Re: Battery problem
On 12/03/13 11:17, Darac Marjal wrote: On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 09:24:20AM +, Andrea Neroni wrote: Have a look at the output of cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/info. In particular, compare the values of design capacity and last full capacity. If last full capacity is significantly lower than design capacity, then the battery is dying. The jump you're seeing is due to the charge profile calibration being out of date in the battery (this might be updatable, but it won't alter your run time). This would not explain, why the same battery runs for 3 hours on windows. Johannes -- 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/513f02b7.2070...@aktendiener.de
Re: Backup
On 17/08/12 10:40, Emil Payne wrote: I have a 1 TB external USB drive with 362 GB used. I'd like to do a full backup to DVDs and then an incremental (or something) backup every month or two, also to DVDs or CDs. I'd like the backups to be compressed in order to save space (i.e. - the number of DVDs/CDs used). What is a good program to do this with? Or, what is a good step of different programs to do this with? I'm a home user with decent knowledge of Debian/Linux, but not a shell programmer. FWIW, I gave up backing up to DVD when my data reached about 1/10 of the size of yours. Too slow, too cumbersome (having to change disks), too unreliable, to expensive etc. I suggest to buy one or better two other 1TB usb disks and backup to them (alternately). You don't need to be a shell programmer, a simple $ rsync -av /path/to/disk /path/to/backup followed by $ cp -al /path/to/backup /path/to/backup- where could be a number or a date, should be more efficient (and cheaper in the long run) than a pile of optical disks. Occasionally, you could use rsync's -c option to verify that your backup is ok. (/path/to/disk is the mount point of your existing disk; /path/to/backup is mountpoint and path of your backup disk) My 2ct, Johannes -- 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/502eba27.2070...@aktendiener.de
Re: which one is faster?
On 08/08/12 09:14, lina wrote: It's a bit big data to transfer, around 1.1 T, from one server to another server. I checked that rsync is faster than scp, but in my situations rsync has elapsed for 1 hour, I guess the network is also a problem, Here I wish to know are there some tools (better default) can use for fast transferring, regardless the security reason, my data is just some data, no need special security care. IIUC, the question is not just, which is the fastest tool. If you have network problems (ie. intermittent connections) or fear thereof, you need a fast *and* a reliable tool. I suggest you stick with rsync. IMHO it is the best tool for your task. With the -c option, eg. you could check, whether all files transferred correctly, without much demand on the network. Cheers, Johannes -- 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/502226a7.9030...@aktendiener.de
Re: wheezy: non-free latex fonts no longer work
Thanks for your help! On 23/05/12 18:55, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 22 May 2012 22:40:56 +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: According to this bug report (message #30) the script is not available anymore: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=664646 Yes, that's the problem: 1. the installed font was removed / disconfigured during the upgrade. 2. the script to reinstall the font is gone. :-( How could I install or reactivate the optima font? I'd start by reading the mentioned missfont.log maybe there's something of usefulness there :-? Well, probably not: $ cat missfont.log mktexpk --mfmode / --bdpi 600 --mag 1+0/600 --dpi 600 uopr8r mktexpk --mfmode / --bdpi 600 --mag 0+456/600 --dpi 456 uopb8r Cheers, Johannes -- 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/4fbe3a11.8050...@aktendiener.de
wheezy: non-free latex fonts no longer work
Dear list, some time ago I installed and use some non-free fonts for latex. They were installed by getnonfreefonts-sys --verbose -a After the latest texlive update of wheezy some days ago, these fonts do not work any more: [...] kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode / --bdpi 600 --mag 0+456/600 --dpi 456 uopb8r mktexpk: don't know how to create bitmap font for uopb8r. mktexpk: perhaps uopb8r is missing from the map file. kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log. [...] Apparently, the command getnonfreefonts-sys is no longer available. How could I install or reactivate the optima font? Thanks, Johannes -- 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/4fbbf9d8.4030...@aktendiener.de
Re: Squeeze: No sound in YouTube
On 2011-02-21 17:17, Mauricio Contreras wrote: I have just installed Squeeze from 3 DVDs with KDE. I did a clean install. I can hear system sounds, and Amarok plays my mp3 files. I installed flash non-free: I can see Flash files but I cannot hear any sound on YouTube and similar sites. I have two sound cards, indexed 0 on the motherboard (Intel chipset) and 1 a SoundBlaster Live (emu10k1) FWIW: I have two sound cards as well, and kde is configured to use the second sound card (1). AFAICT this works for all applications -- except for flash!!! Hence, I guess that this is rather a bug in flash than a problem of debian, but would like to know, if there is a work around. I have tried to blacklist and 'modprobe -r' the other sound card (as I did on lenny), yet this does not seem to work for squeeze. How and where can I point the system to use my #1 card instead of #0? What utilities might I be missing to solve the issue? From what you write, it seems it is not the 'system' that uses the wrong card, but just flashplugin-nonfree. Johannes -- 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/4d6441aa.3010...@aktendiener.de
replacement for amarok 1.4. in squeeze?
Dear all, now with the imminent release of squeeze, I'd like to know what is a good replacement of lenny's amarok as both an audio player and application to access my ipod. I've upgraded to squeeze about a month ago, and I can't find the following features in squeeze's amarok (all of which were pleasantly usable in lenny's): - ability to synchronize and manage media files on my ipod classic (a google search tells me I should install amarok-ipod, but there is no amarok-ipod in squeeze). - import my old podcasts. Somehow amarok managed to ignore the existing podcasts in my /home/audio folder. (There is no 'media device' setting in the configuration menue.) - ability to show recently added files and albums - ability to import my 'old' mysql database (amarok 1.4.10-2lenny1) into amarok 2.3.1. (I guess I could do without that in case of a good replacement for amarok). I also find the new user interface quite annoying. It appears more 'clean' than the old one, but lacks many of the features that I found useful. amarok has always been quite a huge monster application, slow to start and rather wasteful on resources. In the past this disadvantage has been compensated by a large feature set. The 'new' amarok on kde4 by comparison, appears to be even slower to start and shows only a fraction of the features compared to lenny. (I guess this is generally the case with many applications for kde4). The most pressing need at the moment is to find a way to download podcasts and synchronize mp3s and podcasts with the ipod. Thanks for any suggestions! Cheers, Johannes -- 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/4d4d2f5c.1060...@aktendiener.de
Re: when does one change from testing to stable in sources.list
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tom Furie wrote: On 09/12/2010 22:19, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: As others have mentioned, though you might not have seen the replies if you weren't CC'd on them, you could change from 'testing' to 'squeeze' now as they are currently the same thing. Then when squeeze goes stable you could change to 'stable', this will allow you to track the stable distribution and it will upgrade to the next stable 'wheezy', when that is released. Ehm, no. If you have 'squeeze' in your /etc/apt/sources.list it will stay at 'squeeze' until you change 'squeeze' to something else, no matter if debian moves beyond wheezy or not. In order to upgrade to 'wheezy' you'd have to edit your /etc/apt/sources.list again (no big deal for me). Ehm, no, what? Re-read what I typed. Once squeeze is stable, changing your sources to stable means you will track stable, whether it is lenny, squeeze, wheezy, or whatever is coming after that. Sorry for the noise. I read your sentence as 'squeeze becomes stable' not as 'change your apt.sources another time'. - -- Johannes In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. - - Galileo Galilei, physicist and astronomer (1564-1642) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk0CToIACgkQC1NzPRl9qEVhWACdF4UDv906W52qo7jAK56ndJsj mTAAn1DIktQYmwvnpQX0m5PtvW6H50HW =0EJS -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- 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/4d024e82.6000...@physik.blm.tu-muenchen.de
Re: when does one change from testing to stable in sources.list
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tom Furie wrote: Why? What's the difference between having stable in the source list and automatically upgrading when the new stable is released - all upgrade issues *should* be worked out by then - versus switching the codename once the new version becomes stable? You miss reading the upgrade instructions and release notes before performing the upgrade. YMMV, of course, but I prefer to spend 10 minutes reading the upgrade instructions to having to revert the upgrade procedure for all my machines, because I missed a simple but important point. - -- Johannes In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. - - Galileo Galilei, physicist and astronomer (1564-1642) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk0CT10ACgkQC1NzPRl9qEVHLACdGTcBz3M6XdAWhmCyRh6KAxpG 4loAn3Bty0kdFofu9VWma0cCljrOKUlc =m1v3 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- 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/4d024f5e.50...@physik.blm.tu-muenchen.de
Re: when does one change from testing to stable in sources.list
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 shirish शिरीष wrote: At bottom :- 2010/12/10 Tom Furie t...@furie.org.uk: snipped As others have mentioned, though you might not have seen the replies if you weren't CC'd on them, you could change from 'testing' to 'squeeze' now as they are currently the same thing. Then when squeeze goes stable you could change to 'stable', this will allow you to track the stable distribution and it will upgrade to the next stable 'wheezy', when that is released. Ehm, no. If you have 'squeeze' in your /etc/apt/sources.list it will stay at 'squeeze' until you change 'squeeze' to something else, no matter if debian moves beyond wheezy or not. In order to upgrade to 'wheezy' you'd have to edit your /etc/apt/sources.list again (no big deal for me). - -- Johannes In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. - - Galileo Galilei, physicist and astronomer (1564-1642) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk0BVfIACgkQC1NzPRl9qEUzGgCfe8P/YZP2oMJ4E/bhibilXu17 afIAnR6mBIZZv6ZelpcVR4vHQH66P63C =H+xe -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- 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/4d0155f2.7060...@physik.blm.tu-muenchen.de
Re: jpg2pdf :-)
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Pol Hallen wrote:
Howdy :-)
#!/bin/sh
convert $1 ${1/.jpg/.pdf}
using this script correctly convert jpg file to pdf (I use it with service
menu in kde).
Now, I'd like convert any files to pdf (like png, txt, etc.) but I don't how
do.
convert will work on most graphics files; ps2pdf is better for ps and
eps files, though.
For other files there are various options. txt could be converted to ps
by a2ps and then via ps2pdf to pdf. etc. Office documents are probably
best converted by opening and exporting to pdf manually.
Except for graphic formats, there is now universal tool, as far as I know.
- --
Johannes
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the
humble reasoning of a single individual.
- - Galileo Galilei, physicist and astronomer (1564-1642)
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Re: jpg2pdf :-)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joao Ferreira gmail wrote: works for txt too: convert abc.txt abc.pdf not on my lenny system: $ convert abc.txt abc.pdf convert: Improper image header `abc.txt'. convert: missing an image filename `abc.pdf'. - -- Johannes In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. - - Galileo Galilei, physicist and astronomer (1564-1642) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkz3mK8ACgkQC1NzPRl9qEV8ZgCfdOzunArzaVuacLzsHKKrsIAp 0+QAnAyh+/mQ/3sN+NtzVRZlVJtsFf3Z =fOsz -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- 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/4cf798af.5000...@physik.blm.tu-muenchen.de
Re: Seeking advice and documentation on non-standard software RAID1 setup
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 deloptes wrote: I am doing a backup once a month ... I don't use any raid ... no issues in the past. After 4 years of use, I have disassembled the notebook and cleaned it up with a spray. I think it will work for the next 4 years ... FWIW, good experience in the past is not a reliable guide as to how often one should back up data, as it could be just caused by good luck. The interval of backups should match how much you can 'afford' to lose. I usually backup my data daily [1], because that is about the maximum work that I am prepared to recreate in case of failure. I have had disks running reliably for 10-15 years and others failing within 4 weeks from purchase. Of course it is also a question of how much time you will spend on backing up the data compared to how much time you will spend to recreate the data in case of loss. Backups can be automated, though ;-) YMMV, of course. - -- Johannes In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. - - Galileo Galilei, physicist and astronomer (1564-1642) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkz2DgsACgkQC1NzPRl9qEVnzACdG3iOYQ3M881sl1QxlPlwTnd3 HfQAnAnIG2jFh2QlADvFP+rAWtpsTtJN =llB2 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- 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/4cf60e0b.5060...@physik.blm.tu-muenchen.de
Re: Seeking advice and documentation on non-standard software RAID1 setup
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrei Popescu wrote: On Ma, 30 nov 10, 15:39:15, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: 1. Is this setup possible and/or feasible? Probably yes, though I have never tried this. This would mean that your disks ie. the raid has to be rebuild each time you reconnect the disks. From my experience this is a rather time consuming. Are we talking minutes or hours? The current plan is to use the fastest 16GB SD card I can find. Last time I used this it took many hours on an 200GB file system on an 'ordinary' hard disk. That was my thinking. Can unison be used for the entire system (not just some files under my /home)? , | Unison is a user-level program: there is no need to modify the kernel or | to have superuser privileges on either host. ` This seems to imply it can't. I have never done this; I use rsync for '/' backups. I read 'no need' as 'you can use it as an ordinary user' and not as 'you cannot use it as root'. It should be straightforward to try. ;-) I've been using both unison and rsync for years now for synchronisation and backup, respectively. I really like unison for keeping my laptop in sync with my workstation. I don't have to worry, if both sets are changed between synchronisations and unison works fast and reliable. My 2ct. Cheers, - -- Johannes In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. - - Galileo Galilei, physicist and astronomer (1564-1642) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkz2NWMACgkQC1NzPRl9qEXNxgCfVDB8N1WEUPCMKlpjpSIJYw8V 8HQAniQfqTlmDfobpbZmCeg8bNsAR2vO =ardq -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- 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/4cf63563.5070...@physik.blm.tu-muenchen.de
Re: Seeking advice and documentation on non-standard software RAID1 setup
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrei Popescu wrote: So here is what I thought of: - make a software RAID1 on my laptop between a SD card and a partition on the builtin HDD - whenever I want or need to use the other laptop I use the SD card to boot from it and work in my environment This way I can enjoy my work environment on whatever machine I work and also have a sort of backup. My questions are: 1. Is this setup possible and/or feasible? Probably yes, though I have never tried this. This would mean that your disks ie. the raid has to be rebuild each time you reconnect the disks. - From my experience this is a rather time consuming. You also get a problem, if for some reason you modify both disks independently. (Say you quickly edit some stuff on A while the second disk is attached to B or unplugged). 2. Where should I start? 3. Any other issues I haven't thought of (I have zero experience with RAID) I'd suggest using unison or some other application to keep both disks in sync. unison is rather fast at syncing the disks and even has some capabilities of merging (mainly usefull for text files) in case you modify your files on both replicas in between two runs of unison. Effectively you will always have one 'offline' backup: either the external disk (when working on the home laptop) or the laptop at home (when working with the external disk). Just my 2ct, - -- Johannes In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. - - Galileo Galilei, physicist and astronomer (1564-1642) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkz1DJMACgkQC1NzPRl9qEXMfgCeLN0S7C0JdUm/RI2cWBAdJ0E4 0XUAn3HErBE1i89rb0w2BRdPjP/VEBr1 =OGtb -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- 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/4cf50c93.8090...@physik.blm.tu-muenchen.de
Re: Can Debian Backup ntfs File System?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 28 Nov 2010 18:48:18 +0100, Axel Freyn wrote: A similiar point is true for scandisk / chkdsk: Again, independent on the filesystem: Once the filesystem is corrupted, the recovery tool has to make assumptions about what is the correct information -- and if it makes the wrong assumption, it WILL destroy data. For example: How can chkdsk guarantee that, whenever it writes some information on the disk, it uses a truely free part of the disc? maybe on this place was a piece of an important file, which was lost by the file-system corruption? Well, no need to worry. You are thinking in the worst scenario but even if the file system structure is completey destroyed, defrag is also capable of performing a test only disk analysis and so does chkdsk. Well, it depends on the value of the data whether to worry or not. If it really is important data and the disk already shows some harddisk errors (one possible reason for the failure to boot), then it might be really dangerous to strain the fragile device with time consuming windows defrag instead on focussing on getting the data off the dying disk. - -- Johannes In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. - - Galileo Galilei, physicist and astronomer (1564-1642) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEUEARECAAYFAkzzgT0ACgkQC1NzPRl9qEUG9gCfdu4mZjpzlu0IsJx+LWyrayFC NFcAlRvQhXinjXTqy3hL23vYO92Fx2k= =r8bN -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- 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/4cf3813d.80...@physik.blm.tu-muenchen.de
Re: Can Debian Backup ntfs File System?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 29 Nov 2010 11:32:29 +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Last backup was from a year ago, that should give you some hints about how valuable is data for the user. Daughter is a banker, not computer scientist. IMHO many of those underestimate the importance of backups. NTFS is quite robust. In fact, it survives better to unforeseen shutdowns than other linux filesystems. And again, if you are concerned about the fragile status of the file system, run the diagnosis tools in test mode. My point was not related to the robustness of the file system, it was related to the robustness of the hardware. If it turns out that the hardware is ok, there is still time to fix the fs AFTER the data have been copied. Cheers, - -- Johannes In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. - - Galileo Galilei, physicist and astronomer (1564-1642) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkzz0ssACgkQC1NzPRl9qEVJ2gCdHqajkNyh21XixZUzNu9Mlkhr CFwAnRQ9rFpsDtAvCOmaz6i/HoYzQ5HK =xRap -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- 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/4cf3d2cb.5030...@physik.blm.tu-muenchen.de
[OT] Re: sed with several lines, how?
Arthur Bela wrote: i just can't figure it out, how to sed when having several lines [nor in awk, perl..] I have not really understood your question, but maybe this will help you: http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/Sed.html#uh-51 I would go someway along the lines of removing the newline at the end, then replacing the full expression. Johannes -- 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/4cf12c37.3000...@aktendiener.de
Re: linux-image for i586
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sthu Deus wrote: Thank You for Your time and answer, Brad: Probably because, like the AMD (32 bit) builds, there was insufficient benefit to warrant all the extra work (to say nothing of storage space) to do it. Then. may You know why they have chosen i486 instead of i386? This has been decided for the release of sarge (around 2005). From lenny's installation guide [1]: However, Debian GNU/Linux lenny will not run on 386 or earlier processors. Despite the architecture name i386, support for actual 80386 processors (and their clones) was dropped with the Sarge (r3.1) release of Debian. (No version of Linux has ever supported the 286 or earlier chips in the series.) All i486 and later processors are still supported and We have long tried to avoid this, but in the end it was necessary due a unfortunate series of issues with the compiler and the kernel, starting with an bug in the C++ ABI provided by GCC. You should still be able to run Debian GNU/Linux on actual 80386 processors if you compile your own kernel and compile all packages from source, but that is beyond the scope of this manual. [1] http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch02s01.html.en#id2756691 - -- Johannes In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. - - Galileo Galilei, physicist and astronomer (1564-1642) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkzS9ZEACgkQC1NzPRl9qEWdPgCdGC1GCIDRs00Qc2hXWNFVmL+c 7Y8AnRm3qmTL/PEcQu8PRP/G4h2zLNGw =I9DZ -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- 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/4cd2f592.8010...@physik.blm.tu-muenchen.de
Re: Package Name Confusion
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi! PRAKHAR gaur wrote: I think I did not put the question properly. The question is... There is a package called as kernel-devel in Fedora, what is the equivalent one in Debian? Since most of us know more about debian than about fedora, it might be helpful, if you could just tell us what you would like to do with that package... My guess is that its name would start with linux- (there are not only linux kernels in debian). You could just search and check the descriptions of these packages with aptitude. HTH, - -- Johannes In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. - - Galileo Galilei, physicist and astronomer (1564-1642) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkyI2NQACgkQC1NzPRl9qEXoQQCfc9KwQPh9+OLyVtzK0m3j+3Qm 0F8An1IVBJmfVm/eMTVZXQpx0tjMBHgc =RsZn -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- 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/4c88d8d4.6030...@physik.blm.tu-muenchen.de
[OT] permissions on samba share
Dear all! I have some problem with permissions of files saved from a windows XP to a samba share. Some files from a proprietary software are saved with permissions -rwxrw 1 johannes tandem 4686 2010-09-06 11:24 BCK2000.DAT other data from the same software are saved with permissions -rw--w 1 tandem tandem 5870 2010-09-06 11:01 das-A040g-90deg-20VV.DAT I would ideally save all files with permissions -rw-rw. The directories of the files have the permissions drwxrws--- 2 johannes tandem 4096 2010-09-03 09:09 backup/ drwxrws--- 4 johannes tandem 69632 2010-09-06 11:03 pmma-film/ Is there any way that I am missing to force all files stored from that 'guest OS' to have -rw-rw ? Thanks for help! Cheers, Johannes -- 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/4c84b519.2000...@aktendiener.de
Re: [OT] permissions on samba share
Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 06 Sep 2010 11:32:09 +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: I have some problem with permissions of files saved from a windows XP to a samba share. Some files from a proprietary software are saved with permissions (...) Is there any way that I am missing to force all files stored from that 'guest OS' to have -rw-rw ? Have you tried by setting create mask¹ value for the share? ¹ http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/manpages-3/smb.conf.5.html#CREATEMASK Yes, plus the 'force create mode'. The relevant part of my smb.conf is /== [winshare] comment = xxx path = /home/projekte valid users = xxx, read only = No create mask = 0664 force create mode = 0660 directory mask = 0770 force directory mode = 0770 \== Greetings, Johannes -- 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/4c84dfad.5050...@aktendiener.de
Re: backing up LVM volumes
Bernard wrote: Hi to Everyone ! On my previous systems, I used to create overall backups of partitions, using 'SystemRescueCD'. This is no longer possible ever since 2007 that I have a RAID1 mirroring system on my Debian. SystemRescueCD does not backup LVM volumes, or, if it does, that must be a very new feature, and I have not found any doc on this. Why do you want to backup LVM volumes instead of simply backing up your data? rsync -a /mounted/partition /directory/on/mounted/backup backs up all I need. Read man rsync for its options. So, what should I do so as to backup my system ? I once tried 'dd', but I think I remember it took forever, and I don't really know whether I would have been able to use the resulting file to successfully restore the partitions if needed. dd will copy everything, including empty space. Could someone suggest something that has been successfully tried ? Even 'dd' could do, if it is OK with LVM and if I get some details. I understand that I would have to unmount the partitions, but this is not a problem. I have two IDE mirrored disks of 200 GB each. Why not just copy the data off the mounted partition. Even more simple and faster. -- Johannes In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. - Galileo Galilei, physicist and astronomer (1564-1642) -- 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/4bd70a07.6040...@physik.blm.tu-muenchen.de
Re: PDF is blocked for printing, etc. OK for acroread (it behaves as expected), but KPDF allows me to print it, even if it is protected! Why?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Merciadri Luca wrote: Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Just use a grey-by-dotting watermark for black text, merge the layers and it will be rather difficult to remove the watermark. I did not merge the layers before sending it to them. Problematic? Difficult to judge, since I somehow lost track of what exactly you tried to achieve and what is the nature of the document. If you are simply afraid, that someone would use this document as her/his own work you could watermark the pdf and convert it to a low resolution bitmap (as others have already suggested). If the document was later misused, you could just show your nice, high quality printout without watermarks to prove that you are the real author. Another way might be to hand out that bad quality printout on some special paper, either coloured or with rules and keep the pdf version to yourself. It will be about as difficult to retype/recreate such a document from paper as from retyping it from screen, which was your first choice (disallow printing, allow screen viewing). I think you might have gotten better replies in shorter time, if you had been more explicit and clear about what you try to achieve. - -- Johannes In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. - - Galileo Galilei, physicist and astronomer (1564-1642) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkvOssIACgkQC1NzPRl9qEVFsgCfVRlKyYWkvwPViEKl1j1mWOVj 7GUAn2knZWl/41ciugK7HRDfXVmKgI62 =18lF -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- 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/4bceb2c2.6050...@physik.blm.tu-muenchen.de
Re: PDF is blocked for printing, etc. OK for acroread (it behaves as expected), but KPDF allows me to print it, even if it is protected! Why?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Merciadri Luca wrote: Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Why would an honest soul ever allow information to be read, but not printed? To maintain honesty? An honest soul (i.e. me, here) has to send some data to some dishonest person. The problem is: either you give data to some dishonest person or you don't give that data to some dishonest person. Tertium non datur. Even with acroread it is possible to print screenshots of the documents. Might be a pain to reconstruct a multipage document, but not impossible. I know, and we all know this. But this needs some determination, because it needs some time. And when such problems arise, one often thinks (or should, at least, think) `Do I really need to copy this using that painful way, to bypass some limitation which is actually imposed to me by an honest person?' This is another aspect of security. There are the technical means, and all the infringements which can be done. But, sometimes, `le jeu n'en vaut pas la chandelle.' FWIW, if you'd like to rely on such a scheme for security by obstacles, you'd have to use something else than pdf. pdf's scheme is broken. That's all. The reason that it is broken for pdfs is that the specifications for pdf are freely available, and thus alternative pdf readers have been developed. Your scheme would require closed specifications and closed software to work. This list, however, is all about free software. - -- Johannes In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. - - Galileo Galilei, physicist and astronomer (1564-1642) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEUEARECAAYFAkvNS+oACgkQC1NzPRl9qEVM2wCfQpAVsTAx7GnbTUminwiqUIlp cm4AlRF4NIAhaaT6neYDcg0rYaXGs+k= =XYrP -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- 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/4bcd4bea.2090...@physik.blm.tu-muenchen.de
Re: PDF is blocked for printing, etc. OK for acroread (it behaves as expected), but KPDF allows me to print it, even if it is protected! Why?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Merciadri Luca wrote: John Hasler wrote: What do you mean by real protection? If they possess a copy that they can read they can print it. It should be obvious that there is nothing you can do to stop them. Not so obvious, simply because if they are using some software that is license-limited, and if they are `beginners' in the field, they might simply never find any way to deal with your document in another fashion than the one you only wanted them to work in. Yeah, and 'beginners' bank robbers can be mislead by not writing bank above the door of banks. - -- Johannes In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. - - Galileo Galilei, physicist and astronomer (1564-1642) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkvNTPQACgkQC1NzPRl9qEWe1QCfXoPqfFqWriUF+Uju+T0qaxPC 2NcAnRNEFi+kmCojaGjIQmDANar/c5L3 =5LqS -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- 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/4bcd4cf4.6080...@physik.blm.tu-muenchen.de
Re: Plagiarism (was Re: PDF is blocked for ...)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: On 2010-04-20 07:27, Merciadri Luca wrote: [snip] Yes, but there are some nuances. Let's take my example: how would you have done this? You need to transmit the document, but the receivers are sufficiently dishonest to print it and to claim they are the authors. Haven't Academicians had this problem for centuries? How have the rest of them solved it in the past 30 years? The usual solution in academia is just to publish the results. Once they are published with your name on it, it will be easy to prove later plagiarism. - -- Johannes In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. - - Galileo Galilei, physicist and astronomer (1564-1642) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkvN/s8ACgkQC1NzPRl9qEUcNwCdFsU3+gXyUzfqUgRzXpTaxrR3 5rYAnih+re/hm9XwHWxfW7KWKGseuAPc =FvS0 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- 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/4bcdfecf.9080...@physik.blm.tu-muenchen.de
Re: PDF is blocked for printing, etc. OK for acroread (it behaves as expected), but KPDF allows me to print it, even if it is protected! Why?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Merciadri Luca wrote: Gunnar Wolf wrote: Merciadri Luca dijo [Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 02:00:13PM +0200]: Yet, you say in your previous reply they would be able to remove the watermark from the document. That is clearly more complicated. Sure, but I think that PDFs are composed `in layers,' aren't they? If `layers' were not merged together, it might still be possible to remove the watermark. Gunnar did not suggest not to merge the layers, did he? Just use a grey-by-dotting watermark for black text, merge the layers and it will be rather difficult to remove the watermark. - -- Johannes In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. - - Galileo Galilei, physicist and astronomer (1564-1642) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkvN/zkACgkQC1NzPRl9qEVbgQCfaeFmKH9N6M4sLW0cRoCTTLGB lBcAn3mrhaC5sEGADzJXh0grXtQ38jFn =BFUN -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- 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/4bcdff39.4000...@physik.blm.tu-muenchen.de
Re: Which kernel for ThinkPad 760XD ?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Merciadri Luca wrote: Ionreflex wrote: [quote] Linux lol 2.4.27-3-586tsc #1 Tue Dec 5 22:06:26 UTC 2006 i586 GNU/Linux [/quote] What does `lol' mean here? I guess it's just the hostname of the computer in question. - -- Johannes In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. - - Galileo Galilei, physicist and astronomer (1564-1642) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkvMlJgACgkQC1NzPRl9qEVFuACfaFup6BswvPWXItEaOros2WxV 5oAAnj8CaoKKXS5UgHRvb2+j0I+ryuyP =D5LC -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- 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/4bcc9498.7090...@physik.blm.tu-muenchen.de
Re: Which kernel for ThinkPad 760XD ?
Merciadri Luca wrote: I have no answer to your question, but I am wondering... NB: Apparently, the original post you replied to was to debian-laptop, not debian-user... -- Johannes In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. - Galileo Galilei, physicist and astronomer (1564-1642) -- 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/4bcc958c.2090...@physik.blm.tu-muenchen.de
Re: PDF is blocked for printing, etc. OK for acroread (it behaves as expected), but KPDF allows me to print it, even if it is protected! Why?
Merciadri Luca wrote: Mikhail Gusarov wrote: Twas brillig at 17:32:51 19.04.2010 UTC+02 when luca.mercia...@student.ulg.ac.be did gyre and gimble: Pdf anti-features are fake security. Don't trust on them, never. ML And what do you suggest if one wants some real protection _and_ the ML benefits of a format like PDF? Thanks. There is no real protection. Okay. Simple, but definitive. The real protection would be not to send that information. Why would an honest soul ever allow information to be read, but not printed? Even with acroread it is possible to print screenshots of the documents. Might be a pain to reconstruct a multipage document, but not impossible. -- Johannes In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. - Galileo Galilei, physicist and astronomer (1564-1642) -- 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/4bcc9735.90...@physik.blm.tu-muenchen.de
Re: GUI for IPv6
Alexander Samad wrote: On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 5:07 AM, Curt Howland howl...@priss.com wrote: [snip] Anyway, WICD is the only networking GUI I've used that worked for me, but is there another that handles IPv6? gvim /etc/network/interfaces gvim /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf works for me :) Yeah! I too love debian's text only configuration files. However, WICD is /my/ exception for using a config-gui instead of an editor. Just select the network you'd like to connect, optionally enter the password and done. (Wireless) network is configured and autoconnects. Don't even bother to authenticate as root. It's damn smart simple. 8-) YMMV, of course, Johannes -- 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/4bb369f5.2070...@aktendiener.de
Re: No updates seen in a while
John Hasler wrote: S.D.A. writes: Precisely, far too many lists on Debian and they could use some consolidation. My view is if an issue affects users of Debian; then it should be posted to the 'user' lists. No. debian-user is for Help and discussion among users of Debian. debian-announce is for Important announcements. cf. http://lists.debian.org/users.html There are many different needs of different people. A higher number of mailing lists makes it just easier to accommodate all these needs. (It is rather simple to subscribe and unsubscribe). Many users cannot tolerate the high volume of debian-user but need to see announcements. These people subscribe only to the low-volume announce lists. On the other hand it is hard to see why those who can tolerate the high volume here cannot also subscribe the the low-volume announce lists. And even users tolerating the high volume of d-u might want to have an important announcement stand out (with a different 'to') for easy filtering. Cheers, Johannes -- 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/4bb36f83.9070...@aktendiener.de
Re: ext4dev stability
Jason Voorhees wrote: I just want to use an ext4 filesystem without having to recompile my kernel nor using testing repositories nor losing the stability group of packages provided by Debian Lenny. I haven't used ext4 yet, so no comment on that. FWIW, there is also http://www.backports.org/ if you want a more recent kernel without compiling your own. -- Johannes In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. - Galileo Galilei, physicist and astronomer (1564-1642) -- 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/4b856121.40...@physik.blm.tu-muenchen.de
Re: netstat ?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Hasler wrote: Jordan Metzmeier writes: Etch security support ended 2010-02-15: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEtch A huge slug of Etch security updates came out yesterday. Look at debian-changes. - From one respective security announcement [1]: NOTE: This kernel update marks the final planned kernel security update for the 2.6.18 kernel in the Debian release 'etch'. Although security support for 'etch' officially ended on Feburary 15th, 2010, this update was already in preparation before that date. [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2010/msg00043.html So, I would not expect any further security updates. I read this as 'get this on courtesy of the security team, but don't expect more' ;-) - -- Johannes In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. - - Galileo Galilei, physicist and astronomer (1564-1642) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkuFas0ACgkQC1NzPRl9qEV7IwCdGhsJocKwCQccIW0eNoLansNt LzYAnjhGeCzCOd35AVWxuTywuFUKszQm =CsUn -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- 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/4b856acd.8070...@physik.blm.tu-muenchen.de
Re: how to find bad blocks
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Vadkan Jozsef wrote: We have a samsung hdd, that keeps falling out of raid, but there are no bad blocks on it, according to badblocks prog. we would like to return it [warranty], but it would be better to find e.g. bad blocks on it..:\ :D As others wrote, use the smartctl program from smartmontools. I had some strange problems with a samsung drive, I bought recently. I just run 'long' smartctl tests on the drive and it would fail them. I sent the drive back with the output of 'smartctl -a /dev/whatever' and got a replacement from the shop. HTH, Johannes === SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1 Num Test_DescriptionStatus Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error # 1 Extended offlineCompleted: read failure 90% 265 1651557882 # 2 Extended offlineCompleted: read failure 90% 221 1651557882 # 3 Short offline Completed: read failure 20% 171 1651557882 # 4 Extended offlineCompleted: read failure 90% 171 1651557882 # 5 Extended offlineCompleted: read failure 90% 168 1651557882 # 6 Short offline Completed without error 00% 165 - # 7 Short offline Aborted by host 10% 165 - # 8 Short offline Completed without error 00% 161 - # 9 Short offline Aborted by host 90% 161 - #10 Extended offlineCompleted: read failure 40% 150 165100 #11 Extended offlineCompleted: read failure 50% 141 1170387107 #12 Extended offlineCompleted: read failure 50% 130 1170387107 #13 Extended offlineCompleted without error 00% 108 - #14 Extended offlineInterrupted (host reset) 40%96 - #15 Extended offlineCompleted: read failure 40%83 1651556392 #16 Extended offlineCompleted: read failure 50%57 1334488458 #17 Extended offlineCompleted: read failure 50%52 1334488458 === - -- Johannes In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. - - Galileo Galilei, physicist and astronomer (1564-1642) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAktyexoACgkQC1NzPRl9qEWM5QCePoHcL85JNhGe+uwiQeQTbdIO MzAAnR/hwJP62YDQm3NtOFl0Px3D3ldH =LJoT -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Where is Bash Prompt Set??
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stan Hoeppner wrote: Maybe you misunderstood my example shell prompt code. [11:14:14][s...@greer]/etc/postfix$ [11:16:09][r...@greer]/etc/postfix$ There. No color. Root does has a different prompt. The prompt says root instead of user. What about your concern am I missing? Well, never mind. It's really cool that anyone can customize to his or her liking. For my purposes, I usually just document the command and the '#', not the whole prompt. As I wrote, YMMV. Have fun! - -- Johannes In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. - - Galileo Galilei, physicist and astronomer (1564-1642) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAktyfLwACgkQC1NzPRl9qEWBlwCfR/0cdXqCcC5SChqyPNM0aMis xjAAnj3+xtXMJz6Su3Z6YnaaGbYN7/8T =PXE8 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Where is Bash Prompt Set??
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stan Hoeppner wrote: Also, I've always _hated_ that # for root's prompt, so I killed it and use a $ now. No need for it since root is now all red. :) FWIW, if I document my work, eg. by copy-pasting the command into a doc-file, the color information is lost. IMHO it is therefore usefull to have a different prompt for root. YMMV, of course. Just my humble 2ct. - -- Johannes In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. - - Galileo Galilei, physicist and astronomer (1564-1642) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAktxlrwACgkQC1NzPRl9qEUNDwCdGnD3m/+pJGfQ03noerHlOZkV i+sAnjkq8aJTpxS/wTwFphV15RHIqVoC =+oec -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Can Anyone Explain the over-all view of Wireless Networking?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kent West wrote: If I understood all that, I bet I could figure out how to get my wireless network working. However, I've been googling/studying off and on for the past year, everytime I try to put Debian (or Ubuntu, or whatever) on a laptop that comes across my path (and failing pretty much every time on the wireless), but I've never found a site that actually has gotten me to an understanding of the process. Some sites talk about gui configuration clients I don't have, or compiling drivers manually which I don't need to do, or using ndiswrapper (?!), etc. Maybe the process is just WAY too complex to be explained for mere mortals who aren't in the mechanics of Linux networking on a daily basis. I was in a similar situation like you before I started using wicd. (People on lenny should use backport's wicd). It just hides all the unnecessary complexity of wireless behind a rather intuitive and simple interface. You configure it once for a new environment and it will work henceforth. I have multiple different wireless and wired networks configured on my laptop that just work, now. - -- Johannes In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. -- Galileo Galilei, physicist and astronomer (1564-1642) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAktokucACgkQC1NzPRl9qEWrLACfRs5zuYhTTIXAOqx9zIOrgMaH yMsAnR+u1HgNIqF2Yx4usS5yr9aR7Gq8 =bGPf -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Recording website audio
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Frank McCormick wrote: I have spent several hours and Googled myself to death trying to figure out how to record website audio. I've been using Sox and ffmpeg but so far have got nowhere. I have a list of audio devices but none seems to work. [snip] Does anyone have some hints ? I use streamripper, ie. avoid the use of the sound card altogether: streamripper url of mp3 stream -d ~/some/path -D %D%A%T -l 3600 - -- Johannes Three nations have not officially adopted the International System of Units as their primary or sole system of measurement: Burma, Liberia, and the United States. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Si_units -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAktiotIACgkQC1NzPRl9qEVTQgCaAz0LFmNutK3NwERkyC0vmw/+ wOkAnA/n+2r/J1pYsG5IhQ+7S9Yp7wJG =Iqw/ -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: selected debian questions: raid performance tips
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dino Vliet wrote: Questions 1) Can you show me the definitive debian lenny guide to create a software RAID-1 array from within the debian installer (I searched with google but wasn't that sucessfull and the manual is brief) The OS and data will be on the same disks as I don't have a spare OS disks only. The Debian GNU/Linux Installation Guide [1] has always been sufficient for my needs. You should get help from reading the section about partitioning. [1] http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch06s03.html.en#di-partition 2) What OS tweaks do you advice, with my current setup plan (custom kernel, setting values, other filesystems like ext2)? None. You should be essentially fine with ext3 and the debian kernel for your demonstration purposes. You might get a better performance by tweaking, but for a proof of concept, I'd think that is overkill. YMMV. - -- Johannes Three nations have not officially adopted the International System of Units as their primary or sole system of measurement: Burma, Liberia, and the United States. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Si_units -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAktgxVIACgkQC1NzPRl9qEWh4gCeMqUEUr4XOvdiOYDZgRnO+ODO FTEAnRckH0VK9ISqwwJfKHSKhtDLXZ7Y =GvDJ -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: opening and searching old staroffice mails
Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 25 Jan 2010 23:05:58 +0100, Bernard wrote: [...] I don't know what are the capabilities of your e-mail client, but in the event it can handle IMAP accounts, the easiest way to transfer the e- mails from one MUA to another, is by setting up a local IMAP server and manually copy the e-mails from one application to another. IMHO, this does not only apply to _transfering_ between applications but also to *archiving*. You will be able to access your mails with _any_ MUA and from any computer, as long as both computers are on and online 8-) -- Johannes Three nations have not officially adopted the International System of Units as their primary or sole system of measurement: Burma, Liberia, and the United States. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Si_units -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: chrooted rssh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Vadkan Jozsef wrote: Does someone has an easy howto for only allowing e.g.: scp with rssh [chrooted]? aptitude install scponly or aptitude install rssh and configure the passwd for the respective user(s) 10:18:20-johan...@e13-v21:~$ aptitude show scponly Description: Restricts the commands available to scp- and sftp-users scponly is an alternative 'shell' (of sorts) for system administrators who would like to provide access to remote users to both read and write local files without providing any remote execution priviledges. Functionally, it is best described as a wrapper to the mostly trusted suite of ssh applications. 10:18:57-johan...@e13-v21:~$ aptitude show rssh Description: Restricted shell allowing only scp, sftp, cvs, rsync and/or rdist rssh is a restricted shell, used as a login shell, that allows users to perform only scp, sftp, cvs, rdist, and/or rsync operations. It can also optionally chroot user logins into a restricted jail. Cheers, - -- Johannes Three nations have not officially adopted the International System of Units as their primary or sole system of measurement: Burma, Liberia, and the United States. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Si_units -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAktdZHsACgkQC1NzPRl9qEVfvgCeKm5CHUPyQF9SidFm9xHgLk4O M4oAn3qG/knF3sO/inVCwbEZzlFYnu/Q =O0if -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: only sftp
Vadkan Jozsef wrote: Now this is funny. Your mail is funny. There are solutions for your problem. It appears you just have been too lazy to search properly. 3 - missing thing: that they can only use chrooted sftp [with shell like: /bin/false]. Why? Why can't I create a normal chrooted SFTP server? Like with scponly or rssh? Developers are very lazy. It seems *you* have just been lazy in looking at the software archives, search the web, etc. While you are insulting our developers: Where is your contribution to debian? What have you achieved in providing good software to others for free? Why isn't there a GOOD solution to replace the old FTP to SFTP???. There is. See my other post. With posts like yours the only thing you achieve with respect to developers is an increase in frustration that will cause them to have less energy to persue their work on improving all our software. -- Johannes Three nations have not officially adopted the International System of Units as their primary or sole system of measurement: Burma, Liberia, and the United States. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Si_units -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: How to shrink a LVM partition
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Sunday 24 January 2010 11:25:19 vitaminx wrote: I'd like to shrink a LVM partition on my harddisk. Is it possible without any data loss? Yes, but it is tricky. Check your file systems. Make sure they are clean before the process starts. Take backups. First make sure you have enough free space in your LVs. Then use a combination of pvmove and pvresize to shrink your PE that corresponds to that partition. Then shrink the partition in the partition table. Shouldn't vitaminx first resize the underlying file system(s)??? - -- Johannes Three nations have not officially adopted the International System of Units as their primary or sole system of measurement: Burma, Liberia, and the United States. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Si_units -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAktdcIoACgkQC1NzPRl9qEV5zwCfaLoEHmIwPef2HNSTMvN4onBk uboAniI9WFx+UBuaxCjepnq55hGr7XEt =BK/V -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Security Support for Debian 4.0 to be terminated
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bret Busby wrote: Why, in the time that Debian 5 has replaced Debian 4 as Debian stable, especially, as Debian 4 will no longer be supported, has a workable process of upgrading from Debian 4 to Debian 5, not been released? It has been released. It's called release notes. Since you seem to have missed it, just pick the first result on a google search on debian release notes. Chapter 4 Upgrading from previous releases should be especially interesting for you. From the above information, that Debian 5 was released as the latest Debian stable, on 15 February last year, it is unfortunate that a workable process to upgrade from Debian 4, is still not available, and that support for Debian 4 is to be eliminated within a couple of weeks, before it is possible to upgrade from Debian 4 to Debian 5. The release notes have been published at the time of the release, ie. on 15 Feb last year. I can assure you with the help of the release notes most upgrades are rather simple and straightforward. - -- Johannes Three nations have not officially adopted the International System of Units as their primary or sole system of measurement: Burma, Liberia, and the United States. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Si_units -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAktcMJ4ACgkQC1NzPRl9qEUaCwCfSZ7+hD2cVbk1QuTc8kyKjDUf oGoAnjRi/jjOt/u3hMSVxU3c6FtW+vNW =jYPx -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Synchronize two computers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rodolfo Medina wrote: It doesn't work either. I think that the two pcs don't see each other: also the command `ssh 192.168.0.2' produces nothing. Check and possibly post the output of /sbin/ifconfig ssh -v u...@192.168.0.2 might also help to diagnose your problem. - -- Johannes Three nations have not officially adopted the International System of Units as their primary or sole system of measurement: Burma, Liberia, and the United States. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Si_units -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAktZcL4ACgkQC1NzPRl9qEWtPQCdErh05t400nXwG4zAiElA30Fb bqIAn10/iG0DbjgF2VSBjp0kbzDU6nUA =PMyJ -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
[solved 2] Re: pretty print diff OR print terminal output in color
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Hi list, I don't seem to be able to figure this out with google or /usr/share/doc, aptitude search etc.: Does Debian (lenny) have any tools to pretty print coloured terminal output (from colordiff, git diff etc.)? Preferably, I would like to print in colours just as or similar as on the console/terminal. Just copy/paste to kate or redirect to a file to be opened with kate. kate has a highlight mode for 'diff' output: Tools -- Highlighting -- Other -- diff It is possible to print with the highlighting preserved on paper. I assume that vim and emacs might have similar capabilities. - -- Johannes Three nations have not officially adopted the International System of Units as their primary or sole system of measurement: Burma, Liberia, and the United States. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Si_units -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAktYLU0ACgkQC1NzPRl9qEWZrQCfcl0S6T2S4iOKC5NWdsVjMl70 Cu0An1Zn3iYl4nJDSl/ZVLmqFTDeXBaf =eyEq -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Synchronize two computers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joe wrote: Unison will indeed do it, but the GUI will expect to find the source and destination as directories. If you are already running a Samba file-sharing server on one of the machines, that is the simplest way. You don't need a samba server to use unison between two computers. IMHO the simplest way is to use *unison-gtk* via ssh. No need to setup samba. rsync is just one-way, while unison will synchronize in both directions and will detect which of computers A or B has the current version. (Optionally files can even be merged, if both have changed.) - -- Johannes Three nations have not officially adopted the International System of Units as their primary or sole system of measurement: Burma, Liberia, and the United States. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Si_units -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAktYYg0ACgkQC1NzPRl9qEXdqgCeJPwfRhggWberX0QevdBYu4Q3 OMkAn0KTKir3dztDzVqcSIdSwsQUlIw8 =CLp/ -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Synchronize two computers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rodolfo Medina wrote: Eduardo M KALINOWSKI edua...@kalinowski.com.br writes: Naturally, it needs to look at each file to see if they are equal or not, it cannot guess which files are changed. By default this is based on the modification time (and possibly size, I'm not sure), which is rather fast. I'm always calliing it without the -u option. Maybe that's why it is so slow?? I do exactly: rsync -vr --delete Mail News /mnt/pendrive1 Try the -a (archive) option. It will transfer the information on the modification time. - -- Johannes Three nations have not officially adopted the International System of Units as their primary or sole system of measurement: Burma, Liberia, and the United States. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Si_units -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAktYYuoACgkQC1NzPRl9qEUm3ACeIhm8Kx6m4wbgqjtkxwoX/+Ma hFMAn3a0M8m3nMk8899iRtWI40IEnp0r =8ELr -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Synchronize two computers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 FWIW: Use 'rsync' for backups (one way transfer) Use 'unison' for *synchronization* of (equivalent) data between computers etc. - -- Johannes Three nations have not officially adopted the International System of Units as their primary or sole system of measurement: Burma, Liberia, and the United States. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Si_units -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAktYY0MACgkQC1NzPRl9qEWS6wCdHjKPHt/eP9HVTyCXgPX9hMbI qPIAnjjU1/feXAnM/oNcTY/JOXuCoSqr =C/rw -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Synchronize two computers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rodolfo Medina wrote: Andrew Malcolmson andm...@gmail.com writes: Another vote here for Unison when changes can occur on either copy, as the OP is doing. If only one end changes, then rsync or its derivations such as rdiff-backup are great. Well, actually the changes will occur on one end at a time, so rsync seems the best to me. But the real difficulty I'm a bit worried about is that I'm waiting for shops to open so to go and buy a crosslink cable, and then? After plugging the two together, how shall I do the proper settings in order to be able use rsync? unison won't fail, if there are changes on one side only. Both unison and rsync involve ssh for the connection, so rsync is no simpler in the scenario that you describe. Of course both programs are capable of achieving your means. I use both and consider unison to be the tool of choice for synchronisation. NB: You didn't specify the hardware you are running. If both computers have a wireless, you won't need a cable at all. Add something like this to your /etc/network/interfaces: allow-hotplug eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.11.100 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.11.255 More information is found in 'man interfaces' and online [1]. Use .101 instead of .100 at the end of the respective line for the 2nd computer. [1] http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch05.en.html#_the_network_interface_with_the_static_ip - -- Johannes Three nations have not officially adopted the International System of Units as their primary or sole system of measurement: Burma, Liberia, and the United States. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Si_units -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAktYkzwACgkQC1NzPRl9qEVyOACeOCnZgGXjZJSplzwfLgbi6tl5 h54AniDnd0oC9sy/DBVRMQPLwYa8+4pi =Zt/8 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: rsync: different target size
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rick Thomas wrote: I was thinking: if you don't trust rsync, then use something else to generate the checksums. But if you trust rsync, why bother with double-checking in the first place? Because it could be that rsync works fine, but there are some problems with the hardware -- like bad blocks on the disk. If you don't trust rsync you should use some other tool. FWIW my 300GB take a few hours to check; on reasonably recent hardware 30 GB should take minutes, ie. less than an hour or so to verify. - -- Johannes Three nations have not officially adopted the International System of Units as their primary or sole system of measurement: Burma, Liberia, and the United States. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Si_units -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAktVyXwACgkQC1NzPRl9qEWQFQCeN2Nc0HNpL533xQq15FhyNTsv na0AnRK8zTd/bSGlwkbyTujG7lmoEHtJ =huTF -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Why is latexmk in Debian so old?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Vincent Lefevre wrote: The latexmk version in Debian is 3.07a, which was released in 2004. Why hasn't it been updated? FYI: http://www.phys.psu.edu/~collins/software/latexmk-jcc/ http://ctan.tug.org/tex-archive/support/latexmk/ It is orphaned and waits for someone stepping in to maintain it: http://packages.qa.debian.org/l/latexmk.html http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=523193 - -- Johannes Three nations have not officially adopted the International System of Units as their primary or sole system of measurement: Burma, Liberia, and the United States. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Si_units -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAktV5FwACgkQC1NzPRl9qEWV+ACdFEKgHU/cHbyJ3DXSiDRQE7g6 Ek4An21ZDuQIMdyUjgMs6kGtAvGdS7XQ =QScL -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: rsync: different target size
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Leonardo Canducci wrote: I'm using rsync -aHS to backup some stuff (mostly jpgs and docs from my home) to an external usb hard drive (same ext3 fs). [snip] I'd like the size of the backup to be exactly the same and check sync result with du. BTW, is there some better fast check I could do to test rsync behavior? If your data and the backup are important to you, the question is not, whether your check is fast, but if it is accurate. I'd suggest you use the -cnv options of rsync to check for differences between source and target. It will display all different files (ie. files with different checksum) without modifying anything. FWIW, why do you use the -S option and are you aware of the consequences: /---man rsync--- -S, --sparse Try to handle sparse files efficiently so they take up less space on the destination. Conflicts with --inplace because it’s not possible to overwrite data in a sparse fashion. \--- - -- Johannes Three nations have not officially adopted the International System of Units as their primary or sole system of measurement: Burma, Liberia, and the United States. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Si_units -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAktUzwwACgkQC1NzPRl9qEUJiwCeNGsfNf9wWCRDYwnftk8wdTS1 Y2kAnAoR0m+u5IJuZ70CLnJWy9adTPLq =MpRH -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: deactivating network connexion using NetworkManager
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bernard wrote: A few weeks ago, I have decided that, whenever my PC was to stay on for awhile without being used, I would disconnect the internet connexion, using the Gnome Network Manager for this purpose (right click then uncheck activate the network). Today, I wonder how efficient that is, in regard to security risks, since it seems likely that the Internet link must still be up, if it was not the case, how to explain that the re-activating process is so quick ? Just MHO: With todays automated attacks it's not that your computer will stay twice as secure if it is only connected half the time. Either it is reasonably safe or it is not safe. I'd suggest that you take the necessary steps to keep your machine reasonably safe and don't worry about whether it is connected to the internet a few hours more or less. As long as you remain unspecific about what security risks you are concerned about, no-one will be able to help you about those concerns. NB: What do you mean by 'quick'? My wired ethernet comes up within fractions of a second and I have no reason to believe that this is due to something going wrong. Maybe it is better to physically disconnect the Ethernet wire at the back on the main board... which is not always an easy operation, depending on one's setup. Yes. But each wire has two ends and one has at least a choice to disconnect the more convenient end. NB: I don't use network manager myself. - -- Johannes Three nations have not officially adopted the International System of Units as their primary or sole system of measurement: Burma, Liberia, and the United States. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Si_units -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAktU0q8ACgkQC1NzPRl9qEVK1gCfZHOpgr1b91AXxtgCjU4tv7G+ aB0AnRYoVW1VUoh5wLPpRvGYWE/HLK/z =be5P -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Strange work of eth0.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sthu Deus wrote: Good day. Why I have such situation: $ sudo /sbin/ifdown eth0 SIOCDELRT: No such process $ /sbin/ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:19:b9:53:34:18 inet addr:192.168.0.125 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::219:b9ff:fe53:3418/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:2434 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:5030 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:422464 (412.5 KiB) TX bytes:3251913 (3.1 MiB) Interrupt:21 What's your /etc/network/interfaces ? Is there any hotplugging happening? - -- Johannes Three nations have not officially adopted the International System of Units as their primary or sole system of measurement: Burma, Liberia, and the United States. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Si_units -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAktU2XgACgkQC1NzPRl9qEXregCfXwsZcfvVT08J+DzhkHhKsxdu yrcAnR9tucku1IwHmRNuioESIrWWN6h3 =nZL3 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: only scp
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sat,16.Jan.10, 21:12:17, Vadkan Jozsef wrote: anybody got any tips/howtos/docs for this?: - restrict the users, to only use scp [no shell] - but a root, admin can still login with ssh apt-cache show scponly or 'rssh'. I don't know which is better, though. - -- Johannes Three nations have not officially adopted the International System of Units as their primary or sole system of measurement: Burma, Liberia, and the United States. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Si_units -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAktU4iwACgkQC1NzPRl9qEUT2ACbB9cgAUkxH5DZ0AzCgnk7xRvn 2ksAn0rjxn6JtQu+swWa4+uvp5IrcQDb =qJRh -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Debian Etch Install
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: In 4b30e4ee.7010...@physik.blm.tu-muenchen.de, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: They are not supported by the Debian installer kernel. They have to be installed *seperately*. This is neither true, nor desired. Any module meeting the kernel ABI is supported by the kernel. Debian currently also distributes non-free firmware, which could be considered part of the driver, that can be loaded by the Debian installer kernel even if they are not part of the Debian OS and do not receive the same level of support. The proprietary video drivers for NVidia cards are supported by the Debian kernel and distributed by Debian, but they are not part of the Debian OS nor do they receive the same level of (human) support. Thanks for pointing that out. I meant to write included instead of supported with respect to the kernel of the Debian installer. Sorry for causing any confusion. - -- Johannes Three nations have not officially adopted the International System of Units as their primary or sole system of measurement: Burma, Liberia, and the United States. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Si_units -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAksyKwkACgkQC1NzPRl9qEUBgQCfXek4/Pz5TUzpohUK2MAErQsn VNwAn2HCLg8iiWSDEwt8UyuovyPfNpoQ =P794 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Debian Etch Install
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stan Hoeppner wrote: Kevin Ross put forth on 12/21/2009 2:13 PM: Many systems don't have wired Ethernet, but may have wireless. Most systems have wired ethernet. Few have _only_ wireless. Most laptops have both. I'd venture to guess that the few that only have wireless are the tiny netbooks. Actually, just checked at Bestbuy, and out of 74 netbook make/models, only the Nokias don't have wired ethernet, all the rest do. The Nokias forgo a wired controller chip for a 3G network chip/modem. All this might be valid statistics, but they are beyond the point. The point in this thread is the question from a particular OP who does *not* have access to a wired network. *Period*. [snip] As for the embedded stuff like arm, those aren't user PCs, so they don't count in this thread. Why not? http://www.alwaysinnovating.com/touchbook/ This looks like a consumer PC, at least to me. Finally, if people are smart, and plan before their purchase, they're going to buy Debian supported hardware in the first place, so they don't run into this issue. Which wireless is fully supported by debian and free software? I don't think there is *any* on the planet that works without proprietary, binary non-free code. - -- Johannes Three nations have not officially adopted the International System of Units as their primary or sole system of measurement: Burma, Liberia, and the United States. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Si_units -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkswmxcACgkQC1NzPRl9qEWtegCcD0lYfWT3yhSfybN7bV9sjXLY kvcAnRy2r8qGK1NpD0Mk85Z7KOrCFoBQ =xUmS -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Monitor file system free space
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 m...@neidorff.com wrote: I had a problem with my (small) disk filling up and crashing my mail server. So, I wrote a simple perl script to take the output of 'df -h' and look for a % full that is greater than 97% and send me an e-mail if the % is greater than 97. I run the script daily from crontab. It works fine. Yesterday I downloaded an iso image (which brought the file system fill from 93% to 100% so that the mail server could not send me the e-mail warning. Is there another way to approach this problem (a different tool?)so that I can be notified BEFORE the file system is too full? If your mail server is important ( ;-) ), put your mails and/or all of /var on a separate partition, maybe with quotas. Do the same for /home. - -- Johannes Three nations have not officially adopted the International System of Units as their primary or sole system of measurement: Burma, Liberia, and the United States. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Si_units -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAksw3lMACgkQC1NzPRl9qEUEfwCeI3lTkE+2B9+zOuSiaM4Vdkss 9r0AnjQu64yQln3KXuAvm7lpuuC9My/P =gL0G -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Debian Etch Install
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stan Hoeppner wrote: Johannes Wiedersich put forth on 12/22/2009 4:10 AM: Stan Hoeppner wrote: Kevin Ross put forth on 12/21/2009 2:13 PM: All this might be valid statistics, but they are beyond the point. The point in this thread is the question from a particular OP who does *not* have access to a wired network. *Period*. No, he said he does, but that it's inconvenient. It's also inconvenient to install from media, then immediately turn around, change apt sources to the mirrors, and download all the security updates since the CD/DVD was pressed. One must choose one's inconvenience, I guess. Sorry, I mixed up OP and one of the replies about sharing a DSL connection with one's neighbours. As for the embedded stuff like arm, those aren't user PCs, so they don't count in this thread. Why not? http://www.alwaysinnovating.com/touchbook/ This looks like a consumer PC, at least to me. Yep, sure does. However it's not in the class of Linux running ARM devices I was describing is it? It just adds one example to the use cases, where a netinstall via wired network does not work, because the manufacturer just specifies wireless, but no wired connector. I guess that the number of devices of that category are increasing, even though over the past 10 years they were the exception. Do you really think you are the one to decide 'what counts in this thread'??? It's a statistical exception to the rule. I love your creative cut/quote of my statements, eliminating the context. It is customary on this list to trim messages. I don't think that I unfairly cut too much context. Which wireless is fully supported by debian and free software? I don't think there is *any* on the planet that works without proprietary, binary non-free code. There you go again. Mangling context, and now attributing inferred statements to me that I did not make. Quote me stating GPL or open source driver anywhere in my previous posts. I didn't. My statement was something to the effect of buy a wireless card that is supported by the Debian installer kernel. Do I need to somehow explain that further? - From Debian's web site: Debian is a free operating system (OS) for your computer. Debian's social contract further details that only 'free' software as in liberty, not just beer is allowed in Debian. If there are still any non-free drivers present in debian's kernel, those will be removed. Some/many non-free, non-GPL or similar drivers are available for Debian, but they are not released by Debian. They are not part of the Debian OS. They are not supported by the Debian installer kernel. They have to be installed *seperately*. It seems pretty darn clear. The installer kernel has a finite number of wireless device modules. If one's device uses one of those drivers, you can do a wireless net install. My statement had nothing to do with open or closed source drivers. Why are you trying to beat me over the head with a statement I did not make? Your statement was about a driver being part of Debian. I thought it was obvious to the readers of this very list, that non-free drivers might work with debian machines, but are _not_ part of the Debian OS. Peace, - -- Johannes Three nations have not officially adopted the International System of Units as their primary or sole system of measurement: Burma, Liberia, and the United States. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Si_units -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAksw5O4ACgkQC1NzPRl9qEU2TgCfbzDZybouoTMDRcZH70rsolUb HdUAnR8qgcwocIYLaSjtusaNwSewjjSR =/V4D -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: rolling-back, reverting system upgrades?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Sackville-West wrote: With all due respect, if you aren't prepared to deal with occaisional breakage, then you should be running testing. s/should/should not/ ;-) - -- Johannes Three nations have not officially adopted the International System of Units as their primary or sole system of measurement: Burma, Liberia, and the United States. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Si_units -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAksvsFEACgkQC1NzPRl9qEVC8gCfVF836028GKK460y/uYk97I1y rTcAnjb2g5lmCjhQnclNDqanDwi5PMPE =q5L7 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: rolling-back, reverting system upgrades?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Liviu Andronic wrote: How would I roll back system upgrades? I am using Debian testing and Just roll back your last working backup. If you don't have a working backup you should consider implementing a backup system, NOW. It's not mainly update problems, where backups come handy. As others have pointed out, if you haven't run 'aptitude clean' or something similar, since you installed the package in question, the 'old' version of package should still be somewhere in /var/cache/apt/archives - -- Johannes Three nations have not officially adopted the International System of Units as their primary or sole system of measurement: Burma, Liberia, and the United States. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Si_units -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAksvsW8ACgkQC1NzPRl9qEVWmwCfYweMOTmtEeGp41iElAbQyqKT kxQAniILHx9DknSUGWFTAPLdq6ObydrX =4Cl6 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Mounting new hard disk in /dev/sdb
Jason Filippou wrote: I recently installed a new SATA hard drive on my desktop system and I noticed that Squeeze had, by default, mounted it in /dev/sda. This means that recently, due to the popular GRUB failure that caused everybody (including myself) a lot of grief, my Debian disk rescue mode was installing the new GRUB on (hd0), which was, however, on the brand new disk (NTFS formatted), which does not hold and will not hold any operating systems. Thus, I was still seeing grub_printf_ as missing when I logged in. So I was just wondering whether there was any way that I could plug in my new hard drive and mount it on /dev/sdb, so that I can access it as (hd1) in GRUB notation, next time the boot loader fails (which, I have to say, has been reather frequent lately). FWIW, you don't mount a disk on /dev/sdb. You mount it on whatever directory you assign to it wihtin the / (root) file system. /dev/sdb is the 'name' assigned to the *dev*ice by the kernel. In order to work around some arbitraryness in this assignment due to disks present or not on boot and/or different boot processes, you should mount by id or by label. I can't help you with the grub issues. (FWIW, lenny's grub works fine for me.) You could try to switch cables or try to configure your bios to access both disks in a specified, reproducible order. HTH, -- Johannes Three nations have not officially adopted the International System of Units as their primary or sole system of measurement: Burma, Liberia, and the United States. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Si_units -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: VGA cards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Carl Johnson wrote: I agree entirely with you. It is obvious by now that the original poster has an irrational grudge against ATI and is not interested in any real discussions. Ups OP was Rogério Brito, not Camaleón. - -- Johannes Three nations have not officially adopted the International System of Units as their primary or sole system of measurement: Burma, Liberia, and the United States. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Si_units -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkspXpYACgkQC1NzPRl9qEVH0ACfcJ8pBc3QPWfACIk4bNN0imZ0 wocAnivZuwIml8EJeU8BDqveihEfie1U =hQ1v -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: VGA cards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 16 Dec 2009 10:17:16 -0500, Dave Witbrodt wrote: Camaleón wrote: Which probably isn't true anyway, with that much in the way of resources, you could reverse engineer it in short enough order. Reverse engineering is not legal in some countries and it's not a fair approach when we are speaking about a company (AMD/ATI) that you are naming it as linux-friendly. Hey, we have the docs and specs, why should we need reverse engineer it at all? :-) Why are you trolling about this? Go troll on some other list. In what way trolling? Are you kidding? :-/ You are repeating your arguments in a circular fashion without considering the arguments of others. Thats what we call trolling. NB: As far as I understand Dave was not kidding. Please stop your trolling. Thanks. - -- Johannes Three nations have not officially adopted the International System of Units as their primary or sole system of measurement: Burma, Liberia, and the United States. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Si_units -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkspXsEACgkQC1NzPRl9qEXAFQCeM1k5s4LdpeJsRDmpBpb+EmJ+ BioAn1lOMm5zbl1Il2yGv8UjYmmdlRvc =kPRl -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: VGA cards
Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 13:54:53 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2009-12-14 13:28 +0100, Camaleón wrote: Be sure to avoid Nvidia graphics cards then. Why? There is nv driver (2D) and soon it will be nouveau (2D+3D) driver available. Both are open source. The nv driver is heavily obfuscated¹ and, perhaps more importantly, it lacks some very basic features. [snip] It seems we have not many real choices, then :-( One of the remaining options is to complain to the dealer and/or manufacturer for providing a product that does not fully work, since neither the specifications are available to develop a working (free) driver nor is a driver available that supports the card fully with a free OS like debian. IIRC, the manufacturers have no satisfactory means to provide security updates of their binary-only drivers or care for security updates or other updates of the kernel that might break things. In other words, those drivers are deficient. IANAL and I don't know all the details, but at least in some countries dealers are required to include the full (printed) instructions necessary to operate any sold device. Blatantly that is not the case for most graphics cards. Independent of your legal status, it is worthwhile to increase the 'incentive' of manufacturers to contribute to open source drivers by complaining loudly, also directly to them. FWIW, I gave up on using the ati drivers for my card, because I could not be bothered with all the bugs and with having to reinstall and configure it on every new kernel version. So ATI are another brand, I'd recommend to avoid. From what I read, the overall hassle is generally far less on using Intel cards. YMMV, of course and not all models of any manufacturer behave the same... -- Johannes Three nations have not officially adopted the International System of Units as their primary or sole system of measurement: Burma, Liberia, and the United States. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Si_units -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Permissions on USB drive unchangeable
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 AG wrote: I have a large external USB hard drive on which I store back ups and media files. When last I went to write something to this drive it worked fine. Now the permissions have been changed so that I only have access to the drive but am unable to write to it. Therefore, I cannot do back ups nor can I create new directories, etc. I have tried the usual approach to these kinds of issues, i.e. sudo chmod -R 0755 /path/to/drive but this has absolutely no effect. I am identified as the owner of the drive and as part of the group, but I cannot change the permissions of this either as root directly nor using sudo. Any thoughts on how I can fix this? Just thoughts based on your spare information. Have you tried to fix owner and permissions of the mount point? It is not sufficient to have permissions on /path/to/drive, you also need the appropriate permissions on *all* parent directories. - -- Johannes Three nations have not officially adopted the International System of Units as their primary or sole system of measurement: Burma, Liberia, and the United States. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Si_units -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAksiTwoACgkQC1NzPRl9qEV0TACfU6yfUywIKCbgP6S8Pja2v86l vkgAn1+M+VEeXE4UBqRa7PwhaXDLrcz5 =0OTn -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: [OT]What's the price index of your laptop's battery?
Klistvud wrote: Agreed, it's spare parts. But buying a spare battery for your car will hardly set you back for 14% of the total cost of a new car. It seems I may have phrased my question awkwardly, so let's try to rephrase it: Would you ever buy a car -- or even a mobile phone -- where the spare/ replacement battery cost 14% of the entire car/phone retail price? Say you got the cheapest Clio or Fiesta for just under 10.000€, but would have to pay over 1400€ for a replacement battery when the old one died? Now, that would be an extremely peculiar business model in my view ;) You compare things that can't be compared: your laptop is powered by the battery, while your car is powered by the engine. A replacement engine for a car can easily cost 14% of the total cost of a new car. And this is still a silly comparison. At today's markets you can easily find a torch that's cheaper than good rechargeable batteries to power it. Some years ago the market was different, the quality of batteries was lower and the price ratio more in favour of torches. All this in mind, you might still have a valid point that prices for spare batteries for laptops are too high. This is not a truly free market, since there are too many different types of batteries, posing a high barrier for market entry, and manufacturers try to impose a kind of monopoly for replacement batteries (quite similar to the situation of replacement ink cartridges). -- Johannes Three nations have not officially adopted the International System of Units as their primary or sole system of measurement: Burma, Liberia, and the United States. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Si_units -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: regexp: anything but |
lee wrote: On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 06:07:34PM +, Chris Jackson wrote: To match anything except |, use: [^|] Thanks! That's nice, but the pattern '\^.*\|[^\|]-[0-9]\|' still matches all lines ... and I don't see why/how it could to that ... Hmm. Here's an example line: TV|VOX-1|167(2)|136(ger),|71|12060|1089|SAstra-1H|12187|27500|h|34|-1|-1|-1|-1|-1|-1|-1|2120|||1| Your problem is that regular expressions try to match _as much as possible_ and there are more instances of -1 etc. further back in the lines. '.*' matches any character and thus everything up to the last instance of '-[0-9]'. What you'd want is probably sed '/[^|]-[0-9]/d' channels.dvb which will delete all lines with a '-[0-9]' that is not directly preceded by a | -- Johannes Three nations have not officially adopted the International System of Units as their primary or sole system of measurement: Burma, Liberia, and the United States. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Si_units -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
[solved!] Re: pretty print diff OR print terminal output in color
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Hi list, I don't seem to be able to figure this out with google or /usr/share/doc, aptitude search etc.: Does Debian (lenny) have any tools to pretty print coloured terminal output (from colordiff, git diff etc.)? Preferably, I would like to print in colours just as or similar as on the console/terminal. If I use konsole's 'print sceen' option, I get a black and white version of just the contents of the current window (not the full output). If I redirect the output to file or a2ps, uniprint or other programs, I get the 'full' version, but the color coding is missing. Everything is dull black on white. If I just copy/paste to an editor, the color information is lost as well. If I do a screenshot of the window, I usually only get a small portion of the output at a time and it will print a pixelised image of the text. So, is there an easy way to print the terminal output to pdf (or paper) where the color coding (diff, ls, etc.) is preserved? I have also tried enscript's --color option, but I don't know how to pipe the output of 'git diff' to it. git diff |enscript --pretty-print --color -o diff.pdf does not preserve coloured information. Thanks for any pointers! Someone posted this link off-list: http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/convert-diff-output-colorized-html This script converts diff's output (or that of git-diff) to coloured html. (Which can be printed in colour.) Cheers, - -- Johannes Three nations have not officially adopted the International System of Units as their primary or sole system of measurement: Burma, Liberia, and the United States. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Si_units -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkseJnwACgkQC1NzPRl9qEVJWwCdFaXq086+37Q6CDnmQjM8PZGv JUgAnij5pWuH8exlvdlnl0QB62KWEIN6 =BhlV -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Why CUPS?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stefan Monnier wrote: IIUC the main feature of CUPS is that it lets client applications get a description of the printer's features, so they can give you a nice GUI widget to let you choose simplex/duplex, draft/quality, photo-paper, color/bw, ... This does not only apply to client applications, but also to computers configured as CUPS clients (debian's default): You only set-up and configure a printer on one server for a whole network. With a default debian installation, the clients on the network will discover the printer automatically and 'just work'. I have never used lprng so I don't know, if it has a similar feature. - -- Johannes Three nations have not officially adopted the International System of Units as their primary or sole system of measurement: Burma, Liberia, and the United States. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Si_units -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAksehQUACgkQC1NzPRl9qEWq7gCcCNojtjnZpG4lbRS9Q0bR721k McMAn3zLcqK/SA8l3yngfhUzbeoobLub =9deL -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Fatal: Only RAID1 devices are supported as boot devices
Mathieu Malaterre wrote: That's extremely clear indeed ! The issue is that I was confusing software RAID and hardware RAID. So I rebooted the system and in the BIOS I setup the RAID0. I would advice to use software RAID instead. As pointed out before, that requires the extra effort of maintaining a separate partition for boot, but that effort is rather low, a few hundred MB out of your 6 TB are sufficient. The disadvantage of hardware raid is that it will make all your data unusable, if your hardware develops a defect. In case of software raid, you could move your disks, ie. data to a different machine with a different motherboard for recovery or continued use. I was bitten once by that, when our dedicated raid controller went havoc. Of course YMMV, and all of this will depend on your over all situation... (Time available for recovery, importance of data etc.) Cheers, -- Johannes Three nations have not officially adopted the International System of Units as their primary or sole system of measurement: Burma, Liberia, and the United States. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Si_units -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Installing debian on a multiple disk system (LVM)
Mathieu Malaterre wrote: No that was a user-mistake. You should leave the installer do a first 'guided partitioning', then you have access to the software RAID partionning. Then for each disk that is marked 'FREE SPACE' you need to select it and state 'use for RAID'. Once all physical volume are setup as RAID, select the RAID entry (should be the first before the physical disk), then setup your LVM volume group on it. I cannot believe this is free software :) Been there, done that. Works great -- except for hardware problems, though ;-( Cheers, Johannes -- Johannes Three nations have not officially adopted the International System of Units as their primary or sole system of measurement: Burma, Liberia, and the United States. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Si_units -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: New to Debian
Kumar Appaiah wrote: On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 09:29:57AM -0700, deb...@toursbymexico.com wrote: 4) Is it possible to install LILO instead of GRUB? I know it is better and advanced, but I like LILO... would it be safe to install it without breaking some kind of dependence? I believe so, but I don't know the methods/problems. Someone else/Google should be able to help you with this. IIRC, the installer for lenny has an option to install lilo instead of grub (expert mode). -- Johannes Three nations have not officially adopted the International System of Units as their primary or sole system of measurement: Burma, Liberia, and the United States. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Si_units -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
backports' openoffice.org
Hi list, it seems that backports' openoffice.org 3.1.1 has been uninstallable for several weeks now. On one of my machines I have an old 3.0.1 which works ok. Is there anyone out there who managed to run a version of openoffice.org 3 on lenny? What is the best approach? Thanks for sharing your experiences! Johannes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
[solved] Re: backports' openoffice.org
[redirecting to list] Michael, please keep the discussion on list so that others might benefit as well! Thanks! Michael Zoet wrote: Is there anyone out there who managed to run a version of openoffice.org 3 on lenny? What is the best approach? Openoffice 3.1.1 from the backports works for me on a Lenny System. I installed it with apt-get -t lenny-backports install openoffice # aptitude -t lenny-backports install openoffice.org worked. I previously tried unsuccessfully to select backports' version of openoffice.org in interactive mode. That refused to install due to many 'circular' broken packages. Cheers, Johannes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
pretty print diff OR print terminal output in color
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi list, I don't seem to be able to figure this out with google or /usr/share/doc, aptitude search etc.: Does Debian (lenny) have any tools to pretty print coloured terminal output (from colordiff, git diff etc.)? Preferably, I would like to print in colours just as or similar as on the console/terminal. If I use konsole's 'print sceen' option, I get a black and white version of just the contents of the current window (not the full output). If I redirect the output to file or a2ps, uniprint or other programs, I get the 'full' version, but the color coding is missing. Everything is dull black on white. If I just copy/paste to an editor, the color information is lost as well. If I do a screenshot of the window, I usually only get a small portion of the output at a time and it will print a pixelised image of the text. So, is there an easy way to print the terminal output to pdf (or paper) where the color coding (diff, ls, etc.) is preserved? I have also tried enscript's --color option, but I don't know how to pipe the output of 'git diff' to it. git diff |enscript --pretty-print --color -o diff.pdf does not preserve coloured information. Thanks for any pointers! Cheers, Johannes -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkrxUNQACgkQC1NzPRl9qEWqhwCfT2U6QkkK98mWKLofGv98KBMU uH8An2MFWtMm8rQi37VthID+6RRdenXd =RclH -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: a cautionary tale w/ successful recovery
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 07:08:00PM -0500, Andrew Reid wrote: For the sysems I back up at work, we do the dpkg --get-selections thing, but I've never kept a copy of the boot sector -- that's an excellent idea. I guess the 'state of the art' way of recording a list of installed packages, nowadays is # aptitude -F %p search '~i!~M' package-list You can then just install like # aptitude install $(cat pacage-list) dpkg --get-selections does not distinguish between packages installed manually or automatically, so that information is lost on the reinstall. The search pattern just looks for packages that were installed manually. The install will automatically install all dependencies. If I had managed to understand what was going on between the part where the MBR got munched and other bits started flying out to the disk, it would have worked to just rewrite the MBR and reboot. There is also testdisk to help recover the mbr for you... Worked for me once. -- Johannes Three nations have not officially adopted the International System of Units as their primary or sole system of measurement: Burma, Liberia, and the United States. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Si_units -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: OT: Standards was Re: Does everything depend on everything?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Hasler wrote: The difference is that US residents are still permitted the liberty of using the units with which they are comfortable rather than those which the all-knowing government imposes. Of course, units is always there to do the conversions for you... Unfortunately units fails to convert any of my nice set of metric allen wrenches to 3/64 inch. And that is the point of my signature. The US system of units puts unnecessary barriers on trade and use of hardware from other countries. - -- Johannes Three nations have not officially adopted the International System of Units as their primary or sole system of measurement: Burma, Liberia, and the United States. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Si_units -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkruza8ACgkQC1NzPRl9qEW8YQCfZD5XaSb8dHZbjDgIKDrK0HyN +/sAnAvcOZO3NzYUt0u8S6K7YSU4lUdb =niAr -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Recommended Linux Backup
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 lrhorer wrote: You're kidding,right? Back up the data to more than 900 Dual Layer DVDs? Admittedly they are cheap, but... no, thanks. It depends on the consequences of data loss. If they are severe, there should have several live copies at different locations and providers or at least two offline copies, preferably one with Then I would use multiple hard drive sets. Hard drives cost as little as $.073 per Gigabyte, can read and write upwards of 75 MB/sec, and can store up to 2 TB (soon 3 TB) in a space 1 x 3.5 x 6. By comparison, DVDs cost about $.11 per Gigabyte, usually cannot read or write more than 10 MB/sec, and take up easily 5 or 6 times the space per Terabyte. ... and DVDs can not be reused as often/reliably as hard disks. - -- Johannes Three nations have not officially adopted the International System of Units as their primary or sole system of measurement: Burma, Liberia, and the United States. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Si_units -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkru35wACgkQC1NzPRl9qEVGywCdEzu0ICeJq/D4I4DH0OfxYrZk j2IAnA/1rZJmWuu4Qw6sC6Hb3VjwcMgs =X90C -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Recommended Linux Backup
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 lrhorer wrote: Other than tar and rsync, I have never used any Linux backup utilities, and I am looking for recommendations. I would like an open source solution which will do the following: 1. Back up to removable hard drives 2. Span multiple target volumes 3. Maintain a virtual fileysystem so all snapshots look like a single backup to the user. 4. Maintain an easily monitored index so the user can see which drive will be needed for a particular backup or restore operation. 5. Be able to easily rebuild the index and virtual file system from the backup drives (preferebly just one drive) if the database is lost on the source system. Given that no-one came up with a simple suggestion that fulfills your requirements and none of the large number of backup packages available seems to fit the bill, I think that Paul's suggestion to change your requirements was not inappropriate. If I were you, I'd buy an usb hub and housings/adapters for all the usb disks required for the backup. Then I'd combine them to a lvm or raid0 and use *rsync* or a similar tool to backup the system to all disks attached at once. The only other /practical/ option that /I/ can think of is to buy another machine similar or identical to the production one and use that for backup, again using rsync or a similar tool. YMMV. NB: Have you thought about how much work and how long it will take to *verify* your backup, if it is spread over so many disks, each attached individually? (I strongly recommend to verify one's backup occasionally.) - -- Johannes Three nations have not officially adopted the International System of Units as their primary or sole system of measurement: Burma, Liberia, and the United States. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Si_units -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkrsN4EACgkQC1NzPRl9qEXzywCfXYNd9GToJP9bH2U2A16tUnlR 5wQAn0IZf8e97X8yzWnSIJMISskq6RMi =Uv8G -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: sshd
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Roy Stuivenberg wrote: I have a question concerning sshd. I'm unable to connect from outside to my Debian box. Have you tried ssh's -v option? /---from 'man ssh'--- - -vVerbose mode. Causes ssh to print debugging messages about its progress. This is helpful in debugging connection, authentication, and configuration problems. Multiple -v options increase the verbosity. The maximum is 3. \ - -- Johannes Three nations have not officially adopted the International System of Units as their primary or sole system of measurement: Burma, Liberia, and the United States. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Si_units -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkrsQiUACgkQC1NzPRl9qEUkFACcCrL9Ao5zswxqd25wjxXbSASP Y3cAniJm32jnFj319ba3/Ohw4Lg+aUS1 =Flbh -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Does everything depend on everything?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Micha wrote: [snip some talk about testing and unstable] For a desktop you want one of these but there is a debate which. Not necessarily. I've been running 'lenny' on my workstations for some time and it works great. YMMV, of course. - -- Johannes Three nations have not officially adopted the International System of Units as their primary or sole system of measurement: Burma, Liberia, and the United States. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Si_units -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkrsRGsACgkQC1NzPRl9qEWztQCfZIA9bMiDEKAeFrEftw/Urhaq /eIAmwS9Sj5MU9HwX5RLqbgGtLqAhiXY =+29K -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Problem installing Raid + LVM system on new Dell T5500
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 S Scharf wrote: Stable uses 2.6.26 (which is before the reported problem) but that installer only wants to allow lilo and not grub2, which is needed for the configuration I desire. Have you tried with a small /boot partition outside of the raid/lvm? Not as 'clean and nice', but can be synced/backed up to the raid/other partition. - -- Johannes Three nations have not officially adopted the International System of Units as their primary or sole system of measurement: Burma, Liberia, and the United States. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Si_units -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkrsSdcACgkQC1NzPRl9qEXPhACfTWlue0uFQofDyDm8o8UBfN99 UXoAnA0j/oUlqPgQ7LNCt54uT1nq3+rO =mLKk -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Does everything depend on everything?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Micha wrote: On 31/10/2009 16:06, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: For a desktop you want one of these but there is a debate which. Not necessarily. I've been running 'lenny' on my workstations for some time and it works great. I also know people who still run windows 98 and it works great, it doesn't mean that it's the right desktop solution The fact that you compare lenny to win98 just tells us that you don't know much about debian (and/or about win98). As I wrote, your mileage may vary and there can be valid reasons to use testing or sid on workstations. One of the is that the next stable version of workstation software will benefit from a larger number of testers. However, your claim that 'stable is not a right desktop solution' is an offence against our developers and the security team who put a lot of work and effort in releasing stable versions of gnome, kde, iceweasel to name a few -- and then continue their efforts and work on security updates for those workstation packages. BTW, did I mention that lenny works great as a desktop system? Please try to convince the people running win98 to run it inside a virtual machine on a lenny system and continue trolling somewhere else, not here. - -- Johannes Three nations have not officially adopted the International System of Units as their primary or sole system of measurement: Burma, Liberia, and the United States. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Si_units -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkrsehgACgkQC1NzPRl9qEXScwCfVjqLblwtE7M5zCgCRvshRro/ QkgAnikuUUwjBZqeiHY2umTv8pm3nVZ+ =fj8t -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
OT: Standards was Re: Does everything depend on everything?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dennis Wicks wrote: Sadly, only three nations have the good sense not to spend 10's of millions of their GNP converting to Yet Another Arbitrary System Of Measurement. Burma, Liberia, and the United States. FWIW, I don't think that it makes sense that different countries, etc. use different sets of standards. The standards [1] of the ISO [2] are not 'Yet Another Arbitrary System Of Measurement'. They are *the* common standard that exists. All other systems are arbitrary (ie. different for different countries, different purposes, etc.). Note that this very mailing list would not exist in its present form, if instead of a common standard there were different implementations for email for the different applications and/or countries. There are many more examples, why common standards are important. Johannes [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Si_units [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standards_organizations#International_Standards_Organizations -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkrspoUACgkQC1NzPRl9qEVNEQCfV+lo95RVEBi1yiQ63TY6l+Ao SYMAniNYXcUsWjyQS7yxc9qKFdsOB0vF =8oZ7 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: NTP Server
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stan Hoeppner wrote: Again, aptitude install ntp is fully automatic and shouldn't require any manual configuration. You may want to remove the package and reinstall it. s/remove/purge - -- Johannes Three nations have not officially adopted the International System of Units as their primary or sole system of measurement: Burma, Liberia, and the United States. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Si_units -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkroNUAACgkQC1NzPRl9qEWiuQCfZcfluKCi0R4SvVtxf9H4mgwZ p8oAmwYQCj5jFG7JUBF5d17xvC9wVXkY =ivd2 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: NTP Server
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Roman Gelfand wrote: I am running ntp server. I suppose I need to tell ntp server the authoritative time server to synchronize with. How would I do that? Debian's defaults work out of the box for me. What's your output of 'ntpq -p' - -- Johannes Three nations have not officially adopted the International System of Units as their primary or sole system of measurement: Burma, Liberia, and the United States. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Si_units -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkrnKHQACgkQC1NzPRl9qEV+OgCfUGHEnHd/LPLJxJA+gq5817PM bu0AniNXWb+Eb5R8JqSkmBIvk+CvY5oq =wgTH -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Recommended Debian package for hard disk cloning
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Holger Rauch wrote: which Debian package would you recommend for hard disk cloning, provided that UUIDs related to both file systems and/or the LVM (PVs, LVs, VGs) should be changed in order to be unique? Is there a package around that's able to take care of this or would you recommend writing a custom shell/Perl/Python/Ruby, etc. script? I would probably do it by hand (one off case) or with a script: - - create partition(s) - - create LVMs - - use rsync for cloning In the past I also used to use partimage. I don't think it could clone LVMs, though. - -- Johannes Three nations have not officially adopted the International System of Units as their primary or sole system of measurement: Burma, Liberia, and the United States. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Si_units -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkrllUIACgkQC1NzPRl9qEUKPACdHwMJGnNMSVkAgNcUkmWOD7Jn dScAn1WENfOo6vL15cbRyhsMzRdRSOfz =zoMU -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: How to uninstall a kernel and *all* of its dependencies?
Klistvud wrote: Dne, 23. 10. 2009 10:06:48 je Dale napisal(a): the easiest way is to in synaptics just search for 'linux' and remove the kernels you not need, ie linux images and linux headers etc for the versions you want. Thanx. Will that take care automagically for the related kernel modules and the like? I mean, I won't have to manually remove subdirs such as, say, 'lib/modules/2.6.30-bpo.2-amd64/misc/fglrx.ko'? Will it also clean my /boot/grub/menu.lst of the entries no longer needed? Why don't you just give it a try and follow up with any questions or problems you face? -- Johannes Three nations have not officially adopted the International System of Units as their primary or sole system of measurement: Burma, Liberia, and the United States. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Si_units -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: How to uninstall a kernel and *all* of its dependencies?
Klistvud wrote: Dne, 23. 10. 2009 12:49:12 je Johannes Wiedersich napisal(a): Why don't you just give it a try and follow up with any questions or problems you face? Because I'm not yet familiar enough with Debian (or GNU/Linux, for that matter) to know where to look for leftovers once the kernel is uninstalled; I'm able to track down the location of Grub's menu.lst and of the kernel modules, but that's about it. Debian packages are generally designed to remove all files that were installed when the package is removed. There is a difference between 'aptitude remove package' and 'aptitude purge package', though. The first removes all files of the package, except configuration files, the second removes all files of the package including configuration files. The kernel is somewhat special in that the installation also touches the configuration belonging to grub, ie. /boot/grub/menu.lst Normally, removing of the kernel package with aptitude will automagically update that file for you (unless you have changed your configuration from the default values). As far as files are concerned that belong to the kernel, but were created by you (or a script you ran), I don't know. I guess it would be your responsibility to take care of files that you have created, though ;-( I'm just trying to get some input from more experienced users before 'giving it a try'; eventually, I *will* do that, and follow with any questions or problems I may face. IMHE Debian's package system is rather robust and it is usually a severe fault of the user, if something goes horribly wrong (like ignoring all warnings and still continuing) PLUS that likelihood is rather small. I was just trying to point that out. NB: You should have some good backups of your system, so in the unlikely case that something goes wrong you could easily restore your system to the previous state (or investigate the difference to the previous state). -- Johannes Three nations have not officially adopted the International System of Units as their primary or sole system of measurement: Burma, Liberia, and the United States. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Si_units -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Dueling Bonzis or Banjo Buddies
Tim Beauregard wrote: Could this clever friend please delete corruption and greed next? Won't help. Judging by his/her unsuccessful other act. -- Johannes Three nations have not officially adopted the International System of Units as their primary or sole system of measurement: Burma, Liberia, and the United States. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Si_units -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: 32-bit with bigmem or 64-bit debian, which is better?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kelly Clowers wrote: On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 04:41, Johannes Wiedersich I would go for a 32 bit Debian system with a 64-bit kernel. (I have sometimes problems with certain `flashy' web sites or digitally restricted pdfs on my amd64 system). Really? I admit I haven't used any signed PDFs, but Flash and websites in general haven't given me any trouble in the ~9 months I have been using AMD64 (and I visit a lot of sites). FWIW, there is one particular site that won't work, which happens to be my banking site. On amd64 there is a banner placed over the field of the login, which works on i386. Syncing over my profile from the working i386 won't help. The pdf I was refering is a restricted pdf and requrires a certain plugin for viewing. YMMV, cheers, Johannes -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkrZseAACgkQC1NzPRl9qEV8NgCfe84yNCAlBaQtf0GrH30kjTkH f/MAnA5sqVtkxq9Pwf0mcS/+a+hNrYti =w6tq -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Howto recover deleted files/folders without comercial apps?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Israel Garcia wrote: Which is the easiest way to recover deleted files/folders using ONLY commands from Debian OS? The best and easiest way is to use your backup tool to recover the data from the last backup. There are various backup methods available in debian with different commands. It depends on your needs which will suit you best. In case you don't have good, reliable and working backups, I'd strongly recommend you to put simple and reliable backup procedures in place in order to avoid or at least limit such problems for the future. Best wishes, Johannes -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkrYJEgACgkQC1NzPRl9qEX/GwCeMg44p4q4BsMI4z41r3GdFzvp CX4AmwQbTHTlSYEk79crMgjwrtmmk3Km =skyW -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Howto recover deleted files/folders without comercial apps?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Håkon Alstadheim wrote: shampavman skrev: If I were you , I would write a simple wrapper for rm. Here is what I would do. if rm or rm -r is encountered, create a local dir somewhere call it 'Mytrash' then mv the files over there.. instead of from the machine... Then run a cron perhaps every month to actually remove it . PS: Im assuming that your talking about accidentally removed files... If not then I sorry . I've seen lots of places using an alias for rm called 'del', with a corresponding 'undel'. Check your system default .bashrc, it might already be available on your system by just removing a '#' character. Also check your standard package-search-mechanism for stuff to do with bash. Most likely these aliases already exist. Just my humble opinion: I don't like the concept of having some 'layer' between the user and the rm command. It just adds complexity: remember to empty the wastebin, remember where to copy the files from the wastebin in case it is lost. Either adjust the backup script to ignore all wastebin files or have files multiply backed up... And it prevents the learning curve of thinking before issuing dangerous commands... Everyone makes mistakes now and then, but people should learn what 'rm' means (and options like -rf and shell expansions like *). For disasters there are backups. They should work simple and often and will help with other mishaps as well [1], not just erroneous typing... Just my 2ct, everyone is free to adapt a concept that suits her/him best, of course! Johannes [1] like hardware failure, software bugs, security incidents, plus many more kinds of accidents... -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkrYOaQACgkQC1NzPRl9qEUbkACeImSt3iuexfWHvRPvGFDMjQ6U GmMAn3OGNj79Q7ZTTZg04WN2nj+Nms/g =iaxu -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: 32-bit with bigmem or 64-bit debian, which is better?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: My hardware is Presario CQ40-115AU It have AMD Turion X2 processor, 4 GiB RAM (2 X 2 GiB) Since 32 bit Debian have more packages I'm thinking of going back to 32-bit with bigmem kernel. The questions are: Does running 64-bit debian will boost the performance compared to 32-bit on my machine? Will it hinder (using bigmem kernel) my work which mostly related to virtualization using virtualbox? Any other pros and cons? I would go for a 32 bit Debian system with a 64-bit kernel. (I have sometimes problems with certain `flashy' web sites or digitally restricted pdfs on my amd64 system). This way you are running a 64-bit system with a 32-bit userland. Cheers, Johannes -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkrYW/EACgkQC1NzPRl9qEXOhQCcCC/zg+SmLhHBmwfDEEFplB6J MiYAn1ogAhsn1vekGhP218M8bo6zlG81 =yaQm -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: 32-bit with bigmem or 64-bit debian, which is better?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sven Joachim wrote: On 2009-10-16 13:41 +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: This way you are running a 64-bit system with a 32-bit userland. Note that this combination will not work with virtualbox (#456391¹), so that it becomes necessary to set up an amd64 chroot for virtualbox. Yup, thanks! I had already forgotten about that, although I have this problem with virtualbox as well. Cheers, Johannes -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkrYeLkACgkQC1NzPRl9qEXUUgCfW7u6hl+ljT5nXmfq65ojvsze hpIAnjA8Jv2q6sKzQ08kyCC421veoZgw =l8Yi -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Strategic approach to recreating an existing user
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 AG wrote: Due to something that got seriously borked on my wife's Lenny system, I have decided that the best way to tackle this is to create a new account for her and transfer existing files over (excluding the KDE config files which is where the borkness seems to be). The reasons for doing this are because somehow one or more of the KDE configuration files has resulted in a number of problems, such as losing desktop icons and removable media (e.g. an USB stick) triggering OOo rather than opening the actual medium, and small but really irritating things like that, which despite my best attempts to fix remain unfixed. When I create a new account to test these issues in, I cannot replicate the problems, so am keen to transfer non-configuration files over (with the exception of the applications she uses). The approach that I was thinking of would be to burn the files and directories (including her KMail and Evolution directories as well as the IceWeasel bookmarks) onto a CD, delete her existing /home/user directory and then add her as a new user again, and then transfer what is on the CD back into the newly created account. Can anyone see any potential gotchas to this approach, or recommend a more sophisticated way of accomplishing the same objective? TIA Instead of messing around with different users, just follow this simple, standard steps. * Get yourself a good backup of all data. (This should have happened before, then you would not have these problems, at least some of them). * Move the offending config files, ie. the .kde* directories to somewhere else (rename them as has already been suggested), while logged in via shell/console with no kde session running. * Log into kde and recreate a new standard profile. * If there are any other applications behaving in funny ways, (re)move their configs as well. If you ever run into similar problems again, just restore the configs from your last working backup. Save yourself the effort of deleting (and later restoring) *all* user data. Good luck! Johannes -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkrXGDkACgkQC1NzPRl9qEV5jQCfXxT4+nwReH4/9t5zpA0ZtYWd en8An0quJafR9gaUMhxDnwVy2q/4WfUD =1BO9 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
