Re: reaching a machine with a dynamic IP address.

> The puzzling detail is how to address the home machine > which has a dynamic address assigned by cablelan. Sign up for an account with dyndns.org and create a domain name. Install and configure 'ddclient' to update dyndns each time your IP changes (e.g. using an ip-up script if you're on ppp d

Re: ls and globbing and full pathnames

> > I need the > > full filepaths, something like this: > > --- > > /var/www/site1/index.html, /var/www/site1/some_image.jpg, > > /var/www/site2/index.html, /var/www/site2/some_other_file > > --- > > Is there any known way to get that kind of output instead? > > find /var/www > > then you get the

Re: ls and globbing and full pathnames

> > find /var/www/* -follow -maxdepth 1 -type f > > this will not work, except you only have one non-dot entry in /var/www - the > first argument can only be one directory, where /var/www/* will be expanded > to list of all files/directories (except those beginning with a dot) in > /var/www. Ummm

Re: apt is killing my machine

I run Sarge on an openz vps with strictly allocated 64MB RAM. apt-get upgrade will fall over with dpkg malloc errors. So instead I have a script which effectively does: apt-get update apt-get upgrade --download-only -y dpkg -Ri /var/cache/apt/archives/ apt-get clean So far this has always worke

Re: strange /etc/network/interfaces behaviour

On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 09:35:39PM +0300, Mario Spinthiras wrote: > Possible ifupdown bug? Yes it doesn't sound right to me either. If you do not receive any further replies then I suggest to file a bug report against ifupdown. Otherwise post your entire /etc/network/interfaces verbatim in case

wlan0 fails to obtain dhcp lease at startup

Hi, I have a problem with wlan0 failing to get a dhcp lease at startup. At startup, the following messages are issued: Sun Aug 10 20:20:07 2008: DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3 Sun Aug 10 20:20:10 2008: DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8 Sun

Sound recorder records only silence

Hi, I hope someone can help with this problem... I'm trying to get the microphone input working (actually for use with Skype). I'm using audacity, arecord, and the gnome sound recorder to test the mic input and whichever app I use it records only silence. In the Gnome volume control: P

Re: Sound recorder records only silence

> Try running alsaconf as root and check that you are configuring the right > sound > card (there may be sound built into the motherboard as well as a PCI card). Hi, thanks for the suggestions. I did already run alsaconf as root prior to the transcript pasted in my last post. There is no PCI so

Re: Sound recorder records only silence

> What is bizarre is that I have this same problem on two very different > machines... Just to follow up on this, it seems both PCs use the same soundcard chipset: Dell Precision 420 desktop:- 02:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: Cirrus Logic CS 4614/22/24 [CrystalClear SoundFusion Audio Accele

Re: Sound recorder records only silence

> 1. In the past I have had problems caused by the Enlightenment Sound Daemon. > You > can turn it off in Gnome from the Desktop menu: > > Desktop -> Preferences -> Sound -> Sounds tab -> Enable software sound mixing > (ESD) (untick) It was already off (unticked). Also I checked the following:

Curious file-permissions problem

Hi, I wonder if someone can throw some light on this file-permissions issue please? It came to light as rsync complained: rsync: failed to set times on "/var/www/mirror/foo/.": Operation not permitted (1) An strace revealed the failure is effectively a result of: cd /var/www/mirror/foo; touch -