How to access forumns?

2021-01-25 Thread Neil du Toit
When I tried to register for Debian User Forumns I received the following list of error messages: Your IP has been blocked because it is blacklisted. For details please see http://www.spamcannibal.org/cannibal.cgi?page=lookup=. Your IP has been blocked because it is blacklisted. For details

Hardware Accelerated Video Playback in Chromium

2020-04-25 Thread Neil E. Hodges
Hello everyone, Does anybody know the status of hardware-accelerated video playback in Chromium on Debian as of 2020? There's a lot of outdated information out there, and the only recent stuff I've seen has involved a PPA on Ubuntu. Thank you, - Neil

Re: Debian Buster Router: IPv6 and Comcast (Solved)

2019-11-15 Thread Neil E. Hodges
still didn't work. Maybe that autoconf option was the ticket? Didn't see many other folks trying these options out. Oh well. Thank you for helping me think this through properly. This has been solved. - Neil On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 01:14:39PM -0800, Neil E. Hodges wrote: > I ended up che

Re: Debian Buster Router: IPv6 and Comcast

2019-11-15 Thread Neil E. Hodges
t "/etc/wide-dhcpv6/dhcp6c-script"; > }; > > id-assoc na 1 { }; Why in the world does enabling DHCPv6 for the IP address cause the kernel to ignore router advertisements? That's a common use case for IPv6. Thank you, - Neil On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 07:01:47PM -0800, Neil E. Ho

Debian Buster Router: IPv6 and Comcast

2019-11-14 Thread Neil E. Hodges
ing this for the past few weeks, and nothing I've found when searching online has helped. I've also seen odd cases where I'm able to get both a public IPv6 address and a default gateway, but only on rare occasions. Does anybody have any suggestions? Thank you, - Neil

Re: Jessie unable to update via squid proxy

2017-01-23 Thread Neil Roberts
ECT/128.61.240.73 - 1485172350.454101 192.168.10.98 TCP_REFRESH_UNMODIFIED/304 324 GET http://security.debian.org/dists/jessie/updates/main/i18n/Translation-en.bz2 - DIRECT/128.61.240.73 - Before anyone points it out, we use a /22 so the system can resolve the proxy with no problems. Any pointers would b

Jessie unable to update via squid proxy

2017-01-23 Thread Neil Roberts
5172350.454101 192.168.10.98 TCP_REFRESH_UNMODIFIED/304 324 GET http://security.debian.org/dists/jessie/updates/main/i18n/Translation-en.bz2 - DIRECT/128.61.240.73 - Before anyone points it out, we use a /22 so the system can resolve the proxy with no problems. Any pointers would be greatly appreciated. Regards Neil

Re: random reboots of my Lenovo ThinkPad (3.16.7-ckt20-1+deb8u1) (kernel stack trace)

2015-12-24 Thread Neil Roberts
On 2015-12-22 22:18, Anders Andersson wrote: First thing I do in a case like this is to run memtest86 in some form on the hardware. Good point, but: 1. those stack traces are always nouveau related 2. memtest86+ yields nothing 3. often upon logging into X, before the desktop appears, I am

jessie 3.16.0-4-686-pae kernel stuck at initramfs prompt due to ata_piix module

2015-06-26 Thread Neil H. Gray
to do next to fix this problem. Thanks in advance for any advice or help, Neil -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/558d5cba.8010...@ohiogray.org

Re: LVM devices and symlinks

2012-12-12 Thread Neil T . Dantam
At Wed, 12 Dec 2012 18:54:41 +, Roger Leigh wrote: Reboot the box after installing LVM. Ah, a reboot has lvcreate working properly, thank you. This is good to know. However, this should all be triggered when the package is initially installed. Agree that turning it off and on

Re: LVM devices and symlinks

2012-12-12 Thread Neil T . Dantam
At Wed, 12 Dec 2012 18:54:41 +, Roger Leigh wrote: Reboot the box after installing LVM. Ah, a reboot has lvcreate working properly, thank you. This is good to know. However, this should all be triggered when the package is initially installed. Agree that turning it off and on

Re: LVM devices and symlinks

2012-12-11 Thread Neil T . Dantam
At Tue, 11 Dec 2012 10:15:54 +, Chris Davies wrote: Reboot the box after installing LVM. Ah, a reboot has lvcreate working properly, thank you. Based on my empirical sample of two, there's some dependency that I haven't tracked - and I must admit thought it was related to my weird

LVM devices and symlinks

2012-12-10 Thread Neil T . Dantam
Hi, I'm having an issue (not quite a problem) creating LVM logical volumes. It seems that the way device files and symlinks are created has changed between Squeeze and Wheezy (or I have some bad configuration). Old (working) Behavior -- Performing an `lvcreate -L10G

Re: partitions - primary vs logical and bootability

2012-11-10 Thread Neil T . Dantam
At Sat, 10 Nov 2012 16:09:36 -0600, Charles Blair wrote: I am trying to set up a dual-boot windows 7 / wheezy. Can you install grub2 to the MBR and have it boot both debian and MSWindows? This worked fine to dual-boot WinXP. As I understand it, / must be bootable, which seems to mean it

Re: Why are my emails not making it to the list?

2011-01-26 Thread Neil Youngman
of the message is discarded because it already has a copy in the sent folder. Neil Youngman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201101262137.27124

Re: Help with a bash script please

2011-01-14 Thread Neil Youngman
. There might be other things but it looks like you're missing a tick after date. Also a decent IDE would make this pretty plain to you - I use vim. That looks like the culprit. If fixing that doesn't solve the problem run the script with sh -x. That will show up a lot of errors in a script. Neil

Re: Kernel bug in Squeeze

2011-01-13 Thread Neil Youngman
On Thursday 13 Jan 2011 09:35:04 Russell Gadd wrote: Also how/where could I report this bug? For the how, I suggest you look at the reportbug man page. Neil Youngman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Debian (sid) painfully slow.

2011-01-08 Thread Neil Youngman
%. Stopping BOINC for a while might be a worthwhile diagnostic at some point. Neil Youngman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201101081331.12172

Re: Debian (sid) painfully slow.

2011-01-08 Thread Neil Youngman
On Saturday 08 Jan 2011 03:28:47 Jochen Schulz wrote: Neil Youngman: On Friday 07 Jan 2011 16:53:05 Jochen Schulz wrote: Can you confirm this by doing something CPU intensive which doesn't draw anything on the screen? Something like a kernel compile or video/audio encoding. I'm

Re: Debian (sid) painfully slow.

2011-01-08 Thread Neil Youngman
On Saturday 08 Jan 2011 03:32:35 Jochen Schulz wrote: Oh, and you are sure you didn't overlook a tiny line along the lines of IRQ 16: nobody cared? # grep cared /var/log/messages* # No sign of that on this system. Neil Youngman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: Debian (sid) painfully slow.

2011-01-08 Thread Neil Youngman
the default and did an apt-get dist-upgrade, although I had previously upgraded a fair amount using install -t testing Neil Youngman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: Debian (sid) painfully slow.

2011-01-08 Thread Neil Youngman
a little cleaning up to do. Neil Youngman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201101081348.17569...@youngman.org.uk

Re: Debian (sid) painfully slow.

2011-01-08 Thread Neil Youngman
On Friday 07 Jan 2011 18:28:11 Neil Youngman wrote: I will continue to observe the system, with swapping in mind as a possible factor and see if there is a correlation. Now that I'm looking for swapping, it's obvious that there are 2 factors here. The system is definitely slower than lenny

Re: Debian (sid) painfully slow.

2011-01-08 Thread Neil Youngman
On Saturday 08 Jan 2011 14:21:27 teddi...@tmo.blackberry.net wrote: Lenny is Stable Squeeze is Testing Sid is Unstable OK, I've got my names mixed up. it's not Sid I'm running at all, it's Squeeze. Neil Youngman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Debian (sid) painfully slow.

2011-01-07 Thread Neil Youngman
not sure what else to try. I've had no luck with Googling for this problem. Does anyone have any suggestions? Neil Youngman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: Debian (sid) painfully slow.

2011-01-07 Thread Neil Youngman
On Friday 07 Jan 2011 16:45:41 you wrote: Neil Youngman wrote: Since I upgraded to testing my system has been slow, occasionally to the point that I have power cycled it because I couldn't get it to respond to anything else. What upgrade did you do? From Sid to Squeeze or from Squeeze

Re: Debian (sid) painfully slow.

2011-01-07 Thread Neil Youngman
On Friday 07 Jan 2011 16:53:05 Jochen Schulz wrote: Neil Youngman: Since I upgraded to testing my system has been slow, occasionally to the point that I have power cycled it because I couldn't get it to respond to anything else. What's in the syslog? Does 'top' report what the system

Re: Debian (sid) painfully slow.

2011-01-07 Thread Neil Youngman
On Friday 07 Jan 2011 17:07:30 Bob Proulx wrote: Neil Youngman wrote: It can take several seconds to pop up a menu and, in the worst case, swapping from one window to another can take minutes, even if the other window is a simple xterm. I have also observed windows being redrawn so slowly

Re: How to recreate a dmraid RAID array with mdadm

2010-11-22 Thread Neil Brown
I see the problem now. And John Robinson was nearly there. The problem is that after assembling the container /dev/md/imsm, mdadm needs to assemble the RAID1, but doesn't find the container /dev/md/imsm to assemble it from. That is because of the DEVICE partitions line. A container is not a

Re: How to recreate a dmraid RAID array with mdadm

2010-11-17 Thread Neil Brown
On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 17:36:23 -0500 Mike Viau vi...@sheridanc.on.ca wrote: On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 14:15:14 +1100 ne...@suse.de wrote: This looks wrong. mdadm should be looking for the container as listed in mdadm.conf and it should find a matching uuid on sda and sdb, but it doesn't.

Re: How to recreate a dmraid RAID array with mdadm

2010-11-17 Thread Neil Brown
On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 19:56:10 -0500 Mike Viau vi...@sheridanc.on.ca wrote: I am running the same version, from a Debian Squeeze package which I presume is the same. mdadm -V mdadm - v3.1.4 - 31st August 2010 Yes, should be identical to what I am running. and see how that works.

Re: How to recreate a dmraid RAID array with mdadm

2010-11-17 Thread Neil Brown
On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 21:05:40 -0500 Mike Viau vi...@sheridanc.on.ca wrote: ./mdadm -Ss mdadm: stopped /dev/md127 ./mdadm -Asvvv mdadm: looking for devices for further assembly mdadm: no RAID superblock on /dev/dm-3 mdadm: /dev/dm-3 has wrong uuid.  want

Re: How to recreate a dmraid RAID array with mdadm

2010-11-17 Thread Neil Brown
On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 22:03:41 -0500 Mike Viau vi...@sheridanc.on.ca wrote: On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 13:32:47 +1100 ne...@suse.de wrote: ./mdadm -Ss mdadm: stopped /dev/md127 ./mdadm -Asvvv mdadm: looking for devices for further assembly mdadm: no RAID superblock on

Re: How to recreate a dmraid RAID array with mdadm

2010-11-17 Thread Neil Brown
On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 00:10:50 -0500 Mike Viau vi...@sheridanc.on.ca wrote: On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 14:17:18 +1100 ne...@suse.de wrote: On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 13:32:47 +1100 wrote: ./mdadm -Ss mdadm: stopped /dev/md127 ./mdadm -Asvvv mdadm: looking for

Re: How to recreate a dmraid RAID array with mdadm (was: no subject)

2010-11-16 Thread Neil Brown
and particularly report etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf and anything else that might be interesting. If the mdadm.conf in the initrd is the same as in /etc/mdadm, then it *should* work. Thanks again Neil. I got a chance to examine my systems initramfs to discover two differences in the local copy

Re: How to recreate a dmraid RAID array with mdadm (was: no subject)

2010-11-16 Thread Neil Brown
On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 01:39:39 + John Robinson john.robin...@anonymous.org.uk wrote: On 17/11/2010 01:26, Neil Brown wrote: On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 20:02:17 -0500 Mike Viauvi...@sheridanc.on.ca wrote: [...] DEVICE partitions HOMEHOSTsystem ARRAY metadata=imsm UUID=084b969a:0808f5b8

Re: How to recreate a dmraid RAID array with mdadm (was: no subject)

2010-11-16 Thread Neil Brown
and then have a look around and particularly report etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf and anything else that might be interesting. If the mdadm.conf in the initrd is the same as in /etc/mdadm, then it *should* work. Thanks again Neil. I got a chance to examine my systems initramfs to discover two

Re: How to recreate a dmraid RAID array with mdadm (was: no subject)

2010-11-14 Thread Neil Brown
On Sun, 14 Nov 2010 01:50:42 -0500 Mike Viau vi...@sheridanc.on.ca wrote: Again, How does one fix the problem of not having the array not starting at boot? To be able to answer that one would need to know exactly what is in the initramfs. And unfortunately all distros are different and I'm

Re:

2010-11-13 Thread Neil Brown
On Sat, 13 Nov 2010 01:01:47 -0500 Mike Viau vi...@sheridanc.on.ca wrote: Hello, I am trying to re-setup my fake-raid (RAID1) volume with LVM2 like setup previously. I had been using dmraid on a Lenny installation which gave me (from memory) a block device like

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2009-09-01 Thread Pastor Neil e Equipe Internet IBB
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Re: RAID5 (mdadm) array hosed after grow operation

2009-01-05 Thread Neil Brown
On Monday January 5, jpis...@lucidpixels.com wrote: cc linux-raid On Mon, 5 Jan 2009, whollyg...@letterboxes.org wrote: I think growing my RAID array after replacing all the drives with bigger ones has somehow hosed the array. The system is Etch with a stock 2.6.18 kernel and mdadm

Re: software raid 1: how to remove a UUID from a device?

2008-12-05 Thread Neil
the MD5 checsum of something: you can't. However: your problem will be solvable and the guys who know how to do this are already busy. Neil -- While working towards the future one should be ensuring that there is a future to work to. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Cannot boot with latest Lenny kernel 2.6.26

2008-11-25 Thread Neil Gunton
of some kind, since everything works ok with the earlier kernel. Things seemed to break going from 2.6.25 to 2.6.26. I am wondering if anyone else is having this issue, if it's a known bug, or something that I need to enter as a bug. Can anybody help? Thanks! Neil -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: mplayer playing HD files.

2008-11-21 Thread Neil
blocks and errors on your screen. If you want to solve this better, but more difficult you could compile Mplayer for your system. I have done this once (divx on a 166 P1 is possible) but I could only do it because my mate helped me and he is verry good at that shit. Hope it helps Neil -- While

Re: HardLink SoftLink

2008-11-07 Thread Neil
PROTECTED] Hi Hard links are used to make decent chains, like the chain to a boat anchor. Decorative chains are usually made of a much softer material, so the links in them could be decribed as soft links... Neil -- There are three kinds of people: Those who can count, and those who cannot

Re: [opensuse] Re: Electricity Cutoffs, EXT3 and Filesystems

2008-11-03 Thread Neil
On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 5:56 PM, Dave Howorth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Neil wrote: On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 10:39 AM, Volkan YAZICI [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had used to be a ReiserFS user ~4 years and never had even a single problem with it. ... [1] Yes, we have couples of UPS boxes around

Re: USB ownership

2008-10-22 Thread Neil
a better solution is available. Neil -- There are three kinds of people: Those who can count, and those who cannot count --- ** Hi! I'm a signature virus! Copy me into your signature, please

Re: Hard Drive Spin Down

2008-10-17 Thread Neil
a 10 MB/s ethernet NFS share saturated if I expected it to create the tarball. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Can't you compress it on the client machine? Neil -- There are three kinds of people

[OT] Does this have hardware issues

2008-10-12 Thread Neil
Powersupply ZM-460B-APS 460W I wil use some old 160GB Western digital hdd's for storage. I still have them lying around, so I guess I do not need a new one (just a decent backup program) Does this seem like a sane setup to you all? Does anyone know wether this will work under Linux? Thanks Neil

Re: how to create an image of your debian computer hard drive for cloning

2008-10-01 Thread Neil
this the filesystem should be locked as read only in some kind of way or the source should be booted from a live CD (or an OS on another partition). I'd advise the live CD, but it requires a restart. I have no experience with this, but I'd like to prevent problems in all cases. Neil -- There are three

Re: how to save flash

2008-09-30 Thread Neil
. On a Linux system you will not need it, because both VLC and Mplayer can play .swf files directly. Neil -- There are three kinds of people: Those who can count, and those who cannot count --- ** Hi! I'm a signature virus! Copy me

palm syncing woes

2008-09-20 Thread Neil Watson
more reliable? -- Neil Watson System Administrator for hire http://watson-wilson.ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: /var/log on tmpfs

2008-09-18 Thread Neil
1 catorgory) please shine his or her light on wether this would theoretically work? Thanks Neil Sorry if this could be considered a thread hyjack. Just disregard it in that case, I'll get the message. -- There are three kinds of people: Those who can count, and those who cannot count

Re: Sunbird server?

2008-09-18 Thread Neil
PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, Can Sunbird import ICS files? Gcalendar can export to that format in settings - calendars Neil -- There are three kinds of people: Those who can count, and those who cannot count

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2008-09-03 Thread Neil
! http://cn.mail.yahoo.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] usefull, a spam message (I assume) in chinese (I assume) to an english mailing list. Neil -- There are three kinds of people: Those who can count

test

2008-08-25 Thread Neil
Please disregard this message -- There are two kinds of people: 1. People who start their arrays with 1. 1. People who start their arrays with 0. --- ** Hi! I'm a signature virus! Copy me into your signature, please! **

Re: diagram tool

2008-08-07 Thread Neil Watson
This allows you to create diagram programmatically: http://www.graphviz.org/ -- Neil Watson System Administrator for hire http://watson-wilson.ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Lenny

2008-07-06 Thread Neil Gunton
to be working on dev. Neil -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Using Lenny on production server?

2008-07-04 Thread Neil Gunton
not a bank, I don't need five-nines uptime, but I would just like to know if the system is generally fairly stable and probably not prone to any major upheavals at this point. Any insights there? Thanks! Neil -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: OT: Laptop for College Bound Student?

2008-06-11 Thread Neil Watson
. -- Neil Watson System Administrator for hire http://watson-wilson.ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: conf management for many debian boxes

2008-06-09 Thread Neil Watson
a collection of servers under cfengine last year. It was very successful. I wrote small 'cookbook' style paper about what I had learned. Please find it here: http://technocrat.watson-wilson.ca/blosxom/computer/cfcookbook.html -- Neil Watson System Administrator for hire http://watson-wilson.ca

Pre existing packages for Xen with Nvidia?

2008-03-03 Thread Neil Watson
Are there some pre patched and ready to go Xen kernels and Nvidia drivers that will work together? Version: lenny/sid Nvidia Gforce 6200 -- Neil Watson System Administrator for hire http://watson-wilson.ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Firewall suggestions?

2008-02-13 Thread Neil Watson
Astaro Linux may still offer free home use licenses. -- Neil Watson System Administrator for hire http://watson-wilson.ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Motherboard suggestions?

2008-02-06 Thread Neil Watson
Tyan -- Neil Watson | Debian Linux System Administrator| Uptime 11 days http://watson-wilson.ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Nice GUI/CLI Password Manager for Linux

2008-01-25 Thread Neil Watson
http://technocrat.watson-wilson.ca/blosxom/computer/encrypted-storage.html -- Neil Watson | Debian Linux System Administrator| Uptime 10 days http://watson-wilson.ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: recommend a flatbed scanner

2007-11-21 Thread Neil Watson
on recommendation from another Linux mailing list. -- Neil Watson | Debian Linux System Administrator| Uptime 32 days http://watson-wilson.ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

questions about compiz

2007-11-03 Thread Neil Watson
and why is it not loading? -- Neil Watson | Debian Linux System Administrator| Uptime 15 days http://watson-wilson.ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: efficiency of windows managers

2007-09-28 Thread Neil Watson
*geometry: 127x50+1+1 xterm*tn: xterm xterm*scrollBar: false xterm*sl: 1000 xterm*colorMode: 1 xterm*Utf8: 1 xterm*loginShell: 1 -- Neil Watson | Debian Linux System Administrator| Uptime 14 days http://watson-wilson.ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Slow Network Connection

2007-09-27 Thread Neil Watson
Do you have some sort of duplex mismatch? Ethtool or mii-tool will report duplex status and Ethernet speed. -- Neil Watson | Debian Linux System Administrator| Uptime 12 days http://watson-wilson.ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Tool for document management

2007-09-27 Thread Neil Watson
asked me to tech him how to use it. -- Neil Watson | Debian Linux System Administrator| Uptime 13 days http://watson-wilson.ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX (Was: Tool for document management)

2007-09-26 Thread Neil Watson
seem to have made up your mind without actually spending some time writing a document or two. -- Neil Watson | Debian Linux System Administrator| Uptime 11 days http://watson-wilson.ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX (Was: Tool for document management)

2007-09-26 Thread Neil Watson
Please approach this subject in a more subjective manner. I was suggesting that until you gain experience with both manners of document creation you can hardly form an accurate conclusion as to what best suits your needs. -- Neil Watson | Debian Linux System Administrator

Re: Tool for document management

2007-09-26 Thread Neil Watson
arbitrarily and then change later if necessary. -- Neil Watson | Debian Linux System Administrator| Uptime 11 days http://watson-wilson.ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Tool for document management

2007-09-25 Thread Neil Watson
inconsistencies that are so common with Word and OpenOffice. -- Neil Watson | Debian Linux System Administrator| Uptime 10 days http://watson-wilson.ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX (Was: Tool for document management)

2007-09-25 Thread Neil Watson
in many different formats, all from the same source file, including HTML, PDF, RTF and with the help of elinks or lynx plain text. -- Neil Watson | Debian Linux System Administrator| Uptime 10 days http://watson-wilson.ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: SELinux Suggestion

2007-09-21 Thread Neil Watson
GNUcash and Postfix). It seems that the policies are not yet complete. -- Neil Watson | Debian Linux System Administrator| Uptime 6 days http://watson-wilson.ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: scripting question

2007-09-21 Thread Neil Watson
Man echo reveals that the -n switch prevents echo from appending a new line. Also, you do not need to use more (or less) with grep. Grep can take a file agrument. Refer to grep's man page for more information. -- Neil Watson | Debian Linux System Administrator| Uptime 6 days

Re: file system check

2007-09-10 Thread Neil Watson
man fstab -- Neil Watson | Debian Linux System Administrator| Uptime 18 days http://watson-wilson.ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: another script query (perl?)

2007-09-07 Thread Neil Watson
Perhaps you could show us what you've attempted so far. Also, perlmonks.org is a good place to learn more about perl. -- Neil Watson | Debian Linux System Administrator| Uptime 15 days http://watson-wilson.ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Hardware vs Software RAID 10 performance?

2007-08-25 Thread Neil Gunton
to recover from a controller crash). Thanks! /Neil -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Hardware vs Software RAID 10 performance?

2007-08-25 Thread Neil Gunton
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Neil Gunton [EMAIL PROTECTED]: (First of all, I apologise if anyone sees this twice - I first posted to the AMD64 list, but then thought that the more general debian users list might get a broader response)... I'm curious as to whether anyone has experience

Re: Search for string in files

2007-08-25 Thread Neil Gunton
on directories automatically. There are other features like replace, delete, do (cmd), etc. /Neil -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ibm serveraid 7k + amd64 sarge + ipssend?

2007-08-24 Thread Neil Watson
Call IBM support. When I last worked with IBM gear they fully supported Linux. They will point you to the correct location to acquire the latest drivers and management tools. -- Neil Watson | Debian Linux System Administrator| Uptime 1 day http://watson-wilson.ca

Re: NFS server problem

2007-08-21 Thread Neil Watson
Do there server logs reveal anything of interest? Does your network gear report any problems? -- Neil Watson | Debian Linux System Administrator| Uptime 3 days http://watson-wilson.ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: harddisc errors

2007-08-21 Thread Neil Watson
Boot a knoppix CD and see if you get the same errors. From knoppix mount the drive read-only. Force the system to read the drive with a find and recursive grep. If you see the errors again the hard drive is likely failing. -- Neil Watson | Debian Linux System Administrator

selinux

2007-08-21 Thread Neil Watson
Has anyone managed to get Selinux running in enforced mode? I tried it on the weekend but enforcement began denying things. Postfix could not read the alias file. Gnucash would not start. It would seem that the policy needs some tweaking. -- Neil Watson | Debian Linux System

latex2html dvips bug?

2007-08-20 Thread Neil Watson
the source of this error? -- Neil Watson | Debian Linux System Administrator| Uptime 2 days http://watson-wilson.ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: chroot: cannot run command `/bin/bash': No such file or directory

2007-08-20 Thread Neil Watson
What does 'find /f' produce? -- Neil Watson | Debian Linux System Administrator| Uptime 2 days http://watson-wilson.ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: chroot: cannot run command `/bin/bash': No such file or directory

2007-08-20 Thread Neil Watson
.2 = /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x2b2d9039b000) libc.so.6 = /lib/libc.so.6 (0x2b2d9059f000) /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x2b2d8ff31000) I don't see the last entry in the results of the find command. -- Neil Watson | Debian Linux System Administrator| Uptime 2

Re: chroot: cannot run command `/bin/bash': No such file or directory

2007-08-20 Thread Neil Watson
know that. It may look for the link name and fail if it is not found. Create the link in your jail and try again. -- Neil Watson | Debian Linux System Administrator| Uptime 2 days http://watson-wilson.ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Running a program at system startup

2007-08-20 Thread Neil Watson
The scripts in /etc/init.d are working examples of what you are trying to do. -- Neil Watson | Debian Linux System Administrator| Uptime 2 days http://watson-wilson.ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Running a program at system startup

2007-08-20 Thread Neil Watson
On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 02:17:24PM -0500, ArcticFox wrote: On Aug 20, 2007, at 2:15 PM, Neil Watson wrote: The scripts in /etc/init.d are working examples of what you are trying to do. Yea I was directed there before, but those are what I was talking about where they don't do the two things

Switching from i2o_block to dpt_i2o

2007-08-09 Thread Neil Gunton
? If the latter, then how do I change the config to use the other driver? The two drivers are apparently incompatible - you can have either one or the other installed, but not both. Any clues much appreciated. Thanks! /Neil -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

dvd problem

2007-04-25 Thread Neil Sumner
getting advice from the forum but only got told to use a USB stick, again easy installation? I have waited six months hoping that this would be picked up in this time, and no joy. It looks to me that if I do not ask you directly, I may be waiting forever :) Thanks Neil

advice on bug report

2007-04-23 Thread Neil Katz
of aptitude is to install them. Otherwise, this could cause unnecessary grief for less experienced users (such as those who have never rolled their own kernels, and so are not familiar with the booting process). Yours sincerely, Neil Katz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: SONY DVD RW AW-G170A

2007-04-21 Thread Neil Sumner
asking more stupid questions in no time! Thanks for all the fish. Neil On 4/21/07, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Apr 21, 2007 at 12:05:10AM +0200, Marko Randjelovic wrote: Neil Sumner wrote: the solution is to get a new mobo? Of course not, first try with another

SONY DVD RW AW-G170A

2007-04-20 Thread Neil Sumner
Hi, I cannot boot with this drive. It is IDE/atapi and it works fine with windows. Despite its inexpensive price it was reasonably 'exotic' 6 months ago as it has an 18x write speed, it works fine with windows OK, this problem has occured with EVERY version of Linux I have tried. The first bit

Re: SONY DVD RW AW-G170A

2007-04-20 Thread Neil Sumner
am thinking I will probably throw 10 quid at a DVD ROM in any case, it might solve it but if it doesn't it isn't a calamity. Thanks for the time Neil On 4/20/07, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 05:45:30PM +0100, Neil Sumner wrote: Hi, Hi I cannot

Re: SONY DVD RW AW-G170A

2007-04-20 Thread Neil Sumner
, it was the worst, it gave a definite motherboard error before getting far enough to try mounting a DVD drive everybody else fell at the DVD mounting *shrugs* the solution is to get a new mobo? thanks again Neil On 4/20/07, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Apr 20, 2007

Re: SONY DVD RW AW-G170A

2007-04-20 Thread Neil Sumner
OK, I am trying the latest Ubuntu live CD, we shall see. thanks On 4/20/07, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 09:22:29PM +0100, Neil Sumner wrote: Hey thanks for the reply... wasn't expecting such swift help. Sorry but like the hopless newbie I am

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