Re: How to create package without source code

2016-07-27 Thread Tom Grace
On 27/07/2016 09:24, Hans wrote: However, I did not quit understand. Can I add several files instead of a single one? And will it preserve rights, as I set? Yes, both these are possible - have a look at the Wiki for more examples https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm/wiki

Re: How to create package without source code

2016-07-27 Thread Tom Grace
On 27/07/2016 08:39, Hans wrote: The file is just a script. I read in the dokus, and all told, they want to compile somehow. I imagine, to pack all the files with the correct user rights into a folder, then pack it into maybe *.tgz and then change it somehow into a *.deb. Maybe there is a more

Re: ThinkPad fan

2016-06-17 Thread Tom Grace
On 17/06/2016 10:58, Francesco Montanari wrote: I recently installed Jessie on a Lenovo ThinkPad T420. The fan usage looks reasonable. However, high temperatures (96 C) are reached when CPUs are running intensively for more than one minute or so. The fan speed at those temperatures is about 4500

Re: Suggestions? A small webserver for file upload

2014-09-24 Thread Tom Grace
On 24/09/14 14:53, Ron Leach wrote: What package would list members suggest for a small webserver that would enable co-workers to upload files to us? For just the file-upload bit, FTP is probably your best option. You could set up a space for each of the users who need to upload files, and ha

Re: Debian mirror analysis by release

2013-10-14 Thread Tom Grace
On 13/10/13 11:10, Andre Majorel wrote: Is there a program out there that will scan a Debian mirror (E.G. created by debmirror) and, for each file in it, list the release(s) by which it's used ? It's not quite what you want, but you can look in (for example) ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/st

Re: Download speeds from your servers.

2013-10-02 Thread Tom Grace
On 02/10/13 03:42, Hakan Ozturk wrote: Hi, We are trying to find out what download and upload speeds your servers support. Is there a place at your website where each server's download/upload capacity is documented? What max. speeds should we expect to get when downloading an ISO file? As

Re: Thinkpad T61 Critical temperature reached (103 C), shutting down

2013-08-13 Thread Tom Grace
On 13/08/13 13:19, Alphonse Ogulla wrote: The system is going down for system halt NOW! Regarding the canned air solution, is it a one-off job to clean out the CPU heat sink or is it for a continuous circulation of air directly over the heat sink? It's for a one off, it gets the dust out from t

Re: Thinkpad T61 Critical temperature reached (103 C), shutting down

2013-08-13 Thread Tom Grace
On 13/08/13 10:02, Alphonse Ogulla wrote: After a lot of googling, I decided to tear down the laptop, expose the cooling fan and give it a good vacuum job to get rid of any dust that might have accumulated and was possibly interfering with the CPU cooling. I assembled all the pieces, rebooted an

Re: huawei e169 +asterisk

2013-04-16 Thread Tom Grace
On 16/04/13 19:04, binary wrote: > thanks a lot for the answer. > i have done a clean install of debian > root@debPBX:/usr/src/chan_dongle-1.1.r14# uname -a > Linux debPBX 2.6.32-5-486 #1 Mon Feb 25 00:22:26 UTC 2013 i586 GNU/Linux > root@debPBX:/usr/src/chan_dongle-1.1.r14# > > and i have taken f

Re: huawei e169 +asterisk

2013-04-16 Thread Tom Grace
On 16/04/13 13:54, binary dreamer wrote: > i have tried all versions from r10 to r14 and i am getting the same problem. I just tried, following the instructions on the page you linked with no problems, other than a missing libxml building asterisk. My system is as follows: $ cat /etc/debian_versio

Re: huawei e169 +asterisk

2013-04-16 Thread Tom Grace
On 16/04/13 12:12, binary dreamer wrote: > Sorry, my mistake. i forgot to mention the errors: > > root@debPBX:/usr/src/dongle-read-only# automake -a > configure.in:6: installing `./config.guess' > configure.in:6: installing `./config.sub' > configure.in:7: installing `./install-sh' > configure.in:

Re: NEEDED: not quite current buisnesscard and netinst iso images

2013-03-11 Thread Tom Grace
On 11/03/13 11:39, Richard Owlett wrote: > Pointer please. TIA You could have a poke about at http://cdimage.debian.org/mirror/cdimage/archive/ Failing that, you may be able to create a custom CD for your needs using the DVD set you have as a starting point. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-

Re: Netgear Series N Router as Access Point Poisons our LAN.

2013-03-06 Thread Tom Grace
On 05/03/13 17:53, Martin McCormick wrote: > I turn off the AP. She stops and restarts WiFi on her > phone and all is right with the world once again. > > By the way, you do not ever use the WAN port on the AP. > Just plug a cable from the switch to one of the switch ports on > the AP

Re: compress files

2013-02-19 Thread Tom Grace
On 19/02/13 14:24, tsit...@linuxmail.org wrote: > any suggestions please? Have a look at the output of "date --help", under the FORMAT section. You want something like "date +%b" to get "Feb". You might also consider naming the files year-numerical_month to make sorting easier later. -- To UNSU

Re: Local copy of ALL man pages

2013-01-05 Thread Tom Grace
First, sorry for top posting. Generally, manpages are available in the package they relate to, and I'm not aware of an easy way to get all of them. Might you be able to use something like httrack to take an offline copy of a web version of them ? Sent from my iPad On 5 Jan 2013, at 17:19, Ric

Re: Can Debian's paranoia be tamed

2012-11-22 Thread Tom Grace
On 22/11/12 18:06, Richard Owlett wrote: > > Effectively that's what I want. > BUT neither 'root' nor 'superuser' is recognized by Gnome login screen :< Presuming you're using GDM, maybe this will help you out? http://projects.gnome.org/gdm/docs/2.14/configuration.html#securitysection You could

Re: favicon.ico not showing in apache2

2012-11-14 Thread Tom Grace
On 14/11/12 11:53, Jorge wrote: > > Same result in IE and FF browsers. It only works if I put the > code line and disable SSL. > Are you hitting this? https://blog.mozilla.org/ux/2012/06/site-identity-ui-updates/ I didn't check if IE has a similar thing. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-u

Re: Custom Grub-install on a Floppy

2012-11-08 Thread Tom Grace
On 08/11/12 14:13, Martin McCormick wrote: > Should this work? Yes, it should be possible. > Where are some linear English sentences that de mystify what we > can get grub-install to do? > I'm not sure about that, but you might have an easier time customizing an existing cdrom chainloading floppy

Re: Number of Debian packages available.

2012-10-16 Thread Tom Grace
On 16/10/12 11:30, Lisi wrote: > Approximately, in round terms, how may packages are available in Debian > (Squeeze?) > >From doing: for i in main contrib non-free; do echo $i:; curl -s ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/$i/binary-amd64/Packages.bz2 | bunzip2 -c | grep Package: | sort -u |

Re: More on port forwarding(ssh, netcat and amule!)

2012-10-11 Thread Tom Grace
On 11/10/12 09:53, houkensjtu wrote: > It seems that, not only on the router, but also I should open a specific port > on my laptop, otherwise netcat will not be able to connect from outside my > home. > > I wonder why this happens and what is the mechanism behind it. > Is it possible to open a

Re: Outgoing firewall and CNAMES

2012-09-16 Thread Tom Grace
On 12/09/12 17:59, Lists wrote: > I use an outgoing policy of deny on webservers, and allow explicitely > what I need them to connect to. This has never posed a problem, until > today. I need to allow a website to pull in a feed from another site, > hosted on amazon's elastic cloud thingy. The p

Re: Restoring partition table.

2012-08-31 Thread Tom Grace
On 31/08/12 17:13, Malcolm Reed wrote: > > Hello, > bad news for me - I lost partition table in my 1Tb hard drive. All what > I have it's fdisk output of working drive: > > Can I convert fdisk output to sfdisk dump? How to convert count of > blocks to number of sectors for using with sfdisk? > W

Re: IPSec Point to Point Tunnel Has Double Latency in One Direction

2012-08-29 Thread Tom Grace
On 28/08/12 16:19, Chris Dos wrote: > > I can find no reason why this is occurring. Anyone have any ideas why this > is happening? > Do you get anything helpful from traceroute/mtr ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? C

Re: .htaccess , how to bypass authentication for specific IPs ?

2012-08-13 Thread Tom Grace
On 13/08/12 16:55, Camaleón wrote: >> You need "Order allow,deny". See >> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_access.html#order for details. > > The order is consistent with the samples given in the link I sent before > but how is that altering the "Allow from" stanza? The .htaccess J.B. p

Re: .htaccess , how to bypass authentication for specific IPs ?

2012-08-13 Thread Tom Grace
On 13/08/12 16:25, Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 13 Aug 2012 10:40:51 +0530, J. B wrote: > >> I have the following in my .htaccess to force the authentication >> >> [] >> AuthName "htaccess password prompt" >> AuthUserFile /home/askapache.com/.htpasswd AuthType Basic >> Require valid-user >> [...]

Re: ot: file sharing other than yousendit, or sendspace?

2012-08-12 Thread Tom Grace
On 12/08/12 11:16, Curt wrote: > On 2012-08-12, Karen Lewellen wrote: >> Hi all, >> I am sort of in a hurry, need to send two small files. While the y >> might normally go via email, google will not let them through because they >> are program files. > > Upload the files to google docs (drive)

Re: buffer bloat or Squid issue ?

2012-06-29 Thread Tom Grace
On 29/06/12 14:15, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > i have done some test and here are some details and results > > i am using two machine > > 1, Gateway IPcop (linux) > 2. Debian lenny (squid) > > i am using download manager to download a 50MB file. > > IPCOP > --- > when i do it VIA IPC

Re: Wheezy: VLC player weirdness

2012-05-14 Thread Tom Grace
On 14/05/12 10:04, T Elcor wrote: > Hi, > > For some reason VLC player refuses to play video files. It starts up, shows > the first frame of the video but doesn't play it further. > > Any ideas? Thanks > You may want to try running vlc from a terminal and seeing if you get any useful output.

Re: Graphical app on startup

2012-04-11 Thread Tom Grace
Both of these are the same article, but those are the bits you mostly need. Tom > > Thanks again. > > Best regards, > > Antonio. > > El 11 de abril de 2012 12:46, Tom Grace <mailto:t...@deathbycomputers.co.uk>> escribió: > > On 11/04/12 11:44, Ant

Re: Graphical app on startup

2012-04-11 Thread Tom Grace
On 11/04/12 11:44, Antonio Fernández Pérez wrote: > I have followed it, but in some step I can't get launch a java app. > Also, I don't know what window manager I should to use, I think that a > minimal window manager... In the article, the author mentions using FVWM as the window manager. You mi

Re: Graphical app on startup

2012-04-11 Thread Tom Grace
On 11/04/12 10:46, Antonio Fernández Pérez wrote: > Please, anybody could help me? give me some howto that works or > something to follow. The article Chris Bannister linked looks to cover everything you'd need, how far did you get before you hit trouble ? > 2012/4/7 Chris Bannister

Re: help needed with initial use of IrDa and LIRC

2012-03-16 Thread Tom Grace
On 16/03/12 14:59, kei...@strucktower.com wrote: > I have never used IR before, and I thought I'd try to use it on my old > Dell laptop. I simply want to be able to invoke commands using an > arbitrary remote. > > I'm confused as to whether I should use IrDa or LIRC, or both. The man > pages and o

Re: separate user per website?

2011-06-13 Thread Tom Grace
Lars Nielsen wrote: > I am running my own server with lenny, apache and php. Now I have > several websites that only I are going to update. Is it fine to run > those under the same userlogin and use virtualhosts or should I create a > separate user for each website? > Is it posible to maintain a s

Re: Debian Questions on apt-get

2011-06-06 Thread Tom Grace
On 06/06/2011 05:15 PM, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 11:03:36AM -0500, Matt wrote: >> Now on Centos when I do 'yum update' after a fresh install I usually >> get offered a good number of patches etc. When I do 'apt-get update' >> I seem to get nothing. > > Is your sources.list no

Re: ia64 and i386

2011-05-24 Thread Tom Grace
On 24/05/11 16:18, J.Hwan.Kim wrote: > If the CPU core is i5, what package should be installed ia64 or i386? You should be able to choose between amd64 and i386. Depending on what you want to use the system for, i386 may suit you better than amd64. ia64 is a different thing and won't work on the i5

Re: first mkdir takes a long time (on ext3)

2011-05-19 Thread Tom Grace
On 19/05/11 17:01, Hartmut Niemann wrote: I observe that it often takes very long time (20s) to mkdir on an ext3 drive, especially the first directory. What could the reason be? If this is a data drive, has it been spun down to save power ? Do other operations like reading a non-cached file, cre

Re: gnome-screensaver does not fade out

2011-05-16 Thread Tom Grace
On 15/05/11 23:02, Maroš Žilka wrote: My problem is when i am inactive for some time screensaver lock the screen without fade out so i can not stop it. I'm not sure if I can help with the lack of fading, but as a work around the following may help: Run gconf-editor and add a delay to apps ->

Re: unable to apt-get an older system

2011-05-10 Thread Tom Grace
On 10/05/11 16:50, Jim Pazarena wrote: I have a debian based appliance which is running 2.6.16.62, I am unsure how to determine debian version. You may have some luck with: cat /etc/debian_version or cat /etc/lsb-release Is there a way around this? Other than a full update, which isn't possibl

Re: Disk Space Issues

2011-05-09 Thread Tom Grace
On 09/05/11 09:48, Daniel Linux wrote: What you would do after you found a full filesystem? It is just a general question that was asked in my class of operating systems and nobody had an answer. It all depends on context, you'll need to add a little more detail. For instance: As an administra

Re: Disk Space Issues

2011-05-09 Thread Tom Grace
On 09/05/11 09:40, Daniel Linux wrote: Yes, I need generic steps. After running df -h I know what filesystem is almost full. What should I do? du -h /fullfilesystem is a good start, possibly with --max-depth to limit the output. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian

Re: configuration management

2011-05-06 Thread Tom Grace
On 07/05/11 00:56, shawn wilson wrote: i'd prefer the system have some sort of ajax, soap, xml, syslog, or snmp v3 output (in order of preference - can ya tell how i feel about snmp?). but, i suppose i can parse and spit out pretty much any output if need be. What information are you looking to

Re: Managing large numbers (100+) of Debian-based machines

2011-04-07 Thread Tom Grace
On 07/04/11 20:01, Peter Beck wrote: what about puppet ? Anyone made experience with puppet on debian ? I do lots of Puppet on Debian, and it's a good way to get consistent machines. Not sure it's the right thing for the OP, I got the impression that they were just after I way of making sure a

Re: Problem with time command

2011-04-05 Thread Tom Grace
On 05/04/11 17:40, Fabio Dellacorte wrote: Hello everybody , i want use option for time command but it doesn't work because intepreted anything as argument : You may have better luck with the standalone "time" $ /usr/bin/time --version GNU time 1.7 $time --version bash: --version: command n