How to access forumns?

2021-01-25 Thread Neil du Toit
When I tried to register for Debian User Forumns I received the following list of error messages: Your IP has been blocked because it is blacklisted. For details please see http://www.spamcannibal.org/cannibal.cgi?page=lookup&lookup=. Your IP has been blocked because it is blacklisted. For detai

Hardware Accelerated Video Playback in Chromium

2020-04-25 Thread Neil E. Hodges
Hello everyone, Does anybody know the status of hardware-accelerated video playback in Chromium on Debian as of 2020? There's a lot of outdated information out there, and the only recent stuff I've seen has involved a PPA on Ubuntu. Thank you, - Neil

Re: Debian Buster Router: IPv6 and Comcast (Solved)

2019-11-15 Thread Neil E. Hodges
ut it still didn't work. Maybe that autoconf option was the ticket? Didn't see many other folks trying these options out. Oh well. Thank you for helping me think this through properly. This has been solved. - Neil On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 01:14:39PM -0800, Neil E. Hodges wrote: >

Re: Debian Buster Router: IPv6 and Comcast

2019-11-15 Thread Neil E. Hodges
t; script "/etc/wide-dhcpv6/dhcp6c-script"; > }; > > id-assoc na 1 { }; Why in the world does enabling DHCPv6 for the IP address cause the kernel to ignore router advertisements? That's a common use case for IPv6. Thank you, - Neil On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 07:01:47PM -0

Debian Buster Router: IPv6 and Comcast

2019-11-14 Thread Neil E. Hodges
ump shows the RAs coming in. I've been fighting this for the past few weeks, and nothing I've found when searching online has helped. I've also seen odd cases where I'm able to get both a public IPv6 address and a default gateway, but only on rare occasions. Does anybody have any suggestions? Thank you, - Neil

Re: Jessie unable to update via squid proxy

2017-01-23 Thread Neil Roberts
nary-amd64/Packages.bz2 - DIRECT/128.61.240.73 - 1485172350.454101 192.168.10.98 TCP_REFRESH_UNMODIFIED/304 324 GET http://security.debian.org/dists/jessie/updates/main/i18n/Translation-en.bz2 - DIRECT/128.61.240.73 - Before anyone points it out, we use a /22 so the system can resolve the proxy with

Jessie unable to update via squid proxy

2017-01-23 Thread Neil Roberts
nary-amd64/Packages.bz2 - DIRECT/128.61.240.73 - 1485172350.454101 192.168.10.98 TCP_REFRESH_UNMODIFIED/304 324 GET http://security.debian.org/dists/jessie/updates/main/i18n/Translation-en.bz2 - DIRECT/128.61.240.73 - Before anyone points it out, we use a /22 so the system can resolve the proxy with no problems. Any pointers would be greatly appreciated. Regards Neil

Re: random reboots of my Lenovo ThinkPad (3.16.7-ckt20-1+deb8u1) (kernel stack trace)

2015-12-24 Thread Neil Roberts
On 2015-12-22 22:18, Anders Andersson wrote: First thing I do in a case like this is to run memtest86 in some form on the hardware. Good point, but: 1. those stack traces are always nouveau related 2. memtest86+ yields nothing 3. often upon logging into X, before the desktop appears, I am get

jessie 3.16.0-4-686-pae kernel stuck at initramfs prompt due to ata_piix module

2015-06-26 Thread Neil H. Gray
to do next to fix this problem. Thanks in advance for any advice or help, Neil -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/558d5cba.8010...@ohiogray.org

Re: LVM devices and symlinks

2012-12-12 Thread Neil T . Dantam
At Wed, 12 Dec 2012 18:54:41 +, Roger Leigh wrote: > > > > > > Reboot the box after installing LVM. > > > > Ah, a reboot has lvcreate working properly, thank you. > > This is good to know. However, this should all be triggered > when the package is initially installed. Agree that "turning

Re: LVM devices and symlinks

2012-12-12 Thread Neil T . Dantam
At Wed, 12 Dec 2012 18:54:41 +, Roger Leigh wrote: > > > > > > Reboot the box after installing LVM. > > > > Ah, a reboot has lvcreate working properly, thank you. > > This is good to know. However, this should all be triggered > when the package is initially installed. Agree that "turning

Re: LVM devices and symlinks

2012-12-11 Thread Neil T . Dantam
At Tue, 11 Dec 2012 10:15:54 +, Chris Davies wrote: > > Reboot the box after installing LVM. Ah, a reboot has lvcreate working properly, thank you. > Based on my empirical sample of two, there's some dependency that I > haven't tracked - and I must admit thought it was related to my weird >

LVM devices and symlinks

2012-12-10 Thread Neil T . Dantam
Hi, I'm having an issue (not quite a problem) creating LVM logical volumes. It seems that the way device files and symlinks are created has changed between Squeeze and Wheezy (or I have some bad configuration). Old (working) Behavior -- Performing an `lvcreate -L10G -nLV

Re: partitions - primary vs logical and bootability

2012-11-10 Thread Neil T . Dantam
At Sat, 10 Nov 2012 16:09:36 -0600, Charles Blair wrote: > >I am trying to set up a dual-boot windows 7 / wheezy. Can you install grub2 to the MBR and have it boot both debian and MSWindows? This worked fine to dual-boot WinXP. > As I understand it, / must be bootable, which seems to mean it

Re: Why are my emails not making it to the list?

2011-01-26 Thread Neil Youngman
ature the inbound copy of the message is discarded because it already has a copy in the sent folder. Neil Youngman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.de

Re: Help with a bash script please

2011-01-14 Thread Neil Youngman
ilename='Daily backup - `date +%a" "%h" "%H%M" > > Check your quotes. There might be other things but it looks like you're > missing a tick after date. Also a decent IDE would make this pretty plain > to you - I use vim. That looks like the culprit. If fixi

Re: Kernel bug in Squeeze

2011-01-13 Thread Neil Youngman
On Thursday 13 Jan 2011 09:35:04 Russell Gadd wrote: > Also how/where could I report this bug? For the how, I suggest you look at the reportbug man page. Neil Youngman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Co

Re: Debian (sid) painfully slow.

2011-01-08 Thread Neil Youngman
On Saturday 08 Jan 2011 14:21:27 teddi...@tmo.blackberry.net wrote: > Lenny is Stable > Squeeze is Testing > Sid is Unstable OK, I've got my names mixed up. it's not Sid I'm running at all, it's Squeeze. Neil Youngman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-req

Re: Debian (sid) painfully slow.

2011-01-08 Thread Neil Youngman
On Friday 07 Jan 2011 18:28:11 Neil Youngman wrote: > I will continue to observe the system, with swapping in mind as a possible > factor and see if there is a correlation. Now that I'm looking for swapping, it's obvious that there are 2 factors here. The system is definitely s

Re: Debian (sid) painfully slow.

2011-01-08 Thread Neil Youngman
: ># show_release_count I've tweaked that to show stable and testing and I get stable: 84 testing: 1323 so there's a little cleaning up to do. Neil Youngman -- 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/201101081348.17569...@youngman.org.uk

Re: Debian (sid) painfully slow.

2011-01-08 Thread Neil Youngman
the same thing? Essentially I changed the priorities to make testing the default and did an apt-get dist-upgrade, although I had previously upgraded a fair amount using install -t testing Neil Youngman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of &qu

Re: Debian (sid) painfully slow.

2011-01-08 Thread Neil Youngman
On Saturday 08 Jan 2011 03:32:35 Jochen Schulz wrote: > Oh, and you are sure you didn't overlook a tiny line along the lines of > "IRQ 16: nobody cared"? # grep cared /var/log/messages* # No sign of that on this system. Neil Youngman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: Debian (sid) painfully slow.

2011-01-08 Thread Neil Youngman
On Saturday 08 Jan 2011 03:28:47 Jochen Schulz wrote: > Neil Youngman: > > On Friday 07 Jan 2011 16:53:05 Jochen Schulz wrote: > >> Can you confirm this by doing something CPU intensive which doesn't draw > >> anything on the screen? Something like a kernel comp

Re: Debian (sid) painfully slow.

2011-01-08 Thread Neil Youngman
e cycles, so it's rarely below 100%. Stopping BOINC for a while might be a worthwhile diagnostic at some point. Neil Youngman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archiv

Re: Debian (sid) painfully slow.

2011-01-07 Thread Neil Youngman
On Friday 07 Jan 2011 17:07:30 Bob Proulx wrote: > Neil Youngman wrote: > > It can take several seconds to pop up a menu and, in the worst case, > > swapping from one window to another can take minutes, even if the > > other window is a simple xterm. I have also observed wind

Re: Debian (sid) painfully slow.

2011-01-07 Thread Neil Youngman
On Friday 07 Jan 2011 16:53:05 Jochen Schulz wrote: > Neil Youngman: > > Since I "upgraded" to testing my system has been slow, occasionally to > > the point that I have power cycled it because I couldn't get it to > > respond to anything else. > > What&#

Re: Debian (sid) painfully slow.

2011-01-07 Thread Neil Youngman
On Friday 07 Jan 2011 16:45:41 you wrote: > Neil Youngman wrote: > > Since I "upgraded" to testing my system has been slow, occasionally to > > the point that I have power cycled it because I couldn't get it to > > respond to anything else. > > What upgra

Debian (sid) painfully slow.

2011-01-07 Thread Neil Youngman
since I've had to debug X, and I'm not sure what else to try. I've had no luck with Googling for this problem. Does anyone have any suggestions? Neil Youngman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tro

Re: How to recreate a dmraid RAID array with mdadm

2010-11-22 Thread Neil Brown
I see the problem now. And John Robinson was nearly there. The problem is that after assembling the container /dev/md/imsm, mdadm needs to assemble the RAID1, but doesn't find the container /dev/md/imsm to assemble it from. That is because of the DEVICE partitions line. A container is not a pa

Re: How to recreate a dmraid RAID array with mdadm

2010-11-17 Thread Neil Brown
On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 00:10:50 -0500 Mike Viau wrote: > > > On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 14:17:18 +1100 wrote: > > > > > > > On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 13:32:47 +1100 wrote: > > > > > ./mdadm -Ss > > > > > > > > > > mdadm: stopped /dev/md127 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ./mdadm -Asvvv > > > > > > > > > > mdadm

Re: How to recreate a dmraid RAID array with mdadm

2010-11-17 Thread Neil Brown
On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 22:03:41 -0500 Mike Viau wrote: > > > On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 13:32:47 +1100 wrote: > > > ./mdadm -Ss > > > > > > mdadm: stopped /dev/md127 > > > > > > > > > ./mdadm -Asvvv > > > > > > mdadm: looking for devices for further assembly > > > mdadm: no RAID superblock on /dev/dm-3 >

Re: How to recreate a dmraid RAID array with mdadm

2010-11-17 Thread Neil Brown
On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 21:05:40 -0500 Mike Viau wrote: > ./mdadm -Ss > > mdadm: stopped /dev/md127 > > > ./mdadm -Asvvv > > mdadm: looking for devices for further assembly > mdadm: no RAID superblock on /dev/dm-3 > mdadm: /dev/dm-3 has wrong uuid. >  want UUID-084b969a:0808f5b8:6c784fb7:6265938

Re: How to recreate a dmraid RAID array with mdadm

2010-11-17 Thread Neil Brown
On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 19:56:10 -0500 Mike Viau wrote: > I am running the same version, from a Debian Squeeze package which I presume > is the same. > > mdadm -V > > mdadm - v3.1.4 - 31st August 2010 Yes, should be identical to what I am running. > > > > > and see how that works. > > Just > >

Re: How to recreate a dmraid RAID array with mdadm

2010-11-17 Thread Neil Brown
On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 17:36:23 -0500 Mike Viau wrote: > > > On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 14:15:14 +1100 wrote: > > > > This looks wrong. mdadm should be looking for the container as listed in > > mdadm.conf and it should find a matching uuid on sda and sdb, but it > > doesn't. > > > > Can you: > > > > md

Re: How to recreate a dmraid RAID array with mdadm (was: no subject)

2010-11-16 Thread Neil Brown
gt; >>> and then have a look around and particularly report etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf > >>> and anything else that might be interesting. > >>> > >>> If the mdadm.conf in the initrd is the same as in /etc/mdadm, then it > >>> *should* work. > >>> > >&g

Re: How to recreate a dmraid RAID array with mdadm (was: no subject)

2010-11-16 Thread Neil Brown
On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 01:39:39 + John Robinson wrote: > On 17/11/2010 01:26, Neil Brown wrote: > > On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 20:02:17 -0500 > > Mike Viau wrote: > [...] > >> DEVICE partitions > >> HOMEHOST > >> ARRAY metadata=imsm UUID=084b969a:0808f5

Re: How to recreate a dmraid RAID array with mdadm (was: no subject)

2010-11-16 Thread Neil Brown
nitrd > > zcat /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-5-amd64 | cpio -idv > > > > and then have a look around and particularly report etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf > > and anything else that might be interesting. > > > > If the mdadm.conf in the initrd is the same as in /etc/mdadm, then

Re: How to recreate a dmraid RAID array with mdadm (was: no subject)

2010-11-14 Thread Neil Brown
On Sun, 14 Nov 2010 01:50:42 -0500 Mike Viau wrote: > Again, How does one fix the problem of not having the array not starting at > boot? > To be able to answer that one would need to know exactly what is in the initramfs. And unfortunately all distros are different and I'm not particularly f

Re:

2010-11-13 Thread Neil Brown
On Sat, 13 Nov 2010 01:01:47 -0500 Mike Viau wrote: > > Hello, > > I am trying to re-setup my fake-raid (RAID1) volume with LVM2 like setup > previously. I had been using dmraid on a Lenny installation which gave me > (from memory) a block device like /dev/mapper/isw_xxx_ and also a

Re: RAID5 (mdadm) array hosed after grow operation

2009-01-05 Thread Neil Brown
On Monday January 5, jpis...@lucidpixels.com wrote: > cc linux-raid > > On Mon, 5 Jan 2009, whollyg...@letterboxes.org wrote: > > > I think growing my RAID array after replacing all the > > drives with bigger ones has somehow hosed the array. > > > > The system is Etch with a stock 2.6.18 kernel

Re: software raid 1: how to remove a UUID from a device?

2008-12-05 Thread Neil
ut of the properties of the disk (dunno wich exactly). It's like trying to remove the MD5 checsum of something: you can't. However: your problem will be solvable and the guys who know how to do this are already busy. Neil -- While working towards the future one should be ensuring that the

Cannot boot with latest Lenny kernel 2.6.26

2008-11-25 Thread Neil Gunton
ly certain this is a bug of some kind, since everything works ok with the earlier kernel. Things seemed to break going from 2.6.25 to 2.6.26. I am wondering if anyone else is having this issue, if it's a known bug, or something that I need to enter as a bug. Can anybody help? Thanks! Neil

Re: mplayer playing HD files.

2008-11-21 Thread Neil
't enough you may want to try -hardframedrop. It's a nasty one, for it doesn't bother with detecting the "borders" between frames, so there will be some blocks and errors on your screen. If you want to solve this better, but more difficult you could compile Mplayer for your system. I have done this once (divx on a 166 P1 is possible) but I could only do it because my mate helped me and he is verry good at that shit. Hope it helps Neil -- While working towards the future one should be ensuring that there is a future to work to. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

debian-user@lists.debian.org

2008-11-07 Thread Neil
a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Hi Hard links are used to make decent chains, like the chain to a boat anchor. Decorative chains are usually made of a much softer material, so the links in them could be decribed as soft links... Neil -- There

Re: [opensuse] Re: Electricity Cutoffs, EXT3 and Filesystems

2008-11-03 Thread Neil
On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 5:56 PM, Dave Howorth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Neil wrote: >> On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 10:39 AM, Volkan YAZICI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> I had used to be a ReiserFS user ~4 years and never had even a single >>> problem with it.

Re: USB ownership

2008-10-22 Thread Neil
>> regards >> >> >> >> regards >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > > I've

Re: Hard Drive Spin Down

2008-10-16 Thread Neil
> > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Hi Can't you compress it on the client machine? Neil -- There are three

[OT] Does this have hardware issues

2008-10-12 Thread Neil
ill work under Linux? Thanks Neil -- There are three kinds of people: Those who can count, and those who cannot count --- ** Hi! I'm a signature virus! C

Re: how to create an image of your debian computer hard drive for cloning

2008-10-01 Thread Neil
ing: you'd get half of the old file and half of the new one). To prevent this the filesystem should be locked as read only in some kind of way or the source should be booted from a live CD (or an OS on another partition). I'd advise the live CD, but it requires a restart. I have no experi

Re: how to save flash

2008-09-29 Thread Neil
ps To save the file as AVI I reccomend swf2avi. You should be able to find it in the packagemanager. On a Linux system you will not need it, because both VLC and Mplayer can play .swf files directly. Neil -- There are three kinds of people: Those who can count, and those who cannot count --

palm syncing woes

2008-09-20 Thread Neil Watson
to make syncing more reliable? -- Neil Watson System Administrator for hire http://watson-wilson.ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sunbird server?

2008-09-18 Thread Neil
; > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject > of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Hi, Can Sunbird import ICS files? Gcalendar can export to that format in settings - calendars Neil -- There are three kinds of

Re: /var/log on tmpfs

2008-09-18 Thread Neil
n my EeePC this weekend, for it would help me if it would work. Could someone smarter and wiser than me (90% of this list fills at least 1 catorgory) please shine his or her light on wether this would theoretically work? Thanks Neil Sorry if this could be considered a thread hyjack. Just disr

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2008-09-03 Thread Neil
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test

2008-08-25 Thread Neil
Please disregard this message -- There are two kinds of people: 1. People who start their arrays with 1. 1. People who start their arrays with 0. --- ** Hi! I'm a signature virus! Copy me into your signature, please! ** --

Re: diagram tool

2008-08-07 Thread Neil Watson
This allows you to create diagram programmatically: <http://www.graphviz.org/> -- Neil Watson System Administrator for hire http://watson-wilson.ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Lenny

2008-07-06 Thread Neil Gunton
st on the home workstation, of course, then on the server if everything appears to be working on dev. Neil -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Using Lenny on production server?

2008-07-04 Thread Neil Gunton
t at this time? I am not a bank, I don't need five-nines uptime, but I would just like to know if the system is generally fairly stable and "probably" not prone to any major upheavals at this point. Any insights there? Thanks! Neil -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: OT: Laptop for College Bound Student?

2008-06-11 Thread Neil Watson
and more secure. -- Neil Watson System Administrator for hire http://watson-wilson.ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: conf management for many debian boxes

2008-06-09 Thread Neil Watson
. I brought a collection of servers under cfengine last year. It was very successful. I wrote small 'cookbook' style paper about what I had learned. Please find it here: http://technocrat.watson-wilson.ca/blosxom/computer/cfcookbook.html -- Neil Watson System Administrator for hire

Pre existing packages for Xen with Nvidia?

2008-03-03 Thread Neil Watson
Are there some pre patched and ready to go Xen kernels and Nvidia drivers that will work together? Version: lenny/sid Nvidia Gforce 6200 -- Neil Watson System Administrator for hire http://watson-wilson.ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubs

Re: Firewall suggestions?

2008-02-13 Thread Neil Watson
Astaro Linux may still offer free home use licenses. -- Neil Watson System Administrator for hire http://watson-wilson.ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Motherboard suggestions?

2008-02-06 Thread Neil Watson
Tyan -- Neil Watson | Debian Linux System Administrator| Uptime 11 days http://watson-wilson.ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Nice GUI/CLI Password Manager for Linux

2008-01-25 Thread Neil Watson
http://technocrat.watson-wilson.ca/blosxom/computer/encrypted-storage.html -- Neil Watson | Debian Linux System Administrator| Uptime 10 days http://watson-wilson.ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

Re: recommend a flatbed scanner

2007-11-21 Thread Neil Watson
ne on recommendation from another Linux mailing list. -- Neil Watson | Debian Linux System Administrator| Uptime 32 days http://watson-wilson.ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

questions about compiz

2007-11-03 Thread Neil Watson
s the ccp plugin and why is it not loading? -- Neil Watson | Debian Linux System Administrator| Uptime 15 days http://watson-wilson.ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: efficiency of windows managers

2007-09-28 Thread Neil Watson
*geometry: 127x50+1+1 xterm*tn: xterm xterm*scrollBar: false xterm*sl: 1000 xterm*colorMode: 1 xterm*Utf8: 1 xterm*loginShell: 1 -- Neil Watson | Debian Linux System Administrator| Uptime 14 days http://watson-wilson.ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Tool for document management

2007-09-27 Thread Neil Watson
ng he asked me to tech him how to use it. -- Neil Watson | Debian Linux System Administrator| Uptime 13 days http://watson-wilson.ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Slow Network Connection

2007-09-27 Thread Neil Watson
Do you have some sort of duplex mismatch? Ethtool or mii-tool will report duplex status and Ethernet speed. -- Neil Watson | Debian Linux System Administrator| Uptime 12 days http://watson-wilson.ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubs

Re: Tool for document management

2007-09-26 Thread Neil Watson
arbitrarily and then change later if necessary. -- Neil Watson | Debian Linux System Administrator| Uptime 11 days http://watson-wilson.ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX (Was: Tool for document management)

2007-09-26 Thread Neil Watson
Please approach this subject in a more subjective manner. I was suggesting that until you gain experience with both manners of document creation you can hardly form an accurate conclusion as to what best suits your needs. -- Neil Watson | Debian Linux System Administrator

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX (Was: Tool for document management)

2007-09-26 Thread Neil Watson
licks. However, you seem to have made up your mind without actually spending some time writing a document or two. -- Neil Watson | Debian Linux System Administrator| Uptime 11 days http://watson-wilson.ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of &q

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX (Was: Tool for document management)

2007-09-25 Thread Neil Watson
many different formats, all from the same source file, including HTML, PDF, RTF and with the help of elinks or lynx plain text. -- Neil Watson | Debian Linux System Administrator| Uptime 10 days http://watson-wilson.ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Tool for document management

2007-09-25 Thread Neil Watson
inconsistencies that are so common with Word and OpenOffice. -- Neil Watson | Debian Linux System Administrator| Uptime 10 days http://watson-wilson.ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: scripting question

2007-09-21 Thread Neil Watson
Man echo reveals that the -n switch prevents echo from appending a new line. Also, you do not need to use more (or less) with grep. Grep can take a file agrument. Refer to grep's man page for more information. -- Neil Watson | Debian Linux System Administrator| Uptime 6

Re: SELinux Suggestion

2007-09-21 Thread Neil Watson
GNUcash and Postfix). It seems that the policies are not yet complete. -- Neil Watson | Debian Linux System Administrator| Uptime 6 days http://watson-wilson.ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: file system check

2007-09-10 Thread Neil Watson
man fstab -- Neil Watson | Debian Linux System Administrator| Uptime 18 days http://watson-wilson.ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: another script query (perl?)

2007-09-07 Thread Neil Watson
Perhaps you could show us what you've attempted so far. Also, perlmonks.org is a good place to learn more about perl. -- Neil Watson | Debian Linux System Administrator| Uptime 15 days http://watson-wilson.ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

Re: Search for string in files

2007-08-25 Thread Neil Gunton
here the matches were found. As the name implies, the script recurses on directories automatically. There are other features like replace, delete, do (cmd), etc. /Neil -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Hardware vs Software RAID 10 performance?

2007-08-25 Thread Neil Gunton
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Neil Gunton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: (First of all, I apologise if anyone sees this twice - I first posted to the AMD64 list, but then thought that the more general debian users list might get a broader response)... I'm curious as to whether anyone has

Hardware vs Software RAID 10 performance?

2007-08-25 Thread Neil Gunton
ght as well go with software RAID, since it seems easier to recover from a controller crash). Thanks! /Neil -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ibm serveraid 7k + amd64 sarge + ipssend?

2007-08-24 Thread Neil Watson
Call IBM support. When I last worked with IBM gear they fully supported Linux. They will point you to the correct location to acquire the latest drivers and management tools. -- Neil Watson | Debian Linux System Administrator| Uptime 1 day http://watson-wilson.ca -- To

selinux

2007-08-21 Thread Neil Watson
Has anyone managed to get Selinux running in enforced mode? I tried it on the weekend but enforcement began denying things. Postfix could not read the alias file. Gnucash would not start. It would seem that the policy needs some tweaking. -- Neil Watson | Debian Linux System

Re: harddisc errors

2007-08-21 Thread Neil Watson
Boot a knoppix CD and see if you get the same errors. From knoppix mount the drive read-only. Force the system to read the drive with a find and recursive grep. If you see the errors again the hard drive is likely failing. -- Neil Watson | Debian Linux System Administrator

Re: NFS server problem

2007-08-21 Thread Neil Watson
Do there server logs reveal anything of interest? Does your network gear report any problems? -- Neil Watson | Debian Linux System Administrator| Uptime 3 days http://watson-wilson.ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: Running a program at system startup

2007-08-20 Thread Neil Watson
On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 02:17:24PM -0500, ArcticFox wrote: On Aug 20, 2007, at 2:15 PM, Neil Watson wrote: The scripts in /etc/init.d are working examples of what you are trying to do. Yea I was directed there before, but those are what I was talking about where they don't do the two t

Re: Running a program at system startup

2007-08-20 Thread Neil Watson
The scripts in /etc/init.d are working examples of what you are trying to do. -- Neil Watson | Debian Linux System Administrator| Uptime 2 days http://watson-wilson.ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

Re: chroot: cannot run command `/bin/bash': No such file or directory

2007-08-20 Thread Neil Watson
I doubt the process would know that. It may look for the link name and fail if it is not found. Create the link in your jail and try again. -- Neil Watson | Debian Linux System Administrator| Uptime 2 days http://watson-wilson.ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: chroot: cannot run command `/bin/bash': No such file or directory

2007-08-20 Thread Neil Watson
.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x2b2d9039b000) libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x2b2d9059f000) /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x2b2d8ff31000) I don't see the last entry in the results of the find command. -- Neil Watson | Debian Linux System Administrat

Re: chroot: cannot run command `/bin/bash': No such file or directory

2007-08-20 Thread Neil Watson
What does 'find /f' produce? -- Neil Watson | Debian Linux System Administrator| Uptime 2 days http://watson-wilson.ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

latex2html dvips bug?

2007-08-20 Thread Neil Watson
nyone know the source of this error? -- Neil Watson | Debian Linux System Administrator| Uptime 2 days http://watson-wilson.ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Switching from i2o_block to dpt_i2o

2007-08-09 Thread Neil Gunton
e? If the latter, then how do I change the config to use the other driver? The two drivers are apparently incompatible - you can have either one or the other installed, but not both. Any clues much appreciated. Thanks! /Neil -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

dvd problem

2007-04-25 Thread Neil Sumner
rom dvd' er. I have tried getting advice from the forum but only got told to use a USB stick, again easy installation? I have waited six months hoping that this would be picked up in this time, and no joy. It looks to me that if I do not ask you directly, I may be waiting forever :) Thanks Neil

advice on bug report

2007-04-23 Thread Neil Katz
of aptitude is to install them. Otherwise, this could cause unnecessary grief for less experienced users (such as those who have never rolled their own kernels, and so are not familiar with the booting process). Yours sincerely, Neil Katz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: SONY DVD RW AW-G170A

2007-04-21 Thread Neil Sumner
oubtless I will back here asking more stupid questions in no time! Thanks for all the fish. Neil On 4/21/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, Apr 21, 2007 at 12:05:10AM +0200, Marko Randjelovic wrote: > Neil Sumner wrote: > > > > the solution is to ge

Re: SONY DVD RW AW-G170A

2007-04-20 Thread Neil Sumner
OK, I am trying the latest Ubuntu live CD, we shall see. thanks On 4/20/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 09:22:29PM +0100, Neil Sumner wrote: > Hey thanks for the reply... wasn't expecting such swift help. > Sorry but like the

Re: SONY DVD RW AW-G170A

2007-04-20 Thread Neil Sumner
other Linux's, it was the worst, it gave a definite motherboard error before getting far enough to try mounting a DVD drive everybody else fell at the DVD mounting *shrugs* the solution is to get a new mobo? thanks again Neil On 4/20/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: SONY DVD RW AW-G170A

2007-04-20 Thread Neil Sumner
f this is DVD or mobo at least but I am thinking I will probably throw 10 quid at a DVD ROM in any case, it might solve it but if it doesn't it isn't a calamity. Thanks for the time Neil On 4/20/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, Apr 20, 2007

SONY DVD RW AW-G170A

2007-04-20 Thread Neil Sumner
Hi, I cannot boot with this drive. It is IDE/atapi and it works fine with windows. Despite its inexpensive price it was reasonably 'exotic' 6 months ago as it has an 18x write speed, it works fine with windows OK, this problem has occured with EVERY version of Linux I have tried. The first bit o

Re: Building my own Perl on Sarge AMD64

2006-09-03 Thread Neil Gunton
Neil Gunton wrote: Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Obviously there are issues with building your own perl, but I'm sure it must be possible to do it using the "official Debian way". Can anyone give me a step-by-step instructions on how you're supposed to build your own Per

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