Re: dmesg and root-tail

On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 2:38 PM, lee wrote: > > Hi, > > is there a way to have root-tail display what dmesg puts out? > > Like "dmesg | root-tail" --- but dmesg creates output only once. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tro

Re: dpkg --set-selections and aptitude

Jörg-Volker Peetz: > > aptitude keep-all > > cancels all scheduled actions on all packages (from the man-page). Ah, thanks. I didn't know that. That one helped. J. -- I am on the payroll of a company to whom I owe my undying gratitude. [Agree] [Disagree]

Re: KDE compression options: tar, zip, or rar

>> Thank you Osamu but I stress that compression / decompression time is >> not important for this application. That is why I asked on the list >> what the other advantages and disadvantages of the different formats >> are. > > Hmmm  then stick with tar.gz since it is supported > everywhere on

Re: KDE compression options: tar, zip, or rar

On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 11:27:21PM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > * Prep test data (some file to be packed) > > * run command under "time" command > > > > $ time tar -czf testout.tar.gz ./test-data > > > > real    0m0.520s > > user    0m0.480s > > sys     0m0.040s > > > > $ time zip -rq testout.zip

All things KDE loading slowly.........

Hello Everyone, Since the last upgrade of Debian Squeeze - all things KDE: Kedit - Kommander - KPDF etc., are taking ages to load? Was wondering if this can be fixed on my system? TIA Charlie --- Registered Linux User:- 329524 +++ The government of the world I l

Re: Debian+LVM+RAID

On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 04:40:02PM -0600, lee wrote: > On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 07:04:26AM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > > > comes down to how much you value your data. > > It comes down to how much money you can spend on securing it. just about the same thing > > > My home server has 10 x 1T dri

Re: The Debian way for ondemand cpufreq governor

>  CPUFreq Utilities: Setting ondemand CPUFreq governor...disabled, > governor not available...done. Did you the governor kernel module?. You can find this modules with: 'modprobe -l cpufreq\*'. If you want to load these modules automatically, just add their names to /etc/modules. -- Saludos, Ro

Re: grub won't but XP

On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 8:46 AM, Steve Reilly wrote: > Bernard Fay wrote: > > > title Windows XP > > rootnoverify(hd2,0) > > chainloader +1 > > makeactive > > > if im not mistaken the rootnoverify line should be (hd0.1) not (hd2,0), > at least thats what mine is that works fine.

Re: Compositing tiling window manager

On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 08:46:10AM +, Masatran / Deepak, R. wrote: > Are any compositing tiling window managers available for Debian Stable? I > currently use Awesome, but it is available only for Testing, and installing > it on Stable has proven impossible, because of XCB dependencies. Or woul

Re: dmesg and root-tail

On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 03:42:13PM -0600, lee wrote: > On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 10:24:01AM -0700, Chris Hiestand wrote: > > Why not just do this: > > > >> tail -f /var/log/kern.log > > That log file is empty ... $ grep kern.log /etc/rsyslog.conf kern.* -/var/log/kern.log

Re: grub won't but XP

On 2009-07-11_18:14:48, Bernard Fay wrote: > Hi, > > I have a dual boot system divided between Windows XP and Lenny. > > Lenny is the king of my computer. But sometimes I still need to use > Windows. > > Since I setup Lenny on my box, grub does not boot Windows XP. > I have a hard time to find

Re: sudo warning

T o n g writes: >>> How can I disable the sudo warning? [...] > Sudo must have stored the weather-first-time value under one of the > following places: > > $ grep ram /etc/fstab > /dev/ram1 /var/runramfs defaults,rw,auto,dev0 0 The manpage mentions that timestamp

Re: dpkg --set-selections and aptitude

On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 11:05:36PM +0200, Jörg-Volker Peetz was heard to say: > First, let's see why aptitude wants do de-install a package: > > aptitude why-not That won't do what you think. It only shows packages that conflict with ; if the package is being removed because it's not used a

Re: sudo warning

On Sat, 11 Jul 2009 19:24:39 -0600, Matthew Moore wrote: >> How can I disable the sudo warning? > > From the sudoers manpage, > > lecture This option controls when a short lecture will be printed > along with the password prompt. . . > > Looks like you have set the lecture option in your su

Re: The Debian way for ondemand cpufreq governor

On Sun, 12 Jul 2009 08:21:38 +1000, Alex Samad wrote: >> What's the Debian way to enable ondemand cpufreq governor by default >> (installing as minimum packages as possible)? > > look at this package cpufrequtils and then look in here > /etc/init.d/cpufrequtils If I don't 'modprobe powernow-k8'

Re: sudo warning

On Saturday 11 July 2009 3:40:40 pm T o n g wrote: > How can I disable the sudo warning? From the sudoers manpage, lecture This option controls when a short lecture will be printed along with the password prompt. It has the following possible values: always Always lectu

Re: sudo warning

On Saturday 11 July 2009 3:40:40 pm T o n g wrote: > How can I disable the sudo warning? From the sudoers manpage, lecture This option controls when a short lecture will be printed along with the password prompt. It has the following possible values: always Always lectu

Re: Resizing partitions on production environment

On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 10:42:14AM +0500, Daniel Suleyman wrote: > 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%

Re: Is a Universal Desktop Experience possible?

On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 03:52:19PM -0700, Steve McCarthy wrote: > On Saturday 11 July 2009, Rob Owens wrote: > > I typically use Fluxbox and Gnome (and a little LXDE). I haven't used > > KDE in years, so I can't comment on it specifically. > > > > I also haven't NFS mounted /home in quite a while.

Re: Is a Universal Desktop Experience possible?

You may want to look at session migration with one of these: xnest - Nested X server xoo - graphical wrapper around Xnest/Xephyr xserver-xephyr - nested X server -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact l

HIDS recommendations?

Hi all -- I run a small network of several hosts, mostly Debian, and I've become frustrated with the host-based intrustion detection system I'm using. It works, but the GUI tools is very slow, and package/security updates generate a lot of noise. We're expanding the number of hosts we mon

Re: grub won't but XP

Bernard Fay wrote: > title Windows XP > rootnoverify(hd2,0) > chainloader +1 > makeactive if im not mistaken the rootnoverify line should be (hd0.1) not (hd2,0), at least thats what mine is that works fine. steve -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debi

Re: The Debian way for ondemand cpufreq governor

* T o n g [2009 Jul 11 11:48 -0500]: > Hi, > > I am able to use the 2.6 kernel ondemand cpufreq governor, but I just > noticed that I have to do 'modprobe powernow-k8' and change the cpufreq > governor from performance to ondemand each time after I reboot. > > What's the Debian way to enable

Re: Is a Universal Desktop Experience possible?

The server/client thing seems to make sense, running X sessions remotely seems the best bet. Did you have a look at eyeos? I guess it's a similar approach, with a different DM, so to speak. [1] http://eyeos.org/ -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ ascii-rubanda kampajno - kont

Re: Is a Universal Desktop Experience possible?

On Saturday 11 July 2009, lee wrote: > On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 04:24:03PM -0700, SteveM wrote: > > What I'd like is a Universal Desktop Experience, i.e. same kicker > > applets, same konsole profiles, same amarok playlists, same xpad > > postits, etc, whereever I login. I'm a KDE type, but afaict

Re: Is a Universal Desktop Experience possible?

On Saturday 11 July 2009, Mike Castle wrote: > On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 5:13 AM, John Hasler wrote: > > Instead of launching FF directly, I launch a wrapper with picks a > different profile based on the machine name (and whether it's under > VNC or not). I keep one profile as the master, and have a

Re: Is a Universal Desktop Experience possible?

On Saturday 11 July 2009, Rob Owens wrote: > I typically use Fluxbox and Gnome (and a little LXDE). I haven't used > KDE in years, so I can't comment on it specifically. > > I also haven't NFS mounted /home in quite a while. I remember when I > did it that different versions of Gnome caused me gr

Re: Debian+LVM+RAID

On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 10:44:30PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > > You can still decide if you want a partitionable or non-partitionable > > RAID, thus not all RAIDs are partitionable since kernel > > 2.6.29. Unfortunately, the man page doesn't seem to say what the > > default is for the partitio

Re: Debian+LVM+RAID

On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 07:04:26AM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > comes down to how much you value your data. It comes down to how much money you can spend on securing it. > My home server has 10 x 1T drives in it a mix of raid1 + raid5 + > raid6, I have a second server with 9 x 1T drives in it (in

grub won't but XP

Hi, I have a dual boot system divided between Windows XP and Lenny. Lenny is the king of my computer. But sometimes I still need to use Windows. Since I setup Lenny on my box, grub does not boot Windows XP. I have a hard time to find out why. Here is what we can find in menu.lst regarding Wind

Re: The Debian way for ondemand cpufreq governor

On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 04:46:42PM +, T o n g wrote: > Hi, > > I am able to use the 2.6 kernel ondemand cpufreq governor, but I just > noticed that I have to do 'modprobe powernow-k8' and change the cpufreq > governor from performance to ondemand each time after I reboot. > > What's the De

Re: dmesg and root-tail

On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 02:32:59PM EDT, lee wrote: > The "tail -f" waits for more output from dmesg, but dmesg won't > produce any more output. dmesg is supposed to print the contents of > the kernel buffer; it does exactly that and then ends. It also doesn't > have an option like -f to tell it to

RE: E7400 - i386 and AMD64

-Mensaje original- De: lee [mailto:l...@yun.yagibdah.de] Enviado el: Sábado, 11 de Julio de 2009 03:13 p.m. Para: debian-user@lists.debian.org Asunto: Re: E7400 - i386 and AMD64 >Did you use any weird kernel settings when you made the kernel for >your server? Did you try an older (like

Re: dpkg --set-selections and aptitude

A simple aptitude search ~i should indicate by the character in the second column the stored action, e.g., a "d" for packages to be deleted. aptitude keep-all cancels all scheduled actions on all packages (from the man-page). I have no experience with this situation, maybe the "keep-all" i

Re: Video compression

On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 10:23:11AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > How can I compress a short video clip - 88 M in qt format - into > to a size that can be emailed? You could use an archive program that supports splitting up archives into several parts and send the video in several mails. If anyt

Re: dmesg and root-tail

On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 10:24:01AM -0700, Chris Hiestand wrote: > Why not just do this: > >> tail -f /var/log/kern.log That log file is empty ... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

sudo warning

Hi, I used to get the following sudo warning on the first time I sudo, but for one box, I kept getting it: $ sudo su - We trust you have received the usual lecture from the local System Administrator. It usually boils down to these three things: #1) Respect the privacy of others. #2)

Re: KDE compression options: tar, zip, or rar

On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 11:29:00PM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: > I agree with you completely in the most general sense. However, there > are specific instances where I am willing to use non-free software, > such as CAD. Yeah, it sometimes can't be avoided because there is no good alternative. And f

Re: KDE compression options: tar, zip, or rar

2009/7/11 lee : > On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 03:23:50PM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: >> > Avoid rar, it is non-free. >> > >> >> Thank you for the warning, Andrei, but I am more interested in the >> technical aspects to learn about the formats. But your argument is >> valid and I may decide not to use non

Re: KDE compression options: tar, zip, or rar

> * Prep test data (some file to be packed) > * run command under "time" command > > $ time tar -czf testout.tar.gz ./test-data > > real    0m0.520s > user    0m0.480s > sys     0m0.040s > > $ time zip -rq testout.zip ./test-data > > real    0m0.474s > user    0m0.460s > sys     0m0.016s > > Simple

Re: Is a Universal Desktop Experience possible?

On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 5:13 AM, John Hasler wrote: > >> And many apps keep files open while running, leading to lockouts or >> races. > > Elucidate. Firefox. You can only have a profile open on one machine at a time. Very annoying. There is no need to a profile to be tied to exactly one runnin

Re: E7400 - i386 and AMD64

On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 03:15:27PM -0300, Pablo Armando wrote: > Should we use Debian amd64 here o i386? Why we see 4 CPU's when we only have > 2 CPUs (Intel Core 2 Duo)? Is stable amd64 or it is not recommended for a > server setup? You'll want to use amd64, it's stable. Even before there was a

Re: dmesg and root-tail

On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 01:33:21AM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 03:08:40AM -0600, lee wrote: > > Hi, > > > > is there a way to have root-tail display what dmesg puts out? > > > > Like "dmesg | root-tail" --- but dmesg creates output only once. > > I do not know about "root-

Re: Is a Universal Desktop Experience possible?

On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 04:24:03PM -0700, SteveM wrote: > What I'd like is a Universal Desktop Experience, i.e. same kicker applets, > same konsole profiles, same amarok playlists, same xpad postits, etc, > whereever I login. I'm a KDE type, but afaict the issue affects all > DE's. It's proba

Re: PSI hangs when I try typing.

Please try to upgrade to 0.12.1-2, as changelog specifies: $ zcat /usr/share/doc/psi/changelog.Debian.gz | head -n 10 psi (0.12.1-2) unstable; urgency=low * Build-depend on qt >= 4.5.1 This should fix an incompatibility between binaries compiled with older qt versions and newer shared li

Re: KDE compression options: tar, zip, or rar

On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 12:58:46AM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 05:53:12PM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > Test what? I know not enough about them to know what to test. I would > > have never learned about the data integrity issue by my own testing, > > nor about file permission

Re: KDE compression options: tar, zip, or rar

On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 03:23:50PM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > Avoid rar, it is non-free. > > > > Thank you for the warning, Andrei, but I am more interested in the > technical aspects to learn about the formats. But your argument is > valid and I may decide not to use non-free software for this

Re: dmesg and root-tail

Why not just do this: tail -f /var/log/kern.log On Jul 11, 2009, at 9:33 AM, Osamu Aoki wrote: On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 03:08:40AM -0600, lee wrote: Hi, is there a way to have root-tail display what dmesg puts out? Like "dmesg | root-tail" --- but dmesg creates output only once. I do

Re: NFS4 crash system - Sent bug report to which package

On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 11:38:12AM +0200, Jochen Kohl wrote: > I try to mount directories exported with nfs4 on the same server. > Sometimes the mount process wait (hold), then a kernel message occur > (see above) and the system crash. Last time I tried NFS, the server froze when transfering some

Re: dmesg and root-tail

On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 03:08:40AM -0600, lee wrote: > Hi, > > is there a way to have root-tail display what dmesg puts out? > > Like "dmesg | root-tail" --- but dmesg creates output only once. I do not know about "root-tail" command but .. "dmesg | tail -f" may do interesting thing -- To UN

Re: RAID1 file corruption(?)

On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 06:05:16PM -0500, Steve wrote: > I'm hoping the problem will be solved with two new hard drives arriving > tomorrow. This machine isn't in production yet so I'll swap out the > hard drives and try again. How did it turn out? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-re

The Debian way for ondemand cpufreq governor

Hi, I am able to use the 2.6 kernel ondemand cpufreq governor, but I just noticed that I have to do 'modprobe powernow-k8' and change the cpufreq governor from performance to ondemand each time after I reboot. What's the Debian way to enable ondemand cpufreq governor by default (installing as

Re: apt pinning to blacklist a package

On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 09:58:23AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Thu,09.Jul.09, 21:50:43, Rob Owens wrote: > > > > > That doesn't work either. libmono0 is still installable. > > > > apt-cache policy libmono0 > > > > libmono0: > > Installed: (none) > > Candidate: 1.9.1+dfsg-6 > > Packa

Re: KDE compression options: tar, zip, or rar

On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 05:53:12PM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: > Test what? I know not enough about them to know what to test. I would > have never learned about the data integrity issue by my own testing, > nor about file permissions because I would not even think about that. > That is why I asked t

Re: Video compression

On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 10:23:11AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > How can I compress a short video clip - 88 M in qt format - into > to a size that can be emailed? > You could try avidemux. I think it's in the debian-multimedia repo. I'm not positive that it can import qt format, though. Som

Video compression

How can I compress a short video clip - 88 M in qt format - into to a size that can be emailed? Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: apt GPGP key expired?

On Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:47:41 +0200 Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2009-07-10 15:03 +0200, Zachary Uram wrote: > > > How do I fix this error, when I run 'apt-get update' it says > > suddenly: > > > > W: GPG error: http://debian.mirrors.pair.com squeeze Release: The > > following signatures were invalid

Re: No audio after recent upgrade

On Friday 10 July 2009, Kent West wrote: > Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Thu,09.Jul.09, 14:31:13, Kent West wrote: > >> It's a third machine of mine, so I haven't worried about it; I've got > >> other things to worry about. But thought I'd mention it, just for the > >> record. > > > > This might be

Re: KDE compression options: tar, zip, or rar

> If you read carefully, there are relative merits such as "higher > compression ratio than gzip(1) (slower than gzip with similar syntax)", > "higher compression and decompression speed than gzip", ... > > I did benchmark them for myself before writing these. > > "Which is better ..." question is

Re: Is a Universal Desktop Experience possible?

On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 12:50:29AM -0700, Steve McCarthy wrote: > On Friday 10 July 2009, Rob Owens wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 04:24:03PM -0700, SteveM wrote: > > > What I'd like is a Universal Desktop Experience, i.e. same kicker > > > applets, same konsole profiles, same amarok playlists,

Re: KDE compression options: tar, zip, or rar

On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 11:12:56AM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: > 2009/7/10 Osamu Aoki : > > On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 11:24:19AM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: > >> KDE gives users three options to compress folders: tar, zip, and rar. > >> What are the advantages or disadvantages of each? How do I know whic

Re: Is a Universal Desktop Experience possible?

steve writes: > I suspect this configuration isn't supportted. It is supported by any proper X client. > For instance, many apps store window locations in pixels. Bug. Whoever wrote those thinks he's writing for Microsoft Windows. > And many apps keep files open while running, leading to locko

info tags out of date message

What can be done to update tags inside of info files so these tags out of date messages don't appear anymore when reading info files like the one for forms as an example? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listma

Re: "Cannot initialize SFTP protocol. Is the host running a SFTP server?" -- winscp problem with scponlyc login shell -- solved

Hi, Andrew McGlashan wrote: The problem was that the chroot home directory wasn't owned by root, so the login failed. I fixed this and made sure his group could write to the directory, but it is now owned by root. One little problem I had to remove the group write permissions. Kind Regar

"Cannot initialize SFTP protocol. Is the host running a SFTP server?" -- winscp problem with scponlyc login shell -- solved

Hi, My son has an scponlyc "shell" login on one of my servers. He started to get this error: "Cannot initialize SFTP protocol. Is the host running a SFTP server?" He was trying to connect using WinSCP The problem was that the chroot home directory wasn't owned by root, so the login faile

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Compositing tiling window manager

Are any compositing tiling window managers available for Debian Stable? I currently use Awesome, but it is available only for Testing, and installing it on Stable has proven impossible, because of XCB dependencies. Or would it be possible to install the Awesome from Testing after installing the ker

dmesg and root-tail

Hi, is there a way to have root-tail display what dmesg puts out? Like "dmesg | root-tail" --- but dmesg creates output only once. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Is a Universal Desktop Experience possible?

On Friday 10 July 2009, Rob Owens wrote: > On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 04:24:03PM -0700, SteveM wrote: > > What I'd like is a Universal Desktop Experience, i.e. same kicker > > applets, same konsole profiles, same amarok playlists, same xpad > > postits, etc, whereever I login. I'm a KDE type, but afa

Re: KDE compression options: tar, zip, or rar

>> These are backup directories for my own use. Why is Rar considered a >> power user tool? Is it superior (more compressed, faster, less prone >> to corruption)? > > Its a properitary format. If you want good performance, go for 7zip (as > an archiver, or lzma instead of gzip). In fact, I'm quite

Re: KDE compression options: tar, zip, or rar

2009/7/10 Osamu Aoki : > On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 11:24:19AM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: >> KDE gives users three options to compress folders: tar, zip, and rar. >> What are the advantages or disadvantages of each? How do I know which >> one to use? > > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-referen

Re: skype again

Hi, no i meant the hep1 account I only check rarely. Hmm, isn't that package from skype only for ix86? Anyways, I'll try it out when I am back in Tsukuba some time. Thanks. Cheers Jan On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 9:33 AM, Nick Hastings wrote: > * Jan Schuemann [090710 19:47]: > > Hi, > > >