Re: init spawning multiple cf-execd processes at once

2014-07-22 Thread Lorenzo Beretta
On 07/21/2014 02:39 PM, Jimmy Thrasibule wrote: Hi, I've added a new line to the /etc/inittab file to monitor the CFEngine daemon and restart it in case this one dies. cfe:2345:respawn:/var/cfengine/bin/cf-execd The cf-execd is re-spawned as expected, except the fact that multiple process

Re: init spawning multiple cf-execd processes at once

2014-07-22 Thread Lorenzo Beretta
On 07/21/2014 04:56 PM, Steve Litt wrote: On Mon, 21 Jul 2014 14:39:16 +0200 Jimmy Thrasibule wrote: Hi, I've added a new line to the /etc/inittab file to monitor the CFEngine daemon and restart it in case this one dies. cfe:2345:respawn:/var/cfengine/bin/cf-execd The cf-execd is re-sp

Re: filesystem mounted as noexec

2012-03-18 Thread Lorenzo Beretta
Il 18/03/2012 02:30, T o n g ha scritto: On Sat, 17 Mar 2012 14:43:41 +0100, Lorenzo Beretta wrote: Most likely your filesystem is mounted with noexec, Bingo! Thanks! Hmm..., but why? I didn't specify noexec for any of my mounted filesystems except /proc: $ grep noexec /etc/fstab

Re: zpipe.c: the zlib example

2012-03-17 Thread Lorenzo Beretta
Il 17/03/2012 04:10, T o n g ha scritto: Hi, I believe that zpipe.c used to be working. But it is still working now? I get it compiled OK, gcc -g -lz -o zpipe zpipe.c but wasn't able to run it: $ ./zpipe bash: ./zpipe: Permission denied I get the same result even I put an output immediate

Re: Alternative archiving measures

2011-09-28 Thread Lorenzo Beretta
On 09/28/11 13:40, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 28 Sep 2011 04:37:52 -0400, RiverWind wrote: Might any of you know of any utilities that will decompress or convert archived files in "rar" format? The "unrar" utility that is pretty ubiquitous on Unix systems is not supported by Linux, or at least not

Re: fcron as cron

2011-09-23 Thread Lorenzo Beretta
On 09/23/11 10:20, Florian Weimer wrote: Has anybody try to use fcron instead of Vixie cron? How well does it work in practice, especially if you've got tons of existing cron jobs written for Vixie cron? I'm mainly interested in time zone support because our systems run on UTC, but we have jobs

Re: sed or awk: decode base64 string in passwd-like file

2011-06-29 Thread Lorenzo Beretta
Il 29/06/2011 16:50, Denny Schierz ha scritto: hi, I have a file with strings like: tes...@domain.foo:e0NSWVBUfVUx=:500:12002::/imap/spool/domain.foo/%1n/% n:storage=50 I need to decode the second field (password field), with something like: echo e0NSWVBUfVUx= | openssl base64 -d How can I d

Re: /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf

2011-06-16 Thread Lorenzo Beretta
Mmm... (déjà vu?) I just already explained ;-) http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2011/06/msg01419.html Greetings, Ouch! I read dhcpcd.conf and tought "Got dhclient - irrelevant". My fault. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe"

/etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf

2011-06-16 Thread Lorenzo Beretta
Hello everyone, I stumbled on debian's bug #561461, googled for a fix, applied it... and still nothing worked, until I realized I had edited /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf instead of /etc/dhcp/dhclient.conf (doh!) I can't find anything in `apt-file search`, so I guess that dhcp3/dhclient.conf is a

Re: How do I get this dialog back?

2011-03-01 Thread Lorenzo Beretta
Il 01/03/2011 16:30, Hugo Vanwoerkom ha scritto: Igor Sverkos wrote: Hi, while upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze, I got this dialog: http://f.666kb.com/i/breb9xzqa8abc1ls7.jpg I am asking myself, how do I get this dialog back again (for example, when I want to add another service, which should

Re: ntp & synaptic

2011-01-27 Thread Lorenzo Beretta
Il 27/01/2011 16:50, Paul Cartwright ha scritto: My system rebooted yesterday. I had a 3 hour power outage due to a tree falling on the power lines down the street. After I got a few emails, telling me my date was wrong, I noticed that it said it was tomorrow already. I tried to change it, but wh

Re: [bash] script (redirect output) to file and email

2010-09-26 Thread Lorenzo Beretta
Il 24/09/2010 22:10, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ha scritto: In<20100924141439.gn15...@wasteland.homelinux.net>, Jochen Schulz wrote: Enrico Weigelt: do_rm() { while read FILE ; do rm -fr $FILE ; done } That won't work with spaces in filenames. :) "find … -exec" or "find … -print

Re: Booting in `user-mode' and entering in `maintenance' says `Login incorrect' but this is actually `Incorrect password' that should be said, as `root' is the maintenance user

2010-07-03 Thread Lorenzo Beretta
Il 03/07/2010 12:50, Camaleón ha scritto: On Fri, 02 Jul 2010 22:34:25 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: Booting in `user-mode' (once chosen in the GRUB) and entering in `maintenance' says `Login incorrect' but this is actually `Incorrect password' that should be said, as `root' is the (default) mai

Re: make not compiling -- Solved

2010-06-18 Thread Lorenzo Beretta
Il 18/06/2010 19:40, Jochen Schulz ha scritto: prakhar gaur: Just wanted to ask why was I not able to compile the make-3.81 source code and how did using apt-get resolve the problem. Simple: you need make to compile make, but it wasn't installed on your system. apt-get is one of Debian's tool

Re: ext2 empty

2010-05-31 Thread Lorenzo Beretta
Il 31/05/2010 20:20, T o n g ha scritto: Hi, I came across a tool called something like "ext2 empty" but forgot where it is now. Primarily, it zero out all unused spaces in ext2 fs, so that the unused spaces won't take up much spaces when compressed. Any hint? Thanks probably zerofree -- T

Re: Vnc server

2010-05-10 Thread Lorenzo Beretta
Il 09/05/2010 21:50, Andrew Lapham ha scritto: Hello all. I'm new to debian (2 days) but have been using Linux for a while. Anyway my problem is with Vnc4server. Yesterday I set up my /home/.Vnc/xstartup to include gnome session and I commented terminal emulator. And I remoted in no problem (I

Re: read command not reading from pipe. why?

2010-01-04 Thread Lorenzo Beretta
Foss User ha scritto: I see that the read command stores input entered only on the console into the variables. Example: $ read a foo $ echo $a foo But when I don't enter input on the console by keyboard, but pipe it into the standard input of read, I am unable to store the input into the variab

Re: VLC cannot support the traditional music keys

2009-12-13 Thread Lorenzo Beretta
Merciadri Luca ha scritto: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lorenzo Beretta writes: I'm on testing (which has vlc 1.03), but from what I remember old vlc versions used to look something like this: CTRL| ALT| KEY| A

Re: VLC cannot support the traditional music keys

2009-12-12 Thread Lorenzo Beretta
Merciadri Luca ha scritto: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi folks, I am using VLC 0.8.6h Janus (with wxWidgets). Totem and other GNOME's built-in players make the appropriate action when I press a specific music key on my (damn Microsoft, but standard) keyboard. However, it i

Re: Cannot empty trash because of permission problems

2009-10-12 Thread Lorenzo Beretta
Merciadri Luca ha scritto: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Merciadri Luca writes: Hello, On my Debian Lenny, I am unable to empty the trash because of permission problems. For example, I have a .jar file, and when I choose to "Empty Trash," I receive: "Error while deleting. "/

Re: starting Idesk automatically in IceWM on Lenny

2009-10-12 Thread Lorenzo Beretta
Lisi ha scritto: The box boots automatically into IceWM in 32 seconds from a standing start. I have Idesk configured to my satisfaction, and it runs beautifully if I start it manually after I have booted up and IceWM is running. Any attempt, however, to make Idesk also start automatically, r

Re: Network Manager cannot be removed

2009-08-30 Thread Lorenzo Beretta
JoeHill ha scritto: This is going to drive me nuts. I've removed Network Manager in the past because it causes no end of trouble, especially because it never seems to think I'm connected to the Internet, so everything starts in 'offline' mode. Major Gnome update today, and sure enough, Network

Re: DVD download

2009-07-05 Thread Lorenzo Beretta
Mark Neidorff ha scritto: This concerns the 5.02 amd64 DVD #1 Yesterday I downloaded the debian-502-amd64-DVD-1.iso file from debian.org's site. It was 4.4 Gb, but it failed sha1sum verification, so today I again downloaded it, but it is now 2.0 Gb and again fails sha1sum. I have now downlo

Re: glibc too old to install Flash on Testing?

2009-07-02 Thread Lorenzo Beretta
JoeHill ha scritto: What? I've definitely never seen this before. I'm running a Testing system myself and Flash works fine (well, to the extent that Flash can ever be said to work 'fine'). On a Testing system I just installed, however, I'm getting an error that: ERROR: Your glibc library is ol

Re: Installing Debian alongside Windows Vista?

2009-06-29 Thread Lorenzo Beretta
Alan Greenberger ha scritto: On 2009-06-28, Zachary Uram wrote: Hi, I have a 500GB disk which has Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium (64bit) installed on it. Not sure if that is 1 huge partition or not. I assume it is NTFS. Can someone please tell me exactly what I must do to shrink the Vist

Re: Application/octet stream

2009-06-20 Thread Lorenzo Beretta
Thomas H. George ha scritto: A friend sent me an email with an attachment I can't view - probably some Windoze format. Iceape says it is a type application/octet stream. I thought I had installed all the available plugins. What must I find to view the picture? Tom $ aptitude show file $ f

Re: Are there any major issues with Debian testing?

2009-06-13 Thread Lorenzo Beretta
thveillon.debian ha scritto: ZephyrQ wrote: Just picked up a BBuy cheapo that I will lather/rinse/repeat and put Deb on...just wondering if testing has any major issues that I should be aware of before I make the jump (my main system runs stable). Hi, I have been running testing since Etch,

Re: 'Applications, Accessories, Root Terminal' fails silently

2009-06-13 Thread Lorenzo Beretta
Patrick Wiseman ha scritto: Running 'sudo gnome-terminal' (which is the equivalent) reports 'Failed to contact the GConf daemon; exiting.' How do I fix this? Is it some idiotic "security feature"? (I get really steamed when fear overrides function!) Patrick A solution that really solves i

Re: 'Applications, Accessories, Root Terminal' fails silently

2009-06-13 Thread Lorenzo Beretta
Patrick Wiseman ha scritto: Running 'sudo gnome-terminal' (which is the equivalent) reports 'Failed to contact the GConf daemon; exiting.' How do I fix this? Is it some idiotic "security feature"? (I get really steamed when fear overrides function!) Patrick Workaround: launch a terminal a

Re: cANT login to kde...

2009-06-07 Thread Lorenzo Beretta
raman narasimhan ha scritto: i recently installed ktorrent. it'd lots of dependencies. Now when i login i'm shown a window that says --- | kstartupconfig4 does not exis

Re: starting lxde with xdm

2009-06-04 Thread Lorenzo Beretta
Umarzuki Mochlis ha scritto: i installed lxde with aptitude install --without-recommends lxde then i ran update-alternatives --config x-session-manager no startx, weird. Ran startlxde but nothing happened then i installed xdm, make .xsession with exec xdm in it, rebooted but nothing happene

Re: No protocol specified, cannot open display error

2009-05-29 Thread Lorenzo Beretta
Aniruddha ha scritto: Hi, After an certain amount of time applications no longer open on my Gnome desktop, When I try to run a program from an already opened terminal I get the following output: $ gedit No protocol specified cannot open display: When I log out and in the problem is solved.

Re: Ctrl-Alt-Backspace disabled?

2009-05-29 Thread Lorenzo Beretta
Joel Roth ha scritto: Hello all, I've noticed that Ctrl-Alt-Backspace no longer kills X for me (sid). I see Ubuntu has disabled this key combination. What about Debian? Is it me or Xorg? And how could I re-enable this functionality? Switch to terminal, ps ax, kill is possible, but clunky if I a

Re: What's wrong with debian?

2005-07-16 Thread Johann Beretta
On Sun, 17 Jul 2005 05:40:06 +0200, in linux.debian.user you wrote: >> Well you can use sarge, seems stable enough, however no >> security. Thats a major issue in my mind. > >Could you explain that in newbie-ease? I seem to be getting updates for >sarge from security.debain.org. Why do you say

Re: CUPS/Samba help please

2005-07-14 Thread Johann Beretta
On Wed, 13 Jul 2005 17:40:08 +0200, in linux.debian.user you wrote: >Beretta wrote: > >> The easy solution is just to ditch CUPS for my printing, but I really like >> being >> able to go back and restart jobs regardless of which machine I'm currently >>

Re: CUPS/Samba help please

2005-07-14 Thread Johann Beretta
On Wed, 13 Jul 2005 18:00:15 +0200, Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Anyone have some insight into this? Maybe you experienced something similar >> and >> can give me a few tips on how to resolve it? > >In /etc/samba/smb.conf there is a setting: ># Most people will find that this

Re: Etch vs. Sarge -- can't make up my mind

2005-07-13 Thread Beretta
On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 08:20:05 +0200, in linux.debian.user you wrote: > >1) I have decided a few minutes ago to go with Sarge for the >reasons you mentioned. If I add apt-get.org and backports.org to >my apt sources, will I be able to seamlessly add updated >applications as they become available

CUPS/Samba help please

2005-07-13 Thread Beretta
All, I have a strange situation that I cannot figure out. When printing to an HP LaserJet 3550N printer via CUPS/Samba on a Sarge box _from_ a Windows XP box the bandwidth and CPU usage on the client (XP) machine is insane. The network usage applet (on the XP machine) will typically show 25% usa

Re: CUPS restart-jobs permission

2005-06-24 Thread Beretta
On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 12:00:21 +0200, in linux.debian.user you wrote: > >There are two main means by which access is retricted to CUPS: IP >address and user/group. On 'localhost' (where CUPS) is installed, add >yourself/users to group 'lpadmin'. > >AuthType Basic >AuthClass System > >## Restrict a

CUPS restart-jobs permission

2005-06-21 Thread Beretta
Fellow Debian Users, I have a _closed_ network (not connected to the internet) on which I have a Debian server with CUPS installed. I have done a fair amount of searching, but I cannot figure out how I can configure CUPS to allow _anyone_ to restart a completed job. I understand that this would

Re: permission problem

2005-05-03 Thread Beretta
On Sun, 01 May 2005 03:30:13 +0200, in linux.debian.user you wrote: >Basically, i change all the dirs and files to rwx for owner, group and >others. Just out of curiosity, why in the heck would you do that? >BTW, in the tick box for permission, what does a shaded box mean? Tick box? Are you imp

Re: Laser Printer

2004-11-27 Thread Beretta
On Sat, 27 Nov 2004 10:20:05 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Robinson) wrote: >Thanks to all who responded. I get the impression that one of the >Samsung models might be the way to go, also after having looked at a few >in shops here. I had originally planned on getting an HP printer, since >my ve

Re: Is there any software can encrypt binary file in sid?

2004-05-18 Thread Beretta
On Tue, 18 May 2004 09:40:08 +0200, Wasily <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I means without some "device" this binary can not work,device means a >hardware-dog-like software.Hope this description be clear. >:-) >Wasily > I think he means a hardware dongle.

Re: wthere my SMP working or not?

2004-05-16 Thread Beretta
On Sun, 16 May 2004 07:40:04 +0200, in linux.debian.user you wrote: >3 root 18 19 000 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd_CPU0 > >4 root 18 19 000 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd_CPU1 >

Re: Mounting audio cds....

2004-05-10 Thread Beretta
On Mon, 10 May 2004 08:30:10 +0200, in linux.debian.user you wrote: > >Because people like you will use it for things it's not intended for. Read >the description, note the limitations of it. > >If you want to rip the disc, then rip the disc already. There's no other >reason to do what you're t

Re: please help- I can't even figure my mailer

2004-05-07 Thread Beretta
On Sat, 08 May 2004 02:00:08 +0200, in linux.debian.user you wrote: >Please read the letter attached- I didn't have enough >time to re-write it, and this is important! Scan it- So important you couldn't be bothered to rewrite it? I guess our time is a lot less valuable, eh? Drop the sarcasm and

Re: Next stable release: 13 CD's

2004-03-15 Thread Beretta
On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 03:25:22 +0100, Uten Navn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > >And that requier nice stable internett access, whiche excludes quite a lot >of people. > >Best regards >Uten Then go to cheapbytes ( http://cart.cheapbytes.com/cgi-bin/cart/0070010985.html ) and pay the $18 for the

Re: Next stable release: 13 CD's

2004-03-15 Thread Beretta
On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 02:00:19 +0100, Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >But even if we are looking at a full 13 x 700 MB = 9100 MB at a >relatively slow 5 minutes per megabyte it would take you less than a >week to download the entire distribution. > What kinda math is that? 5 mins pe

Re: Next stable release: 13 CD's

2004-03-15 Thread Beretta
On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 11:00:28 +0100, steef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >i agree with vanwoerkom. 13 cd's is for the poorer part of the world a >major obstacle for the use of i.c. debian_linux > >cheers, > >steef How in God's name is it an obstacle? Who the hell needs all 13 CD's? Are you planni

Re: Winbond-based generic NICs

1999-10-25 Thread Brandon Beretta
Hello Aaron, On Sunday, October 24, 1999, you wrote: AVC> Hi all - AVC> I'm doing some superhero work here, rescuing fellow students from the AVC> Gates of hell and introducing them to sweet, brand GNU, true freedom. AVC> Trouble is, on this one machine I can't get the NIC driver to load :(

Re[2]: Virus protection by unix (was Re: To the Debian Project... )

1999-09-22 Thread Brandon Beretta
Hello Ted, On Wednesday, September 22, 1999, you wrote: TH> On 21-Sep-99 David Wright wrote: >> Quoting Keith G. Murphy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): >>> Art Lemasters wrote: >>> > BTW, I recently worked a contract for a corporation that uses >>> > nothing but NT servers and workstations. The machin

Error in loading shared libraries

1999-09-03 Thread Brandon Beretta
Hello Debian-users, I have the following problem when trying to run the "man" command... error in loading shared libraries: libdb2.so.2: cannot open shared object file: Permission denied I have re-run ldconfig, and have re-installed libdb2 using apt-get. Can anyone shed some light on this m