Re: RAID growing and --backup-file

2015-06-20 Thread PaulNM
degraded, a major issue since I work on it remotely. It could be quite a while before we add drives. I need to do an upgrade to Jessie and convert a large ext4 fs to btrfs, so I need reliable boots. But who doesn't? ;) - PaulNM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists

RAID growing and --backup-file

2015-06-20 Thread PaulNM
md0 --level=raid5 --raid-devices=8 --backup-file=/boot/raidbackup2 Wheezy - PaulNM -- 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/558536ab.9020...@paulscrap.com

Re: lvm: creating a snapshot

2014-10-04 Thread PaulNM
over snapshot vs backup copy. It's hard to tell, because I think they mostly get the concepts involved. - PaulNM -- 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/54305a91.7020...@paulscrap.com

Re: MP3 player compatible with Debian

2014-10-04 Thread PaulNM
you're getting above $100 USD, you're better off getting an cheap android phone/tablet. Plenty of free apps to play whatever formats you like, plus other capabilities. Just don't bother with connecting it to a cellular network. - PaulNM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: Let's have a vote!

2014-09-28 Thread PaulNM
o the new during upgrades, but that would be incredibly bad practice. Debian aims for stability, even during upgrades between stable releases. -PaulNM -- 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/54287eb2.5000...@paulscrap.com

Re: Reboot After Systemd 215-5 Upgrade

2014-09-28 Thread PaulNM
e with: > > "UUID=fca39bca-d795-4664-8c6f-cac459fbd468 / ext4 > rw,noatime,discard 0 1" > > after save the file /etc/fstab. > > Then reboot the system and watch if there is the same problem. > > This could be the reason which caused t

Re: Let's have a vote!

2014-09-26 Thread PaulNM
e with problems, but it *is* fixable provided there's a steward to allow them. Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if within a year or two it was forked and all the distros jumped on board practically overnight. Just my thoughts, I'm probably going to seriously regret getting invol

Re: Whats your way of sharing data between PCs?

2014-09-22 Thread PaulNM
On 09/22/2014 05:56 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Monday 22 September 2014 22:49:41 PaulNM wrote: >> On 09/22/2014 05:44 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: >>> On Monday 22 September 2014 18:59:33 Joerg Desch wrote: >>>> Am Sun, 21 Sep 2014 11:45:23 +0200 schrieb Hans: >>>&g

Re: Whats your way of sharing data between PCs?

2014-09-22 Thread PaulNM
ing purely by what you have written here: > > "It can copy locally to/from another host" etc. > > To ... one direction > From ... the other direction > > Bidirectional. > > Lisi > Bidirectional copying, yes. Not bidirectional syncing. Critical differe

Re: Random

2014-09-22 Thread PaulNM
t is #762450. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=762450 - PaulNM -- 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/54206e69.9000...@paulscrap.com

Automount /boot during updates.

2014-09-03 Thread PaulNM
, any pointers? - PaulNM -- 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/540804c4.8020...@paulscrap.com

Re: Troubles installing alongside Windows 8.1

2014-08-28 Thread PaulNM
inder you here. > You are correct that it shouldn't affect bootloader selection. It's important if you plan to resize the windows partition or otherwise access it, though. - PaulNM -- 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/53ff980a.5090...@paulscrap.com

Re: Systemd: follow-up

2014-08-08 Thread PaulNM
On 08/07/2014 07:00 PM, Joel Rees wrote: > Cognitive dissonance? What are you referring to? > > On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 7:24 AM, PaulNM wrote: >> Hi, please reply to the list as I am subscribed. >> >> On 08/07/2014 05:56 PM, Johann Spies wrote: >>> For the s

Re: Systemd: follow-up

2014-08-07 Thread PaulNM
th. For all I knew, you could very well have been someone new to Linux/Debian and misunderstood what was happening. We're just trying to help. > > Regards > Johann > Take care, - PaulNM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "un

Re: Systemd: follow-up

2014-08-07 Thread PaulNM
o be used unless you held back on updates, but not anymore. > I will continue using Debian on my server and two other computers where > fortunately I did not do a dist-upgrades. > > Regards > Johann > > -- > Because experiencing your loyal love is better than life itself,

Re: Debian php5 (Can't get download when doing apt-update)

2014-08-05 Thread PaulNM
probably: > sudo apt-get upgrade > > > --Andrew > While not directly related to your current issue, I suggest changing the instances of stable to wheezy. Otherwise you're in for a surprise once Jessie is released. -- PaulNM -- 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/53e130b5.1090...@paulscrap.com

Re: New 64bit Installation. Root partition too small--what to do?

2014-07-27 Thread PaulNM
as that will remove files in the destination that no longer exist in the source. rsync -avxPHAXS --delete source destination > > Kind regards, > Andrei > - PaulNM -- 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/53d4c23d.3080...@paulscrap.com

Re: /var partition seems locked or read only

2014-07-26 Thread PaulNM
a sparsefile or regular loopback mount to play around with it, but for important stuff on your system, stick with what you know. - PaulNM -- 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/53d43cd2.8030...@paulscrap.com

Re: Iptables

2014-06-27 Thread PaulNM
On 06/27/2014 03:31 PM, Diogene Laerce wrote: > > > On 06/27/2014 08:36 PM, PaulNM wrote: >> In Thunderbird/IceDove you'll have to add it as a custom header when >> setting up the filter, but it's *way* better than trying to filter by >> the contents of t

Re: Iptables

2014-06-27 Thread PaulNM
e or to address. Oh, there's also "User-Agent", which is how I know you use IceDove. :) > Thanks to all for stopping by. :) > Thanks for staying. :) - PaulNM -- 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/53adb99a.9090...@paulscrap.com

Re: kde purge unsuccessful?

2014-06-16 Thread PaulNM
0 0 000 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.22 kworker/0:1 >14 root 0 -20 000 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 khelper >15 root 20 0 000 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kdevtmpfs > > Think (k)ernel, not (k)de. - PaulNM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-

Re: Filespace exhaustion on '/' partition

2014-05-11 Thread PaulNM
hile the system is still live. - PaulNM -- 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/536fe44d.2040...@paulscrap.com

Re: jigdo have 10 DVDs, and HTTP/FTP only 3

2014-05-02 Thread PaulNM
. Personally I found it to be a brilliant and really cool idea. Even with bittorent being available now, jidgo is still very useful. -- PaulNM -- 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/5363a3e3.5030...@paulscrap.com

Re: Heartbleed

2014-04-17 Thread PaulNM
pass cookies and webbugs > around if you tell it not to. > "Optional" for now. More and more these entities are moving away from using the browser to store identifying info. https://panopticlick.eff.org http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Device_fingerprint - PaulNM

Re: best way to backup USB stick (2)

2014-04-13 Thread PaulNM
> Hugo > > Another suggestion: Look into ddrescue (package name is gddrescue). It's more flexible when dealing with drives that have problems. - PaulNM -- 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/534b59a0.40...@paulscrap.com

Re: apt-get doesn't upgrade, but synaptic does

2014-04-11 Thread PaulNM
On 04/11/2014 09:28 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: > On Fri, 11 Apr 2014, PaulNM wrote: > >> On 04/11/2014 12:04 AM, Patrick Bartek wrote: >>> >>> Now, if "they" could come up with an efficient and effective way to >>> uninstall/purge stuff installe

Re: apt-get doesn't upgrade, but synaptic does

2014-04-10 Thread PaulNM
ersion changes in stable and old-stable. That's a matter of repository policies though, not an apt/aptitude thing. Testing and Sid regularly see major version upgrades, by design. > > B > > - PaulNM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org w

Re: apt-get doesn't upgrade, but synaptic does

2014-04-10 Thread PaulNM
On 04/11/2014 12:04 AM, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > Now, if "they" could come up with an efficient and effective way to > uninstall/purge stuff installed via a metapackage. Or maybe there is > and I just haven't found it. ;-) > apt-get autoremove > B >

Re: Check Update, Update and Port Blocking

2014-02-20 Thread PaulNM
On 02/20/2014 03:50 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 17 feb 14, 22:30:31, PaulNM wrote: >> >> I could be wrong, but my understanding is that apt uses standard http, >> so port 80 outgoing. > > Just because port 80 is used for listening for http requests doesn't

Re: Check Update, Update and Port Blocking

2014-02-17 Thread PaulNM
ion with apt-get. It means download only, so you'll see if there are bad/missing downloads without actually starting the upgrade. - PaulNM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.d

Re: upgrade problem

2014-02-05 Thread PaulNM
da8 97536 23 975131% /tmp > /dev/sda5549440 143994 405446 27% /usr > /dev/sda6183264 9332 1739326% /var > none 507394 2 5073921% /sys/fs/cgroup > > > Roelof > What about

Re: http.debian.net hash sum mismatch

2014-02-04 Thread PaulNM
oint, this is something well outside of a package manager's jurisdiction. It's up to the mirror to say what's available. Another thing to look at is if there are any proxy/caching servers involved that may be serving old versions of the indexes. > Just a thought... > > Ri

Re: Viber on Debian

2014-02-01 Thread PaulNM
ere, but it's worth a try. We know that in this case, testing/Jessie doesn't work, so perhaps try a Wheezy install with updated glibc that's only used to run Viber? Seriously though, I don't think it's worth the effort. Especially since their support section doesn't a

Re: GPT + RAID + boot

2014-01-07 Thread PaulNM
spare room in it as the older mbr. Creating a small bios_grub partition gives some space for grub to install parts of itself. You need to create a small (recommend 1MB) partition for bios_grub, then the rest of the drive can be a linux raid partition. - PaulNM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to deb

Re: Best SFTP (w/chroot): vsftpd vs mysecureshell vs other ??

2014-01-03 Thread PaulNM
erred SFTP server, that allows > chrooting WITH group "w" access > Wish I could help with that, but I've only ever used openssh's implementation, and without chrooting for that matter. - PaulNM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Debian Wheezy Compromised - www-data user is sending 1000 emails an hour

2013-12-24 Thread PaulNM
-x. The executable bit, like setuid/setgid, is interpreted by the shell. In that situation, it only matters that the process owner can read the file. - PaulNM -- 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/52b95f62.5020...@paulscrap.com

Re: Debian Wheezy Compromised - www-data user is sending 1000 emails an hour

2013-12-24 Thread PaulNM
cript to change the permissions to www-data for the update/upgrades, than another to change them back (usually to root) afterwards. Minor inconvenience, but still way easier than manual upgrades. :) - PaulNM -- 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/52b95c3e.8040...@paulscrap.com

Re: Debian Wheezy Compromised - www-data user is sending 1000 emails an hour

2013-12-24 Thread PaulNM
chmod 4644 PermTest-2.sh chmod: changing permissions of ‘PermTest-2.sh’: Operation not permitted paul@Serenity:~$ ls -alh PermTest-* -rwSr--r-- 1 paul paul 0 Dec 24 03:32 PermTest-1.sh -rwxrwxrwx 1 root paul 0 Dec 24 03:32 PermTest-2.sh Executables run with the permissions of the user running it,

Re: gdm3 issue

2013-12-13 Thread PaulNM
uot;single" ;). > > The "single" kernel cmdline option would never launch GDM. > I believe that was his point, and the reason for the smiley ;). Most would say preventing something from happening is a form of affecting it. -PaulNM -- 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/52ab3505.5080...@paulscrap.com

Re: Maximum RAM

2013-12-12 Thread PaulNM
On 12/12/2013 03:36 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Thu, 2013-12-12 at 03:29 -0500, PaulNM wrote: >> All Microsoft 32-bit consumer OS's are limited to 4GB RAM, if not >> less. > > IIRC 3.75 GiB, we already made the mistake and used the term GB instead > of GiB ;). >

Re: Maximum RAM

2013-12-12 Thread PaulNM
Check this: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa366778(v=vs.85).aspx It's also thoroughly documented elsewhere. as well. All Microsoft 32-bit consumer OS's are limited to 4GB RAM, if not less. Some of their 32-bit server OS's are also limited to 4GB, though som

Re: Maximum RAM

2013-12-12 Thread PaulNM
I'm pretty sure the only sensible case to disabling it would be in embedded installs where every kilobyte matters. -PaulNM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archi

Re: Maximum RAM

2013-12-11 Thread PaulNM
from the Pentium Pro and up support PAE, and thus 64GB of RAM. Microsoft decided not to support that on the 32-bit versions of their consumer operating systems, but there's no technical reason preventing a 32-bit OS from using more than 4GB. (I mention MS because that's where most people I

Re: Can't find cmake package

2013-12-09 Thread PaulNM
. > > *Let's keep trying. > * > * Did you do an "apt-get update"? Adding the line tells apt about new repositories, but apt won't know what packages are available in them until it downloads their indexes. That's what update does. - PaulNM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: Unable to change shell and add groups

2013-12-06 Thread PaulNM
ested), "exit" should quit that and leave you running in the parent zsh shell. Otherwise it should log you out. At least this way we could narrow down where the problem is happening. -PaulNM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscr

Re: Procedure to uninstall nvidia drivers and restore nouveau

2013-11-12 Thread PaulNM
n means globally match anything except a dash. I'm a little weak on sed (and awk), so I might be a little off on the specifics. I'm sure others will correct/elaborate for me. :) - PaulNM > > > Alex -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.deb

Re: Grub, Raid, LVM

2013-11-09 Thread PaulNM
On 11/09/2013 04:48 PM, Gary Dale wrote: > On 09/11/13 04:05 PM, PaulNM wrote: >> Hi Folks, >> >> I've been dealing with a frustratingly vexing issue for a while, >> and am >> at a loss on where to go next. >> >> Basically, We hav

Grub, Raid, LVM

2013-11-09 Thread PaulNM
7;ve checked /boot/grub/grub.cfg. The auto-generated file does contain all the insmod lines for raid, raid6rec,mdraid1x, lvm, a bunch of part_gpt, and ext2. Love to hear any ideas, no matter how far-fetched. -PaulNM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists

Re: icedove/yahoo imap: messages marked as read & filters not run on inbox

2011-06-10 Thread PaulNM
To clarify, I was talking about my experiences with multiple other imap accounts. I do have a yahoo account that I don't really use, but it is pop3. PaulNM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: icedove/yahoo imap: messages marked as read & filters not run on inbox

2011-06-10 Thread PaulNM
atically apply filters to new messages. Any messages I read through my phone and/or webmail will not be filtered automatically. I need to run filters to do that. snip > Thank a lot, > > Nicolas > Thanks for the filter shortcut, I've been meaning to look that up. PaulN

Re: [OT] Purchasing a wired switch; advice needed [question]

2011-04-20 Thread PaulNM
amount of traffic since there are many people worldwide seeding them. This is especially true immediately after a release. An old PII or PIII era machine with 128 MB or more should be plenty to handle the load. Either use smoothwall, or something else like the x86 version of openwrt. PaulNM --

Re: which version for intel chipset 64bit

2011-02-09 Thread PaulNM
Bret Busby wrote: > > The problem is in knowing whether a particular CPU is compatible with > the 64 bit version of the operating system, or whether it requires the > 32 bit version. > > For example, the Pentium 4, from memory, is a 64 bit CPU, but is > incompatible with the 64 bit version of De

Re: ps - Illegal Instruction

2010-09-20 Thread PaulNM
Arthur Machlas wrote: On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 12:18 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 20/09/10 10:15, Jerry Stuckle wrote: This is a new install of Lenny on Windows 7 Virtual PC. I basically Perhaps some of the links off this link might be useful http://blogs.msdn.com/search/SearchResults.aspx?q

Re: When is best time to upgrade lenny to squeeze

2010-08-06 Thread PaulNM
Jari Fredriksson wrote: On 6.8.2010 18:35, PaulNM wrote: If you'll be running the VM only when logged in, virtualbox is definitely preferred. If you need to run headless servers that start automatically on bootup, qemu is the way to go. I use VirtualBox just like you described, but

Re: When is best time to upgrade lenny to squeeze

2010-08-06 Thread PaulNM
ed in, virtualbox is definitely preferred. If you need to run headless servers that start automatically on bootup, qemu is the way to go. - -- Jordan Metzmeier Hope this helps, PaulNM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsub

Re: remark from dd

2010-06-30 Thread PaulNM
n the remark "No space left" and the difference between records in and records out? Thanks,... Peter E. Try it again without the bs=36k. I know dd will pad zeros to it so the last block is a full 36K. This is probably making the disk image too big. PaulNM -- To UNS

Re: occorrenze stringa

2010-01-25 Thread PaulNM
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: [How to count words in a text file?] wc -w -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: install location and aptitude

2009-12-11 Thread PaulNM
Celejar wrote: For your specific problem, why not just mount a different disk / partition onto /opt? Celejar That's a good idea. To the OP, if you don't have any spare partition, but have room in /usr, you could create a sparse file. Format and loopback mount it to /opt. Paul

Re: FS timestamp issue running Debian in Vbox

2009-12-09 Thread PaulNM
, can this setting be changed? :-? edit /etc/default/rcS UTC=yes for utc, no for local PaulNM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Giving a user root priveleges?

2009-11-17 Thread PaulNM
Preston Boyington wrote: I think there is some confusion. I don't know of any reason to use both 'su' and 'sudo' in a command. either you would 'su' to root or you would 'sudo' to run a singular command. 'su' is to change into superuser (root) until you exit. 'sudo' is to temporarily be superus

Re: Samba ls date weirdness

2009-10-23 Thread PaulNM
On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 11:05 -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Friday 23 October 2009 09:23:31 PaulNM wrote: > > The problem is the date info sometimes switches from the time of day to > > the year or the other way around. This messes up the diff, so it shows snip &

Samba ls date weirdness

2009-10-23 Thread PaulNM
> drwxrwxrwx 1 0 Apr 20 2009 Recipes I do need the time/date info, so having it removed isn't a solution in this case. Thanks for any suggestions. PaulNM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: dot matrix printer unicode question

2009-07-31 Thread PaulNM
more like a newline / line carriage issue. Use dos2unix/unix2dos on text files when moving to/from Windows and Linux. Basicly dos doesn't recognize the newline characters. PaulNM

Re: Using terminal output as input

2009-05-15 Thread PaulNM
ot the will to believe, but the will to find out, > which is the exact opposite. --Bertrand Russell > > Which doesn't return shell builtins. For example: $ which test /usr/bin/test But if you actually run test (in bash at least), it's the shell's built in version, not /usr/bin/test. PaulNM

Re: joining Windows domain (Active Directory)

2009-04-08 Thread PaulNM
//archives.likewisesoftware.com/likewise-open/src/ you can get a more recent version than what is used in the article. Aparently it can set things up with just "domainjoin-cli join AD_REALM ADMIN_ACCOUNT" which is pretty much how it is in XP. HTH, PaulNM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to d

maintaining deb mirror w/o online access

2004-11-21 Thread PaulNM
can only update the mirror weekly when the jigdos are regenerated. Is there anything that will let me just download what has changed (on a daily basis) so I can put it on zip disk to bring home? I need to do this without maintaining a mirror on my parent's computer. Any help appreciated,

Re: Debian unstable vs Ubuntu

2004-10-27 Thread PaulNM
isting the directory and trying modules one by one, even with tab completion. PaulNM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: woody: boot fail after upgrade

2004-10-09 Thread PaulNM
hda2 /mnt/usr" then "mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/usr/local" In other words, mount parent directories first. If you want to, you may activate the swap partition with "swapon /dev/(partition)" hda1 in above example. PaulNM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: if debian is used by gnu, h/c lilo not grub?

2004-10-09 Thread PaulNM
Jule Slootbeek wrote: The new debian-installer installed GRUB by default, i'm not sure what the reason is that LILO was used previously, but one can easily switch between them, if one chooses. -JSS Woody was released so long ago that I don't think anyone was using grub. PaulNM -- To U

ntpd conf confusion

2004-10-07 Thread PaulNM
were indeed that. Now it seems to be going to one ip address instead, and I can't see why. I've rechecked the conf files and even restarted ntpd, but to no avail. Thanks, PaulNM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: using scp to move files

2004-10-04 Thread PaulNM
Antonio Rodriguez wrote: scp file; rm file Uh, "scp file(s) && rm file(s)" is probably better since "&&" will only run the next command if the first one succeeds. It would be a shame to have scp fail for some reason, then delete your files. :) PaulNM -- To UN

Re: Oops, no more /usr.

2004-08-24 Thread PaulNM
Thomas Adam wrote: On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 02:48:34PM -0400, PaulNM wrote: 1: Should I tar /etc before this and overwrite it again afterwards? If so, are there any other directories I should do the same to? Unless you have made a lot of modifications, no. Of course, if you had made modifications

Oops, no more /usr.

2004-08-24 Thread PaulNM
are there any other directories I should do the same to? 2: Is there a way to only reinstall packages with files in /usr? For example, kernel-sources* has files placed in /usr, but kernel-image* do not. Any other ideas or suggestions would be appreciated. PaulNM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: OT yahoo mail not getting debian-user

2004-08-18 Thread PaulNM
I use a yahoo account and haven't noticed any problems whatsoever. I'm still getting a few hundred messages a day from my debian lists. Yahoo account use Thunderbird to download email via pop3 ISP is RCN (Philadelphia area) , PaulNM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: dircolors

2004-08-04 Thread PaulNM
NS -lA' I put this in /root and in a "normal" user. In root works, but in user "net" dont! Why? What i must to do? thanks. Check the file permissions, if you copied the file as root, the user may not be able to read it. PaulNM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI