Re: how do I create a kdm login for non-desktop user
On 22/07/11 22:22, Jari Fredriksson wrote: 22.7.2011 14:35, Mark Charles kirjoitti: For remote maintenance I want to add a default user called fixme with no password to the system. If the remote user has problems with their computer they should be able to press Enter and fixme will login and run a script connecting the machine to the internet and send me the IP address in an email. You'll want to use curl or such to scrape the IP from a web page after connecting - which would require running as root... If the remote user is behind a firewall, ifconfig may not get you the info you need anyway. This exactly what I want thankyou! - Set the shell for fixme to your script. Which won't run the script.. snipped I am working on something similar - hence the script, please post your success here. Cheers I will. likely do what you suggest Many thanks - sorry if this reply is bad. Not at my computer so had to use Yahoo webmail :-( PS Small world, I think you built my friends computer can I email you some questions? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1311418197.89489.yahoomail...@web121505.mail.ne1.yahoo.com
Re: Postfix and virtual_transport = maildrop
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 5:05 PM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, 22 Jul 2011 11:03:25 +0200, Andrea Ganduglia wrote: I have a Debian-box well configured with Postfix+saslauthd+dovecot+spamassassin. Mail accounts are virtual, with password stored into MySQL and messages store into /home/vmail. I would like introduce maildrop in delivery chain, basically for move spam messages into proper .Junk account folder, but it's not so easy as I expected. (...) Yes, as Darac has suggested, use sieve for filter messages. It works very well (at least with Cyrus imap server that's what I use, but Dovecot should be similar) and is very easy to setup once you know how it works. Besides, there are also tools for users to manage their own filter rules at server side. Thanks! I read something around and it should be works. I'll try and I will know soon. Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/caheyzgo0seetczg5w+jp+srkemwoil8enwe8b99lebot8wa...@mail.gmail.com
why didn't /etc/nethack/nethackrc.console install?
Script started on Sat 23 Jul 2011 07:11:38 AM EDT jude@md:~$ ls /etc/net[K[K[K[K[K[K[K[K-al /etc/nethack/ total 9 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Jul 23 07:09 [0m[01;34m.[0m drwxr-xr-x 120 root root 7168 Jul 23 07:09 [01;34m..[0m -rw--- 1 root root 33 Jul 23 07:09 hearse.user-token jude@md:~$ nethack Access to /etc/nethack/nethackrc.console denied (2). Hit return to continue: [H[J[H[2;1HNetHack, Copyright 1985-2003[3;1H By Stichting Mathematisch Centrum and M. Stephenson.[4;1H See license for details.[5;1H [HRestoring save file...[K--More--[H[K[H[J[H[4;33H#-[5;5H[5;33H#---[5;45H#|[6;5H|..|[6;33H#|.|[6;46H|...|[7;5H|..|[7;33H#|.-#|...|[8;5H|...#|.|[8;45H#-...|[9;5H-|--[9;33H#..|[9;46H---.-[10;6H#[10;32H##|`|[11;6H#[11;34H-.-[12;6H#[13;6H#[14;6H#[15;6H##[16;5H--.--[17;5H|[18;5H|.f@|[18;19H--[19;5H|...-#|...|[20;5H-[20;18H#.[...+[21;19H--[18;8H[23;1HJude the Evoker St:10 Dx:13 Co:11 In:17 Wi:13 Ch:11 Neutral[K[24;1HDlvl:1 $:76 HP:[KDlvl:1 $:76 HP:7(12) Pw:8(8) AC:9 Exp:1[K[HHello jude, the human Wizard, welcome back to NetHack![K[18;8H[H[K[18;8H[HReally save? [yn] (n) [Ky[K[H[K[18;8H[HSaving...[K[H[K [H[J[HBe seeing you... jude@md:~$ exit exit Script done on Sat 23 Jul 2011 07:12:58 AM EDT -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/alpine.bsf.2.00.1107230714030.92...@freire1.furyyjbeyq.arg
Re: Unison hangs on copy
Hi Victor Am Samstag, 23. Juli 2011 schrieb Victor Munoz: Today, I lost the ability to synchronize between two machines, one had lenny until today morning, and the other was sid. I was using apt-pinning to keep both unison versions compatible. Yesterday night I was able to sync both machines for the last time. Then, today morning, I was not. It connects to the server, it recognizes the changes, and it offers me all the changes for approval. Then, when it has to start copying, it just waits for ever, and no progress is done. From yesterday morning on I see exactly the same problem on my machine. I am running latest SID here. On another machine with SID updated the last time one week ago running unison 2.32.52-3+b1 unison works perfectly. Johannes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201107231336.33384.newslet...@fichtinger.org
Re: IDT High Definition Audio Codec soundcard
On Fri, 22 Jul 2011 23:10:58 +0200, Andreas Berglund wrote: On 2011-07-22 17:35, Camaleón wrote: IDT is a very generic Sigma chipset. You will have to dig a bit into your system to find out more information about the codec it uses. For instance, give us the output of: cat /proc/asound/card0/codec#* | grep Codec aplay -L lspci -nn | grep -i audio Thanks for the help, I've attached the output of those commands result of cat /proc/asound/card0/codec#* | grep Codec Codec: IDT ID 76c7 (...) Mmm, that looks like a new sound codec or at least I've never seen that before. Have you tried with the usual things (alsamixer/gnome applet volume control) to configure the Intel card? Ensure you are using the Intel card because you also have a secondary one, coming from nvidia HDMI (cat / proc/asound/cards will tell what's the default). I could only found an Ubuntu bug for a similar card/chipset: *** [IDT ID 76e7] Dell Latitude E5520 - No sound through internal speakers, sound is only from headphones output with Ubuntu 10.04.2 and 10.10 - update Lucid ALSA LBM to latest release (1.0.24) https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-driver/+bug/792233 *** The bug points to the latest ALSA version but I'm not sure if that will solve your audio problem. To avoid messing up things, I would first try to load a LiveCD with the latest ALSA version (1.0.24) and see if that works. If yes, then consider upgrading ALSA for your Squeeze install. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.07.23.11.55...@gmail.com
Re: Unison hangs on copy
On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 01:36:33PM +0200, Johannes Fichtinger wrote: Am Samstag, 23. Juli 2011 schrieb Victor Munoz: Today, I lost the ability to synchronize between two machines, one had lenny until today morning, and the other was sid. I was using apt-pinning to keep both unison versions compatible. Yesterday night I was able to sync both machines for the last time. Then, today morning, I was not. It connects to the server, it recognizes the changes, and it offers me all the changes for approval. Then, when it has to start copying, it just waits for ever, and no progress is done. From yesterday morning on I see exactly the same problem on my machine. I am running latest SID here. On another machine with SID updated the last time one week ago running unison 2.32.52-3+b1 unison works perfectly. I use unison several times a day to sync over 100GiB of data. I see it stall quite frequently. I think it's a bug in unison, possibly timing related. I see it only when syncing over the internet on a DSL connection, not over a LAN. Note that sometimes it /does/ come back--you just have to wait, possibly several tens of minutes. This can happen if you have changed a big (multi-GiB in size) file, and it wants to reconcile the changes. But it can appear to be stuck. I have on occasion had to resort to deleting the cache/index files in ~/.unison/(arb|frp)* and getting it to rebuild them from scratch on both the client and server. Note that version 2.40.61 (not in Debian) fixes quite a few of these problems, but is still not perfect. But if you have the time to build it, it's a big improvement. The build scripts are slightly buggy though--it took me a while to work out and fix! Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `-GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail. signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: problem with ISA SB 16
To Ivan: What's in /dev/sndstat? Use the ls command? It shows it's linked to a file in /proc To Camaleón: Thanks! You always offer help when I seek help. The card is correctly installed, so MS Windows and etch can use it. The problem is with lenny. I will install a PCI sound card, it's easy Thanks anyway! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAB-gxZDs4Aggrp1SzBpJtdhQ=vzuktdu1ogseehw-ghfb-d...@mail.gmail.com
Re: Download Debian live CD testing?
opts! , sorry, pardon me, please apologise myself ,excuse me, disculpe yo for the non bis in idem of last day , maybe found something maybe useful (some said interesting) : http://live.debian.net/ with my best mr thuillier-charmet 23-07-2011 Hi, a colleague just asked where they can download Debian Live CD for testing/wheezy. Do they exist? TIA. Cheers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110721183428.10371zcv7dm18...@webmail.in-berlin.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/43813.90.9.207.81.1311422012.squirrel@80.248.217.5
Re: Backup Software
On Fri, 2011-07-22 at 15:44 +, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 23:52:45 -0400, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: What software would you recommend to backup a Debian system on a stand-alone computer? tar + compression tar + compression + encryption :-) -- Tixy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1311426634.23139.1.camel@computer2
Re: Unison hangs on copy
On 07/23/2011 07:36 AM, Johannes Fichtinger wrote: Hi Victor Am Samstag, 23. Juli 2011 schrieb Victor Munoz: Today, I lost the ability to synchronize between two machines, one had lenny until today morning, and the other was sid. I was using apt-pinning to keep both unison versions compatible. Yesterday night I was able to sync both machines for the last time. Then, today morning, I was not. It connects to the server, it recognizes the changes, and it offers me all the changes for approval. Then, when it has to start copying, it just waits for ever, and no progress is done. From yesterday morning on I see exactly the same problem on my machine. I am running latest SID here. On another machine with SID updated the last time one week ago running unison 2.32.52-3+b1 unison works perfectly. Johannes Hmmm. I'm going to add what will probably just be noise, but thought my situation just might be worth mentioning. I run Debian testing on four workstations. I use aptitude to upgrade all of them every day around 11:00-12:00 UTC. I also use unison-gtk to synchronize data among them. Yesterday following the updates I temporarily lost ability to synchronize two of these systems using unison-gtk 2.32.52-3+. Here's where the water gets much muddier. I rebooted the two troublesome systems. That was no help at all. In fact, I lost my ability to connect to the network with both of those systems. The tray icon (I use wicd.) and ifconfig indicated that I had a connected state with the correct IPs, but I couldn't hit my gateway with either of these two systems. I had the two of these systems which travel amongst various networks set to use ICMP filtering (including ping and pong). Guess which ones were having trouble. I changed the ICMP filtering to allow ping and pong, and everything started working -- the network connection and unison-gtk. In reviewing /var/log/aptitude I notice that the only dependency of unison-gtk that was upgraded in the past couple of days was libc6 (2.13-7 - 2.13-10), and that was during yesterday's upgrade session -- just before the trouble started. I have not bothered to re-instate ICMP filtering to its previous state of refusing ping and pong because -- a) I'm lazy, and b) its paranoid and silly and probably not good network etiquette for a network I've been given permission to visit. (I'm a consultant there.) What I'm reporting here is obviously not an exact match to the situations you (Victor and Johannes) are reporting. Victor specifically said he's not using any iptables rules, and I'm assuming Johannes would have mentioned any significant variation from that. Victor saw some more general network misbehavior, but Johannes didn't report any such issue. Of course, we're all using different versions of Debian. I'm only sending this because I found the confluence of similar behaviors on three (four?) different versions of Debian at exactly the same time period to be interesting. I thought there might be a peripheral -- if not a central -- connection here. Best regards, Gilbert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4e2ac834.6090...@comcast.net
Re: rsync backup question
Thomas H. George li...@tomgeorge.info writes: I partitioned a 1 TG usbdrive as ext3, mounted it as /usbmem [...] My object had been to backup everything before moving from Squeeze to Wheezy Any Suggestions? There isn't much point in using rsync since you're neither copying to a remote host, nor can you save time by copying only modified files because it's the first and probably only copy. Depending on what you're planning to do with the backup, tar would be a good choice, and cp -ax works very well, too; just watch out for lost+find directories when using cp. If you want a backup that can easily be restored to a bootable system, you're probably much better off creating a CD or DVD you can boot from and that includes a program to backup partitions to files and to restore them from files. -- http://www.asciiribbon.org/ http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1855 http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87oc0mh577@yun.yagibdah.de
limiting email sizes when sending files
Hi, what's there in Debian to mail files in parts with each part limited to a given maximum size? I need a commandline tool to do this --- metamail doesn't seem to exist anymore. -- http://www.asciiribbon.org/ http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1855 http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87vcutf8jj@yun.yagibdah.de
Re: Unison hangs on copy
On Saturday 23 July 2011 08:25:10 am Roger Leigh wrote: I use unison several times a day to sync over 100GiB of data. I see it stall quite frequently. I think it's a bug in unison, possibly timing related. I see it only when syncing over the internet on a DSL connection, not over a LAN. Don't know if this helps, but if unison uses rsync (which, iirc, someone mentioned it does), you should be aware that rsync has quite a bit of overhead (in some sense) to determine exactly which pieces of a file are different and then transmits only those. So, again, iirc, it does calculations both at the rsync server and the rsync client to get checksums (not quite the word I'm looking for, but close) of pieces of the file on both ends, then exchanges those checksums to see where differences exist, then exchanges the necessary pieces of the file, and finally reassembles the file. With very large files, it is not surprising to see the link quiet for periods of time while calculations are being done at each end. (I once read the academic thesis that the author of rsync wrote about the rsync algorithm--I don't accurately remember the details, but what I wrote above gives the general idea.) Randy Kramer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201107230921.22704.rhkra...@gmail.com
Re: 6rd vs. interfaces(5)
Ivan Shmakov i...@gray.siamics.net writes: Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com writes: On Jul 21, 2011, at 3:29 AM, Ivan Shmakov wrote: […] And in the case of NAT'ed IPv4, it's still possible to register for a free-of-charge tunnel service at http://sixxs.net/ and use AICCU (# apt-get install aiccu.) This (SIXXS) is what I use at home. It works a treat for me. Easy to set up. Easy to use. Fully connected to the IPv6 internet. One of the ISP's here has finally started to offer IPv6, namely: 6to4 (AIUI, they run their own gateway for that) and 6rd. Unfortunately, 6rd is only available for Linux 2.6.33 and later (as per Wikipedia), which isn't in Squeeze. It is actually pretty easy to compile and use your own kernel. Perhaps surprisingly, the kernel interface is pretty stable and you do not need to upgrade the rest of your world (unlike, say upgrading an important shared library). But anyway, is there a way to add a 6rd tunnel to interfaces(5)? TIA. -- FSF associate member #7257 -- Johan KULLSTAM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/8739hxm8gk@emmy.axel.nom
Re: limiting email sizes when sending files
On Sat, 23 Jul 2011 15:09:20 +0200, lee wrote: what's there in Debian to mail files in parts with each part limited to a given maximum size? I need a commandline tool to do this --- metamail doesn't seem to exist anymore. I use a custom script for that task that basically uses split (to cut the attachment in small chunks at the desired size) and mutt (to send it to the recipient). Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.07.23.13.40...@gmail.com
Re: problem with ISA SB 16
On Sat, 23 Jul 2011 20:49:51 +0800, Long Wind wrote: To Camaleón: Thanks! You always offer help when I seek help. The card is correctly installed, so MS Windows and etch can use it. The problem is with lenny. I will install a PCI sound card, it's easy Thanks anyway! ISA cards need to be properly initilized to be used and windows is not linux (meaning that windows could be doing this automatically but you still need to manually setup in your linux box) :-) Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.07.23.13.43...@gmail.com
Re: Backup Software
On Sat, 23 Jul 2011 14:10:34 +0100, Tixy wrote: On Fri, 2011-07-22 at 15:44 +, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 23:52:45 -0400, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: What software would you recommend to backup a Debian system on a stand-alone computer? tar + compression tar + compression + encryption :-) Encryption at hardware level, that's okay. Encryption at software level adds an extra layer of incompatiblity I prefer to avoid for backups. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.07.23.13.46...@gmail.com
[OT] BIOS Power On by PS/2 Keyboard
Hi, Since about 6 months I have an Asus M4N98TD EVO mobo. Very satisfied with it. It has a feature on its BIOS that got me stumped. BIOS has a Power Menu that has a submenu of APM configuration. APM configuration has an item Power On by PS/2 Keyboard that I had set to space bar. But I was getting errors on my keyboard. So I bought a new keyboard, which had exactly the same errors, so the problem was not the keyboard. So I disabled that feature. Now what has me stumped is that even though Power on by PS/2 Keyboard is disabled, I can still power on the system by hitting the space bar twice. And it seems that the keyboard errors have disappeared. Anyone venture an explanation? Thanks. Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/j0elb8$poc$1...@dough.gmane.org
Re: Daisy/MP3 player
Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com writes: I am wanting to mount a Daisy/MP3** player as a block device to get access to the files on it. dmesg* lists it, but I am not succeeding in finding its device name. fdisk -luc -- http://www.asciiribbon.org/ http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1855 http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87livpdqai@yun.yagibdah.de
Re: problem that ext3 not recognized on 4G usb external drive freshly formated. only ext2
Mitchell Laks ml...@post.harvard.edu writes: Rashi:/home/mlaks# fdisk /dev/sdd Better use fdisk -luc as suggested in the warning. Rashi:/home/mlaks# mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdd1 mkfs -t ext3 ... Rashi:/home/mlaks# mount -t ext2 /dev/sdd1 /mnt What do you expect when you explicitly mount the FS as ext2? -- http://www.asciiribbon.org/ http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1855 http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87pql1dql6@yun.yagibdah.de
Re: GPU hang EQ overflowing. The server is probably stuck in an infinite loop
José Silva jsantossi...@hotmail.com writes: On 22/07/11 10:41, lee wrote: there. Furthermore, I looked at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Troubleshooting/Freeze which says that a backtrace on Xorg.0.log is a non-symptom because this isn't an X crash. So, I guess the debugging xserver won't give any results. So, I guess the only thing that could give us information is intel_gpu_dump which I'm still not able to launch. Any idea how to do it? Hm, I can imagine that intel_gpu_dump tries to load (i. e. mmap() )some file which isn't there because the X server didn't crash and thus gives you the error message that it cannot mmap() a file that doesn't exist. Anyway, I had already reported the bug as #635039 but I wanted give some more information, which I still can't. You're saying in [1] that you have disabled GPUs to save power. Is the problem still there when don't disable the GPUs? [1]: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=635039#15 -- http://www.asciiribbon.org/ http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1855 http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87tyaddr17@yun.yagibdah.de
Re: IDT High Definition Audio Codec soundcard
Andreas Berglund andreas.bergl...@home.se writes: result of aplay -L Did you turn up the volume with alsamixer? -- http://www.asciiribbon.org/ http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1855 http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87hb6ddq3y@yun.yagibdah.de
Re: why didn't /etc/nethack/nethackrc.console install?
Jude DaShiell jdash...@shellworld.net writes: Script started on Sat 23 Jul 2011 07:11:38 AM EDT [...] see http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html -- http://www.asciiribbon.org/ http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1855 http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87d3h1ca0r@yun.yagibdah.de
Re: [OT] BIOS Power On by PS/2 Keyboard
Hugo Vanwoerkom hvw59...@care2.com writes: Now what has me stumped is that even though Power on by PS/2 Keyboard is disabled, I can still power on the system by hitting the space bar twice. And it seems that the keyboard errors have disappeared. Well, I consider a mainboard that does this as broken. What if the cat runs over the keyboard ... -- http://www.asciiribbon.org/ http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1855 http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87wrf9auqq@yun.yagibdah.de
Re: Backup Software
Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: Encryption at software level adds an extra layer of incompatiblity I prefer to avoid for backups. What is incompatible about creating an archive with tar and then encrypting it with gpg? -- http://www.asciiribbon.org/ http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1855 http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/8762mtc9vj@yun.yagibdah.de
Re: limiting email sizes when sending files
Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: On Sat, 23 Jul 2011 15:09:20 +0200, lee wrote: what's there in Debian to mail files in parts with each part limited to a given maximum size? I need a commandline tool to do this --- metamail doesn't seem to exist anymore. I use a custom script for that task that basically uses split (to cut the attachment in small chunks at the desired size) and mutt (to send it to the recipient). Yeah, that's what I thought of doing if there isn't a better option. How do you handle the mime stuff in your script so that the recipient can extract the file from the many messages easily? -- http://www.asciiribbon.org/ http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1855 http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/871uxhc9f8@yun.yagibdah.de
Re: [OT] BIOS Power On by PS/2 Keyboard
On Sat, 23 Jul 2011 09:20:22 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: (...) APM configuration has an item Power On by PS/2 Keyboard that I had set to space bar. But I was getting errors on my keyboard. So I bought a new keyboard, which had exactly the same errors, so the problem was not the keyboard. So I disabled that feature. Now what has me stumped is that even though Power on by PS/2 Keyboard is disabled, I can still power on the system by hitting the space bar twice. And it seems that the keyboard errors have disappeared. Anyone venture an explanation? You mean that although you have that option turned off in the BIOS you can still start your computer -from a cold state, not from suspension nor hibernation- when you hit the space bar? And just the space bar or any key? It could be a BIOS problem, then. Have you contacted Asus for this? Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.07.23.15.32...@gmail.com
Re: Unison hangs on copy
On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 01:36:33PM +0200, Johannes Fichtinger wrote: Hi Victor Am Samstag, 23. Juli 2011 schrieb Victor Munoz: Today, I lost the ability to synchronize between two machines, one had lenny until today morning, and the other was sid. I was using apt-pinning to keep both unison versions compatible. Yesterday night I was able to sync both machines for the last time. Then, today morning, I was not. It connects to the server, it recognizes the changes, and it offers me all the changes for approval. Then, when it has to start copying, it just waits for ever, and no progress is done. From yesterday morning on I see exactly the same problem on my machine. I am running latest SID here. On another machine with SID updated the last time one week ago running unison 2.32.52-3+b1 unison works perfectly. At least I'm not the only one... Victor -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110723153813.ga9...@llacolen.ciencias.uchile.cl
Re: /run pointing to /var/run instead of the opposite
El Viernes, 22 de Julio de 2011, Sven Joachim escribió: On 2011-07-22 16:44 +0200, Alejandro Exojo wrote: I'm running Debian unstable, and I have a chroot environment where I have another Debian unstable installation. Today I've updated the chroot environment because it was very dated, and I've noticed that /run is a symbolic link pointing to /var/run, instead of the other way round: In the chroot: $ file /run /var/run/ /run: symbolic link to `/var/run' /var/run/: directory In the true system: $ file /run/ /var/run /run/:directory /var/run: symbolic link to `/run' I think I can do the changes myself by hand, but I wonder if it will be appropriate (maybe is that way for a reason), or if I have hit a bug that I should report. This is intentional, read the sysvinit 2.88dsf-13.3 changelog entry for explanations. Ah, nice, it is explained very well there. I looked at the base-files changelog only. I need to change it because I need an application in the chroot to connect to CUPS from outside the chroot, and this is done through a socket on (/var)/run/cups. And schroot can't do the bind mount if the chroot /run is a link. I guess you need to do the changes yourself then. Note that the problem does not exist in freshly debootstrapped chroots. Ok, since my chroot isn't very used I will probably start from an empty installation. Thank you very much! -- Alex (a.k.a. suy) | GPG ID 0x0B8B0BC2 http://barnacity.net/ | http://disperso.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201107231740.29305@badopi.org
Re: Unison hangs on copy
On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 01:25:10PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: I use unison several times a day to sync over 100GiB of data. I see it stall quite frequently. I think it's a bug in unison, possibly timing related. I see it only when syncing over the internet on a DSL connection, not over a LAN. I have a lot of files being mirrored, but in this particular case there is no big file involved, and it's only a few files, about 20. Note that sometimes it /does/ come back--you just have to wait, possibly several tens of minutes. This can happen if you have changed a big (multi-GiB in size) file, and it wants to reconcile the changes. But it can appear to be stuck. I thought so, but at least one time I tried letting it go, and it finally exited with a 'lost connection to server' message. I have on occasion had to resort to deleting the cache/index files in ~/.unison/(arb|frp)* and getting it to rebuild them from scratch on both the client and server. Note that version 2.40.61 (not in Debian) fixes quite a few of these problems, but is still not perfect. But if you have the time to build it, it's a big improvement. The build scripts are slightly buggy though--it took me a while to work out and fix! Mm, I guess I will have to consider this. Deleting the cache would take a while given the number of files involved by now, but anyway, maybe I should try. Victor -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110723154542.gb9...@llacolen.ciencias.uchile.cl
Re: limiting email sizes when sending files
On Sat, 23 Jul 2011 17:18:35 +0200, lee wrote: Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: On Sat, 23 Jul 2011 15:09:20 +0200, lee wrote: what's there in Debian to mail files in parts with each part limited to a given maximum size? I need a commandline tool to do this --- metamail doesn't seem to exist anymore. I use a custom script for that task that basically uses split (to cut the attachment in small chunks at the desired size) and mutt (to send it to the recipient). Yeah, that's what I thought of doing if there isn't a better option. How do you handle the mime stuff in your script so that the recipient can extract the file from the many messages easily? That's up to the recipient and his MUA :-) I know there is at least one add-on for Thunderbird (AttachmentExtractor) to mass-extract attachments for the selected messages, though. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.07.23.15.47...@gmail.com
Re: Unison hangs on copy
On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 09:21:22AM -0400, Randy Kramer wrote: On Saturday 23 July 2011 08:25:10 am Roger Leigh wrote: I use unison several times a day to sync over 100GiB of data. I see it stall quite frequently. I think it's a bug in unison, possibly timing related. I see it only when syncing over the internet on a DSL connection, not over a LAN. Don't know if this helps, but if unison uses rsync (which, iirc, someone mentioned it does), you should be aware that rsync has quite a bit of overhead (in some sense) to determine exactly which pieces of a file are different and then transmits only those. So, again, iirc, it does calculations both at the rsync server and the rsync client to get checksums (not quite the word I'm looking for, but close) of pieces of the file on both ends, then exchanges those checksums to see where differences exist, then exchanges the necessary pieces of the file, and finally reassembles the file. With very large files, it is not surprising to see the link quiet for periods of time while calculations are being done at each end. (I once read the academic thesis that the author of rsync wrote about the rsync algorithm--I don't accurately remember the details, but what I wrote above gives the general idea.) In this case, there are no big files or many files involved, so it doesn't seem to be the problem. Victor -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110723155126.gc9...@llacolen.ciencias.uchile.cl
Re: Backup Software
On Sat, 23 Jul 2011 17:08:48 +0200, lee wrote: Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: Encryption at software level adds an extra layer of incompatiblity I prefer to avoid for backups. What is incompatible about creating an archive with tar and then encrypting it with gpg? Nothing... unless you have to extract the backup files on Windows, MacOS, another non-linux system or simply in a computer that has not installed the required program to cope with GPG for decrypting. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.07.23.15.51...@gmail.com
Re: Unison hangs on copy
On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 09:10:12AM -0400, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: In reviewing /var/log/aptitude I notice that the only dependency of unison-gtk that was upgraded in the past couple of days was libc6 (2.13-7 - 2.13-10), and that was during yesterday's upgrade session -- just before the trouble started. I have not bothered to re-instate ICMP filtering to its previous state of refusing ping and pong because -- a) I'm lazy, and b) its paranoid and silly and probably not good network etiquette for a network I've been given permission to visit. (I'm a consultant there.) What I'm reporting here is obviously not an exact match to the situations you (Victor and Johannes) are reporting. Victor specifically said he's not using any iptables rules, and I'm assuming Johannes would have mentioned any significant variation from that. Victor saw some more general network misbehavior, but Johannes didn't report any such issue. Of course, we're all using different versions of Debian. I'm only sending this because I found the confluence of similar behaviors on three (four?) different versions of Debian at exactly the same time period to be interesting. I thought there might be a peripheral -- if not a central -- connection here. Yes, it's interesting what you mention. I've also thought that this is not specifically related to unison, so I'm trying to update the sid machine, in case magic happens and some relevant package is fixed. Unfortunately, I hadn't updated in a while, and solving a few dependencies is braking other packages, so I have to do that with care. In fact, last weekend update was complex, and it was difficult for me to find a clue by checking the logs. Victor -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110723160001.gd9...@llacolen.ciencias.uchile.cl
Re: Unison hangs on copy
Just noticed that my replies today to this thread went with copy to the individual posters and the list... Sorry for the duplicate emails. Victor -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110723160227.ge9...@llacolen.ciencias.uchile.cl
Re: LaTeX to HTML converters and comments.
On Fri, 22 Jul 2011 09:19:47 -0800, peasthope wrote: tth converts LaTeX to HTML nicely but strips the comments. The manual remarks % Comments. Simply removed. Can anyone suggest a converter which encloses each comment in !-- --? Just out of curiosity, I have been looking for this and could not find any (la)tex to html package -hevea, tex4ht, latex2html...- which explicitly says that (la)tex comments will be converted into html tags. It seems a bit strange because at first glance it looks like this should be a one-to-one setting with no magic behind :-? Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.07.23.16.05...@gmail.com
Re: Unison hangs on copy
On Saturday 23 July 2011 11:51:26 am Victor Munoz wrote: On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 09:21:22AM -0400, Randy Kramer wrote: With very large files, it is not surprising to see the link quiet for periods of time while calculations are being done at each end. In this case, there are no big files or many files involved, so it doesn't seem to be the problem. Sorry it didn't help. ;-) Randy Kramer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201107231215.48670.rhkra...@gmail.com
Re: [OT] BIOS Power On by PS/2 Keyboard
Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 23 Jul 2011 09:20:22 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: (...) APM configuration has an item Power On by PS/2 Keyboard that I had set to space bar. But I was getting errors on my keyboard. So I bought a new keyboard, which had exactly the same errors, so the problem was not the keyboard. So I disabled that feature. Now what has me stumped is that even though Power on by PS/2 Keyboard is disabled, I can still power on the system by hitting the space bar twice. And it seems that the keyboard errors have disappeared. Anyone venture an explanation? You mean that although you have that option turned off in the BIOS you can still start your computer -from a cold state, not from suspension nor hibernation- when you hit the space bar? And just the space bar or any key? It could be a BIOS problem, then. Have you contacted Asus for this? I always during the last couple of months power off with 'acpitool -S'. BIOS Power on by PS/2 Keyboard is disabled. Then power is turned off on the system. Turn power back on, hit the space bar, and the system comes back up. Grub-legacy shows its menu and I select the partition that was running and that has 'resume=LABEL=6Y080P0.05'. That loads everything from the swap space and resumes. I have not tried other keys, but next time around I will. I have not asked Asus because I am afraid they will ask what version windows I have installed. This mobo has a weird feature: you can select 'express gate' and get access to a linux O/S that gets you access to the internet and skype. I have it disabled and never have tried that. Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/j0es93$v0v$1...@dough.gmane.org
Re: [OT] BIOS Power On by PS/2 Keyboard
lee wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom hvw59...@care2.com writes: Now what has me stumped is that even though Power on by PS/2 Keyboard is disabled, I can still power on the system by hitting the space bar twice. And it seems that the keyboard errors have disappeared. Well, I consider a mainboard that does this as broken. What if the cat runs over the keyboard ... No cat. But there is Mechas. But she has trouble depressing the 'on' button of the UPS... Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/j0esp8$v0v$2...@dough.gmane.org
Re: OT: Software that will populate a database from csv data?
On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 1:11 PM, Liam O'Toole otoo...@otoole.dyndns.org wrote: In gmane.linux.debian.user, you wrote: I'm looking for software that will accept as input a csv file and a database schema and will populate the database with the data in the csv. I'm not talking about something simple that will fill a single table, but rather something that can work foreign key constraints and can respect one-to-many, many-to-one and many-to-many relations. I don't have an answer to your question but I have to ask: how do expect to express all of the above in a simple CSV file? The data will be in the CSV file. The database schema will be needed as well, along with a mapping of CSV columns to database table columns. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAO=sjow+rhfez61fvas0mjagey7r2hmfezvuk2quj-tepbg...@mail.gmail.com
Re: OT: Software that will populate a database from csv data?
011/7/22 Stanisław Findeisen s...@eisenbits.com: I don't know of any such software but I could write something like this for you as a paid assignment. Are you interested? I've already started working on it, using sqlalchemy to provide an ORM solution along with it. Thanks for the offer though. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAO=sJoWJ=ocRm7nqiwzE=euwpbrcqy2hgiohepnmjcxekvj...@mail.gmail.com
Re: limiting email sizes when sending files
Hi, lee wrote: what's there in Debian to mail files in parts with each part limited to a given maximum size? I need a commandline tool to do this --- metamail doesn't seem to exist anymore. It would be far better to host files somewhere and send a link or links to the hosted files. Today we have far too many people sending large file attachments, the greater the megapixels of cameras the worse it'll get. And with faster Internet connections, we'll see people sending whole movies via email if they can. Limiting the problem, a little, is mailbox quota sizes. Way too many people ignore this issue. So many fun attachments can be found online, once found online, a simple link can be sent in an email. that is the way to go for those general, funny videos. The other thing that many people don't seem to understand, is that sending a large binary file as an attachment requires the attachment to be encoded back to printable characters -- this can increase the payload of an email by 50%. Do you get the idea that I think sending large attachments are a bad idea(tm) ?? It sure is a bad idea! Cheers -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solutions now including VoIP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4e2afa2c.4040...@affinityvision.com.au
Re: [OT] BIOS Power On by PS/2 Keyboard
On Sat, 23 Jul 2011 11:18:41 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Camaleón wrote: (...) Anyone venture an explanation? You mean that although you have that option turned off in the BIOS you can still start your computer -from a cold state, not from suspension nor hibernation- when you hit the space bar? And just the space bar or any key? It could be a BIOS problem, then. Have you contacted Asus for this? I always during the last couple of months power off with 'acpitool -S'. *** -S suspend (sleep state S4), if supported *** Then you are not powering off the computer but hibernating. BIOS Power on by PS/2 Keyboard is disabled. Then power is turned off on the system. Okay. Turn power back on, hit the space bar, and the system comes back up. Grub-legacy shows its menu and I select the partition that was running and that has 'resume=LABEL=6Y080P0.05'. That loads everything from the swap space and resumes. It looks like you are getting into hibernation instead of performing a full power off but anyway, AFAIK restoring from hibernation can be only done from power button, not from keyboard :-? I have not tried other keys, but next time around I will. Yes, and also try to completely shutdown the machine and then press the space bar to see what happens. Computer should not start. I have not asked Asus because I am afraid they will ask what version windows I have installed. Well, this is a BIOS issue more that a OS problem. This mobo has a weird feature: you can select 'express gate' and get access to a linux O/S that gets you access to the internet and skype. I have it disabled and never have tried that. I fear all of those new settings... I also prefer to keep the old-and- well-known options for the BIOS that have been working since decades and keep the rest disabled :-} Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.07.23.16.53...@gmail.com
Re: [OT] BIOS Power On by PS/2 Keyboard
Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 23 Jul 2011 11:18:41 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Camaleón wrote: (...) Anyone venture an explanation? You mean that although you have that option turned off in the BIOS you can still start your computer -from a cold state, not from suspension nor hibernation- when you hit the space bar? And just the space bar or any key? It could be a BIOS problem, then. Have you contacted Asus for this? I always during the last couple of months power off with 'acpitool -S'. *** -S suspend (sleep state S4), if supported *** Then you are not powering off the computer but hibernating. BIOS Power on by PS/2 Keyboard is disabled. Then power is turned off on the system. Okay. Turn power back on, hit the space bar, and the system comes back up. Grub-legacy shows its menu and I select the partition that was running and that has 'resume=LABEL=6Y080P0.05'. That loads everything from the swap space and resumes. It looks like you are getting into hibernation instead of performing a full power off but anyway, AFAIK restoring from hibernation can be only done from power button, not from keyboard :-? Right. That's what I thought. I believe that the BIOS Power on from Keyboard option brought on my keyboard errors. The new keyboard that I bought (since returned to the store...)had a multitude of multimedia buttons and a power button, which I hit, and... it powered off the system. As of yet the keyboard errors have not returned to my IBM keyboard from 1993. I have not tried other keys, but next time around I will. Yes, and also try to completely shutdown the machine and then press the space bar to see what happens. Computer should not start. I have not asked Asus because I am afraid they will ask what version windows I have installed. Well, this is a BIOS issue more that a OS problem. This mobo has a weird feature: you can select 'express gate' and get access to a linux O/S that gets you access to the internet and skype. I have it disabled and never have tried that. I fear all of those new settings... I also prefer to keep the old-and- well-known options for the BIOS that have been working since decades and keep the rest disabled :-} To make it worse, you have to use MS windows to download the Linux O/S for that Express Gate option. Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/j0evf9$ges$1...@dough.gmane.org
Re: GPU hang EQ overflowing. The server is probably stuck in an infinite loop
On 23/07/11 15:12, lee wrote: Hm, I can imagine that intel_gpu_dump tries to load (i. e. mmap() )some file which isn't there because the X server didn't crash and thus gives you the error message that it cannot mmap() a file that doesn't exist. Thank you for helping. You're saying in [1] that you have disabled GPUs to save power. Is the problem still there when don't disable the GPUs? Obviously I only disabled the nvidia GPU, left the intel operating, which can be checked by unplugging the AC adapter and checking around 23 Watt battery draining with nvidia ON, and about 13 Watt turning it off with acpi_call module. Ok, so I remove the module, even renamed the file just to be sure, reboot, checked battery drain just to be sure and triggered the freeze, which happened again. Connected by ssh and checked Xorg.0.log which had a backtrace, which doesn't always happen. I was then preparing to do the gpu_dump when I noticed that I had forgot to mount debugfs. So, cycled the whole thing again, mounted debugfs and this time the log didn't have a backtrace and doesn't do gpu_dump. Apparently, acpi_call doesn't contribute to the freeze, do you agree? Hope you have more ideas. rgds jss -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/blu0-smtp132a96d081c45197a463951d0...@phx.gbl
Re: pppoeconf can't find new Verizon DSL modem
On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 04:28:25PM +0530, Mahesh T Pai wrote: Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: Maybe you only need to set the new modem with the same parameters (local IP address -or dhcp- settings, username/pass, etc...) of the old one. Also, review pppoeconf logs. That configures the modem as a router. I don't want to configure the modem as a router. The man page for pppoeconf says it is just a user friendly program to set up pppoe. My problem is that pppoeconf cannot find the access accumulator (the dsl modem). The ppp-connect-errors log is full of Waiting for PADQ packet lines. I have studied the DSL-HOWTO (dated?) and the pppoe man page and am not much wiser. For the present the old modem is working fine and I must wait until Monday when the rest of the family is at work so I am free to bring the system down and experiment with the new modem. The public IP address is acquired by the modem. (I would rather call this thingie a device which can be used both as a modem and a router). While I use this set up, I hate this to the extreme. My net security is trusted to the unknown OS on the unknown device. The OP wants to configure the device as modem proper. That way, the public IP address is acquired by the machine running pppoe. -- Mahesh T. Pai || Learn from the mistakes of others. You won't live long enough to make all of them yourself. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87vcuts1pq@gmail.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110723185346.ga22...@tomgeorge.info
no recent Squeeze updates
I have not gotten any package updates, including security upgrades, in any of my Squeeze systems for at least two weeks. In my experience this is unprecedented. I have not changed my apt config or sources.list. Is there a change in the update policy? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4e2b23b2.8080...@ix.netcom.com
Re: limiting email sizes when sending files
Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: On Sat, 23 Jul 2011 17:18:35 +0200, lee wrote: Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: Yeah, that's what I thought of doing if there isn't a better option. How do you handle the mime stuff in your script so that the recipient can extract the file from the many messages easily? That's up to the recipient and his MUA :-) What do you do on the sending side? Send the parts as attachments as if they were complete files rather than parts? -- http://www.asciiribbon.org/ http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1855 http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87bowkbzvx@yun.yagibdah.de
Re: [OT] BIOS Power On by PS/2 Keyboard
Hugo Vanwoerkom hvw59...@care2.com writes: lee wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom hvw59...@care2.com writes: Now what has me stumped is that even though Power on by PS/2 Keyboard is disabled, I can still power on the system by hitting the space bar twice. And it seems that the keyboard errors have disappeared. Well, I consider a mainboard that does this as broken. What if the cat runs over the keyboard ... No cat. But there is Mechas. But she has trouble depressing the 'on' button of the UPS... What's Mechas? So everyone who uses this mainboard needs an UPS with an On button that is hard to press ... Is the UPS included then? -- http://www.asciiribbon.org/ http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1855 http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/8739hwbxrk@yun.yagibdah.de
Re: limiting email sizes when sending files
Andrew McGlashan andrew.mcglas...@affinityvision.com.au writes: Hi, lee wrote: what's there in Debian to mail files in parts with each part limited to a given maximum size? I need a commandline tool to do this --- metamail doesn't seem to exist anymore. It would be far better to host files somewhere and send a link or links to the hosted files. No, it won't. Today we have far too many people sending large file attachments, the greater the megapixels of cameras the worse it'll get. And with faster Internet connections, we'll see people sending whole movies via email if they can. What's the point of having good internet connections when you can't use them? Making your files publicly available by uploading them somewhere or by setting up your own web server may not be what you want. What's going to happen when you send URLs instead of files? The recipients may switch to their web browser /if/ they are sufficiently interested and look at the files. I usually don't do that; when someone wants to tell or to show me something, they should put it right into the email so that's easy for me to see. Then they might want to save the files, which might involve downloading them again, thus doubling the amount of data that needs to be transferred. Or they don't save them and download them again and again each time they need the files (like look at your pictures), thus multiplying the amount of data that needs to be transferred. At some time, you eventually don't run the web server anymore or don't have the files accessible anymore and the recipients can't see them anymore if they didn't save them. This can be an advantage if you want it to be that way, and it's a disadvantage when you don't. Why make it so complicated? It's totally pointless. Limiting the problem, a little, is mailbox quota sizes. Which problem? Tight quota limits suck and make an email account unusable. -- http://www.asciiribbon.org/ http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1855 http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/877h78by38@yun.yagibdah.de
Re: Backup Software
Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: On Sat, 23 Jul 2011 17:08:48 +0200, lee wrote: Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: Encryption at software level adds an extra layer of incompatiblity I prefer to avoid for backups. What is incompatible about creating an archive with tar and then encrypting it with gpg? Nothing... unless you have to extract the backup files on Windows, MacOS, another non-linux system Are you saying that when I encrypt a file with gpg on one computer, it's impossible to decrypt it on another one? or simply in a computer that has not installed the required program to cope with GPG for decrypting. Gpg is one of the basic programs that should be installed. If it isn't, it doesn't hurt to install it. You can say the same for tar or file systems ... -- http://www.asciiribbon.org/ http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1855 http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87y5zoaiv5@yun.yagibdah.de
Re: GPU hang EQ overflowing. The server is probably stuck in an infinite loop
José Silva jsantossi...@hotmail.com writes: On 23/07/11 15:12, lee wrote: You're saying in [1] that you have disabled GPUs to save power. Is the problem still there when don't disable the GPUs? Obviously I only disabled the nvidia GPU, [...] Ok, so I remove the module, even renamed the file just to be sure, reboot, checked battery drain just to be sure and triggered the freeze, which happened again. [...] Apparently, acpi_call doesn't contribute to the freeze, do you agree? Yes, since the freeze occurs no matter whether the GPUs are disabled or not, it doesn't seem likely that it has anything to do with the disabling. Hope you have more ideas. Well, you could check the sources of the driver to see if you can find out what's going on or try to run the X server in the debugger to get more information. Or you wait until the bug is fixed or someone who knows more has an idea --- or you can use the NVIDIA card instead of the intel one or you don't do anything that triggers the freeze. -- http://www.asciiribbon.org/ http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1855 http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87tyacaib5@yun.yagibdah.de
Re: [OT] BIOS Power On by PS/2 Keyboard
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 23 Jul 2011 11:18:41 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Camaleón wrote: (...) Anyone venture an explanation? You mean that although you have that option turned off in the BIOS you can still start your computer -from a cold state, not from suspension nor hibernation- when you hit the space bar? And just the space bar or any key? It could be a BIOS problem, then. Have you contacted Asus for this? I always during the last couple of months power off with 'acpitool -S'. *** -S suspend (sleep state S4), if supported *** Then you are not powering off the computer but hibernating. BIOS Power on by PS/2 Keyboard is disabled. Then power is turned off on the system. Okay. Turn power back on, hit the space bar, and the system comes back up. Grub-legacy shows its menu and I select the partition that was running and that has 'resume=LABEL=6Y080P0.05'. That loads everything from the swap space and resumes. It looks like you are getting into hibernation instead of performing a full power off but anyway, AFAIK restoring from hibernation can be only done from power button, not from keyboard :-? Right. That's what I thought. I believe that the BIOS Power on from Keyboard option brought on my keyboard errors. The new keyboard that I bought (since returned to the store...)had a multitude of multimedia buttons and a power button, which I hit, and... it powered off the system. As of yet the keyboard errors have not returned to my IBM keyboard from 1993. I have not tried other keys, but next time around I will. Hitting any key powers up the system. Hugo snip -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/j0fcn1$kks$1...@dough.gmane.org
Re: [OT] BIOS Power On by PS/2 Keyboard
lee wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom hvw59...@care2.com writes: lee wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom hvw59...@care2.com writes: Now what has me stumped is that even though Power on by PS/2 Keyboard is disabled, I can still power on the system by hitting the space bar twice. And it seems that the keyboard errors have disappeared. Well, I consider a mainboard that does this as broken. What if the cat runs over the keyboard ... No cat. But there is Mechas. But she has trouble depressing the 'on' button of the UPS... What's Mechas? So everyone who uses this mainboard needs an UPS with an On button that is hard to press ... Is the UPS included then? Mechas is not a 'what', she is a 'who'. I have an UPS to prevent damage from power outages which are common here. The UPS is an APC BR700G and completely separate from the system with the Asus mobo. Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/j0fdi4$pse$1...@dough.gmane.org
Re: Backup Software
mark wrote: On Wednesday 20 July 2011 11:52:45 pm Ethan Rosenberg wrote: Dear List - What software would you recommend to backup a Debian system on a stand-alone computer? I've used mondoarchive for years. It works and is well supported by the author and community. It is NOT GUI based. This is a major advantage if your system crashes and you can get to a console, but not to a gui. (I had that problem a couple of months ago. Mondoarchive saved my computer's data and allowed me to restore it.) It backs up to CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, USB key/disk, Tape, Net mount or hard disk. It compresses the data and makes your backup media bootable (within reason). It is worth the time. I second that. I have used mondoarchive for years and it is my tool of choice. Very well supported too, although presently without Debian Maintainer. Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/j0fdon$pse$2...@dough.gmane.org
Re: no recent Squeeze updates
On Sat, 23 Jul 2011 15:40:34 -0400 Marty mar...@ix.netcom.com wrote: I have not gotten any package updates, including security upgrades, in any of my Squeeze systems for at least two weeks. In my experience this is unprecedented. I have not changed my apt config or sources.list. Is there a change in the update policy? I have to admit that I haven't had an update for a while, but not sure it's two weeks. I'm subscribed to the security updates for Squeeze, and the last security fix was for the package opie, which was on the 21st. Probably like me, you've just got packages installed that haven't had security fixes recently, which isn't the same as there being no security updates for Squeeze as a whole. Graham -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/2011072346.1fe1e...@pluto.lan
Re: ssh: no route to host
Le 15177ième jour après Epoch, Camaleón écrivait: No route to host usually means I cannot see the machine at all and I cannot see the machine at all usually involves: a) SSH service is not running on the client b) IP of the client is unreachable I don't agree with that. No route to host means: I or some other router on the road can't find the hardware associated with the IP given, or the way to reach it. The reasons are often: 1) machine is power off/unplugged/whatever that involves ARP resolution. 2) the routes (default or other) are pointing to a wrong interface. Please, OP, could you post the result of the route or ip route command on the originating machine and the router? And what kind of router is it? Try also to send a ping from the destination machine to the ssh-originating one, and then ssh it again, to see if it changes something. Anyway, sending us the results of ifconfig on each peer is also a good idea. HTH. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87mxg4u1xq@fermat.tourde.home
Re: no recent Squeeze updates
On 2011-07-23, Marty mar...@ix.netcom.com wrote: I have not gotten any package updates, including security upgrades, in any of my Squeeze systems for at least two weeks. In my experience this is unprecedented. I have not changed my apt config or sources.list. Is there a change in the update policy? A list of recent security advisories is at http://www.debian.org/security/. You can check which of them apply to your systems. -- Liam O'Toole Cork, Ireland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/slrnj2mgu2.5p0.liam.p.otoole@dipsy.tubbynet
Re: vbox sid invalid mcookie
Liam O'Toole wrote: I think something is broken in the terminal emulator. You are able to launch gnome-terminal itself (presumably from the menu or the Alt-F2 dialog), Yes gnome-terminal menu // Alt-F2 lxterminal desktop icon // Alt-F2 xterm . desktop icon // Alt-F2 but then something within that environment is causing your problem. I suggest you try launching from xterm. xterm no change, display problem persists $ xdpyinfo unable to open display 0:0 There is no problem launching X applications from the gnome menu, desktop icons, or Alt-F2 Attempts to launch X apps from either of 3 different terminal apps fails -- Stanley C. Kitching Human Being Phoenix, Arizona -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/j0fqd3$md2$1...@dont-email.me
Re: pppoeconf can't find new Verizon DSL modem
Forwarded Message From: Thomas H. George li...@tomgeorge.info To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: pppoeconf can't find new Verizon DSL modem Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2011 14:53:46 -0400 I'm a PPPoE user too, we are dinos :(. No issues for my ADSL modem when using Debian for the Internet, but PPPoE failed here, when I tried to do the Debian net install. I guess we PPPoE users should think about using a rooter. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1311475608.6857.73.camel@debian
urlsnarf (dsniff) segfaulting
urlsnarf (from the dsniff package) always segfaults on startup on my system (uptodate Sid). I reported a bug, but haven't gotten any response. Anyone else either seeing this, or having a working urlsnarf? Any suggestions? http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=633926 Celejar -- foffl.sourceforge.net - Feeds OFFLine, an offline RSS/Atom aggregator mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110723233306.2b76dcb14c457890e73f1...@gmail.com
Re: limiting email sizes when sending files
Hi, lee wrote: Andrew McGlashan andrew.mcglas...@affinityvision.com.au writes: What's the point of having good internet connections when you can't use them? Making your files publicly available by uploading them somewhere or by setting up your own web server may not be what you want. What, so you can abuse it? And all the servers involved, people with email accounts? Heck, loads of rubbish gets sent via email that is of no use to the receiver at all. And many images are seen once on a computer screen, but come as multi-megabyte files which will never get printed. Run a mail server, back it up properly and tell me if you want super huge files wasting space there, let alone the resource requirements to process the junk. If a file is important, it will be downloaded and it need not be so hard. Downloading via email increases the payload considerably and in many cases for files that are not wanted or are not wanted in such a large file size format. Downloading from a file share resource is much more efficient. Which problem? Tight quota limits suck and make an email account unusable. People have trouble with 40MB quota limits, I've seen one client send 3 emails in short succession totalling 60MB, that is utter abuse and most receiver's won't be able to accept that much in their normal sized quotas. There are many, much better ways to share large files privately, email is a very bad choice for this requirement. -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solutions now including VoIP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4e2bab93.7020...@affinityvision.com.au
Re: limiting email sizes when sending files
Hi, lee wrote: what's there in Debian to mail files in parts with each part limited to a given maximum size? I need a commandline tool to do this --- metamail doesn't seem to exist anymore. This problem _should_ _not_ exist. How horrible to need to piece together parts again later. Think again, find a better solution. -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solutions now including VoIP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4e2bac67.3050...@affinityvision.com.au
