Re: iPAQ connection to Debian Squeeze

2010-11-26 Thread didier gaumet
On Fri, 26 Nov 2010 14:54:20 -0800 Gary Roach wrote: [...] > I have the following software loaded on the Squeeze/KDE4 system: > > synce-trayicon > synce-hal > multisyn [...] I can't assure you it will solve your problem but I would suggest to install multisync0.90 instead of multisync. I unders

Re: btrfs on an external HD?

2010-11-26 Thread Alan Chandler
On 27/11/10 01:45, Brad Alexander wrote: Thanks for your post, Alan. Lets take this discussion back to the list rather than hold it in private - and I am subscribed, so no need to copy me either On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 4:39 PM, Alan Chandler wrote: I've just tried it on my own similar

Re: VLC player doesn't playback correctly

2010-11-26 Thread Joel Roth
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 10:45:13PM +0200, Matthias Andersson wrote: > On 11/26/2010 09:44 PM, Frank wrote: > > On Fri, 26 Nov 2010 19:40:10 +0200 > > Matthias Andersson wrote: > > > >> Ok, now Totem will play a movie over sftp:// but vlc won't. > > > > > > Did you remove ALL the packages from

Re: unloading unnecessary modules

2010-11-26 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Mag Gam put forth on 11/26/2010 11:14 PM: > unloading unnecessary modules If they are unnecessary modules, the kernel won't load them in the first place, as the hardware they interface with doesn't exit. If they're not loaded, how can you unload them? I think you need to provide us with _your_

unloading unnecessary modules

2010-11-26 Thread Mag Gam
Hello, I am currently working on a ecommerce system for a client. We are using Debian 5. I was told by an engineer that unloading unnecessary modules will improve performance in the system. My question(s) are: is this true? Also, how do I measure the kernel (or base OS) system before and after I u

Re: edit multiple files under multiple directories/folders

2010-11-26 Thread Ricardo Ramírez
Hi, maybe something like this: PORT=8079;for i in $(find . -iname "server.xml"|sort); do let PORT=$PORT+1; echo $PORT > $i; done or this: PORT=8079;for i in $(find . -iname "server.xml"|sort); do let PORT=$PORT+1; sed -i -e "s/actualPort/$PORT/g" $i; done best regards. 2010/11/26 Kaushal Shriy

Re: VLC player doesn't playback correctly

2010-11-26 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 26 Nov 2010 22:45:13 +0200 Matthias Andersson wrote: > > > >> Ok, now Totem will play a movie over sftp:// but vlc won't. > > > > > > Did you remove ALL the packages from debian multi-media. VLC can't > > coexist with them. > > I did as

edit multiple files under multiple directories/folders

2010-11-26 Thread Kaushal Shriyan
Hi, In my home folder I have 6 tomcat directories under /home/kaushal/tomcat0..6 Under each of these tomcats there are sub folder conf and inside these conf there is a file by the name server.xml so for example I have tomcat0,tomcat1,tomcat2,tomcat3,tomcat4,tomcat5 so i need to edit server.xm

iPAQ connection to Debian Squeeze

2010-11-26 Thread Gary Roach
There are tons of articles out there on this subject, nearly all of them either wrong or hopelessly out of date. It's driving me crazy. The switch from KDE3 to KDE4 has changed everything. So lets start with the very basic task of getting the linux system to recognize the existence of the devic

Re: My server catched a rootkit?

2010-11-26 Thread James Brown
Jochen Schulz wrote: > James Brown: >> I have a VDS under Debian Lenny, >> ~# uname -a >> Linux 2.6.18-028stab070.4-ent #1 SMP Tue Aug 17 19:03:05 MSD 2010 i686 >> GNU/Linux > > Is the rest of the software as ancient as the kernel? Lenny uses 2.6.26. > You should probably ask for a more recent ker

Re: My server catched a rootkit?

2010-11-26 Thread James Brown
Jochen Schulz wrote: > James Brown: >> I have a VDS under Debian Lenny, >> ~# uname -a >> Linux 2.6.18-028stab070.4-ent #1 SMP Tue Aug 17 19:03:05 MSD 2010 i686 >> GNU/Linux > > Is the rest of the software as ancient as the kernel? Lenny uses 2.6.26. > You should probably ask for a more recent ker

Re: My server catched a rootkit?

2010-11-26 Thread James Brown
Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 26 Nov 2010 18:53:05 +, James Brown wrote: > >> I have a VDS under Debian Lenny, >> ~# uname -a >> Linux 2.6.18-028stab070.4-ent #1 SMP Tue Aug 17 19:03:05 MSD 2010 i686 >> GNU/Linux >> >> I have received the next messages from crondaemon: >> /etc/cron.daily/rkhunter:

Re: btrfs on an external HD?

2010-11-26 Thread Alan Chandler
On 25/11/10 18:09, Brad Alexander wrote: Um, isn't that kind of like a steering wheel that won't turn the car? :) In reference to btrfs.fsck I think its got limited functionality now - but will improve over time Actually, I understand. the filesystem is a work in progress. Besides, I've b

hal installation problem - debian squeeze

2010-11-26 Thread debian
Hallo, I have a system which is working on arm debian squeeze from 4GB SD card system was cloned to the less size 2GB card and I have got problem with hal. With 4GB SD card working fine. On 2GB SD made dist-upgrade card removed hal and trying install again but always getting follow: deb:/# ap

Re: Filechooser different behaviour between Iceweasel and Icedove

2010-11-26 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 26 Nov 2010 21:59:26 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > My mother noticed something interesting on her laptop (squeeze). All mothers have a hidden hacker soul inside :-) > When trying to attach a picture in a Gmail using the webinterface (via > Iceweasel) a click on the file will show a pre

Re: VLC player doesn't playback correctly

2010-11-26 Thread Matthias Andersson
On 11/26/2010 09:44 PM, Frank wrote: > On Fri, 26 Nov 2010 19:40:10 +0200 > Matthias Andersson wrote: > >> Ok, now Totem will play a movie over sftp:// but vlc won't. > > > Did you remove ALL the packages from debian multi-media. VLC can't > coexist with them. > > I did as instructed at ht

SOLVED: UPS on USB not detected

2010-11-26 Thread lee
On Sun, Nov 07, 2010 at 05:39:55PM +0100, lee wrote: > Hi, > > my UPS (HP T750 intl) which is plugged into an USB port with the > supplied USB cable is not detected. Nothing happens when I plug it out > or in, and I tried different USB ports. It´s the only USB device > connected, and lsusb only sh

Filechooser different behaviour between Iceweasel and Icedove

2010-11-26 Thread Andrei Popescu
Hi, My mother noticed something interesting on her laptop (squeeze). When trying to attach a picture in a Gmail using the webinterface (via Iceweasel) a click on the file will show a preview in the filechooser (somewhere on the right side of the files list). When trying to attach a picture whi

Re: VLC player doesn't playback correctly

2010-11-26 Thread Frank
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 26 Nov 2010 19:40:10 +0200 Matthias Andersson wrote: > Ok, now Totem will play a movie over sftp:// but vlc won't. > Did you remove ALL the packages from debian multi-media. VLC can't coexist with them. - -- - -- Frank -- -BEGIN PG

Re: My server catched a rootkit?

2010-11-26 Thread Jochen Schulz
James Brown: > > I have a VDS under Debian Lenny, > ~# uname -a > Linux 2.6.18-028stab070.4-ent #1 SMP Tue Aug 17 19:03:05 MSD 2010 i686 > GNU/Linux Is the rest of the software as ancient as the kernel? Lenny uses 2.6.26. You should probably ask for a more recent kernel. > Is it a rootkit or othe

Re: My server catched a rootkit?

2010-11-26 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 26 Nov 2010 18:53:05 +, James Brown wrote: > I have a VDS under Debian Lenny, > ~# uname -a > Linux 2.6.18-028stab070.4-ent #1 SMP Tue Aug 17 19:03:05 MSD 2010 i686 > GNU/Linux > > I have received the next messages from crondaemon: > /etc/cron.daily/rkhunter: > Internal error! > Inter

Re: btrfs on an external HD?

2010-11-26 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 08:18, Brad Alexander wrote: > That is a good point. Is anyone using the 2.6.36-1~experimental.1 from > experimental? Any stability issues? I am running it, no problems here. Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: one process occupying the whole cpu

2010-11-26 Thread Jochen Schulz
Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen: > On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 12:56, Jochen Schulz wrote: >> Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen: >>> >>> This si my shell (bash) script: >>> >>> # shell script to install all the packages in ~/R/allpackages, >>> # to ~/R/allinstall . Should be run from ~/R/Recommend . By the w

Re: Reg: Shared calendar application

2010-11-26 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 11:27:48PM +0530, Kousik Maiti wrote: > Hi list, > Can anybody suggest me a shared calendar application for Intranet which is > light weight and easy to configure. > I've used webcalendar in the past. I thought it was pretty good. I think it's in the repos. If not, it's

Re: how to determine the interpreter

2010-11-26 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 26 Nov 2010 11:40:32 -0500 (EST), Joao Ferreira wrote: > seems that $0 simply contains the program being run and not the > interpreter that is running it... Hmm. You're right. echo $0 works at a shell prompt, but not within a script. I tried it within a script, sort of, by sourcing

Re: VLC player doesn't playback correctly

2010-11-26 Thread Matthias Andersson
Ok, now Totem will play a movie over sftp:// but vlc won't. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4ceff0fa.1060...@pp1.inet.fi

Re: how to determine the interpreter

2010-11-26 Thread Burton Samograd
If you want to know if you're running in bash, you can test for the variable BASH_VERSION. if [ ! -z $BASH_VERSION ]; then echo "I am running in bash" exit fi echo "I am running in sh" -- Burton Samograd -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: VLC player doesn't playback correctly

2010-11-26 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 26 Nov 2010 18:55:58 +0200, Matthias Andersson wrote: > On 11/26/2010 06:36 PM, Camaleón wrote: >>> Ok, that solved the video issue. Now only the MRL issue remains. >> >> How are you opening the file, what kind of file is it and what error >> message are you getting? >> > > The files a

Re: VLC player doesn't playback correctly

2010-11-26 Thread Matthias Andersson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/26/2010 06:36 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 26 Nov 2010 17:49:20 +0200, Matthias Andersson wrote: > >>> VLC unable to open MRL >>> http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2010/11/thrd2.html#00498 >>> >>> Wait... that were you :-? >>> >> >> Ok,

Re: how to determine the interpreter

2010-11-26 Thread Joao Ferreira gmail
On Fri, 2010-11-26 at 11:27 -0500, Stephen Powell wrote: > If a script wants to know which shell is running it, the > variable $0 might work. For example, > >echo $0 I tried this... but see what I got: j...@squeeje:~$ cat sh.sh #!/bin/sh echo $0 j...@squeeje:~$ cat bash.bash #!/bin/bash

Re: VLC player doesn't playback correctly

2010-11-26 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 26 Nov 2010 17:49:20 +0200, Matthias Andersson wrote: >> VLC unable to open MRL >> http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2010/11/thrd2.html#00498 >> >> Wait... that were you :-? >> > > Ok, that solved the video issue. Now only the MRL issue remains. How are you opening the file, wh

Re: how to determine the interpreter

2010-11-26 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 26 Nov 2010 10:11:07 -0500 (EST), Joao Ferreira wrote: > > considering sh, bash and csh, can I somehow, inside a script, determine > if I'm being run with any of these 3 shells... > > I need to determine wich interpreter is running me... The login shell is set in /etc/passwd on a user-by

Re: one process occupying the whole cpu

2010-11-26 Thread Chris Davies
Jochen Schulz wrote: > Looks like you are uncompressing and extracting your 3700 tar.gz files > in parallel. You are probably stressing CPU and hard disk at the same > time. ...which in this instance will also be considerably LESS efficient than running these jobs serially. Chris -- To UNSUBS

Re: btrfs on an external HD?

2010-11-26 Thread Jochen Schulz
Brad Alexander: > > That is a good point. Is anyone using the 2.6.36-1~experimental.1 from > experimental? Any stability issues? I am running vanilla 2.6.36.1 and don't see any problems with it. J. -- In idle moments I remember former lovers with sentimental tenderness. [Agree] [Disagree]

Re: one process occupying the whole cpu

2010-11-26 Thread Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen
see below. On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 12:56, Jochen Schulz wrote: > Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen: >> >> This si my shell (bash) script: >> >> # shell script to install all the packages in ~/R/allpackages, >> # to ~/R/allinstall . Should be run from ~/R/Recommend . >> # >>  for FILE in ~/R/allpackages

Re: kill pidof question

2010-11-26 Thread Wilko Fokken
On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 10:27:17AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > I frequently have to kill iceape - it locks up on some images. > > Of course the command pidof iceape-bin will return the pid to standard > output and I can then use this information to kill the program. > Certainly it must be pos

Re: btrfs on an external HD?

2010-11-26 Thread Brad Alexander
That is a good point. Is anyone using the 2.6.36-1~experimental.1 from experimental? Any stability issues? --b On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 4:15 AM, Jochen Schulz wrote: > Brad Alexander: >> >> I was thinking about setting up a btrfs filesystem on this drive since >> it will be mainly be data from my

Re: one process occupying the whole cpu

2010-11-26 Thread Jochen Schulz
Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen: > > This si my shell (bash) script: > > # shell script to install all the packages in ~/R/allpackages, > # to ~/R/allinstall . Should be run from ~/R/Recommend . > # > for FILE in ~/R/allpackages/*z > do > if [ -f $FILE ] > then >nice R CMD INSTALL

Re: how to determine the interpreter

2010-11-26 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 21:01, Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 26 Nov 2010 15:11:07 +, Joao Ferreira gmail wrote: > > > considering sh, bash and csh, can I somehow, inside a script, determine > > if I'm being run with any of these 3 shells... > > > > I need to determine wich interpreter is running

Re: VLC player doesn't playback correctly

2010-11-26 Thread Matthias Andersson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > Check out this thread: > > VLC unable to open MRL > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2010/11/thrd2.html#00498 > > Wait... that were you :-? > > Greetings, > Ok, that solved the video issue. Now only the MRL issue remains. -BEGIN

Re: how to determine the interpreter

2010-11-26 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 26 Nov 2010 15:11:07 +, Joao Ferreira gmail wrote: > considering sh, bash and csh, can I somehow, inside a script, determine > if I'm being run with any of these 3 shells... > > I need to determine wich interpreter is running me... A quick Google tour says: s...@stt008:~$ ps $$ PI

Re: VLC player doesn't playback correctly

2010-11-26 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 20:52, Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 26 Nov 2010 16:35:33 +0200, Matthias Andersson wrote: > > > I've installed vlc 1.1.3 according to the instructions at > > www.videolan.org/vlc/download-debian.html for unstable. > > > > Now the problem is that all videos play black and whit

Re: VLC player doesn't playback correctly

2010-11-26 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 26 Nov 2010 16:35:33 +0200, Matthias Andersson wrote: > I've installed vlc 1.1.3 according to the instructions at > www.videolan.org/vlc/download-debian.html for unstable. > > Now the problem is that all videos play black and white and the picture > is crammed to a quarter of the window to

how to determine the interpreter

2010-11-26 Thread Joao Ferreira gmail
hello all, considering sh, bash and csh, can I somehow, inside a script, determine if I'm being run with any of these 3 shells... I need to determine wich interpreter is running me... thx Joao -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscrib

Re: one process occupying the whole cpu

2010-11-26 Thread Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen
see below. On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 07:58, Jochen Schulz wrote: > Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen: >> >> At 16.10 this afternoon I started a process via a shell script  which >> is nso resource-hungry > … >> (In the script, I am loopìng over the about 3700 tar.gz files in one >> directory. For e ach o

VLC player doesn't playback correctly

2010-11-26 Thread Matthias Andersson
Hi! I've installed vlc 1.1.3 according to the instructions at www.videolan.org/vlc/download-debian.html for unstable. Now the problem is that all videos play black and white and the picture is crammed to a quarter of the window to the left. I've tried all the different settings but to no avail.

Re: can't run software sources from menu

2010-11-26 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 11/26/2010 06:58 AM, Paul Cartwright wrote: > Nov 26 06:48:17 paulandcilla kernel: [1553414.868785] > update-manager[31382]: segfault at c ip b6c43f0e sp bf88f430 error 4 in > libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0.2000.0[b6be7000+93000] not sure if this is the culprit, but I found out that when i try to install l

can't run software sources from menu

2010-11-26 Thread Paul Cartwright
tried to run software sources from the gnome menus, and it bombs out, but I can do it from the command line using synaptic. here is the entry from the messages log: Nov 26 06:48:17 paulandcilla kernel: [1553414.868785] update-manager[31382]: segfault at c ip b6c43f0e sp bf88f430 error 4 in libgdk-

Re: one process occupying the whole cpu

2010-11-26 Thread Jochen Schulz
Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen: > > At 16.10 this afternoon I started a process via a shell script which > is nso resource-hungry … > (In the script, I am loopìng over the about 3700 tar.gz files in one > directory. For e ach of them, I am spawning a > sub-shell (using &) doing some installation wo

Re: Distorted picture in openarena.

2010-11-26 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Camaleón: > Maybe you can test some of the tips provided in Openarena FAQ: > > http://openarena.wikia.com/wiki/FAQ Ok, I'll try. > I would first try by renaming (do not remove, just rename to keep the > original file) "q3config.cfg" to start from scratch.

Re: Debian (2.6.35) on Mac Mini (late-2010)

2010-11-26 Thread Andreas Weber
On 2010-11-24 22:18, w f wrote: > and got a message saying that "... no bootable disk can be found > ..." During installation of Debian, my HW (500.1 GB ATA Toshiba > MK5055GS) was detected w/o issue. Before trying rEFIt, I used the > installer disc in "recovery mode." I successfully mounted / and

Re: Rules to .procmailrc

2010-11-26 Thread Steve Kemp
On Thu Nov 25, 2010 at 21:33:09 +0100, Simon Hollenbach wrote: >Under recipes there is a sample of a filter used on To and CC at the same >time, that should suit your needs. Indeed - but you can do better than that if you want to handle many Debian lists: # Sort debian mailing lists i

Re: switching between amd64 + i386

2010-11-26 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 25 Nov 2010 13:36:48 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Camaleón wrote: >> You can install two GRUBs (inside the first sector of each boot >> partition) and mark the default one with the bootable flag. >> >> > I have trouble googling that. How do you install each? You can install GRUB fro