Re: "This might mean you need to manually fix this package"

On Fri,05.Sep.08, 14:38:42, H.S. wrote: [...] > So, the question I have now is to ask the experienced gurus here whether > everything went okay. Is there any way I can confirm all is well with my > packages in the machine? What does dpkg think of this? 'dpkg -l *parted*' Regards, Andrei -- I

Re: Using projector on D630 (debian lenny+xfce)?

2008/9/6 Michael Yang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > When I connected the projector, I pressed Fn+F8 just same as I do on > Windows, but nothing happened. You need to either boot with projector connected, in which case all screens will on projector and nothing on monitor. Or build xorg.conf for two scree

Re: "This might mean you need to manually fix this package"

Wayne Topa wrote: > H.S. wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I updated my Debian Testing machine this morning and noticed that I was >> getting an error from dpkg. The cause was no space on /var. If I tried >> to reinstall the package which was showing the problem I got this: > i > If I missed if you tried apti

Re: For Lenny: LVM, LVM+MD or just MD for mirroring?

Jens wrote: > Just out of curiosity, what exactly did you do? -- snip from kickstart -- # manually isntall grub cat >/tmp/grub.txt <&1 | tee /root/grub-install.txt -- end snip -- Now that I thought about it I never did have a disk failure so I didn't actually test it.. BUT without doing that u

Using projector on D630 (debian lenny+xfce)?

Hi guys: I have debian lenny 2.6.24 and xfce4 on my laptop(DELL D630) and I'm trying to connecting the projector to my laptop, but it didn't work. The video card on my laptop is: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation Quadro NVS 135M [10de:042b] (rev a1) When I connected the

Re: For Lenny: LVM, LVM+MD or just MD for mirroring?

Jens wrote: > Just out of curiosity, what exactly did you do? I'll have to dig up the configs, will send a reply when I find them.. > That was an advantage, true. > Nowadays you can mount using UUIDs or disk labels which also works > fine. Yeah that's true.. > OK, I do this with quotas mainly.

Re: "This might mean you need to manually fix this package"

H.S. wrote: Hello, I updated my Debian Testing machine this morning and noticed that I was getting an error from dpkg. The cause was no space on /var. If I tried to reinstall the package which was showing the problem I got this: i If I missed if you tried aptitude/apt-get autoclean I'm sorry, b

Re: For Lenny: LVM, LVM+MD or just MD for mirroring?

On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 12:59:01PM -0700, Jens wrote: > On 5 Sep., 21:20, "Brian Schrock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > We use LVM and software raid via md on every server. We use md to run raid > > 10 arrays and then we use LVM on top of that. We use snapshots to backup our > > Hello Brian, >

UPDATE - Was Re: Challenge - Getting Debian Working on a Pair of Real Old Laptops

On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 21:52 -0700, Scarletdown wrote: > I have a pair of old P-I based Toshiba Laptops (Satellite Pro 425CDT and > Portege 650CT), and I am trying to figure out how to get a working > Debian installation on them. These laptops are very light on RAM. The > Satellite has 40MB (which

Re: Getting DHCP logs OUT of syslog

Chris Davies wrote: > Jim Hyslop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> HOWEVER! All the DHCP logging info is *still* going into /var/log/syslog >> as well - i.e. the DHCP info now goes into BOTH logs. How do I tell >> DHCP to send the logs ONLY to local7? > > Turn it around: you tell syslog.conf not to wr

Re: Emacs has hard time with big text files

On 09/05/2008 07:19 AM, Martin wrote: When I open big text file (46M in this case) emacs take long time for moving cursor and editing. It takes 3-4 seconds to process every key press. Is this only my case or is emacs in general sluggish with big files? Martin How much RAM do you have? What

Re: partitions

Mark Grieveson wrote: Thanks for this detailed response. And thanks to others for their feedback. At some point in the future, I'm going to give this a try. I should get a larger, and/or additional hard-drive first, though, for backups. In browsing the available list of packages, I saw the pa

Re: Emacs has hard time with big text files

Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 11:14:04AM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: If he's filled up memory, and the system has swapped the code EMACS uses to move the cursor to disc, then he may be seeing lag due to swap time to move the code in and execute it. That might or might not slow do

Re: College Wifi - Problems with .pl file

On Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:27:39 +0200 Tim Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't think it's a problem with firefox, it looks like a screwed-up > webserver which, judging by your earlier emails in this thread, you > don't have much hope of getting fixed. Although he said it does work on an iP

Re: For Lenny: LVM, LVM+MD or just MD for mirroring?

On 5 Sep., 21:20, "Brian Schrock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We use LVM and software raid via md on every server. We use md to run raid > 10 arrays and then we use LVM on top of that. We use snapshots to backup our Hello Brian, sounds good - what made you stack MD and LVM, and not use LVM's mi

Re: Dns bind9 not foward

I also tried to install bind and setup it only forward query to Opendns, but i don't know because it doesn't work! Any idea? Chris Davies wrote: Enrico Farabollini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [-- text/html, encoding 7bit, charset: ISO-8859-1, 57 lines --] [-- text/plain, encodin

Re: Emacs has hard time with big text files

On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 11:14:04AM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: > If he's filled up memory, and the system has swapped the code > EMACS uses to move the cursor to disc, then he may be seeing > lag due to swap time to move the code in and execute it. > > That might or might not slow down other applic

Re: For Lenny: LVM, LVM+MD or just MD for mirroring?

On 5 Sep., 20:10, "nate" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jens wrote: > > Generally I would like to hear any experiences with LVM2 you can > > offer. > > The last time I tried LVM I hosed everything, but that was eight years > > ago, at least partly due to a user error, and with LVM1 on Debian > > Woo

Re: Emacs has hard time with big text files

Jeff Soules wrote: On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 12:14 PM, Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Must... not... compare... emacs... to... Operating... System... I wasn't comparing anything to anything. I don't understand even what your objection might be. In the old vi-vs.-EMACS flamewars it was

Re: For Lenny: LVM, LVM+MD or just MD for mirroring?

We use LVM and software raid via md on every server. We use md to run raid 10 arrays and then we use LVM on top of that. We use snapshots to backup our mySQL servers and it works great. We do nightly snapshots and rsync/tar that stuff to central on line storage server. Though we do have to issue a

Re: Emacs has hard time with big text files

On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 12:14 PM, Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Must... not... compare... emacs... to... Operating... System... > > I wasn't comparing anything to anything. I don't understand > even what your objection might be. In the old vi-vs.-EMACS flamewars it was often claimed b

"This might mean you need to manually fix this package"

Hello, I updated my Debian Testing machine this morning and noticed that I was getting an error from dpkg. The cause was no space on /var. If I tried to reinstall the package which was showing the problem I got this: $> sudo aptitude reinstall gparted Reading package lists... Done Building depende

Re: For Lenny: LVM, LVM+MD or just MD for mirroring?

Jens wrote: > Generally I would like to hear any experiences with LVM2 you can > offer. > The last time I tried LVM I hosed everything, but that was eight years > ago, at least partly due to a user error, and with LVM1 on Debian > Woody > with a self-compiled kernel on 2.4.2x. I would stick to MD

Re: Getting DHCP logs OUT of syslog

Jim Hyslop wrote: > Hi, > > I have configured my dhcp.conf to use the local7 facility for logging. > Works great - all the DHCP info goes into /var/log/bind.log, as > configued in /etc/syslog.conf. > > HOWEVER! All the DHCP logging info is *still* going into /var/log/syslog > as well - i.e. the DH

Re: Getting DHCP logs OUT of syslog

Jim Hyslop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > HOWEVER! All the DHCP logging info is *still* going into /var/log/syslog > as well - i.e. the DHCP info now goes into BOTH logs. How do I tell > DHCP to send the logs ONLY to local7? Turn it around: you tell syslog.conf not to write local7 entries to /var/lo

Re: Dns bind9 not foward

Enrico Farabollini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [-- text/html, encoding 7bit, charset: ISO-8859-1, 57 lines --] > [-- text/plain, encoding 7bit, charset: ISO-8859-1, 41 lines, name: dig --] > [-- text/plain, encoding 7bit, charset: ISO-8859-1, 41 lines, name: dig1 --] There's nothing obviously wro

For Lenny: LVM, LVM+MD or just MD for mirroring?

Hi everybody, I am a long term Debian user (since 1996, actually). I am about to set up a new debian server using Lenny, which will go into production probably in October. This machine will use lighttpd, mysql, dovecot/postfix among others. Currently I use two harddisks and MD for all servers to

Re: Emacs has hard time with big text files

On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 11:14:04AM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 09/05/08 10:46, Mike McCarty wrote: >>> Martin wrote: When I open big text file (46M in this case) emacs take long time for moving cursor and editing. It takes 3-4 seconds to process every key pr

Re: Emacs has hard time with big text files

Ron Johnson wrote: On 09/05/08 10:46, Mike McCarty wrote: Martin wrote: When I open big text file (46M in this case) emacs take long time for moving cursor and editing. It takes 3-4 seconds to process every key press. Is this only my case or is emacs in general sluggish with big files? Have

Re: Emacs has hard time with big text files

On 09/05/08 10:46, Mike McCarty wrote: Martin wrote: When I open big text file (46M in this case) emacs take long time for moving cursor and editing. It takes 3-4 seconds to process every key press. Is this only my case or is emacs in general sluggish with big files? Have you looked at the ou

Linux media labs lmlm411 board installation

Hi I'd like to know if I could have some pointers about the installation of a lmlm411 model in a Debian Lenny system (2.6.26 kernel). Given the fact that the linvs module source code included with the board is only for Red Hat based systems, I need to know which kernel module I have to load to

Re: Emacs has hard time with big text files

Martin wrote: When I open big text file (46M in this case) emacs take long time for moving cursor and editing. It takes 3-4 seconds to process every key press. Is this only my case or is emacs in general sluggish with big files? Have you looked at the output from top? You may be swapping. Mik

Getting DHCP logs OUT of syslog

Hi, I have configured my dhcp.conf to use the local7 facility for logging. Works great - all the DHCP info goes into /var/log/bind.log, as configued in /etc/syslog.conf. HOWEVER! All the DHCP logging info is *still* going into /var/log/syslog as well - i.e. the DHCP info now goes into BOTH logs.

Re: College Wifi - Problems with .pl file

On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 7:48 AM, Mike Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Firefox says "Download login.pl?". Half the time it downloads home.html, and > half the time it downloads login.pl, both files blank as /dev/null. I guess > it's a problem with Firefox, then? Some web browsers (notably IE) wi

Re: College Wifi - Problems with .pl file

I don't think it's a problem with firefox, it looks like a screwed-up webserver which, judging by your earlier emails in this thread, you don't have much hope of getting fixed. I'd try http://livehttpheaders.mozdev.org/installation.html first to verify that it is the content-type header that's

Re: error in script

On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 11:59:46AM +0200, Jochen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > L.V.Gandhi: > > On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 2:42 PM, Jochen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>> cat ~/stock/flstock.csv |cut -s -d, -f2|sort >> ~/stock/fliquidstocks.txt > >> > >> Useless use of ca

Re: Emacs has hard time with big text files

On 2008-09-05 14:19 +0200, Martin wrote: > When I open big text file (46M in this case) emacs take long time for > moving cursor and editing. It takes 3-4 seconds to process every key > press. > > Is this only my case or is emacs in general sluggish with big files? Which version of Emacs is this?

Re: error in script

L.V.Gandhi wrote: On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 8:00 AM, David Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: - Original Message - From: "L.V.Gandhi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Thursday, September 4, 2008 9:50 pm Subject: error in script

Re: College Wifi - Problems with .pl file

On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 4:50 AM, Tim Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > So what is actually in the login.pl file that your college's webserver > sends to firefox? Is it perl code (presumably their actual login script)? Or > is it HTML? or is it blank? > > I have heard a rumour that if the webser

Emacs has hard time with big text files

When I open big text file (46M in this case) emacs take long time for moving cursor and editing. It takes 3-4 seconds to process every key press. Is this only my case or is emacs in general sluggish with big files? Martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubs

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Re: error in script

On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 3:29 PM, Jochen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > L.V.Gandhi: > > On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 2:42 PM, Jochen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > >>> cat ~/stock/flstock.csv |cut -s -d, -f2|sort >> > ~/stock/fliquidstocks.txt > >> > >> Useless use of cat. :) > > > > How i

Re: error in script

L.V.Gandhi: > On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 2:42 PM, Jochen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> cat ~/stock/flstock.csv |cut -s -d, -f2|sort >> ~/stock/fliquidstocks.txt >> >> Useless use of cat. :) > > How it can be done more efficiently, please? Just pass the filename to cut as an argument: cut

Re: copy contacts in pidgin

* Daniel Dalton had this to say on [05 Sep 2008, 18:03:59 +1000]: > Hi, > > How can I copy my contacts from my old msn account to my new msn > account? Instead of doing each one manually? Try the listhandler plugin (http://plugins.guifications.org/trac/wiki/listhandler) Sadrul -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: error in script

On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 2:42 PM, Jochen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > L.V.Gandhi: > > > > #!/bin/bash > > rm -f ~/stock/flstock.csv > > grep FUTSTK ~/stock/today/$1 |grep "25/09/2008"|cut -s -d, -f9|sort -nr > > > temp > > You really shouldn't use "temp" as a name. See 'man mktemp'. > > > i=0

Re: error in script

L.V.Gandhi: > > #!/bin/bash > rm -f ~/stock/flstock.csv > grep FUTSTK ~/stock/today/$1 |grep "25/09/2008"|cut -s -d, -f9|sort -nr > > temp You really shouldn't use "temp" as a name. See 'man mktemp'. > i=0 > for trv in $(cat temp) > do You could save this use of cat with this idiom: while read

Re: College Wifi - Problems with .pl file

So what is actually in the login.pl file that your college's webserver sends to firefox? Is it perl code (presumably their actual login script)? Or is it HTML? or is it blank? I have heard a rumour that if the webserver doesn't send the right Content-type header (eg. Content-type: text/html) I

Re: copy contacts in pidgin

On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 9:03 AM, Daniel Dalton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > How can I copy my contacts from my old msn account to my new msn > account? Instead of doing each one manually? AFAIK MSN keeps the authoratitive list of contacts on the server, so any local changes to config files

Re: ia32-libs and vmware-server [solved]

kj wrote: Hi guys, Running the vmware server client on Lenny-64bit comes up with an error (I'll put it at the bottom). The only suggestion I've found so far that solves this is to downgrade ia32-libs from 2.6 to 1.19. Unfortunately ia32-libs 2.6 is a dependency for ia32-libs-gtk 2.6, whic

Re: can rkhunter propupdate correctly be run?

On 2008-09-05 09:52, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Given the changes in the debian system is it correct to run rkhunter > propupdate or may something else be going on? I'd verify from /var/log/aptitude, if the files in question are really affected by an aptitude upgrade (assuming you run aptitude for upg

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