Re: Fail event on /dev/md0:phreaque

On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 10:45 PM, s. keeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi. I've been fiddling with a RAID5 on usb pendrives plugged into usb > hub. Usually, it works great, but this doesn't tell me very much. > What do you wizards make of it, please? Your system has a raid5 array configured a

Re: CUPS vs lpd (was Re: Giving up on Iceweasel 3.0)

On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 2:49 AM, Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 05 Jul 2008, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > What is the reason that you don't install CUPS? > > > > 1. because lpr/lpd and magicfilter work perfectly for me. > Other than the minor detail of not printing from your web br

Re: My first message... more of a mad mans rant...

On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 4:02 PM, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2008-07-14 at 16:17 -0300, Ignacio Mondino wrote: > > Steve C. Lamb wrote: > > >> I Think there is a project called etch and a half in trac of that. > > > > > > It's called backports. :) > > > > > > > Ok, Now w

Re: Samba and filenames problem

On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 10:32 PM, Vit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > Sorry for my English, I didn't understand your question. Do you mean I could > broke something? The word "fat-fingered" is confusing me. No worries at all! Yes, the term "fat-fingered" means to have made a typo, a typing mis

Re: Source code editor

On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 3:53 PM, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It's a darned shame that there are no IDEs similar to the one in > Turbo Pascal. Perhaps this one? ;-) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache show xwpe Package: xwpe Priority: optional Section: editors Installed-Size: 536 Maint

Re: SSH connections stall expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_REPLY

On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 4:07 AM, martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > also sprach Chris Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.04.18.1034 +0200]: > > > Are you running seahorse? I've not logged a bug, yet, as I can't > > reproduce it reliably, but there seems to be a problem if seahorse > > fir

Re: swap help please

On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 5:39 PM, Daniel Dalton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So when I reboot my computer it stops and asks me this question and once I > answer continues booting: > "could not stat the resume device file '/dev/sda8'" > I typ in /dev/sda5 and it works ok. > > So I imagine its tryin

Re: Clearing SWAP

On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 7:35 PM, Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/5/11 Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > I've never even seen OSX. I think I saw something recently that someone > > said was a mac, looked like a gorilla's laptop minus the keyboard; I > > guess that happened

Re: Clearing SWAP

On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 8:42 AM, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks, > > I had a look at the wikipedia article for OpenVMS. It seems that the > Open is a misnomer. > > Is anybody working on an OpenOpenVMS? There is a community effort to duplicate OpenVMS on x86 hardware ca

Re: Debian secure by default?

On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 7:41 PM, Rico Secada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi. > > Why is Debian not setup to be secure be default? > > Not everyone is a security expert so imho the system should be fully > secured out-of-the-box. So, do you have something worthwhile to say or is this just a case o

Re: text file from Linux to windows.

On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 7:26 PM, L. V. Gandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have made a text file in Linux using echo and cat commands. When I > open the file in note pad, I find files are not having line break, but > having a character in place of line break. Is there any way in echo > and cat

Re: VirtualBox on lenny

On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 4:11 AM, Mark Allums wrote: > > I wish to clarify this: sources.list is in /etc/apt. If you (OP) > aren't aware how apt, et al, finds the repositories to download from, > they are listed in /etc/apt/sources.list. > To add to this, I encourage using /etc/apt/sources.list

Re: Why is MythTV not in Debian?

On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 6:18 AM, Paul van der Vlis wrote: > Hello, > > Why is MythTV only in debian-multimedia? It has a GPL license. > > What is good way to find out why a package is not in Debian main? > I already searched debian-legal. > Assuming that some piece of software is DFSG-Free, the o

Re: Top posting vs Bottom posting

On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 11:40 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2009-03-22 11:45, Chris Bannister wrote: > >> >> Bottom posting of course is just as bad or worse than top posting. >> > > The only person who can say that with a straight face is one who has spent > too much time using Windows. > > > A: B

Re: Top posting vs Bottom posting

On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 4:17 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: > Or... only technically-astute people should be allowed on the Internet. > That way, it doesn't degenerate into the Intarweb of tubes and spam. > I remember the days before 1994 and the Great AOL Floodgates opening... -- Chris

Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 1751-1] New xulrunner packages fix several vulnerabilities

On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 5:35 PM, wrote: > > Did anyone hear that Iceweasel has stopped getting security updates in > Etch? > The closest I could come in a few minutes of Googling was this announcement from Mozilla: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-older.html This terminated support for F

Re: Top posting vs Bottom posting

On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 9:48 AM, Barclay, Daniel wrote: > Christofer C. Bell wrote: > > Mail 1: Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? > > Mail 2: A: Top-posting. > > Mail 3: Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? > > Mail 4: A: Because it messes up the ord

Re: mutt tip (was ... Re: Top posting vs Bottom posting)

2009/3/28 Chris Jones > On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 05:48:10AM EDT, Chris Bannister wrote: > > I was asking one of the top-posting advocates to elaborate on "archaic > mail readers" .. written in the 1980s .. I believe he wrote.. > > I would assume he is not using one himself .. but then who knows..

Re: problem with chmod

On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 6:55 AM, Bret Busby wrote: > > I know that is how the syntax used to be, because I remember a person (on a > UNIX system) losing his account, when he accidentally entered > chmod . > , which changed his . file permissions to zero, and not even the sysadmin > could save his

Re: HELP!!! trying to recover crashed system

On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Miles Fidelman < mfidel...@traversetechnologies.com> wrote: > Allan Wind wrote: > >> >> Did you replace or otherwise eliminate the failed hardware? It was not >> clear but that should be your first step, otherwise you are on shaking >> ground. >> >> > Yup - swapped

Re: HELP!!! trying to recover crashed system - update

On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 11:24 PM, Miles Fidelman < mfidel...@traversetechnologies.com> wrote: > Update: > > Well, back on the air, sort of. Thanks for the pointers to tools - > systemrescuecd was very helpful. > That's great to hear! > What was really helpful was realizing that not only did I h

Re: debian and ubuntu - answer from user not pretending to be guru

On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 4:51 AM, Bret Busby wrote: > > On this computer, a desktop, I usually run Debian 4.0. I find it more > convenient, for most things, and I do not like the sudo that Ubuntu uses; I > prefer su - root. Before people start criticising that preference, it it my > preference, and

Re: Why does the laptop battery last longer with Windows than with Debian?

On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 8:45 AM, Kaixi Luo wrote: > Hello, > I'm a new Linux user (currently using Debian 5 testing) and I've noticed > that the battery of my laptop used to last much longer with Windows Vista (4 > hours) than with Debian (2.5 hours). How's that possible?I mean, Debian > uses mu

Re: debian and ubuntu - answer from user not pretending to be guru

On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 9:44 PM, Bret Busby wrote: > > Thank you for that. > > Before I try it, please advise whether, in removing the sudo facility for > users, the package management (both adding/removing packages, and, > downloading and installing updates, and using synaptic) will work by > ent

Re: gimp use

On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 4:04 AM, steef wrote: > > is it possible with the 'gimp' to scale 160 photographic pictures down *in > one time*? > Ah, I don't know. But I can tell you that ImageMagick is going to be a better tool for that. You'll want to look into the convert or mogrify utilities that

Re: How do you get iceweasel (or another browser) to save what otherwise the flashplayer plays?

On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 10:47 AM, Jochen Schulz wrote: > lee: > > On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 10:41:57PM -0400, JoeHill wrote: > >> > >> Spying? > > > > look at > > > http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager07.html > > > > They get a list of sites you have

Re: WARNING: invoke-rc.d called during shutdown sequence

On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 7:16 PM, Robert S wrote: > > I get the above error message whenever I use invoke-rc.d.  This isn't a major > problem except that I get annoying messages every night when logrotate > restarts services.  Is there a fix for this? > > # invoke-rc.d samba restart > invoke-rc.d

Re: WARNING: invoke-rc.d called during shutdown sequence

On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 10:28 PM, Robert S wrote: >> > I get the above error message whenever I use invoke-rc.d.  This isn't a >> > major problem except that I get annoying messages every night when >> > logrotate >> > restarts services.  Is there a fix for this? >> > >> > # invoke-rc.d samba rest

Re: Do Debian's users care about the AGPL?

On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 7:51 AM, Gregory Seidman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 12:58:01PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > [...] >> * webapps >> - Author writes a spreadsheet program >> - some company customizes the program and ads support for an own >> proprietary file format

Re: Do Debian's users care about the AGPL?

On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 9:42 AM, Gregory Seidman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Consider an AGPL'd app that has some open file format download. Evil Inc. > takes said app, tears out the bit that sends the open format to the user > and has it write to (server side) disk instead, then provides a link

Re: Problematic install - cannot find mirror

On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 5:28 PM, Lisi wrote: > > I am doing a net install. I cannot find a usable mirror. I have tried at > least 4 in the UK and 2 in Holland. So I can progress no further. Even if I > were to download CD1 and install from it, the first thing I would want to do > would be to u

Re: [ask] awk - passing for loop bash variables to awk

On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 3:44 AM, Morning Star wrote: > Hi guys, > I get a difficulty to produce the desired output using awk. i want to > use for loop bash variable as the input to the awk variable > here is the illustrated input: > > line_1 > line_2 > line_3 > line_4 > line_5 > line_6 > line_7 >

Re: Installation

On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 10:21 AM, The Wanderer wrote: > I'm probably going to regret this... > > > On 09/17/2012 09:31 AM, Camaleón wrote: > >> On Sun, 16 Sep 2012 22:42:03 +0200, lee wrote: >> >>> Camaleón writes: > > That's absurd. You are not going to install an OS in the middle of n

Re: Installation

On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 4:28 PM, lee wrote: > "Christofer C. Bell" writes: > >> an operating system isn't for you. The "bare metal computer on a >> desert island with nothing but a CD" situation you're imagining simply >> doesn't h

Re: Installation

On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 8:55 PM, lee wrote: > "Christofer C. Bell" writes: > >> On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 4:28 PM, lee wrote: >>> >>> What you call "desert situation" is the most likely one to have. If you >>> didn't have it, you we

Re: IA64 or AMD64?

On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 9:49 PM, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > T Elcor writes: > >> - Original Message - >> >> From: Stan Hoeppner >> >>> This list, as with most others, is not to be used as a >>> primary technical support resource. People should be making at least a >>> cursory effort to searc

Re: IA64 or AMD64?

On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 7:42 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 9/21/2012 7:05 PM, T Elcor wrote: >> - Original Message - >> >> You are either: 1. Horribly lazy 2. Incompetent >> >>> Stan, just my personal opinion but I think there's no need (and no gain) >>> to say this o

Re: IA64 or AMD64?

On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 2:23 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 9/22/2012 7:14 AM, Camaleón wrote: >> On Fri, 21 Sep 2012 15:53:21 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> >>> On 9/21/2012 10:06 AM, Camaleón wrote: >>> Stan, just my personal opinion but I think there's no need (and no gain) to say this

Re: IA64 or AMD64?

On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 6:13 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 9/23/2012 3:20 AM, Christofer C. Bell wrote: > >> While one could hope you're wanting this off the list because you've >> finally realized how much you've embarrassed yourself, I know that, >> sadly,

Re: Persistent MySQL Process

On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 2:48 PM, Daniel Latter wrote: > Hi, Thanks for the reply. > > I did as you suggested and found evidence in the second command, but the only > that stood out was the Debian start up script that I have already commented > out and restarted MySQL, I'm going to try a server re

Re: Persistent MySQL Process

On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 5:11 AM, Daniel Latter wrote: > On Tuesday, 9 October 2012 02:00:02 UTC+1, Christofer C. Bell wrote: >> >> Do you by any chance use KDE? >> > > I do not use KDE myself but my colleague does, but its just to browse to a > web address, can

Re: about installing lxde (which xserver)

On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 11:53 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > > However, I think that happenstance might mean that even a fairly > incompetent klutz might be able to blunder thru a huge bout of ripping > out kde and most of X then moving from testing to stable, and finally > installing lxde and enough of

Re: about installing lxde (which xserver)

On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > "Christofer C. Bell" writes: > >> On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 11:53 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: >>> >>> However, I think that happenstance might mean that even a fairly >>> incompetent klutz mig

Re: about installing lxde (which xserver)

On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 3:45 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > > But unless squeeze is free of the horrible and fast march of updates > one experiences on wheezy it may not be a goal after all. While squeeze has updates, they are generally few and far between. This is the intent of the stable release. S

Re: mdadm error - superfluous RAID member

On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 3:47 AM, Steve Dowe wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to re-use an older server, installing squeeze (6.0.5).  I'm using > software RAID and LVM on the machine (details below).  But I must be doing > something wrong with the disk set up stage in the installer, as when it > boots I

Re: resize pictures received by mailserver

On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 12:47 PM, Rob Owens wrote: > On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 12:45:13PM +0200, Randall wrote: >> >> is it possible to have all messages received by the mailinglists MTA >> scanned for pictures and have these automatically scaled to a >> default size before its being redistributed t

Re: KVM virtual machines and storage.

On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Alan Chandler wrote: > I currently run a necessary Windows 7 (Home Premium) installation in a > VirtualBox virtual machine on my Debian Unstable desktop.  Its OK, but I > have had the occasional glitch when Debian tries to upgrade by kernel > version and for one re

Re: KVM virtual machines and storage.

On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 4:13 PM, Shane Johnson wrote: > > Does Samba require you to  back of the security of Win7 down to the > point where it doesn't require Kerebos?  If I remember correctly all > that will be resolved once Samba 4 gets released. That I don't know. If it answers the question,

Re: resize pictures received by mailserver

On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 1:18 AM, Tixy wrote: > On Wed, 2012-06-13 at 15:08 -0500, Christofer C. Bell wrote: >> The ImageMagick "identify" command could be used on the image to >> gather statistics (such as pixel size) do some math on it, and feed >> that b

Re: books on debian of a beginner nature?

On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 4:19 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > >> > I doubt a blind person would be asking for printed books on Debian. > >> Blind person could ask books for Debian if they are written with >> Braille, but they might be more rare than normal books about Debian. > > My English is broken, bu

Re: Intermittent installation related problems

On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 7:29 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > > What's even more annoying (ascetically) is that I can not see a way for > multiple simultaneous installs to use the same swap space. After all, only > only one install will be in use at a time. This stood out to me reading this thread. W

Re: Up-gradation problem with gnome 2.14

On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 7:20 AM, Brian wrote: > > You could also post the contents of your /etc/apt/sources.list. >From reading the errors, his sources.list points to sarge, etch, *and* lenny, none of which are provided on the main servers these days. >From parsing the output he's pointing to the

Re: OT: /var on another distro, was: Re: 100% [Waiting for headers]

On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 1:33 AM, Chris Knadle wrote: > > Fedora is interesting in that they use SELinux by default, but I don't > personally like their plans for mandating reboots for certain updates for > Fedora 18.  That's "too much like Windows" for my liking.  I prefer Debian's > restart of se

Re: getting gnome 3

On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 6:19 AM, Camaleón wrote: > > You'll be forced to upgrade to GNOME3. Yes, and and that forced upgrade comes from more than just Debian. > I see no gnome2/gnome3 packaging differentiation as it happened with kde3/ > kde4 in its early stage, most sure because gnome3 is now st

Re: Debian stable chromium does not open Facebook

On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 8:05 PM, John Hasler wrote: > Stephen Allen writes: >> That was what I thought the purpose of volatile was. > > It isn't. See . You want backports: > No, while that meets the need, I don't think that

Re: what graphic card to buy?

On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 8:16 AM, Gary Dale wrote: > > A company is not a person and cannot have rights. All it should have is the > obligation to obey laws and regulations affecting its operations - just as > an automobile, another construct, must conform to all regulatory standards. > The notion

Re: Wheezy and Sun-Java

On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 9:40 AM, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 14 Aug 2012 20:29:41 -0300, Dr Beco wrote: > >> Dear linuxers, >> >> According to this blog ( >> http://sylvestre.ledru.info/blog/sylvestre/2011/08/26/sun_java6_packages_removed_from_debian_u >> ) >> from Sylvestre, responsible for maintai

Re: Wheezy and Sun-Java

On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 9:25 AM, Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 15 Aug 2012 12:48:51 -0500, Christofer C. Bell wrote: > >> On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 9:40 AM, Camaleón wrote: > >> So, if your bank doesn't work with OpenJDK 7, then your bank is wrong. >> I see you'

Re: No swap for Debian preseed automated installation

On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 7:55 AM, ML mail wrote: > That's good news, I didn't see that option in the Debian sample preseed > config files. So as you recommended I checked the partman-basicfilesystems > package from Ubuntu and found the template which does that. Now added the > following to my de

Re: No swap for Debian preseed automated installation

On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 8:47 AM, Bob Proulx wrote: > Christofer C. Bell wrote: > > That depends upon the Linux kernel setting of vm.overcommit_memory. I > have ranted about this on a number of occasions. But the Linux kernel > default is to overcommit. In which case swap is

Re: pulseaudio configuration question

On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 9:07 AM, Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 27 Aug 2012 18:13:36 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > >> On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 07:18:04PM +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: >>> Good time of the day, Jude. >>> >>> >>> > The Holy Father is neither jude >>> >>> Could You please stop This Name in va

Re: router for loadbalancing..anyone know a low cost solution ??

On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 9:43 AM, Wawrzek Niewodniczanski wrote: > > On 10/11/11 13:15, Joey L wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 7:23 PM, shawn wilson wrote: > > [...] > > Thanks for the reply - sorry for not specifying much. > I am running standard services on 2 boxes - apache, mysql, postfix, a

Re: router for loadbalancing..anyone know a low cost solution ??

On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 8:00 AM, Tom De Vylder wrote: > On 12 Oct 2011, at 14:48, Joey L wrote: > >> On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 8:42 AM, Tom De Vylder wrote: >>> On 12 Oct 2011, at 14:39, Joey L wrote: >>> > >> Can i do failover over of asterisk,apache,mysql,postfix ??? > > Yes, you can. > >> -- can

Re: Package/program popularity weblist.

On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 2:53 AM, Raf Czlonka wrote: > On Wed, Nov 02, 2011 at 04:46:42AM GMT, Sthu Deus wrote: >> Good time of the day. > > Any time of the day is good ;^) > >> I'm looking for a Debian package/program user popularity rating list on >> the WWW. Can You share one w/ me/us? > > Look a

Re: KVM networking.

On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Walter Hurry wrote: > On Mon, 07 Nov 2011 02:18:08 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: > >> Good time of the day. >> >> >> I try to run KVM network w/o under normal user w/ the following result: >> >> So, what's wrong w/ my setup? > > $ cd w > bash: cd: w: No such file or direc

Re: HTTP proxy over ssh recommendation?

On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > > I am sure this must be a common need and already solved many times > over.  Can someone recommend a simple HTTP proxy program that I could > run on the remote ssh logged into system that I could then use to > provide my local browser access to

Re: Adobe flash is dead

On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 4:51 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > And it didn't for me when I installed Lenny.  I have just installed it > manually.  I have not got task-desktop, so do not need its > dependencies. > > lisi@Junior:~$ aptitude search task-desktop > lisi@Junior:~$ Keep in mind that the desktop

Re: A method of searching recovered files from dying hard drive?

On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 10:24 AM, Cybe R. Wizard wrote: > > Is there a way for me to locate the .jpg files in these directories > without hand-searching? I've already updatedb and run locate with no > joy. You should be able to locate them with a command like this: $ find /path/to/mount/point -t

Re: DHCP server not starting at boot, any workarounds?

On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 2:09 PM, Victor Nitu wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 11/23/2011 08:53 PM, Camaleón wrote: > >> Not sure if this thread will give you any hint: >> >> *** >> DHCP server (version 4) with an alias IP address >> https://lists.isc.org/pipermail/dh

Re: no connections tab in network admin

On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 5:04 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Hi Folks, > > My son runs Debian (Squeeze) on a relatively ancient Gateway Laptop - and > all was copacetic until he did a recent apt-get update/upgrade/autoremove. > > Suddenly: > - wireless isn't working > - the network-admin tool does not

Re: New laptop with Linux preinstalled

On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 8:01 PM, doug wrote: > On 12/09/2011 06:37 PM, Walter Hurry wrote: > >> Labelling the partitions sensibly is probably a better plan. >> >> >> OK, I'll bite. How do you label the partitions? I was under the > impression > that they would have to be called / or /home or /b

Re: how to set the date_time

On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 10:49 AM, lina wrote: > > Hi, > > (sorry a bit off-topic) > > when use qsub -a date_time, > > how do I set up it, > > qsub -a 2011.12.15_12:00:00 not work, I don't know which version you're using (there are 2 packages that contain that binary), but the man page I'm able t

Re: how to set the date_time

On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 11:01 AM, lina wrote: > On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 12:54 AM, Christofer C. Bell > wrote: >> On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 10:49 AM, lina wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> (sorry a bit off-topic) >>> >>> when

Re: Going to 64bit

On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 8:04 AM, David Baron wrote: > I have a 64-bit Intel CPU but have been gleefully running my 32-bit Sid on > it. > > Can one install the 64-bit kernel and upgrade other packages piecemeal or > must > one do it all in one go? In other words: Will all/most/some/none 32-bit > p

Re: intel i5, system config question

On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 10:50 PM, yudi v wrote: > Hi all, > > I will be building a new desktop with intel i5. Which option should I > choose: > > go with squeeze and update to kernel 3+ > > or > > install Wheezy > > > This will be my main production PC. I would like it to be as stable as > possib

Re: OT: deferring gmail's new look

On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 11:44 AM, Lisi wrote: > On Sunday 25 December 2011 20:19:25 Kelly Clowers wrote: > > Still no desktop app is as good as gmail. The searching and Conversations > > still have not been done right anywhere else. > > One man's meat is another man's poison! The Conversations a

Re: lenny hosting wheezy chroot

On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 1:15 AM, Ross Boylan wrote: > I am looking for advice on how to run a wheezy chroot from a lenny host, > in particular how to handle dev, udev, and X. > While it's not an answer to the questions you've asked, I just want to make sure you're aware of a project called OpenV

Re: How to do this, fold + split

On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Kleber Fortaleza wrote: > On Friday 30 December 2011 13:09:13 T o n g wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I want to split a file every ### of chars. Is it possible not to split on >> the word but word boundaries? >> >> Thanks > this shoud be what you want > > split -b I can't

Re: How to do this, fold + split

On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 10:12 PM, Christofer C. Bell wrote: > On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Kleber Fortaleza > wrote: >> On Friday 30 December 2011 13:09:13 T o n g wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I want to split a file every ### of chars. Is it possibl

Re: PHP5 scripts not served by apache2 on Squeeze

On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 9:16 AM, Avi Greenbury wrote: > Kristian Lampen wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I have a fresh install of apache2 and php on my server and I can not >> get php to work, php-scripts are not executed by apache, just the >> plain script is served to the browser. >> > > By default, in

Re: linux-source-3.2.0-rc7

On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 12:38 AM, lina wrote: > Hi, > > a quick question, > > Which header I should choose? > > $ uname -a > Linux debian 3.2.0-rc6-3.2-mj-lina #1 SMP Sat Dec 17 13:14:26 SGT 2011 > x86_64 GNU/Linux > > the one I built from kernel.org a bit heavy, took so much space. I am not > sure

Re: System doesn't start X on first boot

On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 10:24 AM, Alberto Luaces wrote: > George writes: > >> On 1/5/12, Alberto Luaces wrote: >>> George writes: >>> When I boot my computer, most of the time I get a command line without X starting. I have to "sudo reboot", wait for the system to reboot and then I

Re: Using wheezy or testing in sources.list for security updates

On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 8:27 AM, Colin wrote: > On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 11:28 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: > > On 2012-01-29 11:51 +0100, Colin wrote: > > This depends on what you intend to do when wheezy becomes stable. Do > > you want to continue to use testing forever, or do you want to have a >

Re: Using wheezy or testing in ,,, OT question.

On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Paul E Condon wrote: > On 20120129_090739, Christofer C. Bell wrote: > > > they're actually being put into a directory named Wheezy. > ^^ > > > > Unfortunately, Debian li

Re: Using wheezy or testing in ,,, OT question.

On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 6:02 PM, Christofer C. Bell < christofer.c.b...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Paul E Condon > wrote: > >> On 20120129_090739, Christofer C. Bell wrote: >> >> > they're actuall

Re: Using wheezy or testing in sources.list f ... sorry for the noise

On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 1:38 PM, Paul E Condon wrote: > On 20120129_090739, Christofer C. Bell wrote: > > > > Colin, > > > > Perhaps this will explain it better. This is taken from > ftp.us.debian.org: > > > > lrwxrwxrwx1 21285 212856 Feb

Re: Wheezy. Weekly build 23-Jan-2012. "No kernel modules were found" during install.

On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 12:55 AM, Leonid Korostyshevski < korostyshevski@gmail.com> wrote: > > If somebody knows, is that bug fixed in upcoming DVD 30-01-2012 weekly > build? ~3.7Gb is a way big for 3G uplink, so should it be marked for > download when *.iso will be ready for? > Leonid, If b

Re: No locks available.

On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 11:13 AM, lina wrote: > > $ fuser > -bash: fuser: command not found > > uname -a > Linux 2.6.9-42.0.10.ELlargesmp #1 SMP Tue Feb 27 09:59:08 EST 2007 > x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux > > >From the looks of this uname(1) output, you're on a RHEL 4 (or clone) system and not

Re: Python

On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 1:49 PM, Sylvain wrote: > On 01. 02. 12 07:42, Johann Spies wrote: > >> On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 11:24:17PM +0200, cletusjenkins wrote: >> >>> Hello, I am interested to learn how to program in Python. What debian >>> packages >>> would I need to start coding some basic cgi i

Re: [OT] gmail archive button missing from label

On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 4:18 AM, J. Bakshi wrote: > Hello list, > > I get the gmail archive button in inbox view , but not in the label view. > Is it not possible to archive messages from label view ? > Click the small [x] next to the Inbox label. This will remove the "Inbox" label and, by way o

Re: [OT] Re: GNU/Debian Linux vs. facebook, Twitter and other proprietary social media

On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 9:09 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Nick Lidakis wrote: > >> Are there other tool I can use to avoid using facebook? I did find out >> about and someone else mentioned about Diaspora. It's considered >> decentralized social networking. But can I use some other software to let >

Re: [1/2OT]how to optimize below one

On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 6:27 AM, lina wrote: > > #!/bin/bash > > for i in {0..110} > do > > cat_g_f -f m001\_$i\_sot.xtc  m002\_$i\_sot.xtc  m003\_$i\_sot.xtc > m004\_$i\_sot.xtc   m005\_$i\_sot.xtc m006\_$i\_sot.xtc > m007\_$i\_sot.xtc  m008\_$i\_sot.xtc  m009\_$i\_sot.xtc > m010\_$i\_sot.xtc   m

Re: Resolved as far as possible, I think: was: Re: "Invisible" files on /tmp from Flash or Iceweasel?

On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 3:08 PM, Randy Kramer wrote: >> >> Yes, lsof is helpful. > > lsof sounded like a good idea, but doesn't actually find the files.  I guess > it would find the files before the unlink occurred. >From lsof(1): +|-L [l] This option enables (`+') or disables (`-') th

Re: Conflict resolution?

On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 7:14 PM, Brad Alexander wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 6:25 AM, Andrei Popescu > wrote: > > There are several frontends to APT (apt-get, aptitude, synaptic, etc.), > > which one do you use? > > aptitude. AFAIR, it was the recommended one for Debian. (A while back, > I

Re: display to remote machine

On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 2:04 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Du, 12 feb 12, 21:34:20, T o n g wrote: >> Hi, >> >> With the ssh/x-forwarding, I seems to have lost the ability to sent my >> local xdisplay to remote machine. How can I do it? >> >> Details: I'm sitting in front of machineA (my desktop)

Re: free software mini pc

On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 4:47 PM, green wrote: > Christofer C. Bell wrote at 2012-02-13 15:33 -0600: >> On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 10:11 AM, green wrote: >> > >> > So they just try booting Ubuntu and if it works, then claim Linux support? >> >> Their testing

Re: rm -rf is too slow on large files and directory structure(Around 30000)

On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 1:38 AM, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Anyone heard of the unlink command? unlink is slower than rm removing a 1.5GB file (at least on ext3): cbell@circe:~$ time rm test1 real0m0.278s user0m0.000s sys 0m0.264s cbell@circe:~$ time unlink test2 real0m0.375s user

Re: How to configure two NIC's in Debian 6.0.4 box?

On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 11:57 AM, Miroslav Skoric wrote: > > I wonder what is the best way to reconfigure the NIC's so the old card (now > eth0) boots as eth1, and the new card (now eth1) boots as eth0? This is done using the file /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules Just open that in your

Re: Re: rm -rf is too slow on large files and directory structure(Around 30000)

On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 4:51 PM, Clive Standbridge wrote: >> But may provide some benefit when removing a large number (3) of >> files (at least empty ones). >> >> cbell@circe:~/test$ time find rm -type f -exec rm {} \; >> >> real              0m48.127s >> user              1m32.926s >> sys  

Re: Question about HotPlug and cciss hp storage

On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 8:04 AM, Julien Groselle wrote: > > So no, I didn't rescan anything... It's just what I need (a command line to > recan all HDD device) Apparently it's as easy as this: echo "- - -" > /sys/class/scsi_host/host0/scan Where 0 is the the controller number. This information

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