Re: Reproducible filesystem corruption in lenny

2009-07-28 Thread Owen Townend
2009/7/29 Josh Kelley : > On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: [snip] >> There had been cases of USB memory sticks with manipulated controllers >> produced by fraudulent manufacturers.  These sticks reported a higher >> capacity than they really had.  They never reported read or wr

Re: make image of a hard disk

2009-05-25 Thread Owen Townend
2009/5/26 Umarzuki Mochlis : > 2009/5/26 Owen Townend [snip] >> >> Not quite, the syntax is: >> $ dd_rescue [options] infile outfile >> '-' can be used to mean stdin/out >> >> Your command would be: >> $ dd_rescue -v -l sda.log /dev/sda1 -

Re: make image of a hard disk

2009-05-25 Thread Owen Townend
2009/5/26 Owen Townend : > 2009/5/26 Umarzuki Mochlis : > [snip] >> >> from what I read, sparse files is the empty blocks/spaces. I only need the >> real data to be as it were. Thanks for the tip. I'll try this one out though >> I'm wondering if l

Re: make image of a hard disk

2009-05-25 Thread Owen Townend
2009/5/26 Umarzuki Mochlis : [snip] > > from what I read, sparse files is the empty blocks/spaces. I only need the > real data to be as it were. Thanks for the tip. I'll try this one out though > I'm wondering if logging still works by doing it like this > $ dd_rescue -v /dev/sda1 -l sda.log - | gz

Re: make image of a hard disk

2009-05-25 Thread Owen Townend
2009/5/26 Umarzuki Mochlis : > There's a hard disk with bad sectors that I want to make a back up with > ddrescue but the thing is, it is 1 TB and the backup location is also 1 TB > and that is the only one I could afford right now. How do I compress it on > the fly while making an image out of it?

Re: Question about get-selections

2009-04-26 Thread Owen Townend
2009/4/24 Paul E Condon : > On 2009-04-23_21:27:07, Daniel Burrows wrote: [snip] >> >>   The "state" is a flag indicating the package's current state.  It's >> written as an integer because I designed this code when I was young and >> foolish. :-)  The relevant values are: The hint was here.. ^^ .

Re: Question about get-selections

2009-03-28 Thread Owen Townend
2009/3/28 Paul E Condon : > I'm convinced that the suggestion is worthwhile, but I'm having > difficulty following it. See below. > > On 2009-03-27_16:33:11, Owen Townend wrote: >> 2009/3/27 Paul E Condon : >> > On 2009-03-26_19:08:32, Douglas A. Tutty wrot

Re: Question about get-selections

2009-03-26 Thread Owen Townend
2009/3/27 Paul E Condon : > On 2009-03-26_19:08:32, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: >> >> Many of those packages will have been installed automatically by your >> package manager.  If you use aptitude, you only need to record the >> packages which you manually installed: >> >> aptitude search `~i!~M' >> >>

Re: vim

2009-03-11 Thread Owen Townend
2009/3/11 hr mahan : > Hi all, > > I would like to use vim as editor for my Fortran programs.  In Fedora vim > colorizes the program's text.  I would like to have this option enabled on > my Debian box as well.  What is the solution? First, make sure that you have the syntax file for fortran. e.g.

Re: all config files need .conf

2009-03-05 Thread Owen Townend
2009/3/6 '2+ : > am running sid upgraded from etch always as root > now it when booting ... it brings out a lot of > "all config files need .conf"s .. > it says that things will be ignored in the future .. > my system  is a very simple one > then re-installing from the stable-lenny will be the casu

Re: Debian on s390

2009-03-05 Thread Owen Townend
2009/3/6 João Henrique Viana : > Hi all, > > We're trying to install Debian Lenny for s390 in IBM z890 mainframe in a > LPAR via CD-ROM from a HMC console. > After the first system load, before the debian-installer runs, the system > hangs with the message below. > > List of all partitions: > No fi

Re: No soft-links for scp?

2009-02-26 Thread Owen Townend
2009/2/27 Dotan Cohen : >> What are your actual needs here?  You have asked an implementation >> specific question rather than a solution to a problem. >> >> For example, if your use case is 'know on which remote system, and >> where in that system, the files are' and the browsable is something you

Re: No soft-links for scp?

2009-02-26 Thread Owen Townend
2009/2/27 Dotan Cohen : [snip] > Thanks, but this copies the actual files, whereas I only want system > links to the files. I don't have enough room on this laptop for the > files themselves, but I do need to have a browseable tree so that I > can know on which remote system, and where in that syst

Re: Software RAID w/ mdadm -- Need Partitions?

2009-02-25 Thread Owen Townend
Hal Vaughan wrote: > I've created RAIDs in the past where I just used the entire drive and > ones where I created a single partition on the drives and used the > partition. It seems that there is no real difference in behavior. > > If I'm planning on using a drive for a RAID, is there any reason I

Re: Logitech MX Revolution/MX1100

2009-02-22 Thread Owen Townend
Aneurin Price wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm thinking about replacing my mouse soon as the ball is starting to stick > after about a decade of use, and I'm looking at either the Logitech MX > Revolution or MX1100. Does anybody have any experience with either of these in > Linux? I'm particularly inter

Re: DD command

2008-12-19 Thread Owen Townend
2008/12/19 rjubio : > How long does a dd command take for an 80 GB IDE hd? > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject > of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > > Hey, As a tangent to the question, try running it in the backgrou

Re: batch RAW converters

2008-12-02 Thread Owen Townend
2008/12/3 Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > some time ago when I was mostly a widows user I wrote a nice little batch > script that took as an argument a directory path in-which it expected to > find a ./RAW directory containing the *.CRW raw files from my old canon > camera, then it used dcraw and exifto

Re: What is the point of RAID?

2008-11-12 Thread Owen Townend
2008/11/12 lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:54:11 -0600 > Mark Allums <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] >> If you >> have a RAID 50 running on 20 SAS drives and 4 hot spares, you better >> buy quite a few for cold spares, you are going to lose a drive every >> two months. At least.

Re: hard disk nomenclature

2008-10-26 Thread Owen Townend
2008/10/27 Lachlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 2008/10/27 Owen Townend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: [snip] >> Ubuntu is based on Debian but is a much faster moving distribution. >> Debian Etch is now several years old and being a stable release no >> major changes like this wo

Re: hard disk nomenclature

2008-10-26 Thread Owen Townend
2008/10/27 L. V. Gandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I have P5GC-MX motherboard which has on one IDE hdd slot and two SATA HDD > slots. I have installed primary IDE DVD drive, secondary IDE IDE HDD 80GB > and Primarty SATA 160GB SATA HDD. BIOS shows as > FIRST IDEMASTER DVD > FIRST IDE SLAVE

Re: Playing Dirac with Gstreamer?

2008-09-21 Thread Owen Townend
2008/9/22 Jack Malmostoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sun, 21 Sep 2008 13:20:05 +0200, Owen Townend wrote: > >> Before getting to the video you need to demux the mpeg2 transport >> stream. Totem is telling you that you don't have the plugin necessary to >> do thi

Re: Playing Dirac with Gstreamer?

2008-09-21 Thread Owen Townend
2008/9/21 Jack Malmostoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello list, > > I wanted to try out some Dirac video so I downloaded one from here: > > http://dirac.kw.bbc.co.uk/download/video/maybefinal/ > > I installed gstreamer0.10-schroedinger and then I tried to play the file > with totem. > What I get is: >

Re: Convert HTML document to use relative links ?

2008-09-03 Thread Owen Townend
2008/9/3 Andre Majorel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Is there is program to make all links relative in HTML documents > saved in wget -x fashion ? (http://foo.com/a/b.html saved as > ./foo.com/a/b.html.) > > For example, > > - if ./foo.com/a/b.html contains > and ./foo.com/im

Re: interface for tar

2008-08-21 Thread Owen Townend
2008/8/21 Mag Gam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Sharchar: > > Can I do that with autofs? Lets say I have a directory called > /home/$userid/image_files; can I have autofs to look for > /home/$userid/& and automatically mount and unmount these fs images? > Lets say I keep the fs images in /home/$user/.isos

Re: interface for tar

2008-08-19 Thread Owen Townend
2008/8/20 Mag Gam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > At my university we run fluid dynamic simulations. These simulations > create many small files (30,000) per hour. Their size is very small > (20k to 200k). Instead of having this on the filesystem since it take > up inode space, I would like to tar them per

Re: New Graphics Adaptor (a bit off topic?)

2008-07-30 Thread Owen Townend
2008/7/30 Nate Bargmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > * Mark Neidorff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008 Jul 29 13:49 -0500]: >> On Tuesday 29 July 2008 02:39 pm, H.S. wrote: >> > Mark Neidorff wrote: >> > > On Tuesday 29 July 2008 01:21 pm, Steve C. Lamb wrote: >> > >> On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 01:18:55PM -0400, Ma

Re: Scripting Question - tar

2008-07-10 Thread Owen Townend
> > tar -cvzf - --one-file-system /home | split -b 2000m - > /TERASTATIONBACKUP/GOSHEN/2008/2008-Jul-10.tgz vs > > tar -czvf - --one-file-system $sourceDir | split -b 2000m $targetFile > Am I just not seeing a typo somewhere? Why is my script failing? > > Thanks! Hey, You're missing the '-' fo

Re: bandwidth tool

2008-07-05 Thread Owen Townend
On 06/07/2008, Mag Gam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a tool to measure network traffic? I am using ifstat but its > reporting wrong statistics. I am trying to get something similar to > > eth0 , 16Mb/sec > eth1, 10Mb/sec > > etc.. > > I need something simple :-) > > TIA > Hey, Try 'iftop

Re: [OT] the limits of googling

2008-06-28 Thread Owen Townend
On 29/06/2008, James Youngman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 2:59 PM, Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Google searching is (still?) primitive. > > > > I would like to know the answer to a simple question: > > > > What are the most recent laptop

Re: Root sending messages to users

2008-06-18 Thread Owen Townend
On 18 Jun 2008 18:00:44 GMT, i'll teach you to turn away. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Owen Townend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > OT> On 17 Jun 2008 04:01:26 GMT, i'll teach you to turn away. <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> do

Re: Root sending messages to users

2008-06-16 Thread Owen Townend
On 17/06/2008, Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 02:41:50PM +1000, Owen Townend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > was heard to say: > > > On 17 Jun 2008 04:01:26 GMT, i'll teach you to turn away. <[EMAIL > > PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: Root sending messages to users

2008-06-16 Thread Owen Townend
On 17 Jun 2008 04:01:26 GMT, i'll teach you to turn away. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > DC> The wife uses one computer, I use another. We are both connected to > DC> the internet via a router, as such we can SSH into one another's > DC> boxen. Is there a

Re: Lenovo Thinkpad, HP, or Vostro/Latitude? was Re: OT: Laptop for College Bound Student?

2008-06-16 Thread Owen Townend
On 16/06/2008, Damon L. Chesser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2008-06-16 at 21:19 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 08:10:46AM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > > > On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:55:52 +1200 > > > Chris Bannister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Hello Ch

Re: Debian on laptop

2008-06-15 Thread Owen Townend
On 14/06/2008, Tobias Nissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > alfa beta wrote: [snip] > > > Question: > > Could you recommend me a laptop model, with all details, which works > > completely, or perfectly with Debian? Including audio-video hardware, > > and hardware for connection to Internet (I'm o

Re: OT: Laptop for College Bound Student?

2008-06-12 Thread Owen Townend
On 13/06/2008, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 15:35 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On 06/12/08 13:23, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 13:21 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > >> On 06/12/08 13

Re: apt-get joke

2008-05-24 Thread Owen Townend
On 25/05/2008, Sjoerd Hiemstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 25 May 2008 03:11:05 +1000 Owen Townen wrote: > > On 24/05/2008, Chris Bannister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > http://www.lessaid.net/fun/apt-get-wife.png > > > > > heh, I still like `apt-get moo` > > > The inventor of 'ap

Re: apt-get joke

2008-05-24 Thread Owen Townend
On 24/05/2008, Chris Bannister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > http://www.lessaid.net/fun/apt-get-wife.png > > -- > Chris. > == > "One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned >at the stake while the votes were being counted." -- Thomas B. Reed > > > >

Re: Cloning hda to new internal disk (was Re: [debian-user] How to copy a laptop HD?)

2008-05-20 Thread Owen Townend
On 05/20/08 21:50, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> Is there any way to directly clone /dev/hda to /dev/sdX, so that I >> can then boot off of /dev/sdX? > > If you can boot some live system, you can just partition your new disk, > mount them all, copy all your files over, fix /etc/f

Re: nfs and iptables

2008-05-18 Thread Owen Townend
On 18/05/2008, Daniel Dalton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > How can I allow nfs through my iptables firewall? > What ports does it use? > Are they static ports? And if not how can I make them static? > > Thanks for any help. > > Cheers, > > -- > Daniel Dalton Hey, `rpcinfo -p` will

Re: scripting - how to handle blanks

2008-04-24 Thread Owen Townend
On 25/04/2008, michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > while [[ `grep -e ${STRING} ${FILE} |wc -l` -lt 1 ]];do This should fix it: while [[ `grep -e "${STRING}" "${FILE}" |wc -l` -lt 1 ]];do The shell still replaces variable within "" quotes, but not within ''. e.g. this: $ TEST="Testing

Re: Kernel sources for Debian kernel 2.6.18-6-686

2008-04-23 Thread Owen Townend
On 24/04/2008, Oliver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I just installed Debian with a netinstall CD. > > uname -r tells me that I am using the kernel 2.6.18-6-686. > Now I am installing a driver (Diva for Linux) and this driver needs > the kernel sources to compile a .deb package. > > (Instructions o

Re: website front-end

2008-04-21 Thread Owen Townend
On 22/04/2008, Hendrik Boom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, 20 Apr 2008 16:38:00 -0300, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > > I was under the impression that apache did a lot more than just relay > http requests; that in fact said relaying is but a small fraction of its > activities. Is there not

Re: Question on setting up NFS

2008-04-21 Thread Owen Townend
On 22/04/2008, Pete Kay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Owen: > > Here is the output of running the 4 commands: > > ser:# showmount -e 192.168.1.101 > Export list for 192.168.1.101: > /var/fs 127.0.0.1,192.168.1.104 > Hey, I'm running short on ideas here. Anyone else care to weigh in? Is any

Re: Question on setting up NFS

2008-04-21 Thread Owen Townend
On 21/04/2008, Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 10:06:38PM +1000, Owen Townend < > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > > > Do you have the nfs-common package installed? > > > I thought it was nfs-client

Re: Question on setting up NFS

2008-04-21 Thread Owen Townend
On 21/04/2008, Pete Kay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > Here is the result for the two commands: > > ser:# dmesg |tail > EXT3 FS on hda1, internal journal > loop: loaded (max 8 devices) > device-mapper: ioctl: 4.7.0-ioctl (2006-06-24) initialised: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > NET: Registered protoc

Re: Question on setting up NFS

2008-04-21 Thread Owen Townend
On 21/04/2008, Pete Kay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > If I execute the command, I still get error: > > ser:# mount -t nfs 192.168.1.101:/var/fs /mnt/nfs/fs > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on 192.168.1.101:/var/fs, >missing codepage or helper program, or other err

Re: Question on setting up NFS

2008-04-21 Thread Owen Townend
[snip On 21/04/2008, Pete Kay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ser:# mount 192.168.1.101:/var/fs /mnt/nfs > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on 192.168.1.101:/var/fs, >missing codepage or helper program, or other error >(for several filesystems (e.g. nfs, cifs) you mig

Re: What are proper permissions for home directory?

2008-04-20 Thread Owen Townend
On 21/04/2008, Dylan Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So apparently some script I ran decided that it would be ok to modify the > permissions of my home directory. I now get an occasional "unsafe > permissions" warning referring to config files in my home directory when I > run certain apps s

Re: JFS

2008-04-15 Thread Owen Townend
On 16/04/2008, Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I usually fill up tmp with crap. > > but i did follwo up some more on jfs , seems like there is no full time > maintenance on it so, and i had thought I had read that it was meant to > be fast for lots of small files, but I must have miss r

Re: Source code editor

2008-04-15 Thread Owen Townend
On 15/04/2008, Tero Mäntyvaara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am looking for shell program for source code edition. I have used nano, > but it isn't enough. I need more "real" IDE like functionalities eg constant > view of current row number, file browser and selection, cutting, pasting and > cop

Re: regex question

2008-04-12 Thread Owen Townend
On 13/04/2008, Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > this started out as a grep quetion > > trying to look at a file with out the comments in it > > i tried grep -v '^\s*;' ; is the comment delimiter. > > but this left me with lots of blank lines. > Hey, Try this: `sed -e 's:;.*::' -e ':^$:

Re: [OT] How to add fortune output to terminal

2008-04-11 Thread Owen Townend
> > > And for real technicolor stuff, hunt for the kernelnewbies fortunes > file; selected quotes from lkml: > > - > "I want you guys to look at your computer screen, imagining the worst > monster you can (the cacodeamon from Quake will do, just make him > hairie

Re: OT: what scripting language to learn?

2008-04-11 Thread Owen Townend
On 12/04/2008, Bob McGowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Damon L. Chesser wrote: > > > I keep coming up against a wall "Solid scripting experience required" > > in my job search (for Linux sys admin). IYHO, what would be the one > > scripting language to learn? > > > > > Several other responses

Re: installed php5, but no php binary?

2008-04-11 Thread Owen Townend
On 11/04/2008, hce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I installed php5 in Debian, but there is only /usr/bin/php-cgi, there > is no php in /usr/bin. What is I missing? > > I have also installed php5 in FC6, and I can call php --version in > command line. Why there is no php in Debian package?

Re: [OT] How to add fortune output to terminal

2008-04-11 Thread Owen Townend
> > > > Greetings, > > Would someone be able to advise me as to what is a > > safe method to add a fortune command to my .bashrc > > file so as to have fortune output in my terminal @ > > login? > > I've googled this pretty extensively, and have found > > a > > few methods, but also warnings that c

Re: using UUID's for a raid1 in /etc/fstab instead of /dev/md0

2008-04-08 Thread Owen Townend
On 09/04/2008, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 11:08:11PM -0400, Mitchell Laks wrote: > > Someone recently talked about using > > ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid > > > > So that must be the UUID for the individual /dev/sda1 and /dev/sdb1. > > > > What is the UUID for

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2008 #701

2008-04-08 Thread Owen Townend
On 08/04/2008, El Amigo De La Playa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >I personally prefer "reply to list" myself for other reasons, but I > couldn't fault his logic. > > Thanks, Chris, for your tip... While I am posting here, I am curious to > know the routine of Gmail users receiving their mailing l

Re: backup script changes permissions

2008-04-06 Thread Owen Townend
On 07/04/2008, Haines Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Noah Slater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Why don't you use a prebuilt package such as backup2l? > > > Noah, I might just do that. I've spent a lot of time struggling with the > backup script, which only offered the advantage of having

Re: [OT Tangent to the plane] Elitism...

2008-04-03 Thread Owen Townend
On 04/04/2008, Chris Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA512 > > Ron Johnson wrote: > | On 04/03/08 19:19, Chris Walters wrote: > |> Ron Johnson wrote: > |> | On 04/03/08 15:39, Ivan Savcic wrote: > |> |> On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 10:03 PM, Ron Johnson

Re: [Totally OT] Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]

2008-04-03 Thread Owen Townend
On 04/04/2008, Chris Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA512 > > Ron Johnson wrote: > | On 04/03/08 15:39, Ivan Savcic wrote: > |> On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 10:03 PM, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > |>> That smells of elitism. (Not that

Re: server security :: user accounts, ssh, passphrases, etc.

2008-04-01 Thread Owen Townend
On 01/04/2008, Russell L. Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > SYSTEM: > > (1) firewall/router (SmoothWall Express 2.0) which (using NAT) > provides and protects both a "green" zone for a LAN and an > "orange" zone ("DMZ") for a publicly-accessible server > > (2) ftp or http server

Re: NFS requires stronger authentication

2008-04-01 Thread Owen Townend
On 01/04/2008, Tim Frink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > after an update of our Sun NFS server, I get this error message in > /var/log/syslog of my Etch system: > > debianMachine kernel: call_verify: server SunNFS requires > stronger authentication. > > Any ideas how I can set up the authent

Re: Cron Daemon backup message too big

2008-03-31 Thread Owen Townend
On 31/03/2008, Haines Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Someone kindly communicated to me privately, and I realized that I was > not being sufficiently complete regarding my problem. > > In my backup script, I have the line: > > find / -print | egrep -v "^/media|... " 2>&1 | cat -vt > > What t

Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]

2008-03-29 Thread Owen Townend
On 30/03/2008, Chris Bannister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 08:30:16PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > are searching for completely unrelated terms (say, "Barack Obama" or > > "gravid platypus" [0]) more than they used to. > > > > Daniel > > > > [0] I think the next U

Re: I would like to give my congradulation

2008-03-27 Thread Owen Townend
On 28/03/2008, Walt L. Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Where can I find more information on "apt-get"? More that the small > PDF that I have already downloaded. Will it do a search for applications > using key words? I installed KDE by completely de-installing Gnome and > then installing K

Re: Thank you for keeping stable just the way it is!

2008-03-24 Thread Owen Townend
[snip] > > > You guys know about reportbug --kudos right? That is a cool way to > thank > > > No. Jeez, Debian just keeps on getting deeper and deeper! Thanks. > man reportbug. > > Shouldn't somebody report this to the coreutils maintainer so they can > implemement it across the board there? D

Re: etch nvidia xorg nvidia-glx-legacy X crashes

2008-03-24 Thread Owen Townend
On 24 Mar 2008 20:43:26 -0400, Hugh Lawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I've been trying to install the nvidia driver. I managed to get it > working, but my solution is not entirely satisfactory, because it's > vulnerable to an update of the nvidia-glx-legacy package. I'll trace > through the

Re: Why Red Hat is the "business" distro

2008-03-17 Thread Owen Townend
> > > On 03/17/08 14:57, Steve Lamb wrote: > > On Mon, March 17, 2008 7:29 am, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >> Hash: SHA1 > > > >> > http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/16/AR2008031602168.html > > > > > > Er, Ron? Wrong C&P? This links

Re: Trouble with grub on usb thumb drive :(

2008-03-11 Thread Owen Townend
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 12:27 AM, Caesium 5 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Just install Debian onto a 8GB usb thumbdrive. However, during the > installatin, there's an error during installing of grub. Completed the > installation without grub installed. > > I googled high and low and many articles

Re: install debian usbdisk through ide cable

2008-03-11 Thread Owen Townend
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 12:20 PM, jeffry s <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i am not very sure this one can be done. > > i have a old computer at home without hardisk. it is quite old computer > and only support 2GB hardisk > since 2GB hardisk is quite rare this day. I am planning to install debian >

Re: [OT] Naming Schemes

2008-03-11 Thread Owen Townend
On 3/11/08, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > On 03/11/08 03:17, Chris Bannister wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 06:42:39PM +1100, Owen Townend wrote: > >> On 3/9/08, Chris Bannister <[EMA

Re: graphical file browser from command line

2008-03-10 Thread Owen Townend
On 3/11/08, Rick Pasotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 05:19:49PM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 02:45:11PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: > > > I spend most of my time on the command line and use 'less' when I want > > > to just view a file. However, ther

Re: Recovering deleted files from FAT32

2008-03-10 Thread Owen Townend
On 3/11/08, Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have a SD card in my Nokia 6288, formatted as FAT32. Every month or > so, the phone locks up and when I power down and back up, the card > appears empty. I then bring the card over to a friend's windows > computer to run some file recovery pr

Re: How to use ``nice'' on a pipe?

2008-03-09 Thread Owen Townend
On 3/9/08, Wei Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, > > I usually use ``nice'' and ``ionice'' to run a program in a low > priority. But with the following script, I only get command1 running in > a low priority. How can I make both command1 and

Re: [OT] Naming Schemes

2008-03-08 Thread Owen Townend
On 3/9/08, Chris Bannister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 02:34:55PM +1100, Owen Townend wrote: > > Hey, > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holly_(Red_Dwarf) > > > > It's from Red Dwarf, a british comedy set ~ 3 million ye

Re: installing debian on raid

2008-03-08 Thread Owen Townend
On 3/9/08, Ivan Glushkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Owen Townend wrote: > > > > > > On 3/8/08, *Ivan Glushkov* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > I have an Asus A8N32-

Re: installing debian on raid

2008-03-07 Thread Owen Townend
On 3/8/08, Ivan Glushkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi all, > > I have an Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe Mobo, which has an NVIDIA nForce4 sata > raid controller and I tried to install Debian with the testing > netinstall cd, but it does not recognize

Re: Personal backup of copy-protected DVDs

2008-03-07 Thread Owen Townend
On 3/8/08, Damon L. Chesser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 03:08:02PM +0100, Kurt Petersen wrote: > > > >> My daughter want to make some backups of her games on copy-protected > >> DVDs. > >> > >> Anybody knows how to do that with Linux? > >> > >

Re: [OT] Naming Schemes

2008-03-06 Thread Owen Townend
On 3/7/08, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 01:43:35PM +1100, Owen Townend wrote: > > > > Hey, > > Of course there's always my favourite ship computer -> Holly, much > more > > friendly, though arguably less

Re: [OT] Naming Schemes

2008-03-06 Thread Owen Townend
On 3/7/08, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 05:55:52PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Correct. I don't OC over every bit of trivia. > > > > However... If I were 20yo, and my case were a not-seen-in-nature > > golden red, and I had *no* life, then I might name

Re: [OT] Naming Schemes

2008-03-05 Thread Owen Townend
On 3/6/08, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > On 03/05/08 20:29, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 04:24:28PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > [snip] > > >> Disgusting Scots food. > >> > >> $ uname -n > >> haggis > >>

Re: [OT] Laptop with Linux preinstalled

2008-03-04 Thread Owen Townend
On 3/5/08, Rich Healey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > > Marc Shapiro wrote: > > > >> My wife loves hers. But be warned, DON'T spill liquid on the keyboard. > >> My daughter accidentally spilled a glass of water, s

Re: 4 gigs of ram shows only 3 in meminfo

2008-02-29 Thread Owen Townend
On 3/1/08, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > On 02/29/08 14:24, Ed Curtis wrote: > > Just installed a new server that has 4 gigs of ram. Running cat > > /proc/meminfo shows only 3 gigs of memory. I though maybe there was a > > bad stick

Re: Seeking Wisdom Concerning Backups

2008-02-28 Thread Owen Townend
On 2/29/08, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have a small server on which I need to backup the /home partition. > > I have a Barracuda Terastation Pro backup server sitting right next to > it, connected via Ethernet. > > The problem is that the Terastation Pro only offers three connection

Re: I'm BACK!!!

2008-02-28 Thread Owen Townend
On 2/29/08, Doug MacFarlane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, about 4 years ago I had to give up Debian for professional reasons. > After > suffering through Red Hat, CentOS and Suse/SLED/SLES and the abominable > package > management, I'm BACK!!! > > Boy did I miss you guys . . . > > So I

Re: Debian Etch PPC install issue

2008-02-20 Thread Owen Townend
On 2/21/08, David Shuman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi; > > I did a standard network install in a Oldworld Mac Performa 6400, install > was clean - three times -- twice with a single root partition formatted Ext3 > and once with an single root formatted ext2 partition (hda6 -- MAC HFS > Boot

Re: Software for collecting email addresses

2008-02-20 Thread Owen Townend
On 2/21/08, Depo Catcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Along this lines, does anyone know of a program that can quickly send out > mass emails to a bunch of different addresses? > > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 08:02:04PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 02/20/08 18:2

Re: apt is killing my machine

2008-02-20 Thread Owen Townend
On 2/21/08, Zach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Do you know if it's expected for installing packages to take longer > the more total packages one has installed? In recent months I notice > sometimes when I install packages (sometimes one, sometimes many) the > machine will be in nearly unusable sta

Re: Multiple SATA disks, two OSs and booting problem

2008-02-20 Thread Owen Townend
On 2/20/08, Tero Mäntyvaara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Owen Townend wrote: > > > > > > On 2/20/08, *Tero Mäntyvaara* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > > > Owen Townend wrote: > > >

Re: Multiple SATA disks, two OSs and booting problem

2008-02-19 Thread Owen Townend
On 2/20/08, Tero Mäntyvaara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Owen Townend wrote: > > > > > > On 2/20/08, *Tero Mäntyvaara* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I have got motherbo

Re: Multiple SATA disks, two OSs and booting problem

2008-02-19 Thread Owen Townend
On 2/20/08, Tero Mäntyvaara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I have got motherboard that has support for four (4) SATA devices. I > have installed Debian 4.0r2 AMD64 on filesystem witch has been build > on top of LVM system. LVM is on top of software-raid1 device md0 with > two SAMSUNG SP1614

Re: [OT] 2 access points wireless setup

2007-12-24 Thread Owen Townend
On Tue, 2007-12-25 at 00:57 -0600, Javier Vasquez wrote: > On Dec 25, 2007 12:40 AM, Owen Townend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Tue, 2007-12-25 at 10:50 +, Mihira Fernando wrote: > > > On Mon December 24 2007, Javier Vasquez wrote: > > > >

Re: [OT] 2 access points wireless setup

2007-12-24 Thread Owen Townend
On Tue, 2007-12-25 at 10:50 +, Mihira Fernando wrote: > On Mon December 24 2007, Javier Vasquez wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I wanted to setup 2 access ponts, 1 per floor in my house (for some > > reason the signla doesn't reach the other floor no matter which one I > > place the AP). > A thick f

Re: what to take off the root partition

2007-12-22 Thread Owen Townend
On Sat, 2007-12-22 at 21:28 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 03:27:33PM +1100, Owen Townend wrote: > > Hey, > > > > kiss = keep it simple, stupid > > > > It's a philosophy whereby complexity for the sake of it is frowned >

Re: what to take off the root partition

2007-12-20 Thread Owen Townend
On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 20:29 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Thursday December 20 2007 15:48:19 Alex Samad wrote: > > Hi > > > > > > I have allocated 10G to my root partition in an effort to kiss > > the system. > > Kiss the system? > > > So I have farmed of /home and /var/log and

Re: Recovering files on lvm/reiserfs partition

2007-12-20 Thread Owen Townend
On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 20:52 -0600, Jacob S. wrote: > Howdy list, > > So, I did something stupid. (Again.) My desktop went down, but I needed > a backup off of it for a different computer on the lan, so I took out > the lvm drive and put it in my other backup server. Only problem was, > the lvm

Re: 3-D graphing software for Linux?

2007-11-22 Thread Owen Townend
On Thu, 2007-11-22 at 10:51 -0600, John W. Foster wrote: > On Thursday 22 November 2007 08:58, Owen Townend wrote: > lot of stuff snipped--- > > Hey, > > If you like the sound of GNUPLOT but want a GUI for it then give Qgfe > > a try. &g

Re: 3-D graphing software for Linux?

2007-11-22 Thread Owen Townend
On Wed, 2007-11-21 at 13:34 -0800, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > > 0In an advanced Calculus course, we are dealing with functions with 2 > > (and more) variables. Is there any 3-D graphing software for Linux > > available? Something like Kalgebra, but with a bit more functions such > > as multiple f

Re: [OT]: free ddns service and port rediction 80<-->xyz

2007-11-21 Thread Owen Townend
On Tue, 2007-11-20 at 16:05 -0500, H.S. wrote: > Hello, > > Does anybody know of a few dynamic DNS service which redirects traffic > on port 80 to a different port on my machine (which has a dynamic IP)? > > I need this because a friend of mine's univ allows outgoing access to > only port 80. I

Re: Is there a "quick" how-to or "getting started" for exim?

2007-11-16 Thread Owen Townend
On Fri, 2007-11-16 at 19:24 -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 03:18:10PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Nov 16, 5:00 pm, "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 02:42:02PM -0800, David Brodbeck wrote: > > > > On Nov 16, 2007, at 2:

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