Re: Postgresql wont restart. Can I clear shared memmory segments without rebooting?

2010-01-05 Thread Mitchell Laks
On 15:30 Wed 06 Jan , Kun Niu wrote: > Before you execute "echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches", you'd better > run "sync" first.:D Thank you, a good point. I was mostly interested as a matter of knowledge, as I did not go into linux to become a 'cargo culter' and reboot without knowing what i

Re: Postgresql wont restart. Can I clear shared memmory segments without rebooting?

2010-01-05 Thread Mitchell Laks
On 09:36 Tue 05 Jan , Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > These commands should help: > ipcmk (1) - create various ipc resources > ipcrm (1) - remove a message queue, semaphore set or shared memory id > ipcs (1) - provide information on ipc facilities > > They are from the util-lin

Re: Postgresql wont restart. Can I clear shared memmory segments without rebooting?

2010-01-05 Thread Kun Niu
Before you execute "echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches", you'd better run "sync" first.:D Mitchell Laks write: On 02:39 Tue 05 Jan , Stan Hoeppner wrote: Try these: To free pagecache: # echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches To free dentries and inodes: # echo 2 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_cache

Re: Postgresql wont restart. Can I clear shared memmory segments without rebooting?

2010-01-05 Thread Mitchell Laks
On 02:39 Tue 05 Jan , Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Try these: > > To free pagecache: > > # echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches > > To free dentries and inodes: > > # echo 2 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches > > To free pagecache, dentries and inodes: > > echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches this was very

Apt-zip-inst keeps trying to use internet

2010-01-05 Thread Jason Heeris
I'm trying to install about 1GB worth of packages on a computer with a slow net connection (this is immediately after a clean Squeeze install). Someone told me about apt-zip, so I gave it a go. The trouble was, I was at home and the computer I wanted to install on wasn't. So I created a virtual ma

64-Bit Land (was Video conversion)

2010-01-05 Thread Freeman
On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 11:58:02AM -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 09:32, Tim Frink wrote: > > I would like to convert an old video file using the > > Intel indeo codec into a video format that is supported > > by nowadays video players. What software could I use > > for the c

Re: New testing install; no /boot/grub/menu.lst exists.

2010-01-05 Thread Freeman
On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 09:17:40PM -0800, Alan Ianson wrote: > On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 20:52 -0800, Freeman wrote: > > Grub2 is the recommended default but still considered under development. So > > was legacy I guess, it never reached V 1.0 . However, legacy still gives me > > control over the look

Re: New testing install; no /boot/grub/menu.lst exists.

2010-01-05 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20100106_033032, s. keeling wrote: > I'm new to testing. I've been running stable on primary box and (eg.) > sid on sandbox for years. This is testing is on my sandbox for the > first time. I just installed both squeeze(?)/testing and OpenBSD 4.6. > > How do I add the latter to testing's gru

Re: New testing install; no /boot/grub/menu.lst exists.

2010-01-05 Thread Freeman
On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 03:30:32AM +, s. keeling wrote: > I'm new to testing. I've been running stable on primary box and (eg.) > sid on sandbox for years. This is testing is on my sandbox for the > first time. I just installed both squeeze(?)/testing and OpenBSD 4.6. > > How do I add the l

Re: New testing install; no /boot/grub/menu.lst exists.

2010-01-05 Thread Alan Ianson
On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 20:52 -0800, Freeman wrote: > On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 03:30:32AM +, s. keeling wrote: > > I'm new to testing. I've been running stable on primary box and (eg.) > > sid on sandbox for years. This is testing is on my sandbox for the > > first time. I just installed both s

Unable to make DNS queries

2010-01-05 Thread Foss User
I just installed a new instance of Debian 5.0 (Lenny). I am unable to download files from any websites. When I try wget http://www.google.com/ I see this output in tshark. debian:~# tshark -f "udp port 53" Running as user "root" and group "root". This could be dangerous. Capturing on eth0 0.

slow workspace switching ATI Radeon 3850 fglrx/non-free RandR

2010-01-05 Thread Joost Kraaijeveld
Hi, I recently switched from Xinerama to RandR to use my two monitors in a dual head configuration. After doing that the switching between workspaces is taking a lot of time (3-5 seconds), which was (almost) instantaneous with Xinerama. Is this a known feature for this card/driver or is there a

What is the right way to fix LANG or locale such that quotes appear properly?

2010-01-05 Thread Foss User
On my terminal (PuTTY terminal), I see that the quotes are displayed incorrectly. They appear as a with a caret over it. Here is an output: debian:~# echo $LANG en_IN debian:~# gcc a.c a.c: In function âmainâ: a.c:6: error: âasâ undeclared (first use in this function) a.c:6: error: (Each undeclare

Re: Server Freezes

2010-01-05 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jan 5, 2010, at 9:47 PM, Roman Gelfand wrote: I didn't see any message that was out of the ordinary. I am running another with similar configuration except it runs different applicaiton. That machine never goes down. On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 3:30 AM, Sebastian Weisgerber wrote: Have a lo

Re: New testing install; no /boot/grub/menu.lst exists.

2010-01-05 Thread Freeman
On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 03:30:32AM +, s. keeling wrote: > I'm new to testing. I've been running stable on primary box and (eg.) > sid on sandbox for years. This is testing is on my sandbox for the > first time. I just installed both squeeze(?)/testing and OpenBSD 4.6. > > How do I add the l

Re: New testing install; no /boot/grub/menu.lst exists.

2010-01-05 Thread Wayne
s. keeling wrote: I'm new to testing. I've been running stable on primary box and (eg.) sid on sandbox for years. This is testing is on my sandbox for the first time. I just installed both squeeze(?)/testing and OpenBSD 4.6. How do I add the latter to testing's grub? /boot/grub/menu.lst does

New testing install; no /boot/grub/menu.lst exists.

2010-01-05 Thread s. keeling
I'm new to testing. I've been running stable on primary box and (eg.) sid on sandbox for years. This is testing is on my sandbox for the first time. I just installed both squeeze(?)/testing and OpenBSD 4.6. How do I add the latter to testing's grub? /boot/grub/menu.lst doesn't exist, and /boot

Re: Server Freezes

2010-01-05 Thread Roman Gelfand
I didn't see any message that was out of the ordinary. I am running another with similar configuration except it runs different applicaiton. That machine never goes down. On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 3:30 AM, Sebastian Weisgerber wrote: > Have a look at ~/.VirtualBox/Machines//Logs. > I'm using Virt

Re: Video conversion

2010-01-05 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 04:41:27PM -0800, jeremy jozwik wrote: > On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Rob Owens wrote: > > There's a handy GUI called soundconverter. I think it relies on > > gstreamer for its codecs, so you'll want to make sure you have the > > appropriate ones installed. I'm not sur

Re: Roman Gelfand has invited you to open a Google mail account

2010-01-05 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Roman, Am 2010-01-05 10:55:39, schrieb Roman Gelfand: > I never sent this. Outrageous. This is real garbage. Did this ever > happen to anyone before? I have no Gmail account but my mailbox is hit by 5-10 invitations per week and since I do not like invitaions of this kind, I have a

[Solved] Re: Masquerading problems: squeeze via lenny

2010-01-05 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun,03.Jan.10, 10:30:18, Andrei Popescu wrote: [...] > The problem is that some websites work flawlessly from the squeeze box > and some stall. The same sites are ok from the lenny box. Here are Turned out it was a problem with Path MTU Discovery[1] and setting CLAMPMSS=YES in shorewall

Re: Video conversion

2010-01-05 Thread Tim Clewlow
> On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 05:32:10PM +, Tim Frink wrote: >> I would like to convert an old video file using the >> Intel indeo codec into a video format that is supported >> by nowadays video players. What software could I use >> for the conversion under Debian Lenny? >> > There's a handy GUI

Re: Video conversion

2010-01-05 Thread jeremy jozwik
On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Rob Owens wrote: > There's a handy GUI called soundconverter. I think it relies on > gstreamer for its codecs, so you'll want to make sure you have the > appropriate ones installed. I'm not sure if it handles indeo or not, > but here's what I suggest you install t

Re: Using LightScribe on Debian?

2010-01-05 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:54:36 -0800 Bob McGowan dijo: >>> John Jason Jordan wrote: I still want to be able to put an image on a CD or DVD, but I guess the only way to do that properly is with an inkjet. But if I do it only once every few months I'll have clogged jets, wasted ink fro

Re: Using LightScribe on Debian?

2010-01-05 Thread Bob McGowan
John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Fri, 01 Jan 2010 18:37:14 -0800 > Paul Johnson dijo: > >> John Jason Jordan wrote: >> >>> I still want to be able to put an image on a CD or DVD, but I guess >>> the only way to do that properly is with an inkjet. But if I do it >>> only once every few months I'll ha

Re: Video conversion

2010-01-05 Thread Rob Owens
On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 05:32:10PM +, Tim Frink wrote: > I would like to convert an old video file using the > Intel indeo codec into a video format that is supported > by nowadays video players. What software could I use > for the conversion under Debian Lenny? > There's a handy GUI called so

Re: KVM networking

2010-01-05 Thread T o n g
On Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:02:29 +, Jon Dowland wrote: >> > How I can run KVM w/ network support under normal user? >> >> http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Networking > > This page is very good, but the instructions under "public bridge" are > not applicable to Debian. This is really an excellent p

Re: Comparing two debian boxes (find which package is different)

2010-01-05 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 10:22:50AM -0800, Tyler MacDonald wrote: > Hi, > > I believe dpkg-query will do what you want, something like; > > dpkg-query --show -f '${Package}\t${Version}\n' > > Cheers, >Tyler > There's also "apt-show-versions". It'll tell you the version and if it's from l

Re: KVM w/ network support under normal user.

2010-01-05 Thread Chris Davies
On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 08:58:49AM +, Chris Davies wrote: > http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Networking Jon Dowland wrote: > This page is very good, but the instructions under "public > bridge" are not applicable to Debian. It's also irrelevant to the OP's request for networking as a "normal us

Re: Sharing firefox settings in seamonkey

2010-01-05 Thread T o n g
Thanks everyone for the replies, On Mon, 04 Jan 2010 11:49:33 -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote: > I think you could just copy the relevant .sqlite files from SM to FF or > vice-versa. Yes, works well except the signons.sqlite, which should be normal. -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://

Debian repos via ipv6

2010-01-05 Thread Alex Samad
Hi I seem to have great dificulty access the debian repos via ipv6 Connecting to ftp.au.debian.org (2001:388:1034:2900::25) and security etc. I have to wait till ipv6 times out and then it falls backs to ipv4. Any one else having this issue ? Who to contact re problem A signature.asc Descr

Re: Using LightScribe on Debian?

2010-01-05 Thread Paul Johnson
John Jason Jordan wrote: > Actually, I know about Oregon auctions, and they are near enough for > me. But I already have a color laser printer. What I need is something > to print color graphics on optical media. And I want to produce just a > few copies only once in a while. > > If there was an i

Re: semantics of dpkg-* configuration file backups

2010-01-05 Thread Malte Forkel
Sven Joachim schrieb: > On 2010-01-05 17:48 +0100, Malte Forkel wrote: > >> When upgrading a package, the user can specify how a configuration file >> should be handled that has been modified on the local systems. >> >> Depending on the user's choice, a file with the extension dpkg-old, >> dpkg-ne

Re: Roman Gelfand has invited you to open a Google mail account

2010-01-05 Thread Roman Gelfand
Come to think of it, when I was searching for the debian user email list, I started typing in invite box. But I don't think it asked me for confirmation. On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 12:01 PM, Jeff Soules wrote: >> It may be a new full on campaign they've started, or they may just be testing >> the wa

Re: Roman Gelfand has invited you to open a Google mail account

2010-01-05 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2010-01-05 10:55:09 -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > It may be a new full on campaign they've started, or they may just > be testing the waters to judge the level of outrage before starting > a full on campaign of this crap. Expect this to be Slash dotted by > the end of the day, tomorrow at the la

Re: Masquerading problems: squeeze via lenny

2010-01-05 Thread Antonio Perez
Antonio Perez wrote: > which both work on port 80, filter the destination port 80 and compare. > hint: tcp.dstport==80 also you may add the dest IP or any other relevant factor to reduce noise: for wget http://www.google.com : tcp.dstport==80 and ip.addr==74.125.159.1/24 for http://www.

Re: Lenny -> Squeeze Not Upgrading

2010-01-05 Thread chris kerr
Ok. My /etc/apt/source.list has only one entry: deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main Then I did 'aptitude update' and here is the full output: eeepc:/etc/apt# aptitude update Err http://dl.google.com stable Release.gpg Cannot initiate the connection to 8118:80 (0.0.31.182). - connect

Re: Lenny -> Squeeze Not Upgrading

2010-01-05 Thread Sascha Silbe
On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 11:38:36AM -0800, chris kerr wrote: Err http://debian.crosslink.net squeeze Release.gpg Cannot initiate the connection to 8118:80 (0.0.31.182). - connect (22 Invalid argument) Sounds like your DNS resolver / resolving server is broken (0.0.31.182 is a reserved IP addr

RE: domain redirection how?

2010-01-05 Thread James Wu
There's two issues at play here. 1. DNS: I don't think you can CNAME a domain like that. For example, you can't CNAME example.com but you can CNAME somehost.example.com. You have to assign your domain the same A record as your other domain. Bind should be spitting out errors if you try to CNAME l

Re: Lenny -> Squeeze Not Upgrading

2010-01-05 Thread Aioanei Rares
chris kerr wrote: First time I've tried to upgrade my distro. Following the directions I edited /etc/apt/source.list and changed all "lenny" to "squeeze" and all "stable" to "testing". Example: deb http://debian.crosslink.net/debian/ squeeze main Then I 'aptitude update' and get output: Er

Lenny -> Squeeze Not Upgrading

2010-01-05 Thread chris kerr
First time I've tried to upgrade my distro. Following the directions I edited /etc/apt/source.list and changed all "lenny" to "squeeze" and all "stable" to "testing". Example: deb http://debian.crosslink.net/debian/ squeeze main Then I 'aptitude update' and get output: Err http://debian.crossli

Re: Roman Gelfand has invited you to open a Google mail account

2010-01-05 Thread Mark Allums
On 1/5/2010 12:35 PM, Aioanei Rares wrote: Arthur Machlas wrote: Guys, have you heard about this? It's called hotmail. You want to write a letter to your friends? Just click compose, write, send. Need to send a recipe to a friend? Look at this: It's got attachments. You just click upload, ok, s

Re: Masquerading problems: squeeze via lenny

2010-01-05 Thread Antonio Perez
Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Tue,05.Jan.10, 03:53:22, Antonio Perez wrote: > >> You could start a Wireshark capture on both the LAN and the PPP before >> performing the wget command and compare both. > > I installed tshark (I only have ssh access as both machines are in a > different city) on the

Re: Roman Gelfand has invited you to open a Google mail account

2010-01-05 Thread Mark Allums
On 1/5/2010 10:55 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Roman Gelfand put forth on 1/5/2010 9:55 AM: I never sent this. Outrageous. This is real garbage. Did this ever happen to anyone before? This is the first I've seen of it. I just copied the spam-l list. I'm pretty shocked that Google would start

Re: Masquerading problems: squeeze via lenny

2010-01-05 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Tue,05.Jan.10, 03:53:22, Antonio Perez wrote: > You could start a Wireshark capture on both the LAN and the PPP before > performing the wget command and compare both. I installed tshark (I only have ssh access as both machines are in a different city) on the gateway, but unfortunately I can'

Re: Roman Gelfand has invited you to open a Google mail account

2010-01-05 Thread Aioanei Rares
Arthur Machlas wrote: On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Aioanei Rares mailto:debian.dev.l...@gmail.com>> wrote: Arthur Machlas wrote: Guys, have you heard about this? It's called hotmail. You want to write a letter to your friends? Just click compose, write, send

Re: Roman Gelfand has invited you to open a Google mail account

2010-01-05 Thread vr
On Tue, 05 Jan 2010 10:55:09 -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > This is total crap, and should be beneath a company of Google's stature. > > -- > Stan It's said a portion of Googloidians are former Microsoft employees so this wouldn't seem outlandish to me. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-

Re: Roman Gelfand has invited you to open a Google mail account

2010-01-05 Thread Arthur Machlas
On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Aioanei Rares wrote: > Arthur Machlas wrote: > >> Guys, have you heard about this? It's called hotmail. You want to write a >> letter to your friends? Just click compose, write, send. Need to send a >> recipe to a friend? Look at this: It's got attachments. You ju

Re: Roman Gelfand has invited you to open a Google mail account

2010-01-05 Thread Axel Freyn
On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 10:55:09AM -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Roman Gelfand put forth on 1/5/2010 9:55 AM: > > I never sent this. Outrageous. This is real garbage. Did this ever > > happen to anyone before? > > This is the first I've seen of it. I just copied the spam-l list. I'm pretty >

Re: Roman Gelfand has invited you to open a Google mail account

2010-01-05 Thread Aioanei Rares
Arthur Machlas wrote: Guys, have you heard about this? It's called hotmail. You want to write a letter to your friends? Just click compose, write, send. Need to send a recipe to a friend? Look at this: It's got attachments. You just click upload, ok, send. Wham, bam, hotmail spam. It's so eas

Re: Comparing two debian boxes (find which package is different)

2010-01-05 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Hi, I believe dpkg-query will do what you want, something like; dpkg-query --show -f '${Package}\t${Version}\n' Cheers, Tyler Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > Hi there, > > I would like to compare two debian box. I am trying to figure out > which package version is different from one box to

Re: Roman Gelfand has invited you to open a Google mail account

2010-01-05 Thread Arthur Machlas
On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 11:56 AM, John Hasler wrote: > Paul E Condon writes: > > In fairness to Google, no one who is a party to this conversation > > knows that Google sent the spam. > > Perhaps, but the headers are pretty convincing. I suggest that Roman > take the matter up with Google. > -- >

Comparing two debian boxes (find which package is different)

2010-01-05 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Hi there, I would like to compare two debian box. I am trying to figure out which package version is different from one box to the other. (dpkg --get-selections does not list version). Thanks ! -- Mathieu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "u

Re: Roman Gelfand has invited you to open a Google mail account

2010-01-05 Thread John Hasler
Paul E Condon writes: > In fairness to Google, no one who is a party to this conversation > knows that Google sent the spam. Perhaps, but the headers are pretty convincing. I suggest that Roman take the matter up with Google. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@list

Re: Bookmarks gone, can't make new ones in iceweasel

2010-01-05 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On Ter, 05 Jan 2010, Hendrik Boom wrote: I just did a general update ( u U g g in aptitude) on my Debian lenny system, and now iceweasel (3.0.6) doesn't recognize my bookmarks. The bookmarks.html file is still there. I copied it just in case sonething would happen to it; I have no problem brows

Re: Roman Gelfand has invited you to open a Google mail account

2010-01-05 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On Ter, 05 Jan 2010, Paul E Condon wrote: In fairness to Google, no one who is a party to this conversation knows that Google sent the spam. Google does have commercial competitors, some of whom might view this as an amusing trick to play on Google. And there are in this world *many* trolls whose

Re: setting ulimit permanently

2010-01-05 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <560840.34719...@web114116.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>, Tudod Ki wrote: >is >echo 'ulimit -n 10240' >> /etc/profiles >a bad idea? [because it runs every time when someone logins] >Is it a BAD idea OR NOT? It is a bad idea, since global limits can already be managed by editing /etc/security/limits.conf

Re: semantics of dpkg-* configuration file backups

2010-01-05 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-01-05 17:48 +0100, Malte Forkel wrote: > When upgrading a package, the user can specify how a configuration file > should be handled that has been modified on the local systems. > > Depending on the user's choice, a file with the extension dpkg-old, > dpkg-new or dpkg-dist might be created

Re: Wacom bamboo pen and touch in squeeze.

2010-01-05 Thread Chris Davies
Hendrik Boom wrote: > What's the story on getting this thing working? http://udim.wordpress.com/2008/04/08/wacom-bamboo-and-debian/ I'm not entirely sure what "version" of Debian you'd say I was running - it's a bit a of a Heinz 57 (stable, *testing*, unstable, volatile, experimental) - but that

Bookmarks gone, can't make new ones in iceweasel

2010-01-05 Thread Hendrik Boom
I just did a general update ( u U g g in aptitude) on my Debian lenny system, and now iceweasel (3.0.6) doesn't recognize my bookmarks. The bookmarks.html file is still there. I copied it just in case sonething would happen to it; I have no problem browsing that file and seeing that my bookma

Re: Roman Gelfand has invited you to open a Google mail account

2010-01-05 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20100105_105509, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Roman Gelfand put forth on 1/5/2010 9:55 AM: > > I never sent this. Outrageous. This is real garbage. Did this ever > > happen to anyone before? > > This is the first I've seen of it. I just copied the spam-l list. I'm pretty > shocked that Google wo

Re: Roman Gelfand has invited you to open a Google mail account

2010-01-05 Thread Jeff Soules
> It may be a new full on campaign they've started, or they may just be testing > the waters to judge the level of outrage before starting a full on campaign of > this crap. And it could also just be a bug in somebody's new UI code, or a misclick somewhere. I'd wait at least a little bit before b

setting ulimit permanently

2010-01-05 Thread Tudod Ki
is echo 'ulimit -n 10240' >> /etc/profiles a bad idea? [because it runs every time when someone logins] Is it a BAD idea OR NOT? :D:O thank you

Re: Roman Gelfand has invited you to open a Google mail account

2010-01-05 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Roman Gelfand put forth on 1/5/2010 9:55 AM: > I never sent this. Outrageous. This is real garbage. Did this ever > happen to anyone before? This is the first I've seen of it. I just copied the spam-l list. I'm pretty shocked that Google would start spamming like this. It may be a new full o

semantics of dpkg-* configuration file backups

2010-01-05 Thread Malte Forkel
Hi, When upgrading a package, the user can specify how a configuration file should be handled that has been modified on the local systems. Depending on the user's choice, a file with the extension dpkg-old, dpkg-new or dpkg-dist might be created besides the configuration file. Could someone pleas

Re: 'sux -c program username' does not work.

2010-01-05 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Clive: >It looks like --help is passed through to su. Try >$ sux '-?' >usage: sux [-m|-p|--preserve-environment] > [--display display] > [--no-cookies|--copy-cookies|--use-xauthority] > [--untrusted] [--timeout x] > [-] [u

Re: 'sux -c program username' does not work.

2010-01-05 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Clive: >Sorry I misspelled Sthu. That's OK. :) Thank You for Your answer, once again! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: KVM w/ network support under normal user.

2010-01-05 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Klistvud: >I don't know about network support, but to run kvm you have to add your >user to the kvm group. Unfortunately, I don't recall anymore if that >gets set up automagically when you apt-get kvm, or you have to do it >manually ... I have kvm-acceler

Re: KVM w/ network support under normal user.

2010-01-05 Thread Jon Dowland
On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 08:58:49AM +, Chris Davies wrote: > Sthu Deus wrote: > > How I can run KVM w/ network support under normal user? > > http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Networking This page is very good, but the instructions under "public bridge" are not applicable to Debian. I have a pub

Re: Roman Gelfand has invited you to open a Google mail account

2010-01-05 Thread Roman Gelfand
I never sent this. Outrageous. This is real garbage. Did this ever happen to anyone before? Thanks On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 3:30 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Roman, did you do this, or did Google send a spam on your behalf without your > prior knowledge/consent? > > -- > Stan > > > Roman Gelfand

Re: Postgresql wont restart. Can I clear shared memmory segments without rebooting?

2010-01-05 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <20100105073412.ga5...@earthlink.net>, Mitchell Laks wrote: >I have a remote server running debian etch, >that has only 1G of ram, (that i cannot easily add ram to), that runs >a large postgresql 7.4 database and it occasionally runs out of enough > shared memory. The database is static and I no

Re: Handle each file at a time in loop?

2010-01-05 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <3f8297b21001041230y69f14fe2m653f899feb45c...@mail.gmail.com>, Foss User wrote: >$ ls >convert.sh Track 1.wav Track 3.wav Track 5.wav Track 7.wav Track 9.wav >Track 1.mp3 Track 2.wav Track 4.wav Track 6.wav Track 8.wav > >So, you can see there are file names with spaces in them. I hav

Re: Use RAID1 mirror as backup during dist-upgrade?

2010-01-05 Thread Chris Davies
Reiner Buehl wrote: > I have a Debian Etch system that runs on a RAID 1 software raid system. > now I would like to upgrade it to Lenny by splitting the mirror off and > keep one mirror as a backup. Alternatively I could add a third disk as a > second mirror and split off this one. > If the upg

Re: Use RAID1 mirror as backup during dist-upgrade?

2010-01-05 Thread Scott Gifford
Reiner Buehl writes: > I have a Debian Etch system that runs on a RAID 1 software raid > system. now I would like to upgrade it to Lenny by splitting the > mirror off and keep one mirror as a backup. Hello Reiner, I do exactly this when I upgrade a system. I simply disconnect the drive I'd li

RE: Showing only files on a virtual desktop

2010-01-05 Thread Ogya Chief
> > I am not sure what you mean by "files associated with a virtual desktop". > If you want to only see tasks for the active desktop in the task bar, > you can do so by right-clicking on the task bar, "Task Manager > Settings", select "Only show tasks from the current desktop" in the > Filters

Re: melding na inloggen (announcement after login.

2010-01-05 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Roy Snabilié schreef: Als ik mij ingelogd heb krijg ik de volgende melding: Beste Roy, Dit is de Engelse lijst, er is ook een Nederlandse lijst: debian-user-du...@lists.debian.org. Hoewel je mail ook de Engelse vertaling bevat, worden andere talen dan Nederlands op deze lijst niet zo gewaar

Re: Use RAID1 mirror as backup during dist-upgrade?

2010-01-05 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Reiner Buehl put forth on 1/5/2010 7:27 AM: > Hi all, > > I have a Debian Etch system that runs on a RAID 1 software raid system. > now I would like to upgrade it to Lenny by splitting the mirror off and > keep one mirror as a backup. Alternatively I could add a third disk as a > second mirror and

melding na inloggen (announcement after login.

2010-01-05 Thread Roy Snabilié
Als ik mij ingelogd heb krijg ik de volgende melding: " Er ging iets mis bij het starten van de Gnome instellingen-voorziening. Sommige dingen zoals thema's, geluiden of bureaubladinstellingen zouden verkeerd kunnen functioneren. De laatste foutmelding was: Did not receive a reply. Possible

Re: problemi con gestore pacchetti

2010-01-05 Thread ludovico van
English version below: Qui si scrive solo in inglese. Per aiuto in italiano, scrivi su debian-italian. Comunque per il tuo problema serve vedere l'output di # LANG=en_US aptitude # cat /etc/apt/sources.list ciao If you want to write in italian, please use debian-italian mailing list. If you w

Use RAID1 mirror as backup during dist-upgrade?

2010-01-05 Thread Reiner Buehl
Hi all, I have a Debian Etch system that runs on a RAID 1 software raid system. now I would like to upgrade it to Lenny by splitting the mirror off and keep one mirror as a backup. Alternatively I could add a third disk as a second mirror and split off this one. If the upgrade works, I then ad

Re: Inquiry:How to install Debian from Internet?

2010-01-05 Thread Jeffrey Cao
On 2010-01-05, hadi motamedi wrote: > --0016e6d566adaf99a1047c693cbc > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 11:20 AM, Sjoerd Hardeman < > sjo...@lorentz.leidenuniv.nl> wrote: > >> hadi motamedi schreef: >> >> Dear All >>> I have my Debian server installed from De

Re: Case Preservation

2010-01-05 Thread RogerV
Camaleón wrote: > > On Mon, 04 Jan 2010 03:19:23 -0800, RogerV wrote: > >> I've copied the contents of the ./htdocs directory from Apache Web >> Server running on Windows XP to a FAT32 formatted USB stick, and then >> copied from the USB Stick to the htdocs directory of an Apache Web >> Server

Re: Inquiry:How to install Debian from Internet?

2010-01-05 Thread hadi motamedi
On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 11:20 AM, Sjoerd Hardeman < sjo...@lorentz.leidenuniv.nl> wrote: > hadi motamedi schreef: > > Dear All >> I have my Debian server installed from Debian-31 netinst & businesscard >> CDs , but when trying to install Asterisk 1.4 it failed . I thought that my >> Debian installa

Re: Inquiry:How to install Debian from Internet?

2010-01-05 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 11:09:18AM +, hadi motamedi wrote: > Dear All > I have my Debian server installed from Debian-31 netinst & businesscard CDs > , but when trying to install Asterisk 1.4 it failed . I thought that my > Debian installation was incomplete. Can you please let me know how to >

Re: Inquiry:How to install Debian from Internet?

2010-01-05 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
hadi motamedi schreef: Dear All I have my Debian server installed from Debian-31 netinst & businesscard CDs , but when trying to install Asterisk 1.4 it failed . I thought that my Debian installation was incomplete. Can you please let me know how to install a complete Debian 3.1 right from the

Inquiry:How to install Debian from Internet?

2010-01-05 Thread hadi motamedi
Dear All I have my Debian server installed from Debian-31 netinst & businesscard CDs , but when trying to install Asterisk 1.4 it failed . I thought that my Debian installation was incomplete. Can you please let me know how to install a complete Debian 3.1 right from the Internet ? Is there anythin

problemi con gestore pacchetti

2010-01-05 Thread massimo
Salve chiedo il vostro aiuto per il seguente errore: dopo aver provato alcuni codec con aptitude mi da il seguente errore ogni volta che provo ad aprire il gestore pacchetti E: Tipo "“deb" non riconosciuto alla riga 54 nel file /etc/apt/sources.list E: Impossibile leggere l'elenco delle sorgenti. C

Re: KVM w/ network support under normal user.

2010-01-05 Thread Chris Davies
Sthu Deus wrote: > How I can run KVM w/ network support under normal user? http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Networking Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Server Freezes

2010-01-05 Thread Sebastian Weisgerber
Have a look at ~/.VirtualBox/Machines//Logs. I'm using Virtualbox quite often and every time it crashed, it wasn't the host os' fault. On Tuesday 05 January 2010 05:56:17 Roman Gelfand wrote: > I am running Lenny patched up. On this machine I am running sun > virtualbox virtual machine. The g

Re: Masquerading problems: squeeze via lenny

2010-01-05 Thread Antonio Perez
Andrei Popescu wrote: > on the gateway in /etc/ppp/peers/provider and ifconfig ppp0 correctly > shows the new setting, but no change. Thanks for the hint though. Hi: You could start a Wireshark capture on both the LAN and the PPP before performing the wget command and compare both. -- Antonio

Re: Postgresql wont restart. Can I clear shared memmory segments without rebooting?

2010-01-05 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Mitchell Laks put forth on 1/5/2010 1:34 AM: > While I can continue to do this, but it goes against the grain. Is there > some system command to free the > shared memory so that postgresql will start again without rebooting? Try these: To free pagecache: # echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches

Re: Roman Gelfand has invited you to open a Google mail account

2010-01-05 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Roman, did you do this, or did Google send a spam on your behalf without your prior knowledge/consent? -- Stan Roman Gelfand put forth on 1/4/2010 10:47 PM: > I've been using Gmail and thought you might like to try it out. Here's > an invitation to create an account. > > ---