Re: FW: understand the logs

2008-10-14 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 07:12:11AM -0400, paul wrote: > REVISED FOR I SAID "man klogd" meaning "man logd" > >SNIP> But what is the way to avoid those messages entirely? >SNIP> > > Set logging to the level you choose. Try "man logd" without the quotes. > If you do that, you'll turn off all logg

Re: how adjust toolbar fonts in iceweasel?

2008-10-14 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 06:22:00AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >hello all, > > > >I use Iceweasel with icewm (no DTE). I've temporarily switched from my > >21" monitor to a very small one and the fonts on e.g. the toolbars in >

Re: Which package provides lvcreate

2008-10-13 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 11:37:39AM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: > I need the tool lvcreate to create LV. Please advise which of > What are their main operation? > For operational help for standard stuff, I always refer to the LVM-HOWTO. Its available with all the other HOWTO's in doc-linux-htm

Re: understand the logs

2008-10-13 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 06:56:54AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > >On 10/11/08 18:24, Abel McClendon wrote: > >> > >> On Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:09:23 -0400 > >> Daryl Styrk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >>>Oct 11 14:08:45 debian kernel: [44140.916755] Inbound IN=w

Re: Running app full-screen

2008-10-13 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 06:13:38PM -0700, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > I'd like to run a single application (tellico) full-screen in a > dedicated VNC session *without* a window manager. I'm not sure how to > force the application to be full-screen, though. > > If my xstartup contains "exec tellico," i

how adjust toolbar fonts in iceweasel?

2008-10-13 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
hello all, I use Iceweasel with icewm (no DTE). I've temporarily switched from my 21" monitor to a very small one and the fonts on e.g. the toolbars in iceweasel are too big. For Konqueror I found some K settings app to change those fonts. Is there a simple app to install to change them for Ice

Re: dial up support

2008-07-02 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 08:30:45AM +1000, Daniel Dalton wrote: > I just realised I have dial up all around Australia, so want to take > advantage of this. > So, my laptop has a win modem in side it. So can anyone tell me a brand > and model to look for on ebay, so I can get a cheap 56 k modem that

Re: Recording TV with Debian

2008-07-02 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 12:48:10AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Today however I wanted to record some old video recordings from my Sony > M8 video recorder, and I got my hands on a Pinnacle video card. > > Now installing tvtime and watching the tapes is very easy and it works > perfectly, but

Re: Monitoring Net Traffic From the Console or Another Comptuer

2008-06-16 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 11:16:19PM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: > Is there any program (I couldn't find one) that I can run on this > computer, via SSH, that will give me packet info I can scan in the same > way I do with Wireshark when I've got X on a system? > > And if that doesn't work, is the

[SOLVED] Re: silly little text problem

2008-06-16 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 07:59:53AM +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 03:50:27PM -0500, Jordi Guti?rrez Hermoso wrote: > >>On 15/06/2008, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> My wife has a poem she w

Re: silly little text problem

2008-06-15 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 03:50:27PM -0500, Jordi Guti?rrez Hermoso wrote: > On 15/06/2008, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My wife has a poem she wants typed up in a particular format: > > > > First line unindented > > next four lines i

Re: silly little text problem

2008-06-15 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 03:59:25PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > My wife has a poem she wants typed up in a particular format: > > First line unindented > next four lines indented > next line unindented > next four lines indented > > space > > next

silly little text problem

2008-06-15 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
Hello all, I've got a silly little problem that I can't seem to solve. I normally do my letters and other writing in LaTex. My wife has a poem she wants typed up in a particular format: First line unindented next four lines indented next line unindented next four lines indented

Re: updater wants to update to the current kernel version

2008-06-15 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 08:24:33PM +1000, Andrew Storm wrote: > Hi whoever is out there. > > I recently installed debian etch in a virtual box vm. Several times > since then the updater has wanted to update the kernel image to the same > version as the current kernel, which is 2.6.18-6-k7. I let i

Re: Lenovo Thinkpad, HP, or Vostro/Latitude? was Re: OT: Laptop for College Bound Student?

2008-06-15 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 10:11:43AM -0400, Damon L. Chesser wrote: > On Sat, 2008-06-14 at 21:43 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 03:26:26PM -0400, Damon L. Chesser wrote: > > > By owners of the company, do you mean Lenovo or their predecessor IBM? &g

Re: making bootup fsck more user-friendly

2008-06-15 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 04:06:55PM +0200, David wrote: > On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 3:04 PM, Chris Bannister > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 05:59:01PM +0200, David wrote: > > [...] > > > > > Consider: person a replies to part of your reply, so they trim out what > > is not

Re: Asus P5E-VM DO Motherboard Network Driver Availiable? Hardware compatibility with Debian?

2008-06-14 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 12:08:06AM +0300, Odisseas-Nearxos Pasipoularidis wrote: > I own a PC with an Asus P5E-VM DO Motherboard and I am trying to install > Debian OS on it. > > I can't find the driver to configure the Ethernet Network port. I need it so > I can continue the OS installation over

Re: Lenovo Thinkpad, HP, or Vostro/Latitude? was Re: OT: Laptop for College Bound Student?

2008-06-14 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 03:26:26PM -0400, Damon L. Chesser wrote: > IMHO, thinkpads have a long history of supporting linux (or rather that > linux works on them) and many really like it. OTOH, the Vostro is also > a box fully supported (watch what wireless you get) and the Latitude is > of simila

Re: making bootup fsck more user-friendly

2008-06-14 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 10:00:08PM +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 01:38:19PM +0200, David wrote: > > > This isn't a solution for me. I want fsck to run regularly, > > Why? Why not just run fsck manually (i.e. shutdown -RF now) whenever you want. If you do it frequently e

Re: making bootup fsck more user-friendly

2008-06-14 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 10:51:06AM +0200, David wrote: > On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 6:54 PM, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 11:25:23AM +0200, David wrote: > [...] > > > > Sort answer, read the disk-related H

Re: How to install a small graphic manager

2008-06-14 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 01:24:21PM +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 09:00:42PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > My smallest box is a 486 with 32MB ram with a 512 MB drive. Granted it > > can't run Etch anymore but it runs up-to-date xorg from OpenB

Re: making bootup fsck more user-friendly

2008-06-14 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 10:32:55AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Fri, 13 Jun 2008, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > Watch out that data=journal. It is far more kernel-bug prone than > data=ordered, for the simple fact that almost everyone uses data=ordered, > including th

Re: Any isencrypted function available?

2008-06-13 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 09:11:56PM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: > On Friday 13 June 2008, buyoppy wrote: > > Is there any 'isencrypted 'function available on Debian > > which judges whether some data is encrypted or not? > > Thanks in advance. > > Considering one byte looks just as much like any ot

Re: Any isencrypted function available?

2008-06-13 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 09:12:33AM +0900, buyoppy wrote: > Is there any 'isencrypted 'function available on Debian > which judges whether some data is encrypted or not? > Thanks in advance. > Perhaps the file command can tell you for some types, but a file I have here made with openssl aes jus

Re: OT: Winmodems are soundcards Was: Laptop for College Bound Student?

2008-06-13 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 05:30:02PM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 10:45:50 -0500 > Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello Hugo, > > > Brad Rogers wrote: > > > Acoustic Couplers, they were called. A real PITA to use, too; One > > > hard knock, and the line dropped,

Re: making bootup fsck more user-friendly

2008-06-13 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 02:32:29PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > Your / should be small, fsck-friendly, and resilient as all heck. If > running fsck in your / takes enough time that you wouldn't afford to do it > at every boot (in a recent system), then your / is too large in my book

Re: OT: Laptop for College Bound Student?

2008-06-13 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 09:34:14PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 06/12/08 20:45, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > [snip] > > > > If Windows isn't a requirement, you could also consider an off-lease > > business Thinkpad. In Kingston, Ontario, at Computer-Depot (a buisnes

Re: OT: Laptop for College Bound Student?

2008-06-13 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 03:07:14PM +1000, Owen Townend wrote: > The list can continue, but I doubt there will be anything on the list > that requires more than the specs of an eepc or several year old > laptop. (though buying new grants you warranty and support). If you > really want to spent mor

Re: Debian on laptop

2008-06-13 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 05:54:54AM -0700, alfa beta wrote: > After spending hours of reading about the Linux > distributions and compatible hardware, I feel I get crazzy. I chose you > because of your "Social Contract", though I'm not sure Debian is still > updated, apologize, I couldn't find recen

Re: making bootup fsck more user-friendly

2008-06-13 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 11:25:23AM +0200, David wrote: > Every X days or Y reboots, Linux (on my home PC, which I boot & shut > down 2x each day) wants to scan partitions for errors at startup. > While this is a bit annoying (can't use the PC for 10-20 minutes), I > usually let it finish and read a

Re: OT: Winmodems are soundcards Was: Laptop for College Bound Student?

2008-06-12 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 10:21:12AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > But they're not cheap: we're talking about an analog modem that does V92 > protocol. NewEgg has 2: one for $76.99 and one for $244.99 both U.S. > Robotics. Ebay should have a USR/3Com Courier V-Everything for around $50. Doug.

Re: OT: Laptop for College Bound Student?

2008-06-12 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 10:47:57AM -0500, p.daniels wrote: > Wow, that's an awful lot of money. Do some shopping on newegg.com, I > got my Lenovo Y510 for under $700. 2 Gb RAM, dual core Intel, card > reader, great wireless, webcam, the whole nine yards, and may I add it > works great with Deb

Re: OT: Laptop for College Bound Student?

2008-06-12 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 11:33:16AM -0300, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > The contrarian in me would buy him a course in shorthand instead. > > (I remember that the very act of hand-copying blackboard notes -- > > while thinking about which were the most important -- most > > s

Re: swap space on a large system

2008-06-12 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 06:51:08AM -0400, Mag Gam wrote: > Typically, we create a partition to capture a kernel dump when the system > crashes. Therefore, a system with 16GB of RAM will have a partition with > 16GB. > > How would I scale a system with 64 or 128GB of memory? Any thoughts? > Bigge

Re: Debian "etch" hardware compability list?

2008-06-12 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 06:34:36PM -0400, Andrew Reid wrote: > I regularly buy new machines for a computing cluster we run, which > we try very hard to keep both homogeneous and stable. It's running > Debian "etch" amd64 these days. > > Lately, I've been having trouble with some of the ne

Re: How to install a small graphic manager

2008-06-12 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 02:42:55PM +0100, abelahcene wrote: > I have a miniPc, can't install the heavy gnome or kde on it . I want to > install a just graphic , in fact I want to use it , just to display a > window . Any small WM will be OK. > > So I have to install the system whitout X, and co

Re: text file from Linux to windows.

2008-06-12 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 04:47:50PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > IIRC, each [FORTRAN punch] card had a sequence number. > > Paul Scott writes: > > That a choice which got in the way of the development stage. Who wanted > > to punch a wh

Re: USB for potato

2008-06-12 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 12:46:36PM -0500, Fabio Guerinoni wrote: > Hi, > I have an old computer, that I have resucitate not long ago, running > potato (Debian 2.2). I wanted to load a module, for a USB interface > storage. Apparently, nothing comes with the original distribution.. > .. and the p

Re: Server install questions

2008-06-12 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 01:23:49PM -0400, Tenant wrote: > 2. What will be the partitioning scheme? > > Damn if I know. I'd appreciate thoughts on whether to use 32/64 bit > versions, and are there any established partitioning schemes (I > always uesed defaults) > I think that the only apps tha

Re: PDF reader that overrides fonts

2008-06-06 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 06:37:35PM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: > 2008/6/6 Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I think inkscape is by far the best tool for this job, provided that you > > use version 0.46 (available in Lenny and Sid). It can read PDFs directly > > and convert their content to full

Re: The 'Good old days (WAS:Re: Aptitude Version: 0.4.11.2-1 eat my memory after update...)

2008-06-06 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 06:24:47AM -0700, David Fox wrote: > On 6/5/08, Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > It almost makes me yearn for the days of my first computer... a TRS-80 > > Model III that came with 16KB RAM and 16KB ROM which I upgraded to the max > > of 48KB RAM and 16KB ROM

Re: The 'Good old days (WAS:Re: Aptitude Version: 0.4.11.2-1 eat my memory after update...)

2008-06-06 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 10:56:07PM -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: > Daniel Burrows wrote: > >On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 06:03:17PM +0200, Jean-Louis Crouzet > ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > > > >>Thanks for your answer. I was you know hunting for free memory since my > >>system is only havi

Re: Running testing? -- read this.

2008-06-05 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 04:22:53PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 11:28:40AM -0500, Jordi Guti?rrez Hermoso wrote: > > > But seriously, people, testing is not stable. If you like bugs and can > > live with bugs, then use testing. If you don't like bugs, then run > > stable.

Re: how to display

2008-06-05 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 04:45:06AM +0800, abdelkader belahcene wrote: > Thanks for reply, > But it needs password, I want to avoid passwd > > I want in another way just to redirect the dispaly without login in > the remote machine Being able to send a display to a machine to which you are not log

Re: [Debian-User] Has anyone used crosshurd to install debian/gnu Linux?

2008-06-05 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 12:08:44PM -0600, Javier Vasquez wrote: > I'm thinking on performing a fresh install on a 2nd partition. I was > thinking on using crosshurd (I've used it to install hurd, but never > linux), since according to its sid package web page [1], it looks like > crosshurd can do

Re: ntp not any more supported in Debian or did I miss something?

2008-06-05 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 10:59:33AM -0500, Stackpole, Chris wrote: > This morning I kinda fell into a panic when I couldn't find ntpd and > so I did some Google searching. It seems that people are suggesting a > move to OpenNTPD. I found this link about it: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenNTPD.

Re: Problem with Ubuntu printing on a Debian server

2008-06-04 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 10:01:27AM +0200, Eugen Wintersberger wrote: [snip] > if a network printer is activated by default (otherwise I get this > message after activating a network printer via mouse click). > When I try now to print the document the access_log on the Ubuntu client > gets the foll

Re: managing source packages

2008-06-04 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 04:18:11PM +0200, Michal Kapalka wrote: > I have been using Debian stable on my laptop for some time now, and I > really appreciate it, especially because updates do not break things > that work well. However, sometimes I need a package/feature that is only > in testing/unst

Re: Sliding OT

2008-06-04 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 09:40:20AM -0500, Preston Boyington wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 12:13:09AM -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: > >>Ron Johnson wrote: > >>>On 06/02/08 23:28, Marc Shapiro wrote: > >>>[snip] > >>>

Re: Running testing? -- read this.

2008-06-04 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 10:48:57AM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 10:02:13AM -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > > > So? I've been using testing for years, and have found it to be > > remarkably stable - it's remarkable precisely because it IS 'testing'. > > Sometimes (rarely) thi

Re: Etch won't load after eight attempts

2008-06-03 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 07:47:01PM -0400, Ken Heard wrote: > What happened earlier today is more or less typical of the what I have > been up against. I was able to complete the eighth installation with > the xfs file system and KDE. On the recommendation of the installer I > used the LIL

Re: Sliding OT

2008-06-03 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 12:13:09AM -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > >On 06/02/08 23:28, Marc Shapiro wrote: > >[snip] > > > >>Wine is fermented from fruit. > >>Distilled wine is brandy. > >>Beer is fermented from grain. > >>Distilled beer is whiskey. > >> > > > >Corn beer? >

Re: no myspell-en-ca in Debain?

2008-06-02 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 08:24:17PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 06/02/08 20:18, H.S. wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Just wondering if myspell-en-ca is somewhere in Debian repositories. My > > Openoffice.org's spell checker is not work if English (Canada) language > > is chosen. I have narrowed down to t

Re: Firefox in 32-bit chroot

2008-06-02 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 07:24:05PM -0500, Jordi Guti?rrez Hermoso wrote: > On 29/05/2008, Todd A. Jacobs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm attempting to run firefox in a 32-bit chroot > > Why? Do you really need to do this? Or is this just one of those > things you want to do for the geek points?

Re: Script for when system was last updated

2008-06-02 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 08:14:24PM +0200, Nigel Henry wrote: > Not long ago I booted Lenny, and discovered there were more than 800MB of > updates waiting to be installed, and not a bunch of fun on dialup. Looking at > my saved history files, I hadn't updated for nearly 2 months. > > I save the

Re: Uninstall programs installed in wine.

2008-06-02 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 12:15:17AM -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 05:55:56AM +0530, L.V.Gandhi wrote: > > > >>How to uninstall programs installed in wine? > >> > >> > > > >distill it to

Re: Firefox in 32-bit chroot

2008-06-02 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 08:29:53PM -0700, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 09:53:30PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > [etch-ia32] > > type=directory > > description=Debian Etch ia32 > > groups=games > > run-setup-scripts=true > > run

Re: Uninstall programs installed in wine.

2008-05-31 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 05:55:56AM +0530, L.V.Gandhi wrote: > How to uninstall programs installed in wine? > distill it to a port? :) Sorry. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: text file from Linux to windows.

2008-05-31 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 01:01:15PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 05/30/08 21:17, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > [snip] > > > > However, I'm of the opinion firmly that the lessons and skills learned > > in those times which became the mainframe culture gives rise to a &

Re: What packages has aptitude installed on my server?

2008-05-30 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 05:15:06PM -0700, Kelly Jones wrote: > I often do "aptitude install package" to install a package. > > Cow can I get a list of all the packages I've installed this way? > > Looking at /var/cache/apt/archives seems like a kludge? Aptitude search ~i Will tell you all insta

Re: Unknown Server Failure, Logs and openntpd

2008-05-30 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 09:27:51AM +0300, Volkan YAZICI wrote: > This morning one of our R&D servers stop responding (no ssh, http) and > because of urgency of some tests I needed to hardware-reset it. After > machine woke up, I first checked /var/log/messages: > [snip most] > May 30 08:09:47 ar

Re: problems with tar for backup (maximum tar file size?)

2008-05-30 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 10:46:10PM -0400, Jimmy Wu wrote: > I haven't been backing up any of my stuff, and yesterday I decided to > start doing that > I want to use tar with bz2, and I wrote this little script to > hopefully automate this process (attached) > The script works, but tar doesn't. The

Re: text file from Linux to windows.

2008-05-30 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 08:49:07AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I also remember when one had to put two STOP bits at the end of each ASCII > character transmitted to allow the print ball time to return to its > resting position in advance of the next character > Larry Owens > > Yeah, and it

Re: text file from Linux to windows.

2008-05-30 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 06:54:42PM +1000, Adrian Levi wrote: > 2008/5/30 Russell L. Harris : > > I speak of the days of Fortran-II running on an IBM 1620. Back then, > > it often was necessary to load the compiler (another deck of punched > > cards) before loading the application. > > It must hav

Re: text file from Linux to windows.

2008-05-30 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 12:35:41AM -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote: > * Miles Fidelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080529 23:28]: > Back about 1967, the ASR33 was coveted by those of us whose only means > of input and output was the 80-column punch card. > > "Output?", you say? Yes. For printed outp

Re: Pam_Putenv Message

2008-05-30 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 06:16:43AM -0700, Jeff Grossman wrote: > I noticed in my messages log file this line everytime I log out via ssh. > > May 26 20:50:10 apple login[13572]: pam_mail(login:session): pam_putenv: > delete non-existent entry; MAIL > > > This is on an AMD64 machine running Lenn

Re: Firefox in 32-bit chroot

2008-05-30 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 09:36:40AM +0100, michael wrote: > > On 29 May 2008, at 08:00, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > > >I'm attempting to run firefox in a 32-bit chroot using schroot with > >run-setup-scripts=false because I don't want to mess with my real home > >directory. Firefox is installed, as is

Re: Save/Restore Symlinks

2008-05-30 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 08:03:23AM -0500, Chuck Rhode wrote: > On Fri, 30 May 2008 07:00:17 +0200, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > > > On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 11:50:04PM -0500, Chuck Rhode wrote: > > >> Alright, I want to back-up my *home* directory, but it has symlinks to > >> other directories. How do

Re: Wildly OT: Re: apt-get joke

2008-05-27 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 06:21:04PM -0700, David Fox wrote: > On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 5:59 PM, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 8>-- > > > > # > > > > 8>-- > > EMFBI, but that won't compile in Fortran. Here's a quick an

Re: Wildly OT: Re: apt-get joke

2008-05-27 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 01:06:13AM +0200, s. keeling wrote: > Hal Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Tuesday 27 May 2008, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > > > > Come on, all geeks know nothing is bug free. > > > > I wrote a C++ program that was bug free once. Worked perfectly every > > ti

Re: Wildly OT: Re: apt-get joke

2008-05-27 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 01:25:22PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > Though we're treading damn close right now. Homophobia is sometimes the > result of religous doctrine. How could religious doctrine result in a fear that everything will be like everything else? Entropy is the end-point of the un

Re: apt-get joke

2008-05-25 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 01:49:18PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 04:57:39PM +1000, Rich Healey wrote: > > Owen Townend wrote: > > > On 25/05/2008, Sjoerd Hiemstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> On Sun, 25 May 2008 03:11:05 +1000 Owen Townen wrote: > > >> > On 24/

Re: Fetchmail

2008-05-25 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 12:17:07AM +0300, Tero M?ntyvaara wrote: > How do I set fetchmail to automatically fetch mails of all user? Every > user have to give command fetchmail -a at the moment to get their mails. Well, you have to enable the fetchmail system-wide daemon in /etc/default/fetchmail

Re: Automounting

2008-05-24 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 10:44:12AM -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > > Running Sid/Lenny and I don't use Gnome, so I am looking for the BEST > automounting system, one that will mount a CD or DVD when I insert the > disk. I have tried pmount but for some reason it doesn't work for me. > Suggesti

Re: 97% use of / system

2008-05-24 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 07:16:46AM +0100, andy wrote: > > >>My / partition is some 12GB and I see that it is currently 97% full. How > >>can > / = 12GB > SWAP = 2.8GB > /home = 168GB > > No separate /var /tmp, etc. > > Having run apt-get clean / is now down to 56%. I suspect that the > balan

Re: Compilation on Big Endian platforms

2008-05-24 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 05:15:51PM +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > > I was wondering what would be the easiest way to try my code on a > big endian machine. I thought of buying a cheap G4 mac mini on ebay, > install linux and then compile my project. But those machine are still > a bit expensi

Re: how to upgrade dependency packages

2008-05-24 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 03:18:37PM +0530, sathiya moorthy wrote: > I downloaded a debian package ( .deb file ), and then i tried installing > that using dpkg, and i got the errors like., Why? > >system has this package with this version, and this package requires > updated version > > > Err

Re: Debian secure by default?

2008-05-24 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 08:20:07PM -0700, Mike Bird wrote: > If you start a service - Apache or FTP or anything else - then you are > responsible for securing it, whether by passwords or certificates or > firewalls or otherwise. It's easy to start a service. It's not easy > to secure a service.

Re: I/O error reading swsusp image with 2.6.18-6-686

2008-05-24 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 05:43:56PM -0400, John Fleming wrote: > It's been over 48 hrs, and I didn't get a single bite on this, so thought > I'd try again. I have a problem that only raises it's head with the > 2.6.18-6-686 kernel, but not the 2.6.18-4-686: [snip] > Does anyone know anything abou

Re: missing log messages

2008-05-24 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 05:48:59AM -0700, Bill wrote: > I'm tweaking a new kernel for my old laptop to install a new module. > > At boot I see a number of 'fail' messages scroll past on the > screen, but they don't show up in dmesg /var/log/dmesg > /var/log/syslog /var/log/messages etc. These fi

Re: Blocking Gmail ads

2008-05-24 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 07:41:20AM -0500, Jordi Guti?rrez Hermoso wrote: > On 15/05/2008, Rich Healey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > How does this work with GPLv3? They changed it from "distribute" to > > > "convey". Is Airbus conveying the software to its customers or not? If > > > there is a

Re: Blocking Gmail ads

2008-05-24 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 11:54:17AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 05/24/08 11:39, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 05:09:50PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> On 05/15/08 17:01, Jordi Guti?rrez Hermoso wrote: > >>> On 15/05/2008, Ron Johnson <[

Re: Blocking Gmail ads

2008-05-24 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 05:57:06PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > There must be a socio-linguistic gap here. > > In the US (and probably in Canada/UK/ANZ), there's an expression > that after the revolution is won, the revolutionary leaders are > brought "out back" and shot. Since Canada has no his

Re: Blocking Gmail ads

2008-05-24 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 05:09:50PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 05/15/08 17:01, Jordi Guti?rrez Hermoso wrote: > > On 15/05/2008, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> How can the software be conveyed to me if I'm pushing buttons on a > >> seat-back screen that's connected to a server

Re: Blocking Gmail ads

2008-05-24 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 08:02:25PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > On Thu, 15 May 2008 15:58:33 -0500 > "Jordi Guti?rrez Hermoso" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You may believe so, but not everyone agrees. IANAL, but the > above referenced Madwifi page justifies the need for the binary, > closed source HA

Re: Blocking Gmail ads

2008-05-24 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 09:25:56AM +1200, Richard Hector wrote: > On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 15:58 -0500, Jordi Guti?rrez Hermoso wrote: > My understanding is that the FCC (which I believe has no jurisdiction > over me, but that's another issue) regulations require the manufacturer > to keep the sourc

files encrypted with openssl enc?

2008-05-15 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
Hello, Does anyone know if files encrypted with openssl's enc would be affected by the openssl fiasco? What a pain in the but this is... Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: difficulties updating Etch

2008-05-15 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 02:39:42AM -0500, Mumia W.. wrote: > On 05/14/2008 11:42 AM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >I get various errors during the update phase of aptitude. Sometimes its > >just "some files failed to download"; I guess it timed out or something. > >

Re: Inconsistent state in util-linux

2008-05-15 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 09:59:14PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 06:34:12PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 11:06:03 -0500, Rob Wright wrote: > > > > > /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8/Errno.

Re: update-grub problem

2008-05-14 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 09:43:14PM -0400, John Fleming wrote: > I'm trying to install linux-image-2.6.18-6-686 using apt-get. I recently > made the recommended change in /etc/kernel-img.conf to include: > > postinst_hook = usr/sbin/update-grub > postrm_hook = usr/sbin/update-grub > > When I run

Re: how to get a printer to work??

2008-05-14 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 01:36:25PM -0700, Alan Ianson wrote: > On Wed May 14 2008 01:01:28 pm charliesdad wrote: > > I have etch. After 4 months I still can't get the printer to work. It is > > a HP DeskJet 722C. I have installed pnm2ppa from disk 9. I use gnome and > > had it print a test page. Th

Re: Inconsistent state in util-linux

2008-05-14 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 06:34:12PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 11:06:03 -0500, Rob Wright wrote: > /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8/Errno.pm is not part of Debian. Get rid of > it and the proper module at /usr/lib/perl/5.8.8/Errno.pm will be used. > Running "aptitude install

Re: Reducing wastage of screen real estate in gnome

2008-05-14 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 03:50:58PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 05/14/08 08:02, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 09:29:39PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> On 05/13/08 20:21, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >> [snip] > >>> I have a 9" b

Re: apt-get question..

2008-05-14 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 08:24:24PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 09:31:15PM -0400, "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > > On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 11:03:59PM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > > > On Tue, May 13,

difficulties updating Etch

2008-05-14 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
I'm having trouble updating Etch: I get various errors during the update phase of aptitude. Sometimes its just "some files failed to download"; I guess it timed out or something. I'm on dialup. How to prevent absolute timeouts but allow (encourage) aptitude to re-issue requests. Sometimes I get

Re: Recommendations on forced disk check

2008-05-14 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 05:27:47PM +0200, Rico Secada wrote: > What are your recommendations on using tune2fs to turn off the forced > HD check on a server that needs to be available as much as possible? > > If the forced check is shut off, should one run some manual check? Also > I don't have phy

Re: sendmail - dns lookup problem

2008-05-14 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 08:11:13AM -0700, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 01:16:13PM +0200, Viktor Matys wrote: > Best-practice for a mail server is to run a caching name server to > minimize DNS timeouts. If you're not already doing so, you might want to > consider that. You migh

Re: Firefox irresponsible

2008-05-14 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 03:57:43PM +0200, Javier Barroso wrote: > Since one week ago I'm noticing firefox is sometimes irresponsible during > three or four seconds. I think you mean nonresponsive, but I love the comment that firefox/iceweasel is irresponsible. Perhaps its web designers who are ir

Re: CD has not been seen in debian40r3 console

2008-05-14 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 12:30:23AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On May 14, 3:10?pm, Juha Tuuna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > What about: > > mount /media/cdrom0 > Hi, this is the output, > > $ su -c 'mount -t iso9660 /media/cdrom0 /cdrom' > Password:

Re: HTMLVIEW to read mutt HTML email from browser

2008-05-14 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 08:53:56PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 01:06:55PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 09:41:11AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > I've never had to wait for lynx to start up, even on

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