdtest# uname -a Linux x 2.6.16-2-em64t-p4-smp #1 SMP Sun Jul 16 02:14:40 CEST 2006 x86_64 GNU/Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/hdtest# smartctl -a /dev/sda smartctl version 5.36 [x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu] Copy

Re: Keeping dependencies when running alien

2006-08-03 Thread Joshua J. Kugler
On Thursday 03 August 2006 13:53, Joey Hess wrote: > Joshua J. Kugler wrote: > > So, how do I instruct alien to convert these dependencies over? > > You can't. For starters, not one of the dependencies you listed from the > rpm is a package name; debs support only package

Keeping dependencies when running alien

2006-08-03 Thread Joshua J. Kugler
I'm trying to use alien to convert a vendor's RPM to .deb. Mainly so I can install it cleanly, but also to help them out. The REQUIRENAME from the RPM has this (x is the app...X'ed out due to the fact that this is a beta test, and I'm not sure how much news they want in public): /bin/

Re: Debian dspam as postfix content filter?

2006-07-27 Thread Joshua J. Kugler
On Thursday 27 July 2006 13:37, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, Joshua J. Kugler wrote: > > OK, it believes it's catching spam. Do you have it set to quarantine, or > > simply pass the mail with something in the headers indicating Spam? > > I have set it u

Re: Debian dspam as postfix content filter?

2006-07-27 Thread Joshua J. Kugler
On Thursday 27 July 2006 13:00, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, Joshua J. Kugler wrote: > > I've implemented dspam on a Debian system. Have you trained dspam yet? > > Um I think so... > > > It > > will not filter out of the box, it must be traine

Re: Debian dspam as postfix content filter?

2006-07-27 Thread Joshua J. Kugler
On Thursday 27 July 2006 08:59, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > Has anyone successfully implemented dspam as a postfix content filter? > I've followed the instructions in README.postfix and while mail is being > filtered by dspam, 100% of it is marked as innocent. Which kind of > defeats the purpose of a

Re: Time sync to Windows. How?

2006-07-14 Thread Joshua J. Kugler
Should get you going: http://www.google.com/search?q=ntp+windows j On Friday 14 July 2006 13:07, marc wrote: > Hi, > > I've managed to get Linux through the door at a client's site applause> However, it is necessary to time sync desktop client's to a > Windows server. (This is a strict requirem

Re: Another thread about a non-killable process

2006-07-11 Thread Joshua J. Kugler
On Tuesday 11 July 2006 12:58, Michael Marsh wrote: > On 7/11/06, Joshua J. Kugler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tuesday 11 July 2006 12:18, Michael Marsh wrote: > > > Does it respond to kill -HUP? > > > > Nope, or to 3, 6, or 11. So, yeah, I'm dow

Re: Another thread about a non-killable process

2006-07-11 Thread Joshua J. Kugler
On Tuesday 11 July 2006 12:18, Michael Marsh wrote: > On 7/11/06, Joshua J. Kugler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Win32? Huh? This is a Debian system. Proftpd is locked (won't accept > > connections, even though it shows listening on *:ftp. > > Does it respond

Re: Another thread about a non-killable process

2006-07-11 Thread Joshua J. Kugler
On Tuesday 11 July 2006 11:56, heba wrote: > 2006/7/11, Joshua J. Kugler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > OK, so I understand you can't kill a process in a 'D' state. That makes > > sense. > > > > But, why can't you kill a process in state 'R&#

Another thread about a non-killable process

2006-07-11 Thread Joshua J. Kugler
OK, so I understand you can't kill a process in a 'D' state. That makes sense. But, why can't you kill a process in state 'R'? This is what ps aux shows: ftp899 64.9 0.2 4164 2216 ?RNs Jun12 27137:59 proftpd: (accepting connections) BTW, top shows that process taking 100%

Re: No kernel update yet?

2006-06-30 Thread Joshua J. Kugler
On Friday 30 June 2006 16:49, Joshua J. Kugler wrote: > On Friday 30 June 2006 16:18, Seth Goodman wrote: > > On Friday, June 30, 2006 1:31 PM -0500, Joshua J. Kugler wrote: > > > Several days ago, DSA-1103 (2.6.8 kernel update) was announced due > > > to several securi

Re: No kernel update yet?

2006-06-30 Thread Joshua J. Kugler
On Friday 30 June 2006 16:18, Seth Goodman wrote: > On Friday, June 30, 2006 1:31 PM -0500, Joshua J. Kugler wrote: > > Several days ago, DSA-1103 (2.6.8 kernel update) was announced due > > to several security issues. But as of today, > > http://www.debian.org/security/2006

No kernel update yet?

2006-06-30 Thread Joshua J. Kugler
Several days ago, DSA-1103 (2.6.8 kernel update) was announced due to several security issues. But as of today, http://www.debian.org/security/2006/ still does not show it, and all my apt-get updates/upgrades have not downloaded it or indicated that is is available. Is it coming? j -- Joshu

Re: Debian package of the day

2006-06-23 Thread Joshua J. Kugler
Looks cool...how about an RSS feed? :) I could stand to learn about 24 new Debian packages a day. That should get me through all of them in, oh, 750 to 1000 years. :) j On Friday 23 June 2006 13:22, Aaron Maxwell wrote: > Something I did for fun, that you might find neat: > http://potd.redsym

Moo! (WAS Re: upgrade only if installed)

2006-06-14 Thread Joshua J. Kugler
Wow...here's a silly one for the archives. On Wednesday 14 June 2006 13:46, Bill Thompson wrote: > In addition, the command "aptitude" is now recommended in place of > "apt-get". The aptitude program handles package dependencies better > than the apt-get program. When you do apt-get --help, at th

Re: apt-get broken, packages not fully installed or removed (solved?)

2006-06-14 Thread Joshua J. Kugler
On Wednesday 14 June 2006 10:51, Charles Hallenbeck wrote (edited): > changing the symbolic link > /bin/sh to point to /bin/zsh instead of /bin/bash. > > I changed the link to point to /bin/bash again, [ran apt commands > successfully > > But why? I do upgrades at least once a day, and they usuall

Re: firefox connects to undesired place

2006-06-09 Thread Joshua J. Kugler
On Friday 09 June 2006 10:01, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Hello List, > > by doing > > lsof -i > > I have noticed that firefox connects my box to > > aXXX-XXX-X-XXX.deploy.akamaitechnologies.com Akmai is a load sharing network. Many sites use it. Can't do anything about it except not use those sites

Re: rsync --delete

2006-06-08 Thread Joshua J. Kugler
On Wednesday 07 June 2006 23:51, Dexter wrote: > Hi, > i use "rsync -rlptgov --delete /mnt/server/dir/ /var/share/server/dir" > comand to sinchronize directory on backup server with primary server. I > use --delete option, so that files, that do not exist on SRC are deleted > also on DST. SRC direc

Re: 4TB filesystem

2006-06-02 Thread Joshua J. Kugler
On Friday 02 June 2006 15:22, Mike Dresser wrote: > On Fri, 2 Jun 2006, Koos Meijering wrote: > > I am trying to create on a nfs file server a partition with the size of > > 4TB every time after a reboot the system reports there is only a 2 TB > > partition and an unused part of the disk. > > I hav

Re: 4TB filesystem

2006-06-02 Thread Joshua J. Kugler
On Friday 02 June 2006 11:55, Koos Meijering wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to create on a nfs file server a partition with the size of > 4TB every time after a reboot the system reports there is only a 2 TB > partition and an unused part of the disk. > The system is an AMD Optron server, with Deb

Re: Help! I can't even execute my own executables any more!

2006-05-24 Thread Joshua J. Kugler
On Tuesday 23 May 2006 10:11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > A program I wrote and has run many many times before suddenly stopped > running, giving "permission denied" errors. Thinking this ight have to > to with the recent C++ library changes, I recompiled it. But this did > not help. I decided to