Re: Exim4 behaviour when long term failure of outgoing address

2012-10-09 Thread Alan Chandler
On 07/10/12 22:31, Chris Davies wrote: Alan Chandler wrote: I am using Debian Squeeze on a virtual machine that I lease. It has exim4 (light) version as its mail server. - its name is avalon.hartley-consultants.com However, it looks to me like its trying to send a failure e-mail to me locally

Re: Partition Scheme for installing Debian Squeeze

2012-10-09 Thread Linux-Fan
On 10/10/2012 03:22 AM, Wally Lepore wrote: > On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 8:46 PM, Wolf Halton wrote: >> The sizes look sane. >> 2*ram=swap If your machine hibernates, all the contents of ram goes to swap. >> 15GB / plenty of space. >> .5GB Boot partition. Safe enough, but every 3 months or so, check

DVB-T tuning problem

2012-10-09 Thread José Luis Segura Lucas
Hello! I have a DVB-T receiver and I'm trying to put it working. Apparently, it's supported by Debian (I can see its name and model using a program like gnome-dvb-setup). But I have a problem when trying to find the channels on my receptor to be able to watch or record TV. My "antenna" was not l

Fwd: Re: Adding user to dual boot laptop

2012-10-09 Thread Gary Roach
Original Message From: - Tue Oct 09 19:43:56 2012 X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 X-Mozilla-Status2: 0080 X-Mozilla-Keys: Message-ID: <5074e0eb.6080...@verizon.net> Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2012 19:43:55 -0700 From: Gary Roach User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U

Re: Adding user to dual boot laptop

2012-10-09 Thread Wally Lepore
On Tue, 09 Oct 2012 16:53:14 -0700 Gary writes: > I have a Toshiba Qosmio with 2 60 GB hard drives, one with Windows XP and the > other with Debian Squeeze. > I just decided to add my wife as a user to the linux side. For some reason > the login screen won't work. > I set up her account in passwd

Re: Partition Scheme for installing Debian Squeeze

2012-10-09 Thread Wally Lepore
On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 8:46 PM, Wolf Halton wrote: > The sizes look sane. > 2*ram=swap If your machine hibernates, all the contents of ram goes to swap. > 15GB / plenty of space. > .5GB Boot partition. Safe enough, but every 3 months or so, check capacity > with df -h as the drive can fill up wit

Re: Partition Scheme for installing Debian Squeeze

2012-10-09 Thread Wally Lepore
On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 7:48 PM, Wolf Halton wrote: > Wally, > looks like an ok partitioning scheme. Having /home on its own partition > means you can keep its contents even if you change the linux installed. > Personally, I don't use a /boot partition; I just use / and /home. Hi Wolf, Ok thanks.

Re: Partition Scheme for installing Debian Squeeze

2012-10-09 Thread Wolf Halton
The sizes look sane. 2*ram=swap If your machine hibernates, all the contents of ram goes to swap. 15GB / plenty of space. .5GB Boot partition. Safe enough, but every 3 months or so, check capacity with df -h as the drive can fill up with old Linux images. The rest for home files makes sense as wel

Re: USB boot creator

2012-10-09 Thread Mike O
If you already have a linux machine you can write the iso to a usb drive with 'dd' or 'cat'. Check out the documentation on the debian web site for more details. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.d

Adding user to dual boot laptop

2012-10-09 Thread Gary Roach
I have a Toshiba Qosmio with 2 60 GB hard drives, one with Windows XP and the other with Debian Squeeze. I just decided to add my wife as a user to the linux side. For some reason the login screen won't work. I set up her account in passwd and group and I set up her home directory. I can log h

Re: Partition Scheme for installing Debian Squeeze

2012-10-09 Thread Wolf Halton
Wally, looks like an ok partitioning scheme. Having /home on its own partition means you can keep its contents even if you change the linux installed. Personally, I don't use a /boot partition; I just use / and /home. Wolf Halton http://sourcefreedom.com Apache developer: wolfhal...@apache.org On

Re: Partition Scheme for installing Debian Squeeze

2012-10-09 Thread Wally Lepore
On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 6:41 PM, Wally Lepore wrote: > > I have downloaded the netinst iso file and verified the file using > MD5SUM and it passed. I forgot to add this additional information. I am installing Debian netinst file titled: debian-6.0.6-i386-netinst.iso (32 bit) > System specs: > >W

Re: USB boot creator

2012-10-09 Thread Gary Dale
On 09/10/12 05:20 PM, istimsak abdulbasir wrote: I am looking for a usb disk creator in debian squeeze to burn .iso images to a usb drive. Are there any good ones included in debian 6.0.5 or must I download them from the internet? Istimsak Abdulbasir Unetbootin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Partition Scheme for installing Debian Squeeze

2012-10-09 Thread Wally Lepore
Hi Debian users. I have downloaded the netinst iso file and verified the file using MD5SUM and it passed. I burned the netinst iso image to a CD successfully, booted to the CD and I am currently installing Debian Squeeze. I will be installing debian to its own hard disk in a dual boot set-up. I h

Re: Installation problem on Dell Latitude D810

2012-10-09 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Sun, Oct 07, 2012 at 08:38:14PM +0200, Cesar Enrique Garcia Dabo wrote: > > Thanks a lot! > I have now successfully installed Debian with image firmware-6.0.6-amd64- > i386-netinst.iso and it works fine. I used that because I read that my wifi > card > needs non free firmware. However the

fglrx driver

2012-10-09 Thread Roman V.Leon.
Gents and Ladies :-) please advise. I have an HP notebook with Ati Radeon 4200 GPU on board and sometimes i like to play old good windows games with help of "wine" while my little daughter is sleeping. But recently a real disaster had happened, ATI dropped a support of Radeon 4xxx cards and af

Re: Perl: where is the command in system("command -v wget") documented?

2012-10-09 Thread Mat Kovach
Regid Ichira writes: > I am a perl beginner. I stambled upon a perl line > >if (system("command -v wget >/dev/null 2>&1") == 0) > >I was able to find perl's documentation for system. But where is >the documentation for command? The command, command is a shell builtin. On Debian you can fin

Re: apache2's handling of IP version 6

2012-10-09 Thread Satoru Otsubo
Hi, Tom H > > >> All that you really need for ipv6 is the "::1 ..." line. Having one > >> line less on your X-less box won't make a difference. > >> > >> Is this your entire "/etc/hosts"? Don;t you have any ipv4 settings?! > > > > The entire text is the following: > > > > 127.0.0.1 localhos

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Re: Current user friendly documentation of Debian repository structure and use???

2012-10-09 Thread Richard Owlett
Curt wrote: On 2012-10-05, Richard Owlett wrote: To summarize: I effectively _HAVE_ the contents of a relevant repository on 8 physically discrete DVDs. I *REQUIRE* that content to reside on a single partition of a single disk in a form acceptable to apt-get. For reasons I'll not go into, any

Re: Running 32bit OpenGL program with amd64

2012-10-09 Thread Alberto Luaces
lee writes: > Francesco Pietra writes: > >> Hello: >> I would like to continue to use a 32bit graphical program based on >> OpenGL. It worked well on i386, requiring libXm.so.3 (from libmotif3). >> >> Is it conceivable to simply add libXm.so.3 (taken from my dismissed >> i388 PC) to ia32-libs? > >

Re: Running 32bit OpenGL program with amd64

2012-10-09 Thread lee
Francesco Pietra writes: > Hello: > I would like to continue to use a 32bit graphical program based on > OpenGL. It worked well on i386, requiring libXm.so.3 (from libmotif3). > > Is it conceivable to simply add libXm.so.3 (taken from my dismissed > i388 PC) to ia32-libs? If you're running stabl

Re: Perl: where is the command in system("command -v wget") documented?

2012-10-09 Thread Jon Dowland
On Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 10:58:27PM +0100, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > "command" is a shell built-in command - so you should find it in the > documentation for your shell - e.g. "man sh" should get you to the > right manual page. Exactly *which* shell this is, depends on your > system, but it is most

Re: devscripts:rc-alert: A patch for on the fly selection of curl or wget

2012-10-09 Thread Jon Dowland
Cool - you should probably send this to the devscripts devel team, though: devscripts-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org -- 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/201

Running 32bit OpenGL program with amd64

2012-10-09 Thread Francesco Pietra
Hello: I would like to continue to use a 32bit graphical program based on OpenGL. It worked well on i386, requiring libXm.so.3 (from libmotif3). Is it conceivable to simply add libXm.so.3 (taken from my dismissed i388 PC) to ia32-libs? Thanks for advice francesco pietra -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: Persistent MySQL Process

2012-10-09 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 5:11 AM, Daniel Latter wrote: > On Tuesday, 9 October 2012 02:00:02 UTC+1, Christofer C. Bell wrote: >> >> Do you by any chance use KDE? >> > > I do not use KDE myself but my colleague does, but its just to browse to a > web address, can I ask what you are alluding to? KD

Re: Persistent MySQL Process

2012-10-09 Thread Daniel Latter
On Tuesday, 9 October 2012 02:00:02 UTC+1, Christofer C. Bell wrote: > On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 2:48 PM, Daniel Latter wrote: > > > Hi, Thanks for the reply. > > > > > > I did as you suggested and found evidence in the second command, but the > > only that stood out was the Debian start up scrip

Re: Persistent MySQL Process

2012-10-09 Thread Daniel Latter
Hi, It seems to be the second issue (I/O) load. Here's a snippet from top: PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+ COMMAND 22178 mysql 20 0 416m 119m 7456 S 31 3.0 137:12.52 mysqld I know there needs to be a mysqld process but this does not look