Re: mount dvd error

2008-01-09 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 08:36:22PM +1100, hce wrote: On 1/9/08, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 10:10:14PM +1100, hce wrote: Is cdck a command? I could not find it, or should I install it, what is the package? package cdck. All right, I

Re: ssh X11Forward safety

2008-01-09 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 09:20:12PM -0800, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 10:47:16AM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: security of my data and a need to use a browser with javascript and sometimes flash; some sites only work with Iceweasel. You're over-complicating this. You

Re: aptitude reinstall from file contained package names?

2008-01-09 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 02:37:30PM +0100, Paul Csanyi wrote: I do on my home server aptitude search ~i installed_packages Now I want to reinstall all these packages listed in 'installed_packages' file, with aptitude. How can I do that? I tried: # aptitude reinstall installed_packages

Re: aptitude reinstall from file contained package names?

2008-01-09 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 06:18:39PM +0100, Paul Csanyi wrote: 2008/1/9, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 02:37:30PM +0100, Paul Csanyi wrote: I do on my home server aptitude search ~i installed_packages Now I want to reinstall all these packages listed

Re: debian how-to

2008-01-08 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 01:35:08PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: Am 2007-12-31 22:15:46, schrieb Douglas A. Tutty: I also dislike huge long man pages. To me, man pages should be for a bit more help than foo --help; a summary. The main doc should be in plain html for viewing with lynx

ssh X11Forward safety

2008-01-08 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
Since I have nothing better to do, I often ponder how to improve safety and security in my home setup. I have two conflicting needs: security of my data and a need to use a browser with javascript and sometimes flash; some sites only work with Iceweasel. Let me set up my thinking on this, and

Re: mount dvd error

2008-01-08 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 10:10:14PM +1100, hce wrote: Is cdck a command? I could not find it, or should I install it, what is the package? package cdck. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Error message about cdrom tray open during boot

2008-01-08 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 09:37:09AM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 07 Jan 2008, Paul Johnson wrote: On Jan 7, 2008 6:57 AM, Anthony Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hdc: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Er ror } Jan 7 10:32:50 corinthia kernel: hdc: drive_cmd:

Re: DVD image download issue Opera, Konqueror, and Firefox/iceweasel

2008-01-08 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 09:22:58AM -0800, joseph lockhart wrote: i've been trying to download the DVD images from http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/4.0_r2/i386/iso-dvd/ every attempt had the images giving me an error on the download after aproximately 24% completion (DVD 1 errors at 24%

Re: debian how-to

2008-01-08 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 10:17:23AM -0800, Carl Johnson wrote: You can use dwww to view man pages and info in a web browser, as well as the other documentation. That allows you to search using the browser capabilities (using / for w3m), although it doesn't supply the TOC, index or

Re: OT: dying disk - data recovery recommendations

2008-01-08 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 05:19:54PM -0500, KS wrote: I have a friend's G4(PPC) which seems to have a dying disk. He had run the Apple disk utility and it reported and error with the IDE disk. The machine just halts sometimes, with the disk trying to read something and the only way to shut down

Re: re-using a damaged disk

2008-01-08 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 11:17:33PM +0100, Firebeam wrote: pol wrote: Which program to scan and discard badblocks (ext3 file system)? I think they mean badblocks(8). As usual, man badblocks for more info :-) And man e2fsck. The -c -c runs badblocks(8) for you. Note that the

Re: What's happening with the 3.1r7 install iso?

2008-01-07 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 04:44:00AM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: Thanks, folks, for all the offers of help! Fortunately, Frans Pop has just informed me that the Sarge 3.1r7 iso's will be available in a couple of days, which is just in time for the beginning of semester. Which solves the

Re: re-using a damaged disk

2008-01-07 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 08:19:16AM +0100, pol wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Since its only the /usr directory (presumably its own partition), don't reformat it or you'll have to reinstall. If it's ext2/3, use # e2fsck -c -c /dev/xxx That was my first recovering oeration. It is about

Re: re-using a damaged disk

2008-01-07 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 08:14:06AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 01/07/08 08:00, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 08:19:16AM +0100, pol wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Since its only the /usr directory (presumably its own partition), don't reformat it or you'll have to reinstall

Re: re-using a damaged disk

2008-01-07 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 03:58:47PM +0100, Ivan Savcic wrote: On Jan 7, 2008 3:37 PM, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Even if the filesystem type didn't need to be fsck'ed, for a damaged drive I wanted to try to reuse, I wouldn't put real data on it until I had exercised

Re: Another flood of spam

2008-01-07 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 08:50:00PM +0100, Nigel Henry wrote: I'm getting it on Debian-user, and Debian-user-fr. Anyone know how to set up bogofilter on Kmail to filter out spam from mailing lists? Bogofilter on Kmail is working fine with all the non mailing list spam, and 99.5% goes

Re: tapes best for backup?

2008-01-07 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 02:40:07PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 01/07/08 14:18, David Brodbeck wrote: On Jan 6, 2008, at 7:10 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: After that, use a cleaning disk to clean the heads of the floppy drive... I find I have to do this a lot, these days. Floppy drives don't

POLL: tape backup format and software

2008-01-07 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
Could those of you who use tape (DDS, DLT, Ultrium) for backup or archive tell me what format and software you have found most helpful? I only have a couple of boxes to backup. Right now, they each run their own script and create a tarball that then the main box rsyncs to its raid1 array (and

Re: POLL: tape backup format and software

2008-01-07 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 07:49:05PM +, Michael D. Norwick wrote: I've also got more files stored on cheap flash media, than I'll ever be able to figure out what I needed them for. I've got a couple of older laptops with pcmcia slots that still read/write 8 year old media just fine. I'm

Re: tapes best for backup?

2008-01-06 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 08:00:04AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Conclusion: Disc contains BAD or even readable sectors, put it into trash can! /Sun Jan 06-07:52:09SDA6# exit But that is my grub boot CD that I use every day and just yesterday recreated it. Well, grub doesn't take

Re: mount dvd error

2008-01-06 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 01:54:53PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 08:28:28PM +1100, hce wrote: On 1/6/08, Andrei Popescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 04:34:30PM +1100, hce wrote: Hi, I tried to mount a dvd drive and got an error, is it

Re: re-using a damaged disk

2008-01-06 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 04:04:10PM +0100, pol wrote: I would like to re-use a physically crashed disk. My guess is that its surface has been damaged. I would like to re-install debian (or kubuntu). How is it possible to reformat the disk, without using the damaged area? Why? How do you know

Re: Hacking the OLPC XO

2008-01-06 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 01:30:36AM -0500, phillinux wrote: Thin clients are nice for a lab, but a lot of educators are looking for a light cheep machine kids can carry around and take home. A graphic browser is essential for research and frankly if kids can listen to music and play with

Re: menu size in Enlightenment

2008-01-06 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 08:53:56AM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 05 Jan 2008, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 10:44:47AM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: I tried out Enlightenment yesterday out of curiosity but the menu size on my 1600x1200 display was so small

Re: mdadm problem creating device

2008-01-06 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 02:53:57PM -0500, S Scharf wrote: I installed a new disk and am trying to create a one disk raid 1 on it (and will add the second disk later) but when I run mdadm I get the followng: $ sudo mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=raid1 --raid-devices=2 /dev/sda3 missing

Re: re-using a damaged disk

2008-01-06 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 10:12:25PM +0100, pol wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: How do you know its physically crashed? If it is physically crashed, the head are probably dead too. If you try, what errors do you get? The laptop fell about one meter to the floor, while it was running. I

Re: tapes best for backup?

2008-01-06 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 03:31:45PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: of all those IBM floppies I can only write to 2 Try a few straight reads to /dev/null just to scrape them clean. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: mdadm problem creating device

2008-01-06 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 02:51:09PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 03:38:29PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 02:53:57PM -0500, S Scharf wrote: I installed a new disk and am trying to create a one disk raid 1 on it (and will add

Re: What's happening with the 3.1r7 install iso?

2008-01-06 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 04:50:24PM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: I hate to be a bore on this subject, but the Sarge 3.1r7 iso's still aren't available, as far as I can tell. And no word from anyone as to what the hold up is. Can anybody enlighten me? The 4.0r2 iso's are up now. Thanks!

filesystem throughput measurement

2008-01-06 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
I'm considering getting a tape drive for intermediate backup and long-term archiving (e.g. DLT-IV or LTO). Newer drives require a higher data rate to keep them fed than older drives. I can measure raw hard drive speed with hdparm -Tt, but how do I measure how fast a backup software could read

Re: filesystem throughput measurement

2008-01-06 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 11:06:09AM +0900, David wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: I'm considering getting a tape drive for intermediate backup and long-term archiving (e.g. DLT-IV or LTO). Newer drives require a higher data rate to keep them fed than older drives. I can measure raw hard

Re: What's happening with the 3.1r7 install iso?

2008-01-06 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 10:16:49PM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: The big deal is that the 3.1r6a iso's are broken. They don't offer oldstable as an option for the distribution to install. So you have to choose stable (or even testing) and then break to a shell to do manual surgery on the

Re: strange Shorewall entry

2008-01-05 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 08:57:45PM -0500, Chris Howie wrote: On Jan 4, 2008 12:24 PM, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I feel a little better seing as its related to HP, but why was it fw2net? I don't know how the internals of browsers work and the download did complete

Re: RE : Re: Kernel issues due to identical network cards

2008-01-05 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 01:11:41PM +0100, David MAGNY wrote: --- Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] a ?crit On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 11:06:31PM +0100, David MAGNY wrote: Hello, I am upgrading a firewall from Sarge to Etch. On this machine, I have 3 network cards. 2

Re: menu size in Enlightenment

2008-01-05 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 10:44:47AM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: I tried out Enlightenment yesterday out of curiosity but the menu size on my 1600x1200 display was so small it was unusable. Googling didn't reveal any way to enlarge it. Is there one? I expect I'll go back to Icewm anyway, as

Re: tapes best for backup?

2008-01-05 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 12:46:11AM -0600, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: Why do you think DLTs are more reliable than optical media or hard drives? My experience with tapes in general (not DLTs) certainly does not predispose me towards that view, but I suppose DLTs could be different. I've

Re: tapes best for backup?

2008-01-05 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 02:53:45AM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: As a registered pack-rat, I've got a drawer full of similar old CD- Rs. If I get ambitious and I've got some free time, I'll try a bunch more, just for fun... I wonder what cdck would show. It tests not only ability to read

Re: tapes best for backup?

2008-01-05 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 12:43:00AM -0600, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: Why would you expect DVD to be better? I'd expect it to be worse, for the obvious reasons -- smaller physical bit representations, packed tighter. Also we don't have as much experience with it, so I take what information

Re: DVD-1.iso: How can I write into DVD-R?

2008-01-05 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 11:07:40PM -0800, wathavy wathavy wrote: [snip problems burning DVD image to DVD] Do you have any suggestion on obtaining 4.0r2 DVD-1 iso image file? Especially for free ISO image extractor, other than CDBurnerXP? Thank you for your patience and your attention. To

Re: tapes best for backup?

2008-01-05 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 03:12:31PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 02:53:45AM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: As a registered pack-rat, I've got a drawer full of similar old CD- Rs. If I get ambitious and I've got some free time, I'll try a bunch

Re: tapes best for backup?

2008-01-05 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 03:30:55PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 01/05/08 15:16, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: My wife keeps insisting that my Windows95 on those IBM floppies are still good. Let me give it a try. They are from 1990. Windows95 on 1990 floppies??? Ain't quantum computing great?

Re: VNC - I know, just not what I was expecting

2008-01-05 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 02:27:18PM -0800, Rodney D. Myers wrote: I can get SSH/VNC to work on my debian machine. My question. How do I get the default screen to open up, or to get something other than the 'blank' screen with a shell open. I don't understand. From a command line, you ssh

strange Shorewall entry

2008-01-04 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
Hello all, I found this in my log today: Jan 3 21:58:05 titan kernel: Shorewall:fw2net:REJECT: IN= OUT=ppp0 SRC=209.29.44.23 DST=16.100.185.144 LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=27582 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=38111 DPT=8030 WINDOW=5840 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 Jan 3 21:58:05

Re: Debian branches and when a packet is moved from testing to stable

2008-01-04 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 09:17:32AM +0100, Arnau Rebassa i Villalonga wrote: I've been searching some info about the different Debian's branches and the policy followed to move one package from SID-testing-stable but I haven't found this info. I guess it's explained somewhere in the

Re: tapes best for backup?

2008-01-04 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 09:56:19PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 01/03/08 20:30, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: One of the threads over at [EMAIL PROTECTED] has gone OT (for them) into discussing backup media. The concensus there seems to be that tape (e.g. DLT) is still the best for long-term

Re: strange Shorewall entry

2008-01-04 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 10:29:38AM -0500, Chris Howie wrote: On Jan 4, 2008 10:16 AM, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I found this in my log today: Jan 3 21:58:05 titan kernel: Shorewall:fw2net:REJECT: IN= OUT=ppp0 SRC=209.29.44.23 DST=16.100.185.144 LEN=60

Re: Kernel issues due to identical network cards

2008-01-04 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 11:06:31PM +0100, David MAGNY wrote: Hello, I am upgrading a firewall from Sarge to Etch. On this machine, I have 3 network cards. 2 networks cards are identical. It is PCI network cards and it is SMC1233A-TX. On Sarge, everything worked well. The issue is

Re: tapes best for backup?

2008-01-04 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 09:12:19AM -0800, David Brodbeck wrote: On Jan 4, 2008, at 7:38 AM, Larry Irwin wrote: I would not buy a used tape drive. They're finicky mechanical devices and you really want a warranty. Every time I've bought a used tape drive thinking I was getting a good

Re: tapes best for backup?

2008-01-04 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 04:18:11PM -0600, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: Paul Cartwright wrote: On Fri January 4 2008, Ron Johnson wrote: so, what would be a good method.. say for instance MY system. my /home is 164 Gb, with 50 Gb free, so I've used 110 Gb. Right now I do the rsync to a 500Gb

Re: tapes best for backup?

2008-01-04 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 12:04:05PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 01/04/08 10:23, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 09:56:19PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 01/03/08 20:30, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Right. What about things of great sentimental value? E.g. family photos

Re: Any good todo manager?

2008-01-03 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 03:03:00PM +0800, H.H. Ding wrote: I use my palm zire for todo and other pim stuff. Even without the palm, you could use one of the X palm apps. They're intended to let you edit your data then sync to the palm, but you don't __need__ to sync to the palm. Doug. -- To

Re: PAM failure?

2008-01-03 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 02:26:20PM +, Craig Hurley wrote: When looking at /var/log/auth.log PAM seems to be logging a large amount. For example, every 30 minutes cron runs a script as root. It appears to me that each time the script is run, PAM adds 4 entries to auth.log, recording

Re: PAM failure?

2008-01-03 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 05:04:34PM +, Craig Hurley wrote: On 03/01/2008 16:10, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Find out what script it is and read it. See what this setrlimit is. Hi Doug, Here's the script. It's very basic; it recreates a folder if it has been accidentally deleted

Re: [half solved] sources list not found repository debian

2008-01-03 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 08:04:15PM +0100, Micaela Gallerini wrote: 2008/1/2, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 12:01:42PM +0100, Micaela Gallerini wrote: 2007/12/31, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED]: This doesn't sound like an insult. Based

Re: PAM failure?

2008-01-03 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 08:48:39PM +, Craig Hurley wrote: On 03/01/2008 20:13, Jeff D wrote: do you have anything specific listed in: /etc/security/limits.conf There's nothing in /etc/security/limits.conf. Be specific. Is it an empty file or is it the default Etch file

tapes best for backup?

2008-01-03 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
One of the threads over at [EMAIL PROTECTED] has gone OT (for them) into discussing backup media. The concensus there seems to be that tape (e.g. DLT) is still the best for long-term storage (e.g. archives) because CD/DVDs fade rather quickly while hard drives get bit rot over the years and since

Re: iptables: No chain/target/match by that name problem with linux-2.6.20

2008-01-02 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 06:09:45PM +0530, Pranav Jadhav wrote: Hi , I am using Linux -2.6.20 with iptables-1.3.8. Show us your /etc/apt/sources.list I am getting the iptables error : /sbin/iptables -I OUTPUT -p udp -m multiport --sport 23,22,161,80,443,53,49 -m state --state

Re: [half solved] sources list not found repository debian

2008-01-02 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 12:01:42PM +0100, Micaela Gallerini wrote: 2007/12/31, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED]: This doesn't sound like an insult. Based on the package management knowledge base you have demonstrated in this thread, it would seem prudent. Most people aren't

Re: failure booting lvm volume group over encrypted disk

2008-01-02 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 08:29:30AM -0800, Towncat wrote: On Jan 1, 11:00 pm, Towncat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to make a bootable backup disk based on a href=http:// linuxgazette.net/140/kapil.htmlthis howto/a. The backup is on an external usb-sata drive. There is an sdc1

Re: install etch from usb onto xp machine

2008-01-02 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 10:15:23AM -0800, Rick Dooling wrote: Anybody recently installed to an xp machine with no CD drive? I followed the easy way instructions for copying the necessary Etch installation files to a USB, but the XP machine would not see the USB drive. Then I followed the

Re: DVD distorted picture

2008-01-02 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 11:14:43AM +1100, hce wrote: The device was purchased two years ago, LG Super multi RW DVD+R. Does that muti-function means it can read the DVD-R as well? Check the manual. My gues would be yes. Also, be careful of the difference between drive and driver. You have a

Re: Recommended way to upgrade from Sarge to Etch

2008-01-02 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 07:43:51PM -0600, Jonathan Wilson wrote: Please excuse the dumb question, but: Is this still the recommended way to upgrade from Sarge to Etch?: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html That page makes it out like using

Re: how can I boot from USB? or with Live CD?

2008-01-02 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 01:29:39AM +0200, Ginis.com wrote: hello again, I think the question is simple: I have Windows XP, I can boot with 2 linux, the PCLinuxOS 2007 and Knoppix Linux with USB with my portable computer, the question is: how can I boot from your linux with USB? I wait

Re: Errors from repositories?

2008-01-02 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 08:00:28PM -0700, Art Edwards wrote: I am trying to do a normal apt-get update on a stable, 32-bit debian box. I attach the errors. Any insight would be appreciated. Art Edwards Get:1 http://buckhill stable Release.gpg [378B] Ign http://buckhill testing Release.gpg

Re: character encoding

2008-01-01 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 05:52:07AM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2007-12-31 15:08:24 -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote: On Dec 31, 2007 1:41 PM, ChadDavis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 3) What is the encoding of the file name? Is this a feature of the filesystem? This is also based on your

Re: debian how-to

2007-12-31 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 01:08:13PM +0900, David wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 06:05:35PM -0800, Rick Dooling wrote: I know about Debian Reference and Debian Help site, but I'm more interested in a list of common how-tos that most people would like to do after

Re: [half solved] sources list not found repository debian

2007-12-31 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 09:13:54AM +0100, Micaela Gallerini wrote: 2007/12/30, s. keeling [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I think you need to know a lot more about how the packaging system works to be comfortable running a hybrid. I think you don't know a person I don't talk so^^ This doesn't

Re: debian how-to

2007-12-31 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 08:13:31AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Douglas A. Tutty Sent: Monday, December 31, 2007 7:08 AM The docs are always under /usr/share/doc/[package name] apropos which locate find As a n00b to Debian (though I've used several distributions over the past

Re: run-parts not running cron.daily?

2007-12-31 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 11:58:28AM -0800, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: It turns out that this is caused by moving a shell script (with a .sh extension) into the run-parts directory. Run-parts won't run filenames with dots in them. If this is documented clearly anywhere, I couldn't find it, but

Re: kernel-source package in Etch?

2007-12-31 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 10:14:38PM +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Hi to all Debian users. In Sarge, in order to configure Debian for my modem, I started with: # apt-get install kernel-source-2.4.27 . Now, in Etch, what should the package be in place of that? I couldn't find it! I

Re: debian how-to

2007-12-31 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 01:49:25PM -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote: On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 01:15:48PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: Even when Policy is followed, it isn't necessarily that simple. For instance, today I wanted to read up on git hook scripts.

Re: temperature problems

2007-12-30 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 03:03:29PM -0300, gusti wrote: I have a laptop toshiba portege R100 with a official kernel image 2.6.18-5-686 and two questions about temperature of my laptop, :-) First, the lm-sensors doesn't work ok, the sensors-detect detect some sensor, they are the lm75, 80 y

Re: /etc/resolv.conf, /etc/ppp/resolv.conf, dhcp3-server and dnsmasq

2007-12-30 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 04:21:34PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dt I also have the dnsmasq package ... My setup is almost the same. A machine I'll call Router has dnsmasq. Another machine, LANite, runs dhcp-client and is connected to Router by an Ethernet crossover cable. LANite

Re: debian how-to

2007-12-30 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 06:05:35PM -0800, Rick Dooling wrote: I know about Debian Reference and Debian Help site, but I'm more interested in a list of common how-tos that most people would like to do after installation, such as add mp3 playing ability, installing flash, mounting usb drives

Re: Aptitude's reintall

2007-12-29 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 08:30:15AM -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote: On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 04:04:02PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: Just to clarify, the problem isn't just that aptitude doesn't have a state for reinstall. It actually did at one point (#167236

Re: /etc/resolv.conf, /etc/ppp/resolv.conf, dhcp3-server and dnsmasq

2007-12-29 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 11:06:41AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At Thu, 27 Dec 2007 20:28:21 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote, Install the resolvconf package. It keeps track of what should be in resolv.conf based on what networks are active. Thanks. resolvconf has been present since long

Re: multicore management system

2007-12-28 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 06:58:42AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On Friday December 28 2007 00:27:24 Jerome BENOIT wrote: [snip] I have a long list of jobs that I want to launch on my box. On a one core box, I can make a for loop in order to submit then in sequence. On a multi-core box, this

Re: pgmemcache

2007-12-28 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 04:52:46PM +0100, Arnau wrote: Any of you has installed pgmemcache on Debian? I haven't found any repository for it, Did you compiled it yourself? Is there any repository for it? Never heard of it. What does it do? Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: sources list not found repository debian

2007-12-28 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 07:14:36PM +0100, Micaela Gallerini wrote: again I have problem with the sources list. If I try to update and upgrade my system I have this error: x:/# apt-get update Err http://security.debian.org etch/updates Release.gpg Connection falled [snip lots of

Re: Aptitude's reintall

2007-12-28 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 04:35:36PM -0300, Gabriel Parrondo wrote: Aptitude users's manual explains the reinstall men?? command as follows: Reinstalls the package. Note that the reinstallation will not be saved when you quit aptitude or perform an install run for technical reasons.

Re: compatibility problems

2007-12-28 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 11:41:42PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: If the DSL modem they provide connects through an ethernet port then you should have no problems. My modem handles all the connection stuff and even has an integrated firewall. Ironically it is probably running on linux

Re: compatibility problems

2007-12-28 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 01:17:00PM -0800, Don Harwood wrote: I'm a new convert to the debian linux world however I'm starting to get cold feet with compatibility issues, i just purchased a CNC mill that is run by a amd64 box with debian linux, i also just had a new box built for me to do my

Re: crashed disk

2007-12-28 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 01:39:40PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had a disk crash on my debian etch workstation and now I'm trying to recover data from that drive, basicaly with dd, but i wonder if there are better solutions. Backups before the crash? You need a functioning system.

Re: compatibility problems

2007-12-28 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 02:26:49PM -0800, Don Harwood wrote: On Debian lists, we usually keep things on the list. FYI, read the code of conduct at lists.debian.org. i currently use Bently microstation V8 at work, however at home with my new CNC system from Sherline i will be using Synergy by

Re: compatibility problems

2007-12-28 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 01:14:32PM -0900, Ken Irving wrote: On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 04:59:17PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 11:41:42PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: If the DSL modem they provide connects through an ethernet port then you should have

Re: compatibility problems

2007-12-28 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 08:12:57AM +0900, David wrote: They're distributing to you the software in binary form in the media of the modem's memory. Whether or not they modified the GPL code (i.e. to handle their own hardware) we don't know. There would /have/ to be some modification,

Re: Re: compatibility problems

2007-12-28 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 03:25:00PM -0800, Don Harwood wrote: the synergy program comes with cad thus an integrated cad/cam system. i used autocad 10 but that was years ago. actually the driver for the cnc is emc2, this translates the g-code into stepper pulses so i don't just reply in my

Re: Re: compatibility problems

2007-12-28 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 03:32:15PM -0800, Don Harwood wrote: yes i downloaded the net install cd on my friends dialup this week end i hope to try my first bootup, i wont get the dsl installed until next year so i wont be able to get the full package until then my fingers are crossed

Re: compatibility problems

2007-12-28 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 04:05:58PM -0800, Don Harwood wrote: from what i have been able to find out things may not be so easy, some of this stuff is overwhelming maybe i bit off to much The tenor of your conversation screams newbie. Thus, I

Re: How do I install by package Tag?

2007-12-27 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Dec 22, 2007 at 09:04:15AM -0800, Tyler MacDonald wrote: I've decided I want to install all arcade games on my desktop system. I noticed that abuse has a Tag: game::arcade associated with it. However, when I do an apt-cache search game::arcade, nothing turns up. I've looked through

Re: Wich Debian system with Intel Core 2 CPU: i386 or amd64?

2007-12-27 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Dec 23, 2007 at 12:35:45PM +, Paul Csanyi wrote: I have installed Debian Etch on my hardware with Intel Core 2 CPU. In the repository I have linux-image-2.6.18-5-amd64 and now I have it installed. I think I can use it with Debian Etch system, and don't must download and

Re: Compatibility with ASUS P5E-VM HDMI

2007-12-27 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Dec 24, 2007 at 12:17:46PM -0700, Rob Sims wrote: On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 10:19:21PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 02:02:46PM -0500, Patrick Zaloum wrote: I am shopping components for a (will-be) Debian server and am currently considering the P5E-VM HDMI

Re: Change from 64bit to 32bit

2007-12-27 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Dec 26, 2007 at 11:26:26AM -0600, Rob Wright wrote: I'm using Stable with an amd64 kernel. I want to switch to a 32 bit version rather than the 64 bit. Any advice on doing so, or am I better off to just reload totally and start from scratch? What's the best way to make this

Re: multicore management system

2007-12-27 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 06:57:20AM +0800, Jerome BENOIT wrote: I am looking for a management system for a multicore system (2 and 4): namely an alternative to `at' tools. Any suggestion is welcome. More information needed. Are you talking about sending pending jobs to free cores? Doesn't the

Re: /etc/resolv.conf, /etc/ppp/resolv.conf, dhcp3-server and dnsmasq

2007-12-27 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Dec 26, 2007 at 05:23:12PM -0800, PETER EASTHOPE wrote: At Sun, 9 Dec 2007 19:21:13 +0200 Andrei Popescu wrote, Maybe dnsmasq is what you need. Thanks. dnsmasq can provide dns, dhcp and possibly even ip masquerading. I installed dnsmasq and removed dhcp3-server and ipmasq.

Re: multicore management system

2007-12-27 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 10:00:02AM +0800, Jerome BENOIT wrote: (On this list, we either intersperse comments or bottom post) Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 06:57:20AM +0800, Jerome BENOIT wrote: I am looking for a management system for a multicore system (2 and 4): namely

Re: Software-RAID for root partition

2007-12-22 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Dec 22, 2007 at 11:24:10AM +0100, Felix Natter wrote: I am using Software-RAID for the root-partition and I get a Can't shut down raid partition because it's busy message on system shutdown. Is using Software-RAID for / not recommended? Can I fix this somehow? This question comes

Re: Switch running System to RAID-1

2007-12-22 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Dec 22, 2007 at 01:05:31AM -0500, Scott Gifford wrote: alexandrus [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I just figured that our complany's server was running on JBOD with 2 HDs, one of them entirely unused (d'oh!). Of course I would like to have it as RAID 1. Now, I built an Array

Re: what to take off the root partition

2007-12-21 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 03:27:33PM +1100, Owen Townend wrote: On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 20:29 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On Thursday December 20 2007 15:48:19 Alex Samad wrote: I have allocated 10G to my root partition in an effort to kiss the system. Kiss the system?

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