Re: etckeeper - keeping /etc under version control

2009-07-07 Thread Scott Gifford
Peter Jordan writes: > Suno Ano, Wed Jun 17 2009 19:07:31 GMT+0200 (CEST): >> Peter> Metadata = data stored in .svn/ ? >> yes, problem is, Subversion does not have one directory i.e. one >> .svn/ >> at the root of the project where is stores metadata but it scatters them >> all over the place wh

Re: KDE, openoffice bug

2009-07-07 Thread Dotan Cohen
You may want to configure Thunderbird to recognize list mail and send it as plain text automatically. The Thunderbird HTML destroys quoting levels. > Okay, well I used that command. BUT,  it DOES NOT list FIREFOX as one of the > alternatives. There are only 4 listed: >    1    /usr/bin/konqueror >

Re: Resizing partitions on production environment

2009-07-07 Thread Daniel Suleyman
sorry forgot to cat fstab user:~# cat /etc/fstab # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/cciss/c0d0p1 / ext3 errors=remount-ro 0 1 /dev/cciss/c0d0p9 /home ext3 defaults 0 2 /dev/cciss/c0d0p8 /tmp ext3 defaults 0 2 /dev/cciss/c0d0p5 /usr ext3 default

Re: Resizing partitions on production environment

2009-07-07 Thread Suno Ano
If the filesystem allows for it, you can do it online. There, in line 389, is an example of howto grow xfs: http://sunoano.name/ws/public_xhtml/lvm.html#resizing_volumes pgpul0F7Q9xfp.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: dpkg --set-selections and aptitude

2009-07-07 Thread Suno Ano
Jochen> Do I get it right that you are doing it basically the same way Jochen> but just use 'aptitude install' instead of 'apt-get Jochen> dselect-upgrade'? yes Jochen> If yes, this puzzles me even further since I did the same as Jochen> you but when I run 'aptitude install' aptitude still w

Resizing partitions on production environment

2009-07-07 Thread Daniel Suleyman
Dear all, i have big issues. I've installed lenny on my server, installed all programs and ran it on production, ut now i need to install oracle on it. My artitions have sizes user:~# df -kh Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/cciss/c0d0p1 327M 141M 170M 46% / tmpfs 5.9G 0 5.9G 0% /lib/

Re: etckeeper - keeping /etc under version control

2009-07-07 Thread Suno Ano
Hi folks, Chris> Actually I took a peek with Seamonkey as well and apart from Chris> white rabbits that I could live without - and other prettifying Chris> that I definitely will live without :-) everything renders OK. http://sunoano.name/ws/public_xhtml/faq.html#your_site_css_sucks_mate!_i_ha

Re: Help with ndiswrapper and Broadcom wireless

2009-07-07 Thread JoeHill
Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 14:28:13 -0400, JoeHill wrote: > > Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 11:29:50 -0400, JoeHill wrote: > > > > JoeHill wrote: > > > > > Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > > > > Try "modprobe -v wl" as root; that should either

Re: Does Debian = Ubuntu?

2009-07-07 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 06:59:36PM -0500, Chris wrote: > On Tue, 7 Jul 2009 16:55:01 -0700 > Daniel Spisak wrote: > > > > > This is not a flippant question, but one I'm curious to hear an > > answer to. > > > > Is Ubuntu just Debian but with a prettier look to it? > > > > Thanks! > > Ubuntu i

Re: ThinkPad freezing after hw update?

2009-07-07 Thread Jeffrey Cao
On 2009-07-02, Jesse Sheidlower wrote: > > I have a two-year-old ThinkPad T60. It recently developed some > screen problems--the display was losing colors, and finally > started to die completely, going to black shortly after > startup--so I sent it back for a warranty repair. I pulled the > hard

Re: Is Ubuntu just Debian?

2009-07-07 Thread Tony Baldwin
Daniel Spisak wrote: This is not a flippant question, but one I'm curious to hear an answer to. Is Ubuntu just Debian but with a prettier look to it? No. There are many differences in the software, the philosophy, etc. /tony -- http://www.baldwinsoftware.com free/open source software tcl ye

Re: Help with ndiswrapper and Broadcom wireless

2009-07-07 Thread Rob Owens
On Sat, Jul 04, 2009 at 01:51:30PM -0400, JoeHill wrote: > Thierry Chatelet wrote: > > > On Thursday 02 July 2009 05:09:51 JoeHill wrote: > > > I first tried to get wireless working following this page on the Debian > > > Wiki: > > > > > > http://wiki.debian.org/bcm43xx > > > > > > but then found

Re: apt pinning to blacklist a package

2009-07-07 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 09:12:39PM -0400, Rob Owens wrote: > I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong... > > I want to prevent a particular package from ever being installed. In > /etc/apt/preferences I have: > > Package: somepackage > Pin: version * > Pin-Priority: -1 > > But the package can s

Re: Installing Debian alongside Windows Vista?

2009-07-07 Thread Neal Hogan
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 8:16 PM, Rob Owens wrote: > On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 04:30:06PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: >> Rob Owens wrote: >>> On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 06:49:18PM +0200, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: >>> Yup, no problem as long as you have some unpartitioned disk space on your hard drive.

Re: etckeeper - keeping /etc under version control

2009-07-07 Thread Chris Jones
On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 08:14:57PM EDT, John Hasler wrote: > CJ writes: > > Maybe use a mature browser such as ELinks - displays fine here. > > The problem is that some of us have less than perfect vision "And poor old Homer, blind, blind as a bat, (..) Ear, ear for the sea-surge, murmer of old

Re: Installing Debian alongside Windows Vista?

2009-07-07 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 04:30:06PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > Rob Owens wrote: >> On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 06:49:18PM +0200, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: >> >>> Yup, no problem as long as you have some unpartitioned disk space on >>> your hard drive. If not, you can use gparted from a live cd to shri

apt pinning to blacklist a package

2009-07-07 Thread Rob Owens
I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong... I want to prevent a particular package from ever being installed. In /etc/apt/preferences I have: Package: somepackage Pin: version * Pin-Priority: -1 But the package can still be installed by either command: apt-get install somepackage apt-get insta

Re: When you needed newer software than Sid/Backports provide...

2009-07-07 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 08:07:32AM +0900, Akira Kitada wrote: > Hi list, > I use Lenny for my workstation, where I try new cutting-edge software. > I picked Lenny over Squeeze or Sid because of the following reasons. > - The stability. The machine is accessed from the internet > - Squeeze and Sid m

Complete system mirror

2009-07-07 Thread Fred Zinsli
Hello everyone I would like to know if there is a way I can mirror our production server. This includes apache2 & mysql5 servers. Ideally the process will allow me to remove our production server for hardware maintenance without loss of service. So things like all the local users and their resp

Re: When you needed newer software than Sid/Backports provide...

2009-07-07 Thread Andrew Reid
On Tuesday 07 July 2009 19:07:32 Akira Kitada wrote: > My solution for this is easy and typical. Building from source and put > it on /usr/local. > That way, I can keep stable system while using the latest software. > However, it didn't take so long to make /usr/local a mess. > There's no easy way

Re: Is Ubuntu just Debian?

2009-07-07 Thread sizo nsibande
I wonder what your aim is as you just asked the same question only a few minutes ago. Seems really flipant to me. Did you not read all the suggested articles or what? On 07/07/2009, Daniel Spisak wrote: > > This is not a flippant question, but one I'm curious to hear an answer to. > > Is Ubuntu j

Re: Is Ubuntu just Debian?

2009-07-07 Thread John Hasler
Daniel Spisak writes: > Is Ubuntu just Debian but with a prettier look to it? No. And any "look" achievable with Ubuntu can be duplicated in Debian with trivial effort. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? C

Re: etckeeper - keeping /etc under version control

2009-07-07 Thread John Hasler
CJ writes: > Maybe use a mature browser such as ELinks - displays fine here. The problem is that some of us have less than perfect vision and consequently use a minimum type size larger than that assumed by the site designer. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists

Re: Does Debian = Ubuntu?

2009-07-07 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 07:01:35PM -0500, Chris wrote: > On Tue, 7 Jul 2009 16:55:01 -0700 > Daniel Spisak wrote: > > > > > This is not a flippant question, but one I'm curious to hear an > > answer to. > > > > Is Ubuntu just Debian but with a prettier look to it? > > > > Thanks! > > ... addi

Is Ubuntu just Debian?

2009-07-07 Thread Daniel Spisak
This is not a flippant question, but one I'm curious to hear an answer to. Is Ubuntu just Debian but with a prettier look to it? Thanks!

Re: Does Debian = Ubuntu?

2009-07-07 Thread Chris
On Tue, 7 Jul 2009 16:55:01 -0700 Daniel Spisak wrote: > > This is not a flippant question, but one I'm curious to hear an > answer to. > > Is Ubuntu just Debian but with a prettier look to it? > > Thanks! ... additionally, a nice wiki - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu -- Best regards,

Re: Does Debian = Ubuntu?

2009-07-07 Thread Chris
On Tue, 7 Jul 2009 16:55:01 -0700 Daniel Spisak wrote: > > This is not a flippant question, but one I'm curious to hear an > answer to. > > Is Ubuntu just Debian but with a prettier look to it? > > Thanks! Ubuntu is a Debian-based distro. -- Best regards, Chris () ascii ribbon campaign -

Does Debian = Ubuntu?

2009-07-07 Thread Daniel Spisak
This is not a flippant question, but one I'm curious to hear an answer to. Is Ubuntu just Debian but with a prettier look to it? Thanks!

Re: Installing Debian alongside Windows Vista?

2009-07-07 Thread Paul Scott
Rob Owens wrote: On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 06:49:18PM +0200, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: Yup, no problem as long as you have some unpartitioned disk space on your hard drive. If not, you can use gparted from a live cd to shrink your windows partition. It might be that you need to defragment (in

Re: etckeeper - keeping /etc under version control

2009-07-07 Thread Chris Jones
On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 04:53:25PM EDT, Barclay, Daniel wrote: > Suno Ano wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > I wrote an article about etckeeper... that nifty thing that allows to > > keep /etc under version control and thus "rollback" in case something > > bad happens during an upgrade or so. > > > > h

When you needed newer software than Sid/Backports provide...

2009-07-07 Thread Akira Kitada
Hi list, I use Lenny for my workstation, where I try new cutting-edge software. I picked Lenny over Squeeze or Sid because of the following reasons. - The stability. The machine is accessed from the internet - Squeeze and Sid moves so quickly and breaks things frequently - Even Sid isn't always new

Re: dpkg --set-selections and aptitude

2009-07-07 Thread Jochen Schulz
Suno Ano: > Jochen> - How should I proceed concerning the auto/manual status of all > Jochen> those packages? > > below you can see how I replicate a system; since two or so years now, I > simply "inject" the package list on the new system and then "aptitude > install" does the trick i.e. ther

Re: etckeeper - keeping /etc under version control

2009-07-07 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <4a53b5c5.7000...@fgm.com>, Barclay, Daniel wrote: >Suno Ano wrote: >> Hi folks, >> >> I wrote an article about etckeeper... that nifty thing that allows to >> keep /etc under version control and thus "rollback" in case something >> bad happens during an upgrade or so. >> >> http://sunoano.name/

Re: MTA

2009-07-07 Thread ein gedanke
Obviously it's the apple: - the juice doesn't stick to your hands - you can choose to peel it or not - it comes in different colors - it hasn't so much chemicals on it's skin - it's the fruit of seduction in opposite to a plain meaningless orange - it cleans your teeth - it's very easy to cut so

Re: Mounting Iphone with Ifuse as User

2009-07-07 Thread Alejandro Salas
> On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 11:32:10 -0700, Alejandro Salas wrote: > > > The fuse group should have been created by the post-installation script > > > of the fuse-utils package. > > > > > >> I created it and added my user to > > >> the group. > > >> I still get

Re: MTA

2009-07-07 Thread Steve Kemp
On Tue Jul 07, 2009 at 18:16:33 +0100, kj wrote: > Does anyone know of a up-to-date report of MTA market share? I'm only > finding fairly old ones. Most people don't care - they pick one and stick with it. Its a religious argument and one that gets repeated every six months or so. Pick on

Re: movies in a beamer (latex) presentation and linux (movie15)

2009-07-07 Thread Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson
On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 02:38:26AM +0300, Micha Feigin wrote: > I tried to use the package movie15 to include a movie in a beamer > presentation (latex via lyx) which worked great under windows but doesn't > work under linux. > > Any way to do this under linux? Not much information for us to bu

Re: etckeeper - keeping /etc under version control

2009-07-07 Thread Barclay, Daniel
Suno Ano wrote: > Hi folks, > > I wrote an article about etckeeper... that nifty thing that allows to > keep /etc under version control and thus "rollback" in case something > bad happens during an upgrade or so. > > http://sunoano.name/ws/public_xhtml/scm.html#etckeeper Could you fix your web p

Re: dpkg --set-selections and aptitude

2009-07-07 Thread Suno Ano
wrong URL before, here we go http://sunoano.name/ws/public_xhtml/debian_notes_cheat_sheets.html#get_and_or_set_list_of_installed_packages pgpxehYW1nhIb.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: dpkg --set-selections and aptitude

2009-07-07 Thread Suno Ano
Jochen> - How should I proceed concerning the auto/manual status of all Jochen> those packages? below you can see how I replicate a system; since two or so years now, I simply "inject" the package list on the new system and then "aptitude install" does the trick i.e. there is no crazy circular

Re: find - output order

2009-07-07 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 09:01:02AM -0700, Bob McGowan wrote: > Alex Samad wrote: > > Hi > > > > does find out put files in any sort order ? > > > > for example > > > > for x in $(seq -w 00 99); do touch $x ii$x aa$x; done && find ii* [0-9]* > > aa* > > > > is the output guaranteed to be in sor

SME needed for our Solution Based Project with Strong Healthcare Background!!!

2009-07-07 Thread tanvik
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dpkg --set-selections and aptitude

2009-07-07 Thread Jochen Schulz
Hi, due to a major brainfart on my part, I recently had to reinstall my sid system. To quickly install all packages I had installed on my previous installation, I used 'dpkg --set-selections', feeding it a file created on the old system. An 'apt-get dselect-upgrade' and an hour later my system was

Re: Mounting Iphone with Ifuse as User

2009-07-07 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 11:32:10 -0700, Alejandro Salas wrote: > > The fuse group should have been created by the post-installation script > > of the fuse-utils package. > > > >> I created it and added my user to the > >> group. > >> I still get the same error

Disabling bluetooth and wireless

2009-07-07 Thread C.T.F. Jansen
Greetings, What is a method for disabling bluetooth and wireless on a laptop with Debian 5.0 ? The radio link switch on the side can be moved accidentally so the system needs to be modified to stop use of bluetooth and wireless. I disabled a number of daemons to do with bluetooth and wir

Re: Lenny and K7 AMD

2009-07-07 Thread Account for Debian group mail
On Tue, 7 Jul 2009, kj wrote: Account for Debian group mail wrote: It does not look like this new kernel is using everything the Athlon has to offer. It there another linux-image we can use that will use all the AMD Athlon has to offer? What does `apt-cache search linux-image` show? --kj

Re: Lenny and K7 AMD

2009-07-07 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 12:09, Account for Debian group mail wrote: > > Hello, > > We are just starting to update our Etch machines to Lenny. Anyway we have > several machines that run AMD Athlon processors. With Etch we were running > "linux-image-2.6-k7 - Linux kernel 2.6 image on AMD K7", but whe

Re: boot failure "mount: mounting /dev/sda1 on /root failed: no such device"

2009-07-07 Thread Kelly Clowers
2009/7/7 Nuno Magalhães : >> Nothing has worked, any further ideas are welcome. > > I had this issue after upgrading from 2.6.29-1-amd64 to > 2.6.29-2-amd64, all i did was reboot using the -1-. Upgraded again and > now i'm using 2.6.30-1-amd64 since the previous is also failing. If > it's the same

Re: Lenny and K7 AMD

2009-07-07 Thread kj
Account for Debian group mail wrote: It does not look like this new kernel is using everything the Athlon has to offer. It there another linux-image we can use that will use all the AMD Athlon has to offer? What does `apt-cache search linux-image` show? --kj -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debi

Re: Lenny and K7 AMD

2009-07-07 Thread Clemens Eisserer
Hi, > It does not look like this new kernel is using everything the Athlon has to > offer. It there another linux-image we can use that will use all the AMD > Athlon has to offer? Don't bother, really. Userland is compiled against i486 too, and this is where usually most (>95%) of cycles are spent

Re: Help with ndiswrapper and Broadcom wireless

2009-07-07 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 14:28:13 -0400, JoeHill wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 11:29:50 -0400, JoeHill wrote: > > > JoeHill wrote: > > > > Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > > > Try "modprobe -v wl" as root; that should either give you wlan0 or > > > > > some > > > > >

Lenny and K7 AMD

2009-07-07 Thread Account for Debian group mail
Hello, We are just starting to update our Etch machines to Lenny. Anyway we have several machines that run AMD Athlon processors. With Etch we were running "linux-image-2.6-k7 - Linux kernel 2.6 image on AMD K7", but when we updated to Lenny it put in a "vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-486" which looks like

Re: boot failure "mount: mounting /dev/sda1 on /root failed: no such device"

2009-07-07 Thread Nuno Magalhães
> Nothing has worked, any further ideas are welcome. I had this issue after upgrading from 2.6.29-1-amd64 to 2.6.29-2-amd64, all i did was reboot using the -1-. Upgraded again and now i'm using 2.6.30-1-amd64 since the previous is also failing. If it's the same problem it's not HD-related. HTH -

boot failure "mount: mounting /dev/sda1 on /root failed: no such device"

2009-07-07 Thread Kelly Clowers
My HD failed, I RMAd it and restored from backup...but I cannot boot. I get error messages like this: mount: mounting /dev/sda1 on /root failed: no such device mount: mounting /sys on /root/sys failed: no such file or directory mount: mounting /proc on /root/proc failed: no such file or directory

Re: KDE, openoffice bug

2009-07-07 Thread Red Hen
Dotan Cohen wrote: I am not sure if it's an OOo issue; it might be. HOWEVER, the KDE system/environment DOES recognize Firefox as the default for web addresses from inside all other KDE and non-KDE programs, e.g. Thunderbird, audio and video programs, and so on. It's ONLY inside OOo that Firefox

Re: KDE, openoffice bug

2009-07-07 Thread Red Hen
Okay, I posted my comment: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199326 If anyone wants more detail posted, please let me know. Dotan Cohen wrote: I can reproduce the issue on KDE 4, where Kcontrol is called "System Settings" and therefore should affect the whole system, not just KDE apps. Plea

Re: Mounting Iphone with Ifuse as User

2009-07-07 Thread Alejandro Salas
> The fuse group should have been created by the post-installation script > of the fuse-utils package. > >> I created it and added my user to the >> group. >> I still get the same error message. :-(. Any ideas? > > Check if there are any problems with the fuse-

Re: Help with ndiswrapper and Broadcom wireless

2009-07-07 Thread JoeHill
Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 11:29:50 -0400, JoeHill wrote: > > JoeHill wrote: > > > Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > > Try "modprobe -v wl" as root; that should either give you wlan0 or some > > > > error messages that tell us what goes wrong. (I suspect that you might > > >

Re: Configuring wine.

2009-07-07 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-07-07 07:44 +0200, Sthu Deus wrote: > I have no sound in wine-1.0.1-2 running game "Heroes of Might and Magic III". > About 2 years ago on another installation I had sound in the same game under > wine. > > Of wine packages I have installed: > > libwine-1.0.1-2 > wine-bin-1.0.1-2 > > Do Yo

Re: Configuring wine.

2009-07-07 Thread thveillon.debian
Sthu Deus wrote : > Good day. > > I have no sound in wine-1.0.1-2 running game "Heroes of Might and Magic III". > About 2 years ago on another installation I had sound in the same game under > wine. > > Of wine packages I have installed: > > libwine-1.0.1-2 > wine-bin-1.0.1-2 > > Do You have an

Re: KDE, openoffice bug

2009-07-07 Thread Red Hen
Dotan Cohen wrote: Red, it seems that you replied directly to me instead of the mailing list. I am ccing the mailing list to keep the discussion onlist. Okay, sorry about that. I tried installing the bugs program, but it wanted to take out other programs that I use... I've disabled HTML fo

Re: Help with ndiswrapper and Broadcom wireless

2009-07-07 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 11:29:50 -0400, JoeHill wrote: > JoeHill wrote: > > Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > Try "modprobe -v wl" as root; that should either give you wlan0 or some > > > error messages that tell us what goes wrong. (I suspect that you might > > > need a newer kernel.) > > > > It wo

Re: KDE, openoffice bug

2009-07-07 Thread Dotan Cohen
> I am not sure if it's an OOo issue; it might be. HOWEVER, the KDE > system/environment DOES recognize Firefox as the default for web addresses > from inside all other KDE and non-KDE programs, e.g. Thunderbird, audio and > video programs, and so on. It's ONLY inside OOo that Firefox is not > reco

Re: KDE, openoffice bug

2009-07-07 Thread Dotan Cohen
I can reproduce the issue on KDE 4, where Kcontrol is called "System Settings" and therefore should affect the whole system, not just KDE apps. Please comment on this bug: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199326 -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: MTA

2009-07-07 Thread kj
Does anyone know of a up-to-date report of MTA market share? I'm only finding fairly old ones. thanks --kj -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Configuring wine.

2009-07-07 Thread Sthu Deus
Good day. I have no sound in wine-1.0.1-2 running game "Heroes of Might and Magic III". About 2 years ago on another installation I had sound in the same game under wine. Of wine packages I have installed: libwine-1.0.1-2 wine-bin-1.0.1-2 Do You have an idea how it can be fixed? Thank You for

Re: debian live with local repo problem

2009-07-07 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 12:06:22PM +0200, emanuele nespolo wrote: > Hi All ! > > I'm trying to build a live cd using a local i386 lenny repo. I need a local > repository for the job I'm developing. This repo is either a local one > created with debmirror or the official first DVD. Why? live-helpe

Re: PS: KDE, openoffice bug

2009-07-07 Thread Dotan Cohen
CCing the list, please keep all Debian-related discussions onlist. Thanks. > Years ago, I had a similar issue with Thunderbird; I couldn't get firefox to > open links in emails opened or read in the Thunderbird program. In THAT > case, there was some specific setting inside Thunderbird that allowe

Re: KDE, openoffice bug

2009-07-07 Thread Dotan Cohen
Red, it seems that you replied directly to me instead of the mailing list. I am ccing the mailing list to keep the discussion onlist. > WOW! You are FAST! Thank you. (Are you in Israel? If I have the right > person, you seem to have Ivrit on your web page. My kid just came back from > 9 months in

Re: Mounting Iphone with Ifuse as User

2009-07-07 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 08:13:22 -0700, Alejandro Salas wrote: > > Please check if you are in the `fuse' group, using the groups > > command. For example, for me: > > > > [ku...@bluemoon ~] groups > > kumar dialout cdrom floppy audio video plugdev netdev powerdev fuse > > vboxusers sbuild > > > >

Re: sha1summ of complete directory?

2009-07-07 Thread Scott Gifford
Tzafrir Cohen writes: > On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 12:08:05AM -0400, Scott Gifford wrote: [...] >> For the file contents, if there are no subdirectories you can use: >> >> cat `ls` |sha1sum > > Which is basically: > > cat * | sha1sum The purpose of the ls was to sort the filenames, but loo

Re: sha1summ of complete directory?

2009-07-07 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 12:08:05AM -0400, Scott Gifford wrote: > Ron Johnson writes: > You will need to figure out what metadata you care about and what you > don't, then. For example, do you want to detect a renamed file? A > change in mtime/ctime/utime? A change in permissions? > > For the

Re: find - output order

2009-07-07 Thread Bob McGowan
Alex Samad wrote: > Hi > > does find out put files in any sort order ? > > for example > > for x in $(seq -w 00 99); do touch $x ii$x aa$x; done && find ii* [0-9]* > aa* > > is the output guaranteed to be in sort order, i.e. ii* files first and > sorted and then [0-9]* files next and sorted an

Re: resize2fs: Either the superblock or the partition table is likely to be corrupt!

2009-07-07 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In , Mathieu Malaterre wrote: ># df -h > According to df, /home is 670G and / is 5.6G, so I decide to remove >20G from one to move it to the other. > ># resize2fs /dev/mapper/gotlib-home 650G >... do some e2fsck dance ># lvreduce -L-20G /dev/mapper/gotlib-home > ># e2fsck -f /dev/mapper/gotlib-ho

Re: Help with ndiswrapper and Broadcom wireless

2009-07-07 Thread JoeHill
JoeHill wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > Try "modprobe -v wl" as root; that should either give you wlan0 or some > > error messages that tell us what goes wrong. (I suspect that you might > > need a newer kernel.) > > It worked! > > Well, I still am not on wireless, because I use WPA on

Re: Mounting Iphone with Ifuse as User

2009-07-07 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 08:13:22AM -0700, Alejandro Salas wrote: > > Please check if you are in the `fuse' group, using the groups > > command. For example, for me: > > > > [ku...@bluemoon ~] groups > > kumar dialout cdrom floppy audio video plugdev netdev powerdev fuse > > vboxusers sbuild > > >

Re: Wireless not loaded at boot

2009-07-07 Thread JoeHill
Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Tue,07.Jul.09, 02:00:59, JoeHill wrote: > > > > I've got wireless working on a notebook (after much assistance) with a > > Broadcom driver. However, the module is not loaded a boot, and so I have to > > do a 'modprobe wl' to get it working. > > $ cat /etc/modules W

Re: Mounting Iphone with Ifuse as User

2009-07-07 Thread Alejandro Salas
> Please check if you are in the `fuse' group, using the groups > command. For example, for me: > > [ku...@bluemoon ~] groups > kumar dialout cdrom floppy audio video plugdev netdev powerdev fuse vboxusers > sbuild > > If not, then we can investigate further. > > HTH. > > Kumar The fuse group di

Re: Wireless not loaded at boot

2009-07-07 Thread JoeHill
Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Tue,07.Jul.09, 02:00:59, JoeHill wrote: > > > > I've got wireless working on a notebook (after much assistance) with a > > Broadcom driver. However, the module is not loaded a boot, and so I have to > > do a 'modprobe wl' to get it working. > > $ cat /etc/modules I

Re: MTA

2009-07-07 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 10:14:13PM +0200, Pawel Cholewinski wrote: > Hi > > I want to install MTA in my network. I want to know which mail transfer > agent is recommended (postfix, exim, sendmail or other else) and why. > And which is unsafe and why. Debian installer chooses exim4 but no pro

Re: ext4 - 52.2% non-contiguous

2009-07-07 Thread gn643202
Daryl Styrk wrote: I'm trying to understand what is causing fsck to report /dev/sda4 being highly fragmented. The filesystem is only a couple days old. I created the it with mke2fs -t ext4. After initially building the filesystem I ran fsck which showed something like 0.7% if I remember correc

Re: iceweasel puzzle (SOLVED)

2009-07-07 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > export AWT_TOOLKIT=MToolkit > > in .xinitrc. The reference to libawt.so makes me think this may > be a similar problem. Well -- this did not work. I finally decided on a new, especially thorough, purging of anything having to do with java, web-browsers, macromedia,

Re: How to activate VESA mode on boot-up?

2009-07-07 Thread Robert Latest
Hello Frank, > Assuming you are running a Debian kernel, Correct, 2.26-2-686 out of the box >>                         Use vga=ask for menu. doesn't work. All I get is the list of standard VGA modes. When I type "scan", the screen goes blang for about a minute but the system doesn't find any ad

Re: debian live with local repo problem

2009-07-07 Thread emanuele nespolo
Hi Kousik Maiti First of all thanks! Then, I'm sorry but do not understand why I have to do that. I mean, I'using lh_config and lh_build and the only things that change in this procedure is the path to repository. I normally use for lh_config option --mirror-xxx , when using official repo: http://

Re: Mounting Iphone with Ifuse as User

2009-07-07 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 12:48:30AM -0700, Alejandro Salas wrote: >Everything is working fine, I can see the content of the iphone when I >mount it as root.. I haven't been able to do it as a normal user. Does >anyone knows how to do it? I tried adding a line on the fstab file, and >

Re: debian live with local repo problem

2009-07-07 Thread Kousik Maiti
* Add repository to sources.list* Extract iso to desktop Copy Desktop/debian/dists/lenny/main/binary-i386/Packages and Desktop/debian/dists/lenny/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz to Desktop/debian/ folder Then change the repository list. Add the following line :- deb file:///home/username/Desktop/de

debian live with local repo problem

2009-07-07 Thread emanuele nespolo
Hi All ! I'm trying to build a live cd using a local i386 lenny repo. I need a local repository for the job I'm developing. This repo is either a local one created with debmirror or the official first DVD. While using any of the official mirror on the internet everything works perfectly and i get

resize2fs: Either the superblock or the partition table is likely to be corrupt!

2009-07-07 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Hi there, I was doing an extremely simple task: shrink my home partition / resize my root partition. Steps: # df -h According to df, /home is 670G and / is 5.6G, so I decide to remove 20G from one to move it to the other. # umount /home # resize2fs /dev/mapper/gotlib-home 650G ... do some e

Re: flickr sometimes doesn't load on iceweasel (DIAGNOSED)

2009-07-07 Thread Paulo Marcel Coelho Aragao
Hi Girish > I'm having no problems with Flickr in Iceweasel 3.0.6 on Lenny. Your > photostream loads fine too. Maybe you can post this on Flickr's help? I have posted. It seems that my ISP (GVT, Curitiba, Brazil) cannot route properly to one of Flickr's servers: l.yimg.com I discovered that s

Re: KDE, openoffice bug

2009-07-07 Thread thveillon.debian
Dotan Cohen wrote: > 2009/7/7 Red Hen : >> Sirs-- >> >> I have designated Firefox my Debian Lenny system's MAIN web browser, as >> stipulated in the KDE Control Center. >> > > Which version of KDE? Did you type in "/usr/bin/firefox" or "firefox" > or select Firefox from the list? Note that Firefox

Re: find - output order

2009-07-07 Thread Dirk Neumann
better: find ii*|sort;find [0-9]*|sort;find aa*|sort -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: find - output order

2009-07-07 Thread Dirk Neumann
On Tue, 7 Jul 2009 15:10:06 +1000 Alex Samad wrote: > Hi > > does find out put files in any sort order ? > > for example > > for x in $(seq -w 00 99); do touch $x ii$x aa$x; done && find ii* [0-9]* > aa* > > is the output guaranteed to be in sort order, i.e. ii* files first and > sorted and

Re: Howto exactly reproduce kernel source tree compatible with binary kernel deb

2009-07-07 Thread Peter Daum
as I meanwhile could figure out, compiling "linux-source-xxx" failed because of a mismatch in the gcc versions (gcc 4.3 is installed as the default C compiler, but the binary kernel packages have been compiled using gcc 4.1). I still would like to know, what is the "recommended" way to use the ker

Mounting Iphone with Ifuse as User

2009-07-07 Thread Alejandro Salas
Hello everyone, I'm not sure if this is the correct place to post this. I'm using a fresh install of Debian Squeeze and just installed the IFuse package. Everything is working fine, I can see the content of the iphone when I mount it as root.. I haven't been able to do it as a normal user. Does

Re: flickr sometimes doesn't load on iceweasel

2009-07-07 Thread Girish Kulkarni
On Sat, 4 Jul 2009, Paulo Marcel Coelho Aragao wrote: Flickr sometimes doesn't load on iceweasel, has anybody seen this ? Iceweasel hangs forever, waiting. Whenever this happens, I switch to opera and it loads there, flawlessly, always. I noticed that this started to happen about a week from now.

Re: Wireless not loaded at boot

2009-07-07 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Tue,07.Jul.09, 02:00:59, JoeHill wrote: > > I've got wireless working on a notebook (after much assistance) with a > Broadcom > driver. However, the module is not loaded a boot, and so I have to do a > 'modprobe wl' to get it working. $ cat /etc/modules Regards, Andrei -- If you can't expla