Btw, sorry for top-posting. I don't use mailing lists very often and
forgot about the convention.
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Thanks for your suggestion, and I have heard of rsnapshot.
Although, actually removing older snapshot directories isn't really the problem.
The problem is, if you have a large number of such backups (perhaps
one per server), then finding out where harddrive space is actually
being used, is proble
Jessica Wu wrote:
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For me I just try different things until I solve the problem, first I
would try both apt-get and aptitude -f install if that did not work then
I would remove these packages,
python-central
pymacs
python-cairo
python-enthought
In regards to the grunt program is it possible to modify the command line
arguments to exclude the extra encryption upon request and extend this to
gmail?
I do know that it looks good (like 99%) good for what I want that would be
the thing.
I'm trying to look for something that will work from a m
I just got Debian installed on a new system that has IPMI monitoring
support. I haven't used it before, and it's quite cool! I can ask
for the status of various fans and disks remotely, and also send the
display to a remote computer.
The server is in a colo, so generally nobody is near the conso
We have a networks lab at our college that has a fully configured windows
network. Now we are completely changing to linux. All systems in the lab
have been installed with Debian/Ubuntu. We have configured NIS server in one
of the Debian machines. And NIS client in the remaining machines. But the
p
Hi all,
I recently updated from etch to lenny but ran into a problem with the python
upgrade. From the error log it appears the fault occurs from python-central.
I had python2.4 and python2.5 installed on etch before the upgrade, with
/usr/bin/python pointed to /usr/bin/python2.5 and a manu
On 2009-08-13 19:44, S. Fishpaste wrote:
[snip]
Yeah I have the preview pane set up similarly. You're quite right about
being able to delete threads or mark them read, as being sweet.
Tbird/IW has "Mark Thread As Read".
The threading is what's the "bees knees" for me.
What do you mean? H
> Would you expect removing vi to remove all the files you created with
> it? "Purge" means remove the configuration files that the package
> installed in addition to all the other files from the package.
Agreed, and I am not surprised that this happens. My intent for asking the
question was to kn
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 03:34, Sthu Deus wrote:
> Good day.
>
> I have updated my KDE 3.5 from unstable. Now I have no its main-menu button,
> nor its panel nor mouse right click on the screen makes any response. Here are
> the kde* packages I have for now:
>
> dpkg -l | grep kde
>
> kde-icons-crys
In Squeeze, an SMC wireless card appears to be initialized OK.
newton:~# pccardctl ident
Socket 0:
product info: "SMC", "SMC2632W", "Version 01.02", ""
manfid: 0x0156, 0x0002
function: 6 (network)
Socket 1:
no product info available
newton:~# pccardctl status
Socket 0:
5.0V 16-bit PC Ca
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 16:39, T o n g wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am considering buying a Laptop/Notebook for the first time. To me, what
> unique in choosing a Laptop/Notebook than a desktop are, CPU temperature
> and power consumption, battery life, hibernation support, weight, etc.
>
> Coincidentally, t
> Have you tried booting with ACPI off? Add acpi=off to the kernel boot
> command line.
Unfortunately, this doesn't help.
Hm.
I'm not really sure what to do here - it might just be that the laptop
is a lost cause, since I have no idea whether anything's broken or
not. I'll post if I discover an
On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:38:31 -0500, Nate Bargmann in gmane.linux.debian.user
wrote:
> * S. Fishpaste [2009 Aug 13 11:13
> -0500]:
>
>> Then when I ran into further questions, mutt-us...@mutt.org was always
>> helpful. Once I got used to mutt; I found it hard to adjust to any other
>> e-mail clie
On 2009-08-13 17:22:14 -0400, S. Fishpaste wrote:
> Wow talk about copious output, only 4002 lines.
4002 is not very much, in particular for a complex application such as
Firefox. This means that Firefox has done almost nothing and a problem
occurred very early.
> I have no idea what it all means
> All these -1 values look odd/wrong to me. Note how on my system that
> debian-multimedia has a priority of 500, equal to that of ftp.us.debian.org.
> That could be your problem.
Thanks. After I simply deleted my /etc/apt/preferences file (it is not
installed by default on a vanilla debian inst
Kushal Koolwal writes:
> Is there a Debian package rule which says "only remove files which
> were originally provided by the package"...
Would you expect removing vi to remove all the files you created with
it? "Purge" means remove the configuration files that the package
installed in addition t
Hi Sven,
It never crash during my session as far as i know. It is a Debian Etch
with 2.6.18-6 kernel on XEN VPS server. But i know, the server being
rebooted for sometime.
Do u think it is possible that my server being hacked. It seems normal to me..
Regards,
jeffry
On 8/13/09, Sven Joachim wr
> This sounds logical, since your out-of-tree modules are probably still
> there.
Yeah that's right. But why doesn't it (apt-get purge) remove those out-of-tree
modules also when I try to remove the package? Is there a Debian package rule
which
says "only remove files which were originally pro
On Thu Aug 13, 2009 at 09:05:16 -0600, John Haggerty wrote:
>I was wondering if there is any software package do run commands on the
>linux machine and then send the results back to the requesting address?
Take a look at 'grunt', as introduced here:
http://www.debian-adminis
Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
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Charlie wrote:
I think this is a reinstall for me, but just thought someone might be
able to point me to some documentation so this isn't required. The
system is fully backed up, so I can try some things, and if it brea
On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 11:41:35 +0200, Vincent Lefevre in gmane.linux.debian.user
wrote:
> On 2009-08-12 22:52:14 -0400, S. Fishpaste wrote:
>> On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 02:21:00 +0200, Vincent Lefevre in
>> gmane.linux.debian.user wrote:
>> > Also, check that you don't have a firefox already running (may
On 2009-08-13 16:38, Nate Bargmann wrote:
* S. Fishpaste [2009 Aug 13 11:13
-0500]:
Then when I ran into further questions, mutt-us...@mutt.org was always
helpful. Once I got used to mutt; I found it hard to adjust to any other
e-mail client. The power and flexibility is intoxicating. 8-D
T
* S. Fishpaste [2009 Aug 13 11:13
-0500]:
> Then when I ran into further questions, mutt-us...@mutt.org was always
> helpful. Once I got used to mutt; I found it hard to adjust to any other
> e-mail client. The power and flexibility is intoxicating. 8-D
That and the maddening idea in all of the
On Thu, 2009-08-13 at 11:48 +0530, Mihira Fernando wrote:
> On Thursday 13 August 2009 11:16:31 am Paul Johnson wrote:
>
> > What would the best way to go about setting up a server to manage such
> > contacts?
>
> Zimbra ?
> www.zimbra.com
Overkill...granted I'd like the other features, but I'm
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 01:11:43PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 2009-08-13 12:51, I Rattan wrote:
>>
>> I see the folowing error message repeatedly whenever I rey to use
>> mplayer:
>> ...
>> X11 error: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)
>> X11 error: BadAlloc (insufficient resources
Hi all
I have installed a system with lenny and when the system boots with an
usb printer connected (HP PSC 1210 all-in one) it hangs. Also, the
internet connection does not (seem to) come up.
(I have no direct access to the system now, need to travel physically to
look at it again).
I want t
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Charlie wrote:
> I think this is a reinstall for me, but just thought someone might be
> able to point me to some documentation so this isn't required. The
> system is fully backed up, so I can try some things, and if it breaks
> then will just reinsta
On 2009-08-13 21:51 +0200, Kushal Koolwal wrote:
> In a normal scenario, whenever we do:
>
> apt-get purge linux-image-
>
> the corresponding:
>
> /lib/modules/
>
> directory gets removed from the system.
>
> But I noticed that suppose installed some out-of-tree kernel modules
> and now when you t
In a normal scenario, whenever we do:
apt-get purge linux-image-
the corresponding:
/lib/modules/
directory gets removed from the system.
But I noticed that suppose installed some out-of-tree kernel modules and now
when you try to remove the same kernel (for which you installed out-of-tree
On 2009-08-13 12:51, I Rattan wrote:
I see the folowing error message repeatedly whenever I rey to use
mplayer:
...
X11 error: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)
X11 error: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)1.1% 8 0
...
Any pointers/
How much free memory on your syst
I see the folowing error message repeatedly whenever I rey to use
mplayer:
...
X11 error: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)
X11 error: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)1.1% 8 0
...
Any pointers/
-ishwar
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On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 04:19:36PM -0400, Tim Tebbit wrote:
> Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
>
>>
>> "emtest"?
>>
>> -m is short for --mirror-bootstrap
>>
>
> Thanks for that. Adding -m http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/
Why? You normally don't need to set -m explicitly.
You probably meant --memtest rather t
John Haggerty writes:
> I was wondering if there is any software package do run commands on
> the linux machine and then send the results back to the requesting
> address?
ssh or one of its relatives may do, or uux might be what you want. It
is part of the uucp package, which must be installed on
Hi all,
I have added the following line into fstab
none /proc/bus/usb usbfs auto,devgid=1000,devmode=0664 0 0
When I first boot the machine, Lenny can mount it normaly, whenever I
start VB with XP guest, the device disapears in Lenny but I can access
it via XP guest.
though I've tried to
S. Fishpaste wrote:
On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 03:45:03 -0700, Jimmy Johnson in gmane.linux.debian.user
wrote:
S. Fishpaste wrote:
Hm sounds like a plan. Do you know offhand which Debian distro has 3.5.x ?
Mepis 8.0 is based on Lenny and has 3.5 compiled, you can get it using
these repos if you
Brent Clark wrote:
Jimmy Johnson wrote:
Mepis 8.0 is based on Lenny and has 3.5 compiled, you can get it using
these repos if you want.
"deb ftp://ftp.mepis.com/mepis/ mepis-8.0 main"
If you going to make a suggestion for a debian based distro, then you
might as well just make it Ubuntu.
On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 00:32:40 -0400, Charlie Kroeger in gmane.linux.debian.user
wrote:
>> For e-mail; mutt is my preferred MUA.
>
> Now there's a thread.
>
> Know of any clearly written logical progressive steps for setting up mutt or
> is it a life's work? Does it require an excessively high IQ fi
On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 03:45:03 -0700, Jimmy Johnson in gmane.linux.debian.user
wrote:
> S. Fishpaste wrote:
>
>> Hm sounds like a plan. Do you know offhand which Debian distro has 3.5.x ?
>
>
> Mepis 8.0 is based on Lenny and has 3.5 compiled, you can get it using
> these repos if you want.
>
> "de
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 09:20:17AM +0200, David wrote:
> Hi list.
[...]
> 3) Existing tools for managing hardlink-based snapshot directories
> etc.
maybe rsnapshot is what you're after. It does hardlinked snapshots
with automagical deletion of older backups and configurable frequency
etc. I quite
I was wondering if there is any software package do run commands on the
linux machine and then send the results back to the requesting address?
Ie.
message has a perface word "Secretcommandword ls
it starts reading at "Scretcommandword" and then processes ls maybe with a
terminator like #
Thank
> I am trying to install a realtek 8139 lan card on an old debian machine
> - 2.4.18-bf2.4
I don't like to sound the bleeding obvious but I would suspect the driver for
that card might already be in a later kernel. The 2.4x kernel represents less
refinement than the 2.6x kernel.
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On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 8:35 AM, Sandip Sandip wrote:
> I am trying to install a realtek 8139 lan card on an old debian machine -
> 2.4.18-bf2.4
>
> The card is properly installed - as in when I connect the lan cable it the
> lights on the card start blinking.
>
> However, I am unable to access int
Tim Tebbit wrote:
I'm tinkering with building a live system targeting a usb thumb drive.
I'm failing and could use a second set of eyes.. here is what I have.
The package list is very incomplete, but I wanted to toss a few for my
testing run.
I'm using sid, i386. live-helper 1.0.5-1
# lh_con
I am trying to install a realtek 8139 lan card on an old debian machine -
2..4.18-bf2.4
The card is properly installed - as in when I connect the lan cable it the
lights on the card start blinking.
However, I am unable to access internet. Do I need to install drivers and how
do I do that?
Tha
On Thursday 13 August 2009 04:28:56 pm Brent Clark wrote:
> Jimmy Johnson wrote:
> > Mepis 8.0 is based on Lenny and has 3.5 compiled, you can get it using
> > these repos if you want.
> >
> > "deb ftp://ftp.mepis.com/mepis/ mepis-8.0 main"
>
> Hiya
>
> If you going to make a suggestion for a debia
On 2009-08-13 05:47, Girish Kulkarni wrote:
Hello,
I'm having an issue with Fetchmail and Gmail on my system (Lenny). It
will help if someone could help understand what's going on.
While downloading archived messages (around 20 thousand of them, 800
MB) from my Gmail account via POP3, Fetchmai
Krzysztof Lubański a écrit :
On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 12:30:16 +0200, Olivier Cailloux wrote:
I would like to install the libdvdcss package, which appears on
http://www.debian-unofficial.org/packages.html.
[...]
Then I get a missing key error:
--
#LANG=C aptitude update
W: GPG error: http://ftp.d
Jimmy Johnson wrote:
Mepis 8.0 is based on Lenny and has 3.5 compiled, you can get it using
these repos if you want.
"deb ftp://ftp.mepis.com/mepis/ mepis-8.0 main"
Hiya
If you going to make a suggestion for a debian based distro, then you
might as well just make it Ubuntu.
Nothing wrong wi
On 2009-08-13 16:17 (+0530), Girish Kulkarni wrote:
> While downloading archived messages (around 20 thousand of them, 800
> MB) from my Gmail account via POP3, Fetchmail stopped after fetching
> 9985 messages. It now keeps saying that there are "549 read messages"
> on the server but clearly, the
Hello,
I'm having an issue with Fetchmail and Gmail on my system (Lenny). It
will help if someone could help understand what's going on.
While downloading archived messages (around 20 thousand of them, 800
MB) from my Gmail account via POP3, Fetchmail stopped after fetching
9985 messages. It n
S. Fishpaste wrote:
Hm sounds like a plan. Do you know offhand which Debian distro has 3.5.x ?
Mepis 8.0 is based on Lenny and has 3.5 compiled, you can get it using
these repos if you want.
"deb ftp://ftp.mepis.com/mepis/ mepis-8.0 main"
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On 2009-08-12 22:52:14 -0400, S. Fishpaste wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 02:21:00 +0200, Vincent Lefevre in
> gmane.linux.debian.user wrote:
> > Also, check that you don't have a firefox already running (maybe
> > hidden), otherwise when you run a second instance, it will send a
> > message to the
On 2009-08-13 10:00 +0200, paragasu wrote:
> it is kind of weird when i checked my .bash_history, it is empty.
Did your computer crash recently? Some filesystems (e.g. ext4 before
kernel 2.6.30) might cause empty files under some conditions.
> #set give me
> HISTFILESIZE=500
> HISTSIZE=500
The
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 04:27:09PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> Does this burn through entropy faster than other methods?
Probably, although since $RANDOM accesses /dev/urandom instead of
/dev/random , your available entropy remains undefined in any case. As
for the numerical distribution of your
it is kind of weird when i checked my .bash_history, it is empty.
#set give me
HISTFILESIZE=500
HISTSIZE=500
right now it work normal. after my last login it is not zero size anymore.
what i want to ask is, if the file (.bash_history) automatically empty
after the filesize reach 500KB?
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Hi list.
Until recently I was using rdiff-backup for backing up our servers.
But after a certain point, the rdiff-backup process would take days,
use up huge amounts of CPU and RAM, and the debug logs were very
opaque. And the rdiff-backup mailing lists weren't very helpful
either.
So, for server
Hello,
since the upgrade from etch to lenny I get the following warning from
rkhunter. The system has xen installed.
Warning: Possible promiscuous interfaces:
'ifconfig' command output: UP BROADCAST RUNNING
PROMISC MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
UP BROADCAST RUNNING PRO
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