Re: whereis php

2008-12-12 Thread François Cerbelle
Le Ven 12 décembre 2008 09:34, Phillipus Gunawan a écrit : > Hi there, > I am using debian etch/lenny > I installed PHP5 using apt-get > I seems can not find my executable php [...] > I also installed php5-cgi which also didnt give me anything > I expect to see my executable php in /usr/lib or /li

Re: mirroir debian sarge

2008-12-11 Thread François Cerbelle
Le Jeu 11 décembre 2008 15:59, Anthony a écrit : > je ne parviens plus a trouver le mirroir officiel sarge. > A t-il été supprimé, ou deplacé ? > Nous avons encore des machines en sarge... Salut Anthony, Voici la question à poser à Google : http://www.google.fr/search?q=debian+archives&ie=utf-8&o

Re: totally crashed workstation

2008-12-09 Thread François Cerbelle
Le Mar 9 décembre 2008 15:40, Jussi Nurminen a écrit : [...] > How can I investigate this further? I already burned and erased a DVD-RW [...] > The machine is a Dell Precision 690 with 2 dual-core Xeon processors, 4 > GiB of memory and two SAS hard drives, running Debian Lenny. Check the frequenc

Re: Xen kernel and make-kpkg

2008-12-09 Thread François Cerbelle
Le Mar 9 décembre 2008 13:53, Stefan Goebel a écrit : > Applying the Xen patches with "../kernel-patches/all/2.6.26/apply/debian > -a i386 -f xen" works, running "make-kpkg --revision='1.0' > --append-to-version='-foo' kernel_image" does not work, apparently > make-kpkg tries to run "make bzImage"

Re: advice on cloning system

2008-11-26 Thread François Cerbelle
Le Mer 26 novembre 2008 09:39, tom arnall a écrit : > Copy to the new machine from old with: > su > mount /dev/sda3 /sD > cp -dRvpu / /sD > The drive on the new machine is bigger and of a > different brand. For the copy, the new drive is

Re: shutdown -r hangs

2008-11-26 Thread François Cerbelle
Le Mer 26 novembre 2008 15:39, Paul Cartwright a écrit : > why won't it reboot, or what can I look at? Do you have the acpi module loaded in kernel ? I have similar problems (for halt) and solved it with the acpi module. It might be the apm module too. If acpi is not loaded, try : modprobe acpi

Re: /var/log growing rapidly

2008-11-26 Thread François Cerbelle
Le Mer 26 novembre 2008 12:16, Paul Cartwright a écrit : >> In practice, it's very difficult to get X to let root put a root owned >> process on a user's display, and once you get it going, the next >> Debian release breaks your tweak, at least in my experience. > > great, thanks! > at least I fou

Re: Erase cache, clean registry in Linux

2008-11-25 Thread François Cerbelle
Le Mar 25 novembre 2008 15:44, Richard Möhn a écrit : > The good news: It's because there is no registry in Linux. (Or I have > not ever heard of no registry nowhere in Linux, at least.) gconf maybe ??? Fanfan -- http://www.cerbelle.net - http://www.afdm-idf.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

Re: Colored less

2008-11-24 Thread François Cerbelle
Le Lun 24 novembre 2008 15:00, Rob Gom a écrit : > However I don't see two things: > 1. Automatic file update (when it's changed). > 2. Easy way to colorify lines based on regexp. You might try "swatch" Fanfan -- http://www.cerbelle.net - http://www.afdm-idf.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

Re: need help with bash command

2008-11-21 Thread François Cerbelle
Le Ven 21 novembre 2008 02:10, Ding Honghui a écrit :.jpg > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/test/jpg$ ls | awk -F_ '{print $2}' > 3563 > 3616 > 3620 IMHO, awk is quite oversized just to cut fields... It is typically a cut job : "cut -d_ -f2" ;-) Fanfan -- http://www.cerbelle.net - http://www.afdm-idf.org

Re: need help with bash command

2008-11-20 Thread François Cerbelle
Bob McGowan a écrit : for a in `ls`; do DIR=`echo $a | cut -d_ -f2`; echo mkdir -p $DIR /$a; echo rmdir $DIR/$a; echo mv $a $DIR/$a; done ... Why do this with a `ls` when a simple * will work? for a in *; do ... Hum... Because ! ;-) In fact, first, I used to do this, because I seldomly use

Re: need help with bash command

2008-11-20 Thread François Cerbelle
Le Jeu 20 novembre 2008 16:18, tôba a écrit : > icon_3620_0_1.jpg > icon_3616_0_1.jpg > icon_3563_0_1.jpg > > The goal is to create a directory called 3620 and move the > icon_3620_0_1.jpg file into this directory. > > So, I did like this for test: > # for a in `ls | sed -e s'/_/ /g' | awk '{prin

Re: Which files do what: .bashrc and friends

2008-11-19 Thread François Cerbelle
Dotan Cohen a écrit : Thanks in advance. If there are any good docs that explain this, I'd love to see them. I have not been able to google anything recent that is relevant to Debian. Quick'n dirty solution : Another way to know, even if it does not cover all cases, is to put the following li

Re: [OT] Re: Looking for SIMPLE MTA

2008-11-19 Thread François Cerbelle
Le Mer 19 novembre 2008 00:45, s. keeling a écrit : > Hal Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> On Sunday 16 November 2008, Ron Johnson wrote: >> > >> > If you don't agree with me, you are worse than Hitler!!! >> >> You mean there are people who agree with you?!? He can, I do agree with him. So, I am

Re: How to adjust horizontal screen position

2008-11-18 Thread François Cerbelle
Malte Forkel a écrit : How can I configure the installations so the horizontal screen position is the same with all of them? Hi Did you look at "xvidtune" ? Fanfan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Q: List Policy

2008-11-16 Thread François Cerbelle
Steve Lamb a écrit : François Cerbelle wrote: A list should *NEVER* alter the contents of a message and the reply-to field *DOES BELONGS TO THE CONTENTS* of the message. Really? You believe that? *looks at the footer appended to every message* Then, u, a header is the least of

Re: Q: List Policy

2008-11-16 Thread François Cerbelle
Roger B.A. Klorese a écrit : It's the right of the list-owner to set reply policy. If the list's policy is that replies must be to the list - as many owners of community-style lists require - the subscriber can either go along with it or go away. What would you think if the listmaster decide

Re: Q: List Policy

2008-11-16 Thread François Cerbelle
Patrick Wiseman a écrit : ... And why do you send message in text+HTML format to this list ? ;-) Fanfan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Q: List Policy

2008-11-16 Thread François Cerbelle
Patrick Wiseman a écrit : How so? When I reply to an email to this list, gmail presumes I want to reply to the sender. I simply change the return address to the list. I manage several forums on which I set Reply-To to the forum address; gmail respects that. If there's a problem here, it's n

Re: How to uninstall a tar.gz package?

2008-11-14 Thread François Cerbelle
Le Ven 14 novembre 2008 16:51, tôba a écrit : > If it has the "make unistall" capability, I think it will be easy to > remove. > Otherwise, I think you have to read the original Makefile file and > remove installed files one by one. Hi, You can also install the checkinstall package and use it

Re: Very slim Desktop Manager

2008-11-14 Thread François Cerbelle
Le Ven 14 novembre 2008 14:25, Ron Johnson a écrit : > It would be nice if bc had a config file (~/.bcrc) that you could > put your standard scale, etc values in. I just asked Google, it gaves me the following URL : http://unix.derkeiler.com/Newsgroups/comp.unix.shell/2007-01/msg00175.html So, y

Re: Very slim Desktop Manager

2008-11-14 Thread François Cerbelle
Le Ven 14 novembre 2008 13:46, Tzafrir Cohen a écrit : [...] > Oh, you mean I had to set this strange thing called 'scale'? Why can't I > get it to default to something more reasonable? There's at least not a > method documented in the man page. Reasonable ??? for who ? a client buying one, two or

Re: Very slim Desktop Manager

2008-11-14 Thread François Cerbelle
Le Ven 14 novembre 2008 12:05, lee a écrit : [...] > With dc or bc, you need to figure out how to use them. An hour later or > so you might be able to calculate 2+5. With qalculate (or other GUI > calculators), you type 2+5 and get the result, just like you do with a > calculator. dc only says "st

Re: jpilot won't sync with Palm IIIe

2008-11-13 Thread François Cerbelle
Mark Grieveson a écrit : Jpilot won't sync with my Palm IIIe, which is a serial connection pda. Jpilot was working with a usb palm that I had, but this palm broke. I entered the command "ln -s /dev/ttyS0 /dev/pilot", and then tried, via jpilot, to sync. It did establish a sync connection, b

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2008-11-13 Thread François Cerbelle
Le Jeu 13 novembre 2008 13:18, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe a écrit : > audio editor: > audio player: rhythmbox > cd-ripper: > desktop OR window manager: LXDE > DBMS: mysql > development: gcc/g++/php/perl/bash > disc burner: mkisofs/wodim > e-mail client: mutt/icedove > file manager: PCMan / Thunar > fina

Re: Very slim Desktop Manager

2008-11-13 Thread François Cerbelle
Le Jeu 13 novembre 2008 14:46, NN_il_Confusionario a écrit : >> and games > old svgalib games exist. However the only game I have ever used is > tetris inside dos navigator inside dosemu (even if there are native text > only games for unix). You should try Tetrinet ;-) A Networked multiplayer Tetr

Re: dpkg -i from within postinst script

2008-11-13 Thread François Cerbelle
Le Jeu 13 novembre 2008 12:26, Anton Piatek a écrit : [...] > Installing this package pops up a debhelper choice of which packages > they want to build and install. I suppose I am closest to m-a in how > it is working. > I would rather that this package pops up a menu each time it is > reinstalled

Re: dpkg -i from within postinst script

2008-11-13 Thread François Cerbelle
Le Jeu 13 novembre 2008 11:27, Tzafrir Cohen a écrit : > On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 09:55:09AM +, Anton Piatek wrote: >> I work for a company that uses a specific java build - we are only >> allowed to download it from a specific internal site, that is >> authenticated. >> I have written a packag

Re: bugs.debian.org down?

2008-11-10 Thread François Cerbelle
T o n g a écrit : Hi, is it only me or bugs.debian.org is really down? I first thought that my "reportbug" was broken, I went to the site and it did not work, neither, so... ...You're right ! ;-) There is a bug, you should fill a bug report !!! ;-) Fanfan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

Re: Convert windows dhcp to linux-dhcp-server

2008-11-06 Thread François Cerbelle
Le Jeu 6 novembre 2008 16:03, Brian Møller a écrit : > I want all that converted; but havent found a program or scripts that > can do it for me. > The subnets isn't a problem, but all the 1000 locked ip's is not an > option for manuel typing. > Does any of you have a solution for this little bi

Re: Lenny RAID1

2008-10-29 Thread François Cerbelle
Le Mer 29 octobre 2008 16:43, MLewis a écrit : > I have a machine running RH9 with RAID1 that I am planning to move to > Lenny. > 1) I believe that I can exclude the existing RAID array when doing the > install without harm to the RAID array or the data. Is this correct? > 2) Once Lenny is install

Re: How to mirror a server installation?

2008-10-21 Thread François Cerbelle
Le Mar 21 octobre 2008 11:41, Arnau a écrit : > I'd like to mirror all the packages installed in a production server > with the same versions. The idea is to have a enviroment test the > upgrades before apply those upgrades to the real production server. What > is the best way to do this? Hi,

Re: How to properly empty log files

2008-10-16 Thread François Cerbelle
T o n g a écrit : My /var/log/mail.err is very big due to a misconfiguration error. However, I can't simply remove it because it is "owned" by rsyslogd: [...] So, how to properly empty log files? Hi, If you dont want to : - restart syslog - keep the information in the file you can "truncate

Re: tty switching script

2008-10-04 Thread François Cerbelle
Hugo Vanwoerkom a écrit : How would you write a script that simulates a series of Alt+Ctrl+F? Including F7 for X and back into text consoles? Hi Hugo, I would use "chvt" ;-) Fanfan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTE

Re: my system packages list

2008-10-03 Thread François Cerbelle
Le Ven 3 octobre 2008 08:52, Pol a écrit : > I would like to install on a new station the same applications currently installed on my laptop. > Any hints to run a script? Hi Pol, You can use "dpkg --get-selections > packages.lst" to get the installed packages and "dpkg --set-selections < packag

Re: installing debian from windows?

2008-09-27 Thread François Cerbelle
Hugo Vanwoerkom a écrit : I found: http://en.opensuse.org/Instlux that installs SUSE directly from Windows. Is there such a thing for Debian? http://goodbye-microsoft.com/ Fanfan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: cedilla on a us_intl keyboard

2008-09-24 Thread François Cerbelle
Le Mer 24 septembre 2008 13:24, Hugo Vanwoerkom a écrit : > But I don't have Gnome. And found this: > http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~johns/kbukint.html > and so using the AltGr (Alt key to the right of the spacebar): > AltGr + , + c = ç Hi, I use the Happy Hacking Keyboard (US QWERTY, 60 key

Re: convert odt to pdf via the command line

2008-09-23 Thread François Cerbelle
Le Mar 23 septembre 2008 14:59, Raj Kiran Grandhi a écrit : > I have a bunch of .odt files that I want to convert to pdf. Is there any > tool that can do it? apt-cache search did not show anything helpful nor > did google. Strange, I should have a different question when asking Google : batch expo

Re: transitivity of login

2008-09-17 Thread François Cerbelle
Le Mer 17 septembre 2008 17:35, PETER EASTHOPE a écrit : > I have three systems, A, B and C. > A terminal login is made on A. >>From there a ssh session to B. >>From there we attempt ssh to C. Did you try to run "ssh-add" on A for ssh-agent to know you key. Then to use "ssh -A B" and "ssh -A C"

Re: dd|tar backup over ssh fails, could someone give me a pointer.

2008-09-12 Thread François Cerbelle
Le Ven 12 septembre 2008 14:04, Adrian Levi a écrit : > I am trying to do a complete backup of a drive in a brand new laptop > to eventually wipe and install linux. You dont have to use a temporary file. You can try the following : - NewLaptop : create partitions (ie hda1 for /boot and hda2 for /

Re: Copy entire /usr

2008-09-12 Thread François Cerbelle
Le Ven 12 septembre 2008 10:08, Raven a écrit : [...] > It worked! > Thank you all for your help and especially Francois for providing a very > fast solution :D ;-) Fanfan -- http://www.cerbelle.net - http://www.afdm-idf.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "u

Re: Copy entire /usr

2008-09-12 Thread François Cerbelle
Le Ven 12 septembre 2008 09:36, Paulo Silva a écrit : [...] > # rsync -av /usr/ /newusr/ > # umount /usr I think he will not be able to do it because of processes running from /usr. And I think he can not stop all processes by going to runlevel 1 as he seems to only have a network access to its s

Re: Copy entire /usr

2008-09-12 Thread François Cerbelle
Le Ven 12 septembre 2008 09:28, Raven a écrit : [...] > After I rsync, how do I tell the system to use the new /usr folder > (since I am not doing the whole "remount" thing)? As you seem to be unable to have a physical access to the server, I suppose you can not go to single user mode. If you try

Re: Copy entire /usr

2008-09-12 Thread François Cerbelle
Le Ven 12 septembre 2008 08:15, Raven a écrit : [...] > Before starting blindly cp'ing files, I would like to hear your advice > on the process and if I have any chance of succeeding (or if you have > another method that would work better) Hi, You can use : # ( cd /usr; tar cf - . ) | ( cd /mnt/

Re: Getting Minimum Required Packages from Windows

2008-09-10 Thread François Cerbelle
Le Mer 10 septembre 2008 13:34, Himanshu a écrit : > Is there an easy way to get a package and all the packages it depends > on directly or indirectly, from Windows. I have a limited monthly internet > quota and I want to download just the minimum necessary packages. > I am connected to

Re: diff display

2008-09-10 Thread François Cerbelle
Le Mer 10 septembre 2008 09:52, James A. Donald a écrit : [...] > Can I get file changes recorded in git to display the > way they do in windows? I use Mercurial instead of GIT, but it is very close. I use it under Unix (Solaris and Linux) and Windows. And I use KDiff3 under Unix and Windows too.

Re: Remote administration of a machine behind NAT

2008-09-09 Thread François Cerbelle
Le Mar 9 septembre 2008 13:39, Alex Samad a écrit : [...] > don't see the difference between connectivity via the internet or via an > openvpn network, if your rule states only allow ssh (+ related traffic + > only if it originates from your machine ) > over the openvpn network If you forget the

Re: Syslog Garbage

2008-09-08 Thread François Cerbelle
Le Lun 8 septembre 2008 13:31, Volkan YAZICI a écrit : > ... > Sep 8 12:05:21 arge -- MARK -- > Sep 8 12:25:21 arge -- MARK -- > Sep 8 12:45:21 arge -- MARK -- > Sep 8 13:05:22 arge -- MARK -- > Sep 8 13:25:22 arge -- MARK -- > ... > What might be causing this garbage output. I

Re:Debian LSI Logic RAID

2008-09-04 Thread François Cerbelle
Le Jeu 4 septembre 2008 08:50, Michail Kulagin a écrit : > äÏÂÒÙÊ ÄÅÎØ! > Michael Kulagin > Software designer > VOIP Installation team > MFI-Soft, N. Novgorod > 7 (831) 2203239 ext. 5652 Po-angliskii, Pajalsta ! François Cerbelle -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: GParted Error 10522

2008-09-03 Thread François Cerbelle
X and the DISPLAY variable. François Cerbelle -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: GParted Error 10522

2008-09-03 Thread François Cerbelle
gparted Or simplier, as root : zara:/home/za$ xhost +localhost zara:/home/za$ su - zara:/home/za# DISPLAY=localhost:0.0 gparted or zara:/home/za# DISPLAY=localhost:0.0 ; export DISPLAY ; gparted François Cerbelle -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how to restrict developers in /var/www/html directory...??

2008-09-03 Thread François Cerbelle
Le Mar 2 septembre 2008 22:18, Michael Habashy a écrit : > i would like to restrict developer access to the /var/www/html directory. > I currently have a number of websites in that directory. They are all > live public_html for their respective webpages. > I have developer A who i want to give ac

Re: limiting a user?

2008-08-29 Thread François Cerbelle
Le Jeu 28 août 2008 23:10, Zach Uram a écrit : [...] > How can I limit how much disk space he can use and limit how much > bandwidth? lokk for "quota" package. You will have to enable quotas on the filesystem (if the Filesystem accept it) in the /etc/fstab file and remount the filesystem. Then, yo

Re: WebMail Interface

2008-08-20 Thread François Cerbelle
Le Mer 20 août 2008 13:44, Rod James Bio a écrit : > Weve been using Horde for 2 years now and we are now looking for an > alternative for Horde. Any suggestions? > Hi, I installed SquirrelMail for my compagny and for myself, it works fine. I might change for RoundCube later, to offer a better in

Re: mount remote file system

2008-08-19 Thread François Cerbelle
pdvd/ and/or exportfs -v -i 192.168.0.100:/root/dvddir/ -o no_root_squash,ro François Cerbelle -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mount remote file system

2008-08-19 Thread François Cerbelle
Le Mar 19 août 2008 15:53, Jos Collin a écrit : > debian:~# mount -t nfs 192.168.0.101:/root/dvddir/ laptopdvd/ > mount: 192.168.0.101:/root/dvddir/ failed, reason given by server: > Permission denied > I don't know whether it is a problem because of the read-only file system. No, I think it is b

Re: mount remote file system

2008-08-19 Thread François Cerbelle
Le Mar 19 août 2008 13:30, Jos Collin a écrit : > I'm sorry. The question was not clear. I want to mount a remote DVD and > have it presented to me on my local machine. I was searching whether > there is any option using the command 'mount'. Is it possible with 'mount > -t nfs' or 'mount -t smbfs'

Re: mount remote file system

2008-08-19 Thread François Cerbelle
Le Mar 19 août 2008 13:03, Jos Collin a écrit : > Is there any way to mount a remote file system using the command 'mount'? > (not sshfs). I'm using Linux in the remote machine too. I'm trying to > mount the dvd in the remote machine. Hi, I am not sure to understand you problem : - Do you want t

Re: disks...

2008-08-15 Thread François Cerbelle
michael a écrit : [...] and I'm not sure what that means. I'll welcome advice on whether it's the HDD about to die or whether the interrupt/timed out messages indicate something else? IMHO, that means you should begin to double check your backups. And secondly, if I were at your place, I would

Re: Changes to mailing list subcsription

2008-08-13 Thread François Cerbelle
Le Mer 13 août 2008 15:43, Arthur Machlas a écrit : > I signed up for some lists because I was having some problems, which are > now resolved. I'd like to switch my subscription to a digest format. I > was wondering what kind of email to send to the list-server to do this > for the mailling lists

Re: [OT] Cases for pcengines hardware

2008-08-13 Thread François Cerbelle
Le Mer 13 août 2008 10:16, Martin a écrit : > well it's it's the ALIX2 and 3 series. If all else fails I guess I > have to build one myself -- I need to raise my welding skills anyway > :) Hi, Did you have a look on the mini-box web site ? They seem to have boxes designed specially for the Alix b