date:20110423


On 04/23/2011 11:21 PM, Disc Magnet wrote:
[snip]

fc-list | grep -i vera


Works for me...

$ fc-list | grep -i vera
Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:style=Bold
Bitstream Vera Sans:style=Oblique
Bitstream Vera Sans:style=Roman
Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:style=Oblique
Bitstream Vera Sans:style=Bold
Bitstream Vera Serif:style=Roman
Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:style=Bold Oblique
Bitstream Vera Sans:style=Bold Oblique
Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:style=Roman
Bitstream Vera Serif:style=Bold

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Re: test usb drive read / write speed


On 04/23/2011 11:09 PM, Huang, Tao wrote:

hi list,

i was trying to find out among several microSD cards which one has the
fastest speed.
i searched the web and didn't see any efficient solutions.
are there conventional ways to test usb drive read / write speed? or
any block device?

i'm currently using hdparm for reading speed test.

$ hdparm --offset N -t /path/to/device

for writing speed,

$ time { dd if=/dev/zero of=/file/on/device bs=1M count=100; sync; }
$ time { cp /tmp/100m.urandom /file/on/device; sync; }

the "100m.urandom" file is created before the test, since reading from
/dev/urandom is usually slower than writing to the device.
and my /tmp is mounted as tmpfs.

i wrote a script to run hdparm for multiple times on different
offsets. this is not random access but the results are satisfactory.
but i have no idea how to simulate a random writing access with data
on the drive untouched.

is there a utility that:
1. benchmarks random access,
2. can do random writing on unused spaces for major filesystems,
3. deals with the buffer properly.



bonnie++

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Re: Using Files Without Mounting A Share From Another System


On Apr 23, 2011, at 3:51 PM, Rob Owens wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 01:03:00PM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote:
>> I now know I can use smbclient to read files on an SMB share without having 
>> to mount it, but I need to do more than that.
>> 
>> I want to be able to access either Java classes or an executable on a shared 
>> volume on a server without having to mount the volume on the local system. 
>> (There are a couple reasons for not wanting to mount.)  I know on Windows I 
>> can list the files on an SMB share on another system and access them using 
>> SMB/CIFS by just specifying the volume properly on the command line.  I want 
>> to do something like that on Linux, but do more than just listing the files 
>> or copying them to the local computer.
>> 
>> I need a way, on Linux, to access files on a network share, which could be 
>> SMB or NFS (or something else) without mounting the volume.  For example, if 
>> I'm on System A and I have an executable on System B, and it's on a network 
>> share on System B, is there any way to run that executable without mounting 
>> that share as a volume on System A?
>> 
> Here's a possible workaround.  It involves mounting, but as a regular
> user.
> 
> I'd use sshfs.  The remote server needs to have an ssh server running.
> Then you can run this:
> 
> sshfs remoteserver:/some/path localdir
> 
> Then you can ls localdir, or operate on any of the files there.
> 
> If you use public key authentication and ssh-add, you can do this
> without needing to enter a password.
> 
> I've never used this to access a non-linux machine, but in theory it
> should work on anything that is running an ssh server.

That is mounting, but, as I mentioned in another email, clients that use Linux 
on a desktop are a lot easier to deal with on these things than Windows users.

I still have to test on Windows to be sure that I can actually run a jar from 
an unmounted SMB share.  I can operate on files like that, so I would think I 
can run a jar that way.

sshfs sounds like a good idea and I'll look into it.  That would work on both 
the Mac and Linux.

Thanks!



Hal

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Re: I don't want mrxvt to consume the Alt + keystrokes

2011-04-23 Thread Cláudio E. Elicker

On Sun, 24 Apr 2011 01:24:40 +0530
Disc Magnet  wrote:

> I run irssi on mrxvt. When I press Alt+1, Alt+2, etc. it changes mrxvt
> tab and not the irssi win.
> 
> How can I configure mrxvt such that it does not consume the Alt
> key-stroke. It also intereferes with emacs style Alt+
> keystroke for repeating command that readline can understand.
> 
> So, please help me to configure mrxvt such that it does not consume
> the Alt keystroke?
> 
> 

One possible solution:
Add to your ~/.mrxvtrc file

Mrxvt.macro.Alt+1:  Dummy
Mrxvt.macro.Alt+2:  Dummy
Mrxvt.macro.Alt+3:  Dummy
Mrxvt.macro.Alt+4:  Dummy
Mrxvt.macro.Alt+5:  Dummy
Mrxvt.macro.Alt+6:  Dummy
Mrxvt.macro.Alt+7:  Dummy
Mrxvt.macro.Alt+8:  Dummy
Mrxvt.macro.Alt+9:  Dummy
Mrxvt.macro.Alt+0:  Dummy

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Re: Using Files Without Mounting A Share From Another System

On Apr 23, 2011, at 12:20 PM, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:

> On 04/23/2011 12:59 PM, Hal Vaughan wrote:
>> I'm also looking into creating a temporary mount point and deleting when 
>> it's done, but if there's a crash or something, that temporary mount point 
>> would remain, unless I put it in /tmp or something radical like that.
> 
> Couldn't you copy the file instead (possibly calling smbclient) to the 
> temporary directory?

Actually, that's a good point and it would be a lot better than putting a mount 
point in there.  I've just been so keen on the whole "don't put it on the 
client system" thing that I didn't think of that.

It looks like I'll have to be taking a multi-part approach, using one way for 
Windows and another for Linux and OS X.  And the few people that I deal with 
that have Linux on a desktop are more aware and don't freak at the idea of 
having more installed on their computer.  And, in my experience, OS X users 
aren't nearly as tough to deal with in situations like this, either.

(It really doesn't make sense -- but then fear often is irrational.  I've seen 
small business owners that freak at the idea of anyone touching their 
router/firewall to add a static IP address or any port forwarding because their 
cousin or brother or son fscked up the network when he said he knew what he was 
doing and they freak at the idea of a small service provider like me installing 
software on their computer, but then they browse unsafe porn sites and install 
something off the Internet (saying, "But it's on a professional looking 
website, so they must know what they're doing!") and they think there's no way 
they're doing anything dangerous.)

Hal

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Re: Where do I get a list of all the fonts in my system?

2011-04-23 Thread Yuanle Song


There are two font systems in X. An old one is X font, the new one is
fontconfig/xft.

To list X fonts,

xlsfonts

To list xtf fonts,

fc-list

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Re: Using Files Without Mounting A Share From Another System


On Apr 23, 2011, at 12:00 PM, Camaleón wrote:

> On Sat, 23 Apr 2011 11:04:20 -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote:
> 
>> On Apr 23, 2011, at 6:44 AM, Camaleón wrote:
> 
 Does Java handle the SMB protocol on its own?  I know I can't list a
 directory that way with ls, even with the Samba client package
 installed.
>>> 
>>> Good question.
>>> 
>>> Nowadays it should handle smb:// or other network protocol just the
>>> same it does with http:// but maybe it has auto-imposed some
>>> limitations on linux environments (at least under windows you can
>>> launch a java JAR that is stored in a network share) or is just the JAR
>>> file has to be prepared to be run over the network (IIRC, there is a
>>> jCIFS library to that precisely purpose).
>> 
>> I tried, on the command line in Windows XP, "dir \\server\directory" and
>> it works, but SMB/CIFS is built in to Windows.  As far as I can tell,
>> there is no equivalent on Linux unless you use smbclient.  SMB is not
>> built into Linux and it seems without smbclient, Linux cannot access an
>> SMB share.
>> 
>> I've been searching, and it looks like there's a CIFS class for Java,
>> but it's not built-in to Java and is available at samba.org.
> 
> Yep... and it's quite strange.
> 
> I still don't know if it's a security measure or just a technical barrier 
> that needs the use of another applications to be bypassed. In fact, I can 
> run a ".jar" file over "smb://" using Nautilus but this is what I get:

Do you mean you could run the jar or that you tried to?

> 1/ Jar file is executed but it opens with file roller (archiver utility)
> 2/ When I try to change file permisson to make it executable I get an 
> error ("cannot change permissions to file.jar")

Did you try to change permissions from the server itself or from the client?  
It sounds like you tried to change permissions from the client.

> All this done over a NTFS volume managed by a Windows host. Maybe a samba 
> share over a linux filesystem (ext3/4/reiser/xfs...) gives different 
> results... dunno :-?

I think Linux might give better control over things like permissions.  In my 
case, the server will be running Debian 6.x.


Thanks for trying that -- I'm still searching and testing, but I haven't gotten 
anything to work and I need to create a test jar file I can work with.



Hal

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Re: Where do I get a list of all the fonts in my system?

On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 9:44 AM, Yuanle Song  wrote:
>
> There are two font systems in X. An old one is X font, the new one is
> fontconfig/xft.
>
> To list X fonts,
>
>    xlsfonts
>
> To list xtf fonts,
>
>    fc-list
>
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> Yuanle
>

 xlsfonts | grep -i vera

as well as

fc-list | grep -i vera

returned no output.

So, how is "URxvt.font:xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:pixelsize=13"
working for my rxvt-unicode?


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Re: Please recommend an external HDD enclosure

2011-04-23 Thread Zoran Kolic

> But with the BSDs?
> Not a chance!
> With FreeBSD and PC-BSD it is dropped at the USB register stage of both the
> install and all consequent boots after O.S. install - so it's in the
> mothercode.

I assume the topic is on install to the hdd? Not using usb
hard drive as a storage?
It all depends on the possibility to boot from mobo via usb
device. Some older boards are not prone to let it go. Almost
all modern do the trick. During install process, you could
choose hard drive you want to install to and where you want
boot loader to reside.
If used as a storage device, usb hdd is just fine as it shows
in /dev directory. Freebsd has dynamic /dev and, after some
time, it is there as dax or daxsy (aka da0 or da0s1). Then
you could mount it with something like:
  mount_msdosfs -l /dev/da0 /my_directory
In my case, I found that some cheap enclosures are not able to
boot from mobo, but some integrated, branded, are. If you
know the exact number, search forums for "boot linux usb hdd"
or similar.
Best regards

Zoran


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test usb drive read / write speed

2011-04-23 Thread Huang, Tao

hi list,

i was trying to find out among several microSD cards which one has the
fastest speed.
i searched the web and didn't see any efficient solutions.
are there conventional ways to test usb drive read / write speed? or
any block device?

i'm currently using hdparm for reading speed test.

$ hdparm --offset N -t /path/to/device

for writing speed,

$ time { dd if=/dev/zero of=/file/on/device bs=1M count=100; sync; }
$ time { cp /tmp/100m.urandom /file/on/device; sync; }

the "100m.urandom" file is created before the test, since reading from
/dev/urandom is usually slower than writing to the device.
and my /tmp is mounted as tmpfs.

i wrote a script to run hdparm for multiple times on different
offsets. this is not random access but the results are satisfactory.
but i have no idea how to simulate a random writing access with data
on the drive untouched.

is there a utility that:
1. benchmarks random access,
2. can do random writing on unused spaces for major filesystems,
3. deals with the buffer properly.


Cheers,

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Peking University

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sysctl vs kernel .config

2011-04-23 Thread Jim Green

Hello debianers:
today i successfully compiled 2.38.4 kernel using make-kmkg and fixed
the hibernate can't resume issue for kernel 2.38-2, got a couple
questions here:

first is run time and the latter is compile time, but what is the
difference here, is one of the other's subset? do their parameters
overlap? which is the preferred file to change? changing .config
requires a recompile.

Thanks!
Jim


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Where do I get a list of all the fonts in my system?

Earlier, in my .Xresources I had the following because I got this font
from xfontsel

URxvt.font: -*-terminus-*-*-*-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-*-u

However, later in the urxvt man page, I found an example of this and
it looks much prettier than the terminus font displayed above.

URxvt.font:xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:pixelsize=13

I could not find this Bitstream Vera Sans Mono font in xfontsel.

I tried it searching it in /usr/share/fonts directory too but found nothing:

$ find /usr/share/fonts -iname "*mono*"
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeMono.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeMonoOblique.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeMonoBold.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeMonoBoldOblique.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-liberation/LiberationMono-Regular.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-liberation/LiberationMono-Italic.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-liberation/LiberationMono-BoldItalic.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-liberation/LiberationMono-Bold.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/Andale_Mono.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSansMono.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSansMono-Oblique.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSansMono-BoldOblique.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSansMono-Bold.ttf

How do we get a list of all the fonts that we have?

I am using Wheezy and fonts directory looks like this:

$ ls /usr/share/fonts/
cmap  truetype  type1  X11


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Re: Issue writing image to disk via dd

2011-04-23 Thread Mark Kane

On Sat, Apr 23, 2011, at 21:49:39 +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> What was the size of image.img in exact bytes? What happened if you
> specified exact image size via "count"?  What happened if bs=1024?

The size of image.img is 31457280 bytes. I have tried several ways
below and listed in parentheses what happens when I try to boot from
the sda drive after writing via dd. The result varies depending on if
it's done from Etch or Squeeze and what operands are given to dd. I
don't know if that helps at all though.

# dd if=image.img of=/dev/sda count=31457280 bs=1

Etch:   failed (OS cannot boot - inflate: invalid stored block
lengths. readin failed. elf32_loadimage: read failed)
Squeeze: failed (OS hangs after boot loader menu)

I noticed there was a discrepancy between `du -k` on FreeBSD and Debian
(30736 and 30756 respectively) so I tried both just to see:

# dd if=image.img of=/dev/sda count=30736 bs=1024

Etch: failed (OS cannot boot - inflate: invalid stored block lengths...)
Squeeze: failed (OS hangs after boot loader menu)

# dd if=image.img of=/dev/sda count=30756 bs=1024

Etch: failed (OS cannot boot - "invalid format" error)
Squeeze: failed (OS hangs after boot loader menu)

> Please try the following to see what happens.
> 
>  # dd if=image.img of=/dev/sda bs=1MB

Etch: failed
Squeeze: failed

> or
>  # dd if=image.img of=/dev/sda bs=$((1024*1024*1024))

Etch: "dd: memory exhausted"
Squeeze: "dd: memory exhausted"

> Anyway, these suffix of DD is tricky.  I do not know how stable was
> them.  If this is not the reason, it may be kernel behaviour issue of
> error handling when you go over the limit of the file system.

Is there any further testing I could do on Etch or Squeeze to track
down that possible issue?

Thanks a lot for the reply,

-Mark

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Re: Please recommend an external HDD enclosure

2011-04-23 Thread Heddle Weaver

On 24 April 2011 10:05, William Cooper  wrote:

>
>
> On 23 April 2011 17:56, Panayiotis Karabassis  wrote:
>
>> On 04/23/2011 06:04 PM, Leonardo Ruoso wrote:
>> > Sounds like the problem is in your host, can you try the same pieces in
>> > another box?
>>
>> Actually I tried on two boxes, a desktop running Squeeze and a notebook
>> running Wheezy.
>>
>> The first enclosure failed on both, the second worked for a while and
>> then I had to 'halt -nf' the computer. Probably the filesystem became
>> corrupt during this, because the case signaled an error afterwards.
>>
>> Anyway I solved my problem by connecting the hdd directly to the
>> motherboard.
>>
>> I'd like to research this further, but I've returned both cases to the
>> shop.
>>
>> --
>> Regards
>>Panayiotis Karabassis
>>
>
> I've had similar problems with an enclosure from a company called Zogis
> using WD drives (don't have any other drive types to test yet), will not be
> detected under Linux or Windows. I'm in the process of trying to identify
> the problem and if necessary return/exchange/whatever the enclosures.
> Bill
>

There are variables of all sorts in scenarios like this.
I have a 1TB Seagate external expansion drive.
It is recognised and installed under windows and Debian - everything from
Lenny to current unstable.
But with the BSDs?
Not a chance!
With FreeBSD and PC-BSD it is dropped at the USB register stage of both the
install and all consequent boots after O.S. install - so it's in the
mothercode.
An extremely rough hack of unplugging it at the wall immediately prior to
that and immediately plugging it back in, forces recognition, but who needs
that?

On install, even after recognition, the drive is impossible to find
anywhere, so it can't be configured in for mount.

What do you put that down to?
Code - firmware interface?
Other brands of external drives are recognised, installed, partitioned and
immediately available/operable after initial boot, which would appear to
give credence to that.

I sympathise with your problem.
What do you do in this regard? Keep on buying enclosures/drives till you
find one that works? Perhaps an update to compatible hardware lists and
manufacturer notifications in this aspect also?
Regards,

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Re: Please recommend an external HDD enclosure

2011-04-23 Thread William Cooper

On 23 April 2011 17:56, Panayiotis Karabassis  wrote:

> On 04/23/2011 06:04 PM, Leonardo Ruoso wrote:
> > Sounds like the problem is in your host, can you try the same pieces in
> > another box?
>
> Actually I tried on two boxes, a desktop running Squeeze and a notebook
> running Wheezy.
>
> The first enclosure failed on both, the second worked for a while and
> then I had to 'halt -nf' the computer. Probably the filesystem became
> corrupt during this, because the case signaled an error afterwards.
>
> Anyway I solved my problem by connecting the hdd directly to the
> motherboard.
>
> I'd like to research this further, but I've returned both cases to the
> shop.
>
> --
> Regards
>Panayiotis Karabassis
>

I've had similar problems with an enclosure from a company called Zogis
using WD drives (don't have any other drive types to test yet), will not be
detected under Linux or Windows. I'm in the process of trying to identify
the problem and if necessary return/exchange/whatever the enclosures.
Bill

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Re: Monitors requiring interlaced video modes with older Nvidia video cards are out of options in wheezy

2011-04-23 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.

In <4db35418.50...@cox.net>, Ron Johnson wrote:
>But OP is correct that nv *works*.  *Everywhere*.

I didn't claim otherwise.  It also doesn't change the fact that it is not 
currently maintained.  If you'd like it maintained, I suggest you chip in 
resources, possibly pooling them with other interested users.
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Re: Monitors requiring interlaced video modes with older Nvidia video cards are out of options in wheezy

2011-04-23 Thread Stephen Powell

On Sat, 23 Apr 2011 18:14:39 -0400 (EDT), Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> Stephen Powell wrote:
>> I really don't see why nv had to be dropped from the distribution.
> 
> It is no longer maintained.  NVidia abandoned it a while ago.  It was still 
> maintained by the X.org developers for a while.  However, the Nouveau driver 
> reaching some level of usefulness has seen the X.org developers stop 
> supporting the nv driver.

I guess that makes sense.  I only wish that X.org had waited until the nouveau
driver was more mature (such as support for interlaced video modes) before
dropping support for nv.  nv has a niche that cannot be easily filled by any
other driver, as my situation illustrates.  And the lack of response to my bug
report is also disappointing.

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Re: Monitors requiring interlaced video modes with older Nvidia video cards are out of options in wheezy


On 04/23/2011 05:14 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:

In<1636648964.128495.1303595827920.javamail.r...@md01.wow.synacor.com>,
Stephen Powell wrote:

I really don't see why nv had to be dropped from the distribution.


It is no longer maintained.  NVidia abandoned it a while ago.  It was still
maintained by the X.org developers for a while.  However, the Nouveau driver
reaching some level of usefulness has seen the X.org developers stop
supporting the nv driver.

Debian testing exists to produce the next stable.  Debian tries to avoid
including unmaintained software in a stable release.  Unless the nv driver
gets a maintainer, which seems unlikely, it would need to be dropped from
testing before the next stable release.  It was dropped as early as possible
to identify issues and have the most time available to remedy them, either by
recommending a good migration path or providing the missing functionality.



But OP is correct that nv *works*.  *Everywhere*.

Nouveau, OTOH, *doesn't* work everywhere.

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=nouveau_2639_flip&num=4

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Re: Monitors requiring interlaced video modes with older Nvidia video cards are out of options in wheezy


On 04/23/2011 04:57 PM, Stephen Powell wrote:

I thought this would probably happen eventually.  And it did.

I use an Nvidia video card with a RIVA TNT2 chipset.  My CRT monitor,
an IBM G51, has a maximum pixel clock rate of 70 MHz.  In order
to get 1024x768 resolution out of this monitor I must use an
interlaced video mode.  (There is a 1024x768@60 non-interlaced mode,
but the flicker level is unacceptable.)  I run wheezy.  And I am now
officially out of supported options for the X server.

I can't use the nouveau driver because the nouveau driver doesn't work
with interlaced video modes.  I filed a bug report a good while ago.  See

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=589452

No response.


[blah blah]


I really did try hard to make nouveau work for me, but it just doesn't.



Bit rot is a sad, sad thing.  Move to Slackware, DFS, Gentoo, go back to 
Lenny or buy a slightly less trailing edge video card.


I know you don't have PCIe on your mobo, but the $34 (zero $ shipping) 
GeForce 210 (fanless!) that I recently ponied up for to replace my 7300 
decodes everything that I've thrown at it, as opposed to having the CPU 
grind away.


Moral of the anecdote: sometimes it's good to upgrade to less trailing 
edge kit even though the old h/w still powers up.


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Re: Help with Software RAID needed

2011-04-23 Thread Arno Schuring

Jo Galara (jogal...@gmail.com on 2011-04-23 19:55 +0200):
> I just got my new dedicated server, running Debian Lenny 64bit.
> It has 2x500gb Software RAID but "df -hT" only shows a few GB for each
> partition:
[...]
> /dev/mapper/vg00-usr on /usr type xfs (rw)
> /dev/mapper/vg00-var on /var type xfs (rw,usrquota)
> /dev/mapper/vg00-home on /home type xfs (rw,usrquota)
> 
You're using LVM. What does
# pvdisplay

show?


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Re: Openjdk vs. sun-java in Debian

2011-04-23 Thread Klistvud

Thanx for the tips, Camaleon, Sven and Liam. Your answers more or less  
confirmed my suspicions. Must dig into some recent Java documentation  
when I find the time ...


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Re: Tripwire can't send report by email‏


On 04/23/2011 03:18 PM, Cedric DC wrote:
[snip]


If I try to launch this in command line I have this message :
root@proxytest:/etc/cron.daily# /usr/sbin/tripwire --test --email 
t...@mydomain.com
Sending a test message to: t...@mydomain.com
### Error: The SMTP server returned an error.
### Error Number:504 5.5.2: Sender address rejected: need
### fully-qualified address
### Exiting...
Email test failed.

proxytest is the hostname of my server

Do you have an idea to solve this issue ?


Possibly, since I had a similar problem, but with a different app.

Add the machine's domain to the end of tripwire@proxytest.  That will 
give it a fully-qualified address just like the error message says.


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Re: Monitors requiring interlaced video modes with older Nvidia video cards are out of options in wheezy

2011-04-23 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.

In <1636648964.128495.1303595827920.javamail.r...@md01.wow.synacor.com>, 
Stephen Powell wrote:
>I really don't see why nv had to be dropped from the distribution.

It is no longer maintained.  NVidia abandoned it a while ago.  It was still 
maintained by the X.org developers for a while.  However, the Nouveau driver 
reaching some level of usefulness has seen the X.org developers stop 
supporting the nv driver.

Debian testing exists to produce the next stable.  Debian tries to avoid 
including unmaintained software in a stable release.  Unless the nv driver 
gets a maintainer, which seems unlikely, it would need to be dropped from 
testing before the next stable release.  It was dropped as early as possible 
to identify issues and have the most time available to remedy them, either by 
recommending a good migration path or providing the missing functionality.

There may have been DSFG-freeness concerns about the code as well, but they 
were not the primary motivator for removing the package from testing.  
(Obfuscated code may have driven the X.org developers away from the nv driver 
to the Nouveau driver, though.)
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Re: Please recommend an external HDD enclosure


On 04/23/2011 05:08 PM, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote:
[snip]


Anyway I (almost) haven't lost any data since setting up a software RAID
(md) array. Well I have, but it was my fault for messing up with the
partition tables. RAID is a must-do for anyone who values their data.



G.

BACKUPS are a must-do for anyone who values their data.

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Re: Please recommend an external HDD enclosure

2011-04-23 Thread Panayiotis Karabassis

On 04/23/2011 05:08 PM, Camaleón wrote:
>> I've tried two different Western Digital disks. I've had a lot of
>> problems with WD disks, so it could be the hdds' problem.
> 
> Yep, I've also heard about that but have not experienced by myself, 
> mostly because I tend to buy Seagate hdds. 

Good for you! I must say I am very dissatisfied with Western Digital
drives, but, for some reason, I keep buying them! :-D

> And with the two recent acquisitions by Seagate (which bought Samsung's 
> hdd market) and Western Digital (bought Hitachi storage division) now we 
> (users) have less options than ever when it comes to hard disk choices ;-(

Just my luck! My new computer has two Hitachi drives, am I to expect the
same unreliability as with WD? :-P

Anyway I (almost) haven't lost any data since setting up a software RAID
(md) array. Well I have, but it was my fault for messing up with the
partition tables. RAID is a must-do for anyone who values their data.

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Monitors requiring interlaced video modes with older Nvidia video cards are out of options in wheezy

2011-04-23 Thread Stephen Powell

I thought this would probably happen eventually. And it did.

I use an Nvidia video card with a RIVA TNT2 chipset. My CRT monitor,
an IBM G51, has a maximum pixel clock rate of 70 MHz. In order
to get 1024x768 resolution out of this monitor I must use an
interlaced video mode. (There is a 1024x768@60 non-interlaced mode,
but the flicker level is unacceptable.) I run wheezy. And I am now
officially out of supported options for the X server.

I can't use the nouveau driver because the nouveau driver doesn't work
with interlaced video modes. I filed a bug report a good while ago. See

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=589452

No response.

I can't use the proprietary nvidia driver because the
legacy-71xx driver package has not been updated to work with the version
of the X server that is used by squeeze and later releases.
And apparently, it never will be.

I can't use the nv driver because the nv driver has been dropped from
the distribution.

I can't use the vesa driver because, so far at least, I have not found
a way to make it use an interlaced mode.

The most recent "aptitude full-upgrade" forced me to remove the
previously-installed xserver-xorg-video-nv package. My best options,
other than a hardware upgrade, are to use nouveau and drop down to
a lower resolution, such as 800x600, or put up with intolerable flicker
at 1024x768.

My solution? I downloaded the source package for xserver-xorg-video-nv
from squeeze, compiled it under wheezy, installed it, and hoped for the
best. Fortunately that worked.

I really don't see why nv had to be dropped from the distribution. If
the powers that be believe the code to be in violation of the DFSG
(code obfuscation is the charge, I believe), then I don't see why it can't
be offered in non-free.

I really did try hard to make nouveau work for me, but it just doesn't.

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Re: Please recommend an external HDD enclosure

2011-04-23 Thread Panayiotis Karabassis

On 04/23/2011 06:04 PM, Leonardo Ruoso wrote:
> Sounds like the problem is in your host, can you try the same pieces in
> another box?

Actually I tried on two boxes, a desktop running Squeeze and a notebook
running Wheezy.

The first enclosure failed on both, the second worked for a while and
then I had to 'halt -nf' the computer. Probably the filesystem became
corrupt during this, because the case signaled an error afterwards.

Anyway I solved my problem by connecting the hdd directly to the
motherboard.

I'd like to research this further, but I've returned both cases to the shop.

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Re: Tripwire can't send report by email?

2011-04-23 Thread Freeman

On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 02:21:01PM -0700, evenso wrote:
> It is far more appropriate to ask your question with a new thread rather
> than piggy back a question onto someone else's question.
> 
> You can ask your own question by addressing your mail to
> 
> debian-user@lists.debian.org 
> 
> with a 
> 
> Subject:  
> 
> Don't use Cc: or address to any individuals.
> 

P.S. Oh, maybe your hotmail address is getting bounced.

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Re: Tripwire can't send report by email?

2011-04-23 Thread Freeman

On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 08:18:50PM +, Cedric DC wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I have setup tripwire on a Debian 6. I have tripwire integrity reports (pwr 
> files) in the directory /var/lib/tripwire/report/
> With the following command I can read the report.
> twprint --print-report --twrfile proxytest-20110421-135326.twr > test-log
> 
> I would like send the report by email.
> 
> In the file /etc/cron.daily/tripwire
> there is the command tripwire --check --quiet --email-report
> 
> If I try to launch this in command line I have this message :
> root@proxytest:/etc/cron.daily# /usr/sbin/tripwire --test --email 
> t...@mydomain.com
> Sending a test message to: t...@mydomain.com
> ### Error: The SMTP server returned an error.
> ### Error Number:504 5.5.2 : Sender address rejected: need
> ### fully-qualified address
> ### Exiting...
> Email test failed.
> 
> proxytest is the hostname of my server
> 
> Do you have an idea to solve this issue ?
> I
>  tried to change in the twcfg the variable SMTPHOST by 
> smtp.altitudetelecom.fr (my ISP SMTP relay) instead of localhost. But it
>  doesn't work...
> 
> Thank you in advance for your help.
> 

It is far more appropriate to ask your question with a new thread rather
than piggy back a question onto someone else's question.

You can ask your own question by addressing your mail to

debian-user@lists.debian.org 

with a 

Subject:  

Don't use Cc: or address to any individuals.

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Re: I don't want mrxvt to consume the Alt + keystrokes

2011-04-23 Thread Freeman

On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 01:24:40AM +0530, Disc Magnet wrote:
> I run irssi on mrxvt. When I press Alt+1, Alt+2, etc. it changes mrxvt
> tab and not the irssi win.
> 
> How can I configure mrxvt such that it does not consume the Alt
> key-stroke. It also intereferes with emacs style Alt+
> keystroke for repeating command that readline can understand.
> 
> So, please help me to configure mrxvt such that it does not consume
> the Alt keystroke?
> 

The key bindings are in the GNOME TERMINAL STYLE DEFAULT MACROS section of
the /etc/mrxvt/mrxvtrc , they are the "GotoTab _" macros.

I don't have such a section in my home directory .mrxvtrc .

You could edit the /etc/mrxvt/mrxvtrc as root or you could probably override
it by copying the relevant section to an .mrxvtrc in your home directory and
edit there.  Haven't tried it.

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Re: Anyone using recoll in wheezy or sid?

2011-04-23 Thread Wayne Topa


On 04/23/2011 02:43 PM, David Baron wrote:

I have recoll installed on stable, wheezy and sid.  It is working fine
on stable but on the other two it indexes fine but is not displaying the
results.


(...)

Not using recoll here, but there are some bugs for it:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=recoll;dist=unstable

OTOH, take a quick look into the upstream bugs (solved in 1.15.7):

http://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/BUGS.html#b_1_15_2

Also, try with a new user, just in case.


I am looking for a replacement but have yet to find a worthy one.


GNOME and KDE have both very good search desktop engines focused at them,
Tracker for the former and Strigi/Nepomuk for the latter.


I use it on unstable with few problems.

All packages will have outstanding bugs.

Best to do indexing using the recollindex program, niced 19, in the
background. Works without a hitch and one does not know it is running.



Interesting...  I have not used recollindex before and would not have 
even thought of it as the program itself, in X, works fine.  Or so I 
thought.


I may have found a problem that might very well be producing my 
symptoms.  After the  recollindex goes through it's indexing the program 
fails with the following error.


"rclconfig.cpp 585 storeMissingHelperDesc"

That might be why my results of the query are not shown.
Odd that creating 3 test accounts resulted in One of them working as it 
should and the other Two accounts have the problem stated in the OP.


Me thinks there is more afoot here, Dr. Watson.

Thanks for the help David


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Tripwire can't send report by email‏

2011-04-23 Thread Cedric DC


Hello,

I have setup tripwire on a Debian 6. I have tripwire integrity reports (pwr 
files) in the directory /var/lib/tripwire/report/
With the following command I can read the report.
twprint --print-report --twrfile proxytest-20110421-135326.twr > test-log

I would like send the report by email.

In the file /etc/cron.daily/tripwire
there is the command tripwire --check --quiet --email-report

If I try to launch this in command line I have this message :
root@proxytest:/etc/cron.daily# /usr/sbin/tripwire --test --email 
t...@mydomain.com
Sending a test message to: t...@mydomain.com
### Error: The SMTP server returned an error.
### Error Number:504 5.5.2 : Sender address rejected: need
### fully-qualified address
### Exiting...
Email test failed.

proxytest is the hostname of my server

Do you have an idea to solve this issue ?
I
 tried to change in the twcfg the variable SMTPHOST by 
smtp.altitudetelecom.fr (my ISP SMTP relay) instead of localhost. But it
 doesn't work...

Thank you in advance for your help.

Cedric

I don't want mrxvt to consume the Alt + keystrokes

I run irssi on mrxvt. When I press Alt+1, Alt+2, etc. it changes mrxvt
tab and not the irssi win.

How can I configure mrxvt such that it does not consume the Alt
key-stroke. It also intereferes with emacs style Alt+
keystroke for repeating command that readline can understand.

So, please help me to configure mrxvt such that it does not consume
the Alt keystroke?


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Re: Using Files Without Mounting A Share From Another System

2011-04-23 Thread Rob Owens

On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 01:03:00PM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote:
> I now know I can use smbclient to read files on an SMB share without having 
> to mount it, but I need to do more than that.
> 
> I want to be able to access either Java classes or an executable on a shared 
> volume on a server without having to mount the volume on the local system. 
> (There are a couple reasons for not wanting to mount.)  I know on Windows I 
> can list the files on an SMB share on another system and access them using 
> SMB/CIFS by just specifying the volume properly on the command line.  I want 
> to do something like that on Linux, but do more than just listing the files 
> or copying them to the local computer.
> 
> I need a way, on Linux, to access files on a network share, which could be 
> SMB or NFS (or something else) without mounting the volume.  For example, if 
> I'm on System A and I have an executable on System B, and it's on a network 
> share on System B, is there any way to run that executable without mounting 
> that share as a volume on System A?
> 
Here's a possible workaround.  It involves mounting, but as a regular
user.

I'd use sshfs.  The remote server needs to have an ssh server running.
Then you can run this:

sshfs remoteserver:/some/path localdir

Then you can ls localdir, or operate on any of the files there.

If you use public key authentication and ssh-add, you can do this
without needing to enter a password.

I've never used this to access a non-linux machine, but in theory it
should work on anything that is running an ssh server.

-Rob


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Re: Anyone using recoll in wheezy or sid?

2011-04-23 Thread David Baron

> > I have recoll installed on stable, wheezy and sid.  It is working fine
> > on stable but on the other two it indexes fine but is not displaying the
> > results.  
> 
> (...)
> 
> Not using recoll here, but there are some bugs for it:
> 
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=recoll;dist=unstable
> 
> OTOH, take a quick look into the upstream bugs (solved in 1.15.7):
> 
> http://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/BUGS.html#b_1_15_2
> 
> Also, try with a new user, just in case.
> 
> > I am looking for a replacement but have yet to find a worthy one.
> 
> GNOME and KDE have both very good search desktop engines focused at them, 
> Tracker for the former and Strigi/Nepomuk for the latter.

I use it on unstable with few problems.

All packages will have outstanding bugs.

Best to do indexing using the recollindex program, niced 19, in the 
background. Works without a hitch and one does not know it is running.

KDE's Strigi/Nepomuk have been resource hawgs and can bug down the system. One 
cannot control their niceness. This may be/get fixed in later KDE versions, 
hopefully. I have a recoll-runner on kde-look for using recoll in KDE.

Re: Help with Software RAID needed

2011-04-23 Thread Jo Galara

More information:


# cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [raid1]
md3 : active raid1 sdb3[0] sda3[1]
  482512192 blocks [2/2] [UU]

md1 : active raid1 sda1[0] sdb1[1]
  3911680 blocks [2/2] [UU]

unused devices: 


# mount
/dev/md1 on / type ext3 (rw)
tmpfs on /lib/init/rw type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
procbususb on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)
udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=620)
/dev/mapper/vg00-usr on /usr type xfs (rw)
/dev/mapper/vg00-var on /var type xfs (rw,usrquota)
/dev/mapper/vg00-home on /home type xfs (rw,usrquota)
none on /tmp type tmpfs (rw)

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SSD drive use [was Re: file systems]

2011-04-23 Thread Brian Flaherty


On Jo, 21 apr 11, 22:10:10, Chris Brennan wrote:


You mentioned something about doing this on USB (solid-state?) storage? You
might want to also consider reading up on USB's general policy about write
few, read many.


I assume this "read many, write few" idea applies to all SSD drives. 
There seems to be differing recommendations about the extent to worry 
about configuring SSD drives and I'm wondering what people here think 
and do.


Some links I've found with differing opinions:

http://robert.penz.name/137/no-swap-partition-journaling-filesystem-on-a-ssd/

http://opentechnow.blogspot.com/2010/02/linux-ssd-optimization-guide.html

The first is from 2008, whereas the second is 2010. Are the 2008 
thoughts out-of-date, and therefore go with the latter?


I'm running ext3 with an SSD drive in a laptop (Debian Squeeze) with LVM 
and disk-encryption. Already added noatime to fstab, but haven't made 
other changes because I'm not sure how to balance the risks vs. gains.


Thanks for any thoughts and your time.


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Help with Software RAID needed

2011-04-23 Thread Jo Galara

I just got my new dedicated server, running Debian Lenny 64bit.
It has 2x500gb Software RAID but "df -hT" only shows a few GB for each
partition:

# df -hT
FilesystemTypeSize  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/md1  ext33.7G  339M  3.4G  10% /
tmpfstmpfs2.0G 0  2.0G   0% /lib/init/rw
udev tmpfs 10M  576K  9.5M   6% /dev
tmpfstmpfs2.0G 0  2.0G   0% /dev/shm
/dev/mapper/vg00-usr
   xfs4.0G  281M  3.8G   7% /usr
/dev/mapper/vg00-var
   xfs4.0G   48M  4.0G   2% /var
/dev/mapper/vg00-home
   xfs4.0G  4.2M  4.0G   1% /home
none tmpfs2.0G 0  2.0G   0% /tmp




"fdisk -l" shows the correct sizes:

# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xb6a3db46

   Device Boot  Start End  Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   1 487 3911796   fd  Linux raid
autodetect
/dev/sda2 488 731 1959930   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda3 732   60801   482512275   fd  Linux raid
autodetect

Disk /dev/sdb: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x7e96aee6

   Device Boot  Start End  Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1   1 487 3911796   fd  Linux raid
autodetect
/dev/sdb2 488 731 1959930   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdb3 732   60801   482512275   fd  Linux raid
autodetect

Disk /dev/md1: 4005 MB, 4005560320 bytes
2 heads, 4 sectors/track, 977920 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 8 * 512 = 4096 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x

Disk /dev/md1 doesn't contain a valid partition table

Disk /dev/md3: 494.0 GB, 494092484608 bytes
2 heads, 4 sectors/track, 120628048 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 8 * 512 = 4096 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x

Disk /dev/md3 doesn't contain a valid partition table

Disk /dev/dm-0: 4294 MB, 4294967296 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 522 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x

Disk /dev/dm-0 doesn't contain a valid partition table

Disk /dev/dm-1: 4294 MB, 4294967296 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 522 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x

Disk /dev/dm-1 doesn't contain a valid partition table

Disk /dev/dm-2: 4294 MB, 4294967296 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 522 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x

Disk /dev/dm-2 doesn't contain a valid partition table






How can I increase the size of the partitions?


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Re: Ubuntu Crossgrade

2011-04-23 Thread Tony van der Hoff


On 23/04/11 05:24, teddi...@tmo.blackberry.net wrote:

George Standish said:


Ubuntu regularly has issues upgrading from one version to another, now
you expect it to "upgrade" to a new distro...  This idea doesn't seem
like a good idea to me.

-

I agree with this assessment though any ubuntu head will challenge any 
statement like this with such religious fervor...

I'm certainly no ubuntu-head; in fact whilst I run ubuntu on my laptop, 
I'm very much wedded to Debian stable on my desktop.


When I got this laptop a couple of years ago, I tried Lenny, I think, 
but had problems, and Ubuntu just worked. I've stuck with it through 
several dist-upgrades, and have never encountered a problem.


Similarly, I've gone from etch via Lenny to Squeeze without problem.

They're both pretty good; but from what I hear, ubuntu might be going 
the wrong way...


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Re: Please recommend an external HDD enclosure


On 04/23/2011 09:08 AM, Camaleón wrote:
[snip]


JFYI, I own an external 3.5" USB enclosure¹ (I have more, but are
completely unbranded :-P) and still haven't had any problem with it and
features an internal combo interface to connect both IDE/SATA hard disks:



For a decade, I've had a series of generic PATA (and now SATA) USB 
enclosures.  All have worked flawlessly.


Maybe OP's problem is the drive, not the enclosure?

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Re: howto unplug a device?

On Sat, 23 Apr 2011 13:01:47 -0400, shawn wilson wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Camaleón wrote:
>> On Sat, 23 Apr 2011 18:15:53 +0200, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote:
>>
>>> is there a way, to unplug a device by software or a command? I wanna
>>> unplug and plugin a device (it is a built in modem), if it crashes. At
>>> the moment, i have to reboot, each time it hangs.
>>
>> I dunno if an internal/embedded modem can be unpluggled without power
>> cycling the machine but if the modem gets "stuck" you can try to
>> "initilize" the device by using minicom settings or just sending the
>> "ATZ" string to the modem ("echo ATZ > /dev/modem" or "echo ATZ > /dev/
>> ttyxx").
>>
>>
> i remember some instances where the modem would freeze so that an atz
> wouldn't work on it. this is why i used to always buy external modems.

Sure, and even external modems get so badly frozen that you also have to 
restart the machine in order to return it to life ;-)
 
(...)

> my suggestion, buy an external modem. i have no idea how much they cost,
> but i couldn't immagine them costing more than $15. also, external
> modems are smarter because if there is a surge, your computer is less
> likely to fry.

RS-232 based modems work very well under linux (no driver required and 
minimal hangs) but they are expensive and the old serial port is starting 
to disappear from motherboards (forget about it on notebooks unless you 
use a converter). USB based ones can be an option but USB port is more 
prone to problems and locks. There also PCI/ISA based ones and lastly, 
those embedded (the worst). But sometimes the user has to stick with the 
worst of the options and work with that ;-(

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Re: howto unplug a device?

2011-04-23 Thread shawn wilson

On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Camaleón  wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Apr 2011 18:15:53 +0200, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote:
>
>> is there a way, to unplug a device by software or a command? I wanna
>> unplug and plugin a device (it is a built in modem), if it crashes. At
>> the moment, i have to reboot, each time it hangs.
>
> I dunno if an internal/embedded modem can be unpluggled without power
> cycling the machine but if the modem gets "stuck" you can try to
> "initilize" the device by using minicom settings or just sending the
> "ATZ" string to the modem ("echo ATZ > /dev/modem" or "echo ATZ > /dev/
> ttyxx").
>

i remember some instances where the modem would freeze so that an atz
wouldn't work on it. this is why i used to always buy external modems.

if it's isa, you might have more luck getting low level access to it.
either way, the best thing i can recommend is to unload and load the
module. this should work. it is also possible if there was something
dangerous (but sometimes worked) the author of the module might not
have included it in the module but may have documented the
functionality in there.

the other idea would be to hibernate to disk (which pretty much shuts
the machine down but saves the state).

my suggestion, buy an external modem. i have no idea how much they
cost, but i couldn't immagine them costing more than $15. also,
external modems are smarter because if there is a surge, your computer
is less likely to fry.

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Re: howto unplug a device?

On Sat, 23 Apr 2011 18:15:53 +0200, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote:

> is there a way, to unplug a device by software or a command? I wanna
> unplug and plugin a device (it is a built in modem), if it crashes. At
> the moment, i have to reboot, each time it hangs.

I dunno if an internal/embedded modem can be unpluggled without power 
cycling the machine but if the modem gets "stuck" you can try to 
"initilize" the device by using minicom settings or just sending the 
"ATZ" string to the modem ("echo ATZ > /dev/modem" or "echo ATZ > /dev/
ttyxx").

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[OT] Re: Howto to get more UBE

On Sat, 23 Apr 2011 15:54:28 +0200, Frank M. wrote:

> I plaing around with mail filters. I like to get more spam. (Not to
> download. Real traffic on port 25)
> 
> I create thousands of accounts on my honeypot, but how I distribute they
> on the web?
> 
> Any nice ideas howto get more UBE?

A curious petition :-)

You can add your site (if any) to as much search engines¹, web crawlers, 
etc... as possible and use your "honeypotted" e-mail addresses as e-mail 
contact.

There are some applications that can be used to automate that task but 
I'm only aware of some for windows based systems.

You can also open an blog/facebook/twitter/whatever account and start 
feeding it with your e-mail addresses.

And wait some days until Internet makes "its magic" :-P

¹http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_search_engines

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Re: Using Files Without Mounting A Share From Another System

2011-04-23 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI


On 04/23/2011 12:59 PM, Hal Vaughan wrote:
I'm also looking into creating a temporary mount point and deleting 
when it's done, but if there's a crash or something, that temporary 
mount point would remain, unless I put it in /tmp or something radical 
like that.


Couldn't you copy the file instead (possibly calling smbclient) to the 
temporary directory?



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Re: Using Files Without Mounting A Share From Another System

On Apr 23, 2011, at 11:46 AM, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:

> On 04/23/2011 12:04 PM, Hal Vaughan wrote:
>> I don't have to use SMB, I could have the server use NFS as well, but I 
>> can't find anything about reading an NFS share unless it's mounted. As best 
>> I can tell, unless you use a program like smbclient, scp, ftp, or rsync, 
>> there is no way to read any network share in Linux unless it's mounted. To 
>> make a program on a non-local volume available locally, you can either copy 
>> it to the local computer or mount the share. At least that's the best I can 
>> find out. It's kind of tough to Google this, since searches always turn up 
>> tutorials on how to mount a volume.
> 
> I don't know how SMB work internally, but I wouldn't be surprised if mounting 
> were just a convenience to ease access to files on the remote computer and to 
> store credentials, but internally each access to a file in under a 
> cifs-mounted path is exactly the same as an access via smbclient or other 
> "mount-less" programs.
> 
> Anyway, what's the problem with mounting?

I have several reasons for mounting that I'd rather not get into.  The short 
version is that I'm self employed and if a client has had incompetent techs 
fsck up their LAN in the past and is scared of anything that looks at all 
different on their LAN, but they also want to pay me $500 - $1,500 a month, 
it's in my best interest to let them write me that monthly check.  (Yes, I've 
tried educating them, but fear is a strong motivator against learning something 
that is different from what you are sure is true.)  There are a couple other 
reasons, but that one is enough right there.

> There is only one way to access files that all programs support: the 
> filesystem. So I think it is not possible to find a general solution to your 
> problem. Particular programs might have extra support, so it is possible to 
> include SMB in some program and then it will not have to mount the remote 
> directory. But that is specific to some program.

Unfortunately, I think you're right, but there are a lot of very knowledgeable 
people on this list, so I was hoping there might be something obscure someone 
knew about that I could use.

This is a cross platform issue, since the executable has to work on Windows, OS 
X, and Linux.  On Windows I can access the SMB share with no difficulty. I'm 
considering, for Linux and OS X, the idea of just using ssh with X forwarding 
and running the program on the server and displaying it on the client, but 
since the server only has 500 MB and 500 Mhz, I'd rather not use any resources 
on it that I don't have to.

I'm also looking into creating a temporary mount point and deleting when it's 
done, but if there's a crash or something, that temporary mount point would 
remain, unless I put it in /tmp or something radical like that.

Hal

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howto unplug a device?

2011-04-23 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich

Hi all, 

is there a way, to unplug a device by software or a command? I wanna unplug 
and plugin a device (it is a built in modem), if it crashes. At the moment, i 
have to reboot, each time it hangs.

Thanks for any info.

Greetings

Hans




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Re: Using Files Without Mounting A Share From Another System

On Sat, 23 Apr 2011 11:04:20 -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote:

> On Apr 23, 2011, at 6:44 AM, Camaleón wrote:

>>> Does Java handle the SMB protocol on its own?  I know I can't list a
>>> directory that way with ls, even with the Samba client package
>>> installed.
>> 
>> Good question.
>> 
>> Nowadays it should handle smb:// or other network protocol just the
>> same it does with http:// but maybe it has auto-imposed some
>> limitations on linux environments (at least under windows you can
>> launch a java JAR that is stored in a network share) or is just the JAR
>> file has to be prepared to be run over the network (IIRC, there is a
>> jCIFS library to that precisely purpose).
> 
> I tried, on the command line in Windows XP, "dir \\server\directory" and
> it works, but SMB/CIFS is built in to Windows.  As far as I can tell,
> there is no equivalent on Linux unless you use smbclient.  SMB is not
> built into Linux and it seems without smbclient, Linux cannot access an
> SMB share.
> 
> I've been searching, and it looks like there's a CIFS class for Java,
> but it's not built-in to Java and is available at samba.org.

Yep... and it's quite strange.

I still don't know if it's a security measure or just a technical barrier 
that needs the use of another applications to be bypassed. In fact, I can 
run a ".jar" file over "smb://" using Nautilus but this is what I get:

1/ Jar file is executed but it opens with file roller (archiver utility)
2/ When I try to change file permisson to make it executable I get an 
error ("cannot change permissions to file.jar")

All this done over a NTFS volume managed by a Windows host. Maybe a samba 
share over a linux filesystem (ext3/4/reiser/xfs...) gives different 
results... dunno :-?
 
> I don't have to use SMB, I could have the server use NFS as well, but I
> can't find anything about reading an NFS share unless it's mounted.  As
> best I can tell, unless you use a program like smbclient, scp, ftp, or
> rsync, there is no way to read any network share in Linux unless it's
> mounted.  To make a program on a non-local volume available locally, you
> can either copy it to the local computer or mount the share.  At least
> that's the best I can find out.  It's kind of tough to Google this,
> since searches always turn up tutorials on how to mount a volume.

I can't tell as I've never used NFS shares but maybe is worth a try :-)

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Re: Using Files Without Mounting A Share From Another System

2011-04-23 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI


On 04/23/2011 12:04 PM, Hal Vaughan wrote:
I don't have to use SMB, I could have the server use NFS as well, but 
I can't find anything about reading an NFS share unless it's mounted. 
As best I can tell, unless you use a program like smbclient, scp, ftp, 
or rsync, there is no way to read any network share in Linux unless 
it's mounted. To make a program on a non-local volume available 
locally, you can either copy it to the local computer or mount the 
share. At least that's the best I can find out. It's kind of tough to 
Google this, since searches always turn up tutorials on how to mount a 
volume.


I don't know how SMB work internally, but I wouldn't be surprised if 
mounting were just a convenience to ease access to files on the remote 
computer and to store credentials, but internally each access to a file 
in under a cifs-mounted path is exactly the same as an access via 
smbclient or other "mount-less" programs.


Anyway, what's the problem with mounting?

There is only one way to access files that all programs support: the 
filesystem. So I think it is not possible to find a general solution to 
your problem. Particular programs might have extra support, so it is 
possible to include SMB in some program and then it will not have to 
mount the remote directory. But that is specific to some program.


Specific libraries may have extra features. Gnome has (or at least had) 
a "virtual filesystem", and I believe it has SMB support, so any program 
using the Gnome API could transparently access SMB shares.




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Re: kernel 2.6.38 on Lenny

2011-04-23 Thread Stephen Powell

On Sat, 23 Apr 2011 10:18:59 -0400 (EDT), Jim Brooks wrote:
> 
> I manually compiled the official/stock kernel 2.6.38.
> But the (SATA) disk drives were remapped from sda/sdb to sde/sdf
> Apparently USB and memory card ports became sd[abcd].
> How the Linux kernel be told to map real disk drives to sda/sdb?

Nicholas already indicated the use of UUIDs, etc. in /etc/fstab.
But the udev version in lenny will not provide all the functionality
expected by the latest kernels.  See the Squeeze release notes, section
4.4.5, Upgrading the kernel and udev, for more information.
 
   
http://www.debian.org/releases/squeeze/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html

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Re: Unable to export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8

2011-04-23 Thread Javier Vasquez

On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 9:08 AM, Sven Joachim  wrote:
> On 2011-04-23 16:25 +0200, Disc Magnet wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 7:39 PM, Disc Magnet  wrote:
>>> Please help me to resolve this error.
>>>
>>> disc@magnet:~$ export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
>>> bash: warning: setlocale: LC_CTYPE: cannot change locale
>>> (en_US.UTF-8): No such file or directory
>>>
>>
>> Solved it by doing: dpkg-reconfigure locales
>>
>> But now when I run dpkg-reconfigure locales again from mrxvt: the
>> borders drawn in the dpkg-reconfigure UI appear broken. It appears
>> like this:
>>
>>  â”Œâ”€â”€â”€â”€â”€â”€â”€â”€â”€â”€â”€â”€â”€â”€â”€â”€â”€â”€â”€â”€â”€â”€â”€â”€â”€â”â”‚
>
> Use a terminal emulator that actually supports UTF-8 instead of mrxvt.
>
> Sven

rxvt-unicode might be of help.

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Re: Using Files Without Mounting A Share From Another System

On Apr 23, 2011, at 6:44 AM, Camaleón wrote:

> On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 15:42:56 -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote:
> 
>> On Apr 22, 2011, at 1:56 PM, Camaleón wrote:
>> 
>>> On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 13:03:00 -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote:
>>> 
>>> (...)
>>> 
 I need a way, on Linux, to access files on a network share, which
 could be SMB or NFS (or something else) without mounting the volume. 
 For example, if I'm on System A and I have an executable on System B,
 and it's on a network share on System B, is there any way to run that
 executable without mounting that share as a volume on System A?
>>> 
>>> Hum... I think it could be possible, just ensure that the file in the
>>> share has the proper rights (that is, it should be executable by the
>>> user).
>>> 
>>> As for java files, you could create a launcher on the desktop pointing
>>> to the file:
>>> 
>>> java -jar smb://path/to/jar/file.jar
>> 
>> Does Java handle the SMB protocol on its own?  I know I can't list a
>> directory that way with ls, even with the Samba client package
>> installed.
> 
> Good question. 
> 
> Nowadays it should handle smb:// or other network protocol just the same 
> it does with http:// but maybe it has auto-imposed some limitations on 
> linux environments (at least under windows you can launch a java JAR that 
> is stored in a network share) or is just the JAR file has to be prepared 
> to be run over the network (IIRC, there is a jCIFS library to that 
> precisely purpose).

I tried, on the command line in Windows XP, "dir \\server\directory" and it 
works, but SMB/CIFS is built in to Windows.  As far as I can tell, there is no 
equivalent on Linux unless you use smbclient.  SMB is not built into Linux and 
it seems without smbclient, Linux cannot access an SMB share.

I've been searching, and it looks like there's a CIFS class for Java, but it's 
not built-in to Java and is available at samba.org.

I don't have to use SMB, I could have the server use NFS as well, but I can't 
find anything about reading an NFS share unless it's mounted.  As best I can 
tell, unless you use a program like smbclient, scp, ftp, or rsync, there is no 
way to read any network share in Linux unless it's mounted.  To make a program 
on a non-local volume available locally, you can either copy it to the local 
computer or mount the share.  At least that's the best I can find out.  It's 
kind of tough to Google this, since searches always turn up tutorials on how to 
mount a volume.

Hal

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Re: Unable to export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8

2011-04-23 Thread Sven Joachim

On 2011-04-23 16:25 +0200, Disc Magnet wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 7:39 PM, Disc Magnet  wrote:
>> Please help me to resolve this error.
>>
>> disc@magnet:~$ export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
>> bash: warning: setlocale: LC_CTYPE: cannot change locale
>> (en_US.UTF-8): No such file or directory
>>
>
> Solved it by doing: dpkg-reconfigure locales
>
> But now when I run dpkg-reconfigure locales again from mrxvt: the
> borders drawn in the dpkg-reconfigure UI appear broken. It appears
> like this:
>
>  
> â”Œâ”€â”€â”€â”€â”€â”€â”€â”€â”€â”€â”€â”€â”€â”€â”€â”€â”€â”€â”€â”€â”€â”€â”€â”€â”€â”â”‚

Use a terminal emulator that actually supports UTF-8 instead of mrxvt.

Sven


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Re: Please recommend an external HDD enclosure

2011-04-23 Thread Leonardo Ruoso

Sounds like the problem is in your host, can you try the same pieces in
another box?

2011/4/20 Panayiotis Karabassis 

> Hi,
>
> I made the mistake of purchasing an external HDD enclosure without
> researching first. The enclosure wouldn't be recognized in Debian
> Squeeze or Wheezy with errors that are not relevant since I've returned
> it to the shop.
>
> The drive I want to ...enclose is a 3.5 inch PATA HDD. Acceptable
> interfaces are USB (any version) and it seems my motherboard also has an
> eSata input.
>
> I've spent quite some time googling but couldn't reach any solid
> conclusions.
>
> So please recommend an enclosure that is known to work in Debian,
> preferably a popular brand, so that it stands a chance of being
> available in my country.
>
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Re: kernel 2.6.38 on Lenny

2011-04-23 Thread Nicolas Berhcer


On 23/04/2011 16:18, Jim Brooks wrote:

I manually compiled the official/stock kernel 2.6.38.
But the (SATA) disk drives were remapped from sda/sdb to sde/sdf
Apparently USB and memory card ports became sd[abcd].
How the Linux kernel be told to map real disk drives to sda/sdb

Hi,
I think you don't have to care about the device assignement in /dev/sdxy.
Instead, you should (in your /etc/fstab file) use LABEL or UUID to point 
to your partitions, e.g.:


UUID=ff7ffdb3-5abb-426c-bb14-42be0b80c24a /boot   ext3
defaults0   2


Visit the content of directories
/dev/disk/by-label
/dev/disk/by-uuid
to learn more about them.

Note that it may be still useful to know how to name your partitions 
using /dev/sdxy notation (for fdisk, parted, etc.).


Nicolas


PS: I think Debian Squeeze upgrade/install is running a command that 
automatically replaces the /device/names by UUID in fstab.  I can't find 
it right know, anyone can tell us its name?



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Re: My posts to list not echoed

2011-04-23 Thread Ken Heard

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Ken Heard wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
> 
>> I bet it has to do with ISPs blocking port 25.
> 
> Well I ran the following command, with the result indicated:
> 
> R61:/# telnet smtp.gmail.com 25
> Trying 74.125.53.109...
> Connected to gmail-smtp-msa.l.google.com.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> 220 mx.google.com ESMTP w32sm5721411wfh.19
> 
> 500 command unrecognised or out of order
> 
> 500 command unrecognised or out of order
> ^C
> ^Q
> ^C
> Connection closed by foreign host.
> 
> Perhaps the foregoing indicates that gmail *does* block port 25.
> 
> However, because the outgoing mail server of my ISP uses neither TLS nor
> SSL, I have taken to using gmail's "free" outgoing mail server,
> smtp.gmail.com, using port 465,  which is good all over the world.  I
> seem to remember that when I forward e-mail from k...@heard.name to my
> e-mail address of my ISP, I *do* get my own posts to the list echoed.
> the only time they are not is when they are forwarded to my gmail
> account -- to check when I get back to Toronto.

I have now made that check; when I have my e-mails forwarded from
k...@heard.name to the e-mail address assigned to me by the ISP -- but
still using smtp.gmail.com for outgoing mail, my posts to the list are
now echoed back to me on the list.

Regards, Ken Heard

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Re: Using tar and gpg from Konqueror

2011-04-23 Thread Ken Heard

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Camaleón wrote:
> On Sat, 02 Apr 2011 12:38:05 +0700, Ken Heard wrote:
> 
>> While experimenting with tar and gpg files I discovered that right
>> clicking on a file or directory name in Konqueror with gnugp installed
>> behaves differently depending on its location.  If the file or directory
>> is located on an ext3 or xfs  hard drive, the right click allows the
>> options of compressing the file and encrypting it.  If however it is
>> located on a cf or sd card, the right click offers the compressing
>> option; but it does not work.  No encryption option is offered. Could
>> this difference be attributable to the file system used, the hard drive
>> using ext3or xfs, the cf and sd cards using vfat?  Would either or both
>> of these options options be available if the file system on those cards
>> were also ext3?
> 
> I dunno for konqueror or dolphin, but from Nautulis (GNOME) both options 
> (encrypt/sign and create archive) are available on vfat volumes.
> 
> Greetings,
> 
While I have yet to upgrade to Squeeze, I did discover that when I got
back home to my desktop I discovered all the options you mentioned using
Konqueror.  Have not yet the time to check why I could not do so on the
laptop.  Strange.

Regards, Ken Heard

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Re: file systems

2011-04-23 Thread shawn wilson

On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 5:25 AM, Andrei Popescu
 wrote:
> On Jo, 21 apr 11, 22:10:10, Chris Brennan wrote:
>>
>> You mentioned something about doing this on USB (solid-state?) storage? You
>> might want to also consider reading up on USB's general policy about write
>> few, read many. In a nutshell, most USB devices don't like to be written to
>> many many times (such as a busy *primary* FS). They have a limited
>> shelf-life of writes )wear leveling) before they go bad (I have an OCZ ATV
>> rubber thumb drive that has suffered this.) This is why they tell you
>> defragmenting SSD's is a *VERY* bad idea, you significantly reduce the write
>> ability of the device.[4][5][6]
>
> Defragmenting SSDs should also be unnecessary, since there are no heads
> to move to other regions ;)
>

xor gates burn out though. i think this happens so frequently that the
medium handles this internally. i don't exactly remember though i
think i remember a conversation with some forensics guys about this.


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kernel 2.6.38 on Lenny

2011-04-23 Thread Jim Brooks

I manually compiled the official/stock kernel 2.6.38.
But the (SATA) disk drives were remapped from sda/sdb to sde/sdf
Apparently USB and memory card ports became sd[abcd].
How the Linux kernel be told to map real disk drives to sda/sdb?


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Re: Unable to export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8

On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 7:39 PM, Disc Magnet  wrote:
> Please help me to resolve this error.
>
> disc@magnet:~$ export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
> bash: warning: setlocale: LC_CTYPE: cannot change locale
> (en_US.UTF-8): No such file or directory
>

Solved it by doing: dpkg-reconfigure locales

But now when I run dpkg-reconfigure locales again from mrxvt: the
borders drawn in the dpkg-reconfigure UI appear broken. It appears
like this:

 
ââââââââââââââââââââââââââââ


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Re: Unable to export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8

On Sat, 23 Apr 2011 19:39:32 +0530, Disc Magnet wrote:

> Please help me to resolve this error.
> 
> disc@magnet:~$ export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 bash: warning: setlocale:
> LC_CTYPE: cannot change locale (en_US.UTF-8): No such file or directory

Hum... what does your "/etc/locale.gen" file look like?

I only have enabled "es_ES.UTF8" and maybe that's also your case (review 
"man locale-gen" to get more info on this).

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Unable to export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8

Please help me to resolve this error.

disc@magnet:~$ export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
bash: warning: setlocale: LC_CTYPE: cannot change locale
(en_US.UTF-8): No such file or directory


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Re: Please recommend an external HDD enclosure

On Sat, 23 Apr 2011 16:37:00 +0300, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote:

> On 04/22/2011 05:31 PM, Camaleón wrote:
>> I've had no problems with any of my hdd external cases so may I ask you
>> about brand and model of yours?
> 
> Yeap, that's what they said at the shop, that there shouldn't be any
> problems with linux. I've tried two cases.

O:-)

Most of the chipsets used by the external USB enclosures are recognized 
by the kernel so there shouldn't be any problem... well, it could, but 
that's not the norm.
 
> One was a Konig (?) case, but I couldn't get it recognized. Something
> about it not accepting the USB address it was assigned.

That kind of error it sounds me a lot (I mean, that I have read on this 
same list similar problems for USB devices -from hdd to pen drives- to 
get properly recognized).
 
> The other was an IcyBox. It seemed to work at first, but then the
> computer became unresponsive and I had to 'halt -nf' it. Didn't get it
> to work after that.

Hum... having problems with one brand/model could be even understandable 
but having problems with another different brand/model enclosure is a bit 
weird.

> I've tried two different Western Digital disks. I've had a lot of
> problems with WD disks, so it could be the hdds' problem.

Yep, I've also heard about that but have not experienced by myself, 
mostly because I tend to buy Seagate hdds. 

And with the two recent acquisitions by Seagate (which bought Samsung's 
hdd market) and Western Digital (bought Hitachi storage division) now we 
(users) have less options than ever when it comes to hard disk choices ;-(

> Anyway, eventually I connected my hdd to a PATA to SATA interface on my
> motherboard and transferred my data.

JFYI, I own an external 3.5" USB enclosure¹ (I have more, but are 
completely unbranded :-P) and still haven't had any problem with it and 
features an internal combo interface to connect both IDE/SATA hard disks:

http://www.ms-tech.de/eng/index.php/product/detail/pdcid/36/pdid/119

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Howto to get more UBE

2011-04-23 Thread Frank M.

I plaing around with mail filters. I like to get more spam. 
(Not to download. Real traffic on port 25)

I create thousands of accounts on my honeypot, but how I distribute they on 
the web?

Any nice ideas howto get more UBE?


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Re: Using Files Without Mounting A Share From Another System

2011-04-23 Thread Erwan David

On 23/04/11 12:44, Camaleón wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 15:42:56 -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote:
> 
>> On Apr 22, 2011, at 1:56 PM, Camaleón wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 13:03:00 -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote:
>>>
>>> (...)
>>>
 I need a way, on Linux, to access files on a network share, which
 could be SMB or NFS (or something else) without mounting the volume. 
 For example, if I'm on System A and I have an executable on System B,
 and it's on a network share on System B, is there any way to run that
 executable without mounting that share as a volume on System A?
>>>
>>> Hum... I think it could be possible, just ensure that the file in the
>>> share has the proper rights (that is, it should be executable by the
>>> user).
>>>
>>> As for java files, you could create a launcher on the desktop pointing
>>> to the file:
>>>
>>> java -jar smb://path/to/jar/file.jar
>>
>> Does Java handle the SMB protocol on its own?  I know I can't list a
>> directory that way with ls, even with the Samba client package
>> installed.
> 
> Good question. 
> 
> Nowadays it should handle smb:// or other network protocol just the same 
> it does with http:// but maybe it has auto-imposed some limitations on 
> linux environments (at least under windows you can launch a java JAR that 
> is stored in a network share) or is just the JAR file has to be prepared 
> to be run over the network (IIRC, there is a jCIFS library to that 
> precisely purpose).
> 
> Greetings,
> 

Prgrams that I know which do this (eg emacs with tramp editing) use a
temporary copy on local file. And it is the applicaton which deals with
this, not the OS.


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Re: Please recommend an external HDD enclosure

2011-04-23 Thread Panayiotis Karabassis

On 04/20/2011 11:25 PM, Mark wrote:
> I've been using this one with Debian Lenny for a while.  Have a 250 GB
> IDE hdd in it currently.

I couldn't find it in my country, but thanks anyway!

On 04/22/2011 05:31 PM, Camaleón wrote:
> I've had no problems with any of my hdd external cases so may I ask you 
> about brand and model of yours?

Yeap, that's what they said at the shop, that there shouldn't be any
problems with linux. I've tried two cases.

One was a Konig (?) case, but I couldn't get it recognized. Something
about it not accepting the USB address it was assigned.

The other was an IcyBox. It seemed to work at first, but then the
computer became unresponsive and I had to 'halt -nf' it. Didn't get it
to work after that.

I've tried two different Western Digital disks. I've had a lot of
problems with WD disks, so it could be the hdds' problem.

Anyway, eventually I connected my hdd to a PATA to SATA interface on my
motherboard and transferred my data.

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Re: Issue writing image to disk via dd

2011-04-23 Thread Richard Hector

On Sat, 2011-04-23 at 21:49 +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> You know 1M stands for 1*1000*1000*1000 not 1*1024*1024*1024.

I'm half asleep, so I may not be thinking straight, but isn't that one
too many multiplications, in both cases?

Richard



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Re: Issue writing image to disk via dd

2011-04-23 Thread Osamu Aoki

Hi,

On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 07:46:06PM -0500, Mark Kane wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 13, 2011, at 07:13:13 -0500, Mark Kane wrote:
> I suppose I should have tested this before for thoroughness, but in
> Debian Lenny it works! So to summarize:
> 
> # dd if=image.img of=/dev/sda bs=1M

You know 1M stands for 1*1000*1000*1000 not 1*1024*1024*1024.

What was the size of image.img in exact bytes? What happened if you
specified exact image size via "count"?  What happened if bs=1024?

> Debian Etch (coreutils 5.97-5.3): Fail
> Debian Lenny (coreutils 6.10-6): Success
> Debian Squeeze (coreutils 8.5-1): Fail
> 
> CentOS 4.7 (coretuils 5.2.1): Success
> Arch Linux 2010.05 (coreutils 8.5-2): Success

Please try the following to see what happens.

 # dd if=image.img of=/dev/sda bs=1MB
or
 # dd if=image.img of=/dev/sda bs=$((1024*1024*1024))

> Another question would be what the difference is between coreutils
> 8.5-1 (Squeeze where it fails) and 8.5-2 (Arch where it works). Is
> there a component other than coreutils/dd which might affect this? It
> seems like such a minor version difference between coreutils 8.5-1 and
> 8.5-2 shouldn't cause a huge difference in behavior.

Anyway, these suffix of DD is tricky.  I do not know how stable was
them.  If this is not the reason, it may be kernel behaviour issue of
error handling when you go over the limit of the file system.

Osamu


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Re: Show me the difference! (rxvt-unicode vs. rxvt-unicode-ml)

2011-04-23 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI


On 04/23/2011 08:35 AM, Disc Magnet wrote:

What is the difference between rxvt-unicode and rxvt-unicode-ml?

I tried installing both the packages. When one is installed, the other
is removed. But I didn't find any visible difference while using them.

Both can be invoked using the 'urxvt' command. Both has the same man
page. I am curious to see at least one difference in behavior in both
the programs. Anyone is willing to show me some difference between the
two?


$ aptitude show rxvt-unicode rxvt-unicode-ml
Package: rxvt-unicode
State: not installed
Version: 9.09-3
Priority: optional
Section: x11
Maintainer: Decklin Foster 
Uncompressed Size: 3,088 k
Depends: libafterimage0 (>= 2.2.9), libc6 (>= 2.9), libcairo2 (>= 
1.2.4), libfontconfig1 (>= 2.8.0), libfreetype6 (>= 2.2.1), libgcc1 (>= 
1:4.1.1), libglib2.0-0
 (>= 2.12.0), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.8.0), libice6 (>= 1:1.0.0), 
libjpeg62 (>= 6b1), libperl5.10 (>= 5.10.1), libpng12-0 (>= 1.2.13-4), 
librsvg2-2 (>=
 2.26.0), libsm6, libtiff4, libx11-6, libxext6, libxft2 (> 
2.1.1), libxrender1, zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4), base-passwd (>= 2.0.3.4), 
ncurses-base (>= 5.4-7)

Suggests: ttf-dejavu
Provides: x-terminal-emulator
Provided by: rxvt-unicode-256color, rxvt-unicode-lite, rxvt-unicode-ml
Description: RXVT-like terminal emulator with Unicode support
 rxvt-unicode is a modern, Unicode-aware color xterm replacement that 
uses significantly less memory than a conventional xterm and many other 
Unicode supporting

 terminal emulators.

 It supports using multiple fonts at the same time, including Xft 
fonts, and client-server technology to reduce memory consumption when 
using multiple windows.


 This package contains the program version with most commonly-used 
features enabled, including transparency, (16-bit) Unicode and FreeType 
font support.


Package: rxvt-unicode-ml
State: not installed
Version: 9.09-3
Priority: optional
Section: x11
Maintainer: Decklin Foster 
Uncompressed Size: 3,092 k
Depends: libafterimage0 (>= 2.2.9), libc6 (>= 2.9), libcairo2 (>= 
1.2.4), libfontconfig1 (>= 2.8.0), libfreetype6 (>= 2.2.1), libgcc1 (>= 
1:4.1.1), libglib2.0-0
 (>= 2.12.0), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.8.0), libice6 (>= 1:1.0.0), 
libjpeg62 (>= 6b1), libperl5.10 (>= 5.10.1), libpng12-0 (>= 1.2.13-4), 
librsvg2-2 (>=
 2.26.0), libsm6, libtiff4, libx11-6, libxext6, libxft2 (> 
2.1.1), libxrender1, zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4), base-passwd (>= 2.0.3.4), 
ncurses-base (>= 5.4-7)

Suggests: ttf-bitstream-vera, ttf-kochi-gothic
Conflicts: rxvt-unicode
Provides: rxvt-unicode, x-terminal-emulator
Description: multi-lingual terminal emulator with Unicode support for X11
 rxvt-unicode is a modern, Unicode-aware color xterm replacement that 
uses significantly less memory than a conventional xterm and many other 
Unicode supporting

 terminal emulators.

 It supports using multiple fonts at the same time, including Xft 
fonts, and client-server technology to reduce memory consumption when 
using multiple windows.


 This package is configured with all additional features, including 
additional multi-language functions (direct support for Asian encodings 
and extended Unicode

 3 support), and an embedded Perl interpreter.


Note especially the last sentences of each description.


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Re: Show me the difference! (rxvt-unicode vs. rxvt-unicode-ml)

On Sat, 23 Apr 2011 17:05:32 +0530, Disc Magnet wrote:

> What is the difference between rxvt-unicode and rxvt-unicode-ml?

"ml" stands for multilingual support.

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mrxvt transparency behaves opposite to what is documented

The man page says:

 Ctrl+Shift+jChange shading of terminal to make it
more transparent.
 Ctrl+Shift+kChange shading of terminal to make it
less transparent.

But when I press ctrl+shift+j it decreases transparency.

Could you please confim this behavior?

I am using mrxvt on Wheezy.


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mrxvt shading and urxvt shading behave differently

The shading option of mrxvt and urxvt seems to be working differently.

 mrxvt --transparent --shading 95   # This makes the terminal only 5%
transparent (or in other words 95% shaded)

 urxvt --transparent --shading 95# This makes the terminal 95%
transparent (or in other words 5% shaded)

Why such a confusing difference in behavior between the two programs?


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Show me the difference! (rxvt-unicode vs. rxvt-unicode-ml)

What is the difference between rxvt-unicode and rxvt-unicode-ml?

I tried installing both the packages. When one is installed, the other
is removed. But I didn't find any visible difference while using them.

Both can be invoked using the 'urxvt' command. Both has the same man
page. I am curious to see at least one difference in behavior in both
the programs. Anyone is willing to show me some difference between the
two?


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Re: Problem with udev device identification

El 2011-04-22 a las 17:04 -0400, Sebastian Lara escribió:

(resending to the list)

> El viernes 22 de abril de 2011, Camaleón
> >
> > (...)
> >
> > There must be a string that uniquely identifies the converters despite
> > the device being attached on them... for instance, how about the serial
> > number? This value shouldn't be shared between the tree devices at all :-?
> 
> Yes. I can even change some serial values but we need to replicate
> this in several machines.

And what's the problem, exactly? :-?

You should be able to:

1/ Globally identify the converters by some attribute shared between 
all of them (such as vendor, device...).

2/ Uniquely identify converters by some attribute not being shared 
between all of them (such as serial number).

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Re: Backlight mystery - anyone shed light?

On Sat, 23 Apr 2011 08:50:07 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote:

> On 22 Apr 2011, Camaleón wrote:
>> On Tue, 19 Apr 2011 17:14:35 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote:
>> 
>> > My HP laptop tends to boot with a dim screen.
>> 
>> (...)
>> 
>> Hum... some of the new HP notebooks have a sensor that automatically
>> adjusts the brightness of the screen depending on the ambient light.
>> This can be turned off in windows but I dunno if there is such utility
>> for linux :-?
>> 
>> What video driver are you loading?
> 
> 
> This is a laptop (6735s) and is over a year old so not very new. I don't
> think it has that "feature".
>
>  It uses the radeon driver.

You will find out in the BIOS screen. If the feature is there, there 
should be an option to toggle it on/off under "system configuration menu/
buit-in options"
 
Also, check for a BIOS update, most of these "ACPI things" are usually 
fixed after updating to the latest BIOS.

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Re: Using Files Without Mounting A Share From Another System

On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 15:42:56 -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote:

> On Apr 22, 2011, at 1:56 PM, Camaleón wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 13:03:00 -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote:
>> 
>> (...)
>> 
>>> I need a way, on Linux, to access files on a network share, which
>>> could be SMB or NFS (or something else) without mounting the volume. 
>>> For example, if I'm on System A and I have an executable on System B,
>>> and it's on a network share on System B, is there any way to run that
>>> executable without mounting that share as a volume on System A?
>> 
>> Hum... I think it could be possible, just ensure that the file in the
>> share has the proper rights (that is, it should be executable by the
>> user).
>> 
>> As for java files, you could create a launcher on the desktop pointing
>> to the file:
>> 
>> java -jar smb://path/to/jar/file.jar
> 
> Does Java handle the SMB protocol on its own?  I know I can't list a
> directory that way with ls, even with the Samba client package
> installed.

Good question. 

Nowadays it should handle smb:// or other network protocol just the same 
it does with http:// but maybe it has auto-imposed some limitations on 
linux environments (at least under windows you can launch a java JAR that 
is stored in a network share) or is just the JAR file has to be prepared 
to be run over the network (IIRC, there is a jCIFS library to that 
precisely purpose).

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Re: Openjdk vs. sun-java in Debian

2011-04-23 Thread Liam O'Toole

On 2011-04-22, Klistvud  wrote:
> Howdie, fellow Debianites!
>
> I need somebody to explain to me in lay terms what's "wrong" with Java  
> in Debian. I'm running Squeeze and have recently bumped into two  
> Java-related issues:
>
> 1. The site http://ndt.switch.ch/ warns me about a missing Java Runtime  
> Environment and prompts me to install it. I checked with aptitude, and  
> sure enough, openjdk-6-jre is installed.

You will need the browser plugin as well as the JRE. See the table in
http://wiki.debian.org/Java for the available options. If you can
tolerate non-free software, then I recommend sun-java6-plugin.

>
> 2. The game  
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/bp2k6/files/Bolzplatz%202006/Bolzplatz%202006%20v1.0.3/
>   
> won't work, and I'm far too ignorant of Java to find out what exactly  
> I'm missing. Is it that I'm running 64-bit and the game is 32-bit? Or  
> do I need a particular plugin? Or perhaps just a symlink to the right  
> binary somewhere? Or the proprietary Java from Sun? Or something else?

Same reason as above, I suspect.

>
> Also, in general, how can I know when something Java-related won't  
> work, is it the fault of the open Java I'm using or some wrong  
> configuration somewhere in my system?

Hard to say. But you can investigate each incident by switching between
Java installations using /usr/sbin/update-java-alternatives (from the
java-common package).

>
> Is there any simple, yet good howto on this?
>

I haven't found a howto which is both simple and good. A lot of
documentation is available, but most of it is complicated and a lot of
it is obsolete.

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Re: lenny to squeeze dbus-daemon

On Vi, 22 apr 11, 18:28:23, Camaleón wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 12:34:26 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> 
> > I did my first server upgrade from Lenny to Squeeze the other day and
> > dbus-daemon was installed automatically.  
> 
> You should have instructed apt to do not install recommended packages by 
> default.

Depending on the box I have two approaches on dealing with Recommends:

1. low disk space
Turn Recommends off, but beware of missing functionality

2. sufficient disk space
Leave Recommends on, but inspect the list of packages to be installed, 
especially when the number of additional packages is more then say 5-10 
to 1. Aptitude interactive mode is great for this ;)

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Re: Ubuntu Crossgrade

On Jo, 21 apr 11, 11:55:05, George Standish wrote:
> On 21/04/11 06:14 AM, David Sanders wrote:
> 
> >So, a small question - How suicidal is crossgrading back to Debian by
> >altering my APT sources?
> 
> I was interested if this had any chance of working, so I tried in a
> VM to go from Ubuntu 10.10 to Squeeze.  I failed miserably (possibly
> due to user error, possibly not).  These are the steps I took:

10.10 is to new to be easy to cross-grade to squeeze. 10.04 to squeeze 
might work better.

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Re: file systems

On Jo, 21 apr 11, 22:10:10, Chris Brennan wrote:
> 
> You mentioned something about doing this on USB (solid-state?) storage? You
> might want to also consider reading up on USB's general policy about write
> few, read many. In a nutshell, most USB devices don't like to be written to
> many many times (such as a busy *primary* FS). They have a limited
> shelf-life of writes )wear leveling) before they go bad (I have an OCZ ATV
> rubber thumb drive that has suffered this.) This is why they tell you
> defragmenting SSD's is a *VERY* bad idea, you significantly reduce the write
> ability of the device.[4][5][6]

Defragmenting SSDs should also be unnecessary, since there are no heads 
to move to other regions ;)

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Re: lenny to squeeze dbus-daemon

2011-04-23 Thread Arno Schuring

Stan Hoeppner (s...@hardwarefreak.com on 2011-04-22 13:12 -0500):
> ~$ aptitude why dbus
> i   libdbus-1-3 Recommends dbus
> 
> ~$ aptitude why libdbus-1-3
> i   dbus Depends libdbus-1-3 (>= 1.0.2)
> 
> It appears my only dependency is circular.
Not necessarily. Sadly, aptitude why only discovers one reason, not
*all* reasons. More specifically, it stops its search at the first
non-automatically installed package.

> Aptitude says both are
> optional and not installed automatically.  But, considering dbus was
> not part of my Lenny system, nor Etch before it, it sure seems that
> it was automatically installed by the Squeeze upgrade.
Sadly, a dist-upgrade does not do a good job of keeping "automatically
installed" packages automatic. Try the following:
# aptitude markauto libdbus-1-3
$ aptitude why dbus

> So, my question stands.  Does (headless) Squeeze need the dbus-daemon
> for something that Lenny did not, or can I safely remove it?
$ aptitude -s purge dbus
should give you that answer.

On my two headless boxes, dbus is not installed, so it is not *always*
required. But like other have said, it really depends on the services
you're running on that box.


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Arno


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Re: changing my e-mail address

On Du, 17 apr 11, 10:19:30, sal migondis wrote:
> 
> That's not what he asked, is it...?!!!
> 
> OP:
> 
> "how do I MODIFY my address WITHOUT doing
> unsubscribe/subscribe"
> 
> Wise guy:
> 
> "The answer is... unsubscribe.. subscribe"
> 
> HElloooOO...??? Anybody home...???
> 
> I took a quick look, and I did not see any way you can
> do it.
> 
> And I think this is about as lame as it gets. So basically
> you have to fill out the subscription form again, reply to
> the email to confirm your subscription... etc.
> 
> Wise guy:
> 
> "That's not too hard"
> 
> Yeah, right.. Imagine for a second the OP is subscribed
> to .. TEN.. TWENTY.. different debian mailing lists...

But this piece of information was missing from the initial question and 
the answer is 'majordomo' ;)

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Re: changing my e-mail address